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

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Welcome to Spitball, where three turing complete tech guys and a guest empty their heads of 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 this week, boys, I brought our guest. I am delighted to introduce the world to Paul, my friend Paul, who works at Hope College with me.

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Paul is a graphic designer and marketing guru and a film enthusiast and friend of mine.

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I am fortunate enough to have him as a resource because I can't design for shit.

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And whenever I have some digital signage need or something on campus, I throw it on his list and he always wows and amazes.

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Paul, welcome to Spitball. It's good to have you.

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Hey, thanks for having me.

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We're so excited to have you.

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This is awesome. This is really exciting. I've never done a podcast like this where we're like over video.

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So this is incredibly cool. Usually like all the ones that I have guest hosted on before, I get like in the room with people and then we have microphones and, you know, all that other stuff.

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But this is great. I'm really looking forward to it.

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I feel like we should start doing something with video. We record the video. We don't do anything to like make highlights for the tick tocks and all that. We got to subscribe to our Patreon. It's the only way behind the scenes. We're all shirtless and nobody knew it.

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I can make a killer YouTube thumbnail for you guys. I'll make it like look. I'll make it definitely look more like Mr. Beast.

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Yeah.

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Wow face. Yeah. I've got our mouths open looking shocked at some pitch that Scott just threw out. I love it.

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Million dollar idea. Billion dollar idea for free.

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This idea will change the world. Whoa.

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This week, we're going to get warmed up and started by doing an intramurals round. We each brought a half idea that doesn't really deserve its own full pitch, but we want to talk about kind of rapid fire style. So who wants to kick us off?

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I'll go.

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Do a wrestle.

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This is great lead in Paul because I know you're drinking kombucha right now.

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Yes, sir.

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Leo, you said it's like Megan still got a kombucha business thing.

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Yeah, her dad. My wife's dad has a kombucha brewing business over in Minnesota. Yeah.

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Well, I'm about to stop all kombucha businesses cold with this amazing idea.

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So kombucha is, I hear, I've never done it myself, relatively easy to brew in home, what have you.

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And so my intramural idea involves creating the Keurig for kombucha.

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So you have two little, like, let's say, carboys or smaller versions of that.

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You plug it into a machine and, you know, it just slowly, you pick one at a time.

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So it brews.

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And then when it's ready, you just rotate between.

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You just, you know, you refill with juice on one side while it's brewing.

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You still got kombucha on the other.

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You can go three or four carboys deep or however many you want.

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And now you have.

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You're just chaining carboys together.

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Yeah.

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And, you know, you create the whole setup so you don't have to deal with all the, I don't know, the junk that is involved with, you know, kombucha brewing.

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So it's just, but they're smaller and it's really home convenience.

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You throw it in your basement and now you go downstairs and you feel like, let's say, a mini pitcher if you really want to.

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Or you go bigger, you know, just have it on your shelf, right?

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So this thing's fully automated?

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's relatively automated because I think with kombucha, once you get the scobies going, the thing that actually brews it, you just fill it with just fruit juice.

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Like, and that's it.

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It's just fruit juice in a pump.

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Bottomless kombucha.

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I'm so excited about this.

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I figured that you were going to go like, like a true, like Keurig, like it rapid fire ferments the kombucha.

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And it's ready.

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It's ready in like 60, yeah, 60 second booch.

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That's what I figured.

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And I was like, how's that going to work?

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Because it has to ferment for hours and hours and hours and weeks.

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Create a super yeast.

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Behind me, one of those boxes over there is literally the Amazon starter kit to get going with kombucha.

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And I keep leaving it in the box and not doing it for months because I don't have freaking space in my fridge.

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And that's what you get with kids who go through a gallon of milk every three days, right?

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You just like, where am I going to put it?

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I would totally take a standalone gadget, especially if it doesn't need to be in the kitchen.

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And I can like stash it away somewhere, basement or whatever.

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Like you said, I love that.

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A carboy is the big like water cooler jug.

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Is that what I'm picturing?

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You get like a smaller one.

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I don't know.

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They have like the smaller carboys.

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I'm not a home brewer.

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You need to get me up with the terms.

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Let's do like a gallon jug, but it's like rectangular.

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Oh, okay.

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Let's say.

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How about that?

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All right.

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You slide them into slots.

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Got it.

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Jump them in.

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And then you have a nozzle, let's say, or like a port in the top to like refill it.

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That's great.

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Your juice of choice or, you know, the proprietary blend of juices so that we have a recurring business model.

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That's it.

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Well, and part of the magic that makes like a batch of kombucha really good is the SCOBY that's been like, this is my SCOBY genes.

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You know, my certain flavor that I've honed over many years, many generations, that's kind of like a proprietary trade secret.

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So you could even have the like, this one's a little more milder of a SCOBY starter kit.

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And this one is one that we've perfected.

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That's got a real bite to it or whatever.

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And like make that part easy because I think you kind of have to either know a friend or get like a business that already has one to like source that, you know.

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Is there like a underground SCOBY selling business right now?

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It's essentially a big glob of snot too.

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It's not appetizing.

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Like the thing that floats in there, you want to skim it out.

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So if you get the little machine like doing, running it through filters and stuff, heck yeah, that's great.

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Is the SCOBY the stuff that leaves the mother in the bottom of all kombucha?

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The mother?

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I'm learning so many words about kombucha right now.

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Yes, it is.

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But yeah.

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According to some of the threads that I follow on Twitter, Lady Gaga is mother.

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That's like, that's like, that's like, that's Gen Alpha, Gen Z language.

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And I don't understand it at all.

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It's a recurring theme that we just kind of are very out of touch with Gen Z culture on the show.

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It's just so bad.

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You'll fit right in.

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Thank goodness we work with college kids, right, Leo?

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I guess so.

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It makes me feel older every minute.

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Can I go with my intramural idea?

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I'd love that.

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Russell, I love your kombucha idea.

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I think that has some legs to it for sure.

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So I thought about this and I wrote, Leo was like, keep a notebook of all the things that

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you might want to say.

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And I was like, I have like eight ideas.

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I want to do a reverse microwave.

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And I don't know what you would call it.

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Microwave, microwave, opposite, opposite microwave.

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So basically like something that-

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Flash freezer.

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Something that can freeze something in like 30 seconds.

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Now I know that like restaurants have blast chillers and stuff like that, but they're

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obnoxiously expensive, right?

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So like, I don't, I'm not going to fork over the money for a blast chiller like that I would

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need to have for residential purposes.

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So if I could have one that is like a microwave, but in reverse, so it doesn't heat anything up.

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It rapidly cools stuff down.

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You can make ice cream in, I don't know, a minute and a half, maybe something like that.

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Frost a glass.

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Get that warm, lukewarm beer out and you have frost a glass and it instantly gets a cold drink.

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Wow.

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I mean, cause if, even if you put like, I put this kombucha in the freezer, right?

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Before I opened it and then put it in the freezer here and it was in there for probably like 20

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minutes and it barely had any ice crystals in it.

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Sure.

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And so I wanted it to be ice cold and it was in there for 20 minutes.

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But meanwhile, like I could heat something up in the microwave and it would be ready in 30 seconds.

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So a veriver, oh yeah.

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Or a air fryer.

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It sounds, it's the cold fryer.

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It sounds counterintuitive to call it like a, a, a, a microwave freezer, but that's exactly

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A flash freezer.

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That's top countertop.

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A flash freezer.

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A flash freezer.

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You buy your little CO2 or liquid nitrogen capsules that you, you know, it's like a subscription

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or whatever.

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And that's your business model.

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I love that.

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That's exactly right.

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It's all Pivener.

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You just mess with the pressure inside of a contained thing and drop it as quick as you

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can.

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And the temperature will follow.

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Well, apparently too, you can use, um, you can do it with like a, a bath of ice and water.

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And then if you put salt on top of the water, it will help flash freeze stuff in probably

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like three to five minutes.

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So I don't know.

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I was an art major, not a chemistry major.

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So I have no idea.

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Well, that's what you do for an ice cream maker.

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Normally in an ice cream maker, you stick your water and ice and stuff on the side and then

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you dump salt in it too.

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Exactly right.

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But even an ice cream maker takes like how long, right?

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Right.

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Right.

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I mean.

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Especially if you're a hand cranking that.

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But imagine, imagine having ice cream done in 30 seconds.

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That would be amazing.

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It's fun.

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You could sell so much different like accessories like that, like ice cream mix and all that

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other stuff.

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It just.

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Oh my God.

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Instant custom ice cream.

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Well, you kind of.

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So I think the other thing that you might have with this, where like a competitor would come

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in and say something about it is that you could basically take frozen fruit, throw it in a

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blender and have ice cream in a matter of minutes.

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I mean like.

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Or sorbet or whatever you want to call it.

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So I've made, I've made frozen ice cream with bananas before, like frozen bananas and chocolate

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Yeah.

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And my wife, like my wife is like, this tastes like fricking bananas.

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Okay.

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Not like.

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Crazy bananas.

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Not.

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No.

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Yeah.

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I know.

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I realized how that sounded.

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I know what you mean.

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No, she's like, this is disgusting.

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It literally tastes like bananas.

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Not like this is bananas.

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It's so good.

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Do you have a food themed one, Scott?

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Cause I don't.

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I do not.

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Okay, great.

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We're time to hard pivot, I guess.

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You want to go?

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Awesome.

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Sure.

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Go ahead.

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This is one that I have thought about ever since Russell started his job.

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And I finally, it's been written in my notebook forever.

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And I finally ran the math on it and realized that this is just a terrible idea.

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I have always wanted to create a power storage device using rain barrels or rainwater.

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Something where you see those things where they're like during the nighttime, you can use cheap energy to move something very heavy.

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And then you lower it during the day in order to produce electricity.

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And then you can sell it back to the grid for a profit.

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I want to make a home version of that using just rain barrels or water or something with a little turbine or something in between.

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And then if you have a blackout or whatever, you could just turn on your rain barrel and it'll slowly release water to give you just enough energy to keep moving.

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Yeah.

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And that doesn't work?

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No.

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It doesn't work.

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The water change.

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It's like by the time you hit the bottom, the electricity gets back to your house, you're at like 19% efficiency of what you started with going through.

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What?

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Oh boy.

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Even on the like big ones that power plants run?

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Not big ones.

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I'm trying to come up with like a home version.

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Something.

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No, I hear you, but like why is it so much less efficient than the giant ones in the mountains?

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Probably because I'm buying my turbines off of AliExpress.

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Oh.

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Oh.

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I see.

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Cheap off the shelf.

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Just get five barrels.

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Just get five barrels.

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You know?

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Yeah.

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You pump it up to the attic.

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You leave a bunch of barrels up in the attic.

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So I was just trying to think, is there anything else that you could use to store potential energy besides water running down your house?

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What about like a grandfather clock weight, but it gets stored in the chimney you don't use?

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Ooh, that's a good one.

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Oh, yeah.

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I don't know how long that would last or how much weight you'd need.

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I don't think people want a giant flywheel in their basement that could explode at any point.

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Just running at all times.

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Ramp it up at 10,000 RPMs.

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What if I get a blackout tonight?

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We got to leave the flywheel going.

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What's behind this door?

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Right?

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Right.

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Just all times.

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10,000 pound flywheel.

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Leo, that reminded me.

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I don't know about if Scott and Russell are fans of the greatest television show ever created.

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A four-letter word called Lost.

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Oh.

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But.

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Scott is a big fan of Lost.

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I was just going to say that like that was giving me big like polar bear behind the wall,

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cranking, turning the crank.

283
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Oh, yeah.

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Turning the wheel.

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To move the island.

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To move the island, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Just got one of those in your basement.

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Yeah, exactly right.

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Yeah, just a polar bear in Michigan, yeah.

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I might bring that one back to another day if I come up with a better idea.

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If you get better turbine sourcing.

293
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More efficient turbines for cheap.

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We've got one of those in Muskegon.

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You know that?

296
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Do we really?

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Yeah.

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What do they use?

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They have a giant, basically lake.

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Our former guest and friend of the pod, Carl, told me all about it.

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Yeah, they pump a bunch of stuff up into a man-made basin that's basically a giant pond,

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but then they'll run the turbine.

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The exact same turbine that runs as, when you feed it energy, a pump in one direction

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that just goes backwards to generate it, going back out the same pipes and everything.

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I'm sure that's the part that I'm missing, to have a lake in your backyard versus something

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small and portable.

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Well, if you can have a few inflatable hot tub style, big giant things in your attic, what

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could go wrong?

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It's just up at the high point in your house.

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Drip, drip, drip.

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Just plug your drains.

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Every bath you take, every toilet you flush, screw the rain barrel.

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Just throw some turbines in every pipe in your house and use the gravity at the end of the-

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Why can't we do that?

315
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Yeah.

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Do they put turbines on water towers?

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It's just water up there.

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Can we at least get some of that energy back on the way down?

319
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Oh, yeah.

320
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I don't know.

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I think the whole point is to generate the pressure, and you're probably taking off some

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of the pressure by putting restrictions in the way, on the way back down.

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Because they're using a pump to get it up there.

324
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Yeah.

325
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And then it's using gravity to put pressure on the system.

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You don't want to have things stopping that.

327
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Still, in the home, yeah.

328
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Why don't we have a couple dozen little micro turbines in my sewer line going out of my house?

329
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Just kind of giving me a little ambient wattage every time I let the bath out.

330
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The poop will stop the turbine.

331
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That's probably why.

332
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Oh, yeah.

