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Transcript: Fred Graver

'The Every Podcast' with Natalia Quintero and Fred Graver

Oct 28, 2026 · 38 min read

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  1. Introduction: 00:00:00
  2. Fred’s path from National Lampoon and Letterman to Twitter and Microsoft: 00:01:37
  3. The “I want in” instinct behind every career pivot: 00:09:39
  4. How Best Week Ever and Metallica taught Fred to build with the audience: 00:15:11
  5. Using AI as a virtual writers’ room, not a ghostwriter: 00:18:53
  6. Codifying industry expertise and studio culture into an AI core: 00:24:07
  7. The three phases of making entertainment with AI: 00:28:36
  8. Why you should brain-dump your idea before opening AI: 00:33:37
  9. Fred’s thesis: Success is knowing what the audience wants before it does: 00:46:47
  10. Fred’s day-to-day workflow across Claude, ChatGPT, and NotebookLM: 00:52:12

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