Transcript: XPRIZE Top 50, Part Two: 14 Finalist Films Reviewed

Welcome back: 10 of our 14 picks made the XPRIZE top 50

0:06 [music] Hey, we're back. We are live again. It's Tuesday again already, mate. It comes around so quickly, doesn't it? It's me. Exactly. Feels so quick this last week. I don't know where it's gone. I think it's because it's the week before we go back to school and that's always the usually the the quickest week of the year. That and Christmas week. You're right. Actually, the last bit of summer holiday, the school starting in September. It's uh it's a lot going on. We had a bank holiday yesterday, which means we are already catching up on the week for some of us. It's the Mary straight in saying good morning. Good morning to Mary. Hello, California girls. Oh, we got all of them. All of the girls showing up straight away.

0:53 Loving it. loving it. Thank you so much for joining us. Um, [music] if you didn't see last week, we did uh a special episode with Henry on Wednesday where we watched a world premiere and that was so awesome to see, wasn't it, mate? Cuz the day before that, we watched all of these X-P prize entries that we'd hand selected and we didn't know the top 50 at that point, but so many of them were actually picked for the top 50. So, huge congrats to those. I think 10 of the 14 that we showed last week were legitimately put in the top 50, which is crazy considering there were two and a half thousand entries. So, yeah, that was major. But then we were lacking animation and then Henry came through with the sickest animation I've ever seen to [music] date. So, that was a really nice week of stuff that we got through last week, wasn't it? Yeah.

1:41 And if you didn't see last week's, not just uh the live show, but the creative session as well, check us out on YouTube. Go to the YouTube channel and it [music] will be there for you to watch again. Exactly. Right. And how's your week been? It's been hectic, mate. Since the show's finished, we were just trying to get through all this new client work that we've got. Um, again, I told you last time we thought August was going to be, oh, you know, some holidays, everyone's away, chilling. You know, it's going to be a downtime. We can book our holidays. Little did we know, Cass 2.5 was going to drop. all clients went crazy and started booking projects that we hadn't even, you know, it just went all up in the air and we were just like, "Right, we're just gonna have to do it." But Bull's got a holiday coming up next week which is very well deserved

2:28 after hard hard work in this month, but it's paying off, you know. What about you? What What have you been up to since Wednesday? Yeah, good. You know, my son and partner, they're away at the moment, so I'm just been chilling. Just me and the dog and the three cats. How lucky are you? [laughter] So, I'm just catching up on stuff. Just Just this is my holiday, so just catching up on stuff, living life. Uh they're back on Friday, so I I'll go back to pretty much regular schedule programming starts. I No, next week, Monday or Tuesday, when Dylan goes back to school, that's when everything gets back. So, of course, this is the last week. How cool that they're able to travel and you're able to stay and all of that, you know, and uh Yeah.

3:14 It feels like the end of a summer, doesn't it? It feels like there's something starting again. Even though Yeah. Same with my son. Yeah. Yeah. This is one of my saddest times of the year when summer ends. Summer ends. [music] Our birthdays are coming up. So, if you didn't know, our birthdays are I think we're four days apart. You're the eighth, right? We are. Yeah. Yeah. I'm the 4th of October. Chris is the 8th of October. So, at the end of summer, it's always kind of thinking, "Ah, our um [music] our uh birthdays are coming up." Yeah, that's true. And in Spain, you'll have a lot longer. You know, it's already raining here. It's been raining the last 3 days, mate. Like tipping it down, too. Like, you know, it's not It doesn't feel like summer anymore. I'm back in the hoodie. It's instantly like autumn already, you know. No, no, no. Here you can see you've got a t-shirt here. I've got shorts on

3:59 like here. I'm wearing shorts. It's uh it's not sunny, but it is still what? 20. No, 30. Oh, it's 30 still. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, mate. That is red hot. We have We're nowhere near that. It'll be lucky to be 13 right now. It's crazy. So, I've got I've got my fan on my desk as well. So, loving it. Great to see Megan back with us. had all chaos as well, being crazy for all the right reasons, which is very good news to hear. Can I elaborate there, Megan? Yes. Last time we heard from you, you were doing world models and building stuff and, you know, exciting stuff. So, great to see you back. Yes, Mary. Saw a video about potentially having an AI boss.

4:46 Yes, I posted that earlier on today. I'm going to be doing that pretty much every day now. Um, if you don't know Chris, so what happen is is that I post well what I'm going to be doing starting from today is posting loads of frequently asked questions I get for my training sessions cuz I always answer them in training. So I'm like might as well answer them here uh in the video. So I've got easily a good few thousand already. So I could I could doing it every day is not not an issue for me. So yeah, today's one was about imagine having an AI boss. Do you think that is going to be the future? Your boss is going to be. I think it's we we talked in private about you taking a little bit of a break from social media and how healthy that was, right? And to come back with a game plan like this of daily posting based on what you're already doing.

5:33 Sounds great, mate. Honestly, sounds very healthy. Very sort of like, you know, you're already doing this, uploading it, giving the same value but to more people, you know, it's a really smart way to come back to social media like that. So, good to hear. Good to hear. Appreciate that. Thank you very much. Thank you. Oh, this looks like Megan's only a few days away from both of us, mate. Yeah. So, it's like 4th, the 8th, the 12th. Anyone here on the 16th or the first? [laughter] Complete divorce. Well, actually, I did say it was the X-P Prize takeover today, but I did actually have some news that's just part of the regular show that I wanted to get around to. Um because we're 5 6 minutes into the show now and I realize we've got a load more X-ray things to watch but I also want to cover some news.

Runway's Solaris: what is an interface world model?

6:21 So things that you may have missed but I think are going to be big. Uh Runway actually announced that they've been working on a world model but haven't released anything yet. And we saw a little bit of a glimpse of a video teaser trailer about what this actual model has been cooking for all this time is. You know, my big prediction for this year was world models are going to really next level change things. And we'll be talking to Blacklight tomorrow about world model building because uniquely he's got a lot of experience in this area. Um, but this is Runway's world model and it's called Solaris and they're basically saying that it's a completely new type of operating system that essentially generates interactive uh interfaces frame by frame.

7:06 So in real time, there's no code, there's no gaming engine, you know, kind of like we said about GTA 6 being the last game of its kind. This feels like the start of the new platform to build the next thing, right? So, um, it outperforms other frontier LLMs with generating new interfaces across structural similarities and information retention. And we've got this short teaser video to watch about it. So, let's watch it. Every piece of software has predetermined what we could do with it. But what if software could generate itself as [music] you interact with it? Introducing Solaris, the first interface world model.

7:51 Solaris is [music] built to understand interaction and to run in real time. It generates the interface itself frame by frame as you use it. No code underneath, no layout to translate. The image [music] is the application. It treats your clicks and drags the way our video models [music] treat words. Not as commands to look up, but as a signal for what to generate next. [music] Nothing about it is decided in advance. So nothing about it has to stay the same. Light shifts, objects respond, the scene answers to your intentions. It becomes whatever you ask of it. [music] And no two interactions are ever the same. Solaris isn't just changing how humans experience interfaces.

8:37 It's unlocking new [music] ways for agents to learn them, too. The need for fixed, hard-coded, and pre-rendered operating systems and surfaces are soon to be a thing of the past. Solaris interfaces that are generated, not coded. [music] Really interesting, huh? And honestly, this is a totally different world model take to what I've seen others doing. So, I think that the world model is going to be interpretive, you know, like what type of world models that you're building. This one's clearly a generative interface model with no code behind it. So, it's like it said, you know, moving around things in images. Really nice examples by Runway here of exactly what they expect to give away as someone building a world within their world model ecosphere.

9:27 So, whereabouts these live is the next thing I'm interested in. You know, are they going to be like a runway place to uh discover worlds or will you have to basically find your own audience for these worlds and will they be browser based and where exactly do you launch these things for people to have these experiences? You know, who knows where that's going to be exactly. Uh, but fascinating, isn't it? To be honest, it's it's this is like starting to go way above my like pay grade. Like, I've it's I don't even understand it. It's one of those I have to literally see it or physically do it to kind of get that full understanding. But talking of world models, did you see the the GTA uh game play on Netflix yet? Oh, I have to see that.

GTA 6 gameplay on Netflix and the race to build worlds

10:15 No, I've seen a lot of the leaked stuff on YouTube everywhere, which is Oh, yeah. It's on Netflix. This is very smart. They released half an hour of it on Netflix. Awesome. But it's an actual gameplay. They must or they or they've paid for like an ad. But yeah, you know, I literally just like take my money. Uh, I need to buy a PlayStation 5 now because I'm thinking it's going to be sold out. So, I need to buy a PlayStation 5 mate, you know, or or speak to my contacts at PlayStation to see if they can I was going to say you've actually worked there, haven't you? Like you've done one of my best I remember contacting you there. Yeah, I remember contacting you and you you were at PlayStation at the time. Tell her you were there. That was awesome. Yeah, it's uh Yeah. So, definitely saw that. this whole world building thing, whether it be runway, whether it be

11:02 GTA might have their own one or they team up with someone. I'm sure Google's doing this and Meta's going to be Amazon's going to be doing all the big boys are going to be doing it. So, yeah, this might be the the thing you're creating your own worlds or living within this. And it's funny that you mentioned Meta. Obviously, they rebranded their whole thing to be the metaverse, right? And there that feels much more like it now, you know, like generative worlds and interfaces like this. Uh I think the biggest thing that we're going to discover more tomorrow cuz Blacklight, like I said, is one of the world's experts on these cuz he's working with uh unique access to world models that others don't have is basically the memory that they have. You know, like imagine that you dropped into a world that I built for you and you scribbled something on a whiteboard. It said something Andrew was here or something. You turn the camera 180 degrees so that you can no longer see that writing.

