HBO Max and Paramount Plus Merger, AI Copyright, and 3D Printer Surveillance

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Altered Geek Podcast. Remember the name. Hello,

and welcome to Altered Geek. I'm your host, Steve

Megatron, and joining me on this adventure into

the geekdom is EFG1 Mike. Okay, is my math right

now? We're 40 away from 500. Can I finally say

that? Yes. Okay, good. 460. Let's go. Yep. Yep.

Yep. So to start this episode off on a funny

the burger where he's supposed to be eating their

big arch burger or something and he takes a barely

a nibble out of it and then people have been

memeing this and then Burger King CEO like, like.

gets the veins out of his neck and just takes

a wolfing you know bite out of his burger yeah

and then the a and w guy and then the wendy's

guy and then the guy from uh five guys like they're

all eating like monstrous bites out of their

burger and then because the ceo of mcdonald's

is like so bored he's like this is a really good

burger yeah like and it's like it's it's you

took barely a nibble dude like you probably got

and then he's like i really like the burger i

i had one for lunch no well nobody said what

he said was i really like this burger this is

actually my dinner no no like this is going to

be my dinner is what he says at the beginning

i'm like are you kidding me and what i saw was

i how i saw it was i saw somebody reacting to

it So it wasn't the actual, no, no, no, it's

fine. Whatever it is, what it is, but it's like,

Oh my God. And the funny thing is chaos wanted

to try it. And I'm like, okay, sure. And for

me, I can't, I have to customize everything.

Cause not, not everything goes with my system.

I will. Don't nobody go in a bathroom for about

30, 45 minutes. Somebody open a window. That's

a quote from Friday. That's a quote from Craig's

dad from Friday, from the movie Friday from 1995.

That's how I am with certain things. Pickles

and onions. I don't do pickles and onions. So

when I ordered this thing tonight, literally

like five hours ago for dinner. Uh, I took the

onions off. I took the pickles off and I added

bacon to it. So that's all I did. And it wasn't

half bad. It was a good burger. However, I will

say this thing is huge. When they say big arch,

they mean big arch. It's like, let's put the

entirety of the McDonald's logo, even though

it's just a big burger, but let's take the whole.

arches and put it into a box because this is

not big mac size this is like quadruple pounder

size like triple pounder size like this burger

is and like i have a fairly large left hand and

i can usually i technically kind of have to since

i can't use my right hand with cerebral palsy

but like usually i'm fairly good at one -handing

burgers This thing was falling apart as I'm eating

it. I've never had a burger from McDonald's.

Any burger that they've ever done fall apart

on me. That's how big this burger is. It's crazy.

It was good. It tasted good. It was fine. I don't

think it's something I would ever eat on a regular,

but this isn't my new go -to McDonald's burger.

it was a nice thank god it's a limited time you

know item but uh it wasn't bad yeah i've not

tried it but that's because i refuse to spend

what they charge for their burgers for something

i can go and sit in and eat yeah that's that's

true because i'm like if i'm gonna pay that much

for a burger they're gonna bring it to me oh

see that's that's the difference between you

and me because you can actually go to the store

and actually get it I can't. So I just had to

like go to the restaurant. I'm going to sit in

like, I'm going to do like an Applebee's or a,

yep. Yeah. No, I get it. Yeah, I get it. Uh,

but, uh, but in, in lieu of me being able to

do that, um, I think, what did I see? I paid.

Yeah. For the meal. So the burger, large fries,

and a drink, I paid $20 .28. So that's for the

entire meal. That's not just for the burger by

itself. And I have Dash Pass, so the fees and

all that stuff are already included because I

already pay DoorDash an annual fee anyway. So,

you know, it wasn't that big of a deal. for me

to whatever but it is what it is like i said

it was a tasty burger it was a nice thing to

try it's not something i'll probably ever order

again it was a nice little one -time deal yeah

so i i figured i'd bring it up anyway just because

it was kind of humorous just watching the other

ceos dogpiling they're like you know this is

really good publicity for us yeah they're like

he you can tell he doesn't like his burger we

like our burger yeah that was more or less like

the vibe i was getting from that and i'm like

yeah you guys are like you guys are just rotten

to each other i think it's hilarious don't get

me wrong but yeah it's just i was like touche

like good job yeah you know what that that reminds

me of that reminds me of uh uh fast food twitter

All of those other CEOs toppling on top of him

reminds me of McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King.

All of the fast food Twitter accounts just toppling

on top of each other every now and then. It is

kind of funny, though. It is. Very much so. What

else has been going on with you? Not much. Been

working on stuff with my my PC and working on

some different projects, as it were. Yes, we

will get to those later because you have we have

a whole thing later with your 3D printing stuff

that we will talk about way later in the program,

which is not funny at all, even though I know

it's not. It's not at all. No, no. But first

up. Oh, boy. As video podcasts boom, SAG -AFTRA

looks to organize the industry. Um, what? So

I have looked this one up and I was confused

as to what it exactly meant. And more or less

what it is, is there. because the line has blurred

between what a podcast is because they've tried

to reinvent it. Um, what, what they're doing

is, is they're saying they, they have two different

deals, like a micropod agreement and then a bigger

independent, you know, agreement that kicks in

above, you know, that, um, what they're saying

is essentially we're not coming for the Indies

doing podcasts. And, you know, they're saying

that their guests, are allowed to waive the fees

for the indies so like if we were interviewing

david k or you know somebody else um they would

waive it essentially because we're not we're

small fish like it's there's no yeah there's

no money in it you know it would still be plus

we're not we're not doing a like audio drama

or having them do like some kind of an acted

out piece like a lot of the talk shows will do

you know like have them reenact something we're

literally interviewing and having a conversation

so it's different what they're trying to do is

stopping places like netflix and other things

that are calling a talk show a podcast gotcha

so they're coming after the studios that are

that are trying to play the oh it's a podcast

it's not a tv show right right which i think

is hilarious like you know they're talking like

you know your netflix and your you know, NBC

and your other stuff there. It's saying that,

you know, if a SAG member comes on, you know,

your podcast to promote a movie or geek out about

transformers or, you know, talk shop, they can

waive the compensation. It's a standard practice

for press style appearances to waive it. What

they are saying, however, is that, uh, you know,

that the contracts where they mostly apply is

when it's like signatory under a SAG agreement,

like it's generating over $10 ,000 per season.

