Absolutely.

That's what most people did, right? I mean, granted you do a Google search and other things, but oftentimes what you would do is you would reach out to your peers and you would be going, Hey, I'm running into this issue.

Can you help me? Has anybody ever experienced this? And typically you'd get a couple of people responding and you'd have that conversation about whatever that issue is.

But in addition to that, in any type of conversation, typically there's some, you know, building, Hey, I, yeah.

You talked the last time about your grandma.

How is she doing? Oh, she's doing great.

And you build those bonds.

And so the thing you had just alluded to previously was how does AI change trust and cognition inside of a team and affect these areas as well?

You get to see the deepness.

Yeah, you get to see the deepness.

And I will tell you that different, there are sometimes you can walk in and within the first five minutes, you understand what the real issue is.

You probably see this.

And some people, it's just, it's like, you go, oh my gosh, the way that you're talking to your team is just, you're driving them, you know, to hate you and to actually be counterproductive for what you're trying to do.

Others, there's a lot more.

Even when you get in and you do those interviews where you're asking them all of these probing questions and doing it and you're going, You know, you're doing you're doing everything right.

Talk to me about EQ and where do you think that falls sometimes in regards to leadership and some of the work that you do directly?

I'm either going to build one of Alex Gordon rounding first base in game one of the world series, or I'm going to build one of Salvador Perez who, legendary catcher, which one would get your vote for the next statue at Kauffman stadium or whatever the new stadium is going to be called?

Well, I'm all for statuary.

So I don't know that I would, I would turn down either one of them.

Alex has certainly got that iconic moment.

The Salvia Scott iconic moment too.

I mean, his, his hitting the wild card game really set so much in motion and That leads to so many other things, including Alex's home run in game one of the 2015 World Series, which is such a seminal moment in Royals, both of them.

So that's like picking your favorite child or something like that.

As much as you can tell us, how did this come together where the Royals are going to be playing in the Field of Dreams game next year?

I'm either going to build one of Alex Gordon rounding first base in game one of the world series, or I'm going to build one of Salvador Perez, who, legendary catcher, which one would get your vote for the next statue at Kauffman stadium or whatever the new stadium is going to be called?

Well, I'm all for statuary.

So I don't know that I would, I would turn down either one of them.

Alex has certainly got that iconic moment.

The Salvia Scott iconic moment too.

I mean, his, his hitting the wild card game really set so much in motion.

That leads to so many other things, including Alex's home run in game one of the 2015 World Series, which is such a seminal moment in Royals, both of them.

As much as you can tell us, how did this come together where the Royals are going to be playing in the Field of Dreams game next year?

I'm either going to build one of Alex Gordon rounding first base in game one of the world series, or I'm going to build one of Salvador Perez, who, legendary catcher, which one would get your vote for the next statue at Kauffman stadium or whatever the new stadium is going to be called?

Well, I'm all for statuary.

So I don't know that I would, I would turn down either one of them.

Alex has certainly got that iconic moment.

The Salvia Scott iconic moment too.

I mean, his, his hitting the wild card game really set so much in motion and That leads to so many other things, including Alex's home run in game one of the 2015 World Series, which is such a seminal moment in Royals, both of them.

So that's like picking your favorite child or something like that.

As much as you can tell us, how did this come together where the Royals are going to be playing in the Field of Dreams game next year?

What are the hidden human causes? What are the hidden human causes of AI adaptation that many businesses overlook?

Yeah, so AI is a powerful, powerful tool.

It's probably the most transformative technology that we've seen in at least in my lifetime.

And I'm old and I've lived through many technology transformations before.

But AI can be very powerful.

It can help us do more things faster, more things more efficiently, a variety of other things.

But when it's used inside of an organization, there are some hidden costs that are associated with it.

Why do you believe organizations should focus just as on people as they do on technology when implementing AI?

Right

after they won the World Series in 1927, they went on a barnstorming tour, the Bustin' Babes and Larapin' Loos.

And they had a stop here in Kansas City.

They played at 22nd and Brooklyn.

So there you go, the two of them together.

There's this wonderful picture of the two of them.

They had used some of the money to buy a large refrigerator at Sears and were dropping it off at what we now know as Children's Mercy Hospital.

amazing how fast that has happened.

So give me a quick tour of what's behind you there on your wall.

Sure.

I'm in our office boardroom right now, and we wanted to create some eye candy that was related to who we are and what we do.

And so one of the criticisms I heard from people was, well, commodities are new, right? And this is from financial players.

This is not from farmers.

They said, well, commodities have been in portfolios for the last 10, 20, 25 years, but they're still new.

We don't really understand them that well.

You think of the rancher who's like, I got burned for so long, I am cashing in where I can right now.

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... you can read the tea leaves about where, where people think the, the global economy is headed by the price of copper.

I think that talks about the demand side.

But of course, uh, copper is, um...

We think the most important thing about commodities generally are their inventories.

And, um, we're sometimes asked, "Well, how do you, you know, forecast supply and then separately forecast demand?" I said, "Well, we look at all of those, but if you think about where they intersect, it's in inventories." 'Cause you could have demand go up or you could have supply go down or both.

And I f- I fear that we're gonna have-- We're getting, like, the, the, the double whammy here.

You have both tails, yeah.