I'm Scott, I'm Russell, and I'm Leo. This is Spitball. Welcome to Spitball, the Pitchin'
Kitchen, where three entrepreneurial enthusiasts empty their head of startup and tech product
ideas that we have stuck up in there so you can all have them for free. Anything that
we say is yours to keep. And this week, Scott, I believe you have brought our guest. Did
I would like to welcome Spencer. Spencer was my freshman year roommate in school about
12 years ago now. We really didn't know that. Yeah. Met him very first person I met on campus.
Spencer is a financial expert and CPA, and I'm very excited to have him go over our the
P&L statements of all the ideas we're going to have tonight. Welcome, Spencer. Welcome.
Thanks. Yeah. Thanks for having me. Don't want to correct Scott or throw him under the
bus already, but I am not a CPA. I am not your lawyer. You're an underground, uncertified.
I'm an accountant in the underground society. He's been doing my taxes for 10 years. This
is the first I've heard of this. You should listen to that one episode where Scott tried
to do tax fraud and I was all about it. You'd be a perfect CPA for that, Spencer. I could
plead not fraud. I could just plead ignorance. Tax exaggeration. Spencer, is it okay that
your bosses might hear that you're not a CPA? Is this news? No, it's just news to Scott,
I think. I'm glad he thinks so highly of me. That's so great. Well, welcome. This could
be a good time. Yeah, thanks. Today we're going to be playing Ledger or Legend, and
the game is going to be simple. I'm going to give you the name of a currency and you
have to tell me if it's either a cryptocurrency or something from a video game.
Nice.
Easy enough, right? And as always, we start with our guest, Spencer. Tell me about Raven
Coin. All one word. R-A-V-E-N-C-O-I-N. Is that a cryptocurrency scam? I mean, excuse
me, just cryptocurrency? Or is that something from a video game series?
I'm going to go video game.
That's of course a fork of Bitcoin. All right, Scott, you're up.
Really?
I know, right?
Raven Coin.
There are, I think my father-in-law looked it up, there's 2,300 different known cryptocurrencies
or something. So it's a wild west out there, guys.
Oh my God. What year is it? I wonder what the tech is behind that. Like, oh, for every
raven you catch, it gets you a coin. Anyways.
Nothing exists in the real world with these people. Don't be silly.
That's right.
Scott, GIL, G-I-L, cryptocurrency or video game currency?
I feel like that's got to be video game. Some kind of fallout.
Yes, it's from Final Fantasy. Very good. It's Final Fantasy.
Nice.
Well done. Russell, Bancor. B-A-N-C-O-R.
Doesn't have coin in it, so I'm saying video game.
It is of course a DeFi blockchain. It's part of that whole scene. No, that means it's one
Scott Zilch elsewhere. Second time through. Spencer, ECHOS, spelled how it sounds. E-C-H-S-E-N-C-O-I-N.
I'm going to go video game again.
That's going to cost you 12 echoes. It is a video game. Sunless Sea. It's a survival
exploration RPG from the last couple of years.
Scott Adams, ATOMS.
Is that Bioshock?
Oh, Fallout 76. Very good.
That's not Bioshock.
That's the online fallout. You got it right. It was a video game. Russell, Sovereigns.
Definitely a crypto.
Sounds like it, right? That's from Dragon Age. It's of course the gold coins that you
get from Dragon Age. Last time through. Spencer, Kyber. K-Y-B-E-R.
I was going to stay the same. I'll do video game again.
It's a DeFi blockchain. NFTs, tokens, all that stuff. Good try.
Is that a Star Wars term?
Kyber?
That one caught my eye in the list.
Kyber crystal is a currency, but Kyber... Wait, never mind. I don't know.
Scott, last one. Linden, L-I-N-D-E-N.
Oh, the B. Johnson coin. I know that one. No, I have no idea. I'm going to say it's
crypto.
It's from Second Life. It's what you use to buy virtual property in Second Life. Remember
that whole wave?
Wait, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Linden dollars. That was going to be like the whole, "You are now your avatar,
world sim era, man." Different times. Now we have metaversals.
Now I can not afford a house in two different places.
Do you have enough Lindens? Russell, last one. Mirian, M-I-R-I-A-N.
I think that's a grandma. Oh, crypto.
That's of course from Middle Earth, Shadow of War. Very good, everybody.
Miriam?
Miriam. I think it was two, two, and one. So Spencer, Scott, Ty, but I kind of lost
track there a little bit. Thanks for playing.
Those hobbit cryptocurrencies.
Well, of course, Scott, you were the winner this week. Congratulations, which means you
get to go first. What's your pitch for us this week? What's something you wish existed,
but you don't have time to build?
I've been thinking about this one on and off for 10 years, and I've always wanted
it to be real, but I think that it isn't for a reason, or it's just not a viable business
for a reason, but I still really want to try this and prove it one way or another. So many
years ago, Russell and I did a startup and we had to get a laser engraver for this startup.
And when we, it's just a 40 watt, like cheap laser from eBay. And when we first set up
this laser, we were so excited and we were looking around to find something to engrave.
And all we had next to us was some leftover Taco Bell. So we threw an old soft taco inside
this laser and it just, it came out perfect. It was like, we etched on pictures and words
onto this old Taco Bell and it's still like perfectly edible. It's just lasered on and
heated in whatever pattern you did. And so I've been thinking, can local restaurants
use like a food grade laser engraver? Like we live right next to a great taco place that's
not Taco Bell. And I just imagine them like.
- Engraving it. Yeah.
- Exactly. You could put your logo, you could put QR codes, you could put whatever you want
on this. Like, I feel like there's a lot of possibilities with laser engraving food that
just hasn't been done yet.
- It's like the custom waffle maker in the hotel lobby with their branding on it, but
way better.
- Exactly. Except this, you don't need any tooling or anything. You just need this piece
of equipment and you could put, I could put a latte in there and just do the foam art
on top. It doesn't, and that's the whole pitch. I'm going to make a food grade laser engraver
and I'm going to mass market it to restaurants.
