Hey, everybody.

Welcome to the McCrreg podcast.

I'm JJ Sacksson here as always with my friend, my co-conspirator, Nick Hausman. How you doing, bud? I'm okay. I'm doing fine. How are you doing? It's Monday, February 9th, the day after the Super Bowl. Aren't you still feeling the electricity? Aren't you, like, still jazzed after that amazing game?

Yeah, I mean, I got home and I just fell asleep by like 9 a.m. I don't know. And by the way,

I started to knot off during the game and it was going to be a major faux pot.

Nick, I was like the sleepy bear tea mascot during that game.

I was so bored by it.

The commercials were terrible.

We got to talk about one of those commercials here in a minute.

But like that, that was an atrocious performance that.

And listen, this is my job.

This is my corner.

This is my lane.

This was the appropriate Super Bowl, the appropriate ads, the appropriate halftime show, all of it for the decline of the American Empire.

You could not script this thing better. I don't know about you, but like every, every time,

every commercial that came on was like, is this AI? Is this AI?

Oh, of course it's AI.

Every one and even the ones that were not AI was like slop, non-A-I slopped.

It was really something to behold in terms of that.

And so, yeah, we are now at that point.

And it's, we got to talk about all this stuff.

But Nick, you just put your finger directly on it because the experience of watching a commercial where it's like, oh, here's a really popular pop tune that everybody wants to sing along with.

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