Dave from True Media Solutions

Dave from True Media Solutions in Canada discusses his passion for podcasting and shares insights into his various shows, including “Dad Space” and “Living the Next Chapter.” He enjoys editing and helping others improve their podcast audio, emphasizing the creativity involved in the process. Dave reflects on his musical background, which contributes to his podcasting skills, and highlights the value of storytelling, particularly for his children to hear his voice in the future. He also addresses the current fascination with AI in content creation, noting that while it can assist in various ways, it cannot replace the unique voice and creativity of individual creators. The conversation touches on personal experiences in public speaking and the importance of adapting to new technology in the podcasting landscape. Overall, Dave’s enthusiasm for his work and the connections formed through podcasting shine throughout the discussion.

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Well, yeah, I’m in Canadian. I’m in Celsius, but it’s 14 Celsius, whatever that is in Fahrenheit. I think you just double it. Double it? There you go. Okay, that’s good. I think you double it. For Fahrenheit, you double it net 12. See, not only are you fun to talk to on the screen, but you’re super smart with math. I just made that up. Okay, that’s good. I like it. I’ll go with it. Okay. Hey, everybody, and welcome to this conversation with Dave from True Media Solutions in Canada. Dave’s got a bunch of different shows. You want to tell everybody what your shows are, Dave? Oh, how long is the podcast, Bob? We’ve got about five minutes. We’re good. Okay, five minutes. We’re good. Yeah, a bunch of shows. I have a podcast for dads called Dad Space. I have a How to Podcast series. Teachers Podcasting. Bob has been a great guest on there. Unauthor Podcasts.
So many great things. Wow. And I just love podcasting. I think I do six to ten episodes a week, Bob. Really? Yeah. And it’s all here at truemediasolutions.ca. Not to be confused with any other C that’s in the internet world. Yeah, CA is because I’m in Canada. Right, yeah. Well, hey, I mean, you can get the other ones, can’t you, up there? I mean, they’d like to do that. Yeah, sometimes it’s expensive, but yeah. Yeah, but I was going to say, but you like to have the Canadian branding these days is much more valuable. There you go. I would say, I don’t know, maybe people have their opinion on it, but I’m not sure. But you do a bunch of the now, I mean, do you do other stuff as well? Because I’m assuming that you don’t just do shows all day, right? You do other things too. I’m a musician. I’ve been doing music for 45 years. I am old.
But, yeah, then I also have a job. I have a night job. I work overnights. So I listen to podcasts where I work. I get away with it, and I love listening to shows. You get away with it. Yeah. This is a secret. Yeah, don’t tell anybody. This is not being recorded, right, Bob? Yeah. No, not at all. No, not at all, no. Yeah, that’s not the purpose of this poll process. So, yeah, no, that’s great. So, I mean, it’s fantastic. So then how did you – when did you jump on the bandwagon, I guess, is what I’m curious about. Because you’re really invested at this point. And so at some point, there was a time where you’re like, you know what? This might be fun. I was doing editing for podcasters here and there prior to the global event, which we will leave at that. And I wasn’t podcasting at that point, but I was editing for people. I have all the equipment because I’m a musician.
to do editing and recording and i’d have rehearsals here in my house, send back recordings of the rehearsal to the band so they could hear what we were doing together. So I was already doing it. I had all the gear. I’m like, well, why don’t i just do this? I love podcasts as a listener. So I’m going to start. So just before the global event, I started creating my shows and one show became nine. So now i have a lot. That’s hilarious. So that’s fun, though. I find, to be honest with you, I find over the years that a lot of musicians do this. I mean, this is like almost a stereotype. The fact that I’m not a musician, I am the outlier on all this kind of stuff. Because even in the early, early days, a lot of people who were involved with this were all, you know,
involved in music in some way, shape or form. I think that had to do with, like you said, with having all the equipment and, and kind of having a certain level of knowledge that makes it a lot easier. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, but I do find that incredibly interesting that, I mean, like probably, you know, seven or eight times out of 10, if I ask somebody, they’ll, Oh yeah, I’m also a musician. Right. And I do this. And I’m just like, go for it. I mean, that’s wild, don’t you think? I mean, I actually came to it from being very interested in radio, which is gone now, I mean, pretty much. I mean, there’s radio, but it’s not the same as what it was, right? So that’s where my angle that I came in on is like, oh, this is like radio that I can do.
