Latest / The You Project / #1997 Do Ethics Exist In Business? - Patrick Bonello
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Okay, team, it's you project Patrick's here and so is Tiffing.
- 0:03Speaker 1: And that's bloody terrific because without them, oh okay, TIFFs
- 0:08Speaker 1: are already yelling at me all right, why don't you
- 0:10Speaker 1: yell at me straight off the top? Go on, tell
- 0:12Speaker 1: me off?
- 0:12Speaker 2: If you could just nudge yourself back off that microphone
- 0:15Speaker 2: apps all the typs. If everyone's heard a difference in
- 0:19Speaker 2: recent microphone.
- 0:20Speaker 1: No, no, we don't need everyone to get on the hype.
- 0:22Speaker 3: Crap on the mic listening to me, Well, it.
- 0:25Speaker 1: Sounds great in my ears on this end. You used
- 0:29Speaker 1: to remember, you used to yell at me six.
- 0:30Speaker 2: Years or so to get you to put a set
- 0:33Speaker 2: of head micro right.
- 0:34Speaker 1: And it's never been worse, has it. It's never been
- 0:37Speaker 1: worse since I put on the fucking headphones. So surely
- 0:41Speaker 1: you can be objective about that.
- 0:43Speaker 3: Make a suggestion, Tiff, Yes, please pray go turn turn
- 0:47Speaker 3: your headphone volume up.
- 0:51Speaker 1: I can already hear me very loudly.
- 0:53Speaker 3: I know that if you turn it up a little
- 0:54Speaker 3: bit more, just nudge it up a little bit more, because.
- 0:57Speaker 1: I just say, this is not the time is right
- 1:01Speaker 1: now in the mid I don't know if you have
- 1:03Speaker 1: any awareness but now it's not the time for this chat.
- 1:07Speaker 3: Well this might be interesting for people. So if you're running,
- 1:09Speaker 3: if you're or not.
- 1:10Speaker 1: Or not you're doing it, perhaps on this one. Okay,
- 1:13Speaker 1: I won't explain this. Yeah, let's let's not have this conversation. Hello, everyone,
- 1:19Speaker 1: welcome to the project. We hope you're good. It's Friday
- 1:21Speaker 1: morning here at typ Central. Patrick is up in blan Or,
- 1:26Speaker 1: I call it milan Lan and TIFFs over there at
- 1:30Speaker 1: her palace somewhere near the Beachwood. Thank you ourwood with
- 1:38Speaker 1: the cat and the dog. Who are the actual bosses
- 1:40Speaker 1: of the home. We start with the lady of the show, Patrick,
- 1:44Speaker 1: how are you hey? What's going on up there? I've
- 1:48Speaker 1: had a.
- 1:48Speaker 3: Pretty hectic day, but I'm feeling like I've achieved something
- 1:52Speaker 3: because you can teach an old.
- 1:53Speaker 1: Dog new tricks.
- 1:55Speaker 3: Go on, Well, I've got I'm house sitting with not
- 1:58Speaker 3: house sitting, I'm dog sitting a little ten year old
- 2:01Speaker 3: cross Schneutzer poodle and her name is Schnitzel. She's as
- 2:06Speaker 3: I said, she's ten and she's never used a dog door,
- 2:08Speaker 3: and I've taught her to use a dog door. So
- 2:10Speaker 3: I feeling like I've achieved.
- 2:13Speaker 1: Did you do that by demonstrating and crawling through yourself
- 2:16Speaker 1: going follow me, follow me. No, I just locked it
- 2:19Speaker 1: out of the house all night, and I'm kidding I didn't.
- 2:21Speaker 1: Did you strap some bacon to your ars and say
- 2:23Speaker 1: get behind me and then just crawl through the door.
- 2:26Speaker 4: No.
- 2:26Speaker 3: I just gently held the flap up a little bit.
- 2:28Speaker 3: Fritz went through first, and then she kind of nudged it,
- 2:31Speaker 3: and then I got used to it, and then she
- 2:32Speaker 3: got used to using it with her nose.
- 2:34Speaker 1: So many things. Well well done, well done, Tiff diff
- 2:39Speaker 1: was onto it. I was onto it. You just kept
- 2:41Speaker 1: plugging on. If we're glad, aren't we? We're so glad because,
- 2:46Speaker 1: oh god, if we could just say whatever we wanted
- 2:49Speaker 1: to say, eighty percent of the audience would be fucking
- 2:52Speaker 1: on the floor of twenty percent. Right that, I'm out,
- 2:55Speaker 1: I'm never listening again. Well that's good, mate. You could
- 2:58Speaker 1: become a You could get a unique kind of job
- 3:01Speaker 1: description as I trained dogs that are old and untrainable. Yep,
- 3:04Speaker 1: that's the one with the Banello method. TIF. How are
- 3:07Speaker 1: you very good? Thanks with your shock of with your
- 3:11Speaker 1: shock of red hair, looking like Pippy long Stocking over
- 3:14Speaker 1: there at typ Central.
- 3:16Speaker 2: That was one of my favorite movies when I was
- 3:18Speaker 2: a kid.
- 3:18Speaker 1: You kind of look like she would look when she's thirty.
- 3:22Speaker 1: It's going to say, forty, what am I thinking? You
- 3:25Speaker 1: look like a grown up Pippy Longstocking? Patrick? Do you
- 3:29Speaker 1: not know who that is? Oh? Idea? Oh god? What
- 3:33Speaker 1: kind of childhood did you have looking into Petrie dishes
- 3:38Speaker 1: and fucking magnifying bloody insects and bugs and shit. But
- 3:42Speaker 1: I do know, I do know what.
- 3:43Speaker 3: The Hindenburg was great, that's true.
- 3:47Speaker 1: Well Tiff didn't. All right, Tiff, you can now enlighten
- 3:49Speaker 1: Patrick as to the identity of Pippy long Stocking. I can't.
- 3:55Speaker 2: All I can remember is she wore those scrub and
- 3:58Speaker 2: brushes on her feet to clean house, and she had
- 4:00Speaker 2: a be horse and I feel like she put it
- 4:03Speaker 2: on a boat or something.
- 4:05Speaker 1: God, that was hardly your own mind. I feel like
- 4:08Speaker 1: if anyone on this show is going to know about
- 4:10Speaker 1: Pippi Longstocking, it's either going to be you or Patrick,
- 4:13Speaker 1: and it ain't him. All I remember she was a
- 4:16Speaker 1: central character in her childhood story. But that's about anyway.
- 4:20Speaker 1: We probably don't. There's do you know what? There's a
- 4:22Speaker 1: thousand listeners going you, dumb fox. I'll tell you exactly
- 4:26Speaker 1: who she is. Get me on the show. Get me
- 4:29Speaker 1: on the show. How's your week been, Patrick, It's been well.
- 4:33Speaker 3: I had a bit of a bug at the start
- 4:34Speaker 3: of the week, so I've got to say I was
- 4:37Speaker 3: kind of working, but I reckon I was running at
- 4:39Speaker 3: about forty five percent capacity.
- 4:41Speaker 1: So I'm feeling a lot better today.
- 4:43Speaker 3: And because my voice was really croaky and a lot
- 4:45Speaker 3: more deep and sexy, I.
- 4:48Speaker 1: Reckon everyone in Melbourne has got something at the moment.
- 4:51Speaker 1: It seems like everyone I talked who's got either bloody
- 4:55Speaker 1: influenza A or B or COVID or some other kind
- 4:58Speaker 1: of bloody virus something.
- 5:00Speaker 3: I got through all of winter without getting a single sniffle,
- 5:03Speaker 3: and now we hit into spring. Now I'm feeling a
- 5:07Speaker 3: lot better though, but it's been an interesting week. I
- 5:11Speaker 3: sent you a little video clip before. Maybe explain what
- 5:14Speaker 3: I sent to you because I was pretty excited about it.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Well, I wrote a book one hundred and twenty four
- 5:18Speaker 1: years ago called The Angry Ent, which was clearly a
- 5:20Speaker 1: book for children, and it went okay. Actually, it's funny
- 5:25Speaker 1: you sent that because I was thinking of writing another
- 5:27Speaker 1: kid's book. You know that who's that author? That actor?
- 5:33Speaker 1: Was it? I wasn't. What's that old dude that's got
- 5:40Speaker 1: that incredible voice? Anyway? And that the book is cooled
- 5:45Speaker 1: No in that ballpark though, in that kind of vintage
- 5:49Speaker 1: in that space. But the book is called go the
- 5:51Speaker 1: fuck to Sleep, and he reads it tif can you
- 5:55Speaker 1: find out for us? Anyway? It's tongue in cheek, but
- 5:58Speaker 1: it's funny. But so Patrick took the cover of my
- 6:01Speaker 1: book and made it into a little animated video. Well
- 6:06Speaker 1: L Jackson, Samuel L. Jackson, there's a lot of those
- 6:09Speaker 1: old dudes have got those incredible voices anyway. Yeah, so
- 6:16Speaker 1: why did you do that? How did you did you
- 6:18Speaker 1: find some AI that does that quickly? Or I did?
- 6:21Speaker 3: Yeah, well I've been I think typ people might remember
- 6:25Speaker 3: my friend Tour that I was doing a podcast with.
