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That was a nice
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Cheese quesadilla. You've been
doing this thing
lately where you've been like
just making up random things
and for whatever reason cheese
quesadilla is the one that you're
saying today. Why are you
saying cheese quesadilla? Uh,
because I think they are good.
I think I don't really remember.
What? How do you not remember?
It's not like you haven't had
some kind of, I don't remember
what a quesadilla looks like.
Okay, here's what a quesadilla
looks like. You ready? Is it a
triangle thing? A cheese quesadilla?
Does it have like other stuff
besides cheese? I mean you
could have chunks of chicken in
it. You could have veggies to
it, whatever. But no, a cheese
quesadilla, like you just take
a soft taco, you put cheese and
chicken and junk in it, fold it
in half, and cook it on a grill
or in the microwave.
cheese quesadilla. I mean if
you're really ambitious you
could take two soft
taco shells and put one on top
of the other with cheese and
chicken and stuff
in between. Yeah but aren't
they triangles? Well yeah you
can cut them into triangles.
So one of the pieces of
feedback we got was that people
can hear us breathing. Did we
actually get this piece of
feedback or are you making that
up? My friend said thank you
for forcing me to listen to you
breathe heavily for an hour.
Yeah. That's an actual piece of
feedback. So we apologize for
those who don't like hearing
people breathe.
Unfortunately breathing is a
natural bodily process
necessary to sustain life.
Unless you force air into the
lungs using a machine. Yeah but
I'm saying breathing as a
general rule is necessary for
hypostasis. For the sustaining
of consciousness and existence.
As we understand it.
So Kit and I do go walking on a
regular basis but that doesn't
mean that hills do not hold a
special place for us in terms
of the amount of pain and
suffering that they cause. Both
in terms of extra cardiac
effort and the impact on the
leg muscles.
Pain. Yeah pain.
It's useful. Thank you for
sharing with our perpetual or
potential listeners not
perpetual. Perpetual mean they're
always listening.
Oh it's nice and shady here.
Nice and shady.
Just like the government.
Yeah.
Oh something we were talking
about this morning speaking of
the government.
So.
They're talking about putting a
tariff.
100% tariff.
On movies produced outside the
United States.
Now they haven't been very
clear on what that means.
But the problem is.
A lot of movies get produced
out of state.
Or out of the United States.
You know like we have a lot of.
places in China.
And a lot of places in other
areas.
Yeah.
Well.
Yeah.
But that's.
That's.
Less common I would say.
But yeah.
The.
The fact is that.
You know.
There's a lot of movies that
get produced outside the United
States.
But the question also is like.
How is Hollywood really
surviving?
Like how much is actually
getting done.
In Hollywood proper.
And the answer I think is not
that much.
Well.
They.
They have the name recognition.
They have the brand recognition.
The brand recognition.
Yeah.
Of Hollywood.
Yeah.
Maybe that used to mean
something.
You know.
In the 1930s.
40s.
Maybe even the 50s.
You know.
Maybe that meant something.
In the.
So-called heyday of.
Cinema.
But.
Nowadays.
I mean even if you look at like
the 1970s and 80s.
When like I argue.
Movies are best.
Were best between like the
night.
Late 1970s to early 2000s.
And.
A lot of those.
Like if you think of like Star
Wars.
Alien.
All of that stuff.
A lot of those were produced.
In England.
And Harry Potter.
Well.
Yeah.
But that's obvious.
But like.
Elstree Studios.
Is a big one.
Pinewood Studios.
Is a big one.
All of those are in the UK.
So.
I don't know.
Like I question.
How much actually gets produced
on.
Sound stages in the United
States.
I mean.
Really.
A lot of the sound stages.
Like if you look at the Marvel
movies and stuff.
They're getting produced in
Georgia.
Right.
Not in California.
Probably because the tax
benefits are better in Georgia.
Yeah.
In my opinion.
The best.
Movies get produced when there
are constraints around what you
can do.
Just like video games.
Yeah.
Sometimes.
A lot of times.
I mean.
Look at Stardew Valley.
One guy did everything.
Hmm.
