LNT Anime Ep 7

Xenoverse 3 is on the horizon, so we had to take it back to when Xenoverse 2 had everybody grinding custom characters, running co-op quests, and surviving raid chaos like it was a lifestyle. Carlos and I talk about why Xenoverse changed Dragon Ball gaming and what Part 3 needs: better progression, deeper transformations, and real squad content.

Then we jump into the current anime wave — Dandadan, Black Clover, Blue Lock, Re:Zero, Slime, Dr. Stone, Bleach, One Piece pacing, Crunchyroll Awards politics, Netflix anime, Devil May Cry, and Ghost in the Shell hitting way too close to real life with AI and bots.

Nostalgia, hot takes, watchlist fuel, and real anime culture talk.

What are you most hyped for: Xenoverse 3, a new anime season, or the next big sci-fi comeback?

Transcript

Roommates Bond Over Xenoverse

SPEAKER_01 0:00

It's Layton LA. Life of Times Anime, episode seven. Me and Carlos in the building.

SPEAKER_02 0:08

What's up, man?

SPEAKER_01 0:09

How are you feeling?

SPEAKER_02 0:10

Check one two one two. Yes, sir. We are here. And dog, I'm so excited for this episode because of what we're getting into. Like, this is gonna be this is gonna be some heat. This is gonna be a banger for sure.

SPEAKER_01 0:23

If people don't know, me and Carlos used to be roommates. And one of the first things we ever bonded over besides college madness was Xeno verse 2. We would spend an unhealthy amount in between classes. Well, I definitely skipped some.

SPEAKER_03 0:43

I'll be real, I definitely skipped some.

SPEAKER_01 0:45

Come on, you know, we had to stay up that night. It was serious, it was serious business. I understood. I understood the mission, bro. But no, man, like foundation of this podcast, the foundation of our friendship is Zeniverse. Like, it's crazy. It really threw me back. I was like, wow, like 1920, bro. And like this shit mattered, bro. Like, it was so cool to have the option to be an earthling, a Saiyan, a Frieza. I know they upgraded, there's more races in there, mods, yeah, more transformations. But like Xenoverse 3 is on the

Why Xenoverse 3 Feels Huge

SPEAKER_01 1:20

way, bro. Are you excited? Crazy.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

Bro, I'm so excited because as you were saying, like, Xenoverse 1 changed Dragon Ball gaming completely. It completely changed it. And when Xenoverse 2 came out, it was like, make your own character. You could link with the homies, you can go on parallel quests. Nateer and I were in like squads of five doing raids, doing parallel quests. And I remember one of the parallel quests that we ran the most, it was I think fighting. Yeah, we were Gogeta Janemba? Yeah, Gogeta, Janemba. We were in hell. We were in hell. You would have to fight Time Breaker, Gogeta, Timeer Fizza, Time Breaker Broly, and I think Time Breaker Janemba was the final boss, and he would throw like this giant key blast, and you and your entire squad would have to go to it and push it back, spin and like do all your key blasts, do all your super attacks, do all your ultimates to put in damage to push the key blast back on some father-son kamehame ha type B, or else the whole stage would explode, everyone would die, and we just lose and die.

SPEAKER_01 2:32

Fucking try it again.

SPEAKER_02 2:34

And you got ranked based on how much damage you got. And I remember the squad of five we had, it was like my self needed. We were D1. We didn't know them personally, we didn't know them personally, but they were we knew them by username, like Nike Sims, Sticky, and we put hours on that game. Like we would fight each other in endless battle, we would do parallel quests, like whoever would had the farthest parallel quest, we would just be like, Oh, let's hop on your parallel quest and try and get the item drop, skill drop, or the clothing drop. That game platformed Dragon Ball so well, and they just kept dropping DC. They just dropped so much content for so long. That was the only game I played between 20, I think, 16, 17, like up to 2019, bro.

