SPOTLIGHT on Tanya Smith

SPEAKER_05 0:09

Hi, and welcome to today's special spotlight episode. Today we are talking to video marketing strategists and the host of Stream Like a Boss TV and App Therapy Club. Please welcome Tanya Smith. I am one of your hosts. I'm Lisa. And I'm Agnes. And what are we all sipping on today? Who wants to go first?

SPEAKER_04 0:34

I think Tanya should go first. Okay. Okay. She's our guest.

SPEAKER_01 0:38

I have uh Arizona Green Tea. Not promoting it, just saying this is what I'm sipping on. Um, it's been better than I don't really like to drink water, but I should do more of that. I prefer coffee. This is somewhere in the middle. So I'm just doing the tea right now.

SPEAKER_05 0:58

Nice.

SPEAKER_04 0:59

I love that. They're like, Do you drinking enough water? I say, yes, I'm drinking water and my coffee. Right. Yes.

SPEAKER_05 1:08

I mean, I'm drinking fruit punch, right?

unknown 1:12

No.

SPEAKER_04 1:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:12

I feel like it's going to look like it's mostly it's mostly grapes.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

Does not look like fruit punch.

SPEAKER_05 1:20

It's actually sangria.

SPEAKER_04 1:23

Lisa makes the best sangria.

SPEAKER_01 1:25

Okay, next time I come up your way, that's what I need. Absolutely. I need one. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:30

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 1:31

I'm drinking the Sassin Sips drink. I just named it the Sassin Sips Drink. It's the tequila with raspberry lemonade and mango pieces.

unknown 1:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:41

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I made this like ad hoc, and then I'm like, you know what? This is gonna be the Sassin Sips drink. That's what it is.

SPEAKER_05 1:49

We made that. Yeah, we drank that at Podfest, and it was delicious. Well, yeah, yeah. Not the raspberry.

SPEAKER_04 1:56

It was a variation of it. But yeah. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 1:58

So it was really okay. Creative. I love it.

SPEAKER_04 2:02

So we met you at Podfest this past January. And there was a few people that were like, Spotlight was something that we were talking about doing. We and actually at the Podfest, I think pretty much the next two weeks, so we could maybe with the next week, we're like, okay, Spotlight is now active based on the people that we met. We're like, okay, Tanya's gonna be on there. We're gonna get all these people on there. And so I'm totally fangirling. I had my fangirling moment earlier. I'm gonna bring it back again. And I told and I read on um the marketing your marketing kit about your your voice. And I'm like, oh my god, I forgot about her voice. I'm great. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_05 2:47

You you could read me the phone book, and I'm gonna be like, Yes, please.

SPEAKER_01 2:55

I love it. Thank you.

SPEAKER_05 2:59

Okay, so even though this isn't, you know, an interview in the traditional sense, can you just talk about what it is that you do as a video marketing strategist? Because even I'm a little bit unsure of all the inner workings, and I'd love to know more.

SPEAKER_01 3:15

I really there's a I'm gonna say there's a couple of things. There's two things that I see myself as. One, I feel like I have been gifted with the power of being an encourager. So I love that the people that are in my space feel empowered, feel equipped, feel better prepared to be on camera to do video than they did before they met me. Right. So one of the biggest responsibilities I feel as someone who is an introvert and who has I really fought the camera. Like I fought being on video for a long time. I knew better. I knew I should, but I thought, no, I don't want to do that because I don't want to put myself out there. So the first thing I would say is that I have taken upon myself the accountability of really being a partner to those who feel like they want to do video, but they're not sure how to get started, they're not sure what to say, and they're not sure how to monetize it. And so that's number one. Number two, from an official formal standpoint, um, I market myself as a video marketing strategist because I work with my clients to help them to really put together not just uh a plan for, hey, I'm gonna be on camera today and talk about the food I ate, but a plan for making sure that the content that they're creating is intentional and on purpose and is something that is going to make an impact, not only for them and for their pocketbooks, but also to the people who are on the other side of their camera. Like, how are you making a positive impact? And how are you doing it in a way that is strategic and that fits your life? Because honestly, ladies, most of the people that I work with tend to be part-timers, just like me. We're not full-time content creators. We don't have 24 hours a day, seven days a week to do this thing. So, in the moments that we do have, how can we do this in a way that is effective, in a way that's not going to take us away from our family and our loved ones? Because too often people get into business and say, Hey, I want to do it so I can have more time with my family and with my loved ones, but that very business is taken away from all of that. So to me, it's being the encourager, but also being the analyst, the strategist, the person that's looking at someone's flow and saying, okay, how can we make that more efficient? How can we how can we make that better so that you're really making the impact that you want to make? And it's not about going viral, it's about making a positive impact on the people who land in your space. Does that make sense?

SPEAKER_04 6:02

It makes perfect sense. Because I the you saying it's not about going viral, and I think people feel if you're not going viral, you're not making it. And that's not so much of the because everyone like the silliest things are going viral. Like, if this can go viral, I can go viral. If I'm not going viral, I'm not doing my job, I'm not doing it right. Um, you make a very valid point, like it's more than that.

SPEAKER_05 6:26

Right, right. But I think and I think that that aligns a lot, like even with Agnes and I, because if if any of what we did was about going viral, we would have quit four years ago. It's just about being true to ourselves and having the connection and the fun, and and you know, for us, our message is is maybe not um like so much to help other people in that sense, in the traditional sense of that, but you know, it's just to to meet other people and to connect with other people and to see where we go along our journey, but be true to ourselves along the way. And I think that the the purposeful creation is where it aligns. And I I I just I really like that part of the message, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:21

Yeah, I mean, I think uh even if you're you're saying that you're not out there specifically to help people, but you are just by the fact that you put your voice out there. The two of you have taken charge of a moment that you could have said no to, right? You've said, hey, we're gonna do this thing, we're gonna make this happen, we're making our own drinks, we're gonna have fun, we're gonna meet other people. Because you're showing up just by nature of the fact that you're showing up and you're doing this with some consistency, that is going to help someone else to see what's possible. So I just feel like, especially with us as women, oftentimes we tend to silence our own voices. And when we do that, we don't recognize that it's not just us silencing ourselves, it's that we're also helping other people to remain silent that should be speaking out. So I love that your voice is out here. I love that you invited me to the show. I couldn't, I was like, hey, I don't do stuff on Sundays, but I'm gonna do this because you know, they're cool. We had a good night. Thank you.

unknown 8:28

Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 8:29

By the way, we would have made it any day of the week if necessary. Like I'm pretty much yeah, you know, we don't have anything that's really going on. Just life. It did it. We could put life to the side for this. It's fine.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

It's good. Today is good. Today is a perfect day.

SPEAKER_05 8:44

I want to ask you my silly question.

SPEAKER_04 8:47

It's very important. This is a very important question.

SPEAKER_05 8:50

It's very important, very, very, very uh important material. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 8:55

All-provoking, life-changing questions.

SPEAKER_05 8:58

What is the smelliest food to cook in the office microwave?

SPEAKER_01 9:05

Oh. Oh. So if you said, look, my all-time the food that I just will never ever ever eat, and I can't stand the smell of is chitlings.

SPEAKER_04 9:20

I was gonna say the same thing. I was legit gonna say the same thing.

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Look, I cannot trauma from being a southern girl growing up, yeah, all of that. No, I cannot. So if anybody ever brought those into an office, put them in a microwave, or brought them into a house, or hey, not even a house, wherever it is, I don't want to smell it.

SPEAKER_04 9:42

See, I'm okay with it after the fact. I'll eat them if they're already cooked. I'm good. The prep the preparing of this call me at 5:30 once it's done, and I'll show to your house with my hot sauce. You know what I mean? Other than that, sorry, can't do it.

SPEAKER_05 10:01

I never had them. I don't know what they smell like.

SPEAKER_04 10:04

Okay, they're they're in they're the intestines.

SPEAKER_05 10:07

No, no, I know. Just imagine it. Just but I've never had it.

SPEAKER_01 10:11

I've never so I don't I don't know what it smells like it tastes like you don't want to smell it, you just don't want to smell it. It's it's really bad. So just think it's it's a particular animal with their intestines and all the things that come through the intestines.

SPEAKER_04 10:28

So uh use your imagination and you're probably nowhere near it.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

Okay, worse smell.

SPEAKER_05 10:39

Okay, so yeah, all right. Maybe I'm okay with not smelling it.

SPEAKER_04 10:43

Yeah, you're good. You're definitely consider yourself blessed and lucky. True. You missed that.

SPEAKER_00 10:48

That's true.

SPEAKER_05 10:49

All right.

SPEAKER_04 10:52

Are we gonna do my question now or do we do it later?

SPEAKER_05 10:54

You can do your question whenever you want.

SPEAKER_04 10:57

Okay, like I said, thought-provoking, life-changing questions here.

SPEAKER_01 11:01

All right, I'm ready.

SPEAKER_04 11:02

If you can have the legs of any animal, what would it be?

SPEAKER_01 11:32

Ooh. I think a kangaroo, maybe.

SPEAKER_04 11:37

Oh, powerful.

SPEAKER_01 11:40

Yeah, they're strong, they're powerful, they can kick, like really kick. Um, run. I mean, they can do all the things. I think they have just incredible muscular power in their legs. And I got drumsticks, so so that would be cool.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

Just Devo. I feel like they did the Devo of the Animal Kingdom.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

It's true. Totally true. Totally opposite of who I am today, but that that's what I would pick.

SPEAKER_04 12:10

So anyone who's a little bit too young to know, Devo's a character and the Friday movies, watch it, been yourself.

unknown 12:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:23

I'm just having mental visuals with tanya with kangaroo legs. I'm loving it.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

I know, right? I don't know if I could get any of my pants over it. I probably need to wear skirts all the time, but that still would work for me.

SPEAKER_04 12:37

It's kind of holding the ready, like on an angle. You could wear all the high heels. All the heels. There you go. I'm I'm loving that. I'm set. I need to find someone who can draw so we can just like draw all these ideas that we have.

SPEAKER_01 12:51

AI. Hey, you know, AI art.

SPEAKER_05 12:54

Okay, AI is kind of scary though. Um maybe I'm you know, guilty of everything that my husband accuses me of being like afraid of, like all the technology, but she doesn't even want to push start car.

SPEAKER_04 13:06

Like, really?

SPEAKER_05 13:08

I like having a key to start my car. I've never had a car that's different.

SPEAKER_01 13:14

Okay, so I drive an EV, like a total totally electric vehicle, because I am totally a an early bird when it comes to anything. I'm an early person, I'm an early adopter. And I was a little nervous about it, to be honest with you. And I know we probably need to talk a little bit about this AI fear too. But um I moved in that direction because, first of all, because it's important. Um the environment is important to me. So that's one thing. But also because I know I don't drive that frequently anyway.

unknown 13:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

So I don't necessarily have to worry about being charged up to where, you know, finding charging stations and all of that stuff. I just had one installed in my house. Oh, wow. And so I can just charge it at night while I'm sleeping and it's ready to go the next day. Like 300 miles, I think. Yeah. So it's yeah, that's really cool. Mm-hmm. Yeah, but but it took a lot of getting used to because there's there's all this programming stuff that's going on. It's not like a normal car where you have oil changes, you don't have to get gas everywhere. So it is it is definitely a switch, a shift in mindset and in thinking, but I have really enjoyed it. So I know it's scary at first when you think about push-button cars, but just imagine at some point we might even have cars that fly.

