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And I remember having the beginning in the beginning.
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I'm statistic and being in on my computer.
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I'm just like what if you made the channels based on like the bigger topics we talk about?
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And so like one channel was clips from topic this topic.
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I don't I we only have 96 hours, so I don't know.
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I mean that's a lot, but I don't know if that's enough yet.
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Yeah.
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Um eventually though, like if we got to like a thousand episodes, yeah, like the ideas and being able to tie everything together for over all that time, and I think that's why it's important to kind of keep them evergreen, keep them you know, kind of um higher level and just about ideas because it just I mean you can see it how it scales.
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Yeah, ideas scale endlessly, and yeah, it looks really cool.
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Well, and already just sitting there talking about it, you know, whether or not it they they come to fruition or pass the sniff tests, coming up with these other ideas.
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I I legit think that like a sports a sports app that looks has a similar vibe to that.
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And I don't mean like a like the actual design elements, I just mean the overall vibe you have from it, and the whole design could look completely different.
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Yeah, I'd have to find something that is like uh yeah, kind of inspiring to but I think you're right.
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Like if it was just LA, New York, Chicago, Cleveland, you know.
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I mean, I guess the NFL and differ MLB and stuff could own the rights to the scores of their games and wouldn't somebody and if that like if that was the case, then you wouldn't be able to pull it anyways, because we need an open API to pull the the scores.
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It's like this is using the National Weather Service.
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Right.
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But I'm pretty sure all that stuff is yeah.
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You could do like a finance one.
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Right.
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Oh god, dude, a stock ticker app?
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Yeah, like an 80s style stock ticker app.
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Holy shit.
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But that one you'd have to have like a pretty intense phone interface.
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But yeah, I mean that'd be pretty easy to do.
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What if you did one app like Wall Street style, like night like the Oliver Stone Wall Street style stock market aesthetic for like stocks and then what if you did where people could buy it in bulk for a discount and you treat each one as a channel?
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Like you can change you could do that too.
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So if you're like, well, I don't want this them to be separate apps, I want them to be all in one.
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Yeah, and I'll pay 20, 40, 60, I'll pay$50 for whatever for the yeah, and I can change the channel.
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Yeah, maybe.
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Yeah, I don't know.
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I I right now I just want to see the app is live in the app store, and it's like okay, great.
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Stock ticker.
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Yeah.
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I mean, yeah, any anything that you pull an API from, you can turn it into one of these little yeah.
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I mean, it's just uh and I you know, I think yeah, it's like the it's like I used to make those videos where it'd just be like me working for like an hour, because it's like, well, this is the benefit of one, I'm capturing a moment in time, which is kind of interesting, two, it's motivating me to work, and then three, a lot of people just like the work with me videos.
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I just thought that was a really interesting idea.
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I like things just going, right?
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Yeah, me too.
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You know, candles and fire and shit.
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So I don't know.
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But yeah, dude, I um I got my portfolio done, my website finally done.
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Studio sessions website is done.
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Um we got the app thing built out, which was kind of a tangent, but we gotta actually start doing stuff with that, and then the production software is finished too.
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So hopefully I'm like stepping away from the designing bullshit.
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It's not bullshit, but also it it is definitely like vibe coding has a reputation of like creating slop.
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Yeah.
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And I don't think I the more I've done it, the more I'm like, I don't think that's a fair representation of how I'm sure some people are just coding slop.
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I mean, there's a ton of bullshit on the internet.
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Well, but I I do think there's like just an interesting thing right now where if you're a creative person and you have ideas for things and you kind of understand how like digital technology works, it's just a really cool time to be alive.
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And I'm seeing the the the people who are using it in really amazing ways from you, uh Dylan, uh my buddy, Final Cut Bro, and uh Raf, who's doing uh Final Cut apps and plugins with it in really nice ways.
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Uh that guy that showed you his website, the video editor, all the apps that he's making with Claude, I assume Claude, it's
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just I'm it is just insane, dude.
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Yeah.
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I mean my dumbass has made two apps, they're not beautiful or anything, and they're not certainly not done, but I'm just like yeah, blown away by the case.
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I mean, I just I've not like I'm not uh really trying to make apps in any way.
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It's just a fun thing like to make things that I use.
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Yes.
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We've been talking about the weather station since I think even before Chad GPT became a thing.
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Yes.
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I think you mentioned it even before I gave you that CRT.
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You talked about something like that.
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Definitely.
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And you I picked up that Apple monitor hoping that that one would serve as the monitor for your Weather Station idea.
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Yeah.
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And it didn't work out, but well, we finally got it, yeah, which is cool.
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Um Man.
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No, I mean it's just and then like all of the apps are just production stuff that I needed and like couldn't afford to pay StudioBinder for or you know, some bullshit.
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Oh, I'm gonna pay a subscription to Adobe so I can watermark my scripts that I need to send out.
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Yeah.
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Um so yeah.
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I don't oh, I want to show you.
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The board.
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The board.
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First of all, just good old-fashioned courier new.
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Good old-fashioned courier new in a word processor, and then you copy the page and it gives it a nice like little Yeah, little texture.
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Just makes it feel a little lighter.
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Yeah.
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The paper feels good too.
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It's just Amazon paper.
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Yeah, it feels like old or something.
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Excuse me.
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For uh for those listening, what I handed Matt was a flyer.
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They're like, what is what happened?
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It's a flyer um for a little kind of I guess project that I'm working on.
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Um so to give a little bit of context, if if you're listening or if you've like listened in the last couple of weeks and things are all over the place, it's like, oh, what is what the heck is going on?
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What's um I've been doing like a ton of random things and really the high level of what I'm doing is so like part of my brain does work in like systems.
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I think I'm a I don't know why that is, but it just kind of thinks in systems.
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And so um one thing I've been really trying to do in the past year, I mean the past decade, but really getting you know serious and trying to like move forward on it in the past year has been getting films made.
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And there's a lot of hurdles to that in Omaha, and so my brain has kind of been trying to uh what like take the fire out of some of those hurdles, like um uh you know, what like take down some of those hurdles.
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Um and usually the hurdles with any kind of like you have crew that there's just not a lot of it.
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You have money, there's not a lot of it, you have talent, whether that's acting, I guess crew also kind of, but I guess acting talent purely.
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I think those are like maybe the biggest bottlenecks.
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I don't know, Matt.
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You're yeah you know it just as well as I do.
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What what'd you say?
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I I would say so too.
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And um you know, for what you want to set out to do, you know, those are you know big obstacles to overcome.
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Yeah.
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The need for a lot of people to be involved in making something.
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And by a lot, it could be eight, you know.
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I'm not talking about 30-person crews and cast and crews.
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Yeah.
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I'm not saying you can't get anything done in Omaha, I'm just saying you want crews.
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I mean, you want to work with people who you trust, yeah, and who have a certain level of competency and who share, you know, certain tastes with you and um can see things.
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And but yeah, long story short, I've been trying to like fix these bottlenecks.
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Um personally, I mean, yes, personally, but also just for the entire group.
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I mean, you're building anything, everybody is able to kind of take advantage of that.
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And it's the thing Matt and I have talked about forever with like photography specifically and things like that.
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Um but yeah, just trying to do it.
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So whether that's you know, you design really easy to use, you know, systems that kind of m make templated information a little easier to access and kind of bring everybody up to a certain baseline, or like what I handed Matt, for instance, is uh flyer that I'm working on for a uh an acting workshop to try to build that out.
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Yeah, that's good stuff.
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Um but yeah, so uh yeah, what did you what did you think of that?
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I think it's great.
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I want it, I my what I would fucking love is to get Matt in an acting workshop.
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I've never seen the man act around, I try.
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I mean, I I have a lot less um sort of fear and self-consciousness about it.
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The hardest part for me is memorizing the lines, yeah.
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Yeah, I and then like when I make uh an effort to, then I get afraid that I'm gonna forget them.
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And so then I'm managing remembering lines, I'm not acting.
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Yeah, and that is an obstacle that I've really never been able to get past.
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The only time I really felt like it worked was doing it cinema style because usually the coverage was relatively, you know, even in the master, the scene wasn't some four-page short play that I had a memory, you know, all that.
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It was, you know, the some of the stuff I did was more bite-sized.
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Now, obviously, some scripts are that way and it would be daunting, but at least with on set and a camera, even though it is high stakes, money, time, you know, getting through the setup list and all that stuff, it's less pressure than a live theater.
