September 1, 2026

Adam K: You just let me know when you're all settled in.

Aaron: I'm ready.

Adam K: You're a hard man to get Ahold of.

Aaron: Oh, really?

Aaron: I've been in the same place.

Aaron: I've

Adam K: Here.

Aaron: been waiting for you the last twenty four hours.

Adam K: Here

Aaron: Right here.

Adam K: you are, off petting babies, hanging out with old friends.

Adam K: No time for this guy.

Aaron: Yeah, man.

Aaron: You really you really make yourself sound unappealing to

Aaron: hang out with.

Aaron: I'm kind of second guessing

Adam K: I'm.

Aaron: this.

Adam K: I'm trying to make myself more unappealing.

Adam K: The

Aaron: I

Adam K: problem

Aaron: think

Adam K: is, I'm too popular.

Aaron: I think your mic switched again to where you're not speaking

Aaron: into a microphone.

Adam K: That would make a lot of sense right now.

Adam K: Let me fix that.

Adam K: Yeah.

Adam K: Why would it use the Bluetooth headphones?

Adam K: It's set to the good one.

Adam K: Let me refresh.

Aaron: Doo doo doo doo

Adam K: I use

Aaron: doo.

Adam K: the, um, the fancy, uh, compression software stuff.

Adam K: And I, you know, I try to clean it up in post, but.

Aaron: Yeah. You're not going to be able to clean this up.

Adam K: There's always a chance.

Adam K: There we go.

Adam K: Okay.

Adam K: Check it out.

Adam K: I'm about to switch.

Aaron: Okay.

Adam K: How's that?

Aaron: Wow. It sounds like it should.

Adam K: Yeah. Um, so my my brother came

Adam K: over, dropped off some, uh, a

Adam K: saw that.

Adam K: Putting a new.

Aaron: What?

Aaron: Now it's switched again.

Adam K: Are you serious?

Aaron: Yep.

Adam K: That's aggressive.

Adam K: Well.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: MM. Okay. Two seconds.

Adam K: Let me fix this.

Aaron: Now I'm remembering why we didn't talk yesterday.

Adam K: How's that?

Aaron: It's good.

Aaron: You want to just cut the first part of this off.

Adam K: I am capable of editing.

Adam K: You don't have to tell me to do

Adam K: it during the recording, but,

Adam K: um.

Aaron: Could you edit the the beginning off?

Adam K: No, no. You're

Aaron: I'll

Adam K: just.

Aaron: remind you in 30s.

Adam K: Yeah. Is that what it's like to be creative?

Adam K: You just tell other people what to do.

Aaron: Uh, for me it is.

Adam K: I know, I know.

Aaron: Oh,

Adam K: I've.

Aaron: funny thing, I had a, um.

Aaron: I had to write this, like, uh, I

Aaron: wrote this thought leadership

Aaron: piece for someone else about

Aaron: that.

Aaron: Did you see that?

Aaron: You probably didn't.

Aaron: There's this ad, um, for Callaway Golf or something made

Aaron: by good, good golf or I don't know, I don't follow golf, but

Aaron: apparently this ad was it was parodying obsession, that movie

Aaron: that I also didn't see.

Aaron: But what happened was, is they're trying to show how good

Aaron: this golf driver is.

Aaron: And this woman goes to like,

Aaron: pluck the driver out of the golf

Aaron: bag.

Aaron: And this guy runs over from across the green and shoves her

Aaron: to the ground.

Aaron: And,

Adam K: Jesus.

Aaron: and from a very low angle, it's looking up at him.

Aaron: And it said and he says, uh, don't you touch my driver or

Aaron: something like that.

Aaron: And then and then it goes for

Aaron: the rest of the poorly made

Aaron: thirty second AD, it's it's him

Aaron: being weird amongst guys and

Aaron: stuff too.

Aaron: But they singled out that clip.

Aaron: It's like two and a half seconds long of him shoving that woman

Aaron: to the ground and provided it's not it's not a good look in

Aaron: isolation, but it's just a bad ad in general.

Aaron: Like it's not a good parody.

Aaron: Like I didn't even see the movie.

Aaron: And I know it's not a good parody.

Aaron: And it was shot on a camera

Aaron: phone and it just looks like

Aaron: shit.

Aaron: And.

Aaron: But everyone was up in arms about him.

Aaron: The domestic violence that happened in it.

Aaron: And, um, so I wrote a little.

Aaron: I had to write a little thing on

Aaron: it and, uh, yeah, you know,

Aaron: they, they encountered, uh,

Aaron: technical difficulties just like

Aaron: you.

Aaron: They probably had someone

Aaron: creatively yelling at them just

Aaron: like me.

Aaron: And yet here they are, and

Aaron: they're getting their

Aaron: sponsorships pulled.

Aaron: And to be honest, I didn't really look that much into it.

Aaron: I'm not I don't know what Callaway Golf is, and I don't

Aaron: know who good, good golf is because I'm, uh, I don't play

Aaron: golf, but whatever.

Adam K: Hold

Aaron: Are you

Adam K: one

Aaron: there?

Adam K: second.

Aaron: Hello?

Adam K: One second.

Aaron: Are you under arrest or something, or is the cops there?

Adam K: I think I figured out what the real issue was.

Aaron: Uh. Huh.

Adam K: Uh.

Aaron: Do you need me to repeat my Callaway golf story?

Adam K: No. But it did make me think of my myself.

Adam K: I watched a lot of Rivian R2 videos this weekend because

Adam K: someone had told me that Rivian is affordable and it is ish for

Adam K: a new car.

Adam K: If you wait for like, you know, the the basic one and it gets no

Adam K: range or anything like that, not going to buy it,

Aaron: Uh. Huh.

Adam K: just generally looking, but not one, but two videos, two

Adam K: separate guys explaining how easy you can fit your golf clubs

Adam K: in the front.

Adam K: And that did more damage to me

Adam K: being interested in the car than

Adam K: anything else.

Adam K: Well, then actually test driving it and then not wanting it.

Adam K: so.

Aaron: That's a classic luxury car

Aaron: thing, though, that's been going

Aaron: on for like forty or fifty

Aaron: years.

Aaron: Like,

Adam K: I get.

Aaron: can

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: you fit a golf bag in the trunk?

Aaron: That's, that's like the trope.

Aaron: And if they weren't like

Aaron: presenting it as a trope and

Aaron: tongue in cheek, then they're

Aaron: just disconnected.

Aaron: But

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: yeah.

Adam K: Which way did the the dead male escort legs go?

Aaron: Can you fit your toddler in the trunk?

Adam K: And can you put on that pet mode so people don't freak out and

Adam K: break your windows?

Aaron: The reason I wouldn't buy a

Aaron: Rivian is because the name

Aaron: sounds like a female, uh, uh,

Aaron: improvement device.

Adam K: Say birth control.

Aaron: Uh, I mean, it's a, it's a sex toy.

Aaron: Rivian is like, it's a sex toy.

Aaron: That's just what it is.

Aaron: It's

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: got twelve different vibration modes and it's self-cleaning.

Aaron: You know, like that's a Rivian.

Adam K: You are describing the car.

Adam K: Um, it was weird because, you

Adam K: know me, I'm a very tech

Adam K: focused, forward thinking

Adam K: person.

Adam K: I like new technology as much as

Adam K: I, you know, kind of make fun of

Adam K: people for being proud of their

Adam K: vehicles that are essentially

Adam K: just giant cell phones with

Adam K: wheels.

Adam K: I do like the, the nifty, like I

Adam K: get excited about that sort of

Adam K: stuff.

Adam K: It was too much.

Adam K: I've never actually driven like

Adam K: an EV other than like, you know,

Adam K: a friend's Tesla or whatever

Adam K: once and then, but it's just so

Adam K: overwhelming.

Adam K: How much is on an iPad now?

Adam K: Like it was just, it's, it's too much of a, like

Aaron: It's

Adam K: if you

Aaron: dangerous.

Adam K: want it is it's arguably more dangerous, like to adjust the

Adam K: mirrors, you have to pull over and stop, navigate

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: through a menu, ensure you're selected on the right profile.

Adam K: And I'm like, okay, this is too much in that direction.

Adam K: Like, I

Aaron: Well,

Adam K: don't

Aaron: you

Adam K: need all this

Aaron: know,

Adam K: crap.

Aaron: I already I always say this, but like, you can always tell what's

Aaron: going to happen in like the, the people's cars by what's

Aaron: happening in, in luxury and exotics and they're getting rid

Aaron: of all that shit in, you know, in the Ferrari world and other

Aaron: and like bespoke cars and all the stuff they're putting back

Aaron: in like switches and knobs and tactile things because the rich

Aaron: are tired of that bullshit.

Aaron: So it'll come back down to, you

Aaron: know, the lower classes, the

Aaron: scum class.

Adam K: Yeah. I mean, like, it's the thing of we're in LA.

Adam K: Gas prices.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Gas is insane here.

Aaron: Um.

