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I'm Scott.

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I'm Russell.

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And I'm Leo.

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This is Spitball.

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Welcome to Spitball, where three computerphile creators and a guest empty our heads of startup

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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.

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And this week, Scott, you have a special guest for us indeed.

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I do have a special guest.

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So one of our most popular Spitball episodes we've ever done was the idea for Airbnb for Servants.

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And so back by popular demand, our guest this week is none other than its founder, Anthony Bednarz.

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Anthony.

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Anthony, a therapist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur, is here to bring us that unique perspective on the human psyche.

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Welcome, Anthony.

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It is a genuine pleasure to be back.

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We're so glad to have you.

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How many servants do you have on your app now, Anthony?

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Look, we really want to protect the data of our employees, so I can't give out that information.

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Secret sauce.

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That makes sense.

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I think you get $100,000 in the investment portfolio.

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For 10%, I think.

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For one servant.

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For sure.

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I know a lot more about bankruptcy now than last time.

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Yeah, right.

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Every good entrepreneur does, right?

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This week, inspired by the holidays, my wife and her wonderful family are from Minnesota.

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And I learned while I was at Thanksgiving in Minnesota that they have a lot of really weird town names all over.

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These little, like, less than a thousand person population towns with fantastic names.

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So, today, to get us started and warmed up, we're going to be playing a game that I'm going to call Metaverse or Minnesota.

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You just have to tell me if this town name is a real place in the beautiful state of Minnesota or if it is a fictional place in a video game.

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And, of course, we start as we do every time with our guest, Anthony.

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I want to tell you about Little Canada.

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Little Canada is where?

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Is that a place in a fictional video game or is that in Minnesota?

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Is it Little or Lil?

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Little Canada or Little?

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L-I-T-T-L-E.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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I'm trying to think of which Canadian province is directly north of Minnesota.

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Oh.

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And if they would have a lot of emigrants.

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Oh.

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I don't know.

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I'm going to say it's from a video game.

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It is a suburb of Minneapolis.

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No.

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Scott.

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Loot Lake.

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L-O-O-T.

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Lake.

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That has to be a video game.

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It's a video game.

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It's a hub in Fortnite.

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You're correct.

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Okay.

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Thank God.

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Oh.

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Russell.

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Crystal.

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Spelled out sounds.

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That's a town.

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That's another suburb in Minneapolis.

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Very good.

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Anthony.

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Legion Square.

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I'm going to guess video game again.

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It's from Grand Theft Auto Online.

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Very good.

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Hey.

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Scott.

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Cosmos.

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Drink.

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We're going to go Minnesota.

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It is west of Minneapolis.

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Population of 507.

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Wow.

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Well done.

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We're doing good guys.

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Yeah you are.

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Maybe this game is too easy.

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Russell.

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Climax.

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Oh God.

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That's a video game.

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You know what I'm saying?

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Yes.

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Not the games I play.

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That's of course right near North Dakota.

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Population of 253.

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Climax Minnesota.

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The good people of Climax are just happy.

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What's the zip code?

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What's the zip code?

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69.

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69.

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69.

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69.

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20.

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Anthony.

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Great pug.

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Great pug.

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Spelled like the dog.

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I got it.

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I'm going to go with video game again.

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This is like a Nintendogs or something.

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It is a VR chat virtual bar.

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Very good.

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Little pug.

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Yeah.

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Scott.

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Let's go.

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Good thunder.

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No idea.

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We're going.

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This is a war thunder town.

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Video game.

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It is southwest corner of Minnesota.

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God.

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Everything is a suburb of Minneapolis.

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It's not anywhere near there this time.

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It's a population of 560 right near the border there.

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Last but not least, Russell.

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Sleepy eye.

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That is a video.

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No, it's a town in Minnesota with an optometrist that found it.

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It is in the southwest corner of Minnesota.

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Well done.

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3,600 people, which I think means you're the only one who got a perfect score all the way

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through.

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Well done.

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Yeah.

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My intuition just doesn't fail me.

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No, of course.

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And I think that means you have to go first, right?

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Isn't that the one?

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Oh, okay.

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Let's go.

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Russell, what do you got for us?

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Alrighty, guys.