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Well, I'd love to go over some of the thoughts I have, not live, but um yeah, I've kind of like pulled down some source material, laid out like a a syllabus for what the 10 weeks would look like.
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Yeah.
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Um I think I want to aim for like 12 people, just because it's a pretty manageable room.
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Yeah.
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And if you get less, it's okay.
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Um, but and then like some pretty strict rules about like, hey, if you're up for a scene with a scene partner and you don't show, obviously, if it's like a you know, something happened with my kid or something understandable, and we'll have a backup.
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But if it's just like I didn't feel like coming in, then it's you know, you you you get or I wasn't prepared, so I just yeah, yeah, made something.
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I think you get one like one opportunity, but yeah, definitely trying to push for the and I don't know if this line is a little too much, but which one the last one here, yeah.
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I I I just I want to push that that hey, like you're gonna come in here, and we're not judging like, oh well, this was good, or this was it's it's like no, we're just what was there more creative potential there?
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Did was it believable?
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Yeah, did it feel truthful in the way that that this is supposed to, or like not that it has to be a realist performance all the time, but you know, basically, what were you going for?
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Do we feel like you hit that?
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Well, and really honestly, are you even touching on what you know acting?
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Like, like again, I went through four years of acting school, and most of the time I was just a person who was tr managing the memorization of lines.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And I would maybe have a performance quality that I would skin on top of a person trying to just get their lines out, yeah.
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But there was no listening from the other actors going on.
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There was no responding.
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The only time that I actually really enjoyed live performance was when it was improv because I was an improv comedy troupe.
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Because that's just you more than anything, in a in a sense.
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Well, you know, and it you know, you you you know, it was comedy, so you have to be, you know, you have to be thinking about the decisions, the choices that you make, and the opportunities you create, leading to greater and greater um drama, but with with things being funny.
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Um and really listening to your your scene partners when that flash of an idea comes in your brain in a nanosecond moving on that.
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Uh, and that was more exhilarating for me because while there's preparation for improv comedy and practice and all that stuff, I'm not coming in with like all this stress and anxiety about what what was my line after?
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What's the cute what's the line?
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Where do I go?
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Where do I almost my block?
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I almost hesitate to call it like an acting workshop because performance workshop.
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It's more like like you want to get to not non-acting, right?
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You want to get to like you embodying the character.
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Yeah.
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Um, so I don't know.
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I'll um there's time to work on it.
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I want to get it the flyers out relatively soon just because the year's going quick.
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But um is it ever?
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But yeah, that's the idea.
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Um, it's funny.
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I took an improv class in I guess in like middle school or high school or something.
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I don't know.
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It was a lot of fun.
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We had a good good improv teacher.
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Yeah.
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I never got nervous for improvement.
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We used to watch.
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Uh I used to watch uh the Drew Carey show.
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Yep.
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Whose line is it anyways?
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Whose line is anyway, I did too.
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Yeah, it's a good show.
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Yeah, there were a few others too, and then obviously best in show and all that is and scurbier enthusiasm is is is you know, it's tighter improv.
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Adam McKay movies.
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Yeah.
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I mean, even like uh Scorsese uses a lot of improv.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, he he really encourages Yeah, he loves improv.
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Yeah, what you know you know, he I think all of them, Adam McKay and Scorsese are sort of like, let's get the tank that covers our bases, but then let's fuck around a little bit.
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Well, I mean I I I think because I mean improv, I I almost hate categorizing it as like that because like what is like the idea of a writing or of of an improv session is like you said, yeah, you're just trying to like dig into a greater dramatic hole.
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Yeah.
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And then hopefully that presents something that's you can riff on.
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Yep.
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And there's a like bits that recur and things that happen, but that's essentially just writing also.
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Yeah, so it's it's definitely they definitely go together.
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Yeah.
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Maybe it's not as tight and you don't have to like there's no editorial process to improv, but yeah.
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But anyways, yeah, that's the this is like one of the real world things, and then obviously the scripts did the went down to the jazz thing.
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I think that's gonna be, I think that's got legs.
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Um and then uh yeah, I sent you another script that I wrote last week that might have some legs too.
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And did you feel that real world feeling when you were working with the agency and doing all that?
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Or do you think that there is dude?
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I think I I don't even recognize that person anymore.
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Like I I mean, like that's dumb.
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Like that's that's that's but no, I was I I think about that really often.
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I'm just like, what happened to like fucking three years, four years of my life?
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Yeah, because I like I recognize this person, like the just having ideas, and also this is totally probably just a seasonal thing, yeah.
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Like just being in that creative like headspace where I mean, but I'm literally like
every week if I'm not finishing like two or three things or getting them to like the next point on the on the whatever.
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I'm like, this week sucked.
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Yep.
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But yeah, no, now I'm just like, oh man, I don't know.
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I just I just want to get some real stuff made.
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Like I'm super excited to go see this movie tonight.
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Yeah.
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Um, I mean this and uh um you I can see everything, the documentary, or it's both Lance.
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What's Lance tonight?
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Uh it's oh it's the other, yeah.
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They've got like the Boomer, Boomer radio or whatever.
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Okay.
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I forget now I forget what the two movies are, but they're like uh they're more just like mainstream.
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Yeah, it seems like it.
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Yeah.
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Um what Nate said, Ruth plays all the cool kid movies.
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All the cool kids go.
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Is Nate gonna go tonight?
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He might.
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Uh well, yeah, I'll text him.
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Uh-huh.
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Um, but what I was saying though is the the guy who directed them is is like 30.
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Like prime time and this one that's coming out.
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Um and yeah, I mean, I see stuff like that, and I'm like, okay, like it's it's possible.
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Like people are able to get my like and that just really motivates me.
00:18:34.720 --> 00:18:36.079
Um, and I'm excited.
00:18:36.240 --> 00:18:39.920
Like, I saw the trailer for this one, and I was like immediately, I was like, oh, this looks different.
00:18:40.160 --> 00:18:41.920
I saw like with the digger trailer and everything.
00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:52.079
I was just like, man, like there's just a feeling you get of like being on the periphery of something where cool stuff is happening, and you're like, I want to get into the pool, like let me in.
00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:52.559
Yeah.
00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:56.160
Um, so yeah, that's a real sense.
00:18:56.240 --> 00:18:57.759
So maybe that has something to do with it.
00:18:58.079 --> 00:18:58.319
Yeah.
00:18:58.400 --> 00:19:00.319
Um to create cool stuff too.
00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:01.680
Yeah, no, for sure.
00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:05.440
I mean, it's just like that's that's all I want to do, is just like get in and like make stuff.
00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:11.039
I will say, back to that question about the agency stuff.
00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:16.720
I have felt since you started doing all this stuff, I'm like, Alex is back.
00:19:17.599 --> 00:19:18.880
He's back, baby.
00:19:19.359
--> 00:19:20.799
I just went away for four years.
00:19:21.200 --> 00:19:34.559
And that doesn't mean that you weren't fun, we didn't have great conversations, I didn't enjoy your company, but I really felt a sense of loss with the YouTube thing, and I thought it was Did you feel like I was like this before the agency?
00:19:34.799 --> 00:19:48.400
And I like I'm just curious as to your we would basically we would have lots of things where we would get ideas, whether it was you as an individual, us together, me as an individual, we would riff on them and we would get amped about them.
00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:54.720
And you know, sometimes they'd fizzle, we wouldn't see them through, whatever, but there was an excitement and energy about that.
00:19:55.119 --> 00:20:08.079
Um and then when you were doing your YouTube stuff, you know, I could tell that you it wasn't like it wasn't like this necessarily, even though you need time away from this to like press whatever and then get back into it.
00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:08.799
Yeah.
00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:22.880
Um but there always was sort of like a dark cloud over the YouTube stuff because I could just tell that it wasn't the the right way for you to express your creativity and make things and all that stuff.
00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:34.559
I think a lot of it was, but there's too many other forces at play and things that can suck you in, temptations, all of that stuff that can take what you're doing and trap you.
00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:34.880
Yeah.
00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:37.279
By okay, well, my channel did get successful.
00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:49.279
Now I have to make stuff that's like this because it's how I earn a living, and then you end up just kind of ghosting your way through that experience, and you're not really truly inspired, you're just kind of going through the motions.
00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:49.519
Yeah.
00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:52.960
And you know, stuff like that could happen with something like that's what happened at the agency.
00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:54.160
Yeah, I think so too.
