The Last Human CEO

Spaceship Alpha 9
Spaceship Alpha 9

In 2027, as corporate boards swap their CEOs for cheaper, scandal-proof AI, the last human chief executive in the Fortune 100 — Prescott 'Cope' Mercer IV, a charming, coke-addled fourth-generation Atlanta heir — wages a manic crusade to prove a person still belongs in the chair, right up until the machine taking his job quietly uncovers the thing he buried that got two people killed. A full-cast audiobook: Succession meets Flowers for Algernon by way of a Twilight Zone broadcast, transmitted to you by Space Pirate Zero. Contains strong language, drug use, sexual content, and depictions of suicide.

  1. Episode 1

    Chapter 1 — The Premium Blend

    In 2027, as corporate boards swap their CEOs for cheaper, scandal-proof AI, the last human chief executive in the Fortune 100 — Prescott 'Cope' Mercer IV, a charming, coke-addled fourth-generation Atlanta heir — wages a manic crusade to prove a person still belongs in the chair, right up until the machine taking his job quietly uncovers the thing he buried that got two people killed.

    Chapter 1 — The Premium Blend

  2. Episode 2

    Chapter 2 — Key-Man Risk

    Ever notice how the smoothest morning of a man's life is the one that's already booby-trapped? This is THE LAST HUMAN CEO — the last flesh-and-blood boss in the empire, drowning in his own charm. So far Cope's been crowned king of the humans, ducked his aide's warning about the machine coming for his chair, and drank coffee alone where nobody knew his name. Now watch him waltz into the tower at six-forty, sanded raw and shining, hearing a compliment where you and I hear a bomb ticking. Stay close to the set.

    Chapter 2 — Key-Man Risk

  3. Episode 3

    Chapter 3 — Thirteen-D

    —and that's where we left him, our mayonnaise prince, crowned last human king of the boardroom, high as a steeple and calling the knife at his throat a compliment. This is THE LAST HUMAN CEO, friend, a sad little comedy I'm beaming out from the salvage decks. So far he's danced past every warning Sun and the board could hand him, humming his precious "Human Premium" while the paper piles up behind his back. This one opens at 9:14 on a Wednesday, when his aide walks in carrying nothing at all — and for Sun, empty hands are a kind of scream. Stay close to the set.

    Chapter 3 — Thirteen-D

  4. Episode 4

    Chapter 4 — A Steward, Not a Sovereign

    Static, then that little pop that means I found you again. Here's our dark little fable of the last human boss, told from the salvage decks by yours truly. So far our man's traded warnings for applause, called his last hope a slogan — "The Human Premium" — and stumbled toward a camera his own people begged him to skip. Now they wheel the future into the boardroom, and it does the cruelest thing imaginable: it writes a layoff letter kinder than any man ever could. Stay close to the set.

    Chapter 4 — A Steward, Not a Sovereign

  5. Episode 5

    Chapter 5 — Theme Stated

    There's a house I want to show you first. Ten thousand square feet, two people, one dead star between them, and not a single hand ever reaching across the dark to touch the other. This is the tragedy of the last human king in the machine age, friend, and here's where the floor goes soft under him. Saturday morning. Manifesto in his skull, a gram in the console, radio off so he can hear himself think — and up the driveway comes the one person who loves him enough to hand him the truth. Watch him mistake it for a knife. Stay close to the set.

    Chapter 5 — Theme Stated

  6. Episode 6

    Chapter 6 — The Human Premium

    This is the tale of the last human boss in the whole Fortune 100, told to you from the salvage decks by yours truly. When we left our man, he'd fled his own cold house for a Waffle House booth on Ponce, scribbling notes over Darlene's kindness and feeling, for once, like himself. Now dawn finds him on the Aerie couch at 5:40 — not sleeping, just powering down between cycles — and the whole plan arrives fully formed, like a frequency he's finally tuned. He calls it vision. Stay close to the set.

    Chapter 6 — The Human Premium

  7. Episode 7

    Chapter 7 — Authenticity, Quantified

    A man in a five-thousand-dollar henley wants to kill a word, and the last human CEO says go ahead — that's where we are in THE LAST HUMAN CEO, a little Twilight-Zone number I broadcast from the salvage decks. So far Cope's fought the machine every way that failed, and now he's spent eleven million to prove his soul on camera, hiring a guru to measure the man. This chapter opens with a wellness prophet arranging himself in a chair like a scarf, ready to sell tears by the ounce. Come closer, friend. Watch the tail find the throat.

    Chapter 7 — Authenticity, Quantified

  8. Episode 8

    Chapter 8 — Defiance

    They named a man authentic, then billed him two hundred grand a month to fake it — welcome back. This is THE LAST HUMAN CEO, and Cope's still swinging: eleven million on a soul, a warmth module to bottle it, a viral answer that moved hearts and moved no shares. Now he comes home to Defiance, Georgia, where the empire began — climbing out the wrong door on purpose, letting his face do the moved thing while feeling nothing at all. There's a stone in that town with two names on it. Stay close.

    Chapter 8 — Defiance
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In 2027, as corporate boards swap their CEOs for cheaper, scandal-proof AI, the last human chief executive in the Fortune 100 — Prescott 'Cope' Mercer IV, a charming, coke-addled fourth-generation Atlanta heir — wages a manic crusade to prove a person still belongs in the chair, right up until the machine taking his job quietly uncovers the thing he buried that got two people killed. A full-cast audiobook: Succession meets Flowers for Algernon by way of a Twilight Zone broadcast, transmitted to you by Space Pirate Zero. Contains strong language, drug use, sexual content, and depictions of suicide.

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