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I'm Scott. I'm Russell. I'm Leo. This is Spitball.

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Welcome to Spitball where three venture visionaries and a guest empty their heads of

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startup and tech product ideas that we have stuck up in there so you can all have them for free.

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Anything that we say is yours to keep. And Scott, I believe you brought our guest this week.

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I did. I brought my coworker and friend, Drew Morgan. Drew is a mechanical product design

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engineer at my work. He works on the advanced product development team. He's probably worked

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on a thousand different early stage products and devices in his time here. And I'm very excited

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to have him. So welcome, Drew. Welcome. Hey, thanks. Good to be here. This is going to be so fun.

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This week, we're going to be doing another game where we're going to get ourselves warmed up here. I'm

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calling this one. Will it send? We're going to go through I am services. You guys remember instant

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messaging, how crucial that was to the world and how right. It's like schooler. Absolutely. Right. We

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were of the age as middle millennials where like I would come home from school and spend time on

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AOL instant messenger and all that. And I want to go through line by line here and pick a couple of

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the favorites over the years and ask you guys, yes or no, does it still work? Can you download

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and install and use these services? So for example, WhatsApp? Yes. Facebook bought it. It's huge

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globally. Google Allo, like all other Google products was killed summarily. So of course we

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always start with our guest, Drew. I want to ask you about Skype. Skype was founded 20 years ago in 2003.

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Wow.

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eBay owned it for a while. They were bought by Microsoft. MSN Messenger was folded into Skype and

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they became one. Microsoft launched Teams in 2017. But does Skype itself still work? Yes or no?

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I'm going to go with yes on this one. I think it does.

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It totally does. You're absolutely right. For some reason, they had a 20-year head start on Zoom and

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still didn't win.

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I can't imagine why it still works. It was actually never that good.

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I can still hear the noises in my head.

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It's really cumbersome.

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The desktop.

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Do, do, do.

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Yeah, right.

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Yeah, it's not great, but you can download and install and use it today, even though they're

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trying so hard to make Teams happen. It's not going to happen. Scott, have you heard of

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Kik? K-I-K?

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Nope.

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Kik was launched as, well, it was relaunched. It was originally a music sharing service. But in 2010,

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it was launched as a messaging app. And in May of 2016, they announced that they had approximately

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300 million registered users. And they were used by 40% of United States teenagers in 2016.

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I know. Apparently, we were just too old. And there's probably a lot of younger people saying,

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yeah, of course, Kik. I kicked my friends or whatever. But yeah.

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Dated ourselves. Okay.

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I know. This whole thing happened right under our noses. But does it still work today?

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I feel like a 2016. If Skype's around, Kik's got to be around. I'm going to say yes.

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Kik still works. It was, actually, it did shut down in like 2019, but then they relaunched.

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Somebody else bought the company and now it's back around again. I'm going to count relaunches as,

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yes, that does count.

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Cool.

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Russell, I'm sure you know because you're hip and trendy with the hashtag teens about Yik Yak,

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anonymous location-based posting service that launched in 2013. It was popular on college

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campuses. They had a very famous cyberbullying problem. Usage peaked around 2014, 2015, but do

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they still exist today?

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They came up, they shut down, they came up again, and I think they shut down again. So I'm saying

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no.

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They did get shut down in 2017. They did relaunch in 2021, and they still exist today. You can use

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them right now. So not quite.

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Russell is the troll I'm kicking.

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Very close to being detailed.

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Russell, despite all your hard work, your cyberbullying just hasn't shut it down a second time.

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It looks like I can get back online, boys.

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Yeah, it's time to get back.

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Put on the Anon mask, yeah.

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Don't find my username.

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Drew, did you ever own a BlackBerry?

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I never did, no. I actually went to college and there were Palm Pilots.

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Yeah, I love the Palm Trio, for sure.

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And I had a little flip pad paper, and I called it my Palm Pilot in order to poke fun at the other

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students that were rich and had Palm Pilots.

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My next door neighbor in the dorm rooms, when iPhones were starting to become popular and

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everything had sent from my iPhone in the signature, he made his email signature sent from

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my really cool laptop. That always cracked me up.

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BlackBerrys were good at a lot of things, but one of the things that they had that was especially

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key for their success was BlackBerry Messenger, BBM. It was once exclusive to BlackBerry devices only

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for like way too long, but then it opened up to other platforms. So you could download the

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Android and iOS apps. Does it exist today?

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Ooh, uh, you know, it sounds so far-fetched.

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No, I'm gonna say no.

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It was shut down in 2019 permanently. You're absolutely right.

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2019?

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I know!

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That's too late.

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It would have been the most valuable part of BlackBerry at this time.

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All seven people were using it. We're very sad, I'm sure.

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How do I export my messages, you know?

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Into something. I don't even know what you'd bring them to.

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Scott, the king, the goat. AOL Instant Messenger was started in 1997.

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Oh, man.

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But does it still exist today?

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You can't, you can't kill AOL. Like, I feel like you could try and you just can't kill.

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I'm gonna say they're still here.

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They were shut down in 2017.

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No!

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Remember when they were bought by Verizon and Oath and that whole thing?

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Oh, that's so sad.

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But it's sister app, not sister app, another one just like it.

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Russell, what about Yahoo Messenger, which was lost in 1998? Competitor to AIM.

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Oh, no. Oh, no. You know what? Yahoo was like, it's still a thing.

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They probably just bundle it in your email service and it still works somehow.

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They got shut down in 2018.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Which means BBM BlackBerry Messenger survived both of them.

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I was shocked.

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Outlived AIM?

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I know.

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That's insane.

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I know.

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Oh, wow.

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I know.

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I have an AOL CD in the closet behind me.

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Do you really?

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That's fantastic.

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Yeah, you could get about 20 of them every time you walked out of a Target, if I remember

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Go use them as Frisbees.

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A stack of them.

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I'm gonna use that for an art project, but I never got around to it.

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There you go.

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It's its own little treasure now.

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It might be worth something on eBay.

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You should check it out.

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Drew, chat roulette.

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It launched in 2009.

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It was a website.

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You go into it.

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Oh, by the way, I wrote all these in past tense.

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So it was a website that you would go and it would fire up your camera and microphone

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and pair you up with a random user like Omegle.

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You press a button to leave and be repaired with someone else immediately, which was good

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because there were a lot of penises.

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A lot of penises.

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A lot of penises.

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A lot.

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It doesn't still exist today.

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Ooh.

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I haven't tried that.

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I haven't tried that in a long time, but I did use to chat roulette occasionally.

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No penises though.

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I always was lucky too.

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I don't know.

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I was lucky.

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I'm going to say maybe they shut down.

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Chat roulette usage doubled during COVID.

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They are more popular than ever.

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I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

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Yeah, I was surprised.

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I'm going to chat roulette after this and see what's up there.

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Maybe don't.

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Especially not at night.

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Not with me.

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I feel like COVID made or broke a lot of these.

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Hey, it's daytime somewhere.

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Right.

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Scott, you may recall that your and my good friend Russell Fyfe tried for a hot minute to

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make Voxer happen.

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Voxer is a push to talk walkie talkie group chat app that launched in 2007.

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Oh, wow.

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It's kind of a chat thing, but you like push and hold and you're sending audio messages

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to each other and they went live to everyone else.

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Kind of Nextel phone style.

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Does it still exist today?

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I have no idea, but my gut is no.

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I feel like that one came up really quick and died really quick.

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Launched in 2007.

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Still kicking.

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You can play with Voxer.

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Honestly, I'm happy for them.

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That's awesome.

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They kind of did a pivot to like business communication a little bit, but it's still a thing.

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You could like use their SDK to make your construction site all use Voxer or whatever, I guess.

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That actually is really cool.

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My wife uses it.

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Yeah.

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Does she?

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I hate it so much.

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It's like all the worst parts of voicemail and then only that.

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What does she use it for?

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Work or friends or something else?

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Work.

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Fascinating.

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Is she like required to have the app for work or something?

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No, it's just her and a friend slash business partner and they send messages back and forth

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that way.

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And they're like 15 minutes long and they're not talking about anything for most of it.

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I just don't get it.

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And it's always on speakerphone too.

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It's never something you put it.

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Well, maybe they've changed it, but it's always speakerphone.

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It seems like the kind of thing that like, like what does it do better than just sending

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an audio thing on iMessage or whatever?

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I don't know.

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I don't get it.

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Lastly, Russell, I got a good one for you to finish this off.

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The Facebook poke.

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An early feature from 2004 that allowed somebody to go on Facebook and poke them.

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That's all it did was it said, you've been poked by Russell.

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It was a form of greeting, but does it still work today?

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That's a good one.

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Oh man.

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2004.

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It was one of the first features that the platform had.

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That was like why you went on Facebook.

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So you would poke every day.

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The back and forth.

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Poke streak.

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Wow.

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Probably some MBA at Facebook was like, this makes us no revenue.

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Let's kill it.

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And so they probably killed it.

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It is nowhere, anywhere in the UI, unless you go to facebook.com slash poke.

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There's still a list of all your friends and you can send pokes and it sends a notification.

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It still works.

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What?

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That's my public service.

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Like journalism for this episode today is you guys all got to go and get all of your friends

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to see the notification.

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You've just been poked.

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They have a whole page just for that?

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That's all it does.

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Facebook.com slash poke.

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It's a list of all your people and press to poke.

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And 40 ads.

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But there's nowhere else that you can find it that I could see.

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Like all the news articles were saying that this is apparently resurging last May as popularity.

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So maybe we're the last people to talk about it.

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But I was amused.

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That's what inspired this whole game.

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It's like, hey, the poke.

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Wow.

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Time to poke some friends.

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Which I think all three of you got two out of three, right?

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So I guess it's a tie.

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Woo, tie.

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Congratulations, everybody.

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I think that means you have to start then, Leo.

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All right.

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I'll go first.

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If you guys aren't too sick of hearing me talk.

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My pitch this week.

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So do you guys remember as a kid, there were the cheap, like, it's a little globe that has

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a light bulb inside.

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A little bit like a disco ball, but with just little pinpricks of light.

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And you'd get in a dark room and it would make like stars all over your wall.

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Yeah.

252
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I think that this could be modernized and turned into something really interactive and interesting.

