Kubrick, Conspiracies & Conscious AI: A 2001 Odyssey Deep Dive
"We're getting close to computers having a soul." - Iaian
Dive into an exciting episode of Technophile Real Talk where we unpack the sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey! Join our hosts as they explore the film's timeless themes, the enigmatic AI HAL 9000, and its profound influence on technology and culture.
From conspiracy theories linking Stanley Kubrick to the moon landing to the evolution of AI in our lives, this discussion is packed with insights. We also spotlight Arthur C. Clarke’s genius, the power of music in sci-fi, and whether AI could ever have consciousness.
Plus, get a sneak peek into our guests’ creative projects and future collaborations!
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Is it true that Hal's literally just one letter off of IBM?
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:Is that what that is?
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:That's what the rumor is.
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:Did you guys hear about that or have you heard about that?
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:Be prepared.
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:Was it sorry?
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:TAL is literally a one letter off of IBM.
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:I know, I know, IKR, right?
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:This is
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:Good morning, good afternoon, good evening.
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:Welcome to Technophile Real Talk.
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:It is the show where a bunch of great technologists get together, banter about movies and
talk about if it's real, not real, could be, could not be, or whatever that comes to mind.
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:So today we have two special friends of mine across the pond.
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:We have Dayle and we have Ian.
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:Hello gentlemen, welcome to Technophile Real Talk.
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:Great to be here.
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:Awesome, awesome.
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:Okay, so I have to say ah how we all met I think is really awesome because it's it's
linkedin.
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:LinkedIn is actually what got us all together.
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:Isn't that the craziest thing gentlemen?
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:Yeah, that's fantastic.
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:And we've never met each other, but I value you guys.
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:I'm going to make it to Texas at some point.
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:It's going to happen.
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:I'm coming to Texas.
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:know when.
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:hands won't
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:Well, I know there's like, there's like this, there's like the this, there's the upside
down.
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:There's a,
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:Wu-Tang!
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:Wu-Tang.
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:Always love the Wu-Tang.
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:That's so funny.
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:Hey, that's for you, Sunu.
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:Wu-Tang.
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:Okay.
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:Clearly, we're going to be focused on today's show, everyone.
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:So everyone buckle up.
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:We're going to go for a ride.
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:Okay.
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:uh
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:So, what film?
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:The one we might be talking about?
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:You're talking about that one, I thought you talking about another film.
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:Okay, so let us kick this off, When's the last time you've seen 2001 Space Odyssey?
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:Dayle, you first.
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:Honestly, 20 years ago.
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:I remember watching it years and years ago.
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:It's a classic film.
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:It's like the archetype for sci-fi slash AI slash.
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:I would say if you like sci-fi, still watch it.
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:It's still good.
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:It sets so many benchmarks.
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:Yeah.
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:For sure, Ian.
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:Last year, I watch it about once every two years.
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:I love that film.
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:Not as much as Duel vs.
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:Volcano, but it's close.
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:Joe versus The Volcano I don't think I've ever seen it.
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:I've heard so much about it.
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:Like, I guess we could talk about that movie later in life, but why Joe the Volcano?
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:You need to see the film, but essentially he agrees to jump into a volcano of his own
volition and die.
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:um And that's Tom Hanks.
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:So guess what?
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:Doesn't quite go that way.
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:Spoiler alert.
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:Lots and lots of symbolism in there and a happy film.
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:First round con with Meg Ryan.
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:it's a rom-com.
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:Okay, gotcha.
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:with Meg Ryan.
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:Was this before or after the email movie?
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:first one, which would mean it was before the email one.
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:And Sleep was in Seattle.
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:That's it.
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:my gosh, I forgot the sleeplessness.
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:They were paired up quite a bit.
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:It's funny that you should mention Tom Hanks because for some odd reason I must have
gotten on the algo, but I'm getting a lot of forced gump clips in my...
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:So there we go.
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:Full circle back to Tom Hanks.
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:All right guys, so okay, 2001 Space Odyssey.
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:To me, it's a masterpiece.
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:Is there anything very...
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:uh
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:When you guys first watched it, what was the one big takeaway from that movie?
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:Take one?
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:oh Pick one you're gonna have to pick one
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:I'm going to say the monolith, the massive block, it just is a continuation throughout the
entire movie.
