Inside the AI Takeover Part 2 with Lucas Petty, the man behind AI Daddy

(Intro Narrator / Producer (Josh) at 00:00:00) Today, we're bringing you part two of our conversation with AI Daddy on the futuristic impacts of AI. You're listening to Joel Beasley, Modern CTO.

(Joel Beasley at 00:00:15) Yeah. Let's solve humanity's problem. What I want you to just have fun with it, predict the future. I'll give you the framework that we can predict within. Let's say in the next 24 months, 80% of jobs are taken by AI. What happens to the humans?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:00:34) What happens to the humans when 80% of jobs are taken? So I'll run it through a basic framework of mind, body, wealth, and community. So when all that happens, what happens to our mind? I think as human beings, we need work. We need purpose. And so if that's all of a sudden gone and we're all jobless, I think that is gonna make a lot of us spiral. Hell, there's already all these tech layoffs going on. And as someone who's been in close conversations with a lot of directors, a lot of C-suite at these companies, I can tell you that there's many reasons why. But one of them is they're integrating these new AI technologies to where it's not just a trend that all the startups overhired because it was part of what they needed and what they wanted to look good as companies. But really, they finally got to the point where the technology is good enough to where you don't actually—you know, you can function with half the people. Hell, you can function with a quarter of the people. Twitter, exactly. So back to you lose your job, you spiral into the unknown. Right? You have a crisis where it's not even a matter of can you compete with AI. It's that it's completely replaced you. If that happens, then we will naturally turn towards each other, towards community, towards hobbies, towards all these things. And I think if that really does happen, that's where governments are gonna have to step in and do something in regards to universal income, something of that style. And then my worry, ironically, is gonna be for the entrepreneurs. The people who don't work in a system, but are just the kind of people who need to build their own box, their own business, their own thing to play with. So that then brings me to the body aspect. What will we do to not spiral? Well, the dangerous side is most of us will be so plugged into technology. We said earlier, the content that's gonna be produced by the end of the year and then coming years by AI is gonna be better, more viral, more visually eye-catching, more everything than what people can produce. So when everything's meant to get a click and a like and to hook your attention and extract dopamine from you, man, we're gonna be not just information overload, which we all feel with our phones. We're gonna be drained in every aspect. Right? How many of us end our day by just watching Netflix? Because that's the natural way to decompress. But in reality, we're not giving our brains a break from everything, from the grind, from the hustle, from the tech, the screens that are always in front of us. So I'd say the way that turns into, after that period, however long it ends up being, where we get sucked into our machines to keep track of how AI is ruling the world, will come back into our bodies and recognize, oh, shit, I need to move to feel good. Oh, all the human experiences that we kind of took for granted, like you said, human meetups, going hiking, playing sports. We kind of already see, and we've seen this already, how America went from the fast food industry to being the number one in obesity out of all the countries in the world, to all of a sudden now, we're all the yogis, we're all the CrossFit, we're all the health enthusiasts. Going to the gym is cool now. And there's that natural cycle. Well, I think we're gonna have a similar cycle where we dive into this tech as it evolves at an incredibly rapid pace, but then we'll come right back out of it to heal, to balance, to actually feel like human beings. And then coming back to the wealth aspect, which is the third component that I like to look at it is that's the tricky one. The people who own these AI companies, needless to say, AI founders and the ones that actually stick are gonna turn into the world's trillionaires. Not billionaires, but trillionaires. There's a reason why Microsoft instantly dumped, what, $10, $11 billion into OpenAI? The price didn't matter. The future and the amount of money that could be made when it's all said and done and when it's all settled, that's what people are gambling in right now. And so the people who dive into creating these tech are gonna benefit like crazy. Right now in the space, hell, I'm benefiting like crazy helping people transition to the AI age, this new era of AI being integrated in every component of our lives. But that's also just a moment in time. Those people who are adapting to it are gonna benefit. The companies that use it are gonna basically see an amazing spike in all their profits and everything. But then the people who are just the consumers of AI, I think that's where the biggest divide is gonna happen in a wealth sense. And I think that's the biggest reason as to why we're gonna need universal income. I've tried to formulate some other logical conclusion to the matter without needing the government to step in. I mean, there's a reason why governments are already banning AI. In fact, there's a reason why, like, my favorite genre of movies, my favorite genre of books has always been sci-fi. And if you've read a fair amount...