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So, as you know, I have kids.

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And what's hard with kids is you want to listen to your own music, but you can't because it's

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a little explicit at times.

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That's the hard thing.

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You don't want to have them start saying.

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And there's some subtleties like, you know, what is it?

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Macaroni in a pot.

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Ah, yes.

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You know, I can't.

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Like, it's not directly inappropriate, but like, can we.

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That's the worst part of that song.

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Yeah.

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So, here's my idea.

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All right.

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I want to listen to my dirty ass music, but I can't find, I don't want to listen to kids

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bop version, or maybe I do, but I just need an AI tool that takes all of my favorite songs

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or like new songs that haven't hit kids bop yet and AI's it and doesn't like lose its quality.

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Like, you know, you still got the rhymes, but they're not maybe inappropriate, but have

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an AI, like even with AI voices make the song, but kid friendly.

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Right.

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Will Smith going to rap all of these.

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Clean rap.

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The good ones.

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Right.

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So, yeah, you just thrown in an AI tool, let's say.

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And I think these already exist.

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I mean, it doesn't even be AI.

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It's like the, there's like even apps out there that like you can take the transcript, rewrite

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the words, and all of a sudden it takes, it makes it rewrite the audio or something.

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And now you have a perfectly clean version of Kendrick Lamar's album.

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But it's, and it sounds like Kendrick, you know, that's, so I don't know.

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It's, that's the idea.

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So you're picturing like a switch and Spotify, Apple music, whatever.

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That's just like the filter or like it flips it over to clean mode, family friendly mode,

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but doesn't actually different songs.

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That.

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Yeah.

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Or let's say you have a desktop app that like we'll listen to the song and just like

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auto do something with it.

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Like if you can't, if Spotify doesn't have that feature, like some sort of third party tool

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that allows for it to happen.

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Right.

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Or it's his own service, like its own music service that like, I guess I'm wondering if

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it like falls under like parody content too.

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So you might have some like really good, I don't know what the parody law looks like, but

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like, can you make it like fall under that?

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And now you have your own kid spot playlist.

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You have like, literally you take the top 50 billboard on like Spotify or 100 billboard

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on, and you just have your own.

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Run it through.

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You can prompt it.

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So you're like, make this song actually about sandwiches or whatever.

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So I will say this, Russell, we were driving back from getting a Christmas tree last year.

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It was just my wife and I and my six year old nephew.

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And we, he was in the backseat of the car and like the weekend came on and he was just

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like, uncle Scott, what is this?

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Can you turn it up?

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And like, he was just vibing to it.

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Like it wasn't anything raunchy on there going through.

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It was just the background beats going through.

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But he's like, you know, this kid's been listening to Baby Shark his whole life.

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Like this was just like, oh my God.

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So I think there's some potential here, Russell.

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My four year old loves Daft Punk.

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And there's some stuff in there that's right on the edge.

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My two year old loves Blitzkrieg Bop and Ballroom Blitz now.

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And I didn't even mean for that to happen.

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This is just, yeah.

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Kids are drawn to music that isn't bad.

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It's just, we put bad music in front of them.

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So like any way that we can get better music in front of these kids, I'm four.

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Is there a way that we could package this together with like a rock band or a beat saber?

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Like a rhythm game for kids kind of thing?

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Oh, for the kids.

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A Fruit Ninja thing.

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Oh yeah.

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Fruit Ninja meets Daft Punk.

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I learned from the McElroy's video game podcast recently about a little console that you can get that's four kids.

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That's kind of an Xbox Kinect, but all in one box.

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And it has both the games and the camera.

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You set it in front of your TV and you jump around the living room playing Fruit Ninja or whatever.

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This seems like a great game for something like that.

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That'd be so fun.

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Doing your Guitar Hero.

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And like you can get the latest music on there too.

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So like this album just dropped and now my kid can Fruit Ninja his way through it while I don't have to listen to Baby Shark every day.

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Why did Guitar Hero and Rock Band fade out?

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It had a moment, but why is it totally gone?

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There's like no way to play unless you're doing modded PS3 games and stuff, right?

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Didn't Fortnite just come out with a Guitar Hero variant?

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Oh, did they?

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Really?

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Yeah.

