B (3:05)

You know, April 1st, I don't know if this generation of children are just like loving the fools of the day, but I have been waking up. I woke up all the way until now. I'm still looking behind my shoulder like, what tricks are going to be pulled on me today? Did your kids pull any tricks on you today?

A (3:23)

So when I got into my car today, my son got In. And he was like, daddy, do you want some brownie? And I was like, yeah. And he opens his back and he pulls out a brownie E. He was like, haha, tricked you.

B (3:41)

And I was like, that's really cute. So who gave him the brownie?

A (3:46)

Yeah, I was kidding. I guess that's what his class did. But he's been doing it. He did it all day. He did it to me multiple times. I wanted the brownie every time. And he just kept getting me.

B (3:55)

But that's, that's pretty good. I would have wanted a brown. I like that. Thank goodness you at like 7:00am were like, I, in fact do want a brownie. Like, what if you said no?

A (4:05)

Well, this was actually, this is when I picked him up.

B (4:07)

Oh, I like that. Hey, he followed through. He got a joke. He got a joke. And so my second grade, I don't know what my first grader did, but he was like, we had silent lunch. We were in trouble. We were not good. So we didn't do any pranks. But my second grader's teacher, she was on fire because, you know, you get all these class updates now on these apps. Like we never had that. If I was bad, my parents found out when I came home with a note pinned to my shirt. But now you like get real live updates about your kids all day. So this one is really good. I don't know if this was something going around for all teachers because I haven't fully watched all the videos. So they got a worksheet in class and it was, they, you know, they have computer class. They have like these laptops that they have to check out. And it said, I will read this to you. It's like, it's like very detailed. So they got a worksheet and the worksheet said that their assignment for the day was a new technology developed by Google Knows. And they had to use this new search engine in order to look up specific olfactory perceptions using a computer because, you know, you have to use all your senses. And so they had to look up things like roses and cakes and cupcakes. And this new technology would give you the smell of your search term. And so the video is of all the kids in the classes with their laptops open.

A (5:37)

Oh, that's so funny.

B (5:38)

And they've all searched like their favorite dessert. And all the kids are, are they

A (5:44)

all like, I can smell it, I can smell it.

B (5:46)

Well, this is what's really funny. So my kid is like, he follows the rules, right? And he is, you see him in the video, he is, like, walking from student to student, and he is. He's deep smelling. And every single person's search term. Like, he's going. And he raises his hand. He's really upset. He's like, these search terms are broken. But you see these other kids who are like, you know, I kind of smell this. I kind of smell this cupcake. And you just see my kid in the back. He is, like, angry. He's like, this is broken. They do not smell a cupcake, because I don't smell this cupcake. And I know what a cupcake smells like, and I do not smell it. And this went on for, like, five whole minutes. That was a good prank.

A (6:29)

See, my son would say, he smelled it. Then his sister would say, no, you don't. It's a prank. You can't actually smell it. It's on the computer. And he would say, well, I smell it. And she. And they would get in an argument about it. That's how I love that.

B (6:46)

So maybe you need to, like, pull this on your kids. Maybe I'll see what happens. Because it's. And you have to film it. So I don't know if anyone else did that, but it was, like, really funny. And then they, like, pranked the principal. They did the whole, like, water is running down the. The hallway, and the kids all had, like, water bottles in their pockets, and they were running down the hallway. You know, very cute, harmless pranks like that.

A (7:09)

Yeah.

B (7:09)