SPEAKER_01 3:22

Yeah, no, it was in heavy rotation. Obviously, once you max out your character, it gets bored. But bro, yeah, that grind, that initial grind was so fire.

SPEAKER_02 3:32

Initial grind was so firefire, bro. Because it's like our squad had one of each race. It was like our freezer race. Nate was either a Saiyan or Earthling or a Namekian, and we had one of each, so our squad was super balanced because we had one of each.

SPEAKER_01 3:53

Go giant, solve some problems.

SPEAKER_02 3:55

Yeah, man. Especially when those key blasts would hit the giant.

SPEAKER_01 3:59

When we were trying to push it back, we always go giant. Yeah. Especially against them sayings, bro. Bro, remember when we used to play, we used to fight Goku or Vegeta, and we played them through all their forms, all the way up to blue. Yeah, dude. Crazy.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

Oh my gosh. Yeah, dude. It was honestly, that was peak game, dude.

SPEAKER_01 4:18

Bro, we used the first two was peak. Bro, gaming from like 2017 to 2020, it was like a different level, bro. Especially that COVID gaming we got into. That shit was crazy, bro. I'm gonna fucking show how much Call of Duty, like acting like it's I'm like a Delta Force. Like, no, we gotta know. We gotta push, we gotta push, we gotta clear. Like it's crazy, bro. It's very serious.

SPEAKER_02 4:46

Right your ass game. Xenoverse three, oh my god. The fact that they did so much for Xenoverse 2 makes me that much more excited for Xenoverse 3 because if they drop even 5% of the content that they drop for Xenoverse 2 for Xenoverse 3, dude, we're in for an amazing game. Because Xenoverse 2 was so much better than Xenoverse 1. So it's like, yo, we're gonna jump another level and look at what Dragon Ball has been since the gap from Xenoverse 2 to Xenoberse 3. Like, we've got to be able to do that.

SPEAKER_01 5:21

And the super's about to start again. Dude, it's just gonna roll in together.

DBZ Villains And Piccolo Stories

SPEAKER_01 5:27

The coolest part of Xenoverse is that it personalized the anime for the consumer. We would go in there and get to be an Earthling, get to be a Nameki, get to be a Saint. That was crazy LARPing at the time, bro.

SPEAKER_02 5:41

It really was. And to build to take in the time machine, like on future trunks, bro. When Xenoverse 2 came out, that was the start of the Goku Black arc, bro.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

We are just getting back into Super. That's what Super just started. That was before Ultra Instinct. I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

And the crazy thing is, I remember I pre-ordered the game to get Goku Black early release on the roster, just in base form. This was just base form Goku Black. Super Sai Rose wasn't out. It was literally like the first episode of The Future Trunks Arc, Goku Black appears, and everyone is like, who the hell is this?

SPEAKER_01 6:22

Crazy. Goku Black used to be like a real threat, too. Like he used to be like on shit, bro. This is crazy, like the rise and fall of a DBZ villain, bro. Yeah, bro. He was like DBZ villains come in, flex it so hard, bro. Like crazy. Remember Rattus? He came in, packed everybody out, bro.

SPEAKER_02 6:44

Packed up everybody. Piccolo was like, I gotta catch this everybody. Like, I gotta catch out.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

Bro, I've been waiting to catch it saying hat. He'd been waiting this whole day for that hat, bro. That's just crazy. He called it a special beam for a reason, bro. Praying for that. He's like, no, this is actually for you, Goku, but I guess I'll save her. Piccolo was the various bro. Oh there. Piccolo, like the various characters. Yeah, bro, the biggest ore farmer on earth, bro. I'll never forget when I'm watching like Dragon Ball Z Broly, right? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:24

All the same got laid out. Niggas just about to die. Piccolo used the smallest amount of king to disrupt Broly's blast. He just pulled up a tough setsupe. You feel me? Bro, Piccolo, like you cuts from across the planet.

SPEAKER_02 7:44

Thinking he about to fucking do damage whole time he got folded, bro. He showed up to the floor.

