Mike Dell's World number 3 96 for November 9th, 2023.

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Ah, there it is.

And so how terrible was that episode yesterday?

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I'm gonna call that the, uh, world's worst podcast, or at least my world, my world's worst podcast.

Yeah, that was all done with ai, 100%.

The only thing that I did was publish it on my WordPress site, uh, which put it out to the podcast world.

But I had, uh, I'll tell you how I did it.

Uh, first I had chat, GBT write me a script about AI and podcasting, and I edited the script a little bit to get rid of some of the extraneous crap that it put in there.

And then I went to de Script and I trained de Script to use my voice.

That did sound like me, but it wasn't me.

didn't sound like me normally had, uh, you know, no soul or something.

I don't know.

It was weird, but it, uh, it did a pretty good job of pronouncing everything and it sort of sounded like me, at least my voice.

But, uh, yeah, wow.

It was crazy.

But, uh, anyway, I trained a script to, uh, use my voice, and then I fed that script into it, recorded it.

Then I, uh, told chat GBT to, uh, make me some, uh, artwork for it.

And voila, there's the podcast episode.

I told him to make a 10 minute episode, and mercifully, it was, what, three or four minutes?

Something like that.

But yeah, it was hard to listen to.

Uh, so I don't think, at least the, the process I used, I don't think that's ready for, for prime time.

Uh, but, uh, some of those tools are getting pretty cool.

The, the episode artwork that I've been doing, this whole, uh, stretch of nap pod Pomo has been AI generated, but some of 'em I had to do about six tries at before it made one that was worth it.

And it doesn't spell worth a crap.

That's one of the bad things about, uh, image generation.

Uh, if you have any text in that image, it just doesn't do it.

But, uh, it does make some pretty interesting artwork.

If you haven't seen the artwork, well, you should get a different podcast app, .

And speaking of podcast app, thanks for, uh, those of you that, that, uh, answered my question about what podcast app you're using.

Uh, I switched to Podcast Guru for a little bit, and then, uh, I found one that I like a little better.

Uh, what is it called now?

Castomatic.

So that's the current one that I'm using in place of Overcast, because it has the same features as Overcast and it adds a few other features such as value for value and, and that kind of thing.

And, uh, I still use, uh, pod verse and whatnot for the live stuff.

'cause Castomatic doesn't have the live in it.

You know, I listen to a couple of shows that go live and, uh, you can listen to those right in your app rather than have to go to wherever they're live streaming.

So it makes it pretty convenient.

So I've been playing with Castomatic and, and kind of switched over to it from Overcast, and so far, so good.

We'll, I'll continue to report on that.

But, uh, yeah, otherwise everything's going good here.

Still recovering from the shoulder surgery, that'll be an ongoing thing for the next, you know, couple months.

But, uh, I'm getting to the point now where I'm doing physical therapy home version.

Uh, they gave me, uh, uh, sheets of exercises to do all passive range of motion type stuff.

So no, uh, physical, you know, I'm not moving the shoulder with my shoulder muscles and, and whatnot.

Uh, it's all, uh, passive using my other hand, or in this case, a, a golf club to do range of motion for external rotation.

But, uh, it's, it's still a little sore, but uh, it's getting there.

The range of motion is, it's okay.

Uh, it'll get better after I lose the sling here in another month, and then I can do a regular physical therapy with a therapist and get a range of motion back and, and, uh, strength back and all that.

So, uh, yeah, it's doing, uh, doing quite well.

My doctor told me I couldn't drive for the whole time, the whole six weeks, which is horse crap.

Uh, I've watched a whole bunch of different physical therapists and doctors on, uh, YouTube and all of them say, well, once you're off the narcotics and as long as your vehicle is, uh, compatible with, uh, driving one handed, then you're good.

So I can't drive my Toyota Corolla with a stick shift, but I could drive my Chevy pickup truck.

I haven't been doing a lot of driving, but I've done some just a little bit.

Uh, but for the most part, I'm just taking it easy.

Uh, just had to hire someone to take care of the leaves in the yard.

Uh, you got done with it here a little while ago, otherwise I would've recorded earlier.

But, uh, all the machinery was running, so I got that done or got, you know, use, used my checkbook to, uh, rake the leaves rather than my, uh, body sometimes the most powerful tool in the toolbox is the checkbook.

Uh, it's my wife's birthday today.

She's now the same age as I am, which I won't tell, but, uh, at least for a couple of months till I bump up another notch in January.

Uh, uh, we're having a, a party get together this weekend, uh, which is kind of okay, but, uh, what's weird is that we did it, we're doing it on Saturday at three o'clock, and I just got a notice from the power company yesterday morning that said, oh, hey, we're gonna have a planned outage from 8:00 AM until 2:00 PM on Saturday.

So not only is it gonna get cold here or cold in here, I'm gonna bump up the, the heat a little bit, uh, before that happens so that it'll retain a little more heat.

And so, yeah, so we get to, uh, party plan in the dark.

We're with no power, so that'll be not fun, but, oh, well, stuff happens.

Gotta make sure the phones and iPads and laptops are all, uh, charged up, I guess if we want internet access, I don't suppose I need that, and we just load up my podcasts and call it good.

So, uh, Saturday's episode ought to be interesting to record because I'm gonna have to do it either early in the morning or after the party.

So I don't know, maybe I'll record ahead.

I do that some from time to time as well, so maybe I'll record two tomorrow and meter them out.

But, but anyway, rather than just going on and on, I'll cut this one off.

And, uh, thanks for listening and continue to listen to Mike Dell's world here.

And again, if you wanna try one of the new podcast apps, go over to podcast apps.com or new podcast apps.com, or you can go to, uh, podcast index.org/apps.

There's a whole bunch of ways to get there and, you know, download something new.

Uh, like I said, I recommend castomatic or, or, uh, podcast Guru.

Uh, if you're on Android, uh, podcast Attic is pretty good.

Uh, I think Castomatic is only iOS, but they're, uh, they're good apps and, uh, they've got some features that, uh, other apps don't have, so they're well worth playing with.

It was also on the, uh, nap pod, Pomo, whatever, I forget what it is.

They do it every morning, a, a session on Zoom, and I was the guest of honor on Wednesday's session, so, uh, I don't know where to find that, but I'm sure it's there somewhere.

Anyway, catch you tomorrow.

Bye-Bye.