Grey Hair Dave: Smart Conversations with AI

Welcome to five Minutes with Grey Hair Dave.

He has grey hair and he has a grey beard and he also wears glasses like the guy in the artwork.

Oh, and the guy in the artwork is better looking now, tariff free.

Here is Grey Hair Dave.

Yes indeed.

Folks, that was elevenlabs IO.

Elevenlabs IO they're the ones who do all of my intros and I just type in what I want them to say and they say it and I get to choose the voice.

They also do voice cloning and they, they are coming up with some fantastic new things that they're doing and I, I thought you go look at them.

So there will be a link in the show notes for 11 Labs IO and if you click on it and you decide to use it, I will make some money.

I get an affiliate payout which is cool because I could use a little extra money for all the things that I'm doing here.

I mean put the show on and think about.

It's not expensive as can be, but it's growing in price, as it were.

So how are you?

I hope you're doing well.

I'm doing great.

Beautiful day.

I don't know if you can hear it in the background, but it's raining at least we're between thunderstorms right now, so we're good there, you know.

Now I, I wanted to talk about a bunch of things today, but I'm gonna try and keep it down to one or two.

First thing I want to talk about is AI so let's start there.

AI and I or me and Claude Code.

We did a bunch of research last week for the Gray Hair Dave project and we came up with some really good things.

Some of the things that they came up with, other ones had not.

And I know we talked about it, about the pricing and everything last week, the change, what they found compared to what Perplexity found.

And that's what I wanted to talk about.

Depending upon your prompt, when you're using AI, whether it's Claude, Perplexity Chat, GPT, you, you plethora of them that are out there, they're all going to give you a little bit different answer because they're not all the same thing, right?

I mean they're just not, they're not the same company, they're not the same design.

So they're going to give you different things.

So you got to know what you're looking for when you do it.

There is a list that I am going to put a link to in show notes about and next week's show Notes, probably not this week because I.

It's not complete for me yet, but I've made a list of what.

Actually, I had AI make this.

I had Claude make this.

What AI, what it good for?

What do most people use it for, costs involved and what it can do.

So I use GPT, as you know, to make my new episode artwork and that's great.

I'm going to try it with Gemini today to see what Gemini comes up with, see if they do a little bit differently.

Also, on the AI front, there's, there's things that we've been looking at.

When I say we, it's always me.

But I've been looking into how to get my book out.

Now today I was shot, I was chatting with Claude and asked it the specific question, how do I take my PDF, get it online so I can sell it and make money passively from it?

Well, it came back with all these great ideas and they were all good.

There was do Amazon, you know, where you, you can put it on there as a PDF.

People can either a look, you know, read it, that way they can download it, or they can also ask for a book and they'll print on demand.

Now they take more of the profits than I like, so anywhere from 30 to 70%.

Now that's a big range, but it's not as big as you would think for the work that they're doing.

And it's a known platform.

And then it gave me other suggestions like Gumball, which is a site I can put that on.

And then it will help generate.

It will build me a page if I wanted to, almost like a funnel where it will do most of it for me, you know, I just have to upload it and then work on some of the pages.

And they're taking anywhere, usually around 10%.

But then there's a transaction fee when, when somebody buys.

And then there's also an additional 50 cents per.

Sale for, I guess for you using their, their transactions, you know, their transaction company, whether that's Strafe or whoever.

And then, you know, they got a.

Transfer the money out to me.

So.

And I asked, I asked Claude what they thought about that and then I asked Chat GPT what they thought about that.

And I like Claude's answer better.

It was basically staying saying that you don't want to do much with it, put it out there and let it build, go with Amazon.

So I think that's what I'm going to do.

I'm going to start with Amazon and see what if I get any Traction that way.

If I don't, then I'll go to Gumball or something like that, or I'll just build a page on my website.

And that was something, too.

I want to be able to sell it from the website.

But there's.

Then I'm getting into transaction fees and I got to go out and, you know, download stripe to that, the website.

That's just.

I got other things I want to be doing right now, so I'm going to let somebody else do it.

So that's where we're at on there.

Now.

Here's where we're changing subjects again and we're going back to podcasting.

So it was Monday, I believe, that Captivate FM came out with their new monetization program.

Now, their monetization program, I read and I didn't read, I'm sorry, I read through a little bit of it, but I watched the video where they're introducing and you got Mark Asquith and then the guy from Dax, Dax usa, which is the advertising and of Global, which owns Captivate.

Losing my mind here.

But anyway, because they, they're still starting this all.

And it's all new.

They've got three different types.

They have Programmatic ads where they just decide what goes in.

They've got content management, and then there's another one, and I don't remember the names.

I apologize, folks, I really do.

But if you'll bear with me for just one second here, I am going to look it up because I want you to know, so we move this around a little bit.

They have got, so they got campaigns and then they've got Captivate Marketplace, and then they've got Programmatic on Programmatic and excuse my head, Captivate Marketplace right now they're asking for 5,000 downloads a month before you're eligible.

And then they, they did say that those numbers will come down in time, but to start off with that's pretty high.

I don't imagine it's something I can ever use.

Was five minutes of gray hair.

Dave here.

I don't get that many downloads.

I mean, all time.

I'm pushing on 6,000 and I'm okay with that number.

And I looked at that and I went, they are seriously eliminating some of the people who this could really help.

They bring it down to zero or I mean, even a hundred.

I mean, there are.

