The Evolving Landscape of Podcasting Technology

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 now, tariff free.

Here is Gray Hair Dave.

Well, that was 11 labs, folks.

We've been talking about it for a long time.

I use them for my intro.

It's about time to get a new voice or maybe put my own in there.

I don't know.

What do you think?

Maybe I'll use it for the outro where I talk about the things I talk about at the end.

Who knows?

So how are you?

I hope you're doing well, I really do.

I'm doing fantastic.

I'm recording this on a Tuesday and it's the 14th of April, and I, I got done a little while ago, a couple hours ago, actually, filing my taxes.

How here in the US we have to file by the 15th of April every year by midnight the 15th of April.

So, you know, I did it, you know, and I thought I was missing something because I was on workers compensation.

I kept looking and hunting and, and couldn't find a W2 that they send you from or a 1099 they send you for workers comp.

So I contacted work and work said, dave, it's not taxable anymore.

So we're not going to send you one.

Why would we?

Well, okay, duh.

Another duh moment from Dave.

So anyway, I got it all done, went through my favorite Intuit turbotac and I did well.

I did okay and I'm happy about it.

So the weather's starting to warm up here in southern Florida and now I'm going to change subjects.

Now we're going to get on to what we've been talking about here.

And a lot of this has to do with, with the Gray Hair Day project, which of course, as you know, is a secret.

It is and it isn't.

If you do enough research, you could find it.

But I told you last week that I had flawed AI make me a CRM, and I was amazed at what it did.

Oh, it did a fantastic job.

So proud of it.

I know you're gonna say I'm proud of an AI.

Yeah, proud of an AI, Dave.

So I went to it again and I, and I said, okay, you've made this great CRM for it.

Here's what I have been doing on another AI and I actually told it what exactly what I had asked the other AI to do.

I copy and pasted from my very first.

Post into perplexity.

You know, the prompt that I used, I pasted most of it.

I changed a couple of things where I added, I wanted this, you know, I wanted a, a slide deck.

I also wanted a, a different Excel sheet or spreadsheet.

And it came back to me within a minute or so and said, it actually came back, you know, within seconds and said, that is a fantastic idea, Dave.

I'm, I'm surprised nobody's thought of it.

Let me show you what I can do for you.

And it went to work.

Now granted, I did this on my iPad and it's not going to happen.

It is a M4 iPad and I was in an area that doesn't have the greatest Internet.

So five minutes later it came up with a slideshow on what my project was.

Came up with a spreadsheet with the name of the business, the website address, the phone number, the contact, if they could find it, days of operation, all of this.

And it looks fantastic.

The slideshow perplexity that it made was great.

This one is great also.

It's, it's great and it's better in different ways.

And I think I need to modify some things before I, I use it.

Of course, I'm not going to just use AI's words, but I can, I can now print them up and compare between the two on UCM or even put them up side by side of my monitor.

See how I want to, which, you know, which direction I want to go.

I will tell you, I did like the artwork better, the logo that, that Perplexity made.

I did not ask Claude to make me a logo, but, and the, the spreadsheet and the, also the slide deck didn't give me the same colors, of course, because it didn't know what colors I was looking at, but it did a great job.

So I'm going to continue with Claude some more.

So yeah, I'm, I'm going to continue to use cloud AI for, for a lot of things.

Now there's different versions of cloud AI I'm using.

I think it's Sora 4.6 or sort or whatever, and it's really, really good.

Am I going to go and go to Claude Code or Claude coworker Claude Code?

Probably not, because I don't, I don't need it to code anything I've got.

That's not what I'm doing.

You know, a cloud co work I have started to look into and I'll give you a report next week about what I think about Claude code.

Now I also wanted to tell you this today.

When I get done with this recording, I am going to run it through Whisper AI and see what kind of transcript it gives me compared to the transcript I get from Captivate fm.

A Captivate fm, they're my hosting company.

They host this podcast and numerous other ones that I have.

And they have an AI agent that is there to translate.

And also it gives episode title suggestions.

It does dynamic ad insertion, which I think is fantastic.

It also does chapters.

It'll also do any.

If I've talked about a website, it'll.

It'll reflect that and it'll tell you what they were.

But there's also a section where it'll put a link in for it too.

So there's a link to Five Minutes with Gray Hair Day.

There's a link to Gray Hair Productions.

There is a link to 11 Labs IO, which is.

I'm an affiliate of.

So if you do use them, I will get an affiliate payout and I wish that you would because they do some fantastic work.

At least go, go look it up and look it up and check it out because it's well worth it.

It's.

The things that it's doing now are very, very exciting.

Just like I, I could throw this also into Descript, which I have, I pay for monthly, have it do the transcript for me and, and try it that way.

But I don't think I'm going to go that way.

I just want to try Whisper AI.

I may even try throwing it into Gemini and see what it says.

Who knows?

We'll just have to see.

So with all that being said, if this sounds a little different, I'm recording in.

The car was a little noisy in the house today, so I said, you know, let's try something different.

So I grabbed a different microphone.

Instead of being on the Shure SM7B.

Now, today I am on a Q2U.

Now, if you're just starting out podcasting or you want to start podcasting, go to five minutes of Gray Hair Dave leaving you either a voicemail or go to the Contact Me page and let me know.

Or go to Gray Hair Productions.

Go to the Contact Me page.

Leave me a message.

I'd be happy to contact you when you do this.

One of the things I'm going to tell you about is the, the equipment that I use.

There's an equipment list on.

I think it's on Gray Hair Productions.

If not, I'll make sure it is today.

And the Samson Q2U is one that I suggest you start with.

I don't suggest a blue Yeti.

I suggest this because it has much, much better quality and you can do multiple things with it.

You can use an XLR cable which is a 3 pin XLR which has to go to some kind of an audio device, an audio mixer as, as it were.

It also goes, it has a cable that goes directly via USB into your computer.

It also let you hook your headsets up to that.

Now today, because I'm recording on my MacBook Air, I'm using my AirPods Pro now the AirPods Pro 3, they're the earbuds, you know, so and they're great.

But I just wanted you to know there is a difference in recording area and in recording microphone.

So I want to hear the difference because I forgotten what the kids sampling Q2U sounded like.

Also folks, if you know somebody who doesn't know what a podcast is, doesn't know how to find it, doesn't know anything about them, do me a favor, show them for me, grab their phone for them, put it on the podcast.

Use five minutes with gray haired Dave as the example, okay?

Just go ahead and do it.

Also folks, if you're out and about today and you see somebody you don't know, or even somebody you do, make sure you wave, smile, maybe even say hi.

You're going to make their day at Woodpoint.

Turn, turn around and make your day.

So on behalf of Gray Hair Dave in the Gray Hair production vehicle, you all have a great week and I will talk to you soon.

Bye bye.

Sa.