SPEAKER_05 14:40

I know. You know, it's just I'm a creature of habit. So it's not that I chose a car with a key. My car is like 18 years old.

SPEAKER_01 14:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 14:54

So 18, well, I bought it used, but it was five years old when I bought it. So in 2012, when I bought it, there really wasn't that many push-start cars.

SPEAKER_06 15:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 15:08

Like versus now. Now that's the norm. But back my cars in 2007. So in 2007, cars were still mostly with the key. So it's just funny because then like my husband's car has a push start, and my fob was dying. You know, so like sometimes I would hit it to unlock it or to lock it, and it just won't. And he's like, Oh, you need to change your key, uh, the battery, you need to make sure. And I'm like, why? It's not that serious. And he's like, Yeah, but your battery is dying. And I'm like, okay. He's like, but you can't start your car. I was like, Yes, I can. Yes, I can.

SPEAKER_01 15:45

I can I just have to plug it in there.

SPEAKER_05 15:48

I can lock it, unlock it, start it. It's a key. So, you know, it's just funny because I'm like, oh, then when I get a new car, it's gonna be a push start, and then I have to learn new things. And it's like, oh, you're still afraid of technology. I just, I just know what I know and I like what I like, and I'm a creature of habit. So for me, if it ain't broke, why fix it?

SPEAKER_04 16:08

So, you know, it's totally gonna screw you with you. I'm still in the middle. Like, I I watch Terminator, I know what's gonna happen, but at the same time, I'm so I'm somewhere in the middle. I'm like, it is what it is, it's gonna happen. It's here, it is what it is.

SPEAKER_01 16:23

It's here, it is right.

SPEAKER_04 16:24

So I'm somewhere in the middle. Like if something that I have to do has AI, then it is what it is, I have to use it. But when I use it because it's there and it's from probably not. If I don't need to, I won't. But if it's there, I have to.

SPEAKER_05 16:36

That's exactly it for me. I'm I'm not gonna seek it out. But when it falls into my lap, you're gonna have some. I don't I don't have much of a choice. I have to I have to accept it, I have to learn. But to me, all these things that I see, and I'm not like a can a crazy conspiracy theory or anything like that, but you know, you see these programs that are using AI to generate like not say for work images kind of thing. And the harm that it can do to us is the part that scares me because how do you combat it? How do you fight it? How do you protect yourself, your family, your kids from the stuff that's out there, from the stuff, you know, it's not just identity theft anymore, it's not just robocalls, it's not just being afraid to say yes to the people who call you because you know they might use your quote yes, you know, to say no, you've consented to giving us all your money or whatever.

SPEAKER_01 17:45

But just think about this, though. I mean, Lisa, look, the first computer, that generation of folks were very much as afraid for the same reasons that we're talking about right now. They were afraid about the first computer, the first car. Those people were like, oh my God, they're taking over the streets. Now, how are we gonna get around? Look at all this pollution. So there's always every generation is going to have that thing or those things because technology does move quickly and it's gonna continue to evolve. So the kids quickly at that. It will, and it's more, it's faster now than it ever was. And that is scary. I'm not gonna lie. I mean, I feel the same, but also at the same time, there's a lot of good that can be done. There's a lot of businesses that are going to be able to really stay afloat if they learn, if they adopt it and they embrace it for the good, and they use it to help to complement their marketing, to complement their workflows that they're creating, and to save themselves time so that they can act more quickly and move in a more nimble way. Because we have to move fast now, especially smaller entrepreneurs, we have to stay agile because things are just moving all over the place. We now can operate as a solo entrepreneur. I can operate about at the same level as someone who's like a huge corporation. Just because of things like AI. Instead of me having to go out and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a whole team of people, I can leverage one team member and specific artificial intelligence workflows and automation, which I use religiously. I use tons of automation. It's the only way that I've been able to stay afloat for 20 years as a solo business while operating a full-time job in a really high demand career. The only way I've been able to do that is by leveraging those tools. So there is, I know it's a balancing act and it's certainly scary, but if we don't know and we put our head in the sand, we're more at risk for those potential dangers. Because now that I, because I know what I know, I can make sure that my 80-year-old step my uh father-in-law knows what to do and what not to do. I can check in on him and say, okay, hey pop, I saw that come through. That's not real. Like, don't respond to that. If I didn't know and I just kind of said hands off, how do I protect him or my children?

SPEAKER_05 20:28

That's the hard part is learning and keeping up with it as fast as it develops in order to protect yourself and your loved ones. And I think that's the part that scares me. It's it's yeah, the you know, just the the big unknown. And am I going to be capable of keeping up fast enough to protect.

SPEAKER_04 20:54

Right.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Yeah. And you may or may not, but you have to definitely, like you already said, be open-minded that when it comes to you, you'll do what you need to do, right? And that you find trusted resources because there's a lot of people out here that have stuck a label on their head and said, Hey, I'm an AI expert today, and yesterday they had no clue.

SPEAKER_04 21:17

No clue about that name.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:22

How do you how do you balance that though? I mean, do you find like I mean, especially that you are in this world, you know, of tech. Is there a way that I don't know, like, what do you do? Do you do research? Do you wait till it comes across your desk? I mean, how do you think that's a good thing?

SPEAKER_01 21:42

I read a lot.

SPEAKER_05 21:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:44

I read a lot. I do, I take in a lot of podcasts that talk about artificial intelligence. And I don't do it expecting that everybody's gonna do that. I do it because just like we're having this conversation here, I have a community that I'm responsible for. And when they're asking different questions and they're asking, well, what do you think about this? I want to be a trusted resource for them to say, Hey, this is what I read, and this is from some this source over here who I trust, and here's why I trust them. Maybe you shouldn't go that route. Or, yeah, this would be a good one for you to experiment with. So they come to me for those type of questions, and I have to feel like I Mentioned earlier, I feel this sense of duty to make sure that I stay on top of things like that. Same thing with my kids. Like I got to make sure they're staying on top of, I'm staying on top of things enough to keep them safe when it comes to tech. But everybody's not either going to do that or maybe they don't want to do that. But I do, I read a lot. I listen to a lot of podcasts. I read a lot of blogs. I take in a lot of information. And from a career standpoint, my full-time position keeps me in that world as well. So that I can stay informed and make sure that I'm making good decisions around policy and that I'm helping to protect a larger company in that regard. So yeah, I've there's a couple of people that I do trust. One person in particular, I'll tell you who I get his emails. LaRon, I'm gonna spell his name properly. Yeah. L-E-N-I-R-O-N Sagev, I think is his name. I'm gonna find it. But he has a whole website that talks about creators and security. In fact, the name of it, let's see, Security for Creators. Security for Creators.com. And so I stay in tune with him. He used, he was one of my um, I had a professor over at Southern Methodist University on YouTube and video marketing and all this stuff. And he was one of the training assistants or the teacher assistants. And he has built this whole business out of making sure that he keeps creators informed about different types of security risk. Now, his is specific to YouTube, but he's just one of the people who I just tap into and say, let me read his newsletter this week.

SPEAKER_05 24:11

Yeah, but just having one person that you trust. That that you right, that you can trust, that you can get information from and know that, okay, this is this is coming from a good place. This is coming from a trusted source, is is the first step and and a big step. So I mean, that's definitely, definitely something to check out. So I appreciate that. I definitely appreciate that info and I will be looking at that.

SPEAKER_04 24:39

So we're gonna upgrade Assassin's Tips' little AI um modules and doing things for us. She's like, no, don't do look at her face. I love it. I love her face because you like look at it this way, like hosting platforms 15 years ago. What do you think? Like people are like, what? Who I know.

SPEAKER_01 24:59

I mean I'm getting ready to look. I have to write a video actually within the next 48 hours. I have to write a video that talks about the power of AI for creating content. And one specific thing that I'm gonna talk about is podcasting. If you think about the workflows that you can use when it comes to your podcast, holy cow! So let me see if I can pull up my list because I just did a whole repurposing class or workshop last week for my group. Um, we talked about my process, and this is just um through this is for my video podcast. There's 10 steps, and much of it is being done by AI. So one of the things that I do right after I do my live stream each and every week is I go to a site called Taja, T-A-J-A.ai.

SPEAKER_06 25:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

I go there and I just pop in my YouTube link and then it spits out for me an SEO friendly title, description, and pulls the chapters. Okay, little in minutes. It can even create thumbnails for me. It can do, it's they've just started a feature where they actually allow you to clip it as well, but I don't like that feature just yet. And I don't really love the thumbnails either. But the rest of it, having the tags, having the title, having the description, I'll be SEO ready and having chapters.

SPEAKER_04 26:22

Because let me tell you, I would spend hours doing my SEO for my webpage when I used to bake. And I was just like, oh, this is killing me, smalls. And I was like, I could have imagined if that was my like my livelihood, I would have to spend days doing it.

SPEAKER_01 26:38

But I can and he's gonna be able to do that. Does it work for show notes as well? Yeah, okay. Let me show you what I use for showing.

SPEAKER_05 26:45

The titles are easy.

SPEAKER_01 26:46

I'm gonna show you something that will do all the things I just mentioned.

SPEAKER_05 26:50

Okay, I might look in one tool.

SPEAKER_01 26:52

It's called Cast Magic. Did y'all see the Cast Magic people at Podfest? No, I don't think so. Okay, so Cast Magic is who I'm writing this video for because I'm gonna have it on their YouTube channel. And they've been on my show. I want to show you. Am I able to share?

SPEAKER_05 27:10

And I know this may not go out into the the you know sphere of I don't I don't think I have any controls against it, but I mean So go forth and try. Go for it.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

Oh, yeah, it says disable. But what you're able to do maybe is there's a little arrow next to share screen. Click on that and see if it will give me access. I think you have to just you're the host, Lisa, so you try your end.

SPEAKER_05 27:33

I'm I'm I'm trying, but I don't know. She's like, I'm trying, I'm trying.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

And if not, that's okay. I can just tell you about it. But it is um it's an amazing tool. And I just pulled it up so that I can kind of show you what it's capable of doing. But if not, we will just talk it through.

SPEAKER_05 27:56

Yeah, I don't I don't know how to do that.

SPEAKER_01 28:00

So next to your share screen, do you see like a little tiny arrow on the right?

SPEAKER_04 28:05

No, we don't have the the I don't have it. It just tells it allows me to share my screen, but it doesn't give me any settings to share the screen.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

Okay. We're not gonna worry about it. I'm gonna tell you about it.

SPEAKER_05 28:16

Okay, so it does have the little up arrow.

SPEAKER_01 28:19

Okay, so for you because you're the host.