Or Grapples Galore.
Well I haven't played Grapples
Galore.
Yeah.
Anyway.
The point being.
You know.
When.
Creativity has constraints.
It actually is more creative.
Like.
I think that.
Don't get me wrong.
Like.
Avengers.
The original.
Like.
Phase one through three.
Or whatever it was.
Of Avengers.
That ended in Endgame.
Or did it end in Endgame.
I can't even remember what the
last movie was.
Infinity War.
Whatever.
Don't ask me.
I don't watch Marvel stuff that
much.
But.
Don't get me wrong.
That stuff's all creative and
whatnot.
But.
And.
And the storytelling was okay.
But.
It doesn't have the same like
rawness or like.
Tangibility.
As.
The stuff from the.
Late 70s through.
Through like.
Early 2000s.
From like Spielberg and stuff.
Now.
That said.
Are there absolute shit films
that were created in the 90s?
Well of course there were.
Yeah.
Like.
Some of the worst horror films
of all time.
were created in the 80s.
And they're amazing because of
it.
And I guess the question is
like.
If filmmakers were restricted
to having to film in the United
States.
Or be charged.
Twice as much money when.
Their film releases.
Would those constraints
encourage them to be more
creative.
Or would it just encourage them
to be.
More creative when it comes to
accounting.
Hmm.
I don't know.
Or would it encourage them to.
Move to the UK.
Yeah.
But then it's going to cost
wise as much to get their
movies into the United States.
Well.
Why bother having them in the
United States?
Because.
The United States doesn't need
movies.
You do realize like.
The United States is one of the
largest consumer markets for
movies.
Even if they don't go to the
movie theaters as much.
Except for a Minecraft movie.
Chicken jockey.
Yeah.
Now that's just stupidity.
And everyone went crazy for it.
Like I don't understand that.
That's just.
That's just dumb.
Like people just tearing apart
movie theaters because of the
phrase chicken jockey.
Like what's the point.
You're just making some poor
like theater workers life
miserable.
Having to clean up after your
bullshit.
That's just being bad to other
human beings.
Yeah.
But they do that anyway.
Yeah.
But this is like being bad to
actual human beings in real
life as opposed to online.
Yeah.
But they do that anyway.
But they do it more online.
Yeah.
But they still do it.
Yeah.
But that's not the point.
If somebody throws digital
popcorn all over my digital
floor.
I don't care.
I'll just hit the delete button
and the digital popcorn's gone.
But like if somebody throws
real world popcorn and soda all
over the place.
Somebody has to put actual
effort into cleaning that up.
Nah.
It magically disappears.
No.
No it doesn't.
Nah.
They use Roombas now.
No they don't.
Yeah.
They do.
They absolutely do not.
They use giant Roombas to clean
up everything.
Theaters do not use Roombas.
They use giant Roombas as wide
as the seat aisles to clean up
everything.
No they don't.
Well clearly that's what other
people think though.
Yeah but clearly other people
are morons.
We know this.
Yes.
And that's the problem.
The problem is like.
I don't know like.
Also weren't we talking about
the Hollywood.
And the tariffs.
Yeah but this is a symptom too.
It's like.
People are only going to the
movie theaters like.
When there's something that's
like heavily marketed.
And arguably dumb.
Yeah.
You need to have all the ads.
No one checks their local movie
theater to see if anything good
is showing.
There are good other movies out
there besides like the stuff
that we see on TV.
But I don't know.
I don't know.
Like.
I almost want to agree with you
to a certain.
A certain extent.
Like.
Is the.
The.
Modern American audience even
worth.
Wasting.
No.
Productions on.
Because.
Why bother.
They'll just look it up on
YouTube or on their streaming
service.
Right.
It's just.
They're just going to wait for
it to come out on their
streaming service.
Which of course is going to
have to pay the tariffs.
Which means all the streaming
services are going to get more
expensive.
And then all the streaming
services will go out of
business.
And then half of the population
will kill themselves.
I mean what?
I don't know about that.
I think.
Half of the population will
have a mental breakdown.
And then.
No.
