BLACK HAT
HACKS

True stories from the front lines of cybercrime. Space Pirate Zero hijacks a broadcast every week to run one real case file — and patches in a guest panel that never agrees on what it means.

Season 1 is written and cast — ten episodes, one coda. Recording soon.

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The Format

The hacked signal feed

You're not supposed to be getting this. Every episode, Space Pirate Zero climbs into the back of a broadcast that was supposed to be running something else, and for the next thirty minutes it's his. He finds a signal buried in the noise — a real one, sourced, dated, footnoted, none of it made up — and patches in two or three guests from across the fleet to help him take it apart while it's still warm.

The panel argues. That's not a bug in the booking — it's the whole format. Nobody on the guest line agrees by the end, on purpose. Guests carry opinion. SPZ carries every fact and every hedge. If a claim isn't proven, you hear that on air, not in a footnote.

Cold Open

The hijack, the file, and why tonight's noise is loud.

The Panel

2–3 guests, booked for friction, never agreement.

The Reckoning

Who paid for it — and who, as usual, never did.

The Panel

Everyone on this feed is a cat

The hijacked signal renders every on-screen figure as a cat — an in-world compression artifact of the stolen feed, and the reason no real person's likeness ever appears in this show. Click anyone for the full file.