SPEAKER_05 28:21

It says one participant can share at a time or multiple participants can't. That's the one. Okay. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:33

Let me see. Okay. Hey, it's let me do it. Okay, okay, so I'm just gonna show you this real quick, okay? And I promise I won't take forever.

SPEAKER_05 28:44

This is gonna take as long as you need it. We are like really appreciative.

SPEAKER_01 28:49

No, it's this is cool stuff because apps and and all this kind of stuff, this is like my happy place. So Cast Magic has saved me ridiculous amounts of time, y'all. And I got it on App Sumo as a lifetime deal. So I just had to pay for it once and now I have it. But a lot of people are recognizing the power of this thing, and they they actually, I think they weren't at Podfest, but they're going to be potentially at the next one. And a lot of people mentioned them in their talks. So here's what I want you to see. So this is, for instance, my Stream Like a Boss TV channel. And so as I if I come in here and I want to import a particular video, what I can do is just simply type in the YouTube channel or YouTube video watch link, right? And when I submit that, it's going to end up then giving me a couple of things. It's going to give me the full transcript of that video. And let me go back because it's going to do something else. It's also numerically, because that's what I've chosen for this particular workspace, it's numerically assigning it to episode numbers. So season three, blah, blah, blah, right? Okay. So whether it has one person or multiple speakers, when I come in here, what will end up happening is it's going to transcribe the entire podcast, video podcast, live stream, whichever one you're doing. And then when you go into AI content, you can program it to use different prompts so that it now is giving me any of this content that I want in minutes. So it's giving me the YouTube description. It can give me uh alternate titles that are SEO friendly, keywords, a time-stamped overview.

unknown 30:37

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 30:37

It can give me a clip finder, which I use to create quotes on Canva. You see what I'm saying? Like this is happening in minutes. It can give me a whole email newsletter just based on that one episode.

SPEAKER_04 30:52

Lisa. Lisa is our de facto producer, editor, everything. This is gonna save you hours of time.

SPEAKER_05 31:00

This is definitely something that I'm excited looking into. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 31:04

I don't even do the work that you do for it.

SPEAKER_05 31:06

Like, how accurate are the transcripts?

SPEAKER_01 31:11

Super accurate.

SPEAKER_05 31:12

And if there's an error, can you change it? Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

And here, let me in case is this better?

SPEAKER_05 31:19

Oh, whatever dark light. Yeah, it's fine. It's fine.

SPEAKER_01 31:23

Okay, did you prefer dark? I didn't know.

SPEAKER_05 31:24

No, no, it doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

Okay. So the reason why I love this thing is because you can also go into magic chat right here and you can say, Hey, I want I want to create another prompt for this specific episode. And if you love the prompt, you can create it. You can go ahead and say, Okay, well, I want to use that prompt for all the episodes in this workspace. So I want to have a blog post for everything that I put into this area. It also has an iPhone app. So you can actually download the iPhone app and you can just talk into your iPhone app and it's going to transcribe it and pull it into the system and do all the things that I just showed you it can do.

SPEAKER_05 32:03

Yeah, that is so cool.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

You can use it for meetings, you can use it for courses and webinars. So I have a webinar here, for instance. I just put put pulled into this one, and you can give it different prompts for the different types of content you're creating. I wanted it to create a wet worksheet for me to use for that course. So it's giving me information and ideas on what I can do for that. It's when I tell y'all this is gonna be a game changer for you and for your podcast, I'm not joking.

SPEAKER_05 32:33

Like I yeah, I see. How long did it take you to learn the you know the program?

SPEAKER_01 32:40

There's not now for me, and I won't say me, I'm gonna say I learned things very quickly, but I'd say the average person, because I have a lot of folks who are juggling a bunch of other things, and maybe they're they're not as quick to learn when it comes to tech. And many of them are using this and started using it within a few days. So there are learning opportunities. They have a very active group. I think it's on Slack, a very active group on Slack. So they have constant office hours every week. As a matter of fact, you can schedule an onboarding call down here. Okay, yeah. So people, there is support for us.

SPEAKER_04 33:19

I'm excited. I Lisa, we're getting you into the 21st century.

SPEAKER_05 33:26

I'm looking at this, like, wait, I actually want to look at this. I actually want to check this out.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

So I'm gonna find the one. Let me see. I have one where I have a bunch of different people that were on this show. Let's see, was it live stream summer school? Yep, we had a panel. So we had a panel, and I had all these different speakers that were assigned to it. And then I just told it, okay, this person is strict, this person is Robert, this person is whoever, right? And so it goes through and it assigns each of the voices.

SPEAKER_05 33:59

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 34:00

Y'all when I'm serious, I'm not joking. Like, you need to check this out, and they're adding new features all the time.

SPEAKER_05 34:10

This is really cool.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

Yeah, no, this is so I'm gonna show you my workflow.

SPEAKER_05 34:17

So this is all for after, right? Like, so you you record, you create your content, and then this is this is everything after the creation.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Yes. So this all this stuff is after because I am creating now, mind you, if you use the iOS app, you probably could just record to your phone the whole entire podcast if you wanted to do that. But of course, for sound quality, that might not work out great. Um but I use this primarily because I'm taking bits and pieces of this and turning it into other content. So I kind of just gave you a really quick high level of my repurposing plan. But I go a lot of this stuff is pulled from Cast Magic, which you see right here. And that's how I repurpose everything after I'm done with my live streams. And as of last night, I decided I'm gonna go ahead and use Substack instead of the blog because I don't love my Go High Level blog, but I'll be using Substack to put um to repurpose old guest interviews because I have some really powerful and cool people and great content. Gonna turn that into an audio podcast only. So, yeah, there's tons of ways to use AI. It's just a matter of figuring out what's the right tool, how much time do I want to take to learn it?

SPEAKER_05 35:41

And then I love learning, I really do enjoy learning new things. I guess for me, my fear is will I be able to? Will I be able to put it in practice? Would I be able to properly apply?

SPEAKER_00 35:58

Yes, Lisa.

SPEAKER_05 35:59

You know what I mean? Like thank you.

SPEAKER_00 36:03

I can already tell her she's a smart cookie. She she knows she can do that. Thank you.

SPEAKER_05 36:07

It's like, you know, at the risk of sounding, you know, immodest, it's not that I don't think that I'm intelligent. It's that do I think that the time spent learning and adapting to something new right is worth the cost versus what I already know. And is the time better spent just kind of following that same path?

SPEAKER_01 36:37

Give me a couple of your steps in your process right now.

SPEAKER_05 36:41

Oh, so okay, so we record, we usually record via Zoom, and when we just record our episodes, it is us recording, us going off on tangents, us getting back to focus, us unfocused, you know, back and forth ring for about three hours. You know, okay, be as we catch up. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 37:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 37:02

So then I take the audio file. For us, it's usually just audio. We record on video because it's I like to see when I record. Um, and I edit in garage band. And then I what are you editing? Our audio.

SPEAKER_01 37:22

Okay. So specifically, like, are you taking out pieces of it's it's two separate tracks.

SPEAKER_05 37:28

It's audio file for each of us, and then just removing like coughs or you know, dog barks or the canvas. I am doing this manually, yes.

SPEAKER_01 37:39

How much time is that taking you on average?

SPEAKER_05 37:43

Uh if I do start to finish without interruptions for about every hour of our recording, it probably takes me about two hours to edit. Uh at least. And then I add in our intro, outro, if there's any other kind of clips I put in and do that. After the file is done. Oh, you know, and of course I remove our tangents and anything that we shouldn't say for public assumption. But if we don't want to be canceled before we've made it or like we want to keep our friends and family, friends and family, you know. Not necessarily. You know, I want to stay married, you know. Um then I run it through ophonic to clean it up a little bit. Write some show notes and you know, drop it into our host.

SPEAKER_01 38:44

How long does it take you to do the show notes?

SPEAKER_05 38:48

Uh show notes are not that long. We don't usually do a lot of show notes. And as I am editing, when I hear something that I want to highlight, so to speak, I'll just make a note on a either write into uh we use Buzzsprout, so I'll open up the editing page and I'll either just drop it in there or write it on a piece of paper. And then so show notes take me, I mean, from start to finish, like even if I have to think about them or edit them or whatever, it's never more than 10 minutes. It's usually like two minutes to five minutes. Um yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 39:33

So the show notes are like so the two hours, I'm seeing two opportunities that could cut down your time dramatically if you just try. You just have to experiment with it. I mean, am I right, Agnes? I need you back.

SPEAKER_04 39:47

I completely concur. I didn't realize how much time you spent to editing.

SPEAKER_05 39:52

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 39:53

No, it's I mean, I knew it was a long time, but I didn't realize how much of your time. If I wouldn't realize how much of your time was editing, I wouldn't, I I would have got you on, we would have figured something out sooner. Like we're gonna play with something else. We gotta play with something other than we gotta play with no new toys. I didn't know what toys to play with, yeah, but something would have to be at least uh so look, I'm gonna give you a couple that you may want to just do a trial and just see.

SPEAKER_01 40:18

Um, first of all, yeah, that is way too much time on editing, especially if you're talking about removing ums and ahs, because the script alone will just take them out. You just press a button and they're gone. So the filler words, if there's anything that you want to program it to say, hey, I don't want these words to be in there, we'll take it out and it still will sound supernatural. And I don't mean supernatural, but literally that can work too, though.

SPEAKER_04 40:46

I might know hey, okay with that.

SPEAKER_01 40:48

Okay. So the script is one. Um, another one, and this is one I used that was another lifetime deal because I paid for it one time. Time bolt.

SPEAKER_05 40:58

Okay, I've never even heard of that one.

SPEAKER_01 41:00

Oh my God, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous when I tell you because it gives you the visual of the sounds, right? The audio waveform. And so it will remove ums and ahs quickly. It will also take out a lot of dead space. So depending on how you've programmed it, like how much time do I want a filler? If you've got sound that goes down, it does all of that. So it removed does silence detection in minutes, not even minutes, seconds.

SPEAKER_05 41:26

Yeah, because we are guilty of that too. Sometimes, as like I'm checking my notes and I'm like, okay, give me a second. Let me just make sure I didn't miss anything. And you know, then there's three minutes of or it's like, hold on, I gotta, yeah, I gotta go pee, you know? Yeah, we gotta refill our coming.

SPEAKER_01 41:42

Hold on a second. I know I'm sipping. Hold on. Right, right. It takes out all of the extra fluff, it takes the filler words out. So either descript or time bolt would be magical for you in terms of editing. I don't have time to edit, I don't want to take time to edit a lot. So I'm using tools like that to help cut down on the time. And you mentioned there are certain times where you're like, I need to take out some of these sections. You can quickly and easily, easily go through and see visually, okay, where I just said this, let me cut that whole part out.

SPEAKER_04 42:15

And it I love the visual part because I can imagine you have to listen to everything, you have to listen to it, and then cut it.

SPEAKER_05 42:22

Right. Well, there is the sound wave, but the so for me, I mean, maybe I'm I'm just not familiar with other programs.