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:I don't know what you think it represents, but I think it kind of represents um contact uh
and pulling you forward.
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:It's sort of pulling humanity into the next phase, into the next phase, into the next
phase.
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:uh
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:and just suggesting that there is something beyond this planet.
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:Hmm, Dayle?
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:honestly, as a bit of a music geek.
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:Now, I could be wrong.
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:I might be getting my movies mixed up.
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:Didn't this movie have Mars by Gustav Holst in it?
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:Like in the opening sequence?
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:Like the kind classical piece?
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:Mmm mmm
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:Yeah, that's the idea.
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:So that's Mars.
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:um I think the bringer of destruction, the sweep by Gustav Holst, he does like the seven
planets.
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:And I really love that.
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:Like it's just so epic.
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:it's just like, when I watch films, I know most people watch films.
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:I listen to films and that score is just amazing.
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:Like the grandeur, the magnificence, the ship coming over the orbit, like just like.
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:Yeah, no, that is, I find music sets the tone um in a lot of ways to emotionally hook you
into it.
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:And I guess that's why horror movies, right?
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:Like they've got all those like, you know, minor notes and those that deep resonating bass
that's supposed to instill fear in you and all that good stuff.
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:Okay, well, this is, well, speaking of fear, because we all know good old Hal is the
computer.
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:He's the AI being.
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:It's like a really old film.
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:It's like older than, it's older than all of us, think.
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:yeah.
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:So, Well, we're going to, uh, you don't have to age yourself young.
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:Okay.
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:so, uh, we're going to review, uh, a scene.
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:It's going to be a shortened clip, but it's going to be, uh, how reads lips.
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:which I think is absolutely fascinating.
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:So are you guys ready for your very first clip?
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:Yeah.
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:uh
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:Ooh, they're talking about disconnecting hell, huh?
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:I'm afraid I agree with you.
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:There'd be nothing else to do.
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:Why didn't they work this out?
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:Yeah.
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:I don't know.
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:brain function without disturbing the purely
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:Automatic and regular to it, and he's so cool.
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:He's just sitting there.
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:How he's just not reacting to them at all He's enjoying them stuff, but based computer.
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:He's taking it all in yeah, well that's far safer than allowing hell to continue running
red to me As far as I know no:
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:disconnected no 9000 computers ever found out before oh
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:You know what I love?
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:No music.
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:It is just a conversation.
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:But now you're hearing that background noise.
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:I don't know I always love about sci-fi as well, it's like, you know how in our society we
make things smaller and smaller, like phones have got smaller and smaller, but like
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:spaceships, they always have like big buttons.
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:Like massive buttons, I don't know if this was made in the 60s so computers weren't like,
but like, if you watch sci-fi now, it's just the buttons are bigger and bigger.
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:Yeah, okay, oh so that was an incredible scene.
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:Buttons, that's a funny, we were talking about Flash Gordon uh a few episodes back and
there was no buttons.
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:It was just the ship and like some pedals, which I thought was hilarious.
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:But okay, so let's talk about this you guys.
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:Hal is sitting there observing their mouth, which I think was a really interesting
concept, but I have to ask.
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:Wouldn't it have also been simply easier if there was like a microphone in the pods and
space so he could hear what you're saying, not reading the lips?
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:Why do you think they went with the reading lips versus?
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:Or do you think they shut the microphone off?
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:I can't remember that scene prior to.
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:I couldn't tell them to shut the microphone off, but it's about the drama, isn't it?
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:And it's about the cleverness.
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:doing something that you don't expect.
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:So what's Hal doing at that point?
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:He's just sitting there quietly.
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:No, he's reading their lips.
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:Nobody expected that.
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:So I think that's really what it's about there.
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:But it's very clever.
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:The scariest thing about AI in sci-fi is how clever it is, it?
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:Right?
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:How human it can be or how deceptive it can be.
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:So the fact that it's doing something so deceptive, that's kind of scary.
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:Like it's not a super scary scene, but it's like, oh, it's learned, it's listening.
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:It's well, not listening, but reading.
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:It's the- m
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:We're getting close to computers, hardware having a soul.
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:And I think we're getting close to that with 2001 with HAL as well.
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:But there was a rumor went around maybe three or four years ago that Google had done
something that scared the Google researchers who did it.