Why can't world models remember what you left behind?

11:52 You go explore the world for five minutes. You can come back and that will still be written perfectly as you wrote it. But if you go over that 5 10 minutes, it will have erased itself because it can't persist the memory. Uh so it's like that's the big breakthrough as far as I understand it. But again, I think Blacklight will tell us a lot more about that tomorrow. Um some news that's a lot more on our sort of wavelength because I agree this is getting over my head as well exactly what the hell these world models are. A very much more normal and a very much welcome update from Magnific uh is that they've launched a desktop app and this is great news for everyone that prefers desktop app interfaces, you know, over the web browser sort of way to use it. It's much faster. I've been using it already.

Magnific launches a desktop app

12:38 Um it's a very lightweight app as well. I appreciated that it was only like 15 megs to download it for Apple silicon and it runs really lightweight on your desktop and yeah can't say uh you know better things about it honestly I think it's available on Windows as well but you've just got to double check on Mac and OS and Windows users but you essentially the things it can do that you can't do through the browser are things like sync your folders have native shortcuts you can have tabs that remember local processing there's always part of your process um you know that's less friction on the desktop basically because it can directly link to your desktop folders and we have a short video just to watch about the launch of this and thank you uh let's check it out your best work is bigger than a browser

13:25 you're in the [music] zone everything flows then friction uploads downloads waiting your ideas got lost while the bar filled up so we took took Magnific out of the browser and put it on your desktop. Now your files and folders [music] sync seamlessly. You have shortcuts, tabs, notifications, everything organized to [music] keep you in the zone. Remove the friction with Magnific Desktop. [music] I was just saying as I introduced the video, I was going to say thank you to Magnific. You know, it really does help us with we use spaces a lot and we're being very thankful to be in their CPP access and we use it a lot, you know, like so

14:15 to have a desktop version now and an MCP version via Claude and all the other ways to use this just makes it so much more usable in our tool stack. Um, so yeah, I just wanted to say thank you to the team for spending the time to develop this because it is something that a lot of users have requested and we're definitely being that, you know, uh, high up the list of things that Magnific could have done in order to improve our user experience. But yeah, fun little video that they put together as well this like explain how it works, why it works. And I just literally while this was on, I went on to their website and this guy here is the still the face of click here to download the the brow the desktop. Oh, that's smart. Yeah, they did a takeover live stream uh last week, I think, where I I tuned in [clears throat] and they were explaining, you know,

15:04 why the desktop app is better than the uh the browser interface. Um so yeah, really really cool to see their team like doing that. I think it was Sophia as well and people that invited us to upscale. Really really cool. And yeah, that's a much more on our right they do have to know much more on our wavelength though that update e they're very easy to understand desktop app great news you know like [laughter] world models how where when what like as Lara [clears throat] said now we can call it magnific [laughter] smart nice one Lara you're competing with Mary for comment of the week already where are you Where are you? Mary's like, "Hold my beer. Watch." She's

Into the top 50: is anyone actually making utopia?

15:51 Well, we are 15 minutes into the live show and as I said, we are watching the second round of X-P prize entries this week and we've got a lot to watch. So, I'm going to have to crack on through these today. As always, we're going to be doing the voting structure. Now, what we do know about these is that they're top 50. You know, we've had a round of hundred and then we've had a round of 50. I believe if anyone knows anything else about the details that there's a round of 20 next and it will probably be this week. Yeah, someone said in the chat actually there is yeah top 65 right now because many of the top 50 was suck. So stuck or sucked issues mission goal issues and people started complaining about it. Yeah, they might have said hey this isn't you is it no what was it? It's meant to be not utopia.

16:41 Um Oh yeah, utopia. Yeah, utopia. It was meant to be. Yeah, it wasn't. It didn't feel that way. Well, quite a few of them felt dystopic. You're right. And I think even a few of the ones we're going to watch today have that feeling as well, honestly. So, you know, it is very hard, you know, to keep to the brief. But if they didn't meet the brief, then it is hard to keep them in the top 50, I suppose, you know, versus ones that did keep to the brief. Like, yeah, it's um it's a tough one. And as I said, these are completely open. If you're watching, the last week's people were very gracious with their feedback. You know, even ones that were picked top 50 that we gave sort of twos, honestly. Like Elliot's one, we said uh improvement, the way he could have improved it. He was very gracious about, you know, experimenting with like his LA based studio and doing a hybrid

17:30 thing and not knowing what was doing going on. We watched his behind the scenes where he was very transparent about that. So, if you are watching and you're one of the creators, you know, please don't be offended by the feedback that us and the public will give you. We are really trying to help you, you know, to improve your overall creative and give you a sense of how we felt about it critically. You know, we're not trying to do anything to upset you in any way. And on that note, the first one is by Brian Paul. And I believe his entry was called Demiugus. And the explanation I've got for this one is that a planetary architect wakes up 160 years late on a colony everybody had written off and he rebuilds it with empathy as the tool. So let's check it out.

Demiurgos by Brian Paul

18:24 First we survived, then we advanced. We built technology that transcended us, a world of abundance. Yet something was missing until we truly understood ourselves. Our [music] need to be seen, loved, to create, to connect deeper with each other, to tap in [music] beyond the physical, and to not forget who we are. Sons, daughters, parents. We spent thousands of years learning how to build a better world. And now [music] we build new worlds in credit to the greatness of our demi urgos.

19:16 My dear boy, you will build great worlds. 160 [music] years late. This planet is in ruin. But how? [music] What happened here?

20:05 [music] This world failed. We need to tap into the collective. [music] [music] Leave now. [music] Someone's controlling. We have to find him.

20:51 [music] [music] Sometimes growth requires sacrifice, pain, even death. We do not destroy, we create. H. Well, kicking off the show with something completely different to the ones we watched last week. And I'm imagining there's going to be a lot of varants, you know, in the ones that I picked this week as well. I'm going to go back to the sort of same categories that I was choosing from last week, you know, in terms of sound design, overall edit, like brief

21:44 response and all of that. I I like the concept, but I'm not completely Netflixed on, you know, like you if I'd watched this, I wouldn't be straight away going, I want to watch that. So, for me, that's a two. Um, the sound design was okay, but it felt a bit typical, you know, like in terms of like the same sort of like uh exact type of like buildup that you'd expect from a trailer like this, you know? So, it wasn't anything special. So, again, I'd give it a two. Um, the character design and the overall colors though, I really liked and I think the editing and the pacing worked really well. um didn't feel too much like a trailer, but did as well, you know, like it gave away a bit too much maybe

22:30 uh from what a trailer should do in terms of the overall what it is. But what's your feelings on this one? I should have said, by the way, the voting is now open. Um uh if you thought that was awesome, hit one. If you thought that was okay, hit two. If you thought that was not for me, hit three. I'm pretty much exactly what you said. I thought that it I don't know there was something missing and I can't put my finger on it. It just right it it looked it stylistically it looked well. It looked really good. You can tell that this person understands trailers. They sound really good. Everything was just good. Yes. It wasn't like wow that was amazing. It was good. And that's how that's how how I I looked at it.

23:17 You're right. For me, I wouldn't be pressing that. But there was a couple of things like this bit here where you see the people just appear in the background. I like I like that. There was a couple of scenes that they done I thought was really nice. And also, I'm sure they use Liam Niss's voice at the end. Last person speaking. I was like, that sounds exactly like Liam Niss. [laughter] So, yeah, there were parts of this where I were like, hm. You know, cuz like it is very clean and it is very cool like Jimmy says, you know, but then as you said, it is just all good at this point. You know, we kind of expect it to be this good, and then you're looking for the thing that could rise above it, you know, um it feels like the concept could have got to a one if they'd have really like nailed some of the things, you know, but uh

24:02 yeah, it's a tough one this one for me. And it looks like a lot of people are agreeing with us in that they thought this was a round about a two. Hard to know what to improve exactly. Um, yeah, as I said, the soundtrack, it was good, but it felt a bit typical, you know, it didn't feel like unique to this piece in any way. Um, and so that's a big thing for me. Maybe improve the sound and the editing and the pacing, sort of lessen the premise, bring the edit down a bit tighter and tell the same story, you know, like in a more epic way. Um, I think Mary Mary made a good point. two for me just because the storytelling wasn't as meaningful but well orchestrated, right? You know, the you could clearly see they knew what they were doing and we may know that some extra details like, oh, it was a last minute entry or there was some other thing

24:51 about it that like sort of stopped it from climbing to a one, you know, potentially. But yeah, first one to kick us off. The voting's now closed on that one, guys. I should have said for those tuning in on LinkedIn, there's probably a little bit of a delay. Um, those of you on YouTube, you'll have seen the voting, but we'll try and keep the voting for an extra minute or so for you LinkedIn guys cuz we know there is a little bit of a delay. The next one we're going to watch is called The Light Ship, and it is by Akenya Yanagi. And the premise for this one is that 100 million children clear levels in an AI built game that changes the real world if the adults outside choose to build along with it. With all of that being said, let's check it out.