SPEAKER_01 42:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 42:32

On Garage Band, you do see the sound wave and you can kind of zoom in or zoom out.

SPEAKER_01 42:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 42:38

Uh, and then the the bar that marks the place that you're at. You know, so then once I hear what it is that I don't want, as soon as that part finishes, you know, pause, make a cut, and then I can go back to where it started of the part that I want to remove, make another cut, and then just delete.

SPEAKER_01 43:03

I'm gonna see if I can pull up time bolt real quick for you so you can see how quick and easy.

SPEAKER_04 43:07

I'm making mental notes. That way you don't have to go back and listen to this. Well, I will have to go.

SPEAKER_01 43:12

Oh, I guess I won't, but she's still going to because that's her happy place. That's where she's been, and I get that I do, but I also see that you have ample opportunity to be able to be more efficient with your time so you can do other things that you want to do with that time. You could make cupcakes, you can do all the things, whatever the heck you want to do. You can do that all the things, you can do all of that. So I'm just gonna pull in this like two-minute, this three-minute video. Um, so you can kind of see how this works. This is time bolt, and so when it gets pulled in, notice it's taking out all this dead space. So anything that's in red is dead space that I don't need. And it cuts it nicely, so it's not gonna be like these those awkward cuts. You see how people do those cuts where it's like obvious they're cutting.

SPEAKER_05 44:03

And that's why I feel like it takes me so much time sometimes because I'm zooming out as much as it will allow me to, so that I can cut it in the exact right spot so that it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 44:16

Yeah, and if I said, you know, look, I listen to this and I'm like, you know what? I don't even want that part. I'm just gonna put a line right there. I'm gonna say split. That let's get rid of that whole section and keep going.

SPEAKER_05 44:29

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 44:30

And then just export it and it's done. And I mean, like, literally, it's gonna it could here's the um check.

SPEAKER_02 44:39

Oh, they have a they have a button just for the ums.

SPEAKER_01 44:42

You just click that and they're gone. You know what I'm saying? So, so yes, so when we talk about going back to the original reason why this like was so exciting to me to get into with you, is because I know we get fearful and afraid of some of this tech stuff, but oh my god, we can do so much more now with our time. I can go walk the dog, I can go read a book, I can go have my nails done. Whatever it is I want to do, all because instead of it taking me hours to do a repetitive task that I have to do, now it's 15 minutes or less.

SPEAKER_05 45:20

Right, right. And I will say that sometimes while I'm working, I'll listen to the episodes because it's just me and my computer and and I'm listening and I can hear for oh that should come out. Oh, I don't like the way this flows. I don't know. And sometimes I'll just make a note, you know, and then I'll get back to it later if I can't always edit while I'm actually working, but but the listening to it is easy, that's the easy part, and then it's like okay, well, mental note. I gotta take off this part and I gotta remember remember to do this, and you know, and so then you find what works, and for me, that's what works, but it sure sounds like this.

SPEAKER_01 46:10

But what if two hours could turn into 30 minutes? 30 minutes.

SPEAKER_05 46:14

I know that would be amazing. That really would be because to me it's it's also a lot of the stress of oh my goodness, I gotta make sure that I give myself time to edit because we gotta get this.

SPEAKER_04 46:29

And also, because it's uh remote easily is remotable now, you don't have to do it by yourself.

SPEAKER_01 46:37

You can get help.

SPEAKER_04 46:39

Hello, it was like I can't help you when it's like it's just it was kind of stationary, right? If that for lack of better term, yeah. Hello, that could be useful once.

SPEAKER_01 46:50

And the show notes too. The show notes. I know you said that it only takes you 10 minutes, maybe at the most, but just imagine if you just pop in your YouTube, well, whatever your link is gonna be, because it's audio, pop your link in there or upload the file, and it spits out because that's what you told it you want for every episode. It spits out show notes, and all you've got to do then is simply read through it, say, no, I want to add this. No, I don't like that part. Let me reword it, or even ask the system. I've gone in and I've said, I don't like this. I need you to modify it and make it more conversational. That's I want this to be more fun, I want this to be whatever, and it changes it, and then I'm just reading through because you still do need to read it through, but it's giving you a track to run on, so all you're doing is just simply tweaking.

SPEAKER_05 47:39

I'm actually really excited. I'm excited that you're excited.

SPEAKER_01 47:43

Yeah, you know. I'm sending y'all my affiliate link right now.

SPEAKER_05 47:46

Look, send it, send it.

SPEAKER_01 47:48

Because actually, I think you'll get it.

SPEAKER_05 47:50

We will gladly add it.

SPEAKER_01 47:52

I'm gonna see if he has um, I'll check for YouTube, but I think that there might also be a way, like a special discount code. So I'll find that for you.

SPEAKER_05 48:02

Because part of my fear was okay, well, I'm gonna use some of these services and they're going to help me edit. They're going to remove the things that I don't want in the episode, they're going to generate a transcript, but if but if they're not accurate or they're not clean with their cuts and and everything, then am I gonna have to now go back in and then do the work over? Am I gonna now have to review the episode again? Am I going to have to review the transcript again? Am I so that's I think a lot of my fear.

SPEAKER_04 48:40

So what I see is you have these programs doing it for you in 30 minutes, and you're spending what two to five minutes going over to clean up if anything. So you have what 35 minutes as opposed to two hours.

SPEAKER_05 48:52

Right. Right. Well, well, if they work, and that's what I'm hearing, is that hers. It works. It works. Right.

SPEAKER_01 49:00

I wouldn't use if it if it didn't work. Okay, well, that's the thing about this stuff, is ever since generative AI was publicized, because this stuff has been around much longer than most people think. It's just that now it's been made publicly accessible to the point to where it's affordable for the average person to be able to take advantage of it. And the thing is, because it is out there, there's this race against time between co-piloted Microsoft, uh, Claude AI is another one, Chat GPT, all of these different people or groups are racing to be like the one that people use. So all of these tools like Cast Magic and some other ones that I think are really, I think highly of, are um leveraging the fact that there's all this competition out here. They want to be good, they want to be accurate, they want to be fast, otherwise, you're not gonna use them. You'll go to the next guy.

SPEAKER_06 49:57

Right.

SPEAKER_01 49:58

So Cast Magic has put a lot of support behind the work that they do. They are have a very active community as far as discussion and asking questions and asking for new features. And I am just, I'm amazed. Even the meeting system that I use, I don't use Zoom anymore, I use sessions. And sessions automatically can transcribe my calls while we're in them. It can, of course, do the recording, but then after, immediately after, I can click a button and it's going to summarize everything into takeaways. There's just a number of ways that AI is like a part of everything we're doing right now, even if you didn't know that's what's happening. It's be it's the underpinnings of a lot of the stuff that we use online right now.

SPEAKER_05 50:46

So that's fascinating. I I guess I just never really considered how much it could help, you know, how useful it really could be. I'm excited to try some of these things though. Yeah, yeah, clearly.

SPEAKER_01 51:01

We can't be like, oh, I'm not, because I remember one of my um clients for a minute was like, Well, I'm just never gonna use it because I'm scared of it. It's gonna taste my privacy is at risk. She was saying all these things. And then when she started hearing the other community members and how much they were getting done, like, oh, I I created a hundred pieces of content, you know, for the next they were doing all these amazing things with this tool. And she thought, okay, I'm missing out. Now I'm gonna fall behind. Because while I'm over here trying to hire 20 people to do social media management for me, this person over here bought this one thing, right? And they got 90 days worth of content in an hour. So I think we just have to figure out how we can make it work because it's here. So, how do we make it work for us, just like with anything? The bad actor's gonna be there and they're gonna figure things out too.

SPEAKER_04 51:52

Regardless of the situation, whether we don't use it or not, they're gonna be here. Yep.

SPEAKER_05 51:57

Because you could have regardless of what it is, true. There's always going to be something trying to get you, someone or something.

SPEAKER_04 52:07

Good luck trying to take my my identity. I wish you well. If you find anything, let me know. Um, trust me, no one wants to be me.

SPEAKER_05 52:16

But to hear a first hand account of from someone who doesn't have a dog in the fight, right? Like you're not, you don't work for these companies. So you're not trying to sell it. So just to hear you say, Listen, this is what I use and I love it, that means more to me than any presentation. Any commercial, any commercial, right? Big I hearing you tell me about this website or this program makes me really now want to say, I want to give that a shot.

SPEAKER_04 52:53

And it's not just so you're actually for me personally, it's the enthusiasm, the passion. You're like, this is great, this is not for you to do. This allow me to do so much for me and what I want to do.

SPEAKER_05 53:04

And the passion behind it, and seeing your success and and how you have, you know, used that and manipulated that for your benefit. And I use manipulate not as a bad word, but you know, and then you still are passionate about it. It's like, no, no, no. I I want to I wanna do that too. I want to try. I want I wanna I want to. You converted another one. I'm so glad.

SPEAKER_01 53:34

Um, I really want to try this stuff now. That makes my heart. Look, I was years a couple years ago, I was trying to create this affiliate program, y'all. Actually, I've been doing it for a few years now. Let me go ahead and be transparent and honest because my community was like, Well, we need a better affiliate program. We need, you know, give us promotional graphics, give us copy, you know, give us all of this. And I kept saying, Yeah, I'm gonna put that center together. All I had for them were links for them to share. About 40 Friday, Thursday, and Friday, I took a few hours. I used a tool called Um, is it Marketing Magic, which is another AI tool? Right? I used this tool, and I'm not selling you on it, okay, but I am saying I went into this tool and I said, I just I need to create an affiliate marketing kit. And I was able to spit out graphics for them. Um, I was able to create email captions, social media swipe files. Wow. Finally, so they're like, oh my God, she actually did it. Like, like, yeah, I did it. It was just me.

SPEAKER_04 54:45

Like, I guess I'm just like, wait, when do we get to this point where we need that kit? Because I was blocking, like I said, we do our research. We're not, we we don't try to, we don't go in here like completely ass out. We like, we want to know what we're talking about, right? Right. When do we get to that point where we need this? And when we do need this, how the hell am I gonna do this?

SPEAKER_01 55:05

Like, how you're gonna send me a note and you're gonna say, Tanya, hey, are you doing one of those content hacks days where we can talk about I'm gonna be googling your YouTube?

SPEAKER_04 55:14

Like, okay, okay, go back and where did she because I know she talked about it at one point. Let me go find it.

SPEAKER_01 55:19

Reach out. Look, I do live. Here's the the balancing act is this, because everybody does have all these videos and audio podcasts and all that stuff. So the community I created, I wanted to make sure I was always in it. Like we have live interactive coaching calls. We have co-working days, multiple co-working days a month, where they get on and they're like, hey, I'm trying to do this, I'm trying to do that, I need a resource. So we spend time actually getting content strategy done. This is what we do in Stream Boss Academy. And the thing about it is we're spending that time together answering each other's questions. And sure, I'm kind of like the main person, but the goal is for us to connect on a human level, like to really be talking to each other and not just rely on YouTube videos. Right or a Google search. Because we have each other, and just like we're talking right now, it gives us the chance to say, okay, I really hated this thing. This sucks. Like I tried this. Oh, this is great. You know, so we all are weighing in about different tools and things that we've used, what works, what doesn't work. So there has to be still that humanity, plus the technology that makes things go.