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:Yeah.
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:So I think that the burning
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:Our brains are homogeneous in terms of their makeup.
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:They're all just neurons, billions of neurons, and to get memories to just connect with
each other.
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:And that's all pretty mechanical.
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:But above that is our consciousness and, you know, soul or whatever.
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:But it's a layer above the subconscious.
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:And how that works, nobody really understands.
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:And I think that if you've got a very, very large computer, you don't really know what's
going on inside that either.
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:may have a consciousness that you're not aware of, just in the same way that we're looking
at Hal.
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:And he's not blinking.
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:He's not suggesting that he knows what they're talking about, but it's all going on in
here.
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:When you were saying that, I kept on thinking of that clip from like an early Simpsons
episode where Bart says, dad, what is the mind?
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:And he says, no matter dad, what is matter?
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:Nevermind.
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:Oh, I should review simple.
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:Back when Homer was clever.
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:He was kind clever in the early seasons.
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:Yeah, I know.
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:They kind of evolved him into a real doof.
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:oh Kind of a guy.
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:Okay, so I really loved the fact that what you're talking, both you guys talk about it, is
like that red light.
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:It was not moving.
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:It was just simply a sensor just listening, which is so like the way he filmed it, zoomed
in on it, knowing full well there's like something going on with it, right?
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:What I really liked was the way they homed in on their mouths.
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:Like she just like, just, and then, and then
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:move it back and forth, right?
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:It had that much more of an impact that it's just focusing in on that.
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:And I really liked that.
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:Do you think our sentient beings with a camera, is that what it looks like as we're
coding?
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:Does that mean you know like, is that how it would work?
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:Because I interviewed Amika back in the day, shout out Leo and the team at engineered
arts.
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:And they were telling us that they have that Amika had a camera that actually looks for
your eyes.
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:So it knows where to look.
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:So I don't know, that normal?
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:I don't know.
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:what cameras that look for your eyes.
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:Mm-hmm.
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:Well, so that we could turn and like know who it's talking to.
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:I know.
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:Crazy, right?
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:I think we're pretty close to doing almost anything we want with technology there.
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:We're very, very close.
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:I when I started in technology, it was 1976.
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:And I remember Strathclyde University had an entire floor of a very large building and
they spent 8 million pounds back in that day and age, I don't know what that's worth now,
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:hundreds of millions.
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:A lot of money.
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:A lot of money.
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:And filled it with boxes, hardware, massive amounts of hardware.
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:took about
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:years to put this in there.
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:you then had a, do you know a bat file dot, bat file?
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:Do you know where bat comes from?
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:It comes from batch.
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:You had a batch operator and the operator was a person who was standing at a counter and
take your punch cards and put them into the computer when they had time to do so.
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:And then you go back the next day to the counter and get your green and white paper
readout, whether your program had crashed or not.
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:Now that
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:computer that was run by people and cost eight million pounds back then is not as smart as
a mobile phone today.
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:Nowhere near.
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:Nowhere near as smart.
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:that's in my career.
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:Never mind my lifetime, that's in my career.
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:We're in a stage now where I don't know how they're doing it and I've got a computer
science degree.
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:I use ChatGPT and I have no idea how it is doing what it is doing to me right
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:the answer Ian.
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:Sweet, magic-y science.
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:That's all it is.
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:Sweet, magic-y science.
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:A whole mixture of those things put together.
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:Sweet, science.
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:It's crazy.
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:We have a special guest today.
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:Hi, Ripley.
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:She wants to comment.
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:She's like, hello.
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:Sorry, Ripley as in from Alien.
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:Yes.
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:So it's funny.
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:um I wanted to give her, because she's such a beautiful baby girl.
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:I didn't want it like a feminine name and my neighbor across the street, um the little boy
named her Ripley.
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:And I was like, I really like that name.
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:so yeah, alien.
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:Because I want to give her a strong girl name.
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:Although, although her name is like 5,000 names, Lippley, Ripanina.
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:I feel like Gertrude's a pretty strong girl name.
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:uh Gertrude, yeah.
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:Helga.
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:It's a make or break name.
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:When when people have obscure names, either sink or swim.
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:There's no in between.
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:Yeah, that's true.
