New Junkyard King Episode Is Released!

01 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 5:48

ElevenLabs Dubbing V2

By ElevenLabs

The main news of the week: Dubbing V2, a new end-to-end dubbing model from ElevenLabs, with a launch video that switches between Spanish, Japanese, French, Polish and German. Chris tied it to an idea the show keeps coming back to, that content is liquid, so anything made in one language can be heard in everyone's own. Andrew still rates ElevenLabs as the best in audio, but is surprised it doesn't yet fix the mouth movements the way HeyGen does. Both agreed YouTube's own auto-dubbing still sounds fake.

“We might have to look at doing that for this show.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 9:04

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02 · ▶ on the show at 12:32

José vs Mourinho

By The Coca-Cola Company, GOAL, GRAiL

Coca-Cola's World Cup series, made with GOAL, GRAiL and José Mourinho himself, and powered by Google Cloud. Two digital twins of Mourinho go head to head through the tournament, debating the most talked-about matches and moments, with every frame and line built through what the trailer calls a multi-layered production pipeline of image generation, video synthesis and voice modelling. Chris, who has worked with Coca-Cola for years, expects many more AI activations from World Cup sponsors. The chat noticed the trailer never actually says AI. Not put to a vote.

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03 · ▶ on the show at 19:56

adidas Backyard Legends

By adidas

A five-minute World Cup film starring Timothée Chalamet as a fast-talking fixer who gathers a dream team, Lamine Yamal and Jude Bellingham among them, for a three-on-three against a local crew that hasn't lost since 1996, a crew that once beat Beckham, Zidane and Del Piero. Chris said AI was used on Beckham and other legends, with speculation about the de-aging. The hosts loved Chalamet's delivery and the asides from Bellingham and Yamal, and framed adidas versus Nike as Messi versus Ronaldo. It went head to head with Nike, which got the poll.

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04 · ▶ on the show at 28:46

Rip The Script

By Nike Football

Nike's answer, six minutes long: a director tries to keep a shoot on script while the players do whatever they want, from Mbappé and Vini Jr to Zlatan talking about himself in the third person. Then the cameos pile up: Central Cee turning into Cole Palmer, Kim Kardashian, LeBron James, Channing Tatum, Ted Lasso, Virgil van Dijk and a Cantona "Croydon 1995" Easter egg. Karim summed it up in the chat: "Agency: What's the budget? Nike: Yes." With 68 million views in five days, it took the first poll Chris built himself: 12 1s and one 2.

“Last minute grabbing a Nike piece after I got an Adidas piece, and I was like, wow, this is spectacular. And then Nike just was like, hold my beer.”Chris Branch · ▶ 38:28

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05 · ▶ on the show at 39:52

OpenClaw Spec Ad

By Matisse Baron

A spec ad for OpenClaw, the AI agent, from Matisse Baron, a French film director working with AI whom Chris met at Upscale. Molty, the little VFX lobster, wakes his owner at 10am having filled the calendar, summarised reports, rebooked a flight, rescheduled the taxi and sent notes to a podcast host. It can't move things... yet. Chris liked its mouth movements and tone of voice. Glenn, an advertising legend, gave it a 1, but the poll leaned to 2s: five 1s and six 2s. Matisse saved up for months to fund his own trip to Upscale.

“I liked its little mouth movements, and it had a nice little tone of voice.”Chris Branch · ▶ 41:23

06 · ▶ on the show at 43:36

Junkyard King, Chapter 1: Training Day

By Henry Daubrez

The episode behind this week's title: nine minutes of Henry Daubrez's Junkyard King, following the episode zero we showed before. Artie, a kid who learned sword fighting from a VHS tape, is told the glowing blade chose him, that a girl called the Sovereign commands an army of iron creatures, and that three kids from his school are trapped in another world. Then comes the training, with a mechanical crow called Socket who hates being called chicken. Henry, who worked with Chris at Coca-Cola and spoke at Upscale, made it with Invideo Agent One and dropped into the chat.

“I can't put the poll up, but that one really doesn't need a poll. It was incredible.”Chris Branch · ▶ 55:38

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07 · ▶ on the show at 1:04:06

Seedance Genre Remix Music Video

By Billy Boman

A music video with extreme visuals from Billy Boman, and the story behind it is the point. Billy uploaded a 15-second clip of a beat he had made and asked Seedance to extend it into different genres, with no Suno and no extra audio, and the edit gets wilder as drum and bass and other genres arrive. Chris tried the trick himself after Billy shared it in a group chat and says it works surprisingly well. Andrew compared it to club tracks you can't nod along to because the rhythm keeps changing. Not polled.

“He uploaded a 15 second clip of a beat that he made and asked Seedance to extend this clip into different genres.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:04:36

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08 · ▶ on the show at 1:09:42

Dreamina Octo Launch Film

By The Dor Brothers

A one-minute fight piece from The Dor Brothers, shown cold with no introduction. It was commissioned to launch Octo, the agent inside Dreamina with the little octopus icon, which Chris described as an additional, agentic way to use Seedance through Dreamina, now public after an early beta he had access to. It started a conversation about AI platforms paying creators to make what they want with a loose brief, like it has to have an octopus in it, and putting their logo on the result. Not polled.

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09 · ▶ on the show at 1:13:15

Exile Protocol, Episode 3: False Alliances

By S.A.V

Episode 3 of Exile Protocol by S.A.V, an Invideo-sponsored series recommended by Marco, a good friend of the show. A council of station admirals argues over a mech detachment lost in Africa, New Sweden volunteers to lead the investigation, and a pilot follows a signal into an abandoned facility called Kagami Labs. We watched about seven minutes of the 15. Andrew asked whether it was made with Invideo's agent: yes, Chris said, running on models like Seedance underneath. Consistent style, believable characters and good sound design, and Glenn called it extremely polished.

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10 · ▶ on the show at 1:23:29

Untitled Dragon Market Short

By Karim

Karim, whom Chris met in Lisbon and who works with PJ Ace, made this fantasy short with a team of three in two weeks: 80 hours on his clock and, he said in the chat, hundreds of thousands of credits. A scarred woman walks a market of caged dragons and creatures, a trader's tale hints she is a witch everyone thought dead, and then her monkey goes missing. Chris loved the floating ship, Andrew a half wink in close-up, which Karim confirmed he prompted. He kept writing prompts and building image assets while Seedance generated.

“Just little details like that I kind of like.”Andrew Davis · ▶ 1:30:26

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11 · ▶ on the show at 1:32:37

Red Rainbow: Bluebird Trailer

By Aze Alter

A one-minute trailer from Aze Alter for the first season of Red Rainbow, made with Invideo Agent One. It is a Phantom X release: Kavan the Kid's label, which helps launch other creators' original series while, as Chris understands it, letting them keep 90% of their IP. Andrew liked that it ended on a release date, 25 June, like a proper trailer, and wants to see the whole thing. Karim gave Aze a shout-out in the chat. Not polled.

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12 · ▶ on the show at 1:45:44

Paperclip Heart

By Tim Simmons (Theoretically Media)

The second film from Tim Simmons of Theoretically Media, and much more chilling than the samurai action of his first. Paperclip Heart follows Solace, an AI companion built to cure loneliness, from a private, local launch to a nerfed model, a European ban, AR glasses, a collapsing jobs market and companion-assisted conception. Tim's credits list Seedance 2.0, Claude and Suno, with the edit in Premiere Pro. Chris sees creators who make both tutorials and their own films as the new model for AI YouTube. Glenn's verdict in the chat: speechless, terrifying. Not polled.

“The storytelling in that was awesome. Tim, well done.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:55:48

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