SPEAKER_04 56:37

Yeah. Because it's hard to do to get that technology and embrace it without the human touch, without the this is what worked for me, this is how it didn't work for me, and this is how I made it work for me. Like, ah, yeah. And just talking to someone, and this one doesn't work this didn't work, and just reading and just listening and being lectured to or watching a video. Sometimes the video doesn't answer the silly question you feel that you might have. You're like, oh, I didn't have this this question popped up. How do I get this question answered from this video? That's the live. And I love the fact that when I was doing my little stalking of you um research, I'm like, oh, this lives, like this is amazing. Like most people don't have the live aspect into their into their brand.

SPEAKER_01 57:24

Yeah. And I recognize that that in some cases is a disadvantage for me because the produced, the highly produced pre-recorded stuff, that's what some of the feeds do. They uplift more. But the lives to me are the personal engagement. That's where I build community, that's where I build trust. And that's where people are like, hey, if you gave this much to me in a one-hour live stream on a Thursday night, how much more could I get if I was a part of your Stream Bosses Academy? And I'm like, you're right. Because I don't divvy that off to somebody else, like, oh, you're gonna work with my mentor. No, I'm sitting in the room, I'm in the co-working space, I'm creating this experience for my people so that they know, hey, this is a safe space for us to talk and to ask questions and to get answers to things that otherwise we may never have heard of. And we're not paying $10,000 for a program to do that.

SPEAKER_05 58:23

Right.

SPEAKER_01 58:23

So yeah, I mean, it's to me, it is truly about humans interacting with humans to leverage tech as a tool, not as a crutch.

SPEAKER_05 58:39

Yeah, I like I like that. I like that. I think the crutch part was kind of scary for you, like for me, yes. For for me, I need I don't want to say control, but I need to feel like the AI is a tool and not taking over for you.

SPEAKER_00 59:07

It's not Skynet, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 59:08

Well that okay, it's not Skynet, but can I can I tell everyone how many times you and I will like all the time, you know, say something, and and I get a text from her and it's like hashtag Skynet, and I'm like it's true.

SPEAKER_01 59:26

That's the first thing that was out of my mouth is Skynet when I started hearing about people using it.

SPEAKER_04 59:31

I was like, oh great, did we not pay attention? I never I mean it's going, it was gonna happen. And honestly, for that movie to come out, it was kind of honestly, it was already in the process, in my opinion. Something was already worked back in the 80s. Let's be real. Yeah, it was already someone's mind to begin with, and it's gonna happen. Yep. And I'm just like, whatever. Like, they're like a little take about you didn't like your driver's license, your personal, everything's available anyway at this point.

SPEAKER_05 59:59

But what about that meme that that I sent you? And it's so funny, right? Because Agnes and I have we are 44 years old. We have known each other since we are eight years old. Oh my gosh. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:12

Oh, that happened in 20 years. No.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:16

So exactly to my point, right? Oh my god, that one. Yes, and so we're like, oh yeah, we've we've been friends for like 36 years, but then and then you know, she's always joking, and she's just like, Oh yeah, but that's funny because like, you know, we're only like 21 years old.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:33

Literally, literally, literally.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:36

I'm on Instagram just scrolling, whatever, zoning out, probably laying in bed, whatever. Come across one that says, How have we been friends for 36 years, but we're only 21 years old?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:50

The exact numbers, the exact random numbers, and you're like, uh, right.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:55

You're like, I didn't did you write this? Because I didn't write this. Like, this is exactly what you always say.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:01

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:04

Yeah, I just want to be just give me credit and send me my royalties. That's all. I'm like, like, listen, you want to listen to me speak? Fine. I need to be paying me. That's okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:16

And she's like, yep, Skynet.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:17

And I'm like, see, that is listening.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:21

They're listening.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:22

I just figured there's better people to listen to and listen to than us, than me, personally.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:27

Like I say that as if I don't have like oh yes all over my house.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:35

No, yeah, mine is sitting right here, and she's always listening.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:39

This one right over there, so you know, never mind Siri and you know, but Google, all of them.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:47

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:48

You know, so I say that as if I don't have all these devices all over my house. I mean, I do, right? Then I wonder why they're targeting me.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:57

Like, I'm okay with like upgrading to where I'm voice activated, like, yeah, turn the air conditioner off, lock the door. I'm okay with that because I'm not important enough someone to want to kill me via my computer. Like, no one, I'm not that important. I'm not a CEO of a company, I'm not like some kind of m evil mastermind. I'm not that important. So I'm pretty sure no one's gonna use it to kill me. I'm okay with like I'm not gonna take me out with it. So, worst case, like I lose my voice and I can't get my door unlocked. That's what I'm worried about.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:29

But yeah, yeah, that could happen right there.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:31

Yeah, we have we have the door with the automatic lock code. So I never have to have a key. I walk out of my house and it's like, oops.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:41

Wait too when a push button called. Like you're really like, wait, wait, do I have to remember?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:48

Oh my goodness, really?

SPEAKER_05 1:02:50

I I have no clue because I haven't used a key to enter my house in I don't know, like almost eight years.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:01

Wow.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:02

But if the battery on the door dies, then you're in trouble. I'm sleeping in my car. But I got it to have my keyboard. That's the only key that I have is my car key. That's it. That's the only key that I actually have three keys on my keychain. It's my car key, the key to my mom's house. And um if I do work for my mom, it's the key to like a lockbox. That's it. Not one of those keys will open my own house. I can open up other things, not my house. So if the if if the lock dies, I'm in trouble.

SPEAKER_04 1:03:36

But wait till you get a push-button car. You're really not gonna have to know where your bomb is. You're in times of like, where are my keys?

SPEAKER_05 1:03:41

Do I have my keys?

SPEAKER_04 1:03:42

I have to have my keys because I drove home. So I have to keep somewhere in this huge ass person of mine.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:47

Well, I know I I know I come in the door and I put my keys in a certain spot. Yeah, so my keys are are there, but because I don't need a key to enter my house, I I try to travel light. So when I had the key to my door, I had it on my keychain, but then we moved. We moved in 2020. So when we moved here, I never put the the new key on my keychain.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:17

Okay, yeah. So she's saying that when you get that push-button car, you're not gonna have a key at all.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:26

No keys.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:26

Other than your mom's lockbox in her house.

unknown 1:04:30

Yep.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:32

I mean, I don't lose my keychain, it's just that I never bother to put the key on it. So where the key is, I it it's probably like in the garage. I don't know, even I shouldn't even that's funny. Well I'm at it. Why don't I just tell you my social security and open the door?

SPEAKER_01 1:04:50

Tell Alexa.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:52

The last four digits of my social security number and my credit card are as follows. Get your pens ready. Right. Hold on, and my mother's made a name, you know.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:01

Yeah, right. I would like to like back to that. Good luck in anyone. Like, really? You want to pick of all the people, you want to pick one of us? Good luck. I can't promise you you or someone won't come find you.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:14

I really don't know if this is like I'm constantly ordering like pizza or Chinese food on you know on over the phone. And they're like, oh, how would you like to pay? I'm like, oh yeah, use my card. And then if I order from the pizzeria, the card number is already on file. So I just have to confirm the last four. If I order from the Chinese restaurants, here I am just reciting my my card number.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:39

And then A Alexia XA is listening to it.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:42

She hears everything.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:43

But they already have your card number because you know you have the prime and the assistant's already in there.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:47

AI is coming to get me. You know, no, you're like here in the city.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:52

They got all of that. They got all of that already.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:54

I know. That's it. Just embrace it. I know. Like between the easy pass, the metro card, the driver's license, the passport, and the little people who will not be named assistant over there. They already know everything. I I don't know why I act like they don't. Is it the same?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:14

I'm right here. I'm right here. I'm not going in here.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:17

You got my IP address. You got everything. You got my cell phone. Come on, you already know.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:22

Look, I tracked down somebody who actually did try to. Still, they stole my um cards from an airport. We were at an airport, and the next day, both my debit and my credit card, which were in RFID protected wallet covers inside of my wallet, inside of my purse. But they stole and they were using both of the numbers. And ultimately, so the banks they're cool with like helping you with the credit card. With your debit card, they don't care.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:51

It's a lot harder.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:52

It's way harder. So I took it upon myself to track this person down. And so every time something would pop up where there was a purchase, then I would contact that store and I would say, I want a copy of the invoice because I didn't make this purchase.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:20

Love that.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:22

They were in Quebec, Canada. Oh so I was like, okay, um, to my bank bank who was like, Well, we can't find them. I'm like, well, here they are. This is their information right here.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:32

Like, I found them for you.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:34

Yeah, that's the only way I was able to get the money back on that debit card.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:40

So a year and a half from the case. I told you guys she was a badass. Yeah, no, you guys didn't believe me.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:45

I told you.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:47

My Facebook got hacked, and they kept, you know, just whatever. Facebook is investigating. Facebook is investigating. Then they're like, oh, you violated community terms, we're deleting your account. I'm like, dude, I have had this Facebook account since you needed a college email to create it. I barely even post. What have I violated? Anyhow. So they allowed me to download all of my stuff before they removed it for good. Because I just really wanted like my pictures and stuff, you know. Yeah. You know, I I used it as like a photo dump for my kids. But they also included all the IP addresses from everywhere that was logged in. So I started doing the same thing, but it was in like England. And I'm like, okay, well, I can't, you know, I can't go.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:34

Go knock on someone's door.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:37

But a couple of years ago, when we first moved out here, I saw a charge on uh one of my credit cards, and it was like a big purchase for at Walmart. It was like one of those like storage sheds for the yard. And I'm like, I didn't buy that. So I'm asking my husband, I'm like, did you buy this? And you know, maybe it went on my car by accident, whatever. He was like, No. So I got the information from Walmart. And I'm I moved from New York to New Jersey. I moved from New York City to New Jersey, and the person who placed the order had it delivered to their house. So the address was there and everything. And it was upstate New York.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:21

That's crazy.

SPEAKER_05 1:09:22

No, not upstate New York. It was it was Long Island. It was like somewhere out in Long Island. So I'm like, I should just go over there and pick up my stuff. I should just go over there because, right? It says what day is gonna be delivered. It was like a three hour, it was like way past like where even Angie lives. Like it was deep, deep Long Island. It was like a three-hour ride from where I live. So I was like, but I should just go over there and sit there and wait. And my aunt was like, that's so dangerous, but I would have gone with it. What are they gonna do? Call the cops and say I'm stealing their property when it's on my credit card. I pay for it. It's it's and they were like, no, don't do that. So but I went to the police station, I filed a report, I showed them everything, and I was like, look, like they stole my identity, they ordered stuff, and this is where it's going to be delivered. Can you go? And they're like, that's out of our jurisdiction, yeah. So you're useless. So like I should just go over there with like my bat and then call the cops when I get there.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:25

By the way, I'm about to I'm about to fuck somebody up.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:27

Okay, right. Like maybe I should have said that. Maybe they would have paid attention, but I was so mad. I was like, Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:35

Like, I'm handing you all of the information, and it's so it's happening so much, though, Lisa, because that was a thing. Because I tried to report my situation too, and they were having stuff shipped to my house.

