1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,320 [MUSIC PLAYING] 2 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:06,120 I'm Scott. 3 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:06,800 I'm Russell. 4 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:07,640 And I'm Leo. 5 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:08,480 This is Spitball. 6 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:17,400 [MUSIC PLAYING] 7 00:00:17,400 --> 00:00:19,520 Welcome to Spitball, the Pitchin' Kitchen, 8 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,960 where three lovable scamps-- that's us-- 9 00:00:21,960 --> 00:00:24,480 empty their heads of startup and tech product ideas 10 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,080 that they have stuck up in there so you 11 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:28,000 can all have them for free. 12 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:30,500 Anything that we say here is yours to keep. 13 00:00:30,500 --> 00:00:34,240 - Guys, I gotta say something real quick before we start. 14 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:35,520 I've been listening to our podcast, 15 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:37,560 and what I've realized is the more I listen to it, 16 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:39,180 the more ideas I come up with. 17 00:00:39,180 --> 00:00:42,240 And I think, I think there's something 18 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,240 where if you listen to other people's ideas 19 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,200 or talk about your ideas, you're gonna come up with more. 20 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:48,040 - Yeah, dude. 21 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,600 - Better ideas, killer ideas. 22 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:51,440 - That's why we're here. 23 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:53,120 - The idea that you've been looking for. 24 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:55,640 And I just wanna recommend that people continue 25 00:00:55,640 --> 00:01:00,640 like and subscribe on this podcast so you can think of more ideas one at a time. 26 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:02,640 Listen to how great we are. 27 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:09,120 Yeah, and also if you your idea is inside you just got to listen this podcast and eventually 28 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:10,120 boom idea. 29 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,840 One of the, you just keep throwing stuff at the wall one of them will hit. 30 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:14,840 That's right. 31 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,200 And then you'll bring it on this podcast or do it yourself. 32 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,280 Bring your other the bad ideas you know to this podcast. 33 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:22,620 The ideas you know. 34 00:01:22,620 --> 00:01:23,840 That's great for Spitball. 35 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:24,840 So brilliant. 36 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,200 - Yes, all right. 37 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,520 Leo, what is an idea you would love to do, 38 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:30,720 but just don't have time for? 39 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,880 - All right, this one hurts because it's a small website 40 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,400 and I think I could do it, I just don't have the time for it. 41 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,720 So every once in a while I want to go and buy a product 42 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:44,880 that I know at some point has been advertised 43 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:47,080 on a podcast that I enjoy. 44 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,360 And I cannot for the life of me remember 45 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,860 what the coupon code was or the referral link 46 00:01:51,860 --> 00:01:53,580 or the whatever I have to do. 47 00:01:53,580 --> 00:01:54,900 I'm not going to go through their back 48 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:57,100 catalog and try to find whatever fricking 49 00:01:57,100 --> 00:01:58,880 episode that was on three years ago. 50 00:01:58,880 --> 00:01:59,540 Right. 51 00:01:59,540 --> 00:02:02,740 I know that there's a retail me, not 52 00:02:02,740 --> 00:02:05,340 another referral code websites and stuff, 53 00:02:05,340 --> 00:02:06,700 but those are different than what I want. 54 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:10,300 I want is specifically look up a product 55 00:02:10,300 --> 00:02:13,040 or a podcast and see the database of all 56 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:14,260 of the referral codes that they've ever 57 00:02:14,260 --> 00:02:17,020 used, if, and when they still exist, maybe 58 00:02:17,020 --> 00:02:18,580 even a link to the various websites or 59 00:02:18,580 --> 00:02:20,020 whatever, if you've got to buy a mattress, 60 00:02:20,020 --> 00:02:22,260 you want to support that one show that 61 00:02:22,260 --> 00:02:23,560 you really love so much, right? 62 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:26,060 But shoot, how did I do that again? 63 00:02:26,060 --> 00:02:30,360 Was that the name of the show or the name of the people on it or whatever? 64 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:36,360 I want a database of coupon codes that are only specifically tied to a show that use them 65 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,560 so I can support both the business and the show that I heard it from. 66 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:41,360 Gotcha. 67 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:46,760 So is this like some kind of API plug-in that the podcast would host on their website? 68 00:02:46,760 --> 00:02:48,760 I was thinking like crowdsourced. 