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Yeah, so anyway, so we got that. We definitely have talked about this, but we got an offer and it was like $750,000 and I turned it down. There was a lot more to it that like I'm not like talking about, but um, I turned it down, and then a couple months later the company just went— company shut down. So basically we wouldn't even have to do everything that they were asking for us to do. They would have had to pay us the money because they shut down. So that was a mistake. I should have taken the money, and then we would have literally— we would have gotten free money because they went bankrupt. They would have had to pay us. Fucking listen to me. There's been— oh, oh, there's this one time. Oh my God, this is the best. I've never talked about this. I worked for this thing I got a job once. It paid really well. Yeah, it was for this automated software on Twitter. It automates tweets and it replies to people automatically. And it's a robot that learns. So the more people that tweet at it, the more it learns about how to speak to people. And I was promoting it. Yeah, and I was getting like, I don't know, let's say like $30,000 for it, right? And I sent out my first tweet. I had to tweet like 4 different tweets. Sent out my first tweet. They didn't send me any of the money. And then I was gonna send out my second tweet, second tweet of 4 to promote this. And I get a call and they go, we gotta pull the entire thing because the robot got so advanced, I didn't even know how to put it. It started to say racial slurs to people because people were tweeting at it like racial slurs. So it was like mimicking other people that it was learning from. And it was like calling people the N-word and just like all bunch of shit. And it was like, it was, it was just really a really bad situation. It was a very bad PR situation for the company. And they called me and they're like, we have to shut the entire thing down. And they had to pay me all the money.

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Jason38:14
They wanted to fucking produce it.
David38:15
They just want to produce it. They wanted to record video. And I was like, this is a bad look. I don't want it. And Jason was like, Jason was like, well, it's funny because like, because like Jason like will get mad at me, but like he knows that he can't conv…
Jason38:47
I go, I do a passive-aggressive thing. I get on the phone with the agents and the lawyers and I go, I go, look, if David's heart isn't in it, it's not gonna work. So my kids will starve.
David39:01
Yeah, so anyway, so we got that. We definitely have talked about this, but we got an offer and it was like $750,000 and I turned it down. There was a lot more to it that like I'm not like talking about, but um, I turned it down, and then a couple months later the company just went— company shut down. So basically we wouldn't even have to do everything that they were asking for us to do. They woul…
Jason40:44
And they paid you it out.
David40:45
They paid me all of it and then didn't have to promote anymore.
Jason40:47
It was so, it's like an automated thing. So if you're like Wendy's or some brand, you can use this service. Yeah. Yeah. Automatically.