Okay, well then I’ll do that. Yeah, if you have a creative bent or you’re just a creative person writing art, music, this is just a natural progression, I think. As I watch you, Bob, the blue cat, I see creativity just oozing from you and how you do your shows. Those are freckles. Those are freckles? Okay. I love how creative you are and how you do your show. I just think that if you’re a creative person, podcasting might be something you might be interested in. That’s fun. So now let me ask you this. So when you were a kid, right? Cause especially with people involved in music, I think are more prone to this. Did you ever just record yourself on a cassette or something? And I mean, no one ever heard it, but you went through and did a show on your old cassette recorder. Yeah. When I was dating my wife, which is quite a while ago,
Um, she went on a trip, a road trip and I wasn’t able to go. So I made her like the mixtape, you know, the mixtape. Oh yeah. The mixtape. But I also added in like, added in like, like talk shows and commercials. And I’m like between the songs, I made my own radio show back with like cassettes back in the day. So yeah. Yeah. I’ve been doing this for quite a while. Yep. One of my, uh, when I was a kid, uh, I was a kid, but probably like, you know, uh, pre-teen kind of time period. The best gift i ever got was a dual cassette system so i had it lp you know played records and then it had dual cassette radio and all that kind of stuff. Um, it was, that was probably one of the best gifts that i ever got. Um, because, well, first of all, I stole music. Unfortunately, that’s probably not the best thing to say but
i did. All my friends and i would, you know, whoever had what album, we would, we would make cassette copies. But, um, but then the other thing was, is then you could do, you could do minor production, right? Because you had a way to play something and then it record you know, and you could plug a microphone in and you could do a voice over over the top of the music, you know, and play dj and what have you. That was just so much fun. I remember, you still remember vividly, um, you know, hours of, of kind of goofing around and putting together, well, I guess it would be hours, probably about 45 what’s how much is the side of a regular cassette? 45 minutes, 60 minutes yeah yeah so something like that. And, uh, it was just a great fun. So your journey is probably not that far off. It sounds like. No. And I think,
Those mixtapes were like our love letters to our girlfriends at the time. And podcasting can be a love letter today without having to flip it over after 30 years, right? Right. That’s funny, kind of a quick story. So there’s a new show on Max or HBO Max or whatever the heck they’re calling themselves these days called Duster. And it’s set in the 70s. And he has a Duster vibe. a Plymouth Duster. And he pops in an eight-track tape. It’s all fast editing and so forth. And the song is playing. I go, that was great. I mean, it really kind of gives you the taste of the time. I go, except for the fact that you didn’t hear the click in the middle of the song whenever it changed tracks. Right. Yeah. Always the best song on an eight-track seemed to have to split a track.
I don’t know why that was at the time, but, uh, I was always like, I was like, yeah, that was good. Other than the fact that the song kind of played all the way through and it wouldn’t probably wouldn’t have in reality, it would have been like, you know, Oh, Barracuda have all the clicking and everything. Um, so people don’t, I mean, that’s this in this day and age, people have no concept of, uh, you know, uh, even the slightest inconvenience of those kind of things back in the day that you put up with to have your music. Did you have any 8-track experience? I was really young. My brother was an 8-track aficionado. He’s older than I am. Those things weren’t easy to transport around either. They took up a lot of room in the front seat of the car, right? No, no. You had to steal a lot of milk crates to take all your 8-tracks with you.