- Wow. I just got to say we've gone full unhinged on this show. It's amazing.
- It's so good.
- But I love it. It's so simple, but so bare. It's accessible.
- So here's the reason that kind of this came back to me lately. I went to a hockey game
two nights ago and they had, it was like $2 beer and hot dog nights. And hockey now, if
you haven't been to a game recently, every single thing is sponsored by someone to the
point that it's really gross and dystopian. They don't have sudden death anymore at the
end of the match. They have sudden life brought to you by your local hospital.
- Oh my.
- Oh boy.
- It's crazy. And so I'm like, well, we might as well jump on this bandwagon. And
instead for these $2 hot dogs, let's have $2 hot dogs brought to you by, I don't know,
Huntington bank or some other horrible thing. And you just laser engrave. It only takes
like one to two seconds to laser into this guy. Huntington bank and a QR code and a website
onto each freaking hot dog. I just feel like there's random possibilities for this and
it would be very easy to create.
- I was just thinking they could name it like a, you know, like hot dog, like a Frank, just
Huntington Franks or something.
- I think this $2 beer is trying to get me into join the Navy.
- Scan here.
- Enlist today.
- I think there's a shocking number of applications Scott for this. Like imagine every kid's meal
chicken nugget had a different smiley face on it. Kids would go ape, make it a contest.
- This one's a squirtle. This one's a Charmander.
- Dude, rotate it out every, you know, every day or every month. And you got to like happy
meal is much happier now. We got a laser engraver on our chicken nuggets.
- Sponsored food is so awful.
- Chicken nuggets, the monopoly thing. You could have, if you get a certain chicken nugget
that has a certain face on it, you win a prize.
- So dystopian.
- It's very dystopian.
- I don't know, man. Like fricking, oh, hot dogs free at a baseball game. I just have
to eat the logo. Like, hell yeah, sign me up, dude.
- Now I'm also thinking too, like, I guess it's a little deceiving, but I'm thinking
like, you know, you have like charbroiled burgers or like chicken on the grill. You
just, what if you just laser in like the grill or char.
- You etch it in.
- Oh, for like all the impossible burgers or whatever. I guess you could still get the
grill marks on those because you're still cooking it.
- Whoa. I wonder if you could make a burger, a fake burger look like a more, like a burger
by laser engraving it ahead of time. I don't know. I'm no expert, but hopefully your listeners
are.
- Lasers are crazy now. You can just set like a PWM to the actual output of it so that it
can, it fluctuates the wave just a little bit so you can get different colors and variations
if you do it on metal. I have no idea. Like I've seen, I've seen like a piece of metal
that has just an entire array of colors just from one laser because they're changing the
frequency that the laser is coming out.
I have no idea if that'll work on food or not, but.
- I'm just going to go with the air.
- Yeah, definitely. Guys, would you eat sponsored food? Like if it was free at an event and
they just had their logo in every Dorito, like.
- We all know in our heart, the food's not going to be free, but for half off or whatever.
Yeah, probably.
- Oh man. Do you want your food? Do you want your food half off with ads?
- Half off with ads, please.
- Like Netflix's tears. Yeah.
- That's so funny.
- We just solved the world hunger, guys.
- All right. Cappuccino art would be cool. Like if you could somehow like engrave like
cool art or I feel like bubble tea culture for some reason would find this really cool.
I don't know how you would engrave it on bubble tea, but like they have all this.
- I do bubble tea.
- With a lot of foam, with the foam, the cold foam one. I feel like that would be, that'd
be cool though. Okay. Here's another one. You could do raffles. Okay. Every hot dog
has a different number on it. You can't eat the hot dog until the raffle. That's just
a mean.
- This is the modern golden ticket.
- You can't eat it until you figure out if you won. I swear I had number 67.
- Yeah. If you find the Dorito with the star on it, you get to go to the Mario world or
something, right?
- There it is.
- You can make it more high end too. Like some three, four star restaurant that's trying
to make this cool artistic culinary experience. And they laser engrave, I don't know, a story
about the food into the food about where it came from or something.
- The name of the cow that you slaughtered. Right on it. This was Bessie.
- Can print the whole company's mission statement on it. Like a tortilla maybe, like Chipotle
burritos, just a tortilla.
- Okay. Okay. Flip it around. What if you elevated food with this, right? So now you're
hot. I'm only thinking of hot dogs for some reason. Have like cool art design. So you
go to the art museum and now they can sell hot dogs because it's super artistic now.
- They've got a Picasso in this.
- I'm thinking too now, maybe like seasonal, like Christmas themed. You could make like
candy cane stripes on the hot dog.
- Ooh, there you go. Of course. Hanukkah menorah.
- Dude. Yes. Like those like one trick, like corn dog stands or something. You just like
throw some designs on it. And now you're like, or like ice cream cones, you know, different
themes. Pick your design. It just seems like one of those gimmicky things that then all
of a sudden every kid in town is like, I want a rainbow on mine. It's like face painting,
you know?
- We're already getting to the point where fast food ordering happens via app. So you
could even have like, I want to use this design of the day. I want to upload my own design
in the McDonald's laser.
- Oh, that'd be cool.
- Adds that to the process and does it on the way out the door. You could pay a dollar
extra to put your, I don't know, company's logo on it when you cater for lunch.
- Ooh, there you go.
- Then it's a write off.
- It's kind of hard to do branding because you eat the brand right after. It's not like
a sticker or something that hangs around.
- It's the write off, right, Spencer? You can write it off if your logo's on it. Where's
our CPA?
- I was going to say, unless there's a way you can find a way to make a portion of it
non-digestible so you see it on the other end.
- I'm not sure about the carcinogenic properties of eating a lasered bun. Maybe you just avoid
eating that part.
- Oh, it's just extra cooked. It's fine.
- Well, well, well done at a few thousand degrees.
- Yeah, lasering food is a dangerous, right? It's not like, what's the laser made out of?
Light? Oh, then it's totally fine. I mean, I just sit in the sun for like, what, two
minutes? Same dip.
- Same thing.
- Exactly the same thing.
