Simon, maybe you can tell us a bit about, yeah, what was your starting point?

My starting point was 1989, New York City, smallest kid in my kindergarten class, a bit of an outcast, couldn't play sports, but I had one friend, a fellow social outcast named Danny Selsom.

He was normal sized, but he stood out for his freakish intelligence.

You could picture the two of us on the edge of the playground, me reading Mad Magazine and Danny playing chess against himself in the mirror.

He started warning me about artificial intelligence in 2008.

My friends and I were so shocked by his predictions that we actually discussed potentially doing an intervention to get him medicated or perhaps institutionalized.

We thought he'd lost his mind.

Simon, do you want to say a bit about this? I mean, I know your background is in comedy, so I assume this was for you a natural approach.

Why did you wanna take on ambition?

Um, it's just something I've always been gravitated to, characters who are, who are very ambitious but, uh, uh, don't quite, uh, pull it off.

Uh, so you'll find a lot of, uh, uh, characters in, in this show that, um, uh, for whatever reason, never quite got the esteem or, or, or respect that they, they hoped for.

Uh, one characteristic story is from the perspective of Paul Revere's horse, uh, Oathie, who, uh, uh, is the person who, uh, Paul Revere rode, uh, during his midnight ride.

But, but sadly, his, his contributions have been lost to time, and he's extremely bitter about it.

How did Laurence get involved, Simon?

So I was a fan of Laurence, but, uh, I'd only met them a couple of times.

And, and Alex, uh, uh, suggested that, that, um, maybe some of their tracks could thematically link to the stories, and, and boy, was he right.