Yeah. It's operating at more professional produced

scale, which we're not. No. And then there's

even a micropod agreement specifically for shows

under 10 ,000. It's not for targeting hobbyists.

They're targeting like streamer backed video

podcasts. Yeah. Gotcha. And corporate podcast

networks, you know, like your iHeart. Yeah. And

shows that kind of blur the daytime TV territory

lines. So essentially, like, because I had to

put that into. I had to put that into an AI to

be like, okay, I need to understand this. How

does this impact Geekcast Radio? Does this impact

indies? What is the line here? Yeah. And it's

more or less like if you're running a typical

geek culture show and booking actors for interviews,

nothing changes overnight. Like actors already

do conventions. They do YouTube interviews, press

junkets, indie podcast interviews. Those don't

go away. What could change down the road is if

podcasting becomes more formally unionized, that

agents may prefer booking clients on signatory

shows that are, you know, registered with a union.

But we're far from that. They're saying that,

you know. The only way you'd have to pay is if

you voluntarily become a signatory under a SAG

podcast agreement or your show generates, you

know, grows into a structured revenue heavy production

with union coverage. So otherwise nothing's going

to change for us. So it's, it's more so to prevent

the streamers from undercutting daytime TV contracts,

protect performers and high budget video podcast

productions and control AI use of voices and

likenesses. Gotcha. So we are. Okay. Because

I thought at first, until you just described

that to me, I thought it was something else.

I thought they were trying to redefine the term

for what a podcast is. And I'm sitting here thinking,

no, you get a podcast. Like, I took it more literally.

Like. they were trying to redefine what a podcast

is like a podcast is not an audio this or a video

this it's a this this and this and now that you've

explained that to me i'm like oh got it okay

it's essentially like i said yeah i got it we're

not coming for indie geeks it's more or less

right stop pretending your talk show is a podcast

yeah which which is why i have been arguing on

behalf of indie podcasters that a video show

is not a podcast it's not a podcast it's a video

show it is a video show it is still a talk show

just on a streaming platform yes it's like quit

quit redefining it and that's essentially what's

happening is they're getting their wrists slapped

by the industry because they were trying to shirk

paying and be like oh well we're a streamer we're

not a part of this it's a podcast like they were

trying to like steal the indie thunder and it's

like coming back to roost you know it's coming

back to bite you in the arse oh yeah so yeah

i yeah i that's why i was like i need to put

this you know oh yeah put this into uh into something

to make it understandable Yeah, because I was

reading the article and I'm like, wait, what?

And I read it again and I'm like, wait, what?

Oh, that's OK. Got it, got it, got it. And the

other thing that kind of benefits us, too, is

we're not doing scripted narrative series. Oh,

no. So in accordance with and I can't talk a

whole lot about it because it's not fully legal

yet, but I can talk about some of the details.

I'm trying to trademark the network name. And

because another network has something that they

deem legally too similar, even though they're

not, uh, cause I can't use radio network because

it's, it's yeah. Uh, so anyways, because of that,

uh, I had to get a little bit more granular in

how I approach it. Um, because it, uh, yeah the

other network does some of the narrative and

does some of the scripted and it's like we're

never going to do that so like i don't really

care so i was like i'll give up on that side

of it like i just want to make sure that we're

able to still cover what we cover yep absolutely

you know so it's it's more so that uh so yeah

i think i think this is i think it's interesting

i think it's going to be a lot of It's going

to be a lot of change in the industry as it continues

to mature, because like even where I work, they're

starting to advertise on podcasts, albeit slowly.

I don't think that the juice is worth the squeeze

personally as a podcaster. Oh, like and as a

marketer. No, I don't. I don't see it. Oh, I

it's more so I feel like the ads that are pumped

into the podcast. I feel like they're not. there's

no definitive way of tracking it so as a podcast

listener for literally 20 years yeah same here

no no yeah yeah i know but like i've 2006 middle

of well yeah it'll be later this year like sometime

in june or july of 2006 is when i First started

listening to podcasts. So literally almost 20

years ago is when I first started listening to

podcasts. And as someone who has listened to.

I'm going to say millions of episodes. I don't

know. I don't know what that count is over 20

years, but. As a listener. There's nothing more.

that i hate than to have an episode interrupted

by an ad so we're going along mike and steve

blah blah blah blah talking about hbo max and

paramount to combine into would you like to buy

some cialis today improve your performance in

the bedroom blah blah blah blah blah hbo max

is turning into this streaming certainly don't

put i understand dynamic ad insertion completely

get that but there's a manual dynamic ad insertion

you can put those ads anywhere it takes a little

extra time just like everything else in podcasting

takes a little extra time but you can put those

dynamic ads anywhere in the podcast episode you

don't have to yes the hard part is is you would

think with especially with ai now that they could

find a logical place to put it as conversations

pivot because like for instance like us i ain't

going through 450 episodes of altered geek and

you know all things transformers to you know

OK, but I'm saying like through that legwork

so I can see it from a publisher standpoint.

OK, yes, that's true. But I'm saying like. You

start a new podcast or you start. You build it

in. Right. Or like how I've always done, how

I always like to do, even when we had the dynamic

ad insertion. uh i would always do okay i'm just

funny about it i put it at the end right good

but my point is when i was doing it for when

i was doing it manually when we had the other

system not the current system we currently have

not talking shop or whatever that we don't need

to talk about I would always wait until the end

when I would do the podcast ad break, advertising

the other podcasts that I always advertise, whether

it be Mark who 42 or simplistic reviews or whatever

other podcast ads that I've garnered over the

years from other people that we like to, or that

we've worked with in the past or whatever. And

what I would always do is whatever. Said other

platform used to require me to put in, depending

on the time of the actual podcast episode, let's

say it required me to have six ads. I would do

three before the podcast break, podcast ad break,

and then three after. So you have what they want.

as just those ads and then you have so it doesn't

interrupt anything and you get a free -flowing

conversation without any ads whatsoever i don't

know it's just the way i thought of it because

anyway it doesn't matter it is what it is it's

old hat it's from years ago point is is that

everything changes And, yeah, SAG -AFTRA getting

into the podcast game, that just blows my mind.

That just blows my mind. What in the hell is

the Academy doing in the podcast game? That's

just crazy. Agreed. Crazy, crazy. I figured that

would happen eventually. You know. Is what it

is. Up next, we got HBO Max and Paramount Plus

to combine into one streaming platform. Paramount

says HBO brand will operate with independence.