But so my prank to them tonight, because I kind of. Y', all, I'm sorry. I did not know this was a big holiday in the sense that my kids fully expected a whole production. So when we got home from school, they were like, mom, why didn't you prank us today? They were, like, really hurt by it. And I was like, the day's not over. Crud. I have to come up with a prank. So they've been asking for waffles nonstop. And I don't have a waffle maker, though. But I was like, okay, like, Easter's coming up. Maybe that will be the, like, the special. You know, we'll make waffles together. And so I actually, just by happenstance, like, went to the store yesterday and picked up a waffle maker, anticipating this for the weekend. But I was like, okay, May, they don't have a waffle maker. But they've asked for waffles pretty consistently for the last week because it was like some kid brought it for lunch, and now they've asked for waffles every day. And so I was gonna make waffles. But we also got our farmer's vegetable box yesterday, and they came and picked it up with me and had a bunch of radishes in there. Like, just a ton of radishes. They've never eaten radishes before, but they know that there are radishes in this box. So I had them come in, and I said, hey, guys, everyone's getting sick around this season with all the allergies and everything. And we got all these really delicious radishes from the farmer, and we do not want to waste food. So I'm going to make a radish cake today. It's not going to taste the best, but, like, we're going to eat it because we don't want to waste food, and it's really healthy. And both kids are like, do we have to? And I was like, yeah, buddy. Like, we just. We don't throw away food. Not in this house. There are people who don't have food, and we are not going to be the ones who throw away food. And they were both like, okay. And I was like, I mean, you can put butter on it, you can dip it in ketchup. Like, you know, we could put other stuff on it, but we're going to eat these radish cakes. And so they were like, all right. And so, like, we walk over the kitchen, and I was like, all right, I'm going to. I'm going to start slicing these radishes. I start slice them, and they've never eaten radishes, so I start handing them just, like, raw, whole radishes with, like, dirt still on them, with, like, the stems and everything and, like, the root coming out of it. And my. This just shows you their personalities. The oldest one was like, like, gagging. And he's like, oh, it doesn't taste that good. I'm like, don't worry. When I cook it, it's gonna taste a little bit better. And then the younger one's like, it's okay, Mom. I think it tastes pretty good. I was like, it does not taste good. So I make it, and they've never actually seen me make waffles, so they don't know what ingredients go in it. So they don't know that I have a waffle mix in front of me. They just see me chopping radishes. Oh, that's chopping all these radishes. And then I'm like, I've scooped it. And they're like, what is that thing? Cause they don't know what a waffle maker looks like. And I was like, it makes radish cakes. And they're like, how do you have that? And I was like, well, I knew we had all these radishes, so I went and got a radish cake maker. And they're like, oh, okay. And then they're like, you know, it kind of smells good. I was like, no, it doesn't. It really doesn't smell good. So I got the waffles out and then I handed it to. And the two of them were just like. They were looking green. They were such good kids. They were like, totally waffles.

A (10:13)

The radish cake.

B (10:13)

And I put it in front of them, and they both, like, looked really confused. And then. And I was like, we'll take a bite. And they got so excited that it was a waffle and not a radish cake.

A (10:25)

That's good. You got them good.

B (10:27)

I felt really happy with myself because it all came together.

A (10:31)

Well, I'll say this, you know, while you didn't love your children enough to prepare an April Fool's gift for them, we did love our listeners enough to do it for them.

B (10:45)

What are you talking about? We didn't do anything.

A (10:47)

We released an episode today for.

B (10:49)

I know, I know. But that's like, just what we do,

A (10:52)

you know, Alice, you were just so flat in this episode.

B (10:55)

I don't know what you kind of like, flat, Stanley.

A (10:57)

You were just like. There was like, no, it was like

B (11:03)

I was a robot.

A (11:03)

It was like. You were so robotic. It's true. Like, you just. You had no.

B (11:07)

It was as if I wasn't even all there. I know.

A (11:10)

It's very strange. Yeah. This all started when I sent Alice an email. I was like, hey, I'm going to need your voice. And she was like.

B (11:19)

Which I gave willingly.

A (11:20)

Yeah. She's like, of course you want my voice. I could have been doing anything. It could have been like, this is

B (11:25)

how much I trust you. You texted me at, like. It was like 10pm and you're like, hey, I need you to record these five lines and say them repeatedly and clearly. And I was like, okay, sure. The code to my house is my zone security four, and my voice is my password. I am here. Yes, I did that totally for you. I didn't even ask you. And you were like, do you want to know what I'm doing?

A (11:52)

Your voice. Yeah.

B (11:55)

That was very aerial.