333
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Why don't I block my sewer line with stuff?

334
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I don't understand.

335
00:14:28,740 --> 00:14:30,040
That's a great point.

336
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There's a different way to probably do that, but yeah.

337
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Yeah, probably.

338
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This is why we're on the intramurals.

339
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That's right.

340
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Moving on.

341
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Moving on.

342
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Moving on.

343
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Moving on.

344
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What you got, Leo?

345
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All right.

346
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I've got something extremely technical and nerdy, and this is going to be something that about,

347
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I don't know, one listener out there is going to vibe with me, and everyone else

348
00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:50,500
is going to roll their eyes.

349
00:14:50,500 --> 00:14:57,280
So, USB-C is a connector, and there are about 50 different kinds of cable that a USB-C cable

350
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can be, and it's so frustrating.

351
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You can be holding a USB-C cable that looks identical to another one in the other hand,

352
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and it's USB 2 versus 3 versus 3.1.

353
00:15:06,660 --> 00:15:08,320
This one is Thunderbolt 3.

354
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This one's Thunderbolt 4.

355
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This one, because of the gauge of the wire, can support more wattage than the other one

356
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over here.

357
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This one doesn't have any data cables at all.

358
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It's just for charging only, and they all look the same.

359
00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:24,300
We solved this problem before by having different connectors on the end, and then we standardized

360
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on one connector, and now we're reaping the benefits of, oh god, they are different cables,

361
00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,360
but they all look the same, and nothing has a label on it.

362
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Why don't they have a label on it?

363
00:15:32,900 --> 00:15:33,300
I don't know.

364
00:15:33,300 --> 00:15:37,400
Parallel to that, there is a device that you can get if you work with networking stuff a

365
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lot called the Fluke.

366
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I don't know if that's a brand name or not.

367
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But basically, you plug in Ethernet into the wall, and it'll say, yes, this port that you're

368
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plugged into is active.

369
00:15:44,740 --> 00:15:46,000
Here's how fast it is.

370
00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:47,560
Here's what IP address it tried to give me.

371
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Here's the kind of cable that this is.

372
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It's a crossover cable.

373
00:15:50,580 --> 00:15:51,680
It's a regular Ethernet cable.

374
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Let me test it.

375
00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,540
We think it's about this long, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

376
00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,140
I just want a USB-C Fluke.

377
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I want to be able to plug in one of these cables that's sitting in a drawer into a device, one

378
00:16:01,620 --> 00:16:05,780
end into the other, so it goes into itself, and it'll tell me what kind of cable it is,

379
00:16:05,780 --> 00:16:10,640
and maybe even it has a label maker so that it spits out, hey, here's what it is so I can

380
00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:11,160
label them all.

381
00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:11,460
Oh, that's great.

382
00:16:11,460 --> 00:16:14,860
There isn't much to vamp on.

383
00:16:14,860 --> 00:16:17,860
I don't know if there's much meat on these bones, but it's something that I really desperately

384
00:16:17,860 --> 00:16:18,760
need in my life.

385
00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:20,840
It's very practical, I'd say.

386
00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:22,540
It's pretty cut and dry.

387
00:16:22,740 --> 00:16:27,720
No, I found one of these on Reddit, and I was so excited, and I'm like, I have to buy

388
00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:28,280
this for Leo.

389
00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:31,420
This is like three months ago, and I almost bought it on the spot.

390
00:16:31,420 --> 00:16:34,740
I went to the webpage, and it was like $350, and I'm like, oh, okay.

391
00:16:34,740 --> 00:16:39,820
I have purchased, so I found several different things that purports to kind of do it.

392
00:16:39,820 --> 00:16:43,820
There's like a thing that you can put into the port itself, and then the cable into it

393
00:16:43,820 --> 00:16:49,000
as a little, it looks kind of like a flash drive, only it has a little screen on it,

394
00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,900
and it'll say, here's how much wattage is moving through it, and here's what kind of

395
00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:53,800
cable we think it is, and stuff, they don't work.

396
00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:54,940
Nothing that I've tried has worked.

397
00:16:54,940 --> 00:16:59,080
If you found something, then we'll put it in the show notes, because that sounds amazing.

398
00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:03,080
How hard could it be, though, to detect a type of USB cable?

399
00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:03,280
Right.

400
00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,680
It's just like, this pin's connected to this pin, so that means it's this.

401
00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:11,760
It seems like the kind of thing where a little bit of firmware and two ports and a simple,

402
00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:12,940
yeah, yeah.

403
00:17:12,940 --> 00:17:14,300
There's no way it should be that expensive.

404
00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:15,120
I agree.

405
00:17:15,380 --> 00:17:17,940
Like, they do this for outlets to check if they're live.

406
00:17:17,940 --> 00:17:18,220
Mm-hmm.

407
00:17:18,220 --> 00:17:19,740
Like, why not just, like...

408
00:17:19,740 --> 00:17:20,000
Right.

409
00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:21,140
Or phone cables.

410
00:17:21,140 --> 00:17:21,860
Yeah, exactly.

411
00:17:21,860 --> 00:17:23,520
I'm surprised this doesn't exist.

412
00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:25,440
$350 on a guy on Reddit?

413
00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:26,420
How is this not a real...

414
00:17:26,420 --> 00:17:26,720
I don't know.

415
00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:27,860
It just seems like...

416
00:17:27,860 --> 00:17:31,120
Someone out there, there are dozens of us who would be customers, I'm sure.

417
00:17:31,120 --> 00:17:31,960
Yeah.

418
00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:32,560
No.

419
00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:33,140
Seriously, though.

420
00:17:33,140 --> 00:17:34,220
IT departments all over.

421
00:17:34,220 --> 00:17:38,320
I mean, we have people in my IT department who will walk in and say, hey, I'm trying to

422
00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:39,700
use this charger to charge my whatever.

423
00:17:39,700 --> 00:17:40,420
Why isn't it working?

424
00:17:40,420 --> 00:17:44,900
And it's some dinky little Chinese cheap phone charger that they're plugging into their gaming

425
00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:49,040
laptop that there's no way in heck that would ever, like, pump up enough wattage.

426
00:17:49,040 --> 00:17:50,340
If there was something that was like...

427
00:17:50,340 --> 00:17:52,700
Trying to put 60 watts through a 5 watt cable.

428
00:17:52,700 --> 00:17:53,100
Right.

429
00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:54,100
It's smoking.

430
00:17:54,100 --> 00:17:55,420
Right.

431
00:17:55,420 --> 00:18:02,140
But just, I don't know how to solve the cables are hard to distinguish problem on a whole,

432
00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:06,960
but if there's some easy off-the-shelf solution that's in everybody's home that's like, hey,

433
00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,240
you plug this in and then it tells you...

434
00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:11,080
I want one of these in every home in America.

435
00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:12,380
This seems...

436
00:18:12,380 --> 00:18:13,420
That's my platform.

437
00:18:13,420 --> 00:18:14,540
Herzog 2028.

438
00:18:14,540 --> 00:18:17,160
We don't worry about it.

439
00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:17,900
Too soon.

440
00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:19,380
Too soon, Leo.

441
00:18:19,380 --> 00:18:20,500
Wait.

442
00:18:20,500 --> 00:18:21,740
I'm just thankful.

443
00:18:21,740 --> 00:18:25,720
I'm just thankful that the iPhones finally came out with braided cables.

444
00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:26,460
Yeah.

445
00:18:26,460 --> 00:18:27,620
My goodness.

446
00:18:27,620 --> 00:18:31,060
And they put the USB-C port on the bottom of the Magic Mouse.

447
00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:32,420
It's like God intended.

448
00:18:32,420 --> 00:18:35,640
15 years of having to flip your mouse upside down to charge it.

449
00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:37,760
That's not coming to an end anytime soon.

450
00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:38,520
Thank you, Apple.

451
00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:39,000
Okay.

452
00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:40,920
So here's the thing about that.

453
00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:41,900
I've gotten...

454
00:18:41,900 --> 00:18:43,720
Leo and I have had this discussion before, I think.

455
00:18:43,720 --> 00:18:45,740
If you put the...

456
00:18:45,740 --> 00:18:50,340
I mean, I can see one sitting over here at our desk or where our students work.

457
00:18:50,420 --> 00:18:54,580
But like, if you put the charging port on the front of the mouse, yes.

458
00:18:54,580 --> 00:18:54,920
Okay.

459
00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:55,880
It does.

460
00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:57,680
It does work while you're doing it.

461
00:18:57,680 --> 00:18:58,460
But guess what?

462
00:18:58,460 --> 00:19:00,660
You just gave yourself a wired mouse.

463
00:19:00,660 --> 00:19:00,860
Yeah.

464
00:19:00,860 --> 00:19:02,340
For like an hour.

465
00:19:02,340 --> 00:19:05,380
The whole point of it is so you don't have to have a wire.

466
00:19:05,380 --> 00:19:06,640
Yeah.

467
00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:10,840
So you charge it for like 20 minutes and then you're good.

468
00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:12,200
I don't want to argue about this again, Paul.

469
00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:12,940
No.

470
00:19:12,940 --> 00:19:17,500
It's functionally unusable.

471
00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:18,200
Yeah.

472
00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:18,960
You get it.

473
00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:20,020
Yeah.

474
00:19:20,020 --> 00:19:24,580
But if you put it in the front, you just gave yourself a wired mouse and congratulations.

475
00:19:24,580 --> 00:19:27,680
You just hopped in your DeLorean and went back to 2003.

476
00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:29,000
That's better than no mouse, though.

477
00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,200
Would you rather have a wired mouse for an hour or no mouse for an hour?

478
00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:33,380
I would have no mouse for an hour.

479
00:19:33,380 --> 00:19:33,880
I guess so.

480
00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:34,720
Purist.

481
00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:35,240
I respect that.

482
00:19:35,240 --> 00:19:37,200
Apple just wants you to go take a walk outside.

483
00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:38,020
That's all it is.

484
00:19:38,020 --> 00:19:39,520
That's exactly right.

485
00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:39,700
Yep.

486
00:19:39,700 --> 00:19:40,240
Yeah.

487
00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:41,620
Guess I don't get to work this morning.

488
00:19:41,620 --> 00:19:41,840
Yeah.

489
00:19:41,840 --> 00:19:42,480
Every...

490
00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:44,160
You know, here's another business idea.

491
00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:51,360
Every time that you charge your Apple Watch or your Magic Mouse, your Apple Watch goes off

492
00:19:51,360 --> 00:19:53,060
and says, hey, go take a walk.

493
00:19:53,060 --> 00:19:54,440
It's a fitness integration.

494
00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:55,300
Get up and move.

495
00:19:55,300 --> 00:19:56,040
Time to go.

496
00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:56,840
That's right.

497
00:19:56,840 --> 00:19:58,220
It's time for your...

498
00:19:58,220 --> 00:19:59,120
All about personal wellness.

499
00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:02,180
Every other month, mouse charging walk.

500
00:20:02,180 --> 00:20:03,000
There it is.

501
00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:04,740
It's a special kind of workout.

502
00:20:04,740 --> 00:20:07,400
Sorry, mouse is charging.

503
00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:08,400
I have to go.

504
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:09,800
All right, Scott, what do you got?

505
00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:10,700
Kick us off.

506
00:20:10,700 --> 00:20:11,400
What do you got for us?

507
00:20:11,400 --> 00:20:11,740
Okay.

508
00:20:11,740 --> 00:20:14,180
This idea came last week.

509
00:20:14,180 --> 00:20:15,280
I was walking my dog.

510
00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,460
I came across a different lost dog.

511
00:20:18,460 --> 00:20:22,900
It was a little white lab that was just standing in the middle of the street, happy as could be

512
00:20:22,900 --> 00:20:23,580
in a neighborhood.

513
00:20:24,460 --> 00:20:29,460
If you are a millennial, a dog owner, whatever, you just like can't let that happen.

514
00:20:29,460 --> 00:20:33,040
You can't just leave a dog just sitting out there lost and stupid.

515
00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,960
It was seriously like looking at cars like, oh, this is awesome.

516
00:20:37,180 --> 00:20:42,940
So eventually I just, I went to a couple houses around the neighborhood, knocked and just no

517
00:20:42,940 --> 00:20:44,740
one was like, I've never seen this dog in my life.

518
00:20:44,740 --> 00:20:45,860
They had a collar on.

519
00:20:45,860 --> 00:20:47,020
There was no tags or anything.

520
00:20:47,020 --> 00:20:51,120
I'm just like, God, I don't want to deal with this right now, but I can't leave this guy.

521
00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:52,720
Eventually brought him home.

522
00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:53,500
I kept my backyard.

523
00:20:53,500 --> 00:20:59,760
And after several Facebook and next door posts and looking on random websites as a bunch for

524
00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:03,920
like lost dog, finally found someone who had lost them several hours ago.

525
00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:05,620
They came, everything was happy.

526
00:21:05,620 --> 00:21:12,860
What I want is a app, probably even just a website where I can just take a picture of an animal that I'm walking by,

527
00:21:12,860 --> 00:21:13,840
upload it.

528
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:17,100
AI recognizes the type of animal it is, the breed.

529
00:21:17,980 --> 00:21:20,400
It has, it's, it's a picture, right?

530
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:21,000
A modern day.

531
00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:24,520
So I have the geolocation and everything on this, and then I can just keep on moving.

532
00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:29,880
And then it can search, honestly, even all the websites and all the work that I did that day.