I think we’re confessing to a lot of things here on the episode today. Oh, wait. Yeah, right. Wait a minute. Again, we’re not recording this. We’re fine. Sounds good. The statute of limitations is way past due on this. We’re fine. We’re fine. If Metagold wants their milk crates back, God help them. I don’t know where they’re at, to be honest. There’s a link in the show notes. Reach out to Bob. He’ll be happy to get your email. He’ll be happy to make restitution at any point. Yes. But no, it… it’s funny though, that, uh, all these kind of things. And I mean, it, in hindsight, as we’re looking back at all these, it lines up perfectly. It’s almost like, you know, a pool, a straight pool shot into the pocket where you have all these kids doing these things. And then as the progression of technology hits, it all lines up to say, this is what you can do. This is where it’s going yeah but you know, everybody, you know, now, um,
You get people pontificating, well, how come this is so popular? And how come this is so that? And I’m like, I don’t know. If you look back, it seems like a pretty simple, you know, 100 million step process. And we got there. Right. Yeah. And what I love about podcasting is you don’t need permission to do any of this stuff. You don’t need to have a team. You can do this on your own. You don’t need a radio signal. You don’t need a studio. None of that stuff, right? Anyone can hear their voice. And that’s why I love that part of it. Well, and that, jumping up to today now, I’m really jumping around here today, but jumping up to today when you when you look at things online, they tell you you do need all that they don’t need a radio signal, but you do need a team, you need this, you need that. And I’ve always joked uh here over the last, well, you said the global event, I’ll say the global event since the global event
i’ve always joked, I said, you’ll make way more money selling something to a podcaster than you will podcasting because that seems to be the trend, right? Right. Everybody’s selling, oh, you gotta have, you know xyz um if you want a podcast, you gotta have, you know, all of your uh you know, branding done professionally and all this kind of stuff what what’s your take on i mean obviously you kind of alluded to it already, but But the ancillary stuff for podcasting, what’s your take on that? Everybody seems to want a little bit of that podcast money from us as podcasters. I’m getting emails all the time. For this amount of money, I can do this for you. And again, as a solo creator, A, I don’t have the money to invest in everything that I would love to see. But B, I love the creative process. People say I hate editing. I love editing. I love the craft of editing and make something creative.
sound great. I love fixing things. I get people reach out to me. They’re like, I got terrible audio from my guests. What can you do? That makes me happy. I’m like, I want to go in there and see what i can do to make that better. Right. So I, that lights me up. So anytime i can do stuff like that makes me happy. That’s, that is great. I mean, this is uh i i have edited, uh, many times over the years and i’ve become one of these people who is, uh, avoids editing now, right? As I’ve gotten older, I avoid it. And so, but the weird thing is, is that at least my proficiency in producing has risen with my desire to not edit. So that works out pretty well, I think. But yeah, editing is always one of those chores sometimes. And it kind of depends. I mean, everybody, I think,
This media, we can call it a media at this point, I think. It’s definitely a bona fide media. It’s really becoming the training ground for people to learn how to speak publicly again. I think that there was a time prior to this where if you wanted to do any kind of public speaking or anything, you had to go take some kind of correspondence course or whatever. go to your local college and do classes and so forth. But now with this, anybody with the inclination can get on and essentially develop that skill. And I think that’s kind of interesting. It’s kind of a feature that nobody knew was gonna be written into the software. you know, and it’s just happened just i mean you said you were a musician, so you had to have some amount of that, uh, anyway, if you’re gonna play in front of people and so forth, but not in kind of a long form conversation though, would you say yeah yeah yeah i think there’s so many great tools to help you these days, but just getting on the microphone and you’re going to be a better person in the process of doing anything creative, writing a book
creating a podcast, making music, it’s going to change you over time and you’re going to improve to the point maybe we don’t have to do as much editing, which is great because then that transfers in public to a stage. When you stand in front of a group of people, you don’t have the opportunity of having somebody take out your ums and ahs in a live setting. Nobody’s off the side of the stage editing you in real time. You’re you. So if you rely too much on the editing and you never become better as a human or a blue cat, You will never develop to the point where some of these things become, it becomes easier over time as you do more and more of this. Yeah. When would you say was the first time that you had to get up in front of a group of people and, you know, gather their attention and be the show? Many of the times in my career in the past, I’ve had to either lead a team or speak in front of a group of people and
And I never felt really prepared for that. You don’t do it often in whatever role you’re in, unless you’re in media or some kind of content creation, you’re doing a typical job like with everybody else. And when everyone’s attention turns and looks at you, you melt inside for a second. You’re like, I don’t have the skillset to do this in the moment. But again, going back to it, the more you do it, the better. Yeah. I can remember speaking in front of a high school as a guest speaker and And there’s like 200 students who have the attention span of a grape looking at you going, I don’t care what this guy has to say. What were you talking about? I was there talking about kind of a motivational talk to these kids. And all the teachers are lined up against the back wall of the auditorium. So I’m not only talking to the kids, I’m talking to the teachers, principals there. And so what I did is I brought a box of cereal and it had a toy inside.
