You May Listen to Christmas Music Now | Ep #6

Welcome to the LoneDevSummerDelhi Podcast.

My name is Brett.

And I appreciate you checking this thing out.

Let me know what you think.

In fact, you probably won't, because I'm not going to tell you how,

because this is a podcast.

It's not like you can comment on a podcast without jumping through some hoops.

But I'm not going to give you no hoops to jump through, not in this episode,

but in future, god damn it, in future episodes.

I'm going to have a way for you to give me feedback,

for you to anonymously, anonymously just say,

Hey, man, I listened to your shit and I liked it.

Maybe I didn't. Maybe I think you suck.

Etc. I just want some feedback.

I can see. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

So, guys, guys, guys and gals.

Semidaily listeners.

I've looked at the statistics, I've looked.

I've gandered upon the statistics

for this here podcast, and I can see.

I can say with my own two eyes

that there are indeed people listening.

Somebody's downloading this fucking podcast.

Somebody, I don't know who,

but somebody downloaded this thing and listened to it.

Maybe they did. Maybe they didn't.

Because in all reality,

you can't really tell if somebody actually listened to your podcast.

You can only tell if somebody downloaded it.

And that's the way podcasting works.

It's kind of a it's kind of a flawed technology in that regard.

And with respect to YouTube videos, it's a little bit different

with a YouTube video.

You can actually tell how long people listen to it.

You can tell if they dropped off at a certain point

or whether they just kind of.

What usually happens with the YouTube videos

is that your people do they

they just watch like the first one minute of your video

and then they just disappear.

That happens all the time.

I see it all the time with my YouTube videos.

That tends to be what happens.

People just excuse me, excuse me.

People, they tune into the video,

they tune into the video, they watch the first minute

and then they just they just disappear.

That happens all the time.

And now I'm repeating myself.

Hello, my name's Brett.

I am the host of the this podcast that you're listening to.

And it is the holiday season.

We we just finished Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is done.

I have already passed the contents of Thanksgiving

dinner through my digestive system, so

now we can listen to Christmas music.

The day after Thanksgiving

is the first day that it is appropriate

to play Christmas music.

It is inappropriate to play Christmas music

any time between Christmas,

the day after Christmas, OK?

And thanks the day after Thanksgiving

midnight on Thanksgiving Day, so midnight.

Yeah, right.

So it is entirely inappropriate and worthy of of.

Of being cast out of the tribe.

Being. Oh, my gosh, I'm struggling,

I'm struggling coming up with the words for this.

But suffice it to say that it is completely inappropriate

to play Christmas music.

Any time of the year between

the day after Christmas and the day after Thanksgiving.

If you play Christmas music during that period of time,

it is inappropriate.

But now we can play Christmas music.

Now it is officially the Christmas season

because Thanksgiving is behind us and Christmas is before us.

This is the official Christmas music period.

Thank you. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

And let's move on to other topics.

And one of those topics will be this podcast itself.

Hello. So, yeah.

So, yeah. Oh, boy.

I, um, you know, I'm always thinking about SEO,

search engine optimization.

And I'm using a little tool called Castopod.

Have you heard of Castopod?

Have you? If you're a podcaster, perhaps you have heard of Castopod.

It is a open source platform for publishing podcasts.

And that happens to be what I'm using for publishing this podcast.

And among its features is

it creates a little website for your podcast.

So you can, you know, you can put it up there on the Googles.

So that people searching on the Googles.

It just might happen upon your little podcast website.

And and if you provide a transcript for each one of your episodes,

that only increases the surf.

Well, I'm not going to call it surface area.

But if you have a transcript for each episode.

That increases the odds of somebody searching for whatever

will happen upon your podcast.

People searching for whatever the hell

just might happen to be searching for whatever random stuff

you happen to be talking about in your podcast, man.

So, right. So I want to that.

That's the reasoning behind.

That that's the reasoning behind.

Me. Creating this automatic transcript generator.

And that's what I've.

Sorry, I got distracted.

Because some somebody in a Subaru just stopped

in the middle of the intersection.

That was odd.

Anyway, I'm getting.

Off track a little bit here.

So I, I think I've made it clear that I'm working on an automatic

pod track podcast episode transcriber.

And I actually finished it.

It's working. It's working good.

So what it does is it goes out.

It downloads my RSS feed.

It finds episodes that are missing a transcript.

And then it transcribes them using OpenAI's

Speech-to-text API.

And then it attaches the transcript to the episode.

It all it does this all automatically for me.

I got it working a hundred percent and.

Except there's some weird issues that I'm still working my way

through.

But.

It works.

It works, man.

And I did use artificial intelligence to help me build

this thing.

Helped me quite a bit.

I was in Cursor doing it.

You heard of Cursor?

Have you used Cursor?

Are you a developer?

Who listens to this podcast?

Who are you?

Are you a developer?

Are you an investor?

Are you just a random, random guy who saw the title of the episode

and said, wow, that might be interesting.