Adam K: Doing the math.

Adam K: It's probably like, okay, well,

Adam K: probably getting up in arms over

Adam K: something like we still have a

Adam K: hybrid.

Adam K: It's, it's okay, but it's

Adam K: thinking long term and like,

Adam K: okay, just kind of weighing the

Adam K: options of.

Adam K: It's one of those crappy things is you live in LA, you kind of

Adam K: have to have a car.

Adam K: So it's like, get a rebate on it.

Adam K: We'll see.

Adam K: But it's, it's just too much of a cell phone.

Adam K: It's too much of an iPad.

Adam K: And, uh, you look at something

Adam K: like we've talked about before,

Adam K: but like that slate truck where

Adam K: there's nothing in it, I'm like,

Adam K: that's kind of more interesting

Adam K: to me.

Adam K: You know, something that my, you know, I can my solar panels will

Adam K: charge and it only gets whatever, thirty five miles to a

Adam K: charger or whatever.

Adam K: Um, anyway, I just wanted to let

Adam K: you know I'm, I bought some golf

Adam K: bags and,

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: uh, I

Aaron: You're gonna

Adam K: think.

Aaron: push down a woman as soon as she tries to grab you.

Aaron: Driver.

Adam K: That's the hope I sell.

Adam K: I didn't finish obsession.

Adam K: We started it.

Adam K: Um, I didn't like the part with the dead cat.

Adam K: That was upsetting.

Aaron: Well, don't spoil it.

Aaron: I might watch that movie in twenty years on

Adam K: I don't

Aaron: an airplane.

Adam K: I don't see that happening with you.

Aaron: No, I'm not going to.

Aaron: It's

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: like you don't need to go into it, but it's about a woman with

Aaron: bipolar, uh, ness, right.

Adam K: There's

Aaron: Or

Adam K: magic

Aaron: is that

Adam K: involved.

Aaron: really?

Adam K: Yeah. That's that's how it

Adam K: starts off is there's a guy

Adam K: who's kind of not really in

Adam K: Selly.

Adam K: It's just typical, you know, young boy crushing on a girl.

Adam K: And

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: then, um, he makes a wish and he's like, I wish you would love

Adam K: me more than anything else in the fucking world

Aaron: Oh, so there's magic.

Adam K: is

Aaron: Okay.

Adam K: magic.

Adam K: Yeah,

Aaron: I

Adam K: but,

Aaron: thought

Adam K: I mean,

Aaron: it was like

Adam K: it

Aaron: a.

Adam K: could be an

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: allegory, I guess, for bipolar disorder or something, but.

Aaron: I thought there was.

Aaron: Yeah. Legit.

Aaron: Like bi.

Aaron: She was bipolar.

Aaron: And that's what was happening.

Adam K: There

Aaron: Okay.

Adam K: might be a deeper meaning to the

Adam K: movie, but I was it was just

Adam K: like, I don't know, I'll I'll

Adam K: give it another watch sometime

Adam K: when I'm, I'm in more of that

Adam K: mood.

Adam K: Um, but I wanted to watch something.

Adam K: I don't know, I think I was already feeling down.

Adam K: I'm like, this isn't helping.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Let's watch the backrooms, see if that helps.

Aaron: Yeah. I don't, I don't need to I don't need to watch YouTube

Aaron: movies right now.

Aaron: But, um, I'm more concerned.

Aaron: I'm thinking about your Rivian

Aaron: and car choices that you're

Aaron: thinking about.

Aaron: I think the solution might be this auction I'm looking at

Aaron: right now on bring a trailer.

Aaron: It's a it's a nineteen eighty

Aaron: six Ferrari three hundred twenty

Aaron: eight GTS project that I think

Aaron: if you put a couple grand into

Aaron: it, you'd have, you'd be able to

Aaron: live out your Magnum P.I.

Aaron: fantasies and.

Adam K: Um, yeah,

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: I could.

Adam K: So just take it to Hawaii and solve crimes.

Aaron: Well, you could solve crimes in

Aaron: LA and by solve crimes, uh,

Aaron: solve the crime of who stole

Aaron: your Ferrari three, twenty

Aaron: eight,

Adam K: I was,

Aaron: ten

Adam K: I was,

Aaron: hours after you've owned it.

Adam K: I was listening to an interview

Adam K: from a few weeks ago where they

Adam K: were talking to the flock CEO

Adam K: and

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: how the whole thing.

Adam K: How he like accidentally essentially created Big Brother.

Adam K: And you hear him tell the story

Adam K: and I'm like, I'm just trying to

Adam K: come at this from like a, you

Adam K: know, a just trying to go in

Adam K: with an open mind of like, okay,

Adam K: how did this guy get to where he

Adam K: is?

Adam K: And he tells a story about how

Adam K: people were in his neighborhood

Adam K: breaking into people's cars and

Adam K: stealing their guns, which is

Adam K: also like, why is there gun in a

Adam K: car?

Adam K: I don't know.

Adam K: Regardless, it was like him and a buddy just kind of hobbled

Adam K: together, you know, um, some old Android phones and I guess like

Adam K: a Raspberry Pi or something and essentially created like a low

Adam K: budget, um, license plate reader because the cops told him the

Adam K: best way to catch someone is to get their license plate, which I

Adam K: relate to only because in my neighborhood, my neighbor to my

Adam K: right had their window busted in, and then my neighbor to the

Adam K: left got their window busted in and I was like, okay, it's only

Adam K: a matter of time.

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: Um, so like, it would be cool.

Adam K: And I looked into it and it's

Adam K: like a license plate reader for

Adam K: like in my mind to just

Adam K: thinking, okay, this is for the

Adam K: neighborhood.

Adam K: This is a ongoing thing.

Adam K: It would be cool to catch the person.

Adam K: There's no cops going to come by here and investigate

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: it. So it's like, okay, if we just, if it's someone driving by

Adam K: and breaking into people's cars and driving off.

Adam K: Yeah, get a license plate

Adam K: reader, set it up, all that

Adam K: stuff.

Adam K: Those are like two thousand dollars cameras.

Adam K: And I was just then I just gave up and went, yeah, whatever.

Adam K: Just check to see if my insurance is up to date.

Adam K: And I'm like, okay, that I'll just lay back and take it like

Adam K: the rest of society.

Adam K: So like, part of me was I had

Adam K: some empathy for the guy of

Adam K: like, okay, I can see where this

Adam K: came from, but it appears to

Adam K: have gotten out of hand and now

Adam K: it's, uh, a stalker network and

Adam K: it has grown, uh, beyond his

Adam K: wildest dreams.

Adam K: And, uh, he has essentially created a big brother.

Adam K: So yeah, um, Even the best intentions, I believe can, uh,

Adam K: can create devastation.

Aaron: Yeah, and you wouldn't need a scanner if you have this

Aaron: Ferrari, because your plates would obviously be Robin one and

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: you'd know what the plates were.

Aaron: Um, that's a that's a Magnum P.I. thing too.

Adam K: Okay.

Aaron: Uh, yeah, the, uh, I enjoy the flock CEO going around the, the

Aaron: media circuit being like, there needs to be compromised and

Adam K: It's,

Aaron: you can, you can see like

Adam K: uh.

Aaron: the valuations going down on his company in real time as

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: he's like, please, for the love of God.

Adam K: Yeah. It's that moment from Futurama.

Adam K: I don't remember where Fry's talking about how great the

Adam K: company is, and you can see the stock going down in real time.

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: It's like it's a people business.

Adam K: Zero.

Adam K: Um,

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: yeah, it's one of those lessons

Adam K: where maybe less is more and

Adam K: realize that you've created a

Adam K: dystopian hellscape device that

Adam K: law enforcement and ex-husbands

Adam K: want.

Adam K: Very much so.

Adam K: Um, and

Aaron: And who can blame

Adam K: yeah.

Aaron: them?

Adam K: And lifeguards.

Adam K: Former lifeguards.

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: Yeah. It's a good time.

Adam K: Uh, yeah, they were also I forgot about that.

Adam K: That how this, this thing sort of initially kicked off was when

Adam K: they, they tracked someone going out of state for an abortion.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: That's, uh, was that in Florida or Texas, I don't know.

Adam K: I

Aaron: It's.

Adam K: want to say Texas.

Aaron: Or maybe it's Alabama.

Aaron: I don't know, it's.

Adam K: I think they went from Texas to Florida.

Adam K: And Florida said, sorry, we can't do it either.

Adam K: Uh, and then just, uh, put him on a boat to Cuba.

Aaron: Hold on.

Aaron: I gotta give someone edit access to a thing.

Aaron: Um.

Adam K: Why are you telling me to hold on?

Aaron: Let's see here.

Aaron: This is giving them added access

Aaron: to this Callaway Golf ad or golf

Aaron: thing.

Adam K: Can we fit them in the front?

Adam K: The frunk of a Rivian.

Adam K: Oh, I hate saying that.

Aaron: Yeah, man.