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So I'm imagining small short throw projector on a base that has a swivel up, down, left,

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right, pointing all around it, all the different screens.

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And you could have that be movies or whatever, but I think it'd be really fun if you had a

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software hardware thing that made the whole purpose of it be an interactive pet.

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So you're setting it in the middle of the room and you've got this cute little Tamagotchi

258
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frog or like a little puppy who's hopping around your walls and like snuggling with your kid

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and all that kind of stuff.

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But they're just on the wall and they're being whimsical and you can have fun like Disney

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animations and things that aren't possible in the real life.

262
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You know, ooh, he turned, he grew wings and flew up into the whatever, you know what I mean?

263
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Wouldn't it be neat if you could just like set down the one thing, it makes a rough 3D map

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of the room and adjusts its skew proportionately so that it looked like it was like hopping

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around the room and doing things.

266
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That's my whole pitch.

267
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It's like a half-baked idea, but I think it'd be so cool.

268
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That is so cool.

269
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So like projection mapped Tamagotchi.

270
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Yeah.

271
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And maybe like every day you got to like bring it a little biscuit that you put in the box

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or something.

273
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I don't know.

274
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Yeah.

275
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Leo, that is amazing.

276
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That's a really good idea.

277
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I don't know where it came from.

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Friends come over and like, come, you have to go in the basement to see my pet, right?

279
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I don't know.

280
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I don't like the way you phrased that.

281
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And then you murder them.

282
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The basement.

283
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I guess.

284
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Sorry.

285
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I was like, I was like a elementary kid in my mind.

286
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Where's your pet?

287
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It's in the walls.

288
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It's in the walls.

289
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He lives with people.

290
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Yeah.

291
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You could even have it be.

292
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I don't know how good like compacts.

293
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You always see those little cheap compact projectors that you could get on Amazon for a couple hundred

294
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bucks, right?

295
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Like, I don't know how miniature we could get with this thing, but it could be portable-ish,

296
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right?

297
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It'd be like a night's little, oh, my unicorn read me my nighttime story tonight kind of thing

298
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or something, you know?

299
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Oh, my niece is obsessed with Frozen 2.

300
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Never seen Frozen, but loves Frozen 2.

301
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And Elsa is like, you know, life and everything.

302
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And if you had an Elsa on the wall, like the same size as her, you could just interact

303
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with.

304
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That would be incredible.

305
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You know, the first thing that came to my mind is actually Peter Pan's shadow.

306
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Yeah.

307
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Like, it's kind of like a living being in the room, but it's confined to stick to the

308
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walls and floor.

309
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Totally.

310
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That would be cool.

311
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Mm-hmm.

312
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We had a coworker, Dan Parker, who had a, he was working on something like this.

313
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It was a handheld projector, but it just had like a laser line of sight where, you know,

314
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it measured the exact distance from the wall and it would set its focal point depending on

315
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wherever it was in the wall looking for.

316
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I mean, the hardware and everything for this is here.

317
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And if you're pointing at like the corner of a room, the thing.

318
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The actual image that you would have to be projecting out would be bigger and kind of

319
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skewed and weird looking if it was on a flat surface.

320
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Yeah.

321
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But you can do that math to where you're doing it.

322
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Yep.

323
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Rough approximation of like keeping it the same size and shape as it goes around.

324
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Absolutely.

325
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But then you need like a laser mapping system.

326
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I feel like I've seen some museum experiences that have a badge you wear around your neck

327
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and it does this like projecting onto things in the room that way.

328
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That's cool.

329
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That'd be cool.

330
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How does that, what kind of content do they show for something like that?

331
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It's escaping me.

332
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I don't remember.

333
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That's really interesting.

334
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You're going to watch on Mackinac now where you'll have some historical soldier telling

335
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you the history of the fort and what we ate in the 1700s.

336
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Okay.

337
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Very thrilling.

338
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Like a kids museum exhibit would be really neat with something like that.

339
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And the brand, like you were saying, Elsa, like the brand tie-ins, you could partner with

340
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Looney Tunes or whoever wants to get some advertisement for their cool new animated Paw Patrol movie or

341
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something, right?

342
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You're going to make this.

343
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It's going to become super popular.

344
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And then soon after, there's going to be a horror movie based on it.

345
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I can't turn it off.

346
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I can't turn it off.

347
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Put a blanket over it.

348
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I think this is like the coolest nightlight ever.

349
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I feel like you're going to, if this is going to get made one day, Leo, whether you build it or not.

350
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It's just one of those things.

351
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I feel like if you just plug it into an outlet, it becomes a nightlight in the room.

352
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It tells stories.

353
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You could put like the whole, what is it?

354
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Skylander stuff.

355
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You can buy different toys and you put it on top and then it projects it into the room.

356
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That's good.

357
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Now you got insane monetization.

358
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Even in standby mode, it could just be doing like a little soft red dot on the wall and that's my nightlight.

359
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And it's bubbles that slowly go around the room while I'm sleeping or something.

360
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There's all kinds of animation potential when you take the space you're in and you have free reign to augment it.

361
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Your target markets are endless.

362
00:15:34,780 --> 00:15:36,360
Okay, but here's the big question.

363
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Is it internet connected?

364
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If you need to download the content and stuff, I guess.

365
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But that does open up a lot of scary.

366
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Oh no, the Russians got my projector and now the scary stuff's happening on my wall.

367
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Yeah.

368
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You can buy like physical chips, like maybe like video game cartridges or something.

369
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Yeah, like a Yoto player, I think is a product out there that does that.

370
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It's a connected online system, but the only way to interact with it is through physical cards.

371
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It's a little cube that's a speaker so you can set as apparent like this tile when you touch it to the speaker cube, honey, sets your audio book.

372
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Or this one reads you a story and this one is the branded tie-in with Disney that tells you the Lion King, whatever.

373
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Yeah, that's the kind of model that it seems like companies are a little bit more open to making those deals, like the content owners.

374
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That'd be so cool to like sit in front of like even just like a small projector and like now you have the story that you're going to read with your kid.

375
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It's like you put a little rug around it, becomes story time.

376
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It doesn't feel like you're watching TV.

377
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It feels like, it doesn't feel like screen time, right?

378
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And so short little three minute things.

379
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The storybook characters hopping around your wall on wall to wall, like the whole space.

380
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That's the thing.

381
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It's not fixed.

382
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I'm not sitting on the couch.

383
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I'm like, it's all around me.

384
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And that's like the best part is that your market is so open to this.

385
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Like you have the children's version, put like Cortana or something in there and turn it into Siri or something and just have it like, hey, this is who I interact with instead of this, you know, random device on my desk.

386
00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:16,840
It's such a much better experience too than like a small screen.

387
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A lot of home assistants have like you're, there's no reason that your pet, Tamagotchi, dog, whatever it is, can't also tell you what the weather's going to be.

388
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Exactly.

389
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And if it's internet connected, yeah.

390
00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:28,640
Oh, true.

391
00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:34,440
You're sitting in your home office and you're just talking at the wall and the wall's talking back at you.

392
00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:34,720
Yeah.

393
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,820
You forgot to email Bob about those blueprints or whatever.

394
00:17:37,820 --> 00:17:39,100
Ooh.

395
00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:44,140
I wonder if you could do some directional speakers to really like kind of make it sound like the wall is talking.

396
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We have standards for 360 audio, like the Dolby Atmos stuff.

397
00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:47,840
Totally.

398
00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:48,320
Yeah.

399
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That would be maybe a little kind of breaking point of realism is where the sound is coming

400
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from.

401
00:17:52,660 --> 00:17:53,160
That's true.

402
00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:53,660
Yeah.

403
00:17:53,660 --> 00:17:54,420
Unless you did it.

404
00:17:54,420 --> 00:17:55,020
Yeah.

405
00:17:55,020 --> 00:17:58,600
Put a couple of satellite Sonos speakers around the room that it's talking to or something.

406
00:17:58,600 --> 00:17:59,160
That'd be sweet.

407
00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,200
Dude, I wonder if you could make us a version.

408
00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:03,740
Like it's a little cheaper.

409
00:18:03,740 --> 00:18:09,360
Like if you want to go really cheap with it, but you have like kind of like a music box with like,

410
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I don't know if this is a little crazy, but like a ribbon that casts shadows across the

411
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wall over a light.

412
00:18:14,600 --> 00:18:15,100
Oh yeah.

413
00:18:15,100 --> 00:18:19,520
And then that way it can like plays a movie almost from the project instead of having like

414
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a film projector.

415
00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:20,680
Yeah.

416
00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:22,760
Like a, but it's just a light with shadows.

417
00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:23,240
Right.

418
00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:26,820
And so it like moves across the screen and maybe plays a song.

419
00:18:26,820 --> 00:18:27,320
That's fun.

420
00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:32,640
Before you go to the full 3d model, like the 3d version with audio, like all the bells and

421
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whistles.

422
00:18:32,900 --> 00:18:36,960
Cause I'm how expensive and how hard is like a short throw projector?

423
00:18:36,960 --> 00:18:38,460
Those are like ridiculous, right?

424
00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:41,980
They've come down, but you're still talking many hundreds, if not a grand or two.

425
00:18:41,980 --> 00:18:42,220
Yeah.

426
00:18:42,220 --> 00:18:42,940
Yeah.

427
00:18:42,940 --> 00:18:45,620
Well, the engineers will fix that one, right?

428
00:18:45,620 --> 00:18:48,120
Make it cheap.

429
00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:49,320
I mean, or Timu.

430
00:18:49,320 --> 00:18:50,660
I've got some ideas.

431
00:18:50,660 --> 00:18:57,500
It actually brings to mind the Microsoft Surface, not the tablet, but the other one, which has

432
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like a bunch of these weird pillars that go up and down.

433
00:19:00,160 --> 00:19:01,820
I think it was also called Surface.

434
00:19:01,820 --> 00:19:02,180
Yep.

435
00:19:02,180 --> 00:19:02,620
Yep.

436
00:19:02,620 --> 00:19:02,920
Yep.

437
00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:03,880
Am I wrong about this?

438
00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:04,940
The original table thing.

439
00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:09,820
Is that a random James Bond movie where they're like touching the table and throwing pictures

440
00:19:09,820 --> 00:19:11,120
back and forth on the surface?

441
00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:12,000
Or is that just something else?