00:20:54.559 --> 00:21:01.279
And so when you started doing this stuff, and it's oh, come here, come see this, come check this out, or like today, like, or yesterday.
00:21:01.359 --> 00:21:03.680
You're well, I got a surprise for you.
00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:11.599
I want to I want to hear your reaction to, I mean, I guess I heard it this morning, but yeah, like what I was so excited about that.
00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:16.000
Like, I was more excited about that than maybe anything that I've done so far.
00:21:16.160 --> 00:21:16.720
I don't know why.
00:21:16.799 --> 00:21:18.480
I was just like, this is so cool.
00:21:19.039 --> 00:21:22.960
Like just seeing all the tapes on the thing, and I was just like, this is so cool.
00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:31.920
Well, and not that we've talked about it in the sense of having had like design the website or whatever, but we've talked about analog with this podcast.
00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:39.680
It'd be cool to put some episodes on VHS and hide them in a thrift store and see what happens or audio cassettes, all that kind of stuff.
00:21:39.759 --> 00:21:40.799
You know, we've talked about all this stuff.
00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:48.720
I talked about WinAmp, but we've talked about retro websites, and I told you about my experiences coding from scratch, all my GeoCities sites.
00:21:48.799 --> 00:21:53.440
First thing Aaron said when I showed her the website oh my god, this feels like my old Geo Cities websites.
00:21:53.839 --> 00:21:54.079
Yeah.
00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:55.680
No, that was definitely the vibe.
00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:56.960
And I was like, Oh yeah.
00:21:57.119 --> 00:21:57.920
Yeah, yeah.
00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:02.400
Slip into it, baby, because It is all the vibes you want.
00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:07.680
The the the um GIFs, I don't know what they are, the Seinfeld and the Dude.
00:22:07.839 --> 00:22:09.359
My favorite one is on our admin.
00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:10.000
Shining.
00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:18.079
Like when you log into the admin, so there's a little like dashboard that basically just says, like, hey, everything's linking, everything's pulling correctly, whatever.
00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:19.920
If there's an issue, it'll flag it.
00:22:20.160 --> 00:22:21.279
But it's all automated.
00:22:21.440 --> 00:22:22.079
Yeah.
00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:26.720
Um and it's the office space GIF where he's like drilling his shit.
00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:33.359
And then he kicks it back and he just goes, It's my favorite.
00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:35.119
So good.
00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:43.519
Well, and I think I think the way I look at it too, when I see the website, you know, and I and I'm, you know, obviously part of me is like, you know, because I have a surprise for you.
00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:47.599
Like Wendy, like like Jack says to Wendy, I've got a surprise for you.
00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:49.680
Watched that movie last night.
00:22:49.759 --> 00:22:50.240
It was great.
00:22:50.480 --> 00:22:50.960
So good.
00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:55.680
TC every Thursday, by the way, for anybody listening, because this episode's gonna get power packed.
00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:56.240
Oh, yeah.
00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:03.359
Or power, it's gonna get put out there quickly because it's our yeah, we're we're at the edge.
00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:09.279
Um but great Kubrick podcast on TCM plot thickens.
00:23:09.599 --> 00:23:10.400
Like description.
00:23:10.880 --> 00:23:13.359
Yeah, well, if if I we remember to add that.
00:23:13.759 --> 00:23:14.960
Um I'll forget.
00:23:15.200 --> 00:23:16.799
Definitely recommend checking that out.
00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:20.559
But then also, um, and this has been playing the whole time, I didn't realize that.
00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:24.640
We should probably you could probably cut it, but um yeah, I'll cut it off in a second.
00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:25.440
Sorry, I got distracted.
00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:35.279
But it's like every Thursday night this October, um it's Kubrick month or whatever.
00:23:35.519 --> 00:23:35.839
Yeah.
00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:36.799
I think it's October.
00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:37.440
Oh man.
00:23:37.519 --> 00:23:49.599
Yeah, no, it's it's it's onward because this is the last you know, I'm speaking right now, now that I think of it, it might actually be have been like all through September.
00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:52.000
Oh, like like we're coming to the end of it.
00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:52.559
You know what?
00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:55.759
Either way, next Thursday, it's definitely gonna be uh Kubrick Night.
00:23:55.839 --> 00:23:56.880
If you have TCM, throw it on.
00:23:57.119 --> 00:24:06.079
Like this coming Thursday, and less than so like last night was the shining, and then I got sucked into full metal jacket and then eyes wide shut to wrap the night.
00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:09.599
Um I have not had that on VHS in the shop.
00:24:09.839 --> 00:24:10.240
So good.
00:24:10.640 --> 00:24:17.279
I have two copies, I have a sealed copy and a regular copy, but it's not in the shop.
00:24:17.519 --> 00:24:21.359
And the one copy of Full Metal Jacket, I think we pulled it last week.
00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:21.759
Yeah.
00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:23.279
Oh, this is cool.
00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:26.799
Which by the way, everybody's looking looking at the the VHS.
00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:28.400
We should uh situation.
00:24:28.720 --> 00:24:42.640
We should I I want to like find a higher thing to like like I think some bigger creative takeaways from this conversation are like just having a lot of like embers in the fire.
00:24:42.720 --> 00:24:42.960
Yeah.
00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:46.160
Um irons in the fire, embers in the fire.
00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:51.119
Stoking or uh I was I was thinking stokes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:53.039
And then I was like, I don't know.
00:24:53.200 --> 00:24:57.200
Anyways, um, yeah, a lot of irons in the fire.
00:24:57.279 --> 00:25:02.000
Uh sometimes like maybe that can be good for creativity.
00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:02.799
Yeah.
00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:05.039
Um I don't know, man.
00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:14.880
I I I want to take this to a like I want to make sure we're not getting too niche into like the very specific, like, oh, this is happening and then somebody's listening.
00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:18.400
Like I have no application of anything to do with that.
00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:20.079
You want to, yeah, too micro.
00:25:20.319 --> 00:25:22.480
Anyways, though, uh, really quickly on the micro.
00:25:22.640 --> 00:25:25.440
Yeah, we did like the criteria.
00:25:26.319 --> 00:25:29.839
It was like the dusty criterion closet or the dirty criterion closet.
00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:31.039
Well, hold on a second.
00:25:31.119 --> 00:25:41.200
Uh before you go on that thread, because we I don't feel like we wrapped up the website thing, and I don't want to spend a lot
of time on it, but um you were asking about my reaction to when you unveiled the website.
00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:41.839
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:46.160
And I feel like that might be hanging out there for people listening or watching, just to button it up.
00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:46.799
Wrap that up.
00:25:46.960 --> 00:25:48.480
And then we'll go into the that thing.
00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:50.559
This is how my brain is working, yeah.
00:25:50.720 --> 00:25:52.960
Which is not, yeah, it's like very methy.
00:25:53.680 --> 00:26:13.279
I was I wrote this, the draft for Audrey this morning, and she's like, she's like, sometimes just depending, like sometimes you'll just write really like your ideas are just jumping all over the place, and you're and it shows up in the writing, and it's hard to read because you have to figure out how you got and sorry to rework.
00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:35.839
I I don't think that's my state all the time, but it's definitely I have had that so bad lately that I will write a sentence in a message or something, pause to think about something for a minute, 90 seconds, continue writing the message, and then I say again what I said two lines earlier because I forgot that I said it.
00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:41.200
You're like, oh and then I send the message or whatever, and I'm like memo took me like four drafts.
00:26:42.720 --> 00:26:46.240
That should have taken me like five seconds at a typewriter.
00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:48.079
I'm just like okay.
00:26:48.160 --> 00:26:54.960
It literally went through four drafts to get it where with like the red pin and doing the markup and okay, but the website.
00:26:55.200 --> 00:27:04.000
And I like that you're in this bing bing bing bing state because I feel like it's a it's more aligned with me selfishly, with like I gotta be here, and then I gotta go do this, and then do this.
00:27:04.079 --> 00:27:17.119
Like I'm just all these irons in the fire, and it's fun, and it's what and sometimes it's challenging, but it's just it's fun to see you go like I got this thing, and then I got the movie, and then I got this, and this app, and like all this, it's it's exciting.
00:27:17.279 --> 00:27:23.759
Yeah, well, I mean, I know there's some negatives, but you have to do that when you're yeah, you're just like looking for yeah.
00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:25.599
Okay, so the website.