Who are you?

One of these days, I'm going to leave, I'm going to create a

little page on my website where it's going to allow people to

just browse to that page and comment anonymously, send me an

anonymous message.

I just want to know, like, is there anybody listening?

Anything, like, just give me a sign.

In future episodes, I will, I'll have a URL you could go to.

In future episodes, I will, I'll have a URL you could go to, a

URL that's simple.

I'm going to call it, I'm not going to announce it now because

I don't want you to go there and find a 404, but in future

episodes, I'm going to have a spot where you can go and just

it'll be like, okay.

Anyway, that's the thing, man.

Podcasting is a weird beast.

I love it.

I love audio, man.

I just, I think audio is just a great method of communication.

I've always loved audio.

Since I was a kid, I would create pod, not pod, obviously,

they weren't called podcasts back then, but as a kid, I just

record stuff with my friends on a, on a tape deck, you know?

And since those days as a child, I've, I've loved just audio

recording, recording audio.

I've always, you know, I've always loved it.

So that's something I, I'm interested in.

I'm trailing off here.

This is, this is the second Thanksgiving break update.

The first one, I was just letting you know that I'm not going

to be posting regular, like when the kids are back to school,

I'll be posting regular, like, because I'll be in my mobile

sound studio more consistently.

So I'll be posting regular.

All right, and that's, I mean, that's it, man.

I appreciate you listening.

I don't know what the point of this episode was.

I'm still exploring non-duality.

I've, I don't want to say that I'm looking for anything with

regard to the non-duality.

What I've done is I've made myself available to discovering

something or something, something, what the heck am I

talking about?

All right.

So in the episode before last, I kind of rambled, or was it

the last episode?

Yeah, I think it was the last episode.

I was talking about non-duality.

Non-duality, it's something I've been interested in lately.

Um, there's that, um, and that reminds me of an app idea

I had, the um thing.

I've had, I had an app idea of an app that, a record, actually

a podcast recording app, an audio-centric one at that, because

I think audio is beautiful.

And the app will record you and perhaps it'll do something

when you, when it detects ums, like it'll detect ums in real

time.

So if it detects an um and you're, I don't know, it's a

wild idea.

I don't know if that would work on a phone or not, because

it would have to do real-time audio processing and holy moly,

not only would that be a technical challenge, it would

be a strain on the resources of the device.

So, I don't know.

I know Apple has, has their, um, their AI models that exist

on the hardware itself.

And perhaps you can use those for detecting ums in real-time

audio, but I don't, I don't know if they have a real-time

audio AI model.

I might be just, I don't know.

But yeah, non-duality, non-duality, um, the idea that there

is but one consciousness.

There is only one consciousness and you are just a localization

of it.

I've been grappling with this idea, just, you know, I don't

know how to put it into words, but I've been grappling with

this idea, just waiting for it to make sense to me.

Without trying too hard.

There are particular thinkers.

I think there's a guy named Rupert Spira.

I'm not sure if I have that wrong or not.

But obviously there's Alan Watts and I've consumed his stuff

voraciously.

The dude's a little creepy.

I might, I might add.

I think it was a chain smoker.

He just comes off as an indulgent fellow.

I don't know if that's just me being a judgmental person, but

I love his content and I have consumed it and I jive with it

quite well.

So I shouldn't be too critical because I do like Alan Watts

quite a bit.

There's also Rupert Spira, I think.

I think that's his name.

I'm not sure.

And I've been listening to his stuff, waiting for it to make

sense. And it kind of, sort of does.

There's also Sam Harris, right?

He talks about non-duality and related topics.

And I've also found his stuff, when he talks about this topic,

I find it...

I find that it doesn't always connect.

So I'm waiting, I'm listening to these guys and I'm waiting

for the stuff to connect.

I'm waiting for it to click.

And I'm receptive to the ideas.

And I want, I want it to click.

I think the way that...

Alan Watts communicates this topic is the most salient.

Is salient the right word?

He comes up with the best delivery mechanism into the mind

where it actually does click a little bit.

But the way that Rupert Spira and Sam Harris talk about it,

it doesn't click as easily.

So I am indeed rambling today.

But right, I think I'm just going to cut this one.

Coming toward the finish line here and I appreciate you.

I appreciate you.

I hope you're having a wonderful holiday.

Try to get outdoors, despite it being so damn cold.

And I'm from California.

So like anything below 60 is freezing.

So it's been well below 60 for many days in a row.

Therefore, yeah, I perceive it as cold.

The sun hasn't been coming out.

So that has, that takes a toll on the old,

the old wet wear, the brain after a while.

Being inside and sun not shining.

But I'm good, man.

I'm good.

I'm grateful.

Grateful to have what I have.

It's a beautiful life.

I'm thankful for the challenges that I have, that I face.

And that's that.

Happy holidays.

I'll be back probably Monday with a, with, with a proper

work week episode.

Thank you.

Bye.