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What if the voice of your favorite actor in the next blockbuster was not actually theirs, but a replica generated by artificial intelligence? Get ready as we unpack this scenario and so much more in a riveting episode that peels back the curtain on the profound impact AI is having on Hollywood. From AI-generated content to the current labor strikes by actors and writers, we're revealing the tumultuous changes shaking up Tinseltown.
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Well guys, welcome to stuck in the Phantom Zone where we're just chatting up. Yeah, we're kind of going through all our jobs and thinking of how AI can take my job. I don't know if you had like a five second thought, because when I about like AI taking your job, because I thought about it because, like you know, the machines running, I'm just like you know.
Speaker 1:I'm just doing whatever I thought about it, because you know we're hearing all this strike business with the actors guild and now the writers join together and you know Hollywood taking this new AI approach.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we don't need you. You need to ask like oh no, you see AI.
Speaker 1:Oh jeez, scan your likeness so you can like. This is this is all news that I've read that they can scan your likeness so they have to pay residuals, or if you, I guess, if you need, if they need you, they can scan you and then they don't need. I guess they don't, I don't know it's. It's weird, like it's like a new ground breaking thing. That's like is is good in a sense of like it's not good right now, obviously, but it could be used in different facets as a tool. But a lot of industries now and we're seeing this with Hollywood they're just maxing out what AI can do, like literally like hey, we're not going to wait five to ten years for this to kind of like be at its like, most, you know, most advanced. We're just going to just do it now and do.
Speaker 3:What's scary about it is like you know how the thing with Marvel Studios, like last few years, like they're overworking in visual effects artists, yeah, so when I've like done my research on AI, there's, it's, it's not. I'm scared that one day it'll be just a push of a button and then boom, here's a full movie edited. But right now, with AI, it can only do so much, so they have to hire visual effects artists to like do like shit ton of tweaking. But it's scary just because, like now you're going to overwork. Oh, we have AI, but that means we got to overwork the people using it.
Speaker 3:So now it's like what's the benefit? First of all, you're you're trying to replace real people who are real creative to this is like what? This is an art, and you're trying to an arts, a human thing, and you want to replicate it with AI. Like I get how their AIs can be used in certain tools, but to be a full on replacement for humans and artwork in general, it's just I don't know, man, it doesn't sit well, period, yeah yeah, like case in point, like the opening intro for secret invasion is AI generated and I'm like so where does the line get drawn for who gets credited?
Speaker 2:is it the artist? Or you can give credit to this OS system like oh, this, this, this opening credit was made by Apple iOS 14.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah it's weird, like I thought that we had more time. You know, like just probably six months ago, we were using AI as like filters, or we were using AI as like right, yeah memes or homework or just something like.
Speaker 1:Something like super like, yeah, it's like a one-time thing, but now it seems like I guess I guess, behind the scenes, ai is like these big businesses, these corporations and, right now, these studios are really like investing in this AI just so they can save a couple bucks. Yeah, and it's not. And, and you know, I don't know if you guys been following this negotiation strikes with the, you know, with the actors Guild and and the writers to these CEOs of these you know major studios. I mean these, these CEOs are giving themselves bonuses, while some of these, some of these actors, are not getting paid at all when, when they're you know, when their stuff is screaming or when their stuff is being played in other outlets, and the check just gets smaller and smaller. So I'm I'm really curious to see how this is gonna impact a lot of things. You know it's, it's, I guess it put they, they put a hold on I guess Deadpool 3, like Deadpool 3 was we talked with shooting and they stopped it it's like it's a complete like halt in Hollywood.
Speaker 2:So Deadpool 3 is is off production. Daredevil for Disney plus is off production. Pretty much, yeah, every like Hollywood is at a standstill. I think for the first time in 63 years, they said were writers and and actors are both striking against the studios and then the studios are like let's just get AI to do their jobs while I roll in this money.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's, I don't know like I mean, yeah, we also Scott the sea, like I guess was it Barbie had or no, it's Oppenheimer, right? I think the Oppenheimer cast like it was the premiere, and they just, and they just, like they walked out, just dipped yeah that's right. I just, I just don't know when I'm going to actually see, because a lot of this stuff that we're gonna see now is already in the can so it's like so a lot of this stuff is being the 2024 stuff, that's the one that's being affected, maybe going to 2025
Speaker 2:yeah, pretty much, pretty much like the current Marvel slate or of like what they've planned for like phase. Phase four and five is pretty much like pushback an entire year now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I hope I hope the, I hope these actors and writers get their, get their due, because you know, just like just hearing some of the stories that some of these actors, like are, are going through, like they can barely make, like they can be on a popular show and still not make enough to, like you know, for for for housing, or yeah, and pretty much like the producer said that we're going to continue this strike until all of you lose your homes.