- 6:27Speaker 3: Okay smart Yes, released a couple of books, and so
- 6:31Speaker 3: she wants she's rewritten or she's rewritten the first book
- 6:34Speaker 3: of her fantasy series and now she's come up with
- 6:36Speaker 3: a second book. So I animated the covers and the
- 6:40Speaker 3: covers look amazing that if you could imagine a woman
- 6:43Speaker 3: in in a hood and flowing robe holding an archery
- 6:48Speaker 3: bow and one of them she actually picks up the
- 6:51Speaker 3: bow and fires the arrow. So it's all animated so
- 6:55Speaker 3: the book, so the letters are still in front of
- 6:57Speaker 3: the character. But it really looked quite stunning and and
- 7:00Speaker 3: so she asked me if I could animate it, and
- 7:02Speaker 3: I just use some great AI tools and just use
- 7:05Speaker 3: the prompt to say, you know, animate the character, get
- 7:08Speaker 3: it to pick up the bow and fire an arrow.
- 7:10Speaker 1: And it just looked stunning.
- 7:11Speaker 3: And that's I'll see if I can show you by
- 7:14Speaker 3: doing the angry ant very good.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Well. And one of the things that makes me a
- 7:18Speaker 1: little bit sad now is every time someone sends me
- 7:21Speaker 1: something that's a video or an amazing picture, he go
- 7:25Speaker 1: is this real? Or is this AI? And like everyone's
- 7:27Speaker 1: doing that now. Like I saw this video the other
- 7:29Speaker 1: day that was about cars and shit, and I sent
- 7:32Speaker 1: it to Vinn, my mate who's a revhead, and I'm like,
- 7:36Speaker 1: this is incredible, and he goes, AI, like is it
- 7:40Speaker 1: and he goes that couldn't happen. That's not real, And
- 7:43Speaker 1: like I just thought it was real. It didn't occur
- 7:44Speaker 1: to me for a moment, and usually it would occur
- 7:47Speaker 1: to me before him. But he's like, nah, that's not happening,
- 7:49Speaker 1: that's not real. I went dies because I was really excited,
- 7:52Speaker 1: and I went real disappointed. We're going to be It's
- 7:54Speaker 1: going to get worse too, Isn't it like you're not
- 7:56Speaker 1: going to anything that looks amazing, You're going to assume
- 7:59Speaker 1: that's not a real far or a real image or
- 8:01Speaker 1: a real video.
- 8:02Speaker 3: I was at a cafe last weekend in Trent from
- 8:05Speaker 3: catching up with a friend of mine, and I wasn't
- 8:07Speaker 3: deliberately listening to other people's conversations, but there was a
- 8:11Speaker 3: father with two kids, and the daughter might have been
- 8:15Speaker 3: aged twelve, and part of the conversation was Ai Slop.
- 8:19Speaker 1: And it was interesting that a twelve.
- 8:21Speaker 3: Year old recognized because I think the father pointed out
- 8:23Speaker 3: something and she said, no, that's Ai Slop. So it's
- 8:26Speaker 3: great to know that kids are questioning and not moving.
- 8:30Speaker 3: So it actually filled me with a bit of oh,
- 8:32Speaker 3: thank goodness, you know, a bit of a relief, because
- 8:35Speaker 3: it's one of those things that I worry about, you know,
- 8:38Speaker 3: particularly children who you know. It's bad enough that you
- 8:41Speaker 3: know those of our vintage are not you tif because
- 8:43Speaker 3: you're younger, but those of our vintage can.
- 8:46Speaker 1: Be misled by AI like cars stuff.
- 8:49Speaker 3: But I thought it was very heartening to hear a
- 8:51Speaker 3: young child recognize that that AI can be slop as well.
- 8:56Speaker 3: And it's interesting because it was one of the things
- 8:59Speaker 3: I wanted to chat about is how do you actually
- 9:01Speaker 3: discern what is AI crap? AI slop?
- 9:04Speaker 1: You know?
- 9:05Speaker 3: How do you find it? And it was interesting. There
- 9:07Speaker 3: was a guy from an ad agency was saying, at
- 9:09Speaker 3: its heart, it lacks a human heart.
- 9:13Speaker 1: You know, isn't you know?
- 9:14Speaker 3: When I think about you know, images that are out there,
- 9:18Speaker 3: there's lots of great fantasy stuff and you think, oh wow,
- 9:20Speaker 3: that's great spaceships and stuff like that. But the reality
- 9:24Speaker 3: of it is that when you look at something, there's
- 9:27Speaker 3: an essence of, say a book cover that's created by
- 9:29Speaker 3: a real person.
- 9:31Speaker 1: You know.
- 9:32Speaker 3: I guess I worry about the fact that AI is
- 9:34Speaker 3: getting better. And the big challenge for a lot of
- 9:37Speaker 3: publishers and a lot of producers of content is that
- 9:40Speaker 3: the disappointing thing is that a lot of material has
- 9:43Speaker 3: been trained on what we assume was copy protected copyright
- 9:48Speaker 3: protected material, so authors have had their books all scanned
- 9:52Speaker 3: and absorbed and new large language models. So the problem
- 9:56Speaker 3: is that a lot of these larger companies like Meta
- 9:58Speaker 3: and have just gone and arbitrarily copied and taken all
- 10:02Speaker 3: that information. And they're saying, well, we didn't copy it,
- 10:05Speaker 3: we just learned from it. But the reality of it is,
- 10:08Speaker 3: I can take one of the AI models that produces video,
- 10:13Speaker 3: I produces pictures and say, show me a picture of
- 10:17Speaker 3: a Schnauzer in a style of Van Goch, do something
- 10:21Speaker 3: like Starry Night.
- 10:22Speaker 1: It might have.
- 10:23Speaker 3: And you know if I said to it, I want
- 10:24Speaker 3: a backdrop of that's similar to Starry Night.
- 10:27Speaker 1: Well, the reality of it is.
- 10:28Speaker 3: It would do that, and I know it would do
- 10:30Speaker 3: it quite successfully, because I'm pretty sure I would have
- 10:32Speaker 3: done that. My first AI endeavors were generating Schnauzer pictures.
- 10:37Speaker 3: Because that doesn't surprise anybody who knows me. What was
- 10:41Speaker 3: the first AI image that you've jumped into and created, Harps.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Well, I don't know the answer to that. But pursuant
- 10:49Speaker 1: to this conversation, you're Honor and tiv I the other day, like,
- 10:54Speaker 1: I've got a gig coming up in a few weeks
- 10:57Speaker 1: on the Goldie and I just wanted to do something
- 11:00Speaker 1: like a little silly kind of how's my mic technique tip?
- 11:04Speaker 1: I'm just checking really really good.
- 11:06Speaker 2: Thank you having Thank.
- 11:06Speaker 1: You, Ernie, thank you. I'm very very trying vally baally
- 11:10Speaker 1: hard and anyway, Patrick, So I went, ah, here's a
- 11:16Speaker 1: photo of my kind of I guess from my chest up.
- 11:20Speaker 1: Here's an image of me. Use this image as the
- 11:24Speaker 1: basis for a picture of me in the surf, right,
- 11:29Speaker 1: because I just wanted to write over the top of that, Hey,
- 11:31Speaker 1: I'm coming to the goldie blah blah blah. Right. So
- 11:34Speaker 1: the one thing that had absolutely to work with that
- 11:39Speaker 1: was one hundred percent accurate was the photo of me
- 11:41Speaker 1: that I sent it, and it creates this image of
- 11:44Speaker 1: me surfing on a wave. But the head is not
- 11:48Speaker 1: my head, like it's a it's a different head. It
- 11:53Speaker 1: looks kind of like me kind of. But then you
- 11:57Speaker 1: lean in. Patrick's gone. He's clearly bored. But then yeah, Patrick,
- 12:01Speaker 1: just everyone. He just got up and left his chair
- 12:04Speaker 1: and walked out of the room. That's one of the
- 12:07Speaker 1: one of the things that people don't this is an
- 12:10Speaker 1: insight into podcasting. I don't know, you've had something legit
- 12:12Speaker 1: to do, and it's fine, but it's funny. Sometimes you're
- 12:15Speaker 1: interviewing one person and it's just one and one on
- 12:18Speaker 1: the thing. Have you had this tiff? Then all of
- 12:21Speaker 1: a sudden they get up and they walk out of
- 12:23Speaker 1: their chair because they've got to go get a drink
- 12:25Speaker 1: or turn the fan off or something. Then you're looking
- 12:28Speaker 1: at nothing and you're trying to stay as engaged as
- 12:33Speaker 1: you were. Like the only thing that's like Patrick's not
- 12:35Speaker 1: talking right now, which is a fucking rare event, but
- 12:38Speaker 1: he flipping the mod. So but anyway, I gave it
- 12:43Speaker 1: a picture of me to work with and it came
- 12:44Speaker 1: back and it was complete bullshit. I'm like, yeah, there's
- 12:46Speaker 1: a way to go. There is still a way to
- 12:49Speaker 1: go with that, Patrick, I go on, tiff go.
- 12:52Speaker 2: So I was going to say, there's some Facebook pages
- 12:54Speaker 2: that I've seen pop up in my feed where people
- 12:56Speaker 2: put real old photos and ask for photoshop for free.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Can you fix this sentimental where Arah and people do
- 13:05Speaker 2: amazing stuff, but sometimes people turn those they do really
- 13:09Speaker 2: funny stuff, but they turn them into little videos of
- 13:13Speaker 2: doing incredible and they are incredibly accurate. They look real,
- 13:18Speaker 2: they look like the actual person in the photo, and
- 13:21Speaker 2: they move real and you wouldn't know the difference.