69 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,760 You go in and you whenever there's a new show, if you want like a wiki type thing, 70 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:57,820 You go and you submit the things that they used this week if and when they had some sort of expiration date 71 00:02:57,820 --> 00:03:04,440 For this you got to go to squarespace.com slash planet money or whatever.com slash my brother 72 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:10,360 Whatever it is, right and and enter in the coupon code here to get your stamps comm shit, dude 73 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,760 I know I just need to remember where those all are right whenever I need to renew my Nord VPN 74 00:03:14,760 --> 00:03:17,460 I go on a bunch of YouTube digital channels 75 00:03:17,460 --> 00:03:20,840 Until you get an ad for it 76 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:23,880 right? It's literally what I do. It just yeah. 77 00:03:23,880 --> 00:03:27,480 I it makes sense. It's just how do you make money? It's one 78 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:31,160 more to just forever solidify that oh these people sponsored 79 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,480 us in the back. If we ever had a time where like I can't 80 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:36,760 believe we got sponsored by. Exactly. I don't know. Big 81 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:40,680 tobacco or something like they really love Spitball for some 82 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:45,400 reason. Another so this has an obvious revenue generation too 83 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,600 which is the site itself can put its own thing in the list 84 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,600 I look up, shoot, what was all the mattress company coupon codes? 85 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,600 If I don't see any shows that I recognize in the top 10 or whatever, 86 00:03:56,600 --> 00:04:02,600 the very top sticky one could be the referral deal that I've hammered out with Squarespace. 87 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:03,600 You know what I mean? 88 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:09,600 So then you have your own if you want at referralcodes.podcast.biz 89 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:12,600 and then you can send them with your own. 90 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:13,600 Dang. 91 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,600 It's something that I think about once in a while. 92 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:19,200 once in a while I'm like man, I do wanna try, 93 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:23,280 what's the clothes try on one? 94 00:04:23,280 --> 00:04:25,240 - I was trying to remember the cereal. 95 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:26,080 - The cereal? 96 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,640 - Yeah, the natural cereal. 97 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:34,800 - Exactly, so you look up, this is the problem, right? 98 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:36,800 You look up the show and there's all the stuff 99 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,560 that they talked about in the last few weeks and boom. 100 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,120 - My problem right now is I can't remember 101 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:42,360 where I heard the cereal from. 102 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:43,200 - Oh, there's that too. 103 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,240 - They're just like advertising like crazy to every podcast. 104 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:46,240 What the hell? 105 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:50,120 The homepage of this thing should be just boom, search box, right? 106 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:51,120 You don't need much else. 107 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:52,120 Just cereal. 108 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:53,120 Just cereal. 109 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:57,600 But then you're like looking through the list of all the different podcasts and YouTubers 110 00:04:57,600 --> 00:04:59,400 that you're, or is it the other way around? 111 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:04,840 Do you go to your YouTuber and you put in all of your favorite YouTubers and you find 112 00:05:04,840 --> 00:05:05,840 ways to support them? 113 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:11,080 Like even Amazon referrals or like, you know, the Amazon smile, right? 114 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:12,080 Or whatever. 115 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:15,480 Like whenever I buy a new AirPod pro thing, 116 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:19,240 I'm gonna go through MKBHD's Amazon referral link 117 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:20,440 or something, right? 118 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:22,180 - Totally, totally. 119 00:05:22,180 --> 00:05:23,140 So there's two services, 120 00:05:23,140 --> 00:05:26,400 there's songwhip.com and pod.link. 121 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,600 And these, both of these services are the same thing, 122 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,000 one for music and one for podcasts. 123 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:34,520 They are a stick in your song, 124 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:35,700 stick in your podcast episodes, 125 00:05:35,700 --> 00:05:36,880 stick in your artist or whatever. 126 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,880 And it generates a link that you can then share. 127 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,040 And when the person that you're sending it to clicks on it, 128 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:43,240 says, great, here's your song. 129 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:43,880 Here's your artist. 130 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:44,700 Here's your podcast. 131 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:47,140 Here's every freaking streaming service 132 00:05:47,140 --> 00:05:47,960 that you can listen to it on. 133 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:49,360 Cause if you want to share a song with 134 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:50,240 somebody, you don't know if they have 135 00:05:50,240 --> 00:05:52,680 Spotify or title or YouTube music or 136 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:54,560 Apple music or whatever. 