Speaker 2:And then you have nothing left and you'll come back to us. I'm like crap, that's pretty, that's pretty, that's a, that's a heavy hit and that. But now, like the, the actors are joining in with the strike. I think that's going to get shake it up and get their attention more because, like you really put the brakes on Hollywood and now the studios and producers can't get their money because their workforce is is not going to work and they're not being properly compensated for it. So, yeah, so now we're going to Hollywood stalemate right now.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the thing, that sucks too is like like a lot of them yeah, sure, there are a lot of writers that would want a pretty lucrative pay trick which is like nice, and in some cases they do deserve it. But the thing is like pretty much all the writers that are striking, they just want fair wages, like compared to like the work that they're putting in. Like sure, you may see an actor make millions of dollars off this project, but then you see how much a writer would make. It's like it's like pennies do compared. And they're not even asking like give us a cut of that. You know million dollars. I'm a writer, I should get millions. They're just. They just want a fair paycheck to show you know they're not asking a lot and in a lot of these cases that's why they're pissed. They're just. They just said we want fair wages.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like I saw a Twitter that one of the the writer for one of the writers for the She-Hulk episode when Daredevil showed up, he only got paid like he was like close to like $400 just for that episode and it's like it's it's pretty shocking because that's probably, you know, that was probably the most anticipated episode of that whole series and just to come out with $400 is kind of kind of nuts, I mean, and it's kind of what else is kind of nuts?
Speaker 1:Is that Bob Iger? I don't know if you saw the interview with Bob Iger. He kind of defended the studios, you know, and it's kind of weird because it's like Bob Iger is one of those dudes who kind of has a good reputation amongst everybody. You know, whenever he came back, everyone's like who is he's going to be? Kind of like you know, we're back in business, you know all that stuff, and now with this and he seems like he's the he's kind of the voice of the studios. I'm curious to see like where that, where that goes, because I'm like I thought it would be. Was it David Zasloff, the CEO of, or the head of, warner Brothers Discovery, kind of taking the mantle as the voice of the studios?
Speaker 1:but it was kind of weird to see Bob Iger just kind of openly, like openly, support the studios and and just you know, not, not, not, you know, go for the, not champion the actors who made your billion dollar pictures, your directors, your writers, I mean literally like Disney has been printing money because of this MCU, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, disney Plus, and to kind of do that, to kind of say say that is just you know, it's just not right and you know again, we hope this gets resolved as soon as possible because they deserve, they deserve more you know, more than what they're putting out for that.
Speaker 1:How much entertainment is coming out on a weekly basis on all these streaming platforms? It is like I mean, for me as a consumer it's overload, but for them it's like their lives, you know, and it's like whenever you see something new come out like I just saw there's new episodes of the Lincoln lawyer coming out on Netflix. I love the Lincoln lawyer and I was like I didn't watch it. And then now I hear now I hear what's going on.
Speaker 1:You know how Netflix kind of just kind of screws people with the streaming. I'm just like, do these people probably need to get paid? These guys got paid equivalent to pennies for their work and you've got millions of people clicking on these, going through these episodes, and to not make residuals off any of that stuff is nuts and there needs to be a restructuring anyway. Like it just seems like streaming blew up over the past, pretty much over the past decade. It started out in Netflix and then it just blew up all these streaming services and there was no kind of checks and balances of what happens with revenue and what happens with, you know, payment of actors over. You know, like how Spotify with artists, like there's. You know people have to fight for that stuff and now we're seeing that in Hollywood and you know we're curious to see what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2:I'm curious because so, like Comic-Con's coming up and with the writers and the actors on strike, I'm like what are you guys gonna do for Comic-Con? Like, if you got, if you know actors are already walking out of major motion picture careers, what about, like, when you have to promote your film in front of like thousands of hundreds of thousands of people? What are you allowed to say? What are you who's gonna show up? And like, currently, this year, like you know, in terms of the quality of the summer movies that have come out, you know, like Mission Impossible, Guardians of the Galaxy, fast X, barbie Oppenheimer, like they're, the selection of movies is great. Like for the consumer it's great.
