On this episode of Raff’s Brain – Drive & Jive, Rob records on the road and wrestles with creativity, technology, and identity in real time.

From Meta-powered sunglasses and Spanish vocabulary experiments to group text dynamics and lifelong friendships, this episode slowly shifts into something deeper: how we’re thinking too small about AI.

After five days into a 30-day Instagram posting challenge, Rob hits his first creative barrier while building AI-generated cartoons. The concept? A middle-aged Grim Reaper named Mort facing professional irrelevance.

But the bigger realization: maybe we’re all just using new tools to recreate old formats.

What if AI isn’t about faster content… but entirely new forms of storytelling?

It’s messy. It’s exploratory. It’s Drive & Jive.

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Podcast Outline

• What Raff’s Brain Is (and isn’t)
• Drive & Jive vs. Riffin’ with Raff vs. Hot Yoga Problems
• Living with layered tech (Meta glasses, AI assistants)
• The psychology of group texts and identity
• The 30-day Instagram challenge
• AI text-to-video animation experiments
• Why Mort (the Grim Reaper) might work as a concept
• Why the execution isn’t working
• The film camera analogy
• Efficiency vs. transformation
• The future of AI storytelling
• Creativity as experimentation

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