Aaron: I and I, it's just, you know what?

Aaron: I also think at the end of the

Aaron: day is that once this thing

Aaron: blows over, like I didn't know

Aaron: what good, good golf was

Aaron: beforehand.

Aaron: And because I don't, like I said, I don't golf, but the type

Aaron: of people who golf are not going to give two shits about domestic

Aaron: abuse in an ad and they're going to be like, wow, what's good?

Aaron: Good golf.

Aaron: You

Adam K: When

Aaron: know, it's good.

Adam K: they

Aaron: It's.

Adam K: sober up and watch that video.

Aaron: Well, it's going to be like some

Aaron: dude in his sixties who's

Aaron: looking for any edge he can on

Aaron: the links

Adam K: Um.

Aaron: and he'll see the woman get shoved and he'll be like, she

Aaron: must, she must have done something to deserve that.

Aaron: And then he'll

Adam K: He's.

Aaron: be then he'll be on their

Aaron: product page within five seconds

Aaron: like.

Adam K: He's probably trying to figure out which course they're on.

Aaron: Yeah. He's like, That's Augusta.

Aaron: I think that's beautiful.

Aaron: He's like pausing the video at the point where she's getting

Aaron: shoved down to see if he can identify any kind of bunkers or

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: anything.

Adam K: What kind of.

Adam K: What kind of grass is that?

Adam K: Is that.

Aaron: That's, I think that's Kentucky Blue, if I'm not

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: mistaken.

Adam K: Yeah. Edward,

Aaron: But

Adam K: get in here.

Adam K: Look at this.

Aaron: yeah, you see this grass that's

Aaron: wedged in this woman's ears and

Aaron: nose?

Aaron: Is that Kentucky bluegrass?

Aaron: I think it is.

Adam K: We should go there.

Adam K: Grab the

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Rivian.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Uh, start

Aaron: So it's going

Adam K: her up.

Aaron: to end up great for everyone.

Aaron: Um, though the woman that got shoved down, I think, like crazy

Aaron: Maga types were threatening her.

Aaron: Yeah.

Aaron: Because they were like, what the fuck?

Aaron: Why can't you just take it?

Aaron: And, uh, yeah.

Aaron: And so then the people at I want

Aaron: to say again, I'm mixing them up

Aaron: because it's just a bunch of

Aaron: white dudes.

Aaron: But it's Callaway Golf and good, good golf.

Aaron: One of the one of the representatives was like, do

Aaron: not, do not threaten this woman.

Aaron: If you're going to threaten anyone, threaten me because I

Aaron: can take it, you know, like he,

Adam K: All

Aaron: he

Adam K: right.

Aaron: like he not only, uh, he, he minimized her while also trying

Aaron: to be chivalrous.

Aaron: It was pretty good.

Adam K: That's, uh, that's some classic white knighting right there.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Wow. And then they just harassed her even more.

Aaron: Yeah. It's like, why would you

Aaron: make him try and take

Aaron: responsibility?

Adam K: My head hurts.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Uh, well, I hope the thought leadership posts went over well.

Aaron: I think it just.

Aaron: I just got thanked for it.

Aaron: So, um.

Adam K: Oh. Well.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Good. I'm

Aaron: Should

Adam K: glad.

Aaron: be good.

Adam K: I'm glad that worked out.

Adam K: When do you want to put up our, uh, political ad?

Aaron: Let me put it up whenever we put it up this week.

Adam K: Okay, I gotta get the website done.

Adam K: But what's

Aaron: And the

Adam K: What's

Aaron: end of

Adam K: the

Aaron: this

Adam K: plan,

Aaron: week.

Adam K: Stan?

Aaron: Uh, well,

Adam K: You

Aaron: I

Adam K: want to buy

Aaron: need.

Adam K: some some ad spots for it?

Aaron: I do I, I need, I need some

Aaron: money, I'm gonna put them figure

Aaron: out some money to put into it

Aaron: because

Adam K: I wish

Aaron: I'm.

Adam K: you wouldn't quit all these jobs because I'm

Aaron: I'm trying to get more.

Adam K: okay.

Aaron: Um, yeah, the, uh, yeah, I, I

Aaron: think it'd be good to put some

Aaron: target some ads and, uh, and try

Aaron: and get some organic out of it

Aaron: to, um, get people, uh, sharing

Aaron: and, and putting out the word

Aaron: because that's

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: cheaper.

Aaron: Um, so yeah.

Adam K: Yeah. So I guess we'll make a post about that.

Adam K: Why?

Adam K: We made this

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: horrific piece of media that still makes me laugh.

Aaron: Yeah. That'll

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: be good though.

Aaron: It is funny how Greg Abbott,

Aaron: like yesterday or the day before

Aaron: said he's pausing spending on,

Aaron: on or he's not allowing any new

Aaron: flock contracts or something

Aaron: like that.

Adam K: Yeah. I well going like I've

Adam K: done very minimal research on

Adam K: this.

Adam K: I leave it to you, but I think it's just more of a way of

Adam K: mocking flock cameras and using a, uh, you know, some political

Adam K: unrest to get there because I, I don't have a horse in that race.

Adam K: It's I'm more just like, whatever Aaron wants.

Adam K: It's his state, not mine.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: I'm just this coastal elite, uh,

Adam K: you know, going around in my

Adam K: Rivian's.

Adam K: I just spit up a chia seed.

Adam K: That's how, uh.

Aaron: Therapy sounds like it's doing

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: wonders for you.

Aaron: All this all this self admittance and.

Adam K: Well, it's all just AI now, so

Adam K: they just tell me how great I am

Adam K: over

Aaron: The,

Adam K: and

Aaron: uh,

Adam K: over.

Aaron: um, someone close to me who I, who I live with.

Aaron: who?

Aaron: Uh, she found out that her the

Aaron: person she was talking to, the

Aaron: supposed therapist person in

Aaron: India really just kind of ended

Aaron: up being more of a life coach

Aaron: and, uh, was getting like, I

Aaron: think getting mixed up with what

Aaron: her issues were versus other

Aaron: clients.

Adam K: Oh, yeah.

Aaron: And

Adam K: That's a lot to keep a hold of.

Aaron: yeah, she's meeting like three

Aaron: hundred people a day or

Aaron: something,

Adam K: Uh.

Aaron: you know, and so it was a, it

Aaron: all quickly unraveled and I felt

Aaron: bad.

Aaron: But, um, I was like, this is the future, you know?

Adam K: Yeah. When you're your AI therapist, can't remember which

Adam K: problem child you are.

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Well.

Aaron: But, uh.

Adam K: Well, according to, uh, was it makers of ChatGPT?

Adam K: OpenAI.

Adam K: We're going to have AGI like in six months.

Adam K: So, uh, I think what is it people say we're either we're

Adam K: all going to die or best case scenario, we're basically like

Adam K: the domesticated dogs of this planet while, uh, while AI just,

Adam K: you know, showers us with gifts and toys because they just think

Adam K: we're so cute.

Aaron: I really think this happens often.

Aaron: People underestimate how.

Aaron: Well, like people in higher positions underestimate how

Aaron: little people want to be told what to do.

Aaron: Like when it actually becomes

Aaron: real and someone's trying to

Aaron: like, even if it's beneficial to

Aaron: your life.

Aaron: If someone's like you do this, someone goes like, hey, fuck

Aaron: you, I'm going on strike.

Aaron: And then that's, you know, so we'll get to that point.

Aaron: I think like,

Adam K: Will we?

Aaron: yeah, I mean, even okay, so even

Aaron: with like the midterm stuff,

Aaron: right?

Aaron: Not to the briefly politically

Aaron: go here, but like, if something

Aaron: goes wacky and say there's like

Aaron: a blue wave or something and

Aaron: then, uh, Mike Johnson or

Aaron: whatever refuses to sit

Aaron: representatives.

Aaron: He's going to see like.

Aaron: And we will all be surprised by the.

Aaron: The amount of people will not take when they feel like

Aaron: someone's trying to tell them what to do from afar.

Aaron: Like it always had like.

Aaron: And it's surprising when it when it happens.

Aaron: But there is that element of yes, for the most part, we can

Aaron: be sheeple and, you know, have our flock cameras come in

Aaron: without us knowing and just all this other stuff.

Aaron: But at other point, like humans, particularly Americans and

Aaron: definitely the French, they're like, whenever anyone tries to

Aaron: be like, no, this is your life now there's just this revolt and

Aaron: you just go like, no, fuck you.

Aaron: I'm not doing this out

Adam K: So I.

Aaron: of spite.

Adam K: I called myself the coastal elite, but you did the thing

Adam K: where you brought up French people and French lifestyle.

Adam K: So.

Aaron: My last name is Mark key.

Aaron: You son of a bitch,

Adam K: Yeah,

Aaron: I

Adam K: I

Aaron: have.

Adam K: kind of box of trash with that name on it the other day.

Aaron: There's a bar down the street from me called the Marquee Two.

Aaron: And that's like.