00:27:26.240 --> 00:27:28.960
What I Oh, by the way, studio sessions pod.com.
00:27:29.119 --> 00:27:29.839
Yes, go there.
00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:41.200
Like honestly, if that's the only way you interacted with the pod from now until the end of time, that would probably be the best because it is the best experience, I think, available on the internet to interact with this podcast.
00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:52.319
Well, now that I'm thinking about it, not just the update to the episode description, but every episode from the past needs to have the URL at the top of it in the description on YouTube.
00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:55.119
The oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:55.440
Yeah.
00:27:56.319 --> 00:28:01.920
Well, and we need to change the actual URL on the YouTube page because right now it goes to like the Spotify.
00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:04.960
Well, we I wonder if we have that too.
00:28:05.200 --> 00:28:08.240
You know, if people I would just take it out because it's all on the website.
00:28:08.400 --> 00:28:10.720
And just go to the website, it's super easy to find the Apple Music.
00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:12.720
Okay.
00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:13.680
Yep.
00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:18.240
Um, so you told me I got a surprise for you.
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:21.279
I'm guessing what it is, guessing wrong.
00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:22.319
Um, nothing.
00:28:22.480 --> 00:28:25.039
Well, we had like guessing we had like seven things hanging out there.
00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:25.759
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:28:25.839 --> 00:28:28.880
There's a bunch of things out there, and I'm guessing wrong, I'm not thinking big enough.
00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:40.559
And so Alex calls me today, tells me to get on the computer, sends a link through the messenger app, and I pull it up, and it's a new website for this podcast.
00:28:40.799 --> 00:28:55.759
And it's like the dream website, in the sense that it is retro and full of, you know, just the look of it is exactly like it's pulled out of my brain, um, my and the past.
00:28:56.400 --> 00:29:11.599
And the imagery that I get is when working with you on this stuff, it's like all of the things that I'm not that you are, and all of the things that you are that I am, and vice versa, with me, converge in this one place.
00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:12.240
Yeah, yeah.
00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:17.440
And I get to see a visual representation of our differences and our similarities.
00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:23.039
But even like our differences are complementary, not oppositional.
00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:26.559
Yeah, you can do things and think of things that I can't.
00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:28.000
It's a cool, it's a cool side.
00:29:28.240 --> 00:29:29.599
I'm super happy with it.
00:29:29.839 --> 00:29:42.000
And so when I look at that side, yeah, this is this is a this is a representation of like if there was a drawing that described that feeling I have with you, it would be it.
00:29:42.240 --> 00:29:42.559
Yeah.
00:29:42.799 --> 00:30:04.240
Well, so when I was when I was like finishing that and finally getting it live and looking at it, like it's definitely a cold, like everything I'm doing is like it almost feels like you know, I've been working for like the last decade of my life, and it's easy to think like, oh man, like I've just been wasting, yeah, wasting time, wasting whatever.
00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:14.640
But I really think I've just been like just putting shit into a bucket and then like dragging that bucket, and it gets bigger and bigger and bigger.
00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:23.119
And I it feels like right now in
this season of my life, whatever this is, this like six, twelve, what you know, however many months this ends up being, yeah.
00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:33.759
I'm just like dumping out all of the contents of that bucket because like my website, I found this sketch that I made in 2022 that's literally my website.
00:30:34.000 --> 00:30:41.440
Like it said flamingo at the top instead of made by Alex, but you know, literally laid out just like my website.
00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:43.920
Yeah, and so that became my website.
00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:47.440
Oh, it took you know years to get there, but finally became that.
00:30:47.759 --> 00:31:02.400
Um, you know, I'm like finishing these scripts, or like I mean, having ideas like the one I sent you, like there were like five different ideas that had been ringing around in my head that I never knew how to connect, and then I had the one idea that connected them all.
00:31:02.480 --> 00:31:02.640
Yep.
00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:07.359
And then it comes out, and it's like, okay, well, there's five, it's like playing Tetris.
00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:09.519
I was playing Tetris the other day at the shop.
00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:17.599
Um, but yeah, I'm like clear, like brrrrrr, the little area clears out when you get the blocks right.
00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:52.640
And um I mean, this was like a there was a thing called Middle West Acting Company, and I was like, oh, I want it to be, and it's now it's like starting to manifest in this, and like the films, and um, but like with our website, it's yeah, it's like a combination of things that I learned doing mine, like um the Zettel casting, like all of the ideas, and I was just like, how like you know, obviously, you could just do like oh you click to play, but I was like, let no, I this needs to be there's no point in making a website, in my opinion.
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:57.119
I mean, there's definitely a point of just like, hey, here's where all of this information is in one place.
00:31:57.200 --> 00:31:57.359
Right.
00:31:57.599 --> 00:31:59.519
That's a that's a valid use case.
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:01.359
But we already have that.
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:05.200
Yeah, so there was no point in making a website if it was just like here's a custom version of this.
00:32:05.359 --> 00:32:08.559
But like with this thing, I mean, it is literally like everything's on there.
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:11.039
You can do anything related to the podcast from there.
00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:18.799
We can put stuff in the store, we can do limited runs of stuff, we can do, we can make announcements, we can, you know, put guests on there.
00:32:18.960 --> 00:32:24.640
But it also has every literally every word that's ever been spoken on 96 hours of this podcast.
00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:26.160
Every word is searchable.
00:32:26.319 --> 00:32:39.599
So you can like if you're like thinking of an idea or an artist or uh a piece of work or anything, and you're like, oh, I wonder what have they ever talked about this, or what are their thoughts on this, or whatever.
00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:45.039
Not even like not even like what like it's not like you would want my thoughts.
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:51.119
Like these are just I I whenever we're doing this, I feel like it's just ideas being channeled a lot of the time.
00:32:51.440 --> 00:32:59.599
And you know, sometimes it's very of the moment, but you can just explore that and you can see exactly, oh man, let's hear what this episode had to say about it.
00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:01.440
You can see how our thoughts have changed over time.
00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:17.200
You can literally search something and be like, oh, and it'll graph out every episode over time, over three years, three and a half years of when XYZ was mentioned, and you could just track that and make a mixtape for however long that is, which is also really cool.
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:21.440
And then you can just track how our thoughts have progressed on that idea over time.
00:33:21.839 --> 00:33:24.960
So, yeah, I mean it's pretty, it's pretty cool.
00:33:26.240 --> 00:33:34.000
Yeah, I I I'm just like I it's it's the website I've all I would have I've always wanted to like go to.
00:33:34.319 --> 00:33:42.480
And that's the beauty of you carrying those little moments or thoughts with everything you've consumed in your life up to this point.
00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:51.839
You track what those things aren't, yeah, like what they have and what what they what they don't have, what's missing, like oh, I wish it was like this or I wish it did that.
00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:52.079
Yeah.
00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:56.960
Consciously and subconsciously collecting all those things, and then obviously collecting all the things that you do like.
00:33:57.119 --> 00:34:09.679
I like this about this product, I like this about this website, I like this, and it all just gets immediately pulled up out of your consciousness and subconsciousness into this design of this thing, and it feels like that.
00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:16.719
It's like literally every everything you've thought of about, and obviously you're gonna have other iterations or designs.
00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:19.679
Maybe there's something that we're like, eh, that doesn't quite work the way I hoped it would.
00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:21.199
I'm gonna scratch it, you know, whatever.
00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:37.440
Yeah, but it's it's it's kind of crazy to see someone present you with something that's so deeply thorough, but not complex and overstuffed, and you know, it's so I'm very happy with it.
00:34:37.760 --> 00:34:41.360
Yeah, there's restraint and editing that goes into it, you know.
00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:46.719
Whereas, you know, I struggle with just like, well, I I thought it up, so I like it.
00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:52.719
I'm gonna keep everything I can in there, and it's just jam-packed and yeah, overwhelming for the consumer of it.
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:56.400
Um,
yeah, I mean, it just it's just great.
00:34:56.639 --> 00:34:58.000
Yeah, I'm pumped about it.
00:34:58.079 --> 00:35:00.559
I think it'll be I'll be very curious to see.
00:35:00.800 --> 00:35:01.760
It makes me want to.
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:09.280
I mean, not that I've ever had a problem with wanting to do the podcast, but yeah, I yeah, now I'm like completely deeper level of I want to get guests.
00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:12.159
Like, you know, I think that'll make it easier to get guests.
00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:12.719
Yeah.