SPEAKER_01 7:49

Bro, he got folded immediately, bro. But he or a farm as soon as he got there. Piccolo's a funny one. Yo, he's so funny to me, bro. Oh, bro. I love Shonis. Shonis be wilder. But to speak about uh a wild shonen,

Dandadan And The New Shonen Lead

SPEAKER_01 8:07

bro. Have you ever seen The Damp?

SPEAKER_02 8:10

Yeah, that's a really cheap bro.

SPEAKER_01 8:13

At first I was like, whoa, this is a little strange. But then I had to like really watch it. It is really good. I like the power system. I like the story. I like the comedy in it. And yeah, I like how like it gets serious. Yeah. It gets very serious. Things are at risk.

SPEAKER_02 8:31

The most precious of jewels are at risk. Denzen reminds me a lot of Mob Psycho 100. And like a darker tone of it. And I really like animes like that where it's like the main character looks a little unserious until shit really hits the fan and you really take it there. And they're just like, yo, you sure you want to take it there? Because I could really take it there.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

No? Bro, it's just good to see that the anime trope of the shonen being some hyper-aggressive, overachiever, extroverted person is not the thing that carries a series anymore. We got Taitama, we got Mob 100, we got Sai Ikai, like we got the Dan, where we have characters who are like just normal people gaining abilities and then acclimating to this world. But like, yeah, they're not like, I'm trying to train every day. Like they had to like get used to this shit. Like they didn't know what was going on. Yeah, like I like that. Like, imagine there was this like a regular Earthling on the DBZ world. It's like, you know what, man? I'm tired of Goku and them, bro. I gotta train something out. This is this is a web novel where it's Krillin versus the universe, and this is uh like an AU where Krillin like continuously trained to try to stay amongst the top. It is crazy, bro. But I like that type of shit where like the character you'll think is gonna be doing something is doing something. But uh animation is crazy, bro. The animation is fucking nuts, bro.

SPEAKER_02 10:05

Crispy, man. It really is crispy, and they do well. It's a very well-balanced anime because I was like, I get good characters, great power system, great animation, and bro, the plot has me hooked. Like, I'm invested.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

Also, it's another Netflix banger, bro. Netflix is really investing in anime, bro. And this is a segue to the

Devil May Cry Season Two Talk

SPEAKER_01 10:27

next topic. Like, we got Devil May Cry season two. Did you watch it?

SPEAKER_00 10:31

Ooh, yeah, you watched it? Yeah, I didn't yo. That's what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_02 10:37

Two episodes into the second season, and it's like, mind you, Devil May Cry has a special place in my heart because I played all the games. I was heavily invested in the games. And granted, there's a couple of gripes I have with the series, but overall, I'm still enjoying it. And I hope they take it further. Like, I really hope Netflix takes it further. Like they really give it this Devil May Cry 4 with Nero, Virgil's son, is one of my favorite games. Where you get to play as his son, basically the whole game was one of my favorite games, the PlayStation.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

Bro, this is like I wish Marvel or at least Street Fighter got an anime as well. Because I don't remember the games that well. Like, I remember playing them. I know who Dante is, I know Pizza Guns is a thing. Like, I remember playing all the games. It came out the same time, I think it's like Prince of Persia, Ninja Gaiden, like around that time. And yeah, Deep Cuts. Ninja Gaiden got a new game. I play that shit for pure nostalgia, bro. It's just crazy. I was in there with the nunchucks trying to get to it, bro. But uh Devil May Cry, bro, I'm not gonna tell you anything that happens or anything like that, but it is a solid, solid season two. And I mean, you see the first two episodes, bro, they get to it as far as the action, bro. Like, the action is real.

SPEAKER_02 11:56

Because season one left off on some like, yo, it's getting critical now.