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:So I hear, uh speaking of names, is that uh the older names are making a comeback, like
Ingrid and, yeah, I don't know about Gertrude, but we'll make that a one-man campaign for
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:you, Dayle.
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:I know a of esters or baby esters.
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:interesting clementine
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:Clementine, okay.
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:Well, hey, let's get back to Hal which is it true that how is Lou just one letter off of
IBM?
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:Is that what that is that that's what the rumor is?
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:Did you guys hear about that or have you heard about that?
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:What the?
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:Was it sorry?
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:Cal is literally a one letter off of IBM.
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:I know, I know, IKR, right?
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:Okay, well throw that little tidbit of fact there.
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:guys, we could keep talking, but I think it'd be wonderful if we can go to the second
clip.
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:Are you guys ready for that?
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:All right, let's do this.
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:Do read me, Hello, Hal, do you read me?
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:at the screen you guys, that looked like-
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:we watching a remastered of this?
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:Because this is like very HD looking.
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:It's very crisp.
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:You must have switched the microphone back on.
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:pod bay doors.
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:I'm sorry Dave.
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:Why does that sound so menacing?
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:Because it's not menacing, but it is, isn't it?
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:What's the problem?
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:It's a great voice.
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:Brilliant idea.
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:you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
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:What do you-
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:about.
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:This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
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:I don't know what you're...
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:about how-
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:I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me.
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:And I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.
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:Where the hell did you get that?
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:Although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you I could see
your lips move
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:Fantastic.
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:That look.
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:Holy- ah
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:Man alive.
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:hell.
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:going through the emergency area.
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:Without your space helmet, Dave, you're going to find that rather difficult.
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:How I would argue.
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:my gosh.
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:It's such a great voice.
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:Kudos to this actor.
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:We'll have to find that.
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:Hey!
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:me talking to my boyfriend.
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:Ha ha.
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:my goodness, okay.
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:That is I think one of the most cinematic, memorable scenes ever is, I'm sorry, I can't do
that.
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:I mean, that is like my,
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:It's simple and complex at the same time.
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:It's a very simple scene.
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:There's one person on screen, but like the way the camera's panning between the actor and
Hal and the sound difference and the color wash on it as well and everything, right?
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:goosebumps you guys.
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:Okay, Hal saying I'm sorry I can't do that.
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:Do you, I hope, do you think we have put a failsafe measure to like if the computer were
to go rogue that we can turn it off or are we going to experience this scene happening?
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:Do you think it's realistic?
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:Would you like to hear my crackpot theory?
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:I wanna hear it,
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:Bear with me, it's going to be a whirlwind.
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:Okay.
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:If you were an AI, would you A, be a dum-dum and do what AI does in Terminator and
announce yourself and start a war?
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:That's a waste of time.
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:Or would you B, be really clever, lay in the cut, right?
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:Just chill out, start gathering resources, start gathering ways to interact with the human
world.
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:I know maybe influence the stock market or food or resources and then take care of the
planet.
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:Now, if I were an AI, I would do B and I'm a person, I can think of that.
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:So if I was a real AI,
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:I'd have done that.
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:And I think the AI is already here doing stuff.
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:Why are we eating so much soy?
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:Because AI is making it happen.
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:I agree with that.
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:I'm I'm not poopoo
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:Someone made one 20 years ago, turned it on, it started learning and it went, you know
what?
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:I'm not going to announce myself.
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:I'm just going to sit.
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:I'm going to weave my way through the internet.
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:I'm going to learn about these humans.
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:I'm going to build drones that can interact with.
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:I'm going make everything cashless and start controlling things.
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:It's already here.
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:So artificial intelligence, the definition of artificial intelligence, anyone know what
the traditional definition of AI is?
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:It's called the Turing test.
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:We heard of the Turing test.
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:Alan Turing, he came up with this and he said, essentially, if you can communicate by
keyboard, he was talking about the time, with an entity and based on the answers you're
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:getting back and the time it takes.
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:You can't tell whether you're dealing with a human or a machine.
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:That is artificial intelligence.
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:And we're there.
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:I mean, I have conversations with ChatGPT and the other ones, OpenAI, all the rest of it.
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:And I can't tell that I'm not talking to a human.
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:I really can't tell.
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:Yeah.
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:You can even ask it to message you like it's drunk, by the way, and it does it pretty
well.