Speaker 2:But if you like, look at the box office, like they're calling this like a disastrous summer movie season because none of the films are making enough to cover or to break even. We're actually like way below what it should be. So like they're considering the Flash a failure. They're considering Indiana Jones a failure and now I'm looking that they might consider Mission Impossible dead reckoning a failure because no one's showing up at the box office. And you know that's a lot of. There's a lot of like circumstances involved with it. It's not just like one thing, but like having your writers and actors on strike will just like compound a problem. And then studios are gonna be like why are we losing billions and billions of dollars? So there's gonna be like give and take and there's gonna be a stalemate and someone's gotta break through and all that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean it's like it's interesting time now because we're gonna see how. I don't think people realize how many projects will start getting affected now. Like people have an idea of what's coming out soon, but then it's gonna like, let's say, they get a deal done tomorrow, there's probably a lot of stuff that's have been affected for next year. Like, even they get a deal done tomorrow, they just don't want, okay, we said it'll settle on like a number, it's for fair pay, here you go. No, like it's gonna be a whole process, it's not gonna be just a simple number and write it down. It goes to even how the production's, how the function of how the production's going pre, post and during. Yeah, so it's still crazy how it's gonna affect a lot of things.
Speaker 3:And like, speaking of box office numbers, so like whatever movies are coming out this year I'm assuming if the strike goes on for a decent amount of time it looks like there's gonna be no movie or just no promotional press for any of these movies, because they're showing that all the actors are showing their own solidarity.
Speaker 3:I mean, yeah, we might get like maybe a panel or two still that's available from Marvel and DC, but you're not gonna have any actors there. You're not gonna have any big names there, you're just gonna like, hey, here's a new trailer for the Marvels or whatever, and then cool, but I guess what? You're dropping it on social media the same day. So what's the point of going to Hollywood now? So it's, I don't think people realize how many things are being affected by this and how it also affects like I don't know why the movies don't think it's not affecting them. Like they made all these movies and now they know it's gonna see them even more. They worry about their body, they're worried about their box office numbers and now they should be even more worried with this strike, because there's no press, no one wants to do it.
Speaker 2:The actors are in a strike. There's literally no press with the screen. Actors strike, there's no late night TV. So like I don't know if you noticed, like there's no Jimmy Kimmel, no Conan O'Brien, no Daily Show, none of those. No Saturday Night Live, because there's actors, the writers are on strike and now like, if the actors aren't strike, there's probably no press tours. So like the like the publicity for movies is just like gonna go down and then next thing you know you'll be like why isn't nobody seeing my movies? Yeah, why is this doing terrible at the box office Cause? Like well, there's like a whole period of time where the word just didn't get out. You can't just like drop a TikTok video and hope it reaches enough people to cover your box office expenditures and all that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, this is one of those things where you know I'm glad they're sorting this all out. I'm glad this avalanche has happened because of just how many people are just getting just low bald at every level. But as a consumer, I'm also silver lining. It gives me a chance to catch up. I don't know how long this is gonna last, but I feel like I just got more time to catch up.
Speaker 3:Yeah, think about the exact same thing honestly. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So you know, again, I hope they get this situated. I wouldn't. I mean, and we're really gonna know when it really is gonna hit hard is when some of these movies that are delayed like are coming out 2024, they get delayed Like, if this goes on till next year, there's no way most of these movies in 2024 are gonna make a lot like Like they're gonna make the light they are.
Speaker 1:they have to probably push it to late 2024 or Lee 2025 and that's gonna be, you know, the real, that's gonna be the real test, like who's gonna blink first is gonna get studios or the actors, you know, but it sounds like this is been a, this has been in the works for a while, like even some of the studios were like, hey, let's do all this Press right now, because we know in like two or three weeks, when that deadline is done, you're not gonna work.