This is coming out of Variety. This was published

March 2nd, 2026. So it is official. Thank God

this news is behind us. And yes, I know this

news also. has all kinds of other political things,

things we're not talking about here. We're only

talking about the entertainment part of it. Paramount

Skydance plans to combine Paramount Plus and

HBO Max into one streaming service upon the completion

of the merger between Paramount and Warner Brothers

Discovery. However, Paramount will want HBO,

the brand, to operate, operate, wow, operate.

with independence, quote, and operate with independence

is in quotes, just that part. Quote, as we said,

we plan to put the two services together, which

today gives us a little over 200 million direct

-to -consumer subscribers. End quote. Paramount

CEO David Ellison said during an investor call

breaking down the details of the planned merger

Monday, we think it really positions us to compete.

With the leaders in the space at Paramount by

the middle of this year, we'll have completed

the consolidation of our three services under

one unified stack. And you can see us taking

a similar approach to this platform going forward.

And we think the combined offering and given

the amount of content, what we can do from the

tech side really will put us in position to be

able to compete with the most scaled players

in. DTC? Huh? Whatever. Based on the call, it

was not immediately clear what the setup of the

new combined streamer will be and whether HBO

Max will be available as a tile within the service

or fully integrated. However, Ellison did make

it clear Paramount's leadership wants to give

HBO currently run by Casey Bloys. the special

treatment to continue developing programming

content without heavy oversight from Paramount's

execs. So, okay. He says, Casey and his team

do absolutely a remarkable job at HBO, said Ellison,

who told analysts on the call that Game of Thrones

is his favorite HBO series. High roll for me.

And as we said, we do plan for that to be able

to operate with independence so that HBO can

candidly do what it does incredibly well. Our

viewpoint is HBO should stay HBO. They build

a phenomenal brand, they are a leader in the

space, and we just want them to continue doing

more of it. But by bringing the platforms together,

all of our content will be able to... we'll be

able to reach even broader audiences than we

can do as all standalones. And of course, we

all know about the whole Netflix and whatever

else. So yeah, HBO Max, Paramount +, one platform.

Who knows? As someone who does subscribe to Disney

+, when... Because Disney owns ABC and ABC, Hulu,

et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. When Disney

merged Hulu into Disney +, and it's just a tab

or a toggle or whatever you want to call it in

Disney +, that's fine to me. I'm perfectly okay

with that. So if HBO Max becomes a tile or a

toggle or a tab in Paramount +, I guess I'm okay

with that. I don't know. What are your thoughts?

Yeah, I don't know how it's going to go. I'm

cautiously optimistic, but again, it seems like

Warner Brothers has been tossed around like...

A ragdoll? Pretty much. They give it a new paint

job, new title, and yeah, they just... yeah yeah

it gets tossed around pretty bad like two different

companies you know AOL Time Warner or Time Warner

you know AOL Time Warner Warner Brothers like

yeah yeah I don't know just well that's the problem

with consolidating it and again I go back to

Paramount and Warner's and Disney and There was

a bunch of like all these separated companies

that used to be, and I'm talking like old and

olden days, like when, when you had like touchstone

pictures, because touchstone used to be its own

thing before Disney bought it. And, you know,

you've got all these old studios and everything

else. And then everybody started buying everybody

else and Disney bought everybody and blah, blah,

blah, blah, blah. And now you have like these

three major things or two major things or whatever

that now owns everything. So now like with the

Paramount Warner Brothers deal, you've got so

much between Paramount and Disney because Warner

Brothers has Discovery. And Discovery has so

many. Think about 35. No, can't be that. No.

When was the Discovery Channel, Mammal Discovery

Channel, whatever the song was. Anyway. All I

can think about is watching Discovery Channel

and watching the lions and tigers and bears.

Oh, my, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And

then you fast forward like 15 years and Discovery

Channel has all these branching off channels

of it's not just the Discovery Channel with the

animals. It's this discovery and that discovery

and true crime and this and that. So Discovery

under its own. communications thing has all these

channels of its own and has all its own like

discovery even had its own platform it had discovery

plus because i was a subscriber to that for the

longest time so now that warner brothers is under

paramount that discovery plus app is probably

going to go away because it's all going to be

under this hbo max paramount plus stuff so It's

crazy. It's all crazy wild, wild west with Paramount

and Disney just having a shootout at the OK Corral,

folks. Oh, totally. Yeah, I don't know how this

is going to go down. Me either. I'm just trying

to get out of the way of the bullets. Yeah. See?

Get it? OK Corral. Bullets. You know. Yeah, yeah,

yeah. It's a shootout. It's a shoot in and out.

Anyways, you brought up the boy meets world.

The book meets world. So I am still listening

to pod meets world with Daniel official writer

strong and Wilfred L. They are so close to the

end of Season 7 of them discussing Podmeets World.

It's almost been four years of them reviewing

the entire show, but they exclusively revealed

on People Magazine's website that they are doing

Bookmeets World offers the oral history of the

beloved shows. So this... So there's a new way

to experience the nostalgia fan for the beloved

show is on the way. Hosted nostalgic behind -the

-scenes oral history podcast, Pod Meets World,

Danielle Fisher, Wilfred L. Reiner Strong, are

coming out with a new oral history book, Book

Meets World. People can exclusively announce

it will feature untold stories and never -before

-seen photos. Writer Emily Lowe. Longoretta and

the podcast producer Jensen Karp are also collaborating

on the project. Boy Meets World ran from 93 to

2000. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. In Book Meets World,

the three former stars and co -hosts will expand

on the podcast in which they share what it was

like behind the scenes, its oral history, and

a glimpse of behind -the -scenes curtain from

the three friends who were there when it all

happened, just as a warm, funny, and ex... and

experience as watching the show for the very

first time. The book's synopsis is Promises.

So yeah, so they're doing an oral history book.

Friedel says he's excited for it, and Fishel

says she's also excited. And Ryder says, I can't

help but have reservations, but in general, I

guess you could say I'm excited for the book.