Adam K: It sounds like a car that breaks down a lot.

Aaron: Yeah, yeah.

Adam K: It is

Aaron: Well, there's the grand

Adam K: Grand

Aaron: marquee,

Adam K: Marquis.

Aaron: there's the marquee two, and then there's the marquee.

Adam K: On on the way to the the Rivian test drive.

Adam K: Um, Jess is saying, you know, we could we could just speed this

Adam K: whole thing up if you, uh, if we just what if we go buy a two

Adam K: thousand and three T-Bird and you make it a project and make

Adam K: it into an electric car?

Adam K: And then she was reading all the problems that that car had.

Aaron: That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard her say.

Adam K: And I was like, well, once you get the smell of perfume and

Adam K: cigarettes out of it, um, I think, what is it?

Adam K: I think like the wheel locks up, the rear axle locks up.

Adam K: Um, the roof will just fall off.

Adam K: I think it,

Aaron: Uh.

Adam K: I was like, well you there's a reason

Aaron: Here's

Adam K: they

Aaron: what

Adam K: stopped

Aaron: you

Adam K: making

Aaron: here's

Adam K: it.

Aaron: what you'll have.

Aaron: At the end of the day.

Aaron: A car that can go up to forty miles on a charge with no

Aaron: speedometer, no radio, no locks, a roof that's half open and only

Aaron: rear brakes and no headlights.

Adam K: I did see a video of a guy.

Adam K: He took an old like a I think it

Adam K: was a Toyota, but like one of

Adam K: those old 80s Toyotas, uh,

Adam K: trucks.

Adam K: And he put a, uh, an electric motor and it only got about

Adam K: ninety miles to the charge, but he still somehow got his stick

Adam K: shift to work with it.

Aaron: Yeah you can.

Adam K: Yeah, I thought that was kind of cool.

Aaron: Well, you need to.

Aaron: So the electric motor needs to

Aaron: turn something, a differential

Aaron: or whatever.

Aaron: And you know, it doesn't really care what what's in between it.

Aaron: So if you connect it to the transmission, people with VW,

Aaron: old VW do this all the time.

Aaron: You can connect it to the transmission and you don't

Aaron: really need to shift.

Aaron: I mean, you need to put it in a forward gear or a reverse gear,

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: but you could put it in second or fourth or whatever.

Aaron: And the only thing that the only reason that you shift in general

Aaron: is because you can't have an engine that does forty thousand

Aaron: RPMs, you know, but an electric motor can do that.

Aaron: You know, it can do

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: whatever.

Aaron: So you can put it in any gear

Aaron: and then it has the torque to

Aaron: move it.

Aaron: So yeah, you can, I mean, if you

Aaron: wanted to and your car could do

Aaron: it, you could put it in fourth

Aaron: gear and provide you don't run

Aaron: out of RPMs on the electric

Aaron: motor.

Aaron: You could go four hundred miles an hour.

Aaron: But.

Adam K: But there's no. Does it still require a clutch?

Adam K: I guess is the question.

Aaron: Um.

Adam K: Is the clutch clutch isn't clutching anything?

Aaron: Yeah, yeah.

Aaron: You need the because, because essentially the clutch is

Aaron: grabbing the flywheel of the electric motor, right?

Aaron: So it's clamping on that flywheel.

Aaron: So if you're going to shift, you should disengage it so you can

Aaron: shift without grinding synchros in your transmission.

Aaron: So when you get that T-Bird and you start putting it together

Aaron: with its clunky automatic transmission, that was already

Aaron: way outdated even in two thousand and three.

Aaron: Uh, you can see how the torque converter and all that stuff

Adam K: It

Aaron: works

Adam K: was like

Aaron: with your

Adam K: a

Aaron: electric

Adam K: it was like

Aaron: motor.

Adam K: a Lincoln or something, right?

Aaron: I don't even remember.

Aaron: It

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: was just such a piece of shit

Aaron: that and people were so looking

Aaron: forward to it when it was coming

Aaron: out.

Adam K: Uh.

Aaron: But I say all this and we see

Aaron: this all the time in the car

Aaron: market.

Aaron: There will be someone like a

Aaron: Jess, but, you know, maybe

Aaron: they're in their twenties now

Aaron: and they'll be like, you know

Aaron: what?

Aaron: I remember when I was born, my

Aaron: my dad had this T-Bird that he

Aaron: would drive me to, you know,

Aaron: Montessori school in or

Aaron: whatever.

Aaron: Uh, and that'll be a car for

Aaron: them, and suddenly they'll be

Aaron: worth one hundred grand or two

Aaron: hundred grand.

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: And because they made so few of them and they were scrapped and

Aaron: there's like so few left, but.

Adam K: Well, I hope not.

Adam K: It's going to make more of these David Foster Wallace videos.

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: Yeah. That's the future

Aaron: Well.

Adam K: of memes.

Adam K: Did you get a chance to look at that?

Adam K: Um. Infinite slot link.

Aaron: I did, I watched it for a little bit.

Aaron: I actually, I understand what

Aaron: it's I understand this is the

Aaron: early days

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: and we and everyone knew this is what was going to happen.

Aaron: Anyone knows that it's going to be on demand TV to where either

Aaron: it's a party format like infinite slop or it's just your

Aaron: own channel where you're like, I want to watch, you know, I want

Aaron: a Magnum P.I. episode where Magnum gets killed, and then

Aaron: it's just focused on the butler.

Aaron: The rest of the time, you know, like whatever it is.

Aaron: And then it just makes that show for you.

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: Um, so with the infinite slop thing, I understand all that,

Aaron: but at the same time I was watching, I was like, okay, I'm

Aaron: kind of bored now,

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: you know, because it's, you can streaming on demand that AI

Aaron: stuff and generate.

Aaron: I mean, I can't imagine like their workflow and what they're

Aaron: doing because it was pretty, you know, it flowed pretty well.

Aaron: And the, the video model was pretty good.

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: Um, and the fact that there's a

Aaron: chat functionality and all that

Aaron: stuff,

Adam K: Well,

Aaron: like there's,

Adam K: I believe

Aaron: there's

Adam K: chat is dictating it.

Aaron: right chat is dictating

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: it. And to have all that incorporated in, I mean, they,

Aaron: they put time into it.

Aaron: And I was like very, you know, I was impressed by it.

Aaron: But at the same time, I was

Aaron: like, I'm, this is too boring

Aaron: now.

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: You

Adam K: Oh,

Aaron: know, it's

Adam K: yeah.

Aaron: just.

Adam K: No, no, I'm.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: It is.

Adam K: Well it's also it's the, the

Adam K: flaw in groupthink is where, you

Adam K: know, I was looking at it last

Adam K: night, and there was one thing

Adam K: that was like popular where

Adam K: they're like goth gangster

Adam K: girls.

Adam K: And I just loaded it right now and they're still doing that.

Adam K: So it

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: becomes kind of insular.

Adam K: And it's just it's the snake

Adam K: eating its own tail and doing

Adam K: the thing.

Adam K: What you're talking about, where it's going.

Adam K: I don't even think you'll prompt it.

Adam K: I think it's going to be like a, it's what the next version of

Adam K: TikTok or Instagram reels is going to be, which is just, it

Adam K: is going to be this AI sort of content, like where it is just

Adam K: made in real time, where you're not going to actually say

Adam K: anything based on your browsing history because it tracks

Adam K: everything you do.

Adam K: And then based on, you know, the

Adam K: things you, your eyeball looks

Adam K: at for a microsecond longer than

Adam K: the other, it's just going to

Adam K: prompt it and just keep churning

Adam K: out more of that crap to keep

Adam K: you

Aaron: Yeah,

Adam K: glued to your phone

Aaron: yeah.

Adam K: or whatever retina installation we have next year.

Adam K: But, um.

Aaron: Yeah, absolutely.

Aaron: I mean, that's just the same with ads.

Aaron: Same with all that.

Aaron: Like

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: I should really build a thing that takes cookies and all this

Aaron: stuff and then, you know, sells it or, you know, sell it to

Aaron: companies of like, look, this, it'll target your prospective

Aaron: buyer with their name and their wants and stuff.

Aaron: And it'll get news because of how creepy it is.

Aaron: And then everyone will want it.

Aaron: They'll, everyone will want the

Aaron: woman being shoved to the

Aaron: ground.

Aaron: Uh, ad.

Aaron: You know, but yeah,

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: that's where it's going.

Aaron: I mean, that's

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: what it's going to be.

Adam K: Well, because I think how it

Adam K: started is so the, the tech

Adam K: they're using is obviously like

Adam K: server farms.

Adam K: They're not, they're not, this isn't on a, you know, fifty,

Adam K: ninety or whatever.

Adam K: It's like you need some pretty hefty stuff, but essentially

Adam K: mini max can do real time now, like on beefy enough hardware.