- 13:23Speaker 1: How many people do you reckon and doing a version
- 13:25Speaker 1: of that, Patrick James Bonello, Like, here's a picture of
- 13:28Speaker 1: me from ten years ago. Make this fucking amazing. And
- 13:32Speaker 1: then they're going and putting that on some kind of
- 13:35Speaker 1: dating website, like where you know, they've just gone from
- 13:39Speaker 1: you know, a four out of ten to a two.
- 13:43Speaker 1: Not well, I don't you know what I mean. It's like,
- 13:46Speaker 1: it's like me, I put I'm sixty one, I look
- 13:48Speaker 1: like a desert boot. I'm cool with that, right, So
- 13:50Speaker 1: let's use me as an example. Right, Like, even when
- 13:54Speaker 1: I was young and healthy and good, I was a six. Right,
- 13:57Speaker 1: I was never a fucking nine. I'm okay with that.
- 13:59Speaker 1: But now we put up a photo of me and
- 14:01Speaker 1: I'm a fucking nine and a half. And then my
- 14:04Speaker 1: date whoever he is, turns up and you're like, fuck, bro,
- 14:10Speaker 1: you don't look at anything like it, And they just
- 14:14Speaker 1: want to, you know, they walk and they look across
- 14:16Speaker 1: the room, they see that that's you, because there's a
- 14:18Speaker 1: vague resemblance, but they're thinking, oh my god, how the
- 14:21Speaker 1: fuck do I get out of here without him seeing
- 14:22Speaker 1: me or her seeing me.
- 14:27Speaker 3: Look, I agree with you. I've never understood the idea
- 14:30Speaker 3: of trying to put the best shot ever that's been
- 14:34Speaker 3: photoshopped or aied up there, because you're just going to
- 14:37Speaker 3: disappoint the person you're meeting.
- 14:38Speaker 1: In fact, if you do the opposite, you know.
- 14:40Speaker 3: Lower the expense exactly exactly.
- 14:43Speaker 1: Yes, that's my that's my go under cell over to Liver, like,
- 14:48Speaker 1: put up a shot that's close to shit. If they
- 14:50Speaker 1: turn up, how fucking happy are they going to be? Firstly,
- 14:53Speaker 1: you're probably not going to get any hooks, that's okay,
- 14:56Speaker 1: but imagine if you do, they turn up and your
- 14:58Speaker 1: fucking Brad Pitt or whoever the equivalent of that is.
- 15:03Speaker 3: Next time I'm down your way, all you're going to
- 15:05Speaker 3: do is take a photo with Fritzzer. I've got to
- 15:09Speaker 3: tell you will get so many hits on your dating
- 15:12Speaker 3: profile with that little schnauzer face and my dog.
- 15:20Speaker 1: I think he just called me a schnauzer face. I
- 15:22Speaker 1: want to talk about one more tech related thing while
- 15:25Speaker 1: Tips here, because Tip's got to do a runner and
- 15:28Speaker 1: we've kind of spoken about similar things. So this morning
- 15:31Speaker 1: I was at the Old Cafe, which is often the
- 15:34Speaker 1: source of much of my material as it is today,
- 15:37Speaker 1: I was sitting next to Dino made of mine, and
- 15:41Speaker 1: he's a good lady wife, Rachel, who's lovely, and she
- 15:46Speaker 1: wanted to start talking or she started talking to me
- 15:48Speaker 1: about her sleep quality tip ram right and that, and
- 15:53Speaker 1: she started saying that it's she's wearing an app and
- 15:56Speaker 1: it tells her every day, you know, whether or not,
- 15:58Speaker 1: like you, she slept well or didn't sleep well. And
- 16:01Speaker 1: then said, I woke up this morning and I felt good,
- 16:05Speaker 1: like I felt like I'd slept pretty well. Said then
- 16:07Speaker 1: I looked at my whatever the fuck is watch what
- 16:10Speaker 1: do you call those things? Just watch app whatever, and
- 16:16Speaker 1: it said that I'd had basically a shit night's sleep
- 16:19Speaker 1: and expect to be grouchy today. That's what it said
- 16:22Speaker 1: to her, Like, if that's not setting you up for
- 16:26Speaker 1: a shit day? And then I said, now tell me honestly,
- 16:30Speaker 1: so you felt pretty good when you woke up, not
- 16:33Speaker 1: through the roof, but felt pretty good after that, She goes,
- 16:36Speaker 1: I felt terrible, She goes, I still feel terrible. I
- 16:39Speaker 1: wish I didn't look at it. I'm like, here's here's
- 16:42Speaker 1: my question. Is your life better or worse with that thing?
- 16:46Speaker 1: And you the attachment that you have to that, they expect,
- 16:49Speaker 1: the anxiety that's now around it now she starts to
- 16:52Speaker 1: get anxious heading up to bedtime about about potentially not
- 16:57Speaker 1: sleeping well. So the thing that she's worrying is turning
- 17:00Speaker 1: up the anxiety which is making her sleep worse. I'm like,
- 17:04Speaker 1: throw that fucking thing away. I go, throw it away
- 17:07Speaker 1: or put it in a draw. I go. You know,
- 17:10Speaker 1: it's better than technology biology. Listen to your fucking body,
- 17:13Speaker 1: because your body smart. You have a sleep, you wake up,
- 17:16Speaker 1: you go, I feel pretty good. Well, then maybe you
- 17:18Speaker 1: feel pretty good. I think that you know to both
- 17:22Speaker 1: you like, this is like you with your glucose monitor,
- 17:26Speaker 1: which was widely inaccurate. It was causing you fucking chaos
- 17:30Speaker 1: based on data that was absolutely untrue.
- 17:35Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and I just had I just took my
- 17:37Speaker 2: watch off for a couple of weeks, and I've cleared
- 17:40Speaker 2: all of the data from being able to be seen
- 17:42Speaker 2: on my watch face, and I've blocked the app on
- 17:45Speaker 2: my phone so I can't use it like that because
- 17:47Speaker 2: I did the same thing. I would wake up.
- 17:49Speaker 1: And even knowing.
- 17:51Speaker 2: That the its ability to track the quality of your
- 17:55Speaker 2: sleep is probably the poorest function on there and wildly inaccurate,
- 18:00Speaker 2: we all look at it and it would still play
- 18:02Speaker 2: into how I felt for the day.
- 18:05Speaker 1: So I think this is one of the distinct potential
- 18:08Speaker 1: downsides of wearables and this kind of health focused I
- 18:14Speaker 1: put an asterisk next to that tech that's kind of
- 18:17Speaker 1: infiltrating every corner of humanity. Patrick, Look, you know, it's
- 18:23Speaker 1: a really valid point.
- 18:24Speaker 3: I was just thinking as you were saying that a
- 18:27Speaker 3: friend of mine got me on the TikTok and it
- 18:30Speaker 3: lasted a day because I was looking at the TikTok
- 18:34Speaker 3: videos and they're viral videos. They're made for you to
- 18:37Speaker 3: keep swiping. They go for a very short amount of time.
- 18:40Speaker 3: They grab your attention, then you want the next one
- 18:42Speaker 3: and the next one and the next one. And I
- 18:45Speaker 3: said to him, I can't keep this on my phone.
- 18:47Speaker 3: So after twenty four hours, I just deleted the app.
- 18:49Speaker 3: I've been out of social media for about eight years.
- 18:52Speaker 3: It's funny we manage social media for our clients and
- 18:56Speaker 3: yet I don't use social media at all anymore. But
- 18:59Speaker 3: I found that for me, and I think, if you're
- 19:02Speaker 3: probably the same, you have to go cold turkey, do
- 19:07Speaker 3: you Patrick?
- 19:08Speaker 1: Just sorry to interrupt, I would think I totally get
- 19:12Speaker 1: why you do that, and clearly it works. Do you
- 19:16Speaker 1: think that for your job, right, Not because you necessarily
- 19:20Speaker 1: want to go down some you know, IG rabbit hole
- 19:24Speaker 1: or Facebook rabbit hole, but do you think it would
- 19:26Speaker 1: be good for you to go all right, well, every
- 19:28Speaker 1: day between whenever it might be nine to nine thirty,
- 19:31Speaker 1: I'm just going to open up this shit, look at it,
- 19:33Speaker 1: just to get my head around, and then shut it down.
- 19:35Speaker 1: So I spend thirty minutes a day where I mean,
- 19:38Speaker 1: if you are working in the space of social media
- 19:42Speaker 1: and helping people with their social media, I would think
- 19:45Speaker 1: it would be valuable for you to have insight into
- 19:47Speaker 1: what is happening right now at the coal face. You know,
- 19:51Speaker 1: everything you've said is absolutely spot on, except for one point.
- 19:55Speaker 3: Employ somebody to do as social media for it.
- 19:58Speaker 1: Yeah. But at your company though, but the buck stops
- 20:01Speaker 1: with you a sure company. Yeah, right now.
