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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
You Have 2 Years Left Before Everything Gets Rewritten | Tom Bilyeu Deep Dive
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Over the next two years, the life you know will vanish. No warning, no vote. Just an inferno of artificial intelligence that will burn away every everything you're used to. Jobs, relationships, family, religion, economics, warfare. They will all become unrecognizable by the time a kid born today graduates high school. If such a thing even exists by then. Your job is to figure out what this change means for you and how to navigate it well so you do not get left behind. That's what we're going to be doing here today. Let me set the table. This moment in history is unparalleled. The world's two major superpowers are locked in a cold war, both battling for economic, technological and military supremacy. And AI sits at the heart of all three. Charlie Munger famously said, show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome. When great powers are fighting for dominance, the only incentive is to compete and win. What does that mean for our future? America, the world's policeman, is in the middle of a debt crisis. Populism is on the rise. Political tensions are at a fever pitch. Credible voices see civil war on the horizon. And right in the middle of all of that is the AI Revolution. So what happens when an already pivotal moment in history occurs right in the middle of the most significant period of technological change the world has ever seen? That's what we're here to answer. The next two years are going to be dramatic because history doesn't move forward smoothly. It lurches forward in sudden, violent spasms of change. When people revolt or science unleash unlocks new abilities, think of the printing press, electricity, the atomic age, the birth of the Internet, and now AI. Now, my goal today isn't to convince you we should speed up or slow down. My goal is to help you understand the direction of travel and how to prosper through radical disruption. There's always a path, however narrow. Now, many, many people are going to emotionally implode over the next few years. Others though, are going to win in our time together. Today I'm going to orient you towards what's happening and see if we can find that path to narrow though it may be, to winning in five easy parts. This time I absolutely saved the best for last. So make sure you watch to the end where we talk strategy for how to win in this insane time. Part 1 the future is going to be faster and vaster than you think. In just the last year, more people talk to AI than their doctor, lawyer or therapist character. AI Replika, ChatGPT and Snapchat's AI alone engage with millions of users daily, far more often and for longer than the average person consults with a professional of any kind for any reason. Project that forward and you quickly see how AI becomes the dominant form of social interaction full stop. But social interaction is just the beginning. AI is already changing jobs, medicine, engineering, warfare and science. We are the proverbial frogs being boiled already. Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, has predicted that AI is progressing at a rate of 300% year over year with no signs of stopping. Do you know how insane that is? 3% growth year over year would already be exponential at 300% growth. By the end of year two, you're not at 600% growth, you're at 1600%. That's how compounding works. That's 16 times your starting condition. In three years, you're at 64 times your starting condition. Now listen, even if Sam is delusional and it slows down for the terrifying reason I will explain in part three, it's never going to stop. AI is that moment on our timeline where an entirely new skill tree opens up and nothing is the same after. I want you to close your eyes and imagine this. An 82 year old man jogs a 10K at sunrise. His knees feel perfect. He's biologically 38, thanks to AI reprogrammed stem cells. His romantic partner, an embodied AI entity who's reignited his love life after his divorce, helped him overcome trauma, make financial decisions and build a second career on YouTube. Our man doesn't even notice the hum of autonomous drones overhead, quietly scanning for threats. He's thinking about his biologically customized grandson. He came out of the artificial womb exactly as expected, adorable, cancer resistant and on Track to be 64 and with an IQ push to the legal limit. On his third birthday, they even upgraded him with a neural chip that lets him read and transmit thoughts telepathically to other augmented humans. His parents are contemplating the software update that would let him translate the family dog's barking. As future grandpa steps into his house, he feels his neuralink chip reconnect to the quantum encrypted network his AI wife set up. The data from his run is uploaded and analyzed. I could go on and on, but hopefully you get the point. The future is going to be very different, and odds are it's going to arrive very fast. All made possible by artificial intelligence. AI entrepreneur and futurist Kai Fu Lee went so far as to say AI will change the world more than anything in the history of mankind. How could it not? AI has already done a list of things so radical, one of them, one of them should leave you with your jaw on the floor. Forget chatbots, here is but a tiny fraction