Speaker 1:So let's kind of squeeze every single bit of you know Time that you have promoting this movie to, you know Right now, and then you know pretty much, see you later, you know yeah so, yeah, I mean, and also like a lot of this other content, like it's this also trickles down to YouTube, right, like you know, no more hot ones like is there gonna be hot one video?
Speaker 3:I can interview the actors and stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were, we. I was on a hot ones kick so I just watched a couple episodes last week and then, you know, it goes to all these content creators that interview, interviews, celebrity actors and all that for movies, like I think I forgot what channel, but it's always like the puppies interview, where they have a whole bunch of puppies and they try to buzz fiends buzzfeed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So it's just like it. Just again, it just hits all levels, not only just, you know, from the top all the way down to the bottom, all the way down. It's just indirectly affecting everybody and also us.
Speaker 1:So so, yeah, I'm, you know, again, I Don't know it's, it's, it's one of those things where you just never think about it because, again, it doesn't get the, it doesn't get enough news until, like you know, there's a press conference and and you know, and then you really see the, you know the reality of it is like, hey, by it, you know, the end of the day, we're on strike, yeah.
Speaker 1:So it's like you really just kind of you know, I didn't even know about this, like it was one of those things where I was just like, wait, they're going on strike, like I don't even know what happened, and you kind of just get the details over this past couple days and it's just You're, just you're, you're not surprised. You're surprised you haven't heard this. But you're not surprised because some of these, you know, some of these news outlets are owned by these studios, by owned by these corporations. And you know, I Mean, this is just me speculating but some of these CEO, some of these, their, their buddies or golf buddies there, you know they're flying on the same jet, you know so Unlike six yachts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they're, they're chilling, you know, and it's it's kind of, you know, it's surprising, not surprising. We have heard heard this Sooner or earlier, but I'm glad it's happening now and again. Hopefully they can kind of Get situated with that. But again, kind of the catch up, like you know, I think, for like the average, like you know, you know, for us like kind of like the, the guys who are kind of steeped into pop culture, like we're aware of it.
Speaker 2:But I think for the average person, you know, I think for the average person, you know, you know, you know, I think for the average person, they're just like gonna be one day, like, oh, my movie is not here.
Speaker 2:I, I thought this is when Barbie 2 was gonna premiere or or Like they're gonna notice one day like their favorite things aren't there anymore and they're gonna wonder where it went and they're they're not aware of, like, what's happening. Like behind the scenes and with the strike, they're just kind of Oblivious to the fact that, like one day, their their stuff isn't gonna be on TV or there's like there's that there's gonna be a period where there's no movies in theaters and whatnot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't like this whole AI thing is I'm really curious to see how it is gonna be in the next decade or so.
Speaker 2:Oh, like they're gonna, they're gonna, they're gonna be like, as long as I get stranger things, season five, I don't care if you use AI, so they're all gonna. You're gonna see 11 with like. Like if you see some of these AI generated commercials where they look kind of humid but they're off, people have like 12 fingers or they're. They have like two nostrils, it looks somewhat real but it's like staring at like a funhouse mirror or something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's not fully replicatable yet. It's just. That's why it's gonna they're gonna hire much more visual effects artists and they're gonna have to tweak it. That's that's where AI is at right now. It's it sucks too, just because, like, all right, we're gonna, just we're not gonna have you actress here, and then again it's just speculating if they actually go the AI route. Well, this is not perfect. We got to hire a bunch of visual effects artists and we got to overwork them again.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but that's something that's artificial and it's still. It's still not a good product, like, and it's still scary with AI, just because a year ago, there's techniques that weren't even fully, not even fully developed. Like, oh, maybe we're a couple of years away from doing a certain task this way, but then a year later they're able to get it. You know, crunching the algorithm to fix their software and whatever the else they do. It's just crazy how fast it's accelerating and I feel like I don't know. And then this is getting a whole different debate, but I feel like at some point, like, government's gonna have to step in on the you know the use of AI, like, how do you know? And there's companies. Now I was listening to a podcast and there's no companies that are trying to have like reverse AI, so that if you're watching like I don't know if you're watching something and you're skeptical you're able to use a software that detects if it's made by AI, so like this is a scary debate just because it's it's.