533
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:34,480
There is no reason that something else shouldn't be able to scrape all of those real quick and say,

534
00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,800
hey, this matches this one here, or this one matches this one here.

535
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:39,020
Here's the phone for it.

536
00:21:39,020 --> 00:21:44,820
There's somebody on Instagram who posts pictures of a dog like this that lives half a mile away from you.

537
00:21:44,820 --> 00:21:45,200
Exactly.

538
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:46,860
It's all location based on there.

539
00:21:47,020 --> 00:21:48,580
And then you could add other things.

540
00:21:48,580 --> 00:21:53,180
I could eventually add a feature where I could upload a picture of my own dog to this website.

541
00:21:53,180 --> 00:21:58,320
So it just knows, hey, if I ever, it can recognize what my dog looks like versus other ones that look similar.

542
00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,860
AI is, Google Photos is terrifyingly good at that.

543
00:22:01,860 --> 00:22:03,560
You could gamify it.

544
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,640
I found six dogs this week or something.

545
00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:06,160
I don't know.

546
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:07,080
Dog hunter.

547
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:07,900
Dog hunter.

548
00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:12,840
So it just would have been really convenient to have had last week.

549
00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,440
And I've been thinking about that a little bit.

550
00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:15,240
That's interesting.

551
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:15,600
Yeah.

552
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,060
It's the Pokemon Go of lost dogs.

553
00:22:18,060 --> 00:22:27,100
You could imagine like pet owners going to this and doing the thing kind of like how they register their chip that's in their dog once where you say,

554
00:22:27,100 --> 00:22:28,720
this is my name and email address or whatever.

555
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,960
I have a dog of this breed that is about this old or whatever.

556
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,500
And then just like forget about the account and not use it anymore.

557
00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:41,620
And then they get notified if somebody else posts about a breed that's like the one that you registered with earlier.

558
00:22:41,620 --> 00:22:42,240
Yep.

559
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,140
Reminds me of like Amber Alerts, but like the opposite.

560
00:22:45,140 --> 00:22:48,320
Like you sign up, you join the Amber.

561
00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:49,240
I don't know.

562
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:50,180
There's probably a different color.

563
00:22:50,180 --> 00:22:51,140
Crimson Alert.

564
00:22:51,140 --> 00:22:52,060
I don't know.

565
00:22:52,060 --> 00:22:52,980
Network.

566
00:22:52,980 --> 00:22:54,460
Amber was the name of a girl who was abducted.

567
00:22:55,460 --> 00:22:56,780
Oh, that's why.

568
00:22:56,780 --> 00:22:58,280
The Sparky Alert.

569
00:22:58,280 --> 00:22:59,620
We'll pivot away from that though.

570
00:22:59,620 --> 00:23:00,840
The Sparky Alert.

571
00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:01,980
The Fido Alert.

572
00:23:01,980 --> 00:23:02,740
Fido Alert.

573
00:23:02,740 --> 00:23:03,560
Fido Alert.

574
00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:04,160
There it is.

575
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:04,820
That's good.

576
00:23:04,820 --> 00:23:05,460
Yeah.

577
00:23:05,460 --> 00:23:06,080
Something like that.

578
00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:07,280
And then you can upload your photo.

579
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:08,620
You're part of the network.

580
00:23:08,620 --> 00:23:11,960
You know, and not everybody's posting like, oh, put it on.

581
00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:12,720
What is it?

582
00:23:12,720 --> 00:23:13,260
Fido Alert.

583
00:23:13,260 --> 00:23:14,400
Now you got it.

584
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:20,860
This honestly seems like a feature more than a full-fledged app that something like an Instagram or a Nextdoor or something should just have.

585
00:23:20,860 --> 00:23:23,020
And that's why I'm always thinking like, don't even make an app.

586
00:23:23,020 --> 00:23:28,860
It's just a website where it has one button that says upload picture and there's nothing else to it.

587
00:23:28,860 --> 00:23:30,120
You upload the picture of the dog.

588
00:23:30,120 --> 00:23:31,600
It'll take care of the rest.

589
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:32,120
That's interesting.

590
00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:36,300
Oh, what about like making it really easy to post on all these different sites?

591
00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:39,940
Like Nextdoor, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, everything.

592
00:23:39,940 --> 00:23:45,260
Like, you know, maybe not even on your behalf, but like on some other version of that.

593
00:23:45,260 --> 00:23:45,540
Right.

594
00:23:45,540 --> 00:23:48,640
Like this in localized and all that stuff.

595
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:54,420
Maybe it's like even a Facebook ad that's hyper local, you know, depending on how much money you want to spend.

596
00:23:54,420 --> 00:23:54,940
Right.

597
00:23:54,940 --> 00:23:56,660
Instead of doing the reward, you can just.

598
00:23:56,660 --> 00:23:59,140
Seems like a nonprofit that could pay for the ads for you.

599
00:23:59,140 --> 00:24:02,120
You know, you get donations and they pay for the ads.

600
00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:02,420
Yeah.

601
00:24:02,420 --> 00:24:03,720
Have you seen this dog?

602
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:04,480
Is that crazy?

603
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:08,840
Would you want to pay for like, I mean, I think you would write like Facebook ads to find your dog.

604
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:09,980
I'd throw 10 bucks at it.

605
00:24:09,980 --> 00:24:12,720
Hyper local, like hyper local.

606
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:13,280
Right.

607
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,140
Facebook's targeting system for ads.

608
00:24:15,140 --> 00:24:18,780
You could say, you know, only post to these four street corners.

609
00:24:18,780 --> 00:24:19,480
Yeah, exactly.

610
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:25,520
I want it even for the laziest person who wouldn't even pick up the dog that they're walking by or helping anyway.

611
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:28,400
They're just like, this is the absolute minimum I could do.

612
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:29,340
I see this cat.

613
00:24:29,340 --> 00:24:32,020
I take a picture of the cat and I keep on walking or something.

614
00:24:32,020 --> 00:24:34,700
So you make a new website that has one button on it.

615
00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:35,880
Upload a photo.

616
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,540
Maybe we'll say up and down.

617
00:24:37,540 --> 00:24:39,860
With a capture.

618
00:24:39,860 --> 00:24:40,620
We'll add a capture.

619
00:24:40,620 --> 00:24:46,180
What percentage of things that you're going to get in are going to be photos, Scott?

620
00:24:46,180 --> 00:24:48,420
You have fun trolling through those.

621
00:24:48,420 --> 00:24:49,360
Yeah.

622
00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:52,080
Be taking photos of your dog, Scott.

623
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:53,540
Uploading it to your own app.

624
00:24:53,540 --> 00:24:54,920
Just for fun.

625
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,060
The trolls.

626
00:24:57,060 --> 00:25:06,180
I wonder if that would work with like other things that are lost that like you misplaced and they're somewhere in your neighborhood.

627
00:25:06,180 --> 00:25:15,400
Like maybe one of your neighbors borrowed something and you know they borrowed it and then it played like a game of telephone getting around your neighborhood like a shovel.

628
00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:21,420
Or let's say that you lost like kids losing soccer balls or baseballs or something like that.

629
00:25:21,420 --> 00:25:21,640
Right?

630
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:22,600
Lost my wallet.

631
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:23,360
Yeah.

632
00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:25,360
That's a whole other thing.

633
00:25:25,460 --> 00:25:25,580
Yeah.

634
00:25:25,580 --> 00:25:27,420
I wonder if it would work.

635
00:25:27,420 --> 00:25:29,180
I wonder if it would work for that too.

636
00:25:29,180 --> 00:25:30,060
Like could you post.

637
00:25:30,060 --> 00:25:34,740
So you're saying that you could post like what was like you found something.

638
00:25:34,740 --> 00:25:38,280
But what if you could also post, hey, I lost this thing.

639
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:41,960
That's a good majority of what the websites are right now.

640
00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:42,580
Yeah.

641
00:25:42,580 --> 00:25:46,060
But the other problem is that there's like, you know, way too many of them.

642
00:25:46,060 --> 00:25:48,780
And I was Googling around like how do I find this dog?

643
00:25:48,780 --> 00:25:49,160
Oh my God.

644
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,400
There's like 19 different websites and half of them are from other states and other things.

645
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:54,220
Oh, yeah.

646
00:25:54,220 --> 00:25:56,180
You have the network effects problem.

647
00:25:56,180 --> 00:25:56,780
Yeah.

648
00:25:56,780 --> 00:26:01,780
What if you, I mean, what if this was like a bounty hunting app but not like the dangerous kind?

649
00:26:01,780 --> 00:26:04,340
Like, do you know what I mean?

650
00:26:04,340 --> 00:26:08,980
Like you just have crazy bounties for like, I lost my wallet for about a year.

651
00:26:08,980 --> 00:26:11,140
I had to buy a whole new one, cancel the credit cards.

652
00:26:11,140 --> 00:26:12,860
It was like at the start of winter.

653
00:26:12,860 --> 00:26:16,060
But like I probably would have done like $100.

654
00:26:16,060 --> 00:26:18,640
I know the location, the tile.

655
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,880
I had my tile in my wallet, but I couldn't ring the bell thing.

656
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:23,280
I don't know.

657
00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:23,760
Treasure hunters.

658
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:24,580
Yeah.

659
00:26:24,580 --> 00:26:25,440
Yeah.

660
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:33,140
And now instead of you take the geocaching community and you apply it to a paid find this stuff in this general area thing.

661
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,220
Works for rings when you lose it at the beach.

662
00:26:36,220 --> 00:26:38,580
Works for all that other stuff.

663
00:26:38,580 --> 00:26:44,680
And now you have like a bounty network that's like search and find, lost and found my sweater, my hat, my hood.

664
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:45,180
I don't know.

665
00:26:45,180 --> 00:26:46,160
And just, right?

666
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:46,860
Something like that.

667
00:26:46,860 --> 00:26:49,620
And create like a paid geocaching, right?

668
00:26:49,620 --> 00:26:50,700
Do they still exist?

669
00:26:50,700 --> 00:26:51,240
Yeah.

670
00:26:51,240 --> 00:26:51,640
I think so.

671
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:51,920
That's the thing.

672
00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:54,520
Friend of the pod, Sander is still a big geocacher.

673
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:54,840
Yeah.

674
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:59,000
But what do you lose that's like expensive enough for like a bounty outside of a dog?

675
00:26:59,220 --> 00:27:04,620
That still like isn't something where you post it and then someone just goes and takes it and now it's theirs.

676
00:27:04,620 --> 00:27:05,320
You know what I mean?

677
00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:05,720
Right.

678
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:12,740
You have to somehow tap into either altruism and people wanting to do the right thing or make it run passively in the background.

679
00:27:12,740 --> 00:27:15,300
It's valuable to me, but not valuable to pawn.

680
00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:16,860
Yeah.

681
00:27:16,860 --> 00:27:17,600
True.

682
00:27:17,740 --> 00:27:22,860
I wonder if you could sell like special dash cams whose sole purpose is to like find stolen cars.

683
00:27:22,860 --> 00:27:26,000
Keep it up in your, connected to your car.

684
00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:31,700
It's just always running and just always looking at different license plates and things going by and like, oh, that one, that's a stolen car.

685
00:27:31,700 --> 00:27:33,660
Or license plates on the Amber Alert.

686
00:27:33,660 --> 00:27:34,060
Yeah.

687
00:27:34,060 --> 00:27:34,920
Oh, that's a great one.

688
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,160
I don't know how you convince people to put that in your car.

689
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:43,060
I mean, when those go out, they often say there was a blue pickup truck going eastbound on this time.

690
00:27:43,060 --> 00:27:44,120
Keep your eyes out.

691
00:27:44,120 --> 00:27:45,960
That's kind of what those Amber Alerts often say, right?

692
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:47,020
It just does it on its own.

693
00:27:47,020 --> 00:27:47,800
Yeah.

694
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:49,420
Every car's got one.

695
00:27:49,420 --> 00:27:55,100
You volunteer your car's backup camera to be just contributing to that network or whatever.

696
00:27:55,100 --> 00:27:55,820
Whoa.

697
00:27:55,820 --> 00:27:57,340
It's like, that's a whole different idea.

698
00:27:57,340 --> 00:27:58,240
Surveillance state.

699
00:27:58,280 --> 00:27:58,640
Yeah.

700
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:02,540
It's like, let's purposely, let's move towards 1984 as a community.

701
00:28:02,540 --> 00:28:07,760
If your car had a checkbox in the settings that said, contribute my cameras to police.

702
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,740
Like, I don't know if I'd check it.

703
00:28:09,740 --> 00:28:11,780
Now that I think about it.

704
00:28:11,780 --> 00:28:17,400
So I, I dropped a phone into a lake a couple of months ago and it's gone.

705
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,100
And I hired a scuba diver and I went magnet fishing and it was a whole thing.

706
00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:21,400
Yeah.

707
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:22,340
And no luck.

708
00:28:22,340 --> 00:28:23,780
It's not worth that much, Leo.

709
00:28:23,780 --> 00:28:26,240
I don't know if magnet fishing is good for a phone either.

710
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,860
Minus being on the bottom of a lake.

711
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,520
Well, it had a case on it that had the MagSafe ring.

712
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,140
And so I was like, maybe there's a chance and why not?

713
00:28:34,140 --> 00:28:37,100
It'll just kind of be a fun, wouldn't that be a crazy story?

714
00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:39,320
And otherwise I'm just entertained by the journey.

715
00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,380
It's down at, uh, in Saugatuck.

