🎙️ We Built a Podcast Host from Scratch — Here’s How It Works
Something a little different is happening inside the Academy, and I wanted to share it with you. Check out all three below. A few months ago, I started building a show called Breaking Bread with Rachel Parker — a podcast dedicated to the history, folklore, and mythology of bread. Not technique. Not recipes. Just the stories. The rituals. The weird stuff that’s been happening around loaves of bread for thousands of years. The thing is, Rachel Parker isn’t a real person. She’s a persona I created specifically for this show. I built her image in ChatGPT, animated her in Gemini, gave her a voice in ElevenLabs, and edited the final episodes in CapCut. She has a consistent face, a consistent voice, and a consistent presence across every episode — and most people who watch don’t think twice about it. Here’s our process, start to finish: Research first. We dig into real historical and folkloric sources — bread in burial rituals, bread as protection against witches, the superstitions around dropping a loaf, healing bread from Good Friday. If bread shows up in a story, we want it. Script second. Each episode gets a tight script around a single theme. “Did Bread Cause the Salem Witch Trials?” “The Executioner’s Loaf.” “Bread for the Dead.” Clear title, clear arc, built for listening. Voice through ElevenLabs. Rachel’s voice is consistent episode to episode. Same tone, same pacing, same presence. Visuals through AI. Image in ChatGPT, animation in Gemini. She moves. She introduces the show. She feels like a real host. Released on a schedule. Every episode drops on the same day, same time, so members know when to come back. We’ve got four episodes live in the classroom right now and a 30-episode arc mapped out. If you’ve been curious about using AI to build content at this level, the classroom is a good place to watch how it comes together in real time. 👉 Check it out: https://skoo.ly/crust-crumb-academy — Henry ⭐🔥