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Welcome to the Blind Boy podcast.

If this is your first time here,

consider going back to an earlier episode

to familiarise yourself with the lore of this podcast.

We're approaching 500 episodes now.

If you're a 10-foot deckling,

if you're a steaming quiva,

then you're familiar with the lore of this podcast.

Something I'm fairly confident about is

I don't think artificial intelligence

can replace what I do. I've been creating art professionally for,

I'd say 20 years. 2006 is the first time I got paid for a gig.

Now I'd been putting work on the internet since the year 2000,

but it was six years of honing my craft,

just putting work out, failing.

It was six years of that before I got to a point where I could do a gig and then get paid money for doing that gig.

And the second you earn money by creating art, then you become a professional artist. It becomes your profession. So I've managed to be a professional

artist for 20 years. Unbroken streak. Now in those 20 years, my creativity has taken many

different guys as I started off as a musician.

Then I was a comedy writer.

I was performing as a professional comedian, working on television.

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