Minisode 003: Revelling in AI Absurdity While Conquering Toxicity

Ever laughed so hard that milk came out of your nose? Well, pour yourself a glass because this week, we throw ourselves headfirst into the chaotic world of AI-created podcast graphics. What started out as a serious endeavor quickly spiraled into a ridiculous adventure of oddball images – think stick figures with oversized noses, dumpster fires, and possibly a dead rat making a surprise appearance. Buckle up for this hilarious ride as we navigate our way through the perils of AI and share some hearty laughs while doing so. 

In the midst of all this laughter, we don't lose sight of our core mission: breaking up with toxic workplace stories. We continue our exploration of the multifaceted world of workplace toxicity, bring you real-life experiences, and offer practical solutions that you can apply in your own work life. So tune in, join the positivity movement, and equip yourself with the tools needed to combat workplace negativity. Bonus: you'll get to see the quirky graphics on our Instagram page. Now, who's ready for a revolution against red flags and toxic workplaces? Let's get started!

Transcript

Gina: 0:00

This podcast may contain adult themes.

Nicola: 0:03

This podcast is for entertainment purposes only.

Gina: 0:06

The views and opinions in this podcast are expressly our own.

Nicola: 0:09

When I get into the workplace, I like to fuck shit up.

Gina: 0:14

Honestly, every time I try to do something fun or exciting, you make it not that way.

Nicola: 0:20

Hey, are you tired of toxic workplaces and the negativity that comes with them?

Gina: 0:25

We hear you and we're here to shake things up. Welcome to let's Break Up Toxic Workplace Stories the podcast that's all about breaking up with workplace toxicity.

Nicola: 0:35

I'm Nicola and I'm here with my co-host, gina. Together, we're going to explore real life experiences of workplace toxicity and offer a sense of encouragement and unity.

Gina: 0:46

That's right. We're tackling the tough topic of negativity in the workplace and turning it into a movement for positivity.

Nicola: 0:54

We'll be interviewing guests to share their experiences and offer practical solutions for dealing with workplace toxicity. Our aim is to promote solidarity and a sense of community amongst our listeners.

Gina: 1:06

Let's Break Up is quickly becoming the go-to source for anyone looking to share and then ditch the drama and create a happier, healthier work environment.

Nicola: 1:15

So join us each week as we explore the various forms of toxicity in the workplace. Get ready to join the revolution against red flags and toxic workplaces.

Gina: 1:24

Thanks for tuning in and don't forget to like, subscribe and tell all your friends.

Nicola: 1:29

In this week's episode. It's pretty crazy. Also, today I'm the one with the chinni that no one can see on a podcast, the what I've got, chinni, check, checkni. Oh yeah, I don't know. I'm not you this time.

Gina: 1:43

We're not sponsored by anyone, but I've been using these two different fancy medical grade devices for my skin.

Nicola: 1:49

What Is it like? A like what are you using?

Gina: 1:52

So it's like a red light therapy, like wand that you just like put over. It's called the solo wave. It's really good. And also the droplet which is like a micro infusion, like and I do the collagen to like make my skin nice and plump. Doesn't really look pumpy.

Nicola: 2:08

You know? Ok, I don't know if you saw, so I went on. I gave AI a test this weekend.

Gina: 2:13

I don't know if you saw that, yeah because you were like telling me that I need to fluff my emails. You know what, At our old place of work I probably would have been all over that, but thankfully I don't need to do that right now.

Nicola: 2:23

This is true, so I used AI to see if I could come up with a picture of you and I talking in a microphone over a dumpster fire.

Gina: 2:37

Oh, is that what? That thing where you said me I was like what the hell is that? Oh, my god it literally looks like.

Nicola: 2:42

Can you just open that for a second, because I feel like we need to describe the imagery that is whatever that is, we have so many texts.

Gina: 2:51

We have so many texts. Wait, where did you send it to?

Nicola: 2:53

I've. It's in the podcast itself. I think I need to screenshot it and send it to you because Please, ok, hold on. I'm going to send you the big vision and then I'm going to send you but from what I saw your vision from what. I like to understand what has happened.

Gina: 3:13

It's like it's literally like two stick figures with like big noses, like standing over like a blue bin with like like those stinky wafts coming out the top. That's what I remember it looking like. Here we go, let's see.

Nicola: 3:28

Please, what like? Who are these? What is wrong with our faces? I see some butt head. Is that a dead rat hanging out of the head? Like what's happened there? Bristle, what? Which one's which? Well, OK, so I OK, hold on. So when I put in the description you have to get.