A (11:56)

Yeah. So, you know, so to reveal the magic behind what goes on here, I was really curious to see what AI could do with us. Like, how good Would it be?

B (12:13)

Well, I also wanted to know if I could retire.

A (12:16)

I know.

B (12:16)

And not have to do it. The answer is no.

A (12:19)

The answer is no. So. So what we did. It is an entirely if you listen to it. And if you haven't listened to it, it's an entirely AI episode. It was so much work, like AI and one day is going to take over the world. But it was so much work to get it to do it. So I got my Chat GPT, Chad. GPT is the only one I pay for. So I've got like a membership with Chat GPT and it's pretty good on a lot of different things. But I was like, hey, chat, we want an episode. Because it knows I've actually made it listen to all our episodes. So it knows us as podcasters. And it just. Everything I ask it, it's always like, if you're looking doing podcasts on this, like, I can be asking it about the most random thing like.

B (13:06)

Like how to make radish pancakes.

A (13:07)

Exactly. What's a good radish pancake episode? And they're like, well, if you're looking to do a podcast on this and the stock style of Brett Alice, I can write you in a little bit of a script. I'm like, yeah, whatever. Anyways, this like, hey, write us a script. Because I wanted to do just total AI, write us a script, make it a case that's totally like mysterious and unsolvable and it spits out this script. And it was like, the weird thing about it was I wanted it to. To imitate our back and forth and our banter and it.

B (13:44)

People hate.

A (13:45)

Yeah, it tried, but it was really bad at it. And it was. It was all like. You may have noticed this. It would be like I would say a line and then Alice would say a line and then I would say a lot. And there's no paragraphs. And I told it, I was like, hey, this is weird. There needs to be more paragraphs. And it's funny because as AI is always like this. It's like, yeah, actually, now that you mention it, you're right. It doesn't do that. And this is actually a big problem with AI is AI has real difficulty doing discussion. It always is very staccato and back and forth whenever AI creates something. And I'm like, well, okay, well, I'm glad you recognize that problem with your own abilities. Can you fix it? And he was like, of course I can. Here's a new script with that problem fixed. Didn't fix problem at all. Didn't fix problem at all. It was the same thing. Can I say.

B (14:31)

Can I just say, though, our banter is how you will know we're the real thing.

A (14:35)

It's true. So. So we went back. I went back and forth with it and then finally I was like, okay, fine. I took the main script and I added some stuff into it, like, just to make it a little bit better. Because I was like, this is really terrible. Chat GPT added a few things. You know, you may be able. I'll let you. You can pick which lines are. Actually, I wrote the Alibi ad that was my. Which I thought was the best one. I love it.

B (15:02)

So good.

A (15:03)

And it was so funny because I would tell it like, hey, you know, I want to be dramatic here. So put pauses in. And then I didn't change it. I just let it. Left it, whatever it was. So the Israel Keys thing, where it's like. I'm like revealing it's Israel Keys. It's like if you've listened to. It's like Israel Keys, you know, it's like, yeah, the pause there is a little too long.

B (15:26)

There's literally an Office episode of it where Aaron's being coached to be dramatic and she takes like a 30 second pause between her name and there's so.

A (15:37)

Okay, before I get into Chat GPT, so I asked Chat GPT, I was like, turn. Okay, now you've got the. Make this into an episode. And it's like, can't do it. Chat GPT can't do voices, but it recommended this. I forget which one. One of the other AI services for voices. So I go to that one and I've got the script and it's like, look, it's in. Chat GPT is like, it's easy. You just take the script, give it to it, and it will create a podcast in your voice. I'm a great. So I go on to it. Well, you know, it's like everything else in AI, so it had voice clones where you could clone your voice to do one voice clone. It was free for the first month, so I ended up not having to pay anything. And then it was like $20 per month for one voice clone, or you could do two voice clones for $2,000 a month.

B (16:25)

And I was like, wow, like, that escalated quickly.

A (16:30)

It's like, shoot. Okay to do two voice clones.

B (16:33)

So clearly figured this out. Let me figure out which one we did not pay for.