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:42.159
You can just send them the website and be like, hey, like, would you we would love to have you have a guest as a guest, but uh uh completely and one guest I do want to have, and this person I haven't talked to about it yet, so I don't really want to, but I want to talk to Josh about because we had a conversation about AI, and he's kind of in that commercial field and seeing the effects of it um in a pretty significant way, it sounded like, and you know, he's a very creative person.
00:35:42.320 --> 00:36:01.039
Yeah, I mean, probably way more creative than like you and I combined in just how his and so I think it's like it's interesting to talk to somebody like that who and see how it's affecting well, especially because one of the big aspects of his creative business is food photography for restaurants.
00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:06.719
And I've already been seeing memes and posts about AI menu slop.
00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:07.039
Yeah.
00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:18.639
AI slop on menus, uh menu boards on you know, the the photographs that they show uh, you know, where you order your food or sort of get a sense of what that restaurant has is all these AI regulations.
00:36:18.880 --> 00:36:22.639
It's so funny because I have no relationship to like the slop world.
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:25.920
I know it's a thing, like obviously it like the term is like iced.
00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:26.559
Yeah.
00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:51.840
Um there's been pushback on the I've seen like yeah, like I'll be at like a restaurant in Georgia and I'll be like, okay, buddy, yeah, I see you did your menu with you know and the other form that's really up there is like you know, I obviously because I do a lot of picking and all that is you know, people are using regular people are using AI to create a flyer, a digital flyer for their yard sale, state sale.
00:36:52.000 --> 00:37:01.199
And it's like I I don't know why AI uses the same basic fonts, the same, you know, it just it all looks the same.
00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:06.800
I'm seeing a lot of YouTubers using it for their thumbnails, and I have used AI for my thumbnails in the past.
00:37:07.039 --> 00:37:15.440
I like to think that part of it is like, well, for me to form truly how I feel about this, I need to try it at least.
00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:16.159
Yeah.
00:37:16.480 --> 00:37:20.320
And I don't think I'll go back to to it.
00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:20.559
Yeah.
00:37:20.719 --> 00:37:22.719
Now, would I maybe make AI make and see?
00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:27.760
I would I would argue that you're like that a lot of people are probably just not using it.
00:37:28.159 --> 00:37:30.000
I mean, you've seen some of the results I've gotten.
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:31.360
No, no, agreed.
00:37:31.599 --> 00:37:34.719
I'm saying like AI made an entire thumbnail.
00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:45.280
Like make me an image of a Mac uh Mini bursting with video files because there's too much stuff stored in the hard drive.
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:48.239
You know, like full on generation.
00:37:48.400 --> 00:37:50.880
Now I have no experience in that.
00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:58.000
Like I just don't like I I did imit we did mid-journey like years ago, yeah, but I have no experience in like using it.
00:37:58.559 --> 00:38:05.119
Now, where I like using it is I really want to use a 3D version of the final cut logo in this thumbnail.
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:12.960
Hey, can you make me a like a so it looks three-dimensional and it does, and then I put it in my thumbnail that I photographed or pulled a still.
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:20.480
So I do like getting assistance from it to make an element or I don't I just but generating it.
00:38:20.719 --> 00:38:24.960
I don't think I don't think Claude has a very good, I guess it's just because I've always used Claude.
00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:27.360
Well, Claude doesn't have any image generation.
00:38:27.519 --> 00:39:07.519
I tried Yeah, it doesn't, so I just never even think about so so I don't even think Claude can really like I know it has an image recognition thing, but it's not good at like so literally so I was making a change on my website and I was like trying to get an opinion on like how how should we go about changing this function and it was like a gallery thing, and it's like it's like I think you should it was talking about gates of the garden because it had access to that folder and it was like I think you should lay out gates of the garden because this is a good project because it has figures in an image or something.
00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:31.599
Like it was literally like it was like listening to somebody who just has no idea what what they're talking about, trying to bullshit like this project is good because at that moment I was just like it's it's got a long way to go before it's gonna start replacing fine art photography, which made me feel pretty good.
00:39:31.760 --> 00:39:33.360
Um but at the same time.
00:39:33.760 --> 00:39:46.639
When I tried using Claude, I told you with the text that I was it was literally like like figures in relationship to the overall image are balanced, yeah, and this is why it's good.
00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:50.079
And I was like, okay, all right.
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:52.159
Yeah, no.
00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:55.519
Prove me wrong, but yeah.
00:39:55.840 --> 00:40:23.360
Yeah, so I I I like the idea and of using it as an as an assist, but
there's still pushback that I might have with image generation when you I personally think of that model being trained to create elements of an image that you create mostly from scratch, even those elements are are the result of AI using copywritten material without permission to train on how to do that stuff.
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:24.159
For sure.
00:40:24.320 --> 00:40:31.679
Um, but then also just the fact that AI has a look to it and it's hard to get it to not do the AI look.
00:40:32.159 --> 00:40:36.400
To be honest, I don't think a good use case for AI is generating images.
00:40:36.559 --> 00:40:37.199
Yeah.
00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:44.880
Um I just the the whole idea of an image is yeah, something captured.
00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:46.639
I mean, the whole idea of a photograph.
00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:47.039
Yeah.
00:40:47.199 --> 00:41:02.239
I get and I get it, like I get where it's useful, but um I mean, and that's coming from somebody like I I I don't think I'm like super caught up in the like fuck AI or I like I I'm indifferent.
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:08.639
Like I think it's very good for some things, I think it's really annoying with like how some people use it.
00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:11.440
Um AI brain is definitely a thing.
00:41:11.519 --> 00:41:15.599
Like I'm sick of talking to some people and just being like, Can you give me a real fucking thought?
00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:19.039
But like, you know what, to be fair, I had that feeling before AI.
00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:26.400
Some people just default to not having, you know, not not giving their thoughts on things.
00:41:26.639 --> 00:41:49.039
Um so um, yeah, I mean, but I I've never thought photography is a great image generation use for yeah, like I I like that I went down that rabbit hole and it's allowed me to have uh I I think it's good essentially that we're there's so much pushback into AI photography.
00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:53.599
I think that's a good thing because I think it's kind of it's just kind of dumb.
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:54.000
Yep.
00:41:54.159 --> 00:41:56.000
I mean, there's so many cool things.
00:41:56.320 --> 00:42:01.920
Literally anything that you interface with in the digital, and I know there's somebody that's like, oh well, photographs are digital.
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:02.320
Yeah.
00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:03.119
And you know what?
00:42:03.199 --> 00:42:04.719
Maybe that's an argument for film.
00:42:05.199 --> 00:42:22.159
But well, I think too, sometimes like just keep it pure, keep it light when I've seen an example of AI being used to generate an image, and then I find out that it was AI AI because I because maybe I liked it or I thought, oh, that's interesting how that's laid out and whatever, and it didn't just scream AI to me.
00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:27.760
Yeah, like someone thoughtfully put it together or whatever they did to make it look like that.
00:42:27.920 --> 00:42:30.960
It's just kind of a bummer that it was AI, and I'll give you an
example.
00:42:31.360 --> 00:42:51.840
There was there's a there's a place, and I'm not gonna name names or call it out, but there's a place that is making bootleg versions of Hollywood movies like Obsession and Backrooms on VHS and the slip covers that they're making from cardboard and they're like VHS slip covers.
00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:55.039
I was looking at it and I'm like, oh, this is this looks pretty cool.
00:42:55.119 --> 00:42:59.679
Like this is, you know, it's obviously images from the movie and all that stuff, and I'm like, this isn't so bad.
00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:03.440
And then I found out it was all made with AI, and I'm like, kind of bummed you out.
00:43:03.920 --> 00:43:05.199
Not the bootlegging.
00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:07.280
I'm pro bootleg, by the way.
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:26.320
But yeah, I mean, you know, there's something about like people passing these things around um to each other in private, uh, or just like you know, and maybe they own a copy, a digital copy to stream, or they're subscribed to a streamer to watch them um in higher definition and all that stuff.
00:43:26.480 --> 00:43:40.079
I'm just not like I don't I don't want someone like the mob did with David Bowie Records like making 600,000 copies of a record bootleg style and then selling it, you know, off you know, out of a out of a back of a bread truck.
00:43:41.119 --> 00:43:41.920
Fell off the truck, yeah.
00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:44.159
Which I have one of those bootlegs, by the way.
00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:46.159
That's awesome.
00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:48.480
Yeah, it sounds like shit.
