I'm Scott, I'm Russell, and I'm Leo. This is Spitball.
Welcome to Spitball. I don't know what we're gonna call ourselves. What are we gonna call ourselves today?
The original?
We're three in-person entrepreneurs. We're trying something a little different this week.
That's great.
We normally are recording remote, as many people may know, but today we're doing something different.
We're gonna be in person, and we don't have a guest this week.
We now, as of this episode, have done over a hundred ideas cumulatively over the last twenty, what, seven episodes or so, which is pretty sweet.
Yep.
So we thought maybe it'd be kind of fun to do a little bit of a retrospective and go back and look into each other's eyes as we look at all the stuff we've done over the last year and change, and give out some awards to ourselves.
Just ourselves, right?
When you say it that way.
We are so clever and witty and handsome.
I thought it'd be fun, maybe if we wanted to do a little bit of a warm-up, to maybe pitch each other some remixes.
So how do I introduce this?
I don't have a good name for this yet.
What do we call this?
Pitch.
Will it blend?
Yeah, we'll call it Will It Blend?
That's a great one.
Today we're gonna be playing Will It Blend? Where I have a little random number generator here.
And I would like each of us to go around the horn and give in a random prompt.
For example, Scott, you of course are the head CTO of the product company that runs Crows as a Service.
You remember that a couple episodes back?
I do.
I want you to tell me about this upcoming merger that you're having with the toothbrush cleaner that I pitched way back.
So if you're gonna be pitching how your two companies are coming together, how exactly could Crows as a Service be integrated with the toothbrush cleaning station?
The MVP is not gonna be sanitary.
Is what it's gonna be.
Obviously, what we shared with our shareholders is the Crows are gonna fly into your apartment, and they are going to pick up your toothbrush and fly it off like one of those knife sharpening services where they just bring it back.
Except the Crow just kind of does it.
And then every day you always have a clean, fresh, Crow poop covered toothbrush.
My darling wife's like, if I ever win the lottery wish is I want to have a new toothbrush every day.
Every single day.
If you could have.
This explains a lot of your ideas.
Dude, the knife sharpening thing though made me think like what if Crows like started picking knives up at your house and flying in the air to sharpen knives.
Oh shit, it dropped it.
Right through the heart of a small local squirrel.
That's good.
Russell.
Would you invest, Leo?
Heck no.
The whole point was sanitary.
I love that, but no, I don't think so.
I'm here to tell you guys about my portable living room, but the enhancement on that idea.
So, you guys remember when we talked about how hollowing out a camper van like that soul theater way back when only instead it has some sort of portal game room.
Yeah.
Because our D&D group goes around and we aren't all in the same place.
Of course, we got to augment that somehow.
And that idea needs an enhancement.
Of course, we're going to be adding on Russell's don't sound stupid app.
Oh, yes.
So, the camper van is going to be always listening to you.
You know, I didn't really integrate like Twitch streaming.
Perhaps this thing is always listening to everyone in the room and somehow making the living room experience worldwide.
Yep.
And you can have your off the wall friend in the room with you and not get canceled.
That would be awesome.
Yeah.
It's like an auto-censoring system.
I like that.
Yeah.
You know how live broadcasts are run like 10 seconds after the fact so they can bleep ever since Justin Timberlake wardrobe malfunction.
Was that the reason why?
I think so.
Wow.
I believe that.
Well, this is that, but automated.
You're feeding everything through ChatGPT.
It's going to help you not sound stupid only when you're streaming your games.
Nice.
Russell, I need you to tell me about Scott's, Scott's Airbnb, or no, excuse me, Scott's stakeout cameras.
Do that one.
Which sounds great.
Oh my God.
Sorry to start.
Russell, you know how we had Scott pitch the idea of the stakeout cameras a while back.
So there's a camera that's got ChatGPT.
You can say, where do I leave my keys?
Or whatever.
Remember how Anthony, our good friend, was on the show pitching Airbnb for servants?
I had a hard time making that into a coherent thought, but how did that resolve?
Where did Airbnb for servants even land?
I think the preposition is wrong on that one.
It's like Airbnb with servants, not for servants.
Yeah, that's true.
Because it was literally a live in, you're at an Airbnb and there's also just a live in servant there to take care of all of your needs.
It morphed into something else.
You can fantasize the rich life, but also give some-
Yeah, Victorian era, Jeeves go warm up.
You know what that needs is AI powered cameras all over it.
What could go wrong?
Tell me more about your cool new company, Russell.
Well, I think this was the missing piece to Anthony's Airbnb with servants.
Because the worst part about having a servant is telling them what to do all the time.
Now robots can do it.
So now you have an AI powered stakeout camera that's like giving chores at all times.
God, this is so dystopian.
It's more like a Dharma initiative experiment where it's just like, how long can we keep these people doing chores in this room with just a voice telling them?
Okay, this would be an awesome reality TV show too.
You just have the AI and a bunch of people.
You get like real world or big brother with this.
Boom.
There you go.
There, right?
That's brilliant.
Reality TV version of servants.
They're just like earpieces and they think they're humans.
It's like jury duty, but with robots.
We are very close to having some sort of reality show with AI as like a key feature, aren't we?
Yeah.
It's those pranksters where they're like, you know, the earpiece and they tell people to do random ridiculous things.
Impractical jokers.
Yes, that's the one.
But just do that where it's an AI controlling it and let's just see what happens.
Let's just go for it.
Chad GPT, you're in charge of this human.
It's really wild.
Yeah, you have one GPT for each person and they're all interacting and like being controlled like puppets.
Oh man, you don't even need a show producer.
I'd watch it.
Yeah.
At least one season, right?
I have a feeling we have a lot of ideas to get to.
You want to just hop into it?
Yeah, sure.
The premise of today's show is a little different.
Instead of pitching new ideas, we wanted to circle back on all the ideas that we've had over the last, I don't know, year and change and instead do a bit of a award show of sorts, like paper plate awards that you'd get when you're going to eat orange slices with your sports team.
You want to just hop right into it?
I think we're going to start off with most unlikely.
So we each have thought a little bit about over our last hundred ideas, what we think would be the most unlikely to actually be a thing.
Or I guess if there's a different interpretation for most unlikely, most unlikely to succeed.
I don't know.
Tell me, what do you guys bring?
What do you think should be most unlikely of all of our ideas?
Uh, okay.
Most unlikely.
I'm going to have to give it to weed koi fish.
Yeah.
Aw, man.
That was one of...
I have that later down.
Okay.
Sorry, Scotty B.
Tell me why.
I think that...
Well, first off, the weed koi fish idea was...
Oh, yeah.
Refresh us.
Yeah, I want to hear some defense on this.
This is one that I couldn't stop thinking about for a long time to the point that I just had to bring it up on the show.
But the short version was a friend who was growing weed, realized the market wasn't there, and decided to switch to goldfish, or koi fish, because millennials buy koi fish, and didn't...
Said, "Well, I have all the hydroponics, and I've got a shit ton of weed.
Let's just feed the koi fish weed and use that as part of the branding for it.
I will buy a home...
Farm-raised koi fish that has only known one diet."
But why?
What do I gain from purchasing a koi...
I think we had a long discussion about if it's even possible.
Yeah, we pretty much got the semantics of that.
Will this kill the fish or not?
Our conclusion was the fish probably would survive.
I just think that feeding koi fish, like, "Oh, I got a weed koi fish online. I have to feed it weed all the time."
That's all it eats?
There is no option for fish food anymore?
Yeah, right?
Otherwise, it's not all weed.
That sounds expensive.
But it would be...
Honestly, it'd be very interesting.
It might meet one of my other awards later.
So...
Okay, you know, going back and vocalizing it, yeah.