of the things AI has already done. Solve the protein folding grand challenge, a feat humans have failed to do for more than 50 years. Create new gene editing tools, prove new mathematical theorems. Improve medical diagnostics and drug discovery. Detected tumors up to four years before they fully develop. Gotten over 950 AI powered medical devices and algorithms authorized by the FDA. Improved foundational coding languages like C, made Hollywood quality filmmaking and music available to the average person. Deployed millions of industrial robots in factories worldwide, and so much more. And that's what's happened right now. As AI clusters get bigger and more efficient, as we ramp up energy production, as AI makes new things possible. How far is it going to go? The biggest challenge in human history isn't something that will happen in the future. It's what's already happening right now. And as I was writing, this, LA was literally on fire. It was in the middle of the riots. They didn't have anything to do with AI, but they had everything to do with people feeling left behind. People do not riot when they feel calm and confident about the future. They riot because they're mad, confused, scared, or all of the above. And typically that happens because of economics. And if I'm right about that, what happens when AI kills old jobs and creates new jobs they're not even qualified for? But we'll be fine, right? I mean, history shows. Well, what does history show? Does it say we'll be fine? It depends, I guess, on how you feel about 30 years of war. And that looming question brings us to part two. History shows change makes people deadly. In the 16th century, a new media technology triggered the deadliest war in European history, a record that held until the 20th century. It killed 8 million people, 1 in 5 Germans, and left entire regions of Central Europe depopulated. The tech it Wasn't machine guns or cluster bombs. It was the printing press. Before the printing press, knowledge was only for the elites. A single book could cost as much as a house, but after it, books were cheaper than a teacher's monthly salary. This caused literacy to surge, but it also triggered mass chaos Via the Protestant reformation. Martin Luther wrote his 95 Theses in 1517, and that led to the explosion of protestant ideas, which then fractured the religious unity of Europe. Over the next century, Europe splintered into catholic and various protestant factions, Sparking waves of devastating conflict, Ultimately culminating in the bloodbath that was the 30 years war. All of that was a consequence of making publishing cheaper. Can you imagine? The printing press simply made it cheaper to publish. But the second order consequence was was that ideas could suddenly spread Faster than tyrants could suppress them. That's a good thing, but it's not an only up phenomenon. It also divided people along ideological lines. The same tool that empowered liberty Also allowed for the spread of propaganda and served to push people into camps. Camps people were willing to fight and die for. Sound familiar? Sure, Europe eventually settled down, but that is cold comfort to all of the people who died. And. And it certainly wasn't that long ago that Catholics and protestants were still killing each other in Ireland. And history is full of insane stories Just like that. Take gunpowder. Overnight, combat stopped being about muscle and started to be about money. A random guy with a musket could drop an armored knight at distance. It was a watershed moment in the history of warfare, but it also greatly accelerated the rise of centralized nation states. Prior to gunpowder, Medieval Europe had been run by decentralized powers, Local nobles and fortified castles. They could defy kings. Gunpowder, though, changed that equation real quick. Large professional armies equipped with firearms emerged, which required bureaucratic organization and heavy taxation to maintain, Thus strengthening state institutions. Scholars speak of the 16th century Military Revolution as giving birth to the early modern fiscal military state. This disrupted economic priorities and created huge opportunities for those paying attention to the changing landscape. But only for those paying attention. And if you think gunpowder was big, look at the industrial revolution, Considered by many to be the most profound transformation of human life since the agricultural revolution. GDP per capita had been mostly flat for centuries. Then bam. With industrialization, we entered an era of truly exponential growth. Likewise, electricity sparked the second industrial revolution, Utterly transforming the global economy. The cost of goods dropped, and mass production soared to new heights. From automobiles to canned foods, Electric powered factories churned out products For a growing consumer society. Electrification also created entirely new industries. And by 1920, electricity and related industries made up a huge share of GDP in advanced countries. Jobs changed as well, pushing people from old jobs like lamplighters, candle makers and horse cart teamsters to newer jobs like electrical engineers, electricians and skilled workers to build and maintain the grid. Now, I might as well be describing AI itself, but AI will be far more revolutionary than anything we've seen previously. It's not an explosion of words or even the violent explosion of gunpowder. It is the explosion of of intelligence, the very thing that gives birth to the revolutions that lurch us all forward. So the real question becomes, is this something we should be excited about? Are these technological advances really worth the risk of that kind of disruption? In my opinion, yes. But honestly, it doesn't matter. There's no stopping this train. So if your impulse at this point is to pump the brakes, I'm guessing you've never heard of Thucydides Trap. It's shocking and entirely predictable given what I know about humans. And if you've heard of Thucydides Trap, then you know exactly where we're headed. More to come. We'll be back in a bit.
