Give up your climate guilt. Sharpen your curiosity. Join Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson as they tell stories about the powerful forces behind climate change — and the tools we have to fix it. This show makes sense of big climate questions and critical topics. Our episodes are filled with stories of bold climate leadership, groundbreaking campaigns, and people doing their best to be part of the solution. A Matter of Degrees is produced in partnership with FRQNCY Media, The 2035 I ...
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Exploring literature and ideas. Inspired discussion on great or pertinent texts and the ideas that grow from them.
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If you hate writing, ChatGPT can help you create engaging podcast messaging to attract, keep, and motivate your listeners. Most of the time, people read something about your podcast before they listen to an episode, right? That's what we're talking about in this podcast: how you can use ChatGPT (and other LLMs) to take the pain out of writing this stuff. Host Stephanie Fuccio does this with practical and playful experiments with ChatGPT (and some other LLMs here and there). A few experiments ...
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Jaesun, an heir to a Korean chaebol, and Ana, a Mexican American entrepreneur, fall in love in modern day LA. After months of innocent flirting and one passionate karaoke session later, Ana finds out that Jaesun must return to Korea for his two-year military service. And when her business hits an unexpected roadblock, miscommunications ensue. Ana must decide whether she's going to go at it alone or have some faith in her love. Will their relationship survive the distance? Love and Noraebang ...
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turn a document into a spreadsheet with ChatGPT for your podcast
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph I know how unsexy this task sounds but believe you me, this is a game changer. Using Chatty (what I call ChatGPT) to turn a document into a spreadsheet checklist is the first time an LLM has saved me time. Usually it saves me headspace …
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph You know, I made amazing tasting chicken wings with a spice recipe from Chatty the other day. With the voice prompt. I was able to ask for the next step, do it, then ask for the next one. I got food amounts at the moment I needed them b…
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Optimize your podcast blog posts with ChatGPT
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph If you process ideas and tasks better when talking them out, then using the voice prompt on ChatGPT's mobile app might help you like it did Jennay Horn, our guest today on the show. Our host, Steph Fuccio, helped Jennay through how to t…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph The cobbler has s*** shoes, right? Well, yea, the same is true for this organic marketing obsessed podcasting person. I can identify and help massage my client’s messaging to the point of purring but my own? Well….my messaging is often …
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Paul considers what generational technology usage and the advent of AI writing will do to reading, thinking, and writing.By Paul Sonsteby
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Can you bribe ChatGPT for better LinkedIn hashtags?
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Recently I've seen a few people suggest online that you can bribe ChatGPT to get better results. You don't actually send OpenAI anything, it's just a ploy. And it makes sense since Chatty is the collective us and we, eerrrr, accept brib…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph I recently saw a post online that shared how to use ChatGPT for making grammar corrections and had real feelings about it. I used to be a language instructor so there's a lot to unpack. Curious? 👀 10 reasons why you should NOT use Chat…
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Paul talks Game of Thrones .By Paul Sonsteby
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Can you overcome (podcast show notes) writer's block with ChatGPT's help? YES! Here’s me doing just that with the ChatGPT phone app and the voice prompt functionality (which is still better than the voice prompt on the web app). This is…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Online the topic of AI comes up everywhere. It's impossible to ignore. Is this true of the sessions and conversations at The Podcast Show last week in London? Spoiler: no. Let's talk about why and how we can help ease people into the jo…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph To celebrate the Substack’s new branding and increased audience, I’m taking a moment to recap the 3 more popular posts/episodes. 👀 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks,…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph This video from the last newsletter issue of ChatGPT 4o is misleading. The presenter made it seem like these functions were available now. I apologize for including it in the last newsletter post with the impression that this is what’s …
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph In the last podcast episode I experimented with using Chatty to turn my podcast episode summary into an engaging LinkedIn post. But without adding anything to the post, I'm talking to myself on LinkedIn. So now, I'm showing you a succes…
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Paul chats about the mentor character, so significant to the Hero's Journey.By Paul Sonsteby
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Can ChatGPT help you write LinkedIn posts? Well, of course it can BUT does it make it easier to do than writing it on your own? I can’t actually answer for you but I can tell you/show you what happened when I tried this out myself. I us…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Do you feel overwhelmed by the fast paced of the changes in AI? Yup, me too. I read a Substack post today that although it went over a few AI devices, focused on what these devices can tell us about where AI may go in the future. This b…
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Paul talks about the second take on his favourite book.By Paul Sonsteby
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Heard about this Chrome extension during the Podfest AI Summit last week. Wow, is it amazing. If you need to organize your chats more in Chatty, check this out (especially the video version). 👀 Text me your feedback and leave your conta…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Prompt engineering can be a back and forth conversation, a work session that's build on negotiating the task in a natural, stressfree way. How? by prompt chaining! 👀 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a repl…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph I find the best ways to use ChatGPT and other LLMs it to massage your own work, not have it create something from scratch. This episode is where I take a transcript from Solo Worklife Meditations and ask Chatty to do a few specific thin…
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Engaging podcast newsletter content with ChatGPT & transcripts (part 1)
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph I find the best ways to use ChatGPT and other LLMs it to massage your own work, not have it create something from scratch. This episode is where I take a transcript from Solo Worklife Meditations and ask Chatty to do a few specific thin…
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Where should you start with your AI journey