I was going to say TikTok and
Instagram.
They're fine.
And YouTube.
Yeah.
But people can post a movie on
YouTube.
Yeah.
But YouTube will take it down.
Like.
YouTube does take like.
Full on movie uploads down most
of the time.
Unless.
You know.
Somebody does something.
Like.
And like.
Reverses the audio or some junk.
But like.
I'm saying like.
The official.
To YouTube.
Yeah.
But that's still going to cost
twice as much money.
That's the point that I'm
making.
Is even when you're dealing
with the digital version.
So like.
Nowadays.
By the way.
This is stupid too.
Alright.
Movie comes out on digital.
Rent me for $20.
Buy me for $25.
Well first of all.
It costs less than.
That.
For two matinee tickets to see
it in the theater.
For the purchase price.
But.
If I'm going to be interested
in seeing the movie.
Of course I'm going to pay the
$5 more.
To just own it.
Why would I rent it for $20.
When I can own it for $25.
Well you got to rent it.
So that they can make you.
I mean.
So that.
You can decide if you like it
or not.
Yeah.
Maybe.
But I still wouldn't do that.
If it really came down to that.
I would just wait for it to
come out in the library.
Yeah.
But.
Like hoopla digital.
But anyway.
But now.
Like that's going to be twice
as expensive.
You would imagine.
Because if there's a hundred
percent tariff on movies.
That were produced outside the
United States.
That's going to translate to
the digital cost as well.
So now movies are going to go
from being $25 when they're
released.
To $50 when they're released.
And then inflation will make it
become $70.
And who knows what's going to
happen with video games too.
Because a lot of the
electronics goods are going to
be going up.
So.
Like.
People were complaining that
the new Nintendo.
You know.
Switch 2 being $400 was
ridiculous.
Well.
Guess what.
Now it's going to be even more.
Oh.
Poor.
I think.
Honestly.
Hollywood could use a kick in
the face.
Because.
Hollywood's been getting.
Like getting away with just.
Republishing the same stuff
over and over again.
And sometimes they do a decent
job of it.
Don't get me wrong.
Like Jurassic World.
Was okay.
The first one.
The other two were trash.
But.
Um.
Did you see Dominion yet?
No.
Good.
But.
But I know.
How trash it is.
And they.
They came out with another one.
Yeah.
There's a Jurassic World coming
out later this year.
Yeah.
Oh.
But this time.
Uh.
We've got.
What's her face?
New person.
We've got.
Uh.
Why can't I remember her name?
Person who played Black Widow.
New person.
She's got big star power.
It'll be successful.
It wasn't successful.
Like.
Oh.
Why?
Money.
Exactly.
Money.
Like all of these things.
Like.
Oh.
We're going to do a live action
Moana.
Money.
We did a live action Lelon
Stitch.
Money.
Although.
I have to say.
The Stitch does look cute.
Yeah.
But they're going to.
They're going to mess with the
story.
And make it horrible.
And awful.
And disgusting.
Like they always do.
Maybe.
That is yet to be seen.
Coming soon to theaters near
you.
This is not a paid
advertisement.
No.
I.
You know.
If Disney was paying me.
If Disney was paying us.
Look.
Disney.
Um.
I have very strong feelings
against you.
Alright.
And I'm not a sellout.
By any stretch of the
imagination.
But I will say.
It's not going to be cheap.
To buy my.
Uh.
Buy my.
My goodwill.
And advertisement.
But.
There.
There are numbers.
That I.
I would.
I would be stupid.
Not to accept.
You know.
There's.
I hate this company.
And would never show.
Uh.
For them.
Under any reasonable
circumstances.
And then there's.
You'll never have.
You and your.
Your descendants.
Will never have to work.
A day in your lives.
Again.
Look.
Disney.
Here's all I have to say.
If there were a check.
That were to show up in my
mailbox.
Say.
Between.
I don't know.
What do you think.
A good figure would be.
To buy us off.
Uh.
Five to ten million.
No.
That's not enough.
With inflation.
We'd have to say.
Maybe.
Forty.
Twenty million.
A piece.
After taxes.