The authors will also read the audiobook version

of the book. Never miss a story. The Bookmates

World will hit shelves on November 10th. It is

available for pre -order now wherever books are

sold. So it's basically a behind -the -scenes

version of the podcast and of Boy Meets World

as well. I don't know. I heard them talking about

it on the podcast, and I thought we could bring

it up here since we do our own. boy meets world

podcast thing kind of which we gotta start back

up with girl meets world and whatever i like

i said i've been listening to their podcast since

they started it and i just love hearing them

talk about the behind the scenes stuff and some

of the interviews they've done about with some

of the behind the scenes people from the show

that they could get on the podcast has been really

interesting so i don't know you know if you're

a fan check it out uh and then interesting yeah

absolutely especially um for me it's most definitely

going to be a audible audiobook purchase most

likely because i'd rather listen to it than it's

not that i don't like reading it's the I basically

need old granny glasses to read these days. Yeah,

that's kind of kind of where I'm going with it,

too. I know, unfortunately, I don't. Well, I

don't. I just don't really read. So I spend more

time in my car. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And then, oh,

boy. Earlier this I say earlier because we're.

at the beginning of March, but February 23rd,

there was an article on Variety where they reported

that Funko -inspired TV shows, movies, and animated

projects in the works at Rideback, Spurry, and

more? Oh boy. The things Funko has tried and

have not worked has been crazy. So they've tried

a mobile game. There was a Funko like match three

mobile game that. I don't even think it's still

available. It might still be available on the

Play or Apple stores. I'm not sure. I had it

for a while. It was okay. It was kind of fun.

They tried Funko Fusion, which was their big

PC game. It's fun. It's okay. It worked, but

didn't gain a lot of momentum for them. But now

they're actually going to potentially be getting

into TV shows, movies, and animated projects.

Oh, boy. Collectibles brand Funko has struck

a deal to develop and produce film, TV, and animated

content with Lego Movie Franchise and Netflix's

Avatar The Last Airbender producer, Rideback,

and AI -enabled entertainment company Spurry.

Oh boy, folks, here we go. AI -enabled entertainment

company Spurry. At least it doesn't say AI -generated,

AI -enabled, so there is a difference. Under

the agreement, Spurry, currently working on Magic

Treehouse animated TV series and Rideback, will

serve as Funko's content partners for original

Funko -driven projects across animation, hybrid

live -action scripted and unscripted formats.

Funko's portfolio of brands includes Funko, Loungefly,

and Mondo, all of which collaborate with existing

IP from Disney, NBCUniversal, Warner Bros., Discovery,

Netflix, and more major media companies and release

original products. God, I can't talk tonight.

For the partners, this new deal is designed to

unlock new storytelling opportunities rooted

in Funko's globally recognized brands and deep

fan engagement while building scalable franchises

that can live across screens, platforms, and

other consumer touchpoints. Specific projects

will be announced at a later date. This announcement

comes following years of Funko's movie remaining

in development stage at Warner Bros. Funko sits

at the center of a fan culture turning the moments

that people love into collectible characters

with more than 1 billion products in the hands

of fans worldwide. Funko CEO Josh Simon said,

Rideback's unmatched ability to transform beloved

toys and characters like Lego and Lilo and Stitch

into expansive, emotionally resonant stories

makes them an ideal partner. Together with Spurry,

we're excited to open a new chapter of storytelling

for Funko fans everywhere. Dun dun dun! Thoughts?

silence folks he's speechless I'm more interested

in just the TV TV shows the Funko stuff doesn't

interest me whatsoever we'll get there we'll

get there we'll get there I know people are going

to be calling crap on it because like oh they

have an ai studio helping or any enabled entertainment

you gotta remember too netflix also uh did that

for that apop demon hunters thing and it blew

up like a balloon like and put them on the map

so i i think this is yeah wave of the future

yeah regardless of what people seem to think

in the industry is i feel like the more they

clamor to hold clutch their pearls closer yeah

the more the ai is going to win yeah and the

funny thing is about the about the funko animated

stuff is i really do think funko fusion the video

game kind of really hit the spot here with and

i i'm sure ride back is going to improve upon

that because in the funko fusion video game They

animated the characters very well. The characters

didn't really speak. They didn't have speaking

parts. They just kind of meh, meh, brr, brr,

brr, brr. It was just kind of more sound effects

from the characters. It was more of like a fun

confusion, even though it was an action video

game. It was an action video game mixed with

the old style of Final Fantasy, where when you

would talk to the character, like if you talk

to Proto the Dog, when you would read his text,

because you would have to read his text speech

bubbles, he would... They're Charlie Brown adults.

Yeah, kind of, yeah. In the game they are. But

if you look at the animation of the game, I don't

know if that's what Rideback is going to do.

But based on what I saw in the Funko Fusion game,

I think Funko animation is a good thing that

could happen. Again, it's not for everybody and

that's fine. But just based on that, I'm very

interested to see what Rideback does with it.

And there have been worse cartoons out there.

I mean, you know, Funko couldn't be the worst

cartoon ever. I mean, we did have, you know,

Mysterious Cities of Gold back in the 80s, and

that cartoon is horrible. Anyway, moving on.

We're going to go over to a... To be or not to

be. Yes, to be or not to be. Yeah, they're not

getting 100 Cartoon Network shows, but they are

getting a decent list. Now, the problem was.

A lot of stuff is very misleading online. Problem

was certain news stations need to retitle their

news stories. Well, yeah, it's it's because people

don't read. And of course, we. As fans take it

literally because it's reported by news. Exactly.

So maybe don't have the clickbait titles. Exactly.

Anyways, they're going to have a lot of mid -2000s

era, early and mid -2000s era Cartoon Network

titles. It was bad enough that Tubi had to actually

release the list. Yeah. I mean, they didn't have

to. I want to say we discussed this the last

episode. We did. Well, we discussed it when it

was first announced that because of. It was something

about I think it was the Netflix contract or

something. Something was happening. With something

where it was like, Oh my God, all of this stuff

is Lee. That's what it was. All of this stuff

was leaving Netflix, all of the cartoon network

shows, or all of this was leaving Netflix. Where

is it going? She wrote in the princesses of power,

which I honestly thought I forgot. It was a dream

work show was leaving. Like literally I thought

it was one of the original Netflix shows or whatever.

And I forgot it was a dream work show. All of

this content is leaving Netflix. Where is it

going to go now? And then all of a sudden it

pops up with all of the Cartoon Network shows

are leaving this whatever and they're going to

go here. And that's how we got it. So, yeah,

it's going to be a slow rollout of stuff. And

it's going to be, you know, popular titles like

always. And that's it's fun. Look. I mean, not

everybody can be Netflix of 2009, 2010, folks.

