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John Coogan (0:02)

First off, I got a little movie to review for you. I saw a movie yesterday. I went to the theater and I saw Prime Time. And I wanted to, yeah, oh, okay. I want a review from those on the production team who have seen Prime Time, the new Robert Pattinson film. But I thought I would try and take you on sort of a film critique, a journey with a review that sort of channels the way Tyler reviews movies. So here's my review of Prime Time.

It was good. The audio was good and the video was good. Act one was good, act two was good, and act three was good. The acting was good. And the lighting and the cinematography was good. And the set design was good.

So overall, I would say it's a good movie.

Jordi Hays (1:02)

Strong review. That was a good review.

John Coogan (1:04)

Pretty good. What do you guys think? You liked it?

Let's get Scott up here. Saw that movie. Yeah? You liked it? I loved it. How cool was the frame? It felt like I was watching IMAX format, but it was just for three.

SPEAKER_3 (1:19)

They used 23 different cameras on that movie.

John Coogan (1:22)

The cinematography was crazy, right? It was insane. And the highlights blown out, and there was so much grain.

It was way too stylized for the Chris Hansen movie. Oh, yeah. It was so stylized. I had no idea where any of this would like, where these ideas came from. It feels like they were just pulling from every different camera from that era.

SPEAKER_3 (1:40)

Yeah.

John Coogan (1:40)

It was really, really cool.

SPEAKER_3 (1:41)

Well, Lance Oppenheim.

John Coogan (1:44)

There we go.

SPEAKER_3 (1:45)

Lance Oppenheim, he does documentaries. Have you seen Ren Faire?

John Coogan (1:48)

Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right.

Jordi Hays (1:50)

That's right.

John Coogan (1:50)

Okay, cool.

Jordi Hays (1:51)

Yeah.

John Coogan (1:52)

But yeah, really, really fun, you know, creative way to throw back to like the way people watch TV at that time, four by three.

SPEAKER_3 (2:01)

I like that Chris Hansen was kind of like the antagonist the entire time.

John Coogan (2:04)

Yeah, it's a complex investigation of his career and the way he's remembered, did he go too far? It feels like a little bit heavy handed, like it's pretty clear the vision. It doesn't fully leave you open to make your own judgment, but you of course can, which I thought was a nice touch. And Robert Pattinson is just in fighting form.

Jordi Hays (2:27)

Yeah, he's in a flow state.

John Coogan (2:28)

He's just in flow state, yeah. He's really good. Anyway, we clearly were teasing it, but of course we have the TBPN Road to Christmas countdown ready for you. Let's let you know, let's remind everyone.

There are 78 days until Christmas. Get ready, get ready. If you missed it yesterday, we did an interview, a deep dive into the Christmas Tree Farmers Association of America, understanding everything from how the Christmas tree industry is structured to techniques for keeping your Christmas tree alive.

Jordi Hays (3:07)

If you watch any tech or business content this week, it's got to be that.

John Coogan (3:11)

It's got to be that.

Jordi Hays (3:12)

It's got to be that interview.

John Coogan (3:15)

We highly recommend that you donate. I made a donation yesterday. treesfortroops.org, give whatever you can.

They also do company matching. So if you work at a company that matches donations. If you're an early anthropic employee and they match three to one, back the truck up, throw down 100 mil. Come on, let's do it.

Let's get, every troop must have the biggest tree possible, a 40 footer.

I want a White House style tree in every troop's home. That would be amazing. No, but he had some harsh words for the plastic tree industry. He called them toilet brushes, which was hilarious. I'd never heard that slur for those plastic trees before, but he had it ready to go, which I enjoyed. And it did, and I noticed some people in the comments saying, hey, look, I understand that a real tree is better, but not everyone can afford a real tree. And the economics of a plastic tree just sometimes make more sense for certain people. And I understand that not everyone's in the position to buy a brand new expensive tree. Anyway, Ben Thompson's going through a bunch of frustrations over Mac OS, he's vibe coding, building apps, the apps need permissions, we've talked about this, the agent agera.

But yesterday, there was a post that hit the timeline that was pretty crazy, a sort of truth nuke, for the Adobe crowd. Someone decompiled basically every Adobe product, Artcraft, getartcraft.com, capable tools for artists, and you can download for free, all sorts of different tools that they have, and they basically cloned. What kind of tools? Photoshop, Premiere Pro, it feels like they can do a lot, I'm not exactly sure if they decompiled everything in the Adobe ecosystem, but listed here is Photocraft, which is clearly Photoshop, Vectorcraft, which is Adobe Illustrator, Filmcraft, which is Premiere Pro, Lightcraft, which is Lightroom, Printcraft, Effectcraft, which looks like After Effects, and then Designcraft, which is, I think, in design. More crafts are on the way. And so it says, all Adobe products re-implemented from scratch, free and open source. And this is pretty, pretty crazy. There have been open source competitors to Photoshop for a long time. They've always lagged a lot. I downloaded the Photoshop Decompilation Photocraft, used it a little bit. Not bad, pretty remarkable how many tools did make it over. It actually doesn't have everything that you would expect. Some of the really cool features of modern Photoshop are actually AI and they run on the server. So if you want to patch a hole, you've always been able to fill it in with a full color. You've also been able to do content aware fill, where it has a basic algorithm that looks at the colors of the pixels around, the textures, and tries to blend that in. But it can be a little, it's pretty hallucinatory. And then recently, Adobe launched AI fill. I forget what it's called. It's not content aware fill, it's some generative fill. I think they call it generative fill. And that of course runs on the server, usually uses Nano Banana, or they have a couple of fine tune models. And that feature, because it's server side, doesn't work. So there's this interesting thing where like, yeah, you're in the death of software, you can just decompile everything. But at the same time, I probably want my software to run on the server. I want the server to be stable.