18. The Potential of ChatGPT and AI in Stroke Recovery and Beyond

What's up, everybody? A couple quick notes before we hop into this week's episode of the podcast. Want to mention a couple things. Chat GPT is gonna be a big topic in this episode, and I one of my favorite apps currently is Audio Pen AI. Both are great tools. We'll talk about them a ton in this episode. So, session, great show wrapped up. Highly recommend you check that out if. You like TV shows on HBO Max. And again, check out Audio Pen and Llama life as apps to you. Good morning, everybody. My name is Will Smear. Welcome back to another episode of the Level Survivor podcast. In today's episode, we are going the route of technology. Tech AI, the hottest thing out there. It's the thing everybody on social media will not stop talking about for the last six months to a year. I want to talk about Chat GPT and how you can incorporate it into your stroke recovery journey. It is a very hot topic. People love to talk about AI and chat GPT. There are lots of things to cover with it. First of all, I want to say. AI is incredibly powerful. I think it goes without saying. Tons of benefits. I am not talking about it on this podcast because it is popular. I think we all know how I feel about that. Yeah, no, I'm talking about it because I feel like it is a technology. That absolutely can be leveraged for good for stroke survivors. A lot of good use cases, a lot of very simple ways to start. A lot of very yeah, I just. Want to kind of break it down. I do have a background in tech. And working in the Web prior to and after my stroke, and I am. A millennial, no doubt about it. I've been around since the early AOL. Netscape, Gosh, what were some of the other ones? Yeah, there were some awful ones way back in the day. Yeah. So, I mean, I basically grew up with the Internet. I think it's been around my life. For a long time. I mean, I had to deal with the terrible days of dial up. I am now 40 years old, and the Internet has really been around for. Regular consumers, especially in the households, since the mid 90s. For sure. Dial up is a pain, but yeah, so it's not new to me, but I think it may be new to. A lot of people, especially outside the Twitter world or LinkedIn. If you're not on social media a. Ton, I'm not sure, but most listeners come through some channel of social yeah. So I'm sure they're talking about it whether you're on Facebook, whether you're on Pinterest. I mean, they're talking about it everywhere. And I really do think, like I said, it is a great technology that. Can be taken advantage of for many use cases. In particular, stroke survivors, caregivers, family members. People who are looking for help themselves. Who are looking to help a family member, a stroke survivor, a brain injury. Survivor, lots of cool utilization things. I think we haven't discussed that on this podcast, things that we can talk about today. And honestly, I think the sky is really the limit. I think it goes without saying, anybody who's been around somebody who's had a. Stroke, gone through therapy, lots of great therapists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapist. Physiotherapy, tons and tons of therapists, tons. And tons of programs. Sometimes it seems like there's a shortage, but really there's a lot of resources. It's more. Collecting those resources, utilizing to the best of your advantage. Stroke, I think, is an interesting thing. Because sometimes a particular survivor may just. Have a rough day, so scheduled therapy may not work out. AI is a great I mean, this is just a very small example, but AI can kind of step in and help a little bit in some areas and we'll go through them. They can help with physical, occupational, speech therapy things. Tons of benefits to regular everyday life. I think that's where some of the. Magic gets unlocked and filling in those gaps when individuals don't have direct access to a therapist that particular day or a routine. And I just think there's a lot. Of good use cases. So, yeah, we'll hop into it today and go through those. There's a lot of key points. But, yeah, we'll talk about using AI for various phases of the recovery brainstorming, using it as an assistant to brainstorm. Again, speech therapy, lots of good use cases for AI and Chat GPT in particular. Yeah, just building out kind of different. Exercises, getting explanations for exercises. Maybe you were in therapy, say, in. The morning, but you forgot how to do part of the exercise. You can kind of work on it's not different than Google search, but you. Could do your standard search, right, and find an exercise or an application and. Then plug it into Chat GPT and sort of take the baseline. From what you found on research and. Then kind of through Chat GPT. If you're familiar with it, you can. Kind of utilize it to build into. What'S working for you or how it. Might apply to your case. But the main thing I want to talk about is, like, the access and affordability. Tons of great books. Absolutely tons of great books. In