You can't just drop, you know, entire seasons

of stuff all at once because it would be information

overload. Now, it did say kicking off the stuff

March 1st, which means it's already out. Yeah.

Animaniacs, Powerpuff Girls, Teen Titans, The

Batman. Ben 10, 2005. Pinky and the Brain, Justice

League, Batman, The Brave and the Bold, Dexter's

Lab, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Courage the Cowardly Dog,

Tasmania, Foster's Home, Codename Kids Next Door,

The Mask Animated, and Yogi's Gang are the first

set of things. Yep. So, I is happy. Yeah. Gooby

rocks. To be rocks. And then, folks, we... Oh,

boy. We go from cartoons to... Back to... Back

to the... Oh, boy. Oh, boy, I gotta get my...

My zoom on in here. We go back to the U S Supreme

court as they declined to hear dispute over copyrights

for AI generated material from Washington, March

2nd, 2026. This is coming from routers. The U

S Supreme court declined on Monday to take up

the issue. of whether AI art generated by artificial

intelligence can be copyrighted under U .S. law,

turning away a case involving a computer scientist

from Missouri who was denied a copyright for

a piece of visual art made by his AI system.

Plaintiff Stephen Thaler had appealed to the

justices after lower courts upheld a U .S. Copyright

Office decision. That the AI crafted visual art

at issue in the case was ineligible for copyright

protection because it did not have a human creator.

So this this gets a little subjective here, and

this is I had an argument with somebody over

this. You know, they're like, hey, I use a toy.

It's not a tool. Oh, yeah. Anyways. I argue it's

a tool. However, there's some false aspects to

this as well, because if you're counting it as

AI -generated material, yes, it very well could

be AI -generated, and it would mean that it's

not copyrightable in the sense that It wasn't

completely done by a human. Now, somebody still

has to put the prompts in and depending on how

involved the prompting is and depending on how

layered and, you know, the questions that come

out of it and things like that will ultimately

depend on how much of it is truly AI generated

or not. So, for instance, if I took, let's say

I wrote an article. And then I put it through

AI and I had it modify it or say, you know, make

it more friendly or make it, you know, more concise

or something. I still wrote it and I used it

as a tool. If I typed it in and, you know, said,

you know, this is my idea for a blog. Write this.

It is not something that I created. I told you.

Yeah. If I put in an image and I say, like, I

want a Star Trek character, for instance, and,

you know, I wanted of this actor in this situation,

you know, wearing this, you know, design and

in this room and this, you know, this type of

situation, that's where it gets kind of a gray

area. Because in the one hand, you didn't physically

put it together. On the other hand. you imagined

what it would look like as like a writer in a

situation, putting them into that situation.

So essentially, it's a 50 -50 shot there. So

it could kind of, it's in that morally gray area.

Now, there's also other aspects of, you know,

the artificial intelligence that, you know, it's

like, okay, if I wrote a bazillion articles on

whatever, And then I said, I need help crafting

this into a book. It's an AI assist, not generated.

Right. Yeah. So, I mean, like, I feel like. And

this is this is where it's going to get dicey

for Hollywood. Yeah, big time. Because they're

going to try to copyright their material. Now,

a lot of their copyrights like Batman, Superman,

Mickey Mouse, stuff like that are all going into

the public domain. Warner Brothers is going to

have it with Bugs Bunny at some point in the

next 10 years. They're all going into the public

domain pretty quick here, if they haven't already,

which means they don't own the sole ownership

over it anymore and cannot anymore, and nobody

else will either, which means that I could write

a Batman story without DC Comics. So in that

type of situation, it's like, okay, you didn't

create any of the materials, but if you're like

imagining a story or, you know, Hollywood's getting

to this point where they're like, Oh, I can just

license out my IPS to have AI generated. It's,

it's also like, okay, well then technically none

of the stuff that's generated is owned by either

party at that point. It's just fan art. Yeah.

And. Which means that them licensing it out is

kind of moot. Yeah. At that point, too. But if

they're going to use that same concept to create

like a movie or create a television series out

of it. You know, it I don't know, it becomes

this really weird area because like I am not

artistically inclined when it comes to designing

characters or. Like, yes, I've used, like, Hero

Creator and built stuff and done, you know, for

a screenplay I did in college and crafted all

of those. I also come up with, you know, character

designs on my computer and stuff like that. You

know, digibashing or whatever. And then I've

had AI enhance what I've done. But I feel like

AI has created this. barrier you know entry barrier

to people who previously were unable to make

their ideas come to light yeah so like if i wrote

a script or a screenplay you know and i was trying

to show it off or i was trying to produce it

whether it had discrepancies or whatever or not

i feel like it it still allows them to create

something from their vision that they, you know,

whether it's a storyline or the designs and the

storyline or, you know, whatever. I feel like

it kind of lowers that barrier to entry where

somebody could create essentially a television

series or a film on a fractional budget of what

Hollywood does and have it look immensely better

than some of the CGI coming out of Hollywood

today. You know, 20 years ago, Hollywood's CGI

looked infinitely better because they used a

lot more practical effects. Not to mention, they

could shoot a Star Trek television show for a

heck of a lot less than what it costs now. It

costs them, you know, $10 to $20 million to shoot

an episode of modern Trek because it's all CGI.

compared to the old stuff where they had to be

inventive and do you know models of the ships

and you know like showing them flying through

a solar flare they they literally lit it in a

certain way and overlaid it and had salt going

over a steel ball on a stick to look like the

ship was going through you know solar flares

so i mean like Things are definitely doable if

you're if you're artistically inclined and, you

know, people that do stop motion, you know, that

that's awesome, too. But it. It creates this

area where people are able to create their vision

finally, but then it becomes OK if I helped you

do all of it. Do you actually own it? And so

in that regard, I feel like they should own it.

But I don't feel like it's a replacement either

for the people that can do it. I think that if

you're using it as like a pilot or you're like,

I don't intend on ever making money with this.