SPEAKER_01 12:00

We're in it. We're in the thick of it, bro. Like, I really appreciate what Netflix is doing with these animes, bro, because that would be cry, man. I wish you had watched the whole thing because I could really get into it, bro. That shit is fire, bro. At least from my perspective. The only thing that I lack is like, I played the games, but I wasn't like I never took a game story art to mean that's gonna be like I've played X-Men games. I never watched X-Men Evolution, like, yo, this should be like I never did, bro. No, that's a like I heard a complaint, but I've never done that before, bro. Like, it's not like it's God of War to me. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, I hear it, like God of War, like that is shit. Like, it was nothing like a fucking game, though. But it's nothing like any of the games. So, like, what are we talking about? It's loud cut. It is loud cut. Because then y'all can do whatever far as game dialogue. I've never heard of that, bro. Like, I heard that with like Arkham, like Batman Arkham, so the story mode was so like, but it's more like a single player, like that will make cry a single player, but it's I never took it as like a serious, like his story was like serious, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 13:17

Yeah, the first I the first three are the real story carrying ones, especially three. Once you get to four and five, that's when it's like, okay, we're getting we're deviating a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 13:32

I mean, I'm always down to see some wild shit, bro. Like far as like I want to see people die and as soon as I turn on the anime or whatever show I'm watching. I need to get it in. Because it's wild out here, so I need to be ready.

Black Clover Finale And Missed Momentum

SPEAKER_01 13:44

Bro, how did you feel about Black Clover and how it ended? My man Asta, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 13:52

So I had I was into Black Clover heavily when the anime first dropped around I want to say this is 2017-ish or early, late 2017 to 2018-ish. And then mind you, I remember in college, I burned through that manga once the anime started to break. Burned through that manga. But I feel like they took their foot off the gas right as like in their peak, in their own peak. Because I remember, bro, here's the thing Julius Novicrono dying, us thinking that Julius Novacrono was dead was wild. Because it was like, bro, he's the only person that has time magic. And going through the story and realizing that his soul was like split in half. Because he used all his time fighting Lish, he used all his time, his soul, like his soul was split in half this entire time. And then uh Lucy took over his body, bro. That was crazy. But it's like they took a break before they could get to that peakness. So it's like you kind of stunted your own trajectory and your own growth because of it. So I feel like because of that break that they took, it's like you're not in conversations you're supposed to be in.

SPEAKER_01 15:13

You know, yeah. I bro, I never was like a big black clover guy. Like, I understand, you know, it made a lot of money, bro. I just never got into the shit. Like, I watched it, I saw the ending, but like I can't come out of it and say, yo, this shit's right up here with you, Hakka. This is right up here with full metal optimists, this right up here with Hunter X Hunter. Like, I can't, it doesn't feel fleshed out. It feels like seven deadly sins in a way where like it's just a power-up. You know what I'm saying? Like, this happening, he just power up like fairy tales.

SPEAKER_02 15:46

And that they shot themselves in the f with it. I I hear you. I definitely hear you because here's the thing those are the conversations they downgraded themselves into, in my opinion. They downgraded themselves into. I don't even fuck with fairy tale like that, I'll be honest. But now you're in you're in like this space where it's like, dude, you could have been born.

SPEAKER_01 16:07

This shit's feeling like, bro, how the boys is feeling. The end of the boys is looking like it's gonna be like a flop, but you know, some game of down shit, bro.

SPEAKER_02 16:16

I'm just getting into season five. You're in season five? Yeah, I'm getting into season five. And I'm like, and I'm like, yo, the boys don't because of of course, like I I only watch spoilers on the comments because like I'm like, alright, cool. Like, where are we? What's our trajectory based on what we and so far? But I've I've gotten very split opinions about the boys.

SPEAKER_01 16:41

Yeah, I mean, they just didn't land it properly. It just doesn't look like it's gonna land properly. I'm gonna watch the last episode. Hopefully, I'm wrong, right? Hopefully I'm wrong, but we'll see.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

Right.