And I reached into the box, and I pulled out the toy, and I’m like, so I brought a gift for all the students. You’re going to have to share this because you only have one. And so I handed it to somebody in the front seat, and they started passing it around. But we probably got enough cereal for everybody to have a piece. Yeah, everybody gets one piece of cereal and one toy to share. But that kind of broke the room up and made it a little bit more like, oh, this isn’t too typical. boring speaker. I thought for a minute you were going to eat the cereal. Just stand there and eat it. You get a half gallon of milk. You get a bowl. You’re just going to, okay, guys, this is the breakfast talk. It’s a performance art in that moment. That’d be great. Read the room. Figure out how you can serve them and don’t come in with one focus saying I’m going to do it this way. Your audience is always different. Just read the room.
That’s great. So do you have a favorite of your shows, your cadre of shows that you have? There’s one of them you’re like, you know, this is the show. This is my favorite show. I love doing this show. I know I’m putting you on the spot. Yeah, it’s tough because like they’re all my favorite. Otherwise, I’d probably scrap them. Living the Next Chapter podcast is an author show. And that I’ve been doing for three years. I’ve got 570 episodes in three years, three a week. And then every November, we have a challenge for podcasters to do a daily episode in November. So for the last three years, I’ve been doing 30 in a row every November as well. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, that’s ridiculous, right? That’s a bit much, I would say. Yeah.
So that’s a fun one. I’ve had a lot of great guests on that. My life gets on me whenever I do more than two in a week. So, you know, I’m just saying. I don’t know where you’re sleeping, but it may be the couch. I don’t know. Well, again, it’s a good thing this isn’t being recorded. No, that’s fun, though. That’s fantastic. Now, you have books as well, right? You’ve written a book, haven’t you? I’m in the process of writing a book at this moment. I remember you mentioned that somewhere. Yeah. Yeah, I have a dad space podcast where we talk to dads about dad stuff. So I’m taking my content and taking all the transcriptions and then reworking them into an actual book. And I’ve got 180 episodes in that show. So a lot of great stuff. And I’m like, it’s great that it lives in a podcast, but I think it could easily be transferred over to a book and help even more people. So that’s kind of where I’m going with that. And as far as the book process, what…
How’s it going and how are you pulling that all together? I mean, that’s in itself a big, big project. I mean, most people just say, okay, my only project other than living is I’m going to write this book, right? Right. Yeah. And I have new episodes all the time. So I’m going back in time and capturing what I’ve done, but I’m also capturing what’s coming at the same time. So my wife and my daughter are helping me. by grabbing the transcriptions for all the episodes, combining them together, grouping them by topic so that I can then use that as a foundation for my chapters. So I would suggest for anybody that is writing a book. I have a wife and a daughter, apparently. I do have a wife. Yeah, I do. I have three kids. Yeah, yeah. I would suggest anybody who wants to write a book, if you think about writing it in real time in front of an audience, each episode could become the basis of a chapter of your book. And then people can listen to you write the book
in real time and then celebrate the book launch with you at the end of the podcast. It’s kind of a cool idea do you have a do you have a time the launch time for yourself set or do you, is it kind of a fluid? It’s probably going to take me enough time this year with all the other stuff going on. That’ll probably be early next year that i’d be ready to get that in the world. Yeah. Do you, do you know what you’re going to call it yeah are you just going to call it the same as a podcast? I don’t know. Like, The general crux of the book idea is around something that happened to me when my oldest was born. I’m in the hospital with a doctor. My wife’s ready to give birth to my son. And the doctor looked at me and said, you know, nobody’s going to catch you if you pass out. So you’re on your own here. That’s always comforting, right? That’s right. That’s nice. We’re all here for your wife, which I appreciate. That’s why we’re all here. But the doctor then said to me, there’s nobody here for you.
And at the moment, Bob, that didn’t really connect with me the way it did the next day. Because everybody, all my family had gone home. My wife is resting. I’m holding my son. And all I could think of was there’s nobody here for you. And I’m like, then I’m like getting really scared. I’m like, that’s true. No, there is nobody here for me. I don’t know what I’m doing. And I’m going to mess this up. Without a net. Right. I need that support. So that’s why I created the podcast. But I think there’s a book idea in there, too, about the dads that feel like there’s no one there for you when there actually is. So here’s some stories from dads. Here are some life lessons that can help you navigate becoming a dad and be the resource that I needed in that moment. So that’s kind of my focus. That’s scary. And that’s kind of a – I mean, it was probably good that they mentioned it to you so that you didn’t –
you weren’t expecting anything right you know let’s everybody just be transparent. Guess what? You’re on your own, buddy. If you feel like faint or lightheaded, get out of the room because we’re doing work here yeah we got something um but it’s kind of kind of really um you know a biting statement there. It really is quite harsh yeah um the way that the you delivered it there is like, oh, well, no pun intended with that one, by the way, delivering When my first kid was born, and I did this story for our show, I was so incredulous that they kept throwing everything on the floor, like all the wrappers of everything. I was picking them up. And I joke with my wife, I’m like, I should be making at least minimum wage today. Because I’m doing clean as you go. They’re throwing stuff everywhere.
