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Approachable AI

Demystifying AI, one episode at a time.

No jargon, just what’s actually happening and why it matters, whether you’re a curious beginner or already deep in the weeds.

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Joshua McKenzie German
On air
2026 – Present
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AI tools, minus the jargon
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01 Episodes

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Every episode plays right here. Real tools, real builds, and the mistakes along the way.

Episode 006Latest

Trying to Run My Life With Meta’s Muse AI Agent

AI agents have been talked about as the future for a while now. But what happens when you actually give one access to your apps, your calendar, and the projects you're working on? In Episode 6 of Approachable AI, Joshua returns to explore…

  1. Episode 005

    How I Built “The Eclectic Polymath Podcast”

    Welcome back to Approachable AI, where I explore practical ways to use AI, test new tools, build real projects, and make emerging technology easier to understand. In this episode, I’m taking you behind the scenes of how I built "The…

  2. Episode 004

    Vibe Coding My 2026 AI Resolution Challenge

    Kicking off 2026 with a raw, unfiltered look at building AI-powered apps in real time. I start a 10-week AI resolution challenge and build a complete resolution tracker app in Google AI Studio, with project management features, voice dictation, and custom milestones. Mistakes and all.

  3. Episode 003

    Building An AI Bias Radar By Training It To Read Between the Lines

    Creating an AI system that can detect bias and nuance in content: how to train models to pick up on subtle cues and read between the lines, building toward Veritas, the bias detection tool.

  4. Episode 002

    Live Vibe Coding: Mastering Tools And Building Your Own

    Diving into the world of vibe coding: building with AI tools in real time and learning through experimentation.

  5. Episode 001

    Trying, Failing, and Trying Again with ChatGPT, Atlas, Google Gemini and Perplexity

    The first episode: learning AI tools through trial and error, and embracing failure as the path to understanding.

02 What we explore

Humans, meet machines.

What it means to live, work, and make things at the edge of what’s possible.

  1. 01

    Technology & Culture

    How emerging tech reshapes identity, creativity, and the rhythms of everyday life, and what it means to live at the edge of what’s possible.

  2. 02

    Creative Strategy

    The intersection of data-driven insight and human intuition: how the best ideas get built, sold, and remembered in a world moving at machine speed.

  3. 03

    Tools & Workflow

    Navigating the AI tool landscape to build smarter and faster, and finding what actually works versus what just makes for a good demo.

  4. 04

    The Future of Work

    What it means to build a career when the rules are being rewritten in real time, and how to position yourself on the right side of the shift.

  5. 05

    Media & Narrative

    How stories get told, who gets to tell them, and how AI is changing both, from news and advertising to the content we create and consume daily.

  6. 06

    Human + Machine

    The evolving partnership between human creativity and artificial intelligence: where the handoff happens, where it shouldn’t, and what that means for all of us.

Joshua McKenzie German smiling on a rooftop above a city skyline at dusk
Joshua McKenzie German · Host

03 From the host

No jargon. Just what’s actually happening, and why it matters.

I learn AI the way most of us do: by trying, failing, and trying again. ChatGPT, Atlas, Google Gemini, Perplexity. A resolution tracker built live in Google AI Studio. A bias radar trained to read between the lines.

I host, produce, and edit the show myself, and I keep the mistakes in. That’s where the understanding comes from.

Joshua McKenzie GermanLos Angeles, CA

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