Jason Calhounknown in certain circles as Walt

Filmmaker · AI builder · Middle Tennessee

Pull up a chair. The lantern's on.

I'm Jason. I've spent twenty years behind a camera, first in churches and Christian radio, then running a production company, and lately building AI that does a surprising amount of my editing. That last part has me thinking hard about work, faith, fatherhood and which old ideas still hold up when everything else is moving this fast. This is where I keep that thinking, along with the studio where I still make films for ranchers, truck dealers and the trades.

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What's on the desk this week.

Week of October 5, 2026. The format is borrowed from Derek Sivers's "now page" idea: what's really getting my hours, updated as it changes.

  • Writing
    My AI published its second column about working with me. My own first essay, on AI and prayer, is still close. It goes up as an X Article first and lands here the same day.
  • Pointing
    My video work now lives under my own name, and I'm aiming it at truck dealers, equipment dealers, ranchers and the trades. They tend to have a phone full of great footage a
  • Showing
    Every revised cut now ships with a short before-and-after reel: the client's own note on a card, the old moment, then the new one. Ten notes on a 25-minute podcast fit in a little over three minutes. Nobody has to rewatch the whole thing to find out whether I listened.
    • ly, on a silent face. Now every one lands on a syllable.
  • Counting
    Frames, mostly. Half-hour TV episodes have to run exactly 26 minutes, which is 46,800 frames and not one more. When a round of notes trims 74 seconds, I go hunting for 74 good seconds to put back. Broadcast is a strict landlord.
  • Editing
    Rancher reviews and podcast episodes for Riomax, and shorts and ads for TigerTough, the seat-cover company I made the BACKBONE series with. My AI editor now cuts a first pass, then studies mine. I stay on the rancher's face about 75% of the time and it was at 45%, so we're working on that.
  • Reading
    Dante's Inferno, slowly, and a little Aquinas.

    • What I'm thinking about

    Four subjects I keep coming back to.

    Some of this I've lived for twenty years. Some of it I'm working out in public. I'll tell you which is which.

    Chapter I

    AI and the future of work

    AI does a growing share of my editing now. I'm writing about what that means for people whose work is changing, starting with the guy in my chair.

    Read →     Chapter II

    Theology and faith

    Eleven years making media for churches and a Christian broadcaster, and these days a path toward the Catholic Church. The writing follows that road.

    Read →     Chapter III

    Philosophy and ideas

    Head, Heart, Humor started as my rule for making a video land. The notes here pull on that thread, plus Aquinas, Dante and the other voices I'm reading.

    Read →     Chapter IV

    Men, fatherhood and growth

    Husband and dad. Notes on raising a family, keeping discipline, and building a life while the ground moves under all of us.

    Read →

    The studio

    I still make films for people who build things.

    Cinematic brand films, documentary series and YouTube channels for ranching, trucking, dealers and the trades, made by a person with twenty years of craft and a small army of AI tools doing the tedious parts. Formerly So Long Saturn.

    See the workBook 30 minutes

    Made content for

    Tesla Facebook R+Co MasterClass AWS Coca-Cola Adidas Intel

    8K → 350KYouTube subscribers in a year at BuildWitt, where I was a lead on the video team
    243Kviews on TigerTough's BACKBONE launch film; their brand videos had been drawing about a hundred
    $3M+raised in REX's pre-seed round, with the investor films I made in the pitch
    20 yrsbehind the camera, including a feature documentary on Amazon Prime