I'm trying to remember the hook of it.
Yeah, it's funny how some of these ideas, you look at them again, and you're like, "Huh, that was terrible one day."
And then you're like, "Oh, you know, not so bad the other."
So, yeah.
So, I interpreted most unlikely to mean, I don't know if this is even a feasible thing that can exist in our world.
And I loved Kyle's idea about the radio-powered batteries, but I don't know if...
I'm still not convinced that that's even a physics possibility.
So, he proposed what if we had some sort of battery that went in and then was doing ambient radio wave capture in order to generate energy,
which sounds so amazing that it makes you wonder why that hasn't already existed.
And Kyle, we love you.
I'm still not convinced that that's possible.
That's my nomination.
Might just be that you don't really want a bunch of millimeter wave receivers and...
or emitters in every single room.
Although he was saying with just like a basic FM, wasn't he?
I think he was saying Wi-Fi too.
But like, does that cause Wi-Fi dead spots in your house?
Because like, it's gobbling up all the, you know, EM?
I don't know.
I guess technically you do it with FM.
Just a standard band going through, and as long as it's really low powered,
I guess so.
And you're just doing really low powered sensors for everything.
How much energy capture is that?
Like, is that a...
I don't know.
It doesn't seem possible.
So that gets my vote for most unlikely.
Yeah, my walls in my house don't have radio going through it, right?
So...
Probably do.
Like I can't put my ear up against the...
My wall in here, the radio, right?
It's cause you don't have a radio receiver in your ear, but the radio waves are still there, buddy.
I'm pretty sure.
Well, somebody should then capture that and turn it into a battery.
Cause that sounds realistic too.
Do you know how radio waves work?
I guess you need to adjust the frequency, huh?
Cause then I'd be listening to all the stations at once.
Whoa.
Like that movie with Michelle Yeoh.
Everything everywhere.
Everything everywhere all at once.
Everything FM all at once.
All radio, all stations all at once.
Scott, what's your name?
Yeah.
It was a love corner.
It was the reheat in meat.
I'll defend it.
The idea...
No, no.
I'll take it.
It was my idea.
So I'll follow on the sword of it being a little bit far-fetched.
What if you had leftovers and that was the base...
So I don't like leftovers.
I don't like eating them.
I think it's a worse version of the food that you already ate before and it's not good.
And there's very few foods that reheat better.
But I can use leftovers from the chili last night to make a really good quesadilla tonight
as an ingredient.
That's how I get around having to deal with the leftovers.
I use it to make something else.
Salisbury steak.
That was the burgers yesterday, right?
What if I could find someone else?
It was for the Oops All Love Corners episode, if I recall.
So what if I put in there what I have for my leftovers and it found someone around town
who I could make food with?
And we either do like a swap.
I don't know.
Often...
Or maybe the mayonnaise to my egg salad.
Like...
Exactly!
Right?
Or maybe you're not making something new, but maybe you're just sharing a meal and you
each haven't had that meal.
See, I love that.
But the idea of showing up at a stranger's house with a Tupperware...
You could meet in neutral territory.
I don't know.
For a picnic or something.
I don't know.
Yeah, that's fine.
Then you can't reheat it.
No.
I accept your nomination gracefully.
I think that one was second for me in best name, but I think I gotta put that as most unlikely.
That's a really good one, Scott.
So now I think we fight.
Fight!
Okay.
What were the three again?
Reheat and meet.
Battery.
Radio power batteries and weed koi fish.
I think it's gotta be the koi fish guys.
No, I think it's reheat and meet.
Most unlikely?
How is that unlikely?
I can't imagine doing that with friends, let alone with strangers.
You think it's unlikely not that the app could exist, but that anyone would want it.
Yeah.
Hey, you wanna do a reheat and meet later?
Like who in the right mind would do that?
MVP needs at least two people, doesn't it?
Crap.
It's just the same two users in the same town.
They love it though.
What do you got for tonight?
Uh huh.
Can you imagine bringing your wife out to a nice date and saying, "Hey, you wanna do a reheat
and meet?"
That sounds like a great idea, right?
Is that what Gen Zers are calling it?
Yeah.
Oh shoot.
All right, I take it.
I mean...
Unless we wanna fight more about the batteries.
I mean, it was too cool of an idea, I think, to give it something that's such a negative
award.
Yeah, I just have to see it.
Maybe...
He's an engineer.
He believes in it.
Are you guys voting for each other's ideas now?
Am I a tiebreaker?
Is that what's happening?
Cause you said, you think reheat and meet and you said weed and koi fish, right?
No, I said weed and koi fish.
I think I gotta go back to reheat and meet though.
I still think that there's a market that there are some people out there that would be like, "I just want a koi fish, man."
You know, honestly, your defense, I was like, "I guess anybody would buy it.
Some people would just buy it cause it's like, I got high as hell."
Look at my fish!
Look at his little squinty eyes and how happy he is.
I don't think that's how that works.
Do they have eyelids?
I don't know.
I don't know, man.
I did not know enough about koi fish to be pitching this.
One YouTube video about high koi fish and I think people would be like, "Huh, maybe I'll buy one."
Especially if they're high, you know?
If you had an A/B testing, how much?
Yeah.
You guys have sold me.
Reheating me gets the Razzie.
Alright.
Most unlikely.
What's next?
We gotta keep going through these this weekend.
Oh yeah.
Biggest revenue potential.
I've got pretty strong opinions, but I brought a couple here.
Of course, I think IdolTC has gotta be the one.
Okay.
I put that one too.
That was like one of my two.
I'm like, "Of course it's gotta be IdolTC."
It's gotta be IdolTC.
Yeah.
That's the only tested one out in the market right now.
At least by us.
That's true.
How do I buy one of those, Scott?
Well, idletowncenter.com, of course.
Idletowncenter.com, you say?
Use coupon code "HowDoYouTurnThisOn".
Our first sponsor.
Do you have a Spitball coupon code?
No.
Use coupon code "Spitball.show".
To get what?
I don't know.
To get an IdolTownCenter.
20% off.
Get a free pack of gummy bears in the package or something.
All right.
So, I'll go first.
Go ahead.
I'll hit it up.
I have a serious answer and I have the intriguing answer.
Biggest revenue potential.
This is pie in the sky potential.
That has no ceiling.
So I think maybe your intentional corporate espionage idea has...
Really?
I mean, if you really worked that properly, you could be milking Fortune 500 companies for all
that they've got, right?
Maybe.
What was that idea?
Okay.
So the basics of this idea was, if someone leaves a company and gets hired by another company,
an original company or a third party can stay in contact with that employee and kind of coax or use them into throwing business from the new company back to the old one.
So just like spy versus spy, this employee would have a handler, gets hired onto the new company and is able to contact them and throw business back.
It has the word corporate in it.
That it automatically means it has money.
Exactly.
Or grocery store surplus meal kits.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's money that's just on the floor.
That's going to the trash.
Literally going in the garbage.
Yeah.
That's got revenue potential.
This was, you take all the food that's like two or three days about to expire.
So the stuff they start putting red stickers on, you buy it all, create recipes on the fly and you sell it as like a drive through pre-made meal.
And I think we pivoted to having the grocery store be the one assembling it too, which was, that hit home for me.
And like that, that's, that's free money right there that they're throwing out.
I hire one full time employee to be making these kits.
There you go.
Some local chef.
Out the door.
It's like five bucks.
Here you go.
Person at the deli counter, bored out of their mind.
Give them, give them a book.
Give them a book, right?
There you go.
A recipe book.
Sell kits.
Instant upsell.
I like that.
What do you got?
I gotta go.
I gotta go stores on on this one.