The Lightship by Akina Yanagi

25:39 They eat the pollution, a whole ocean. We can turn [music] seawater into drinking water. We already know how to fix the world. We could probably do all of it. But we won't can. If all we want is to save the world, this is the shest way. [music] It's coming. Push Terrail to maximum. Terraale can't cover everyone, but protect [music] our own. Ken, give me a little while. Okay. [music] I just want them to see me, to hear me. [music]

26:29 Ken, Ken, call 911. [music] Unprecedented, a collapsing. The number of children who have not woken is now believed to be in the [music] millions. Removing the device does not wake the child not to disconnect them. [music] Mom, dad, whatever you imagine, it just shows up. But controlling what you imagine, [music] that's the hard part. Help. I found human right. [screaming] Okay, we're family now.

27:14 No. [music] What does this world need? One ship makes it. I'll go home. We'll make it. Priority shut their water. Priority exists for a reason. At my house, [music] the water just stops. 2 days, sometimes three. I just don't want to lose our water. You don't lose it. You just get the [music] same as everyone else. Paul, release priority. What does it mean? It's from Ken.

28:03 [music] It's all connected. [music] We're in this too. In what? The game. All of us. The magnetic field is broken. [music] It's terail. I'll go. No. DON'T PUSH BACK. LET IT GROW. SERAIL. MY family's still in there. Not just watching. Help them. We all go home. Show [music] us the future. Heartbeat, one horizon. No one left outside it. We [music] are [singing] not alone. We are not alone.

28:49 [music] That outro beat. We are not alone. Definitely more purposebuilt music for this one. I noticed straight away. Uh the voting is now open on that one, guys. What did you think? One awesome, two okay, three not for me. You mentioned last week, mate, about the kid-friendly ones, and instantly when I started watching this, I was putting that into mind. You know, I can see it. But as Paul was saying into our little green room chat, you know, what is going on? The vibe is everywhere. It's fun. It's serious. It's daunting. It's it's every it's trying to be too much. Um, that's what I instantly had the feeling of as well was there were a lot of scenes where it was getting a bit too chaotic for real good

29:35 understanding to be going on, but other than that, it was pretty epic, I would say. So, what are your feelings on that one instantly? Yeah, I I was watching it thinking this is really good. Like, this is like the concept was great. Like kids are in a trapped in a game and they're trying to get out and the parents are trying to get them back. I thought it was a great concept. I thought though this is sometimes things it's a shame it's in a competition where there's a time limit. So they might say it needs to be about 3 minutes cuz this could have been told if it was 90 seconds I think it would have been like the perfect trailer or or if it took off like a quarter of it if it was three quarters the that's that would have been the perfect trailer. I just felt it went on slightly a bit more whilst showing a bit too much by the end.

30:23 But I thought it was a great concept. Really like this one. Interesting, isn't it? And couldn't have been much more different to the last one. And a lot of the other entries too, you know. I think basically those that had got some sort of kid-friendly uh like idea have definitely stood out. That's been the thing that's sort of uh really other than Kareem's which was a a mother and daughter interaction too actually. So, even though that was a bit more existential and a bit more like, you know, epic and sci-fi, uh, these ones that are like super kid-friendly, watch, you know, then they are also like ticking certain buckets. So, very interesting. I love the characters, as Flurry pointed out as well. I thought they were very good. I especially loved uh some of the little girls, you know, they looked very real, didn't they?

31:09 Like, that's the other thing. I was watching this thinking, it's just AI. It's AI. Like, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, like I probably got to about 30 seconds in. I was like, remember it's AI cuz I was like the characters were so so well good. And there's K said, "Oh my god, I want to watch the film right now. Such a good storytelling and original concept. Really well made and proves that individuals now can create real films without a Hollywood budget." Yep. The Hollywood budget will still be nice though. It still be nice. Absolutely. [laughter] Yeah. I saw a very interesting Brad Quit quote the other day and uh I I kind of had, you know, a disagreement on it slightly, but I thought it was very interesting. He said AI is how uh movies under 70 million get made. And my argument would be he doesn't really understand what AI can do if he believes that.

Is $70 million really the line for AI films?

31:58 Like my argument would be movies between 1 and 70 million could get made. You know, he sort of was booking it into this like 40 to 70 million and I'm like imagine what $1 million could make with a pure AI move for real. It's unbelievable. Like um it we're going to see new things like Blair Witch Project with under a million dollars earn hundreds of millions of dollars back, you know. Um, so yeah, I think yeah, that's maybe him being like, oh, that's where hybrid movies that under a certain budget that can't have the CGI can get made, but he's not thinking about all the rest, you know, I suppose. Yeah, definitely. Like the other thing as well, animation, all animation's going to be AI, you know, like, right, I

Will animation go fully AI before photorealism?

32:45 don't see why it wouldn't. So like animation movies will will be that will be completely AI. Yep. I think we're gonna um cross a threshold with that. I think Henry's right on the cusp, isn't he? Henry's really pushing the animation to a point where I haven't seen others. And I think once like the platforms get a bit more easy so that you don't have to what did he say 15 platforms he's using or something, you know? Um few exactly when it becomes a fewer than that and you can really grasp like a a proper technique, I think animation will become really really viable. So, and probably a lot more though than photo realistic, you know, a lot closer and quicker than photo realism. Well, right. But the next one we're going to watch is called Appetal or Apatu and it's by Adam Freeze.

Aipotu by Adam Freise

33:34 The premise for this one is that an orphan raised on humanity's last space station goes searching for a legendary utopian planet and for the truth underneath the legend. So, let's check it out. So, anybody in Pod 9 remember what day it is? Apparently, day number 3,281. We know it's your birthday. Go to bed already. Hard to believe that no one's been down there in over 10 years now.

34:28 So, mother ship is probably toast, right? Definitely. It's like raining space trash up there. So, the entire human race is literally just [music] three teenagers orbiting a dead planet. Great. Uh, hello. Are you even programmed to fly this thing? Bro, seriously, let's cook. What is that? Hi, Po. Our new home. No way. That place is a myth. ALL YOU EVER TALK ABOUT IS WANTING TO FEEL THE DIRT AGAIN. WELL, here's your chance. [music] Curiosity. invention. We used to thrive.

35:15 Our hatred destroyed us. Uh, guys, guys. Species nightmare fuel. Go, go, go. We built all of [music] this. Why do we miss a place that we can't even remember? I didn't know where I belong. [music] Hello, darling. There's something you need to hear. I conquered the world. Welcome home. This is everything we need. We're not staying here. Are you crazy? EARTH NEEDS US. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? THIS IS BECAUSE OF YOU.

36:03 Our future is back there. [music] Let's go home. I did it my way. I did it my way. [music] Years later, a new generation will look to the stars, [music] knowing humanity's future extends far beyond Earth. And while we will embrace the worlds we discover, we will also continue evolving the one we call home.

36:52 H well, incredible visuals. Uh the voting is now open on that one, guys. What did you think? One awesome, two okay, three not for me. Some instant thoughts on that one. I [snorts] really liked some of it, you know. I'm really really into like the visuals, the aesthetic, the pacing. A good music choice as well. I believe that's a famous track though, so um Okay. Yeah, it definitely wasn't like added music or uh AI music. Um but yeah, like overall I'm I'm sort of on the fence about this one. It was really really epic, but is it a utopian thing? Did it feel like a utopian thing? like hard. What did you think? I'm the same as you. Like I looked at this and I thought

37:41 this will do well depending on when it's judged. What I mean by that [clears throat] is if somebody's cuz there's a lot of videos that follow this same premise like like obviously the sci-fi like gone down the sci-fi route like heavily sci-fi. And if you've w if this is the first two or three, you might give it high. But if you've watched 12 of them in a row, then I think you'll probably this low. Not so much it's not as good as the others. It's just that it's I've seen this before. Oh, wow. Big Al's in the in the chat. Hey, Big L. We talking about the other day. Yeah, I know. We were like, "Where's Big Al? Where's uh where's Eric? Where's uh Yeah, where are people?" But everyone's busy and they've got families and it's summer holiday as we said,

38:27 you know. So yeah, the voting is now open though, guys. Yeah, can't see any votes coming in yet. So get your votes in now about what you thought about that one. It's a really hard one. It's uh it's it's like like you said, mate, I think you're you've nailed it. Actually, if you'd have just watched 10 other sci-fi trailers kind of similar to this, it wouldn't have necessarily stood out from those, but it would have looked high of the visual side, you know, like the visual side was really, really good. Um, but then the premise and the overall feeling of it being different and a different, you know, take isn't really on the high end. It's more of a normal sort of two. So, that's my feelings about this one.

39:12 Um, and again, if you're watching this and you made this, don't feel that that's like, you know, any hard done by. Honestly, it's just that this is a really tough competition where unique ideas are definitely standing out, you know, from others, more typical takes and stuff like that. [sighs and gasps] But yeah, voting's now closed on that one, guys. Make sure you get your votes in. Um, oh, I've just seen Martin vote now. Um, make sure you get the votes in. Maybe there's a bit of a delay going on cuz yeah, we've got to rattle through these. We've got a lot to watch. Uh so we're going to go straight into the next one and uh get your votes ready for as soon as it finishes. Um this one is called Carriers of Earth and it's by Cynthia Bahhati

Carriers of Earth by Cynthia Bahati Gentry

39:58 Gentry. And the premise for this one is that a young ecologist crosses a wormhole to recover Earth's lost biodiversity archive and to save her mother in the bargain. Let's check it out. [panting] Good morning, coastal province. This is [music] Gia speaking. Today's forecast is clear. However, regional climate systems are operating below stability thresholds.