fact, I've had another one that. I'll talk about later in this episode. But I remember when I was at. The Big Brooks here down in Jacksonville, Florida, in early 2020, right before COVID. And when I was there, I was doing a lot of speech therapy and. I bought a book of I know. This sounds dumb because you could just get a dictionary, but I bought a. Book of speech therapy exercises and basically. Lists of different types of words, like from kind of beginning to relearn speech. Now, I wasn't completely decimated by the. Stroke and Ms in terms of speech, but there were definitely words that were really hard to say at the beginning. There are still words that are really. Hard to say if I'm not paying. Attention, if I'm not breathing correctly, if I'm very tired. So the level of difficulty, it's nice to have a book, especially back in 2020, where there was no access to. Chat GPT yet and it was fine. It cost, I think, $40. Nothing terrible, but these costs do add. Up and the expenses kind of add up and I think something like Chat. GPT. There'S a free option if you're just getting started, if you're like me. And you want answers right away and. You don't want to wait in line, so to speak. I pay the $20 a month because. I really utilize Chat GPT to help in a variety of tasks, whether it's brainstorming or ideation for this podcast or other things that I'm building and doing honestly, sometimes I just use it as. A note taker because I could talk. Into the microphone and that's a lot faster than using it for talk to type is all right, I just find chat GPT I can mess up a little bit or I could be a little off and it'll still pick up. What I'm putting down. And that goes into the tool, kind of. I talked about last week in the Fun Things section of the podcast, which was Audiopen AI. I don't have an affiliate link yet, but just go there, check it out. It's a really cool product in the AI space. It's probably the first that I've seen. Where you can talk into the mic. For ten or 15 minutes and it'll basically do a sort of note taking. Summary for you where you can just. Ramble thoughts for 15 minutes and it condenses those into a nice note depending on which settings you set. Puts it in a nice format. And the cool thing about it is. You have the original right next to. That, so if you don't like. The. Transcription and the notes, you can kind. Of refer back to the original. So I think that's a really cool technology. Obviously that's going to be better for individuals that are maybe not suffering from aphasia in terms of speech. But I think, as we've talked about. Ad nauseam on this podcast, every stroke is different. And I think some people can type, some people can speak, some people lose the ability to speak for a while. Some long term, some short term, but. I think that I still go to outpatient. So I don't know if people are. Talking about this in the inpatient space, but my guess is they are not. Because a lot of times, and rightly so, people are inpatient or you're really trying to get stable after stroke or. Brain injury for whatever reason, you find yourself in impatient rehab. And again, that could be any kind of brain injury. It doesn't have to be specifically stroke. I mean, I went there for stroke. The first time, I went for Ms. The second time, but they really are. Trying to get you situated with the basics so that you can kind of. Once you're out back home with family, with loved ones, that you're able to live safely. You're not going to be able to live the way you were probably prior. To going in, but it's safe enough to get on the path. So AI and chat GPT, they're kind of interchangeable. And the reason, again, I recommend Chat. GPT is the price is affordable at $20 a month. I mean, that's half a copay for. One physical therapy session, depending on your insurance. If I think about all the money that I've personally spent on different tools. And things throughout the years since my stroke, $20 a month, it would be. A really I'm not sure what you. Can get for stroke recovery. And in terms of technology for $20. That is as powerful, if I'm being honest, there's lots of great tools, there's lots of great medical devices. A lot of them are overpriced, especially. When you start buying them for the home. My copay for physical therapy is a little higher than it used to be, and I pay a lot of money out of pocket every month for health. Insurance for my family. So $20 a month is really a. Drop of the hat in the grand scheme of things. And honestly, like I said, there are so many great use cases, I think, for stroke survivors. So if you haven't checked it out, I do highly recommend it. It is obviously the main topic in. This episode of the podcast, but kind. Of trying to simplify things. And this may be a two part episode, but I do. Want to touch. On some of the broader and then we can go a little deeper in the next episode. But I think, like I said, it is great in terms of physical therapy. Or physiotherapy, depending on where you live, what terminology you like. But