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Sign up now to listen at slate.com slash mood. Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood. I'm your host Danny M. Laverie and with me in the

studio this week is Max Reed, a journalist and screenwriter based in New York. His newsletter guide to the future,

read Max can be found at H.T. Oh boy, colon, forward slash

max read dot substock.com. It's been a while since I tried to read out in

H.T.P. and I regret it. He should have said hypertext transfer

protocol. That would have been a really futuristic way to say it. There's so many things that I wish that I had said,

but I didn't and we're here now

in the present together instead of the future

and what's done is done.

But I'm so pleased that you're here.

It's so wonderful to be, you know, spiritually, if not physically together.

And I'm really interested to hear some of your thoughts because as I read some of our letters today,

I became convinced somehow that there was like an

MLM underlying it, but I don't really know that I have a good reason for thinking that.

Yeah, yeah, I had the same thought that you did.

It also did feel like the first one feels a little bit like the beginning of a sort of like

mid-budget script, like a YA script that you would like, you can imagine someone sort of making a

Pixar face and like saying these first lines and voice over. I mean the actual the

literally the first line of the letter is like the first line of a young adult

novel or something like it's a very like like a like an AI generated

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