The Amazon storage shipping that Russell came up with where they keep a hold of all your belongings.
You can order your own stuff back for a monthly fee.
They either pick it up and bring it back.
Then the logistics are all there.
Everything is there for that.
You know, the multiple people, guests that we had on the show who are living in apartments in downtown New York or something.
They're like, I have no room for stuff.
If Amazon can bring it back and forth.
It's just brilliant.
My pitch for that was so good too.
I pitched that so well on that episode.
I think you came up with the name stores on on the fly.
I did.
But it was all about like square footage of your home.
And we pivoted into the Uber model of people getting money from putting stuff in their basement and attic and barn and all that.
Remember that?
You could hit a button on your phone app and you could hit my lawnmower in storage.
I could hit a button and just automatically goes on Facebook marketplace or Amazon's equivalent.
That's what hit home for me.
That would be cool.
There's a lot there.
It's so logistically complicated for the like, how do you stop the people storing it from going through your stuff?
How do you get the supply so that you have like the storage local to the person?
I don't know, man.
It's got so much that I love about it and biggest revenue potential.
That's where I'm.
What do you got?
What do you bring?
Oh, for me?
Yeah.
What is mine?
Okay.
I think it's Redbox Optometrist.
Whoa.
The referrals.
Remember when we pivoted to the referrals?
Yeah.
I mean, what was the idea?
Redbox Optometrist was basically you'd walk up to a Walgreens, like a Redbox, put your eyes in the machine.
It would scan your eyes, do the whole eye exam, and then would either tell you, you got to go see a doctor or here's your prescription.
See it in the mail in like five days.
Right.
See you next year.
And that's it.
I get text messages all the time about my latest doctor's appointment that I haven't done.
And it's just like, and then every time you go three years later, it's like, you're fine.
Your prescription is exactly the same.
See you next year.
Nope.
I'm not coming back, dude, for another, for another few years.
But I.
It's for the in-between.
Right.
And I feel like it's like one of those blood pressure machines that they have in every single store and it's a health thing.
So people are always going to be going and just like, oh, maybe I'll just get my eyes checked real quick while I wait for my prescription.
Boom.
Sometimes your car needs a whole tune up and sometimes it just needs a quick oil change.
Right.
You know?
Right.
And it's like one of those things where you don't have to do it, but all of a sudden if it's there, I'm going to just, why not?
Totally.
Why not?
Right.
And instant, you just manufacture like a hundred of these.
You stick them on a wall.
Redbox recently went bankrupt.
So you could buy the literal boxes.
Put a camera on the side.
Pull the gums out.
Have you seen the inside of one of those things, by the way?
No.
It's nuts.
It's like a big cylinder and they're all like slotted in.
It's crazy.
I have pictures of it.
We should buy one of those.
Just for fun.
Let's like throw something in there.
Turn it into a mini fridge or so?
Yeah.
Let's just turn that into a Spitball podcast.
Physical version.
Sometimes it spits out dumb and dumber.
You know?
Ooh, turn it into like a lottery.
That's fun.
What movie am I going to get?
Well, now we fight.
Now we fight.
Grocery store surplus.
I think I'm of the two that I brought intentional corporate or grocery store surplus.
I think I'm leaning on that.
But you guys are on a hard program.
Come on.
Redbox optometrist is the best.
Scott, you gotta back me up on this because it's your idea.
I think the FDA is standing in your way.
Oh, is that it?
There's no way.
I just need to be a, yeah, I don't know.
You're right.
Licensed medical professionals only.
I don't know.
What was her name?
Theremin?
Thereatron?
What was it?
Theremin?
There.
Theremin.
Theremin is the instrument.
It was called.
Come on.
We can do this.
Oh my God.
Elizabeth Holmes' company was...
Theranos.
So Thanos meets...
Theranos.
Thermoses.
Okay.
Terrible name.
Worst name award.
I think I gotta go for the grocery store on that one though.
Just because...
Really?
It's like, it's applicable to the entire world.
Like anywhere where there's a grocery store, you can now swap this over.
And I guess everyone has eyes everywhere too, but there aren't Walgreens everywhere, so...
This doesn't mean revenue potential for the one service.
Yeah.
Across the world.
Yep.
There's a lot of revenue to be gained.
It makes the most revenue.
You open source it.
Here's the plans.
I could sell recipes maybe.
Maybe that's it.
Just like the common grocery items.
It does seem like a hard idea to like centralize onto just, I'm the only one that does this,
you know?
We have to like hire people and that one guy comes in the store, buys all the, you know.
Yeah.
Rancid chicken.
We'll have to see that.
Congratulations.
That's a tie...
We have the three of us, which means we don't have to worry about tiebreakers.
That worked out nicely.
Nice.
That means the grocery store surplus.
Let's go.
Advancing with biggest revenue potential.
Next.
Wait, wait, wait.
Where's my trophy though?
We are not giving each other 10 trophies.
Come on.
Aren't we amazing?
It's the most narcissistic thing we can do, right?
It's just...
Everyone else loves how great we are.
So we made ourselves gifts to show each other how great we are.
The hottest love corner idea.
I have four that I brought.
Do you have?
So I don't know about this.
I have a very strong opinion on this one.
Oh, excellent.
What is hottest?
I think I know what your opinion is.
Can I guess?
You can guess.
Is it beacons?
It is of course the beacons.
Of course it's beacons.
Do you want to hit us with beacons, Russell?
What was beacons?
Okay.
I mean, actually, I want...
Scott, you should tell it.
Because I feel like I've forgotten how good it is.
Scott is the most passionate beacons advocate I've ever met.
I love this idea.
Okay.
I don't know...
What do you think it is?
I don't know if it's a piece of...
I guess it's just a phone app at this point where I can hit a button on this phone app and
it lights a quote unquote beacon that appears on either an in-app map or just on Google Maps
or whatever that just says something is happening here.
And so if you have a bunch of guys going out being like, hey, let's go out on the town.
Let's all light our beacons at such and such bar.
That's right.
It'll cause more people to go to that bar and it just causes a chain reaction.
Also, there are a million puns that you can do with this one.
The beacons are lit.
Leo calls for aid.
We talk about different colors and then we don't tell what it means.
So the world kind of, oh man, orange is downtown.
Can you believe it?
Or whatever.
We let the culture decide what it means.
Oh, wait.
We talked about that?
We did.
Oh, that is awesome.
I love that part of beacons.
I was going to go in that night, but then I saw that it was so green downtown.
So I had to go see what was up.
Or whatever that means.
There's a red beacon over there, a distress beacon over there.
What could that one be?
Flat tire.
Yeah.
Or a fire.
It's one or the other, right?
Red.
Don't go to reds.
It's just so simple, but so many applications.
That's it for me.
Hot as love corner.
What do you got?
Okay.
Love that.
I'm a sonder is my favorite.
I had sonders one of mine too.
Yeah.
That is like...
What was sonder again?
Sonder is basically a dating app that you passively use on your phone.
You turn it on.
And as you do more things, the app matches you with more people that do those things.
Mm-hmm.
And so as we get going, right?
Yes.
Location aware.
But it's not just like you passing on the street, maybe.
Maybe shared commutes.
The whole pitch was all about, oh, you could be going to the same gym as your future soulmates, but you're just three minutes off.
You pass.
They check in.
You're checking out.
You go on the train.
Same train.
Different time slot.
Same apartment building.
Different floor.
It's just like, it's the FOMO of like, oh, I could be having the perfect person right next to me in a big city and not meet them.
I love it.
And I was fresh off of reading a paper about somebody, I think it was a blog post actually, about somebody who had done that with their then fiance, where they compared the last eight years of their Google location history together.
Oh my gosh, honey, before we ever met, we were at the same coffee shop like four times and all that kind of stuff.