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That's cool.

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Fortnite Festival.

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All the old Guitar Hero stuff is like expensive.

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But how do you play?

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It's expensive.

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You can't find it anymore.

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Yeah, you gotta get a guitar.

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You have to buy it.

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You have to buy an old Xbox 360 with Guitar Hero and get the old guitars right now.

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So your thing could definitely be a hardware startup too, man.

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Uh-huh.

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Just go full rock band kids version.

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Kids rock band with good music.

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I don't think that's just us being nostalgic for it.

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I really think there's still a place in the modern world for rhythm game hardware.

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That was life.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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And it wasn't just...

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Dude, and kids with love.

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Yeah, it wasn't just of its time, I don't think.

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There's something really there.

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How does the Fortnite version work, Anthony?

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I have no idea.

267
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Just skins, I'm sure.

268
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You're our Fortnite correspondent on this show.

269
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God damn it.

270
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I'm sorry.

271
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Well, I was going to talk to you about a game from the 90s called Audio Surf.

272
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Do you remember Audio Surf?

273
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You could upload your...

274
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It was a rhythm game.

275
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You could upload your own music and it would auto create a track for you.

276
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Yeah.

277
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If that thing was...

278
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Yeah.

279
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If that was possible in like the 2000s, right?

280
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We could do this all with like...

281
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AI could generate you a rhythm game for any song that you upload, right?

282
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And scrub it to the clean version.

283
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This is a whole console and set, man.

284
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Man.

285
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Yeah.

286
00:10:00,780 --> 00:10:02,140
And I'm wondering what...

287
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Like if you apply this to like video, can you do that for like movies and TV that's

288
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like maybe PG-13 and like cut out?

289
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I mean, maybe not the...

290
00:10:12,020 --> 00:10:13,240
There's probably some like...

291
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It won't read the video, but like maybe it just takes the audio transcript and like...

292
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I'm tired of this Monday to Friday plane.

293
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Yes.

294
00:10:19,880 --> 00:10:20,820
Snakes on the...

295
00:10:20,820 --> 00:10:21,000
Okay.

296
00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:22,140
I waited...

297
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Monkey flying plane.

298
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Snakes on a plane was on Spike TV once and I waited like the entire movie just to be

299
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like, how are they going to say the line?

300
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How are they going to say the line?

301
00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,420
And I was tired of these...

302
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Monkey flying snakes.

303
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On this Monday through Friday plane.

304
00:10:39,380 --> 00:10:39,820
Yeah.

305
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No way.

306
00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:41,940
So that's the thing.

307
00:10:41,940 --> 00:10:47,120
When you have like a video on an airplane seat or whatever, they'll like...

308
00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,040
dub in other versions.

309
00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:54,560
But yeah, AI could make the tone and the inflection and then detect all the curse words and you

310
00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:59,400
just turn on family mode and all of a sudden that Saw movie is just for kids.

311
00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:03,920
Wait, imagine the headline AI censorship.

312
00:11:03,920 --> 00:11:05,080
That's going to go over great.

313
00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:06,540
Oh God.

314
00:11:06,540 --> 00:11:08,560
You can't even tell it's happening.

315
00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:11,600
It turns the movie into about four minutes, but...

316
00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:13,560
Saw is four minutes long.

317
00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:15,320
Want to play a game?

318
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Credits.

319
00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:16,940
Want to play a game?

320
00:11:16,940 --> 00:11:17,720
It's really happy.

321
00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:21,240
There's some purists who are not going to be happy with the artist intent implications,

322
00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:22,280
I'm sure, but...

323
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I'm already upset.

324
00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:28,300
I mean, maybe you could also have a slider.

325
00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:31,200
Like, all right, I'm PG-13 G.

326
00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,280
That would actually be really fun to play with.

327
00:11:34,280 --> 00:11:36,140
Does it work the opposite way?

328
00:11:36,140 --> 00:11:37,520
Could you turn it up to X?

329
00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:37,880
Yeah.

330
00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:39,900
Make it more explicit.

331
00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:41,420
Add to nudity.

332
00:11:41,420 --> 00:11:41,860
What?

333
00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:45,700
Well, now we've hit the money maker.

334
00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:46,740
Obviously.