- 20:05Speaker 3: I collaborate with my colleagues, so I see the work
- 20:09Speaker 3: that he's producing, and we talk about the work he's producing,
- 20:12Speaker 3: and he shows me things that are going viral or
- 20:14Speaker 3: whatever it happens to be. So I do lean over
- 20:16Speaker 3: and have a bit of a look at what you
- 20:18Speaker 3: know is trending. If he points something out to me,
- 20:21Speaker 3: so I guess I rely on him to do that,
- 20:23Speaker 3: and as you appreciate, you know, when you surround people
- 20:27Speaker 3: with certain skills, it's great to be able to then
- 20:30Speaker 3: entrust them to help you with that. So you know,
- 20:32Speaker 3: TIFF's producing the podcast, she's going to be able to
- 20:35Speaker 3: put it all together and will go to air at
- 20:36Speaker 3: the weekend, and the types of things that you know,
- 20:39Speaker 3: once you realize that if you surround yourself with people
- 20:42Speaker 3: who are smarter than you and more talented, that's where
- 20:45Speaker 3: you're going to succeed in life. No, I really mean that.
- 20:48Speaker 3: I mean I've got I'm very lucky. I've got a
- 20:50Speaker 3: great colleagues who do really good stuff. So whether it's
- 20:53Speaker 3: you know, building websites or doing social media, I can
- 20:56Speaker 3: do little bits. But it's a valid point. And but
- 21:00Speaker 3: I think you could kind of. I don't like to
- 21:02Speaker 3: micromanage either, so you know, let him do his job.
- 21:05Speaker 1: I think. So if he becomes an addict, fucking as
- 21:08Speaker 1: long as you're not.
- 21:09Speaker 3: He's been paid, though, he's been paid to.
- 21:12Speaker 1: Become an addict. Jeam, Well that's all right. Well there's
- 21:14Speaker 1: some kind of remuneration for him, so enjoy your addiction,
- 21:17Speaker 1: and here's some cash just to offset that. Love Patrick, Wow, Hay, Tiv,
- 21:24Speaker 1: have you got to go?
- 21:25Speaker 3: I've got to go.
- 21:26Speaker 1: Where are you going? Where are you going?
- 21:28Speaker 2: I've got a zoom meeting to jump on.
- 21:30Speaker 3: You're on a zoom meeting right now.
- 21:32Speaker 1: It's a really fun one.
- 21:33Speaker 3: This one probably won't be fun.
- 21:35Speaker 1: But now responsibility, Well, if somebody that we know who's
- 21:41Speaker 1: wearing a baseball cap AND's got a snouther in the
- 21:43Speaker 1: middle of his legs, if that person you know didn't
- 21:47Speaker 1: move the time, you would have been able to have
- 21:49Speaker 1: the whole hour.
- 21:50Speaker 2: I know life was really good and then someone changed
- 21:53Speaker 2: the time.
- 21:53Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. Between Patrick and the bloody Wearables,
- 21:57Speaker 1: it's tough. Life's tough, and Ai I'm a butler.
- 22:00Speaker 2: I'm a butler.
- 22:01Speaker 1: Do what you can learn to fight and I keep fighting.
- 22:03Speaker 1: I sold you on. Keep you long stocking, by the way,
- 22:07Speaker 1: learn more about the woman that you look like or
- 22:09Speaker 1: the girl that you look like.
- 22:11Speaker 2: Have a good day, Tiv fall Well, guys, bye.
- 22:16Speaker 1: And she's gone. It's just you and me now. I
- 22:18Speaker 1: don't know if we can be trusted. I don't think
- 22:21Speaker 1: so either. Just quietly, I wouldn't trust it. Let's hit
- 22:23Speaker 1: up your list, bro, We've got half an hour, tell me,
- 22:26Speaker 1: teach me, enlighten me and the listeners.
- 22:29Speaker 3: Okay, let's keep on the track of AI a little bit.
- 22:33Speaker 3: I don't want to overdo the AI stuff. But there's
- 22:35Speaker 3: a group of scientists at Imperial College in London and
- 22:39Speaker 3: they have been working for a decade looking at how
- 22:43Speaker 3: bacteria evolve and how they can eventually evolve into dangerous
- 22:47Speaker 3: superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics, something that concerns all
- 22:51Speaker 3: of us. Well, recently they plugged in all of their
- 22:55Speaker 3: decade worth of figures into Google's new AI system called
- 22:59Speaker 3: cos Scientists, and in forty eight hours, it generated the
- 23:05Speaker 3: exact same hypothesis that they'd taken ten years to come
- 23:10Speaker 3: up with.
- 23:11Speaker 1: Fuck that is that is what would you if you
- 23:16Speaker 1: were that team, if you were the leader of that
- 23:19Speaker 1: team doing that research, what would your emotion be around that? Oh?
- 23:24Speaker 3: Look, you know what's interesting is the article that I
- 23:26Speaker 3: was reading was that they were actually quite elated. What
- 23:29Speaker 3: they're saying is it's like any tool, and there are
- 23:31Speaker 3: always going to be things that the AI can't do,
- 23:34Speaker 3: But that number crunching is it's great that they were
- 23:38Speaker 3: able to collaborate. And I guess look at that to
- 23:41Speaker 3: verify the hypothesis they come up to it generated four
- 23:46Speaker 3: additional entirely plausible hypotheses as well, so they had other
- 23:50Speaker 3: tracks that they're now going to go down and investigate further.
- 23:54Speaker 3: You know, it's great. It's like using a calculator. My
- 23:58Speaker 3: colleague who's I, as I was saying, is really talented.
- 24:01Speaker 3: He's very creative, visually creative, but he's terrible.
- 24:05Speaker 1: At math sometimes.
- 24:07Speaker 3: You know, well, I don't know why this happens every
- 24:10Speaker 3: now and again, but it might be adding up some
- 24:11Speaker 3: figures and my head because I like the challenge of
- 24:15Speaker 3: adding up you know, I'm not really good at maths,
- 24:18Speaker 3: but I like the challenge myself and say, oh yeah,
- 24:21Speaker 3: I'll add that that that and add it up in
- 24:23Speaker 3: my head and I come up with the right number.
- 24:25Speaker 3: Whereas he uses a calculator, like the challenge myself to
- 24:29Speaker 3: see if I can be quicker than him on his calculator,
- 24:31Speaker 3: which is kind So those sorts of things, but ultimately
- 24:36Speaker 3: it's a check and measure, isn't it.
- 24:39Speaker 1: Yeah, But I think yes, But I think with all
- 24:41Speaker 1: of these things, like truly, some people just are not
- 24:44Speaker 1: great at maths, and that's cool. They can draw brilliantly,
- 24:47Speaker 1: or they can run one hundred miles an hour, or
- 24:49Speaker 1: it's like lots of things that I'm terrible at, a
- 24:51Speaker 1: few things I'm good at. So I think, why on
- 24:55Speaker 1: earth wouldn't you use a calculator? You know, I'm like, well,
- 24:58Speaker 1: that's a resource you had. Why would don't you use AI?
- 25:01Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you use you know? And I understand it.
- 25:04Speaker 1: There are you know, there are going to be there's
- 25:07Speaker 1: going to be a human cost, whether or not that's
- 25:09Speaker 1: in jobs, or whether or not that's in mental health
- 25:12Speaker 1: for some people, or but I think with every breakthrough
- 25:15Speaker 1: in technology or even in science or you know, any
- 25:20Speaker 1: of the other kind of fields, there's always there's It
- 25:24Speaker 1: can never be all positive. There's going to be you know,
- 25:27Speaker 1: it's like when you you know this story better than me, probably,
- 25:29Speaker 1: but when they invented, you know, a diesel and petrol
- 25:32Speaker 1: driven cars, and then all the fucking horse and cart
- 25:36Speaker 1: businesses went out of and all the cart makers went
- 25:40Speaker 1: broke essentially because who wants a cart and one horse
- 25:43Speaker 1: when you can have a twenty five horse power car
- 25:47Speaker 1: and that doesn't shit everywhere, you know, So you know,
- 25:52Speaker 1: they said TV would never take off. They said the
- 25:54Speaker 1: Internet would never last like and because there was a
- 25:57Speaker 1: cost to that, like Encycloperetic Encyclopedia Britannica when the way
- 26:02Speaker 1: the Dodo bird when the Internet came out, because who
- 26:04Speaker 1: needs thirty seven gigantic books on their shelves when they
- 26:08Speaker 1: can just look on their computer. There's always a cost,
- 26:11Speaker 1: I guess, you know.
- 26:13Speaker 3: One of the quotes from the scientists involved was that
- 26:17Speaker 3: AI is a tool to accelerate, not replace scientists.
- 26:23Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's beautiful. I love that.
- 26:26Speaker 3: Yeah, and so yeah, I think is it going to
- 26:29Speaker 3: replace jobs? No, but it's going to make jobs easier,
- 26:33Speaker 3: and it means that they can focus on the human
- 26:35Speaker 3: based skills that AI can't do, which you know, this
- 26:39Speaker 3: is really important work looking at how bacteria evolve and
- 26:44Speaker 3: potentially become these deadly bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics,
- 26:49Speaker 3: because that's a real worry for everybody.
- 26:51Speaker 1: The other day I had a pod. I had somebody booked,
- 26:55Speaker 1: somebody pulled out, and so literally within about not very long,
- 26:59Speaker 1: like twenty minutes, I need to figure out what I
- 27:01Speaker 1: was going to do to do a podcast for tomorrow,
- 27:05Speaker 1: And so I just went into chat GPT and I said,
- 27:07Speaker 1: you know, everything I've written and everything, you know, all
- 27:09Speaker 1: my podcasts, you know, all my shit. And I talked
- 27:12Speaker 1: to it like we're colleagues, not friends. But I go
- 27:15Speaker 1: I often will have a conversation with it in terms
- 27:17Speaker 1: of I've got an idea. What do you think about this?