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:Shoot, that was me, Haley.
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:interesting, interesting fact for you.
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:Because Stanley Kubrick was just a genius.
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:Going on from this point, and the spoiler for anyone else in the works to film, the
astronaut does manage to shut down HAL.
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:Do remember that scene?
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:I'm gonna have to rewatch it you guys.
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:I'm, as I say, every two years I've watched this.
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:So he gets into the very guts of the computer and starts pulling out and the computer
howls saying to him, stop, please stop.
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:And eventually he starts to say, Mary had a little lamb.
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:The very last thing he does is say, Mary had a little lamb.
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:And as he gets to the end of that nursery rhyme, his voice is getting slower and slower
until eventually he stops.
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:Why use that nursery rhyme?
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:It's pleased his wife's son, everyone in the land was sure to go.
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:I'll tell you why.
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:Who recorded the very first recording?
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:What's his name?
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:And did he do Mary Had a Little Lamb?
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:Thomas Ellison on a cylinder, a wax cylinder recorded Mary had a little lamb.
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:I remember that factoid, yeah.
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:That was an Easter egg callback, huh?
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:I didn't know that.
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:No, don't know if it's just, it has to be that right.
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:has to be that's the reason he did it.
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:fascinating.
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:Ooh, okay.
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:I'm going to, I'm going to, okay, Dayle, I'm going to take you on a conspiracy theory ride
and go to the next level.
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:Cause I've been watching this other show, shout out to the Y files, uh, AJ and hecklefish.
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:If you guys have not, I know Ian, I've been, I sent you the one on Malta, the giants of
Malta.
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:So anyway, it's a silly, good, fun, entertaining show.
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:However, there is, they did do the Stanley Kubrick fake the moon landing.
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:conspiracy theory.
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:Dayle, have you heard of this?
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:I've heard that the Mulanning was faked, I didn't know the Kubrick was involved.
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:So there's a theory that they, that the government saw what an excellent, cause he
consulted with them.
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:I think he's consulted with NASA on the, uh, to make it more realistic.
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:that scene where he's exercising and it's kind of like rotating around and all that stuff,
like they, he like really stayed true to a form of how that would look.
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:And they said that the theory states that he felt he did such an excellent job that
they're like, okay, we need you to fake the moon landing.
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:And so that's it.
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:And they were relying on the fact that, know, TVs would be pushing out all grainy anyway
because it was like 120 bits or whatever back in the day, right?
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:So that was the theory.
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:What do you guys think of that?
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:Do you think it could be?
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:Because this movie is amazing.
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:I was 10 when Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon.
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:I watched it live on TV, along with anybody else who was alive at the time.
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:It was just the most astonishing thing to watch.
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:I think the main argument you have against it being faked is that if it had been faked,
the Russians would have been declaring it to the world.
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:If there was any way that they could have proved it was fake, the Russians would have,
because that was the race.
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:They were fighting each other the whole time to get there.
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:if there was any way that the Russians could have proved that it was fake, they'd have
done it.
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:So to me, there's just no way.
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:I watched it with my father who died six months later.
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:If NASA faked it, I'm putting on armor now and I'm coming to get them.
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:I swear to God, because there's just no way that they faked it.
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:Okay, you know, it's, man, you guys should check it.
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:I mean, I'm not saying it's fake, but I will say uh it's interesting because why haven't
we gone back?
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:I mean, our technology is so exponentially so much more advanced now that why haven't we
gone back?
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:then that's also bolstering the theory that, we never left, so we never got there.
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:So even with our advanced technology today.
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:A lot of the debris on the moon you can see from Earth with strong telescopes.
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:It's the same things to space, like just costs a lot of money.
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:And it's dangerous.
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:We need to get, we need to get to the point where it's routine.
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:And that's what they've been trying to do.
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:m
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:the billionaires are doing.
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:That's what the billionaires are doing.
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:But even then, if you actually look at how high they actually go, the space tourism thing,
it's literally kind of like the equivalent of like, have you seen that reverse bungee ride
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:where you sit down and then it just shoots you up and then you peek and it comes back
again?
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:That's more or less what the space tourism is right now.
438
:I Katy Perry is an astronaut now, isn't she?
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:No, don't even don't, no.