I love that so much.
And then we turned it into like, like just regular life friends.
Like I think that was it.
Like you could just add that to like, kind of, I think you're, you talking about that made that into a thing.
So.
Sounders really good.
Those are my top two.
Also friend of a friend is the original.
It was like one of the first things you ever had.
Friend of a friend.
It deserves at least an honorable mention in this category because it's so core that it's the only idea we've ever done twice.
We, we went back and we did a friend of a friend 2.0 a couple of episodes ago.
That's true.
And we like enhanced on it.
Can you pitch friend of a friend?
Friend of a friend was, uh, instead of you picking, I think we turned it into like collectible cards, but they're all my friends if I remember right.
Yeah.
So instead of you being the one who's dating, you register yourself in the app as somebody who's available and you pair yourself up with a trusted friend who then does the matching on your behalf.
Right?
Yeah.
So this is something you've thought a lot about Russell.
Yeah.
At least a third of the ideas are all related to this.
So I actually like started the Facebook group with this and then it felt like I was turning it in.
It just seemed like a swingers app very quickly.
And I'm like, oh boy, when it becomes real, it's like, ugh.
Yeah.
That checks.
But the thing was, you're, you're, you're, you're, the only photos that you could post on the app were of you and your friend.
So that way it was, everybody was safe.
Friend of a friend.
Still risky, isn't it?
Definitely.
So all these dating apps are right in a way, but.
That's true.
Yeah.
I have still strong opinions on beacons and I'm going to hold to that.
Sonder's a great idea.
I like beacons.
May I propose a little bit of a fast forward here for best name being beacon?
Because I have this in both.
Beacon is a, such an evocative term.
The way that you say, oh, was it on beacon?
It's just, it feels like that is a thing that is naturally in the lexicon already, you know?
Nah, I want to fight for names later.
I got, Beacons is the best.
Beacons is the best.
It's great.
You thinking beacon too?
Well, I think Sonder by far.
Really?
Just cause it's just great.
It just, it's gotta be.
Sonder it is.
I think Beacons is the most fun dating app where I feel like Sonder is the most like encouraging.
Yeah.
One, right?
For hottest love corner.
Exactly.
That's what I was just about to say.
That's it.
If you're going to go with hottest love corner, Beacons might not even be a dating app.
You're right.
But I had it in the list as the first one.
It started as a rossless love corner pitch if I recall, but yeah.
It did.
Love it.
All right.
Congratulations for the hottest love corner to Sonder.
All right.
Best name.
You said you have a lot of a heated opinions.
I want to hear what you got.
What'd you bring?
Best name.
Oh, cabinets that are dishwashers.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
It's so simple.
That's not even a name.
It's so simple.
The entire idea is in those words.
It is the first four word pitch that we ever had where I didn't have any follow up.
You came in.
You're like, I'm going to pitch it.
Four words.
And we had a 30 minute discussion about those four words.
It's not, I don't know if it's a name though.
All right.
I'll take your nomination.
What else?
Oh, should I talk any more about it?
About the downsides of washing and wearing away the enamel every time.
You don't have to pitch it again because it's all in the name.
Yeah.
That's why it's so good.
Yeah.
You take a dish out and now the whole rack gets cleaned.
Yeah.
I'm going to pitch my own idea for this one, but I didn't coin the name.
I believe Sander did.
I love Walkipedia.
Walkipedia was good.
That's a good name.
Walkipedia is, you are doing, there's a whole database out there on Wikipedia of interesting facts about locations.
They all have geo like address and lat long all attached to them.
So what if you just were walking around like you're listening to a podcast, but AI is telling you about the interesting building over there that you didn't know about,
or that memorial rock over there that you've never noticed, or the church that's over there actually burned down twice and you had no idea and all that kind of stuff that's just all around you.
It'd be really cool if we were pulling from Wikipedia and giving walking tours.
And then Sander said, Walkipedia.
And I was like, yes, you found it.
I nominate that for best name.
That's a good one.
And Beacon.
Oh, Beacon.
Did you put Beacon on there?
No, what was yours?
We just got Beacon for Hottest Love Corner, but he wanted cabinets that are dishwashers.
I know.
Cabinets that are dishwashers.
Which is not a name.
My second place one.
Can you imagine the name of a business?
I'll take your second place one.
Cabinets that are dishwashers.
What do you do though?
Get out.
You're not a hell of an ass right here.
Yeah, right.
Don't waste my time.
What's your second idea?
So I could take that one, Scott.
I'll just steal that one.
Oh my gosh.
It's another tax fraud as a service.
Like it's just, it was catchy.
I feel like if you had that as a domain.
I think you and I have different interpretations of this.
I think we need to.
I like the practical.
Talk me through what this is.
No, it's great.
I'm not right or wrong.
I am definitely thinking what's a catchy like portmanteau.
No, I want to have no room for error on here.
This is exactly what it is.
Okay.
Uh, I, I, sorry, Scott.
I got to give it to Walkapedia because it's creative.
Walkapedia is very catchy.
Yeah.
It's just, it's all around good.
I love it very, very much.
And yeah.
I'll take best name.
All right.
Most practical.
You know what mine was?
Cabinets that are dishwashers.
No, no, there's no way.
If we get it working, that is something I would use multiple times a day and I'd be very happy
about it.
Isn't practical in this sense, like the most make sense of it?
Like, is it feasible, viable, and desirable?
And I don't know if it's any of those.
All right.
I will also bring Uber for car mechanics to the table then.
Oh, that's a good one.
Uber for car mechanics was your idea that I was kind of lukewarm on like, okay, someone
could come to me and do the car repair.
I guess that's fine.
It seems like it'd be impractical.
And then you pitched an enhancement on it, I think, Russell, where you said, what if
your customer was like collective businesses and you're going around the parking lot?
Yeah, that was the killer part.
They're all sitting out there doing nothing all day.
All these cars, just fields of parking lots.
Your benefits, HR, office, whatever, is saying, hey, we got a new thing.
We'll cover part of it or whatever.
We'll do your oil change.
That is so obvious to me now.
Like, why are these cars just sitting here waiting to be worked on?
That's genius.
I love Uber for car mechanics.
I think maybe that might actually be my most practical because cabinets that are dishwashers
is silliness.
I am.
I'm afraid to say the next award.
Well, Oh, interesting.
So what's your most practical?
I've got targets on my back all the sudden.
You know, that widely beloved cabinets in our dishwashers that everybody agrees is the best
idea.
Best name, at least.
What were you saying?
I thought the most practical would be loofah dryers.
Really?
Because that was Chris's idea.
What was it?
Do you want to pitch it?
I mean, it was basically like, how do I dry this loofah before I put it in the box?
Yeah.
Like, I'm like, Oh, and then we found like two clever ideas.
I think we came up with several on that.
Yeah, we did.
And I, at first I heard that.
I'm like, this is, I don't think this is going to go anywhere.
And by the end of it, I'm like very strong opinions on this.
3D printer out.
Yeah.
No joke.
The ring.
It's just a ring on the end of the loofah that you pull it through itself and it dries.
It's all the water out.
That's brilliant.
That's the one that hops to my mind.
What were the other ones?
I don't remember what the other pitches were.
That was my favorite one.
Well, there's some forms of different bags and things you could put in it.
Oh, swinging it around.
That's what I thought.
Were you using centrifugal force to soak your hotel room?
That's right.
In your own dead skin cells and soap.
But your loofah's dry.
I was just like, Oh yeah, I just bought a ring with my loofah.
And loofahs would just come with these rings.
It does seem obvious.
For most practical, I gotta go with the stakeout cameras.
Mmm.
I could see that.