A (16:37)

I think you can tell.

B (16:40)

No, I don't think people can tell. They're like, Alice sounded really Angry.

A (16:44)

So it would do like a basic voice clone for free for one person and then a full voice clone for someone else. I'll let you decide which one's the full voice clone.

B (16:54)

And here's the thing. Between the two of us, we needed yours to be the better one because otherwise it wouldn't be believable at all because you have the accent.

A (17:02)

And I'll say this, and mine was the full voice clone. And it took all night to clone my voice. I had to give it. Basically, I took all of the recordings on my side, so, you know, we record separately. So I record Alice scores. I just took all the recordings on my side from like the last 10 episodes and gave it to it.

B (17:21)

Did that not freak you out a little bit?

A (17:23)

When I listened to it, it's a

B (17:25)

pretty good voice clone, I'll say that.

A (17:27)

Yeah. When I listened to it, I was like, wow, this is really good. For me, it was pretty good. And then I had to do the basic one for Alice. So that's why she's so flat. Because it. It has.

B (17:37)

But actually it's a great ad for them. Right. Because, like, the difference in quality is actually astonishing.

A (17:45)

I mean, I, I were it not for a few quirks, I could imagine you thinking it was really me, but not Alice.

B (17:51)

Correct.

A (17:52)

And.

B (17:53)

Or that I was like sped up. Like I was at 1.5 or something like that. But like, it was very. All of my jokes at Brett were just like this. Because this is how killing Smalls.

A (18:04)

There was no.

B (18:04)

Like, that was so good.

A (18:06)

There was no inflection. I don't like this at all. You're getting good with the puns, but

B (18:14)

honestly, I laughed so hard, but I can't.

A (18:15)

It was funny.

B (18:16)

I didn't know if y' all would get the joke though, because I don't

A (18:19)

know if they did. That's why we're explaining it because.

B (18:22)

Because I think your voice was so good that it makes it confusing.

A (18:26)

Yeah. But there were moments if. So the, the intro. I don't know why it did this, but if you listen to the intro over the music, you. It's like, what if I told you that there's a case and this is what happened? And I'm like, what is that? But I just left it because.

B (18:43)

Because it's hilarious.

A (18:44)

What was funny, though? So. And this is. So this took forever. Like I said. I mean, it's a 10 minute episode. It took forever because it took forever to get chat GPT to make the thing. But then I'm feeding the thing in and it's like, okay, clone our voices. Tell it, do it. And the AI is telling me how to do it. And it's like, okay, well, what you want to do is you want to say. You want to give, like, it's almost like stage directions. You want to say, be dramatic here, then the language, right? So I'd put it in there, and it would be like, be dramatic here, then the language. And I'm like, you keep saying it. You keep saying stage language. Why are you doing that? And it's like, you're right. You're right. That is a known problem, that sometimes our software says, the language you're using version three, you need to use version four.

B (19:36)

And I'm like, it will cost.

A (19:37)

Well, it actually was anymore. And I was like, okay, fine, let's change to version 4. So we changed to version 4, and I put it all in there with the stage directions, and I hit play. And it's like, jolly, right?

B (19:49)

This is.

A (19:50)

This is exactly what. And I'm like, what? Where'd that come from? Where'd that. That's like, that's not my voice. You know? And so I'm like, hey, what's going on?

B (19:58)

I'm getting, like, live updates throughout all this. And I'm just like, brett, you have a family and children. Go outside.

A (20:06)

Why aren't you using my voice? That's some British guy. Like, why? Why are you using my voice? And it's like, you're right. This is a known problem with version four is it's not good at using the fully cloned voice. Go Back to version 3 if you want to use a fully cloned voice.

B (20:23)

And I'm like, hey, guys, you just

A (20:24)

sent me to version four. So I go back to version three, and I'm like. And it keeps reading the stupid prompts. And I'm like, what's going on? And it's like, go to version four. And I'm like, no, no, I don't want to go to version 4. I want to use the clone voice with the prompts. And it's like, well, you're right. That is a problem with version three. You can't use prompts with version three. It just tells based on the writing, what the inflection, everything should be. And I'm like, well, why did you tell me this the first time?