Gina: 3:51

We're going to put this on Instagram. You have to go look at it. It literally looks like we're being in front of the, but I don't want the black dress on because I'm shorter, ok, so it shows me that I'm like super fat, I did tall, with short brown curly hair, and then that was that rat hanging out of your hair.

Gina: 4:17

There's like this, like little tinsel string with like a blob that resembles a rat, and then my eyes are like my eyes are like like a side wind or snake eyes are like a side of my head and it looks like I have a butt for a mouth and a nose.

Nicola: 4:35

I feel like the concept was solid.

Gina: 4:40

Yes, but I think AI is not the wave of the future for this particular thing.

Nicola: 4:46

Okay, I might have to share my screen and we'd have to do some very graphic descriptions, because I did a couple of others and the descriptions look. The descriptions have seen better days, hold on let me just see what I'm doing with my life.

Gina: 5:07

And it makes you look like a crazy person who like eats garbage because you're like leaning against the garbage, can't. Oh, this is even worse.

Nicola: 5:14

Okay, so then. Okay, so then I went. Okay. So can you see how many iterations I went through like this is like at least 20, right? Oh, there's more than 20. Okay, so my first iteration was make a toxic microphone.

Gina: 5:34

Hey, those are pretty good. I don't hate that.

Nicola: 5:38

Absolutely. They are not very good. They look like someone has vomited on a microphone.

Gina: 5:44

But I feel like that's. You know, sometimes I get word vomit or word diarrhea. I don't think it's.

Nicola: 5:50

Then I discovered that maybe there were a little too literal, so we went.

Gina: 5:58

Okay, so Okay, she just Okay so.

Nicola: 6:04

Okay, you with your 2005, like dress code.

Gina: 6:11

Someone has a really hairy arm in this one. I'm like I don't even know. That looks like her hand. Horse is like. Her hand is like a horse.

Nicola: 6:22

So then I was like okay, maybe we need, so, then they might I can. Then I realized that their mouths became the microphone, which wasn't this is truly frightening.

Gina: 6:36

We have to post these.

Nicola: 6:37

Okay, I didn't hate this one, but I'm curious as to say why this is run like ran. I have no idea. And also, why are we blind folded in this one?

Gina: 6:49

we've got like blindfolds and we're like.

Nicola: 6:52

I don't know. Okay, so then. Then we kind of went from there to I felt like this was better. I actually didn't hate this one over here, it's two ladies having lunch on a dumpster, basically.

Gina: 7:05

Yeah, pretty much on toxic and like or like barrels of toxic waste, which I didn't hate.

Nicola: 7:11

I think this one's quite funny as well. I didn't hate those.

Gina: 7:14

I'll share those as well, because it looks like we're singing karaoke on top of so I clicked on the.

Nicola: 7:19

I clicked on the original and then asked for variations, which clearly did not. Oh my God, this one again. This one wasn't terrible. What is 10 song? There's just so many things wrong with AI graphics. Okay. So then I decided to go with watercolor because I was like okay, maybe we can get somewhere better with this, and then there's me, or you either, that's your head or your tips hanging out.

Gina: 7:47

We have a vagina as a mouth.

Nicola: 7:51

It's like definitely, it's definitely curious. If you are keen to try AI, I highly wait.

Gina: 8:02

Who's this with the Ronald McDonald hair? That's me, isn't it?

Nicola: 8:06

No, that's me. Short, curly hair. Oh my God, your hair is not short. Apparently it's Ronald.

Gina: 8:15

McDonald? No, I mean because my hair is very, very curly, okay then it couldn't gave it a go.

Nicola: 8:23

That didn't. Okay, I feel like couldn't did a better. These were starting to hit. I was starting to describe a little bit better, so I feel like these are starting to head into it and I also decided watercolor ended up drawing a far better picture. All right, well, we're going to have to post these. I'm going to have to post these because these just these gave me life, because every time I looked at one I was like which one is you and which one is me?

Gina: 8:48

Which ever one is slightly wrong. Wrong is definitely me.

Nicola: 8:57

Like. Is this you with the big pink lips and the bun?

Gina: 9:00

Yes, yes, because actually that off is pretty cute. That's definitely me, I would. I would wear an outfit like that.

Nicola: 9:06

I didn't realize you had a yellow neck.

Gina: 9:09

Me either. I didn't know my neck was made of toxic sludge.

Nicola: 9:15

I'm not sure if it's because of the way it looks. I can't even deal like this.

Gina: 9:21

Okay, so does anyone want an update on my bikini?

Nicola: 9:23

progress. Yes, please my bikini state progress. Okay.