716
00:28:41,380 --> 00:28:45,520
So I was paddle boarding and I had like a five day old brand new phone on me.

717
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,800
The hockey stick shot it off the paddle board.

718
00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,220
I had my phone cause I was taking adorable pictures of my children paddle boarding for the

719
00:28:51,220 --> 00:28:52,820
first time and, and it was gone.

720
00:28:52,820 --> 00:28:57,780
But if I could go to your cool message board thing and say, all right, like $400 bounty,

721
00:28:57,780 --> 00:29:01,160
go, you know, here's where I know I was.

722
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:03,500
Here's the part of the lake I was in, et cetera, et cetera.

723
00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:04,660
Dude, lost phone.

724
00:29:04,660 --> 00:29:06,460
The saga is, yeah, right.

725
00:29:06,460 --> 00:29:07,760
The saga is really long.

726
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:13,580
But, um, one step of that whole journey was after I lost it a couple of days later, I got

727
00:29:13,580 --> 00:29:15,640
the email saying, Hey, it's Google.

728
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:16,300
Don't forget.

729
00:29:16,300 --> 00:29:19,540
You can still buy accidental damage protection on that phone you just got.

730
00:29:19,540 --> 00:29:22,000
And so I did.

731
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:26,580
And then I filed a claim and it was like, Oh, this doesn't include lost or stolen items.

732
00:29:26,580 --> 00:29:27,680
Only damaged items.

733
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:28,260
It's like, no.

734
00:29:28,260 --> 00:29:30,460
So I was out even more money.

735
00:29:30,460 --> 00:29:34,740
I mean, that's massive water damage though.

736
00:29:35,420 --> 00:29:40,560
So all I needed was any phone in my hand from the bottom of the lake, even if it was like

737
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:42,280
totally kaput and then I would have been good.

738
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:42,560
Right.

739
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,200
So did I miss my lesson?

740
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:44,940
Did I miss that?

741
00:29:44,940 --> 00:29:47,300
You said you hired a scuba diver.

742
00:29:47,300 --> 00:29:49,080
I did.

743
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:52,900
And then that guy got COVID and he's like, my other buddy's also a scuba diver.

744
00:29:52,900 --> 00:29:53,960
I'll send him instead.

745
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:56,640
And the first guy would have had a magnet with him.

746
00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:01,180
The second guy didn't, but there's probably other amateur scuba diverists who are looking

747
00:30:01,180 --> 00:30:04,000
for a place to go and something fun to look for.

748
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:04,340
Right.

749
00:30:04,340 --> 00:30:04,700
Maybe.

750
00:30:04,700 --> 00:30:05,440
I don't know.

751
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,300
Where does one hire a scuba diver to go find a phone?

752
00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:11,820
My coworker and friend of the pod, Steph.

753
00:30:11,820 --> 00:30:13,240
I keep my name drama tonight.

754
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:13,840
Yeah, you did.

755
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,700
You said friend of the pod like four times.

756
00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:16,440
I know.

757
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:24,420
She posted on a local, what we call Holland informed, a local like Facebook group of people

758
00:30:24,420 --> 00:30:27,060
who just live in the area and said, I know someone who dropped a phone.

759
00:30:27,060 --> 00:30:27,900
Anyone have any ideas?

760
00:30:28,060 --> 00:30:31,160
And there were like three people in the comments who said, here's an idea.

761
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:31,860
I know a guy.

762
00:30:31,860 --> 00:30:32,560
Here's a different guy.

763
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:33,040
You could ask.

764
00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:33,820
Here's their phone number.

765
00:30:33,820 --> 00:30:35,460
So it was all local networking.

766
00:30:35,460 --> 00:30:35,920
It's awesome.

767
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:36,620
That's super cool.

768
00:30:36,620 --> 00:30:40,400
It was kind of a fun conclusion to the saga, you know, like, you know what?

769
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:42,860
This will be an entertaining afternoon.

770
00:30:42,860 --> 00:30:46,700
Let's hire a dude on Facebook to go troll around for an hour or two.

771
00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:47,460
And he did.

772
00:30:47,460 --> 00:30:51,360
He came with his tanks and gear and everything and put his little flag up.

773
00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:53,080
That was a buoy bobbing in the water.

774
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:53,980
Diver below.

775
00:30:53,980 --> 00:30:55,820
Didn't have any luck though.

776
00:30:56,220 --> 00:30:58,160
Anyway, I don't know if we're keeping any of that.

777
00:30:58,160 --> 00:30:59,300
That's fine.

778
00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:02,100
If we're not, then how much does a scuba diver cost for an hour?

779
00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:03,620
I think it was a hundred an hour.

780
00:31:03,620 --> 00:31:05,020
Minimum of two hours.

781
00:31:05,020 --> 00:31:05,700
Oh, wow.

782
00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:06,200
Okay.

783
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:07,580
That's how you clean your boat, Scott, right?

784
00:31:07,580 --> 00:31:08,480
It is.

785
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:08,720
Yeah.

786
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:12,260
I have a guy named Gary who just goes around in the yacht club and he asked me, hey, you

787
00:31:12,260 --> 00:31:13,380
want me to wash the bottom of your boat?

788
00:31:13,380 --> 00:31:17,140
And all these race people are like, hell yeah, here's 50 bucks.

789
00:31:17,220 --> 00:31:20,160
That ring cam money treating you well with your boats and your yachts.

790
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,000
That ring cam money, man.

791
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,060
And my shitty ass boat.

792
00:31:24,060 --> 00:31:24,960
Yachting.

793
00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:33,340
All right, Paul, what idea have you brought us this week?

794
00:31:33,980 --> 00:31:34,380
Yeah.

795
00:31:34,380 --> 00:31:42,040
So this summer, I have an eight-year-old and she has a lot of friends in the neighborhood,

796
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:47,380
which we call the scooter squad because they're always riding scooters, especially in the summertime,

797
00:31:47,380 --> 00:31:49,460
back and forth to each other's houses.

798
00:31:49,460 --> 00:31:50,880
They're playing in the yard.

799
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:56,460
They're doing what all these kids in suburbia usually do in the summers and they all play

800
00:31:56,460 --> 00:32:00,140
together and they all have a lot of fun and all this other stuff.

801
00:32:00,140 --> 00:32:03,020
And they go from house to house and, you know, whatever.

802
00:32:03,020 --> 00:32:11,300
But one of the things that ends up happening inevitably is that they leave doors open when

803
00:32:11,300 --> 00:32:12,200
they come in, right?

804
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:17,020
So they leave the door to the mudroom that goes into the garage open or they leave the front

805
00:32:17,020 --> 00:32:23,160
door open or they leave the slider open that goes out to the back patio deck and, you know,

806
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,280
all this other stuff in my house.

807
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:32,820
So my house had a lot of flies this summer and those mother effers are fast in the summer,

808
00:32:32,820 --> 00:32:33,260
right?

809
00:32:33,260 --> 00:32:36,360
You get into this time of year and they're super slow.

810
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:42,540
Like I could swat them probably with my pinky, but in the summertime, they're super fast.

811
00:32:42,540 --> 00:32:43,560
They're super active.

812
00:32:44,020 --> 00:32:47,840
I don't know how flies breed, but I would imagine that they're trying to breed.

813
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:48,520
I don't know.

814
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:49,600
I don't know what's going on.

815
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:50,640
It is the season.

816
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,020
I could never.

817
00:32:52,020 --> 00:32:52,720
Yeah.

818
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:57,700
I could never have, I could never get access to the fly swatter fast enough.

819
00:32:57,700 --> 00:32:59,880
I could never get a towel fast enough.

820
00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:04,580
I could never grab, you know, I see a fly and I see them land and I'm like, I'm going to

821
00:33:04,580 --> 00:33:08,180
get that son of a bee and I'm going to mess them up real good.

822
00:33:08,180 --> 00:33:08,840
Mess them up.

823
00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:09,760
Yeah.

824
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:14,360
So all these kids are leaving my damn doors open in the summer.

825
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,580
Flies are coming in and out of the house.

826
00:33:16,580 --> 00:33:25,200
So my idea is that you can, um, we need like clothing sleeves or like a sleeve of your shirt

827
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,080
that turns into a fly swatter.

828
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:29,520
Like a lot.

829
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:33,460
Like, so like, think like either like Henry Cavill in the mission impossible movie where

830
00:33:33,460 --> 00:33:35,580
he like reloads his arms before he punches.

831
00:33:35,580 --> 00:33:36,540
Right.

832
00:33:36,540 --> 00:33:39,480
In that one where he's like, and he does that thing.

833
00:33:39,820 --> 00:33:45,000
Or in, uh, like Christian Bale's Batman where like they run an electric current through the

834
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:46,180
cloth and it becomes stiff.

835
00:33:46,180 --> 00:33:46,260
Yeah.

836
00:33:46,260 --> 00:33:46,980
Right.

837
00:33:46,980 --> 00:33:49,340
So think like that.

838
00:33:49,340 --> 00:33:51,940
But then you, you do that and your sleeve.

839
00:33:51,940 --> 00:33:57,060
So like you could just like punch your sleeve out and it automatically turns solid into an object

840
00:33:57,060 --> 00:34:05,640
that you could then just thwap right down, kill the fly, not have to worry about grabbing the fly swatter from the mudroom

841
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:11,060
or behind the broom closet or wherever it is, or trying to get a towel and whip it at the fly.

842
00:34:11,220 --> 00:34:16,760
You automatically have it built into your sleeve and it is ready to go when you see that sucker

843
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:21,620
and you can just end his life in the most glorious way possible.

844
00:34:21,620 --> 00:34:25,920
Um, I know just Wolverine claw fly swatter out.

845
00:34:25,920 --> 00:34:27,240
That's exactly right.

846
00:34:27,240 --> 00:34:29,380
But I think it fly swatting clothes.

847
00:34:29,380 --> 00:34:33,640
I think the biggest thing is that it has to turn, like somehow there has to be a mechanism in there,

848
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:38,500
whether it be that electric current like Batman or whatever, where it turns stiff because otherwise

849
00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:40,000
you're not going to be able to kill the fly.

850
00:34:40,420 --> 00:34:43,780
So you got to have something that does that.

851
00:34:43,780 --> 00:34:44,940
I don't know what that would be.

852
00:34:44,940 --> 00:34:48,020
Um, it would get all the damn flies out of my house.

853
00:34:48,020 --> 00:34:51,820
So maybe this is an elephant in the room and maybe this is just my brain only,

854
00:34:51,820 --> 00:34:56,280
but main reason I don't go after flies with my sleeve is hygiene.

855
00:34:56,280 --> 00:35:02,620
What, what do we do about fly guts and blood and gore all over our sleeves?

856
00:35:02,620 --> 00:35:05,240
Oh, well, I mean, I would say that.

857
00:35:05,240 --> 00:35:07,340
Yeah, that's exactly right.

858
00:35:07,340 --> 00:35:08,220
It's a warning.

859
00:35:08,220 --> 00:35:09,240
Yeah.

860
00:35:09,620 --> 00:35:10,540
Yeah.

861
00:35:10,540 --> 00:35:14,740
It's like, it's like when the, like, yeah, when a dog pisses in its territory, it's like

862
00:35:14,740 --> 00:35:19,280
you, you leave that blood, like you leave that set behind.

863
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:21,380
It's a warning to others.

864
00:35:21,380 --> 00:35:23,660
This is, you do not belong here.

865
00:35:23,660 --> 00:35:25,300
Stay away.

866
00:35:27,060 --> 00:35:32,680
Um, or I think too, like if we've got the technology to stiffen clothing through kinetic energy,

867
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:36,140
we would certainly have it to like sanitize it afterwards.

868
00:35:36,140 --> 00:35:36,540
Right.

869
00:35:36,540 --> 00:35:36,920
Yeah.

870
00:35:37,660 --> 00:35:42,820
Google has project was a project weave where they've got shirts that they sell where there's,

871
00:35:42,820 --> 00:35:45,340
uh, capacitive sensors all along it.

872
00:35:45,340 --> 00:35:49,000
So you can skip going to the next track by like running your finger along your sleeve.

873
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,580
Oh, that's why I was by double tapping your sleeve and stuff.

874
00:35:51,580 --> 00:35:52,420
We're close, man.

875
00:35:52,420 --> 00:35:52,880
We're close.

876
00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:54,160
That's some Tony Stark stuff.

877
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:54,440
Wow.

878
00:35:54,580 --> 00:35:55,020
I know.

879
00:35:55,020 --> 00:35:57,320
That sounds like a cool, like.

880
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:57,840
Jaquard.

881
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,380
Even besides the flies.

882
00:35:59,380 --> 00:36:04,120
I don't know if your flies like a euphemism for like your, your enemy, Paul, like a human

883
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:04,440
enemy.

884
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:08,240
It's not, but now it is.

885
00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:09,340
I'm going to pepper spray.

886
00:36:09,340 --> 00:36:09,840
Bar fight.

887
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:10,720
I mean, like, yeah.

888
00:36:10,720 --> 00:36:11,720
You're at the bar.

889
00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:13,020
You want a little self-defense.

890
00:36:13,020 --> 00:36:14,800
You don't want to carry your gun with you.

891
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,980
Yeah.

892
00:36:16,980 --> 00:36:17,540
Yeah.

893
00:36:17,540 --> 00:36:19,940
I've got a weapon, a club ready to go.

894
00:36:19,940 --> 00:36:20,620
I like it.

895
00:36:20,620 --> 00:36:25,220
I mean, I think that might actually have some utility outside of just the common fly.