Speaker 3:It's something that I like. Like we talk about, like, oh, using filters or whatever, or stuff in our editing software or for, like, editing photos or whatever it's like. It's fine, ai tools are great. Now we're replacing the photographer with a robot. Yeah, that's. I don't want that to happen.
Speaker 1:Yeah it's, it's real weird. Like when you said reverse AI, I'm like, damn, we're like we're already trying to find mechanisms to combat AI.
Speaker 1:Yes, and when we just got introduced to it, I feel like I feel like I feel like the general public doesn't know how fast AI is actually progressing, because there's no way that these studios are asking for this likeness thing, because they're probably like they're probably getting word from, from these, these people who are crazy AI tools, is like hey, if you can, if you can get the likeness man, like just give us like a, give us like a month, like I feel like we can, you know especially these A-listers and stuff like that, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's also a thing with, like, like all the these legacy characters, like I don't know if you heard it, but like James Earl Jones has, like, sold his voice to Disney so they can continue using his, his voice for Darth Vader.
Speaker 3:Oh, no you guys hear that Dude, so oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:So it's like. So all they have to do is just like take James Earl Jones is like pitch and whatnot, and then run it through a filter and then we have Darth Vader from now to the end of time. You don't have to like hear like an age James Earl Jones.
Speaker 3:You can hear Scary man.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like so they recently. They recently did that at the end of, I think, the Obi-Wan Kenobi series and like that's a way of just like. I guess studios are being like oh, you want more of the Darth Vader, what are you going to get them? And your grandkids are going to get one more.
Speaker 3:So basically they deep faked his voice. Now they have full access to anything he could say.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and basically they own James Earl Jones's voice. And and now, like, like the report of like people, the studio is wanting to take your likeness for a day's wage. By the way they'll, they'll pay you a day's wage and they'll own your likeness forever to be used.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they're doing that for extras. I think that was like one of the things, the mic there goes, my there goes, my chance to be an extra in a movie.
Speaker 2:It's either that or I guess. Yeah, like your your. Your likeness will be copyrighted Like so, oh, I'm going to go start on this other movie. Well, nope, this studio owns my likeness, so I can't work for anything.
Speaker 3:So some of my rights to this other studio yeah.
Speaker 2:All right.
Speaker 1:If there's to be honest with you, if there's one extra, if they could put me in a DC movie and I sign a contract with DC or Warner Brothers like, hey, use my likeness, but only DC movies.
Speaker 2:I know. No, I'm not like, I'll sign my likeness away and it'll be like, yeah, we're going to put you in final destination movies and you're just going to be the guy that dies over and over again Like crap. How much am I getting paid? $12 every five years.
Speaker 3:Shoot. Yeah, it's something like that.
Speaker 2:Dude speaking of like his voice.
Speaker 3:You know there's software that's free to download where you could literally just put any like, let's say, you just took all the video footage or all the audio footage of like the Duane the rock John's voice and you put it in this program and the program will replicate it and you can literally type a sentence and it'll sound just like Duane the John's, duane the Rock John's talking. That's how, like there's, that's a little regulation there is. You can literally just rip a movie and just take the audio from it and make it sound like any actor or celebrity.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no they're doing that right now with like scammers. Yeah, I saw this news report where someone, I think, replicated the voice of like someone's friend and this person got scammed into like oh, like. The person on the other end was like hey, I can't get into my account, Can you log in or can you give me the login and password for this? And you're like you know, it sounds like the person that they know. And so they just like freely gave the like sensitive information and they got hacked. I'm like, dude, that's just like scammers, just taking your voices away and all that. Right, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean, this whole talk is. You know, our conversation right now is. It's semi depressing because this could be we might be witnessing and I didn't think I'd be witnessing it in my lifetime Pretty much a, I wouldn't say a technological downfall, but it just seems like they're using technology for the wrong reasons and it's like it's more of the technology that is supposed to get us to a new upper, like a new echelon, as a human society. It's just being hoarded by these greedy, rich people and not benefiting us as common people. You know, it just seems like all the news about AI is about how much money you can make, how many jobs are you going to take away. It's not even about, like you know, like how do you cure a disease or how do you cure like what's like something like that's beneficial for mankind. You know, it just seems like it's benefiting the 1%, like they basically are using AI to just further distant themselves from the 99%, like it's literally becoming impossible to earn a living.
