San Diego Tech News Weekly – March 11, 2022

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What'S good, Jonah? Happy Friday. How you doing?

Good, man. I'm good. I'm chilling here. I might. I might go get a haircut later. I don't know, I might get crazy.

Oh, I should join you. I. I am sitting on quite a Covid mop here. Two years into it, decided to try and see how long I grow my hair. And it's time. It is time.

I like it. It's funny, I was doing this, like, grow it until I don't care and then buzzing it all off and then being like, damn, that's short. And so now we're going to do this really fun thing. Jesse's got a haircut, too, so we're going to have to see if we just, like, play hot potato with this baby while we both get our haircuts back to back. It's going to be an adventure. We're going to see.

Oh, I like that. That's a cool idea. I was considering doing the buzz thing as well, but I thought, you know, it's long, might as well play with it and see what else it could look like. So I'm going to go find a hair stylist to see what we can do with the two year Covid mop.

I like it. I keep asking her, I'm like, hey, just like, watch a YouTube video and just like, I'll give you free rein. And she's like, no, I'm nervous. I'm gonna just like chop your hair up and I don't care. No one sees me.

I love it.

Whatever. Love it.

Yeah. I throw a hat over it anyway. Right?

Yeah, that's true.

Well, it's good to. Good to be back together here for our weekly show. I'm Neil Bloom, entrepreneur, investor, community builder, podcaster, and we put on a show twice a week. Tuesdays, we interview a local tech leader and on Fridays we read the tech news here with my co host, Jonah.

Sup? Yo. Happy to be here. I'm Jonah. Background. A bit. Bit of my time spent ops. So you know some of the. The on demand companies, the limes, the handys, the postmates, food delivery and home cleaning, all that good stuff. Scooters are coming back, you'll see. Our green ones are formerly my green ones, but yeah, love in San Diego. I love this feed, love the Padres, and I love our crypto scene. So that's what we're doing. And I'm trying to bring my daughter up that way too. So that's kind of what's going on in my world.

I love it. Speaking of Padres, baseball's back officially.

So.

April. April what? 14th, I think. Opening day. Yeah. Which we're excited about. But soccer Opening day for the Loyal is tomorrow Saturday, which we're pretty excited about. I'll be at the game. I'm even wearing a Loyal hat right now.

Oh, I like it. I can't prove it, but I believe you.

And we're excited for new seasons of soccer and baseball here in San Diego.

Who do we have? It's the 12th. It says I'm looking it up. Do you know who's coming playing?

LA Galaxy 2.

Oh, hell yeah. That's a big one.

Los Dos. So, yeah, let's go.

How are we looking as far as, like, the projections? I don't know how they do it for this, but it's opening day, so.

It'S a clean slate. We made championships last year. Didn't, didn't. Didn't get past round one. But we've only grown and matured the team from that. So the expectations are we are playoff contenders for sure and hopefully just get deeper this year.

Well, I've been watching that new stadium get built, the SDSU or Aztec Stadium, and I'm just like, thinking, let's get the Loyal into the mls. Let's go watch them there. I'd rather take a left turn and skip going to Costco. I'll go to a game instead, but.

I love it. Yeah, we would love to see some matches there at Aztec Stadium, which I think also new this year, I don't know when the season starts is the new women's soccer team, the Wave San Diego. They'll be starting at the new stadium, I think, this fall. Actually, I don't remember if it's this fall or next fall. I feel like the stadium's ready this year, but we got to fact check.

I think seats are going in because I saw a whole bunch of red where there were concrete. I got to be honest, though, I like the Wave. I don't know. We were talking, talking names recently. The Wave is a really good name. There's a funny story where the Washington football team had renamed themselves the Commanders or something, and I just saw a player get traded and I was like, wait, did they trade him to a Canadian league? I was super confused. And then I realized they renamed the Washington team and I was like, ah, that's just out of Commanders. Kind of lame, whatever. But the Wave, I like the way.