That's ten million each.
At least.
Yeah.
Maybe one billion.
No.
That's.
No.
That's unreasonable.
So.
So Disney.
If you're listening.
We will be happy.
To take the non-topical podcast.
And focus it on the topic of.
Disney's greatest achievements.
In cinematic history.
For.
Like.
Going forward.
Like.
Every single time you come out
with a new movie.
We'll show for it.
But it's going to cost you
forty million dollars.
Now that's.
I think that's fair.
That's twenty million a piece.
And that would equate to about
ten million after taxes.
Yeah.
I'd gladly do that.
So Disney.
If you're listening.
Forty.
Forty million plus.
We'll take more.
But keep in mind.
The longer you wait.
The more that amount's going to
go up.
Yeah.
You know.
We have to account for
inflation.
Yeah.
I mean.
Especially as like.
The tariffs are going into play.
I mean.
You've got like.
I'd say about two weeks on this
offer.
Before then.
It's got to go up to fifty
million.
Because.
Act now.
Yeah.
Disney.
Act now.
I mean.
You throw money away on.
Some really crappy movies like
Snow White.
Or Wish.
If you could throw away.
Hundreds of millions of dollars.
On those sad.
Sad excuses.
For movies.
Then.
Surely.
You can.
Sixty million dollars.
For Kit and I's goodwill.
It's worth the premium.
Yeah.
We'll get you so many more
views.
Trust us.
So many.
We have so many viewers.
You might not see them now.
But we have so many.
So.
So many.
You know.
We have a lot of sway.
In the.
Podcast industry.
In the Zennial.
And.
And Gen Alpha.
Communities.
I mean.
Yeah.
You wouldn't believe.
Just.
Millions.
You wouldn't believe.
How much influence we have.
We have such influence.
That's all we have to.
Look.
That's all we can say.
Alright.
We've got so much.
I mean.
We've got ideas too.
Yeah.
I mean.
Like.
You know.
I've got.
I've got a campaign idea.
For the new Lilo and Stitch.
It's a brilliant.
You know.
Just the words alone.
Are worth their weight.
In gold.
Lick a stitch.
You know.
You.
You have.
Like a stitch.
Like lollipop.
That you give away.
At the theaters.
Like for the first.
Like 500 people.
That come and see it.
And they're watching.
And then like.
At one point in the movie.
You could throw this in.
At the last minute.
I know how movie productions.
It are.
You know.
The movie's not releasing.
Until May 23rd.
Which means.
You don't have to get.
The digital copies.
To the theater.
Until the 22nd.
And we know.
You're going to be tweaking.
Things up.
Until that last minute.
When you have to provide.
The file to your distributors.
So all you got to do.
Have a campaign.
Lick a stitch.
The first.
You know.
Like 500 people.
At every participating theater.
Gets a little.
Blue stitch pop.
And then.
There'll be a specific moment.
In the movie.
Where like.
Stitch like.
Steals one of these pops.
Or like.
You know.
Is given one of these pops.
From some character.
Who cares who.
And.
The whole goal was.
When that moment happens.
In the.
In the film.
All the theater goers.
Shove their.
Lick a stitch pop.
In their mouths.
Yeah.
And start licking it.
Just like Stitch does.
On the screen.
It's perfect.
It's memeable.
You know.
Stitch is sitting there.
Going like.
And.
Everybody in the audience.
Is doing the same thing.
This is your.
Lilo and Stitch.
Meme moment.
Look.
We.
We've got ideas.
Look.
That's all I'm saying.
Is we've got ideas.
And.
They can make you millions.
And.
Really.
It's.
It's all yours.
For the cost of 75 million
dollars.
It's very cheap.
Very cheap.
But.
Probably a dent.
In your finances.
But as you can see.
That amount is going up.
It's going to get less.
And less profitable.
For you Disney.
The longer you wait.
And you know.
While we're at it.
You know.
Maybe.
Maybe you know.
Disney isn't our right audience
here.
Maybe you know.
Illumination.
Yeah.
Illumination.
We could do things.
Or DreamWorks.
Dream.
