Thank you. Welcome everybody to your weekly

Freebie Trillillies episode.

We are, as is sometimes the case, one sandwich short of a three-man picnic.

Terrence is going to be out today, so I'm going to try probably futile to feel his unfilable shoes.

But joining me is my other partner in crime, Mr. Aaron Thorpe, Aaron.

What's going on today?

Chilling, man.

Chilling.

I know we got a few things to talk about, but one thing that's been pissing me off is that the the whole studio

gibbley Miyazaki AI art thing man is just a very damaging to my soul brother what's going on

with that and why is it damaging to your soul i mean i i think i can hazard a guess but i want to hear

from the horses now well man i think uh I think Open AI just released, I don't know, a new model, I guess,

where you can generate, you know, Miyazaki's Studeau Ghibli's art, you know.

And, I mean, people have talked about it so much,

but just the fact that, like, I sit, like, you know, in my backyard

or in my house every day and I try to write, you know. And the fact that these motherfuckers

are skipping that process entirely, like that creative process, you know, it's just like,

you never had that dog in you, man, you know?

You just want to, it's like, how can I put it?

I think somebody had replied to me and said, it's like getting instant ramen, you know what I mean?

Which I eat instant ramen, sure.

Instead of the joy of, you know, not even just making the noodles or buying the raw noodles,

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