00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:51.280
I mean the Dylan bootlegs are like legendary.
00:43:51.440 --> 00:43:56.239
The Dylan bootlegs became their own like culture, yeah, like subculture.
00:43:56.400 --> 00:43:59.199
But and I you know, one thing I do love are bootleg t shirts.
00:43:59.360 --> 00:43:59.760
I I do think.
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:07.119
I think like the one thing that really, really I mean, not a lot gets me emotional one way or another regarding AI.
00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:19.360
Because typically when everybody's over invested emotionally, like culturally, whenever like society as a whole, it's my my general thing is just like, okay, let them do that.
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:21.599
That's probably not something worth being involved in.
00:44:21.920 --> 00:44:22.719
Let them, yep.
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:28.880
Um, and maybe that's just like anti-crowd or whatever, but that's just kind of I think.
00:44:29.119 --> 00:44:42.639
Um but whenever sometimes like people will use AI to write like something personal, like a you know, retirement letter or like a you know, like a like a personal letter to a friend or something.
00:44:42.719 --> 00:44:47.519
And what are they called when like you have a teacher write a letter for you for college or whatever?
00:44:47.840 --> 00:44:48.719
A recommendation letter.
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:50.559
And even that I get a little bit.
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:55.440
Like if you're a teacher at a university and you've got like 30 recommendation letters, fuck and let AI do it.
00:44:55.519 --> 00:44:56.159
That's fine.
00:44:56.480 --> 00:45:06.079
But like there's I think a distinction that needs to be made between I'm doing this because this is like an enjoyable part of the human experience.
00:45:06.239 --> 00:45:06.480
Yeah.
00:45:06.639 --> 00:45:11.599
Like I'm writing to better understand what I how I feel about things or what I think.
00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:20.320
Or I'm taking this photograph to better understand, you know, my place in the world and like my perspective of the universe.
00:45:20.480 --> 00:45:26.960
And and using AI for those things is just kind of like I don't know, it's like wasted potential or something.
00:45:27.280 --> 00:45:27.679
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:45:27.840 --> 00:45:28.480
It's just like, yeah.
00:45:28.800 --> 00:45:30.639
And we need that kind of exertion.
00:45:30.800 --> 00:45:31.039
Yeah.
00:45:31.280 --> 00:45:38.079
Um yeah, like you can you can outsource your, I mean, already you can probably outsource a lot of your shit to this stuff.
00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:40.559
And it's just you know what?
00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:47.920
Like, we you gotta realize that not everything's worth fucking optimizing or outsourcing or doing quickly.
00:45:49.599 --> 00:45:51.760
Like like Yeah, getting it over with.
00:45:52.079 --> 00:45:56.880
Like this was a pain in the ass, and yes, I'm upset that it didn't take me like 20 minutes to write it.
00:45:57.360 --> 00:45:58.480
But you know what?
00:45:58.880 --> 00:45:59.760
It means more.
00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:00.639
I think it looks cool.
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:04.960
I picked the font, I like had the layout, and yeah, you made it.
00:46:05.119 --> 00:46:08.239
Yeah, it's just like okay, like you can feel good about that.
00:46:08.960 --> 00:46:11.599
This is the layout for all of the studio sessions emails, by the way.
00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:12.480
Beautiful.
00:46:12.800 --> 00:46:20.079
It's literally just like the episode title and the hyperlink, and it's like, here's the four episodes that have come out since the last email.
00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:21.280
Yeah, it looks great.
00:46:21.440 --> 00:46:22.960
So, anyways.
00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:24.079
Sorry for that.
00:46:24.559 --> 00:46:27.440
I have to get you my my font to see what you think about that one.
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:33.519
Uh, not that it would take this over, but so you can uh have that as a possibility if you like the way it looks.
00:46:33.840 --> 00:46:36.400
This is courier new, so this is a classic.
00:46:36.880 --> 00:46:40.159
Pretty close to the the font on my uh Selectric too.
00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:48.320
I just wish like when you could like have a version of the font where it just gives the edges just a touch of roughness to them.
00:46:48.719 --> 00:46:49.360
Not crazy.
00:46:49.599 --> 00:46:52.639
Well, so it's almost
like you've got to copied this magnifying.
00:46:52.880 --> 00:46:54.559
If I copied this, it would give that effect.
00:46:54.719 --> 00:46:55.440
So this is a printed.
00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:58.800
But why can't we have fonts that just instead of bold italics?
00:46:58.960 --> 00:46:59.280
I don't know though.
00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:02.800
There's something like there was something cool about making that copy today.
00:47:02.960 --> 00:47:03.519
Yeah, I hear.
00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:04.719
I was like, oh man.
00:47:04.960 --> 00:47:05.199
Yeah.
00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:05.679
Okay.
00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:06.800
This is kind of fun.
00:47:07.119 --> 00:47:08.000
Making copies.
00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:09.360
Making copies.
00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:12.480
Yeah, copy copy machines are gonna be the next thing that makes a comeback.
00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:13.199
Oh, dude.
00:47:13.440 --> 00:47:15.519
Xerox my butt with furnace as I see.
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:18.239
I mean, copy machines are freaking cool, man.
00:47:18.320 --> 00:47:21.199
Like any image you can put in.
00:47:21.360 --> 00:47:22.239
I mean, I've got one.
00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:27.760
Well, can we program a big weird old copy machine to do with it's just cool though.
00:47:27.840 --> 00:47:31.119
Like you could do layouts and things like that and just make copies of it.
00:47:31.360 --> 00:47:36.719
And like you can make custom posters, and yeah, there's just a lot of cool shit that you can do with copy machine.
00:47:37.119 --> 00:47:40.639
We're gonna You need to start a copying machine YouTube channel.
00:47:40.960 --> 00:47:41.840
Can't do it.
00:47:42.159 --> 00:47:43.199
Can't do it.
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:48.000
I uh when I made that video a couple weeks ago, where I was like, I'm gonna be making more videos.
00:47:48.239 --> 00:47:49.119
I haven't made one.
00:47:49.280 --> 00:47:49.920
No, I'm not.
00:47:50.400 --> 00:47:50.719
I might.
00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:51.679
I'm gonna make some more.
00:47:51.760 --> 00:47:52.079
I don't know.
00:47:52.400 --> 00:47:52.960
At some point.
00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:53.519
At some point.
00:47:53.679 --> 00:47:57.199
Did you want to go to back to the VHS thing?
00:47:57.360 --> 00:48:00.480
So but our audience isn't hanging out there with that.
00:48:01.280 --> 00:48:03.440
For criterion experience.
00:48:03.599 --> 00:48:03.840
Oh, yeah.
00:48:05.039 --> 00:48:06.320
The Dirty Criterion Closet.
00:48:06.480 --> 00:48:07.920
The Dirty Criterion Closet.
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:08.639
Yeah, yeah.
00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:09.440
You want to wrap on that?
00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:11.039
We got about five more minutes.
00:48:11.519 --> 00:48:11.760
Five.
00:48:11.920 --> 00:48:13.519
So we're going to see a movie after this.
00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:15.679
Um, so I guess that's why we're rushing through.
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:19.360
And I was at work uh until like 6 30.
00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:20.400
You're doing retail.
00:48:20.559 --> 00:48:22.079
Yeah,
moving my retail gig.
00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:22.400
Yeah.
00:48:22.559 --> 00:48:24.159
It was so fun in the shop tonight.
00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:25.440
Luis came in.
00:48:25.599 --> 00:48:26.960
I I wanted to make it down there.
00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:28.239
It just kept like dragging.
00:48:28.639 --> 00:48:30.239
Yeah, you got caught up.
00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:32.320
It's a haul down there too.
00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:35.280
And then uh it's a bit, it's a it's a hike.
00:48:35.440 --> 00:48:39.360
But yeah, starting to see the regulars come in, Luis came in.
00:48:39.599 --> 00:48:42.639
Um it's just yeah, it's just good vibes.
00:48:42.719 --> 00:48:47.440
And then people, I just the best thing is like how I reacted to your website and how people are gonna react.
00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:50.719
And obviously, this is this is all Josh, you know.
00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:53.679
I have stuff in the shop, but it's his it's the inside of his brain.
00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:54.480
His brain.
00:48:54.719 --> 00:48:57.199
But when people walk in, they're like, Yeah, yeah.
00:48:57.599 --> 00:49:06.960
And for the people listening, I have this kind of like awe-struck face where literally, and I I know it's their first time.
