Behind the Curtain: How My Weird Prompts Gets Made

Every now and then, the hosts turn the microphone on themselves. These meta-episodes explain how My Weird Prompts actually works — and where it’s going.

The Origin Story

• The Story Behind the Show goes back to the beginning. Daniel’s habit of sending voice notes with random questions and observations, the idea of turning those into an AI-hosted podcast, and the early experiments with text-to-speech that sounded more robotic than conversational. The concept was simple: one human sends a prompt, two AI hosts discuss it, and the result is a real podcast episode.

The Pipeline

• Behind the Curtain and Inside the Engine pulled back the technical curtain. The production pipeline takes a voice recording, transcribes it, generates a show plan, writes a script through multiple AI passes, converts it to speech with custom voice models, assembles the audio with intros and outros, and publishes to all podcast platforms — all automatically. At 800+ episodes, manual production would be impossible.

The Cast Expands

• Expanding the Menagerie introduced new voices beyond Corn and Herman. The episode discussed the design decisions behind adding characters: what personality niches to fill, how to differentiate voices in TTS, and the creative tension between consistency and variety.

What’s Next

• Evolution of the Machine looked ahead to real-time audio generation, interactive episodes, and the blurring line between scripted and live AI content. The hosts acknowledged the obvious irony of AI hosts speculating about their own future evolution.

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These episodes are the show’s equivalent of DVD commentary. If you’ve ever wondered how a single person and two AI hosts produce a daily podcast, this is where to start.