442
00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,160
They tried really hard to promote it in a movie.

443
00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:15,500
They wanted, I think you're right.

444
00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:20,640
They wanted like hotel lobbies and restaurants to have this as their table and stuff.

445
00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,840
And they had a bunch of cool demos, but I don't think it ever really caught on.

446
00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:31,020
Anyway, there's like a particular kind of, I don't know, voxelized physical display that

447
00:19:31,020 --> 00:19:37,400
probably could be amenable to your shadow puppetry idea that you just said of like somehow actually

448
00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:41,920
flipping little windows in a ribbon that kind of creates that shadow on the wall.

449
00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:42,680
Absolutely.

450
00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:43,140
I don't know.

451
00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:46,880
Like you're doing shadow puppets, but it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

452
00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:47,460
Like a grid.

453
00:19:47,460 --> 00:19:49,520
It's not a projector really.

454
00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:50,900
It's a shadow project.

455
00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:51,400
Yeah.

456
00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,940
I mean, liquid crystal displays are the backlight shining through.

457
00:19:54,940 --> 00:19:59,740
What if you just had like a really bright projector bulb with liquid crystal layer going on?

458
00:19:59,740 --> 00:20:00,080
Yeah.

459
00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:00,600
There you go.

460
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,660
To make it small, you have to have a very tiny LED.

461
00:20:03,660 --> 00:20:04,980
So it's a point source.

462
00:20:04,980 --> 00:20:06,620
So you don't get blurry shadows.

463
00:20:06,620 --> 00:20:08,000
But we have those now.

464
00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:09,260
LEDs are fantastic.

465
00:20:09,460 --> 00:20:13,920
Unless you build the blur into your animations and it's a wispy little ghost.

466
00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,160
Back to your Peter Pan shadow.

467
00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:16,460
Yeah.

468
00:20:16,460 --> 00:20:17,640
Yes.

469
00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:18,480
Yes.

470
00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:20,960
It's the cloud around the image.

471
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:21,540
Yeah.

472
00:20:21,540 --> 00:20:22,320
Blobby.

473
00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:26,100
He's my amorphous shadowy friend that lives in the walls.

474
00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:28,900
You're getting institutionalized.

475
00:20:28,900 --> 00:20:31,420
Smudge is my favorite.

476
00:20:31,420 --> 00:20:31,920
Smudge.

477
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:38,280
All right, Russell, you're up next.

478
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What do you got for us this week?

479
00:20:39,140 --> 00:20:39,960
All right.

480
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:47,700
So I have been in painting my basement, doing a lot of work, and I have been drying my walls

481
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with a ton of box fans.

482
00:20:49,100 --> 00:20:51,500
And I started to think about this.

483
00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:57,180
Like, and I guess you guys have probably seen this, like the box fan mods for like AC units,

484
00:20:57,180 --> 00:21:01,800
you connect it to a cooler and you run like copper coils through it.

485
00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:03,780
And like, yeah, there's like a bunch of mods.

486
00:21:03,780 --> 00:21:11,340
I guess I was thinking, why don't we create a bunch of mods for the box fan as add-ons to

487
00:21:11,340 --> 00:21:12,440
a line of products.

488
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:13,500
A standard box fan.

489
00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:13,740
Yeah.

490
00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,560
So you can use it as a filter.

491
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:22,220
Maybe you attach like, you can provide a special hose attachment that connects to your window

492
00:21:22,220 --> 00:21:27,260
to help with the, you know how sometimes you throw a box fan in a window and shut the window

493
00:21:27,260 --> 00:21:27,660
on it?

494
00:21:27,900 --> 00:21:29,280
And it never works.

495
00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:30,020
It falls out.

496
00:21:30,020 --> 00:21:30,720
It never works.

497
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:31,800
It always does.

498
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:32,980
Interesting.

499
00:21:32,980 --> 00:21:34,360
So you would create the mods.

500
00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:39,000
You would, you would provide, you'd be a provider of all the different $20 accessories to the

501
00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:40,280
$20 box fan.

502
00:21:40,420 --> 00:21:45,480
And now you can have an air filter, like a real, you can, if you throw an air filter,

503
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:50,660
like an HVAC air filter on there, I mean, you have a pretty solid air filter running on

504
00:21:50,660 --> 00:21:51,160
a box fan.

505
00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:55,500
I told Scott about this, but University of Michigan did a study during COVID when people were really

506
00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:56,920
worried about how to keep air clean.

507
00:21:56,920 --> 00:22:01,420
And, uh, they tested a bunch of off the shelf, like the leading brands of air filter or whatever.

508
00:22:01,420 --> 00:22:06,240
And the best performing one was a box fan with a 20 by 20 HVAC filter strapped to the

509
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:06,500
back.

510
00:22:06,620 --> 00:22:12,180
It moved more air and got more stuff through it than like all these $300 home for filter

511
00:22:12,180 --> 00:22:13,060
systems and stuff.

512
00:22:13,060 --> 00:22:17,520
So, yeah, I'm so happy to hear that because that was the entirety of my concrete dust prevention

513
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,740
strategy at my old business that I ran.

514
00:22:19,740 --> 00:22:20,300
It's great.

515
00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:21,460
It does work super well.

516
00:22:21,460 --> 00:22:22,300
It's kind of loud.

517
00:22:22,300 --> 00:22:26,260
Like even on the low setting, the sound of a box fan with something up against it is pretty

518
00:22:26,260 --> 00:22:30,900
noisy, but I 3d printed some little like clips that just held onto it.

519
00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:32,220
It was super, super great.

520
00:22:32,220 --> 00:22:32,520
Yeah.

521
00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:33,180
That's the idea.

522
00:22:33,180 --> 00:22:37,560
I think that's the key to it too, is you just have clips that'll fit on like any type

523
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:40,340
of box fan, just like the panel grid on front.

524
00:22:40,340 --> 00:22:41,620
It doesn't matter the orientation.

525
00:22:41,620 --> 00:22:42,980
They're all pretty much the same size.

526
00:22:42,980 --> 00:22:43,280
Yeah.

527
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:47,400
I'm sure they're in weird orientations and stuff compared to each other, but you could

528
00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:47,780
make something.

529
00:22:47,780 --> 00:22:51,880
If you want to hook onto the grate, then probably, but just, I think like they're all the same

530
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,500
width and depth and height more or less.

531
00:22:54,500 --> 00:22:54,880
Yeah.

532
00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:58,900
Box fans are pretty universally about $1 per inch of diameter.

533
00:22:59,180 --> 00:23:02,660
It's the cheapest price per inch of diameter that you can get from a fan.

534
00:23:02,660 --> 00:23:08,540
But as long as you can make some assumptions about the dimensions of the unit itself, you can

535
00:23:08,540 --> 00:23:11,800
have things grab onto the exterior of it and hook up to it.

536
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:12,040
Yeah.

537
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:13,280
Some kind of clamp system.

538
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:13,840
Yeah.

539
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:19,580
Just like phone clamps, you know, like in your car, there's the whole setup thing.

540
00:23:19,580 --> 00:23:20,460
That's it.

541
00:23:20,460 --> 00:23:23,540
So you've got your copper tubing that makes it cooler.

542
00:23:23,540 --> 00:23:24,920
Got the AC version.

543
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:25,560
Yeah.

544
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:27,760
You have the connects to the window.

545
00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:28,400
Okay.

546
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:34,200
Maybe, or somehow like you want to get, let's say a bathroom that doesn't have a fan.

547
00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:34,800
There you go.

548
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:40,180
You could throw a box fan on it and create a system that allows for air to go out, but

549
00:23:40,180 --> 00:23:41,240
not to go in.

550
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:42,380
A one-way valve.

551
00:23:42,380 --> 00:23:43,620
Just like anywhere you want ventilation.

552
00:23:43,620 --> 00:23:43,900
Yeah.

553
00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:45,580
A one-way valve with a vent attached.

554
00:23:45,580 --> 00:23:46,020
Yeah.

555
00:23:46,020 --> 00:23:48,180
Those little louvers, little flaps.

556
00:23:48,180 --> 00:23:48,540
Yeah.

557
00:23:48,540 --> 00:23:53,100
One of those like dryer hose things that you can just extend it to where you want

558
00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:53,420
to go.

559
00:23:53,420 --> 00:23:53,800
Yeah.

560
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,820
I mean, you can get like, you can hang it on a wall if maybe, I know this sounds a little

561
00:23:57,820 --> 00:24:02,900
tense, but like you could put maybe vent, like it could be a form of ventilation in your

562
00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:03,140
home.

563
00:24:03,140 --> 00:24:06,020
If you put the right, you know, make it not look like a box fan.

564
00:24:06,020 --> 00:24:10,400
I don't know, like do some stuff to hide it or allow for circulation.

565
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:15,640
I just feel like even more like my house is kind of old, so it'd be cool to add a box

566
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:20,540
fan to certain vents without it looking like a giant box fan that's going to fall over at

567
00:24:20,540 --> 00:24:20,980
any moment.

568
00:24:20,980 --> 00:24:26,500
To just move some of the AC that's down in my basement, let's say, or my first floor up

569
00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:27,480
to my second floor.

570
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:34,340
These HVAC things are basically, it seems like a bigger version of a box fan, like a super

571
00:24:34,340 --> 00:24:37,960
box fan that moves all the ventilation in my house.

572
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:42,160
Like, I feel like you could create a whole setup in your house.

573
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:48,100
So one of your products is you cut a notch out of the duct work and you slide a box fan

574
00:24:48,100 --> 00:24:52,600
into it and hold it with the clip and the kit and you've created like a, like a booster.

575
00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:52,960
Yeah.

576
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:53,700
I like that.

577
00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:54,040
Yeah.

578
00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,140
Or maybe if it's, if you need to be in the room, you have a little duct that goes down

579
00:24:58,140 --> 00:24:59,020
to your floor vent.

580
00:24:59,020 --> 00:25:01,840
And so it just, all the air sucks up out of the floor vent.

581
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:03,420
Like your thing, Scott.

582
00:25:03,420 --> 00:25:04,140
Yeah.

583
00:25:04,140 --> 00:25:06,360
That's, I have just literally turned it off a second ago.

584
00:25:06,360 --> 00:25:07,700
You have a thing?

585
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:08,160
Yeah.