896
00:36:25,220 --> 00:36:29,300
Every law enforcement agency in the country is perked up, man.

897
00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:30,180
Yeah, that's right.

898
00:36:30,180 --> 00:36:30,620
Yeah.

899
00:36:30,620 --> 00:36:33,120
I'm almost wondering if you could do it without clothing though.

900
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:38,340
Like it, like it's a accessory, a bracelet or something that turns into a fly swatter on

901
00:36:38,340 --> 00:36:38,560
there.

902
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,900
Cause I'm picturing you and you're right about in the winter, they're a lot slower, but in

903
00:36:41,900 --> 00:36:44,580
the summer I'm probably not wearing long sleeves at the same time.

904
00:36:44,580 --> 00:36:45,200
That's fair.

905
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,740
But if we had some kind of accessory to go for it.

906
00:36:47,740 --> 00:36:48,220
Oh yeah.

907
00:36:48,220 --> 00:36:49,560
Like the slap bracelets, right?

908
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:50,420
You get one of those.

909
00:36:50,420 --> 00:36:51,800
Oh, there you go.

910
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:52,640
Yeah.

911
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:53,920
The fly swatter at the end.

912
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:55,060
It just recoil.

913
00:36:55,060 --> 00:36:57,960
Every time the slap bracelet is on, it just recoils.

914
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:00,620
And then when you stretch it out, it turns into the fly swatter.

915
00:37:00,620 --> 00:37:05,440
And I mean, because the alternative here is to teach a bunch of seven and eight year olds

916
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:06,720
how to close doors properly.

917
00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:09,280
And that, that sure shit is not going to happen.

918
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:10,620
I can tell you that much.

919
00:37:10,620 --> 00:37:11,600
Reinvent fashion is much easier.

920
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:11,940
Yeah.

921
00:37:11,940 --> 00:37:14,700
That is, there's no way that they're going to learn how to do that.

922
00:37:14,860 --> 00:37:15,740
Not anytime soon.

923
00:37:15,740 --> 00:37:18,260
Have you ever played with the fly shotguns?

924
00:37:18,260 --> 00:37:19,240
The salt shotguns?

925
00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:21,020
I have family who has.

926
00:37:21,020 --> 00:37:21,440
Never have.

927
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:21,960
Never held it.

928
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:22,100
No.

929
00:37:22,100 --> 00:37:22,560
Does it work?

930
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:23,660
It's incredible.

931
00:37:23,660 --> 00:37:27,220
We got one as a joke gift for Christmas last year and I love it.

932
00:37:27,220 --> 00:37:31,440
Every time there's a bug of any kind in the house, I get so excited and I sprint into the

933
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:31,800
pantry.

934
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:34,000
I pull it off the wall and I chak chak.

935
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,460
And it just shoots a small amount of salt.

936
00:37:37,460 --> 00:37:41,800
You just literally put table salt in the top and it just scatter blasts them and they go flying.

937
00:37:42,260 --> 00:37:42,940
Does it kill them?

938
00:37:42,940 --> 00:37:43,420
Yeah.

939
00:37:43,420 --> 00:37:43,860
Instantly.

940
00:37:43,860 --> 00:37:44,540
Or immobilize them?

941
00:37:44,540 --> 00:37:45,220
Oh, really?

942
00:37:45,220 --> 00:37:46,120
Oh, wow.

943
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,460
You might have to do a double tap for some of them, but they're on the ground after that

944
00:37:49,460 --> 00:37:50,000
first shot.

945
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:50,300
Sure.

946
00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:51,180
That does sound fun.

947
00:37:51,180 --> 00:37:53,940
So it's like, it's salty, salty buckshot for.

948
00:37:53,940 --> 00:37:54,600
Yeah.

949
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:55,340
Yeah.

950
00:37:55,340 --> 00:37:58,600
For, for, uh, flying nuisances in your home.

951
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:00,680
Salty buckshot was my stripper name in common.

952
00:38:02,860 --> 00:38:03,720
That was you?

953
00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:05,860
That was me.

954
00:38:05,860 --> 00:38:10,080
I want to Spitball that door thing one day, Paul.

955
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,480
Like how to keep doors shut.

956
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:12,040
How to keep a door.

957
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:13,640
Like, oh yeah.

958
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:14,300
I guess.

959
00:38:14,300 --> 00:38:15,240
With children around.

960
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:20,220
My neighbor down the street and across the way has two elderly dogs and about every

961
00:38:20,220 --> 00:38:24,580
three or four weeks, they're just wandering because they have two kids who just leave the

962
00:38:24,580 --> 00:38:25,080
door open.

963
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:25,820
Oh no.

964
00:38:25,820 --> 00:38:26,920
Hey, I found Ike again.

965
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:27,420
Sorry.

966
00:38:27,420 --> 00:38:29,420
I like walk him over there.

967
00:38:29,420 --> 00:38:30,460
Hey, it's your dog.

968
00:38:30,460 --> 00:38:32,900
Oh, back door must've been left open.

969
00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:34,620
They're so casual about it.

970
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:40,900
We're building a connection with Scott's app that are the, the photo upload, you know,

971
00:38:40,900 --> 00:38:41,980
with your story there, Leo.

972
00:38:41,980 --> 00:38:42,620
That's amazing.

973
00:38:42,620 --> 00:38:43,120
Yeah.

974
00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:47,820
I wish that there was a way, I mean like the, the only other thing that I think would work

975
00:38:47,820 --> 00:38:53,340
to get people to, or to get little children to close the door is that like every time they

976
00:38:53,340 --> 00:38:56,800
close it, it like puts a piece of candy in there or something like that.

977
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:57,900
Yeah.

978
00:38:57,900 --> 00:38:59,020
Pavlovian.

979
00:38:59,020 --> 00:38:59,760
A little dog treat.

980
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:00,900
Totally Pavlovian.

981
00:39:00,900 --> 00:39:04,600
They just like, every time they close the door, they get a little treat.

982
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:04,800
Yeah.

983
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:05,200
Yeah.

984
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:06,100
Oh, right.

985
00:39:06,100 --> 00:39:06,500
Yeah.

986
00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:07,260
Open shot.

987
00:39:07,260 --> 00:39:07,840
Open shot.

988
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:08,760
Candy dispenser.

989
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:09,040
Yeah.

990
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:09,800
That's exactly right.

991
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,520
I totally empathize with this freak.

992
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,260
How do you kill flies more conveniently?

993
00:39:13,260 --> 00:39:17,000
I feel like the fly swatter needs to be like, it's, it's time.

994
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,860
It's like, it's kind of like Frisbee.

995
00:39:18,860 --> 00:39:20,340
Like it's just all in the wrist.

996
00:39:20,340 --> 00:39:20,580
Right.

997
00:39:20,580 --> 00:39:25,000
I mean, you gotta, you gotta like swap it.

998
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:31,240
It feels good when you make contact, but it scares the heck out of my dogs and it is covered

999
00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:34,780
with splatted guts and you gotta like clean it.

1000
00:39:34,780 --> 00:39:36,600
But you don't want to touch it to scrub it off.

1001
00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:37,700
It does need innovation.

1002
00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:38,740
I don't know how to make it better.

1003
00:39:38,740 --> 00:39:39,140
Dude, you know what?

1004
00:39:39,140 --> 00:39:40,480
Let's do this at night.

1005
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,280
You know how all the flies go hit your TV when you start?

1006
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:44,500
I think that's it.

1007
00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:48,580
You just put up a safe, like a safe non-killing thing.

1008
00:39:48,580 --> 00:39:49,820
It's just like a capture light.

1009
00:39:49,820 --> 00:39:50,880
Ooh, that's interesting.

1010
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:51,440
I don't know.

1011
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:52,680
There needs to be something.

1012
00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:54,160
The bug zapper, but captures.

1013
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,040
But like one way in and it's just every night.

1014
00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:57,720
They have those.

1015
00:39:57,720 --> 00:39:58,260
Oh really?

1016
00:39:58,260 --> 00:39:58,720
They do?

1017
00:39:58,720 --> 00:39:59,300
Is that a thing?

1018
00:39:59,300 --> 00:39:59,860
Paul knows.

1019
00:39:59,860 --> 00:40:01,140
Yeah.

1020
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:05,940
They look like a Glade plug-in and they just, you just like plug them in in your kitchen

1021
00:40:05,940 --> 00:40:11,280
or wherever and it emits like this blue light and they, I think there's like fly paper in

1022
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:11,400
there.

1023
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:12,200
They just get stuck.

1024
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:13,100
That's incredible.

1025
00:40:13,100 --> 00:40:15,680
They say it's a more humane way to get rid of the flies.

1026
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:19,480
And I'm like, I didn't know that we needed that, but thanks ASPCA.

1027
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,100
How do we make it less humane?

1028
00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:21,600
Yeah.

1029
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:25,360
I'm so glad that the ASPCA is sticking up for flies.

1030
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:30,460
Glue paper is more humane than a quick and dirty splat.

1031
00:40:30,460 --> 00:40:31,100
I don't know.

1032
00:40:31,100 --> 00:40:35,300
Did you ever see like the Xbox Kinect with a high powered laser on a gimbal?

1033
00:40:35,300 --> 00:40:39,260
It's just like a one watt laser, but it can track mosquitoes as they go by and go beep.

1034
00:40:39,260 --> 00:40:41,160
It just shoots them out of the air.

1035
00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:42,080
What?

1036
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:42,880
It's incredible.

1037
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:44,120
Some guy did this years ago.

1038
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:46,840
An automated 3D camera turret laser?

1039
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:48,880
He just gets the X, Y, and Z.

1040
00:40:49,100 --> 00:40:51,960
You calculate where it is based on the picture that you have.

1041
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:52,140
Are you kidding me?

1042
00:40:52,140 --> 00:40:53,340
Because you have two that you overlay.

1043
00:40:53,340 --> 00:40:55,520
And then you just shine a laser.

1044
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,740
And because it's one watt, they just die.

1045
00:40:58,740 --> 00:40:59,340
What?

1046
00:40:59,340 --> 00:41:00,340
Oh my God.

1047
00:41:00,340 --> 00:41:00,940
That's so cool.

1048
00:41:00,940 --> 00:41:04,560
So have a couple of these automated turrets around your house, just picking them off as

1049
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:05,080
they go by.

1050
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:06,640
That's insane.

1051
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:09,200
That's some Star Wars shit right there.

1052
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:11,840
How does it not accidentally shoot people?

1053
00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:12,640
That's my question.

1054
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:13,380
People.

1055
00:41:13,380 --> 00:41:15,220
Yeah.

1056
00:41:15,220 --> 00:41:18,780
This is some guy coded this with like an Arduino and an Xbox Kinect.

1057
00:41:18,860 --> 00:41:19,040
So.

1058
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:20,360
Hope the room's empty.

1059
00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:22,700
I'm sure you could make a better version nowadays.

1060
00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:23,380
Shoot the dog.

1061
00:41:23,380 --> 00:41:28,500
I mean, AI, you could be like, only if, is this a picture of a fly?

1062
00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:30,460
Run it through a quick AI.

1063
00:41:30,460 --> 00:41:32,460
Looks at just one part of the image.

1064
00:41:32,460 --> 00:41:34,340
Says that is a fly at these coordinates.

1065
00:41:34,340 --> 00:41:35,000
Yes.

1066
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,700
Or it just is the, it's like only pointed at the ceiling, basically.

1067
00:41:37,700 --> 00:41:37,980
No.

1068
00:41:37,980 --> 00:41:39,620
I want this shooting everywhere all the time.

1069
00:41:39,620 --> 00:41:40,060
All right.

1070
00:41:40,060 --> 00:41:41,780
Dude, imagine that on a farm.

1071
00:41:41,780 --> 00:41:43,580
It would just like kill every, like.

1072
00:41:43,580 --> 00:41:45,160
It's low powered too.

1073
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:45,360
Yeah.

1074
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:46,560
Put that on the back of a horse.

1075
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:48,780
Like you just firing nonstop.

1076
00:41:48,780 --> 00:41:50,580
That's a great idea.

1077
00:41:50,580 --> 00:41:51,500
Oh, right.

1078
00:41:51,500 --> 00:41:51,840
You know.

1079
00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:53,700
Saddles with built in fly lasers.

1080
00:41:53,700 --> 00:41:54,100
Yeah.

1081
00:41:54,100 --> 00:41:55,360
The smart saddle.

1082
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:57,380
Smart saddle.

1083
00:41:57,380 --> 00:41:58,020
There you go.

1084
00:41:58,020 --> 00:41:58,800
Wow.

1085
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,220
And here we are like Paul's inconvenience at his home.

1086
00:42:02,220 --> 00:42:03,280
Yes.

1087
00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:05,000
Trying to save a horse's ass.

1088
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,360
I guess what's the difference?

1089
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,800
Your house is basically a barn, Paul.

1090
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:10,380
Yeah, it is.

1091
00:42:10,380 --> 00:42:10,720
Yeah.

1092
00:42:10,720 --> 00:42:12,620
That's exactly right.

1093
00:42:12,620 --> 00:42:16,480
Oh, yeah.

1094
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:18,420
All right, Russell.

1095
00:42:18,420 --> 00:42:19,620
What do you got for us?

1096
00:42:19,620 --> 00:42:20,440
All right.

1097
00:42:20,440 --> 00:42:22,740
So it's a love corner idea.

1098
00:42:38,220 --> 00:42:43,800
So I have, as you guys, fellow listeners, many listeners, the pot.

