Navigating the Future of Live Podcasting: A Conversation with Gray Hair Dave

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 Gray Hair Dave.

Yes, yes, yes, folks, welcome back.

Welcome back to Five Minutes with Gray Hair Dave.

That was elevenlabs IO that's E L E V E N L A B S IO and if you're going to go to that website, do me a favor, click the link in the show notes.

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Now, I do this show out of a labor of love to begin with because I like sitting here talking to you.

You are my reason for being on the air once a week.

And because you do allow me to be here with you, I'm very happy about that.

So what are we going to talk about today?

Well, oh yeah, just a quick note.

Eleven labs, what I put in the beginning there is all done by AI.

I have to say that otherwise I could get in trouble.

And if you're out there podcasting and using AI and don't let people know about it, you could get in trouble, too.

Now that's the last I'm going to say about it.

I am not your mommy and daddy.

So how are you?

I'm doing pretty good.

I'll be honest with you.

It's been gorgeous weather down here in central Florida.

And if you.

Who can complain about that?

Not me.

So I, I do have to say we haven't gotten a lot of rain, but we had some rain this weekend and we actually had a tornado warning or tornado watch.

Well, one of the, whatever the first one is probably a watch just in case, but you know, I got a little windy.

Not very much, but it rained a little bit, but not enough to get rid of.

Completely get rid of the little bit of a drought we're in.

So there is that.

Next, next, next.

Next subject I want to talk about is work.

So I still do work for the mouse.

And you all know if you've been listening over the past 195 shows, because this is number 196, this one, and three more folks, and we're at 200.

But you know, I'm still doing the same thing.

I'm still on light duty because of my foot.

My foot, it's healed, but it, I still have a lot of pain in it when I do a lot of standing or A lot of walking.

Sometimes just.

Sometimes just getting out of bed.

Well, I'll step on it wrong and oh, my gosh.

But I go to the doctor on the 5th of May, as I'm recording this on the 4th of May.

And may the 4th be with you.

And if you're asking, yes, I've been watching Star wars today because it's Star Wars Day.

It's May 5th, May 4th, May 4th, May the 4th be with you.

And I do like Star Wars.

I have liked Star wars since the very, very beginning.

There were a few that I. Yeah, they're okay, but they're not bad.

I mean, I still watch them, but those are the ones made after episode, the third episode that Lucas made, where they went before what happened or where before it started.

And I find those interesting.

But it's not the same as the original three.

I just, I mean, I like the originals a little bit better.

The later ones here are good.

I've also watched the Mandalorian and stuff like that, but it's not the same.

To me, it's as the original.

The original has something there because it was new to everybody and you couldn't wait for a couple of years for the next one to come out.

So may the fourth be with you all.

I was listening to a show that I listened to quite often called Podcasting 2.0, and on that show is the guy or the pod father, Adam Curry and Dave Jones.

And they talk about a lot of things, most things podcasting or going on in the industry or people in the industry.

And I was listening to them last week because their show is every Friday and they do live and they've been doing live for always.

And I think that I want to start doing some live.

I've talked about it before, but I always thought I was going to have to do that with video.

Now I am going to start video with this new project, the Gray Haired Dave project that I've been talking about.

But I think about doing this one live to see if there's any interest.

Now, I was going to try and do audio only, and that's a little harder than I thought it was going to be.

I mean, it isn't.

It isn't.

You get, there's, there's workarounds and it's not that I have to do a workaround to get this done.

I just, I don't know if that's what I want to do that way.

So what I'm going to do is I'll just throw a camera up and next week When I record, I'll do it live and I'm going to do it live next week at let's just say 2 o' clock on Monday and Monday.

Well, let's just see here, let me pull a calendar up Monday next week will be May the 11th.

It's a day after Mother's Day here in the US.

I'll do it live.

I'll go put it on YouTube live and maybe we'll see what else.

I can do it online.

I may do it on LinkedIn Live.

I mean, I don't think I'll do it on Facebook Live.

But anyways, next week will be a live show.

It'll also be recorded so that you know, you'll get the audio recording as usual on Tuesday because I always seem to, there's a word I always seem to publish on Tuesday mornings, so.

Or Tuesday afternoons.

But you'll have it next week.

I hope you like it.

I hope it does.

Hope it goes okay.

I'm going to be playing a little more this weekend with backgrounds and things such as that.

And I'm still deciding whether I use ECAMM Live, which is a product that's an Apple product and very, very good.

They've made a bunch of new improvements to it lately and I've got to catch up on that.

Or I could go over and do a Riverside FM Live.

I did sign up to Riverside on the trial.

