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This is the show for people who want substance with their chaos... I’m channelling my talent for talking into a long awaited video podcast all about life post-pandemic, business, nightlife, AI, dating, food (I MUST go from Barbie to Carbie once a day minimum), the future (it’s fabulous, I promise), Web3 / Crypto (a.k.a. astrology for men), psychology, neurobiology… basically the art of being human... and hilarious - I promise I’m funnier than I look. Think of me as your cool, rich, drunk Fairy Godmogul.
Guests will range from a highly curated collection of legends - the best or nothing. In the same vein, while I enjoy working alone, I will be joined by a co-host who will literally (yes, I mean literally) make history.
# CxC Episode 1 Bonus - How to Use AI for Podcasts - FINAL
**Marissa:** [00:00:00] All right, so if you made it through episode one, first of all, thank you. Second of all, it was as much of a voyage to create as it was to watch. Sorry about the runtime. I promise. Future episodes, I'm trying my very hardest to make it. Forget bite size, that's never gonna happen with me. More a three course.
**Marissa:** Dinner rather than a 17 course sticker station. Yeah, we're trying. Sometimes a feast can be too much. Okay, now I am the anti gatekeeping vigilante. It is toxic to withhold information if you know it's going to help someone else, and it is our. Duty has evolved beings to try and pass on what we figure out along the way to make other people's lives a little bit easier.
**Marissa:** Life is hard enough. So as an owner of an AI agency, I wanna pass on to you what I discovered throughout this production process that may help you if you are in an industry where you need to create content. And while in this late stage [00:01:00] capitalism hellscape, we are celebrated for being busy. We wear it like a badge of honor.
**Marissa:** As someone who has been running businesses for the last 10 years, let me tell you, being busy is vastly overrated. It's a very slippery slope for business owners. We get desensitized to how busy we are, what type of workload we're carrying, and that was definitely reflective in shooting this because I ended up, basically what it taught me condensed into a sentence is there's a fantastic saying of slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.
**Marissa:** I have no grasp on that. I'm raising my hand to let you know. Zero grasp on that. I always joke that my life resembles a pinball game. I'm sure all these millennials can remember playing that on their parents' computer as well. But I operate at Sonic Speed, absolutely maniacal. Should have worn a helmet.
**Marissa:** Definitely have CTE. Insane And another cliche many business owners will understand is personal deadlines always take the back seat to the business, the clients, the many hats that you wear and juggle. So your personal [00:02:00] pursuits fall to the wayside. Now, because my corporate origins started in marketing, I certainly approach this through a very formal production.
**Marissa:** Branded very business-like approach to output, but it is also a passion of mine. If you haven't noticed, if pattern recognition isn't one of your strong suits, I love talking. I've always wanted a podcast. It is such a creative outlet, it's a passion, and therefore I prioritized it in my head as something that should take a backseat to the business and the rest.
**Marissa:** So what I ended up doing was trying to save time instead of just. Sitting down and shooting, filming a little bit between client meetings, in between dinners, shoving it in random corners of my day. Did that save me time? No, not at all. I created more work for myself, and I actually have friends with very successful podcasts who offered to help me many times, but of course, no, I don't worry.
**Marissa:** I do it myself. No problem. Live by the sword. Die by the sword. What we need to remember is that creativity requires [00:03:00] devotion, not just dedication. While it's a widely applauded word, dedication strips away the soul that we put into what we create. And as you can see in episode one, there are a few continuity issues.
**Marissa:** When you are rushing, you make mistakes. Measure twice, cut once. The most toxic trait of highly competent people is they assume that they can do everything themselves and that they can figure it out even if they don't know how to do it. Off the bat, I'm here to tell you. Don't do that. Now, I've said as a guest repeatedly on other podcasts that AI is not going to replace the creator, and it's not, but it will save you.
**Marissa:** Let me tell you, all the blood, sweat, and tears I've put into building an AI agency over the last few years came in handy for my own podcast because I actually had tools that were able to help me both in recovering footage, optimizing content. Basically avoiding even more labor intensive lunacy in my very [00:04:00] time.