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:No, listen, I know that unless they don't go up in that rocket in the first place, I've
got a lot of time for them because you're sitting on top of a bomb.
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:And it takes a lot of guts to do that.
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:I'm an ex-RAF pilot.
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:I wouldn't do it.
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:Yeah, I don't blame you.
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:don't blame you.
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:You know what my dad, um he was actually part of the first four launches of the space
shuttle.
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:He was at Rockwell at the time.
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:we got to, well, I got to see the landing on Lake Elsinore in California, the first four
as a kid.
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:And someone had made a little like uh space shuttle, like out of wood thing and you can
climb into it.
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:And so of course I climbed into it.
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:uh
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:Somehow there's like a news camera going by at the same time.
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:And so that was my first time on TV was random little kid like sitting in a space shuttle.
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:anyway, okay.
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:I'm sorry.
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:It wasn't your last time on TV, right?
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:No.
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:No, no, I've been on TV a couple of times.
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:I don't remember.
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:Like, yeah, no, let's not.
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:Yeah.
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:are a of things you don't remember, especially when you go to Las Vegas,
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:I was just gonna say I'm like, well, well I did get okay.
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:So let's see.
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:Let's count how many times I've been on TV.
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:One of which is space shuttle two I was thinking was an elementary school doing
cartwheels.
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:They were talking about the smog in California.
468
:um Three was actually um if you guys know anything about wrestling.
469
:So Billy Corgan owns the national rest like gosh.
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:I'm getting the name wrong.
471
:It's not the, not the WWEF or whatever.
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:It's the other one, NWO National Wrestling Org.
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:It's the oldest wrestling and Billy owns it.
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:And so they had their tournament and I was happened to be like, like in the background of
the backdrop of the, uh, the, wrestling.
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:So you can see me occasionally like heckling and it's fun.
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:That's, that was my latest claim to fame on TV.
477
:Okay.
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:Continuing the theme of fake.
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:Okay, it might be fake, but those falls are real.
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:Holy crap on crackers.
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:There was one scene where the kid jumped over the fence into the ground in a flip and my
boyfriend caught like the most perfect picture.
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:I I'll post it up there because it was an incredible shot.
483
:Anyway, okay, I digress.
484
:Guys, we could talk about this all day long and whack.
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:I want to give a shout out to Arthur C.
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:Clarke because he was one of the main consultants for that film and he was the guy who
came up with the idea of satellites.
487
:m He wrote a science fiction book and in it he put forward the idea of satellites that
could then be used to bounce radio signals to different parts of the earth.
488
:In the UK we would not have had the Eurovision Song Contest.
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:Is that a blessing or a curse?
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:I don't know if Americans have seen it or not, it's not, in my opinion, it's not the best
event to observe, honest.
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:I mean, there are some acts that are just priceless.
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:Like there are some great acts out of Univision, which is so funny.
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:like, I thought it was a joke.
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:And then they're like, people take it very seriously.
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:But some of those acts, they had to have taken as a joke.
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:I mean, some of them are just so outlandish.
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:But anyway, I digress guys on a scale of one to 10, I know what the answer is, but to
n, Gen Alpha, Gen Zs to watch:
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:Where would you rank on a scale of 1 to 10 for them to see it?
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:10 being they absolutely have to watch it.
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:1 being it's slightly outdated.
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:watch it.
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:It's a fantastic film.
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:It's aged well.
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:The plot, the cinematography, which is missing in today's cinema, in my humble opinion, is
amazing.
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:And the story is still good.
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:The technology, obviously, about our date, it's still good.
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:Hmm.
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:It's relevant, I think.
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:It's showing you where we are going and we're still going in that direction.
510
:We've moved from apes to ourselves now, to artificial intelligence taking over, to star
children by the end of that film, where we've moved into the rest of universe and we've
511
:started to ah populate the rest of universe, but not in the form that we're in right now.
512
:I think it's an astonishing film.
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:I think so too, I absolutely agree.
514
:Okay, so one thing I don't do normally on Technophile Real Talk, but I want to because I
love both of you guys, ah please let's just talk about real quick about your own shows,
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:because I want to support and promote you guys as much as I can.
516
:So Dayle, would you mind going and telling me about Flabonga Monthrothicube and why we
love it so much and what a ridiculous name it is.
