I decided to test out some of Google’s newer AI tools—specifically, NotebookLM. I was curious about their podcast generation feature, and figured: why not throw something personal into the machine and see what comes out?
So I uploaded a story—one I’d written about a conversation I once had with my grandmother, Nana. A quiet memory, dusted off and given a slight narrative shine.
I fed it into NotebookLM, clicked the “generate podcast” button, and waited. It took about 15 minutes.
Below is the story.
And then—what the AI did with it.