I was like, yeah, this feels like it could have been on the History Channel or Netflix or one of the streaming services.

Thank you.

And that's the goal.

And I'll tell Brittany, you said so.

Anyway, so the sword was there.

So I had to run up there, get measurements of the sword, run back, build the sword, film it, film interview stuff.

Brittany is writing all the interview things.

You know, and showing that

Okay.

But to clarify, in the prop world, you're going to make, say your, your average movie, so let's call it a low budget movie because you'll make multiples of whatever.

You're going to have one hero, right? That's a real thing.

That's a steel-bladed sword.

You might have a secondary blade for that that's sharp if you need to do a, a shot where you're cutting something.

You know, the special effects guys will probably, "Oh, we need the sharp too 'cause we're gonna cut a candle, cut a head of lettuce, cut whatever." Okay, great.

Then you're going to have your aluminum swords, which are your, your fighting sword.

So can you talk a little bit about those kinds? 'Cause you make everything.

Mm.

But I think where, where I'm starting to articulate this more, w- we have not articulated as, as, as loudly as I'm about to right now, but I feel like, uh, everyone's afraid that AI is coming for their jobs.

I mean, it's literally headlines everywhere.

I firmly do not believe that AI is coming for anyone at Beekman's job, but someone who knows how to a- use AI is gonna come for someone who doesn't know how to use AI's job.

And, like, if you are still there, like y- if, if you hired a finance person and they were doing spreadsheets with pen and paper like they used to do in the '50s and '60s, you'd fire that person.

And I think, like, we are getting to the level where we have incredible tools at our disposal, and someone choosing not to use them, that, that becomes a, a, a business risk.

They're gonna want an experience that is relevant, personalized, and fast, and I just think that's gonna be the nature of it.

Um, I'll, I'll, I'll go with my controversial one.

Okay.

Um, so Cast in Steel, uh, is something that, that's been going on for, um, a number of years.

Um, SFSA, uh, Steel Founders Association.

I, I get it wrong all the time.

Anyway, um, and it's all about getting, uh, people in, in college, uh, to look at, um, material science, um, manufacturing, design on an industrial level.

So these college teams work with industrial partners to cast something.

We've done, we, we did George Washington's swords last year before we did an African spear.

Mm-hmm.

Can you talk a- about how exactly you did this?

Yes.

So we began quite a few years ago to try to understand how the amino acid sequences of proteins determine their three-dimensional structures.

And just as a little bit of background so everyone's on the same page, the genes in our genomes each encode a protein.

That's what they do.

And the way they encode that protein is by specifying the sequence of amino acids in the protein.

And once that sequence is known, then that specifies what the three-dimensional structure is.

How do we safeguard against misuse in a world where some people are, there are some bad actors and looking to-

Can you talk a- about how exactly you did this?

Yes.

And in fact, there's been a very big, uh, uh, transition between 2019 when I gave the TED Talk and today.

So we began quite a few years ago to try to understand how the amino acid sequences of proteins determine their three-dimensional structures.

And just as a little bit of, of, of background for, um, so everyone's on the same page, the genes in our genomes each encode a protein.

That's what they do.

And the way they encode that protein is by specifying the sequence of amino acids in the protein.

How do we safeguard against, um, misuse, uh, in a world where some people are, you know, there are some bad actors and looking to use things for-