I used to be a Riverside person, but I went ahead and I, I got rid of that a while ago so because I wasn't using it and it's not overly expensive but it's not cheap.

You know, I've already got a bunch of subscriptions to a bunch of things so we'll see what happens.

So yeah, looking forward to that.

I really am.

You guys get to see me doing this and you won't get to see the behind the scenes stuff because I'm not going to do a multi cam.

Maybe, maybe I will, who knows, we'll see.

But anyway, that's next week.

So let's now change subject again and let's go back into AI.

I have been playing around some more, looking at more advantages of the way I want to do these things with the new Dave project.

But AI, especially Claude, has really, really helped me with narrowing down my target areas and coming up with names and phone numbers and emails of people I need to contact.

And, and that all starts this coming week too.

So look forward to that.

So I'm still using a lot of AI now.

I did download the Gemini app on my MacBook, I have not downloaded it on my Mac Mini yet and I do use gemini on my MacBook.

I'm just, I'm keeping it on the, on there right now.

I haven't even load downloaded it on my iPad.

And I'll be honest folks, I use my iPad for darn near.

Except for recording this kind of stuff.

I'd for darn near 90 of what I do.

I just do.

It's become my, it's a, it's an M4 chip, it's a iPad pro and I get just about everything on that done that I do on my Mac Mini or my, my MacBook and I, it's, I, I don't very often fire up my Dell computer.

Now my Dell is I think 2017.

So it's nine years old.

It's still going.

The battery doesn't last more than 10 minutes or 15.

So you know, but for a nine year old, eight or nine year old computer that's not too bad.

And I think a reason for that is that I went Solid State drive on that thing.

A month after I bought it I upgraded it to a 550 gig solid state drive.

So I'm not getting a lot of that extra fan noise.

But I do get a lot of fan noise because it is heating up because everything's getting old.

So there we are.

I'll be honest with you folks.

I like Gemini.

I haven't downloaded it on the Dell, but I'm not going to because I like it on my, my, my MacBook.

And it's fine.

It does just about everything I need it to do.

And I'm looking into other ones I grok, I have looked at and it's not bad.

It's really not bad.

Copilot, which is a Microsoft product, is very good, but I think that Gemini is better.

And one of the reasons I went with gemini on my MacBook was because Google is going to do something to enhance Siri.

I was waiting to see if she jumped in.

So that's all coming up in the future for the new, a new update I think it's.

Oh, what is it?

IOS 27 or maybe later on one of the iOS 26 updates this year.

But we'll see what happens.

But we've all been waiting for that upgrade.

So that's, that's it for just about everything I wanted to talk about today, except for for this.

Also folks, if, if you were ever thinking about starting a podcast or if you know someone who wants to start a podcast, do me a favor, go over togray hair productions dot com.

That's G R E Y productions dot com.

Go to the Contact Me page.

Send me an email.

Love to help you.

I keep getting these odd emails that I can't even get chat, GPT perplexity or Claude to translate that people keep sending me and they'd say it may be, it may be some kind of computer code or you know, or something to that effect.

Well, if that's you, please keep trying.

We'll figure a way to talk, but we'll chat.

Otherwise, you know, leave me a message.

I'd be happy to help you out.

And if you are interested, send me an email through the contact Me page and I'll send you a free for now book on how to podcast, how to start a podcast and all that fun stuff.

It's, it's, there's going to be a price on it starting in June.

But this is a free PDF.

I just, you send it to me, I email it back to you.

I'm very proud of it.

It's going to be published here, not published.

I'm going to self publish and I'm working on that too.

So yeah, I've got one, I've got a couple of them built and I've already got them printed.

But you know, printing is expensive.

I'm not going to go print anything until I know there's a market for it.

So help me out with that.

Let me know.

Also, folks, if you know somebody who doesn't know what a podcast is, first of all, look at them go.

Really.

Second, say, do me a favor folks, mom or dad or whoever this is.

Let me see your phone.

You pull up a podcast app for them, whether that's on their Apple or on their Android device.

Show them how it works, show them the genres that are available.

Use 5 minutes with gray haired Dave as the example on how to find one, how to follow one, how to subscribe, how to download, how to rate and review.

I wouldn't mind a couple of ratings and reviews if you were interested.

I'd be appreciative of that.

Also, folks, when you're out and about today, you see somebody you don't know or you're, you're going somewhere and you're, you're getting something, whether that's fast food or a grocery store or wherever, smile at that person behind the register, say hi, wish them a happy day and thank them for being there.

So on behalf of everybody here, and that's just me at Gray Hair Productions, you'll have a great week and I will be talking to you next week and it will be live at 2 o' clock on the 11th.

Talk to you then.

Bye.