{"id":11480,"date":"2026-02-23T23:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11480"},"modified":"2026-02-23T23:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T07:21:08","slug":"a-ponzi-scheme-with-a-dress-code-notebooklm-with-a-great-prompt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/23\/a-ponzi-scheme-with-a-dress-code-notebooklm-with-a-great-prompt\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ponzi Scheme with a Dress Code: NotebookLM with a Great Prompt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Makeuseof.com just gave me a GREAT hint<\/a> on how to use NotebookLM to make hilarious and accurate summaries of hard-to-read documents.\u00a0 I had NotebookLM give me an audio podcast summary of the Jonathan’s Landing Country Club Bylaws and it was viciously hilarious and informative!<\/p>\n

Here, give it 30 seconds and tell me you don’t agree! Jump to 45 seconds for the first zinger. Jump to 6:20 for the zinger that made me laugh so loud, my nearly sleeping daughter and my wife on the other side of the house both asked me simultaneously, “Why are you laughing so loud?!”<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The_Jonathan_s_Landing_Golf_Club_Caste_System.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

“It is a highly sophisticated equity structure.”
\n“It is a Ponzi scheme with a dress code.”<\/p>\n

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For reference, NotebookLM is an AI tool that reads documents and answers questions or even makes podcasts out of them. I gave it the prompt that Makeuseof.com suggested called “chaotic podcast hosts”<\/p>\n

Host names: Amber & Rick.<\/p>\n

Hosts dislike each other and the topics they\u2019re discussing.<\/p>\n

Dialogue style: Dry, sly, witty, and hilariously underhanded insults. Incorporate sarcasm, thinly veiled cynicism, and unrestrained contempt.<\/p>\n

Storytelling: Improvise implied backstory, history, relationships, and personal knowledge to create fodder for embarrassment or humiliation. Include a few underlying story arcs that gradually unfold.<\/p>\n

Escalation: Have the hosts go at each other increasingly viciously until they lose their temper and yell venomously.<\/p>\n

Resolution: End with one host making a completely unexpected, hilarious joke that breaks the tension and makes both laugh uncontrollably.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Makeuseof.com just gave me a GREAT hint on how to use NotebookLM to make hilarious and accurate summaries of hard-to-read documents.\u00a0 I had NotebookLM give me an audio podcast summary of the Jonathan’s Landing Country Club Bylaws and it was viciously hilarious and informative! Here, give it 30 seconds and tell me you don’t agree! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11480"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11487,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11480\/revisions\/11487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}