The AI Movement with Brooke

AI filmmaking is moving into mainstream television. Colin Petrie-Norris is building a direct path between independent filmmakers and major streaming platforms, giving creators a way to reach real audiences without waiting for a traditional studio to say yes.
Colin is the founder and CEO of Fairground, the company behind Fairground AI Creator TV. Before Fairground, he built Xumo and sold it to Comcast, giving him a front-row view of the last major shift in how television gets distributed.
We talk about what happens when making a film becomes dramatically more accessible, why storytelling and execution become even more important, and what AI-made entertainment could become once creators stop trying to recreate traditional Hollywood.
If you are a filmmaker, creator, or simply paying attention to how AI is changing entertainment, this episode gives you a look at what is already happening beyond the demos.
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In this conversation:
Why filmmakers no longer need a studio to greenlight an idea
What makes an AI film ready for mainstream TV
Why storytelling matters more as production gets easier
How viewer data could lead to entirely new entertainment formats
How Fairground is helping creators reach streaming audiences and earn from their work
Explore Fairground: 
Preview films today at Fairground.tv/watch. Creators can submit their work directly through the Fairground Creator Portal. Fairground TV is available free across streaming platforms including Roku, LG, Xumo, Comcast, and Amazon Prime Video.
Related episode mentioned:
Fairground creator Jagger joined me last season to share how she uses AI to develop and prototype ambitious film concepts.
How a Writer and Producer Uses AI to Prototype High-Budget Film Ideas Fast
About Colin
Colin Petrie-Norris is the founder and CEO of Fairground, an entertainment platform connecting filmmakers using AI with mainstream TV audiences. Previously, he built and sold Xumo to Comcast and worked across the streaming ecosystem with companies including Roku, Samsung, LG, Paramount, and Warner Bros.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
 01:52 From Xumo to Fairground
 07:16 Why storytelling matters more
 09:28 What makes an AI film TV-ready
 12:32 How data could reshape entertainment
 15:07 Bypassing Hollywood gatekeepers
 16:55 How Fairground works for creators
 20:45 AI disclosure, personalization, and what comes next
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The AI Movement With Brooke is a weekly podcast exploring how AI is changing the way we build, create and make decisions.

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Website: TheAIMovementPodcast.com

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Guest opinions are their own. Content is provided without guarantees of accuracy or results. Always verify information before acting. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Brooke Gramer, The AI Movement, and EmpowerFlow Strategies LLC disclaim liability arising from reliance on this content.

What if Microsoft Office and Google Workspace were redesigned from the ground up for AI? Rohit Patel left his role as a director at Meta Superintelligence Labs after 8 years to launch Ndoc.ai, an AI-native workspace designed to bring spreadsheets, documents, presentations, and analysis into one connected experience.
But his bigger concern goes beyond productivity. As AI takes on more of our work, how do we track where the information comes from and how decisions are made?
We sit down during the Miami AI Summit to explore the thinking behind Ndoc, how he uses AI agents in his personal life, and why even someone who has helped develop advanced AI models doesn't trust them to do everything.
If you're tired of moving between AI chats, spreadsheets, and presentations to get your work done, or you're curious about what the next generation of business software could look like, this conversation is for you.
In this conversation:
Why Rohit believes traditional office software needs to be redesigned for AI
How Ndoc connects analysis, documents, and presentations while keeping the underlying information traceable
How Rohit builds personal AI agents for everyday tasks and why not everything needs an agent
Where AI-generated code still falls short, even for experienced developers
The standard he uses to decide whether an AI product is worth releasing
Why transparency matters when AI becomes part of critical business decisions
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About Rohit
Rohit Patel is an AI researcher and founder of Ndoc. He spent eight years at Meta, most recently as a director at Meta Superintelligence Labs, where his work included AI model evaluation, reinforcement learning, and post-training.
He also holds a PhD in game theory. His latest venture, Ndoc, is focused on reimagining how people create and share knowledge using AI.
Connect with Rohit
Explore Ndoc and request access
Rohit's website
About the Miami AI Summit: Hosted by eMerge Americas, the Miami AI Summit brings together leading voices in artificial intelligence to explore how AI is being developed, adopted, and scaled across industries.
Learn more: https://emergeamericas.com/ai/
Timestamps
00:00 A different future for office software
03:02 Why Rohit started Ndoc after leaving Meta
05:45 Reimagining spreadsheets and AI collaboration
07:04 Keeping AI-generated work traceable
09:50 How Rohit uses custom AI agents
13:27 When you need an agent and when you don't
15:22 Where AI-generated code still falls short
17:18 What makes an AI product worth using
21:30 The risk of letting AI filter business decisions
Listener offer
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The AI Movement With Brooke is a weekly podcast exploring how AI is changing the way we build, create and make decisions.