i’m picking everything up. I’m putting it in the trash can you know i i am earning my keep. Yeah. I mean, besides the breathing and the, you know, all that stuff yeah but she uh i think she just told me to be quiet. Yeah. No. Yeah. And I just couldn’t believe it. I was like, I can’t believe they’re just throwing stuff everywhere. There’s a perfectly good trash can right over here in the corner. This is a great idea. I should come up with something I’m going to take care of all this trash. So, yeah, because I couldn’t do anything else. Yeah. I was there, you know, but, you know, I needed something to do. I couldn’t just hang out. So I put myself to work, but then I felt like I deserved, you know, something, maybe some coupons for the cafe or something. They’re probably wondering the whole time, who let this blue cat into the room? That’s right. What is going on here? What’s this cat cleaning up for? Yeah.
We don’t worry about that. Yeah, no, that’s right. But that’s interesting. But you said you have several children, but only one of them really has an interest in the book. Is that something that they themselves want to do, or is it punishment? I mean, where are we going with this? They’re voluntold. They’re going to help me with this, for sure. Okay. Okay. But the other kids, they don’t… Where’s your kids at in all these creative endeavors? Are any of them at the hip or are they all like, yeah, whatever? Some of them are cool. Some of them are like, well, whatever you’d like to do, go do that. But they do listen, which is interesting to hear their dad talk about being a dad to your kids and your kids are listening to your stories. I love the fact that podcasting is also…
a form of legacy for me too, to get on there, share my stories. My kids can listen to this. It’s, it’s kind of rewarding to get on there and capture that. I tell you, Bob, Mike, I lost my dad a long time ago. I’d give anything to be able to press play and hear his voice anytime I wanted. I love that. I love that. And so that’s another bonus of podcasting. You’re right. You know, that is an interesting statement. And I, that’s something that I’ve thought about as well is, So my father was a fairly quiet person. He passed away a few years ago. But every once in a while, he just let out a zinger. But none of that’s captured, right? And so this whole idea of what we’re doing now wasn’t part of the past. And so I don’t know that he would have been interested in it.
But I always wished at some point that I had kind of, you know, somewhat forced him into it a little bit because, I mean, he was alive for a long time while I was doing this, but I never kind of pulled him in because that wasn’t his comfort zone, right? But you’re right. I do wish that I had probably been a little bit more, you know, forceful with him and tried to get him to do something. You know, it’s interesting. The weird thing is my mom talked constantly and I still hear her voice, you know, even now. And so, yeah, it’s a difference there, I suppose. Not that, you know, there’s nothing negative to it, but it was just kind of funny that the difference between the two of them. And so, yeah, it is a bit of a legacy thing. I always…
The funny thing for me is early on doing this, been doing it for a bit. So my kids both grew up through this, right? So I have lots of stories about my kids when they were not aware of them even being themselves, right? So babies and toddlers and things. And I have lots of stories about that. And so, yeah, they’re all cataloged. I mean, I wish I had done a little bit better job of cataloging because the titles don’t necessarily match up to these kinds of things directly. And I do have blurbs, but I’ve been, I’ve always been a big fan of kind of the TV guide synopsis of things. And so all of the descriptors are very brief and it wouldn’t necessarily say, you know, kid falls down or something like that. So yeah,
Yeah, so it would be tough for them to find. I’m hoping AI in the near future will help me with that because I’m extremely lazy and I want somebody else to listen to everything and jot down the particulars. Although I have tried using it here like now and it doesn’t always do a good job. Right. What’s your feelings about all this, they call it, I don’t call it artificial intelligence. It’s not, it’s not, everybody keeps trying to push it in that direction, but I’m firmly in the camp that says there’s really not any intelligence here yet. It’s, it’s, it’s artificial and it looks really smart when it does things because it can do them so quick, but that has nothing to do with being intelligent. It has everything to do with being a computer. Right. And being able to process things, you know, immensely faster than us. Right.