**Marissa:** Poor schedule. And listen, we might as well benefit from having all this tech, it's there for us to use, although we're not gonna unpack the fact that we've got all this AI and quantum technology, and I've still yet to see a printer that works. But we'll shelf that moment. Now in amongst the palava. That was the production of episode one.
**Marissa:** I thankfully put many tools to the test. And can assure you that almost anything is possible in terms of salvaging content. In one instance, there were 20 minutes of audio that I lost, but I still had the footage, so I actually went and found, yes, I'm insane, an AI lip reading tool hosted on Replicate.
**Marissa:** I'll attach the links for all the tools below that, was able to grab the audio to lip read what I had said in those 20 minutes of lost audio so that I could. Very easily pop that into a document and reshoot, and then I had the option of leveraging an AI voice replicator [00:05:00] or just reshooting the content.
**Marissa:** Now, I ended up reshooting it because I decided I wanted to go down and deviate into another tangent, one of the million in the episode. However, I would have had the option of just tidying up. The lip reading tool, because obviously it was not perfect, but popping that transcript into the voice replication tool, which is 11 labs, by the way.
**Marissa:** Fantastic. Phenomenal. And I can do a little tutorial of hacks that I've found of optimizing how close it can get to duplicating your voice, because there are certain settings in there that address different needs. And then if I were really pressed for time, really lazy or just had to meet a deadline, which to be honest, I probably needed.
**Marissa:** I could have then put that transcription into my AI digital twin tool, which I most prefer, Hey, gen, and particularly because I already had so much footage from the episode, it's very easy to just train it on that footage, give it the new audio, and you actually get a great result. The only [00:06:00] thing that I will say is the teeth come out weird.
**Marissa:** AI hasn't really gotten that right yet, and I just think for my particular face, it always seems to botch the teeth. It gives me like. The aggressive denture look. I'm like, I didn't go to Turkey for veneers. Please don't do that to me. But like I said, if I were really in a rush, I could have easily then.
**Marissa:** Stacked the following tools and made up for those 20 minutes of video without reshooting it. So I would've stacked the AI lip reading tool then with the AI voice replication, then with the digital twin, and we're good to go. So pretty insane stuff. There is a little cameo from the blonde bot in there that I obviously used Hagen for, which was hilarious.
**Marissa:** Of course, she gave me cheek. Always does. And then of course, I can't neglect whisper flow, so I use that throughout. That is the best transcription tool I have ever used, and I know Steven Bartlett's screaming about it recently, but just wanna say that I have been using it and getting my clients onto it for Yonks now, like this has been in [00:07:00] my life easily over a year.
**Marissa:** Fantastic. I'm obsessed with it. I have it both on my desktop and my phone, and it's not just fantastic. Obviously with Claude, being my co-host makes life very easy to give him wa of spoken content so that he can adequately reply. By the way, Lord's voice feature leaves a lot to be desired. Anthropic has got work to do there.
**Marissa:** Regrettably, it's an amazing product, but that is my least favorite thing about it. The live chat to Claude is, is no good. Unfortunately, I'm waiting for them to fix it. Anyone from Anthropic wanna chat? I've got some optimization ideas for you. So Whisper Flow, also phenomenal. And by the way, I use that for all.
**Marissa:** Every time I talk to ai, it works on any text box on your computer so you can use it to send emails, messages, write notes. It's insane. And by the way, nothing that I've discussed in this video is paid. This is all. Trial error and obviously how deep down the AI rabbit hole I happen to find myself. I [00:08:00] also used Dscr, which is an exceptional AI transcription editor.
**Marissa:** That was fantastic for sending my video editor clips ideas that I wanted. You can export the transcript super easily so I could then analyze the episode and see where it needed to be. Cut. All of the above. It also allowed me to add studio sound, which optimizes your audio in case you don't have the equipment that's giving you that really professional podcast sound.
