Riverside

Yeah, it just might be...

Riverside? Oh,

yeah.

Does it, like...

Um, and, oh, Oh no, hang on.

Sorry, I thought I closed Riverside.

Oh, I'll get into my thought.

I mean, 2000s nostalgia is everywhere with these kids.

...

I sat here for hours just, like, doing work, focusing on things, like, playing around with Riverside.

Like, Riverside has so many capabilities that it blows my damn mind, and I was like, "Why am I not utilizing these things?" So anyways, this morning, I was like, "Why am I looking at my notes from my phone?" I sent my notes to my iMac, and now they're beside us talking.

Genius.

Like, I'm just...

Like-

You know what?

... on Riverside, oh my God, we should do this for Friend of.

But what also remains unclear is what Liquid Studios is doing to differentiate itself from the other services in the market that use AI to repurpose content.

Services like Riverside, Headliner, and Descript.

Jeremy Morris is a professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Wisconsin, my alma mater, where Jeremy and I are actually speaking on a panel together about this.

He directs the university's research lab for studying the interaction of AI, media, and society.

Like it used to have to be all done by hand.

Like with the podcast before we had Riverside, right? Yeah.

Oh, Riverside.

Thank you, Riverside.

Thank you, Riverside.

It makes things

way easier than Zoom and iMovie, right?

This means that I probably go over the top in what I spend on podcast tools.

If I had a podcaster come to me and tell me that she wanted to handle everything on her own, but wanted an all-in-one tool, I would probably tell her to use Riverside.

This episode is not sponsored by them, and primarily with good reason, because I'm gonna tell you a lot of other tools that we use, but I'm telling you out of my own experience.

At this point, I genuinely think that Riverside as an all-in-one tool does a pretty decent job.

It has recording, editing, hosting, even generating clips all inside of one platform.

If you're just getting started, I think that's a really solid all-in-one option.

That said, I don't personally use it that way.

And I only use Riverside for recording.

And my observation in the book I wrote a couple of years ago It echoes Yanis Varoufakis' techno-feudalism theme, that we've sort of just slap-walked into the situation where we can't really run you know, our own technology.

We're here on Riverside.

I'm not sure where Riverside's from, but we're streaming out onto YouTube and by Google.

And, you know, everybody's on US-owned social media networks and US-owned technology.

Yeah,

And I don't mean that to be like condescending in any way, because I know that recording, sitting down in front of a microphone and looking at yourself in the face as you're talking, right? Like having a cohesive episode that all takes thought, it can all be intimidating.

But what I mean by it's the easiest part is that recording has a very obvious beginning and end, right? Like I sit down with my notes, I open Riverside, I hit record, I talk, and then I hit stop when I'm done, which is, you know, like in a box, a complete podcast episode, except I there's more because if you think what happens next, what happens after you record that, where does that go? If it's an interview, you know, there's the obvious, like I had to find a guest prior, they had to book, I need their information, break confirmations, reminders, so on and so forth.

Um, and then we record and then what happens next? And I think, you know, like there's the obvious editing, uploading title, description, show notes, you know, clips, emails, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right.

The production side of the podcast.

Not everything is going to need an automation and you're going to drive yourself batty if you're trying to automate literally everything.

And now I know somebody is going to say, how do I know what needs to be automated? If you're doing something over and over and over and you don't necessarily have to do that thing over and over and over.

Like for instance, here on Riverside where I'm recording this, I record this and then I have it set up in here after I'm done recording that Riverside automatically gives me magic clips, but it also gives me captions and it gives me show notes and it gives me a number of things.

And I set that all up in here.

Mm

... was try to record a podcast in Riverside just like we are here with one of the biggest VR investors in the space, and it worked, right? Like, uh, he also asked me what headset I was using.

I was like, "I, I can't say." And he's like, "Ooh, mysterious."

[laughs]

And I, I love that, uh, so to, to not break my embargo but also just to prove that it worked, right? Like I could actually do real work in this thing.

And so like from there I was like, "Wow, it's, it's actually kind of performing here." So we're recording this in the Riverside podcasting platform, and so there's a Riverside app on Vision Pro that you can use to record things.

But if you want to go like edit it afterwards, I don't think you can really do that on a Vision Pro unless you use Mac Virtual Display and, and have a second device in the mix.

If you go try to download the Chrome browser on the App Store, and it's-- you get the iPad version, and it doesn't quite have the same capabilities.

Oh, go for it.

L-I-T-T-G@riverside.com is where you find all of our episodes and everything.

There you go.

And guys, I will have all the links in the description.