Yeah.

And that's a big deal.

I mean, I know, you know, like, my friends over at the Mets Fix podcast, right? Um, Blake I know a little bit.

And I know that he is a big proponent of this theory, uh, that...

Well, I shouldn't say he's a big proponent.

I know they've floated this theory that this was a stopgap year, that in truth, the Mets knew that they didn't have a team that could be built into a legitimate World Series contender, that it was always gonna be next year where they started to have the team they really wanted.

And when you have a rich owner, you can paper that over with some really fancy short-term free agents, like say Bobuchet and Jorge Polanco and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and still compete for the playoffs in theory.

Why are we Mets fans noted for our failures?

(laughs)

And so I was like, "Okay, well, what are people actually using it for? What is actually happening with AI?" So I started with a visual effects company that works with AI called Metaphysic.

The reason why I wanted to start with them is because everything I kept hearing was that when AI descended upon Hollywood, it was gonna hit visual effects first and hardest.

So I wanted to start with a visual effects company.

Um, and this particular special effects company, visual effects company, Metaphysic, their specialty was sort of taking the deep fake logic and, uh, of digitally creating a photorealistic copy of a famous person's face, um, and applying that to all sorts of aspects of the filmmaking industry, from special effects to dubbing, to reshoots, animation, aging and de-aging, et cetera.

And so I went and spent time with them, and one of the first things they did was they sat me down in a chair, pointed a camera at me, uh, and there was a television screen opposite me, and, uh, my face was on the screen.

And then the Metaphysic guy clickety-clacked a little bit on his keyboard, and suddenly my face had Tom Hanks's face sort of pasted on top of mine.

Hm.