Well DreamWorks doesn't really
exist anymore.
Oh.
I mean they kind of do.
But I think they got bought up
by Disney.
Right.
I don't know.
DreamWorks.
I'm not sure if they
technically exist anymore.
But.
Any.
Look Comcast slash.
You know.
Universal.
We could come up with things.
You know.
Is Paramount still its own
thing?
Yeah.
Paramount Viacom.
Oh.
I love me some Star Trek.
We could do.
You know.
We could do.
You know.
There.
There is a lack.
Of tangible skills.
In the world today.
You know.
The type of stuff that people
used to learn in.
Home economics.
I'm talking about cooking.
I'm talking about learning how
to balance a checkbook.
But most of all.
Talking about sewing.
And so.
You know.
For the next Star Trek movie
that you come out with.
Where you drag.
You know.
Aging actor Patrick Stewart.
Out of his hyperbolic chamber.
What I would.
I would say is this.
You know.
To encourage.
You know.
Children.
And adults.
To start to take an interest.
In old.
Home economic skills.
I think.
That for the first.
Like.
100 people.
That come to each theater.
You give them a make it sew kit.
And the make it sew kit.
Is you know.
A nice little kit.
Of sewing supplies.
Maybe some needlepoint stuff.
Maybe even a pattern.
To be able to make.
Your own Star Trek communicator.
Like needlepoint stitch work.
On your.
On.
On your polo shirt.
Or maybe just a patch.
You know.
You have the Star Trek communicator
patch.
That people.
Can now sew.
onto their polo shirts and you
link to videos, you know, to
helpful walkthrough videos with
the stars from the movie.
They're on YouTube and they'll
show you step by step how to
make it so.
You see?
We've got ideas.
And now we're going to get put
on the list.
We've got tons of ideas and,
you know, these ideas are not
limited to just one franchise.
I mean, we've got ideas for
Star Wars.
We've got ideas for Star Trek.
We've got ideas for animated
franchises.
Like Sonic.
I mean, there are just so many,
so many, you know, like we can
combine Sonic with current
health trends.
Gotta go fast.
We could turn that into
something about daily fasting.
You know, intermittent fasting,
it's great for the body.
You know, it helps you to lose
weight.
We could do something with
Sonic, encouraging people.
Again, consult your doctors.
Gotta make sure that he says
that, you know, check with your
provider.
But in an era where we have
drugs like Ozempic, where they're
advertising weight loss, let's
give people an alternative.
You know, gotta go fast.
It's perfect.
And all of this could be yours.
All of these great ideas for
the cheap, low, low price of $80
million.
Yeah.
But act now.
The price is going to keep
going up.
Not all of this information is
factual.
But, well, the information
about the price going up is.
Yeah.
Kit and I know our value.
Okay?
That's all I'm saying.
We know how valuable our ideas
could be to the industry.
Not all information in this ad
is factual.
Terms and conditions apply.
Well, yeah.
Obviously, if you take any of
these marketing ideas that we've
put out in this format, I mean,
we're going to know you stole
them from us.
We have evidence.
And we have evidence that, you
know, this show was produced on
a specific date.
So we recorded this on, well, I
can't see the date right now.
I think it's like May 10th.
It's May 10th, 2025.
Okay.
May 10th, 2025.
So guess what?
If you implement any of these
ideas, we've got the time and
date stamp.
We can prove that they're ours.
So if you would want to take
advantage of these ideas.
Pay up.
The low, low cost of $95
million.
Look, the inflation is really
bad.
Yeah, the inflation is getting
terrible, you know.
So Kit and I know our value to
the industry.
We know what we can do for you.
Either through podcasting,
through game streaming.
If you have a shitty ass, like,
game version of your movie that
you want to get out there, give
us beta access.
We'll go out and play it for
you.
As long as the price is right.
You know, if you're going to
give us, like, 500 bucks,
forget that.
That's not worth it.
Do you know what $500 gets me?
That's not even my rent.
That's nothing.
Nah, you know, but we will
provide services.
I mean, we'll podcast.
We'll game stream.
