Aug 19, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 15 segments
We Covered: (00:00:00) From the Scottish Highlands to Hollywood (00:01:32) Is AI Really the Future? (00:02:29) How AI Will Disrupt Traditional Businesses (00:06:28) What Does Matt Actually Do?…
Matt HarmsworthGuest
Brad StainesHost
I think it's gonna take a lot longer to get there than perhaps people think.
When a new technology comes on, people look and see how disruptive it's gonna be, and I think the reality is we- we're a good, a good, um, probably 20 years away from people having robots folding their laundry up in their, in their living room.
But it'll be a fantastic day when it comes, won't it? 'Cause we can just all swan around, please ourselves-
But, um, I know you yourself run a, run sort of a traditional trades business, and I think there's a lot of talk at the moment about how AI isn't gonna destru- disrupt those traditional businesses, but I think it will.
Maybe not in terms of robots, but the big one is gonna be how they actually find customers in the first place.
And I do believe that certainly tech first, I think would probably be the priority or order of things, and then as it goes on, these robots develop, you know, mannerisms and, uh, you know, they can move like us.
Actually, there was one thing that we had the other day, and a company rung us up and they asked, "Could our, four of our operatives, um, wear, like a f- basically a f- a half a bodysuit," not a full bodysuit, like from chest-
I think it's gonna take a lot longer to get there than perhaps people think.
When a new technology comes on, people look and see how disruptive it's gonna be, and I think the reality is we- we're a good, a good, um, probably 20 years away from people having robots folding their laundry up in their, in their living room.
But it'll be a fantastic day when it comes, won't it? 'Cause we can just all swan around, please ourselves-
But, um, I know you yourself run a, run sort of a traditional trades business, and I think there's a lot of talk at the moment about how AI isn't gonna destru- disrupt those traditional businesses, but I think it will.
Maybe not in terms of robots, but the big one is gonna be how they actually find customers in the first place.
And I do believe that certainly tech first, I think would probably be the priority or order of things, and then as it goes on, these robots develop, you know, mannerisms and, uh, you know, they can move like us.
Actually, there was one thing that we had the other day, and a company rung us up and they asked, "Could our, four of our operatives, um, wear, like a f- basically a f- a half a bodysuit," not a full bodysuit, like from chest-
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