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Podcast DJ: The Cliff Notes for Your Podcast Queue · AI for Founders with Ryan Estes

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  Are you collecting podcasts? Are you hoarding podcasts?
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  How many episodes are sitting in your queue right now untouched?
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  Most founders don't have an information problem, they have a
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  time to signal problem. Because the best insight from a
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  2 hour podcast might be 90 seconds long.
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  The rest is noise, banter, setup, ego.
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  And it's great. But what if you could skip
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  straight to the parts that actually change how you think?
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  Not summaries, not bullet points, the real voices, the
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  real moments. Just compressed.
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  It's like having a DJ for your brain, dropping only the
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  insights worth remembering. Now think about this.
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  As a founder. You're trying to figure out
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  hiring or pricing or how to raise your next round of
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  searching Google. You pull from hundreds of
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  podcast conversations instantly curated to what you care about.
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  Now, what the host thinks matters, what you think matters.
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  And over time, your podcast DJ can learn what you save, what
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  you replay, what actually hits. So it stops being a podcast
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  player and becomes your personal knowledge engine.
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  You're no longer consuming and content, you're extracting
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  leverage. And Kevin from Snipt, the
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  world's best podcast player, has created exactly that, a podcast
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  DJ. If your future is shaped by what
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  them design you? Welcome to AI for founders.
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  I'm Ryan Estes. Today you're going to learn how
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  All right, Kevin, welcome back to the show.
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  Thank you so much for joining me.
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  Hi, Brian. Yeah, great to be back.
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  Yeah, so for folks that didn't catch our first episode, we're
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  talking to Kevin, the founder CEO of Snipped.
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  That's snipd.com. And if you don't have it, stop
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  this podcast right now. Go to snip.com and download the
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  world's best podcast player now since I've spoke to Kevin the
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  first time and we'll put that in the show notes again so you can
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  learn all about the origin story of Snipped.
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  I I use Snipped everyday. It's absolutely amazing.
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  And not only is discoverability like super easy to find the kind
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  of podcast you want, the kind of podcast that you learn from on a
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  daily basis, but there's some amazing features that you
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  literally can't find anywhere else.
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  One is actually creating real time notes.
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  So you just tap your Airpods and it, it, it, it pulls a snip of
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  that podcast part. So basically what you're doing
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  is creating all these short snippets of all the best
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  insights from the podcast that drive your your life.
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  They drive your business, they drive your relationships.
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  It's absolutely brilliant. So Kevin, I'm, I'm so glad
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  you're here to talk about some really new cool features from
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  Snip. So start us off.
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  What have you been working on, Sir?
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  Well, first of all, that was a great summary.
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  We have to use you for our marketing.
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  So we, we've been, we've been working on an amazing new
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  feature, we call it AIDJ. And basically in a IDJ, you can
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  activate the AIDJ anytime you listen to a podcast episode and
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  what it will do, it will guide you through the best moments of
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  a podcast episode. So this is for all of these
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  episodes. I don't know how it is for you,
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  but let me, let me maybe start with my, my situation.
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  I have more than 400 podcast episodes queued up and every
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  single day they're more and more coming, coming in.
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  They all sound so incredible. I would love to listen to all of
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  them, but the reality is I do not have enough time.
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  And in the past I've tried out summaries.
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  But look, the the reality is summaries if created like
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  independent of whether they're created by AI or humans, it it
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  will never replace the real actual thing.
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  And AIDJ is basically now our solution to this problem where
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  for all of those episodes where you know you won't get around to
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  listening to them, but you still want to get something out of it,
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  you still want to hear the best moments, you can now start
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  listening to it. Get activate AIDJ, and the AIDJ
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  will jump in. It's an AI voice.
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  It will analyze the episode, identify the best moments of the
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  episode, and then guide you through them 1 by 1.
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  Incredible. I love it and it makes total
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  sense because so many of the podcasts I listen for for
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  information, sometimes I get a little bit bored with the
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  banter, you know what I mean? These guys will start like, I
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  mean, the All in podcast, you know, those guys will start
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  ribbing on each other or they're talking about their billionaire
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  problems. And I'm just like, dude, let's
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  get to the note or let's get to the news part.