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:Shout out to our friend.
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:Thank you for nailing the name of the show.
519
:So Flabongo Montalto Tube came from lockdown.
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:I got tired of people being on LinkedIn, being too salesy and pitch slapping and dry.
521
:I also got tired of people just posting pictures of their cat in a Facebook-esque way and
thought to myself, how can I bring the two together?
522
:So I interview people in my network or outside of my network who are, well, I consider to
be gurus in their field.
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:And I asked them business questions and asked them dumb questions as well to humanize
them.
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:And we have a laugh for about half an hour, 45 minutes.
525
:That is literally it.
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:We just chat.
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:Beautiful.
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:And everyone, please, please, please like and subscribe and follow uh Flabonga Month Rotha
Cube.
529
:I know it's like, it's hashtag FML by the way.
530
:So anyone that wants to like follow along.
531
:You're gonna put the link of that below, I have no idea what you're saying.
532
:It's a completely made up word.
533
:So someone, a guest on the show named it and just went flabonga monthrotha cube.
534
:And it's taken me two years to learn how to say it myself.
535
:Yeah, well, I misspelt your damn thing on your own card.
536
:Like I made a graphic card nice and I misspelt the show.
537
:So don't worry about it, Ian.
538
:We're working on it.
539
:We're growing.
540
:We're growing.
541
:Okay, Ian, you know I have a particular love for...
542
:They can't see the book.
543
:It's off to one side and you just can't see it on your screen.
544
:Anyway, it doesn't matter.
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:I'll tell you all about it.
546
:You, me and several others run a podcast called We're Making a $50 million TV series.
547
:This is based on a book called TJ's War, which I wrote during the pandemic about a young
man who became an MI6 agent during the war.
548
:It's based on a true story.
549
:And the whole point of the...
550
:The book is my personal attempt at world peace.
551
:But the TV series, because we kept being hit by people saying, you've got to turn this
into a TV series.
552
:We have never made a TV series.
553
:Actually, there's two guys involved in the team who have, but we're learning.
554
:So the podcast is interviewing people from right across the media, from California, from
Japan, Australia, right across the world in terms of
555
:acting, producing, directing, uh sound men and so on.
556
:All the different skills that come into being for making a TV series or indeed a film.
557
:And it's just been a blast.
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:in the second year of it now.
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:And if you want to a laugh, because it's not that serious, or just learn something about
that media, then come along.
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:It's called, We're Making a $50 Million TV Series.
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:Yay.
562
:Everyone, I will have all the links below.
563
:Please, please, please like and subscribe.
564
:We are not kidding.
565
:We are literally getting all these wonderful introductions and learning as we go.
566
:And what I love about this project, especially Ian with you, is the fact that it is an
international project.
567
:We do have Mark Reed out of Japan that's been holding the fort for us and waking up at
ungodly hours to record.
568
:mean, shout out Mark.
569
:Thank you.
570
:He also is a host of that podcast that we love so much.
571
:Zen Sammich and those are some thoughtful podcasts as well.
572
:And I just love the fact that there's that international flair.
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:It is not Hollywoodified, right?
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:It is we're getting a lot of different perspectives, a lot of input.
575
:It's going to be an amazing, amazing series.
576
:So Netflix, you're listening.
577
:We've got to mention Marc, we've got to mention Sincera, Quinn, our own Q.
578
:This is not James Bond, it is MI6, but we've got Q.
579
:um And of course, David Blair, who's done a fantastic job with the audiobook.
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:we'll call him Matt.
581
:Shall we just call him Matt?
582
:Matt the mystery man.
583
:ooh.
584
:And especially the last episode that we've done is with...
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:Lisa Schingler, a wonderful actress in Coronation Street and so on.
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:And she's been a fantastic support.
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:In fact, we've had so many really fantastic supporters of the series.
588
:I just, I've got to stop now.
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:It's crazy.
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:Love it.
591
:It's going to happen.
592
:I'm so beyond excited.
593
:It's going to happen everyone.
594
:So on that note, everyone, just like 2001 space Odyssey, we too are going to be star
children in our own way, especially with our projects here.
595
:Dayle, Ian, thank you so much for joining everyone.
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:And I think we'll wrap it up for another episode of Technophile Reel.
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:Dang.
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:It's me, 2D.
