Insights from Gray Hair Dave: On AI and Podcasting

Welcome to five Minutes with Gray Hair Dave.

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

Oh, and the guy in the artwork is better looking.

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Here is Gray Hair Dave.

Well, well, well, folks.

Yes, yes, yes.

Welcome back.

Welcome back to another great episode here with Gray Hair Dave.

That's right.

You heard it on the intro.

You saw me.

There I was.

Well, there I was, but you heard it on the intro.

Yeah, the guy in the artwork is better looking than me.

But then again, I paid the guys who made it to do it that way, and I think it looks good to me, so I'm.

I'm happy with it.

I hope you are, too.

So how have you been?

I hope you're doing okay today.

Trying something new.

We're doing both audio and video again.

Last week's video was okay and it'll be out soon.

Don't worry about it.

I shouldn't say that.

If you're looking forward to it, you're looking forward to it, but it'll be out in a couple.

In a couple minutes.

I. I wanted you to know that we were doing a lot of talking lately about AI and that I feel that I have been a little remiss because I'm recording video.

At the same time, I think that I've been focusing more on the.

On the video portion while I'm talking.

And I think that that does you a disservice as an audio listener.

You are my first and most important person right now.

You right there listening to me either on your phone, in your car, at home, in your earbuds, whatever it is, if you're listening in these.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

I honestly, honestly appreciate you more than you know.

Also, if you're watching the videos, I appreciate that, but I.

The videos isn't the only reason I'm here.

The videos is so I can get used to the videos for when I do Boomer podcasters, which is going to be a more informative type of a podcast on video.

So there's lots of people out there who will tell you if it's video.

It's a YouTube, it's audio, it's a podcast.

Well, I believe there's both and there's room for both here in this world.

And I'm not here to disparage anyone who says that or they're thinking or anything like that.

I'm just telling you what Gray Hair Dave thinks.

Gray Hair Dave.

I want everybody to hear.

I don't care if you're watching it or listening to it.

So there is that.

Okay, so I, I put into AI.

We're going to change it now, change subjects.

We're going to go into the AI portion of today's, today's podcast and video.

I put that new information in last week where I asked it to go back, you know, one to five days to do its research, and the first day it came back with one.

Now, LinkedIn is a little bit different than Reddit and Upwork.

Now, when I asked it to go to Upwork, it kind of didn't like what I asked.

I don't think, again, I need to refine what I'm asking because I was on Reddit today and.

But there, and there are some, some jobs out there.

There are some people looking for editors, and there are people who are looking to start new.

Well, that's right up my alley on both terms, right?

I tell people, I show people how to podcast and I also edit their, I edit their stuff for them.

And there are a lot of people out there who are of an age where they don't want to take the time to do all that stuff.

So that's what I'm here for.

But anyways, the AI keeps coming back to me saying, you know, well, we can't, we didn't find anything new.

We didn't find anything.

Basically, that's all it's saying to me is we didn't find anything new.

So I got to go back and I'm going to redo the, the parameters again, and I think I'm going to reduce where it goes to.

I think that what I'm having it scrub and look for are not exact.

It's.

I think I'm making it way too broad, if that makes sense.

I think if I, if I tighten it up, say, please go to Reddit under my name.

I don't know if I should do it that way or not, but let's just say for now, under, under my sign in and look for editing jobs and just list the ones you find and start there and then build.

I think what I did in the beginning is I went too big and too broad on what I was asking it to do and how else you're going to learn if you don't do right now, I can ask Chad GPT to do whatever it is I think I want it to know or to do, and it's going to come back with what I want.

But this one, this one involved a lot more of it going out there and actually pawing for Specific things.

So I'm going to re.

I'm going to give it a break.

I'm going to go back and I'm going to cancel the ones that are there.

No, let's not do that.

Let's leave them there.

We'll start a new one that just does this one thing and then we'll see how that goes.

We'll give it a week.

I'll type that in there today.

I'm not going to show you while I'm doing it.

You can, can do it yourself.

Now if you remember, I am on Perplexity Labs AI.

Perplexity Labs is the paid for professional.

It's a pro version and I like it.

But it's a little expensive.

It's not terribly expensive.

It's $20 a month.

But it gives you a, a better ability to do what I want it to do, hopefully, because that's what I'm seeing.

Also there's, there's other ways.

It'll send it to another, another program to help it out all on its own if it needs it.

So it's very intuitive.

It's very well done.

I like it.

I don't go to Perplexity for the minutia that have of everyday life.

You know, a lot of people will go to, to chat GPT to find out about what they had done.

Today I had, it's like today folks, I want you to know I didn't, you don't need to know.

But I had a CAT scan done and they used contrast so I could go to chat GPT and have them explain to me what I, what exactly happens with a CAT scan with contrast for what I had done.

And it'll tell me.

But I'm not going to use a large language model which is what AI is.

They called it LLM, but it's AI.

I'm not going to use that to find, you know, not going to waste its time on that, you know, so those are the types of things that I use for larger things.

Perplexity Labs and it's a great program also 11 labs IO is changing too.

I told you last week I was going to play with that and I didn't.

I apologize.

It's on my list for today.

I had a few things I had to do today that of course CAT scan and I tell you what, I.

Okay, we're going to cut that out, right Dave?

Yes, we're going to cut that out.

Okay.

Okay.

So I went to.

The place that I go to is a relatively new facility.

It's a Relatively new hospital.

