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The Future of Concerts · Presented by Speaking Human

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Fuzz, where we envisioned the ideas we'll
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  Speaker 1: all be buzzing about in the future.
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  Speaker 2: The Fuzz.
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  Speaker 1: The future, in.
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  Speaker 3: The future, in the future, in the future.
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  Speaker 2: While the things we talk about on this podcast might
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  Speaker 2: seem impossible or even slightly insane, so did holographic performers,
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  Speaker 2: silent discos, and virtual reality festivals. And yet here we
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  Speaker 2: are living in a world where people have seen holographic
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  Speaker 2: tupac live on stage.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. On today's episode, we're talking about concerts, those
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  Speaker 1: sensory explosions of music, lights, and human energy. But will
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  Speaker 1: an artist with an instrument and a speaker be enough
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  Speaker 1: to enthrall audiences thousands of years from now or even
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of years from now. Let's find out. Let's take
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  Speaker 1: a trip into the future.
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  Speaker 2: Patrick, I think we should let me take you into
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  Speaker 2: a future. But first, you know, we have to step
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  Speaker 2: into the time machine. Are you still going to concerts
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  Speaker 2: with your feet? Time to upgrade, because in twenty forty five,
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  Speaker 2: you don't attend the show. This show attends you. Introducing
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  Speaker 2: Live Live Live or Live Cube, the only concert platform
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  Speaker 2: that performs directly inside your brain. See the lasers behind
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  Speaker 2: your eyelids, feel the drums in your chest, cavity, taste
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  Speaker 2: the music. No seriously, cherry synth wave is trending, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's a rooftop set in New Nairobi or an interdimensional
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  Speaker 2: unplug session with Hologram Cobain. Live Cube beams it all
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  Speaker 2: into your neuroport. No lines, no overpriced parking, no fellow
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  Speaker 2: human is required. But hold onto your hologlasses because when
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  Speaker 2: you subscribe to the Infinity Pass, you'll unlock unlimited immersive
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  Speaker 2: shows across all timelines and timelines, adjacent experiences, BIOSYNCD, VIP upgrades.
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  Speaker 2: That's very intimate perception for you old folk and reality
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  Speaker 2: filters turn any artist into a jellyfish made of light
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  Speaker 2: or a sentient fog machine with fatty issues. But don't
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  Speaker 2: take our word for it. Here's a real customer testimonial.
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  Speaker 2: I caught forty two concerts last week while sleeping. I cried,
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  Speaker 2: I moshed, I astral projected. Thanks Live Cube. Don't just
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  Speaker 2: hear the music, don't just see the show live cubed
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  Speaker 2: because reality was getting boring. So back from the future.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of that shad What do you
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  Speaker 2: think of live live live or live live live seems
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  Speaker 2: like it could go either way, you know, live cube.
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  Speaker 1: Live cube, Yeah, depending on how we're pronouncing things in
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  Speaker 1: the future.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean technically you're living it's live performance, but
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  Speaker 2: you're living it, you know kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: So it could be live or live live.
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  Speaker 2: Live, yeah, or live live live or live live live.
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  Speaker 1: So many permutations. It's pretty interesting. So we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: concerts taking place in your brain essentially.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're sensing them as if you're there emotional. You're
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  Speaker 2: seeing them almost like memories. But your live memories seems
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're feeling them like they happened.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hm.
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  Speaker 1: So there's no longer the limitations of time and space.
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  Speaker 1: Probably still the limitation of cost I assume, but no
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  Speaker 1: longer you know, I have to get to this place
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  Speaker 1: to see this band at this time. You know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: they're only playing in Great Britain.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't get there, but you can go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean you could see them from where you're at.
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  Speaker 2: You could see them, you could feel them, you could
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  Speaker 2: hear them, you could taste them, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When you say taste them, am I tasting what? Am
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  Speaker 1: I tasting?
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  Speaker 3: The air?
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  Speaker 2: The you know, like how you go to a certain
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  Speaker 2: concert and there's like a there's like a I mean
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  Speaker 2: the fog machines, the dry you know, dry ice, or
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  Speaker 2: there's like a musky scent in the stadium.
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  Speaker 1: There's some familiar smells.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, tell me more about these sentient fog machine things
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  Speaker 1: are coming to life. I don't know if i'd want
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  Speaker 1: that part.