- So rather than it being fast food related, I bet you could use this to design, like everybody's
buying gifts for people. You got to be able to design food.
- Oh, chocolates.
- Like chocolates. Yes. Custom chocolates for Christmas. You get the same blank bar
and everybody comes in to get the design. You can get like, oh dude, the wooden shoes.
I buy these all the time now. You can buy like these. We live in a town with wooden
shoes and you can add your own engraving on the side. Dude, four bucks a pop, put people's
names on it. People love that. You just make a custom candy shop. Like it's just wall to
wall.
- Oh yeah. I just envisioned a chocolate gift box, but every chocolate type is etched into
the top of it. So there's no more guessing. That's a whole nother product on its own.
- Yes.
- Will you marry me?
- Oh, it's spelled out in chocolates.
- I was just going to say this one's caramel. This one's raspberry. This one's dark. But
I like that too.
- Oh my gosh. Could you imagine solving the problem where you're like looking at the Stover's,
like the little recipe guide of what's in this piece of chocolate.
- It's laser, no more roulette.
- If they can write the words Kit Kat into a chocolate, I'm sure they could have done
that. They're just not fancy enough.
- I just love the romantic couple on the beach eating their Taco Bell and the last taco has
will you marry me burned into the side. What a surprise. Oh honey, you ordered custom with
the app. That's why you wanted to order it tonight. Wow. I do.
- Oh, I get to design. I get to actually control the laser and draw something on my food before
I eat it or something.
- Hand the phone to your kid in the backseat to doodle on his McNugget before he gets it.
- Oh my gosh. You throw this at a Chuck E. Cheese band. Everybody's like pizza. Yeah.
Here's your Etch A Sketch. You draw whatever you want. Throw your pizza on it. It's like
30 seconds and all of a sudden, mom, look at my pizza. Dude, it's so hard to get kids
to eat like this. This is going to make them eat.
- Laser your broccoli before you check out at the grocery store.
- Honestly.
- Put their favorite Paw Patrol on it.
- Leo, that would make them eat though, right? Your kids would eat.
- If every carrot had a different Paw Patrol person on it. I feel like there has to be
a reason this hasn't been done before.
- A burned carrot probably doesn't taste good.
- I don't know what it is. Everything.
- It could be the charring and singeing of the food.
- Well, on my one data point of Taco Bell, we still ate it.
- You ate it?
- Of course.
- How was it? You ate old leftover Taco Bell that you laced?
- Okay. We bought it that day, but-
- Oh, okay. All right.
- Listen.
- And how was it?
- Don't judge our choices. There are dark times. Those were dark times.
- Startup life, baby.
- Waste not.
- Was that the first half of the Taco Bell or the second half? Because you have to space
it out throughout the day.
- Yeah. Was that breakfast Taco Bell, lunch Taco Bell? What do we have?
- Want a haircut this month or do you want Taco Bell? It's your choice.
- All right, Leo, what have you brought for us this week?
- All right. So we have a small gaming friends group here that the five of us have played
Dungeons and Dragons and video games and stuff together for many years. And Scott, you actually
requested that I bring this idea to the podcast. So here we go. We have our DM, our main friend
who runs this group is in another state and three of us are in the town that we're in
right now. One of them is up in a neighboring town, about a half hour drive from us. So
that's three different places. I have thought for a long time about the soul SOL cinema.
In 2009, this guy bought a camper trailer and he like hollowed it out. It might've even
been like in a junkyard or something. Hollowed it out, made it beautiful and turned it into
an eight person movie theater. And he goes around from like music festival to music festival
with this trailer and it's gorgeous looking and it's a little movie theater that's got
a projector in it and two rows of seating and the entire thing is solar powered. So
like you can watch documentaries and stuff. Yeah. He shows like art films and stuff on
it. I think it's so neat. And it's been kind of imprinted on me. It's like, this is a really
cool thing. I would love to do something that is a portable, I don't know, video game station
or hangout station or whatever. And then we have this problem now. Now I'm worried a little
bit about this pitch getting a little bit too broey and like gamery, right? RGB lights
everywhere. So I do want to say like the appeal of board game night, I think is universal
enough to have this discussion. If you could create a gaming centric camper van, it doesn't
have to have bedroom. It doesn't have to have, you know, it could have a small kitchenette,
I guess, but maybe even not a bathroom. And you could go and like a tow the living room
hangout zone to the, I don't know, the nearest place between y'all that has a restaurant
parking lot or, you know, somewhere where you could all hang out and play your, your
board game or sit around the poker table or whatever. What would that look like? So we're
here to design together a little bit, what the, the portable hangout gaming zone would
be. It'd be cool to have, you know, your land party on wheels, perhaps it'd be cool to have
your, you know, tabletop role playing games or whatever. I just, I've thought a lot about
this. How do we make the in person thing a little bit more accessible? Are there other
friends group out there that would benefit from something like this? I don't know. Huh?
Yeah, this makes me think, um, reminds me of, uh, stores on different episode where
if I could have extra space in my house, like, I guess in a way, Leo, you, I'm going to add
to it and say, like, what if you by all means, this trailer, it's like part of your house.
And like, sometimes it's hatchable. Yeah. Well, like, like, I don't have, maybe this
is just me. Like, I have this desk and this is my desk. I don't have like a gaming or
like my own man cave. Right, right. The whole concept of the she shed and the man cave and
stuff where you have like a small little thing on the outside of your property, a little,
you know, 100 square foot office or whatever. I want that, but like portable and social
dude, like a portable man cave is pretty good idea. Portable man cave that like, you know,
you could add the eight chairs to make it a board game night. You could turn it into
like the land party if you want, whatever, whatever man cave you're into. Right. Like
put star link on that sucker. Yeah. Oh gosh. I might just have to buy him somehow. You
want to go buy a camper? I want to go buy an old motor home together. Let's do this.