- 27:19Speaker 1: It'll say blah blah blah. We'll go back and forth.
- 27:21Speaker 1: Right and I said, based on all of my shit,
- 27:23Speaker 1: I want you to come up with an idea for
- 27:26Speaker 1: a podcast topic that I haven't done before. And it
- 27:30Speaker 1: came up with ten, and about seven or eight were
- 27:34Speaker 1: and straight away, by the way, seven I are okay.
- 27:36Speaker 1: One or two were good, and one was I thought
- 27:38Speaker 1: really good, And it was the psychology of enough. I'm like,
- 27:43Speaker 1: that is really good. Like let's talk about what is
- 27:46Speaker 1: enough and when is it enough? And why isn't it
- 27:48Speaker 1: enough now? And when I go, I'll have enough when
- 27:51Speaker 1: I have ten, And then I get ten and I go, oh, no,
- 27:54Speaker 1: ten's not enough. It's actually twelve or no, it's like
- 27:57Speaker 1: what is this And not to go, ah, here's the solution, everybody,
- 28:01Speaker 1: but rather just to lean into this idea of enough,
- 28:05Speaker 1: you know, because we it's a very common human trait
- 28:09Speaker 1: to be dissatisfied. Like wherever we are, whatever we've got,
- 28:13Speaker 1: there's no contentment or there's very little. It's not enough.
- 28:16Speaker 1: We need more of this, we need more of that,
- 28:18Speaker 1: and need to be quicker and better and faster. And
- 28:20Speaker 1: you know it's like, oh what about the ops? What
- 28:22Speaker 1: about the pendulum swing of that? So yeah, I just
- 28:27Speaker 1: I think it was with Tiff. We just riffed for
- 28:29Speaker 1: like fifty minutes just on this idea, this thought bubble,
- 28:33Speaker 1: and it's like for things like that, where it goes, oh,
- 28:36Speaker 1: here's an idea. Now, it didn't give me a script,
- 28:38Speaker 1: it didn't give me you know, I just went I
- 28:40Speaker 1: actually like that, and then off that prompt that it
- 28:44Speaker 1: gave me. We spoke for fifty minutes on something that's
- 28:48Speaker 1: an interesting idea but also relevant for everybody because at
- 28:52Speaker 1: some stage, like if whatever you have, wherever you are,
- 28:56Speaker 1: whatever you're doing, if it's never enough, then you're never
- 28:59Speaker 1: going to be content.
- 29:00Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's funny you say that because I could
- 29:03Speaker 3: relate that to a whole so many different things in life,
- 29:05Speaker 3: whether it's that extra piece of a block of chocolate.
- 29:08Speaker 3: You know, I think I'm just going to have one row,
- 29:10Speaker 3: and you have that one row and then you go
- 29:12Speaker 3: to the next row or the extra pringle or you know,
- 29:17Speaker 3: or going to the gym and pushing out an extra set.
- 29:19Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's so exactly. It's just like a good
- 29:23Speaker 1: you could you know, in relationships, in your spiritual journey,
- 29:28Speaker 1: if you've got one in your you know, your property portfolio.
- 29:33Speaker 1: It's like for me, I weigh up. Like my business
- 29:37Speaker 1: model now is very simple. Go to companies, talk to
- 29:40Speaker 1: the people, come home, right, that's it. Maybe you talk
- 29:43Speaker 1: for an how maybe you talk for day record podcasts,
- 29:47Speaker 1: have sponsors, work with Novo, work with Patrick everybloody Friday.
- 29:51Speaker 1: Whatever it is right, it's not complicated, and I know
- 29:54Speaker 1: I could do bigger and better and more. But where
- 29:58Speaker 1: I'm at now, which is can compared to when I
- 30:00Speaker 1: had heaps of employees and heaps of standalone businesses. For
- 30:05Speaker 1: me right now, this is the best model because on
- 30:09Speaker 1: an emotional and social and mental and commercial level, it's
- 30:14Speaker 1: just for me. Not wouldn't be for a lot of
- 30:16Speaker 1: other people, but for me, it's the right mix. And
- 30:18Speaker 1: I go, yeah, this is enough, this is good, and
- 30:21Speaker 1: I think it's good to reflect on that, you know,
- 30:24Speaker 1: and get and I'm getting a little bit deep, but
- 30:27Speaker 1: I'll shut up after this. But I think like in
- 30:29Speaker 1: the continuity of life, like we're always in that river
- 30:33Speaker 1: that's flowing, and your life has got momentum, and your
- 30:36Speaker 1: life has got energy, and there's all these rules and
- 30:38Speaker 1: rituals and things that we do on autopilot sometimes to
- 30:42Speaker 1: swim to the side of the metaphoric river, get out
- 30:44Speaker 1: of the river, get up on the bankment, or I'll
- 30:47Speaker 1: sit on a rock and just sit on the rock
- 30:49Speaker 1: and look at try to get some perspective on the
- 30:51Speaker 1: river that's flowing by, and thinking, Am I in the
- 30:54Speaker 1: right river? Am I swimming in the right direction? Am I?
- 30:57Speaker 1: And you might come back with, yes, I'm exactly where
- 31:00Speaker 1: I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing.
- 31:03Speaker 1: Or you might go, maybe I need to swim in
- 31:05Speaker 1: a slightly different direction, or maybe I'm swimming against the
- 31:09Speaker 1: tide and it's killing me.
- 31:12Speaker 3: Yeah. Sitting outside of yourself and reflecting on how your
- 31:16Speaker 3: life is proceeding is a difficult thing for a lot
- 31:18Speaker 3: of us, where you get swept up in the moment
- 31:21Speaker 3: all the time.
- 31:22Speaker 1: And you're absolutely right.
- 31:23Speaker 3: I remember you saying to me many many years ago.
- 31:25Speaker 3: I'm talking more than twenty years ago. How that every
- 31:29Speaker 3: New Year you make up a little list for yourself.
- 31:32Speaker 1: Yeah, between Christmas and New Year, I spend those six
- 31:35Speaker 1: days or whatever it is planning the next year and
- 31:38Speaker 1: or just thinking about like it's it's not as strategic
- 31:42Speaker 1: because it once was. It used to be quite commercially driven,
- 31:46Speaker 1: and these days it's more contemplation and trying to get
- 31:50Speaker 1: you know that that river metaphor, that is really about awareness,
- 31:55Speaker 1: you know, self awareness and being aware of you that
- 31:59Speaker 1: you have a life. If you're in the middle of
- 32:00Speaker 1: a life, but it is not you and you are
- 32:02Speaker 1: not in you know, you're in a story, but you're
- 32:05Speaker 1: not the story. You're part of the story, and you're
- 32:08Speaker 1: writing the story. And you can change the direction of
- 32:12Speaker 1: the story anytime you want, because you're the fucking author.
- 32:15Speaker 1: You don't have to be in that river going in
- 32:17Speaker 1: that direction, you know. But this kind of intentional thinking
- 32:23Speaker 1: and this kind of mental and emotional distance we can
- 32:26Speaker 1: get from our life. It is as you suggest, it's
- 32:30Speaker 1: a tricky thing to do because I work a lot
- 32:33Speaker 1: with small business people. One of the biggest challenges for
- 32:36Speaker 1: people in business, small business particularly is to work on
- 32:40Speaker 1: the business, not in the business. Is to step back
- 32:42Speaker 1: because generally, if you're working in a small business, you
- 32:45Speaker 1: take on multiple roles. You know, I hate bookkeeping, and
- 32:48Speaker 1: I have a bookkeeper and I have an accountant, but
- 32:50Speaker 1: I still do some of the bookkeeping.
- 32:51Speaker 3: I do the invoicing, but I put it off because
- 32:54Speaker 3: I hate it, and it's the world because I need
- 32:57Speaker 3: to invoice otherwise I can't make any money and pay
- 33:00Speaker 3: my staff on my bills. And yet it's one of
- 33:03Speaker 3: the things I dread doing because I like being creative
- 33:06Speaker 3: and it was interesting this week. I can't go into
- 33:08Speaker 3: the details, but we run a Google Ads campaign for
- 33:11Speaker 3: a client who's a really good, really great client. They
- 33:15Speaker 3: listen to what we say. But the guy who owns
- 33:18Speaker 3: the business has a mentor and coach, and the spend
- 33:22Speaker 3: that they were currently making on Google Ads, the mentor said, look,
- 33:25Speaker 3: you're not spending enough. You need to increase the spend.
- 33:28Speaker 3: And it was increased to a point that I felt
- 33:31Speaker 3: uncomfortable because the more you're spending, the more management. And
- 33:35Speaker 3: it sounds like a silly thing to say, but I
- 33:37Speaker 3: called them the other day and said, look, let's not
- 33:39Speaker 3: spend this much. I know it's going to make me
- 33:41Speaker 3: more money, but I think him sit back and ask
- 33:45Speaker 3: why are you spending this money?
- 33:47Speaker 1: What do you want to achieve from.