It's got a big, huge emergency room.

I went there for my foot surgery.

They've added onto the building and there's also another building to the, to the north of it.

I believe it's north.

I think it is north.

That has orthopedics, but where I go is imaging.

And in that same office area they also have the sports rehab where a lot of the, the pro players in town would go for sports rehab, you know, which is basically a physical therapy center, but real nice place.

Everything's.

But the equipment's all brand new.

You know, they're using top of the line.

When I was in getting my, my thyroid biopsy a couple of weeks ago, all the equipment is brand new.

It's, it's top of the line and you're getting good service.

And that was one of the things that I wanted to praise today's healthcare systems with.

I mean, people complain and I'm one.

I'm sorry, everybody complains in the US that healthcare is too expensive.

But when you look at how much these machines cost and how much education these people have to have to use these things, I mean it's, it's, it's a lot of money and I don't mind paying for it, but I mean, I don't want to get robbed either, you know.

But any, anyhow folks, that's, that's what's going on this week.

There's not much else I did want you to know.

Normally I record the video for this podcast in ECAMM Live.

I like ECAMM Live.

It does a lot of things I want it to do and I'm getting better and better and better at it.

And I usually add it either in, in DaVinci Resolve or I go to once in a while if I'm in a hurry.

I'll just use Imovie on my Mac because that's all I use now is Apple products.

So I mean I could go to Final Cut Pro, but for what I'm doing, the little bit that I'm doing, I don't really see the need to power that up.

Maybe I should, maybe, I don't know.

But I like DaVinci Resolve and it's a good program and it works really well.

It's, it's easy to learn and it can be over complicated if you let it be just like this.

Doing the recording of a podcast is not that difficult once you figure it out.

You know, you buy a microphone, you plug it into your computer, you open up a program.

Like I use Logic Pro.

Yeah, Logic Pro was an expensive program when I bought it.

Two, a year and a half, two years ago now I bought it.

I think it's been over two years since I've been using Logic Pro.

Before that I used the free version on Mac called Garageband or I used Audacity.

You know, there's all kinds of them out there, folks, but it doesn't take much to do it.

If you're listening to me and you're interested in, in becoming a podcaster like Gray Hair Day, let me know.

Reach out to me, go to my website.

5 minutes with gray hair Dave dot com.

That's the number.

5 minutes with gray hair Dave.com and leave me a message either in a contact page or in the little microphone.

You can leave me a voicemail.

I'd be glad to hear from you.

Be glad to help.

So you know, also folks, if you are out there and you're a podcaster and you need some help with editing or with video or you want to get started with video, go over, go ahead and contact me over at Gray Hair Productions.

That's G R E Y product.gray hair productions.com.

use the contact me page.

Let me know you're interested and I'll be happy, happy to get back in touch with you.

If you're in another country besides the U.S. please let me know what, what language you're using.

I've gotten a couple of emails and I'm sorry, but I can't figure out what language it is so I can translate it.

I'd love to help, love to reply, but I just don't know what, what language it is by looking at it.

I even put in chat GPT the other day and it didn't help me any.

But anyways, you can do that.

I appreciate that.

I'd love the help.

Did you know also, did you know that if you wanted to maybe send me a, a tip or something for what you, what you're listening to, you can do that on the website.

Five minutes of Gray Hair Day.

Little button down the bottom, it says buy me a coffee.

You're, you're more than welcome to, to leave a tip there.

And hey, who knows, I can buy me a coffee, even though I don't drink coffee, but I'll buy a Diet Coke with it.

Or maybe it'll help offset the cost of this program because I pay for everything coasting, all the video editing, all the hours, all the other stuff that I do, all the learning.

It's all me.

I pay for it.

It's Good.

And I don't.

Folks I love.

I would do this whether I got money out of it or not.

Not just in this.

I'm not in this for the money.

I'm in Gray Hair Productions for the money.

Also, folks, if you know somebody who doesn't know what a podcast is, doesn't know where to find one, do me a favor.

Show them for them.

Take them by the hand, grab that phone and show them where it is.

Open it up for them.

Show them.

Especially if they're on an apple, on an iPhone, hit that little button right there.

See that that podcast pop up.

Show them how they can find the different genres out there.

We all need more people.

And they.

Who knows, they may find something in there they really like.

You know, they may be a golfer, they may want me, a boater, a fisherman, a.

A hunter.

Somebody just wants to hear Gray or Dave talk.

Use me as an example.

Show them how to find me, and then they can find anything.

One more thing, folks.

The holiday season is upon us here in the US and across the world.

And with the recent results, and I don't even want to say results, because that's wrong with the recent things that have occurred this past weekend with the beginning of Hanukkah and the tragedy in Australia.

My hearts and prayers go out to all those folks, to the folks at the university in Rhode Island.

My hearts and prayers are with you.

It's just to Rob Reiner and his wife.

My hearts and prayers go out to your family.

Except for the one who did it.

He needs redemption, but he's got to be a.

He has to have problems.

Lots, Lots of craziness going on, folks, and take that into account.

When you're out and about, you don't know what's going on in that other person's life.

Smile.

Have them have.

Wish them a happy holidays.

Just smile and say, hi, you're going to make their day.

They in turn, we're going to make your day.

Okay?

So on behalf of Gray Hair Dave here at Gray Hair Productions, I wish you a happy holidays.

I wish you peace in your life, and I wish you happiness.

Bye.

Bye.