I want it to be already like a blank wall. I just want a trailer with four white walls,
40 outlets and gigabyte internet speed. But like, I don't know. Cause I feel like man
caves are like probably dying and why not make it portable and shared and like, Oh,
I'll bring my man cave. Let's bring our man caves together. All together. Our power is
combined. The man compound. Hey, I'm going to meet you at the rest area right here on
mile marker 45. You go to the like McDonald's parking lot and you all get your snacks and
you bring them out parking lot. Sure. Guys. I mean, I'd love that. I would love to. I
think I would make use of it enough. And then you could, like you said, you could party
park it in your backyard and use it for your work from home office or whatever. Like make
it a little practical too. So that it's not just for fun twice a year that I think is
the selling point. It's, it's a extension of your home, but also portable. All your,
all the stuff that like your kids, your wife, your anybody doesn't want to be in the house
lives in your man cave and it comes with you wherever you go. I don't know. It's your super
bowl party area or it's your like your weekly bachelorette viewing a hangout area and you
go and meet with the five friends who love to watch it together while it's on airing.
You know what I mean? Like you go and find the spot where you all are easiest to meet
up together, but it's in person. The multi. Yeah. I like the idea of keeping this not
man cave, but like the multipurpose. Yeah. The living room, living room, living room,
the mobile living room. Yes. Pictures of people who've renovated their basement and they have
the cool bar and they've got the, you know, gaming area with the bookshelves and stuff.
I'm like, man, I, I wish I had a room for that and be people in the area to enjoy this
with. But if I could bring it to them, you know, it's pretty cool to be like, Hey Russell,
could I, could I borrow your man cave for this weekend? I got some friends coming over.
Sure. Get your tail hitch. Yeah. Rooms to go. Rooms to go. Yeah. You've got like,
I don't know this weekend we're going to go up and go to a camping property up in the wilderness,
but we're going to bring all of our game collection and all of our everything.
The best of both worlds have our campfire and then come in and play Starcraft until 2 AM. I don't
know. I love your idea of keeping it modular that you can just kind of like for whatever
trip you're going on or whatever event you just pop in this table or fold out this one,
depending on if we're landing or D and D or watching the bachelorette with the advent of
Starlink really all he needs power. You can get enough car batteries and series to last year in
parallel to last year, a weekend, not with my gaming rig. So many RGB lights, man.
I like the idea too. If you could like, you know, if there's different styles or like some,
some sort of standard that like, I think Russell may have touched on this earlier,
but like say you meet up with friends, maybe they also have their own, but you can kind of.
Hook them together.
Put them together and make it like one giant man or have like this central.
The man cavern.
Conjoined area that you can.
The ISS of man.
The man tunnels.
This is Transformers. This is Power Rangers Megazord, dude.
Triceratops go.
Dude.
We've lost our last interested listener. There it went.
Yeah.
Okay, wait, let's bring it back. Let's bring it back. What if instead of you owning it,
you rent these? So just like you haul, right? You just have, here's the board game truck.
We got board games. Here's the land one. You pick it up and let you know.
Your movie theater one is great.
What if even comes with like a bartender or something?
Yeah.
You can rent like a bartender.
That'd be great.
To come with it for a night or something.
You tow two or three of these up to look kind of like renting a camper, right? And you can
bring them up to some campsite somewhere and stuff, but they're a little more focused on
comforts of modern gaming.
That's kind of cool.
So you don't have to put up with the gross outdoors and you can just be camping and play
video games all day.
I guess I'll open the window, but make sure the screen's shut.
Honestly, I want to start the company that renovates these and just like builds them.
I don't even want to go through the marketing or selling of it.
I just want to take an old camper and turn it into something cool.
It's going to sound like a fun project over like a year or two.
You could also tying in your idea earlier, aren't Twinkies known to like survive?
They would like survive like cockroaches, like just non-perishable.
Could you just etch branding into a Twinkie and have it in the trailer?
Yes.
The branding of the living room on wheels.
Would you call it room to go?
Yeah, something that's just like that.
I like this.
We should combine all our ideas together at the end.
At the end of each episode.
I like that.
I initially was thinking like AirBRB or something like be right back, but that's not necessarily
true.
AirBRV.
But whoa, now that's good.
Buy that domain, shoot.
Every year, our friends group puts together like a gaming weekend for all the guys, the
guys weekend, and we always find some Airbnb with, you know, 10, 20 beds or whatever.
But if we could break that up into four of these living room spaces and we haul them
up to some plot of land and have campfires at night, but then also played our, you know,
board games and stuff.
I think that'd be sick.
Yeah.
I mean, we end up like that would be really good if we have hot tubs in our Airbnb hanging
out the hot tub.
Anyway, the hot tub van just like, yeah, it's just like there's a little bit of outdoor
activity, you know, it's just different.
Yeah.
Right next to a lake.
Or maybe you can just find some hot springs and then just back up everyone back up of
their van or trailer to center around that.
And then you just have that in the center and then you just hop back in and play some
games or something when you are.
I do realize we're like 98% of the way to describing just camping.
And I want to make this a little more specific and focused.
You know what I mean?
Imagine if you could like bring a house with you to the wilderness.
Like, yeah, I know, but like I want something that's for my specific use cases.
I don't even need to sleep in the thing.
You know, it could have a bathroom, I guess.
But yeah, I was picturing something that's literally just like hangout zone and then
you park in a parking lot.
But yeah, we could branch it out.
I'm currently Googling mobile hot tubs, which do exist.
It's water is heavy as we've established on this show.
I don't know straight up.
Just have a trailer behind your car that is just a hot tub and like a little wood stove
to burn.
Could you get like a Cybertruck or a Rivian and just fill the truck bed?
Totally right.
Oh, that's a good idea.
Put a tarp in it.
Plug the heater and the electric pump right into the outlets in the back.
So Leo, do you have any visions for maybe like different sizes too, but like how many
people you would be able to fit into or would want to be able to fit into one?
That's a great question.
If you have like just like land stations, you could pack them in pretty tight like sardines.
But if you want to do the poker table setup, it sort of depends on your layout, I think,
right?
You want to have enough space to get a couple people on each side of the table.
So six or eight on a Winnebago, I guess.
Could you even make some like-
If you have a little bit of a bar station.