137 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:54,800 Right. 138 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:56,680 So you go to songwhip, you pull up 139 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:57,800 your thing, you give it to them. 140 00:05:57,800 --> 00:06:00,160 Those two services have the same business 141 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:02,960 model where they go to artists and they 142 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:05,160 say, if you want, you can have custom 143 00:06:05,160 --> 00:06:07,480 colors and a custom vanity URL and stuff 144 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:10,440 to take over your page if you give us a 145 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:10,960 few bucks. 146 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:16,120 So in this thing, the referral codes could also go to MKBHD and go to whatever 147 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:20,120 and have them stick their referral codes in and keep them up to date themselves. 148 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:22,860 You could have a direct line with the content creators. 149 00:06:22,860 --> 00:06:24,080 If you get this popular enough. 150 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:25,540 Dude, that's hard. 151 00:06:25,540 --> 00:06:28,680 You got to get it popular enough for that in order for them to take an interest in 152 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:30,920 it, but if you do, that's a, that's awesome. 153 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:31,240 Yeah. 154 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,880 Relying just on wiki has the whole content moderation problem. 155 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:36,960 Use coupon code, Dick's Dick's Dick's. 156 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:38,000 Oh, well, okay. 157 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:38,720 Right. 158 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:40,200 You're going to get some of that. 159 00:06:41,280 --> 00:06:42,480 So there's got to be some like upvoting. 160 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:43,160 It's memorable. 161 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:44,080 I'll give them that. 162 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:45,220 I will have forever. 163 00:06:45,220 --> 00:06:46,880 Remember that coupon code. 164 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:49,020 Dude, that's like a different way to monetize anything now. 165 00:06:49,020 --> 00:06:52,160 All any content you could just create different means, right? 166 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:54,660 You have your coupon codes from your referral partners, 167 00:06:54,660 --> 00:06:57,660 but then you have all these other means for them to support you. 168 00:06:57,660 --> 00:07:03,020 Like I think it can blow up between a different way to get your YouTubers 169 00:07:03,020 --> 00:07:05,180 help, provide them help, and then. 170 00:07:05,180 --> 00:07:05,620 Yeah. 171 00:07:05,620 --> 00:07:07,420 Like, oh, here's like five ways. 172 00:07:07,420 --> 00:07:10,920 So you got Patreon, buy me a cup of coffee and then you have this. 173 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,920 It's like, yeah, keep doing what you're doing in real life 174 00:07:13,920 --> 00:07:16,220 and buy your shit through this link. 175 00:07:16,220 --> 00:07:19,120 Yeah, totally. 176 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,220 The stupider and easier you can make it to support them. 177 00:07:22,220 --> 00:07:23,320 Like I would do that. 178 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:24,260 I love this guy. 179 00:07:24,260 --> 00:07:28,220 I love this YouTuber, but like I'm not going to go out of my way to support him. 180 00:07:28,220 --> 00:07:28,560 Yeah. 181 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:31,220 You just gave me a button in front of me that I could hit and he would 182 00:07:31,220 --> 00:07:32,960 something nice would happen to him. 183 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:33,620 I'd do that. 184 00:07:33,620 --> 00:07:38,080 So slick deals and honey and a few others are Chrome extensions 185 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:40,760 where they you press a button and they'd like try a bunch of coupon codes. 186 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:47,760 You could have the honey, but for this and you say what 12 subscribers you want to support. 187 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:53,760 Oh, and then every time you're going to check out on whatever shop.com, it says, hey, by the way, there's a coupon code. 188 00:07:53,760 --> 00:07:57,760 Yeah, it proactively tells you, by the way, we have something in the database for MKBHD 189 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,760 and you should use this to get your 5% off and support them. 190 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,760 That's cool. I love that. Yeah, that's cool. 191 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:08,760 And all the persons responsible for doing is just feeding into this list who I like. 192 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:09,260 And that's it. 193 00:08:09,260 --> 00:08:10,700 It'll figure out the rest of them there. 194 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:15,140 And the real altruistic noble people who want to really support their whatever 195 00:08:15,140 --> 00:08:19,900 can content community, you know, like contribute the codes that they know exist. 196 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:21,400 It's the wiki style. 197 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:22,100 That's so good. 198 00:08:22,100 --> 00:08:26,740 I really like like I don't I don't want to subscribe or pay money to any Twitch 199 00:08:26,740 --> 00:08:31,240 streamers or YouTubers or patrons like it's just not what I'm into. 200 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:31,700 I don't know. 201 00:08:31,700 --> 00:08:34,300 It feels a little weird to be giving money through that. 202 00:08:34,300 --> 00:08:37,360 This would be way more approachable to something like me who's like, 203 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:40,040 Absolutely, I'm already buying something. 204 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:42,800 Yeah, might as well give them a credit card. 205 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:46,200 Do you go in like the get a little crazy here, right? 