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  Speaker 2: It'd be like scary, be a nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like I'm going on a trip. I like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I just want to be there for the music. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's that's how we view things, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Somebody else might want I want to
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  Speaker 1: go farther. I want to take this somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: This is again going back to this idea of the tagline,
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  Speaker 2: right because reality was getting boring. Eventually people are going
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  Speaker 2: to get bored with the status quo. You always have
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  Speaker 2: to up the ante.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's like when we talk about movies, you know, movies
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  Speaker 2: filmed in the eighties versus today, way more high octane
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  Speaker 2: cut scenes are quicker, you know what I mean? Like,
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  Speaker 2: eventually people are gonna get bored with just going to
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  Speaker 2: a concert.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. At first, it'll be super cool, I see
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  Speaker 1: this band I love, Maybe I'll see them ten times
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  Speaker 1: and then after the eleventh time, you're like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: I need something a little different here, just.
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  Speaker 2: The next level, right, I need the Infinity Pass, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean, because I need all that extra stuff, biosync,
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  Speaker 2: VIP upgrades.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds cool. I'm in on it. I
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  Speaker 1: hope you know it's it's an affordable option for the people.
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  Speaker 1: I hope it's not just for the elites.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, ironically, Live Nation probably sells live live live tickets.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's cool. I would like that. I think I
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  Speaker 1: would enjoy that. I'd probably go to more concerts if
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  Speaker 1: I had the option to experience them in my brain,
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  Speaker 1: for sure. So I guess then you lose the option of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, experiencing them with others. Could you bring others
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  Speaker 1: in your own head? Well, I mean, you know, could
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  Speaker 1: you say in my I want to have this experience
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  Speaker 1: with other people, and that's the experience you have in
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  Speaker 1: your in your mind and your.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that's probably possible. I mean, if this is possible,
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  Speaker 2: seems pretty far fetched, right, But if this is possible,
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  Speaker 2: that's gotta be possible.
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  Speaker 1: But it'd be pretty funny because I'd be like, Patrick,
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  Speaker 1: we went to that concert together, and you'd be like,
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  Speaker 1: we definitely did not.
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  Speaker 2: Or you know, like if those were joint neuro experiences
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  Speaker 2: where you're like, yeah, I want to both kind of
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  Speaker 2: buy it. Yeah, we buy tickets and we're like we
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  Speaker 2: want to sit next to each other and experience that concert.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty cool, right, Yeah. Yeah, you imagine that a
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  Speaker 2: concert sort of has that communal experience where there's probably
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  Speaker 2: an audience there. You feel the people around you, but
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  Speaker 2: they're not intruding on your space, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Like you don't have to wait in the lines, you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to do all that part of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's cool. That's a real future to look forward to,
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  Speaker 1: mm hmm in the concert space. But let's go check
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  Speaker 1: out another future if you wouldn't mind stepping with me
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  Speaker 1: into the times The Stillness Sessions twenty one forty nine.
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  Speaker 1: In a world that never quiets, silence has become the
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  Speaker 1: rarest sound. Step into the hush, escape the endless roar
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  Speaker 1: of mechs, traffic tunnels, and broadcast haze. For one night only,
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  Speaker 1: join an elite few in the Oral Vault, a fully
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  Speaker 1: sealed sonic sanctuary where you'll pay for what no.
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  Speaker 4: One else can afford. Absolute stillness, and in that stillness
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  Speaker 4: the sublime hear the soft creak of an antique chair,
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  Speaker 4: the delicate drop of a needle on vinyl, a whisper
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  Speaker 4: from across the room. The concert is not performed, it's revealed.
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  Speaker 4: Tickets started, eighty seven thousand credits, no refunds, no recordings,
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  Speaker 4: no noise, because sometimes the quietest moments are the loudest
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  Speaker 4: things you'll ever hear. Important attendees must remain completely silent
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  Speaker 4: still throughout the session. Any movement, whispering, or disruption will
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  Speaker 4: result in immediate removal, no exceptions. This is not a performance.
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  Speaker 4: It's a privilege.
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  Speaker 2: How they're gonna say, any movement will result in immediate decapitation.
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  Speaker 1: Yea death. Yeah you should change that.
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  Speaker 2: But that's really interesting. I like the stillness. I like
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  Speaker 2: there are sounds that are happening, but it's not like loud, crazy,
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  Speaker 2: screaming music or any kind of It's not an orchestra, right,
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  Speaker 2: it's just sounds.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like small, subtle sounds. You know that
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  Speaker 1: you're hearing within the silence, so you're really hearing them.
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  Speaker 1: It seems that as if this future is so loud
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  Speaker 1: all the time that this is really quite the experience.
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  Speaker 1: People are really happy to get this. This is like,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, I can't wait to just go listen to
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  Speaker 1: something quiet really here, really hear something, really hear sound.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think of that. You know that big dome
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  Speaker 2: that they had in x Men where Professor Xavier goes
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  Speaker 2: in with his little helmet thing and he goes, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's how I imagine it, you know, where it's just
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  Speaker 2: like complete silence, the oral vault, the oral vault, so
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  Speaker 2: there's other people in there. Then I guess with.