1099
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:49,700
This is my dating app idea that I will never launch because I'm a married man.

1100
00:42:49,700 --> 00:42:52,340
And that just would seem a conflict of interest.

1101
00:42:52,340 --> 00:42:56,760
Legally not allowed to.

1102
00:42:56,760 --> 00:42:57,640
You signed it in your marriage.

1103
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:58,620
It's a conflict of interest.

1104
00:42:58,620 --> 00:42:59,220
That's right.

1105
00:42:59,220 --> 00:43:00,980
Honey, I will be with you forever.

1106
00:43:00,980 --> 00:43:02,480
I promise to never launch a dating app.

1107
00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,720
But look at these profile matches I'm getting on this app while I test this.

1108
00:43:06,720 --> 00:43:07,780
Totally fine.

1109
00:43:07,780 --> 00:43:08,020
No.

1110
00:43:08,020 --> 00:43:10,000
But here's the idea.

1111
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,480
So, okay.

1112
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:19,600
What if for this dating app idea, you matched with your celebrity doppelganger?

1113
00:43:19,900 --> 00:43:25,520
So I think it's really hard to, or not doppelganger, like your celebrity crush, we'll say.

1114
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,740
So you pick your celebrity crushes, okay?

1115
00:43:28,740 --> 00:43:30,340
Or who you want to meet with.

1116
00:43:30,860 --> 00:43:36,420
And so, for example, are you more of an Aubrey Plaza guy or are you more of a Jessica Day guy?

1117
00:43:36,420 --> 00:43:39,880
You know, which, like, completely different ends of the spectrum.

1118
00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:45,600
But you now, like, when you sign up for the app, you have to fill out a questionnaire and you match yourself.

1119
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,980
Like, the app matches you with a celebrity doppelganger, right?

1120
00:43:48,980 --> 00:43:54,800
Because you're like, oh, this is like Nick Miller from the, you know, from New Girl.

1121
00:43:55,260 --> 00:43:58,380
Like, sure, he kind of looks a little weird, but, like, so does Nick Miller.

1122
00:43:58,380 --> 00:44:00,700
So, shoot, maybe I'd give him a shot.

1123
00:44:00,700 --> 00:44:01,760
You know?

1124
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:06,880
I think there's, like, I think, yeah, that's it.

1125
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:14,460
You basically are trying to, you identify yourself and the app identifies you as, like, a set of celebrity personalities.

1126
00:44:14,460 --> 00:44:24,900
And because most people can relate to that celebrity personality or actual person, they can give them an extra little bit of grace.

1127
00:44:24,900 --> 00:44:25,860
When they look at him, right?

1128
00:44:25,860 --> 00:44:30,620
Because, like, there are a lot of ugly people on, let's do Scrubs, okay?

1129
00:44:30,620 --> 00:44:31,420
What's his name?

1130
00:44:31,420 --> 00:44:31,880
JD?

1131
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:32,760
Is that his name?

1132
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:33,000
The guy?

1133
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:33,780
Zach Braff.

1134
00:44:33,780 --> 00:44:34,360
Zach Braff.

1135
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,100
You're not going to be like, damn, I don't know.

1136
00:44:37,100 --> 00:44:39,760
I don't know, man.

1137
00:44:39,760 --> 00:44:43,200
He was with Florence Pugh for a really long time.

1138
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:44,200
Oh, it's true.

1139
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,080
I stand corrected, probably.

1140
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:47,200
So.

1141
00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:47,920
Yeah.

1142
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:49,460
Maybe a different guy.

1143
00:44:49,460 --> 00:44:49,860
I don't know.

1144
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:52,380
All I have to say is.

1145
00:44:52,380 --> 00:44:58,360
Okay, so this isn't me just, like, swiping and being like, I'm hoping I'm going to get DiCaprio or Johnny Depp.

1146
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:00,120
And then you finally meet them in person.

1147
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:02,120
You get to see how they compare.

1148
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:10,720
You're, like, you're looking at the profile, but you're knowing, you're taking it from the lens of that celebrity perspective of who you're looking for.

1149
00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:14,800
Or you filter by celebrity, like, options.

1150
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:15,240
Personality type?

1151
00:45:15,240 --> 00:45:15,680
Yeah.

1152
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:16,340
Yeah.

1153
00:45:16,340 --> 00:45:16,880
So.

1154
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:17,380
Huh.

1155
00:45:17,380 --> 00:45:21,460
Like, somebody could be like, I'm looking for a Nick Miller type of guy.

1156
00:45:21,460 --> 00:45:22,120
Yes.

1157
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:22,540
Right?

1158
00:45:22,540 --> 00:45:23,640
Or, yeah.

1159
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:25,760
Or Jake Johnson, the actor.

1160
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:26,060
Yeah.

1161
00:45:26,060 --> 00:45:26,700
Yeah.

1162
00:45:26,700 --> 00:45:28,760
Two different personality types, I'd say.

1163
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:29,180
Right?

1164
00:45:29,180 --> 00:45:32,120
Jake Johnson versus, maybe they're more similar than they're not.

1165
00:45:32,780 --> 00:45:35,120
But, like, that's what it would be.

1166
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,620
Aubrey Plaza is, like, crazy weird.

1167
00:45:37,620 --> 00:45:43,840
But, like, if that's your type, like, match to your type based on your celebrity personality.

1168
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:50,580
Not just, like, that way when you go on your date, you're not, like, meeting with the other end of the spectrum of Aubrey Plaza.

1169
00:45:50,580 --> 00:45:51,180
I don't know what that is.

1170
00:45:51,180 --> 00:45:52,060
Yeah.

1171
00:45:52,060 --> 00:45:53,520
The actual Aubrey Plaza.

1172
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:54,900
I want the Parks and Rec version.

1173
00:45:54,900 --> 00:45:56,360
It does give you something to talk about.

1174
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,660
So how are you, like, in Aubrey Plaza?

1175
00:45:58,660 --> 00:45:59,220
Yeah.

1176
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:00,460
That's true.

1177
00:46:00,460 --> 00:46:07,320
So the main problem, the core issue that you're trying to solve here is that some dating apps don't really give you a quick summation.

1178
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:09,720
This is, like, a way to make something relatable.

1179
00:46:09,720 --> 00:46:10,400
Is that what you're saying?

1180
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:10,700
Yeah.

1181
00:46:10,700 --> 00:46:11,680
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1182
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:16,200
This is an old idea when I, this was mid-baby pregnancy idea.

1183
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:18,580
But I remember a little bit more now.

1184
00:46:18,580 --> 00:46:19,960
Okay.

1185
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,900
Basically, it's hard to find your type, right?

1186
00:46:22,900 --> 00:46:23,720
Your type.

1187
00:46:23,720 --> 00:46:25,840
You can find your type on TV.

1188
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:29,440
You can find your type by looking and watching all these TV shows.

1189
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:35,660
And it's more universal than saying, oh, I like this type of person, a bubbly, whatever type of person.

1190
00:46:35,660 --> 00:46:43,140
You can actually match that with a personality that's more universal than just, you know, quiet introvert.

1191
00:46:43,140 --> 00:46:46,760
No, this is Pam Beasley from The Office, right?

1192
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:47,500
Yeah.

1193
00:46:47,500 --> 00:46:51,060
I like Pam's not, I don't know, Megan Fox's.

1194
00:46:51,060 --> 00:46:51,500
I don't know.

1195
00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:51,880
Yeah.

1196
00:46:51,880 --> 00:46:55,180
It's just not my type.

1197
00:46:55,180 --> 00:46:55,480
Whatever.

1198
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,840
Like, I'm sure there are plenty of Megan Fox's out there for people, but not for me.

1199
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,180
Like, that would be, like, the initial.

1200
00:47:01,180 --> 00:47:01,920
Yeah.

1201
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:02,600
So, that's it.

1202
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:03,160
That's the approach.

1203
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:03,840
That's really good.

1204
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:12,000
To abstract away the, like, the personality traits into instead, like, a relatable card that summarizes what you're looking for.

1205
00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:12,400
Okay.

1206
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:18,200
Do you then yourself get assigned a, like, celebrity persona?

1207
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:18,940
Yeah.

1208
00:47:18,940 --> 00:47:19,980
I just want to take the test.

1209
00:47:19,980 --> 00:47:20,320
Yeah.

1210
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:20,840
Okay.

1211
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:21,120
Yeah.

1212
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:21,600
For real.

1213
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:22,000
Yep.

1214
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:23,400
Who am I?

1215
00:47:23,400 --> 00:47:25,060
That's how we get our first users.

1216
00:47:25,060 --> 00:47:27,900
We just get a bunch of married men to fill out this test.

1217
00:47:28,100 --> 00:47:30,940
It's basically, like, mid-2000s BuzzFeed.

1218
00:47:30,940 --> 00:47:32,700
What celebrity are you?

1219
00:47:32,700 --> 00:47:34,520
Which Seinfeld character are you?

1220
00:47:34,520 --> 00:47:34,780
Yeah.

1221
00:47:34,780 --> 00:47:38,760
And then we have all these wives now being like, what the hell is this happening?

1222
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:39,480
They do it, too.

1223
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,640
And they're like, oh, do we even match each other?

1224
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:44,980
And now we have this viral campaign of, no, that's, but.

1225
00:47:44,980 --> 00:47:45,960
There you go.

1226
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:46,140
Yeah.

1227
00:47:46,140 --> 00:47:47,500
He's such a Ross.

1228
00:47:47,500 --> 00:47:47,720
Yeah.

1229
00:47:47,720 --> 00:47:48,000
Yeah.

1230
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:48,380
Right.

1231
00:47:48,380 --> 00:47:50,400
Such a, can you, oh, gosh.

1232
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:53,860
What if you matched yourself with, like, celebrities you do not want to be?

1233
00:47:53,860 --> 00:47:54,620
Like, oh.

1234
00:47:54,760 --> 00:47:55,920
That's what I was just thinking.

1235
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:56,160
Right.

1236
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,220
Change your personality.

1237
00:47:58,220 --> 00:47:59,080
I don't know what to tell you.

1238
00:47:59,080 --> 00:47:59,400
Like.

1239
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:00,080
Yeah.

1240
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:01,200
Dwight Schrute.

1241
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:01,560
What?

1242
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:01,840
Yeah.

1243
00:48:01,840 --> 00:48:03,080
Aw, man.

1244
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:06,740
Ted Mosby, one of the worst.

1245
00:48:06,740 --> 00:48:07,560
Yeah, right.

1246
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:11,640
The most wet blanket character in all of TV history.

1247
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:12,300
At least likable.

1248
00:48:12,300 --> 00:48:13,140
Yeah.

1249
00:48:13,140 --> 00:48:13,840
There it is.

1250
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:17,000
There was a reason why all those BuzzFeed things caught on.

1251
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:18,020
People wanted to know.

1252
00:48:18,020 --> 00:48:19,920
It is easy to be.

1253
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:21,140
Pretend you're somebody else.

1254
00:48:21,140 --> 00:48:23,700
It's an easily viral thing, right?

1255
00:48:23,700 --> 00:48:24,220
Like you.

1256
00:48:24,220 --> 00:48:24,620
Yeah.

1257
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:27,820
It's a lens that everyone can understand to see the world.

1258
00:48:27,820 --> 00:48:30,000
Oh, I'm such a, whatever, this character.

1259
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:34,800
So using that as, like, a way to quickly convey all the stuff that a dating app needs to convey

1260
00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:35,480
about a person.

1261
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:36,220
That's a great idea.

1262
00:48:36,220 --> 00:48:40,820
And, you know, after you're done with the date, you can always, like, set a realignment.

1263
00:48:40,820 --> 00:48:41,440
Sure.

1264
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:47,900
Like, oh, this guy thought he was Brad Pitt in Fight Club, and now he's more like Dwight.

1265
00:48:47,900 --> 00:48:48,580
Steve Carell.

1266
00:48:48,580 --> 00:48:49,320
Steve Carell.

1267
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:50,300
Yeah.

1268
00:48:50,580 --> 00:48:54,760
I don't even know what a celebrity doppelganger I'd want to aspire to be.

1269
00:48:54,900 --> 00:48:58,980
It'd be interesting if the app told you, but I feel like you probably would have more

1270
00:48:58,980 --> 00:49:02,600
accurate listings of who is what if you didn't let the app say.

1271
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:07,680
Like, if someone gets that they are Dwight, they're going to delete the app.

1272
00:49:09,780 --> 00:49:10,680
And you know what?

1273
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:12,340
Maybe that's not a bad idea.

1274
00:49:12,340 --> 00:49:12,960
Yeah, well.

1275
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:13,960
To some extent.

1276
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:14,800
Like, you're just.

1277
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:15,820
You don't want them on there.

1278
00:49:15,820 --> 00:49:17,440
Well, it's just not.

1279
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:22,480
I hate to say it, but, like, there's dating apps are, like, only successful for certain

1280
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:23,280
types of people.

1281
00:49:23,280 --> 00:49:26,840
And, unfortunately, the Dwight streets of the world would never make it on a dating app.

1282
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,380
Unless you find a bunch of Angelas on the dating app.

1283
00:49:30,380 --> 00:49:30,840
That's right.

1284
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,320
That is true.

1285
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:33,500
Stand corrected.

1286
00:49:33,500 --> 00:49:38,960
Maybe there's, like, a bonus feature, a special mode where you unlock the, not only are you

1287
00:49:38,960 --> 00:49:44,360
compatible across this, but you actually were a celebrity dating couple in the show that

1288
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:45,480
you're sourcing this from.