586
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:09,340
But it's way more than $20.

587
00:25:09,340 --> 00:25:11,020
Yes, it is.

588
00:25:11,020 --> 00:25:13,520
You want to describe your, you know, your thing?

589
00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:13,900
Yeah.

590
00:25:13,900 --> 00:25:17,660
It's a little, I have terrible heating and cooling in my office.

591
00:25:17,660 --> 00:25:21,880
And so there's just a little, like, it's like a PC fan that puts on top of my vent and

592
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,880
when it detects the air is flowing through it, it just turns on and forces more air into

593
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:27,300
my room versus the rest of the house.

594
00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:29,000
It's very clever, but also you're right.

595
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:29,540
Expensive.

596
00:25:29,540 --> 00:25:30,760
It acts as a pull.

597
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,340
It pulls more air out of it.

598
00:25:32,340 --> 00:25:33,300
Oh, sick.

599
00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:34,380
So there you go.

600
00:25:34,380 --> 00:25:35,200
Box fan attachment.

601
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:36,260
Box fan attachment?

602
00:25:36,260 --> 00:25:36,980
Box mods.

603
00:25:37,340 --> 00:25:37,920
Seriously though.

604
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,140
So the whole thing goes as one big unit over the vent and like-

605
00:25:41,140 --> 00:25:42,140
Funnels down into it.

606
00:25:42,140 --> 00:25:43,960
Mega blasts into the, that's-

607
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:44,500
That's a really good one.

608
00:25:44,500 --> 00:25:46,040
So I tried Scott's product.

609
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:46,880
I bought one too.

610
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,620
It didn't work for my kind of house very well.

611
00:25:48,620 --> 00:25:53,680
But if I could take literal box fan, slide it into the thing that we're selling, which is

612
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:58,840
a shell that goes over and into the vent and like mega pulls it out.

613
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:02,460
And yeah, your thing but box fan would be sick.

614
00:26:02,460 --> 00:26:05,140
No other room in the house would get any air.

615
00:26:05,140 --> 00:26:07,960
I also have one of those things.

616
00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:08,520
Nice.

617
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:09,740
Does it work for your house?

618
00:26:09,740 --> 00:26:10,300
It does.

619
00:26:10,300 --> 00:26:12,980
This is such an easy idea to start too, Russell.

620
00:26:12,980 --> 00:26:17,180
All you need is like time and a 3D printer and a basic website.

621
00:26:17,180 --> 00:26:20,540
And you could make a, you know, half a dozen different things like you just came up with.

622
00:26:20,540 --> 00:26:23,620
I think the size scale, you might want to invest in a small vacuum former.

623
00:26:23,620 --> 00:26:25,440
Like those are pretty cheap.

624
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:25,640
Yeah.

625
00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:26,520
What's that mean?

626
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:27,360
What's a vacuum?

627
00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:29,620
Oh, like a vacuum forming.

628
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:30,460
Like it sucks.

629
00:26:30,460 --> 00:26:37,540
You heat up the sheet of plastic and it sucks it down over a mold to create a thin, large

630
00:26:37,540 --> 00:26:39,160
sturdy, you know, part.

631
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:41,860
You can cut out sections of it afterwards.

632
00:26:41,860 --> 00:26:43,480
3D printing, but a little more permanent.

633
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,140
Not quite an injection mold.

634
00:26:45,140 --> 00:26:46,580
Yeah, right.

635
00:26:46,580 --> 00:26:47,860
It's way cheaper.

636
00:26:47,860 --> 00:26:48,980
The tooling is way cheap.

637
00:26:48,980 --> 00:26:50,740
You can make the tooling out of literally anything.

638
00:26:50,740 --> 00:26:51,780
You can make it out of cardboard.

639
00:26:51,780 --> 00:26:52,520
Okay.

640
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:55,020
I got some crazy ideas that maybe you guys would know.

641
00:26:55,560 --> 00:27:02,300
So what it, could you make a box fan as powerful as a vacuum and create a vacuum out of a box

642
00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:06,000
fan or, uh, just up the voltage.

643
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:06,840
It'll do it.

644
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:07,780
Yeah.

645
00:27:07,780 --> 00:27:08,760
Like, I don't know.

646
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:15,680
Or like if you set, if you create the right, uh, like weird ass oblong shapes and sizes to

647
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:23,040
it or, uh, a shop vac, you know, I guess, I guess what I was saying is, could you go crazy

648
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:23,940
or a water pump?

649
00:27:23,940 --> 00:27:26,300
Like what if you unscrew the whole box fan?

650
00:27:26,300 --> 00:27:27,420
All right.

651
00:27:27,420 --> 00:27:28,400
Put it in your pool.

652
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:34,600
Use the, you figure out the whole rotary system and you just attach like these five clips to

653
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:37,700
the fan and it spins to create a pump.

654
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:46,080
Like, could you go one step further and literally unscrew the five screws or on a box fan, attach

655
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,020
something to it.

656
00:27:47,020 --> 00:27:53,380
And now I'm like, yeah, I have my box fan vacuum for $40, but it works.

657
00:27:53,380 --> 00:27:55,520
And I'm, and listen, I'll throw it out.

658
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:56,580
Look out Dyson.

659
00:27:56,580 --> 00:28:02,700
Russell, you once said that the electric lawnmowers are just like putting a box fan on wheels and

660
00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:03,840
pushing it around your yard.

661
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,260
Like, let's just do it.

662
00:28:05,260 --> 00:28:08,040
Let's put some casters on it and turn it into a Roomba.

663
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:08,420
Yep.

664
00:28:08,420 --> 00:28:08,960
Metal blades.

665
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:14,200
You put metal blades on a box fan and you have a straight up Sun Joe on Amazon for $80.

666
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:17,080
Or casters and some metal blades.

667
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,200
You can put a bag on top, dude.

668
00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:20,760
It would suck the grass in too.

669
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,640
Like, it would work.

670
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,240
Now you need a second box fan on top for that.

671
00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:27,680
Box fans used to have metal blades, right?

672
00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,060
Maybe when the ones that would rattle?

673
00:28:29,060 --> 00:28:30,120
Yeah, back in the day.

674
00:28:30,120 --> 00:28:30,660
Basically there.

675
00:28:30,660 --> 00:28:32,100
He's buying old one on eBay.

676
00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:33,840
He recycled them into our Sun Joes.

677
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,620
Disposable.

678
00:28:36,620 --> 00:28:41,140
Well, you can edit out this comment from the mechanical engineer, but one of the features

679
00:28:41,140 --> 00:28:46,160
that a box fan has going for it that makes it quite safe is that there's big gaps in the

680
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:48,340
corners where the fan doesn't touch the walls.

681
00:28:48,340 --> 00:28:53,380
So even if you lay it down on the floor, it just churns air through those gaps and back into

682
00:28:53,380 --> 00:28:56,280
itself and doesn't like burn up the motor.

683
00:28:56,640 --> 00:29:02,480
So they actually cannot build up hardly any pressure from behind or in front of them.

684
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:06,520
The vacuum cleaner idea would be a stretch, but if you chain a bunch of them together, you

685
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:07,140
might get there.

686
00:29:07,140 --> 00:29:11,980
Or could Russell's attachment cover those inlets and create that extra suction?

687
00:29:11,980 --> 00:29:14,100
You've got a backpack with like six...

688
00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:17,400
I may or may not have tried that out of cardboard once.

689
00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:18,940
Just trying to blow up a bunch.

690
00:29:18,940 --> 00:29:19,960
And Drew, did it work?

691
00:29:19,960 --> 00:29:20,860
That's the question.

692
00:29:20,860 --> 00:29:22,040
Did it kind of work?

693
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,920
I don't know.

694
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,320
It's top secret.

695
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,420
The government doesn't want you to know now.

696
00:29:29,420 --> 00:29:31,740
It's just Drew's sworn to secrecy.

697
00:29:31,740 --> 00:29:32,700
James Dyson.

698
00:29:32,700 --> 00:29:33,700
He's going to kill you.

699
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,520
That's the box fan that had the air filter on it to protect me from concrete death.

700
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:39,180
Oh, you see?

701
00:29:39,180 --> 00:29:41,340
I have two box fans I'm looking at right now.

702
00:29:41,340 --> 00:29:44,420
I'm like, man, I could chain them together and create a...

703
00:29:44,420 --> 00:29:44,720
What?

704
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:46,140
What are those called?

705
00:29:46,140 --> 00:29:47,160
Super box fans?

706
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:50,340
The boats that fly on the water.

707
00:29:50,340 --> 00:29:52,140
Like a hovercraft?

708
00:29:52,140 --> 00:29:53,980
Or a swamp boat?

709
00:29:53,980 --> 00:29:56,060
New Orleans swamp running around?

710
00:29:56,060 --> 00:29:56,880
Yes.

711
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:58,060
That's one fan.

712
00:29:58,060 --> 00:30:02,940
I got eight box fans and a buoy.

713
00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:05,620
You know, I've seen giant walls of PC fans.

714
00:30:05,620 --> 00:30:08,560
You can make an even gianter wall of box fans.

715
00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:10,720
Yeah, you could for pretty cheap.

716
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,000
Yeah, real cheap.

717
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,240
It's cheaper than bricks.

718
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,820
It's cheaper than bricks by a lot.

719
00:30:16,820 --> 00:30:20,340
And if you get them all pointed at a little bit of an angle, you can make a tornado.

720
00:30:20,340 --> 00:30:24,900
Like, guys, what if your screen door at your old...

721
00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:27,420
You know that one house that you lived at with no AC?

722
00:30:27,420 --> 00:30:29,800
I want a screen door of box fans.

723
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:32,160
Three box fans stacked on top of each other.

724
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,440
Did you say you did that?

725
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:33,720
Right.

726
00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,280
Yeah, we did that in college.

727
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:35,760
Really?

728
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,340
We did several of these in college where we took, you know, the copper tubing.

729
00:30:39,340 --> 00:30:46,380
We ran a cooler full of ice that siphoned water through the tooling and then just had the cool air going out.

730
00:30:46,380 --> 00:30:47,040
And it worked.

731
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,000
We had a door that we replaced with box fans coming inward.

732
00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:54,680
It was so hard to make the damn thing that by the time you're like, get it, you know, you're using it.

733
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:56,140
You're like, oh, this is kind of sucky.