206 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:50,800 Like you can like you take a credit card company, you say use this credit card on 207 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:56,080 stuff and then you can give instead of taking 3% you're given the 1% to different 208 00:08:56,080 --> 00:09:01,520 subscribers or like a bank and then you can I don't know, maybe not full credit 209 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:05,280 card like company, but something in between. 210 00:09:05,300 --> 00:09:07,680 Like how do you generate like you? 211 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:09,780 You take your 3% credit card purchases 212 00:09:09,780 --> 00:09:12,360 and you apply it to your favorite content creators 213 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:14,420 instead of using points. 214 00:09:14,420 --> 00:09:17,860 Like would you give up your points to content creators? 215 00:09:17,860 --> 00:09:19,960 Oh, some way for sure. 216 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:21,320 There's probably people out there 217 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:22,920 that would think about it that, but it doesn't. 218 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:26,200 It's like now you get bits on Twitch or whatever, right? 219 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:27,660 Like some micro, right? 220 00:09:27,660 --> 00:09:30,500 It's just yeah, there's something. 221 00:09:30,500 --> 00:09:31,340 Yeah, I love that. 222 00:09:31,340 --> 00:09:34,560 Listeners can help generate the next one, right? 223 00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:41,460 Like, but this when you passive, uh, small, um, collective, uh, 224 00:09:41,460 --> 00:09:44,080 right. 225 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:46,320 You guys know the acorn app, the roundup thing. 226 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:47,160 Oh yeah. 227 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:51,600 Rounds up your dollar or whatever amount you spend in order to put it 228 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,800 into an account that invests feels a little good. 229 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:54,200 Yeah. 230 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:55,040 Yeah. 231 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:59,320 Well, I'm excited to use the service when somebody else takes it and makes it. 232 00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:04,320 [Music] 233 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:06,320 Alright Scott, I think you're next bud. What do you got? 234 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:09,320 Alright, bear with me on this one. 235 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,320 QR code tattoos. 236 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:14,320 So, a co-worker... 237 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,320 [Laughter] 238 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:17,320 Put it on me. 239 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:23,320 A co-worker was telling me about how he met someone with a big barcode on the back of his neck. 240 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:25,320 And he was talking about it and he was like, "Oh, this is... 241 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:28,160 This is my grandpa was one of the original inventors 242 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,520 of a barcode of the barcode. 243 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:32,720 And so he got a tattoo to remember him. 244 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:34,360 And the whole time he's telling me this story, 245 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:36,520 I'm thinking like, if that was a QR code 246 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,000 and I just saw that on a random person, 247 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,520 I would do everything in my power 248 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:41,960 to subtly take a picture of that 249 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,380 and try to figure out where that QR code goes. 250 00:10:44,380 --> 00:10:47,280 That just, my curiosity would be so peaked 251 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,900 if I saw a random person with a very large, 252 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:52,500 like whatever QR code visible on them, 253 00:10:52,500 --> 00:10:54,200 which got me thinking on here, 254 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,000 there has to be a way to, 255 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,980 we're gonna get a little dystopian here, 256 00:10:57,980 --> 00:11:01,040 but there has to be a way to monetize off of that, right? 257 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,360 Could like Taco Bell go out and sponsor people 258 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:06,160 to get maybe not full tattoos, 259 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:09,520 but like temporary tattoos or henna or something on them 260 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:14,400 where every time if I have this Taco Bell QR code on me, 261 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,920 anytime it's scanned and someone lands on that homepage, 262 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:19,280 or maybe makes a purchase of it, 263 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:21,340 going back to your coupon codes thing, 264 00:11:21,340 --> 00:11:23,660 I get a little cut of that profit on there 265 00:11:23,660 --> 00:11:26,240 'cause I was the one who directed them that website. 266 00:11:26,240 --> 00:11:27,820 And people are industrious, 267 00:11:27,820 --> 00:11:30,520 they would figure out ways to get that QR code 268 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,800 in front of as many people as possible 269 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,920 if it was associated with me and if I profited off. 270 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,440 - Strippers would love this, I think. 271 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,040 Absolutely love this. (laughing) 272 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:40,920 - Their Venmo. 273 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:42,160 - Yeah, their OnlyFans. 