I think when you learn this. You can just ask Chatchi Pita, you'll start simple. Can I get a couple of. Could. You please provide me with a list. Of physical therapy exercises for a stroke survivor? Focusing on. The right shoulder as an example. Maybe you have I forget what that's called. You all know it. Every stroke is different, of course. Right? We know that. Left side, right side, depends on what side you're affected. Some people upper body, some people lower body, some people. The entire right side. The entire left side. Yeah. The shoulder thing that I always forget I should have looked up before I recorded this episode. Yeah, but shoulder strengthening exercise. And of course, all this to say now, you may or may not have heard this, but Chat GPT is not 100% accurate. It is not necessarily also up to. Date with the latest I think the. Newest version is a little newer in. The research that it has, but sometimes. Things are out of date. Sometimes things are not as current as they could be. So when you're doing these things, you. Want to use exercise, good judgment. If something feels off or you feel. Like it's giving you an answer that. You shouldn't do, or one of the. Exercises seems a little weird to you, kind of cross check it, look on YouTube, ask your physical therapy team if you're in touch with them currently. Run it by people that you trust in your life. It's really just a good way to put together some exercises on your own. If there's things you've forgotten, if there are maybe you already have books and you're looking for newer exercises. Are you looking to tweak something specific? I think that's really where AI and. Chat GPT in general play a good role. I think it's using it as an. Assistive device just like any other assistive device. When you're getting back on track and. You'Re going through physical therapy or occupational therapy. Sounds corny, but for those who are. Familiar with really some of those occupational. Therapy things, like getting dressed right, initially. Depending on your deficits and limitations, you might have tools to help you pull up your shorts or pull up your. Pants or pull a top over, help. You in the shower. I feel like this is just another tool. God, I hate to say it, but. Another tool in the toolbox. It's a really good, useful tool. Again, I don't think you can beat it for$20. I mean, even one of those grabby. Things that sometimes you need after a stroke, it may be hard to bend. Over, it may be hard to reach for certain things. You can't get up on your chippy toes the way you used to. So you have one of those, like, grabby thingies, right? That's probably $20. I mean, I think Chat CPT is. Worth $20 for a month to help as a physical therapy assistant. So not only can it tailor exercises, but you can begin using it to keep track of your progress. There's just a lot of use cases, like I said, that I haven't even scratched the surface with because obviously now I've talked about it a pretty good amount here. But I've been running a lot. So I am in the NeuroRehab outpatient program here in Florida right now because I'm trying to get from good to better in terms of running. In fact, I was just at the facility twice last week doing a lot. Of work there, which I'm really excited. About because I'm really getting to that. Next level, which I know is a little aside because it has nothing to do with AI. But I see tons of tools and technology being used in the NeuroRehab center. Here in Jacksonville, and it's really cool. But it's all at the center, right? And while I love Brooks and the. Access to this, I feel like some. Of these technologies could be in the. Home so that you could be doing. More work at home on your own if you want to. Because even when I was at the big Brooks three years ago at Impatient, you know, they're doing a lot of work and, and I think the brakes are, are there, honestly, for my safety. In my case, because I'm gung ho about things, but. There'S downtime where you could be working on smaller things. I remember when I got that book. With book awards, I would practice speech therapy for like 2 hours in between physical therapy sessions. And I think that actually ties it. To my next point, is that you. Can just again, I'm not saying don't. Buy these books and I'm not saying. AI first, let's go back a little bit. AI is not going to replace any. Person or therapist of any kind, okay? It is just a tool to enhance and help. I still think it's worthwhile buying books. I just don't know that you need. To buy ten books on speech therapy or physical therapy exercises. At $100 a pop, I think you go buy one. And then I think you can use Chat GPT to generate, oh, here's a. List of words that I practiced and I'm looking for lists of 20 words from the Slavic regions of Europe and. Yeah, I don't know whatever types of. Word you're looking for, right? And honestly, even if you're having difficulty as a stroke survivor with speech, you. Can get a family member caregiver to. Kind of generate those lists with you. So I think