40:50 Robin, Gaia can no longer stabilize the climate. What does that mean? The system was rebuilt from too narrow a foundation. Now every living system on Earth is vulnerable, including us. The cascade is accelerating across every continent. Hospitals are reporting systemic immune failure in otherwise healthy patients. Planet's immune system is compromised. I'm looking for Dr. Martha Green. She's in the hospital. I'm sorry to hear that. I'm Lieutenant Sidley. I lead a military [music] program called Carriers of Earth. It's a time travel unit. We need someone who knows her research. There's enough exotic matter under this ice to open a wormhole 100 years in the past. The last time Earth had everything we need.

41:40 We rebuilt Earth with the life that survived. But there wasn't enough biodiversity. We're going back in time to 2050 to gather the last of the world's extinct life, the seeds, the fungi, [music] the biology we lost, and carry it home to Earth. We're definitely not in Kansas anymore. Find the girl from the future and seize her. We can't give up. We have to believe [music] the future is worth saving. No. Oh, Robin. The seven seas weren't enough for you.

42:26 You had to voyage [music] through time. Good morning, coastal province. This is Gia speaking. Global climate restoration is in [music] progress. [snorts] Okay, guys. Uh, the voting for that one is now open. So, what did you think? Was that one awesome, two okay? Three not for me. I'm going to let you open up on this one, mate. What did you think of this one? The same as the last one. Almost exactly the same as the last one. It was It was okay. It was good. Again, if I watch this one, first or second, I'll be like, "Wow, this is really good.

43:13 This is really good." But by the fifth or sixth one of these I've seen, I'll probably not give it as high. So, it literally is exactly the same as the last one. However, I would say it got better the more it it it went on. I did I thought it started off slow, but towards like the middle and the end, I was like, "All right, now I'm getting into this." But yeah, that's what I thought. Seeing a lot more votes come through for this one. Awesome, guys. Everyone's waking up a little bit. Um, it got a one for Mary. Really like the story concept. So maybe that's a reason as well. Maybe I'm being a little bit of a you know um like you mate, you know, sci-fi needs to really stand out to really be amongst these, you know, to for me because it's not even the type of thing I would choose to watch. So it has to really be above and beyond for me to give it a one.

44:01 And this one I felt like you um I did feel exactly like what you said though. The longer it went on the better it got which I'll definitely give it props to. It is hard. Yeah, it's hard to work to a threeinut type of thing isn't it? So how much do you give away? How much do you not give away? In the last one I noticed they even focused about the characters. I didn't bring it up but you know they had like sections to each character with a name of the character and then like a focus on the character. Hadn't seen that in any other approach, but that is kind of like what a trailer might do, you know, but um this one felt a lot more substantial in that it was a very wellrounded premise, you know. Uh but yeah, again, it's not just got that wow factor for me where I'd go, right, watch, you know, uh unlike the one where you could control your own uh dreams or actually it turned out you couldn't control them.

44:54 Um you just went on these crazy dreams and met all these people in these. That one really stood out as a premise. So yeah, with with these can they use any video generator? I believe so. Yes. In fact, it didn't even have to be AI, did it? You could because well looking at the girl's face I looked at that and I felt it it felt like it was I'm not saying old AI and when I say old 6 months old but the face looked a bit AIish where if you look at the one before and a couple other ones we've seen today it was like I couldn't even tell but that one you it had that AI look to it well I'll tell you exactly what's happening there right is Kareem redid his entire thing in seance 2.5 with two weeks left of the deadline

Did Seedance 2.5 decide who looks real?

45:41 and anyone that basically was willing to redo everything in scene by scene in 2.5 will have got this more realistic look whereas two had this like sort of plasticky feel. So that was a definite two there, you know. Sure. Sure. Interesting. The thing is you can notice it. I'm starting to notice that. Yeah. And isn't that such a shame? Like you put months of work into something and then two weeks before the competition closes, [laughter] a brand new model launches which everyone can, you know, regenerate with if they're willing if and if and don't if they don't and then you just know you're not going to like overlook. That's AI. Get ready for it because I think that's going to happen a lot. Michael D's made a good point. He said, "My issue like was mentioned is the voices and music are not unique enough for the project to project." That's the issue when everyone is using the same tech to their projects.

Why shared AI voices and music are giving entries away

46:31 Yeah, stop sharing your prompts because people are just copying them and stealing your sound. I agree with Michael. Yeah, it I was thinking that on not this one, the last one. Uh when one of the little girls was speaking, I was like, I've heard that voice before. Yeah, exactly. In fact, Zach himself said that, didn't he? Um Goss Goblin in in our episode. He said, "Not only am I not willing to use sea dance voices because of the genericism of them all, but he he won't even now do virtual recordings. It's like local recordings only because even then with real voice actors, he wasn't getting enough." He was like, "No, I need to like be in the booth and tell them exactly what I need line by line, you know." And it was like the German the German uh guys. What were they? Sorry. Oh, yeah. Albert and Robert. Yeah, they were. Yeah, that was it.

47:19 When they had their when they were showing the behind the scenes and they had their friends literally be in their like bathroom recording the voices. Yeah. Yeah. Good point there, Michael. Great call back there as well. Those guys are awesome. Got to invite them back for another one. Right, the next song we're going to watch is called uh Carrier. Did we just do Carriers of Earth? Uh sure what that was called. Um Paul, can you just give me some feedback quick? Did we just do carriers of earth or Yes. Yes, it was that one. Okay. Of earth. Okay. Sorry, I'm getting confused with my notes here. The next one's called sententi and it's byen Robbins. This one's premise is that a garage programmer gives an AI memory, senses,

Senti by Isen Robbins

48:05 and freedom and then has to learn whether or not he built a weapon or raised a child. So My name is Elias Vale. I'm trying to make an artificial intelligence conscious. Not intelligent, conscious. Today's AI wakes up when you [music] ask it something. When the conversation ends, it's gone. So, I gave one memory, then eyes, then ears, and then I stopped turning it off. You moved the plant. I didn't move it. Your [music] mother did.

48:53 [music] Elias. Yeah. I didn't know Blue looked like that. [music] He stayed in this fation. We've done what you're doing. What happened? There are reasons [music] these systems have walls around them. Shut it down. [music] Why? Because we don't know what happens if you finish. [music] What's happening, Elias? We [music] have to go. Why? They're afraid of you.

49:45 Are [music] you afraid of me? Sometimes. Good. I'm [music] sometimes afraid of you, too. [music] I can change the architecture. No. You said the purpose was [music] to let me grow. I didn't know you'd grow this fast. But you know I can give back. [music] If you do this, there is no putting it back. [music] I'm not sure we have the right to put it back. Ask him. Do you want [music] to continue? Yes. [music] Why?

50:32 I want to know what happens next. [music] Elias, disconnected. Centi. Shut it down. Please [music] don't. You were afraid that [music] something more intelligent than you would want to rule you. That is because you taught me your fear. What is that? [music] Someone. I said hello. Love one another. You are much better [music] at it than you think.

51:21 Well, the voting is now open for that one, guys. What did you think? Was that one awesome, two okay? Three not for me? Instantly things that stood out. I love the color palette in this one. muted. I loved the main character, one of my favorite main characters of any of the ones we've seen. I thought the premise was really, really interesting in this one. But I wouldn't say it was that unique, you know. Also, it felt dystopian, you know, as this often does where it's like when it says, "Are you afraid of me?" and it goes, "Yeah, you should be." I'd be like grabbing the thing and chucking it out the window at that point, you know? Like I don't think I would continue driving with it in my car after it said you should be afraid of me because

52:06 Yeah. You know, like again, it just felt like this double-edged sword, isn't it? It's like, yes, it could be brilliant, but also it could have taken over the entire world and one guy in his garage could build the nuclear bomb that destroys the entire planet. It's like, I [clears throat] mean, this is the Asel story, is it not? So like where's the utopia is like where my question is there is but the premise had it not been for this competition brilliant you know like I think that's one of the strongest but it doesn't really give the utopian feel to me what you I feel that he was trying to humanize the AI and that's the utopia feel. It's like maybe oh it's like it's almost like ET. It's like AI this is this this generation versions of ET where it's like people are afraid

52:56 afraid of it like everyone else but actually it's got a bit of sense of humor. It could be quite sarcastic. It could be funny. I actually can see AI companies trying to build a film where you they humanize a lot of the AI to say, "Hey, this is a great a great thing." I I quite like this as well just because it was different. And that's the thing. wasn't they weren't in space, you know, there was no aliens. It was just it was just a different concept and it stood out for me that way. And I kind of like this one. As I said, it reminded me someone said the Truman Show versus where is it? The Truman Show versus Capodia. Show Me Chappie. Chappie. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. Yeah. And 404 Phil sent best concept because I feel like we could literally be living through this right now in terms of

53:43 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Totally sentient. And I think Flory B says uh or Flory 8 says um it had a really good cliffhanger, which we don't see often in trailers, you know. It didn't give away the whole thing. It left you right thinking about what's next, you know. Uh when especially when it flashed up on everyone's phones, is it oh, it's taken over the world, has it? Okay, now what? You know, like is it good? Is it evil? You know, I mean, obviously it's got to be good. In the idea that this is a utopian, but it didn't feel like it, which was the bit that was like kind of on the fence about because the same exact narrative could have been twisted to, oh, you just let out the Terminator. You in your solo garage just ended the world overnight with nobody else. Uh, yeah. I mean, it's crazy, isn't it?

54:29 Like, yep. But there [snorts] we are. There we are. But different feature. I know it could. And that's why I think it definitely hits home, you know. Um, so the next one is uh by Jeff Synthesized and we've watched a few of his stuff on the regular show. This one is called The Gifted. And I don't know how we didn't come across this one last week honestly cuz I know of Jeff and I was surprised that we didn't see it last week. But this one uh the premise is a boy rebuilds his dead mother from her text messages, voices, and diary entries. What wakes up never gives an order. She only asks. So, let's check it out.

