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What media or production work have you been interested in or working on recently?

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Recommended a Veritasium video on the history and development of fiber optic cables, tracing the scientific research, failures, and technological improvements that led to modern fiber optic communication.

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53:58And he's trying to do it with less than 80 times recharging. So that is quite amazing. And he makes great videos about electric mobility and how far you can take it. Very cool. Zach? Yeah. We all know the Veritasium channel. They did a great video this week, I believe, on fiber optic cables. so they tell the whole history of where it came from they're showing right now that the science

54:37project that actually invented the fiber optic cable um and then it was just it's interesting to go down the history and to hear where it all started why it failed why it succeeded who did what you know the whole timeline of things um how it you know didn't transmit video light very far and then it did all the different transitions of technology improvement over the course of

55:01of decades and decades of research and constant improvement in scientific research. I just found that super, super very interesting. Nice. As Grant would say, good one. Jeffrey Powers, good one. So you know that last year I went to Dublin, Ireland to catch the Pittsburgh, Minnesota game. And of course they sent me there to do a couple videos on. And the one thing that I got really interested

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