B (20:53)

It's like, when you talk to those Autobots, when you call customer service, and I'm always like, speak to representatives. Speak to representative. Speak to representative. And they're like, before I can send you to a Representative, I'd like to understand your problems. Did this help you? I'm like, no, no, no.

A (21:09)

So finally I was like, fine, we're not going to use the prompts. So I had to put it in there. And then I had to try and add things like dot, dot, dot for the dramatic pause. And sometimes it did fine. Like, there are times, like at the end where it's like, you may have figured this out. You know, none of this is happening. It's all in your mind. Like, that's the appropriate pause, right? There's an appropriate pause there. But for some reason, with Israel Keys, the dot.in between Israel and Keys resulted in a five second pause. And it does the weird dramatic thing. And then there's one time where I say something and it's like it just like draws out the S for like two seconds. And I was just like. And so halfway through, to reflect what I went through, I also, like, let the British guy that my voice kept turning into, which is just not even you. Yeah, I was just like, let it. I was like, fine, British guy.

B (22:03)

That was Grant.

A (22:04)

Yeah, exactly. That was Grant. And then I made somebody for YouTube. But anyways, I mean, it was. It was hilarious, but I don't think.

B (22:13)

But also, it shows you we will not be replaced by AI and it's not as simple as you think. The deaf. The banter was. My voice is obviously not there. The banter was not there. The script was hilarious. If you could even listen to the substance. Yeah, there was a lot of hallucinating.

A (22:29)

The story was pretty good, but it needed more detail. But I just got sick of fighting with it. So I was like, fine, whatever.

B (22:35)

Good enough. Good enough.

A (22:36)

Yeah.

B (22:37)

But yeah, so that was the April Fool's joke. We might need to release this tomorrow. So people don't think that. Because I don't think people understood the joke.

A (22:45)

It's so funny because a number of people are like, it was weird. I didn't really understand.

B (22:49)

Alice sounded a little mad.

A (22:50)

So strange. Some people are like, maybe they recorded it separately and they weren't together.

B (22:55)

And that's why maybe they were AI bots.

A (22:59)

Some people did get it. Some people, like, I think the whole thing's AI. I think they just use the AI to do the whole thing. So, yeah, that's what it was. But, yeah, anyways.

B (23:09)

April Fools.

A (23:10)

April Fools. Yeah.

B (23:12)

I hope this one garners generations of one star reviews.

A (23:16)

Me too. I personally think our greatest April Fool's episode was the. The theme song. That's my personal.

B (23:24)

That was the good prank I still go back and listen to it because I like our song.

A (23:27)

I know. I just love the song so much.

B (23:29)

Great song. Last year was pretty good too.

A (23:31)

Last year was good. And that's why we're doing this now. Because so many people actually enjoyed it. We were like, maybe we should just do an episode. We talk about anything.

B (23:38)

So anyway, that's actually true. I forgot that After Dark kind of came from.

A (23:42)

Yeah.

B (23:42)

Wow. Sometimes jokes become reality.

A (23:45)

Exactly.

B (23:46)

All right. Well.

A (23:47)

All right. Well, I hope you guys enjoyed this conversation. I hope you had a great April Fool's Day. You know, nobody really knows where April Fools comes from. Did you know that?

B (23:56)

I did not know.

A (23:57)

There's all these different theories about it from like Chaucer to various other things. But no one is 100% sure why April 1 is known as April Fool's Day. So if you have a theory, write in, let us know. Alright guys, well, we will be back later. Some point. You never know when after dark might strike. It could come at any time. But I'm Brett.

B (24:21)

And I'm Alice.

A (24:23)

Nothing good happens after dark. But I'm Brett.

B (24:47)

And I'm Alice.

A (24:48)

And all. Wait.

B (24:50)

Nothing big.

A (24:52)

Nothing good happens after dark.

B (24:57)

We'll get it right one time. But doesn't really matter if we get it right.

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Doesn't matter.

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