We'll even sit in your board
meetings and tell you why your
dumbass idea is horrible and
how to make it better.
How to make it so that we'll
play with today's audiences.
We'll help you to memefy your
movies.
To come up with those wonderful
chicken jockey moments that
people are just going to latch
on to like stupid ass children.
Look, it could all be yours for
$150 million.
That's all I'm saying.
Look, you got to understand.
The inflation is really bad.
We're mildly inconvenienced.
There's nothing else we can
offer.
I'm just saying for the wide
array of services you would get
from us, it's well worth the
small investment on your part.
And with the tariffs coming, I
don't know what else.
I honestly don't know what else
you're going to have.
What other strategy are you
going to be able to have?
Oh, you're going to hire better
celebrities.
Nobody cares about celebrities
these days.
It's all about the internet
people.
And even then, it's no longer
about the internet influencers
because nobody trusts in
internet influencers anymore.
The scandals, mean coins, and
NFTs just totally wrecked that
market.
So what you really need are two
honest-to-goodness people.
One in their early 40s.
One just starting into his
prime at the age of 16.
You've got a nice market
segment there.
We are the voice of the people.
And we could be yours for just
$175 million.
We're trying to help.
And I feel like our costs are
reasonable.
We're not looking to exploit
you.
Not at all.
The way that you exploited so
many people.
We won't let that get out.
Don't worry.
All you have to do is pay it.
We just want to be paid a just
wage for what we're accomplishing.
For you.
You see, this is not for us.
It's for you.
No, I think we have a good
business plan here.
I think that really we can
exchange $175 to $195 million
worth of value with these
studios.
We'll even work for multiple
studios.
You could divide the cost.
Hey, they could divide the cost.
It's like Disney, Universal,
and all these companies want to
get together and pull together
the $200 million it takes for
us.
I'd be willing to do that.
Yeah.
It's like many movie studios
deal with the same advertisers,
with the same marketing
companies.
I mean, we're costing you a
fraction of that.
And if you pull your resources,
then it really only comes down
to, you know, $75 million per
company.
That's a steal.
And now we get put on a list.
Well, we should be on a list.
We should be on their call list.
They should be picking up the
phone right now.
Emailing us at feedback at nontopical.com.
We're here for you, Hollywood,
to help you through this crisis.
We've got ideas.
We've got authority that you
can't buy, except you can.
We've got influence that you
can't buy, except that you can.
All for the low, low cost of $450
million.
Kid, do you have anything else
that we could do to entice the
movie executives who might be
listening?
We'll bring you coffee.
Because they don't have coffee?
Kid, I don't know.
You're going to have to sweeten
the pot more than that.
Cheese quesadilla.
And there we are.
Call back to the beginning of
the show.
Cheese quesadillas.
But cheese quesadillas made
from, you know, the best, freshest
sourced ingredients.
You know, if you're vegan, we'll
get some of that soy cheese or
what is it, like nutritional
yeast, brewer's yeast, whatever
it is.
You know, we're here to cater
to you.
We'll even cook them right in
front of you on a George Foreman
grill.
Anyway, back to how Hollywood's
going to get destroyed.
Um, well, they wouldn't get
destroyed if they just spent
that low, low cost of $500
million.
No, I'm kidding.
All right.
I don't know.
At this point, I'm not saying
there aren't some good creative
stuff that comes out of the
movie industry.
Like the Sins of the Spider-Verse
films.
Yeah.
And there are some other
smaller films that don't get
that much publicity that are...
Like Studio Ghibli.
Really good.
I think the problem is that the
movie industry has formulas
that work.
They know...
Right now it's video game
movies.
Yeah.
And meme-y movies.
Yeah.
But they have formulas that
work.
They know if I put plot element
A, plot element B, a little bit
of character C, and some music
from Lin-Manuel Miranda in it,
I'm going to make bank.
Except they have failed.
Well...
They have failed.
I don't know that they've
necessarily failed in that
people will wait for it to be
streaming and buy it.
Or people will wait for it to
be streaming on Netflix or
whatever.
Unless it's Disney.
Well, yeah.