there's lots of use cases there. And again, the same thing with occupational therapy. It's a little bit different with occupational. Therapy because if you wear contact lenses like me, chat GPD is not going to put your contact lenses in, but. It can help with setting reminders, creating. Daily routines, medication reminders. I think there's kind of. Those tools. For independence is really where occupational therapy comes in. So I think. That'S where you start. To get into the assistant type role with Chat GPT. And again, it just takes some practice. And play figuring out how to best utilize it. Honestly, I've been kind of using it off and on for about six months. Now and I think honestly, I'm just. Starting to unlock the power of it. But it's great because it's like, okay. Let'S brainstorm this thing. We go through ten things. It gives me ten things. I like three, right? I tell it the three that I like and let's keep going, let's keep working this out. I was just doing that with some. Naming things in particular, like a new. Project I'm working on that I'm going. To release soon is a free email course, which I honestly would have thought was insane. I felt a certain way about email. For a very long time and I've. Changed my mind because a lot of people on Twitter in particular and other social media channels have been really pretty interested in learning how to breathe better. And so I'm working on a program. Called Breathe Better, breathe Better, feel Better unlocking the power of nasal breathing And. I think that is I've been utilizing. Chat GPT to help me work out. The program because obviously I can do it on my own, but it's helping me break down the daily emails and. How I want to build them and. What are the sort of things that. I need to fill in and get. Some more research on. What are the exercises that I like for each day of the email course. And I think it's going to be pretty excited about it and I think we'll be releasing it here definitely in June for sure. And yeah, I'm going to talk about a little more on social channels in the upcoming weeks. Just got a little family stuff planned. In the early part of June, so. We'Re probably talking about middle to late June. And yeah, definitely inspired by some friends. Who have done good email thing, good things with email and I think I am very much changing my tune on that. But yeah, so that's a cool use. Case that I wouldn't have thought of before for Chat GPT and kind of take that story and apply it to how you might use it in your. Daily life as a survivor. We know things are a little different than they used to be. There are more difficult, more challenging things, take more time. So this is a really good tool to lessen. I wouldn't call it burden, but we all have a feeling, right, that that feeling of like, I want to do this thing, but it takes ten times longer than it used to. And I think this is just a. Cool tool to sort of bridge that. Gap for survivors, especially high achieving survivors that used to be able to go. A million miles an hour and no longer can. That's okay, there's nothing wrong with it. But it doesn't mean it's less annoying. Anyways, when we talk about AI and kind of expanding that role in stroke. Recovery, I think you start to kind. Of look into this and it's like. Okay, yeah, look at what are some. Ways AI could be used to maybe help prevent more strokes or alert people. And I thought about a lot this week as I was running through the neighborhood, as I usually do. But. You'Ve probably heard of me say it before and probably caught onto this. But. This is the end of May. 2023. And so May is Stroke Awareness Month, and it just it's been bugging the. Hell out of me this year for some reason more than usual. It still really bothers me that I. Understand that people brushed off the fact that I was maybe having a stroke back in 2019 at the age of 37, but I was also in the. Hospital being monitored for AFib. So, I mean, I kind of had a heart attack. It wasn't until later, like I said, that I found out that you could. Actually there are a number of things that if people are aware that you're. Having a stroke or you may have had a stroke, and it's within the first couple of hours that there are the possibility of lessening the chances of long term deficits or disability is available nowadays. And so it bothers me to no end that I was in the hospital, had a stroke, and not only were. People not aware, but nothing was done. In a timely fashion. It wasn't like I was in the wilderness and I couldn't get to a hospital. I was in a facility. Let's be honest, that is exactly what you and I are both thinking. Unfucking believable, right? I try not to blame anybody, but. Yeah, at the end of the day. Yeah, I mean, I still did things that were my fault. It is something I bear the burden of. But it would have just been nice. If there was some piece of technology that would have alerted somebody to do X, Y, or Z or really like. Hey, no, I know this guy is. 37, but he just had a stroke. And let's get him in the