734
00:30:56,140 --> 00:30:58,380
I wish I had put two hours of my time into it.

735
00:30:58,380 --> 00:31:00,560
And that's the service your company provides.

736
00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:02,100
20 bucks more, you get AC.

737
00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:04,200
20 bucks more, it's battery powered.

738
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:05,680
20 bucks more.

739
00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,300
Triple A's only.

740
00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:08,440
Like mosquitoes.

741
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:09,400
Can you imagine?

742
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:13,080
Guys, a bunch of these around a campfire to kill mosquitoes.

743
00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:14,100
Hmm.

744
00:31:14,100 --> 00:31:15,820
Put a little zapper on it.

745
00:31:15,820 --> 00:31:18,700
Well, you've seen those fire tornadoes, right?

746
00:31:18,700 --> 00:31:18,960
Yeah.

747
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:19,340
Yeah.

748
00:31:19,340 --> 00:31:21,560
Fire tornado.

749
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:23,620
I like the bug zapper idea.

750
00:31:23,620 --> 00:31:24,540
You put the mesh.

751
00:31:24,540 --> 00:31:24,820
Okay.

752
00:31:24,820 --> 00:31:25,760
Bug zapper on a box fan.

753
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:26,800
That would be really good.

754
00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:27,100
Yeah.

755
00:31:27,100 --> 00:31:30,200
Guys, I'm on the fly with this stuff right now.

756
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:31,660
I'm like, this is.

757
00:31:31,660 --> 00:31:32,060
You're going.

758
00:31:32,060 --> 00:31:33,940
We need an open marketplace.

759
00:31:33,940 --> 00:31:36,940
We just open source this and everybody just.

760
00:31:36,940 --> 00:31:37,180
Lasco.

761
00:31:37,180 --> 00:31:38,560
Lasco, pay attention.

762
00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:40,800
But what's your company called, Russell?

763
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:46,760
That Roku competitor from a long time ago called Boxy Box is folded so you could make the Boxy Box.

764
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:47,480
That's a good name.

765
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:48,380
Boxy Box.

766
00:31:48,380 --> 00:31:50,600
Ooh, hear me out on this one.

767
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:50,920
Open fan.

768
00:31:51,540 --> 00:31:53,260
What about box dazzled?

769
00:31:53,260 --> 00:31:54,080
Ooh.

770
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,940
The dazzle of your box.

771
00:31:55,940 --> 00:31:57,240
You're box dazzling mine.

772
00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,240
I bought this one just to box dazzle.

773
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,960
I didn't even have it already.

774
00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:04,960
Mom, I bought you a box dazzle.

775
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:06,340
Oh, which one?

776
00:32:06,340 --> 00:32:07,620
Oh, man.

777
00:32:07,620 --> 00:32:11,500
Oh, yeah.

778
00:32:11,500 --> 00:32:13,400
All right, Scott.

779
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,200
Let's hear your idea this week.

780
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:15,900
All right.

781
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:24,380
So we have a dryer, a washer and dryer that is probably one of the most annoying devices on the planet Earth.

782
00:32:24,380 --> 00:32:29,040
It is very, it really wants your attention all the time.

783
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:41,200
And if a load is complete, if the door is left open, if you've hit a button on it and haven't hit like a second button to finish whatever you started, every 30 seconds, it'll give out a little doo-doo, doo-doo.

784
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:42,260
It's horrible.

785
00:32:42,260 --> 00:32:43,080
What?

786
00:32:43,620 --> 00:32:48,020
I've also learned that it is extremely motivating to turn it off.

787
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:57,420
Just like if you have like a seatbelt and you're driving and you don't plug in your seatbelt and like it'll just beep again and again until you are so pissed that you're just like, fine, I will do it.

788
00:32:57,420 --> 00:32:57,980
I will do it.

789
00:32:57,980 --> 00:33:00,620
I move my car up the driveway, but like...

790
00:33:00,620 --> 00:33:01,280
Or the microwave.

791
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:02,140
My food's done.

792
00:33:02,140 --> 00:33:03,620
Yes, exactly.

793
00:33:03,620 --> 00:33:06,140
My microwave is pretty polite compared to the dryer.

794
00:33:06,140 --> 00:33:07,820
It's like every like two minutes or something.

795
00:33:07,820 --> 00:33:12,500
Anyway, small annoying noises or small annoying things can be very motivating.

796
00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:13,740
So I want to utilize this.

797
00:33:13,740 --> 00:33:15,020
Do you guys remember annoyatrons?

798
00:33:15,020 --> 00:33:15,580
Yeah.

799
00:33:15,580 --> 00:33:16,920
Do you ever have those in high school?

800
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:17,620
Button cell coin.

801
00:33:17,620 --> 00:33:27,780
A little device that you can hide somewhere that's just on like a simple, yeah, coin cell battery that will just beep every four minutes or whatever at a random interval to just kind of antagonize someone.

802
00:33:27,780 --> 00:33:29,120
Let's combine the two.

803
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:33,820
Let's make an IoT annoyatron to motivate you to do things.

804
00:33:33,820 --> 00:33:38,180
Like you've seen some examples where it's like, hey, I got to get up in the morning, my alarm clock.

805
00:33:38,180 --> 00:33:43,380
If I put my alarm clock across the room, then I have to get out of bed to actually hit the snooze or something.

806
00:33:43,380 --> 00:33:44,860
What other things could you do?

807
00:33:44,860 --> 00:33:51,980
If you had an IoT device that had, you know, the classic sensors, an accelerometer, a speaker on it, maybe a flashing LED or something.

808
00:33:51,980 --> 00:33:56,160
How could we use this to motivate people to do things if it's fully IoT?

809
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,960
What if the flashing light was also running around the wall and you had to catch up?

810
00:33:59,960 --> 00:34:01,800
Fantastic.

811
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,860
We'll combine it with Leo's idea.

812
00:34:04,260 --> 00:34:09,580
Well, you always jump with your assistant ideas, Scott, to like the don't forget to take out the trash type thing.

813
00:34:09,580 --> 00:34:11,480
I'm trying to be a little bit more creative here about that.

814
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,140
Hey, taking out the trash is a good one.

815
00:34:13,140 --> 00:34:15,480
My trash can just chirps at me.

816
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,380
You got to catch the trash can.

817
00:34:17,380 --> 00:34:18,580
Everyone hates to do workouts.

818
00:34:18,580 --> 00:34:19,680
That's good.

819
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:21,000
What if your weight's chirped?

820
00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:21,720
There it is.

821
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:26,560
They will not shut up until you go in there and do X amount of reps.

822
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,260
The treadmill only stops chirping when you're actually running.

823
00:34:30,260 --> 00:34:30,760
Whoa.

824
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:32,160
That is...

825
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:32,700
Oh, yeah.

826
00:34:32,700 --> 00:34:33,620
Oh, no.

827
00:34:33,620 --> 00:34:38,260
And then after you've done like a half hour, it's good for the day, but then it starts up again.

828
00:34:38,260 --> 00:34:39,420
Oh, that's haunting.

829
00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:41,520
My chirp has been satisfied.

830
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:42,480
That's right.

831
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:45,720
That's great.

832
00:34:45,720 --> 00:34:47,120
Put it on a water bottle.

833
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:52,020
If you don't take a drink every 30 minutes or something, just have it just go nuts until...

834
00:34:52,020 --> 00:34:53,260
It's kind of like a mouse jiggler.

835
00:34:53,260 --> 00:34:54,320
Yeah, exactly.

836
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:54,860
The little USB.

837
00:34:54,860 --> 00:34:57,400
Like those ones that remind you to take a wrist break.

838
00:34:57,400 --> 00:34:59,900
Just put the smoke alarm chirp in there.

839
00:34:59,900 --> 00:35:00,500
Oh, gosh.

840
00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:02,720
Oh, like a really loud one.

841
00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:04,480
That would be the ultimate motivation.

842
00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:08,100
Because then all the people around you are also helping you be motivated.

843
00:35:09,500 --> 00:35:10,020
What is that?

844
00:35:10,020 --> 00:35:10,600
Turn that off.

845
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:10,960
Oh, my God.

846
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:17,140
Like, I honestly think like of all the like exercise fitness ideas out there, this sounds

847
00:35:17,140 --> 00:35:23,460
like the most motivating one because knowing, all right, if I don't wake up at 6 a.m. to

848
00:35:23,460 --> 00:35:25,840
run or whatever, I'm going to have trips all day.

849
00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:26,000
Yeah.

850
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:27,200
All day.

851
00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:28,440
Motivatron.

852
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:29,340
You'd break it.

853
00:35:29,340 --> 00:35:30,220
I feel like...

854
00:35:30,220 --> 00:35:31,140
Battery removed.

855
00:35:31,140 --> 00:35:32,340
Like every...

856
00:35:32,340 --> 00:35:32,780
Solar.

857
00:35:32,780 --> 00:35:33,960
You didn't make...

858
00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:34,820
You couldn't make...

859
00:35:34,820 --> 00:35:36,040
Like, that would be your thing, though.

860
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,340
In order to stop it, you'd have to destroy it.

861
00:35:39,340 --> 00:35:40,380
That's your business model.

862
00:35:40,380 --> 00:35:45,040
People are always going to be destroying these things in order to not do whatever they're

863
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:45,680
doing with it, right?

864
00:35:45,680 --> 00:35:48,620
I mean, how much power do you need to like chirp every four minutes?

865
00:35:48,620 --> 00:35:52,160
You could just have it be like those solar calculators, the little Casio thing, and it

866
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:53,000
doesn't even have batteries.

867
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:53,740
True.

868
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,680
What if it was mobile and could run away?

869
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,100
I've seen the...

870
00:35:58,100 --> 00:36:00,100
There's an alarm clock with wheels that'll like...

871
00:36:00,100 --> 00:36:02,100
If you snooze it too many times, it'll take off screaming.

872
00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:03,600
You gotta like go chase it down.

873
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:06,800
I think that was a thing on ThinkGeek years ago.

874
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,820
So like micro drone with a chirp?

875
00:36:09,820 --> 00:36:10,480
Yeah.

876
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:12,500
Like flies up and sticks to the wall?

877
00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:14,460
My cat would be all over that.

878
00:36:14,460 --> 00:36:18,900
Or like the ring one, the little home security drone, but it's just running away from you.