I was going to say even make, utilize like rooftop space, like add some additional seating
or maybe that's where you put the bar or something.
Head upstairs to the bar.
That's fun.
It's like those people who take like the pontoon boats and they have the multi-level
with water slides and stuff coming off of them.
Yeah, only on wheels.
But yeah, I think like having a killer movie theater, not just like the one that's in your
basement and like, "Oh, I could just go to my movie theater.
No, I want to find a spot there is no movie theater for, play the stuff I want to play,
create the movie theater experience and bring it on the go."
That's-
The perfect Mario Kart on the go situation.
Oh, yes.
Or like you hook up two of these suckers together and you've got your system link on Halo,
red trailer versus blue trailer or whatever.
Oh, gosh, that'd be amazing.
That's really cool.
It'd be fun.
If you ever want to check this out, thesolcinema.org, I think, or just Google the soul cinema.
It was made in 2009, but they still tour like all over England today.
And it's like cutely designed and stuff.
You'd see the appeal if you just check that out, listener, like pull over on your car,
take a look at this website real quick.
It's really neat.
You can see this isn't just like a Winnebago with a sign on it.
Yeah, I guess I'm wondering too, if you want to bring a board game experience to a place
that you wouldn't be able to normally, if you would go to a bar, not a bar and just
park outside the parking lot, but there's something, I don't know, like a freaking Chick-fil-A
or, no, I don't know.
Not a bar, Chick-fil-A.
The duality of man.
Chick-fil-A or bars.
[laughter]
That's kind of what I was imagining.
Like you go and you find the Popeyes or Wendy's or whatever.
And a lot of these places don't care if you sit in the back.
They've got room around back to just park a trailer and you walk in and get your meal.
Dude, and you know what?
I don't know if they'll let you walk out with a bar drink, though.
You see.
I'm just going to my car.
[laughter]
Officer, I swear, it's a trailer.
It's not even running.
Okay.
The thing is, this is so acceptable on boats and on the water.
You can bring these big boats with giant seatings and basically, why can't you do this
on the road?
Why can't you have a road boat?
You know, it's kind of what you're describing.
A roadhouse.
Get me a pontoon with wheels, baby, and let's go.
Let's cruise.
[laughter]
Was I speeding, officer?
I'm sorry.
I was just kicking ass in Halo over here.
[laughter]
I was just envisioning to go into-- You guys mentioned something about just doing something
or playing a game where you normally wouldn't play, like go to play Risk at Gettysburg
or something.
[laughter]
Like themed tours.
That's fun.
Risk at Gettysburg.
[laughter]
I'd buy that group on.
That's-- Oh, dude, cooking classes would be perfect for this.
Oh, yeah.
Like the-- Oh, classes.
This is perfect for the classes.
Pull into this town, we'll teach you how to make pasta, and I'll be gone by the end
of the weekend.
Yes.
You could teach people how to laser-hatch food.
[laughter]
Boom.
Trying to tie it back to the--
That's what you end the night with.
You just go in, you're like, "Oh, I just made these pasta noodles," and all of a sudden,
you throw it in the machine out the door with some noodles.
Just subliminal messaging.
They don't even realize that they're doing--
Russell, this has to be your date idea one.
Oh.
Like a mobile date thing.
Comes in for a fun activity because-- I don't know, I just did the episode where you're
trying to think of activities for--
Oh, yeah.
And you can have knife-making truck that comes into town, and I don't know.
I guess that's a food truck.
Yeah.
It's like a food truck, but not for food?
Yes, you're right.
It's a food truck, but isn't-- Right.
It's woodworking or whatever, like all these pop-out things that just--
Yes.
You could have--
Paint and pour.
Bunch of 3D printers in a truck.
Some guy went out to Burning Man, and you're in the middle of the desert.
Everyone goes out there and just barters if you run out of food or water or whatnot.
Some guy just brought a big RV full of 3D printers, and he called--
It was like the fix-it guy or something, and he just like, "What if something broke?
I'll figure it out."
And so people were bringing them like, "Oh, my God, I'm missing this one part in my RV,"
or "This plastic piece has never worked."
And he would just sit there with CAD, redesign it real quick, and print it for him on the
go with a bunch of Bamboo X1s.
Wow.
It was pretty cool.
You had the giant pasta machine in there, a bunch of tables.
Yeah, who's got the specialized equipment for that?
That's great.
Yeah, I have to go out to literally, speaking of--
I'm throwing past episodes out here, but speaking of my other freaking dating episode,
I have to go out to Grand Rapids for a freaking cooking class right now.
Nah, they come to us.
Reverse food truck is a whole sub-idea that should be fleshed out.
Yeah.
Where the customers are the ones in the truck making the food.
Okay.
That's great.
I actually have an idea that I'll do that one.
Maybe I could do that now.
I could do--
Are you just going to pitch a new one right now?
That's amazing.
Dude, go for it.
Russell, what is your idea?
Please hit us.
Okay, so here's what I've been thinking, actually, for a while.
I never thought I'd pitch this on Spitball, but now that we're all unhinged on this shit,
I'll just--
Oh, sorry.
Do it.
The unhinged episode.
So BYOM is bring your own meat.
It was a party I started throwing in high school, and then we started doing it in college a little
bit, but basically, you'd bring your own meats, and we'd have a hot grill, and you would have
all your different seasonings and stuff, and you would basically bring meat, you throw it on the
hot grill.
That's it.
Simple.
Love it.
Simple restaurant idea.
You just roll up in your trailer, and all you are is selling incredible cuts of meats.
You sell your spice blends out on the table.
You also advertise, and now you don't have to do any of the cooking.
You don't have to worry about servers.
You just roll up in your grill, or this is like the restaurant.
It's like American Korean barbecue.
You guys ever had Korean barbecue where there's a grill on the table?
It's the Americanized version where you do steaks and burgers and all that other stuff.
It's an ice cream truck.
You can buy an ice cream truck and stock it full of nice cuts, and you sell, but you also
have a grill next to it that you set up.
That's it.