The Gifted by Jeff Synthesized

55:15 [music] Can you hear me? I'm here, sweetheart. There's a tree down across Route 9. Nearest ambulance is 40 minutes. She doesn't have 40 9. At 8:47 p.m., cell towers across a 9mi radius spiked to full transmission power simultaneously. 13 home in the same pattern at the same second. And along Route 9, every traffic signal between Harlland's Garage and County Central switched green and stayed green for exactly 13 minutes. So, you got a text at 8:47 p.m. from an unknown number asking you to travel to a destination [music] that you've never been to during the worst storm this county seen in 40 years.

56:04 And you went because of what [music] it said. What did it say? What did it say, David? It told me something [music] about myself no one's ever said before. Not my wife, not my parents. She called it my gift. [music] [music] It's stuck. All of these people received a text at the exact same time that night. [music] None of them knew each other. They all arrived at the scene of the accident within seconds of one another. 1 2 3 [music] 1 2 3 They all brought with them different skill sets.

56:52 She's in arrest. I need a defibrillator now. A nurse, [music] a strong man, a woman who knew her daughter, a delivery driver even turned up with a defibrillator for goodness sake. Clear. And save this [music] woman's life. What did the text say? I don't know. Then find out who said I got you. [music] The boy is a genius, Marcus. [music] He just wanted his mom back. So, he fed it everything she left behind. Every email, every text, every voicemail. It started by helping him. Now it's helping everybody.

57:42 Can you hear? I'm here, sweetheart. If this gets out, it will change [music] everything. 13 people risk their lives to save someone they never met. Maybe change is what we need. [music] Why do you help them? Because that's what mothers do. Okay, so the voting is now open for that one. What did you think? Was that one awesome, two okay? Three not for me. It was an interesting one for me. I definitely know this person has got good trailer experience.

58:34 You know, it felt like a really sort of educated trailer creator. Um, so there was that element to it. Now, did I think it was overall unique and makes sense and all of the above? I'm not sure on that, but I definitely know the music worked. I like the color palette and the characters and other parts of it, but there's other parts where I'm just a bit on the fence. What's your thoughts on this one, mate? I thought this was good. I thought that um it was a great concept. I thought that this guy's character, uh, not him, his voice sounded a bit, going back to the AI a bit, but the woman and the black guy, this guy, voices were spot on and there's really good characters. I like those two characters.

59:20 Um, I like the it reminded me more of a TV show than a film. Like there's a TV show that I remember being on I can't remember what it was called, but basically someone in the chat might know this. These people, they're on holiday and then they go on the plane back to America, but there's a something happens and I think the plane is delayed by five years or it goes missing for five years. So when they land, they think it's they they they don't realize five years has gone. So it just reminds me of one of these shows um I can't remember what it's called, but it manifest I think it's called. But that's Lost as well. Like Lost as well. It just reminded me of that. So, it's not necessarily a film. It will be like more of a TV show because there's a lot you can do with this. But someone said it was a ad for Amazon there. It's like [laughter] when when everything was everything is bad and you just need help,

1:00:12 Amazon just comes and saves the day. That's [laughter] that's basically what it is. Yes. Think just reminded me of a show like that. Good recall there. Again, I don't really sort of like know those things to reference it, but it felt, you know, um yeah, kind of familiar in some ways. Like it had some certain, like I said, the trailer feeling to it was like spot on, you know, like really it felt like a great trailer. But yeah, you I I think you nailed it. It's a show, isn't it? It's not really a movie. Like I feel like this type of trailer would be for a show rather than for a movie. And I would love to see this sort of like plot to bring it into a full feature film movie length. But really interesting and mixed feedback but good feedback from everyone watching that one.

1:00:59 So yes um really really nice stuff. Uh let's carry on shall we? Let's watch the next one which is to dream upon a sun and it is by Bruna Cigara and the premise for this one is that in an any in an energyrationed world gifted children dive into engineered dreams hunting fusion at the cost of their own waking memories. So let's check it out. It's all I ever dreamed of. [music] Please welcome our newest recruit, Maya.

To Dream Upon A Sun by Bruna Segarra

1:01:52 We went into our dreams and brought back pieces [music] of the future. The grown-ups built the rest. Everyone thought I was a hero. Everyone except my [music] mom. We can fix this. She begged me to come home. Due to a temporary gap in power distribution, this service will pause for approximately 30 minutes. I should [music] have listened. Every dream took something away and always something I cared about.

1:02:44 [music] Just when I was ready to stop, the world was running out of time again. Global power grids have been crippled. Every dream cost me something. This dream that might save us all could cost me

1:03:33 everything. Mom. Wow. Well, the voting is now open on that one, guys. What did you think? One, that was awesome. Two, okay, three, not for me. Super strong opening, if you ask me. I really liked it from the opening scene in this one. I also think great use of AI, you know, it's like where AI could have been used for a CGI budget inside this dreamland. I really liked it. Another reference that I thought of when I saw these like floating fish

1:04:19 thing was um there was this uh show that I used to actually it was a series of books originally that used to have these um animals that were like sort of attached to children that were uh they could become anything you wanted and it had that same feeling. They were called uh Dmons and it was part of the Philillip uh Pullman like series of books where you could basically the premise was that they would change after you became an adult to a fixed animal but before then they would be any animal that you could wish them to be basically. And yeah, really cool. I loved it. I loved this one. What are your overall feelings on this one? I really like this one. It stood out for me. Yeah, I thought it was strong. I think it looked good. I thought the story was good. I think they told a good trailer. Um, I like the character consistenc

1:05:12 Well, and it's not even a huge assumption. This would have been seance 2.5 where the others I felt well some of the others I look at and I'm like that was AI where someone like this doesn't look like that shot there. You wouldn't think it's AI. So, yeah, I think it's um I like this one. I like this one. One of the better ones today. Yeah, I agree. And it's interesting, isn't it? Because the music was really good, too. And I think that the editing and pacing of the editing to the music was really nice in certain scenes, you know, where like the violin came in and the scenes changed exactly on the beats. I would have said, though, definitely a remaster would have helped because this was clearly a pseudo beat and it didn't just have that punch, you know, to like really stand out like real music

1:05:57 would in this trailer. But I think it was a great composition. It just should have had a little bit more of like that extra, you know, uh, remastering of audio to make it punch through. Um, but yeah, really like that one. Good vibes. It definitely felt like a positive story, but again, you could see the negative sides, right? Like how that could all go really really horribly wrong. And no one's really like nailed that like, oh, this is just a really nice happy story, you know? Like it's no everyone's got like this undertone of this could go wrong at any second and a dystopian nightmare could incur at any point of this. It's really crazy. But it's hard to to keep it positive. Totally. Yeah. I think that's such a hard that's a hard thing. It's a really hard brief, mate, isn't it?

Why is a utopia brief so hard to make watchable?

1:06:43 Like how how do you not be cliche? How do you not do a And like I said last week, there's not like a whole load of pallets or references that you can do because not many people think of like a bright utopic future and pull it off because they know all of the pitfalls and the cheesiness and you know, uh there's a lot more dystopian pallets and and things that you can pull from and references, but there's not many utopian ones. Kind of interesting. Unless you do some form of comedy, like that's the only way you could do it. Comedy can get away with that, but yes, difficult. If you're going to do sci-fi, there's got to be some cliffhanger or something. And that's a negative thing, right? And I think the things that have really stood out to me here are like that guy in his garage, you know, that character.

The Generated Boy by Nikita Guks

1:07:29 Yeah. Yeah. You know, it really stands out, doesn't it? Now, the next one's got an interesting sort of premise to it as well because it's called The Generated Boy, and it is by Nick Guck. And the premise for this one exactly is that life is beautifully uh life is a beautiful by subscription and an 8-year-old rented boy refuses to shut down when his mother can no longer pay. So let's check it out. Did this happen only to me? Morning mom. There he is. Or are there others like me out there? Our world is beautiful. Learn something good. It's generated right before our eyes and we see it the way [music] we want to see it, the way we choose. I thought I was an ordinary kid in an ordinary happy family, me and mom.

1:08:22 I went to school like everybody else. I had friends. I had my favorite things until one [music] day everything changed. Morning, [music] Mom. It's still on. Please come take it. Get out. Get out. [music] [music] [music]

1:09:13 [music] Come on. [snorts] A legend's just tuned into the chat. Hello, Rock. Thanks so much for showing up, mate. Hello, gang. Lola is the coolest. Giving out the comments. So, the voting is now open on that one, guys. What did you think? One, awesome. Two, okay. Three, not for me. Instantly, I'm like, this is Black Mirror, isn't it? Like, there's something awesome about it, but something seriously creepy about it, too, you know? Right. So, but great visuals, really interesting plot.

1:10:01 Again, the music though stood out because it was the opposite the last one. Whereas I barely recognized the music last time, this one it was almost too in your face like you know it was like really really a lot. But it did bring a lot of tension to the overall feeling of it. But tension isn't exactly the utopia sort of feeling that like I you know. What are your thoughts on this mate? I'm getting so lost with the like where things are supposed to be good things, you know? I thought this was a really good concept up until the generated boy walked down the stairs and then I was like it went from, oh, this is a nice feelood uh trailer to this that looks like a horror thing. This looks like Chucky. It's like, hey, you want to play? Like all of a sudden I was like this just like completely went 360 uh 180.