Yeah. Or I'm using it as like I need a pilot

so that I can get the studio to say, hey, we

like this. I feel like then then it's I mean,

for crying out loud. I was a part of a group

doing fan dubs of Transformers Headmasters way

back when. early 2000s that sucker would have

been done you know i i can only imagine people

doing it now because they would just oh i want

it to sound exactly like the season three actors

and yeah and then just dub the whole thing over

and here we go we have season you know five and

of headmasters and it's just i don't know like

I I've even toyed with the idea of using it specifically

for dark glass. Like I'm still, I'm going to

assemble the audio, but what I want to do with

it is like, I have the CG models that were created

for the project and I've thought, okay, so what

if I, what if I, you know, essentially acted

it out with my camera, recorded it and then replaced

me in the background. with the beast wars aesthetics

and then overlaid the audio track that was created

by people that did fan dubbing essentially of

the characters then it's an assist but it's still

not like you know yeah i'm saying there like

it's yeah like i'm using cgi you're using it

yeah you're using it as an as an ai assist enhancement

to the work you're already doing like it's not

like And that's kind of what I want to do with

it is like, I'm like, if I learn enough of this,

like I could, I could actually animate this episode

based on all of the source material I have, but

the move, the characters I would need, I would

need a camera, you know, and then, and then replace

it. Yeah, exactly. It's not like you're going

to, what's the, what's the. Canva. Okay. It's

not like you're going into Canva and opening

up a. brand new project and having it as a blank

white thing and saying, okay, Canva AI, draw

me this in the style of this person and have

it look like this. And I want it to have this

and I want it to look like this and it should

have this seven colors. Boom, make it for me.

No. You like, again, this is what I, this is

why I always use you as the perfect example for

me is because like for God, nearly the 18 years

we've known each other, I will see something

for an image or what, like if we wanted to create

a new podcast or if we were going to or whatever,

or if I wanted to have a specific podcast art

for something new, a new series or. a new something

for whatever i'd be like okay take this slap

the name on it or hey steve make me a a template

with all of our gcrn like studio 2009 for example

you've made me a template that i can put stuff

in yeah where i can just go and grab a poster

an image or whatever But let's say I want a Columbo

files template, which you have not yet made.

But basically what I would want with that is

take the current Columbo files art that we have

shifted around to make it where it's the template

where I could put something like that art would

be a part of the template. but there would be

an open space. You know what I mean? Like I would,

you, you are my AI essentially, but you actually

have intelligence versus the artificial, whatever

kind of thing. And it's like, for me that the

person that can't do any of this stuff, it doesn't

know how to do any of this stuff. It's like,

I will go to people, my friends, my best friend

in the world and whatever else and say, Hey,

I need help with this. I need it by Monday. And

you'll be like, okay, sure. Just remind me. Be

like, okay, cool. I hope I don't forget myself.

But that's the truth. Like, seriously, that that

would be the conversation. And like, we're not

out here using the artificial intelligence to

just look at a blank. canva project and have

the ai do everything for us like we've already

like we've you've already conversed where it's

like you're using it as i'm making this thing

and i need this extra push and that's what the

artificial intelligence is assisting me with

like that's what you're using it for like Well,

I mean, I use it mostly like I need an idea.

Like for me, it's like I get stuck like a lot

because I've done so many different things. I'm

like, OK, where do I go from here? And then I

I will give it the idea. I'll be like, hey. This

is what I've done. This is what I'm thinking

of. This is, you know, what are some other options

that I can go with this? And then it'll give

me like a list of things. And then I kind of.

finesse the idea from there and then i go okay

and then i i end up doing it myself because i'm

never satisfied with the crap it gives me i just

visually like i know it can it's capable of stuff

with graphics and i know it's a prompting thing

i just don't care like i like doing the art uh

i like editing my podcast i don't like i figured

out i found a tool in adobe recently of all things

Under the Diagnostics tab, you can have it scan

your entire multitrack and delete the silence.

What? I just found this. Or there's a part that's

also like trim long silent pauses, trim short

digital dropouts, clean up interview. There's

declipper, declicker. I knew about the clipper

and the clicker. I knew the delete silence is

beautiful. I use that. I use I've been using

that like crazy for the last week. I've rather

enjoyed it. But yeah, I mean. I am. I've really

been. Trying to. Learn like a lot of these things

that. a lot of people have more or less taken

for granted right and you know they're like oh

i'll pay a service for this well i also get tired

of spending like i don't want to spend money

like one i don't have a budget for it too like

i don't i don't love the idea of handing a company

money every time i need something or like most

of them are are like hey uh we want you to you

know pay this subscription fee and like most

the ais have like tokens they give you so many

and it's like i just i don't want to i don't

want to deal with it uh so again like this is

this is where i'm like it's it's definitely a

tool it can be a toy if you're like one of those

ai bros that are posting constantly on on uh

twitter and or x and every other platform I think

that we're at this weird phase where they're

still figuring out what qualifies in our government

because they're so antiquated. Unless it counts

for surveillance. Unless it's surveillance, they

don't understand technology. They're like, I

don't know what a 3D printer is capable of. I

don't know what... This Internet stuff you're

talking about. So should we swap over to that?

Because Colorado be in trouble. Colorado's following

another state of equal frustration. Yes, I don't.

And I'm not getting political here. I just know

it's it's true. Colorado is mini California.

Yeah, in all ways, shape and form. they just

don't they don't seem to allow people to just

live leave them alone like I find it highly highly

irritating so Colorado has been putting up for

one speed cameras literally everywhere which

again is neither here nor there like yeah it

shouldn't be overly speeding or whatever like

I don't go exactly the speed limit but I go just

over it more so I just I mean I used to drive

like a banshee when I was younger now I'm just

like I don't care that much to get where I'm

going yeah like I'll let it go where it goes

like I'm not gonna deal with getting a ticket

like I don't like the surveillance state that

everything's turning into though. Yeah. Between

like them being able to scan wifi and like now

there's conspiracy theories about lead paint

and why they stopped putting in houses other

than it being toxic is the fact that they can't

scan through it. Yeah. Uh, whereas they can use

your, your wifi and create a, uh, like more or

less a sonar in your house of you. yeah that's

which is creepy on its own right but yeah that's

nuts but so so there's that they've got satellites

they've got all that crap uh they're listening

to you on your smart devices like every single

one of them you know anything with a microphone

or a camera they're watching yeah uh including

the microphones that we're talking into right

now yeah and and you know our phones and like

the smart speaker because like our google randomly

wake up and be like i don't understand what you're

saying like and it's like i didn't even talk

to you dude i could say okay g and the thing

will wake up oh we um oh my god earlier today

hopefully you'll save that thought for a second

earlier today i'm like i said i said the phrase

i'll say okay g but just because i don't want

it to wake up i said it four times it wouldn't

wake up i reset my phone to make sure it was

still working. I literally said I didn't have

any other apps open on my home screen. I said

the open phrase for OKG four times, and it wouldn't

open. And I'm like, are you deaf? What are you

doing? Are you deaf, dumb, blind, and stupid?