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  Like give me the information that's making you guys lose
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  sleep at night. I'm interested in that, you
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  know, So what a brilliant idea. Now it it's kind of like it has
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  a kind of historical precedence too.
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  It's like the Cliff Notes, you know, When I was a student, it's
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  like I couldn't read Shakespeare.
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  I would get lost. I can't understand the language.
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  So I get the Cliff Notes which gives me the highlights so I can
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  stick with the plot. Yeah, yeah.
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  I mean, here, I think the most important thing here is I'm not
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  100% actually familiar with the, with the Cliff Notes format, but
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  I think really one big distinction to a lot of other
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  things that have been tried in the past is really that you are
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  still listening to the actual podcast, the actual episode.
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  So in the all in podcast, you're still listening to the four
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  billionaires or, you know, not all of them are billionaires.
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  And, you know, you actually get to hear the original voices, the
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  original intonation, the jokes, all of the the little details
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  that that make podcast so great. But yeah, it's really, it jumps
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  to the moments that are the most relevant, most important.
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  And with that, you can like basically the promise that we're
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  making is you can get through a podcast episode at 25% the
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  duration, which means that you can now listen to four times as
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  many podcast episodes. I love it.
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  Well, and you know, for some of us who are used to listening to
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  our podcast at 1.5 speed or 2.2 point speed, if you're really
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  feeling, feeling alert, you know, this actually, you know,
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  is an order of magnitude greater than that.
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  And another great case is like Rogan, you know, Rogan is, it is
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  notorious because he'll have really random guests on
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  sometimes that nobody's ever heard of.
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  And it's like, well, do I want to invest 3 hours into this guy?
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  So you could pop in this, it'll give you the highlights.
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  And then you like, oh, actually I do, you know, and then you
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  come back and you can listen to the whole thing.
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  So it's just an absolute brilliant idea.
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  So I'd love to peek back the curtain a little bit and kind of
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  learn how, you know, you're determining what are the
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  highlights in the episode? How do you kind of using AI to
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  determine what are the bright spots that are going to be kind
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  of maybe, you know, outline really the, the, the bulk of of
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  the episode itself? Yeah, yeah.
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  So it's also the episode. Sorry.
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  The AI gets access to the entire episode and knows the basically
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  gets the entire transcript. Who are the guests?
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  We, we enrich it with some meta information about the guests,
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  the shows. And now the AI is basically
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  tasked to identify what is the main theme of the episode, what
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  is really the core at the core of it?
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  What are the core takeaways, the core insights?
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  And then go through the episode and identify where do they talk
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  about it. And then in a final step,
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  actually try to create a coherent listening experience
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  for you because that is one of the most important things in
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  audio. Like it's so if you were just
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  listening to random clips, 1 after another without anything
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  else, it's very disorienting because it's not like being on
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  TikTok. Like basically if you're on
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  TikTok, a lot of the information is communicated via visual.
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  Yeah, via via images and you don't have that in audio, so it
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  can be very disorienting. And like all of this context
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  switching can feel quite annoying.
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  So basically the last task of the AI is to identify those
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  clips that that work together well and then create segways
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  between them. Create an intro to understand to
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  understand what the next highlight is.
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  OK, so create an intro. So is there actually like a
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  narrator? Yes, so you can think of the
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  AIDJ as as basically a moderator.
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  So the AIDJ will come on, it will give you a very quick
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  global introduction of the entire episode.
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  Who are the guests? What show is this on and what
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  will they be talking about? And then introduce each
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  highlight clip. And at the very end you even get
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  an outro. Basically, at the very end, it
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  gives you like just as a quick reminder, like here are one or
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  two things that you should be taking away from this episode
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  and not forget. Love it.
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  You know, it's, it's so interesting how like
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  entertainment is cyclical because it's like now you want a
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  DJ to help curate the information and, and trim away
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  the fat, which is very similar to like in the 50s, like the 50s
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  and 60s where you had these amazing DJs with the cool DJ
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  voices that were bringing you the music, you know, but in
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  between they'd have like the little intros and outros and
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  they, they, they were basically, you know, filtering everything
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  out. They're like, this is the good
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  stuff. Here you go, you know, give you
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  the the weather and traffic, you know what I mean?