Adam K: So people were trying it on Twitch and immediately getting

Adam K: taken down because it just was like just Rick and Morty doing

Adam K: interdimensional cable and people prompting it, and I'm

Adam K: pretty sure not safe for work came up or who knows what, how

Adam K: many terms of service it was breaking, uh, that they were not

Adam K: turning a blind eye to.

Adam K: So yeah, it's just going to, someone is going to crack this

Adam K: nut and have the infinite, uh, Callaway golf ads.

Adam K: Um, what I would prefer is more, less of a chat integration and

Adam K: more of just pure randomness.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: But that's me.

Aaron: Well, pure randomness.

Aaron: And then maybe you mix in the

Aaron: targeted ads that no cookies

Aaron: can't, can

Adam K: They can do whatever they want.

Aaron: I?

Aaron: No, they can, but they have your name.

Aaron: I, I don't know if that gets that specific.

Aaron: I know they can have they have certain age things because for

Aaron: some reason my, uh, VPN or whatever it is, is set to where

Aaron: I'm sixty five years old.

Aaron: So I'm, I constantly get this.

Aaron: I get to see all the spam that they get, which is great.

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: But,

Adam K: It's

Aaron: um,

Adam K: just German retirement homes.

Aaron: Yeah, there is a bunch of retirement home stuff, but

Aaron: there's also like, um, there's a lot of, I think I've shown you

Aaron: there's a lot of, uh, chair tai chi where it's like just thirty

Aaron: minutes in your chair a day and you can look like me and it's

Aaron: this Asian guy completely ripped and it shows him a month before

Aaron: and he has this like belly

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: and he's just sagging and he's like, got no hair.

Aaron: And then it shows him a month

Aaron: later, full head of hair and

Aaron: ripped.

Aaron: And

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: he's just like, just from spending, I think it's like ten

Aaron: minutes, ten minutes a day with my chair Tai chi.

Aaron: And then it shows some AI old man who's supposed to be me.

Aaron: And it's like, I've been using the chair Tai chi, and this is

Aaron: what I look like last month.

Aaron: And he's just got he's got tits

Aaron: and all sorts of stuff like

Aaron: that.

Aaron: And then he's like, he's got the

Aaron: same body as the Asian guy a

Aaron: month later.

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: Anyway, all that to say, you can make those targeted ads.

Aaron: I just don't I want to have the person's name in it.

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: Like, hey, Aaron, you know how your prostate is enlarged now?

Adam K: It's going to be like, hey.

Adam K: One zero four dot six eight dot four

Aaron: I

Adam K: two

Aaron: know

Adam K: dot.

Aaron: that's what I don't want.

Adam K: Yeah. Uh, I mean, like, I'm looking at it right now.

Adam K: And yes, if someone like a, a cool company, I don't know

Adam K: what's cool anymore.

Adam K: Liquid death, maybe

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Pokemon or whatever.

Adam K: If they were brave enough, they would look at something like

Adam K: this and go, okay, um, allow chat to do whatever they want,

Adam K: but we want to buy a segment for like one hour and people are

Adam K: allowed to make whatever ads they want using our IP.

Adam K: Like that would be ballsy.

Adam K: It would be cool.

Adam K: I can't see anyone doing it other than Wendy's.

Aaron: Yeah. Because like, the places

Aaron: it would go inevitably is child

Aaron: porn, racism, etc., etc. and

Aaron: then you

Adam K: Good point.

Aaron: have to go

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: like, well, I don't know.

Aaron: It's the same thing with like the Callaway ad, it's you can,

Aaron: you know, do your apology and all that stuff.

Aaron: But at the end of the day, people are going to be like,

Aaron: they're gonna be like, God, Wendy's had this fucking

Aaron: nightmare of a thing today, man.

Aaron: I'm kind of hungry for a hamburger.

Aaron: You want to go to Wendy's, you know?

Aaron: And that's what it is.

Aaron: That's how it's always been.

Aaron: So, you know, brand

Adam K: Well.

Aaron: damage be damned.

Aaron: I'm sure you have a increased quarter anyway, but.

Adam K: Well, for a moment there, I thought you were actually asking

Adam K: me to go to Wendy's.

Adam K: And I thought you wanted to hang out, but

Aaron: No,

Adam K: here

Aaron: I

Adam K: we

Aaron: haven't

Adam K: are.

Aaron: been to Wendy's in probably fifteen years.

Aaron: Twenty years.

Adam K: No, I guess you got to live

Adam K: through their cool phase and be

Adam K: around long enough for their not

Adam K: cool phase.

Aaron: I mean, I could see their Twitter without eating a square.

Aaron: Hamburger.

Adam K: If yours ever comes out square, you let me know.

Adam K: I actually don't eat there often enough to know, but as

Aaron: Square.

Adam K: a kid it would be like you see

Adam K: the video, the commercial,

Adam K: there's Dave being like, eat my

Adam K: square hamburger and then you

Adam K: get it.

Adam K: And it's not really square.

Adam K: It maybe was a square at one

Adam K: time, but it inevitably becomes

Adam K: round.

Aaron: The heat.

Aaron: The heat rounds the corners and

Adam K: Yeah,

Aaron: warps the patty.

Aaron: Yeah, yeah.

Adam K: it just, it felt like a lie.

Adam K: And Dave broke my heart and my, uh, caloric deficit.

Aaron: This Ferrari is at ten thousand nine hundred dollars right now.

Aaron: It's got two and a half days left.

Aaron: I think it'll go for twenty grand.

Aaron: And it's got a clean title.

Aaron: I think you should get it.

Adam K: What?

Adam K: No.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Why?

Aaron: Because just.

Adam K: Does it take does it take unleaded?

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Okay.

Aaron: What are you talking about?

Aaron: Yeah, it's

Adam K: Like.

Aaron: nineteen eighty six.

Adam K: Oh, okay, I can, I can just put the cheap gas in it.

Aaron: Uh, no, you might need premium.

Aaron: I mean, unleaded, all gas is unleaded.

Adam K: Okay,

Aaron: You

Adam K: so

Aaron: fool!

Adam K: nine dollars a gallon for a car

Adam K: that gets six miles to the

Adam K: gallon.

Aaron: No, it would get probably fourteen miles a

Adam K: What

Aaron: gallon.

Adam K: is it?

Adam K: It's a Ferrari.

Adam K: What?

Aaron: Three twenty eight GT s in

Adam K: No. Oh, so it is the Magnum

Aaron: Rosso

Adam K: P.I. car,

Aaron: Corsa.

Adam K: right?

Adam K: Yes. Okay. No, no, I don't want this.

Aaron: Wait, are you looking at it?

Adam K: Google images.

Adam K: Not. Not the listing.

Aaron: You

Adam K: What

Aaron: need

Adam K: junkyard

Aaron: to go to the listing.

Adam K: is it in?

Aaron: It's not on it.

Aaron: It's on.

Aaron: Bring a trailer.

Aaron: I'm going to send this to you.

Adam K: Bring a trailer.

Adam K: Sounds like a junkyard.

Aaron: Have you never been on bring a trailer?

Adam K: I have not.

Adam K: Should I?

Aaron: Yes. You full house.

Aaron: You're gonna find that two

Aaron: thousand and three piece of shit

Aaron: T-Bird.

Aaron: Let me see here.

Aaron: I'm

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: emailing this to you right now.

Adam K: Okay. Why are you emailing me?

Adam K: You have text messaging capabilities, right?

Aaron: Because I'm in front of my computer right now.

Adam K: What you're going to do is take

Adam K: a photo of your screen and then

Adam K: email that to me through a

Adam K: hotmail account that I've never

Adam K: seen before.

Aaron: I thought about taking a

Aaron: picture, but instead I sent you

Aaron: the link because I think it's

Aaron: great.

Aaron: You know what you actually could do?

Adam K: What?

Aaron: You could buy an electric motor for five grand like they have

Aaron: the full kit.

Aaron: This is a transversely mounted V8 in this Ferrari.

Aaron: You could pluck that thing out

Aaron: and put an electric motor in,

Aaron: and it would almost be like, you

Aaron: have to find a place to put the

Aaron: batteries.

Aaron: You have to put the batteries

Aaron: probably in the front, in the

Aaron: frunk.

Aaron: But, uh.

Adam K: You you should not put batteries in the front of a car.

Adam K: It has to

Aaron: Why

Adam K: go under the car, right?

Aaron: go wherever the hell you want?

Aaron: It doesn't matter.

Aaron: It

Adam K: Does

Aaron: does not

Adam K: it?

Aaron: matter.

Aaron: You get hit, they're gonna explode anyway.

Aaron: It does not matter at all.

Aaron: And you can't put it underneath in a Ferrari because it's

Aaron: already too low to the ground.

Adam K: Um, so you would go to Florida for this car?

Adam K: Just

Aaron: Uh.

Adam K: sitting on some dude's lawn who no longer is a cocaine kingpin.

Aaron: Well, the cocaine guy got arrested and or shot.

Adam K: Gotcha.

Aaron: And now this is where actually

Aaron: looks like some guy's, like,

Aaron: little.