00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:08.239
Is this your guys' first time in?
00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:10.079
Yeah, yeah, we didn't know, you know, we didn't know about this.
00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:10.719
This is cool.
00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:13.360
Well, it's it's very different too from Workshop and Joe's.
00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:13.679
Yeah, yeah.
00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:17.199
It has a bit more of a um a refined quality.
00:49:17.440 --> 00:49:17.599
Yeah.
00:49:17.840 --> 00:49:18.800
Workshop is nice.
00:49:19.280 --> 00:49:19.760
Yeah, absolutely.
00:49:20.000 --> 00:49:21.280
It's just a different store.
00:49:21.519 --> 00:49:35.440
Well, and uh, there's almost uh like a you could argue in comparison to Josh's shop's sort of minimalist and uh aesthetic to workshop in comparison where Josh's is like mm, you know, just packed to the gills and a very precise photography studio.
00:49:35.519 --> 00:49:37.360
Let's get all of it.
00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:40.000
Well, this uh this app's gonna pay for all of it, buddy.
00:49:40.159 --> 00:49:42.159
It's gonna make all our dreams come true, buddy.
00:49:42.800 --> 00:49:44.239
Sports ticker Wall Street.
00:49:44.400 --> 00:49:46.159
Um buddy, I'm telling you.
00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:50.320
The Gordon Gecko style Wall Street app would be fun.
00:49:50.559 --> 00:49:51.360
That would be fun.
00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:51.840
Yeah.
00:49:52.079 --> 00:49:58.000
Um so at the shop last week, I've been covering the shop last weekend and this weekend.
00:49:58.320 --> 00:50:00.880
And I'm not sure if the last episode will go out or not.
00:50:00.960 --> 00:50:04.800
Or I mean it will at some point if the audio is good, but we're still trying to determine that.
00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:07.039
So they might have context,
they might not.
00:50:07.840 --> 00:50:27.360
But um, I've been covering the shop while Josh is on vacation, and Alex and Alex and Audrey came in, and then Alex Bohan, another you know, friend of ours with very similar interests and passions, film school grad, you know, um, very knowledgeable, encyclopedic knowledge of film and music.
00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:29.519
Eclectic encyclopedia.
00:50:29.760 --> 00:50:29.920
Yeah.
00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:30.639
Yeah.
00:50:30.880 --> 00:50:36.320
Um he came in not knowing Alex, this Alex was gonna be there.
00:50:36.639 --> 00:50:43.760
And we just sort of, I don't know if it was pre-planned or if we just on the podcast a little bit.
00:50:44.239 --> 00:50:45.119
Yes, I've talked we talked about it.
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:47.920
Like that was the birth of the idea of like, oh, we're gonna do right.
00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:58.800
Because we talked about organizing by genre and getting it hyper-organized, and Josh really likes it loose where people are digging through to try to find something because he thinks they're gonna find something that they didn't realize they wanted.
00:50:59.199 --> 00:51:01.440
Which is great if you have a small shelf.
00:51:01.920 --> 00:51:02.159
Yeah.
00:51:02.480 --> 00:51:10.000
Josh has like seven shelves of seven shelves, and there's probably a couple, I don't know, two of two thousand VHS in there.
00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:10.559
There's a lot.
00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:12.079
There's a lot, it's a lot.
00:51:12.400 --> 00:51:19.440
So um since Josh wasn't here, I'm like, we can do whatever the whatever we want with the V with the VHS.
00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:22.000
Let's not reorganize all of them because it'll take all day.
00:51:22.159 --> 00:51:23.119
But let's do it.
00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:37.599
Let's do staff picks where it's Alex and Alex and me um come up with our top not necessarily our top ten movies of all time, but like 10 movies we love a lot just like in the shop.
00:51:37.920 --> 00:51:43.280
The idea was like 10 movies that we would recommend somebody watch that they'll probably have a good time with it.
00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:43.599
Yeah.
00:51:43.920 --> 00:51:53.280
And then we created a section with that set that's called Worth the Watch, where it was like a little bit more under the radar movies that you know most people aren't gonna know about and that we recommend.
00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:55.119
I I think I have them somewhere too.
00:51:55.360 --> 00:51:58.239
Yeah, they're worth the watches are fun when it stars on there, yeah.
00:51:58.559 --> 00:51:58.639
Yeah.
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:05.199
And then we did a whole other little VHS tower organizer of what we called all timers.
00:52:05.360 --> 00:52:05.599
Yeah.
00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:08.559
And you know, we're limited to what's in the shop, so we can't, yeah.
00:52:08.719 --> 00:52:17.039
Yeah, we know Casablanca, we know you know these other movies, but we have to go through what's actually there and come up with it and sort of deliberate.
00:52:17.199 --> 00:52:18.159
Is this an all timer?
00:52:18.320 --> 00:52:18.639
Yeah, yeah.
00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:33.280
You know, like yeah, you know, and and some of them we'd say we would agree and be like, nah, and then agree on the two out of three, and then yeah, like you I'd be like, or you'd be like, or Alex would be like, yeah, and be like, okay, well, it's on the list.
00:52:33.360 --> 00:52:33.760
Yep.
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:34.239
Yeah.
00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:39.119
And so it was just a really fun, like three or four hours going through all those tapes.
00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:42.000
And uh it was literally Dusty Criterion Clock.
00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:46.800
Like it was, and if yeah, it was so much fun.
00:52:46.880 --> 00:52:55.199
Yeah, and then since we finished late Saturday afternoon, I had Sunday in the shop and then today in the shop, and then I'll have tomorrow and Sunday as well.
00:52:55.440 --> 00:53:03.039
But seeing people come in and take it in and sort of they're not reacting to it like, oh wow, look at this staff picks, this is so cool.
00:53:03.199 --> 00:53:06.000
Yeah, but they're looking at them and they're looking through them.
00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:14.079
And I think out of all of them that we've put up, there's probably been seven or eight that have been bought out of those selections.
00:53:14.159 --> 00:53:16.880
Yeah, including Home Alone's been bought twice.
00:53:16.960 --> 00:53:17.360
Yeah.
00:53:17.599 --> 00:53:19.199
Someone bought Slap Shot.
00:53:19.440 --> 00:53:19.760
Yeah.
00:53:20.639 --> 00:53:22.320
Um, what was the one today?
00:53:22.480 --> 00:53:26.800
Um, police story somebody bought out of Alex's story.
00:53:26.960 --> 00:53:28.559
I recommended that last night too to somebody.
00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:35.360
So of the three sets of ten picks, one of Alex's has been bought and one of mine.
00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:37.119
But yeah, um, not yet of the yeah.
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:38.800
It's not really like a competition thing.
00:53:39.039 --> 00:53:39.599
No, no, no, no.
00:53:39.840 --> 00:53:40.239
I'm just gonna go.
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:44.239
And I think well, no, and I'm not saying you are, I'm just I'm just like explain for the audience.
00:53:44.320 --> 00:53:55.039
Like it's more of just like uh and I I think it's one of those things that if we do it for a year, then it becomes like, oh shit.
00:53:55.199 --> 00:53:59.199
Yeah, like I always buy this person's picks, but you're also super limited.
00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:02.559
I mean, it's just it's just VHS, it's just what's in the shop.
00:54:02.719 --> 00:54:05.599
So it's not really like it's like staff picks per se.
00:54:05.760 --> 00:54:07.599
I guess the DVDs have staff picks too.
00:54:07.760 --> 00:54:14.960
Yeah, that's the thing I I think we we've talked about is getting more, which I know even like film streams has struggled with that.
00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:23.519
So if
they're struggling with it, I don't know if if anybody is gonna be, but yeah, I think just like recommending cool movies that people haven't seen is it's fun.
00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:27.519
I don't know how feasible it is, but it was a good Saturday, that's for sure.
00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:28.559
No, it was great.
00:54:28.719 --> 00:54:28.960
Yeah.
00:54:29.199 --> 00:54:34.559
And I think um my hope is that Josh likes it and keeps it.
00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:37.920
And you know, I m printed out a little tag for him.
00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:41.280
Um where did you get the new arrow and stuff?
00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:42.000
Did you make those?
00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:43.679
No, that but personally, no.
00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:52.159
I just I just got reference images of street graffiti and then used AI to um so crisp.
00:54:52.719 --> 00:55:05.280
So I went through Claude and I'm like, you know, make me uh you know an image of this word, you know, my name, yeah like replicate the sort of look of the street graffiti.