We like the Wave. And I also realized we're calling Aztec Stadium the wrong name. It is officially Snapdragon Stadium. As we interviewed the CMO Chief Marketing officer of Qualcomm a few weeks on the podcast, they have picked up the naming rights for the stadium. They had Qualcomm Stadium. And in the ashes of the old Qualcomm Stadium rises Snapdragon Stadium.

That's right.

So we're excited about that. We are going to talk a little bit more about what Qualcomm is doing in the naming of sports leagues area later on the show. But let's dive into our first one because we've got. We've got a good show. We talk big tech, startup tech, everything in between here. Like we mentioned, we do it live here on Twitter on Fridays and then it's also recorded and published out to the tacos and tech podcast network that you can. Hopefully you're listening on later as well too. Shout out to Sesha here for joining us here live. And let's dive into the first story here. You want to take this one?

Yeah. This is crazy. So we've been seeing a lot of really cool wearable hardware coming out of UCS stuff. So we talked about this a couple of weeks ago too. They had a different wearable a shirt that was. Was able to generate electricity, which was super cool. This is a different wearable. This is essentially a patch that goes on your skin and gives you some, let's just say, biometric data. So Joseph Wang from UCSD's Department of Nanoengineering. Love that Said they're really close. And by close I think they mean months away from a wearable coming out of their laboratory. And think of it, I was looking at some pictures. It's worth a goog. It kind of looks like a clear piece of adhesive or tape but then it has some sort of what looks like wiring but you know, not, not in the sense of like thin wire but it's almost like painted on kind of like a tattoo in a sense. And that just goes on your skin and it's doing a lot of additional tracking on top of the stuff that we're already doing. You know, many of us have a watch you've heard of probably oral oura ring which is, you know, because do some other biometrics. But we have heart rate, we have vitals. But what they're trying to do is sort of what they're calling molecular info from the skin and from sweat. And so we, we can get things like glucose levels. You know I get those but I have to actually have a wire underneath the skin. It's, it's, it's, they call it this, this would be called non invasive whereas you know, with, with another system you actually have to penetrate the skin. This is just using the sweat and so you're actually able to get glucose levels from the sweat. You can get cortisol. So it would be really interesting. I mean I think it's fairly obvious if you're stressed, but it'd be interesting if you could get like a flag on your phone that's saying hey, like you're, you're getting stressed. Maybe that's when you engage, you know, a different app to do some meditation or something like that. But you can also get electrolyte levels. So maybe you're doing some, some performance training of some kind and you realize that you need something more than, than hydration. So this is really, really pretty cool tech. Have you seen this before, Neil?

Actually yeah. Joe Wang is a legend at UCity and, and there's a history of spin ups from his lab. In fact a company that you know today as Bio Link was originally called Electrozyme. Jared and Josh spun out in like 2012 and were in Evo Nexus same time I was. They originally were testing this very technology and they had all of us in the incubator come ride an indoor cycle bicycle on in their lab and they're just having us, you know, work up a sweat and test their sensor. This was back in 2014, 15 times.

Wow. So yeah, they keep spinning things out of the lab. It Sounds like they just, they want technology and they want it out in the world, but they're not necessarily building their own companies out of it. Is that what it sounds like?

I think. Well, that I think, you know, the whole premise for the Office of Commercialization and Innovation ecste is to build tech to eventually commercialize. So for sure want to research and put data out into the world. But no, the hope is that companies spin out and I think Biolink is a great example of that. They've gone on to raise over 100 million in funding with the team still there building this company. They originally were, like I mentioned, trying to determine things from sweat. I think they, they moved away from Bio Link has moved away from Sweat is looking more at how. What's the minimal amount to get blood glucose levels, you know, so a specific diabetes case. But Joe Wang's team specifically focuses on all things, you know, nanowearables with. I think the goal is to not have it go below the skin surface. Right? Is that what this technology is focused on?

