Chapter 1: What opportunity did Bryan and Krissy have with an AI company?
Brian got it wrong, yeah Brian got it wrong, yeah Brian got it wrong, yeah Brian got it wrong
On this episode of The Commercial Break. They wanted to buy our catalog so they could strip our voices and train their language models on it. And they were willing to pay pretty good money for it.
Yeah, why didn't we do that?
Well, I had first two reasons. Number one, I thought better about it. Like, if I give it to them now at one price, then I lose all power over my own catalog and training. I don't know what the future holds. Maybe we can train our own language models with our own voices, and maybe that's much more money. But also, I'm really dumb about this kind of shit. And now the opportunity has passed.
Bye, HiSello. Bye, HiSello. And now I'm just giving it to Meta for free. So there you go.
Go ahead, Meta, take it. Now it's just gone. Yeah, just have it.
Go ahead. The next episode of The Commercial Break starts now. Oh, yeah, cats and kittens. Welcome back to the commercial break. I'm Brian Green. This is my dear friend and the co-host of this show, Kristen Joy Hoadley. Best to you, Kristen. Best to you, Brian. Best to you out there in the podcast and streaming audience from a very cold Atlanta, Georgia. It's Thursday afternoon.
The feels like temperature this morning was 11th. We don't do that here in Atlanta.
Not very often we don't do that. And all the way down in Florida, it's in the 20s. Wow. Yeah. So there you go. Here we are talking about the weather yet again. Thanks for joining us on the commercial break. Chatting about the weather is the lowest form of social conversation.
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Chapter 2: Why did Bryan decide not to sell his voice to the AI company?
And we do it three times a week. So there you go. Anyway, welcome aboard. How are you? Thank you very much. I appreciate everybody joining. It's an interesting time here at the house. Yes, it is.
It's never a dull moment.
There is never a dull moment.
I thought about it when you told me the news. And I was like, oh my God. I was like, there's no peace. We get no peace.
Yeah, yeah. No rest for the weary around here. If it's not Blue barking her full head off, it's one of the kids vomiting all over the hallway. The car engine exploding. Some dog falling in the pool. My mom breaking a leg. It's all, we take all comers around here. Yeah. The car, which I just got a brand new engine in, courtesy of the lovely people at the place where the car is made.
We just got a brand new fucking engine in that car. I know. And we haven't even driven it three, four thousand miles. And now there's another check engine light on. And not the kind of check engine light where like, oh, the gas cap is off. No, this is like stop the car immediately.
What?
And so Astrid's on the highway, and she calls me, I don't know what to do. And I'm like, pull over, I guess. I don't know. I don't know. Now I'm fussy. Now I'm fussy.
Well, yeah, because you gave the people some leniency.
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Chapter 3: What challenges did Bryan face with his car's engine?
A month and a half they had that fucking car.
Yes.
They were testing and measuring and calling people, and they were in touch with folks across the ocean, and I don't know. And then they go, new engine. And I was like, fuck yeah, new engine. It had 56,000 miles on it. Now it's got an engine. But you don't get credit for the 56. The odometer has to stay there, which is the worst part about it. Yes.
It goes with the chassis of the car, not the engine of the car. And that's a big bummer to me because I thought if I could roll that odometer back to zero, I'd get rid of that fucking thing right now. Yeah, that's right. I'd get a truckster. I'd get a station wagon from 1977 and throw that thing in the trash. I love it, but it's an expensive car. And I don't know what we were thinking.
Well, what we were thinking is that the podcast would make a billion dollars forever.
That's what we were thinking.
But hey, I don't know. Brown cow wasn't meant to be. So now I got to take that car into the shop yet again. And that really frustrates me because we were so long without that car. I mean, they gave us a loaner and that was the good news. And the loaner was the exact same car, just a couple of years newer. I shouldn't complain. Maybe I say, hey, I'll trade you. Give me the new one.
You take the old one. Let it be your fucking problem.
Yeah, exactly. Do an even trade.
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of Richard Grieco in this episode?
None. Can't sell it. I'm upside down on it like everybody is on all their cars. Welcome to fucking America, 2026. Everyone's upside down on everything. And a fucking bottle of laundry detergent costs $29,000. I know.
Fucking crazy. Yeah, it really is. I saw something that said it was up like 25% from this time last year.
New York Times did a breakdown where they took, I think it was 75 items and looked at it from 2018 pre-pandemic to 2026 or 25. Price adjusted, looked at how much they give you and how much.
That's the other thing they're sneaking now is they give you less.
Shrinkflation is what they call it, right? It's been going on since the pandemic started. When they did it during the pandemic, it was because they may have legitimately not had enough material to give you, right? So they put less chips in the bag so that they can make more bags of chips and more people can eat chips. But now it's just highway robbery. Yeah, I'm stuck with that. That's what?
Yeah. Why? Why are you charging me? Because they can. It's a 28% swing. We carry the one plus the three. Yeah, that's 28,000% more, like Donald Trump would say. People are making 250,000% more than they were last year. It's like, does that how math works? I mean, I'm no math genius, but I'm not sure that's how math works. No. But, yeah, it's just ā it's a terrible mess out there.