So what were your thoughts? I like assistant information. You’re trying to hang into the AI there. Yeah. The idea that it’s there as a tool to help you. Like there’s times where Bob, I’ll think of an episode I want to do on my show. And in my mind, I have four main points I want to cover. I’ll go there and I’ll look and see if I’m missing something. And it’s like, Oh yeah, you’re missing this, this idea. I’m like, I never thought of that. I only know what I know and I don’t know what I don’t know. So there’s opportunities for me to learn all the time. I’m always listening to shows and following books and all that stuff. So I think we can always learn something new. So there’s probably something that could be added to what we’re doing. But I think the biggest thing is when people abandon their creativity and become a servant of the tool instead of the tool being a servant of you. That’s where it gets a little bit
For me, I like creative people with their own stories, their own voice, their own outlook, their personality, their quirks. I like that. That’s kind of what gravitates me towards a creator that I love. So you’re okay with them doing the grunt work. You don’t want to be the main person there, the main part of the production. It’s kind of a snake eating its own tail. where everybody goes and everybody uses the same tool and everybody starts to sound like each other and nothing’s new. And then AI is picking up on AI and AI is regurgitating AI. And there’s this big circle going on of AI and AI and AI. I think when all that happens, somebody unique like you and how you podcast for me as I podcast, as we step up with our own unique voice, it’s different than all the vanilla podcast
that’s happening out there in content? Because it’s us, right? There’s only one of us so well we we hope i think we hope. Yeah. That’s what i’m shooting for that. I think i think i’m there but who knows i mean you know but yeah i think the the interesting part to me is, we’re, we’re being sold ai right now. This is the heavy, heavy, heavy sales period, right? This is the tough sell, the hard sell. Everybody, oh, this and that. So, and I’ve constantly, personally, I don’t know if you do this, but this is what I always do. I’m always experimenting with things. Like I always want to find something and try something. That’s where the cat comes from. And so today, I try to do it almost every day, which seems, I think sometimes I think it’s insane to do this. But anyway, so today I had to make a simple graphic for,
which i know how to do and photoshop or what have you, right? And I thought, okay, today i’m going to try, I’m going to see what uh ai is going to give me. And so so i’m like this i’m going to be you know in another 10 years i’m going to be this you know elderly man on the side of the road complaining about his artificial intelligence module or something so I type everything into the AI, and I did this on three different AIs, Gemini from Google, Copilot from Microsoft, and Perplexity, which I don’t know who it’s affiliated with, to be honest with you. And none of them gave me something that was acceptable. And I gave them all the same instruction. I want three choices. I want just this information. I want it to look modern. I want it to look…
interesting and modern with just my text that I gave you. Don’t add your own text, right? Because it does that for some reason. And, you know, make it look good. Boop, boop, boop. It keeps adding its own text. And so I got into this fight with the AI. I’m like, no, just my text. Some of them wouldn’t do a picture. I said, it’s some type of nice image. I give them an idea of what image I wanted. And then it just devolved into me yelling at the AI, typing, telling them that they’re not doing it right. And then they kept apologizing. And I’m like, why is this thing apologizing to me? Because it’s a machine. It could just say, I don’t know how to do it. Instead, it’s like, oh, I’m so sorry. My programming does not allow it.
I’m like, yeah, I feel like I’m berating C3PO. He’s talking back to me. Right. But anyway, I, but I never, I eventually just gave, I did it for all three. I gave up on all three and I just created it myself. Yeah. Yeah. There’s somebody I heard. Do you do stupid things like this too? Oh, all the time, all the time. That’s kind of my go-to. There’s one guy I know he’s a minister and he was asking AI for help. with a message, a sermon he was going to write. And after it was all done, AI said, oh, you know, he’s like, thanks. Thanks for all your help, blah, blah, blah, to the AI. And then the AI said back to him, you’re welcome, and we’ll be praying for you. Oh, really? Wait a minute. AI is going to pray for me? What the heck is this? So anyway, so that’s pretty weird. Only on my op cycle. Yeah, right. I did have somebody who found my Dad Space podcast through ChatGPT.
