I'm with Katherine D. everybody. Welcome back to Walkins. Welcome. It's our yearly predictions and

looking back. How are you feeling about things today on this day in January?

I agree with everyone that things are going to get weirder and I don't think I personally or

frankly anyone else is prepared.

In what way do you think things are going to get weirder?

Well, the most basic way is we've been living in sort of like the social media era for a long

time.

I mean for like, I want to say like pretty much 15 years, maybe a little bit longer.

And we're moving out of the digital. Yeah, it's been a minute, right? And we're moving out of the digital age.

Yeah, I mean, 2006, 2007. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's it's we're moving out of the digital age as we know it into a new

technological epoch so that is a and i in what respect what can you elaborate on that a little

like moving out of it in the way that they're less separate or that AI is

going to change it again or all of these love? There's a lot of dimensions to, I mean, all of it, right?

I think, first of all, the way social media functions is radically changing, right? This idea of

like an influencer or public

intellectual or talking head or whatever you want to call it I think is going away.

And we've had we've been living through this like cycle where either people

come from legacy media or another industry or that you know they come from

Hollywood or they organically

build momentum. And, you know, we know who these figureheads are, right? And they cycle out every five

years. Some people have like, they ebb and flow, like they'll go dormant for a little bit. They come

back with the rebrand

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