1289
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,600
The front end, it knows you're.

1290
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:48,140
Yeah.

1291
00:49:48,140 --> 00:49:49,620
The front end shows you.

1292
00:49:49,620 --> 00:49:51,080
Yeah, you're a Brad Pitt, for sure.

1293
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:52,380
Back end, it knows you're Dwight.

1294
00:49:52,380 --> 00:49:53,680
Are you attracted to power?

1295
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,020
Dwight streets is your man.

1296
00:49:56,020 --> 00:50:02,340
All right, Leo.

1297
00:50:02,580 --> 00:50:04,040
What do you got for us this week?

1298
00:50:04,040 --> 00:50:04,900
All right.

1299
00:50:04,900 --> 00:50:13,180
So, I learned recently that my boss and friend had been trying to pioneer line painting robot

1300
00:50:13,180 --> 00:50:21,380
for their Formula SAE course, where you would take a Roomba-type thing, you set it down in

1301
00:50:21,380 --> 00:50:25,260
an empty parking lot, you go to the app and say, I want it to draw a racetrack that looks

1302
00:50:25,260 --> 00:50:25,620
like this.

1303
00:50:25,620 --> 00:50:32,260
And it goes around and paints, or drops flower, or drops markers, or somehow denotes autonomously

1304
00:50:32,260 --> 00:50:36,700
hey, here's a bunch of things to place on this empty parking lot to make it into a racetrack.

1305
00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:37,500
Great idea.

1306
00:50:37,500 --> 00:50:45,200
I also learned this week that that already exists in the form of line painting robots that fields,

1307
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:47,040
like professional sports places use.

1308
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:52,360
They basically set loose a little Roomba that goes around and draws the lines on fields and

1309
00:50:52,360 --> 00:50:53,400
courts and stuff like that.

1310
00:50:53,720 --> 00:50:53,980
Oh, yeah.

1311
00:50:53,980 --> 00:50:56,260
I would love something like that.

1312
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:04,600
This started as Roomba Zamboni, but I want to pivot a little bit, where I go to lake,

1313
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:10,300
or pond and backyard, or local pool that's closed in the winter, or whatever, and I drop my little

1314
00:51:10,300 --> 00:51:15,380
autonomous robot, and it scrapes the ice and makes it skatable and all that.

1315
00:51:15,380 --> 00:51:17,040
Maybe even runs regularly.

1316
00:51:17,400 --> 00:51:24,400
But also, you could fire up the app, and it tests for how thick the ice is, and it draws

1317
00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:29,820
a bunch of regulation hockey-sized lines all over.

1318
00:51:29,820 --> 00:51:31,140
Place your net here.

1319
00:51:31,140 --> 00:51:35,780
So it goes all around, and you can imagine the interface of dragging and dropping a field

1320
00:51:35,780 --> 00:51:42,360
on top of a lake on your app Go, and it just starts humming around and preparing the ice.

1321
00:51:42,860 --> 00:51:48,060
I feel like there's a lot of neighborhoods that are built around ponds that don't get used in the winter,

1322
00:51:48,060 --> 00:51:55,940
or there's a house in the suburban woods, where there's some pond back there that you could go through

1323
00:51:55,940 --> 00:51:59,060
the work of setting it up in the winter to be an ice rink.

1324
00:51:59,060 --> 00:52:02,240
Sometimes there's the cool dad who does it, but it's so much work.

1325
00:52:02,240 --> 00:52:07,860
You could go to the lake that, I mean, we live in a Great Lakes state, but there's all kinds of

1326
00:52:07,860 --> 00:52:12,540
states around this beautiful United States that have little lakes and stuff that just don't get used

1327
00:52:12,540 --> 00:52:13,000
in the winter.

1328
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:17,080
And if I could take my little robot, come back in an hour, and it's prepared a little

1329
00:52:17,080 --> 00:52:20,780
cleared-off spot to make an ice rink, and it's tested to make sure that it's safe to do so,

1330
00:52:20,780 --> 00:52:21,820
I think that'd be sick.

1331
00:52:21,820 --> 00:52:27,780
So it's both Zamboni-ing and somehow testing ice, and maybe also drawing lines.

1332
00:52:27,780 --> 00:52:30,840
That's a lot of things to ask of this MVP.

1333
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:33,860
I want to add one more to the MVP.

1334
00:52:33,860 --> 00:52:34,580
Yes, please do.

1335
00:52:34,580 --> 00:52:36,740
I just want it to be able to draw things, too.

1336
00:52:36,740 --> 00:52:40,820
I can be like, put it on a lake and just draw this picture onto the lake.

1337
00:52:41,720 --> 00:52:43,900
What kind of things do you want to draw on the lake, Scott?

1338
00:52:43,900 --> 00:52:44,520
I don't know.

1339
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:47,540
We'll let the community make use of that.

1340
00:52:47,540 --> 00:52:51,060
But it's like your little mini oasis, the sand guy.

1341
00:52:51,060 --> 00:52:53,880
Put a marble in a giant thing of sand, and it draws cool shapes.

1342
00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:55,620
Let's do that on a grand scale.

1343
00:52:55,620 --> 00:52:56,460
That'd be fun.

1344
00:52:56,460 --> 00:53:01,680
Even on a big, empty, rolling field of pristine snow, you drop your little robot, and it draws

1345
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,460
some art into the snow by driving around for a while.

1346
00:53:04,900 --> 00:53:07,780
In the summer, you can put it in the cornfield and make some crop circles.

1347
00:53:07,780 --> 00:53:12,980
If Canadians are listening to this podcast, Leo, we're going to blow up.

1348
00:53:12,980 --> 00:53:13,680
That's it.

1349
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:13,980
Yeah.

1350
00:53:13,980 --> 00:53:16,520
Every Canadian out there, right?

1351
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:21,160
I have a coworker who every year takes their backyard pond and does the hockey thing.

1352
00:53:21,160 --> 00:53:24,520
They do hockey, but they turn it into a skating rink.

1353
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:30,860
It's so much work, and it seems like the kind of thing that a robot could automate some of.

1354
00:53:30,860 --> 00:53:36,080
Clearing it off, leveling it, making it so that the ice on there is not rough, where it's

1355
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:39,620
like, you know, if it just snows and kind of freezes haphazardly, it's not great skating

1356
00:53:39,620 --> 00:53:39,880
snow.

1357
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,700
You need to, like, actually put down a layer of water.

1358
00:53:42,700 --> 00:53:45,340
So he's hosing it down every couple of hours.

1359
00:53:45,340 --> 00:53:49,020
I know that some people will do that with tarps and stuff in their backyards, too.

1360
00:53:49,020 --> 00:53:52,520
It seems like the kind of thing you should be able to just, like, make a robot do.

1361
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:53,200
It does.

1362
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:54,180
Okay, so question.

1363
00:53:54,180 --> 00:54:00,960
Does the robot freeze the water as it's doing it, or are you relying on atmospheric conditions

1364
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:02,520
to maintain?

1365
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,620
Yeah, on a hot July day.

1366
00:54:04,620 --> 00:54:06,780
Freeze the lake.

1367
00:54:06,780 --> 00:54:07,400
Go.

1368
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:13,000
Yeah, I think you need the latter, but I think Zambonis, like, lay down a layer of hot water.

1369
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:18,480
So it could even be a little heater and scraper and, you know, sand it down kind of situation.

1370
00:54:18,720 --> 00:54:24,760
It doesn't necessarily need to be putting fresh water from a tank or something like that.

1371
00:54:24,760 --> 00:54:26,460
It can use what it scoops up, you know?

1372
00:54:26,460 --> 00:54:27,360
Yeah.

1373
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:31,660
I just know that it, I mean, it depends on how long you want this thing to take, right?

1374
00:54:31,720 --> 00:54:34,700
Like, because it takes a really long time for lakes to freeze.

1375
00:54:34,700 --> 00:54:38,020
Like, some of them aren't fully frozen until, what, February?

1376
00:54:38,020 --> 00:54:39,100
But when do you know?

1377
00:54:39,100 --> 00:54:42,460
Like, you're supposed to, I guess, drill a core sample?

1378
00:54:42,460 --> 00:54:43,360
Or, like...

1379
00:54:43,360 --> 00:54:43,540
Yeah.

1380
00:54:43,760 --> 00:54:45,920
How am I supposed to know I can go skate on that?

1381
00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:48,200
And if so, is it going to be a good experience?

1382
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:54,480
If I could, in the morning, drop my little Roomba guy off and then by after work in the

1383
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:59,620
evening know, you know, or, like, Friday night to Saturday morning or something, hey, this

1384
00:54:59,620 --> 00:55:04,700
is safe and we made a little couple hundred square foot for you to go ham on.

1385
00:55:04,700 --> 00:55:04,980
Yeah.

1386
00:55:04,980 --> 00:55:08,740
Point a little ultrasonic sensor towards the ice and it could tell you the depth of...

1387
00:55:08,740 --> 00:55:08,940
Yeah.

1388
00:55:08,940 --> 00:55:11,700
Way better than listening to those quacks at the DNR.

1389
00:55:11,700 --> 00:55:14,300
That's right.

1390
00:55:14,300 --> 00:55:16,040
What do they know?

1391
00:55:16,040 --> 00:55:17,300
Exactly.

1392
00:55:17,300 --> 00:55:20,920
It's always astounding to me when you see ice fisherman tents out there.

1393
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:24,620
You're like, oh, man, they're so far out and it's so early.

1394
00:55:24,620 --> 00:55:25,700
Are you sure?

1395
00:55:25,700 --> 00:55:28,420
But they probably know better than I would.

1396
00:55:28,420 --> 00:55:28,900
Yeah.

1397
00:55:28,900 --> 00:55:30,020
Until I get my robot.

1398
00:55:30,020 --> 00:55:32,580
I've gone with my father-in-law a bunch of times and it's really fun.

1399
00:55:32,580 --> 00:55:33,500
It does sound fun.

1400
00:55:33,500 --> 00:55:38,620
But, I mean, nowadays you can, like, you can set up an ice hut or, like, an ice fishing

1401
00:55:38,620 --> 00:55:40,460
hut and it's like a mini house.

1402
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:42,620
I mean, you can have so many things in there.

1403
00:55:42,620 --> 00:55:45,700
Heaters and grills and food and...

1404
00:55:45,700 --> 00:55:50,140
Can't you, like, Amazon Prime an A-frame house now, like, ready to go for, like, 15 grand?

1405
00:55:50,140 --> 00:55:52,300
Drop one of those on the ice next day.

1406
00:55:52,300 --> 00:55:53,000
Two days shipping.

1407
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:53,260
Yeah.

1408
00:55:53,260 --> 00:55:54,320
Getting it off.

1409
00:55:54,320 --> 00:55:56,260
Getting it off of the ice in time for...

1410
00:55:56,260 --> 00:55:56,880
Just let it sink.

1411
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:58,840
Springtime is going to be a bitch.

1412
00:55:58,840 --> 00:55:59,660
Another next year.

1413
00:55:59,660 --> 00:56:00,340
It's a reef.

1414
00:56:00,340 --> 00:56:00,940
Capitalism.

1415
00:56:00,940 --> 00:56:02,260
It's a reef.

1416
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,840
It's basically ecologically friendly.

1417
00:56:06,840 --> 00:56:07,720
That's amazing.

1418
00:56:07,720 --> 00:56:09,060
Two-stall garage.

1419
00:56:09,060 --> 00:56:10,260
Four-bedroom.

1420
00:56:10,260 --> 00:56:10,960
Two-bath.

1421
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:11,280
Yeah.

1422
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:12,500
Beautiful home on the lake.

1423
00:56:12,500 --> 00:56:13,360
On the lake.

1424
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,600
Airbnb a few times, you make your money back.

1425
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:16,160
Like, home.

1426
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:16,540
Right?

1427
00:56:16,540 --> 00:56:16,800
Yeah.

1428
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:17,660
Totally.

1429
00:56:17,660 --> 00:56:17,780
Totally.

1430
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,200
You won't believe the water feature on this home.

1431
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,040
Lake front property.

1432
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:23,360
That's right.

1433
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:28,700
There's a Mitch Hedberg joke about that where he's like, I just want to live on the lake.

1434
00:56:28,700 --> 00:56:30,240
Forget lake front.

1435
00:56:30,240 --> 00:56:31,940
I want to be lake on.

1436
00:56:31,940 --> 00:56:34,680
Leo, I just found...

1437
00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:37,160
It reminded me, too, like a little Roomba robot.

1438
00:56:37,160 --> 00:56:40,820
I just found out that there are Roomba robots that cut your lawn.

1439
00:56:40,820 --> 00:56:41,260
Yeah.

1440
00:56:41,260 --> 00:56:42,580
They were all over Norway.

1441
00:56:42,580 --> 00:56:44,060
We went in 2018 and they were...

1442
00:56:44,060 --> 00:56:45,740
Every hotel, every, like, cut...

1443
00:56:45,740 --> 00:56:49,300
These huge rolling hills had little yellow back and forth robots.

1444
00:56:49,300 --> 00:56:53,000
You can get one for pretty cheap nowadays for your backyard.

1445
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:53,600
Yeah.

1446
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:58,280
I'm going to need to do that so my wife doesn't yell at me for taking two and a half hours

1447
00:56:58,280 --> 00:56:59,060
to mow the lawn.