274 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:45,840 Like, Venmo on it directly. 275 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:48,980 - Scott, we have had the conversation in my household 276 00:11:48,980 --> 00:11:50,160 of what tattoo would you get, 277 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:52,040 which I think every household has to have 278 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:53,280 at some point in their life, right? 279 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,800 I literally said, I would love to have a QR code. 280 00:11:56,800 --> 00:11:59,780 And you, so I don't know if you know this, there's a 281 00:11:59,780 --> 00:12:01,600 dot tattoo TLD even. 282 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,480 So you go and you registered Scott dot tattoo. 283 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:08,440 You keep, you make sure you pay that bill on a valid 284 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:09,760 credit card for the rest of your life. 285 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:13,260 You get that domain on your tattoo, on your skin, and 286 00:12:13,260 --> 00:12:15,620 then you can point it toward the Taco Bell reward this 287 00:12:15,620 --> 00:12:18,060 week, or you point it toward your homepage or your 288 00:12:18,060 --> 00:12:20,440 contact card or your whatever, right? 289 00:12:20,780 --> 00:12:22,180 Just change where it redirects to. 290 00:12:22,180 --> 00:12:23,360 So that's it. 291 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:28,600 You just create a channel using that service that I can redirect to wherever 292 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:34,400 for profit, whether I'm sponsoring Taco Bell or I am a stripper with a QR code. 293 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:35,860 I don't know how that works actually. 294 00:12:35,860 --> 00:12:39,980 That was just a good idea just to have your Venmo tattooed on you. 295 00:12:39,980 --> 00:12:43,140 I mean, what other better way to make money, right? 296 00:12:43,140 --> 00:12:48,220 Just people are going to sneak up and take pictures of my QR code, like send me money. 297 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,480 And it's just a Venmo request for 100 bucks 298 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:52,640 and hopefully those hit enter on accident. 299 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:53,480 - Right. 300 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:55,640 - Dude, you can turn this into like temporary tattoos too. 301 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,180 People like are interested in it. 302 00:12:57,180 --> 00:12:59,640 You could totally sell the temporary tattoo. 303 00:12:59,640 --> 00:13:00,960 - Taco Bell could just give out a bunch of that. 304 00:13:00,960 --> 00:13:01,960 Well, I don't know. 305 00:13:01,960 --> 00:13:03,900 Then I couldn't monetize off it 306 00:13:03,900 --> 00:13:05,560 if they're mass producing these guys. 307 00:13:05,560 --> 00:13:07,880 It's gotta be associated with me personally. 308 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:08,720 - I don't know. 309 00:13:08,720 --> 00:13:09,880 I mean like you could just give out 310 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:11,720 a hundred thousand temporary tattoos 311 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:14,780 and people with children are sticking it on them. 312 00:13:14,780 --> 00:13:20,940 like, oh, Evan, Evan, my buddy at middle school is wearing a QR code tattoo, right? 313 00:13:20,940 --> 00:13:24,020 You're like, then all the sixth graders with their brand new smartphones are 314 00:13:24,020 --> 00:13:29,220 going to take pictures of the McDonald's happy meal about to blow up with these QR codes. 315 00:13:29,220 --> 00:13:34,240 I think my brother, my brother and me's munch squad had a couple of months ago, 316 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:39,080 some it was like subway or somebody did a, the first five people that tattoo our 317 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,260 mascot get free subs for a year or something. 318 00:13:42,260 --> 00:13:44,960 So this is not completely uncharted waters, 319 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:46,860 but the QR code is great. 320 00:13:46,860 --> 00:13:47,260 You could make it. 321 00:13:47,260 --> 00:13:48,100 Because that is dynamic. 322 00:13:48,100 --> 00:13:49,960 You can make it do whatever you want. 323 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:52,900 Yeah, I love the idea of it being able to redirect to whatever. 324 00:13:52,900 --> 00:13:54,960 Today I'm doing Taco Bell tomorrow. 325 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:56,900 People just get Rick rolled if they take this picture. 326 00:13:56,900 --> 00:13:57,500 Yeah. 327 00:13:57,500 --> 00:14:03,860 I'm a little afraid of the steady hand required by a tattoo artist 328 00:14:03,860 --> 00:14:06,800 to get the precision of the dots. Right. 329 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,900 Oh, is there some sort of tattoo template that they can do or is everything? 330 00:14:10,900 --> 00:14:15,080 I've only ever seen free and right because if they get a couple of those dots switched 331 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:20,880 You're stuck with a dead doesn't actually resolve QR code on your skin for the rest of your life 332 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:27,080 I think you just came up with a amazing idea. You create a 3d printer for tattoos. Boom. Yes, perfect 333 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:35,340 He just that's like it's like automating a haircut like I don't want that machine near me you're right 334 00:14:35,340 --> 00:14:37,340 Oh, I guess that makes sense 335 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:45,680 That would be so awesome you get precise pixel perfect tattoos on your body instead of like terrible. Yeah 336 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:52,640 Yeah, you can have it resolved to an actual photograph of something or whatever that I'm I like this you could oh 337 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:58,300 You know those cool like pick those new QR codes where they're integrated in like the art form itself 338 00:14:58,300 --> 00:15:04,360 Like you don't even know that you are code. It's just like yeah. Yeah the stable diffusion ones. Yeah that 339 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:11,240 That would be cool, you know, so