The Scum Kings

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Meet the Scum Kings, a dysfunctional band of bottom-feeding marauders led by the ruthless Giddray 'Dray'. They are not clever masterminds or noble rebels. They are a pack of beaten dogs, driven by hunger and greed, whose every attempt at villainy seems to end in fresh wounds and humiliating failure. They are the fever in a sick world, a symptom of the rot. The Scum Kings is a daily, short-form, serial grimdark fantasy audiobook told from the perspective of their captain. Each 5-15 minute episode is a ground-level chronicle of survival, following the crew through their desperate heists, ugly victories, and insane gambles. Defeated. Desperate. Driven. A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter.

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  1. EPISODE 1

    At Least It's Not a Raft

    Dray and his band of outcasts finally escape the rot of Vance's Folly aboard The River Demon, a river cutter crewed by Brynn's dangerous all-female gang. The fresh air tastes like freedom—until Stigand's weight crashes through the rotting deck, revealing their 'floating fortress' is as fragile as their newfound alliance. With the Hounds lost in the swamps behind them and Brynn's crew treating them like unwanted cargo, the question isn't whether they've escaped their past. It's whether this vessel will hold together long enough to reach whatever future awaits them downriver. A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter. ----- Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience!  Perfect for a weekend binge!  This episode includes AI-generated content.

    6 min

  2. EPISODE 2

    The Jester

    Trapped on a boat with slack winds and rising tensions, Gix's dangerous boredom reaches a breaking point. What starts as crude entertainment quickly spirals into a powder keg situation, with Gix turning simple juggling into an obscene display of blood and guts.  A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter. ----- Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience!  Perfect for a weekend binge!  This episode includes AI-generated content.

    10 min

  3. EPISODE 3

    The Green Hell

    Trapped on a small boat and with fraying nerves, Dray and Orso seize an excuse to escape Brynn's command. Their expedition to the eastern bank for fresh water becomes something more dangerous—a whispered plan to abandon the ship entirely and strike out overland for Vesper. As they row away from The River Demon, the possibility of freedom wars with the reality of hundreds of miles of hostile wilderness.  A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter. ----- Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience!  Perfect for a weekend binge!  This episode includes AI-generated content.

    8 min

  4. EPISODE 4

    Stiggand's Mistake

    Three days trapped on a riverboat after the jungle nightmare, and Stiggand's self-control finally shatters. When the barbarian warrior sets his sights on Lynn, a young rigger who refuses his crude advances, violence erupts on deck in the most brutal way imaginable.  A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter. ----- Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience!  Perfect for a weekend binge!  This episode includes AI-generated content.

    9 min

  5. EPISODE 5

    The Women Are In Charge

    Stiggand's assault on a crew member ignites a powder keg aboard The River Demon. Brynn's women sharpen their knives and plot murder in whispers meant to be heard. When Silene intervenes with an unexpected proposal—chains and starvation for the entire party—she buys their lives at a terrible cost. Three days without food or water in the hold of a ship. No allies. No escape. And Brynn's crew still thirsting for blood. Dray reluctantly agrees because sometimes survival means accepting punishment for crimes you didn't commit.  A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter. ----- Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience!  Perfect for a weekend binge!  This episode includes AI-generated content.

    8 min

  6. EPISODE 6

    Empty Bellies

    Locked in the ship's hold without food or water, Dray and his crew face a punishment designed to teach them their place. When Brynn opens the hatch only to taunt them with provisions, Orso breaks—offering his tactical genius in exchange for freedom. But his desperate pitch about rigging and wind efficiency is met with silence and a slammed hatch. As humiliation cuts deeper than hunger, the crew fractures. Stigand lies dying in the corner, Gix grins at nothing in the darkness, and Orso's rage turns inward. In the suffocating heat, survival becomes less about escaping the hold and more about not tearing each other apart first. A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter. ----- Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience!  Perfect for a weekend binge!  This episode includes AI-generated content.

    6 min

  7. EPISODE 7

    The Closed Door

    Bound and starving in the ship's hold, Dray witnesses a shadowy encounter between Silene and one of Brynn's crew that reveals hidden loyalties and forbidden connections.  A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter. ----- Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience!  Perfect for a weekend binge!  This episode includes AI-generated content.

    6 min

  8. EPISODE 8

    The Allies

    Three days in the dark, fed on humiliation and bilge water, would break most men. But for the Scum Kings, it just means they're back on deck, squinting at the sun, and trying to remember which end of an alliance is up. Brynn's ship might be their ticket out of a watery grave, but the air is thick with unspoken resentments and the heavy weight of their latest failure. A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter. ----- Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience!  Perfect for a weekend binge!  This episode includes AI-generated content.

    6 min

  9. BONUS

    The Scum Kings: Vol. 22 [Uncut] - Chapters 39-43

    This compilation contains 5 chapters. Episodes included: 1. The Machine (January 26, 2026) 2. The Song (January 27, 2026) 3. The Court of Filth (January 28, 2026) 4. The Ignored (January 29, 2026) 5. The Gate Opens (January 30, 2026) --- A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter. ----- Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience!  Perfect for a weekend binge!  This episode includes AI-generated content.

    21 min

  10. BONUS

    The Scum Kings: Vol. 23 [Uncut] - Chapters 44-season 3 episode 3

    This compilation contains 5 chapters. Episodes included: 1. The River (February 02, 2026) 2. The Return of a Friend (February 03, 2026) 3. At Least It's Not a Raft (February 04, 2026) 4. The Jester (February 05, 2026) 5. The Green Hell (February 06, 2026) --- A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter. ----- Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience!  Perfect for a weekend binge!  This episode includes AI-generated content.

    38 min

  11. BONUS

    The Scum Kings: Vol. 24 [Uncut] - Chapters 4-8

    This compilation contains 5 chapters. Episodes included: 1. Stiggand's Mistake (February 09, 2026) 2. The Women Are In Charge (February 10, 2026) 3. Empty Bellies (February 11, 2026) 4. The Closed Door (February 12, 2026) 5. The Allies (February 14, 2026) --- A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter. ----- Want to binge The Scum Kings with fewer ads? Every Friday night we release a bonus episode of the week's previous five episodes, with fewer ads in between chapters and a seamless listening experience!  Perfect for a weekend binge!  This episode includes AI-generated content.

    32 min
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Meet the Scum Kings, a dysfunctional band of bottom-feeding marauders led by the ruthless Giddray 'Dray'. They are not clever masterminds or noble rebels. They are a pack of beaten dogs, driven by hunger and greed, whose every attempt at villainy seems to end in fresh wounds and humiliating failure. They are the fever in a sick world, a symptom of the rot. The Scum Kings is a daily, short-form, serial grimdark fantasy audiobook told from the perspective of their captain. Each 5-15 minute episode is a ground-level chronicle of survival, following the crew through their desperate heists, ugly victories, and insane gambles. Defeated. Desperate. Driven. A SIGNALBOX STUDIO PRODUCTION 🧠 Narrative Design: Mike Daltrey ⚡ Production: The Signal Box System Note: This human-designed series includes AI and other software tools in its production via our proprietary Signal Box platform. Signalbox: Fiction’s Next Chapter.

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  • Channel
    Signalbox Studio
  • Creator
    Mike Daltrey | grimdark fantasy, epic fantasy
  • Episodes
    144
  • Seasons
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
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