You're welcome.

Uh, we just, uh, we just came off of the, uh, the newest release, The Enigma Reckoning.

Um, it's a, um, I take some of my favorite characters and, uh, take them f- four years in the, in, into the future.

And, um, now they're, um, they're trying to, uh, unravel the, uh, the problems that, uh, AI has left, uh, left them with.

And so they're, uh, they're fugitives.

And it's, uh, it, it's a fun exercise and the, the book, uh, I, I've submitted it.

I've already got an award for it, and it's, it's only been out since, uh, you know, middle of August, so, um, uh, w- I was quite pleased with, uh, with that and, and the videos that, uh, that, uh, go along with that.

Go ahead.

Okay, Charles, I'm letting you share,

and it's up to you.

Okay.

All right.

The concept really is you're going to build something.

And you're going to build it to do what? It's probably the best question I can ask you.

So building the videos is fine, right? All right.

I'll be fine.

And no, it's very nice.

Charles? It was...

I would imagine a bit challenging to be able to just get five to six seconds.

That's what AI is pretty good at, being able to generate a five to six second video.

But without the subtitles, it's hard to be able to get an idea, okay, where are you taking me? And so I always like to put that in, but that doesn't work for the short vignettes.

So it's a very difficult balance to be able to come up with a nice cinematic video imagery, like you've done, stitch it together and then put together, and I know this was a little bit ad hoc, come up with some of the narrative subtitles so people could say, what are you talking about? This is, you know, the tears from the hawk over the fallen warriors.

I thought that was a nice grabbing scene.

Yeah,

Tell me what you're going to talk about.

Okay.

I wish I'd known BJ before I finished off one of my books.

Cause we, it, I fought to find all of the toxicology information for the cozy mystery.

You're right.

It's spot on it.

It like, okay, it's gotta be, you know, subtle and I can't, can't last too long and nobody else can know it.

How much of that was AI? Did you hire somebody, may I ask Charles, to create that? Was it your input to a program that creates videos? Can we ask? Just give us a couple of hints here.

How did you find this one? Go ahead.

There's certain things that I asked the AI engine for.

you know, help me direct, direct me to a, to a target area for, so I can start prowling for it's things that, uh, that are interesting.

And then I'll distill the, um, the feedback, uh, like I always do.

Um, and, um, It gives me the opportunity to be able to, I wouldn't say fence with the AI engine, but stretch it.

See what it'll toss back at me and say, no, no, that's not right.

Give me something that's a little more like this.

Go ahead and tell us more, please.

Would you like me to keep this up, or do you want to be on screen with me reading? You good?

No, just go ahead and leave it up.

I just wanted to kind of give a preface to the story, ladies and gentlemen.

People talk about this is about the ghost code.

I mean, it's a highly virulent software package that's very destructive.

and highly intelligent.

And I wanted to make sure that everybody understood that the, you know, computer viruses aren't just a nuisance.

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