The Company Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into Podcasts
3/25/202646 min
This week we start with Emanuel’s crazy story about WebinarTV, a company that is secretly recording Zoom meetings and turning them into AI-powered podcasts. It’s nuts. After the break, Joseph tells us about the eccentric billionaire who tried to become a cocaine kingpin. In the subscribers-only section, we lament the lose of the metaverse. 1:06 - This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts 25:58 - An Adrenaline Junkie Millionaire’s Quest to Become a Cocaine Kingpin Sub's Story: RIP Metaverse, an $80 Billion Dumpster Fire Nobody Wanted Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Clips
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
[upbeat music] This episode is brought to you by Focus Features. On March twenty-seventh, Focus Features invites you to be a part of the most explosive movie of this year's Sundance and South by Southwest film festivals. The AI Doc, or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, is being called supremely entertaining and the most urgent movie of our time. The AI Doc, or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, rated PG thirteen, only in theaters March twenty-seventh.
Joseph Cox· Host0:28
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to the 404 Media podcast, where we bring you unparalleled access to hidden worlds, both online and IRL. 404 Media is a journalist-founded company that needs your support. To subscribe, go to 404media.co. As well as bonus content every single week, subscribers also get access to additional episodes where we respond to their best comments. Gain access to that content at 404media.co. I'm your host, Joseph, and with me today are two of the other 404 Media co-founders, the first being Emmanuel Maiberger.
Emmanuel Maiberger· Host1:08
Hello.
Joseph Cox· Host1:09
And Jason Keppler.
Jason Koebler· Host1:11
Hello.
Joseph Cox· Host1:12
Any housekeeping, Jason? I feel like no. I feel we're, we're good on all fronts [chuckles] when it comes to 404 Media.
Jason Koebler· Host1:19
Uh, yeah. I don't know. Nothing, nothing comes to mind.
Joseph Cox· Host1:22
Well, in that case- Let's, let's get on with it. Yeah, I won't waste anybody's time then. Let's go straight to the stories. The first