- 33:49Speaker 3: The campaign, and let's track it to see if you're
- 33:52Speaker 3: getting the type of results that you want, not arbitrarily
- 33:56Speaker 3: tripling the amount of money. We're talking a lot of money,
- 33:59Speaker 3: you know, for a relatively small business. And I think
- 34:03Speaker 3: sometimes it's just easy to make those knee jerk reactions
- 34:07Speaker 3: and not to step back from it, not to step
- 34:09Speaker 3: back and say, well, where do I want to go
- 34:11Speaker 3: with this? You know, As you know, I had a
- 34:13Speaker 3: business partner in Melbourne when I just started getting into
- 34:17Speaker 3: graphic design web design, and you know, we work together
- 34:21Speaker 3: for about three years, and then I realized that he
- 34:24Speaker 3: wanted to build a multimillion dollar company with hundreds of staff,
- 34:28Speaker 3: and I thought, I don't want to do that. I'm
- 34:31Speaker 3: not interested. I don't want to be the CEO of
- 34:34Speaker 3: some big, enormous organization like what I'm doing. I like
- 34:38Speaker 3: the relationships that I make with other people who are
- 34:41Speaker 3: in business. And you know, one of my clients, I've
- 34:44Speaker 3: now had the same client for more than twenty years
- 34:46Speaker 3: and it's had three owners in that time, and it's
- 34:50Speaker 3: about to be handed over from a father to a
- 34:52Speaker 3: son making number four. So to me, that's a sense
- 34:55Speaker 3: of achievement because we've a had the continuity. The business
- 34:58Speaker 3: has been robust enough to continue. I mean, that's because
- 35:01Speaker 3: of the hard work of other people, but we've contributed
- 35:03Speaker 3: a little bit to that. So you know, in some
- 35:05Speaker 3: ways I find that exciting from my perspective. So it's
- 35:08Speaker 3: easy just to get caught up and not to realize, well,
- 35:11Speaker 3: what is actually better for me?
- 35:14Speaker 1: Well, I think also, you know, that's about your values,
- 35:19Speaker 1: right I If somebody said to me, oh, we want
- 35:23Speaker 1: you to come and talk for the day to our
- 35:25Speaker 1: team and we'll pay you thirty grand, I would say,
- 35:27Speaker 1: you won't. I go, that's ridiculous, you know, I would go,
- 35:32Speaker 1: I won't take thirty grand. I would take yeah, sure,
- 35:35Speaker 1: but I don't charge thirty grand, so you're not paying
- 35:38Speaker 1: me that. I'll do it for whatever it is, right,
- 35:40Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people would go, you're
- 35:42Speaker 1: an idiot, But you know, I think you know, I've
- 35:45Speaker 1: turned down more than a dozen campaigns which were somewhere
- 35:49Speaker 1: between not bad dough and really good dough on this
- 35:52Speaker 1: on this show one very recently because I just can't
- 35:58Speaker 1: it doesn't align and I'm not trying to sound like
- 36:00Speaker 1: goodie two shoes, and I get lots of things wrong
- 36:02Speaker 1: and sometimes I'm a prick yep, all of that right,
- 36:05Speaker 1: But I can't you know one that I can talk
- 36:08Speaker 1: about because I've mentioned it before, but as you know,
- 36:10Speaker 1: selling booze, which I'm not against booze. My parents drink booze,
- 36:14Speaker 1: my most of my friends drink booze. I'm just personally, personally,
- 36:17Speaker 1: I don't. That's because that's my choice. Secondly, I work
- 36:22Speaker 1: with alcoholics and addicts, people who really struggle with addiction issues,
- 36:29Speaker 1: a lot of them. I've got friends that are also
- 36:31Speaker 1: alcoholics who struggle. And then I'm not going to sell it.
- 36:36Speaker 1: I'm not going to go, hey, everybody, you should get
- 36:38Speaker 1: your booze here or And it's cool that I think
- 36:41Speaker 1: other people should do that because it's kind of aligned
- 36:43Speaker 1: with everything and it's all good, but but I just
- 36:46Speaker 1: can't do it. And I think that when you know,
- 36:51Speaker 1: when you figure out actually what does matter to you?
- 36:55Speaker 1: And look, if you said to me in a different life,
- 36:57Speaker 1: if I had like five kids and I was struggling
- 37:00Speaker 1: and a wife and we were I don't know, maybe
- 37:02Speaker 1: I would maybe I'd be maybe my morals would have
- 37:05Speaker 1: to take a backseat to post school fees or something.
- 37:08Speaker 1: I don't know, but where I am right now, I'm
- 37:12Speaker 1: just going no, I can't do that and I won't
- 37:14Speaker 1: do that. And I think if you did something where
- 37:16Speaker 1: you were only doing it for the dough, well firstly
- 37:19Speaker 1: you wouldn't do it. But if you did it only
- 37:21Speaker 1: for the dough, even to the potential detriment of your clients,
- 37:25Speaker 1: you hate yourself. Yeah.
- 37:27Speaker 3: You know, what's something that's creeping into corporate culture now
- 37:30Speaker 3: is corporate conscience, which is interesting and it seems to
- 37:34Speaker 3: be almost a contrast, you know, directly in contrast to
- 37:38Speaker 3: what corporations are supposed to do make more money. But
- 37:41Speaker 3: I'm seeing that coming in. I signed contracts at the
- 37:44Speaker 3: start of this year with the big wind farm company
- 37:48Speaker 3: building wind farms around Australia. We were doing the community stuff,
- 37:51Speaker 3: community marketing, and you know, when they move into an
- 37:54Speaker 3: area and generally it's a rural area, and they build
- 37:57Speaker 3: a website they inform people about what's going to happen
- 37:59Speaker 3: with the wind farm. But they're a Chinese company and
- 38:02Speaker 3: the contract I signed was twenty four pages which included
- 38:06Speaker 3: a slavery clause. So what that means is they look
- 38:09Speaker 3: at the supply chain and what your personal supply chain is,
- 38:13Speaker 3: and they say, we committed to all of our suppliers
- 38:16Speaker 3: making sure they know where their goods are coming from.
- 38:18Speaker 3: That didn't affect us so much because we only work
- 38:21Speaker 3: in Australia. We don't use offshore, so it wasn't something
- 38:24Speaker 3: that was an impact for us specifically. But it's interesting
- 38:27Speaker 3: that companies in our thinking that way those terms. I
- 38:31Speaker 3: know I've talked about this before and it's really not tech,
- 38:33Speaker 3: but it doesn't matter.
- 38:35Speaker 1: I had this as a good chat. We'll get to
- 38:36Speaker 1: the tech next week. Go on. Well.
- 38:38Speaker 3: IBM is a well known company that has its fingers
- 38:42Speaker 3: in lots of pies. It's been around for many, many
- 38:44Speaker 3: years and they provide a very high end technical infrastructure
- 38:49Speaker 3: for a big sporting event that I was involved with.
- 38:51Speaker 3: And they pulled out of that sporting event a few
- 38:54Speaker 3: years ago, and there was no real chatter about why
- 38:59Speaker 3: they pulled out of particular event, but I spoke to
- 39:01Speaker 3: somebody who I got on to know really well with
- 39:04Speaker 3: and they said it's because the company was concerned that
- 39:07Speaker 3: the event had too much of a reliance on gambling
- 39:10Speaker 3: advertising and contrary to the company's standards that they set
- 39:15Speaker 3: for themselves. So they walked away saying that, and look,
- 39:19Speaker 3: this is a secondhand story, but it was someone who
- 39:21Speaker 3: was quite involved in the sport in the organization, and
- 39:25Speaker 3: they told me that that's what the reason was that
- 39:28Speaker 3: IBM walked away. And I thought, wow, that's my estimation.
- 39:33Speaker 3: And IBM jumped a lot after hearing that.
- 39:37Speaker 1: That's good. I mean, firstly, I believe you. Secondly, I
- 39:41Speaker 1: don't hold as much faith for corporations and organizations that
- 39:44Speaker 1: are driven by profit and shareholders to be that philanthropic
- 39:48Speaker 1: and moral and ethical as you do. I had a
- 39:53Speaker 1: lady on here this is very relevant to this conversation,
- 39:56Speaker 1: and her job was to hook or baseticularly connect companies
- 40:03Speaker 1: with genuine charities, like charities that were real deal, not bullshitty.
- 40:07Speaker 1: You know, ninety six cents in the dollar goes to
- 40:10Speaker 1: you know whatever, and four cents goes to the kids
- 40:15Speaker 1: or whatever it is, but companies that have been very
- 40:18Speaker 1: thoroughly screened and genuine legit charities and organization not for
- 40:25Speaker 1: profit organizations that need sport. So she companies would employ
- 40:30Speaker 1: her because she was an expert in that space to
- 40:33Speaker 1: find a charity or a not for profit that they
- 40:36Speaker 1: could partner with as an organization, which sounds lovely and
- 40:41Speaker 1: it is, and they do partner with them, and they
- 40:44Speaker 1: do give the money, and so it's all happening. And
- 40:48Speaker 1: then I said to her on this very show, I said,
- 40:51Speaker 1: how many of those companies would do that in your
- 40:55Speaker 1: estimation if nobody knew that it was happening, like if
- 40:59Speaker 1: they couldn't talk about it or write about their relationship
- 41:03Speaker 1: with this charity or use it as any kind of
- 41:06Speaker 1: pr leverage. She said zero. She said none of them
- 41:09Speaker 1: would do it. And I went, wow, wow. And I'm
- 41:13Speaker 1: sure there are companies, like you said, like IBM and
- 41:16Speaker 1: if that's them, and congratulations, that's amazing, and there are
- 41:20Speaker 1: there are ethically driven businesses now we know. But yeah,
- 41:24Speaker 1: I just that I think I think we overestimate the
- 41:30Speaker 1: morality or we can of organizations that really and understandably
- 41:36Speaker 1: like they're in existence to make money. They're not in
- 41:39Speaker 1: existence to save the world or do good. Like have
- 41:44Speaker 1: you heard of the pharmaceutical industry. It's like they do
- 41:48Speaker 1: some good, they also do some fucking terrible stuff, right,
- 41:51Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't know where we're going with that,
- 41:55Speaker 1: but I just think that if you can you on
- 41:57Speaker 1: a personal level, hopefully me on a personal If you
- 42:00Speaker 1: own a small company business, I do too. You go
- 42:03Speaker 1: all right, well, what can I control? I can control me.