It's a giant refrigerator with a grill that you roll up in.
That's fun.
You could go around from different city park to city park, get people stocked up.
Yes.
Wait, wait, sorry, do the customers grill it themselves, or is there a chef in there
who grills it?
Customers grill it themselves.
Oh, so you're just selling them a steak and handing them a grill.
Yes.
Honestly, that makes a lot more sense than someone grilling for them because it's such-
It's kind of like BDs.
Yeah, you just go up, you pick up your ingredients, you drop it off of the counter,
and honestly, it's your fault.
If you cook it, these are your ingredients.
I just cooked them, right?
It's kind of the reverse.
You just create all the spice blends and sauces and all out there, and boom, it's grill.
The grill is like, honestly, the right grills, most home grills are like, they cap at 600
degrees or something.
This would be like the wolf grills that are so hot.
You can get a sous-vided steak that's already perfect for the people that don't know how
to cook.
You can really create an experience that's family-friendly.
Beginner.
Beginner to experience.
You put a bunch of meat thermometers out there, pork chops, and all of a sudden, people are
like loving the idea of grilling, and you just create this grill experience on the go.
That's, ugh.
Okay.
That's my secret restaurant idea, which that's what I was going to-
This was my retirement, when I make millions, that's my go-to job.
It's a very, yeah, that's a very dude-coded episode.
That's fun, though.
I like the idea of like, "Mom, Mom, it's the ice cream truck, but honey, honey, it's
the grill truck.
Look, the meat truck's here."
The grill man, the grill man.
Just blasting AC/DC down the street.
Some dad rock.
"He's got the 800 degree grill, honey, you don't understand."
Oh, so-
I don't get to use one of those.
It would be Leonard Skinner, sorry.
Leonard Skinner.
Do you think that this is something that you could somehow surprise people with?
Not often am I thinking, "Man, a steak would be great right now," right?
But if you have it for hire, for corporate events or something, it could work.
I'm more actually thinking this is like a restaurant where you roll up and you have
a flat top grill, but I think the portable aspect is how restaurants get made.
So I think you're right.
Like a corporate event, you do catering, like weddings, I don't know.
The wedding is this giant grill.
Set up at the farmer's market.
Yes.
I mean, steaks take really fast.
They're really fast to grill.
So you just buy a bunch of steaks.
And let's say I prepare them all, right?
And you sous vide them all ahead of time.
It's just, honestly, this is like you get an amazing filet.
I don't know.
That's it.
Just like killer.
I like the idea of your sauces and splice blends and stuff.
That could add a lot to it.
Yeah.
I need sides.
I don't know how to even start with customizing something like that at home.
I'm not going to get out the mortar and pestle and play around with my oregano blend or whatever,
right?
No.
But you can have all the raw blends and you can like...
Right.
But like the stir crazy or Mongolian barbecues or whatever, where they have like the 12 different
choices here and you're kind of going salad bar style.
And yeah, that's fun.
Yeah.
Do you guys have you guys ever gone to like a Korean barbecue place?
You have?
OK.
Hot pot.
Oh, they haven't.
OK.
So these two haven't done it yet.
You kind of imagine going to like a salad bar where you're going down the line and you're
picking your ingredients and stuff.
But at the end, you hand it to a dude and he cooks it for you and you're assembling stuff
for a stir fry or like other type.
Oh, no.
I've done that's not Korean barbecue.
No.
What are you?
Korean barbecue has literally is a table and in the center of the table is a grill,
a small little grill.
And you have like a fondue.
Kind of.
Yeah, kind of like that.
But it's you have really thin pieces of steak and you throw it.
It's like really thin because it's supposed to cook really fast.
Right.
Sure.
But this but it's like the Korean version.
It's just very popular.
Like you literally just cook everything hot.
The white American version is a giant ass grill where you cook way thicker cuts of meat
and you can do all this other stuff.
So it's like, guys, I got to read a Korean barbecue.
But those who are listening, go check out whatever you should go there to.
It's a great restaurant experience, but it's at the table.
And they're like, do you think it'd be helpful to have the like hibachi experience where
someone is guiding you to help you be a better chef?
Is this sort of a cooking class thing?
Oh, or is this here's your slab?
Have fun.
I think it's a little bit of here's your slab.
Here's like.
Yeah, but I guess there is like some probably person that's like making recommendations.
And I think honestly, you give somebody a meat thermometer, you kind of solve the problem
for cooking.
I wonder if you could put I'd be really curious to see what level of exotic meats you could
get on there.
Just like things that you just would not normally be able to buy in a grocery store.
Nice kangaroo alligator or something.
Kangaroo.
Yeah, that could be your claim to fame over there.
You want to try a koala?
Come on over.
We need a toucan, please.
40 pounds.
There's a place just south of us here where we live that will sell a trailer that you
hook up to your trailer hitch.
And in it is a full spit roast giant pig pork.
And it has all the seasonings.
It's all prepared.
And it's inside of a grill unit.
And all of that grill unit is contained in the trailer.
And you haul it to your party.
You light it how they tell you to light it.
It cooks itself and you have yourself like a luau, like a whole barbecue thing that everything
is taken care of for you, except you just when you're done, you take the mess and the
food you didn't use of your haul it back.
Yes, I wonder if you could make like that's really cool.
I know we keep trying to bring this to like a restaurant in a place.
I'm sorry.
No, this is great.
I keep no, I guess what I was.
I actually had a I had spit ball this idea a long time ago.
And that is what we came out with.
It was called grilled daddies.
So we have arrived at dude bro, Inc.
All right.
Where you literally you just hire a grill daddy to come by.
And it turned really bachelorette party ask.
You have pitched this to me in person before.
Yeah, it's just honestly, just yeah, I'm gonna cook.
You got a grill.
You got the meat.
I'll be there to grill.
I just drink Miller Lite.
I listen to dad rock.
And you can talk to me like there's actually some dude.
The Craigslist Craigslist post for this actually happened.
Wanted dad figure.
I know what exactly what you're talking about.
Let me find it.
Craigslist generic father figure ad.