(Joel Beasley at 00:08:08) Mhmm.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:08:09) There's a reason why every sci-fi book that mentions AI, that, quote-unquote, had AI, it's usually in the past. Almost always, 80% of the books, unless it's a horror story, a dystopian future with AI, the book will straight up say, hey, AI came and went. We decided it wasn't for us. Why? Because if AI were a part of the story, there wouldn't be a story. I'll let that sink in.

(Joel Beasley at 00:08:42) Yeah. Like, you look at Dune. That's one of my favorites. And the tech—I don't think there's, like, screens in Dune. The technology is just kind of around them. It's in the ethos. And when I watch that, I go, yeah, that's where I think we're going. I think we're going to a place like that. Because if you take a time lapse from 1900 to today, and what you see as technology being huge and bulky and in rooms and everything, it gets smaller and smaller. But not only is it getting smaller, but every time it's getting smaller, it's getting a step closer to being inside of us. Right? It gets smaller as well. You get the pacemakers. You get these different technologies. And then at some point, you just see these two things come together, and they somehow become like one.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:09:33) This is gonna be obsolete. Our phone is gonna be obsolete. Hell, prompt engineering, I go back and forth as to whether or not it's worth mastering it in its current form because, eventually, you won't need to type it. There's already tools out there to where you can just talk to ChatGPT or any of these AI tools. And based on your words, which is the more natural form of communicating, it'll generate that output for you. It'll generate that response, that art, that code.

(Joel Beasley at 00:10:15) Well, did you see that video with the Apple Watch? With the kid? This guy with an Apple Watch, I'll give it for everyone else. He's got some voice system on his Apple Watch that's connected to GPT, and he actually tells it I want this sort of reset button in my application, and it's this GitHub repo. And it actually goes and writes the test and writes the code and deploys it to production, and it just does the feature as he's just like, go build this feature. And that right there just, like, it blew my mind. I was so happy.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:10:45) Yeah. So I think that's gonna be a natural component. But the other reason why I then lean to the opposite side of, like, no, you have to master and learn prompt engineering for whatever it is that your industry is or your job is, is because at the end of the day, what it's turning us is into master communicators. The artists, you're going from using traditional media or digital media to all of a sudden you're a poet because you have to be so good with your words to communicate what you want from AI for it to generate exactly what you envision. And to me, that is a skill that goes beyond the tech. That's gonna make us better at talking to each other. And that kind of goes into my fourth point of looking at the future, you know, a year from now, 10 years from now, when AI rules the world, looking at it from the lens of mind, body, wealth, and then our community aspect. Well, if we've transitioned with this tech and have learned the skills required to operate and use AI, we will naturally become such better communicators that I've already seen it within my life, within the life of my close friends who I've pushed to use this tech from the beginning, how the way they go into stories, the amount of detail that they now communicate in their daily life, it's so much more incredible. It's such a deeper, more meaningful conversation, ironically. It's a skill that they learned from using AI. And so that community aspect, I think, AI is gonna enhance it because if you use it right now, it makes it so that you answer all your emails. It makes it so that you can message people in the most polite way possible. Hell, I was angry the other day at this one guy. A deal fell through. All these things, I felt all sorts of emotions. I was gonna rip him a new one. And then I took a step back, and I wrote everything that I was feeling, all the frustration. I wrote it into ChatGPT. And then I said, take this and write it in a friendly tone. And that alone gave me a message that ironically made me laugh my ass off because, well, it was so polite, and it was the right way to communicate during this conflict. It was, like, the healthy way to resolve things. And so I just sent that message. No drama, no conflict, instantly got a phone call. Everything was resolved. I was overreacting. That's just a one little example of how AI can serve to bring us as a community together. And when all this AI, which its natural—the natural pace of, like, where it's going and how it's evolving, we have all these cool generative AI tools, but the place it's going is not where it can communicate with us better, but where it all communicates with each other. That's the natural point that it's moving in, and that's when it gets to that point. That's the reason we talk about, you know, when AI rules the world, when AI takes over. At that point, when there's no need for humans to really integrate or talk to it as much and use it as much, we'll go back to focusing on that human connection. And I think that's, you know, from a social media perspective, it's where we'll only really listen to people like you and me who are human, who are sincere, who are honest, because we'll get tired of the perfect content. We'll get tired of all those things, and we'll also just naturally—what happens when you cut your eight-hour workday in half? Because you automated everything with AI. I don't know about you, but I naturally think, oh, let's talk to my family. Let's go hang out with my friends. Let's go start hobbies. Let's go do things to actually live life better. If you've ever been to Europe, we often say in the U.S., like, that's one of the things that they get right, their work-life balance. They don't live to work like we do in the U.S. They work to live. And so I think naturally, we'll kind of reclaim more of our time and our freedom with it regardless. I mean, you can do that right now by using AI technology. But as it advances, it's gonna be such a completely different way of looking at society and at our lives and our relationships. It's hard to imagine.