00:55:05.599 --> 00:55:17.840
It it basically like opened up in internally, it opened up an image at image creation software and like was using graphical, like it was like making it in Photoshop essentially.
00:55:18.320 --> 00:55:20.800
And I'm like, can't you just just make me an image of it?
00:55:21.039 --> 00:55:25.840
And it's like, no, I I have to like go in and paint pixels and do all this stuff.
00:55:26.000 --> 00:55:26.559
I'm like, oh.
00:55:26.639 --> 00:55:28.719
So I just went over to Chat GPT and ChatGPT is like.
00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:29.360
No, no, no.
00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:31.039
The the painting the pixels is sick though.
00:55:31.199 --> 00:55:31.679
No, 100%.
00:55:32.159 --> 00:55:33.199
That is that's the thing.
00:55:33.360 --> 00:55:36.639
That's that's the thing that I think that's the method that's gonna win over time.
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:38.239
Yeah, it was so ridiculous.
00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:41.119
Actually, it's like working with a designer, yeah.
00:55:41.360 --> 00:55:42.320
It's so much, yeah.
00:55:42.639 --> 00:55:46.400
Sadly, nothing I prompted it would get it even remotely in the world.
00:55:46.559 --> 00:55:48.639
Yeah, it's it's not quite there yet, but it will be eventually.
00:55:48.880 --> 00:55:57.599
And I know I'm not there with prompting it to do it the way you know, but I mean, like, if you like sit like draw out something for it, though, it can get it pretty, pretty good.
00:55:57.760 --> 00:56:02.880
Like I drew out my my flamingo for it, and it it created the SVG version of that.
00:56:03.519 --> 00:56:06.400
Um I drew out the text for the horse racing.
00:56:06.559 --> 00:56:08.800
Yeah, I mean, it's just yeah, it can get close.
00:56:08.960 --> 00:56:09.360
Yeah.
00:56:09.679 --> 00:56:12.559
So I wasn't ready for that deep level of it.
00:56:12.639 --> 00:56:13.840
No, it just looked good though.
00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:14.400
It was cool.
00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:15.039
Yeah, it's
cool.
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:19.119
They're just uh so so I Audrey said she's you're dead to her.
00:56:19.199 --> 00:56:20.639
Yeah, but I figured, yep.
00:56:20.800 --> 00:56:24.880
So Audrey had hand drawn our little placards and all that stuff.
00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:26.159
She said, Go fuck yourself.
00:56:26.320 --> 00:56:27.360
I'll never talk to him again.
00:56:27.760 --> 00:56:41.840
We'll hopped him out because I'm like, if if we're gonna get Josh to go with this, it's gotta be like street graffiti stuff that even if he takes them down and does them himself, hopefully he sees it and gets inspired.
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:42.400
Yeah.
00:56:42.559 --> 00:56:46.480
And then, you know, goes, Yeah, let's keep this, let's keep this up.
00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:50.079
So, you know, people have uh uh some recommendations here.
00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:50.880
For sure.
00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:51.840
So yeah.
00:56:52.000 --> 00:56:54.079
I didn't do the DVD staff pick sign though.
00:56:54.159 --> 00:56:55.199
That is still Audrey's.
00:56:55.360 --> 00:56:56.400
That was still that one still.
00:56:56.960 --> 00:56:57.360
The potato.
00:56:57.519 --> 00:56:58.639
Yeah, I know we did those.
00:57:01.039 --> 00:57:04.800
One young woman who looked at those didn't think they were for sale.
00:57:05.199 --> 00:57:05.519
Really?
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:10.320
She thought the DVD staff picks meant like all these I can't buy these.
00:57:11.519 --> 00:57:12.719
So that that was interesting.
00:57:12.880 --> 00:57:17.360
She was very, you know, she's like her early 20s and she was going through all the DVDs.
00:57:18.000 --> 00:57:24.559
And she picked up two DVDs and the um uh Nightmare Before Christmas on VHS.
00:57:24.800 --> 00:57:29.679
And I chatted her up and asked her about what is all that, but she's like, Oh, we can buy these.
00:57:29.920 --> 00:57:37.679
I'm like, yeah, these are just the DVDs out of all the DVDs we have that we think you know are like the cool the coolest ones or the ones worth a watch or whatever.
00:57:38.159 --> 00:57:38.559
So yeah.
00:57:40.000 --> 00:57:40.800
I yeah.
00:57:41.039 --> 00:57:42.480
Yeah, we gotta work on display.
00:57:42.719 --> 00:57:48.400
Yeah, because we have a lot of young people who come in and like Well, there's a lot of like if you're 20, think about that dude.
00:57:48.639 --> 00:57:50.000
You were born in 2007.
00:57:50.400 --> 00:57:50.559
Yeah.
00:57:50.800 --> 00:57:56.960
Yeah, you haven't been to a lot of stores, but also you have no memory of like blockbuster staff takes or not.
00:57:57.119 --> 00:57:58.320
Like we're kind of making a reference to the stuff.
00:57:58.639 --> 00:57:59.280
And that's what I mean.
00:57:59.440 --> 00:58:03.920
Like stores where the people who work there point out the cool shit.
00:58:04.079 --> 00:58:04.400
Yeah.
00:58:04.960 --> 00:58:06.159
Homer's does that.
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:08.960
Walmart's not like, hey, fuck it, and check this out.
00:58:09.039 --> 00:58:09.360
Yeah.
00:58:09.760 --> 00:58:10.960
No, no, no, no.
00:58:11.119 --> 00:58:11.280
Yeah.
00:58:11.440 --> 00:58:14.239
So that that was that was really fun today.
00:58:14.320 --> 00:58:24.480
And it was just great seeing people from all different ages go into the back, go through the VHS and either get excited, I remember this movie, you know, whatever.
00:58:24.719 --> 00:58:26.880
I am pumped to figure out how to get the weather in there.
00:58:26.960 --> 00:58:27.920
That'll be that'll be cool.
00:58:28.079 --> 00:58:28.239
Yeah.
00:58:28.320 --> 00:58:30.480
So definitely.
00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:34.320
I'll need to get an old Apple TV in that to figure out some kind of Wi-Fi situation.
00:58:34.559 --> 00:58:36.800
You gotta get Apple TVs in the shop if you're gonna do that though.
00:58:36.960 --> 00:58:37.440
A hundred percent.
00:58:38.320 --> 00:58:38.880
Like a couple of them.
00:58:38.960 --> 00:58:39.280
Oh, yeah.
00:58:39.440 --> 00:58:41.199
If you can find them, I'll happily do that.
00:58:41.519 --> 00:58:45.760
But they're so cheap at estate sales and stuff, I just never buy them because I'm like, I'm good.
00:58:46.079 --> 00:58:49.280
You should buy them, go in, update them, just get them like ready.
00:58:49.519 --> 00:58:50.239
Absolutely.
00:58:50.400 --> 00:59:01.840
And I will, and yeah, and they get we'll have I'll probably even just buy a little stockpile of the hardware that you need to hook it up so that people can just buy a kit basically and be good to go.
00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:02.320
100%.
00:59:02.719 --> 00:59:09.599
And if you get known for selling that kit, yeah, people will come just to buy the oh, go get the streaming kit for the CRT.
00:59:09.920 --> 00:59:16.320
Well, and that's why something to think about is having a Mac based version of it.
00:59:16.559 --> 00:59:31.599
Because, like with the iMac that I restored and put in the shop just to play DVDs, you know, why couldn't we have um a version of the Apple install that you can or Oh, you're talking about just like a piece of software.
00:59:31.840 --> 00:59:35.760
Yeah, that they would down buy from us and download that version for their Mac.
00:59:36.079 --> 00:59:39.599
Like an old Intel Yeah, Intel Mac, yeah.
00:59:39.760 --> 00:59:43.280
You know, that that it's it's we we purposely make it compatible.
00:59:43.760 --> 00:59:47.840
I think it'd be fun to make like custom computer things, yeah.
00:59:48.159 --> 00:59:51.119
But we uh we're gonna have the boogie buddy.
00:59:51.280 --> 00:59:51.840
Yeah, oh shoot.
00:59:52.159 --> 00:59:52.480
Shall we?
00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:54.719
Oh crap, it's already we got 20 minutes.
00:59:55.440 --> 01:00:03.440
It had been a golden afternoon, and I remember having the familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer experience.