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All right, we're back. Let's get into it. Welcome to part three. Superpower Showdown, aka AI is really an arms race. 12 times in history 12 times in history when a rising power threatened a ruling one, the result was war. Only four times was war averted. This is known as Thucydides Trap. The ancient Greek historian Thucydides first recognized this pattern when reflecting on the fall of Sparta and the rise of Athens. Sparta could not accept their decline and Athens refused to tolerate being in second place. This pattern of rise and fall works like a tractor beam pulling superpowers into conflict. And right now, the rising power is China and the declining power, the United States. While the future is never perfectly knowable, historical patterns certainly make some things more obvious. AI is going to be at the heart of whether this becomes the 13th war or the fifth time in history it was avoided. That's why I don't think of this moment as a tech race. I think of it as an AI Cold War. It's not about gadgets or apps. It's about national survival. And when seen through that lens, you're going to be able to predict a lot more of what's about to come. Because when countries are overburdened by debt and a sense of global threat to their hegemony, as the US feels right now, populism kicks in and it becomes existential to maintain your advantage. The US is $36 trillion in debt and climbing fast. There are literal riots in the streets right now, and we're going up against a disciplined and hungry China. As Alex Karp, the controversial CEO of Palantir, has noted, either we win or China will win. And that's going to matter not just to the U.S. but the world at large. There's another psychological principle that you've got to understand. If you want to identify how the US China conflict is going to impact the development of AI, you have to look at it through the lens of game theory and something called the Prisoner's Dilemma that snaps this moment into focus real fast. If you don't know what the Prisoner's Dilemma is a scenario where two individuals face a cooperate or betray each other. If both cooperate, they get a moderate benefit. If one betrays while the other cooperates, the betrayer gains more and the cooperator loses badly. But if they both betray, they both lose, just not as much. The paradox is that even though mutual cooperation is best rational, self interest often leads both sides to defect. Here's how it looks when you apply it to the US versus China as it relates to AI Cooperation would be a global agreement is struck to slow or pause AI development. Defection would mean secretly or openly continuing aggressive development for strategic gain despite the global agreement. If China defects while the US cooperates, China gains technological, economic and military supremacy. If the US defects while China cooperates, the reverse occurs. But if both defect, which is the default outcome without binding trust, they both sprint into a high stakes arms race, regardless of all the massive risks that that entails. Given that reality, here's why the US must assume China will defect in real life. 1. There are no enforceable mechanisms to verify global compliance on AI development. 2. China has publicly declared its goal to lead the world in AI by 2030. The race is literally on. 3. In previous tech races, nuclear, space, quantum cooperation has been rare. Containment and escalation have proven to be the norm. 4. The cost of being wrong, of pausing while your rival accelerates, is truly existential in a world where AI will determine strategic advantage. Therefore, rational actors applying game theory would act exactly as the US and China are acting right now. Assume defection, build fast, and prioritize strategic advantage, even if that accelerates other risks. That's why in 2017, China launched its National AI Strategy with a single bold global leadership in AI by 2030. That's four and a half years from now. Some reports claim that they're backing it with brute force, developing hundreds of AI mega data centers that are already built or under construction. Many are apparently co located with vast solar, wind and hydroelectric projects in provinces like Gansu and Qinghai. Data centers are being hardwired directly into renewable grids to ensure that their AI programs have all the energy they need. The US by contrast, is winning on compute Our semiconductor design still leads the world. We control critical chokepoints, Nvidia chips, Dutch lithography machines, Taiwanese fabs. Trump's administration even launched a $100 billion initiative to build domestic AI supercomputing centers. Biden also kept the pressure up. Export control slammed China's access to advanced chips, the goal being to maintain a compute lead and delay China's. But here's the problem. China is catching