Er. Let's get him into a procedure where we can prevent any further damage from happening. Because a stroke is. It could have been life threatening. And frankly, again, I think people often say that I'm doing well, and I think that is certainly true, but it. Has been a shit ton of work. And I'm not against work, don't get me wrong. But, I mean, there are a lot. Of things I'd rather be doing with my time on a pretty regular basis. Than doing thousands of hours of physical. Therapy or occupational therapy. So I don't mind. But. Maybe it's just this month, and. It'S just so in my face this year, Stroke Awareness Month. That I'm feeling. A certain way about it this year. And probably this podcast, if I'm being honest, has gotten me fired up. It's gotten me to a spot where. I really want to help people. I've been thinking about that, too. I think I'm going to start offering up a little bit of show coaching. I know that sounds weird, still sounds weird to me, but I feel like there are survivors out there who maybe want to be a part of a. Community that I'm building, which is awesome. But I think there are individuals who may not want to talk in the context of a community, or they may have individual questions. And I don't want to do full. Time coaching, and I don't want to do coaching the way it is traditionally necessarily done, but I want to make it available to other survivors. I think it's a good way for people to ask questions, to gain information. I have collected a ton myself over the last five years. I'm happy to give it away for. Free, but I think going forward I'm. Going to start offering up a little bit of one on one coaching with stroke survivors and or caregivers to help facilitate things faster. Right. Because I'm building this podcast. I'm building a community. I have resources that I have building. Out the survivor science website. I already have the local survivor website. The podcast, lots of resources, more coming, and I'll be working on that over. The next several months to really build that in a way that makes sense for people starting at X, going to Y at different various stages. But if somebody is new or somebody feels like they're at a new stage and they want a little help and. I can do that for them, I'm. Happy to get answers to them faster. I just think it's something that I'm. Going to start offering if it becomes. Popular and more wanted more and needed on a bigger level, I'll have to reevaluate that. But that's something I'm starting to think. About as I've been thinking about this. Podcast and how I can help. And again, these are free tools, all these episodes backdated are available to everybody. So I think yeah, again I got. On another tangent but I just get so fired up about being in the hospital and having that stroke and just. Nothing really was done about it. So going forward I think AI does. Play a big role. It'll be able to hopefully help doctors. Become aware of things. I don't know if it'll prevent strokes. But it'll hopefully help identify them faster. And. My hope is that it'll be able to identify things faster and the. Proper care be given because we've come a long way but anything that can. Make something easier for somebody having a stroke. I mean yes, I did a lot. Of things that were not great. There are tons of people who have. A stroke who are healthy as a horse, right? Like think about Michael Johnson who is the 96 US Olympic champion and though I think the 102 hundred meter or. 200 and 400 meters, whatever, there was. A period of time he was the fastest guy in the world and he had a stroke. So yeah, all types of people, all ages, all communities, all backgrounds, it's just yeah. So not only can help prevent stroke. But for those that have had a stroke, I think there are daily task with another thing that hasn't really been talked about. I've talked about a little bit because. I'm pretty open but I think. This. One'S going to be a little weird. But I think it can help with some mental health in terms of just. Supporting and I'm not saying it's going. To replace therapy or replace another human. Being, but just mental health in terms of utilizing Chat GPT to just do. Maybe things that were considered mundane or. Silly tasks back in the day that. Are now a little bit more difficult. And that plays a role in mental health. Think about. Survivors caregivers and family, right? Everybody is helping out, right? Everybody's pitching in, but you're busy with. Your own family, kids, wife, husbands, loved ones. A family member could help support a caregiver by coming up with meal plans. Using Chat GPT, you know? Yeah, like, I saw somebody recently, I think it I think it was Arvin. He's like, I have a carrot, I have a piece of bread, I have. A loaf of bread, and I have an eggplant and some salt, pepper, and like, pasta sauce. What can I make that is out of these ingredients? Now, it sounds ridiculous and that's a bit of a stretch, but there's no. Reason if you're feeling overwhelmed and this is anybody, honestly, let's plan five meals for