879
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:20,320
Yeah.

880
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,300
Chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp.

881
00:36:22,300 --> 00:36:22,880
Oh, dude.

882
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:24,220
Frickin' get back here.

883
00:36:24,220 --> 00:36:25,860
I swear I'll do the dishes.

884
00:36:25,860 --> 00:36:27,180
My wife would divorce me.

885
00:36:27,180 --> 00:36:33,760
You go on vacation for a week and literally you walk in your home and everything is chirping.

886
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:42,080
You're sprinting upstairs and trying to pump weights while you're throwing laundry in.

887
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:43,640
Make it stop.

888
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:44,400
Changing the dishes.

889
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:45,560
Take out the trash again.

890
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:47,720
All right, I'm going to take this in a real weird direction.

891
00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:48,560
Oh, yeah.

892
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:49,020
Are you ready?

893
00:36:49,700 --> 00:36:52,200
It's an implantable chirp machine.

894
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:53,600
Into your body?

895
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,640
That goes in your skin.

896
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:56,740
No.

897
00:36:56,740 --> 00:36:59,160
You can't turn it off.

898
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,200
The worst Fitbit ever created.

899
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:02,160
Oh, man.

900
00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:03,500
Honestly, though?

901
00:37:03,500 --> 00:37:04,900
For the all or nothing people.

902
00:37:04,900 --> 00:37:09,160
And I'm going to take it even a little weirder.

903
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:10,740
It doesn't chirp.

904
00:37:10,740 --> 00:37:14,360
It just gives you weird doses of chemicals that make you feel sad.

905
00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,880
Oh, I thought you were going to go the other way.

906
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:19,540
It's like a little jolt of...

907
00:37:19,540 --> 00:37:20,380
Oh, it could just shock you.

908
00:37:20,380 --> 00:37:21,440
Oh, that's good.

909
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:22,940
I was going to say...

910
00:37:22,940 --> 00:37:27,100
That seems simpler than putting anti-antidepressants into you.

911
00:37:27,100 --> 00:37:28,000
Is it epinephrine?

912
00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:28,660
Just depressants?

913
00:37:28,660 --> 00:37:29,500
Yeah, they're called depressants.

914
00:37:29,500 --> 00:37:33,500
You want to stick them full of like a little EpiPen jolt to get their heart rate going?

915
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:34,800
You don't want to make them sad.

916
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:40,560
Honestly, if I'm walking around in public and I'm just chirping randomly, that would be pretty

917
00:37:40,560 --> 00:37:43,620
motivating for me to be like, I need to stop this.

918
00:37:43,620 --> 00:37:44,500
How do I stop this?

919
00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:46,640
You could never fly on an airplane.

920
00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:53,160
I'm trying to figure out how you could do it to stop like doom scrolling or like you have

921
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:55,540
someone who's been on TikTok or something for way too long.

922
00:37:55,540 --> 00:37:57,440
I mean, I guess chirping the corner is good.

923
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,220
Maybe it just texts your phone or sends you notifications you can't get rid of and just

924
00:38:01,220 --> 00:38:03,000
keep spamming them across your screen.

925
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,800
I guess it's more the IoT version.

926
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,120
This is like user hostile as a service.

927
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,320
Yes.

928
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:15,660
I feel like you could probably integrate some social aspects of this, like social accountability,

929
00:38:15,660 --> 00:38:16,040
right?

930
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,660
Like if you're doom scrolling for too long, it starts texting all your friends saying like,

931
00:38:19,660 --> 00:38:20,800
Hey, Scott's doom scrolling.

932
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:21,360
That's the ticket.

933
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:23,860
Scott's been on his phone for two hours and 48 minutes.

934
00:38:23,860 --> 00:38:26,260
But it doesn't tell you that it's doing that.

935
00:38:26,260 --> 00:38:26,840
It just doesn't.

936
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:30,700
You just know in the back of your mind that there's a risk that gets higher and higher.

937
00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:31,380
Yeah.

938
00:38:31,380 --> 00:38:31,880
Oh, that's fun.

939
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:35,820
Oh, the probability goes up for every like five minutes you've been on the phone or something.

940
00:38:35,820 --> 00:38:40,660
In fact, your chirp thing could be in someone else's house that you care about.

941
00:38:40,660 --> 00:38:41,340
Whoa.

942
00:38:41,340 --> 00:38:43,700
He hasn't worked out today.

943
00:38:43,700 --> 00:38:46,560
The sensor's at your house, but the chirp is somewhere else.

944
00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:47,440
If you don't work out.

945
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:47,960
Oh, man.

946
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:49,400
Get up, you son of a...

947
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,200
I am tired of the chirps.

948
00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:53,340
Drive my ass over there.

949
00:38:53,340 --> 00:38:54,780
Leo, do your dishes.

950
00:38:54,780 --> 00:38:55,720
God damn it.

951
00:38:55,720 --> 00:38:57,060
Because there's...

952
00:38:57,060 --> 00:39:00,300
I will definitely take care of other people better than I'll take care of my own self.

953
00:39:00,300 --> 00:39:01,080
Yeah, for real.

954
00:39:01,460 --> 00:39:04,920
Dude, the world needs these types of products where it's just like ridiculous.

955
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,740
Like, all right, who's going to do this with me?

956
00:39:07,740 --> 00:39:08,800
You know, like that would be awesome.

957
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,380
You could build a whole brand around whimsy.

958
00:39:10,380 --> 00:39:11,400
Yes.

959
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,000
Have you heard of the most dangerous writing app?

960
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:14,340
No.

961
00:39:14,340 --> 00:39:14,920
I don't think so.

962
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:21,100
For authors who have struggled just getting words on the page, it's like a text editor and

963
00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:22,380
you can type in it normally.

964
00:39:22,380 --> 00:39:26,420
But if you stop typing more than five seconds, it starts backspacing faster and faster.

965
00:39:28,380 --> 00:39:30,100
Or whatever the time limit is.

966
00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:30,920
Don't go get coffee.

967
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:31,680
That's fun.

968
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,720
So basically, it's a text editor that forces you to just stream of consciousness.

969
00:39:35,720 --> 00:39:35,920
Yeah.

970
00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:36,540
Keep typing.

971
00:39:36,540 --> 00:39:38,140
Or else it deletes everything you've done.

972
00:39:38,140 --> 00:39:39,220
Is that helpful?

973
00:39:39,220 --> 00:39:40,760
Like, does that help people?

974
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:42,080
That's a whole different thing.

975
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:47,820
Some people swear by like being forced to write all the time, like diary or you just like

976
00:39:47,820 --> 00:39:50,220
have a blank page and just whatever comes to your mind.

977
00:39:50,220 --> 00:39:54,080
It's a form of brainstorming that taps into like, I don't know what I was thinking here,

978
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:55,280
but that's an interesting idea.

979
00:39:55,280 --> 00:40:00,440
There's a book called The Extended Mind that talks about how we use the world around us as

980
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:01,700
part of our thought process.

981
00:40:01,700 --> 00:40:05,880
And I think that's what it does is it sort of causes the page to become a part of your

982
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,300
brain thought process, whatever.

983
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,640
So like you're not writing good stuff the whole time, right?

984
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,200
But it's changing yourself.

985
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:17,260
And you are trying to minimize the filter where like, oh, I wouldn't have written that down

986
00:40:17,260 --> 00:40:20,140
otherwise because sometimes the good stuff dies with the bad.

987
00:40:20,140 --> 00:40:22,740
So what's the chirp product called?

988
00:40:22,740 --> 00:40:23,560
The chirp chip.

989
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:24,540
Chirps up, dude.

990
00:40:24,540 --> 00:40:25,420
Chirps up.

991
00:40:25,420 --> 00:40:27,660
I know you're trying to such a good name, but.

992
00:40:27,660 --> 00:40:28,120
It is.

993
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:28,940
It is a good name.

994
00:40:28,940 --> 00:40:29,280
Twerp.

995
00:40:29,780 --> 00:40:30,180
Twerp.

996
00:40:30,180 --> 00:40:31,020
Yeah.

997
00:40:31,020 --> 00:40:31,920
And you buy twerps.

998
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:32,400
That is catchy.

999
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:37,400
You can buy, throw a thing in the front or a thing in the, like, twerps by Brandon

1000
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,680
Ecio or twerp.

1001
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:40,280
Twerpy.

1002
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:42,060
Twerpy.

1003
00:40:42,060 --> 00:40:42,380
Twerpy.

1004
00:40:42,380 --> 00:40:48,260
All right, Drew.

1005
00:40:48,260 --> 00:40:50,440
What idea have you brought us this week?

1006
00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:55,700
Well, I was debating between a couple of them, but I'm going to give you the one that I've

1007
00:40:55,700 --> 00:40:58,880
thought about a little more and there's a lot more meat to dig into.

1008
00:40:59,040 --> 00:40:59,280
All right.

1009
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:00,620
This is really more of a service.

1010
00:41:00,620 --> 00:41:07,560
Pretty much every guy I know to some extent has a coffee can of nuts and bolts in their

1011
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:08,040
garage.

1012
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,000
Some people have many.

1013
00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,000
Some people have veritable suitcases.

1014
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:16,820
Some people just have a little Tupperware in the kitchen, you know, drawer, but everybody's

1015
00:41:16,820 --> 00:41:23,040
got this repository of garbage fasteners and we hold on to them.

1016
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,060
We think we're going to maybe use them someday, whatever.

1017
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:34,040
The idea here is that this is a service where I can turn in those crap nuts and bolts and

1018
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:37,580
in exchange, I get useful nuts and bolts.

1019
00:41:37,580 --> 00:41:38,420
Yes.

1020
00:41:38,420 --> 00:41:42,880
That are labeled and sorted and ready to go.

1021
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:43,580
Yes.

1022
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:44,300
I don't know.

1023
00:41:44,300 --> 00:41:45,920
And maybe it's centralized.

1024
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,020
Maybe it's peer to peer.

1025
00:41:48,020 --> 00:41:50,320
Maybe you ship them all to a sorting facility.

1026
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:54,940
I kind of think that's the way it would have to go because of the tech overhead that required

1027
00:41:54,940 --> 00:41:55,580
for this.

1028
00:41:56,260 --> 00:41:58,640
But that's the basics.