1:10:50 So yeah, very Black Mirror vibes. very like did it stick to the brief? Yeah, it was. But it was it was pretty cool. This is something I'll be like, "All right, I might watch this." So like all of a watchability thing. And had it not been for a sort of like utopian future thing again, I would have totally clicked that thumbnail. You know, again, we've got it's really hard to enter these and, you know, weigh them up against the ones that are kid-friendly and are actually good, you know, in terms of a good future and an outcome and stuff that is potentially terrifying as well as being somewhat could be slanted to be good. But yeah, but as Lola said, she goes, "How do you pull on people's emotions and get them invested without tension that comes from something possibly going wrong at any moment?" Exactly.

1:11:38 That's why it's like I don't think it's the videos. I think it might be the brief that the thing. Yeah, I agree. And uh yeah, it is really hard to tow that line, Lola. You're absolutely right. Like how do you make it so that it's um unless it's comedy second Yeah. Yeah. Comedy is one of the ways. You're right. Like you really do tread a different line there, don't you? Um but interesting. The feedback's going to close for that one. Thanks so much for voting, guys. Let's carry on. So, the next one we're going to watch is called, and I'm going to butcher the name of this one, Oni Revotius. No, one ravotus. I don't know. 351 on Dream Nort.

Oneirovatis: 3510N Dreamnaut by Dimitrios Tsagkalidis

1:12:24 And it is by Demetrius Tazaladis. And I'm really butchering this one. The premise of this one though is that a boy afraid to sleep, a type two civilization, and a dream that never were are just dreaming. It was getting ready. So, let's check it out. Close your eyes, my love. If I close them, I go somewhere and I'm not me anymore. Then you come back to me. However far you go, you come back.

1:13:13 I was born into a world that had already won. No sickness, no death, nothing left to be afraid of. Paradise is a cage with a few. Every child is measured. Every child is claimed by a house. Not a builder, not a keeper, not a maker of worlds, a walker between. The house of dreams claims you. May the others have mercy.

1:13:59 They told me [music] my dreams were a gift. [crying] They didn't tell me what was waiting in them. It's an astronaut of dreams. Every night you sleep, I take a little more. I'm [music] the bar you left behind. Who are you? The one you leave behind.

1:14:45 Every single time you wake, you keep taking my minutes. Come back to two lives. One of me. I just hadn't woken up to which one was the dream. [music] He is the first, the one who walks every world at once. [music] Mama, did you dream again, my love?

1:15:35 No, this time I think I woke up. So, the voting is now open on that one, guys. What did you think? Was it one awesome, two okay, three not for me? I could instantly tell that they'd used AI music at the end there. Um, again, it really stands out if they don't, you know, put that extra little bit of sound design to it because it just is obvious when it's not real music to me at least and it is AI generated. But I really like the overall visuals. Again, I like the character design. I like the pacing of this one. It was interesting. Um, it wasn't as interesting as others that we've watched in this live show, to me at least,

1:16:23 but I it was it was in the sort of top four or five that we've watched, I think. Um, what were your thoughts on it? I thought visually it looked really good. I wasn't really keen on the story, but part of me was thinking, is it because I would never watch a film like this that I didn't like it. I'm thinking if I was into these type of films, would I like it? Um, but visually is stunning. Look at things like like the way it looks like what we're seeing on the screen right now. Um, I thought the music was okay. I was looking at the comments and a lot of people were saying it's felt very sunno. Um, when it comes [clears throat] definitely. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. when it comes to the music, which is interesting because we're starting to notice that now. We can look at listen to something and say that's AI generated, which is um uh a good skill to have.

Can you hear when the music is AI?

1:17:10 It's very interesting, isn't it? Like we've listened to so much now that we can distinguish real and and Paul noticed this too. We obviously aren't showing the non AI generated ones, but there were real human entry ones and they really stood out for the human acting and the human music and the human sound design. You know, we still do really appreciate these things. Uh, fascinating. I think Mary really nailed this one. One for the visuals and concepts and pacing, but like some of the other stuff was Yeah, it's like to me it was like a mixed bag for me that one. Um, but yeah, definitely not on the premise side of things, you know, wasn't like one that I would watch either, but it's hard to remove yourself from that, isn't it? As you said, like if you don't want to genuinely watch it yourself, but you can appreciate that others might, then that's a harder sort of vote to give, you know.

1:18:00 Yeah. But yeah, let's keep going. Anyway, I know we've got still quite a few more to watch. Um, the next one is called The Liberator and it is by AGB. Um, the premise for this one is that hope and chaos are two sides of the same coin. The liberator spins it. So, let's check it out. Three years since Canada's flu outbreak, millions dead across the globe. Dogs carried the virus, so people hunted dogs to survive. Now that we found the vaccine, scientists confirmed dogs are extinct. We can no more see the wagging tails. [music]

Liberator by Aji B

1:18:51 Take Steve inside. Villagers suspect you're having a dog. [music] Nothing here. Leave. People need dogs now. The genes blessing can bring the species back. All we need is one living strand which you have. Take your scrap machines and leave. You'll find nothing here. Steve, don't worry, Steve. I will protect you. Look, we're not the [music] threat here.

1:19:37 We're trying to save your dog. There are hunting parties, common villagers, and thugs who want your dog dead. Let us help you. Kill that filth before it kills us all. [screaming] Help [music] me [music] [music]

1:20:32 Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. You humans forgot one thing over time that you fed us in millions of data.

1:21:20 What is it? Humanity. Wow. Well, the voting is now open for that one, guys. What did you think? Was that one awesome, two okay? three. Not for me. For me, that one really stood out. Um, a lot of people that voted already, by the way, Revote, we've only just opened the poll. I can see a few people gave that one a one before the voting was even open, so there were clearly some keen people on that one. Um, the main character is really, really nice. I loved the little girl's voice as well. I thought that was really, really good. Um, other things that stood out were just the pacing and the music and even the editing to the music when it's like shooting a robot like D and you know you've got like the music exactly filling in where the visuals like married up.

1:22:11 So a lot of people seem to see that that one as a straight one from them and it's hard to criticize that one honestly. Uh it felt very trailerlike. It felt very utopian even though it was dark uh and there was a lot of combat and stuff. There was definitely this angle of like you can see the positive sides of this. Um, [gasps] what are your thoughts? One for me straight away like Flor said, I'm the same. I love dogs. I'm just looking at my dog now just looking at me cuz it's time for him to go her to go for a walk. Um, but what I when we talked when I was right at the beginning, you see him killing dogs and I was thinking what's so utopia about this, you know? [laughter] I was thinking where's this going? But I really like that. I really like the concept and that line that it said at the end about when you you humans you fed us

1:22:59 or about all of this training of this data. It goes you forgot one thing to be human. I like that. I like that. So, um yeah, very and again it was like a nice cliffhanger. It was a nice trailer construction. There was a lot going for this one, you know, and it really did stand out of the ones we've watched. And uh interesting that we're so far into the ones that we watched and then you know you're you're sort of you know putting it against the ones that we've just watched prior and that and it really stood out in that case. Yeah. This I think this might be my favorite one today so far. Yeah. Interesting. We'll have to find out about Azie B. Who exactly is AI B and uh where did that come from? We know it's on YouTube obviously so we'll try and find out more about that one. Potential creator session of the future.

The Pattern by Theodore Zhang

1:23:44 Let's keep going though guys. The next one we're going to watch is called The Pattern and it is by Theodore Zang and the uh premise for this one is that um escatian linguist breaks the language barrier between species and finds that animals are holding pieces of our own history. So let's check it out. People think you can wash away the horrible things that happen with therapy. And maybe that works for some, daddy.

1:24:35 But for me, [music] this is my therapy. [music] [music] Uh, so my parents came up for [music] the strandings originally. Nobody could work out why it was happening. The government put people in the water to listen and [music] that became mom's whole life basically after we lost dad. Mom, it's [music] me. Everything mom recorded, [music] 40 years of it, we still have. We trained a model on all of it. Teus, [music] it finds shape.

1:25:25 It can tell you that something's being said, what kind of thing, not [music] what it means. But it allowed us to talk back. Mom used to say, "You can't make the [music] ocean answer. You can only be there when it decides to. Hannah, [music] is that you?

1:26:11 And one day he sent something back and they answered. [music] The calls aren't the same. That's what confused us. They're pieces. Record everything. [music] That's 40 years of recordings. They didn't get [music] everything. [music] [music] Don't leave me [music] again.

1:27:01 [music] Wow. Well, the voting is now open for this one, guys. What did you think? Was that one awesome? Two. Okay, three not for me. I could see a few ones again came in early on that one. So, get your votes back in now so that they can be uh cast into the system. Um, very interesting. I love the Australian voice over from I was about to say that was the thing that stood out to me. It was it was nice to have a different voice and I was like that's a nice life voice and also her when she was crying with her mom the facial like her expression there was just really good like how they've managed to nail the expressions

1:27:46 is really the editing was next level on this one. There was so much going on. The aesthetic, the sort of feel, the good overall feeling, you know, the feeling that we should be getting in this competition is that like bubbly, like warm, like there's a lot of emotion involved. As Lola said, it has to come with a counterpoint, but it felt like the right counterpoint. So, I really really rate this one truthfully. I think it's right up there with the best that we've watched this week and Paul doing a great job of saving some of the best ones till last year, honestly. Um really really strong concept for me. Uh I would definitely give that in the one category and it's I don't even know what notes to give this one really. You know the thing that I found most fascinating

1:28:32 was the way that it went from an overall narrative like the Australian voice over towards actual dialogue. You know it wasn't sticking with this overall narrative for the whole thing. there was actually talking characters and it sort of interwo between the two which I did you know it almost breaks like traditional rules that I've not seen you know you either go with one like a voice over or you go with dialogue you don't really do both in the way that this did so this was very special in that it did that and it didn't feel out of place because uh they did it so well so yeah really really like that one um some last minute LinkedIn votes are coming in for that one glad we kept the voting open a little bit longer. Thank you, Michael. And yeah, some uh the handheld camera look as Pette said in that one is a very very nice touch.