Aaron: His little, like, project garage.

Aaron: It looks.

Aaron: But to be honest, this looks

Aaron: like where my dad is storing all

Aaron: of his cars except his is in

Aaron: Texas.

Aaron: But yeah, so this guy, he's got

Aaron: this Ferrari and it looks pretty

Aaron: good.

Aaron: He's he's Florida man.

Aaron: So take that for what you will,

Aaron: but clean title looks pretty

Aaron: good.

Adam K: Yeah, I guess

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: I'm just.

Adam K: I'm looking at the rust on it and.

Aaron: There's a few rust places.

Aaron: But here's the great

Adam K: I

Aaron: thing.

Adam K: like I like the CD player from nineteen ninety three, though.

Adam K: That's pretty cool.

Aaron: Yeah. It's

Adam K: He did upgrade that.

Aaron: I think it's an aluminum car.

Aaron: So

Adam K: Uh huh.

Aaron: the rust would be, you know, not

Adam K: Huh.

Aaron: awful, but uh, but

Adam K: I,

Aaron: it looks I think it looks pretty good.

Adam K: I could smell the Newport from here.

Adam K: Oh,

Aaron: Uh.

Adam K: there's.

Adam K: Where do I put my golf bags in this thing?

Adam K: There's no room in the back.

Aaron: You need to probably get out all the vajazzling from the

Aaron: passenger seat that are embedded in the in the supple leather.

Adam K: I'm going to find some Quaaludes in the glove compartment.

Aaron: Yeah. Oh,

Adam K: Oh.

Aaron: yeah.

Adam K: Oh, God. I mean.

Aaron: You're looking at it and

Aaron: thinking about your future in

Aaron: it.

Aaron: I've sold enough cars to know

Aaron: when I've got someone on the

Aaron: lot.

Adam K: It looks like something I would live in.

Adam K: Not by choice.

Aaron: Well, yeah, you would eventually

Aaron: live in it after you lose the

Aaron: house.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Putting money into repairing this thing.

Aaron: I want to

Adam K: Restoring

Aaron: say my dad

Adam K: it.

Aaron: had one of these on his, like, little used car lot.

Aaron: I want to say.

Adam K: Uh.

Aaron: And his buddy Daryl went and did

Aaron: a bunch of drug deals in it

Aaron: because they were, like, trying

Aaron: to live out their Miami Vice

Aaron: fantasies.

Aaron: Um, and then I, I don't know if it was this one or it was one of

Aaron: the Porsches that got, uh, T-boned and cut in half.

Aaron: And then I think I told you this, and then they had to, they

Aaron: found another one and rewelded it together in half.

Aaron: And then as they were driving it to a customer got T-boned again

Aaron: and cut in half and insurance paid full for it.

Aaron: And then they just rewelded

Aaron: another one together and sold

Aaron: that one.

Aaron: It was like two different cars that were, were, uh, stitched

Aaron: back together anyway.

Aaron: Um, selling cars is a lot different in the eighties.

Adam K: Yeah, I'm looking at this website.

Adam K: They got some nice looking tractors that I could probably

Adam K: use to just have some.

Adam K: I have some work coming up I need to do.

Adam K: Do they sell?

Adam K: Oh, they sell that car that can

Adam K: drive in the water from the

Adam K: fifties.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: The

Aaron: The little

Adam K: Amphicar

Aaron: amphibious car.

Adam K: model seven

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: seventy.

Adam K: Okay.

Aaron: Lyndon Johnson had one of those.

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: And after he showed guests on his ranch, his cock, he'd put

Aaron: him in the car, and then he'd go drive him into the lake.

Adam K: Sixties were a nightmare.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: God, the president just whipped

Adam K: out his nine inch hog, and then

Adam K: he took me in a death car that

Adam K: can

Aaron: So

Adam K: a boat.

Aaron: he drove me into a lake in this small gay looking car, and then

Aaron: steered the car with his cock across the lake.

Adam K: And he was just drinking from the bottle.

Adam K: He didn't even have it in the glass.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: God.

Aaron: And he was on the phone the entire time, having.

Aaron: He's talking to some tailor about his pants.

Adam K: The times they were different.

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: More paranoid, they would say simpler.

Adam K: Others would say

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: it's always been about the haves and the have nots.

Adam K: Anyway, why do you think orcas respect us?

Adam K: It's

Aaron: Uh,

Adam K: because the cars we build.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: That's why they don't kill us in the wild.

Adam K: Only if we trap them in SeaWorld for twenty years of their life

Adam K: and essentially, you know, put them in solitary confinement.

Aaron: I think Ferrari was past using

Aaron: whale oil and things by this

Aaron: point.

Aaron: Chevy maybe not, but definitely Ferrari.

Adam K: I think that Ferrari showed me requires whale oil.

Aaron: Uh.

Adam K: I think that's how you keep the the calipers going.

Aaron: I told my uncle Mark when he rebuilt the transmission on the

Aaron: Chevy in my garage.

Aaron: Now, he was really torn because

Aaron: he he didn't want to get rid of

Aaron: the whale oil in it because he

Aaron: was like, he's like a sucker for

Aaron: originality to like and like an

Aaron: autistic degree.

Aaron: And he was like, no, this is filled with and there is a cool

Aaron: kind of aspect of like, this is full of whale oil.

Aaron: Uh, but, you know, it was between driving it and

Aaron: preserving the mammal, uh, fat that was inside and he had to

Aaron: make a decision.

Aaron: So yeah,

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: but

Adam K: Well.

Aaron: here's the thing that I'm sure he's not saying.

Aaron: I'm sure he kept the whale oil that he drained out of it.

Aaron: And I get to find it when he passes in some like container

Aaron: where I'm like, oh, what's this?

Aaron: And I pull it open and I'm like.

Aaron: It's like some beluga whales

Aaron: entrails from eighty five years

Aaron: ago.

Adam K: Hey, you could resell that stuff for, uh, perfume materials.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Some some slippery Frenchman.

Aaron: I sell it to RFK for grilling.

Adam K: He's like, this is what I put on the men I hunt.

Aaron: Is that real whale oil?

Adam K: If

Aaron: And

Adam K: you

Aaron: he

Adam K: did.

Aaron: sticks his pinky in and

Adam K: If

Aaron: he

Adam K: you did that

Aaron: goes,

Adam K: in

Aaron: mm,

Adam K: front of Joe Rogan, he would say, that's too much.

Aaron: yeah.

Adam K: That's not funny.

Aaron: Sorry.

Adam K: It's like, uh, Jerry Seinfeld sitting with Kramer.

Adam K: Stop laughing.

Adam K: Stop it.

Aaron: So funny.

Adam K: That's not funny.

Aaron: Apologetic.

Adam K: Yeah, that's how funny Kramer was.

Adam K: He just needs to sit there.

Adam K: Stop laughing.

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: He's not.

Adam K: He's not.

Adam K: He's that guy you laughed at running through the door.

Adam K: I'm done doing, Jerry.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: It hurts to do it.

Adam K: I'm just going to watch a more

Adam K: mini Max videos of lost Seinfeld

Adam K: episodes

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: anyway.

Adam K: Okay, well, let's get this political post going.

Adam K: Um, we need to talk about the

Adam K: rookie script that you gave me

Adam K: that, um, I aged about four

Adam K: years reading it, thinking of

Adam K: all the work that would go into

Adam K: that, but.

Aaron: Yeah. I think, uh.

Adam K: We need to hire an artist.

Adam K: I'm sorry.

Adam K: I hate to tell you that, but we need someone

Aaron: Uh.

Adam K: who can, like, help create consistent characters.

Aaron: Yeah, my thought was like one.

Aaron: And I realize, like, I've not

Aaron: really written animated shows

Aaron: before.

Aaron: I've only written live action thing.

Aaron: And that was very much written, like live action.

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: Uh, it could probably be instead

Aaron: of thirty three pages, it could

Aaron: be eleven.

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: Uh, but the other thing too is like, if you hire an artist for

Aaron: that first episode, if you have that script, you just, you have

Aaron: them sketch out like just a few different, like what the

Aaron: background looks like, obviously character models and then just

Aaron: the overall style.

Aaron: And then

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: you know, from that script and then go from that, like there's

Aaron: certain things in at least if this, if this were actually

Aaron: being made in the first few episodes, there's like the

Aaron: apartment that's always there.

Aaron: The battle zones are kind of similar.

Aaron: You

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: know, there's, there's certain things that you can kind of like

Aaron: create set pieces for.

Aaron: Um,

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: but yeah, it's, it is one of those things where you just want

Aaron: to get someone making that those, what I would call I mean,

Aaron: they're essentially like a why is the word escaping me now?

Adam K: Storyboard.

Aaron: Storyboards. Yes. So.

Adam K: In the world of animation, at

Adam K: least to my understanding, a way

Adam K: of someone like, you know, gets

Adam K: their name is by their

Adam K: storyboards.

