Julie Zhuo: commitment

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…Yes. It's like instead of holding the phone in your pocket, you hold this thing and then you walk around with it and everyone's like, what the hell is that? Yeah. I too am the proud owner of a methaphone and the next version upgrades with the little stickers. But Eric is great. You should definitely have him on your, he's such a creative character. And one time I saw him with a parrot on his shoulder. And I was like, why do you have a parrot on your shoulder? He's like, well, you can talk to my parrot. It's a talking parrot. And then I spoke to the parrot and the parrot spoke back to me. And what had happened is that he had hooked up a microphone. He like kind of surgically went into the parrot and added like a microphone, a speaker and connected it to a voice mode on ChachBT. So that, and it's spoken, I think like a pirate voice. I was like, this is the best idea. And like my six-year-old son is really into raccoons. He has like a huge amount of raccoon stuffies. I was like, I want a raccoon that can talk to him. So I made that using the Eric Antinow method, but it was great. It was a huge hit. And now my middle son's birthday is coming up and he is really into raccoons. parody he loves video games so minecraft but what he often listens to on his alexa are these parody songs so it'll be like justin bieber's hit or like gundam style but they've changed the lyrics so it becomes like a video game parody of some video game that he's playing and they're horribly sung you know they're like off tune it's just like some person who produced it and i was like well if he doesn't seem to mind off key scene i'm going to create him an album of video game parody songs. And I'm going to create like an, so I created an app on Replit that, that what, and what it does is it, you just give it a song. Like, you know, this is Justin Bieber's baby and you link to Spotify song. And I give him some context, like, oh, Locke likes playing Kingdom Rush right now. We have like an inside joke about, you know, the gargoyles being free money. Like whatever it is, I just give it a bunch of content. And like, write me a song that just kind of personalizes it. And it's a parody of this particular video game. And it writes me the lyrics. It's pretty good at doing this. It's like pretty high quality. And then, and it, you know, again, it does it according to the beats of the music. And then I just sing it and record it. And then I got myself a song. So I'm creating an album of this, which I'm going to give to him. He's not going to hear this podcast. So no one spoil it to him. I think he's going to go publish after his birthday, but I'm very excited about this. Wait, so you're going to be the one singing the song?…

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