Search Captions & Ask AI

Did You Forget Something? How to find any moment from the podcast

June 02, 2026 / 04:30

This episode introduces a new tool called Podspun, designed to help listeners search and reference podcast content more effectively. Jacob Cuten discusses how this tool can enhance the listening experience by allowing users to search through episode transcripts and find specific topics.

Jacob explains that Podspun acts as a catalog for episodes of the Exhomeschoolers club, enabling users to search for keywords like "ADHD" and retrieve relevant moments from past episodes. This feature aims to make it easier for listeners to revisit discussions they found interesting.

Additionally, Jacob demonstrates the "Ask AI" function, where users can input questions about topics such as homeschooling. The AI provides answers based on previous episode transcripts, highlighting key opinions shared by guests.

Jacob encourages listeners to try out Podspun and provide feedback on its functionality. He shares his enthusiasm for the tool and its potential to improve how audiences engage with the podcast.

Listeners are invited to explore the tool via a link in the description and to reach out with suggestions or questions.

TLDR

Jacob Cuten introduces Podspun, a tool for searching podcast content and transcripts.

Episode

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What is good my exhies? It's your boy Jacob Cuten. Welcome to a special edition, special announcement episode. I
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don't even think we can call this an episode. Okay guys, this is like bonus content uh for the podcast because today
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I don't have a guest. I'm not sharing stories from my own life. I'm not doing
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a book review. I'm not giving you my top three woes of being a homeschooler.
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Nothing like that. Today I'm showing off a tool that I think will be helpful for
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you guys, will be helpful for me, will be helpful for new audience members, uh, to better, you know, dive into the
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content, dive into the podcast itself. So, what am I talking about exactly? You know, one of the biggest woes with
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podcasting is the ability to go back and reference things. Okay, I think most of
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us have been there where we'll listen to a podcast, it'll be great. We're like, I
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want to reference this later. two weeks, three weeks, a month goes by and we've
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totally forgotten like when it was, who was the guest, what was the topic, anything like that. Um, and so searching
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back through all that content can sometimes be really daunting, right? This tool that I'm about to show you
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hopefully will solve that. Okay, let's get into it. So, this is Podspun. And
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essentially what Podspun is is like a second brain, a catalog if you will, of all of the episodes of the
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Exhomeschoolers club. And what it's going to do is give you guys the ability
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to search through the captions or to ask it questions around topics that you want
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to hear about. So, how does it work? Let's say we want to search our captions. A big topic lately on the show
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has been ADHD. So, if we put that into the search, click enter, take a minute, and then it'll pull up all of these
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episodes uh where we reference ADHD. So you can see here it's pulling a little
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bit from the transcript and saying, "Okay, there's a moment here where we
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talk about ADHD. There's a moment in this episode we talk about it. There's
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two moments in this one. Here's a moment." Right? And so maybe that can
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help us narrow in on a specific conversation. This one we have a lot of moments on ADHD. So if you're really
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wanting a full conversation where that's a lot of what we talked about, maybe
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this is the one. And you can come through and say, "Hey, I want to see this particular statement here." Right?
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Click watch this moment and it'll pull up that episode at that particular timestamp. So you can watch from then
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on. You can see all of the chapters in the episode. You can scroll through the transcript on the left side here. So if
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you know exactly what was said, you can search for that exact statement and go hunting for it in the podcast. The
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second way that we can use this is ask AI. So let's say I want to know some opinions on homeschooling. opinions on
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homeschooling, right? Put that in the Ask AI bar and after a few seconds, it's
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going to spit out some of the opinions from episodes, right? Homeschooling can be a good option for some families, but
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it's not universally ideal. The decision should be made based on individual family circumstances, access to
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resources, and the motivations behind choosing homeschooling. Several guests stressed the importance of avoiding
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restrictive ideologies such as Christian nationalism, purity culture, patriarchy,
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uh, which can be prevalent in some homeschooling communities. Right? So, these are pulling answers directly from
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my guest directly from those transcripts. And then over here, it's pulled some related moments, right? Uh,
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I was totally opposed to homeschooling. I think that the decision to homeschool has to be made by each individual. And
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again, if we click on this, it'll take us directly into that episode at a timestamp where I'm asking, in this
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case, Lydia, uh, a direct question about her opinions on homeschooling and where
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it stands today. Now that you guys have seen this thing in action, I would love for you to try it out for yourselves.
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Link is going to be down in the description below. Go check it out, play around with it, ask it questions, uh,
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try to break this thing, okay? This is a brand new tool. I met the inventor. He set me up with this. He really wants to
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make this the best possible tool for searching through podcast and finding those moments uh that are those key
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moments, right? Those golden nugget moments. And so, uh, anything that you guys can come up with, whether it's
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topics for the show, whether it's new features you want on this program, whatever, shoot me an email
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[email protected]. Let me know all of those things and uh I'll make sure they get forwarded to the
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correct people. Okay, until we see you next time. Peace.

Episode Highlights

  • Introducing Podspun
    A new tool for podcast listeners to easily reference past episodes and topics.
    “This is Podspun. It's like a second brain.”
    @ 01m 04s
    June 02, 2026
  • Searching for ADHD
    Learn how to search past episodes for specific topics like ADHD.
    “If we put that into the search, it’ll pull up all of these episodes.”
    @ 01m 28s
    June 02, 2026
  • Ask AI for Opinions
    Use AI to get opinions on homeschooling from past episodes.
    “Put that in the Ask AI bar and it’s going to spit out some of the opinions.”
    @ 02m 32s
    June 02, 2026

Episode Quotes

  • This tool will be helpful for you guys.
    Did You Forget Something? How to find any moment from the podcast
  • Homeschooling can be a good option for some families.
    Did You Forget Something? How to find any moment from the podcast
  • Try to break this thing, okay?
    Did You Forget Something? How to find any moment from the podcast

Key Moments

  • Introducing Podspun01:04
  • Search Functionality01:26
  • Ask AI Feature02:30
  • Feedback Request04:00

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