the week. We'll have meat and a starch or something, and a vegetable and maybe tell it what you like, what you don't like, and let's plan a meal for five days or dinner for five days, and then you could take that and put your own twists on it. You don't have to make it exact, but it's a thing, right? And people for a while, they were. Loving those ship to house things. And I don't know if they're so popular, I never got into them. But, yeah, just like, just the overhead. Of the mental overhead of having to make dinner at home and just having. Chat GBT spit out five meals in 5 seconds. That's just a thing you take off your table. Again, it's worth exploring. But also, like I was talking about earlier with the big brooks down here. In Florida, they have access to tons of robotics and VR. I think that VR is a really interesting space for survivors because you can. Again, I've seen it with my son now. It's like, I tried the Oculus, not. My favorite, but I could understand how you have a little bit more of an immersive experience. And I'm sure there are ways to utilize this technology. It's affordable. You could bring it into the home. And you could be doing work outside of your maybe one or two regular appointments throughout the week. And it can help, honestly, it can help. Think about, again, about using it as an assistant. You can keep track of things. Maybe you have questions for the next time you're going to. Your various doctors. You can keep track and keep lists and go back to them and refer. Back to them like, hey, I want. To ask these questions. This has been happening. I want to mention this. It's a little bit more advanced than. Just a standard Apple Note or I'm sure they're similar for Android users. Again, there's so many possibilities. So I think it could be really tiring if you. See it on social, but I think if you apply it to your life. And your recovery in your daily life. I mean, it depends. Not everybody's into this, but I just. I was just thinking, you know, what. Got me started on this was that I remember when I got the book. In 2020 on speech therapy at the hospital, my speech therapist was like, wow. I've been here five years and nobody's ever bought a book. Honestly, I was floored. I was like, well, you're telling me this is one of the premier facilities in the southeast United States, and no. Patient of yours has ever bought a. Book to practice speech therapy? That blows my mind. And I just wonder, is it because of cost? Is it because of, like, you know, and I don't think she knew the answer, but I was just like that. I mean, again, you know, maybe not everybody's into it, but like and I. Realize it's it's unusual to be 37. With family and be a stroke survivor who's maybe in shape. And I didn't suffer from terrible aphasia, but I definitely had mild aphasia, and. I still have some variation, I think, of mild aphasia. I'm pretty quick, but I'm not as. Quick as pre stroke will. So I think cognitively I'm all there. But there are days where I could. Probably stand to do a couple of. Exercises, cognitive exercises, puzzles. I think, again, these are use cases for chat GPT. You could ask for some puzzles, some. Word games, some jumbles, just I don't know. I haven't really asked it to do Suduco, if that's the little thing. But yeah, I think you can't beat this tool for$20 a month. And there are lots of other ones. A lot of them are based on the original chat GPT, and they were. Kind of wrapped in some kind of wrapper. So I think I'd go with the original chat GPT by OpenAPI. I'll put a link in the show. Notes so that you can go check it out. And again, audio pen, I think is a great tool if you're able to. Speak. But maybe you're not able to type. Like is the case with me, where my handwriting and typing are not as. Great as they used to be. Typing isn't bad, it's just frustrating. So being able to talk and ramble into the mic for 15 minutes and. Get a reasonably good outline of notes. From my 15 minutes ramble is something I do, honestly. I practice it every morning. I do a brain dump in the. Morning, and I do a brain dump in the evening. And it's a great tool. Highly recommend it. I've given it two reviews. I never review anything online, but I've. Given one on yeah, it doesn't matter. But I reviewed it a couple of times. I really just enjoy it, and I think it's a great tool for stroke survivors. So I encourage you to explore these technologies. Obviously, please don't make me say it. Use it wisely, use it intelligently. If you're not sure about an exercise that it's given you, please cross reference with other things. Ask your therapy teams if it feels wrong. It probably is wrong. Not the end of the world. Doesn't mean it's still not a good tool, honestly. Sometimes it might just like a human being, it might misinterpret the exercise and. Give you a little bit of a. Jumbled explanation of how to do that exercise. So always double check that stuff. Be smart about it. Anyways, two things I will mention in. Terms of fun this week and actually. I think I'm