Okay.
My, just an ADD life I live where I could just be like, Hey, where's my freaking keys?
Where did I put them?
And it's like, Oh, I have a frame of you put dropping them behind the trash can over here.
There's so many applications where I could just ask an AI, what is this?
And it'll tell me what's going on.
It seems like we're on the cusp of AI being able to manage enough information at once to keep
all that in its memory.
Yep.
Yeah.
Hey, proactive, whatever.
The cat just puked upstairs.
Hey, just so you know, you left the back door unlocked and it's 10 PM.
That kind of stuff that it'll just kind of ambiently watch.
That's, this is different than it was five days in a row before, you know?
Yep.
It's very practical, but I don't know if it is possible.
Yet.
A loofah dryer is, a loofah dryer is printing right now.
An Uber for mechanics is pretty dang practical too.
Yep.
I recently got an oil change and then drove to the airport and realized on the way home from
the airport a week later that the shield pan thing that goes underneath the car was just
loose and dragging on the road the whole time.
Oh, fun.
And it's because they said, oh, I don't know how that could have happened when I went back
to the place to have them reattach it.
That's so crazy.
How, but I'm certain they didn't attach it back.
Right.
Sure wish I could have just taken care of that oil change.
Um, while I was just sitting at work.
That's pretty dang great.
Instead of having to take time out of my day to go to a place.
That's how it does.
Just the idea of ending your day and coming back to your car and someone has, you know,
oil changed, cleaned it, washed it, like throw whatever things you want on the list.
That would just be a good feeling.
And you're right that we, everything exists that needs to be done.
Yeah.
I think you've convinced me.
Pretty dang practical.
Yeah.
It's pretty practical.
What about you?
That sounds amazing actually.
Just like the idea.
No, literally my car, I clean it twice a year, two times a year.
And that's like, like all the fast food bags and stuff.
Oh, Russell.
I know.
That's pretty bad.
I'm that guy.
I'm like the high school friend that like throws, you step on all the water bottles.
Yeah.
I'll give you a ride.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Just piles of energy drink.
Oh, nasty.
I don't even lock my car cause it looks like somebody lives in it.
Like straight up.
That isn't a perk.
Even Kara, even my wife's like, yeah, I don't worry about feeling scared driving around
in this car.
It's just scary enough.
It's just the smell.
Yeah.
I need that in my life.
So that's why.
Okay.
I'm still, I'm still going to go loofah drivers, but if you guys want to fight over.
I got to go for the mechanics on there.
Uber for mechanics.
Sorry about what I do.
Uber for mechanics.
You win anyway, don't you?
Let's go.
When you lose, you win.
Most impractical.
Oh, do you want me to go first, Leo?
Go ahead, bud.
Go.
A thousand percent is dishwashers for cabinets.
Cabinets for dishwashers.
How can you say that?
Okay.
I recently did plumbing in my home and to think about plumbing every single cabinet, every
single cabinet.
You could make something modular where they all connect together.
What kind of hot water heater do you got to plug in for all your cabinets?
Well, don't forget.
It's also a microwave built into it.
It can heat up its own water and then use that going through.
Isn't there like a fan, like all the spinning blades in there too?
Like there's so much moving parts.
Spinning blades?
It's a plastic arm, but yeah, I guess.
Okay.
Same thing, right?
Yeah, right.
But I mean like maybe they invent the version that is not as crazy, but yeah, also you're
going to hang cabinets that have-
They're very heavy.
Water is extremely heavy.
That is something I have not solved for yet.
Before the dishwasher part, just the water part.
So, love the idea.
Don't get me wrong.
The thought that my dishes could always be clean, but-
Well, since you've hurt me so deeply.
Most impractical.
Windshield gapes.
Oh no!
No!
I could do this for that or a later category about being in the hospital, but-
My mouth was open during this entire pitch.
I'm like, are you being serious right now?
Please pitch windshield games.
Okay.
Windshield games is a very, very practical idea because they already have speedometers on
windshields, so why can't I play games on it?
No, it's basically a light that this- a projector that displays- displays on your windshield
so that it can keep your attention on the road while you drive.
I just- we kept- the whole time we kept trying to steer it away like, yes, games while driving,
that's fine.
Like, audio games or quizzes, and you're like, no, where's Waldo?
Where's Waldo?
So at any time I can disengage the steering column and use Mario Kart controls on-
What?
You guys gotta drive on road trips, right?
Are you sure?
While you're on the highway, you're sure?
That's actually a really good idea.
Preferred.
I'm gonna turn my car while parked and safe into a Mario Kart simulation using this-
I think- I think there's racing games for Teslas on the screen where you sit parked and use
the gas and stuff.
That's really cool.
Yeah, it's fun.
What about- can I also throw out- so that's one of my nominations.
Also, QR code tattoos I gotta talk a little bit more about.
That was an early one.
Most impractical?
Yeah.
I have some things to say about that, but go ahead.
Go ahead.
You first.
What is it?
The pitch was, if I were to get a temporary tattoo of a QR code-
I don't think we said temporary, but continue.
Okay, a tattoo of a QR code, it is going to entice people to scan, like, who the hell would
get a tattoo of a QR code?
I need to see what this is.
If I saw a guy cross me on a subway and that was just like on his shin, I would absolutely
be trying to get a picture of that.
But-
But why?
The premise was you could solicit your body-
Band camp?
Yeah, it ended up turning into-
You could be a billboard for Taco Bell.
Yeah, exactly.
But-
Scan my leg.
Is that practical?
Scan my leg.
You just walk up to people.
Scan my leg.
And remember, Robbie, who was on the show, actually did this at a trade show.
He got a bunch of temporary tattoos and put them on himself and be like, "Oh, you want
my business card?
Just scan my arm here."
Business card?
Yes.
I think I did say, I've thought about having that exact thing done before in the past.
You buy a domain, there's even a .tattoo TLD, you can have like, your name .tattoo, right?
And then you can point it to whatever you want it to be.
That's the key.
You point it.
It's something tomorrow, right?
Yeah.
But still, it's so-
I think you just sold yourself on it.
Yeah.
That sounds great.
All right.
I think it's like one of those things that sound great, but then it's really cringy when
it actually happens.
Right?
Like, take a pic-
I don't know.
It's just-
Something about that.
Scan my shin.
Love corner.
Yeah, right.
Sorry, Russell.
Most impractical, I gotta go with the salt cannon on there.
The salt cannon?
A stop sign?
We're both in shock.
Salt cannon.
I like salt cannon.
So tell me what- well, what's salt cannon?
Salt cannon, this is the stop sign one, right?
Yep.
This is the stop sign one.
So the salt cannon-
It has some downsides.
I'll give you that.
It's a bag of salt on a stop sign, and it throws salt.
You're not doing it justice, but continue.
I'm not doing it, dude.
Every couple minutes, a bag-
Every couple minutes-
Every couple minutes it launches regardless of children or pets-
Or weather.
Or weather!
Exactly!
Okay, wait, let me back up.
The problem, the problem.
What's the problem, Russell?
The most dangerous part-
Okay.
What?
So the one time you need to stop in the snow is at a stop sign.
And where-
The one time.
The only time I've ever stopped.
Where you need the least amount of ice is at a stop sign, so why not put salt throwers
at the stop sign to throw salt occasionally while it snows-
At the intersection.
And then somebody said the children as they play will get hit in the face with salt unless
you add a detector.
How do we fill them all?
That's-
That's my favorite part.
We have children going-
Or people going around and filling them like they charge scooters where we do a distributed
model, right?
But then how do you stop them from filling with gravel?
Actually, Russell came up with a clever for that one where the salt truck going by is
a little crane thing that comes over and fills it.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
We have the Uber children, salt mines going though.