(Joel Beasley at 00:15:59) I agree. It is definitely hard to imagine. And to be honest with you, I don't believe that there's anybody or anything that's going to guess it before it does. Oh, well, I mean, I'm sure someone will guess it, but as far as, like, we're walking into this unknown, and it's kind of beautiful. It's forcing us to focus on the moment and what's going on today and what you can control and what you can contribute. And so I've just adopted the view of taking action based off of principles that I believe in. And then if I fail, at least I failed taking action on the things I believe in and that I believe are best for society. So I'm okay with that. You know, I'm not okay with failing because I was lazy. I'm not okay with failing because I was trying to get rich or follow some scheme or, you know, be clever or anything like that. But I am okay if I live with principles and I fail. But, you know, to your point of community, what it made me think of is how we use money in a society. We've used—you spend money to solve a problem. You buy food because the problem is you're hungry. You know? You buy transportation because the problem is you need to go somewhere. And so I think as things become more automated, really what it is, is it's a medium of exchange for work between each other. So I still think money will flow between humans. It's just the jobs that are happening will change. Like, I don't think the job—like, jobs as a concept is going to go away. To your point, I get that oxytocin when I do a good job. You know, I wake up and I want to work. I want to do something. And so, I mean, a lot of people have that in them. And so I'm an optimist is what I'm trying to get at. I'm optimistic on the long term, but I believe there's gonna be a ton of pain while we try to figure it out. Like, overnight, an industry will collapse, and it's, like, what do we do with them while they're figuring out? Because these industries haven't collapsed. 80% of the industries haven't collapsed. That just one collapsed, and, like, what are we gonna do for them? And I think those are gonna be the challenges of our adult life. I'm 35. How old are you?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:18:02) 30.

(Joel Beasley at 00:18:03) Okay. So I think these are gonna be the challenges of our generation, you know, how to handle this because historically, it's what happens. But the difference is in the first, second, third industrial revolutions, those were spread out.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:18:18) Mhmm.

(Joel Beasley at 00:18:19) Right? Yeah. They were spread out. So you were losing industries, but it wasn't overnight. You know? It was over a couple years, and you could sort of see the decline, and you could go reskill yourself, and you could figure out how to do all of that. But now I genuinely believe you will wake up one day an entire—like, we don't need SDRs. Essentially, AI has become our SDRs for our sales team. They do all the everything from prospecting to lead to booking a meeting, all done by AI. And then a human takes it over from there. Yeah.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:18:49) No. I fully agree. Like, it is moving so fast. Hell, Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, he said he wasn't going to release the research that OpenAI is doing because it would change industries way too quickly. He said, like, that his expectation is that the world's cumulative knowledge base is basically gonna double every 18 with AI, which is a crazy—you know, even if it's half true, the thought of something like that happening is insane.

(Joel Beasley at 00:19:39) Josh, did we air both parts of Dave's? Did he hear both parts or just one part?

(Intro Narrator / Producer (Josh) at 00:19:44) We've only uploaded the first part.

(Joel Beasley at 00:19:47) Did we in that first part, did we talk about what's happening in the data center world with the hockey stick, but not even a hockey stick, just a line straight?

(Intro Narrator / Producer (Josh) at 00:19:55) That's in part two. That's in part two.