It's going to live on the skin surface. It's going to pull from sweat. It needs to be low cost. It's obviously a sticker. It needs to be low energy. But they do, I think, intend to have it talk to your smartphone, which is kind of neat. They even said you can measure alcohol levels. So could you imagine if you're like, hey, you know, been out, I don't know, you probably had an Aztecs game, whatever. But then you can kind of say, oh, look, my blood alcohol level is X or Y and maybe I should should hang back or got to catch up with my friends. You know, you're drinking a stone, not a good stone.

And this connect and this connected world that'll talk to an app which will talk to your car, which won't allow your car to start. Right? So interesting good or bad, eventually we'll be have automation telling our bodies, censoring us or not could be very interesting to see from that area. But the San Diego area is just from a wearable standpoint is one area that we're succeeding in. Right? From Iot meets the body. Huge, right? And then the quantified self. So this idea of taking internal data and turning it into a wellness product to make sure that we know what's actually going on as opposed to when the doctor says go do labs. This is world trends that are huge. Yes, these are big world trends that are happening that all the tech is being built here in San Diego. So we love that collision of electronics, body Data and wellness. And these are all areas we're investing in, aren't we Jonah? We just did an investment in vessel health, which is this in a sense in its own regard too. Finding another way to take data points in real time. So very cool to see Joe Wang's lab push this out. Let's, let's report back on it once we see a new company spun out too.

Yeah, I'm super into that. And it sounds like this isn't even where they the, you know, like you said, he's done a whole ton of this. This isn't where they stopped. It looks like they're looking to do something with saliva. Maybe you have like a mouth guard of sorts. But yeah, you can get, you definitely you're going to be getting a lot more data from small wearables, from sort of nanotechnology like this. It's going to be really interesting over the next, I mean I would say two years, but five years, 10 years. It's going to be, it's going to be wild.

Yeah, yeah, definitely. And related to, you know, research being done on campus that is being spun out into commercialization. The cannabis world is actually another area that UCSD has been a long time researcher, specifically in THC for medical applications.

Yeah.

And elsewhere. Which kind of brings us to our next story here about a new cannabis testing lab opening in Myanmar. So it's want to take us through this story real quick.

This one's really. Yeah, this is cool. So I think this is super important. You know, one of those things that happens when you start to legalize an industry like this, especially when you're growing a crop, is you need to standardize and you need to understand what's in it for a couple of different reasons. I mean, one, it's, it's dosage. I mean, how, how strong is it? Kind of what's, what's the composition? You know, we see this on every alcohol label everywhere, you know, telling you how a cold it is or what's in there. So there's two PhD chemists have actually founded a testing lab out of Miramar. Josh Switter and David Marlius. Have you heard? Do you know either them?

I don't know.

Same. I was just kind of flipping through the news yesterday. I was like, oh, this is kind of cool and actually pretty relevant. I didn't realize it was out of San Diego. But this is a pretty like heavy duty biotech company. I mean this is filled with PhDs and, and essentially they're doing what is called like infinite chemical analysis. Lab, or they call it Infinite Cal, which is cool, but they have a 16,000 square foot facility here in San Diego. They also operate out of Michigan, which is another state that has pushed forward in legalization opening one in Arizona, so doing you know, a lot of, of moves there. But per the California regulations, you know, any product that, that gets sold needs to be tested. And they're not just looking for strength. You know, does it have cannabinoids? You know, how sort of how is this going to impact my body, how I'm feeling and so on. But think about the other things that go into growing a plant. You know, are there pesticide residues in there? Is that going to make you feel kind of terrible or is that going to be impactful to your health? Think thinking of heavy metals, depending on the fertilizers you're using or you know, are there solvents, some other things that maybe were used to sort of break down the plant, the chemical to make something in, let's say an edible or something to that effect. But if you don't really know, I mean, do you know what you're getting, especially if it hasn't been tested. And so they actually employ 30 scientists, PhDs and master chemists, which is super cool and are just using this like state of the art technology. And so on one hand you kind of think of the industry a little bit like the Spicolis of the world in high school. But on the other hand you got, you know, Master PhD is kind of breaking down on a molecular level. What's going into this, and one last kind of note on this, which is super cool, is they're literally the only lab to hold an annual license in California. Meaning they've literally done such a good job buttoning up their practices that the state of California is like, you guys are aces. Like you can you have an annual license. Whereas it seems like other shops or other businesses doing something that's similar are going through this process, you know, frequently or, or, or quarterly or I'm not sure the cadence exactly. But they have to keep proving that they can do what they can do. Whereas these guys really not, not up against that. They're absolutely doing an amazing job.

