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Music Hello and welcome back to Big Mood, Little Mood.

I'm your host, Danny M. Lavery, 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 HTP.

Oh boy, colon forward slash, forward slash max read.com. It's been a while since I tried to read out in HTTP and I regret it.

You 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 voiceover. I mean, the actual,

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 an AI generated young adult novel basically.

Which I feel bad saying because this letter is about someone's serious struggles with self-confidence,

and we're already, like, tearing the letter apart.

Let's put it this way, that the reason this is always the start of an AI novel or Pixar novel

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