I get a hundred a week sometimes it's.

It averages less than that, but I don't see why I can't do that.

So they also.

I was asking Chad or I'M sorry, Claude, about this, too.

And I asked them about which was the best way to go and which one was best.

What are the pros and cons?

And when I did that, Captivate wasn't even on the list yet because this is brand new.

But Buzzsprout was out there, and there was a couple of other ones.

Buzzsprout was the one I looked at harder.

And they've got a limit, you know, that you have to hit, too.

And it's about 5K.

I'm okay with 5,000 downloads, but you're limiting yourself to the bigger guys.

And I'm not one of the big guys, I'm one of the small guys.

And I think it's a little unfair to people.

Like, now, they did say that Transistor let you do it right from the very beginning, and I think Blueberry let you do it right away, too.

But since Todd Cochran passed away, I'm not.

I don't know what's going on at Blueberry, and I'm not in the mood to go look.

I mean, don't get me wrong, but I might look into Transistor for the next podcast because I'm starting a new podcast for the Gray Hair production for the Gray Hair Day project, and because I want to do video and audio at the same time.

Now, that's something that I have to be able to do, too.

Now, will I pick up more people because of video?

We'll find out.

Because I am recording this one on video today, I'm not guaranteeing it's going to be posted because I don't know how it's going to turn out.

You know, I'm looking here, I'm looking there, and I don't know if that's what you want to see.

But anyway, that's what I'm thinking.

So I'm worried that I. I won't be able to monetize through advertising.

Like getting sponsors for yourself is one, is a whole different thing.

You can do that all on your own if you want to monetize your podcast, if you have one.

But people like me, I'm not out there hustling to find a.

Another.

Another sponsor or a sponsor besides Gray Hair Productions, because that's the only thing I want to promote Gray Hair Productions and then the Gray Hair Dave Project, which it already has a name, folks.

You already know it.

It's Gray Hair voices dot com.

So I just.

And I should have turned off the notifications on the phone, shouldn't I?

That's okay.

You know, it's it's all right.

So I want to hear your thoughts on this.

If you have a podcast, I'd like to hear it.

Like to know what the name is.

Go to the contact me page on five minutes with gray here dave.com.

Or leave, you know, or leave me a voice message.

Keep getting this one email from somebody and nobody can translate it for me.

I don't know what you're saying to me, but please try translating before you send.

I don't know.

I.

It's frustrating for me and I'm sure it's frustrating for you because you don't.

You don't get responses from me.

I don't want that.

I want you to get responses from me.

So, yeah, I want to know if you have one.

If you have a podcast.

Let me know what your numbers are too, if you want.

I'm curious.

I like mine.

I like where they're at.

I mean, I'm okay with it because it's.

I consider us a small group of people, a small group of friends.

So.

But I am going to tell you this.

If you know somebody who thinks they might.

Might like what I. I say and go through, please let them know about me.

Use all the help I can get.

So, yeah, I think I'm going to go with either transistor or bus pro on the next one because it will be video and audio, because there will be a YouTube page for it all set up.

Because it'll be different than the five minutes of Gray Hair Day one.

So because it'll be audio and video, which will be a plus in my mind, I think we'll find out.

I plan on making them a little bit longer, like 20 to 30 minute long each time.

And I'm going to be talking more and more and more about podcasting, but more and more about podcasting for.

For seniors.

Now, does that mean it just seniors?

No, it does not.

That means I want everybody to look at it and listen to it.

I'm trying to make it as easy as I can for seniors.

Not that we're stupid, because there's no reason in the world to think we're stupid, because we are not.

But I want to make it easier for some of those who are a little more technologically challenged because they haven't had to be technologically expert, you know, they don't have.

You don't need to be an expert.

Just saying.

That's what I'm looking at.

So you want to start a podcast?

Do you know somebody who wants to start a podcast?

If you do Go over togray hair productions.com, send me an email through the contact page, leave me a note and saying, hey, Dave, I'd like to learn.

I'd be happy to help you out in the beginning.

And if you want to continue on and continue on, I'd be happy to help you with that.

Just we're going to start charging at a certain point.

But if you're looking for somebody to help you with your editing, whether that's audio or video, on your guy, and I will, if you're, if you mentioned five minutes of Gray Hair Day, you'll get a discount.

So there's that.

But if you know somebody or you want to do, because I think you need to go ahead and let me know at Gray Hair Productions, calm.

Also, folks, if you know somebody who does not know what a podcast is, take them by the hand, grab their phone, grab their tablet, grab their computer, show them for me.

Show them what the genres are that they can use or Listen to.

Use 5 minutes with gray Hair Dave as the example.

Say, hey, look at, listen to this guy.

See if you like him.

And if you do follow him or subscribe.

You'll make all of our, you really will.

It'll help our numbers and I'd be appreciative of that.

Also, folks, when you're out and about today, now I know where I am here in Central Florida, it's a rainy day.

Been raining for a couple hours, which is unusual.

Usually we rain for half an hour, an hour, and it goes away, then maybe comes back.

But today it's been raining for a while.

But if you're out and about, you see somebody you don't know doesn't have a smile on their face, smile and wave, maybe you'll make their day.

Maybe they are having a very, very bad day and you're gonna make and turn it around just by smiling and saying hi.

So on behalf of everybody here, Gray Hair Productions, this is Gray Hair Day of saying I will talk to you.

That's you.

Bye bye.