Navigating the Nuances of Modern Podcasting

Welcome to five Minutes with Grey 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 now, tariff free.

Here is Gray Hair Dave.

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It's just me.

So how you doing today?

I'm doing good.

It's a good day here.

It's.

It's warm right now.

It's about 90 degrees here in Central Florida, and, yeah, it's warm.

Not a lot of breeze, but it's been a good weekend, and I hope yours has been, too.

Some things that have been happening around here, like today, and I don't know if any of you guys out there or if.

If you've ever done this, you look at yourself, and I was growing a long beard.

It was.

It was getting there.

It was getting quite long.

A few months ago, I cut an inch off.

Inch, Inch and a half.

Well, today I cut off a good 2 inches, and I. I know that I can grow it back.

I don't know that I will, but I want to get back to where I'm looking more like a business professional or a business person than somebody who's just showing the fact that they can grow a long beard.

Now I'm going to let it grow a little bit and make it a little more sculptable.

Is that the right word?

I don't know, but I'm going to make it a little more sculpted or give it a shape.

I'm not going to try and be Santa Claus this year.

I'm not worried about any of that kind of stuff, but it was really weird.

When I'm doing it, I'm cutting it off and I'm going, oh, wait a minute.

And then I go, oh.

And then next thing you know, I'm cutting a little bit more than I wanted, but it turned out okay.

I'd put pictures up, but not yet.

I needed.

There's a couple places I went a little too short, which is easy to do because I went from scissors to a trimmer and the trimmer will take bigger bites than I was looking forward to.

But hey, it's all, it's okay, right?

It'll grow back.

That's one thing I'm sure of.

So if you're out there and you've grown a big beard or you, you have a large beard, you understand what I'm going through or what I went through, it's, it's an emotional thing because you've, you've grown it, you trim it, you try and get it to look a certain way and it does.

And then you decide, you know, last summer it was really hot outside and the beard was really hot.

And I decided to not let it be that way this summer.

So here we go.

Anyway, let's, let's change subjects from that.

I was working yesterday on some more Gray Haired Dave project stuff.

On part of it was what is a podcast?

If you're, if you're trying to explain to somebody what is a podcast and they don't know what one is.

Granite.

They're probably my age or older, but you never know.

So I'm trying to word it in such a way that is not offensive, but also make sure that they, that whoever looks at this, because it's part of what I'm going to be doing is podcasting.

And I want them to understand what it is they might be getting into with me.

I want them to understand what a podcast really is.

And it's easy for me to describe it to you, you know, you're listening to one.

But to those who never have, that's something brand new to them.

Right.

So I wanted to, you know, and it's working, but I want to go ahead and I'm making it into a slideshow, which is fine, but I'm also going to make it into a book.

And just a book that I can leave with people to say, here's what, what, what we're doing here, here's why.

And it's, it explains some of the important things, but you'll see it when it finally comes out.

Now, if it's something you're interested in doing, if you're interested in and, and starting a podcast, I want you to get a hold of me at Gray Hair Productions.

That's G R E weight.

G R E way I did it again.

G R e y hair productions.com Go to the Contact Me page and leave me a message.

Or you can just go to five minutes with gray hair dave.com leave me a message there either on the contact me page or there's a little microphone there on that, on that website.

You can leave me a voicemail.

Yes.

You have to put in an email address on both.

I'm sorry, but I don't sell your email addresses.

You don't ever have to worry about that.

I'm pretty, pretty selfish about that.

I want them for myself.

But if you do that, I will send you a book or a PDF on how to podcast.

It's about 22 pages long, but it's, it's detailed enough to understand, but it's not over detailed to where I'm going to confuse you, I hope you know.

So there's that, that's what's going on.

I wanted to make sure I got that in early.

Something I, I've noticed on.

And this is, this is something that has irritated me about me.

There's a few podcasts I listen to and one of them is a podcast on podcasting.

And about three quarters of the way through they will go ahead and promote their repatrion folks.

People who, you know, donate or contribute or are.

That there's a, there's a, a problem out there right now with donations versus just the wording.

But they're patreons and so they spin this wheel and as soon as they hit that, I think they're done.

And I know they're not.

I can look at the timescale on the, on my app and go, well, I got a lot, I got 15 minutes left because these guys do, they do about an hour and a half show once a week and after that hits, I lose interest for some reason.

And I was wondering what was going to happen if I put what I just said about do you want to be a podcaster?

If you do, give me, you know, give me.

Contact me if I start losing people after that because they think it's almost over now.

I'm not one of those ones who go, who goes ahead and pre records my endings.

I probably should.

It'd be a whole lot easier.

They'd be consistent.

But I, I think that I get people listening further because they want to see if I see, if I see right there, see if I say it the same way, if I make a mistake, if I leave something out, I put something extra in.

You know, it's, it's interesting to me.