Do The Crunchyroll Awards Matter

SPEAKER_01 16:52

How do you feel about Dutchy Roll anime awards? It's popping off and it has a lot of opinions and power within the anime world and realm, but like I always thought the fans picked the product, bro. I don't know why we like I don't want the anime to turn into the Grammy system where like artists and like I don't want that to happen, bro. I don't want that to happen where like there's back shaking deals, and oh yeah, now you're gonna get an award because you're pushing this agenda, we're gonna get an award for this. That's not what anime is about, bro. It's what it cream rides to the top. That's why show the jump comes out every week. That's how I feel about that, bro.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

And I agree, and it's crazy that you brought up the Grammys. That's immediately where my mind went. I was like, bro, like Country Roll Awards is starting to feel like the Grammys, because it's like, mind you, with the Michael Jackson movie coming, right? I can't remember off the top of my head how many Grammys he has. But it's like I know Beyonce has some Grammys and Drake got some Grammys. And it's here's the thing the streets, if you know, you know. Like, no one's gonna say Drake is better than Mike Jack. You know what I mean? But it's like, because my thing is if you got a banger, especially if an anime is a banger, the streets is gonna tell you, bro. And like you don't need the validation of the Crunchyroll Awards.

SPEAKER_01 18:11

Yeah, no, I I feel like because I don't want people to be discouraged to not have like these one season anime that are fire. We might not get Megalow Box because a dude's just trying to get six seasons, right? He's like, Or we might even get a Lord of Mysteries. Yeah, that's not gonna happen. It's like, no, it's too slow. Somebody, something gotta happen. I don't want that to happen with the overall anime creation. It's a lot, so many new animes out here that I don't want corrupted by the process, man. Because, like, just like the Grammys, bro, like it literally is like if I do what you say behind closed doors, here's a reward, but I don't really I can't really back that shit, bro. Have you been watching Damons of the Shadow Realm?

The Flood Of New Anime Picks

SPEAKER_02 18:55

It's on my watch list.

SPEAKER_01 18:59

So good, man. It's really good. I love the power system, bro. It's crazy. We're eating good.

SPEAKER_02 19:06

We've been talking about the banger bagger when it comes to the anime community. And it's like, I remember year, like a couple of years ago when like all major animes were on a break. We weren't really getting fed with new content. And it's like, yo, I feel like every week there's a new anime to talk about that hit the streets. That's just like, yo, you to watch.

SPEAKER_01 19:26

I feel like we're in the age of entertainment, bro. Like, yeah, Drake just dropped three albums, major boxing and UFC cards going on this weekend. It's been happening every weekend. Yeah. There's about to be a UFC fight at the White House. Like, this stuff is bread and circuses. That's all I'm saying. Pay attention. It's definitely the age of content, bro.

SPEAKER_02 19:48

Like, bro, there's so much with us being able to stream everything, just so much access. It's like, do I want mac and cheese? Do I want brown rice? Do I want some collard greens? Do I want cornbread with cheese? And the thing, like, hey, ain't nothing wrong with it. I want a little bit of anything on my plate.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

I'm gonna go vegan, I might go Mexican, I might get some, uh, I might get some sushi, I might get some oxtail, what I need. And that's okay. How do you feel about ReZero?

SPEAKER_02 20:20

Have you partake? Yeah, this one was interesting because it's like I this is an anime I didn't expect to get this much traction, bro. Because like, I'll be honest, like I watched ReZero and I was like, that was cool, that was cute.

SPEAKER_01 20:34

I thought it was like so you know the anime erased, right? Yeah, it has the same concept, and I thought they did it pretty well in concise. I feel like ReZero is kind of milking the shit, bro. See this, bro.

SPEAKER_02 20:51

With the agenda going on, I'm thinking, I'm like, is I mean, is the demand really that high? I just genuinely didn't get it because I'm like, is the demand that high? I don't think it's that great. I'm not going out of my need to watch to be like, I really need to, you feel me, tap into ReZero. Like, bro, like Blue Lock got the streets right now, so it's like, bro, I'd rather watch Blue Lock than watch ReZero. I'll keep it above.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

I gotta start Blue Lock, bro. It's on Netflix. I'm gonna start that shit. Yo, how many seasons did it got? It only got one or is a couple? I think two, two, two seasons? All right, Netflix got one.