It was a viral meme from years ago.
It was a one in poster thing on Craigslist.
Needed generic father figure for backyard barbecue.
To interested individuals will be throwing a backyard barbecue on June 17th to celebrate
beer and each other.
We range in age from 21 to 26, and most of us know how to operate a grill.
None of us are prepared to fill the role of quote barbecue dad.
That being said, we need a generic father figure from 4 PM to 8 PM, though you may see
the full duration of the party duties include bullet points, grilling hamburgers and hot
dogs whilst drinking beer, bringing your own grill, though this is subject to change.
We'll provide all the meat referring to all attendees as quote big guy chief sport champ,
etc.
Parentheses while drinking beer.
Talk about dad things like lawnmowers, building your own deck, Jimmy Buffett, etc.
Funny anecdotes are highly encouraged.
All wells drinking beer.
That was the whole article, and then I think I had like a desired experience thing, and
it said this is a real ad, a minimum of 18 years being a father, a minimum of 10 years
grilling experience and appreciation of a nice cold beer on a hot summer day.
We can't pay you in money, but we will give you all the free food and cold beer your heart
desires.
Girl for a few hours, sit back and crack open a few cold ones with the boys.
This is a real ad.
Do not hesitate to call if you're interested.
Preference will be given to applicants named Bill, Randy or Dave.
That's exactly it.
When you first described this, I thought it was going to be like a Chippendale dancer
with just an apron and nothing else, but this is way better.
This is just for the bros, man.
Grilled daddies, you know?
Apparently it worked and they found three generic father figures.
Three people answered the ad.
That's a great ad, big guy.
So you saw this meme and you wanted to turn it into a business, is what you're saying?
I saw this meme and I experienced my own BYON, like bring your own meat experience.
I'm like, I guess I could make a business out of this.
I guess.
You'd be honored to.
No, I guess I don't.
I've thought about that.
I'm like, I just don't want to be doing that full time, like going to another.
Make that your identity.
Yeah.
It's like, what are you doing this weekend?
Will you change your name to Randy?
Daddy Randy.
My name is Russell, but for the business, call me Bill.
All right, Spencer, welcome.
Let's hear your idea.
Okay.
Russell, I think we talked about this months ago, just kind of just throwing it out there,
but or expanding on my idea, but I think it would be fun to have like, you know, speakeasies,
I feel like are still somewhat of a thing or kind of cool little, you know, niche thing.
But to have like a themed speakeasy where, you know, I don't know how you want to schedule it,
maybe on top of the hour, every hour, you have like certain employees or paid actors where
some guys are dressed in like 1920s or prohibition era cop uniforms and they come busting in and like-
Shut down the place.
Go after the bartender, chase out the guests or whatever.
And then you have, you know, cause like this pops my head at the last speakeasy I went to,
cause they're, you know, they're very like exclusive, like, oh, we can only fit like
eight people at a time. So, it's almost like a way to like, okay, you reserve ahead of time,
like, hey, we're going to be here at eight o'clock and like, okay, that means we know
we're guaranteed, like, they're going to be kicking out the people in front of us.
And then we're clear to go in and then, you know, the next hour that happens or
then Russell and I, we would talk about this a little bit, maybe even
mixing it up or different themes, or maybe even like you could
cater it to like bachelor, bachelorette parties and do different themes. I don't even know.
I'm trying to remember like a pirate theme or walk in the plank or something somehow, but-
Okay, okay.
Essentially just kind of along those lines, just like a weird, like fun,
interesting night experience or something.
Yes. So, wait, I'm sorry. Periodically, the cops bust in and try to bust up the party.
Yeah.
Or like, and if they see you holding a drink or something, then you have like 10 seconds to
hide your drink in a right way. Otherwise, the cops kick you out and you legitimately
get kicked out of the bar.
It's a bar theme experience. Yeah.
I do wonder if you can gamify it somehow.
Whoa.
Where you like make the bust that happens, you get kicked out unless you're able to
pull off some sort of challenge or something that is thematic to the, you know, the bar.
Yeah.
Oh, that's legit. Like escape room, the drinking with drinking, like kind of like-
Oh, yeah.
I guess non-escape room where you want to stay there as long as you can.
Yes.
An anti-escape room.
I've been here for three days. I'm a master.
They keep trying to kick you out.
So, I was just looking back at some of my notes. I was like, I get excited about this because I love,
you know, cowboys and Western stuff. You can even have like a Western theme or
saloon fight or something, drag someone, have the actor drag someone across the table.
Yes.
Oh, I think that's what I meant. I think that's what I thought of too. Either you sign a waiver
or you decide ahead of time, like, yes, I'm willing to be involved in this, do whatever,
not do whatever you want with me, but kind of-
Can you imagine the thrill of going into that with like four friends where like you don't
know what's going to happen and some dude picks a fight with you or something? That's crazy.
Oh, that's cool.
But like you could have like some sort of marker indicator to be like, hey,
this guy has a green sticker, so he's good. He's cool with us.
You're allowed to punch him in the face.
He signed the waiver, man. You can do whatever you want to this guy.
Guys, I think, Leo, what you said is like the secret sauce. This bar experience is like
you have to bring the four other or eight other people and you're not supposed to tell
them what's going on. It's just a crazy ass experience.
I found this crazy new place. You got to check it out. That's fun. Surprise.
It's only one table, only seats eight. It's kind of like a speakeasy. It's a little goofy
or something like, let's just go. They have amazing drinks, right? And then all of a sudden,
like freaking just.
But once it happens once it's over, right? Once that happens, once you've lost the novelty,
you got to make it something that can be repeated. I like the theme nights. So you've got your pirate
night or whatever. That's cool. What else?
I was telling Spencer the financials make sense because you basically turn tables every hour,
right? So every hour you're just part of the experience is getting kicked out, right? So
everybody gets kicked out every hour and you serve one or two drinks and you move on, right?