I want to find that out.

So that's why I put that at the very beginning, about a third of the way in.

Now I'm not going to put the rest of the end in until the end.

But I wanted to also talk to you today about artificial intelligence again.

Now, you remember that I said that I was going to put the podcast audio into Whisper AI as well as I think I was going to go with Chat GPT and Claude and they all did a wonderful job at transcribing it for me.

Claude came up with names that were very, very close to what I used.

My hosting company, which is Captivate fm, has an AI agent that does all this stuff for me.

And all I was doing on this was just comparing and yes, you.

The problem that I came up with is it's not a problem, but it's, it's a, it's a difference.

In my mind, I was used to what Captivate does where they, they're giving you.

Not snippets, but they'll give you the basis of what I was talking about.

They won't give it to you word for word.

Where these other ones, the transcripts were word for word.

Well, can you imagine a transcript on somebody who goes for half an hour, 45 minutes, maybe even an hour, how long that's going to be and how much computing power that's going to take up?

It's just too much.

And you.

And nobody, I don't want to say nobody, but there aren't as many people interested in reading the transcripts as there are people who might be looking for the links of something that I said.

So there will be a link in the show notes today for Chat GPT, for Whisper AI and for Claude AI.

Why didn't I use Perplexity, you might be saying, because I just didn't want to over tax.

I use Perplexity a lot and I pay for it.

I pay for Claude and I don't want to use a lot of credits on those two Pro, on those two platforms for something that was a test.

I, I got the information I needed out of other ones.

So if you're wondering why that's why now I am.

I had a, a nice meeting about, with an AI company actually yesterday and they're a CRM, you know, it's a content.

Content Resource Management is what it's it what the acronym actually stands for.

But they're an AI company and I was very impressed by this company for one reason.

The guy who I contact who contacted me, we had this, it was a Google Meet meeting.

So we get to see each other and talk with each other and he, you know, he told me about their company and he asked me about mine and why I was looking to use their product.

And I told him, and I told him what I was going to be doing.

And he goes, he goes, I really don't think that, that we're the right fit for you.

I think maybe down the road we might be a good fit for you, but right in the very beginning, we're not.

I don't think we're.

I just think we're bigger than your need.

It's just you don't need us yet.

Now that was very gutsy on that salesperson's behalf because he's turning down business because he could have said, hey, yeah, we can do all this for you.

And it's only this and this and this much a month or this much a year.

But he said, no, I'm going to give you some, I send you an email with some, some better ways to start out and better ways to get things, get you going.

And once you start adding employees and adding more and more and more of what you're doing, then come back to us and we'll be able to help you out.

And, and he did send me that email.

He followed through.

And in my mind, you follow through on something like that.

You tell me, hey, we're just not the right fit for you right now, but in the future we could be.

You've just gained a loyal customer in the future because I've written them down.

They're on a.

Posted on my, on my shelf.

I'm not going to forget them.

I've saved the email and I think that that's a great thing.

That's a great thing a company has done and it's an AI company and everybody and their brothers doing a something with AI.

And if you are great, I'd like to know what it is.

Send me a message.

Go to five minutes with gray hair dave.com.

Leave me a message.

What are you, what are you doing with AI?

What artificial intelligence programmed or platform do you prefer?

You know, I know that Gemini is, has become very, very, very big.

They've got an app now for Mac which I looked at, I will probably download and it's.

Gemini is very good.

I have to admit.

It's very, very good.

So let me know what you're doing.

And I'm really, really curious.

I really am.

Because if you know me and you've listened to me, which most of you have for quite a long time.

This is episode 195, folks.

Five more episodes now hit 200.

That'd be a red letter day.

I got a plan for that one.

I don't know what we're going to do, but five minutes of Gray Hair Dave may just be a half an hour that day or it might just be five minutes with gray hair day.

We don't know yet.

We've got to come up with that.

Well, now I keep saying we.

Here we go again.

It's me.

So anyway, hey, do you know somebody out there who doesn't know what a podcast is?

There's no where to find one.

Doesn't know what you can get out of it.

Do me a favor.

Take their phone by your from them and show them the app.

If they don't have it, download it for them.

If they want to get rid of it, they can always get rid of it.

Show them the app.

Show them the possibilities that are there in four different kinds of genres.

Use five Minutes with Gray Hair Dave as the example.

I'd be happy as could be with that.

I really would.

Show them how to follow or subscribe.

And you'd make you make my day.

Also, folks, when you're out about today, you see somebody that doesn't look like they're having a great day, smile.

Say, are you okay?

Hey.

Haven't.

Have a.

Have a nice day.

Thank you for being here.

You're going to lift their spirits more than you'll know.

And that should in turn make you feel better about your day.

So be on behalf of myself, Gray Hair Dave here in Gray Hair production central.

You all have a great day and I'll talk to you again next week.

All right, Bye.