Like, I'm trying to open the assistant here.

Like, what's going on? the other assistant fully

taken over because um i i don't know what i don't

know what are you gonna say well i was i was

saying like they you know while my kids figured

out a loophole they started saying random words

that sounded similar but it wasn't the word and

it would activate and they were laughing hysterically

because it was like Like, we said Poogle and,

you know, and McDougal and things like that.

And so the kids were just yelling random stuff

at our device. Anyways, so they... Like, Colorado,

like I said, is doing this stuff with that. Never

mind that, you know, we need... Them to fix the

roads or things like that. Then they're adding

like tolls for everything. And then they're throwing

a fit about taxes on everything. And then now

they're like, oh, we're going to force surveillance

on 3D printers to prevent use for making gun

parts. And it's the fourth state to propose new

bans and expanding firearms laws to regulate

digital files. And what they're saying is. And

they're joining New York, Washington and California,

of course. On a quest to ban, you know, and regulate

the fact they're saying that they could potentially,

you know, regulate digital files and potentially

ban 3D printers that are not under its surveillance.

In other words, if we don't see what you're printing,

you're not allowed to use your printer and it's

illegal and it's a felony. So they're trying

to say that they're not under, you know, that

under these restrictions, 3D printers that are

not online for surveillance would be illegal.

yeah and preventing you know they're saying oh

it's preventing gun gun well you know most people

that end up with them do it illegally anyway

it's the legal people that are like literally

trying to print things that are goofy like i'm

trying to print like useful things and then at

the same time like i printed a desk organizer

and then at the same time i've been printing

starship enterprises and like random like action

figure stands and it's like it's like give me

a break like i don't one i would never download

a gun you know anyway yeah no kind like not even

not even like from star trek like i wouldn't

even download a star trek one and they're saying

that you know this this titled uh prohibits 3d

printing you know firearm components uh they're

trying to close loopholes created by new technology

and it defines 3d printing to mean both additive

and subtractive manufacturing which you know

means these Uh, and they're saying that, uh,

any of these machines that are not online and

saying that the distribution of these gun files

would be a class one misdemeanor on the first

offense and subsequent offenses are a class five

felony. And the five, you know, could result

in one to three years in prison, mandatory parole

and fines to 1000 to a hundred thousand. Um,

it's, I'm like, can you be any more dense? It's

funny because the 3D printing community is like,

look, we're trying to raise awareness on this,

but none of these Congress or Senator people

want to learn anything about it. They're like

that they're essentially harming, you know, the

potential harm that can accidentally inflict

on manufacturing and STEM education and the harmless

hobby of 3D printing and multiple 3D printing

YouTubers. have publicly invited lawmakers to

visit their workshops to learn about the technology,

and they refuse to show up. Wow. They just want

to pass a stupid bill and criminalize, you know,

the use unless they get to see what you're doing.

Yeah. And what surprises me about this is the

last paragraph here. The Democrats' statement

cited data archived by the National Library of

Medicine. which noted that the ATF received approximately

45 ,245 reports of suspected privately made firearms

recovered by law enforcement between 2016 and

2021. Only 186 cases involved 3D printing, of

which 14 were fully printed firearms like the

Liberator. This specific data set was compiled

by researchers who scoured the public records.

yada yada yada this is nuts like first of all

you know the second amendment is the second amendment

we all have the right to bear arms but i get

sunburned when i bear my arms but it's one of

those things where it's just one of those things

where i don't have a need i i'm me personally

i'm i don't fear guns but it's i mean obviously

i do if one's pointed at me but it's one of those

things where i'm on the fence about the second

amendment if it's a right it's a right but it's

one of those things where i don't feel like i

have the compunction to have the need to own

a gun i've never felt that way at all kind of

thing and the fact that people are printing ghost

guns just i mean you're talking about literally

crazy people anyway yeah i know i understand

why don't you just put people through a psych

eval before they get one and be like all right

yeah and then just leave them alone afterward

like yeah like like washington it's passed like

and they've got multiple bills yeah that are

that are tied to this and new york as well in

california uh california's got one that's actually

law colorado's got one that's past the house

so they're saying criminalizes you know 3d printing

firearm parts possession of cad files uh which

okay like i you know i i get it you know if you're

in possession of 3d printed gun part files or

you're printing the parts i get it like but I

don't want my 3d printer like surveilled. No,

it's like, I'm literally printing like nerd crap.

Yeah. Like, like how long have you owned your

3d printer? Well, this is my second one. And

my first one, like I got, uh, probably I think

the same year I, yeah, I got it three years ago

and then I, I sold that one and I've had this

printer just over a year. Yeah. And so, I mean,

I love this printer, but like I've, all I've

ever printed with it is like stands for my figures.

I printed an add on parts for my transformers.

I printed, you know, the zeo morpher. I've printed

a bunch of star Trek ships, you know, chairs,

desk organizers. Yeah. Fake floppy disks. I mean,

yeah. So, I mean, like, it's like, okay. I understand

going forward. Like, and this is going to sound

crazy but if you're buying like where do you

normally buy 3d printers walmart target that

kind of well you can't buy them there you can

buy them at like uh like micro center in denver

like there's a it's a computer store i think

you can buy them at best buy um and then you

buy them on like amazon or any of these actual

stores online like i mean they essentially all

come from china right right I was going to say,

if you could buy them from Walmart or Target

or someplace like that, the easiest way for this

would be like, you must go through a mental health

examination before you buy a 3D printer. Well,

they got a pharmacy right in Walmart and right

in Target. That's the only way I could, you know

what I mean? Like if they really wanted to do

some sort of whatever, like, you know, I don't

know. But I don't know, dude. It's just like,

yeah, like, I don't know. Like, I would never.

It's kind of like the olden days where it's like,

oh, would you like to go back to blank check?

Would you like to print a blank check on your

computer to be able to write in whatever amount

you would like? No, there are just some things

you just don't do. You know what I mean? I know

blank checks and guns are two different things.

