Soda Fountains, AI Editors, and Getting Better at Humaning

Soda Fountains, AI Editors, and Getting Better at Humaning

From Backstage w/ Matt Stone by Matt Stone Enterprises

April 24, 2026 · 9 min

About this episode

Matt Stone discusses the evolution of his podcast, the impact of AI on content creation, and upcoming events.

Fifty-eight days until summer, still chilly, and it feels like they’re going straight from late winter into summer with something brutal in between. Welcome to Backstage—the podcast is officially rebranded. Cadence still TBD, aspirationally five days a week but thinking three for consistency. Things are changing, lots more activity. Planning a very exclusive, very cool invite-only dinner concept, probably launching in June. After sharing trivia about the Library of Congress being established (1800) and the soda fountain patent (1833—almost 200 years of bubbles), he reflects on yesterday’s 21st anniversary of the first YouTube video. In the grand scheme, 200 years isn’t that long either. Here’s what’s taking shape with The Bigger Stage: shows, the main podcast, networking and community events, plus he’s adding opportunities for people to record themselves talking about what’s important for their business—doing their pitch, having a conversation about it, getting artifacts to help integrate it into their psyche and go off-book faster. Yesterday he met with people from LinkedIn, talked about AI challenges and threats, but also how everyone’s using it. Nobody’s saying they’re not. So…

People in this episode

Host: Matt Stone

Topics covered

  • AI collaboration
  • podcast production
  • soda fountains
  • YouTube history
  • networking events

Keywords

  • AI editors
  • soda fountain
  • YouTube anniversary
  • podcast description
  • networking

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Library of Congress, YouTube, LinkedIn

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