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that's good i mean i don't know if it's good but or or bad i'm just saying uh i actually i've had this really negative connotation towards ai i remember when it first came out you know it was a year ago or when you know people were doing the uh the the videos and then making all their logos and then all their pictures and stuff like that i thought it was really taken away from some some creativity because um that's just how i was feeling and even professionally though uh when i went to this convention a couple uh weeks back the um there was a whole bunch of seminars on kind of like integrating uh, that into the process.

And I had this real realization that it's either get right or get left kind of scenario because everyone's going to use it.

It, the question was like, what can this do in your, in your normal day to day deal, uh, that could cut down some of your, your, you know, me, um, repetitive tasks.

I just can't afford it.

There's another thousand different features that I'd never use and I wouldn't understand.

And, know i guess how ai has really helped me is i have a lot of ideas and i don't know how to get them on a computer so then i basically go to cloud and be like okay this is my idea how do we get from point a to point b without completely breaking the bank um and it's been really helpful for that now on the flip side i try and avoid it for graphics i try to avoid it for um you know uh website copy uh captions all of that stuff um every once in a while it's fun to play around with like the video i dropped the other day but um you know i try to stay away from it for the most part for for that kind of thing

media side things yeah um well that was kind of the same you know for us um i had needs that needed to be met software wise that I needed some sort of system for and spent a lot of time looking for something that would do what I needed it to do.

so i really enjoyed that uh that knife it's holding an edge really well i just really wish i knew where it was i i do not sometimes they're they get left in my pants and then float around for a while so we'll figure that out all right what's your number three

uh my number three is the protec malibu um so i only have one so i only have the one blade shape um this one is a blade show 2024 exclusive um so it's got the geometric handle pattern and it's got the pearl button This was one that I was a little hesitant to carry at first, but through Gary's encouragement, I kind of just started thumping on it.

And I really love it.

This is the knife that changed my opinion on button locks.

They've held up well.

And yeah, just props.

And also, you know, I got to talk to their crew at Blade Show last year.

I got to talk to Dave Wattenberg.

Who knows? Yeah, who knows? I often think about some of the people that were in our community who have kind of fallen back into the shadows a little bit.

And then I wonder like, okay, where'd that person go? And then I'll see him at blade show.

Right.

And it's just because again, the algorithm has chosen not to show me their work, which sucks, you know? So it's like, well, did this person really disappear or is it just Instagram just filtering everything? So, and I, I love you.

I am following him now.

Yeah, and the first one in his profile is one he's doing a giveaway at Blade Show Austria.

And that's Martin there holding the knife.

That is

I know some of the best ones in the world are going to be there.

The guys that win Blade Show Atlanta almost every year, like the four or five of those guys are going to be there.

So.

If you are into that, make sure you check it out.

Anyway, he came and visited me.

It was good to see him, so we'd catch up every now and again.

We shared a hotel room not too long ago at one of the Blade shows.

Yeah, he's a cool cat.

It was a fun one.

Um, And Blade Show, Blade West was this weekend as well in Salt Lake City.

And our friend Kelly Vermeer Vela went home with three awards.

She cleaned up.