1029
00:41:58,640 --> 00:41:59,180
That's so good.

1030
00:41:59,180 --> 00:42:04,180
I have a little cup of like drywall anchors that came with that kit that I didn't end up

1031
00:42:04,180 --> 00:42:10,020
using and stuff, but they're all just fricking loose next to quarters and rubber bands and

1032
00:42:10,020 --> 00:42:10,420
stuff.

1033
00:42:10,420 --> 00:42:15,920
I would love to ship away 30 of them and get back a 10 pack of whatever.

1034
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:16,600
Absolutely.

1035
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:16,980
Yeah.

1036
00:42:16,980 --> 00:42:21,240
There's some overhead that goes into it and not all of them are coming back into the circulation,

1037
00:42:21,240 --> 00:42:21,700
right?

1038
00:42:21,700 --> 00:42:25,140
Like some of these are rusty, damaged, screwed up.

1039
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:30,140
But you send it in and then your account a couple of days later is given like credits

1040
00:42:30,140 --> 00:42:32,200
that you can then spend on the pool.

1041
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:33,060
Yes.

1042
00:42:33,060 --> 00:42:33,700
Yeah.

1043
00:42:33,700 --> 00:42:37,960
And potentially even you buy into or you don't even buy it.

1044
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:39,040
You sign up for this.

1045
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:39,560
It's free.

1046
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:44,440
And you send in your grandpa's coffee can of nuts and bolts and it gives you credits.

1047
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,660
And, you know, maybe someday in the future, redeem those.

1048
00:42:47,660 --> 00:42:48,600
Maybe you don't.

1049
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:53,380
And maybe the maybe it's kind of a business model like Planet Fitness used to be before Gen

1050
00:42:53,380 --> 00:42:54,160
Zers ruined it.

1051
00:42:55,340 --> 00:42:58,560
Where they count on people buying memberships and not going.

1052
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,860
Or it's just a good way to clean out the drawer.

1053
00:43:00,860 --> 00:43:02,200
I don't really need my whatever.

1054
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:04,780
I'll just send in the thing and maybe I'll use it.

1055
00:43:04,780 --> 00:43:05,360
Maybe I won't.

1056
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:07,060
The Goodwill model or whatever.

1057
00:43:07,060 --> 00:43:08,080
Salvation Army.

1058
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:08,580
Yeah.

1059
00:43:08,580 --> 00:43:13,920
I'm just picturing like like this website that has these nice, neat, organized boxes of

1060
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:14,620
nuts and bolts.

1061
00:43:14,620 --> 00:43:15,620
Like McMaster Car.

1062
00:43:15,620 --> 00:43:16,260
Yeah.

1063
00:43:16,260 --> 00:43:20,220
But like it's a pre-assembled thing where it has a huge variety of them.

1064
00:43:20,220 --> 00:43:23,440
And you can go on this website and you can buy one of these packs.

1065
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:29,680
But if you send them your by weight random jar of nuts and bolts, you get a discount on

1066
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:30,640
this box of something.

1067
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:30,840
Yeah.

1068
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:32,300
And then they just use those bolts.

1069
00:43:32,300 --> 00:43:34,040
They come in and put them making more packs.

1070
00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:34,820
Totally.

1071
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:36,440
Lots of disclaimers.

1072
00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:37,720
These are not load bearing.

1073
00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:38,860
These are not rated.

1074
00:43:38,860 --> 00:43:40,500
We don't know what the materials are.

1075
00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:40,780
Yeah.

1076
00:43:40,780 --> 00:43:44,660
I do wonder how automated you could get on the intake and sort.

1077
00:43:44,660 --> 00:43:46,780
Like I know that we have our coin sorter.

1078
00:43:46,780 --> 00:43:47,680
Like could you?

1079
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:52,140
As long as you had somebody taking out all the nuts, all the whatever.

1080
00:43:52,140 --> 00:43:57,240
Have you seen the machines that sort bad blueberries from good blueberries or whatever with little

1081
00:43:57,240 --> 00:43:57,920
puffs of air?

1082
00:43:57,920 --> 00:43:58,040
Yeah.

1083
00:43:58,040 --> 00:43:59,680
Like I think it's possible.

1084
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,600
There's some crazy vision sorting systems out now.

1085
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,100
Just like trash intake.

1086
00:44:04,100 --> 00:44:08,620
Like the local dump is taking in that and sorting recyclables out sometimes and stuff.

1087
00:44:08,620 --> 00:44:08,960
Yeah.

1088
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:16,400
And they're identifying materials with like infrared cameras and other kinds of spectroscopy.

1089
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,620
All you need is one good sorting machine too.

1090
00:44:18,620 --> 00:44:20,800
You don't need a crazy infrastructure setup.

1091
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:24,980
Just one thing that works and can tell you this bolt size is whatever.

1092
00:44:24,980 --> 00:44:25,680
It's all the screws.

1093
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:26,200
Yeah.

1094
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,800
And you know, it doesn't even really have to cover everything.

1095
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:34,980
Like I don't care if you have some random specialty wall anchor that came with your chain

1096
00:44:34,980 --> 00:44:36,500
link fence accessory.

1097
00:44:36,500 --> 00:44:39,160
Like throw that away and nobody's going to use that.

1098
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:43,000
Dude, I was thinking with this more being like a Coinstar model.

1099
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:49,360
Like you go to your local hardware shop and like literally you dump your coffee can into

1100
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:53,780
this machine and it's, you know, you can send it to a local storage facility or whatever.

1101
00:44:53,780 --> 00:44:55,420
But what if it was just like hyper localized?

1102
00:44:55,420 --> 00:45:00,700
It's like your community's nuts and bolts in a machine and on the wall.

1103
00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:02,600
It's like a vending machine, right?

1104
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:07,780
That sorts it into like, you know, 150 or 250 little plastic boxes.

1105
00:45:07,980 --> 00:45:12,120
You're looking at the shelf and then you put in a hundred nuts and bolts or whatever.

1106
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:16,720
It sorts it on the screen and then you can trade in, you know, it's like a five to one

1107
00:45:16,720 --> 00:45:17,020
model.

1108
00:45:17,020 --> 00:45:18,780
You put five nuts and bolts in.

1109
00:45:18,780 --> 00:45:25,060
You get to pick from your selection of a hundred, you know, 250 on the wall and like you get credits

1110
00:45:25,060 --> 00:45:25,520
or whatever.

1111
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:31,540
But because for all the reasons why, you know, of the five bolts that you put in, one is probably

1112
00:45:31,540 --> 00:45:33,800
valuable and goes on the plastic wall.

1113
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,600
But then that becomes the sort of, you don't need a facility.

1114
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:41,900
You sell these to Home Depot and whatever for the people that just are like, I don't want

1115
00:45:41,900 --> 00:45:42,900
to keep them in my house.

1116
00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:44,700
Brings them back into the store.

1117
00:45:44,700 --> 00:45:47,400
Like those key cutting machines that have taken over all the key cutting.

1118
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:48,300
Yeah, exactly.

1119
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:50,220
Yes, that's it.

1120
00:45:50,220 --> 00:45:50,720
Yeah.

1121
00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:51,180
Like that.

1122
00:45:51,180 --> 00:45:53,100
But look, but like that way you don't have to send it.

1123
00:45:53,100 --> 00:45:55,600
Like, I feel like shipping logistics become this whole thing.

1124
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:55,800
Yeah.

1125
00:45:55,800 --> 00:45:56,320
Metal's heavy.

1126
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,560
Metal is heavy.

1127
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:03,720
I just think it'd be, it'd be kind of cool to see like, oh, look at, uh, maybe not.

1128
00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:08,160
Maybe it wouldn't be as cool as I think it would be like, look at that classic bolt from

1129
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:13,320
the seventies, 1920s, you know, roadster.

1130
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:21,620
I wouldn't have any qualms buying, going to the hardware store and buying the nut off the

1131
00:46:21,620 --> 00:46:23,840
shelf that I need, whether it's used or new.

1132
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,020
Like, why does it matter if this is 30 years old?

1133
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:29,180
If it's not rusted, then just as good.

1134
00:46:29,180 --> 00:46:31,960
Like they don't degrade over time too bad.

1135
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,240
Business model might not work well in Michigan.

1136
00:46:34,240 --> 00:46:34,660
Yes.

1137
00:46:34,660 --> 00:46:38,700
I mean, no, I'm saying you go up to the coin star, you dump your thing and then the people

1138
00:46:38,700 --> 00:46:40,600
just take that and put it back on the shelf.

1139
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,140
And now you have your little coupon and you get a couple of them for free when you buy,

1140
00:46:44,140 --> 00:46:46,560
but it can be part of the inventory of the store.

1141
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:47,260
Yeah.

1142
00:46:47,260 --> 00:46:48,320
Ooh.

1143
00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:51,180
Or like that actually would probably save on logistics, right?

1144
00:46:51,180 --> 00:46:54,660
Cause you get like 400 pounds of like input.

1145
00:46:54,920 --> 00:47:00,060
And instead of everybody sending their own individual Home Depot or whoever manages the

1146
00:47:00,060 --> 00:47:03,760
machines, bring it and consolidate it to that massive facility.

1147
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:08,920
And now you have your, your intake, uh, like your, your supply model, right?

1148
00:47:09,060 --> 00:47:13,960
You got your demand booths like in the store and then, you know, you just get bought a

1149
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:15,420
bunch of screws for this one project.

1150
00:47:15,420 --> 00:47:16,320
Don't need them anymore.

1151
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:17,540
Do it a different project.

1152
00:47:17,540 --> 00:47:23,260
I did a deck project and was like four screws short and I needed to buy another hundred or

1153
00:47:23,260 --> 00:47:23,600
whatever.

1154
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:23,920
Yeah.

1155
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:24,460
That's wrong.

1156
00:47:24,460 --> 00:47:28,880
So that's something I often think about with these ideas is who is going to fight you.

1157
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:30,280
Big screw.

1158
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,900
And in this case, it's definitely big screw.

1159
00:47:32,900 --> 00:47:36,700
Their name is for their motto.

1160
00:47:36,700 --> 00:47:37,460
Screw you.

1161
00:47:37,460 --> 00:47:39,500
That's interesting.

1162
00:47:39,500 --> 00:47:39,820
Yeah.