Then Disney Plus.
Which is really Disney Minus at
this point.
Because even if you pay the
premium subscription, you're
still getting ads.
And you don't even get to see
the movies before they come out.
Which is the entire point.
That's how they sold it in the
beginning.
Does anyone remember that?
Yeah.
But the whole point was that
you got to see movies before
they came out.
Yeah, but that was also during
COVID when you couldn't go to
the movies.
Yeah, but still the entire
point was that you got to see
movies before they came out.
Look, Hollywood.
If you want to save yourselves,
we're here for you.
I think that really is the core
of this segment.
I don't know how we got here.
That we're not going to use.
I don't know how we got here.
I don't know how we got to
trying to shill for the movie
companies.
But I think that this is a
strong candidate for an episode
at this point.
Nah.
It's all just one big
advertisement.
No one wants to listen.
One big advertisement.
Because they do that every time
they watch YouTube or TikTok.
So anyway, that's the state of
Hollywood and how we're feeling
about it.
I think that unfortunately
Hollywood is going to...
It's a failure.
It is a failure at this point.
I mean, granted, they still
make millions upon millions of
dollars that...
Out of brand recognition.
Yeah, they could share with us.
I mean, for our marketing
genius.
I think they could definitely
share some of the millions with
us.
And we could help them to make
more money.
I think it's a fair and
balanced way to deal with
things, you know?
Are we going to get paid yearly?
You know, I'm willing to do it.
I'm not greedy.
I'm willing to do it as a lump
sum.
For that amount of money, I don't
need any more after that.
I'm good.
Like, seriously.
But it all comes down to just
trying to help Hollywood while
we can.
Because at this point, soon AI
will be making movies.
Hollywood will become obsolete.
Yeah.
I mean, that wouldn't surprise
me.
There's a lot of people using
AI for a bunch of stuff.
And I think AI has its place.
Don't get me wrong.
It is possible that it will die
out of the NFTs.
Well, I think the AI, now that
the genie's out of the bottle,
it's going to be with us for
quite some time.
But I think over time, people
are going to find what the
actual practical uses are
versus the stupid stuff.
Now, don't get me wrong.
But we already did find the
practical uses.
There will always be people who
will find ways to use it to
make lots of money off of
innocent people.
I mean, look at the people who
make horrible, horrible kids'
videos just using AI.
It's terrible.
They're disturbing.
And they're made for children.
But they make money.
But they make money, so they
keep doing it.
Eventually, I think that will
go away.
I hope.
Because otherwise, we're just
going to devolve into, like,
this situation where the only
source of creativity is
everything else that was
already created.
Because AI can't truly create
something new and unique, at
least not very well.
Because it's basing it off of
everything that everyone else
has created.
I mean, I guess it could try to
merge styles and stuff, but...
Not very well.
But it takes individual people
to use AI in a way that is
truly creative.
Corridor Digital made an AI-based,
you know, animation based on
styles of certain anime.
But they had to go in there and
actually, like, they had to
tweak things.
They had to manually, like,
create models.
They had to...
You're giving them free
advertising.
But Corridor Digital is awesome.
I'm tired of talking now.
Yeah.
So, what we'd like to ask all
of you to do is, first of all,
lobby your favorite Hollywood
studios to hire Kit and I.
Yeah.
We're here for you, Hollywood.
Secondly, subscribe to us in
your favorite podcast player.
We don't care which one.
Leave us a review in your
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Send us feedback.
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Spread the word.
And by all means, if you like
what we're doing, because we
know the movie studios won't,
go to https://ko-fi.com/nontopical.
And if you get value out of
what you're hearing, show us
some value in return.
We wouldn't mind a dollar or
two.
You know, whatever you can
afford.
Whatever you think it's worth.
If we're worth, like, nothing,
then don't give us anything.
If we're not entertaining to
you, you don't have to give us
anything.
But if you get something out of
what we're doing, we would love
to see something in return.
Anyway, Kit, do you have
anything else to add?
Besides cheese or cheese quesadillas?
Chicken quesadillas.
Goodbye, everyone.
Goodbye.