<p>Ian and Michael take a scenic tour through the modern world’s contradictions, starting with the widening gap between wealth and reality and the quiet, uncomfortable signs of inequality that everyone pretends not to notice - and the creeping sense that AI is only speeding things up in the wrong direction.</p><p>From there, the conversation drifts into cultural territory: the fate of book series continued long after their original authors have died, the ethics of posthumous storytelling, and whether we should simply accept that some stories… end.</p><p>There’s also time for a detour through sprawling film franchises, literary purism, the merits (or lack thereof) of late-era Bond and Bourne. A potpourri of societal decay, reading habits, and franchise exhaustion - in other words, a very normal episode of AI Unfiltered. (This description was written with the help of AI)</p>