you get some scene of a Japanese village or whatever, but it's actually something scannable 340 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,840 That's fun. I mean that people brings you to talk 341 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:25,040 All right, Russell, what's an idea you want but don't have time for this is the best idea 342 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:30,020 I think I can give away right now episode 3 best idea. Okay 343 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:37,680 Here's my problem. I have issues with my car every once in a while. You gotta go to your brake change your oil change 344 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:42,720 Scott knows he helped me move my car recently my brakes need to be replaced 345 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:48,800 Once they are past the sound they're they are grinding. Oh, yeah, I'm 346 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:53,240 Anyways, it's cuz I'm too damn busy. Okay? 347 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:58,220 I what I'm gonna go sit in some frickin waiting room for an hour while they change my brakes 348 00:15:58,220 --> 00:16:01,300 like what a giant ass waste of time. 349 00:16:01,300 --> 00:16:04,140 Like I can't think of something more painful 350 00:16:04,140 --> 00:16:05,820 than sitting in a waiting room, 351 00:16:05,820 --> 00:16:08,700 letting somebody so that I can pay to have my brakes 352 00:16:08,700 --> 00:16:11,380 like fix, it's like double negative. 353 00:16:11,380 --> 00:16:12,220 I don't know. 354 00:16:12,220 --> 00:16:14,380 So here's, here it is, okay. 355 00:16:14,380 --> 00:16:20,860 People come to you to do all your maintenance, simple. 356 00:16:20,860 --> 00:16:23,580 Okay, they do this for windshields right now. 357 00:16:23,580 --> 00:16:26,780 Safe flight repair, they're not an advertiser, 358 00:16:27,660 --> 00:16:28,300 but they go in. 359 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:31,500 They're locksmiths, right? Locksmiths will help you get back in your locked car. 360 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:36,220 There we go. Oil changes, how hard is that? You just go in the parking lot, 361 00:16:36,220 --> 00:16:41,100 shove one of those oil pans in there, do the thing. I mean, it's not like... And those are... 362 00:16:41,100 --> 00:16:46,860 You go to Jiffy Lube and you do the same thing. It's so easy. There are just shops that make 363 00:16:46,860 --> 00:16:52,140 insane amounts of money by having quick change oil changes, right? You sit in your car while 364 00:16:52,140 --> 00:16:57,840 it happens like boom take that up a notch right do some corporate plans go 365 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:02,600 to like you know oh everybody's got has their cars sitting in a parking lot 366 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:09,120 right five oil changes corporate benefit I save money company saves money oh I 367 00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:13,400 see what you're saying dude and now it's an employee of your insurance plan or 368 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:17,880 whatever yeah it's an employee benefit uber for car repair for car repair so I 369 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:22,040 feel like garages usually have a lot of specialized equipment and the whole like 370 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:27,840 getting under the car gang thing. That's a tow truck. You just do tow truck. 371 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:33,160 Mobile mobile jacks. Like is a tow truck. Could you just get a fancy tow truck? Like 372 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:38,120 you just buy one of those. Oh, you could. I actually really like that. You could invest 373 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:44,560 in some big F-150 or something that has a trailer behind it that'll just hitch it all up and then 374 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:50,080 all the tools in either in the car. Dude. Yeah, it's super easy. You just and here's where it 375 00:17:50,080 --> 00:17:56,360 gets better, right? You can do AAA services right on your downtime. So if people are pulled 376 00:17:56,360 --> 00:18:00,880 over on the side of the road and they have a broken tire, like you can replace AAA better 377 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:07,060 than AAA because they kind of suck. Like you can now you have. Oh, they're great if you're 378 00:18:07,060 --> 00:18:14,320 good waiting four hours. Exactly right now. AAA has a different monetization model. They're 379 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:19,020 changing oil over here and then they're like, oh, cars are pulled over here. Boom, right? 380 00:18:19,020 --> 00:18:21,280 have all these tow truck companies that have tow trucks 381 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:24,380 that sit all day waiting for their call. 382 00:18:24,380 --> 00:18:27,880 Like now they're just always on the road circling 383 00:18:27,880 --> 00:18:31,820 for that oil change request or the brake repair or whatever. 384 00:18:31,820 --> 00:18:34,340 And you're just, there's so much work out there. 385 00:18:34,340 --> 00:18:37,440 They, all these cars sit in parking lots all day just. 386 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:39,900 - If we want to play a terrible insurance game 387 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:42,180 I almost want to one up this and be, 388 00:18:42,180 --> 00:18:44,160 I love the idea of them coming to you, 389 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,100 but also they come to you 390 00:18:46,100 --> 00:18:49,100 and they take your car to a mechanic, 391 00:18:49,100 --> 00:18:52,000 either do the waiting or whatever there for you, 392 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,220 and then bring your car back while you're at work 393 00:18:54,220 --> 00:18:55,980 or at a movie or something. 394 00:18:55,980 --> 00:18:58,460 Sounds like a scheduling and insurance nightmare, 395 00:18:58,460 --> 00:19:00,700 but man, I would love that. 396 00:19:00,700 --> 00:19:01,740 - Insurance? 397 00:19:01,740 --> 00:19:04,540 Well, it's like a tow, I mean, tow trucks don't have to, 398 00:19:04,540 --> 00:19:06,500 well, I don't know anything about tow trucks, right? 399 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:08,260 - Oh, I guess you could do it with a tow truck. 