Speaker 1:I mean, and that's just another conversation on top of this whole thing that's going on right now. I mean, at the end of the day, these are people who can't make a living doing what they love and they spent their you know, their hard earned money getting into college. You know, working their ass off 12 to 16 hours a day to make something that they enjoy, but not getting the you know, not getting the appropriate payment back for it. And it's just like. It's an industry. Like you know, people were talking on Twitter like everyone needs to be aware of AI and all their industries. Do not think for one second that AI is just in Hollywood, it's just in the internet. It could literally affect everyone.
Speaker 1:I wouldn't be surprised if, like some of these head honchos that are that you know we're working for, you know all that they're seeing this and they're thinking how do I get a piece of that? You know, it's almost like. You know it's. I wouldn't. It's just I don't know. I don't know what I'd equivalent to like in the past, like, I don't think I've seen anything like this. You know, maybe when the, when internet first started and everyone was just trying to gather, like their, their space on the internet, you know, trying to put themselves on the map, on this, like, basically this unknown territory, right, like, and it just seems like this is, then this is that right, this is the. This is the next evolution of you know technology and you know it's something that is not helping helping us, as you know consumers and content creators. You know just people trying to make you know a decent living, I guess. So yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so cool. I mean, why don't we? Why don't we end it off here? Just, you know, it was a nice conversation that's. You know that's spawned off different avenues but all kind of circling around the same topic and you know, hopefully we could kind of see, hopefully you see some progress, because you know, I mean, if we're being real, if I'm being real, I mean I got plenty of stuff to watch. I mean I have comic books too.
Speaker 2:You name it. You name it yeah.
Speaker 3:Netflix, Crunchyroll, comics, Shoot. There's probably other streaming services. I haven't remembered yet that I have and movies that are out now that I'm trying to catch up on To be. To be, Pluto TV, Pluto TV you know going outside. Nah, nah, it's too hot for that. It's too hot.
Speaker 1:Can't do that. It's like, you know, we're in our record temps and they're like forcing us inside. So it's like it's like go outside, enjoy the weather Hot, All right, we're going back and watching some free TV, but but yeah, any any parting words before we chop up this episode and head on out?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I just did like wrap up what we taught by AI just leave. You can't. Let's just leave all the creativity to like real people. You know, people have a passion, people and express themselves, whether it's doing a podcast like this, you know, being a photographer, being a writer, that's something that is human nature and that's like I. I understand the benefits of AI, but the AI as a complete replacement for people is just that's. That's where I I feel like I can get really messy in the future, so I'll leave it off for me. That's what I'll leave it off on.
Speaker 2:Yeah just so you know just so you know we're not really here. This whole podcast that was done by AI, so chat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, they gave us the whole script and you know it actually was pretty much a success.
Speaker 2:I mean, I feel like we got algorithms.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm a zero and one. That's literally how I feel right now.
Speaker 3:We're in the matrix.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm telling you, man, we're not that far off. I mean, I bet you they're going to combine, like you know, oculus and AI and they're like hey, you want to live in Animal Crossing?
Speaker 3:You're appealing to a huge variety of people now.
Speaker 1:I know right, this is going to be the one to first bring it out.
Speaker 2:If they gave me a choice to live in Animal Crossing, I'd be like you know what. It was nice knowing you guys, but I'm going to go, you know, shake some trees for some apples and fish. That sounds like a peaceful life, like you telling me all the work I have to do is fish and pay off my house and there's no such thing as like taxes and interest rates and and all that. I was like I just worked for a talking raccoon. Yeah, sign me up, I'm out Be me up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yep, I mean, and if you want to get a head start of how you want to tackle your next life in AI generated worlds, we'll go on crunchy roll.
Speaker 2:It's an animated anime service and watch all these RPG, rpg games where where you're reincarnated as a vending machine or a or a warrior yeah, some overpowered warrior with a, with a harem of like seven ladies and you're like, you know what? This life ain't so bad.
Speaker 1:Damn. So you know, if you ever want to get ahead on the curve, there's the, there's a lot of those. So we're going to go ahead and sign off until next time, guys. Thank you, guys for listening and we will talk to you all later with another episode.