Follow on LinkedIn: Brooke Gramer
Website: TheAIMovementPodcast.com

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Guest opinions are their own. Content is provided without guarantees of accuracy or results. Always verify information before acting. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Brooke Gramer, The AI Movement, and EmpowerFlow Strategies LLC disclaim liability arising from reliance on this content.

Have you noticed how easy it is to recognize an email written with ChatGPT? Lauren Mushro is researching something bigger: whether AI is starting to change the words we use, and what happens to local dialects when language models tend to favor the most predictable language.
It's called "linguistic flattening," and it raises an interesting question: Are we starting to learn language from AI instead of just teaching AI our language?
Lauren is the Responsible AI Human-Centered Design Lead at BMO and an AI ethics professor at CUNY. We talk about how AI is affecting language, why critical thinking matters more as we rely on these tools, and how smaller AI models could help preserve the expressions that larger models overlook.
In this conversation
Why ChatGPT and other language models can make writing sound increasingly similar
What linguistic flattening could mean for slang, regional dialects, and languages with less training data
The difference between using AI to learn and losing skills by relying on it too much
Why AI companies scan physical books for model training, and the questions this raises about copyright
The dead internet theory and how AI-generated content is changing what we trust online
Why Lauren is building a small language model to better recognize Caribbean Spanglish
About Lauren
Lauren Mushro, PhD, is the Responsible AI Human-Centered Design Lead at Bank of Montreal (BMO) and an Adjunct Associate Professor in AI Ethics at the City University of New York. She holds a PhD in Modern Languages from Johns Hopkins University and researches how AI systems affect language, culture, and the way we communicate.
Connect with Lauren
Website: https://laurenmushro.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurenmushro
Mentioned in this episode
Center for AI Safety: https://safe.ai/
Machine Gods with Casey Newton and Kevin Roose: https://machinegods.fm/
Shae O. Omonijo, Critical Thinking in the Age of AI: https://www.instagram.com/iamshaeo/
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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction: How AI Is Changing the Way We Think
04:11 Responsible AI and the Impact on Language
07:21 AI in Education and the Critical Thinking Crisis
12:49 Why AI Companies Are Scanning Physical Books
17:59 Linguistic Flattening: Is AI Changing Our Language?
22:04 What Should We Stop Outsourcing to AI?
25:04 The Dead Internet Theory and AI-Generated Content
32:19 Final Takeaways and Building AI for Spanglish
Listener offer
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Affiliate disclosure: I may earn a commission if you purchase through this link, at no additional cost to you.
The AI Movement With Brooke is a weekly podcast exploring how AI is changing the way we build, create and make decisions.

Follow on LinkedIn: Brooke Gramer
Website: TheAIMovementPodcast.com

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Guest opinions are their own. Content is provided without guarantees of accuracy or results. Always verify information before acting. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Brooke Gramer, The AI Movement, and EmpowerFlow Strategies LLC disclaim liability arising from reliance on this content.