1448
00:56:59,060 --> 00:57:04,820
It's like under a grand now to get one that just does it all summer.

1449
00:57:04,820 --> 00:57:06,560
You just set a little base station.

1450
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:11,560
How those things can navigate and get all the little hills and cracks and stuff of your yard,

1451
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:14,220
I don't understand, but it's so accessible.

1452
00:57:14,220 --> 00:57:15,500
If it could mulch or pick up leaves.

1453
00:57:15,500 --> 00:57:16,760
I'd be all over that.

1454
00:57:16,760 --> 00:57:19,800
I'm sure that if that doesn't exist, that's going to be an attachment.

1455
00:57:19,800 --> 00:57:21,420
Put a little trailer hitch on the back.

1456
00:57:21,420 --> 00:57:25,020
For a grand, that, like, covers the riding mower way over.

1457
00:57:25,020 --> 00:57:27,220
Those riding mowers, like, three or four grand.

1458
00:57:27,220 --> 00:57:31,340
I mean, there are some that are a lot more than that, but yeah, I think a robot mower for,

1459
00:57:31,340 --> 00:57:34,000
like, the entry-level one are in the mid-hundreds now.

1460
00:57:34,000 --> 00:57:34,540
Wow.

1461
00:57:34,540 --> 00:57:35,600
Yeah, you get a John...

1462
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:41,000
Like, if you get a John Deere, like, and your mowing deck is anywhere beyond, like, 24 inches,

1463
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,180
you're paying, like, $3,500 easy.

1464
00:57:43,180 --> 00:57:48,860
And it doesn't need to be, like, a big mower deck, because it can run all day for all I care.

1465
00:57:48,860 --> 00:57:50,100
It goes out, doesn't get it.

1466
00:57:50,100 --> 00:57:51,300
Goes back, recharges it.

1467
00:57:51,300 --> 00:57:52,060
Yeah, exactly.

1468
00:57:52,060 --> 00:57:52,840
Yeah.

1469
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:53,920
Just buy a goat.

1470
00:57:53,920 --> 00:57:56,940
You could do that, too.

1471
00:57:56,940 --> 00:57:58,200
No maintenance.

1472
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:01,160
Dude, so, like, you did the hockey thing, right?

1473
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:03,200
But what about, like, just regular fields?

1474
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,720
Like, what if you did this for, like, soccer fields?

1475
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,140
Well, I guess that the cones do well.

1476
00:58:08,140 --> 00:58:09,880
You don't need a whole...

1477
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:10,880
Cones are good.

1478
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:17,120
That does exist, but it's very, like, this is the predetermined route, and it costs a lot

1479
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,400
of money, and it's the professional stadium that needs to repaint the logo in the middle

1480
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:21,180
and all that stuff.

1481
00:58:21,180 --> 00:58:22,480
It does seem like...

1482
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:23,260
Yeah, I agree.

1483
00:58:23,260 --> 00:58:27,980
Where I could, like, take my little Roomba-sized thing, drop it down, say, I want a regulation

1484
00:58:27,980 --> 00:58:31,580
lacrosse field right here.

1485
00:58:31,580 --> 00:58:36,460
Drag it on the map, or, like, put two cones on the corners down and say go, and it just

1486
00:58:36,460 --> 00:58:40,960
starts to putz around for 30 minutes and spray paints straight down, you know?

1487
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:41,560
Yeah.

1488
00:58:41,560 --> 00:58:42,300
It'd be so fun.

1489
00:58:42,300 --> 00:58:45,600
Or, like, you know, if you want to do this in, like, public fields, it could be chalk paint,

1490
00:58:45,600 --> 00:58:46,960
and then it washes away.

1491
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:47,320
Sure.

1492
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:48,780
And now you have, like...

1493
00:58:48,780 --> 00:58:49,200
Oh, yeah.

1494
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:52,780
You create, like, a really cool experience, right?

1495
00:58:52,780 --> 00:58:54,340
All of a sudden by...

1496
00:58:54,340 --> 00:58:57,800
To your point, like, what if you had, like, a regulation logo in the middle?

1497
00:58:57,960 --> 00:58:59,080
That you put out there?

1498
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:03,420
You just make it feel really professional for very little effort, right?

1499
00:59:03,420 --> 00:59:04,500
That would be really neat.

1500
00:59:04,500 --> 00:59:10,080
There could be, like, a user-submitted marketplace for your designs for, like, here's the Quidditch

1501
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:10,500
court.

1502
00:59:10,500 --> 00:59:12,120
Oh, that's so fun.

1503
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:12,940
Or whatever.

1504
00:59:12,940 --> 00:59:13,400
You know what I mean?

1505
00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:16,320
Like, people are designing their own little courts that you can then...

1506
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:19,140
It's like 3D printing, but 2D and huge.

1507
00:59:19,140 --> 00:59:25,340
I'm trying to think of the simplest possible MVP of it, and I keep coming back to, could you

1508
00:59:25,340 --> 00:59:30,760
just take a drone, any old drone, map it out to be like, hey, these are the corners, or

1509
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:32,040
these are the spots I need to mark.

1510
00:59:32,040 --> 00:59:36,760
Have it fly over and drop something very simple, and you can either put a cone on top of it,

1511
00:59:36,760 --> 00:59:37,920
or the drone could bring the cone.

1512
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:38,380
Who knows?

1513
00:59:38,380 --> 00:59:40,920
Like, those little cheap plastic soccer ones.

1514
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:42,720
And it just creates your basic outline of it.

1515
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:43,500
And we'll add on from there.

1516
00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:48,880
A basic couple hundred dollar off-the-shelf drone has really, really accurate GP.

1517
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:55,020
It could probably just have a little cone dispenser, the basket that hangs underneath it, and drops

1518
00:59:55,020 --> 00:59:55,840
them every few feet.

1519
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:59,500
Like you said, chalk or sand, it just marks the spot and moves on to the next.

1520
00:59:59,500 --> 01:00:01,560
You get a perfectly sized whatever.

1521
01:00:01,560 --> 01:00:02,560
A cone drone.

1522
01:00:02,560 --> 01:00:03,380
Cone drone.

1523
01:00:03,380 --> 01:00:03,880
Yeah.

1524
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:05,200
It doesn't need to fly.

1525
01:00:05,200 --> 01:00:08,260
It could just have big tire treads and putts around.

1526
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,120
I know, you always want it to be something that flies.

1527
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:12,560
Flying long-over.

1528
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:13,360
That's what I'm thinking.

1529
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:15,700
Flying Zamboni.

1530
01:00:15,700 --> 01:00:17,420
Flying Zamboni.

1531
01:00:17,420 --> 01:00:17,900
Yeah.

1532
01:00:17,900 --> 01:00:19,980
He scoops a little, flies away.

1533
01:00:19,980 --> 01:00:22,220
And the battery lasts four minutes.

1534
01:00:22,220 --> 01:00:29,080
Not if it's, I mean, unless it's controlled by the flux capacitor, then you can just go all

1535
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:29,260
day.

1536
01:00:29,260 --> 01:00:32,200
If I don't have to worry about energy, then energy's not a problem.

1537
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:33,780
A couple extra gigawatts.

1538
01:00:33,780 --> 01:00:37,240
I think it should be gas-powered.

1539
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:39,380
You set down this big-ass thing.

1540
01:00:39,380 --> 01:00:40,080
Hurr.

1541
01:00:40,080 --> 01:00:41,080
Hurr.

1542
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:41,780
Hurr.

1543
01:00:41,780 --> 01:00:43,120
It just putzes around.

1544
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:44,060
Big smokestack.

1545
01:00:44,060 --> 01:00:48,340
It's a blend of old and new technology.

1546
01:00:48,340 --> 01:00:51,580
Autonomous driving, but coal-fired.

1547
01:00:51,580 --> 01:00:55,240
I think this would be really cool for, like, drill lines.

1548
01:00:55,240 --> 01:01:01,680
So, like, let's say you're running a sports team, and you want to draw lines in the actual

1549
01:01:01,680 --> 01:01:02,840
field for drills.

1550
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:04,920
Not actually playing games or scrimmaging.

1551
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:08,020
You want to do, like, some unique pattern on the ground to...

1552
01:01:08,020 --> 01:01:09,100
Football plays!

1553
01:01:09,100 --> 01:01:13,020
You got your X's and O's on the chalkboard, but you're actually putting them, like, over

1554
01:01:13,020 --> 01:01:15,360
here is where you're going to go to, wide receiver.

1555
01:01:15,360 --> 01:01:17,580
And the thing goes around and draws them.

1556
01:01:17,580 --> 01:01:18,400
That's fun.

1557
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:18,580
Yeah.

1558
01:01:18,580 --> 01:01:21,700
Or, like, put marks on the ground for you to, yeah, run those plays.

1559
01:01:21,700 --> 01:01:25,280
Or, like, you got to hit this point at this time every time.

1560
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:26,980
And it literally measures...

1561
01:01:26,980 --> 01:01:30,260
You create a whole professional athlete version of that, right?

1562
01:01:30,260 --> 01:01:30,680
Yeah.

1563
01:01:30,680 --> 01:01:35,980
You draw a one, two, and a three, and you tell the player, you got to be at spot number two

1564
01:01:35,980 --> 01:01:38,140
by seven seconds into this play.

1565
01:01:38,140 --> 01:01:39,380
Start the clock.

1566
01:01:39,380 --> 01:01:40,220
Yeah.

1567
01:01:40,220 --> 01:01:41,160
That's great.

1568
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:44,200
You can even do different sports that no one's ever heard of.

1569
01:01:44,200 --> 01:01:45,600
Like, just like, yeah.

1570
01:01:45,600 --> 01:01:49,660
Here's the line pattern for this new sport that I invented.

1571
01:01:50,100 --> 01:01:51,560
Now we're getting weird with it, but...

1572
01:01:51,560 --> 01:01:55,340
There's a park that's near us that has a built-in equipment for...

1573
01:01:55,340 --> 01:01:56,020
What is it called?

1574
01:01:56,020 --> 01:01:56,800
Gaggleball?

1575
01:01:56,800 --> 01:01:57,240
Gaga.

1576
01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:58,080
Gagaball.

1577
01:01:58,080 --> 01:02:05,320
Which is, like, a hexagon or an octagon ring that you put dodgeballs in, and there's a rules

1578
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:07,040
plaque on it, but it's, like, part of the playground.

1579
01:02:07,040 --> 01:02:14,880
I feel like there's a whole, like, I'm Joe Schmo, and I invented a weird game, and here's a

1580
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:17,020
marketplace now where I can put this out there.

1581
01:02:17,540 --> 01:02:22,700
You've put the rules set and the field design into this app, and then the robot goes around,

1582
01:02:22,700 --> 01:02:24,040
and anyone can replicate it in.

1583
01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:28,440
They have Gagaball at my daughter's school, and I have no idea what it is.

1584
01:02:28,440 --> 01:02:30,680
It's kind of like dodgeball.

1585
01:02:30,680 --> 01:02:31,920
You start on the edge.

1586
01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:34,260
You're trying to, like, swat at each other.

1587
01:02:34,260 --> 01:02:34,960
I don't get it either.

1588
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:35,240
Yeah.

1589
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:42,440
When I was in high school, the gym coach was, like, the archetype of cartoon gym coach, the

1590
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:45,340
overweight old guy who, like, yeah.

1591
01:02:45,340 --> 01:02:49,880
Everything that you remember, his name was Mr. Waitle, and he invented Waitle Ball, which

1592
01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:52,760
was a game that you played in the wrestling room, in the padded room.

1593
01:02:52,760 --> 01:02:56,600
It had a bowling pin, and it was kind of like dodgeball, but there was a goalie.

1594
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:57,600
It was a whole thing, right?

1595
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:02,840
But there's probably a lot of people out there who have their weird game like Waitle Ball that's

1596
01:03:02,840 --> 01:03:04,000
just sitting in their brain.

1597
01:03:04,120 --> 01:03:09,340
They play it at their friend's group or their church youth group or their once-a-year guy's

1598
01:03:09,340 --> 01:03:10,420
trip or whatever it is.

1599
01:03:10,420 --> 01:03:13,140
It'd be cool to, like, have a marketplace for those ideas.

1600
01:03:13,140 --> 01:03:13,640
Kelvin Ball.

1601
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:17,600
Then my little spray-painting robot executes it so anyone else can make it.

1602
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:20,160
That's right.

1603
01:03:20,160 --> 01:03:22,200
Flonkerton from the office.

1604
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:23,700
From the Office Olympics.

1605
01:03:23,700 --> 01:03:24,060
Exactly.

1606
01:03:24,600 --> 01:03:29,800
Well, dear listener, if you're putting on the cleats to go play Waitle Ball or Flonkerton

1607
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:33,580
and you're finishing up this episode in your headphones, we hope you enjoyed yourself.

1608
01:03:33,580 --> 01:03:34,980
Thank you very much for listening.

1609
01:03:34,980 --> 01:03:36,720
And thank you so much, Paul, for joining us.

1610
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:37,440
Oh, man.

1611
01:03:37,440 --> 01:03:38,000
Thank you.

1612
01:03:38,000 --> 01:03:39,080
This was a blast.

1613
01:03:39,080 --> 01:03:40,200
This was really fun.

1614
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:42,040
Well, I can't wait to see what else is in your book.

1615
01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:43,000
Oh, thanks, man.

1616
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:43,700
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1617
01:03:43,700 --> 01:03:46,560
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1618
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1619
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:51,180
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