Interesting. One other piece that I thought was interesting that they're using thermoscientific instrumentation, which thermos got of their. Even though they're Boston based, their largest presence is in Carlsbad I believe. So pretty cool to see especially if the hardware is being developed here and then being utilized here as well too. So love to See that?

I like that too. I found this other one here, but I was wondering, do you want to jump in and do Qualcomm and tell us about what they're doing and we could jump back to this other one?

Sure, yeah. So coming from Qualcomm, they're sponsoring a new esports gaming league, which obviously esports, we always hear it's big. And in this scenario, you know, I've never heard numbers this big, but 500 million fans watching esports, in a sense, dreaming, watching gaming any given time is massive. And so you can only imagine how, you know, the opportunities there around that. And so Qualcomms already has been because it's of its technology with Snapdragons been a huge part of, you know, the experience of watching it from your phone and streaming, streaming the actual gaming, you know, out through its mobile networks and other hardware and then powering the gaming engines too, and more. So they've, they've been a big part of just gaming and the growth of it from just being the hardware inside. But now they want to make sure that everyone knows about that. Right. So did you know that, you know, the hardware inside is being built by, by Snapdragon in your phones to the 5G networks, to even the arenas that people are physically watching these from. So the new league is being called the ESL Gaming New League and New Tournament where there's a $2 million prize package for the Snapdragon Pro series. So there's a few different leagues, there's pro, an amateur league, and they're actually putting money behind prizes for this. And obviously their goal in branding is, you know, you're watching, you're playing and you realize, oh, wow, you know, Snapdragon sponsoring this. I hope that my next device is Snapdragon powered. Right. So, you know, it's pretty obvious the reason for them to get behind it. Just like Snapdragon Stadium, as we mentioned before too. But I think part of the esports story that we haven't really talked about is how much it's become part of actually the education system. So UCSD has a full esports stadium in a sense, and lounge and cafe dedicated to esports. And most schools now, universities, have esports teams, kind of like a sports team. And it's trickled down into high school and middle schools as well too. So it's pretty common now to see esports teams as almost like a sport that just like, just like regular sports like PE and like marching bands. There's now esports as another avenue as you're growing up to get into and grow along with so rising trend. That is interesting to see one of our largest companies get in on and get involved and help and its growth.

Well, you know what's crazy, I was. I was flipping around. I mean, I don't know how reputable World Atlas.com is, but I was looking at, like, sports fans by size, because I was trying to think, you know, 500 million sounds like a lot, but is it. How big is it really? And they're saying that, you know, The NFL is 4 billion fans. That feels like really a lot. But, you know, then it's also saying baseball's 500 million, rugby's 475. If this is accurate. I mean, that's pretty significant if they're as big as baseball. But I think we probably got to dissect those numbers a little bit deeper. But that's a lot of people calling.

4 billion fans for NFL. That seems like a. Seems like a little stretch.

I think when they say football, it's got to be not the soccer, but it's got to be soccer. But if NFL's not on here, maybe they're rolling it in there, which makes it confusing. Yeah. Because they're Saying Hockey is 2 billion. Okay, now I'm out. This data sucks. Okay.