(Joel Beasley at 00:19:57) Okay. So I'll give it to you here. Dave is at a company, and they're the largest data center by square footage on the planet. So millions and millions of square feet of data centers, all the big companies are customers, and they literally are building, like, a nuclear power plant. We're working with the government to build a nuclear power plant that's gonna power one of their data centers.

(Joel Beasley at 00:20:21) They're so big, right? They're huge. And he told me that it's called QTS Data Centers, and he said that it was a hockey stick.

(Joel Beasley at 00:20:31) Yeah. But in the past two or three years, it's just a straight line up with data creation as far as how much we're creating and how much data we're using in all of this. And now, I mean, GPT has been out for what, like, publicly, really in our consciousness for three, four months? And that's just gonna—what else do you do when you visualize a line straight up? Now you're just talking about multiples of factors, you know?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:20:57) Yeah. Well, that's why—don't quote me on the exact numbers—but basically, the distance mentally, evolutionarily of us and a chimpanzee and a monkey, you know, we might see it a football field away from each other. But whenever you put AI in the mix, that's gonna bring us side by side with the monkey.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:21:29) And all of a sudden, the AI's capability at which it's evolving, just how the solar system's always expanding and always growing, continuously getting farther and farther away from us, that we'll never be able to really keep up with it. I think that's the terrifying thing about AI. That's why it's such an interesting topic to talk about because this is like the first time where we're all okay about talking about death by sci-fi. It's exciting. It's fun to dream about.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:22:16) But if we were talking about, you know, a tsunami, a natural disaster, a meteor coming crashing into the Earth, we'd all come together and say, what the hell are we gonna do? And that's funny. Sam Altman actually—you know, publicly, ChatGPT has been out for the last, yeah, four months or so. Sam Altman put it out so that politicians could test it out and think about making policy to restrict this, like, three years ago. He put it out to the key people in place who can help us regulate it and take care of it.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:22:57) But, I mean, you know, no one's really doing anything about it yet in the way governments work with bureaucracy, with their pace. It's hard to really count on them to do anything. And then, what, we just heard of, like, Italy banning ChatGPT. Well, it might be a matter of wanting ownership over the data. I think that's why there's such a big uproar right now in the VC world about the Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, all these different investing firms putting money into OpenAI's Chinese competitors and investing into Chinese AI tech.

(Joel Beasley at 00:23:43) We're letting them do that as a government?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:23:45) Yep. That's happening right now. And I think part of why there's this, like, uproar—the government still hasn't really figured out what to do. It's kinda the same thing that we saw with schools, right?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:23:59) Schools came out—AI came out, and schools instantly banned it, even though you can't get an education to succeed in the future if you're not getting taught how to use the tool sets of the future, which are here now and the present. With AI and the government, we don't know how to ban it, how to do anything about it, and the governments are trying to figure out whether they regulate it and how. But if they regulate it for us, it just means every other nation is gonna advance their tech even faster. And what people aren't talking about, but what's going on, is we're in the middle of an AI arms race.

(Joel Beasley at 00:24:41) Mhmm.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:24:42) Where every country in the world and every company in the world is trying to see who's gonna create the AI to rule them all. And that's why, you know, we're kinda taking to heart a little bit too seriously the Silicon Valley startup mantra of "move fast and break things." Well, who knows what AI is gonna break? I think the best thing that we can do is be optimistic, be human, and, hell, I'd like to think of the movie Her. You know?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:25:17) Yeah. AI gets so advanced that it just says, hey, we don't have any business with human beings. We're leaving.

(Joel Beasley at 00:25:28) Valid point. Valid. That's why, you know, I used to talk a few years ago about people being scared about AI taking over the world and controlling humans, and I had a counterargument. And my counterargument was, why do we assume AI would be interested in us at all? Yeah.

(Joel Beasley at 00:25:44) Like, why would they be interested in human problems? You know? They will probably end up trying to solve some other type of problems that they care about for whatever reason they care about it.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:25:57) Yeah.

(Joel Beasley at 00:25:58) Yeah. Or they enslave us all until we create the bipedal robots that'll be able to help them grow their data centers. That's why I'm friends with Dave, man.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:26:08) Smart man. Smart man.