400 00:19:08,260 --> 00:19:09,100 - Oh, yeah. 401 00:19:09,100 --> 00:19:11,260 Everything is, like my whole model. 402 00:19:11,260 --> 00:19:12,980 - I was just thinking some guy drives their car off 403 00:19:12,980 --> 00:19:14,860 into there and hopefully it doesn't crash it. 404 00:19:14,860 --> 00:19:18,600 Oh, that's not a bad idea to I guess. 405 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:20,600 I'm yeah, I think you can. 406 00:19:20,600 --> 00:19:25,600 No, I was I was just thinking you just like take tow trucking, 407 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:30,300 blow that up a little bit, add a bunch of monetization around repair. 408 00:19:30,300 --> 00:19:31,360 You need one. 409 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:33,360 And like, that's it. 410 00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:34,800 Just buy a tow truck. 411 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:37,160 Put all the upselling inside the app itself. 412 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,060 Like, do you need your filter change? 413 00:19:39,060 --> 00:19:40,560 Do you want your. Yeah. 414 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:44,600 I will deca would detail the inside while we're at it or something. 415 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:49,420 And there'd be a home base they come dispatched from so you'd have all the supplies and stuff there 416 00:19:49,420 --> 00:19:51,320 But they would know what appointments are hitting today 417 00:19:51,320 --> 00:19:54,800 So they can bring only the break that they know what they're your model, right? 418 00:19:54,800 --> 00:20:00,000 They don't have to tote around an entire facility exactly you need only the tools for that day 419 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:06,160 So they in the morning drive into headquarters and it says alright, you're gonna need these five Allen wrenches 420 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:08,840 Oh, yeah, I own wrenches rent. What is it called the? 421 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,140 We all know exactly what we're talking about 422 00:20:15,140 --> 00:20:22,260 Drivers I 423 00:20:22,260 --> 00:20:24,580 Hold the flashlight 424 00:20:24,580 --> 00:20:28,180 But yeah, you get it you only have to live what you need so it doesn't have to travel 425 00:20:28,180 --> 00:20:31,260 I mean you got to be able to jack the car you got to be able to get underneath there 426 00:20:31,260 --> 00:20:32,740 You got to be able to do some basic stuff 427 00:20:32,740 --> 00:20:35,820 But you don't need every tool under the Sun because you have it booked out a week in advance 428 00:20:35,820 --> 00:20:41,600 You know what to bring to you dude like changing your tires sucks like Costco has a whole tire center 429 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:43,480 Like sure, somebody help me. 430 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:46,400 I just want somebody to fix my brakes. 431 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,360 And here's another thing. 432 00:20:47,360 --> 00:20:52,400 You could just have a truck in your driveway and Uber model it right. 433 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:57,240 Just today I'm going to work, find the nearest thing, go to AutoZone 434 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,560 and fricking buy the stuff and then go to your your appointment. 435 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:01,400 Like you don't. 436 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:03,960 I really think the hardest part of this is just figuring out 437 00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:08,480 how to jack up the car safely on the side of the road or driveway or something. 438 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,240 And then everything else fits. 439 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,040 You've got the scaffolding of a car carrier, 440 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,060 right, that takes 10 of those cars in, but 441 00:21:16,060 --> 00:21:17,600 you just get a little bit more elevation 442 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:19,920 and only one shrink down the length a little bit. 443 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:22,240 You could have it be wenched onto a pickup 444 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,720 or a tow truck kind of thing that is just 445 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:27,800 higher up or lifts up. 446 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,600 Oh dude, it's like the scissor lifts. 447 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:32,640 It just goes up 10 feet in the air. 448 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,640 Ground level is the basement of the oil change place. 449 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,480 Car is up 10 feet in the air on a scissor lift 450 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,280 and you're underneath it doing whatever. 451 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:44,780 Dude, and the advertising, like while you're doing the oil change, 452 00:21:44,780 --> 00:21:47,580 you literally cars are driving by people getting in their cars 453 00:21:47,580 --> 00:21:51,580 and like as your car is 10 feet in the air and just have a big sign out of like 454 00:21:51,580 --> 00:21:54,340 never wait for an oil change again or something. 455 00:21:54,340 --> 00:21:56,140 That's that's pretty smart. 456 00:21:56,140 --> 00:21:59,580 Yeah, it's just a marketing monster makes money. 457 00:21:59,580 --> 00:22:03,140 It's easy. I think it's easy. 458 00:22:03,140 --> 00:22:05,280 It's easy. It's easy. 459 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,980 I wouldn't I wouldn't stand under a scissor lift with a car. 460 00:22:08,540 --> 00:22:09,140 Someone would. 461 00:22:09,140 --> 00:22:12,680 OK, wait, there's the one of the cars, the transporters, the car transporters. 462 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:13,940 You get one of those. 463 00:22:13,940 --> 00:22:16,440 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 464 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,580 I'm just picturing some poor Uber for mechanics driver 465 00:22:20,580 --> 00:22:23,280 in the middle of a Midwest winter. 