Daily(ish)

I talk about how AI has affected my business, Lemon Productions, where I produce and edit podcasts (and increasingly video) for clients. AI has made some tasks easier but has also diminished the craft I love most. I feel uncertain about where this is headed, though I can see potential for a different future if I adapt.

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00:00 Intro
00:22 Podcast Editing Business
01:10 AI Changes the Workflow
01:34 Uncertain Future Ahead
02:38 Craft vs One Click AI
03:29 Clients Want Social Clips
04:26 Website Maintenance Parallel
06:08 Why AI Still Needs People
06:56 Listener Question and Wrap

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Chris
I edit podcasts so you don't have to. I live in Saskatchewan so you don't have to?

What is Daily(ish)?

Challenging myself to record a podcast episode a day for my 50th year on this planet.

Hello, and welcome to Dailyish
for September 17th, 2026.

I'm recording an episode every day
for this, my 50th year on the planet.

A question I'm asked often these days is
whether AI has affected my business, if

it's coming from a business, et cetera.

If you're new here, this is your first
time listening, first of all, welcome.

But I run my own business, Lemon
Productions, where I edit and

produce podcasts for clients who
record their conversations, their

interviews, et cetera, on their own.

I grab the recordings through apps
like Riverside, clean them up, make

them sound better, edit out pauses,
brain farts, add sponsor spots,

music, et cetera, chapter markers,
show notes, th- that kind of thing.

The whole kind of soup
to nuts is what they say.

I don't know why they say that.

And then help publish them out onto
the web, so you can hear them in

Apple Podcasts or Spotify, et cetera.

I work predominantly in like tech and web
development, and then I have a few clients

in like fitness and things like that.

And so often it's not shows you
specifically have maybe listened

to unless you're in those sort
of niche areas of the web.

But I love the clients I get to work with
and have a lot of fun doing the work I do.

when I respond to this question in
conversation, usually it's a mixture

of like, yeah, it's gotten a little
bit easier to do some things, a little

bit more difficult to do other things.

Video is definitely more common now,
and so that's a bit of a heavier lift

sometimes, but AI kind of helps with that.

But then there's also the question
of like how much AI do you use

and when does it feel shady and
weird, and what do you charge for?

And that's kind of where it's at.

When I reflect personally on that
question, I, I think I'm glad I'm not

10 years older or 10 years further down
the road maybe in my business because

it feels like right now there's…

it's shaky ground.

I'm not really sure where it's
gonna go and if it's gonna just

fall out from underneath me.

But I kind of can vaguely see the other
side of the bridge or the whatever

metaphor here we're running with.

But I can see on the other side
that there's some potential.

It's a little hazy.

It's fog-foggy.

I can't quite make out specifics
or details, and it could possibly

be that it's actually even worse.

It's more dangerous.

There's, you know, monsters ahead.

But there's feels like there's maybe
some potential for some sort of new

version of what I do down the road.

And so if I just stick it out long enough,
find a pathway through, adjust, adapt,

I'll find my way to a new level, not
like necessarily higher, but just like

different, a different plateau maybe.

But I really can't tell for sure And
so I have like moments, weeks, days,

whatever, of intense stress, worry,
anxiety about where this is all going.

The part that AI has really sucked the
life out of it for me is I really enjoy

the craft of making audio sound better.

A conversation, both in terms of the
content, but also EQing and fixing

it and stuff like that, and taking
the time to make it sound good in one

sentence as well as the whole project.

And so what AI has kind of done, and
I'm using some of that in this very

pr- project that I'm doing right now,
is nullified a lot of that, where

you just, you click a button and then
it cleans all that up theoretically.

There's still artifacts.

There's things that if you don't
re-listen back to it, and I'm sure

you've probably heard stuff in this,
this podcast that I'm doing, where it

kind of sounds a little weird, a little
digital, a little like not natural,

and maybe it's just a blip or two.

But that's the kind of thing that I
really like to clean up and edit out.