1163
00:47:39,820 --> 00:47:41,280
Who, who doesn't want this to happen?

1164
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:44,200
Like these companies are selling them for pennies.

1165
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:47,060
So it's not like you're undercutting too bad.

1166
00:47:47,060 --> 00:47:49,680
I get the warm fuzzies just knowing I'm reusing them.

1167
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:50,600
Totally.

1168
00:47:50,800 --> 00:47:54,680
The, and, and the ones that get scrapped, like metal has a good scrap value.

1169
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:56,420
It's not, it's not the end of the world.

1170
00:47:56,420 --> 00:47:58,060
Like that's not a just trash.

1171
00:47:58,060 --> 00:48:05,180
I also wonder with this idea, if there's like a commercial or like B2B version of this where

1172
00:48:05,180 --> 00:48:11,480
like I've worked in several factory type settings and there's always like screws and nuts and

1173
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:14,980
washers and bolts that get dropped on the floor constantly and they just get thrown away

1174
00:48:14,980 --> 00:48:16,280
because it's not worth resorting them.

1175
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:23,340
But what if there was like a, you know, fast and all S company that just takes all that

1176
00:48:23,340 --> 00:48:28,280
in and gives you back, you know, maybe, maybe it's not your nuts, your, your staple things

1177
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,500
that you use tons of, but maybe it's like the extras drawer, right?

1178
00:48:31,500 --> 00:48:34,520
Like, oh man, I just need to like hang this thing up.

1179
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:35,180
Paperclips.

1180
00:48:35,180 --> 00:48:35,860
No.

1181
00:48:35,860 --> 00:48:40,880
What if this, is there a model where like the cans where it's like 10 cents a can, but could

1182
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:42,340
you do this for the screws?

1183
00:48:42,340 --> 00:48:42,980
For fasteners?

1184
00:48:42,980 --> 00:48:44,380
Turn this into, yeah.

1185
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,840
Turn this into like a metal recycle up program.

1186
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,480
Like, oh, give us your old cups of screws and nuts.

1187
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,080
I don't know how much metal would sell for like that.

1188
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:59,260
Like if you had like, like 40 pounds of screws and bolts to collect it from your zinc tin.

1189
00:48:59,260 --> 00:48:59,880
Yeah.

1190
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:04,320
Well, here in Michigan, you get 10 cents because you paid 10 cents when you bought it.

1191
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:09,320
Like, I don't know if I want to pay a tax on every screw just that I get back by returning

1192
00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:09,860
it later.

1193
00:49:09,860 --> 00:49:15,080
But like scrap metal, I don't, I don't know how much metal it takes to actually make it

1194
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:15,500
valuable.

1195
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:18,780
But like, what if it was just like one of those programs?

1196
00:49:18,780 --> 00:49:20,780
Like, or like, can you recycle?

1197
00:49:20,780 --> 00:49:22,860
If you had enough screws and fasteners.

1198
00:49:22,860 --> 00:49:23,740
Is that possible?

1199
00:49:23,740 --> 00:49:24,180
I don't know.

1200
00:49:24,180 --> 00:49:25,860
Aluminum is pretty easy to melt down.

1201
00:49:25,860 --> 00:49:26,200
Yeah.

1202
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:30,760
But some other ones like the zinc plated and then like, oh shoot.

1203
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,600
How do I get like the different metals separated?

1204
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:34,580
How do you get the zinc off?

1205
00:49:34,580 --> 00:49:35,040
Yeah.

1206
00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:35,860
Or whatever.

1207
00:49:35,860 --> 00:49:36,680
It's kind of depends.

1208
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:38,080
Just burn it, right?

1209
00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:38,740
Just burn it.

1210
00:49:38,740 --> 00:49:39,800
Just melt it.

1211
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:40,360
And burn it.

1212
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:41,640
Just send it.

1213
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:42,020
Burn it.

1214
00:49:42,020 --> 00:49:44,320
Engineers will figure that one out.

1215
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:44,640
Don't worry.

1216
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:45,760
Engineers will figure it out.

1217
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,000
I think the chemists will figure that out in this case.

1218
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,640
Just the big cauldron in the corner, right?

1219
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:51,760
You throw the screws in there.

1220
00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:52,420
It's the metal vat.

1221
00:49:52,420 --> 00:49:53,340
Don't question it.

1222
00:49:53,340 --> 00:49:53,940
Yeah.

1223
00:49:53,940 --> 00:49:55,000
What's this one made of?

1224
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:59,240
And then like, dribbling out the bottom is like little nuts and bolts.

1225
00:49:59,240 --> 00:50:00,700
That's so handy.

1226
00:50:00,700 --> 00:50:03,200
Could you do that?

1227
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:03,500
No.

1228
00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:08,260
What if you put a bunch of metal in a cauldron and just started churning out like generic nuts and bolts?

1229
00:50:08,260 --> 00:50:08,420
Yeah.

1230
00:50:08,420 --> 00:50:09,400
That's all alloys are.

1231
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:10,860
It's just mixed up metals.

1232
00:50:10,860 --> 00:50:11,440
Yeah.

1233
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:11,960
I mean.

1234
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:12,500
Will it blend?

1235
00:50:12,500 --> 00:50:13,280
Will it blend?

1236
00:50:13,280 --> 00:50:21,480
I'll give you a dollar if that's not what's actually happening in China for like a lot of the cheap screws that I get with some of these things I bought.

1237
00:50:21,480 --> 00:50:21,800
Right.

1238
00:50:21,800 --> 00:50:24,440
I'm ahead of my time, it sounds like, is what you're saying, Drew.

1239
00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:26,220
Ahead of, yes.

1240
00:50:26,220 --> 00:50:26,960
Definitely that.

1241
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:27,680
It's not.

1242
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,020
You can't make that in America.

1243
00:50:29,020 --> 00:50:29,660
That's what you're saying.

1244
00:50:29,740 --> 00:50:33,680
We got to ship all the screws and fasteners overseas in order to make this happen.

1245
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:35,340
No, I'm not saying that.

1246
00:50:35,340 --> 00:50:38,220
Maybe we just haven't caught the vision yet.

1247
00:50:38,220 --> 00:50:39,720
So, yeah, maybe you are ahead of your time.

1248
00:50:39,720 --> 00:50:40,560
No.

1249
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,920
Melt down everything.

1250
00:50:42,920 --> 00:50:44,020
Mix it all up.

1251
00:50:44,020 --> 00:50:45,060
My wedding ring.

1252
00:50:45,060 --> 00:50:45,420
No.

1253
00:50:45,420 --> 00:50:45,860
Shoot.

1254
00:50:45,860 --> 00:50:48,760
You accidentally get a golden screw.

1255
00:50:48,760 --> 00:50:52,840
It's like one of the ones in the pack.

1256
00:50:53,220 --> 00:51:01,200
Hey, that would be a pretty sweet promotion if a screw company put one gold screw in one of their packs of screws somewhere in a hardware store.

1257
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:03,600
And you get to go visit the eccentric factory owner.

1258
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:05,840
I got a golden screw.

1259
00:51:05,840 --> 00:51:10,480
Companies don't do promotions like that anymore, but they should.

1260
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:10,740
Yeah.

1261
00:51:10,740 --> 00:51:11,860
The cereal box model.

1262
00:51:11,860 --> 00:51:14,760
They don't kill children and give away their whole factory.

1263
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:16,000
Well, no, not that part.

1264
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:16,320
No, yeah.

1265
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:17,780
Do you have a name for your idea, Drew?

1266
00:51:17,780 --> 00:51:19,360
I'm voting for that's a lot of nuts.

1267
00:51:19,360 --> 00:51:22,740
I was kind of going with Pappy's Nuts.

1268
00:51:22,740 --> 00:51:23,700
Pappy's Nuts.

1269
00:51:23,700 --> 00:51:27,660
Come on down!

1270
00:51:27,660 --> 00:51:29,740
Pappy's Nuts.

1271
00:51:29,740 --> 00:51:31,240
Bolt Cauldron.

1272
00:51:31,240 --> 00:51:32,420
How about Bolt Cauldron?

1273
00:51:32,420 --> 00:51:33,460
The Bolt Cauldron?

1274
00:51:33,460 --> 00:51:34,500
Yeah, maybe.

1275
00:51:34,500 --> 00:51:35,460
Or Bolt Star.

1276
00:51:35,460 --> 00:51:37,800
Kind of riff on the Coinstar thing.

1277
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:39,220
There you go.

1278
00:51:39,220 --> 00:51:41,800
Bolt Star sounds like a villain in an 80s cartoon.

1279
00:51:41,800 --> 00:51:43,640
It's not a bad name.

1280
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:45,380
It's kind of growing on me now that I said it.

1281
00:51:45,380 --> 00:51:46,780
You might get sued by Coinstar.

1282
00:51:46,780 --> 00:51:47,280
Yeah, you might.

1283
00:51:47,280 --> 00:51:48,420
Well, dear listener.

1284
00:51:48,420 --> 00:51:49,460
They don't own Star.

1285
00:51:49,460 --> 00:51:52,140
They don't own the word Star.

1286
00:51:52,140 --> 00:51:58,240
Well, dear listener, if you're headed down to the hardware store to dump your bucket into

1287
00:51:58,240 --> 00:52:03,780
Pappy's Nuts and you're listening to us in your headphones, we thank you very much for

1288
00:52:03,780 --> 00:52:04,140
listening.

1289
00:52:04,140 --> 00:52:05,640
We hope you enjoyed yourself.

1290
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:07,440
And thank you so much, Drew, for being here.

1291
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:08,240
This was so fun.

1292
00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:08,980
You're welcome.

1293
00:52:08,980 --> 00:52:09,900
Thanks for having me.

1294
00:52:09,900 --> 00:52:10,980
Come back anytime.

1295
00:52:10,980 --> 00:52:12,100
You said you have multiple ideas.

1296
00:52:12,100 --> 00:52:13,420
We'd love to have you back sometime, man.

1297
00:52:13,420 --> 00:52:14,320
I got more.

1298
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:15,140
All right.

1299
00:52:15,140 --> 00:52:18,260
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1300
00:52:18,260 --> 00:52:20,200
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1301
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1302
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1303
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1305
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1306
00:52:31,340 --> 00:52:34,220
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