466 00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,480 So we got to change my oil and it's negative four degrees out. 467 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:27,380 That's true. 468 00:22:27,380 --> 00:22:29,540 On this side of the road might need some. 469 00:22:29,540 --> 00:22:31,640 Then you put it in a semi boom. 470 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,520 We bring a semi to you drive into it. 471 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:37,340 Just start the car, man. 472 00:22:37,340 --> 00:22:41,800 I mean, if they can put formula cars in the back of a semi and work on them, right? 473 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,980 I really love the idea, though, of like a company sponsoring this, 474 00:22:45,980 --> 00:22:49,900 like who needs oil changes, sign up here and we're just going to have it in the lot 475 00:22:49,900 --> 00:22:51,600 and we'll take care of all year by the end of the day. 476 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:53,940 All to people be all over that. 477 00:22:53,940 --> 00:22:55,740 Yeah. And it's like your your business. 478 00:22:55,740 --> 00:22:56,740 It's like food cart. 479 00:22:56,740 --> 00:23:00,500 It's like a food truck, but for mechanical repair. 480 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:11,640 OK, Scott, give me a industry that you interacted with today. 481 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:12,920 Gutter cleaning. 482 00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:19,440 Russell, give me the last business that you interacted with that royally screwed you over. 483 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,360 I got really screwed over by Amazon. 484 00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:22,600 They left it in the rain. 485 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,800 That's fine. 486 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:31,680 How could Amazon integrate gutter cleaning services? 487 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:43,480 You know, I robot, the people who make room was used to have a gutter cleaning bot and they had one model and I tried to buy it and then it was like discontinued and they've never made one again. 488 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:47,560 It looked like a long, skinny square, like a brick kinda. 489 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:52,400 And at the front it had a little propeller rotor and you'd stick it on one end of the gutter. 490 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:57,080 They would just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom and like push it, flipping the stuff out as it went across. 491 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:58,840 And it looked awesome. 492 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,080 And nobody has ever made one again, to my knowledge. 493 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:01,960 And I tried to buy one. 494 00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:02,560 I can't. 495 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:08,960 Yes, Amazon needs to make Alexa enabled Alexa clean my gutters 496 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,860 better cleaning. 497 00:24:10,860 --> 00:24:15,760 All I'm picturing is like getting a notification on my 498 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,260 Amazon app to be like your gutters are cleaned and then I 499 00:24:18,260 --> 00:24:20,060 come home and my gutters are just gone. 500 00:24:20,060 --> 00:24:24,560 Dude, that's exactly what I robot does like half the time 501 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,660 your vacuums underneath your like upside down in your car. 502 00:24:28,660 --> 00:24:29,160 Yeah. 503 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:34,360 How did you get in this position? 504 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:36,620 How did you climb the stairs? 505 00:24:36,620 --> 00:24:37,720 This is how Amazon does it. 506 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:41,760 They pour a little bit of gasoline down the drain, 507 00:24:41,760 --> 00:24:43,460 light a small fire, boom. 508 00:24:43,460 --> 00:24:45,200 Okay? 509 00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:46,400 (laughing) 510 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:47,260 Burn the debris. 511 00:24:47,260 --> 00:24:50,160 - Someone wise once said, 512 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,600 "Wood and coal burn, gasoline explodes." 513 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:55,880 I don't know if gasoline's the move. 514 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:56,720 - Liquid coal. 515 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:57,560 - You probably want-- - Liquid coal. 516 00:24:57,560 --> 00:24:59,900 - Yeah, just kerosene or something, yeah, right. 517 00:24:59,900 --> 00:25:03,020 -Okay. -Controlled explosions to clean gutters. 518 00:25:03,020 --> 00:25:04,460 -There we go. -Done by Jeff Bezos. 519 00:25:04,460 --> 00:25:05,340 -Here's another way. -Okay. 520 00:25:05,340 --> 00:25:08,820 -You get the Amazon drivers that are, you know, when they drop off a package. 521 00:25:08,820 --> 00:25:10,740 -Put on your gloves. 522 00:25:10,740 --> 00:25:14,820 Would you like to add on gutter cleaning for $20? 523 00:25:14,820 --> 00:25:15,900 Hell yeah, I would. 524 00:25:15,900 --> 00:25:16,700 I'm in prime. 525 00:25:16,700 --> 00:25:18,700 -These poor drivers. 526 00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:22,980 -Some guy's going to deliver your package just soaked in mud. 527 00:25:22,980 --> 00:25:24,740 You're like, "Oh, the last guy must have." 528 00:25:24,740 --> 00:25:29,460 -They'll also take out your trash and bring your kids to the daycare. 529 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:36,260 chimney cleaning are you sure neighbor that poor guy that's perfect man you 530 00:25:36,260 --> 00:25:43,380 already got labor at your door just need them to stay a little longer thank you 531 00:25:43,380 --> 00:25:48,600 for listening whoever enjoyed yourself our website is Spitball.show please we'd 532 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,700 really love to hear from you if you could email us we'd love to hear 533 00:25:51,700 --> 00:25:56,500 comments ideas feedback anything at podcast@Spitball.show follow us on 534 00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:00,280 social media we're @theSpitballshow on Twitter for however long that remains a 535 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:05,260 thing and podcast at Spitball.show on the Fetaverse such as Mastodon. 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