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  Yeah. I mean, 11 comparison or analogy
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  that I really like is if you think about sports, you know, if
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  you know, I'm personally, you know, I grew up in Europe, I'm
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  big into what we call football, what you call soccer.
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  And a match is 90 minutes long, You know, like together with all
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  of the, the, the half time and, and everything that's around,
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  it's like, it's like 2 hours of your time that that goes into
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  it. And that is amazing.
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  You know, for the big match that you're really looking forward
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  to, you're going to sit there, you're going to watch the entire
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  two hours, maybe with your friends.
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  It's going to be an incredible experience.
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  But then at the same time on the same day, there were ten other
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  matches going on that you'd also love to still like, you still
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  want to see the highlights, right?
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  But you're not going to watch 10 * 220 hours of additional match
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  content, right? So the way that I see see the
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  world is, is this is not an either or.
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  It's not like, oh, now you should be listening to every
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  podcast with the AIDJ. No, but you should continue to
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  listen to the the podcast that you're really looking forward to
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  in full length, but all of these other ones where you still want
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  to get the highlights. Now you can add those to your to
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  your listening as well. Love it, you know, and it it
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  kind of taps into the the TikTok brain that we're all fighting
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  against right now, you know, like I am like really doing the
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  best I can to stay off the doom scrolling.
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  You know, whether it's YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, it is just an
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  absolute black hole that I'll fall into.
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  And it's, it's an interesting kind of trance.
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  And I guess interesting is being generous.
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  It makes me feel depleted and terrible, to be totally honest.
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  And I have a great algorithm. Like my algorithm on TikTok is
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  like jujitsu matches and fly tying and 90s basketball
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  highlights. It's like it's good.
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  And that's the problem is that I'll get stuck into that.
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  And you know, there's nothing wrong with that.
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  It's kind of like it's own TV channel, but it feels like it
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  depreciates my vision. Like it feel, I feel like I have
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  a hard time like like focusing after that.
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  It kind of also takes my presence away from my home, you
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  know, So if I'm with my family, it's like I'm in TikTok land,
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  you know. So I think a lot of people are
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  feeling this way. That's like, oh boy, I just get
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  sucked into my phone and two hours disappears and they're
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  looking for alternatives. And I think that this is perfect
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  because the difference is, is where there's, there's a
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  creative podcast or there's a creative process that happens
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  when you're listening to podcasts, particularly on the,
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  the, the kind of podcast that you designed, snipped for, which
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  is when people are going to these shows for tools and
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  resources to enrich their life to, to contribute to human
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  flourishing. So there's like an exchange
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  that's happening because you're getting information and it's
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  just, it's just throwing sparks in your brain And it's like,
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  it's a building communitive process.
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  And so instead of like entertainment, which might be
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  Yeah, yeah, I see it the exact same way.
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  And that is exactly why we built Snipped in the first place for
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  all of these incredible podcasts that are out there that are not
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  just about distracting you from the real world, but they're
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  actually there to provide you with valuable information.
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  The building blocks that help you in your life and give you,
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  give you a lot of knowledge at the end of the day.
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  And and that's the incredible thing.
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  It's still nonetheless being entertaining.
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  It's still an enjoyable process. It's not like having to go back
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  to school where you would just all the time waiting for the
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  belter ring. It's it's a, it's an incredible
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  mixture that that that was created in, in podcast where
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  just like it seems like from every angle, it sort of came
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  together to have this, this great mixture of being
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  informative and valuable like this.
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  No etching, no etching, no, what am I nutritious?
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  Let's use that word, but at the same time still being
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  entertaining and enjoyable. Totally.
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  Yeah, it's amazing. And again, thank you for Snip.
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  I absolutely love it. I mean, particularly and I I
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  found myself, I use it very specifically for these kind of
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  podcasts and it almost becomes like a separate playlist that I
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  have that I can go to, you know, in similar way, like if I go to
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  Spotify, I have my playlist. It's like I know Snip is like my
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  my my business podcasts, you know, where I can have like I
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  have Lenny's on there and the startup ideas podcast and all in
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  and Alex and Lela Hamase and my podcast and like I'm I'm just
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  pulling from them ready startup Huberman lab, how I built This
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  American Life, like all the stuff I want to be tapped into
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  the Glenn show, you know, so I can have all those in one place
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  because I subscribed to so many different podcasts.