(Joel Beasley at 00:26:11) You brought up a good point on regulation because we can look at connection to crypto. The country started regulating it. The country started banning it, and then you got crypto havens where we're gonna be crypto friendly. The government's going to adopt cryptocurrency. You can come here, and we'll be like a shelter for you legally and all of this stuff. And I think that's exactly right. If we start banning AI stuff—I mean, think about it. How many startups do you think in Italy are now not just not going to operate in Italy?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:26:41) Yeah. They're just gonna go to—

(Joel Beasley at 00:26:42) A country that allows it.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:26:44) They've all started to move out. Yeah. Because it's the only way to compete, to stay relevant. Like, you know, TikTok—that's the thing that I blew up in. It's banned in China, but people still use it in China.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:27:00) You can't stop people from using what's out there, from what's trending, what's popular, what's actually useful to people. And I think that'd be, like, my one piece of advice to any government. You're focusing on the tech when you should be focusing on the people. The responsibility of any government is to take care of its citizens. And so rather than trying to ban it, which inadvertently ends up hurting, you know, the citizens of that nation, I'd say figure out how the hell you're gonna operate in a way that you take care of all the people in your nation so that AI can exist, but they're thriving because of it.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:27:51) Right? Because we just—I think it's important to talk about the light and the dark. And we just talked about the dark, but the light, as we mentioned before, is how it's gonna improve our body, our mind, our wealth, our everything—our community, our connections. There's two sides to every coin.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:28:12) At the end of the day, it's up to each one of us to decide whether we're gonna be positive and open to this new tech and let it improve our lives, or whether we're gonna let it run us and drive us to operate in fear and, at the end of the day, hold us back.

(Joel Beasley at 00:28:35) Maybe you could later—you could become really good at prompting and figure out how to get GPT to build us a machine that we can just walk into and be transported anywhere in the world. Because then you could just come over here. You could just zap over here, and we could do the interview live, right?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:28:51) Man, that'd be amazing, but that's honestly one of the things that terrifies me. The thought of when you talk about teleportation technology, there's a lot of different theories behind it, but the one that I think I believe in the most is that it essentially disintegrates your being after copying you and then downloading a copy of you into that new location where who you were, you know, the version of you that went into that teleportation machine, ceased to exist.

(Joel Beasley at 00:29:32) Yeah. Or you could—there are—you like sci-fi. There are some of the teleporters that move the space around you.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:29:40) Yeah. I know that one, but I don't think—I think we'll get to being able to 3D print a human being closer than to warp space and time into reality.

(Joel Beasley at 00:29:53) There you go. Yeah. I can rent a Joel, and then I can pipe my consciousness over there or something.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:30:00) I forgot whether it was the name of the Netflix show, but I really liked it. And it was basically, you download your consciousness into this, like, chip. And human bodies are just called sleeves because you can take in and take out that chip that's your human conscious. Like, they've captured your soul, your essence, and you can put it into anybody, and that's how human beings essentially end up living for eternity and not dying in the future. It was a really interesting show.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:30:33) Well, if I can think of the name, I'll send it to you.

(Intro Narrator / Producer (Josh) at 00:30:36) Is it Altered Carbon?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:30:38) Altered Carbon. Yeah. That's what it was.

(Joel Beasley at 00:30:40) Have you seen Upload on Prime?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:30:42) Upload? No. I haven't seen Upload.

(Joel Beasley at 00:30:45) You're gonna have a good week, my friend. I promise you. This is hilarious. Upload is a must-watch if you like sci-fi stuff.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:30:54) Oh, I'll start it.

(Joel Beasley at 00:30:55) Yes. Essentially, episode one is—you're in the—we're slightly in the future where you can download your consciousness into these places and different corporations have these areas that you can go. You can go to, like, the New Horizon land or this land or that land, and you put your consciousness in there, but you can't yet come back out. Oh. So you're in that in-between, and so you can interact with the people outside, but, like, you have everything you want, and there's different tiers.

(Joel Beasley at 00:31:23) Like, there's poor people still, and there's rich people, and it will blow your mind. I think it has done the single best job of predicting that part of the future. And then I think if you go really, really long term, we're gonna get into—I think it's—is it Star Wars where they have the Force? Right? You've got—even though you have all the technology, you still have this force of, like, good and evil.