Krista is the founder and CEO of Authentic Audience, a full-service digital advertising agency, and the creator of Authentic Business Club. In our conversation, she shares how she is turning years of marketing and coaching experience into AI tools, from Mae, her morning AI executive, to KJ AI, the coach trained on hundreds of hours of her coaching, and her five-role AI Marketing Team using Claude Skills.
We get into how to train AI with your own context, where to keep your judgment in the process, and whether AI is creating more room for meaningful work or simply more pressure to do more.
Paid partnership: This episode includes paid promotional content from Omnisend.
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In this conversation
How Krista uses about 2,000 hours of her work to inform KJ AI
Why KJ AI is designed to coach and review, not write everything for you
How Mae helps Krista sort her attention and decide what needs her that day
What Krista’s five AI Marketing Team tools do, from copywriting to ad support
How AI can speed up reporting while leaving creative direction and judgment with people
How to use AI to expand your capacity without losing your voice
Connect with Krista on Instagram
Krista’s AI Marketing Team Offer
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Timestamps
00:00 Turning Krista’s expertise into AI tools
04:00 Where AI creates leverage for a founder
07:46 Mae, the morning AI executive
14:11 The five roles on Krista’s AI Marketing Team
20:56 Omnisend sponsored message
29:30 AI and paid advertising
35:20 AI, pressure, and sustainable growth
40:26 Krista’s closing advice for founders
Listener offer
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The AI Movement With Brooke is a weekly podcast exploring how AI is changing the way we build, create and make decisions.

Follow on LinkedIn: Brooke Gramer
Website: TheAIMovementPodcast.com

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Guest opinions are their own. Content is provided without guarantees of accuracy or results. Always verify information before acting. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Brooke Gramer, The AI Movement, and EmpowerFlow Strategies LLC disclaim liability arising from reliance on this content.

Chandler Malone is the CEO of Bootup Studios, an AI-powered startup studio built for early-stage entrepreneurs. We get into how first-time founders can use AI agents to develop an idea, find customers, access funding opportunities, and handle more of the day-to-day execution of building a business. 
AI is making it possible for one founder or a very small team to do work that once required far more people, but knowing what to build and what not to hand off to AI still matters.
If you have been thinking about starting a business, building a side income stream, or figuring out how much more you can do with AI and a smaller team, this episode is for you.
In this conversation:
How AI agents can help founders move from idea to execution
What Bootup Studios was built to solve for first-time entrepreneurs
Why you do not need to be technical to start using AI in your business
How vibe coding changed the speed of building and testing new products
Why customer conversations, relationships, and founder judgment should not be outsourced to AI
Chandler's approach to startup funding, grants, customer revenue, and venture capital
Why AI may lead to more people building small businesses of their own
Connect with Chandler
Bootup Studios: https://www.bootupstudios.ai
Chandler Malone on LinkedIn 
Mentioned in this episode
Claude Code, v0 by Vercel, Composio, Y Combinator Startup School, Paul Graham, Synthesia
Partners
Paid partnership: This episode includes paid promotional content from Omnisend.
Omnisend is an email and SMS marketing platform used by more than 200,000 brands. By connecting Omnisend's MCP directly with ChatGPT or Claude, you can review campaign performance, uncover what needs attention, create client-ready reports, and take action without manually moving data between tools.
Learn more about Omnisend
Listener offer
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I earn a commission if you purchase through my link, at no additional cost to you.
Timestamps
00:00 Chandler Malone and Bootup Studios
 03:51 Building an AI operating system for entrepreneurs
 05:11 Who Bootup Studios is built for
 08:02 Starting a business without a technical background
 12:38 Vibe coding and building a product faster
 20:02 Startup funding, relationships, grants, and VC
 27:03 Why AI could create a new wave of small businesses
 34:19 Chandler's advice for starting something of your own
The AI Movement With Brooke is a weekly podcast exploring how AI is changing the way we build, create and make decisions.

Follow on LinkedIn: Brooke Gramer
Website: TheAIMovementPodcast.com

Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Guest opinions are their own. Content is provided without guarantees of accuracy or results. Always verify information before acting. To the fullest extent permitted by law, Brooke Gramer, The AI Movement, and EmpowerFlow Strategies LLC disclaim liability arising from reliance on this content.