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  And so now if I use a different podcast player, that's probably
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  that's more for like end of the day, you know, where I'm like, I
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  just kind of want to check out and put on some like Old West
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  podcasts and learn about Kit Carson and what he was doing
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  tromping around in the southwest.
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  Great. You know, I'm not necessarily
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  like trying to like save snippets of that to like help me
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  the next day. But now snip has really become
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  kind of my go to, which is really, really cool.
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  And I I love it for that reason. So as a podcaster, what can I do
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  to help tee up the best parts for the the the DJ?
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  Because I think this feature is going to be copied very quickly.
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  You're first to market with this, so everybody should go get
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  it now while, you know, this is the only place you can.
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  But I think it's going to be a very popular feature.
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  And as a host, what I want to be able to do is give the good
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  parts very obviously to the DJ, which would basically be just
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  edit me out completely and then just intro basically become my
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  Co host with the DJ. Is there ways that podcasters
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  can kind of tee up the best spots?
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  It's an interesting question. I haven't thought about that too
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  much. I would argue the best thing for
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  the podcast host to do is the same thing as it as it's always
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  been. It's create valuable, amazing
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  content. So with respect to tying out
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  like the best moment like that, that's one of the interesting
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  things. And maybe we can, we can talk
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  about that in the context of what, what are we trying to do?
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  Like what's the bigger vision of the AIDJ?
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  Because this is actually just the first feature of our bigger
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  vision. Because what the best moment or
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  the most valuable insight of an episode is might be different
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  for me than it is for you, right?
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  And that makes it actually very difficult for you as the host to
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  say no, no, no, look, this is this is the most important
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  moment of this entire episode because it might be very
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  different for for very different users.
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  So in this very first feature that we now released, you are
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  actually getting the same highlights as as everyone else.
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  But in the future versions, what we're really working towards is
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  the AIDJ becoming this personalized and customizable AI
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  agent that goes out and finds the best content for you and
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  curates it. So for any episode.
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  So starting with just on an episode level, it will know, OK,
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  what are the insights that you usually care about?
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  And it will select those for you.
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  And if it doesn't do the job that you wanted to do, you can
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  just tell it. So you will be able to just
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  prompt it in natural language and say, Hey, you know what, for
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  Lenny's podcast, for example, I always want to have the the
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  lightning round at the end or like the, the, the books that,
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  that get recommended because for someone else might be, no, I'm,
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  I'm, I'm not interested in that. But for you, that's really
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  important. So it will always select that
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  for you. But then the next step, and
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  that's something that that we're that we're actually working on
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  now is the the next release is I, you just mentioned it
• 20:36
  yourself. Like you're subscribed to a lot
• 20:39
  of podcasts, like me myself, I'm subscribed to at least 100 shows
• 20:42
  out there. Most of the time I end up just
• 20:46
  listening to the same, you know, 345 shows that I'm sort of
• 20:51
  geared towards and but every now and and that that is sort of
• 20:55
  fine. But every now and then I notice,
• 20:57
  hey, there was actually an incredible episode on one of the
• 21:00
  shows that I am subscribed to, but I entirely missed it.
• 21:03
  And what we're trying to do here is again, the AIDJ actually not
• 21:07
  just going through a single episode, but going through all
• 21:10
  of the episodes that you're subscribed to, all of the shows
• 21:13
  and then finding, Hey, you know what from last week, these are
• 21:17
  it will go through all of the episodes that you haven't
• 21:19
  listened to and being like, hey, here are some great insights for
• 21:22
  you that you missed last week. Here's a digest, one hour long.
• 21:28
  You'll get the six best, best highlights.
• 21:30
  And you can now listen to that on, you know, Sunday evening to
• 21:33
  to wrap up your week. I love that.
• 21:36
  Yeah. So I could I could say like,
• 21:38
  hey, right now I'm really interested in peptides.