- 42:07Speaker 1: I'm not going to take money to sell booze. That's okay.
- 42:10Speaker 1: The next podcast can and also that is also okay.
- 42:13Speaker 1: There's no judgment, it's just like trying to I think
- 42:16Speaker 1: if you know truly what you stand for, then it
- 42:20Speaker 1: doesn't make all the decisions and actions easy, but it
- 42:23Speaker 1: makes it much clearer, you know, because you're like, oh no,
- 42:25Speaker 1: that doesn't fit in my scope. So I wish it
- 42:28Speaker 1: did because I'd love the dough, but I can't, so thanks.
- 42:31Speaker 1: You know.
- 42:32Speaker 3: I like the idea of working on a micro level,
- 42:35Speaker 3: so whether it's giving or contributing, I now only really
- 42:40Speaker 3: contribute to small charities and organizations in proximity to where
- 42:44Speaker 3: I live, so you know, I help our neighborhood house.
- 42:47Speaker 3: I do work for a few of our community organizations,
- 42:50Speaker 3: and that's the fulfilling thing for me because I can
- 42:53Speaker 3: see real value because it affects my community directly.
- 42:57Speaker 1: And that's where I've kind of changed my mindset.
- 42:59Speaker 3: But that was because I've been living here over sixteen
- 43:02Speaker 3: years now in a rural town that's a population of
- 43:05Speaker 3: just over three thousand people, So that gets done in
- 43:08Speaker 3: the town is obvious. You know, we had a new
- 43:11Speaker 3: library open recently, and you've never seen so many people
- 43:14Speaker 3: flock to a library and be so excited. But wow,
- 43:18Speaker 3: it's awesome, it's amazing. But what's really heartening is that
- 43:22Speaker 3: you see lots of people engaging and young and old.
- 43:25Speaker 1: They have a great area for kids.
- 43:27Speaker 3: To be able to go with their parents, to hold
- 43:30Speaker 3: big children's area, and you know, maternal health is in there.
- 43:34Speaker 3: So that's a big thing for a community to be
- 43:37Speaker 3: able to have something like that as a facility. And
- 43:40Speaker 3: I think that's what changed my mindset when I moved
- 43:42Speaker 3: out to a rural town because those decisions really impact
- 43:46Speaker 3: the community.
- 43:47Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, before we go, we've got ten minutes. I
- 43:50Speaker 1: want to I'm just looking at your list of things
- 43:53Speaker 1: that we haven't gotten to, which is most of them.
- 43:56Speaker 4: But it was our last podcast. We got through everything,
- 43:58Speaker 4: our last body that's this one because this one is
- 44:01Speaker 4: relevant to me. Apple watches can now detect hypertension, which
- 44:06Speaker 4: of course everyone is high blood pressure.
- 44:09Speaker 1: I like that. So for me, I used to have
- 44:14Speaker 1: quite bad hypertension genetically because of Mum and Dad, and
- 44:19Speaker 1: I've had a recent experience just quickly. So since I
- 44:21Speaker 1: first got prescribed my drug, which was Averpro one hundred
- 44:26Speaker 1: and fifty milligrams was the dose, I was twenty kilos
- 44:29Speaker 1: heavier than you know, mainly muscle, but I was a
- 44:32Speaker 1: bullfeed I was a bodybuilder. And now all these years later,
- 44:36Speaker 1: I was feeling shits and it kind of occurred to me, Well,
- 44:39Speaker 1: you have low blood pressure now because every time you
- 44:42Speaker 1: stand up you get dizzy. Every time you bend over
- 44:45Speaker 1: and do one arm rows and stand up, you're dizzy.
- 44:47Speaker 1: When you get out of the shower, you're dizzy. And
- 44:50Speaker 1: I don't know why the scientists didn't think of this
- 44:52Speaker 1: a long time ago. Oh well, now you weigh twenty
- 44:54Speaker 1: kilos less, you're probably fitter because you walk ten kilometers
- 44:58Speaker 1: a day and you take the same dose that you
- 45:01Speaker 1: did when you're one hundred klo buffed, So harved it better,
- 45:08Speaker 1: you know.
- 45:08Speaker 3: White coat hypertension is something that I know you know
- 45:11Speaker 3: a lot about and I suffer from as well, which
- 45:14Speaker 3: means when you walk into a doctor surgery and they
- 45:17Speaker 3: put the cuff on your arm and they start inflating
- 45:19Speaker 3: the cuff. You start to get more stressed and that
- 45:23Speaker 3: affects the reading that you get, and the problem with
- 45:25Speaker 3: that is that you never get an accurate reading. So
- 45:27Speaker 3: the new Apple Series eleven Watch, which is the Ultra
- 45:31Speaker 3: three that's.
- 45:32Speaker 1: Just come out.
- 45:32Speaker 3: So Apple have their big event and they talk about
- 45:34Speaker 3: all the new gadgets that have come out. They have
- 45:36Speaker 3: this super slim line phone that also came out as well,
- 45:39Speaker 3: the light I think they're.
- 45:39Speaker 1: Going on or air Wow wow Apple.
- 45:42Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever it is, the Apple Phone air or something anyway,
- 45:45Speaker 3: but this thing is really cool because what it does
- 45:47Speaker 3: is they're using machine learning or clever I guess tech
- 45:52Speaker 3: to monitor a person's signs of hypertension. So it's not
- 45:57Speaker 3: like a blood pressure monitor where it's constantly monitoring what
- 46:00Speaker 3: your actual blood pressure is. It's looking for signs of hypertension,
- 46:03Speaker 3: and then if it thinks that you're experiencing what they're
- 46:06Speaker 3: calling chronic high blood pressure, it is now go and
- 46:10Speaker 3: check your blood pressure. So it's constantly looking at you
- 46:13Speaker 3: on a day to day basis, which gives you a
- 46:15Speaker 3: much more holistic way of what's going on. Because this
- 46:18Speaker 3: is something of a holy grail for me, because I've
- 46:21Speaker 3: struggled with the you know, I've go to some doctors
- 46:24Speaker 3: and I say I've got white white coat hypertension and
- 46:27Speaker 3: they say, well, no, that's bullshit, it doesn't really exist,
- 46:29Speaker 3: or they don't really believe that you've got it, and
- 46:31Speaker 3: they want to put you on drugs. And I don't
- 46:33Speaker 3: like the idea of being, you know, taking drugs because
- 46:36Speaker 3: I'm fit and healthy. Well I think I am, but
- 46:38Speaker 3: there are other side things that I test for. So,
- 46:41Speaker 3: you know, I went to my optometrist recently and had
- 46:44Speaker 3: my eyes tested, and the little tiny, tiny veins in
- 46:46Speaker 3: the back of your eyes can be an indicator of
- 46:49Speaker 3: whether or not you've got hypertension. Prolonged hype pretension be
- 46:53Speaker 3: so delicate that you know, And because I've been to
- 46:56Speaker 3: the same optometrist for years, I can go back, you know,
- 46:59Speaker 3: five or six year and see the same photograph of
- 47:02Speaker 3: the back of my eye and they can back whether
- 47:04Speaker 3: there's been damaged.
- 47:05Speaker 1: So there are little things like that that.
- 47:06Speaker 3: Can also give you a bit of an idea of
- 47:10Speaker 3: whether your hypertension is over a prolonged pit pardon me, period,
- 47:14Speaker 3: but it's but I think this is great. You know,
- 47:16Speaker 3: more techno, I don't. I guess I don't want to
- 47:18Speaker 3: be in a situation where as we spoke earlier with Tiff,
- 47:22Speaker 3: where you become reliant on that device and you're checking
- 47:25Speaker 3: it constantly. This is much more of a generic kind
- 47:28Speaker 3: of approach where it's monitoring in the background and I
- 47:31Speaker 3: notifies you if it finds something that could indicate you've
- 47:35Speaker 3: got hypertension. So that's what I really liked about this.
- 47:38Speaker 3: I thought that's quite interesting.
- 47:40Speaker 1: Yeah, if you use it as a tool rather than
- 47:42Speaker 1: the ultimate medical kind of decision maker. But yeah, I agree.
- 47:47Speaker 1: And of course we've got a I don't know that
- 47:49Speaker 1: you've ever had an item on your list that you
- 47:52Speaker 1: send me that's been about poohing. And I couldn't be happier.
- 47:55Speaker 1: I couldn't be happier because somehow you have tied shitting
- 48:00Speaker 1: with tech.
- 48:02Speaker 3: Proceed proceed well, Okay, A lot of us, and I've
- 48:08Speaker 3: putting me in this, A lot of us take our
- 48:10Speaker 3: phones to the bathroom.
- 48:11Speaker 1: Oh you're disgusting. I know.
- 48:13Speaker 3: Everyone put your hand up in this podcast. Have you
- 48:16Speaker 3: ever taken your phone to the toilet with you?
- 48:19Speaker 1: No?