I'm really good at BSing these things.
I'm just-
How about most impractical, but it's definitely infeasible.
There are challenges to overcome.
We're in early days as the founders like to say.
That's right.
We just need the salt truck that does this, right?
So what are our nominees?
We've got QR code tattoos, I'm okay on.
Windshield games is tough.
Cabinets at our dishwashers.
And salt cannon.
Come on guys.
Come on.
Do I really-
You weren't convinced by any of our more impractical ones?
I thought you were-
QR code tattoos is probably my contender for most impractical, but I'd like to hear your
thoughts.
Cabinets, all right.
That's fine.
I'm all in on cabinets, and I really think you should reconsider them with Shield games.
The fact that it's nominated, I'd like that rescinded please.
Scott, where are you leading?
I'm actually, I have another nomination.
Go ahead.
Power line mail delivery.
Oh!
Okay.
What was this?
Which is also a great name in the practical sense of names.
It's like a band name, isn't it?
Yeah.
Power line mail delivery.
What was that?
I, Russell, can you pitch this one please?
So we have all these power lines all over the planet that go straight to your house.
Every-
Off and underground, but continue.
Okay.
Let 'em finish.
I'm sorry.
Above ground networks.
Okay.
Use some drones to replace mail carriers or whatever, mail delivery.
Because you already have cables going straight to your house.
Why not use the power lines that go into your home to charge and power drones that ride those
lines to deliver your packages?
That's it.
It's very evocative.
It's something that you can clearly picture in the mind's eye.
And I like that a lot.
Yes.
I agree.
And while we were pitching that, I'm like, okay, yeah, I could see that.
I could see that.
And then every time I'm driving and I look at power lines, I'm just like, no.
How would that be?
Just, no.
Like, look at that right there.
No.
That big transformer, it's gotta go around and the, oh, how would it go across that part?
Yeah.
This power line is just coiled over here like 16 times.
Shoe dangling off of it.
The traffic.
I think the traffic would be a problem.
You'd have like a hundred thousand drones, let's say, dropping off a bunch of packages.
Well, they're all going one way.
Yeah.
And then they're all coming back in the evening, right?
You can win your turn.
I don't know.
I guess so.
I don't want to argue for it.
You're supposed to be defending this idea.
It's not impractical.
I mean, like, I just imagine a line of power lines sagging as you're going to work.
That's true.
Yeah.
Lower the mini fridge over there.
It's just, when's the sofa getting delivered, honey?
Oh, I saw it on the line.
I would immediately try to capture one of those drones and keep it for myself.
Shoot it down from the power line.
Yeah, sure.
It's going all the way to my house.
It's not going back.
That one is my vote.
Interesting.
What do you guys got?
Ooh, okay.
It makes dishwashers for cabinets sound way more practical all of a sudden.
But here's what I would argue that exists.
Drones are powered on power lines now.
There's an article or whatever.
It's true.
I did send Russell months later an article about drones that were landing and capturing ambient
current on power lines as an experiment.
That sounds practical.
It does.
It's not the pitch.
And you know what?
A dishwasher is technically a cabinet that washes dishes.
That's kind of the whole point.
Just hang some dishwashers up there.
Done.
Give it a nice veneer wood finish and you're good.
Are we at a standstill?
I think so.
Interesting.
We'll have to phone a friend for this one.
True.
We had a long discussion after the pitch from Steph about whether or not the snow melting
pad is a valuable use of electricity.
That's a contender that I was thinking about.
This was a pad for your driveway that keeps...
It sounds so simple in principle and it takes so many BTUs to like melt snow.
I ran the math after this one.
Like you would need like seven cans of propane in order to go through one blizzard or something.
So that's not very practical.
That's true.
I put a spin.
I put a spin on the compost pile being the heat source.
Remember?
Underground.
Yeah.
Do we just come up with a lot of impractical ideas?
A lot of impractical ideas.
What does that say about us in the show?
Hmm.
What's yours again?
Power lines.
Mail delivery.
I like that more than my own.
I think if I have to bust a standstill and you two aren't budging, I will fall on my own
katana and say the cabinets that are dishwashers is a beautiful pipe dream that is hard to execute.
And I am cognizant of all of the downsides.
So I will nominate that.
Whoa.
Honestly move to drones on power lines though.
No, you made me vote for myself only to be foiled at the last moment.
I'm sorry.
All right.
Sorry.
Drone power line is very impractical, but.
Love it.
Oh, I guess.
I don't want to win that.
Whenever I think about it.
I shouldn't.
No, it's too late.
You're locked in.
I have, I'm bringing a lot for most viral.
There's a lot of ways to interpret most viral.
I'm very excited to hear what you guys think about this.
Oh, okay.
Let's kick it off.
The anti squirrel artillery cannon by Carl, our friend.
Yeah.
Has such a potential.
If you glue a camera on that thing with a zoom lens and you are capturing nonstop live stream,
or even highlight clips of squirrels getting blasted all the time by water and being surprised.
That is, I would watch that Twitch stream.
Yep.
Ooh.
I guess I would too.
You know?
If you were the company running it, you could have all your users opt in and just have a best of feed.
That'd be so fun.
That could go viral.
I feel like that has like major meme potential.
Mm-hmm.
But as far as like a thing that is successful in its virality, you know what I mean?
Like, is that a different concept than this thing is, you know what I mean?
Oh.
I was just thinking, what's the one that's most likely going to be known by everyone for whatever
reason?
Sure.
And what do you got?
I had to go back to Airbnb for servants on that one.
Oh.
I think if you were to actually execute that and news outlets or Reddit got a hold of
that, that would, it wouldn't last long, but that would be a big viral moment.
How about you?
I was, uh, the red flags.
Tell me about red flags.
I believe it was like the dating.
This was a love corner?
Yeah.
It was a love corner that was dating, uh, app that I think you were trying to match based
on red flags.
Things that you both, your, your, your icks.
Was that the one where you're?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
And then like, you're just posting your icks on there.
I think that would just get, people would be like, what the heck is this dating app?
Why, why would I put red flags on here?
And it'd just be like, but it would be one of those things that everybody's like, oh,
whoa.
I could see that one going either way.
Is there a lot of friction in getting people to download another dating app?
Or is that something like, do people who do the dating app scene have like 10 of them?
Yes.
Oh, do they get?
Yes.
So what's one more that, that could be there.
As long as there's enough people on it.
Yeah.
Okay.
That is the thing, right?
The network effect of like, you gotta kickstart it somehow.
Hmm.
Cool.
Let me pitch you guys on fantasy anything.
My own idea for turning fantasy football or whatever, but for Great British Bake Off or
Bachelorette or Survivor or whatever.
I really like that one.
If you were the commissioner of that league and you're getting 12 people to sign up for
that.
And then, oh, one of the 12 users there wants to make his own league and he gets a bunch of
other friends to be in another league.
It seems like that has built in virality.
Just because everyone has to have an account to participate with the thing that they're in.
Which is also true of your shame each other for betting on an idea thing.
Yes.
What is that called?
Yes.
But the app was if you have a group of people that are trying for a goal and you all succeed
together or you all fail together.
Which means that if we're all trying to work out every day and Leo doesn't and I'm going
to lose something because Leo's not freaking working out.
I'm going to go after him to get him to work out.
Motivation through guilt.
Yeah.
We've got a few ideas here where a group of people like the beacons, they all have to be
using it.
So beacons would be another one for me.
The communal podcast app is interesting.
Oh, yes.
Is that the one that you comment on the podcast?
As it's going.
That was a good one.
I'm listening to T-Pain comment on this episode of whatever because he's one of the
feature, you know, or whatever.