• 21:40
  So if anything through my podcast feed is mentioning
• 21:43
  peptides, it sends to the top of the list.
• 21:45
  Like, hey, this is actually a doctor is doing an hour on
• 21:48
  peptides. You totally missed it and it can
• 21:50
  bring it to the top of your queue.
• 21:51
  I love that, you know, so you can start to guide because you
• 21:55
  know, that's The thing is that you you only have so much
• 21:56
  attention and willpower. And honestly, like if you have a
• 21:59
  couple of favourites, you're just going to be like, there's
• 22:01
  12 episodes, but I'm just going to go back to Harmazi because I
• 22:04
  want that juice this morning, you know, which is which is, and
• 22:09
  it's interesting, you talked about context too, which is,
• 22:12
  which is huge because it feels like AI is getting better.
• 22:15
  But like if you talk about like making clips for the podcast,
• 22:18
  you have Opus clips, you got descript, you got fireside,
• 22:21
  you've got all these different things that will create the
• 22:23
  video clips for you. And part of the the problem is
• 22:27
  like a lot of times it's a little frustrating because
• 22:28
  you're like one or two of those were good, but also some of them
• 22:32
  weren't as good. Now what's interesting about
• 22:34
  Snipped is you have a massive context window of thousands of
• 22:40
  people creating thousands of clips on podcasts.
• 22:43
  So is there a way to like, say like AI had 12 people that snip
• 22:47
  this part in Lenny's podcast? So we're going to the DJ is
• 22:50
  going to prioritize that because it's getting validated from
• 22:53
  other people. Exactly, that is one of the
• 22:55
  biggest. Like we're actually the only
• 22:57
  podcast app in the world that has the data of knowing which
• 23:02
  moments of an episode inside of an episode, which moments were
• 23:05
  the most valuable to the users because we have the snipping
• 23:08
  functionality. Every time an incredible moment
• 23:11
  happens, the user tapped their headphones to save it.
• 23:14
  And this is exactly what we can feedback into the algorithm to
• 23:17
  make the selection much more valuable to the user and also
• 23:21
  personalize it. So the 1 is basically the, the
• 23:23
  call it the hive brain, the entire community realizing like,
• 23:27
  oh, here, this is the most snipped moment of this, of this
• 23:30
  episode, but also the personalization aspect of well,
• 23:34
  you know, you always save these, the, the book recommendations on
• 23:39
  Lenny. So we, we better incorporate
• 23:41
  them here. And it's, it's interesting, like
• 23:46
  you mentioned, obost clip and and D script and all of these,
• 23:49
  all of these tools which are amazing.
• 23:51
  If you're a podcast creator, I really recommend trying them
• 23:53
  out. However, there's one fundamental
• 23:57
  shift which I believe will happen in the future independent
• 24:02
  of us, and that is that if you as a podcast creator use Opus
• 24:06
  Clip, it is basically the same as what you were describing
• 24:10
  earlier. Like you are you as the host are
• 24:13
  deciding which moments are the most valuable and then you're
• 24:16
  putting them, putting them out there.
• 24:19
  But I believe in the future it will be you, the user that will
• 24:22
  have control. You will be able to talk to the
• 24:25
  algorithm and also customize it in natural language.
• 24:29
  And the AI agent that works for you will be able to select the
• 24:33
  clips that are most valuable to you.
• 24:35
  And the a a agent will know you the best.
• 24:38
  So this is something that I believe is a fundamental shift
• 24:41
  that will slowly start to happen.
• 24:44
  And you can see other media platforms also starting to talk
• 24:47
  about this. And basically this AIDJ feature
• 24:51
  is already going that in that direction.
• 24:54
  So cool. And I'm just kind of wrapping my
• 24:57
  head around it, you know, like, as we're talking here, because
• 24:59
  it's almost like it becomes like Wikipedia, you know, where
• 25:02
  you're like, I want this kind of information right now and go to
• 25:07
  my, the podcast that I subscribe and, and love and, and pull out
• 25:11
  the information that's germane to where, where I'm at right
• 25:14
  now, which is incredible. I mean, it's, yeah.