Really? He went in and said, I’m looking for a podcast that covers these topics. What do you suggest chat gpds came back and said, you should check out dad space by dave Campbell. So he came to me, or listening. So again, people are using ai in different ways yeah chart to do all these things, to create the baby podcast that i the people love right now. There’s all these different things going on. But that, I was found as a search. So there’s a search capability as well i find this rewarding. And I think that that is essentially our current state of AI is just next level search. Right. That’s really what it is. I mean, yes, you can do these other things, but it does it so poorly. And now this last year, I’ve done all my artwork for Static Radio has been AI generated as much as possible. That’s been my goal because I wanted to learn, right? So I always give myself a task, right?
so I wanted to learn, and so I’ve been trying that, but it can’t always get it. And then I end up, you know it’s kind of like model photography. And I mean, models as in, you know, models for clothing. None of them look like that because somebody goes into the background and touches it all up right yeah and you know, or though nowadays we use filters, but So that’s what happens is I start with a base that is the AI version, and then I go in and make it what I want it to be because the AI version can’t make it what I want it to be. And so, yeah, it’s all retouched, which I think a lot of stuff is. I think that we’re kind of being sold a bill of goods right now in this space in order to get everybody to buy in.
But the reality is there’s a lot of really talented people who are making a lot of this look better than it really is. That’s my guess. I mean, I’m not overly involved in the space, so I don’t know for sure. But as I’m looking at things, I’m like, I can’t get that. And, you know, I think I know what to say because I know how to do it without going through this. Right, right. you know, it’s one of those weird situations, I guess. And I guess my other, you know, I’m sorry, we’re gotten off of the AI conversation, but, but my other question for you would be, you know, do you know, I’ve lost my question here all of a sudden. No, do you for the stuff? Do you think that? Why are we being sold this? What?
What’s the end game in all this? Why do you think that there’s such a hard sell going on right now? There’s a lot of people coming to podcasting and content creation with very limited skill sets. Again, they haven’t done like this stuff before. They’re looking for an easier way to do it. They’re looking for an easier way to do it without having to understand like audio editing, for example. I can just upload it to a platform. It’ll do it for me. One click and I’m done. So there’s that side of it. But again, I think all of these tools make people like you and me who do it kind of a different way, kind of the older way, to be kind of in demand because we can do things that a tool to date can’t do the same way that we can do. So again, when I had somebody reach out recently and they’re like, this audio is terrible. I’ve tried all of these different platforms. Nothing’s working. What can you do? Now I’m going back to me with my two tape recorders
going, how can I make this better, right? Because I have that history. So I’m going to come at it from a creative way that maybe some of these tools can’t, which makes me stand out in a little different and in more high demand because I can do what the tools can’t do yet. Will they replace me at some point? Maybe. But for now, I find that I still have an edge where I can come in there and do something that other people and other tools can’t. That’s cool. And so you still edit for people then? I guess I didn’t think about that. I thought once you had 10 shows or whatever, it would be like, yeah, all that’s out the window. Yeah. No, I have met it for a couple doctors and speakers and stuff in the U.S. I’m in Canada. So I love it. I love helping people. So I do that all the time. And that’s all under the banner? Yeah. Okay. Great. I didn’t know that. See, look at that. There you go. Well, that’s why I had to talk to you because I’m, you know.
I can type it in, but then, you know, what’s the fun in that, right? Well, that’s cool. So then, wow, you are a busy guy. Oh, my gosh. Do you ever watch TV, Dave? Bob, I love television. I used to watch so much of it, but now my wife will come home from work. We’ll sit down, have dinner, watch a couple shows. I get antsy. I’m like, oh, my gosh, I could be doing so much more right now. And she just looks at me like, just could you shut it off for five minutes, please? Right. But I just, I, my mind starts wandering. I’m on my phone. I’m answering emails. Yeah. I just, I love, I love doing this. So where do you, where’s this, where do you think this all is heading for you? I mean, as far as all this goes, obviously you’ve got all these things cooking, you know, what’s, what’s around the corner for you as far as that goes? Yeah.
I’d love to keep helping people with their podcasts and being a tool and resource for them and supporting them, coaching, whatever I can do. There’s people who have been doing this a lot longer than I have, but I find that I have my own unique path and kind of my own unique approach. So I’m all about community. I’m not about a single voice trying to teach people my way to do something. I love leveraging the experience of others so we can learn from each other. that’s kind of my approach for my shows and how I show up in this world. Oh, cool. Now, you know, you mentioned that you were older. I’m not going to ask. You can ask Bob, you’re a blue cat. You can ask me anything you want. No, that’s all right. I mean, you know, but I mean, do you, are you thinking about this as far as, so like, you know, people think about retiring, they retire from whatever their career is. And then, you know,
when they retire, then they have to they a lot of people come up with something new. So do you think whenever you decide okay i’m gonna stop with the regular work a day world um and then when i get done with that, here’s what i’m gonna do right there are more older people today than there are younger people. So there’s a lot of us kind of getting into that age group where we’re going to be retiring at some point. So I do think this would be a great opportunity. The key there is to what you said, is to still be up to date on what’s happening with all of these great tools and AI and all that. Still learning, still active, still relevant. And to not just do it the old way with the two tape recorders, you still have to kind of adjust and grow. That’s my only challenge, I think, for anybody thinking about getting into this is that there is a little bit of a learning curve, but there’s some great people out there who can help you to learn. Yeah.
