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Are you having fun yet?
Praise Marty Moose ...
Rob Norris
June 24, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes
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Welcome Launch Key 🚀 community!
Summer time means road trips - and the US is expecting to shatter previous driving records with a staggering 61 million of you driving somewhere to celebrate the 4th of July.
I’ll sit this one out 😉
Inevitably entrepreneurs need to have a serious moment when they stop the car and ask, “Are you having fun yet?”
Let's get into it.
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Just like the classic scene in Family Vacation, as a father of 3 sons, I could relate to Chevy Chase praising Marty Moose decades ago on family road trips.
And just like family vacations, entrepreneurs do need to find a way to have fun.
There’s hard stuff everyday – client problems, cash flow, project issues, sick leaves, etc – but you need to be able to laugh. Even if it’s at yourself and your current predicament. This too shall pass.
And the worry that AI will take your job, can be used to laugh at yourself while instead creating memorable content - or maybe even a new business.
Last summer I highlighted Launch Key subscriber and award-winning agency co-founder David Oakley. Even he found ways to make a hilarious billboard campaign better with AI as part of his creative process. Bambi’s Back with Friends … and They’re Delicious! Oakley has never shied away from fun in his memorable career!
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Hollywood is legit concerned about the jobs that will be replaced. But it hasn’t stopped creative shops from experimenting with some hilarious video memes like Bigfoot and Theo Von podcasts or even Slingblade as a baby ordering French fried taters.
@beyond.the.imaginairy French Fried Taters: Sling Baby Edition #slingblade #frenchfriedtaters #funnybaby
My family is tired of me sharing these AI vids so, I’m boring you with a few of them.
I shared the hilarious Monty Python AI baby a few weeks ago, and many of the babies in movie scenes make me laugh. Charles Barkley and TNT hosts is pretty funny.
Early adopters are using AI to build completely new faceless content channels. One good example: Stormtrooper Vlogs. Seriously good writing and possibly the best Star Wars content in years. Ongoing Instagram series.
Or you might be an avid outdoorsman or hunter. How could AI be of interest you?
How about a trash-talking deer cam confession?
Or the latest: cats as Olympic divers.
My point is, having a little fun experimenting with new technology is natural. Of course it might ultimately take your job. Ask the buggy whip manufacturers.
But if you get a handle on what’s possible, you might find yourself creating an entire new category. And a startup that only you control going forward.
Creative has never been more accessible as a result of today’s AI.
I’ll leave you with this gorgeous retro short film. It feels like a painting jumps off the canvas into real life.
Enjoy the ride.
And have fun.
Now go launch something 🚀
Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.
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