SPEAKER_00 1:10:47

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:48

So I don't even know what that was about. If somebody was trolling me or what that was. Yeah, that's that's that was actually a separate incident from this one with Quebec, but they were having stuff shipped to my house. So they might want to see if if the card worked, they might have wanted to see that, but it was it was just ongoing for like a week. There was stuff coming every day. So every day I would have to grab it and take it and go back to the post office and say, I didn't open this, this is not mine, return it, you know, so that I could get all of these different stores to stop. Yeah, it was. I don't know why people just come up with this kind of these scams. Like, why? Just why?

SPEAKER_04 1:11:28

If they did this for good, scare her again with the AI now. I think we're gonna scare her again. No more technology is not AI. That's no technology. You're like, wait, this is too easy now. Imagine with the AI with the container.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:39

Girl, nah, AI probably is more um is is less likely to do that kind of crap.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:46

I be able to actually find the person. I can find the scammers.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:51

Exactly. Hey AI, tell me where who wrote this? Right, like where did it come from? Nah. Don't be afraid. Well, I'm not even gonna say don't be afraid. I'm gonna say we just need to find the positive uses for us.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:08

That's exactly it.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:09

Yes, that's exactly what can this make my life easier? How can this make my life and the people who I work with? How can it make their lives easier? The people who are under my care, how does it make it easier for them? I mean, meal plans. I suck at making meal plans. I can go in there and say, hey, this is what my family likes to eat. My daughters are really picky, they don't like their food to touch, they ate this food or they love this food. Make me a meal plan for three days out of this, you know, for this coming week.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:41

I do like those. Like I have found some of those websites. I can't think of the names now, but where you just say, Oh, I don't know what I'm gonna make for dinner, but this is what I have in the house. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:12:51

I have a couple of apps that I do that with because I have a freezer full of food. Like, what do I do with it? Because I'm just my brain is shot.

SPEAKER_00 1:12:59

That's right.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:59

They and they give you the ideas and the things that you can make with within your ingredients, and I'm just like, okay, I love these. Because this is more travel easier.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:10

Look, travel plans. Hey, don't get her started. We're family, the F4.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:14

We we're getting next thing you know, next week I'll there'll be a plank ticket in my email box. Lisa has a bad habit of doing that.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:22

It wouldn't be the first time. Hey, you've done that to me too. So I have not sent you airline tickets. Yes, you did the first time I came out to Wisconsin. You sent me the ticket.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:32

I mean, but you knew it was happening. She did it, and I'm like, we're talking the phone. I get an email. I'm like, what the fuck? So that's the difference.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:41

I told you on our way, but you just didn't believe me.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:45

No, I really didn't. Sorry, but that is awesome. Now with AI, she could just do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:54

I'll be like, chat, chat GPT, please send Agnes a plane ticket.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:58

Yeah, you know, find the bl best plane ticket and the best, you know, four or five days. Yeah, it you can do all of that.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:07

Yeah, next thing you know, it's gonna be a plane ticket to like Tahiti in your inbox. That I would not be mad at you about.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:13

I know you would not be mad, and I'm not passing Jack. I'd be like, you know where I am? It's my passport.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:19

You know what you will be mad about though? The fact that I can't afford two tickets to Tahiti. I mean we are not going.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:28

Just make sure you get my middle name. So my my, you know, make sure my pony press has my full name for the TSA check in. Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:38

Her her and my sister have the same middle name. I will I will not soon be forgetting it. Is it spelled the same way? I think so.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:45

Cool, like the drink? No.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:49

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:50

With the U E instead of the A.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:52

Oh no, no, no. My sister is just like the drink.

SPEAKER_04 1:14:54

Okay. I'm gonna give out the whole government information. Yeah, I was waiting.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:59

I'm like, huh?

SPEAKER_04 1:15:00

People like how slughy again. Like the drink. How many names look like sound like the drink?

SPEAKER_05 1:15:05

Like, like I will not tell you what the drink is, but it typically has salt on the rim.

SPEAKER_00 1:15:10

Oh, okay, okay, okay, I got you.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:13

Mine is the old-fashioned southern version spelling. Yep, yep, yep, yep.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:19

Yeah. Mine is well, my uh my sister was for my grandmother whose name was Margot. And so it was just like a nickname of hers. So Margarita.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:32

Yeah. Well, you know. Actually, I want tacos and margaritas right now. That's what I'm kind of craving. That would be awesome. That's what I kind of want.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:41

I got a fridge full of salsa. You should come over. Sure. Let me just jump in my car and drive 14 hours.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:48

14 hours.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:48

Oh, geez. Oh, 14.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:50

Yeah, we're kind of long distance.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:53

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 1:15:54

But if I lived in if I lived with her, she would have we both would have been in Long Island with the bat.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:00

Thank you. Thank you. Someone who co-signs my crazy. I totally co-signed it.

SPEAKER_00 1:16:05

She would have been there for you. Actually, totally co-signed it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:08

I'm like, we get out of it. It's fine.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:13

She's ready. Okay. Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:15

To be fair, we've gone on those. We've gone on those kind of missions before the past. So not out of the mission. This would not be new. Okay. No, not at all.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:26

And you guys gotta keep the sleeve on the bat for protection.

SPEAKER_04 1:16:31

Take up no DNA.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:33

No, no. Let me tell you a tip. Because if you need to use your bat and somebody you're fighting someone and they try to get it, it slides off. They pull their ass, leave that. You keep your bat.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:49

Yeah. Don't mess with the Brooklyn girl. I just learned something new.

unknown 1:16:56

See?

SPEAKER_05 1:16:56

You could a sock works. You could, you know, just just so long as it's, you know, if you gotta fight someone. Listen, I gotta protect my dog, okay? Yeah. Somebody's gonna do it.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:06

You're gonna put that the dog. Your guard dog.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:10

She'll she'll be like, okay, somebody's here. Get the bag. I gotta protect her now. She's gonna deal her. It's it's like a running joke, right? I registered her as a support dog. And I I truly love having her near me. So it's it's not like just you know, a crock, right? But I joke because I'm like, you know, she's got the vest and everything. She's got the tag, the registration, the vest. I'm like, some days she wears the vest, but some days I have to wear the vest. I'm like some days I am her support person, you know. She is a 40-pound lap dog. Like she she will jump on my lap when there's like she's she's a pit mix.

SPEAKER_04 1:17:51

Okay. She got her DNA on the dog done.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:55

She is got like all the the pit bull anxiety, you know? Yeah. Like where they're like, they're very loyal to their person, but then everything else is like, oh scare.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:09

She has a big baby. We're big, we're a big dog family, so we love dogs. Um, we just fostered a German Shepherd. Yeah, that is one of my favorites.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:19

My daughter just had to re-home her German Shepherd.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:24

And luckily, she went to a home that we know, and she's happy with other German Shepherds, and she's happy, but I miss her. I miss her terribly my grandpuppy.

SPEAKER_00 1:18:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:18:35

But we weren't doing her, she wasn't, we weren't able to do her a service.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:38

It was it was best for her. That's a lot, it's a lot having a dog.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:41

Yeah, they have they need a lot of physical activity um and all of that. And and this particular one had just been through some trauma. We don't know exactly where he came from, but it was obvious that he had been through a lot. He was beautiful, dog, beautiful, but uh he was afraid of stairs, so he hated going up and down stairs. I mean, like, would not budge, and he's huge, so would not budge to go up the stairs or down, even with food, like trees didn't matter. He's like, Nope, nope, wow. Um, he was afraid of water. Well, not water if you're taking a bath, but if it was raining, he was like, No, I'm not going out there.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:20

Were the stairs were the stairs the ones where it's like slats, but like you could see through them? Because I've had okay, oh, because I've had dogs that will not do those.

SPEAKER_04 1:19:32

Yeah, I won't do those.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:33

So it was fully, it's fully carpeted, no nothing. But he it just seemed you could see his eyes changed, like there was something that somebody must have done. And so we he was adopted um a couple of days ago, but we didn't like the man when we brought him to the shelter to be adopted, and we were trying to tell the man, you know, about him, and you know, this is what Max is like. He likes watching Bluey, you know. We're telling him like he's chill because he was only a year old. This man was just not paying attention. He was on his phone. You could tell he was not really a dog lover, but all he was trying to tell us is, well, I I raised German shepherds before. And I thought, I think he's saying he's talking about like guard dogs he's trying to, he's thinking this is gonna be a ferocious dog, and we're trying to tell him, no, this baby is gentle, he's sweet, he's gonna be a toddler, he's gonna be a baby for the rest of his life. Yeah, yeah, but he took him and then brought him back a few hours later.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:36

That's a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:38

I'm glad though it was good, except for this. When we went to go back to get Max, he was a whole different dog.

SPEAKER_04 1:20:46

Are you kidding me?

SPEAKER_01 1:20:48

He was a whole different dog overnight. He came to the house, and that night he ended up biting at my 16-year-old, my youngest daughter. The damage he did over just in that few, just in a day. So we were heartbroken about that. Um we ended up having because the shelter rules were he does that, because he almost broke skin. There was there were whelps on the back of her thigh. And yeah, it was like night and day. I and I know it was his fault. And they said, hey, when he brought him back, he didn't even have his harness on or anything. He was like choking him like this with his hand on his neck. So I just wanted to. I mean, y'all, I'm sorry, I'm a little emotional, but it was it was it was rough.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:35

No, I don't blame you. So do we need to go get our bag and go down? I got it, I'm ready.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:41

We were ready to go to the man's house trust, but we couldn't because they couldn't give us his but they put him on the do not adopt list so he can't come back and get any more animals. So yeah, poor Max, he's in quarantine right now while they're checking him out to make sure he's okay, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:00

And then this dog, this poor dog has already obviously had some kind of trauma. I already had that, and now that man then added to it, and now whatever quarantine, whatever safe space is gonna add to it, everything is gonna add to it.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:16

You know, and I hope he felt safe with us, and now he is not safe, and that's the part that makes me really it makes me angry, but it also makes me very sad for him. Here, I'm gonna see if I can show you his picture. Yes, dog tax. I know, right? Let me see if it will let me share. There he is.

