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Reels & Stories

Adept follows the question beyond the obvious answer. These recent releases bring fiction, history, mathematics, and Black family life into the same conversation.

Featured · September 2026

Dr. Ian Trophy PhD’s Seminar:
Uh Oh He Doesn’t Know.

Dr. Ian Trophy is Entropy, and he is very sure of the ending. A rap artist notices when his phone answers the nearest question instead of the one he asked. A student named Jimmy has mathematics to work on—and an ancestor who insists he pay attention.

A speculative story about knowledge, inherited memory, and the danger of mistaking a fluent answer for understanding.

Story: Adept the Funky Boom Diggity Booty Smack, with help from Cathy G.P. Transformer.
Narration: Phelps.

Fiction · AI-assisted visual storytelling. Instagram may require sign-in to play the reel.

ATSS · Ain’t That Some Shit

Keep asking.

Unc, Auntie, and the next generation make room for the questions a lesson plan can leave behind. Fictional family conversations open the door to real history and ideas.

Unc and the nephews in the study

Mathematics · History · 4½ minutes

Tesla & the Magic of Nine

“Tesla?” “The car?” Unc takes the nephews through AC and DC, a river analogy, ten fingers, and the discovery hiding in 243. Grab paper and a pencil. Play with it.

Unc with his nephews during a conversation in the study

History · Curiosity

Acoustic Kitty

A CIA project, a cat, and a family conversation about what happens when an ambitious idea meets an animal with plans of its own.

History · Persuasion

Torches of Freedom

Auntie and the nieces look back at Edward Bernays, the 1929 cigarette campaign, and the difference between choosing freely and being sold a symbol of freedom.

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History · Memory

Port Chicago

An ATSS conversation turns toward Port Chicago and a chapter of Black history that deserves to be remembered.

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ATSS uses fictional family scenes, AI illustrations, and synthetic narration. The Tesla episode’s mathematics is demonstrated in the story; it is not attributed to Tesla.