SPEAKER_02 21:24

Bro, and you know what's dope about Blue Lock? Japan is really embracing like the culture of Blue Lock, especially with the World Cup coming up, bro. It's really dope. It's really dope to see them bridging anime and sport, especially soccer, like football, on a global level, bro. So fire.

SPEAKER_01 21:42

Bro, they do the same with Hajimi no Ippo with the boxer in a way from Japan, bro. It's just tough as hell, bro. I'm not gonna lie. It's just too tough. When you you're actually doing something in the anime, but you're pulling from it, it is it's too tough, bro. How do you also? I had to watch this one too. That time I got reincarnated. To a slime, I was going to get past season one.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

If you can get past season one, get past season one, yeah, bro. When once you get past season one, you're in for some heat. Okay, so it's it's worth it. It's definitely worth it.

SPEAKER_01 22:19

It is for like I I was having a hard time with season one. I'm like, is it me? I know, I know.

SPEAKER_02 22:28

It's a hard digester, bro. It is, and the other thing, even me as someone who loves all animes, like, because someone in college, I think it was Mamadu, Mama College told me about it. And he's like, bro, he told me he's an even more hardcore anime head than I am, bro. And he's like, bro, just tough it through. Tough through season one, bro. I promise, he's like, I promise you the div dens will be insane.

SPEAKER_01 22:52

I was like, bro, are you sure? Once I got past season one, I said, hey, we got Dr. Stone wrapping up. This is last season out here. I appreciated Dr. Stone. I mean, we talked about it before, but to make the shonen typecasting just be reversed and flipped, and it'd be more about how smart you are, how you lead a team, your leadership, people make a sacrifices. And it's all like everything he's doing, it's like actually you can go do. Like, it's crazy. Like, if I if I had kids, bro, I'd be like, if you're watching this, this is something you should learn from. Like, if you had to start from scratch, bro, because like that stuff is wow. Like Dr. Stone, like the premise for it, right? Like waking up all that time later on and then rebuilding society from the beginning. And it's just because you know this shit. Like, if he was just a person that woke up, you know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 23:47

Bro, imagine what was that science guy we watched as a kid in middle school?

SPEAKER_01 23:52

Oh Neil the Science guy.

SPEAKER_02 23:54

Yeah, Neil the Science. Imagine if he got his own anime, bro. Like, and it's gonna be like a positive Rick, yeah, bro. And it's and what I like about Dr. Stone is that anyone can enjoy it. Like a little kid can enjoy it, a teenager, an adult. It's just so enjoyable, bro. And it's mad empowering. Like, I think I watch Dr. Stone and I'm like, yo, I feel confident, like, oh, okay, I understand the periodic table and how to make these and how to make like these chemical reactions and XYZ society to establish electricity to to create telecommunication and all this, that, and the third. Like, bro, I bro, I love Dr. Stone, bro. It's bro.

SPEAKER_01 24:36

Bro, you can sit down and write down a manual from the anime, and if everything with this shit, you can start from that manual, bro. Like, I'm telling you, it wouldn't take you, it wouldn't take you long. It's free information out there. Go grab it. How

One Piece Pacing And Bleach Hype

SPEAKER_01 24:51

are you feeling with this LBF pacing with One Piece, bro? It gotta starve it a little bit, bro. A couple episodes. I needed more, bro. I feel like I feel like bubbles for the wire, bro. I feel like I gotta sell some shit. I gotta sell my laptop to get a new episode at something. What we got going here?

SPEAKER_02 25:11

And it's like we've been going at this for all the One Piece fans out there. We've been in this for so long, bro. It's it kind of felt like how they were trying to drag out the last bit of Attack on Titan with like the final season part one and two. And it's like, bro, like, just give us the take.

