Ryan Whitney

But then, you know, other companies started to take over that distribution, too.

But it's evolving.

So where do you think where do you see it as being at right now as opposed to like, is it a better place?

Is it a worse place?

Give them a chance.

It'd be like a computer playing out of tune all the time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then after, were you angry at yourself?

Were you like, I can't believe I enjoyed that?

It was a computer that did it.

yeah yeah i mean that would be that would be ideal um but knowing how these things tend to work i'm not so sure that that's like someone's going to make sure to get all the clearances to go back and pay somebody that wrote a song you know that influenced yeah i do like you you have an optimistic spin on ai because it's sometimes hard to uh like really grasp it and and not get a

Yeah.

Yeah, my optimistic spin on AI, and the music industry is definitely part of it, is that I'm hoping we reach a point, or it will be ugly to get to this point, but because everything will be fake or computerized, that human interactions one-on-one becomes gold.

Actually when the, uh, like the Napsters of the world came out, the Morpheus's of the world back at, when was that?

Probably like around 2000.

They started to really make it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Were you resistant to that at first?