• 25:17
  You can imagine if you're a founder, you know, it's the
• 25:19
  first time that you're hiring a lot of people.
• 25:23
  You'll in the future be able to go to your AIDJ and tell it,
• 25:25
  hey, can you get me all of the hiring advice from some of the
• 25:29
  most successful entrepreneurs out there?
• 25:31
  Like pick them from my favorite podcast, right, The Ivory over
• 25:34
  CEO Lenny Legs, whatever, whatever your favorite shows
• 25:38
  are. And then you're the AIDJ will go
• 25:41
  out there, find them for you and play them.
• 25:44
  Yeah. Totally.
• 25:46
  It's great. I just, I'll be like, I just
• 25:48
  want to hear all Bill Burr rants.
• 25:50
  Just I want Bill Burr completely losing his mind, just pulling
• 25:54
  all out for me. OK.
• 25:57
  How much time do you have? Yeah, exactly.
• 26:01
  We're like, we have 96 hours for you.
• 26:03
  Like, oh great. This is going to be an awesome
• 26:05
  week, man. So cool.
• 26:08
  What else is coming down the pipe?
• 26:09
  Is there anything you can discuss now?
• 26:13
  So we're really, we're really locked into the AIDJ this, this
• 26:16
  vision what we're what I just described.
• 26:19
  So this is really what we're focused on right now.
• 26:21
  And I would say the other things are more small topics and around
• 26:26
  that. Amazing.
• 26:27
  OK, I want to make sure we talk about all the features now.
• 26:30
  What I love about Snipped is a very elegant app you can just
• 26:33
  put on. It'll play a podcast like you're
• 26:35
  used to no problem, but has all these additional features.
• 26:39
  If you're interested in that with podcasts, we talked about a
• 26:42
  couple, but you can do it with audiobooks.
• 26:44
  You can do it on YouTube. You can export everything to
• 26:47
  Notion, which is super helpful, Not just Notion, you can export
• 26:52
  it all over the place. You can share your, you know,
• 26:55
  your snips with friends, colleagues, the the way that you
• 26:58
  share everything else. It creates transcripts.
• 27:02
  It creates a a list of mentioned books like you mentioned that
• 27:05
  Lenny always does. The you know, the five books are
• 27:07
  the books that you would pay for someone to have it.
• 27:10
  It'll it'll pull that for you. It takes quotes it got it does
• 27:15
  auto chapters, custom AI prompting as you, you talked
• 27:19
  about, it lists all the guests on the podcast and then you can
• 27:22
  search other podcasts by those guests, which I think is super
• 27:25
  helpful because a lot of times that's how you find great new
• 27:28
  podcasts is because they're guests on other people's shows.
• 27:31
  And then you're like, oh, what else are they doing?
• 27:32
  Oh, they have a podcast. Oh, they were on Huberman.
• 27:34
  Oh, you know, and you can start to to follow them around, which
• 27:37
  really reminds me of what I loved about music, you know, and
• 27:41
  how I learned about jazz in the beginning was because I would
• 27:44
  buy hip hop records and then you'd see the list of samples
• 27:47
  and you're like, oh, who's Roy Ayers, you know, who's Freddie
• 27:50
  Hubbard, you know, and then you go find them.
• 27:52
  And it, it's like this discovery process that podcast has been
• 27:55
  lacking for a long time. But I think you're really
• 27:58
  chiseling away at it of like, this is how you start to find
• 28:01
  your little niches in your little new shows is through the
• 28:04
  guest discovery. And of course, it has multiple
• 28:06
  languages, up to 26 different languages.
• 28:08
  Are there any other features that I'm missing here?
• 28:18
  Oh, I think, I think that was a quite comprehensive list. 01.
• 28:22
  No one, one feature that you forgot was the ability to chat
• 28:27
  with a podcast episode. So the same way that you can
• 28:30
  chat with chat to BT, if you have a question or you want to
• 28:33
  search for a certain moment or extract a certain quote out of
• 28:36
  it and you don't remember where it was, you can just chat with
• 28:39
  it like chat to BT. Yeah, which is super helpful
• 28:43
  when there is like the deep science episodes, you know,
• 28:46
  where, you know, halfway in there they mentioned this great
• 28:49
  recipe for a high protein pancake and you're like, I don't
• 28:53
  know where it was. It was somewhere in there
• 28:55
  between something else. You can just ask it, you know,
• 28:57
  hey, what was that recipe for high protein pancakes?