SPEAKER_01 25:29

Why you gotta take me to the dairy farm, bro? Why you gotta melt, bro?

SPEAKER_02 25:34

Yes, bro. We've already made this much progress. Like, come on.

SPEAKER_01 25:38

I'm giving Luffy and them tons of money, bro. Tons of berries, bro. Come on, bro. Tons of Tom as well. So, like, I hope hopefully we can get this picked up and we can get to the end of One Piece, bro. I'm excited to get there. I never thought we would be here. I never thought we would get there, I'll be honest. Bro, I thought I was gonna have kids before that shit dropped, bro. I think I'm gonna say I thought it would be done. But seriously. It looks like it's on its way to be completed. We got Bleach, it's about to be done. The last episode, as far as the Bleach War with everything that's going on with the Quincy's. Bleach is big three for a reason. When they lock in, when they're serious, and when they actually want to prove a point, they are who they who they think they are, bro. Bleach is always dope. Even though Ichigo is like everybody, you know, he got all the blood types.

SPEAKER_02 26:31

Hold that thought. Real cool. Mond of all. Yeah, I got you.

SPEAKER_00 26:36

We back. Listen.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

Bleach, bro. I can't wait to see the ending live, bro, to see that and that animated action, that ginso tin show from my boy Ichigo with the completed Bankai, with the Quincy blood and the holofacation. He got every blood style. So we gotta see him at his peak powers, saving the date. Hey, Ghost and Shell

Ghost In The Shell Meets Real AI

SPEAKER_01 27:04

is probably so ahead of his time. I don't know if you know this is an OG anime. Ghost and Shell. Yeah. Oh, yeah. The way we're reaching that status with AI and bots and throne. And so hey, it was this predate and everything. Did it predict everything? This shit's crazy, bro.

SPEAKER_02 27:24

100%. And it's like, bro, looking back at it, like I remember not even realizing what I was watching as a kid, like watching Ghost of the Shaw as a kid. I'm looking back at it now. I'm like, whoa. This is it's like one of those uncomfortably like, wow, we really we got here. We really didn't get here in only a couple of decades.

SPEAKER_01 27:47

It didn't take us long. People people don't even understand, like 10 years, it's gonna jump. Tech's gonna do a big jump on a day-to-day basis. Like again, like people don't even peep. There's gonna be people, I'm not gonna have one. People gonna have robots in the crib.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

And they just had it on a plane. Like they just bro, dude had a robot with him on the plane, like took it through TSA and all that, and then came out with a call. Like, no, no bots on the plane, big dog.

SPEAKER_01 28:21

No bots. People gonna have a combat bot, they drone bot, their security bots. Like, it's gonna be wild, bro. Fucking synth bot. People have their own doctors now, they got health bots, because you know, they got AI doing surgery now.

SPEAKER_02 28:40

Yeah, bro.

SPEAKER_01 28:41

So once it gets to a certain level of accuracy, why not have an in-house AI, not in-house dentist, an in-house doctor? How would I outsource or go pay a human to do this when I can have a machine do this and not like pay one time? And anybody in my family needs some help. I got this bot right here. Yeah, I got you. I got you squared away already. Just come over, bro. Stop tripping. Bro, it's a while, but uh I'm really surprised that Ghost of the Shell is coming back, bro. Coming to July. I'm I'm I'm gas for it. I we're probably gonna live through it.

SPEAKER_02 29:19

I'm telling you, I mean, we did we've already lived through everything else, so it's like it's coming back. I'm like, wow, you have so much more actual you gave us that much before we even got to that point. And look at how much more source material you have to use for whatever's for whatever's to come.

SPEAKER_01 29:37

I'm excited. I'm excited for that in Cyberpunk. I think that's exactly where we're headed in the cyberpunk era, in in the ghost and shell era, bro. And I'm excited for the future. I'm excited for these animes coming up. This is episode seven, Life and Times Anime. Me and Carlos, the best hosts. Let's get it.