Gina: 9:28

Curious minds must know her, the three people who actually care. But so I'm five, two and a little bit and my boobs probably about way about 50 pounds, cause they're ginormous. No, I'm not sure if they're too big, I want to get them fixed anyway. So I started my journey at 125, which for me is a little for my bone structure. For me I didn't feel good and comfortable in my own body. I usually like to to sit around like one anyway, between 113 and 118, like a. You know cause women's bodies fluctuate, and all that I am proud to say I am now 116. I'm about 50 pounds in a month and I'm really feeling good about my diet. I don't feel terribly deprived. I'm liking the way things are fitting me better and I'm really starting to get into the process of this whole prep thing, cause there's going to be a time where it's like nobody's going to want to be around me, cause I'm like peak week, like where I'm just like eating cauliflower all day.

Nicola: 10:38

I'm curious to know, though this is starting to sound like a pitch who has sponsored you and not me? Nobody has sponsored me. Do we need to get you a bikini sponsor? Is this what's?

Gina: 10:48

Competition. Okay, here's my shameless plug. If anyone out there does Bikini competition, suits cuz like their specialty, like there has to be a certain cut. They're usually like super sparkly and fancy the bikini tanning and Cuz you have to like, so what I always find really funny.

Nicola: 11:09

Oh my god, are you gonna be like orange?

Gina: 11:11

You get so dark and then your face is white, so it looks like you're like why? Why are we doing this? Because when you put the, because the darkness like this, the spray tan, it really like shows the muscles under the stage lights.

Nicola: 11:25

You know what I love about a tan, what it hides fat, so okay, so it I mean.

Gina: 11:32

but the thing is, is your face that they? They make your body so Deeply tan that it will never match my face, that I'm going to look crazy and we can all make fun of me? Please can we?

Nicola: 11:44

because I'm on board, like I will be the.

Gina: 11:47

I will be the first one to like PMS shade. Match my face and my body. I feel like you just gonna be out there wants to sponsor me for bikini, big stage bikinis, free spray tanning, posing. I'm gonna need to start posing you are hit me up because you got to do like all those, like muscle poses, you know.

Nicola: 12:11

Please, this is gonna be too high quality for me. This is just gonna be like an entire shit show.

Gina: 12:17

Oh, it's go with me. Yeah, there's gonna be like professional people there and I'm just gonna be like how, what? I just, I just uh, you know, like shirt on my own foot, just kidding last place, I have no, I have no.

Nicola: 12:32

Coordination yeah okay, I do, I'm okay, but you know now, before we get started today, I want us to mention to look, I look like our falpha. I like it, it's cute. Yes, I'll leave it, just because it's fun. Um, I'd like to mention that we actually have a subscription service now, and Bob Bobber sin subscribe to that. Bob Bobber sin is fully on board with. I'm there. I love you, bob Bobber sin. I love Bob Bobber sin. Thank you for our three dollars. We're there for it, so it's three dollars a month and we're putting all the bloopers or really touchy subjects Behind kind of closed doors, because we thought those were the ones that maybe, if you're really keen, you can subscribe to. We have to say that the one with Megan is hilarious because there's that one and there's one I think Joanna.

Gina: 13:23

Joanna, that one's cute. There's one and this might. I don't know how many men follow us, but you get to see my boobs in a sports bra, all right? Well, I'll, I'll give someone. You know what, when I start, when I start getting closer to stage ready, I'll give you some posing.

Nicola: 13:39

Thanks. Also, when we're getting closer to stage ready, I feel like you're gonna be. We're gonna do our t-shirt interview.

Gina: 13:44

Get that motherfucker on, and then it's gonna be so high-polling. Let's get back to the subscription, so it's three bucks a month. You know, nikola and I never expected to monetize from this. We just felt super passionate about it. We think we have hit on something that people are interested in hearing, and Any kind of contribution is always helpful because it makes us feel validated that we're talking about the right and also like it helps us pay for, like you know, the podcast hosting.

Gina: 14:17

I mean none of it. None of the money that we're getting from your subscription is gonna go straight to our pocket at this point that would be lovely. We we both have jobs. Some of us have more than one job. I have several jobs. Yeah, I mean subscribe and you can potentially see me in my bikini Bribe, I don't know. Like what do people? What do the people want Do?

Nicola: 14:45

you want to look, they've got a bit of both right. They've got short, giant boobs and bikini ready.

Gina: 14:52

And then yeah, yeah, I mean tall, curvy, not bikini ready.

Nicola: 14:57

More like, more like whale ready.

Gina: 15:01

That's hilarious, but no, I'm not. I'm not bikini ready either, but I'm saying, when we get to that point, bikini ready.

Nicola: 15:11

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