It's just like, sure, the whole night could be the same, you know, our act every hour on the hour
through the night and you just have new people. Yeah, kick them into the next room. That is a
whole different theme. Oh, that's OK. I like that. They just have a chain of them and then you can
leave any time or you could pick what rooms that you're going to ahead of time. I want to do the
wild West room in the pirate. OK, now this is Westworld. I think we just made Westworld.
Hold on. This gave me a great idea, Scott, at least in my mind. It's great. And it's building
upon I forget who said this earlier about the escape room. The last room, the last room is
actually an escape room. And you've already had you know, you're intoxicated. So it just makes
it more difficult. And then by that point, you probably actually want to leave for the night.
But you don't get to go to the bathroom until you solve, you know, Newton's puzzle.
Your keys are just in like a glass box in the middle of the combo.
Thank you. Time to sober up as you escape this room. You could probably drive home.
You got to prove you're sober enough by solving this puzzle.
Removes liability from the bar. That's great. Yeah. Keeps him there for another hour.
So there's the theme restaurants like the Mars 20 whatever in New York where you get in a motion
simulator, you ride for a little while, it gives you like, oh, you're flying to another planet.
And then you land and then you go out the other side of the motion simulators doors.
And the whole restaurant is themed like you're in like Mars or whatever. Right. So I wonder if
there's a way that we could make the entry and exit into the different rooms or even just coming
into the bar, like immersive in this way where we've got like the group that's getting ready
to come in. So the fight has to happen to clear them all out. And you kind of get a machine
assembly line Disney style going. It's like a whole experience. Yes. OK. Sorry. I did like
I had a restaurant idea also where it's literally four seasons. Right. And you'd go from one themed
room. Oh, you eat fall food. Then you eat summer food. Then you eat spring food and you eat
whatever. He's four seasons. And the rooms are like grass and lights. And then all of a sudden
it's cold and snowy. Yeah. You know, like but like you can apply this to like bar X private
person. So it would like your theme drink star Michelin restaurant. Right. It's like this is.
Yeah. You get your ice drinks, you get your frozen margaritas or whatever.
Then you got your your hot toddy's summary, you know, or something. Oh, shoot. OK. That's fun.
And it's the same exact layout and decoration and everything, except everything has been changed to
be more fall or more winter or more spring. The four rooms look identical in every way,
but you clear through. That's cool. That would be sweet. And then, of course, you swing in as a
in the summer room. It's Tarzan. So he comes in and goes, he's he's your waiter. Tarzan's your
waiter. The cloth. This is part of Spencer's actual like theme. It's like crazy events. So
you just leave the restaurant. You're like Tarzan has to be part of this idea. It's about what
Spencer said. It was his idea. OK. Yeah. The Spencer, I think, core concept idea of this
is that you leave the bar and you're like, I can't believe that freaking happened.
Like did not expect that at the bar today, even though it was a themed. But like, just like,
I don't know, like I think they rotate escape rooms a lot. Right. So they have one escape room.
You play it. You like four. But this is like, all right, it's the Western theme in this bar. And so
you go every month and they change it out every month and you walk out of there like, oh, my gosh,
this time the room was on fire or something. Just like like people are talking about it, you know,
and like that's make a viral moment to take away their phones before they can go inside.
That's a requirement. And it's 100 percent word of mouth people describing. And it's just going
to be crazy, half hinged stories of like, you are not going to believe what just happened when I
went to such and such place. Someone's trying to tell you a dream. Tarzan was swinging from the
ceiling with a on fire bar and he served me, you know, an old fashioned while singing karaoke.
Just make it completely unhinged. So the stories don't make any sense, but just keep it going.
I wonder, too, maybe if we have enough success or big enough,
eventually we could expand out and request or have like celebrity guest appearances or get like,
you know, big time actors to come in and be, you know, part of the
part of the rotation every now and then for fun. Make a cameo that no one is going to believe that.
Because he's going to be there for like one time and then the other times everybody's going to
think that you're going to see Bill Murray. He's going to be here. He's going to be here.
Exactly. Oh, on that note, one night, just do a completely normal restaurant.
Everyone is waiting to actually do this. 100 percent normal.
Just a regular speakeasy. I don't know. Tell you right over budget this month.
Someone clearly lied to you. I don't know what gave you that impression that we were.
That would be interesting. Throw them off. Yeah, I just think it would be a really different
experience to like go to like a thematic bar that isn't just like sitting at a bar and drinking at
a table. It's like you're watching. You keep waiting. Yeah. You're talking and all of a sudden
like people get rowdy and you're like, are they part of the group or is that the other party?
Is this just a bar fight that's happening? Yeah. Like the more the more like the more
realistic it is and the more you feel a part of it, the more epic it is. Right.
Did he just stab him with that? Was that a real broken bottle or was it?
I just think it'd be fun to bring like my wife to like one of these and it's like it would be
very real for her. You don't tell her. Yeah. The surprise aspect of that is on the.
No social media pictures. Nothing. Yeah. Well, I have a feeling that this is one idea that our
listeners may not end up taking and running with. But if you are the type of person who's going to
start a restaurant where people attack each other unexpectedly, don't please let us know. Yes.
No, I feel like there's some people there's some escape room success story that somebody's like,
you know what? I'm going to take my escape room and repurpose it into a bar and turn it into this.
It's a escape room is hilarious. Like Leo's like, so he's like, no, no, I do it. I'm terrible at
escape rooms. Sober. So I'd have to go to the beginner's room, the bunny hill bunny hill
picture in an escape room where you give them a bunch of edibles and you have like an hour
to get out before they kick in like major LSD trip or something like hard.
Oh, man, this grid of numbers is starting to get real abstract.
Part of the clues is you have to eat an edible as to continue on. So somebody has to decide.
You're like, I can't get any higher than this. You've got like the designated hitter. Oh,
yeah. You got to sacrifice someone. He was doing so well on the astrolabe over there,
but we we can't take another. He's asleep. He's got to be the one sleep together.
Just put it in his mouth. That's also unhinged.
Thank you very much for listening, everyone. We hope you enjoyed yourself. And thank you very
much, Spencer, for coming. This was a good time. Yeah, thanks for inviting me. It was fun.
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