I think we are a dying breed.
I can appreciate the collab factor. They seem very nice and agreeable people which probably helped a lot, and as you say, they're making a living...
Maybe there aren't corpses there. But maybe there are! I get hunger games vibes from it, them twiddling their strings, overlooking current day LA with its zombies and other deprivations...lol (sorry, didnt mean to offend anyone from LA). As they sip on George clooney Coffee, and marvel at their Quad Cortexes.
I bet theres not an inch of dirt anywhere on those Quad Cortexes. Fresh Elixir strings, and a little iced water condenser off screen, replete with strawberries, floating around. Volume pots perfectly soldered. 60 cycle hum banished to mordor.
And theres clearly been a bit of personal grooming going on before hand.
Its a different world. lol