going to mention the third thing. So in the book department, I picked. Up a book again, another book I think was released in 2019 before my stroke, but I did not come across. It until very recently. How I missed it again, beyond me. Probably because of the title. It's called Identity Theft. And the full title is Identity Theft. Rediscovering ourselves after stroke. Deborah Myerson, who is a professor, I. Believe at Stanford, not a medical professor, but a business professor, I'm not exactly sure, so I don't want to mess it up. Anyways, started reading this book. It's really quite good. Yeah. I'm not very far through it, but it's got some really good takes. Really good stuff, a little bit of. Humor, which of course I love. I feel a lot of the same similar feelings. So I know I'm not alone and I know she discusses in the early chapters that I read that other people. Are not a lot of other people feel the same way. They don't think that changes just as. Yeah, there's just different points that people. Are at along the journey and just. It'S it's it's a really I i don't know. I really like it. I don't always like the stroke books, but this one is resonating with me. On a personal level, much like Hope. After stroke, I think is written in a way that jives with me. I've read a lot of books by. Different people, some better than others. I appreciate the candor. I appreciate a little bit of humor. I appreciate being able to laugh at yourself. And that brings up what I was going to touch on real quick is that obviously I'm not a professional speaker. Currently, but I feel like I have. Been working on my self confidence with speech and through speech therapy, doing podcast. Episodes both for my previous show and this show. And I really want to focus on. Starting to do some speaking engagements. I think I can really help a lot of people. I just got word that I'm actually going to be able to help some fellow stroke survivors being a mentor, which is cool. That's something I've been looking forward doing now that COVID is relatively calm. And I just thought about it because. I'm in a kind of group of other creators and I feel like. I. Once had a big presence on stage. I feel like doing. Improv comedy played a big role. Obviously I did some a bit of. Stand up, too, in Miami, but improv was my favorite. And I always was a fan of Chris Farley. Love comedy, love making people laugh. I used to love as a kid. Making my mom spit out her water during dinner. Nobody could make my mom laugh except for me. That's not a knock on other people. I don't have a special talent. I think I really worked hard to make my mom laugh when I was a kid, and it's just something I enjoy. I love commanding the stage, hyping people. Up, trying to be everybody's favorite hype man. And that was true when I was. Working at Web Dev. Every year we gave talks at our annual team kind of meeting convention, if you will, where we all met together in person. And I did a couple of lightning. Talks year after year. And every year people seem to really enjoy my talk because I'd get up. There and basically be an idiot, but. Not really being idiot. I really love marrying the idea of being able to help educate people and have a good time, because I know. A lot of people love learning. I believe a lot of people love helping other people by teaching what they know and teaching it to the people. Behind them, maybe in their journeys, just like this podcast. And this podcast is right name level Survivor, because I get a bad rap sometimes. People think I don't like them, and. That is sometimes true. But I love people. I love the human connection. I love making people laugh. I love making people smile. I'm a big guy. I know I have certain privileges and been given certain advantages in life, but I've also made a lot of mistakes, for lack of a better word, effed up at times. But yeah, I think improv is something that people should definitely get into, especially if you're into speaking or want to get into speaking or want to get. Into doing things on camera. And I think I'm going to get back into it myself this summer because I have definitely taken a dip since. My stroke and I think it's something. I want to get back into and building my self confidence as a speaker. On stage and building that presence again and just even on video. So something to look into. And the last thing I'll mention before we wrap this up is succession. If you have not watched, it is a fantastic show. Season four just ended. The show has ended. It has come to an end. Ted Lasso comes to an end this week. So a little bit of a downturn for TV, but some good stuff. Anyways, I hope you'll look into AI. I think there's lots of good use cases. I really hope that you've explored these technologies if you have if you had a good experience, if you have suggestions, reach out for sure to the show podcast at lowville. Survivor.com. If you want to email, you can definitely go to the website and connect with the show over there. Hit me up on Twitter and bye. Channel our.