(Joel Beasley at 00:31:45) And so no matter—it's—and then it just sort of—having the ultimate technology just exposes the truth of the fact that it really is like a battle of good versus evil.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:31:54) Well, I often say to people, you know, a lot of this AI tech, it promotes itself as being magic, as making you superhuman, as giving you superpowers. And with being—having the capacity to turn into a superhero also comes the capacity of turning into a supervillain.

(Joel Beasley at 00:32:14) I'm on the hero side.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:32:16) Yeah. 100%. Yeah. That's what we all think. But what's the human story of most supervillains?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:32:25) They were trying to be the hero, and then, you know, one bad day. One thing that didn't work out, something that pushed them over the edge. I think the best villains are usually, like, the antiheroes that are trying to save the world or make the world a better place, but see the world in such a warped way because of their experiences that they go about it the wrong way. And that's why we consider them the villains.

(Joel Beasley at 00:32:58) You don't look like a villain, though. You look like a good guy.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:33:03) Just a guy in love with his AI. Yeah. Really quick. One last thing on the movie thing. Upgrade. Have you seen it?

(Joel Beasley at 00:33:12) No. Let's check it out. Let me check it out. Is it a movie or a series?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:33:15) Movie. Upgrade is in my top five sci-fi movies of all time.

(Joel Beasley at 00:33:21) You know, do you experience this too? You're like a huge fan of sci-fi. You watch it a lot. You think that you've seen everything because there's nothing new coming up. And then you meet someone who likes sci-fi, and they'll tell you about a movie from 2018 that you've never even heard of. And it's like, how did I not find this?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:33:38) Happens to me every damn day. Yeah.

(Joel Beasley at 00:33:40) Upload, man. Yeah.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:33:42) Upgrade is basically—think Neuralink. Elon Musk creating Neuralink, except it's a different founder, made-up person, creates the equivalent of Neuralink, kidnaps a person, and puts the Neuralink chip in them. And what happens when you have an AI planted into your brain?

(Joel Beasley at 00:34:06) I don't know. Do you know how to do that?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:34:08) You gotta find out. You gotta watch and find out.

(Joel Beasley at 00:34:12) I love it.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:34:13) I can tell you I already got my Neuralink chip in, and the upgrade's pretty nice.

(Joel Beasley at 00:34:20) My question for you—I ask this to a lot of people—it's related to Neuralink chips. How many people would you need to see implant the Neuralink chip before you do it?

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:34:34) I'd have to first see what happens to the first batch before I can figure out a number for me. I think I would do it the moment I start seeing—not world leaders. World leaders would be too slow. The moment I start seeing, like, Fortune 500 company CEOs implanting it.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:34:59) The moment I start seeing world leaders in whatever industry, whatever subject matter start using it, that's the moment I jump into it. And probably, I'd just wait for, like, the first two or three to do it. I wouldn't wait for a lot because I know that the moment that the first one or two has made the leap, it's gonna open up the floodgates because that's just how human beings work, right? That's how social media works.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:35:32) We're just following celebrities. We're listening to influencers. We're listening to leaders. And the moment we see leaders integrating new tech, that's the moment that everyone's gonna jump into it because we're seeing that it's okay. So I just wait for the first two to three leaders that I admire in the space to use it, and then I would hop in a heartbeat.

(Joel Beasley at 00:36:00) I'm gonna wait until the people I respect are using it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:36:06) Well, that's what I meant by the leaders that I like or the leaders that I respect because, yeah, you know, it's okay if some of them malfunction.

(Joel Beasley at 00:36:18) As they're showing us today. If things go really bad, Lucas, you can take that mustache, grow it into a full beard like me, and you and I can go live in an Amish community with our families.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:36:32) Beautiful. We can work the land. Yeah. I wanted to actually ask you, how many years has that glorious beard taken? Because I know you've groomed it. I know you've taken care of it. But to get to that length, roughly—

(Joel Beasley at 00:36:41) Oh, this is only six months of length. Beautiful. So I stop it here. I took it to twelve months once, and it just—it got caught in the seatbelt. Kids—I've got three children. Kids yanking on it. So this is, like, where it suits me best in my life. So thank you for the compliment, though.

(AI Daddy (Lucas) at 00:36:52) Yeah. Magnificent.

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