You've got like celebrity people or your friends all like pitching in on ideas and stuff.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
All in one snowmakers for most viral.
I love that idea.
Oh, yeah.
I can just bring a small snowmaker in my backyard.
And even if the weather's 40, 50 degrees and gross out in spring, I can just fill with
snow.
You need cold, you need a nucleating nozzle and you need pressure and water.
Yep.
And you can make snow even if it's not 32 and below.
It seems like something that could be a lot of fun and you'd get all the like, oh, there's
a heartwarming story about a kid who didn't get Christmas, but then they made, you know
what I mean?
White Christmas.
Yeah.
That's an Instagram ad right there.
Or we sell them to local fire departments, I think was an idea too.
Yep.
It's just an attachment to your power washer already too.
Like, boom.
Boom.
We got a lot of them here for most viral.
What are our options again?
This is a tough one.
Well, we just named like 10 of them.
Yeah.
Anti-squirrel artillery cannon.
Fantasy anything.
Communal podcast app.
Backyard snowmaker.
What were the ones you said?
Red flags.
Airbnb for servants.
Yep.
I think I got to go with fantasy everything on this one.
Yeah.
I think you convinced me.
I feel like that could just get a, people would just be all about that as soon as they
think of their own little niches for it.
Mm-hmm.
The network effect.
Everyone loves to gamble, apparently.
That's true.
I wonder how you run in front of gambling law with this.
That's a great one.
Just use a crypto.
Yeah.
Or, I mean, Airbnb for servants would just, yeah, you said that, right?
Mm-hmm.
Catch fire.
That's something.
That would burn out really quick, but it would go viral.
Yeah.
Everybody would know about it.
That one Airbnb, it would be booked.
Did you guys hear about that?
Yeah, right.
Mm-hmm.
Comes with a servant.
Oh.
What?
Why?
Dude.
That should have been one of our awards.
Why?
Well, I'm also going with the fantasy anything, so.
All right.
Unless you want to convince one of us out of that.
No, that's a pretty good one.
I think that's a good one.
Yeah, that's a good one.
All right.
Most illegal.
Okay.
Tax fraud as a service.
That one is not illegal.
That's the whole purpose of it.
It's, I am going to circumvent-
One slip up.
Using known tax laws, and I'm just going to be like, "Oh, I see you do this as a hobby.
Well, if you just get an LLC, then all of a sudden now all these hobby things are a write-off."
And it just, you know, kind of guides you through that process.
Sure.
Nice and legally.
Sure.
Nice and legally.
Yeah.
It's the intention anyway.
We need a name change on that.
Yeah.
Of course.
This is a branding exercise there.
Not fraud as a service.
Not fraud.
Just-
Ultrasonic smart speakers.
I think your whole pitch was, "How do I break into homes and stuff?"
Oh, that's a good one.
That one's pretty illegal.
You want to run that by again?
You read an article.
There's an article that says Google Homes and Alexa's and whatever can-
If you were to play voice commands at like, it was like 25 kilohertz or something really
high that you can't normally hear, Google and Alexa's can still pick that up, which means I could
lasting, very loud commands to Google that no one else could hear.
Alexa, unlock my door.
Exactly.
Alexa, play Cotton Eye Joe.
Right.
Yeah, that one could get pretty illegal pretty quickly.
How about you, Russell?
I have tax fraud as a service.
Ah, so-
It feels right for this one, doesn't it?
Just because it has the name fraud in it.
Did you have another alternative, Scott, for us?
No, that's what I put too.
I think that just wins by default.
It's just most likely to get you in prison or go to court, right?
Everything else is like close, but not like that.
Going through the list of all our ideas.
Well, the corporate espionage too was like my second place.
Cause like, I feel like if you-
I had that on there.
Okay.
That one would get you sued.
I don't think it would get you in prison.
Is it illegal?
Probably not.
I wouldn't be able to mention it until you brought it up.
Yeah.
It was like between those two.
Mm-hmm.
I just did not think Scott would be the guy be throwing up like, uh, you know, the illegal
stuff.
Just cause I do ones that have fraud and other things in their name.
Weed, coid fish.
Or espionage.
Don't you know weed is federally illegal in this country, Scott?
Okay.
Maybe there are some patterns.
I think tax fraud as a service wins that one.
All right.
I can't stop thinking about it.
I didn't go too hard on stores on before because I, that was earth shaking.
That way my life is divided into two parts.
Before and after I heard this pitch.
I, the next day was telling coworkers.
So last night we were recording this episode.
My friend pitched this idea.
I still think about it all the time.
It's so good.
I do think about that.
Storzon's on my top.
What do you got?
No question for me.
Crows as a service.
Really?
Crows as a service.
To be able to just design and build a box that trains crows to do whatever you want.
And it's completely standalone.
I don't have to do anything.
I just put this box in a field and come back in three months and crows are doing something
for me.
You can't stop thinking about it.
It's incredible.
Okay.
That's going to be most viral if it doesn't become.
Are you like super into falconry?
No, not at all.
I don't even like birds.
It's just so convenient.
Mm-hmm.
You know what else I put?
What's that?
Bicycle laser tag.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
That was second for me.
I'm trying to describe this show to people.
That is.
Yeah.
We pitch ideas like bicycle laser tag or cabinets that are dishwashers.
You get it?
Bicycle laser tag.
Yeah.
It was literally, we just watched Top Gun and what if we put a laser tag pointed right
out front of your bike and then just play in a big parking lot with that.
Dog fighting.
Yeah.
You're dog fighting on bikes.
And you have to shoot forward and that was the key.
I'm going to ride a bike now.
I'm just like, oh man, I could be shooting some people.
Like laser tag style, obviously.
Of course.
Yeah.
Of course.
Yeah.
Of course.
I also, I think it wasn't even my main pitch, but the thing that pivoted into severe weather
smoke detectors is something that's personally meaningful to me.
I just love that so much.
Oh yeah.
But that doesn't have to be one that is nominated for everybody.
I just think a lot about it.
The thing that you can't stop thinking about is a very personal category.
And that one is like, why can't my smoke detector do more?
It's always plugged in.
I could have a do this and that.
I think about that all the time.
Dude, that's a good one.
But I think Storazon's my nom.
I still got to stick with Crows.
Dude, Crows of the Service is the best.
It's whack.
Like the best way, like one of the best creative ideas that have come up because of this show.
It's very, very unexpected.
Like you didn't walk it, you didn't have that in your book of ideas, right?
One day, Scott, between starting this show and now, you thought, "I want to make Crows."
That's a good way to look at it.
Do something.
No, I just thought that was the...
Every time I think about it, I start laughing so hard.
I don't think about it.
I hadn't thought about Crows very much since that episode.
It was just that one Rick and Morty episode where he had Crows in it.
I'm like, "Oh my God, they are smart.
We could do stuff with."
Sure.
I think you're a tiebreaker.
What's your fave?
What haven't you stopped thinking about?
I mean, I haven't stopped thinking about Storazon, but...
I think that's it then.
Yeah.
That's a very close second for me.
I don't like winning at this many.
But yeah.
Did Storazon win something yet?
I feel like it needs to win something.
And that feels right to me.
Yeah.
That's a good one.
All right.
Almost done here.
Home stretch.
Most likely to put someone in the hospital.
Bicycle laser tag.
That was also my number one on that.
Well, no.
That was my number two.
Windshield Games was for sure my number one on that.
I knew that was...
That category was made for Windshield Games.
Yeah.
I think.
Yeah.
Modern CB radio could be up there.
Hold on.
Pit crew combos.
Yeah.
I was going to say that too.
Is guaranteed hospital.
Wait, what was pit crew combos again?
Your idea of getting multiple medical procedures done at once while you're under.