But more clients, at least newer clients
that are doing podcasts or hiring me

to, to do podcast stuff with them often
are like, "Don't worry about that.

Just click the button and do that,
and then help us make clips and

videos and stuff for social media, and
that's the thing we want you to do."

And so it's a lot of like, here's
what I wanna do and here's what I love

doing in this industry, in, in my work.

Uh, and then clients sort of
telling me, "No, but we want you

to actually do this other thing."

And so I'm sort of in that.

That's where that middle
part of like it feels shaky.

I'm not sure I like where I'm gonna
land in, in the future, but I at

least see that there's a possibility
that I can figure out a way to

enjoy it and have fun in the future.

Because ultimately, even with AI,
even if it's like hit a button and

type a c- prompt and edit your podcast
and whatever, people still, there's

still someone who needs to do that.

It's not-- That's, it's someone's job
to do that, to get that thing out.

And for as much as you can automate it
with AI or machine, whatever, someone

still has to take the time to do that.

And it reminds me a lot of when
companies would say they need a website.

This is like, you know, 10 plus
years ago, I used to build websites

for people, for businesses and
stuff locally, and they would say,

"Okay, we're gonna get a website."

And so we'd build a website,
and then they'd say, " But we're

not, we don't wanna hire you to
actually maintain that long term.

We're gonna have our secretary or
the admin assistant or, um, Joe's,

you know, kid who sometimes works
for us, likes computers, so he's

gonna actually maintain the website."

And without fail, almost 100% of the
time, that person who already had a

full-time job being the secretary or
the admin assistant or the whatever,

or the kid who's, you know, doesn't
actually work there and isn't really

that passionate about their website,
it would falls, fall apart because

the website wouldn't get updated.

Nobody actually cares about it.

It's not their thing.

They already have enough on their plate.

And me, who actually cares about
that stuff and wanted to keep it

updated and would love to, nothing
more than to do that for people,

couldn't convince them to pay me,
you know, to, to maintain it for them

And so it kind of feels like it
reminds me of that kind of feeling

where it's like, "Oh no, we
don't need you anymore actually.

Our, our secretary, my admin
assistant, this person over here

who likes to watch videos and, you
know, knows TikTok will also produce

our podcast," when they don't.

They, they might like the idea of it,
but they don't wanna do that every week.

They don't wanna maintain it.

They don't wanna clarify and edit it and
adjust it and fix it and things like that.

They like the idea of consuming stuff.

That doesn't mean you like making it.

And it's fine for people who are
new to this to wanna learn about it.

I love that if that's
your passion and interest.

But like, if it's just 'cause you like
scrolling TikTok or Reels or whatever,

it's not the same thing obviously.

Uh, ob- obviously anybody
can see that, but I digress.

Getting a little off tangent.

I don't feel that threatened by AI now
that it's been here a little longer, even

though the AI nerds are frothing at the
mouth at how amazing it is all the time.

It still is something somebody has to do.

I've heard, you know, one of my clients,
they said they're building a, an AI

bot to edit their videos and make
it all so it's way more automated.

They don't have to do anything.

They just edit the record, hit the button
for with AI, clean it up a little bit,

and then it publishes it to YouTube,
and they're gonna be able to publish

three to five videos a week or whatever.

And that just hasn't happened
because it doesn't work.

You j- you still have to do it.

You still have to do the
thing in some form or another.

So We'll see how it all plays out.

That's why I said at the beginning I'm
kinda glad I'm not 10 years older 'cause

it would feel like I don't have enough
runway left maybe or energy to think

about what I could do and how I could
adapt to this new world and new reality

I don't know what you do for work
or where your, your passions or

creativities lie, but how has AI
been affecting you and your things?

And whether it's your livelihood or
your creativity, I'm sure you're tempted

or excited about the possibilities
of what AI has opened up for you on a

personal level or a professional level,
or scared As always, feel free to reply

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