So how do you as an artist feel that this could be a detriment for, or do you think it is, it would be a great tool to have, to have something collaborate with you?

I'm not a Luddite, but, um, I am pretty scared of AI and, uh, the way that it's invaded, uh, creative working spaces, and I feel very torn about it because I should probably utilize it more than I do.

I am worried about its, um, you know, the, the outsized environmental impact that it makes.

For example, you know, uh, a search on Claude or, uh, whatever your... or ChatGPT takes what? Five to 10 times the amount of energy that a Google search does.

Um, I think that that's important, but at the same time, I don't wanna cripple myself, uh, you know, and be unfamiliar with tools that you have to use to be a sort of competent, uh, producer or songwriter or engineer or, or, or whatever.

Um, I don't wanna sound like a person who is unfamiliar with using the internet, like the way that those people sound now.

So I'm, I, I struggle with it.

So for you, how different is it when you're in We Are Scientists and you have this groove to suddenly go into a different project and just be that player?

You know, I honestly

haven't even sat down to digest the schedule of people we'll be sharing a lineup with.

As you mentioned earlier when we were just sort of saying what's up before we hit record, the schedule that we run is kind of crazy.

And even though we're sharing lineups with a lot of these people, it's very rare to actually be able to see a lot of the performances that you hope to see.

So I try to almost, as a defensive mechanism, try to not get my hopes up too much about the fact that we might be sharing festival stages with these bands.

That said, it keeps things a super, super, super pleasant surprise when we do get to see people at these festivals.

And then the other thing that's amazing about sharing these lineups is that you get to be blown away by bands that you didn't even realize that you were excited to see.

man oh man brother yeah definitely a big one for sure yeah support the house the family the food lifestyle all this stuff absolutely amen on a more lighter note so this is going to be such a hard question uh for you to answer i'm sure but whatever here we go funniest memory ever with we are scientists to where you all to where you almost peed your pants laughing so hard