All right, we're throwing it out, but let's get on to our next story, which is all about using tech to help our local small businesses get involved. The ten News. ABC has done this cool series called Making it in San Diego, especially during COVID helping to tell the stories of how, you know, our small business owners, especially restaurant owners, are staying with it because it's been challenging. That's for sure. So this, this robot server is helping the tofu house restaurant overcome the challenges. Love tofu house. Take us through this one.

Yeah. Have you been to tofu? Yeah.

Oh, for sure.

Dude. I'm always impressed when I go that the scalding boiling soup. Anyways, I'm like, damn. Like, how do they do this? By hand. But yeah, so they are. They're using a robot. It's called the Dash XL robot is the specific one that they have, and it's crazy. So they're using this robot to actually do some of the basic work around the restaurant and a little bit of understanding. And for me, I was kind of like, wait, I have not seen a robot in action yet. I don't know about you. They have 12,000 deployed, which is kind of insane. So, you know, if we haven't seen one yet, I mean, they're coming. And they basically. The founder of Tofu House was actually just looking to use this robot to help overcome some of the pandemic challenges. So it's almost just going to be used to drive orders from kitchen to customer. And it doesn't take orders, it doesn't refill drinks that he says yet, you know, but essentially it's got four trays, carries £80 and can actually do some, some interesting work. What's kind of even more interesting of this model, because this I started to dig in a plate. Well, are you going to have to be like a robotics repair person, you know, if you buy one of these? But it sounds like they just are rentable. 600 bucks a month and you get a robot which he's saying is less than minimum wage for what he's paying for staff, which is kind of insane.

Super interesting. I'm on their site and looking at it. It really looks like, like a moving, you know, filing cabinet in a sense. Yeah, you know, it's like this vertical tall, I don't know, maybe three, four feet with four different trays on it that you just load and it just goes. And I've actually been seeing these in hospitals too, similarly, where they're, they're moving things just down a hall. Whether it's, you know, dirty laundry from maybe where the chute goes to the washers or even dirty dishes, or maybe now start to see, like, food brought to rooms too. So super interesting to see robots actually make it into our daily lives. Because honestly, when I saw it for the first time, I was like, are we, is this Star Wars? Like, where are we right now? Yeah, it is not normal to see, you know, machines doing average tasks. For us right now, it feels still like, you know, science fiction, but it's.

Been coming for a bit. I remember serve out of San Francisco's partnering when I was at Postmates that was coming online. And I remember in my mind being like, dude, this is like, what are we spending energy doing getting a robot that will like just drive you, your. Your takeout. But it's starting to feel more like a reality. And I guess you have to sort of push these types of standards forward to get to this point, which is super interesting. He was kind of saying, well, they had to do this because of a labor shortage here. But. But it still sounds like humans are an important piece of the business. I guess one thing that I would be curious about is, you know, people are kind of talking about jobs and job security and what happens when robots come in. But you Know, it's like the example that you use of carrying laundry down a hallway or whatever. I mean, I think, is it, is it a, is it reasonable to think that a lot of the jobs that maybe people don't even want to do are going to be automated and this isn't necessarily like taking the, the higher quality jobs. I could be wrong on that, but I'm wondering kind of how that ends up falling or landing, you know, the very repetitive tasks, the tasks that maybe it's hard to, you know, carry £150 for some distance and is actually going to be more detrimental to your, your back and your posture. So I'd be curious to see where, where it really starts to, you know, work its way into our daily lives.

Yeah, I mean, we talk about this all the time with all some of the companies on here, you know, like Brain Corp and Tusimple, where the initial scare for everyone is like, oh, are we replacing jobs? But the research always shows that they're replacing menial tasks to upskill and reskill people to just do more what they're better at. Right. And same with robots maybe potentially just better at, at caring, you know, hot soup to a table than a human may be in that regard too. So yeah, I'm always watching the conversation back and forth around this just because San Diego is really on that front line of potentially replacing human skills with tech skills in certain ways.