up fast. Their models, like DeepSeek R1, are now within striking distance of OpenAI's most advanced versions. There's some controversy around how they did it, but nonetheless, they are gaining fast. David Sachs, now acting as the informal AI czar under Trump, warned in a Fox interview that America may have a three to six month lead at best. That lead could vanish overnight. And here's the real problem. We might dominate in chip design, but China has more Energy. They've built 27 nuclear reactors in the past decade, with 23 more under construction. The US just two. And AI is an energy monster. The International Energy Agency projects data centers will use more power than the entire nation of Japan by 2030. The entire nation of Japan. If AI is a weapon, and it most certainly is, and you don't have the power to run your models, you don't have the power to defend your country, that's not hyperbole. The armies of the future will be made largely of AI powered robots and drones. We can see it already in the Russia Ukraine conflict. Soldiers are being chased down by drones. And Operation Spiderweb, which allowed Ukraine to strike deep into the heart of Russia without the need for local soldiers, was only possible because of AI. Autonomous drones are rapidly becoming the standard, and it's only going to get more so from here. That's why any talk of an AI pause is pure fantasy at this point. Echoing Karp's statement, one US AI policy advisor said any pause could let China surge ahead. Both Thucydides trap and game theory make it clear the US Is not going to let that happen. Certainly not without a fight. When the stakes are global hegemony, no one takes their foot off the gas. AI is the new great game, the 21st century space race. But instead of rockets, it's language models and metallic dogs with machine guns. Regulation isn't coming. Restraint is not viable. This is the age of escalation, because every player knows. Whoever hesitates, loses. But who cares, right? That's nation state stuff that doesn't affect your daily life. Unfortunately, that's just not true. I went through all of that so you would not waste your time praying that someone somehow slows this train down. This train is only speeding up. It is full steam ahead for AI and if you think that's not going to affect you, welcome to part four. AI is a tsunami that will consume everything and usher in a devastating utopia. Yes, utopia. In 2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami swallowed everything in its wake. I routinely think of that guy on the beach who simply stood there as the angry wall of water devoured him. AI is that tsunami. The question is, what does the world look like when the water never recedes? In 1968, a researcher built a paradise for mice. Unlimited food, clean nests, no predators. Sounds awesome, right? Nope. Within two years, society collapsed, violence skyrocketed, the mice isolated themselves, and mass infertility swept the colony. It wasn't scarcity that killed them, it was abundance. The study is known as Mouse Utopia, and it may offer a glimpse into what happens when we get everything we ever want, wanted, as AI promises to do. Let's lay out how it might go. AI is going to take our jobs. All of them. Why? Because it's going to be so much better than us at everything. The hard truth is, AI is getting smart. Really smart. And AI does not have to outsmart us by much to completely dominate us. Let me give you an example for scale. A moron, a literal moron, is Technically, someone with an IQ of about 70. The average IQ in the US is 98. Einstein was estimated to be 160. That's only 2.3 times smarter than a moron. And yet he had insights that gave birth to nuclear power and nuclear bombs, not to mention lasers, GPS and a whole lot more. Said another way, a little intelligence goes a long way and AI isn't going to be a little smarter than Einstein. It's going to be a lot smarter. Not five times smarter or 10 times, or even 10,000 times smarter. We're talking millions of times smarter. In case you think I'm exaggerating, Futurist Ian Pearson told the World Government Summit that AI could become billions of times smarter than humans. How? Because AI isn't limited by the messy, chemical laden realities of being a meatbag like we humans are. We have to wait roughly 20 years for the next generation to be born, grow to sexual maturity and have more kids. AI, on the other hand, is a non biological system that is only limited by the laws of physics. AI will be able to think at the speed of light and will only be limited by the ever increasing rate at which it can learn to configure electrons in novel ways. 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And now let's see what history tells us about the disruption caused by technological advancements. AI is going to change everything about our lives as we approach the technological singularity, the point beyond which things change so rapidly we can no longer meaningfully predict even the near future. We won't recognize our world from one day to the next. Ray Kurzweil the man who has been predicting the future with 87% accuracy for roughly four decades now says the technological singularity will happen around 2045, 20 years from now. But remember, it's not binary. That's the finish line. We're already headed down the path. Skills it took decades to master will be downloadable prompts. Living in la, I can hear the sound of Hollywood dying in real time. The patterns that