Oh, God.
You are literally likely to be in the hospital for that, aren't you?
Mm-hmm.
That's very on the nose.
Yeah.
It's like a hat on a hat a little bit.
Okay.
Hat on a hat, yeah.
I mean, if I'm getting my appendix removed and someone can do, you know, something else
at the same time, why not?
And where are you likely to be when you're doing that?
Yeah.
Most likely to put someone in the hospital though.
I guess that still kind of counts.
I put salt cannon on there.
Did you?
Yeah.
That makes sense.
You were defending it so.
I was like, well, that was the thing that killed it for me.
I was like, oh yeah, this idea sucks.
Somebody's going to get hurt over salting and you're like trying to help people.
Over salting.
Yeah.
I think because of the whimsy of it, I'm still leading Bicycle Laser Tag.
It's the one that came to mind first.
It needs to win.
Well, I mean, the Windchill Games is pretty.
I would love Bicycle Laser Tag to win something, but I'm pretty sure Windchill Games is going to
kill you.
Yeah.
No, no.
You're going straight to the ground.
Windchill Games is going to keep you awake.
Okay.
Focused on the lines of the road.
You're also like, it'll save lives.
This is the only thing that our distracted drivers need.
Imagine you drop your score because you didn't, you looked off the road.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
To answer a text.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like you're an after school special.
Your score goes down.
You're in driver's ed and they wheel out the CRT TV and imagine you looked away from Tetris
for two minutes to look at your phone.
Right?
There you go.
My farm died because I looked away.
Ah.
My Farmville farm.
Like, I think all these references are very millennial.
Yeah.
So where are we at?
What's most likely to put you in the hospital?
I like the argument of Windchill Games not putting you in the hospital because there's
no way you're surviving.
You're surviving.
I'm going basically laser tag stuff.
No.
Well, honestly, that's one that's not going to kill you, but you are going to break a limb.
We almost crashed several times.
I did not bring that up.
Oh, really?
And what do you do when you break a limb, Scott?
Oh, I mean, go to the hospital.
All right.
I'll go laser tag.
I put laser tag.
All right.
I think that's the good one.
And salt cannon.
So.
That's very funny to think about.
Yeah.
My eyes!
I know.
The children are having a great day and then all of a sudden, it's a snow day, mom.
Crossing guard.
Come on over.
No!
The propaganda ads to like remove that from, would just be that.
Your local congressman wants you to put salt cannons on every stop sign.
Vote no to Prop 2 for the children.
Two million dollars per.
Which brings us to the MVP, the most valuable pitch.
But before we do that, what are all of our winners for each category?
All right.
Editor Leo here in the future.
I was kind of an idiot during the live record and didn't write down these as we went.
So I can tell you now, after listening back and editing through, the award winners were:
Most unlikely: Reheat and Meat.
Biggest revenue potential: Grocery store surplus.
Hottest love corner: Sonder.
Best name: Walkopedia.
Most practical: Uber for mechanics.
Most impractical: Powerline mail delivery.
Most viral: Fantasy anything.
Most illegal: Tax fraud as a service.
The can't stop thinking about it: Store is on.
Most likely: Most likely to put someone in the hospital.
Bicycle laser tag.
Back to the past.
All right.
So given all of our winners, where does that leave us?
What is your most valuable pitch?
Okay.
Your favorite idea, your winner of the past category that you think deserves the ultimate
trophy.
You want me to go first?
Go ahead.
I've got a pretty fierce.
I think it's Storazon.
That's my favorite one.
It's the one that I've bragged about to other people and it wasn't even my idea.
It's so good.
I still love the Crows.
The Crows.
You're going most valuable.
Hear me out.
All right.
Hit me.
I'll do the Crows.
Damn Crows.
Bicycle laser tag.
But honestly, I think I got to go with Beacon, guys.
Oh.
That is a good...
Just...
We had so much fun on that pitch and the more we talked about it, the more fun ideas came
out of such a simple thing.
I got to go with Beacon.
Guys, I'm going to throw a curveball on here.
Hit me.
Grand card.
Whoa.
Grand mail.
Yeah.
Okay.
Because I thought a snap...
Like, if you can get Gen Z to do a Snapchat or whatever, a millennial to do a Snapchat photo,
you send it to your grandparents.
Like, here's where I'm at with little text.
Like, literally, you throw your filter on, just print send.
It's very good.
Through the app.
I think that's just like...
I think it already exists.
That's why I'm not leaning for...
Oh, I guess that makes sense.
I, years ago, have used a print a postcard and send it service.
Mm-hmm.
There are services that do it, but there's not one that's just marketed and branded for exactly
this.
And I think your enhancement on it was your own handwriting.
Mm-hmm.
That's right.
Which is a little dystopian, but I really like it.
You could also upsell pictures and like, I just take a picture of my phone, hit a button
and it prints out the picture on a Polaroid or something and...
Or a 3x5.
We never actually explained the idea.
Yeah.
So, this is a way to communicate with the older generation in your life, grandparents,
etc.
They don't want to get text messages and emails.
They want to get something in the mail.
So, what if you used an app as an intermediary and you uploaded your photo or you wrote your
message or whatever and it prints it and mails it, which exists in postcard form, I'm certain.
Mm-hmm.
I just think it'd be fun to say, "Oh, 50 cents, send grandma," or whatever.
Anybody.
I type an email to a certain address and it just automatically goes to grandma as a printed form.
It seems like it'd be pretty easy for someone listening to actually do.
Mm-hmm.
Right?
You need a printer.
Well...
And some stamps.
Or even like that's where the app comes in is to save you all that.
It's just a microtransaction.
Like if you want to remember something three days later, you could just send yourself a card
in the mail.
You could...
There's just like use for that.
It's the hardest part is the addresses, which I have.
That's what I...
Whenever I think about this, I'm like, "How do I get address in there?"
Mm-hmm.
There is some friction there.
Who knows any...
I guess people know.
Who knows their grandparents' address?
Right, anymore?
Do you know your grandparents' address off the top of your head?
We send Christmas cards, but yeah, that is an uncommon thing for people to know, I bet.
I got my grandma's address, put a pin in my Google Map, and now I just press the pin.
Because I'm like done with trying to find it.
Oh my God.
Yeah, that's amazing.
That's one weirdo that has every...
Whenever I go into someone's house for the first time, I put it in their contact.
Whoa.
Wow.
So all my contacts have their corresponding birthdays and addresses and all that stuff.
It's my database of people.
Yeah.
CRM.
And then I pull that out for Christmas card lists.
They're all tagged and all that.
It's great.
You once said on the show, Russell, that we're monetizing inconvenience, and I think about
that a lot.
Yeah.
And that's what this one is.
That's what grandmails.
It is.
I like that one.
But I do like...
I mean, Storazon is just too good.
Storazon is such a good idea.
So is Beacons.
Beacons is fun.
I think it's down to those two for me.
I'd be willing to go over to Storazon on it.
It won the most revenue, most everything.
I still love Beacons.
Stop Thinking About It.
Mm-hmm.
This is what's going to cause Storazon to exist now.
It's because somebody's going to be like, "Oh, this is a spot cut."
The legacy of this show.
Yeah.
Grab the domain.
I would be so okay with that.
But it's even more...
Storazon is how you pitch this show to other people.
It's like, yeah, that's a pretty good reason.
Are we feeling it?
Are we calling it most valuable pitch?
I think so.
I think it's...
Congratulations to Storazon for winning the first 100 most valuable pitch idea.
Your trophy is in the mail.
Thank you.
I can't wait to never execute this.
So...
Once again, these ideas are all for you to have for free, dear listener.
Yes.
And thank you very much for listening.
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