But then, you know, thank God we have social dads out to teach you how to buy smartly, I guess. I guess. I don't know. I don't know. But ā I have been on this run putting out Venezuelan content on my personal social media.
And there's some real traction, too. I'm always on there liking it.
Yeah, thank you very much. I really appreciate it. Yeah, I think before I started all this, I had 300 followers. And now I'm getting close to 25,000 followers, which is still not a lot of followers. But I'm enjoying it. That's fun. I love it because it's like I was talking to another creator, let's call him, about podcasting. And we've said this so many times on the show.
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Chapter 5: How does the podcast discuss the impact of AI on content creation?
Sign language. Sign language.
Yes. Dub Blue's bark into sign language.
I would love to dub it into silence.
Exactly. That's what I'm saying.
Silence. Yes. Every time she barks, it's just.
Yes.
That's it. That's just nothing. Every time Noemi is here, which is Tuesdays and Thursdays, when we're one o'clock, when we're doing our lives, every time she is here, Blue goes extra crazy because she loves Noemi. And Noemi, she just follows Noemi around. She's not following me around. Now she has Noemi to follow around, to bark at. Anyway, so this translation service, it dubs it into languages.
And I asked it... So after a couple of months, I was like, okay, I can see the benefit of this because a lot of the people who follow me are Venezuelan. They probably speak Spanish as their primary language, and they may not understand some of the ā even though the subtitles are corrected for language, I could see the benefit of having my audio there, right? So I put out a reel yesterday.
It got translated. And I woke up this morning. You have to approve the translations. It got translated into 12 different languages. Wow. Even though I only asked it to do Spanish, it got translated into 12 different languages. This is my voice. I'm going to let you listen. This is my voice. I can't wait for this.
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Chapter 6: What are the hosts' thoughts on the current state of AI technology?
It takes hours for it to be translated. But they say that then you reach a wider audience. And that does theoretically make sense. I don't know if that's actually true. But theoretically, I could see how that could make sense. But it's very interesting that Meta can just take your voice, clone it, put it into a different language. And it sounds pretty cool, I think.
But, you know, people are going to say you're just giving Meta your voice. I am just giving Meta my voice. But let's be real about it. We have a podcast with over 1,000 ā with over 1,200 hours of content out on a public RSS feed. If you don't think Meta's already got my voice, that's foolish.
We're already being ripped off. Yeah, our sense of privacy and any of that is gone.
Just gone. Yeah. Just gone. We actually got approached by some of these companies a couple of ā maybe like a year ago, two years ago. Yeah, the AIs. Yeah, they wanted to buy our catalog. And they wanted to buy our catalog so they could strip our voices and train their language models on it. And they were willing to pay pretty good money for it.
Yeah, why didn't we do that?
Well, I had first two reasons. Number one, I thought better about it. Like, if I give it to them now at one price, then I lose all power over my own catalog and training skills. any other language model. I don't know what the future holds. Maybe we can train our own language models with our own voices, and maybe that's much more money.
But also, I'm really dumb about this kind of shit, and now the opportunity has passed. Bye, hi, sell low. And now I'm just giving it to Meta for free. So there you go.
Go ahead, Meta, take it. Yeah, just have it.
Go ahead.
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Chapter 7: How do the hosts compare their podcast's growth to other creators?
Wow. About a guy trying to get my attention, got hundreds of thousands of other people's attention to a guy trying to convince his chat GPT that strawberry had three hours in it and not two hours in it. And when chat GPT was responding to him like it was a voice responding to him, he had on a voice service like we've done here before. It was also translating what it was saying onto the screen.
And it was spelling strawberry with three R's. But it was saying that strawberry only had two R's in it. And the guy kept going, but when you put it into the, when you're writing it down, it's got three R's. Yeah. And it would be like, oh, I see where you're having some confusion. Your brain just wants to put extra emphasis on that second R. But nope, it's still only got two R's.
It's like maddening.
Chapter 8: What humorous anecdotes do the hosts share about famous encounters?
Yeah, you have to check it. Yes, it was. You do have to check it. So, okay, wait. I don't know what's happening. What did happen? Everybody went away at the same time, I think. Well, I don't know. We're doing this stream now. And sometimes, you know, sometimes it gets fussy. And okay, it seems to still be streaming.
So it's just like maddening that chat GPT can be the smartest thing in the world and still not be 100% accurate. You would think after reading.
It'll get there.
It'll get there. I guess. I think. I don't know. I personally think that a lot of the AI stuff is a bubble. And of all the wonderful things that have come of AI, ChatGPT is still the best thing that we got out of AI. And ChatGPT is essentially a really smart search engine, is what it is. You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, that's true. It's like my little assistant.
Yeah, it hasn't... Yeah. It hasn't cured cancer, although I do understand that some medical advancements have happened because of AI. Mm-hmm. So while I love chat GPT, I do. I love it. I love the ability to go in there and get a really thorough answer and have it help me do things like understand analytics and all this other stuff.
I still think, you know, that we there are trillions of dollars tied up in AI in the economy.
And what have we got? It doesn't really tell you like, no, that's not a good idea, right?
Never.
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