make hit songs are already being mapped. AI can now compose full orchestras to replicate dead artists with eerie precision. I heard a rap song yesterday that when I was showing to people, they, they did not realize that it was fake. In computer code, AI writes debugs and refactors faster than junior developers. And it's only getting better and faster. In my own company, we've been building a video game for the past three years. And what used to take us three months and 10 people can now be done in an afternoon, literally by one person at only slightly lower quality. Even a script like this one, it used to take me a month to research, outline and write. Now, with AI at my side, I can do it in a week. And it won't be long before someone, anyone can one shot a video like this in my voice or anyone's voice. Fan fiction is already off the charts. And most, if not all, music, writing, movies, TVs, painting books, all of it is going to be created with AI and that's just the tip of the iceberg. Lawyers, accountants, doctors, even surgeons, all of them will see their numbers diminished for sure and eventually, probably eliminated. Ironically though, AI taking our jobs isn't the scary part. The scary part is that it's going to usher in a utopia. Now, I can't believe this is true, but the Matrix actually predicted the problem with a technological utopia. Back in 1999, Agent Smith explains to Neo that originally the Matrix was designed to be a utopia. But people couldn't handle it and the Matrix was rejected. Going back to mouse utopia. Animals, including humans, just weren't designed for the easy life. We're designed to struggle against the odds. But technology is the way that we reduce that friction and make everything easier. Whether it's fire, the internal combustion engine, computers, or AI we're talking about, technology is the promise of a better, easier future. And on paper, that's exactly what's going to happen. As the rate of progress picks up, AI will drive the cost of energy to effectively zero. It will make it possible to capture all or virtually all of the energy coming from the sun and, and there is enough energy coming from the sun to do and build anything we have ever wanted. And once energy is free, robotic labor will be free. Once robotic labor is free, we will truly be living in an age of abundance. Education will be AI driven, personalized, and always on. Housing effectively will be free. Everyone will have robot assistants doing anything they don't want to do and voila. We're the people from Wall E. Obese and riding around in chairs, barely able to stand up. Everything will be easier and cheaper. But will it be better? In a world without friction, without necessity, without effort, what is it that's going to give life meaning? In a world where automatic forces threaten to suck us into the abyss, how do we take control and avoid the traps laid out before us? We'll be back in a moment.
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And we're back. Welcome to Part five. Where do we go from five steps to mastering the AI Revolution? Two stories, both true. One will break your heart, the other will light the way forward. In 2023, the release of a largely unknown AI model called ChatGPT bankrupted a billion dollar company in roughly 72 hours. The company was called Chegg. It was a titan of online education, but nonetheless, AI snuffed it out almost overnight. No mercy for the founder who lost everything. Or the employees who suddenly had no job. One of the countless examples of the old getting killed by the new next. In 2024, a 21 year old college dropout used AI to build a startup that outsmarted Microsoft's hiring system. Landing this dropout $25 million in funding, all without him needing to write a single line of code. A tale of two companies, both controlled by AI. One destroyed by it because they didn't know how to use it. And the other never could have existed without it. We'll all go down one of those two paths. The only question is which one? Assuming you want to win, Here are the five steps to mastering the AI revolution. 1. Master the AI tools. Learn all of them. ChatGPT, Manus, VO3 Midjourney, Claude Sonnet, and whatever else comes next. Prompt Like a master chain, tools together build automations for any repetitive tasks. Start fine tuning your own models if you're brave enough. Build custom GPTs and find ways to craft systems that no one else has. If you don't know what those words mean, look them up now or you really will get left behind. Train your own social algorithm to keep you aware of everything that's going on at the bleeding edge of AI. It moves fast and you want to make sure that you see what's going on. Experiment and get your hands dirty. There is no substitute for actually using these AI tools and seeing exactly what they're capable of, including where they fall apart. You will often have to wade through a river of endless hype to get to the actual tools that are truly revolutionary, but you will be shocked by how far AI can extend your capabilities. 2. Build something real. Write books, build tools, teach skills, make games, license content. It has truly never been easier and this window is going to close fast. Soon the world is going to be flooded with builders. But for now, you're in a magic window where shockingly few people have actually mastered the tools and are creating with them. This moment reminds me a lot of YouTube. Back in like 2014 there was competition, but if you had something valuable to offer, you could make millions. I know because I did it with no previous experience. It's all about learning fast and moving even faster. 