I get that, but it goes to the thing of there

are just certain things you don't do. And then,

to top it off, since we're talking about stupid

laws, California recently passed a law on Computers

needing to have age verification. Oh boy. Here

we go. Operating system level. Oh my God. And

it's, and I'm, and I'm listening to this and

I'm like, okay, so you're telling me my child

can't use a computer. Like, and it's like, and,

and why do we need these laws? Like, yes, I know

that like, like pornography and like all kinds

of other bad crap is like, rampant online who's

who's the police officer for their children like

do the parents actually do their job why are

we relying on the government to make rules for

things that parents should do as normal parents

like i yeah literally go through everything my

child does i have things on lockdown i have those

things blocked at the router level yeah like

because i literally bought a router a gaming

router at that because it seems like gaming content

like gaming hardware is like the way to go for

everything like i bought a gaming mouse for productivity

i bought a gaming router so that i could actually

use the blocking technology in it because like

the other router i used to have did not block

that stuff right and so i could block everything

so my kids can't get to anything bad and so it's

like whose job is this like they literally they're

saying starting january 2027 the california law

the digital age assurance act requires operating

systems windows mac os android ios and linux

which linux is impossible to do because it's

open source yeah uh you don't have to log into

it to use it whereas the other four you do yeah

uh to implement age verification mechanisms at

the device setup level the law mandates that

the os providers categories users into age brackets

And share this signal with applications. And

then they're saying that it would include all

operating systems, including computers, mobile

devices, gaming devices sold in California. And

then it would be during initial account setup.

And then the law seeks to prevent minors by allowing

apps to tailor content features. Now, the only

time I understand that is like from the Privacy

Law Act. Yeah. Of multiple states for kids. Because,

like, they shouldn't be scraping kids' data.

But at the same time, if you're literally giving

them their name, their age, like, you're literally

still, like, you're profiling them automatically

when it should be, like, a privacy thing anyway.

Like, I have an issue with it, too. As a parent,

like, it's, like, it's my job to police my kids

and not the government. Like, I don't need you

telling me what to do. And, like, then they're,

like, also trying to ban VPNs. from people and

it's like okay well i also don't want people

tracking my every move and advertisers and like

these creepy social media sites like i'm to the

point like i'm about to delete like all of my

social media and like a lot of my internet footprint

like because it's so annoying having to deal

with like i i literally have to worry more about

like the government and like health insurance

companies losing my my personal data And allowing

it to get leaked all over the place to where

I've had to lock my credit to prevent people

from stealing or opening up credit cards in my

name. Because my social security number has been

out there numerous times. Oh, God. Because you

know the first one that leaked it? When I was

laid off the last time and I had to get Medicare

from the state. The state. had antiquated software

and it leaked from them first. And then somebody

tried to open up a credit card and a cell phone

and tried to transfer my phone number from my

phone to their phone. Oh, damn. All in the same

month. So, like, I literally have had to, like,

play reconnaissance with my, like, since then.

So for the last three years to prevent morons

from getting it. So at this point, like, I'm

like, if I'm going to use a VPN, I'm going to

use a VPN. Use Surfshark today. I'm so sick of

the... It's like, how about you fix your security

problems before you worry about what everybody's

doing? We've got them pumping AI and agentic

crap and all of these privacy and all of these

telemetry things. I literally found four apps

that... allow me to assist effectively shut down

all of all of microsoft's uh telemetry so that

it does not uh sit there and phone home and you

know give all of my my info to to microsoft and

it's like it's none of your dang business like

like stay off my machine like i if you know i

don't i don't need all of your extra crap like

i don't need I don't need all this weird software.

If I could get rid of Copilot immediately, I

would. On your computer? Yes. I can help you

with that. I actually have an app. There's an

app for that. There's an app for that. There

literally is an app for that. So, yeah, I think

that it's quite interesting. Yeah. But... I think

that at this point, like I'm just, I'm so sick

of, so sick of companies. I'm sick of everything,

dude. I don't, you know, I don't want to turn

the show into negative. No, I know, but I'm just

saying like, it just seems like the world we

are currently living in. We are. past the half

decade mark the the the 2020s are not uh not

so roaring no and uh i want to make it better

i don't know how we can make it better maybe

the podcasts will help people and cheer them

up and maybe we can Bring in some good podcasts

here next time. But just, I, I most, unless I'm

editing a podcast, unless I'm working on something,

which is few and far between because of all my

medical stuff that's been going on. I just don't

want to do a damn thing. Remember that image?

I stole that from you because I steal everything

from everybody. It's like that one image that

pops up on Facebook. This image was on Facebook.

I stole this image from Facebook, whatever it

is. But there's an image that you shared years

ago. Might have been just a few years ago. Might

have been seven. I don't know. I just don't want

to do anything anymore. I don't know. You had

shared this years ago, whenever it was. see if

i can get it up on my phone later but i just

i'm feeling that more and more between my mental

health and it's more my mental health than my

physical health because my physical health is

what it is and it's not about my weight it's

not about any of that it's more about my arms

Both of my, dude, I am just breaking down. I

walk, I do as much exercise as I can. I've, I

drink like core water is the only brand water

I will drink just because it is what it is. So

I've been drinking more core water than I ever

have in the last four years. And it's like, oh

my god what is going on but mentally it's like

it isn't anything personal against anybody but

i just don't give an f about anything anymore

unless it's something i'm focused on to do for

podcasting i haven't watched my favorite tv show

in the last year and a half i haven't well they

just put the new episode out but like i i'm like

i don't know just i don't know but it is what

it is yep uh it it just i can't seem to get excited

about stuff like somebody was like a buddy of

mine was like oh do you want that new ss86 and

he was just trying to say hey i'll i'll get that

for you whatever and i looked at it and i'm like

I appreciate it. Thank you so much, but it's

just not, I don't know. I don't know what it

is about it, but SS 86 hot rod, the new one that's

out now, it's like, Oh no, I just don't have

any interest in it. And what the hell's wrong

with my brain, dude. like no serious like this

is like you saying no to beast wars megatron

anything like what in the hell is wrong with

my brain saying no to hot rod anything like time

to go get mentally checked out because uh apparently

i'm not mentally checked in i think the most

exciting thing that has happened to me in the

last month and a half I have a new color -coded

sleek black pill bottle organizer. That's what

old age is, folks. Least in my life. See, look,

I'm an altered geek. I've altered past the geekdom.

Oh, God, I'm getting too old for this junk. Yep.

I gets it anyway so I think that about rounds

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