Adam K: So someone like Seth MacFarlane got his start doing storyboards.

Aaron: Really?

Adam K: Mhm. That's like, because you're, you're, that's kind of

Adam K: from my understanding, again, I'm probably doing a really shit

Adam K: job of explaining this.

Adam K: But

Aaron: Yeah. Yeah. You

Adam K: yeah,

Aaron: are.

Adam K: um, like, that's, that's almost

Adam K: more important than your script

Adam K: because obviously it's

Adam K: animation.

Adam K: It's such a visual medium.

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: Um, yeah.

Adam K: What you wrote was a movie script.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Um, not, it wasn't animation.

Adam K: So it's like you use that I believe, you know, obviously to,

Adam K: you know, sort of guide where it's going, but the story comes

Adam K: to life in the storyboard.

Adam K: So it's like, yeah, we need to hire storyboard artist.

Adam K: We need someone

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: who can create a design

Adam K: language, who can create

Adam K: consistency.

Adam K: Um, again, it's experimental.

Adam K: So it's like, yeah, of course I

Adam K: want to use AI and I want to

Adam K: like, I want to take what

Adam K: they're making, feed it into the

Adam K: machine, create a like an art

Adam K: style.

Adam K: Laura um, I forget what that

Adam K: stands for, but whatever, it's

Adam K: like, it's basically this is the

Adam K: rook style.

Adam K: This is how we do it and this is how we're able to turn something

Adam K: around so quickly, but it's going to require people much

Adam K: more talented than us.

Adam K: So, um,

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: yeah, I'm like, I'm happy to keep experimenting with it.

Adam K: And I think it's a, it's a great

Adam K: thing because this thing's never

Adam K: going to get made unless we do

Adam K: it.

Adam K: So.

Aaron: Well, yeah.

Aaron: Also to that point, you have to

Aaron: understand where like in

Aaron: production in general, whether

Aaron: it's animation, live action,

Aaron: whatever, like at every step of

Aaron: the way, people should be

Aaron: brought in who are better than

Aaron: you at whatever your job is to

Aaron: make the overall end result

Aaron: better.

Aaron: So like any script is okay, you know, a script has to be good

Aaron: and it has to be set on its own.

Aaron: But then you have a director who elevates it that much further,

Aaron: and then you have an editor that elevates it that much further.

Aaron: You have a great crew that you know is full of ideas that, you

Aaron: know, blah, blah, blah.

Aaron: But anyway, so same with this.

Aaron: Like you have to understand

Aaron: where your limitations are as,

Aaron: as a visual designer and be

Aaron: like, who could better, who

Aaron: could bring this vision to the

Aaron: next level?

Aaron: And also the benefit of, you

Aaron: know, giving someone money for

Aaron: creative as opposed to just a

Aaron: machine, you know, all that

Aaron: other shit.

Aaron: But.

Adam K: Yeah. No, I mean, again, it's like the thing we always say is

Adam K: you use it as a use the tools for to make up for where you're

Adam K: lacking in the, the budget department, you know, not the

Adam K: other way around.

Adam K: You don't slash budget and replace humans with the machine

Adam K: that may or may not be able to do your job better.

Adam K: Um,

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: um, we're currently starting at zero.

Adam K: Whereas like you look at any sort of animated project, even

Adam K: on YouTube, short little two minute, three minute video, and

Adam K: it's got like thirty five people working on it.

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: So, um, and again, this isn't me

Adam K: being like looking at this and

Adam K: saying like, oh, this is for the

Adam K: art.

Adam K: It's like, no, this is very much a commercial product, but it's

Adam K: our original idea.

Adam K: And this is kind of a unique way, you know, to just like kind

Adam K: of bring it to life.

Adam K: And I look, I get it.

Adam K: It's hard for people to read.

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: Reading is hard.

Aaron: The other thing that has to be kind of figured out with it and

Aaron: like, it's kind of a, um, I guess a stylistic approach and a

Aaron: narrative approach is like how I wrote it is, is again, maybe it

Aaron: was from more of a live action perspective, but There's,

Aaron: there's atmosphere and there's, there's, uh, story in the

Aaron: silence and in the, like the, you know, the ways, the, the,

Aaron: there's sadness and isolation in the silence silences and just

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: how he interacts with his environment, whether that makes

Aaron: a better live action or a animated like, you know, the

Aaron: other way would be, you know, some of the animation that we

Aaron: grew up on is there is not those kind of silences.

Aaron: I mean, there can be, I guess, an anime and things like that.

Aaron: But all the animation I know

Aaron: Futurama except blah, blah,

Aaron: blah, they're all strict

Aaron: comedies.

Aaron: And, you know, every seven minutes you have an act break.

Aaron: There's a joke every five seconds there's,

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: you know, and it's just, it's a

Aaron: completely different pace than

Aaron: what I wrote, which is more, uh,

Aaron: literary.

Adam K: Yeah. Well, because, I mean, at

Adam K: some point when null is like

Adam K: narrating the things he's doing

Adam K: or anything like that, like that

Adam K: would be taken care of by a look

Adam K: or

Aaron: Uh. Huh?

Adam K: a

Aaron: Yeah,

Adam K: subtle gesture

Aaron: yeah.

Adam K: or you like you remove.

Adam K: So the like, especially anime is

Adam K: a great example because they get

Adam K: away with so much by just

Adam K: holding on a still shot for a

Adam K: long time.

Adam K: There's this one, uh, moment in Evangelion.

Adam K: I forget if it's the movie or

Adam K: the show, but one of them, they

Adam K: do these long shots that are

Adam K: pretty great because it's, it's

Adam K: just like a lot of tension where

Adam K: there's just two characters in

Adam K: an elevator and it's going down

Adam K: for like five minutes and no one

Adam K: says anything.

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: And part of you is like, that's brilliant.

Adam K: And then the animators like,

Adam K: thank you for thinking that up

Adam K: my wrist.

Adam K: Thanks you for the work I didn't have to do there.

Adam K: Um, but I appreciate those things.

Adam K: Um, and then on the other hand,

Adam K: there's like, there's just been

Adam K: some really lazy animation

Adam K: you've seen where it's just a

Adam K: PNG and they added the, you

Adam K: know.

Aaron: Leaves

Adam K: Uh,

Aaron: falling.

Adam K: yeah. Just flat.

Adam K: No. No movement, no nothing.

Adam K: Um, and that usually comes from

Adam K: spending so much time on the big

Adam K: set pieces.

Adam K: And it just would be cool to find that middle ground without,

Adam K: uh, you know, having to ruin a Korean man again.

Adam K: I respect them

Aaron: Yeah

Adam K: too much.

Aaron: yeah.

Aaron: I it's again.

Aaron: That's what I'm.

Aaron: Yeah, that's what I'm talking

Aaron: about with the style is like if

Aaron: you're.

Aaron: I am fine with leaning in

Aaron: towards it's, you know, there

Aaron: are the silences speak the set

Aaron: speaks as opposed to, you know,

Aaron: having

Adam K: Yeah,

Aaron: to

Adam K: yeah.

Aaron: jam everything in into eleven

Aaron: minutes versus twenty two or

Aaron: whatever.

Aaron: But.

Adam K: Yeah. Well, like first, like the first thing that stood out, not.

Adam K: We don't have to talk about this

Adam K: right now, but, like, the number

Adam K: one thing.

Adam K: I thought it was like the opening should change.

Adam K: Um, it should probably open up with a scene from the r m z. It

Adam K: should open up with not

Aaron: So cold.

Aaron: Cold. Open.

Adam K: a cold open.

Adam K: Yeah, that's like related to

Adam K: another character like name or

Adam K: Raphael or someone who we see

Adam K: later that,

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: like, you need to grab the audience immediately.

Adam K: Like you need

Aaron: Right.

Adam K: that hook, that go, okay, well, whoa, where is this going?

Adam K: Whereas if you just start with null and like, even maybe like

Adam K: the way he's watching Rme's live, maybe that's different.

Adam K: You know,

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: um, there's, there's just different ways of, you know,

Adam K: it's an adaptation.

Adam K: It's not a, you know, a one to one, um, remake basically.

Adam K: So it's like.

Aaron: Well, again.

Aaron: That goes.

Aaron: That's another stylistic thing

Aaron: that I was kind of hinting at is

Aaron: like, okay, if it's an

Aaron: adaptation, you're talking about

Aaron: a what could be and you have the

Aaron: beats of a story, but you are

Aaron: rewriting, you know,

Aaron: essentially.

Aaron: So it becomes a scope thing.

Aaron: So are you.

Aaron: Are we telling a story similarly to the book?

Aaron: For those who haven't aren't

Aaron: reading it, but it's like kind

Aaron: of a faithful adaptation, if you

Aaron: will, that does, you know,

Aaron: you're essentially instead of an

Aaron: audiobook, you're getting this

Aaron: visual experience.

Aaron: It also has good pacing, whatever, blah, blah, blah.