3. Play to the fringes. The edges are where you're going to find the opportunities that are unguarded. That's where the leverage is. My company, Quest, launched at the height of the Great Recession and sold for a billion dollars. Same for Shopify and today it's worth over $100 billion. Why do these companies still work even in the worst economic environment since the Great Depression? Because a crisis opens up opportunities. It's your job to take advantage of them. Ask yourself, what does AI make possible that wasn't possible before? What niche audience was impossible to serve before AI? What was previously too expensive but now can be done very cheaply. Find a forgotten or underserved niche. Figure out where the freaks and geeks are that have a rabid appetite for your idea. Apple, of all companies, started in a super nerdy obscure computer club. My own YouTube content, which has now been viewed over a billion times, started inside of a protein bar company. Great things often start in small, die hard communities. Find them and serve them with the leverage that AI gives you. Jeff Bezos started Amazon when only 14% of Americans had Internet access. Do not wait until AI has saturated the market, which is happening fast. If you want to win big, get started immediately. Work on nights and weekends if you have to. There's no need to quit your day job. Just start building in your spare time. AI speeds everything up. Use that to your advantage. All right? That's all I'm going to say about building. The first three steps to mastering AI are about the narrow window of time that we're in right now before AI beats us at everything. Once that happens, and it will, I certainly hope I've been able to convince you of that by now. You're going to need these next two steps. 4. Find meaning by doing hard things that matter. The only thing worth pursuing in the long run is fulfillment. Fulfillment is the one neurochemical state that will survive even grief. Fulfillment is about making sure you have meaning and purpose in your life. And fulfillment comes from a very simple formula. You have to work really hard to gain a set of skills that matter to you for your own reasons that allow you to make progress towards an honorable goal. Notice I didn't say achieve it to make progress. If you achieve it, great. But don't tie your identity up in that. It's about becoming the kind of person that you would respect. It never ceases to amaze me how simple humans really are until the day that AI makes it possible to synthesize and edit our DNA en masse. What ultimately dictates the quality of a human life is how you feel about yourself when you're by yourself. Don't lose sight of that. 5. Fall in love and raise a family. This may feel like it's out of left field for a video about navigating a world that is changing so rapidly. Most people will be paralyzed by overwhelm. But here's the truth. We need meaning and purpose. We need to love and be loved. We need to do hard things. And while I cannot speak from experience, I can see from an evolutionary perspective that having kids is what nature wants us to do. There are built in algorithms running in your brain that will reward you for having and raising kids. And I can't think of any better default way to have deep meaning and purpose than to raise children. Well, there are no universals in life, but I think you deviate from that path at your own risk. I don't have kids, so I know you can do that well. But it requires some extra planning if you want to make sure your life has meaning no matter what happens. With AI, love and family will be constants, at least until humans become fully synthetic. But that's a whole nother video. Ultimately, your life should be full of joy. And while I expect that AI is going to knock a lot of people down, and I think a great many people are going to have a very tough time adapting, the reality is that how we respond to this radical change is going to be up to us. Some people will get fully augmented and travel to Mars. Others will move to a farm off the grid and reject technology completely. That much we all get to choose. Let me leave you with this. AI is rewriting our world faster, vaster and more brutally than any revolution in human history. There has never been anything like it. Not the printing press or gunpowder, electricity, or even atomic energy. But history shows over and over that disruption carves paths to progress, but only for those who move. The US And China's AI arms race guarantees that this train will not stop. Many will be paralyzed by overwhelm. Others will die in mouse utopia. But we all have a choice. And if I were to suggest one, it would be to push for sensible regulation. Choose the hard path of meaning and purpose, and master the tools while that still matters. Whether it's two years or 20 years away, don't just stand there on the beach and let the tsunami take you. Have the courage to take on whatever comes next and push yourself to the limit. Remember, the future isn't some far off thing. It's happening right now. And it's moving a lot faster than you think. All right, guys, if you want to see me explore ideas like this live in real time, make sure that you're joining me for my lives on my channel at 6:00am Pacific Time. I'll see you there. Take care.