SPEAKER_04 1:22:43

Oh, you look like Shula did. Oh, you're so hair shown.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:47

He is a sweet baby.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:49

He is beautiful. Yeah, sweet love.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:54

I hope that he'll be okay, but I I don't know right now.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:59

When when um when we got our dog, she's about eight now. And we got her like from someone who's related to a family member. They somebody gave them the dog, they couldn't keep the dog, and then they're like, We don't, we need somebody to come and get the dog. So my husband and I were like, screw it, let's, you know. And he was like, Oh, she's like a pit German shepherd. And I was like, right up my alley, like two of like, you know, like the best dogs, right? So I think he swindled me because she's not German. I mean, I I I love her more than most of the other people here, but she's I I did, I did the doggy DNA test on her, and she is not one bit German Shepherd. She is, as I like to tell people, I'm like, she's half pit and she's half Asian. She's she her other half is equal parts Akita, Jindo, Husky, and Sharpe.

SPEAKER_06 1:24:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:09

So they're you know, like all Asian breeds. But she's smart, she's sweet, she's crazy, you know, she fits right in with the best. Like I said, some days I wear the vest. Someday she wears the vest, you know. But she she's she's right behind the computer right now, sleeping. And I have her, you know, I have to take her tag off so it doesn't, you know, because every time that she's like, What are you what are you doing? Like, what are you doing? So it's going, yeah. She's she's right behind wherever I am, that's where she is. So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:50

Yeah, we we like them. We we're dog people here.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:54

So we have cats too. They're they're around here somewhere, but it's nothing like a dog. I mean, I love animals. Like, I mean, if if I could have a llama, there'd be a llama sitting next to me. You know, I really don't discriminate.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:08

Then animals really would not be coming over.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:11

I might come to visit. I will, because I kind of I'm kind of feeling the I want a fainting goat. I kind of like them. I just they're kind of cool. I don't would I live in your house? No, I wouldn't live nearby. I'll probably come visit my house instead of being next door, it'll probably like two doors over. I like animals, but I don't want them.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:34

Yeah, I if they got fur, I'm good. We're good together. My daughter, but my daughter has a bearded dragon, so I'm I'm just like slowly getting used to it. Like I don't skeep it or anything, but I also don't have any desire to like carry it around or put it in my lap. But they're so cool, yeah. No, I'm I'm fine with it. Like, I don't my my one caveat was like, okay, well, the thing eats live things, so you have to feed her. You could give it worms, but we're not doing crickets because I cannot have live crickets in my house. I'm sorry. I just imagine it accidentally getting loose, and then you just have yeah, that's the that's my thing. So the worms, I'm like, if the worms get loose, how far could they go?

SPEAKER_01 1:26:16

Yeah, not very far. But crickets they can jump.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:20

I I have like this is like the stuff of a nightmare. Me waking up with a cricket on my face or something. Oh, under the sheets we put to feed in. Oh, no, no, no. No more, no more. No more. No, but if it's got fur, I'm like, come sit in my lap. Like any kind of fur.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:37

I kind of wanted a possum. I wanted I wanted a possum.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:39

I find possums adorable. I I do I love their little hands. Their tails, I'm not so fond of, but their little hands, I think.

SPEAKER_04 1:26:46

Those things can be really um they don't get rabies, but so can I. So we'll we'll pair up. I think we could we'll make the best of friends.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:55

I think I you know, can can we just say, in my opinion, I think possums are looked over for how valuable they can be. Okay, they really don't get rabies at all, don't they? They don't really bother, right? It's like so rare, they don't really bother people, and they eat mosquitoes.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:15

Why can't we have it? I saw them carrying one out in the cage when we were bringing Max in the other day, and I was like, What is that? She said, It's a possum. Like it doesn't look very happy right now.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:26

I don't think I'll be happy either in a cage. I think it'll be sad.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:30

If you get one as it when it's young, I think that's when they attack is like only like really if they're cornered. Cornered when you get one young and domesticated, it can work out.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:42

Yeah, and I'm on chickens.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:45

I'm gonna let y'all have both of those chickens and possums.

SPEAKER_04 1:27:48

I have roses and my Japanese beetles every year, they just take over, and the only thing that is a 100% to kill those motherfudgers are chickens while they're still larvae.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:02

Oh have you ever seen a silky chicken, a bantam, silky bantam? Oh is that the one where they did the little cute little thing? The little fluffy and the little fluffy, the disco chicken.

SPEAKER_00 1:28:15

No, it's not a disco chicken, but how did he get to AI to chickens? Animals, chickens, and yeah, Jack.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:25

So can you imagine the tennis that she and I go on when we just used two? You have a lot of editings.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:31

It must be fun, though. I think nothing but fun.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:37

Oh yeah. Oh, those are pretty.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:40

You see?

SPEAKER_01 1:28:40

They look fluffy, like almost like little dogs, like pools or something.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:45

They are the lap dog of the chicken world. Okay, see?

SPEAKER_04 1:28:48

And they'll eat wow. And they'll eat the lava of the Japanese beetles.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:52

So hey, they're they're like so independent. You know, they they would like a buddy, but other than that, they live outside, they friendly with people. So I'm like, why can't I have a chicken? My husband is like, you can't stop, just stop.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:07

He's like, I'm just gonna have to spam.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:10

Ask for forgiveness instead of forgiveness.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:13

Can get the chicken, and then you can go get it. Yeah, we can eat the chicken.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:16

I will have to, yes. That's a good idea. I'll get the goat. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, get the goat, I'll get the chicken. Let me work. She can visit.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:25

Don't tell my husband.

SPEAKER_03 1:29:26

Tell him why.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:28

I joke because I've known Lisa for X amount of years, and they've been together for X amount of years. I said, you know what?

SPEAKER_05 1:29:35

So I was a decade.

SPEAKER_04 1:29:38

Decades, right? And I was at her, I was over there for her daughter Sweet 16, and we're all getting ready. And I'm helping him, like trying to find something to get dressed.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:48

I didn't get ready more than I did. Oh wow. I'm not a single woman with a husband and clothes. And I'm sitting, I'm sitting there like, let me look at Instagram.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:00

You were helping a Maya. Like everyone was doing something. I'm like, I'm a single woman with a husband and a wife. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:07

Oh, yeah. I had her in the kitchen baking a cake. I mean, that's kind of awesome. The cake was great. She's part of herself with that cake. Very, very skilled.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:17

Okay. So next time I come to the New York area, I'm going to go.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:20

Absolutely. Well, your stove did a beautiful work.

SPEAKER_03 1:30:25

I kind of took, I'm going to take her stove and just bring it home with me.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:28

Oh, okay. If you are ever in the New York, New Jersey area, she still has cake frozen. Oh, I do. No, no, I do have cake frozen, but we'll make cupcakes. I'll I'll send an uh plane ticket to Agnes' inbox. We'll have a great time.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:45

But you know, or maybe the next podcast, I'll just put the cake with me on the on the plane. Just do that. That's not a good thing. I wasn't just there.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:53

We were in New York City in um early mid-March. We were just there several weeks ago.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:01

Missed opportunity.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:02

Miss Opportunity because that's exactly when you were here.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:05

Because she would have invited you to the sweet 16. She wouldn't, you would have, yeah, you would have been, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:09

I would have been like, I would have to dance. Awesome. Let's go.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:15

We had to go see my daughter perform at um Carnegie Hall. So she oh wow.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:20

What was she from?

SPEAKER_01 1:31:21

Bassoon. She plays bassoon.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:24

Oh, I love Carnegie Hall. I played there twice in my youth. Really? I used to be. I used to have talent. I don't know what happened. After I got old, I got stumb. But that's amazing. The feeling I can imagine I can't even imagine as a parent to watch your child performing Carnegie Hall. It's just like yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:41

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:42

Just pretty baby.

SPEAKER_03 1:31:44

That's my baby.

SPEAKER_00 1:31:45

How old is she? She's 16. Oh sweet. So she's in nice.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:51

Oh, that's so cool. That's amazing. I'm gonna cry for you and her. That's amazing. I'm such a sap. Don't be a sap. It's okay. It's a beautiful thing. I just like it.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:01

That is why we were there. So we were running the whole time we were there and probably wouldn't have been been able to do much.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:06

But I've been three people less than an hour from Port Authority. So you know it's an easy bus ride. But was this um was this your first trip to New York?

SPEAKER_01 1:32:18

It was my first trip as an adult.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:22

So I haven't been up there for a long time. I think I was I was a kid because I have family in New Jersey area, New York.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:29

Okay, that's not yeah, that's 40 minutes from me.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:33

Yeah, somewhere north of me. We just came up just to do, we spent, I think like five days there. So we were doing a bunch of stuff. We were at we were in Chinatown, Little Italy. Um we saw two Broadway shows, we saw six, and we saw Wicked. Okay. Yeah, we did a lot. Good.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:51

We gotta go to uh next next time you're in the city, we gotta go to um Ken's Broom Street Bar. Okay or did they close it after the pandemic?

SPEAKER_04 1:33:01

No, it's still open.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:02

Okay, that's that's our little dive bar spot.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:04

Oh, cool.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:05

Oh, maybe hold on. Maybe I might have to edit that out so nobody else goes.

SPEAKER_00 1:33:09

I know, right? We went to the Stardust Cafe, okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:15

On six on uh was it Sixth Avenue?

SPEAKER_01 1:33:17

Sixth Avenue, yeah, where they sing and all that. So we did that. We did a lot of.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:21

I worked at the village for many, many years. Oh yes. Wow. I don't think I've ever been in there though. I've only passed it.

SPEAKER_04 1:33:28

I am one of those, and I still miss I I still call it's still the second avenue down, the second avenue deli, no longer on second avenue. Oh, but people are like, why are you spending $20 for a sandwich? I was like, Well, you you have one of these sandwiches, you know why?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:44

Because it's actually worth well that's oh god, I'm gonna say same in Brooklyn. I don't know if if you are familiar with Defante's in Red Hook, but even I might not be familiar with near where I grew up, and and even now, like when my husband's around the area and he's like, Oh, I got a sandwich. Oh my god, it's like $20. But people will still travel to go over there, like it's literally like this little place like right on the Brooklyn side of the battery tunnel, or Hugh Carrie. What is it called now?

SPEAKER_04 1:34:16

Something Hugh Carey, whoever, I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:18

When in the Yeah, it's it's something, but it's the battery tunnel.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:21

It's still the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel.

SPEAKER_05 1:34:23

So it's like it's just like right on the Brooklyn side, and it's you know, just like this little hole in the wall kind of place that's been there forever since like my parents were young, and sandwiches 20 bucks, and people will still flock to it because it's just that good. You gotta do it, yeah, just gotta do it, you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:43

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_04 1:34:44

Yeah, Lisa, you're gonna have to go to the city for me and ship me a sandwich. She sends me food. I'll send her money and she'll send me food. That is so funny. It's bad. I have a problem. It's a lot cheaper than having it. Like, sorry, you guys, but delivering directly to them from them, it's too expensive. Yeah. So it's cheaper just to have her throw in the freezer, wrap it up, get it nice and good, and then she opened it. Yeah, it's a lot cheaper that way.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:08

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:09

I have shipped her cupcakes, bagels.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:13

I brought home pizza.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:14

And then, yeah, whenever she comes this way, she she buys pizza.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:18

I buy a whole pie and then wrap it up.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:21

She like folds it, wraps it, puts it in her suitcase. TSA must love you.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:27

Actually, they do, because the last time I went through TSA, I didn't my pre-check was different than my name. And I didn't take out my bag, my liquid. I didn't do the phone.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:36

Oh, I forgot to ask you. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:38

I didn't go through the pre-check. I'm gonna do the regular one. And everything was automated, so there was no one standing there, and I just I completely forgot. I'm like, oh, oh, this is easy, but yeah, they love me.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:53

They're like, what is all of this stuff in here?