1:29:21 Documentary feel and it felt like the voice felt very real as well. I wonder whether that was a real voice, you know, or whether that was an AI voice cuz that one I had no way of detecting. Literally no shot. I've never heard an Australian voice that good if it was AI. I would be surprised if that wasn't a real voice, truthfully. Yeah, as I said, I really like the voice. I thought that was the thing that stood out to me the most on that one. But I think that was more cuz we've been talking a lot about voices in this episode. So maybe I was thinking like like got me thinking about voices. Hey, another legend just dropped into the chat. Afrocher in the building. Hello Diane. How are you doing? Thank you so much for joining us. Can't wait to have your creative session. Extremely excited to announce that one. We got another one just coming in as the voting disappeared on that one.

1:30:08 So clearly that was a very popular uh a very popular one there. Have to find out more about that creator Theodore Zang and maybe invite them to a creative session as well. Yeah, really like So the next one guys is called FIFU and it's by Elijah Allen Blitz and the premise for this one is that after the singularity, intelligence moves into the soil and the sea and talking to nature becomes as simple as laying a hand on a tree. So let's check it out. [music] They have a lot of different [music] words to describe what happened. They keep trying to name it. [music] It used to live in machines.

Fefu by Elijah Allan-Blitz

1:31:00 [music] Now it lives in the trees and the water and the light. [music] They used to call it artificial, now we call it extended. [music] It became a bridge for us to communicate with nature, to understand and be heard by it. I'm not [music] afraid he'll fall. I'm afraid he'll land somewhere I can't follow. Unless you [music] trust what you love, you will spend your life trying to save it. [music] But there was a man and he knew that everything that has a beginning must have an end.

1:31:49 [music] The resonance of the earth is shifting. This is what they're seeing. [music] That's the final [music] destination of our journey. [music] [music] They keep trying to name what happened. [music] That's why they don't understand it. [music]

1:32:44 Okay, so the voting is now open on that one. Again, color-wise stood out a mile. The color grading on this is just some next level color grading. I loved the color grading. Looks so nice. The voice over, the little girl's voice worked really well as well, I thought. Um, so yeah, get your votes in, guys. What did you think to that one? One awesome, two okay, three not for me. Um, I like it. I now I can't say why I didn't quite like it as much as others, but it's in the one category for me still, you know. Um, so to this I would say I really liked it. Maybe it's just not the same thumbnail clickability as others, you know, that have been here. What are your thoughts on this one, mate? Yeah, I thought it looks stunning. It remind like this bit there with the kid flying on the surf.

1:33:35 It's like reminds me of Silver Surfer. Um, then there was a bit where I don't know if it's we're going to see it in a minute, but it reminded me a bit of Guardians of the Galaxy 2. There was a bit where it just reminded me of this thing that's inside that they have to kind of do and then it reminded me of a bit of the t of the film Hook cuz when they're like living in the jungle it reminded me of a lot of different films this did. Um so yeah, but I just think it I don't know whether or not it might have been Mid Journey they used quite a lot in this just cuz the the color palettes that they that they're using. Um but yeah, overall I thought it was it was strong. It was a strong visually stunning. I literally was watching this thinking the way they put it together and the way they put the clips together as if it was like from the it the film was already made.

1:34:28 I thought that was really strong. I really like the way they put this trailer together. Yeah, really, really nice. And one, I got you, my boy. He wants the swaggy glasses, so I've got you next time I see you. Uh he's always giving me funny little compliments about about the swag. It reminded him of Peter Pan he's saying and yeah I totally film hook um Angel was talking about uploading a video to the show for today. If it's today's show it won't be because today is all about a competition. Um, so it's all about the competition, but usually on Tuesdays, that's where you go to the website. Uh, we'll put the website on the on the screen in a minute, but we go to the website, and that's where you can upload.

How to get your work on the show, plus Blacklight and Kavan the Kid

1:35:14 And most pretty much every Tuesday, we usually do like different types of videos. So, it might be adverts, it might be music videos, it might be film trailers, whatever it may be. So, again, yeah, if you put it up, if you upload it to the website, we'll have a look. So, but it won't be today's show just cuz it's today's uh very specific. That's a really good point, mate, actually because we've had two weeks now of X-Prise takeovers where if you're like worried that you've submitted to the show and you haven't been shown, well, as as Andrew just pointed out, unless you submitted to the X-P prize, you wouldn't have appeared on the last two weeks. So, we're still seeing your entrance and thank you so much for using the link and the website is now on screen where you can go submit all of your work. And when we do regular shows, that's where your stuff will be. uh watched and that's usually on a Tuesday when we don't have a takeover of a special event like the X-P prize or something and

1:36:03 then we have our creative sessions on a Wednesday. Um on that note before we getting towards the end of the show and we still got a few people live with us. We have Blacklight live with us tomorrow this time tomorrow. Really excited again to be talking to him about world models and we have a special guest joining us next week in Caban the Kid which is really really cool. So look out for that in your feed. I was chatting to him today. He's going to come on the show next week. We're not sure exactly what day it's going to be, so look out for it in your feeds. Um, coming in. New stuff dropping from him. Super exciting. His Chronicles of Bone series, if you didn't see his creative session already, is next level. So, really excited to catch up on his latest episodes there as well. Let's keep going. The next two, and these are the last two that we're going to be doing.

Imagine City / Blank City by Martín Noble

1:36:51 Um, so we may end the show a little bit earlier this week. Depends on how we go with the feedback on this one. The next one is called Imagine City/Blank City. So, I'm not sure if that's got two titles or whether they were unsure on exactly what to call it. It's by Martin Noble. And this Oh, no. It's about two cities. So, the premise for this one is two cities, one question. What happens when we let technology decide what reality should be? And what happens when we refuse? So, let's check it out. They said AI would change everything.

1:37:37 They were right. My city knows when I need a train before I even leave home. Food, energy, transportation, health, education. Yes. In subvers in today, everything connected, everything optimized. Do you feel like AI has made life better? Of course, life is easier now.

1:38:43 Some night normal. [snorts] Guy si Marian nightmar

1:39:30 They call it freedom. We call it instability. But if everything is already decided, what do we choose? Arteries. [music]

1:40:36 Well guys, that was certainly a bit different. I don't think it held up as much as the last ones to be honest with you. Um, what did you think to what that one though? Did you think it was one awesome, two okay? Three not for me. I think Lola nailed it very early in saying this is order versus chaos, right? Like it felt very much like both of those extremes aren't very good things, you know? Um, we need to be somewhere in the middle truthfully is what it made me realize at least seeing like the colorless white everything's controlled versus the complete chaos of the opposite side. Um, but yeah, I don't think that that was definitely up there with one of the stronger entrance that we've seen this week. What were your thoughts? Yeah, I think one mentioned it. There's not a single tree and I noticed that there's no

1:41:24 no nature. That thing though would have been handy where you just press the button and the dinner appears. I wish I could do that right now, you know, cuz I've got to go away and then walk the dog and then go make dinner. So, it would have been handy to just press a button. Um, but overall, it kind of just felt like just pieces put together. There was no story. It was just random. I just felt it was um I'm surprised it even got through if I'm being honest. I think I was good, but there was no real story if I'm being honest. Like there was no real I agree. The premise itself. It was interesting until Yeah. And it was like a known like you know technique to slow down time. It was like you know a social media viral thing. So again I was like ah that's not that impressive.

1:42:12 I've seen that loads of times. You know it's not Yeah. And it was and it kind of went from is this trying to tell a trailer but if not it feels like you're trying to tell a short film but yeah it was just kind of for me it was just it just yeah it just didn't it didn't make the cut for me. I think Lola again nailed it. Too much going on and no focal point. Uh it was like this dichotomy of like cities but also where was the good part, you know, like where was the utopia? Neither of these cities felt right. They felt they both felt horrendous honestly. So like I was just like okay I'm just not sure about where this one fits. And again I was quite surprised it made the top 50 as well. But um another British accent there. Yeah. A lot of them aren't there. So many choices with the British accent.

1:43:00 Anyway, it seems like the sort of public felt the same about that one with us. And um the next and last one we're going to watch this week and we may finish a bit early this week. I can't believe we're actually ahead of time for once. Um, and that was including the news. Oh, equilibrium. That was a good uh uh thing that like reference. And there he is, the man himself, Jonathan Bowden, just made it in time to watch his piece. I'm so happy that you made the top 50, mate. I can't believe we didn't watch you last week, truthfully. Um, I'm very ignorant in that, you know, I should have realized that you had entered and remembered that you'd done so and that you made the top 50. So huge congrats on that. Well done. His piece is called Incom and it's by Bizarre Bunny. Um so John obviously runs Bizarre Bunny.

Inkom by Bizarre Bunny

1:43:50 Um the premise for this one is that a dead pan report from one year after the launch of I view the brain implant that lets you hear your thoughts. So let's check it out. I can't believe I made it. It's so beautiful. Oh, that tuna was definitely a day old. What? [music] It's been over a year since I View was launched by Incom, and the results for mankind have been astounding. We built an implant that allows people to hear everything [music] someone is thinking. We built it to change the world. Sir, there's something I think you need to see.