• 29:00
  Bang. You didn't get key stats out of
• 29:03
  it. Yeah.
• 29:05
  Also custom summaries, some people love having afterwards,
• 29:08
  like sort of a custom summary of it or other people that that are
• 29:12
  very, very specific about what do they want to get out of the
• 29:15
  podcast episode. You can ask that beforehand,
• 29:18
  like, hey, will they actually cover this topic because this is
• 29:21
  what I what, what I care about. And then you jump directly into
• 29:23
  that moment. Amazing.
• 29:25
  We're going to keep this short and sweet and I will post our
• 29:28
  original podcast episode in the show notes, which is awesome
• 29:31
  because it really goes into the how and the why and the where in
• 29:35
  a big way, because Zurich plays a, a big part in the development
• 29:40
  of what you've been working on and also your friends, which I
• 29:43
  who I've gotten to know a little bit through this podcast.
• 29:46
  So I really appreciate you making those introductions.
• 29:48
  That's been super cool to see what everybody's doing there in
• 29:51
  Switzerland, which also seems like kind of tip of the spear
• 29:54
  and what's going on in, in technology right now.
• 29:57
  I know you had a baby recently, so congratulations there.
• 30:00
  Have you found any? Have you found any good
• 30:02
  parenting podcasts or perhaps something more baby oriented
• 30:06
  that you've been listening? To actually, I haven't been.
• 30:12
  I haven't started with a parenting podcast yet, no.
• 30:19
  I never I never found a good parenting podcast.
• 30:22
  Currently relying mostly, I'm trying to rely mostly on my on
• 30:25
  my instincts. Oh, I did.
• 30:26
  I did listen to an audio book that I very much liked about
• 30:32
  Yeah, let's call it parenting. It's called the Book I Wish My
• 30:36
  Parents Had Read. Yeah.
• 30:39
  So listen to that on Snipped. Yeah, I can recommend that.
• 30:43
  Seems appropriate for our generation that we're all
• 30:45
  recovering from the boomers. Yeah.
• 30:49
  Boy, I wish they would have read this one.
• 30:53
  Amazing. Kevin, this is awesome.
• 30:55
  Everybody seriously, stop what you're doing.
• 30:57
  Hit pause right now. Go download snipped in the App
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  Store. It's extraordinary.
• 31:02
  You'll love it and it's a great way to start fresh too.
• 31:05
  You know, if you if you've been listening to podcasts for a
• 31:07
  decade plus like most of us, you might just have so many podcasts
• 31:11
  you never listen to and and so you're missing the good stuff,
• 31:14
  you know, start over with the fresh podcast playlist on snip.
• 31:17
  I guarantee you're going to love it.
• 31:19
  I'm going to check out this DJ function today.
• 31:21
  Is it? Is it push live right now?
• 31:23
  Yes, it's live. It's live for everyone.
• 31:28
  One important information is it's currently only available
• 31:30
  for English podcasts, but I assume for everyone listening
• 31:33
  that will not be a not be a problem.
• 31:35
  Yeah and 11 addition for information.
• 31:39
  You you already have a have a link.
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  Maybe you can add that to the show notes with with this link,
• 31:46
  people could get one month for free for snip premium if they
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  want to try out the premium version.
• 31:53
  Yeah, and just give it a shot. 100% yeah, please use my link.
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  I am aspiring to be an affiliate of Snipped if I wasn't so Dang
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  busy. I have so much content I want to
• 32:03
  make around Snipped because it I, I am an evangelist, so I'll
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  definitely use my link and pick that up for a free month of
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  premium. Kevin, this has been awesome.
• 32:12
  What's the best place that people can connect with you
• 32:14
  online? The best place is on Twitter.
• 32:18
  My user handle is Kevin Ben Smith.
• 32:21
  Kevin Ben Smith, tremendous. I really appreciate you coming
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  back. Yeah, thanks for having me.
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