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And the move, the move. Hello and welcome back to Big Mood Little Mood. I'm your host Danny M. Laverry 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, Reed Max, can be found at H.T.P.

Oh boy, colon, slash, forward slash Max Reed.

Substack.com.

It's been a while since I tried to read out an HTTP 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

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