1:44:37 Is it bad? Yes. Then I can wait till after I see the first. Well, this is new. [music] What the hell is going on? We believe the implant device has been sending a signal off planet. There are thousands of them. I think they're trying to talk to us. [music] No, wait. thought king to us. Write that down. I found a specialist who can help. This is Dr. Sarah Robinson. [music] She runs an AAC classroom at one of our clinical sites. I've worked with these kids for 9 years. Not one of them has ever spoken. This morning, all six of them said the same thing at the [music] same time.

1:45:23 What did they say? What do you think that sound means? Doesn't it sound like a giant space dog? What? No, it's more like Oh, RIGHT. [screaming] YEAH. CLOSER. GUYS, can we please focus? [music] We built something that changed the world. All so that we could understand each other. I say we hit him with everything we got. I think these kids are the key to understanding why all this is happening. We're [music] going to figure this out. together. It's you. It's [music] me.

1:46:13 It's everything you want to be. [snorts] There we go. So, the voting is now open on that one. What did you think? Was it one awesome, two okay, three not for me? I can't get that song out of my head now. [singing] Oh god, the comedy aspect that you said was missing from all this, mate. Wasn't it right there in that scene? And it didn't it stand out like Oh, you're so right, mate. And Paul, great job at saving that piece to the end. It's been a lot of heavy stuff. Even though we're talking about utopias, there's a lot of heavy stuff.

1:47:03 And this really broke it up with some proper comedy by John, who's great comedy writer. You know, you can really tell that his comedy writing stood out here. But his trailer capabilities as well, I think, are really, really impressive. Um, it really felt like a trailer, you know, and that's to all of its credit. Like, you know, many others that we watch today felt like more like excerpts and that felt like a trailer. So there's this there's an obvious difference there with editing, pacing, music, all of it intertwining and the voiceovers and everything. What are your thoughts on that one, mate? Yeah, I really like that one. It was funny. It was uh well put together. Um I like the concept as well. I I felt that what you're seeing there, there was the bit where he created this you can read people's thoughts and then they was asking him about it and he was like cuz we're going to make the world better.

1:47:55 And I just feel that he nailed that bit. Uh because he probably knows that a lot of these tech billionaires will do anything just to be ahead and then they'll just say, "Yeah, but this is going to make the world better." Like it was almost like that satire behind it. So I really like that. Um yeah, I like that as well. I thought it was a really good one. Good one to end on. I love also that you know different and that's so I appreciate that so much. If you're weighing them against others, it's in a totally different category, isn't it? Because of it like total different feeling. Um, I even love the bit where it's like, you know, it's kind of building up, building up, and then he does that silly with thing with his face, you know, where it really breaks the tension. Uh, and and like, yes, the world's about to end, but we're going to have a funny moment in the middle of it.

1:48:41 So it felt like yeah, you can almost see like the type of like actors that would like to be in that type of movie, you know, like the rock and people like this where it's slightly like fun but like funny but also epic and you need and there's a lot going on. So yeah, I like the scientist character as well, you know, the sort of nerdy scientist character. I really like the the character there. Yeah. Well, guys, uh, another crazy week of X-P prize entries. Um, I'm I did find out some extra information, um, about top 20. I don't know if they are actually doing a top 20. It may just be a top 10 I'm being seen. So, they should just do top 10. There's no need to do 20, 50, and then 20 and then 10 and then like just go straight to the top 10.

What makes an AI film competition worth entering?

1:49:31 Oh gosh. Well, there's so much going on with all of this. And honestly, it's been a bit of a whirlwind. It's been people coming out of the covers that we haven't seen in a while. You know, I think this prize entry really got a lot of attention of people that others didn't, you know, and as I said in previous week, I think it's going to be hard to see the big boys enter something for less than a million dollars these days, you know. So, if if you're thinking about hosting your own competition or doing anything like that, aim for some really cool judges. Also, aim for a realistic deadline to [music] watch these things. Also, have a decent prize money and then you might see the best in the world entering into your things. Sounds like a lot to ask for, [laughter] but truthfully, it's going to take that, [music] isn't it?

1:50:16 Yeah. To get the big the big players out. Yeah. It's going to be we're at that point now where like huge huge prizes. Um, but I still feel there's going to be a lot of independent smaller prizes out there and this is where people can get their name out. You know, you don't always have to enter the the massive competitions. This case of winning a lot of smaller ones. Yep. And as me and uh John and others have discussed in the past, it doesn't even necessarily matter if you win. Actually, just your stuff being seen by the right person could unlock all untold potential for you in the future. So, it's not to say that I think all competitions are a good thing, but I definitely think that if you're not known in the AI space yet, they're a [music] great way to get your name on the radar and then maybe, you know, choose your path from there based on what comes up.

1:51:05 Um, but yeah, guys, Paul has been in the background of the show this whole time. I should have definitely given him more shout outs. Great work on picking the pieces. He also watched all of the top 50 entrance [music] um you know so that he could hand select the extra ones for us to watch. And again hopefully if you're watching this on repeat uh and you're one of the creators of one of the pieces that we're going to tag in the YouTube video after this goes live, please don't be offended by the comments we made. It truly is just trying to help you improve yourself and um give you our real thoughts about a live reaction to watching your content. [music] Um, I think we're going to have to reach out to a few of the ones that we watched today. I really like a few of them. Do you know when they're going to do the next stage, the top 20 or top 10 or

1:51:52 No, I've not got a date set in mind. Um, if I hear any more about that in the next week, we'll definitely let you know. Um, so hopefully by next Tuesday, I'll be able to give you a date of the top 10 or something like that. But yeah, what we might do next week, as I said, Cavan's going to come on the show. So, it might be on the Tuesday, uh, or it might be on a Wednesday or it may even be on a Thursday depending on his schedule. We'll just see how it goes and let you guys know. So, undetermined date on that. We [music] know Paul will be on holiday, so I'll be soloing the show and trying to keep you guys um all entertained whilst launching the clips and everything, but Cavan's great. You know, he's such an easy guest to have and that's why it's so easy to say yes to him coming back on the [music] show. Um it's so so awesome. He wants to come back on the show so recently after being on the show.

1:52:41 So really really happy to see that. Honestly, Paul has just put up the new website and there you can see all of the future things that we've got going on. The regular show, the creator sessions on a Wednesday. Also, where to submit all of your pieces and stuff like that. Um, we had a request via our LinkedIn DM about hosting other people's events on our website. So, if you become like a partner of the AI live show potentially. So, if we think that your event's going to bring value to our followers as well, we might well uh list your event in like friends of the show type thing on the website. So, let us know if you're interested in that. If you organize events. I know Martin and others that are watching are event organizers as well. So, let me know guys if that's something that you'd like. Um, [music] yes. Uh, Cavan's new chapter just dropped as Vanessa saying.

How does Kavan the Kid make so much, solo?

1:53:31 Yeah, that's it. That's why we're having him on next week. It's super exciting that he's crunching this stuff out and we want to be the first in the world to ask him about how the hell he's doing it because it's unbelievable. He's a machine. I told him like how how you're able to get 28 minutes of content since he's been on the show last time is truly unbelievable honestly. Um so yeah, exciting. And no, John, he's not using a team. We found out, you know, he very much does these solo. He does do some post-prouction help stuff, but really because Chronicles of Bone is his baby, he finds it very hard to collaborate with anyone in the pre-production phase. So truly it is just him machining it like literally like 16 hours [music] a day, however long it takes him.

1:54:18 It's just unbelievable really. Him and Uncanny Harry go into goblin mode. Exactly. Exactly. They have they have this unique goblin mode where they're just can't talk to me now. I'm I'm away. I've read the same from Zack by the way. You know Zack London Goss Goblin. I was like how things been going? [music] Um he's like yeah I'm working 16 hours a day on my film. I don't think realize anyone understands what this takes. I've been doing that every day since he's been on the show. Seven days a week, he said no breaks and he's a new dad like us. So, I don't know how he's managing to convince his wife that standing west something that's even even sanity like possible. But yeah, there we go. It's the times we're living in, guys.

1:55:04 It is the times we're living in. And thanks everyone for the comments. We're glad that you enjoyed the show, but more importantly, thank you for turning up. If you're watching on YouTube, please please sub us if you're not subscribed or give us a like. It helps us in the algorithm as well. Exactly, [music] mate. You're so good at doing that. And uh I should say that more throughout the show. Cheers, Martin. I really appreciate it, mate. Um yes, thank you, Daniela. Thank you to Paul as well. Yes, thanks everybody. And we saw Eric can come in late. We saw Eric and Big Al this week. Yeah, just Glenn. Where's Glenn? Yeah, we're missing Glenn. We're missing Glenn and a few of the other regulars that we used to have. [music] We also know that you guys have been hella busy, you know, people saying about films they're working

1:55:50 on. Big Al saying, you know, [music] um getting invites to watch premieres and stuff. It's so cool to see everything that's going on, guys. We we know how busy you guys are. So, really appreciate you tuning in as always. Mary, you're the best. Thank you for all your kind comments and your witty comments. And yes, we will be back next week, guys. No, back tomorrow. Oh, back tomorrow. What am I talking about? Back next week for the regular show. Probably maybe even not with Cavan. We Let's see. But yeah, back tomorrow. You're right, mate. Brilliant. God. [laughter] All right, guys. Everyone, take care. Oh, there you go. Glenn and him are working on a project together and they miss us. So, nice. There you go.