It's a good point, I think. I'm not sure super how public this is a grayscale robotics, that was their name, had a robot that could learn some of those techniques, tasks, and they were doing something like specific, like sanding of, of some parts, some automation. But really what they're saying is like this type of work is, puts a lot of dust out there. Now your human workers are at risk, right. Of inhaling a lot of this. So it makes a lot more sense to even put a robot into a position like that. So you're not actually putting people at health risk to make these parts. So I think that there's a fair point to be made there. I think it just depends on how you know how smart and how awesome they get over the next handful of years.

Yeah, and I think we're not, we don't have a story on this week, but something that has been really cool to see is an effort by advancing San Diego to upskill people into new specific roles. So whether it's that you've been doing, you know, maybe hard sales like software or like, you know, flooring and, and you know, Car sales. And how do we help you get trained to do software sales? Right. So kind of I think there's a cool effort locally that's happening around that upskilling movement. So we'll keep, we'll keep talking about that on the show. Last area that we wanted to focus on is a story on electric vehicles which San Diego has been participating largely in the clean tech world. A company called Beam Beam Global public company here, EV Charger. They're acquiring a Chicago battery maker to double their size of their company and bring the manufacturing to California of the batteries to take advantage of this California specific incentives, taxes, tax gains and grants.

Wow.

This is kind of cool. So it's a supplier to them already and they're bringing them to California to.

Backwards from the trends we're hearing, right?

Yeah, exactly. So Beam Global, do you know this company?

No, I was just watching 13 years go me in.

Yeah. They originally most people would probably know them as Envision Solar. Long time startup. I think maybe even an evo Nexus company back in the day they I think TCA funded and I for sure know Keshe of Ventures funded them. They went public in 2019, went through a name change of Beam Global and you know they've, they've been early, early to the EV charging world and so have ridden every up and down wave around that.

Oh wow.

Uh, their product that they make is called EV Arc. So it's this really interesting self contained freestanding electric charging station that is they, they deliver by a truck and it's a freestanding so meaning it doesn't, doesn't need to be bolted to the ground, doesn't need any construction happen. They literally let's say that and someone's company says you know we want charging for our cars but we want it solar powered. They drop off EV Arc, it has solar powers over it. It just goes over one parking space and boom. You literally have solar charging built in. It's not even in the power grid. It just is a place where you can drive up, plug in and get pure photovoltaic energy to your car. Which is super cool. Yeah.

So I'm poking around their site. I mean it's like they, they do it for almost every, I mean water, there's like watercraft looks like obviously the scooter, scooter icon, you know drones. But like you said. Yeah, I mean it's like you know going back like trying to bring power to a building is actually kind of a nightmare. So it's kind of cool that they could roll it and Just be like, and here's power. It's so cool.

Exactly. So it's a $65,000 unit which actually isn't too crazy compared to like what people pay to put solar on their roofs of their house and. But it's mostly for businesses in this regard. Actually. Our friends over at chargenet, which a lot of people know here and I'm an investor in that, are doing similar things specifically just at fast casual retail and dining. So maybe these two should talk in that regard because honestly, like you mentioned, the biggest expense and usually this is the trenching and connecting to the grid and level two fast charging.

Yeah.

So these guys just bought All Cell Technologies out of Chicago, all stock deal in a sense. They're getting all cells, getting 10% of the company, doubles the team size up to 87. And they're based out of Miramar right over. Right over by the pyramid there.

Oh, no way.

Yeah. And while what's, what's obviously they're riding this huge wave here and they've claimed that because the way it's built it can withstand wind of up to 120 miles an hour and flooding up to 9ft and still be operating within an hour of being set up.

So you're going to charge boats, you know, you got to be. It's true. So they're big, they're stoked on these gas prices I would imagine. I'm trying really hard not to. To talk about that, but yeah, these guys are probably riding the wave in the right direction now.