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph I’m bouncing off the walls right now. boing. boing. boing. Seriously. I’m loving this episode of The Ezra Klein Show with guest Ethan Mollick, Associate Professor at The Wharton School. Author of Co-Intelligence. Why? Because it’s SO PR…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph In episode 3 when I asked, “ChatGPT replace Google?” some people scoffed. I still don’t think that replacement is what’s going to happen BUT I think our search focus is going to be divided very, very soon. In walks GEO, Generative Engin…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph There are questions we can all consider before diving in too deep with ChatGPT and other LLMs. Let's start asking them! 👀 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph, h…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Today, I’m trying out a prompt that I saw in the below IG that claims to help business owners produce 30 days of evergreen content quickly. hmmmmm. 👀 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one…
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The Better Story Post Script: Papa Lu and "Man of the Hour"
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Vedder, Eddie. "Man of the Hour," Big Fish: Music from the Motion Picture. Seattle, Pearl Jam, 2003.By Paul Sonsteby
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Marketing research for small business owner clients with ChatGPT
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Today, I’m trying out a prompt that I saw in the below IG that claims to help business owners produce 30 days of evergreen content quickly. hmmmmm. 👀 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph How important are critical thinking skills with ChatGPT and other LLMs? 👀 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph, https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph Have you talked TO ChatGPT yet? Oh yea, that's a thing. I did, in English and Spanish in this tester "conversation". Come along for to hear during and my breakdown of the interaction after. 👀 Text me your feedback and leave your contact…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph There's a burning question about podcast research workflow on the table with ChatGPT and other LLMS. Will you have an answer? 👀 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, St…
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The Better Story: Life of Pi and Big Fish
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Inspired by one of his teaching lessons, Paul discusses the concept of "the better story" which forms a connection between Yann Martel's 2001 novel Life of Pi and Tim Burton's 2004 film, Big Fish. Burton, Tim. Big Fish. United States, Sony Pictures, 2003. Martel, Yann. Life of Pi. Toronto, Vintage, 2001.…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph When will we use ChatGPT and other LLMs more than search engines? 👀 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph, https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/2371927…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph While I expore using ChaGPT more and more, I want to be conscious about its potential impact on my mental health. 👀 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph, https:/…
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🤓 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph I'm about to experiment more with ChatGPT. A deep dive into 3.5! Let's do this! 👀 Text me your feedback and leave your contact info if you'd like a reply (this is a one-way text). Thanks, Steph, https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_me…
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Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series: 2. The Drawing of the Three. Best book in the series? Best SK book EVER?
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Paul continues his exploration of the Dark Tower series with this Master's Class of character building. King, Stephen. The Drawing of the Three. New York, Plume, 2003.By Paul Sonsteby
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Stephen King's The Dark Tower Series: 1.The Gunslinger. Mostly just get through it.
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Paul starts an extended re-read and analysis of Stephen King's Dark Tower series.By Paul Sonsteby
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Dys or Dat-Topia? (Brave New World Vs. 1984)
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Paul compares the futuristic worlds presented in two classic novels of 20th century speculative fiction: Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Huxley, Aldous. Brace New World. Toronto, Vintage, 2007. Orwell, George, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Toronto, Signet, 1977.
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I'm not gonna lie, I probably broke a bunch of copyrights for this episode. I'm gonna trust the boys to be cool with it.By Paul Sonsteby
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Paul gushes about his favourite Viking-Age historian and poet.By Paul Sonsteby
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Paul waxes retrospective. https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8864790044362597696/8064845359125547896By Paul Sonsteby
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Sometimes we overread symbols. But there are SOME objects--water, fire, a door--that are ALWAYS symbolic.By Paul Sonsteby
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Paul discusses that most derivative, forced, and American of genres: The WesternBy Paul Sonsteby
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As memory fades and current events become history, what are the specific things "kids these days" should need to know about World War 2?By Paul Sonsteby
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Paul talks about this lovely and underappreciated form of text.By Paul Sonsteby
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Paul talks about the revelations that can happen on second and subsequent of books.By Paul Sonsteby
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Way better than a great a$$By Paul Sonsteby
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Vinland and the Norse Sagas (for Tim and Allie)
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Paul explores the sketchy history of the Norse landings in Newfoundland, after fulfilling a lifelong dream of visiting the site at L'anse aux Meadows last month. This episode is dedicated to Tim and Allie.By Paul Sonsteby
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Paul weighs in on literary fasciscm. Thomposon, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. New York, Random House, 1971.By Paul Sonsteby
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Live Episode: A Climate Book Talk with Rebecca Solnit
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Welcome back for a bonus episode of A Matter of Degrees! We were lucky enough to sit down with Rebecca Solnit — author, historian, and climate activist — to talk about her newest climate anthology, Not Too Late. Leah and Nikayla Jefferson both wrote essays for the book and joined Rebecca onstage for this live episode. Not Too Late gets at the tough…
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Speaking of a Death, Let's Talk About Death: Cormac McCarthy's the Sunset Limited
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Don't read or watch this play if you're feeling low. McCarthy, Cormac. The Sunset Limited: A Novel in Dramatic Form. New York, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., 2006.By Paul Sonsteby
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