I’m getting a reel-to-reel and a box of razor blades and some tape, and I’m going to go to town. And I’ll be munching on my cereal watching you do it. Did you ever have to edit like that? Where you had a reel-to-reel tape that you were editing? Oh, my gosh. With the cutting it and actually slicing it together? Oh, my gosh. People are like, what are you talking about, YouTube? Oh, my gosh. Yeah. I would… I mean, I’m surprised that’s not a game, to be honest with you. Somebody should gamify that because I can see that. You know, you have all these stupid puzzle games out there, right? Can you imagine? That would be a puzzle game, would be splicing together tape. Because it was. It was a puzzle game back, I mean, in the day. Because you can’t see what you’re just cutting because you’re rubbing it across the playhead. But anyway.
And no undo button either. You can’t undo it. Right. You make the cut. You’re done. You’re done. Yeah. We hope they have another copy, perhaps, if you have some really bad disaster going on there. But yeah, that could be a game, I think. We’ll call it. It’d be like, I don’t know what you call it. Edit Death or something. Sounds like a good name for it. Yeah. and it sounds like one of those uh old japanese games where they, you know, kind of got the titles wrong. Oh, yeah, everything was death or dying or something yeah um thanks for being with me here today, Dave. I really enjoy talking to you. It’s so fascinating i’m i’m so happy that uh you know, this is one of those funny things um and i think uh people miss this a lot of times in their lives.
It is so nice to talk to somebody who is so happy with what they’re doing. It’s contagious. Don’t you think? Yeah. I think there’s a lack of people in this world that bring joy to the world and joy to the people that they interact with. You’re a great example, Bob, with all of your experience and knowledge and going way back to the original days of podcasting to still be here and serving people and making content. being so unique and creative and how you present your your show as well, I’m just a huge fan. I tell everybody about you. And I sent everybody to the blue cat because i just think it’s so fun. Like I told you before, it’s like saturday morning cartoons to be able to sit here and talk with you. It’s really, really fun for me so i now i wish i knew uh like a 70s, 80s canadian cartoon i can do for i can do klondike cat but i don’t know if that was big in canada
There you go. No, no. There you go. He was a French Canadian mouse and Klondike cat was a Northern cat. No, none of it. Maybe, maybe. Okay. There you go. That was the voice. That was my interpretation for Klondike cat. That was well done. And savoir faire, which was actually one of my, favorite cartoons way back in the day, so. So if we’ve broken any copyright law, again, reach out to Bob. Yeah, I don’t think we’re okay. Okay, guys all right. Well, I’m not the original voice or anything you know, it’s it’s homage it’s homage i did have a chance to talk to the original writer of every inspector gadget cartoon. Really? Episode. He lives in Toronto, Canada, and it was fascinating. He wrote every episode. Like, so cool to have him on my show.
Go, go, Gadget Fingers! Yeah, I mean, I love watching that cartoon after school. Yeah, I’m trying to remember, what was the, there was a cat in that as well. Right, there was a cat, yeah. And the bad guy, he had a real deep voice in there. I’m trying to remember his name now, though. I can’t remember his name. I was going to say Dr. Evil, but that’s not, no, that’s not it. Yeah. and then uh they had the his niece, Penny. Penny. That’s right. Oh, boy, we’re really dragging it out of my brain today. And then uh inspector gadget was uh don adams i believe there you go. Yeah. He was the voice of inspector gadget get smart and all this other kind of stuff so yeah and there’s tennessee tuxedo as well. You’re right. You’re right. Today on trivia from cartoon Trivia.
dave and bob talk about go go Gophers. There you go. I love it. It’s great. Thanks, Dave, for being here. Hold on just a second while we finish up. And everybody, we’ll see you next time.