Yeah, definitely. They've. So they've been public for a few years. 2019. I've been watching their stock. It's like I mentioned, been all over the place from down from $6 all the way up to $72. It's sitting at 14 right now on an annual revenue of 6 million. So worth watching. They say their largest customer is New York City who is electrifying their entire fleet of 36,000 vehicles. So gotta imagine that's a pretty big order for them and hopefully should be a part of it. So adding it to our San Diego public's stock watch list here. And we'll keep an eye on Beam Global and see how they do with now owning a battery maker as well.

That's awesome. And bringing some, some more tech back to California. Doing the, doing the controversial thing. I love it. Moving, moving to California, not, not away. Hey, you want to do some shout outs?

Yeah, a lot of shout outs. A lot of events coming up. Santa Angel Conference, which I think's in year four, is that true? March 24th. This is the culmination of six months worth of training brand new angels to due diligence and assess companies to actually invest in a pitch conference pitch competition which you don't usually get. You know, actually investors writing checks in the comp in the conference. But this one's coming up. Also the inaugural NFT conference April 9th and 10th and I just talked to the founder this week about it. Pretty excited. He gave us a discount code to use, so use NFT inclusion for 20 off and you'll see that in the show notes here as well too. Startup San Diego's convergence is coming back 13th and 14th of April. Yeah, this is a two day version, kind of the best of of Startup Week where it's focused on getting students from our local universities engaged in the startup community. So pretty excited about that.

Super important, I'll add a detail on that. It's super important when you get engaged in the community and you graduate from our local universities, you stay, stay around and keep your talent here. So this is really helpful for keeping kids in San Diego or youngsters in San Diego not leaving for, you know, Austin or San Francisco or any other city. Keep them here, build your business here.

Absolutely. And shortly on a few weeks later is Connect's new Innovation day at Petco park, or as they're calling it, 5, 10, 30. For everyone wondering what that means, it's the decisions we make today will be felt 5, 10 and 30 years from now. Yeah. So credit to Mike Kren for that name. Thousands of people coming out to meet our cool companies and all of our early stage startups, which should be really cool. We got some fun little stories here that we're just going to read the headline which will probably make news in following weeks. San Diego ranks second for California's most supernatural sightings. This I want to read about. I don't know if it's for the sightings. Is that, is that a comment about the sightings or is it common about the people here that we just happen to be so much more connected to our spiritual world?

That's a good point because it's. You said supernatural. This is UFOs and ghosts, so keep an eye out, I guess. I don't know, maybe. Maybe the testing facility for the cannabis will bring this number down or up, I'm not really sure.

Yeah, one of our local partners who've been the sponsor of the podcast for years, Cox Enterprises, and you probably know them from the Internet and cable yet, and their phone lines at their house, they stepped up during this this craziness that's going on in Ukraine and they've made calling completely free. That's so wanted to give a shout out to them for that. And our one of our one of our recent venture capital funds, Blueprint Equity, raised their new fund fund two $175 billion fund. We're reading through the story which is in the show notes here. This is worth a whole talk. So this will be on next week's show. We'll do a deep dive. Maybe we can even get Sheldon or Bobby on the show to to comment on it as well too. So keep an eye on that. But love seeing more capital here available to invest in our companies.

Yeah, big week.

And that's our show. Thank you all for tuning in. Whether it was live on Twitter Spaces every Friday at 12:30pm or on the Tacos and Tech podcast Podcast Network. I also don't have the name in front of me, but after last week's show someone reached out and said, hey, I built a little bot that will auto download the Twitter Spaces show for you. So much better than having to download your entire Twitter data archive to go find the data. So I will give get their name in front of me. I think it's Spaces Bot or Spaces Download. Thank you guys.

Feels like something Al would would build.

Oh yeah, I would love it for sure. Well, thanks everyone again. Have a good weekend and we'll catch you next week.

Later everyone.

Cheers.