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  Speaker 1: You, right, yeah, yeah, that's why I have to be
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  Speaker 1: so quiet.
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  Speaker 2: You put on like little slippers and stuff, and you're,
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  Speaker 2: like I.
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  Speaker 1: Would think you would have to because even you know,
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  Speaker 1: just you're I mean, I think about myself just sitting
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  Speaker 1: in a chair and you know, I'm I shift a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, maybe make you sound with your mouth or
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  Speaker 1: something things like that. So there has to be something
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  Speaker 1: done to kind of quiet those noises.
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  Speaker 2: That would be the hardest part. I can't quite comprehend
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  Speaker 2: how they can keep other people silent, you know, completely silent.
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  Speaker 2: But the thought of that and then being able to
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  Speaker 2: be silent with all those other people There's something sort
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  Speaker 2: of transcendent about that too, you know, because it's not
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  Speaker 2: just you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're sitting there and almost trying not to breathe
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  Speaker 1: mm hmm. Maybe you're in some kind of like bubble
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  Speaker 1: like chair.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. What would be kind of cool is like in Okay,
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  Speaker 2: imagine the dome outside the dome, you know, there's like
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  Speaker 2: a chair. You sit in the chair, and this little
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  Speaker 2: sliding door opens going into the dome and moves all
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  Speaker 2: of the chairs simultaneously in like this silent way, like
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  Speaker 2: you know, velvet right passing over velvet, and the door
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  Speaker 2: closes behind. So people aren't actually moving the chairs are.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe there's like some enclosure that keeps you, you know,
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  Speaker 2: so when you move through, and it takes you into
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  Speaker 2: the center of this dome, so you're all experiencing it,
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  Speaker 2: but nobody really has to move walk in through that
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  Speaker 2: kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pretty cool idea, and I would even think
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  Speaker 1: of the idea then. So maybe there's some of these
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  Speaker 1: sounds you're hearing are playing and say the center of
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  Speaker 1: the stage, So maybe throughout this maybe these seats are moving,
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  Speaker 1: you know, around the sound so different. You know, you're
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  Speaker 1: getting to hear it from different angles throughout as you're
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  Speaker 1: kind of like coasting on this velvet, as you say.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, kind of like a spatial audio is. And like
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  Speaker 2: if you listen to headphones and you move your body around,
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  Speaker 2: you can actually hear it in the left ear or
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  Speaker 2: the right ear. Have you ever done that yet? You
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  Speaker 2: tried that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't done it, but I know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be neat to be able to move
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  Speaker 2: around the sound. I like the needle drop, wasn't you said,
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  Speaker 2: like a little needle drop.
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  Speaker 1: One of the sounds. Yeah, the delicate drop of a
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  Speaker 1: needle onto vinyl. I figured you'd.
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  Speaker 4: Like that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was meant for me. I could tell.
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  Speaker 2: I could tell. That's a really interesting concept because it's
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  Speaker 2: it's like the opposite of a true musical concert, but
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  Speaker 2: it has a little bit of that ASMR feel to it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. But in this
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  Speaker 1: environment where you know you're just not hearing things like that,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's just always this ambient noise, right mm hm,
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  Speaker 1: So you can never really actually pay attention to an
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  Speaker 1: isolated sound.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd be surprised. I think even in today's world.
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  Speaker 2: I have been in very remote locations like up in
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  Speaker 2: Upper Ontario where there's like no sound and it's very
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  Speaker 2: eerie at first. When you're there, your ears are almost
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  Speaker 2: ringing for the first day or two because you you
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  Speaker 2: have to get used to the quietness, the stillness. So
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  Speaker 2: I could I could see where that would be something
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  Speaker 2: people would enjoy and also pay dearly for eighty seven
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  Speaker 2: thousand credits I think.
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  Speaker 1: You said, which seems like a lot, something that not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people can afford. I hope, though, you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of the sounds is not or the yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: fingers on Mike. I hope we're doing better than that
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  Speaker 1: at this point.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm. Well, I mean, I think those are.
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  Speaker 1: Two very different futures. I don't know if we're in
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  Speaker 1: the same dimension there or what's you know, what's happening.
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  Speaker 2: It's true, and technology is you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, on an accelerated timeline.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we hope you enjoyed this trip to the future.
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  Speaker 2: But that's all for this episode of The Fuzz. Tune
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  Speaker 2: in next time for more of Tomorrow's Buzz Today Today.
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  Speaker 3: The sending still exist, nose, oh, this is about the future.