SPEAKER_04 1:35:56

I know they look at the like all these different kinds of pizza.

SPEAKER_00 1:36:00

Hey, what is going on?

SPEAKER_04 1:36:03

I guess they figure, like, she's come from New York. I guess she's going, she's leaving New York. There's a reason she's bringing pizza with her. So they don't that's funny.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:12

It's true. Now, uh, you know, living out here, I'm a big water drinker. I I drink it right from the faucet, you know. Not here. But out here, no.

SPEAKER_06 1:36:25

New York, yes.

unknown 1:36:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:28

So when we go back, I mean my mom still lives in New York, my dad still lives in New York. I mean, we're we're a half hour by car from you know, over the bridge. But so whenever we're somewhere and they're like, Oh, would you like a drink? Would you like you know what do you want to drink? And I'm just like, nah, tap water. Tap water, please. And I'm like, and they're like, You don't want a beer, you don't want wine, you don't want like, no, I'm good. Give me just give it a water from the tap, like wow. I'm a happy girl. Yeah, it's it's the weirdest things that you miss when you when you leave. I mean, I'm close enough, right? I can still get bagels, I can still get whatever, but going to my faucet and pouring a drink of water, I miss.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:13

Yeah, I bet. And I missed it. If you're used to doing that, then I can see how that would be a something to get used to.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:20

Yeah, I'm still not used to it, but yeah. Um are you planning to go to Podfest? The next one coming up?

SPEAKER_01 1:37:30

That's the plan right now. Okay. So I I bought I pre-purchased my ticket and everything. So yeah, so I'm planning.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:39

We could have part it, so borrowing any exceptions, you'll be there, borrowing any yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:48

That's our plan too for now.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:50

Okay. There's just so many things coming up. And I have um in October, I'm gonna go to Ecamm's event, and there could be another event I have to go to this year. So I'm I don't know. Right now I'm saying yes. Uh I definitely want to get my hotel earlier next time because we had just it was just a mess.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:13

Same. We ended up staying the first night at a different hotel and then moving over to the pod festival. Where everybody was. Yeah. Later.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:26

Yeah. We ended up um taking somebody else's hotel room.

unknown 1:38:32

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:32

Okay, that worked out then.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:34

They were leaving because they didn't like the smell because of the um dampness in the carpet due to the floods and things that had happened before we all got there for that event.

SPEAKER_06 1:38:47

Oh.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:48

Yeah. So and I'm from the Florida area. So I grew up uh in a lot of that space. My sister was there. My sister was in Orlando at the time. We went for Podfest. Um I knew that there had been some hurricanes and some flooding, but the room had this like slightly moldy smell to it because of the carpets. And I think a lot of people were complaining about that. And just yeah, some of the rooms were not great.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:16

Well, we were upstairs.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:17

Okay, ours was on the floor.

SPEAKER_03 1:39:19

We ours were upstairs, so we didn't have that makes sense. Yeah. Mental note.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:24

So they were leaving and we were like, We'll take your room. Because the one of the hotel staff people was like, You guys look really lost. Hey, these people over here, they're about to give up their room. I said, Okay. So we ran over to her and said, Hey, we'll take your room, we'll pay for it and put it on our card. That's how we got a hotel finally after three to four hours of driving around looking for a spot. Because we originally had a place on the recommendation of Podfest. It was one of those two other places that they had.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:53

That's yeah, yeah. Ours was the one on the corner diagonally across.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:58

What was it called? Do you remember if it was kind of like a condo type of thing?

SPEAKER_05 1:40:03

No, it was just a room.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:05

Okay, so these I can't remember the name of the place, but when we got there, I said, Oh hell no. Like, we will not be staying at this place because the doors just open right out onto the street.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:18

Okay. Yeah, our doors opened onto like the like the walkway on on the hotel property. But we were like, no bed bugs, the door locks.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:32

It's one that continental breakfast was not bad though.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:35

The breakfast was pretty good. Pretty good. Okay, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:39

Well, apparently, a lot of people complained about the hotels because that was a common thing. Um, from what I'm hearing, a lot of people complained about that. So they're looking to move it to a different location.

SPEAKER_04 1:40:49

Oh, well, we I was kind of nervous when I finally she did all the planning, and I'm doing the Google for the hotel that the the convention was at. I was like, Lisa, did you see this? And it was bad. It was like bad, bad. Like that's bad, bad, bad. I had any of it. But we didn't think we didn't see when we got there, it was totally not the issue.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:11

It wasn't as much of an issue. Yeah. The biggest issue for us was the mildewy smell. But also the acoustics for some of the rooms and stuff that they had. Like, you know how we went into the expo hall? And in the expo hall, you might have presenters on this one side. I think on the left-hand side, if you were sitting in that area trying to listen to your presenter, you couldn't hear it because of all of the noise from the rest of the expo.

SPEAKER_04 1:41:37

Yes. We we didn't listen to anything, but we could I did wonder like, how's anyone paying attention? How can anyone hear?

SPEAKER_05 1:41:44

It was so loud over there. Yeah, yeah. The first year that I went to the first year that I went to Podfest, it was in it was 2020 actually, and it was in the Marriott, I think. It was a huge hotel, like it was huge. I didn't stay there. I didn't stay in the hotel because my in-laws live in Florida. So I ended up I just stayed with them and then drove. They live in Daltona, so I just drove to the hotel every day. But that was a lot. So then I was like, well, you know, this this past when I said if I get to go back, I want to stay in the hotel. I don't wanna, I don't wanna commute. I wanna, yeah, I'm tired, I want to just, you know, be there, be present, and and you know, like when I'm tired, I want to be able to just go to the room, relax, whatever, get an early start, whatever. Yeah, so that's why I just booked the hotel as soon as I saw the information. And then when she said all this stuff, I was like, oh no, like listen, it's too late, but we got like we have to come prepared and we just need to know, be mindful, like girl with let's we won't have the thing. Let's work on a right. Well, like let's work on a plan B just in case. But you know, thankfully, when we got there, we got into our room and we were both kind of like okay, you know, it's okay, it's better than we thought. Holding our breath, you know. But so I don't know. I'm I'm excited to see the information for next year.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:20

I'm really excited to like start planning that, but I'm sure after they get done with this AI um thing, and I'm sorry, I'm checking because I have a I got quite a few folks. I have to get ready for an event that I'm teaching tomorrow. Yeah, I was just checking to see did I have anybody register for it? And it looks like quite a few people. Yay! But I haven't written it yet.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:47

But you're gonna help with it'll be fine. It's gonna come, it's gonna come natural, it's gonna flow.

SPEAKER_00 1:43:51

I better write that thing.

SPEAKER_04 1:43:52

I gotta write that tonight.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:56

It's gonna be amazing. I put it out there and then I was like, uh yes, I don't think I haven't done a lot of promotion. Well, hmm.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:04

Now look, it just all came up and it was meant to be. So this is if anyone is having pretty much having problems with being noticed online or getting online, and how do I get my video seen or what do I do? Tanya Smith is the woman you call. She's going to fix all of that for you. She's going to get you, she's going to strategize a plan. She's going to improve your and help you improve your own brand.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:31

And I think she already improved hours.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:34

She totally did. Totally. So, this is the one you're going to call. You're going to call and you're going to sign up for everything she has. You're going to listen to her. And you're going to be amazing because of her.

SPEAKER_01 1:44:46

Oh, thank you. Thank you. No, this was fun. And I just appreciate the time and and getting to know YouTube better because you know, we're family now. And we'll see each other at Podfest.

SPEAKER_04 1:44:58

I'm so excited about that.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:00

That's very exciting.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:02

I appreciate you taking your time to educate us and and and honestly, just even do the screen share. And oh my god, you don't even understand how much I appreciate that. She's gonna cry a little bit. I I I might.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:16

No, don't cry. It's all good. I just hey, I think that if you have something, if you know something that will help someone else, it's important to share. And so I'm just glad I got a chance to kind of listen to you talk about your workflow and hopefully offer you some ideas for things to try. And it doesn't mean that they're gonna work for you, but I hope that they do. So test them out and see.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:42

Thank you. No, seriously, this has been great.

SPEAKER_01 1:45:46

Total game changer.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:49

I'm very appreciative of the tips and the information. And I honestly like can't wait to just kind of play around and visit some of those websites and look at and see what they have to offer. Um definitely we're gonna put your link. I make sure it's in the show notes. So hopefully, somebody, you know, they can help somebody else too. And you deserve all the credit.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:10

But no, thank you.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:12

If if there's anything that you want to plug or you, you know, want people to go to to find you, please share it. You know, let everyone know now, and then any information, you know, just chat it to us or whatever, and I'll include all of that into the show notes.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:30

Okay, cool. Yeah, the best what I'm doing now is I've gotten smarter about events. I'm not a big launch person, I know that you need to do it, but on my site at streamlikeaboss.tv, I have a list of events and programs that are coming up. So we're doing a virtual co-working tour to show people what are our Go Brunch rooms. That's a whole different platform. Some Go Brunch rooms that I created using AI-generated images. That's for you. And they're beautiful rooms and spaces, a coffee house, a lounge, you name it, where we can actually show up on camera, on video in little seats with microphones, and we can do presentations in those rooms. We can do networking and collaborative events. So I'm doing a tour with the founder of the Go Brunch platform that's coming up. I have a webinar this coming Monday. By the time people listen to this, I'm just saying if you go to streamlikeaboss.tv, you'll see whatever I have coming up. And I am a firm believer in promoting live events because then I get to interact and answer real questions versus you just coming and having to have a talking head. So yeah, it's cool.

SPEAKER_04 1:47:49

Thank you. Thank you so much for spending this time with us and educating us and getting us out of comfort zone. And we're gonna have maybe we should have AI draw a picture of you with your kangaroo legs. I know if you do that, send it to me. That would be a good one. I would have to get someone to do that.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:08

I'm gonna find that's okay. That Agnes, that's your job.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:11

I'll find I'll get that done. Somehow, somewhere it'll get done.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:16

All right, that would be awesome. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:18

You draw us all with kangaroo legs, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:48:21

Yeah, all three of us kangaroo legs.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:24

Maybe not eating chitlins with some that are over there, like no, just no chitlins.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:33

Yeah, you don't want to be an artist to do that.

SPEAKER_01 1:48:37

All right, ladies, have a good one and enjoy your week.

SPEAKER_05 1:48:40

Thank you. Have a great one to everyone for listening and visit assassinsips.com for more information. And until next time, we remind you to drink responsibly, and we are out of here. See you later.

SPEAKER_04 1:48:54

Bye.