- 48:19Speaker 3: No, you don't take you leave it outside the toilet.
- 48:22Speaker 1: Oh yeah, definitely, yeah, believe you only only when I'm awake,
- 48:27Speaker 1: I take it in.
- 48:29Speaker 3: So researchers they did a small survey one hundred and
- 48:33Speaker 3: twenty five adults at the Boston Medical Center and they
- 48:36Speaker 3: found that there is a relationship between sitting down and
- 48:41Speaker 3: pooping and the increase increased of hemorrhoids. And what they
- 48:46Speaker 3: find what they're finding is if you take your phone
- 48:49Speaker 3: into the toilet with you, you're more inclined to spend
- 48:51Speaker 3: more time sitting on the can and that's where the
- 48:54Speaker 3: problem arises from. So they believe that smartphone use on
- 48:57Speaker 3: the toilet is gives you a forty six percent increased
- 49:01Speaker 3: risk hemorrhoids. Now do you want to tell everybody what
- 49:04Speaker 3: a hemorrhoid is.
- 49:05Speaker 1: Well, it's basically a little ruptured blood vessel around your
- 49:09Speaker 1: anus or lakes can be inside your anus, inside the
- 49:13Speaker 1: little canal there or outside. Kind of looks like a
- 49:19Speaker 1: grape or they can it's a little bit. I'm sure
- 49:22Speaker 1: a lot of people have them that are listening, But
- 49:24Speaker 1: I can hand on heart say I've never had one,
- 49:27Speaker 1: but of course I know what they are, but I
- 49:30Speaker 1: can't say I would want one, I should probably do
- 49:32Speaker 1: stop doing phone meetings while on the crapper, Patrick, do
- 49:36Speaker 1: you look?
- 49:37Speaker 3: I would never answer a phone in the toilet for
- 49:40Speaker 3: the most part.
- 49:41Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? That's called efficiency? Really?
- 49:45Speaker 3: Yeah, thank goodness, is not smell of vision. But so,
- 49:50Speaker 3: but they can be really painful and it can lead
- 49:52Speaker 3: to us problems. I mean, there are other reasons people
- 49:55Speaker 3: get hemorrhoids as well. It could be you know that
- 49:57Speaker 3: you're not having enough fiber in your diet, that you're
- 49:59Speaker 3: straining to hard when you go to the toilet. And
- 50:01Speaker 3: I know we always talk about the pooping seat. What
- 50:03Speaker 3: do they call that? The little bit?
- 50:04Speaker 1: Yeh, squatty potty? Did you say I got one gifted
- 50:06Speaker 1: this week? Oh?
- 50:07Speaker 2: Did you?
- 50:08Speaker 1: I've been one for years. It's great. Here's a funny
- 50:11Speaker 1: story that my listeners know but you don't, so I'll
- 50:13Speaker 1: tell you.
- 50:14Speaker 3: So.
- 50:14Speaker 1: I was walking back from the cafe. Here this bloke
- 50:16Speaker 1: yelling my name from the other side of the street.
- 50:19Speaker 1: I've got headphones on, but I just was aware of
- 50:21Speaker 1: waving arms and someone gesticulating towards me. I tap my
- 50:24Speaker 1: headphones off. He's calling out my name. No idea who
- 50:27Speaker 1: he is, and he goes apps and I'm like, yeah,
- 50:32Speaker 1: you know when you think, oh, maybe I'm meant to
- 50:34Speaker 1: know this person, so you don't want to be rude.
- 50:37Speaker 1: You might have met him four times anyway, I'm like, hey, mate,
- 50:40Speaker 1: how are you. I'm like, fucking no idea anyway, I'll
- 50:43Speaker 1: Mate holds up the one finger universal sign for can
- 50:46Speaker 1: you just wait. I'm like okay. So I stop on
- 50:49Speaker 1: the side of the footpath and o Mate opens the
- 50:52Speaker 1: back of his car and gets out of Squatty Potty,
- 50:55Speaker 1: a brand new one, and runs across the street towards me,
- 50:58Speaker 1: across Hampton Street carrying Squatty Potty not weird at all.
- 51:02Speaker 1: And so then he goes, hey, is, yeah, I work
- 51:07Speaker 1: for Squatty Potty and blah blah blah blah blah, and
- 51:09Speaker 1: I've heard about you talking about him on the show.
- 51:12Speaker 1: Thought you might be due for a new one and
- 51:14Speaker 1: bibbity Bobby boo, and I'm like thanks, I guess no,
- 51:20Speaker 1: he was lovely. It was. It was funny though, And yeah,
- 51:24Speaker 1: shout out to Squatty Potty man. I'm not sponsored by them, No,
- 51:27Speaker 1: you're you're on mute. By the way, I don't know.
- 51:29Speaker 1: If you know that, you do you use it? Have
- 51:32Speaker 1: you used one pre every day? Oh? Yeah, yeah, I've been.
- 51:35Speaker 1: I've been using the elevated foot position. If you go interestingly, folks,
- 51:42Speaker 1: it's not a gimmick at all. There's actually a real
- 51:45Speaker 1: anatomical advantage that actually unkinks your colon and does a
- 51:48Speaker 1: whole lot of amazing shit. But if you go into
- 51:51Speaker 1: any AI program and just say, what are the advantages
- 51:54Speaker 1: of going to the toilet or you know, snapping one off,
- 51:58Speaker 1: backing one out, shooting one off to where I be,
- 52:00Speaker 1: dropping the kids off at the pool, releasing the chocolate hostage,
- 52:03Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it. You welcome, you welcome Boys' school.
- 52:10Speaker 1: With my feet elevated, it will take you into quite
- 52:13Speaker 1: a deep, clinical kind of assessment of why. And I'm
- 52:17Speaker 1: not kidding. Yeah, it makes a massive difference. Can I
- 52:22Speaker 1: admit something?
- 52:23Speaker 3: Yes, when I travel, of course I don't take it
- 52:26Speaker 3: with me, you know, but I'm always concerned because I
- 52:29Speaker 3: know how important it is to elevate my feet.
- 52:31Speaker 1: Yes, I'm China, and you use a squat toilet.
- 52:34Speaker 3: So when I go to places like friends houses, I
- 52:37Speaker 3: look for things I can one per one hundred percent
- 52:40Speaker 3: leak up against the wall or whatever, just to try
- 52:43Speaker 3: to keep my feet up so that I could get
- 52:45Speaker 3: my card.
- 52:46Speaker 1: Can I tell you what I do which I've never
- 52:48Speaker 1: said this to any human on earth at alone on
- 52:51Speaker 1: a fucking This could be the end of my career.
- 52:54Speaker 1: Shout out to the hotels that I stay at. I
- 52:57Speaker 1: slide the draw out of whatever it is. So I
- 53:01Speaker 1: take the drawer out, I turn it upside down, and
- 53:04Speaker 1: then it usually angles up and I just put my
- 53:08Speaker 1: feet on the edges of that like I don't like
- 53:10Speaker 1: put all my weight on it. And now my feet
- 53:12Speaker 1: are elevated, I snap one off, I do my business.
- 53:15Speaker 1: Then I put the drawback in, and no one's any
- 53:18Speaker 1: of the wiser, and life is good. And then you
- 53:20Speaker 1: have a shower straight after it. Of course, people who
- 53:24Speaker 1: shit and then don't shower, what the fuck is wrong
- 53:26Speaker 1: with you. I've not had a shit without showering in
- 53:31Speaker 1: twenty five years. My ass needs to hit the water
- 53:34Speaker 1: within sixty seconds, and that's too long. Wait a minute.
- 53:38Speaker 3: I mean, I know you're regular, but what happens if
- 53:40Speaker 3: you're at a conference?
- 53:42Speaker 1: Don't shit? You don't shit. I will not shit if
- 53:45Speaker 1: there's not a shower available. You know that one day
- 53:49Speaker 1: you're going to Mount Na. We have an arrangement, mean
- 53:54Speaker 1: my bow have an arrangement. Patrick. Tell people how they
- 53:56Speaker 1: can find you, follow you, connect with you, please. I
- 53:59Speaker 1: don't even know to go with that.
- 54:01Speaker 3: You can websites noow dot com dot au is a
- 54:06Speaker 3: website for one of my businesses, and you can kind
- 54:08Speaker 3: of connect with me. And the other thing I was
- 54:10Speaker 3: going to say is if you want us to talk
- 54:12Speaker 3: about a specific topic and get me to research it,
- 54:15Speaker 3: either jump onto the Facebook of typ and send a
- 54:19Speaker 3: message or just message me at websites noow dot com
- 54:22Speaker 3: TODAYU because I would love to deep dive into something
- 54:26Speaker 3: that you might be interested in. Because we kind of
- 54:28Speaker 3: you know, we talk amongst ourselves. I come up with
- 54:30Speaker 3: a list, we sometimes look at it, we sometimes don't
- 54:32Speaker 3: look at it. But that'd be cool. So if you
- 54:34Speaker 3: want to send a message just to give us something
- 54:37Speaker 3: to talk about anytime, even if.
- 54:39Speaker 1: You've got a specific to you question about tech. And
- 54:42Speaker 1: it might seem a little selfish, but there's a fair
- 54:44Speaker 1: chance that if you want that answer, someone else wants
- 54:46Speaker 1: it as well. All right, mate, you're the best. We'll
- 54:49Speaker 1: say goodbye affair, but thanks again. Buddy, Yeah goodness. Chat