Richard, how did you become a part of Diana's world?

Well, I had been, like everybody in the world, fascinated by her.

And I was asked by the TV show Extra to go back to New York because she was doing a very rare appearance alongside Barbara Walters and Colin Powell.

She was giving a speech at a charity event in New York City.

And I said, why don't we cover that? And I will analyze her public speaking skills.

And so they flew me back to New York.

I did it.

Richard, is there one primary element for successful communication?

What are some of the other auction items you're excited about?

Well, I think Kylie has something unusual with Rita's water ice.

You can take those headphones off if they're bothering you, because we're all just talking in this room.

Just take them off.

It's kind of in and out.

And so that's one item.

And Jason has done a great job in the booth.

But what about this season for you feels it gives you an extra kick of excitement?

What are some of the other auction items you're excited about?

Well, I think Kylie has something unusual with Rita's water ice.

You can take those headphones off if they're bothering you because we're all just talking in this room.

Yeah, just take them off.

Kind of in and out.

And so that's one item.

And Jason has done a great job in the booth.

But what about this season for you feels it gives you an extra kick of excitement?

What are some of the other auction items you're excited about?

Well, I think Kylie, I think, has something unusual with Rita's water ice.

You can take those headphones off if they're bothering you, because we're all just talking in this room.

Yeah, just take them off.

Kind of in and out.

And so that's one item.

And Jason has done a great job in the booth.

absolutely terrific yeah absolutely let's talk about the coming season what do you most i mean you're always excited to the eagles they're back the whole deal 75 000 at the link oh yeah but what what about this season for you feels um it gives you an extra kick of excitement

And how do you, as the Rootstock Labs, can help them overcome those challenges and really move fast in capturing the opportunity?

Yeah, absolutely.

So the gap between us and the EVM side is super simple.

We're solidity-based, and it's something where it's just a kind of a simple line code, a code of line change, or a line of code change, rather.

And so we basically say...

If you're building on Ethereum, you can build on Rootstock like that and start accepting Bitcoin.

And that's obviously a great benefit to them because they go, oh, hold on a minute, I'm opening up a whole other market that I can then start to be building on.

So what is the conversation with these participants? And have they, say, normalized the bridging or the wrapping? What's the level of talk?

Yeah.

And so much more in David Lynch's life and in my life actually.

She was married to Jack Nance, who played Eraserhead.

After that theater company broke up in San Francisco they came down to AFI, and, uh, the director of that original theater company, David Lindemann from Circus in San Francisco, he became a fellow at AFI and brought all his friends around, and David Lynch was looking for an actor for Eraserhead, heard Lindemann knew a lot of people, cast Jack Nance, and cast Catherine, who never actually shot [laughs] her role of the nurse.

But she became, over the six years that they shot this movie, she became his right-hand man.

He says it in our film.

And she ended up working for administration at the AFI.

Mm-hmm

In the conversations you're having here in the room, how close to reality is what you've experienced in market around what's coming at the sector?

Oh, yeah, no, I mean, There's no insights I've got that haven't come out already.

And it's actually, that's why you come to these sort of conferences, to actually see what you think's over the horizon.

And, you know, we talked yesterday about headwinds and tailwinds, and that's reality.

You know, there are challenges, but there's also big opportunities, and it's actually how we navigate those sort of things.

And I actually went, I'm into these self-funded things.

No one pays for me to go.

difference between a formal board structure, the risk of being an independent director versus an advisory board.

Yeah.

Yeah, big questions, aren't they? And I guess you never really know what the future looks like, but you just pick up early signs.

I remember back nine years ago when we were at Stanford, they talked about agriculture was the least digitized industry of any of the industries globally, yet it made up 10% of global GDP.

So at the time, they were saying, expect huge investment to come into the sector and build off AI, et cetera.

And I think that's happening.

I mean, that definitely is happening.

And, you know, all of us that work with AI know how much it improves every quarter.

what other crazy things have you done mate

Yeah.

And everyone needs managing in a different way.

I, I look at my role as a marriage counselor, and a lot of people laugh when I say that.

But you have to, you have to manage all your project managers.

So I'll say there I've got 25 project managers, I've got two contracts managers.

So my day starts roughly 6:30 on the phone, speaking to my contracts managers, just filling in for the day.

And I am hands-on.

Yeah.

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... and that allowed that to get up the steps.

So it could go upstairs, it could work like this.

The second robot was a humanoid.

So that, again, that came dancing into the room.

It could move his arms like, like us.

And the reality was that by 2030-These will be working on a building site.

the technology that's coming through?