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: Or are you taking this idea,

Aaron: this IP, its story beats its

Aaron: blah, blah, blah, but then

Aaron: redoing it all to then create

Aaron: its own interesting standalone

Aaron: series.

Aaron: Like because then you, you get into a whole nother world.

Aaron: They're like, and I understand that.

Aaron: And, but I also understand how

Aaron: that goes with you're talking

Aaron: about that could be to get an

Aaron: episode, right?

Aaron: That's a couple months, right, of writing.

Adam K: It's it's meeting somewhere in the middle.

Adam K: But, you know, my thought was Noel is a dog and he was brought

Adam K: from a different planet.

Adam K: And instead of robots, uh, he drives a taxi.

Aaron: You say that, but you know, there are similar there are

Aaron: similarities to taxi driver in this in how I, I harness my

Aaron: inner Paul Schrader and

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: no, but I, I mean, I'm serious.

Aaron: Like there is a, there's a scope thing of like, well, what do you

Aaron: want it to be?

Aaron: Because I know that if you are actually a. Yeah, maybe it is

Aaron: somewhere in the middle,

Adam K: I think

Aaron: but.

Adam K: there's certain scenes like for example, like in the, in the

Adam K: script thing, you, you put in the part where he, um, he buys

Adam K: the expensive letter opener.

Adam K: Right?

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Um, that's fine if we're going to call back to that later.

Adam K: Otherwise that is a, that's like

Adam K: a, that's an extra scene, that's

Adam K: an asset.

Adam K: And it's not exactly doing much world building where we could

Adam K: probably do more with less.

Aaron: Well, but then I would argue it,

Aaron: that's not intended to be

Aaron: callbacks.

Aaron: So it's not a callback thing.

Aaron: It is a world building thing up

Aaron: front of Noel's Laziness, the

Aaron: state of the world, like

Aaron: accelerated of like how, how,

Aaron: how much we don't want to be

Aaron: bothered.

Aaron: And, uh, you know, with I guess

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: with that, you know what I'm saying?

Adam K: Well,

Aaron: Like

Adam K: also

Aaron: we.

Adam K: like the way I would rework that rather than him pulling up a

Adam K: menu and buying it, he would just whip out the letter opener.

Adam K: It's the thing.

Adam K: And then a digital display, just like we have like a whatever,

Adam K: like a debit negative eight hundred, you know, credits.

Adam K: You just do that.

Aaron: Yeah. I mean, yeah, my, I was

Aaron: treating it as like a humorous

Aaron: beat of like, it's not only

Aaron: showing how like wasteful of a

Aaron: society we are, how wasteful

Aaron: Noel is.

Aaron: It shows how lazy and a piece of shit he is.

Aaron: And it's just like a, it's a

Aaron: beat of he can't walk across the

Aaron: room

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: or he can't be bothered to walk across the room.

Aaron: So

Adam K: Yeah.

Aaron: it's supposed.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Yeah. No, no, it's all there.

Adam K: I'm just saying like, from my

Adam K: perspective, thinking of it as

Adam K: like, you know, as, as the, uh,

Adam K: resident prompt engineer here,

Adam K: uh,

Aaron: You're

Adam K: that.

Aaron: talking about how you would put it into to animate it and things

Adam K: Just,

Aaron: like that.

Adam K: yeah,

Aaron: Like.

Adam K: like we would look at it in a

Adam K: storyboard and go, this could be

Adam K: much quicker.

Adam K: This, this has slowed down

Aaron: Sure.

Adam K: and it's, it's the whole Chekhov's gun thing where it's

Adam K: like, if we're going to spend a lot of time, if we're going to

Adam K: spend more than 20s on something, it damn well better

Adam K: be a callback later.

Adam K: You know this as a visual like viewer

Aaron: No, but

Adam K: of

Aaron: but

Adam K: things.

Aaron: but not everything is a call.

Aaron: Sometimes it's just sometimes it is world building.

Aaron: But here's

Adam K: Sure.

Aaron: what I would say to you as an editor.

Aaron: You know, if we went into the middle ground on that thing and

Aaron: said, just like he pulls up knife and the credits go away,

Aaron: then, you know, at some point you're just going to, you're

Aaron: going to be in the edit, you're just going to cut it because

Adam K: Or,

Aaron: you're like.

Adam K: or we need to come up with two other things so that it has the

Adam K: one two punch, basically like it's like, what are the three

Adam K: things so that it there is a, there's a rhythm, there's a beat

Adam K: there to the edit as opposed to one and done.

Adam K: This is wasteful.

Adam K: We have to like, this is like, it's just visual storytelling.

Adam K: You have to hammer the viewer with the stuff in a way that

Adam K: it's subliminal without it being so in their face of just showing

Adam K: it because you show it once, it will be forgotten.

Adam K: So to make

Aaron: Yes.

Adam K: it memorable, you need to show it again in a different way.

Aaron: Tell me about this rule of three.

Adam K: I don't know, I dropped out of community college, so

Aaron: I know.

Adam K: I bought a DVD copy of Swat and

Adam K: I said later, this is all I

Adam K: need.

Aaron: I bought a copy of Deep Blue Sea and said, this is my everything

Aaron: I need to know about narrative.

Adam K: Deep Blue Sea was one of the

Adam K: earlier DVDs I did watch, but

Adam K: the timing doesn't really work

Adam K: out there.

Adam K: I only remember Swat because the guy who taught the screenwriting

Adam K: class, which I didn't take, was the original writer of the like

Adam K: two thousand and three version of Swat with Colin Farrell, and

Aaron: Uh.

Adam K: he mostly from what I heard from a buddy of mine who took it, he

Adam K: would just bitch about how they changed everything that he had

Adam K: originally put in.

Aaron: Yeah, that's that checks out.

Adam K: Yeah. Um, and then, oh, because I, yeah, specifically, he

Adam K: mentioned how the only thing they kept in was at the end.

Adam K: They like, I think they land a

Adam K: plane on a, on a freeway or

Adam K: something.

Adam K: And so me and my, my young age,

Adam K: I think this was before IMDb

Adam K: trivia.

Adam K: I'd always go to like trivia

Adam K: websites because I just, I love

Adam K: movie trivia.

Adam K: And I submitted that as a factoid.

Adam K: And the guy who ran the site,

Adam K: because this was before it was,

Adam K: it was all, you know, it went

Adam K: through a gatekeeper, basically

Adam K: people who the web hosts or

Adam K: whatever.

Adam K: And he had put a post like been

Adam K: getting a lot of shitty trivia

Adam K: lately.

Adam K: And I'm like, I don't know if that was a subtweet at me.

Adam K: Uh, but that was the last time I

Adam K: ever submitted any trivia to a

Adam K: website because it was a true

Adam K: fact.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Um, it was some inside knowledge that I felt I had earned from

Adam K: the community college script professor, uh, and my friend who

Adam K: had taken the class that I heard the story from third, uh, you

Adam K: know, second hand.

Adam K: So.

Aaron: Well, on that note, I need to go work on a book that I'm writing.

Adam K: Mhm.

Aaron: Uh, I'm

Adam K: What's it,

Aaron: going to.

Adam K: what's

Aaron: I'm going

Adam K: it about?

Aaron: to take some of these things I learned today about rule of

Aaron: three and Chekhov's gun.

Aaron: And, uh, I'm going to put three guns in this, uh, book.

Adam K: Uh, you also have to remember to save the cart.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Um.

Aaron: Where is that?

Aaron: Where is my save the Cat book?

Aaron: I used to have it in my bag all the time for fucking executives.

Aaron: That that brought it up.

Aaron: I go, yeah, I read this book.

Aaron: Uh, it doesn't really apply to what you're saying.

Aaron: And.

Adam K: This,

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: uh, softcore porno remake of The Avengers doesn't really adhere

Adam K: to those guidelines.

Aaron: Whose dick is in the tree.

Aaron: I'm confused.

Adam K: Gerald Ford. Oh, wait.

Adam K: No, sorry.

Adam K: LBJ.

Aaron: Mhm.

Adam K: Yeah. Anywho.

Adam K: Uh, well, thanks for making the time for me, I appreciate it.

Aaron: Yeah. You're

Adam K: It's

Aaron: welcome.

Adam K: always, it's always good to hang out, you know, as friends.

Aaron: Yeah. Well, um.

Aaron: I'll, uh, I'll think about you

Aaron: as I'm on the university campus,

Aaron: and, uh, you know, everyone is

Aaron: looking at me wondering what PhD

Aaron: I'm trying to get, and I'll be

Aaron: like, um.

Adam K: Say, or what student you're going to try to strangle.

Aaron: Yeah, yeah, I try and like, it's

Aaron: when I am wearing like my last

Aaron: bit of laundry and I haven't

Aaron: shaved in a while and I'm like,

Aaron: this is I'm gonna get called on

Aaron: here.

Adam K: Take a bath.

Aaron: Yeah.

Adam K: Alrighty.

Adam K: Talk to you later.

Aaron: All right.

Aaron: Right.