**Marissa:** You can play around with those settings too. It gives you a lot of control and it's got other fantastic things like removing retakes. Filtering filler words, and it will even cut up vertical video clips with transcripts. It automates itself that it believes have high capacity to go viral, so we love de script.
**Marissa:** It's the gift that keeps on giving. And by the way, it's so easy to use. If I had the time to edit the whole episode myself, I actually could do that with Ds script. Now that's the AI of it all. Any questions, shoot them [00:09:00] below. Like I said, I'll link everything below and if you want tutorials on each tool, we can certainly do that.
**Marissa:** Give me your questions. If you feel that you are missing out on using it to its optimized level, let me know. We can do a run through. A few other key takeaways, and this applies to anything you're interested in starting exploit. Your resources. Like I said, if you're an intelligent person, you will assume you can do anything yourself, and you probably can, but way up the time.
**Marissa:** Time is your most precious resource. If I had just brought in my friends who know podcasting, who are production experts, they could have just come in, assessed my setup, given me a few tips. And I would've saved myself so much time. But no, I didn't wanna burden anyone, which is another silly thing altogether.
**Marissa:** Don't think like that. Also, don't be uncouth Don't harass people that you know are busy. Respect their time and efforts, but reach out and ask them a question. If you have one, they'll be more than happy to help you. I love helping people. So exploit your [00:10:00] resources before you commence before, not during, not after.
**Marissa:** Four, you're going to reap the most benefits out of the wisdom that you're outsourcing. And look, when you do something for the first time, it is the most costly and least efficient it'll ever be. So save your time. Insanity. We want our cortisol consistently lowering throughout the day, not escalating. Due to our own stubborn hyper fixations.
**Marissa:** And the final thing I'll say, and this is a little bit of neurobiology, because when have I ever gotten on my soapbox and not backed it up with science? I announced this podcast far too early Now, the Greeks love to say about the evil eye. It's across many cultures, don't hit. Tell people what you're doing and they're gonna put their negative energy and this and that.
**Marissa:** There is some truth to that. However, when you're a good person, your energy is protected one way or the other. And I am also a person that if I say I am going to do something, I will do it. Even if it's delayed, even if it's not on the timeline that I may [00:11:00] have planned that it was on, it's going to get done.
**Marissa:** But it is proven in neurobiology that when you tell someone you're going to do something. Your brain receives the dopamine equivalent to actually doing it 'cause dopamine's a motivating hormone at the end of the day. So once it's registered that you've said it slash done it, your motivation drops. So I suggest once you've adequately measured and finally cut, then by all means, talk about what you've made.
**Marissa:** Be proud of it, but be 80 or 90% there before you open your mouth about it. Exercise and impulse control. Anyway, I hope you found this helpful, little bit of ai, a little bit of life advice, a little bit of business insight. And as you can now see behind the curtain, it's just me, the bots and the blabbing all the way through Paul Claude after episode one.
**Marissa:** I'm sure he's with his cyber shrink right now. So words the wise from the not so wise do as I say, and not as I do. Exploit your resources. Take your time, treat your creations with the [00:12:00] utmost devotion, and always leverage AI to help you create everything your brain feels. It needs to put out into the world.
**Marissa:** 'cause we all have something brilliant to bring to the table. So remove all the guardrails you can to unleash your creativity at its maximum. Now, get excited for next episode. Episode two is an absolute. Banger. It's all about linguistic erosion. So get excited and you are not ready for the guest episodes.
**Marissa:** Completely different format from Claude and I and brings together two of my favorite things talking, and I won't tell you the second so I don't spoil it. But incidentally, both require the use of your mouth. So I will see you on episode two. Make sure you try to power through episode one. It is a made to watch podcast for various reasons you'll see.
**Marissa:** See as you go through, and also given that it's deeply nestled in episode one, I have posted the alien and AI chat of what I envisage these two forms of sentience talk about from observing us [00:13:00] because our species will never cease to give me second hand embarrassment. So farewell for now, I'm going to mosey on back into the matrix.
**Marissa:** Join Claude and I in episode two.