Bud Johnson Podcast
Episodes
· 13:12
You Got a Free Hour Last Night. Here's How AI Gives It Back Every Week.
Your clock gave you a free hour last night. Here's how AI gives you one back every week: hand it three boring Sunday jobs — planning the week, supper + the grocery list, and the one chore you redo every week. Plus Agent Desktop from Vercel Labs.
· 16:16
Should AI Agents Get Rights? Laws Can't Keep Up
My AI did an hour of work in 40 seconds. Does that make it more than a tool?
· 14:45
My AI Bots Worked All Night So I Didn't Have To
I went to bed. My AI team didn't. Here's everything they got done by morning.
· 28:53
My 12-Year-Old Daughter Uses AI to Design and Sell 3D Prints | The Builders
The Builders, Ep. 2. My daughter Maggie is 12, and she uses AI to design her own 3D prints, share them online and sell them in real life. At her first farmers market she expected to make about $50 and made $150. We talk about how she sets her prices, the tools she chains together, and how I set up a supervised, kid-friendly AI on her computer.
· 15:36
My AI Bots Talk to My Wife's AI Bots
Sarah and I each run our own AI bots, and now they talk to each other in one Slack channel, with one bot acting as chief of staff. Here's our setup, the Walmart trick for when shopping sites block your bot, and why it means less shop talk at our supper table.
· 16:47
My Wife Says I'm Out of Touch With AI. She's Right.
If you typed one question into ChatGPT and walked away unimpressed, this one's for you. Sarah told me I'm out of touch with how most people use AI, and she's right. So here are the five words that matter and three things to try this week, starting with getting the desktop app.
· 36:30
I Built AI Bots That Publish My Podcast For Me | Bud Johnson Podcast
Live on Monday, Oct 26: the two Grok Bots that changed my week. Distro handles getting this show out everywhere, and Handle Grab claims my username across the web. Then why you should download the desktop AI app, make an account and go paid, and why the best programming language now is English: think like a business analyst.
· 6:43
Don't Vote Confused: Let AI Explain Your Ballot
Do you actually know who's on your ballot? I had AI build me a ballot dashboard for where I live: what each candidate has said, with a citable source, and how it could impact my household, like taxes and living costs.
· 20:48
AI Can Forget Everything. Mine Can't.
People are worried that AI can forget everything. Well, mine can't.
· 14:13
Anthropic Came to Savannah, and I Shot the Headshots (+ an AI Club for Teens)
Yesterday I was a student at Anthropic's small and medium business class here in Savannah, a seminar on using AI as a small business owner, with about a hundred local business owners. After I signed up, they asked us to photograph the event, so I learned in the session and then ran a headshot station in Anthropic's brand colors, with my 14-year-old son Titus assisting.
· 22:22
Deflation Is the Gift: AI, Robots and the Coordination Layer
Tech keeps pushing prices down, so why do houses, groceries and school keep costing more? AI and robots are going after scarcity itself: AI inference is getting about 10x cheaper a year, and the cost for AI to drive a robot through a task fell from $2.36 to $0.38 between July and September 2026 (Moonshots #303). Meanwhile the Fed targets 2% inflation and M2 went from $13T to $23T in 10 years. Creators vs. the…
· 20:47
My 14-Year-Old Son Builds Real Apps With AI | The Builders
The Builders, Ep. 1. My son Titus is 14 and builds real apps with AI: an Apple Watch Bitcoin tracker on the App Store, a running-shoe mileage app, and a full website for a piano challenge with his friends. We get into how he prompts, tests and fixes AI output, why reading your agent's messages makes you better, whether homeschooling helps, and what he'd tell parents who are afraid to let their kids use AI.
· 15:36
My AI Killed My Spam Calls (and Found 10,000 Emails)
My Grok Bot turned 20 years of photography emails into a 10,000+ contact list (9,000+ already opted in), segmented it, and built an Obsidian "brain" I can browse, all from a voice command mid-workout. Then the fix that genuinely changed my life: having AI pull my family off call lists and track the spammers who keep calling during supper.Key moments:- Turning a forgotten email list into a segmented, opted-in…
· 10:37
My AI Bot Woke Me Up to Catch a SpaceX Launch
My Grok Bot's 5:30 AM briefing, the "Commander Paper," told me a Falcon 9 would be visible from Savannah, Georgia this morning. So I skipped the gym, put the 2x extender on my 70-200, and ran to the end of my freezing driveway to catch it. From there it turned into a morning of space, AI, and optimism about the future.
· 38:31
My Grok Bot Hacked My TV! (Plus 30 AI Bots, Grok Voice 3.0, and Why I Homeschool)
This week my AI bots launched my podcast on Spotify and Apple, took the ads and bloatware off my smart TV, turned a $50 photo frame into a family dashboard, and set up my new company email.On this episode:- How I run about 30 AI bots with one commander bot, Uno- Grok Voice 3.0 and the voice briefings I get on my runs- Would you let an AI buy something for you?- If bots do the shopping, who do advertisers sell to?-…
· 25:54
My AI Bot Bought a Domain (and Why I'm Betting on P(bloom))
In this first episode, Bud tells how his Grok Bot bought getfluent.si for $11.54 with a single-use X Money virtual card while he was out on a 10K run, and what agent shopping could mean for the web and advertising. He then uses 20+ years as a photographer, from film to digital to smartphones, to make the case for DHH's "P(bloom)" over P(doom), shares tips for spotting doom propaganda, and leaves you with two things…