335
00:11:46,740 --> 00:11:51,100
What about if you took Baby Shark and you made it extremely raunchy?

336
00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:51,740
What is it?

337
00:11:51,740 --> 00:11:53,820
The other way around, too.

338
00:11:53,820 --> 00:11:55,080
What would that sound like, Russell?

339
00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:56,620
Finding Nemo rated R.

340
00:11:56,620 --> 00:11:59,160
And I think it'd go a little something like this.

341
00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:00,440
Yeah, I don't know.

342
00:12:00,660 --> 00:12:03,120
Baby Shark doodoo.

343
00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:04,240
Like, doodoo.

344
00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:04,880
Doodoo.

345
00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:14,640
I don't think you're allowed to cut that joke, actually.

346
00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:15,840
No.

347
00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:16,820
That's dated.

348
00:12:16,820 --> 00:12:18,120
Mommy Shark.

349
00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:28,680
Well, Leo, thanks for that great B segment.

350
00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:32,060
What's your idea this week?

351
00:12:32,060 --> 00:12:34,380
What are you doing?

352
00:12:34,380 --> 00:12:45,320
So, early on, in honor of throwing back to having one of our first guests back, I also want to throw back to one of my really, really early ideas that actually didn't make it into the show.

353
00:12:45,660 --> 00:12:51,200
So, before we actually had this thing up and running and we were making this show, I pitched Scott on an idea.

354
00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,460
Podcasts, but on CDs.

355
00:12:53,460 --> 00:13:08,500
And we got so far as to, like, do a little bit of market study where I was like, well, what would it look like if I could press a button on a catalog on a website and get an episode of a podcast mailed to somebody who doesn't have access to, you know, the internet and stuff.

356
00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:17,060
Like, grandma wants an episode of this or the library archivist wants to get this series in their collection or whatever, but they want to have it on physical media, etc., etc., etc.

357
00:13:17,060 --> 00:13:21,200
We found out that nobody wanted this idea and I've let it die on the vine.

358
00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:37,220
But, I still occasionally have people in my life, grandparents, non-internet natives, who I want to share a podcast episode with because I know they would love that episode of some history deep dive or this interesting perspective on politics that I know that they would actually like.

359
00:13:37,220 --> 00:13:43,860
There's not a good way to share a podcast with someone, period, but especially if they're not really online.

360
00:13:43,860 --> 00:13:46,180
Recommending and sharing podcasts kind of sucks.

361
00:13:46,180 --> 00:13:50,140
And so, I thought, what would it look like if there was a hardware solution?

362
00:13:50,140 --> 00:14:06,240
So, I want to make some sort of little tabletop radio that the user can walk up and press play on and I, on the other side of the town, city, country world, have queued up things for them to listen to at their leisure.

363
00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,640
You are creating a playlist for them.

364
00:14:09,640 --> 00:14:10,000
Yeah!

365
00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:15,760
There's those apps out there where you're like, you buy a photo frame and you control the photos that are on it, but you give it to grandma.

366
00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:18,540
This is this, but for consumable media.

367
00:14:18,540 --> 00:14:22,780
So, maybe it's a TV and it's got YouTube videos and you're sending it to them.

368
00:14:22,780 --> 00:14:24,700
Maybe it's got podcast episodes.

369
00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:25,780
That was my original conceit.

370
00:14:25,780 --> 00:14:28,840
Maybe you could even record like a little intro to each one.

371
00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:34,480
Hey, I really thought you'd like this because while I was listening to this, I thought about blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

372
00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:38,580
And then you send that and that's just another thing in the queue for them to press go on, right?

373
00:14:38,580 --> 00:14:40,260
I don't think it'd be that hard to build.

374
00:14:40,260 --> 00:14:41,500
You got to make a speaker.

375
00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:47,260
You got to make a little like control server thing and a button that says play, right?

376
00:14:47,380 --> 00:14:53,360
And then they can play pause on their end and maybe a skip and you get told like, oh, she didn't like that one.

377
00:14:53,360 --> 00:14:55,480
My grandma always skips over my intro welcomes.

378
00:14:55,480 --> 00:15:00,680
It wouldn't be a very complicated UI on their end.

379
00:15:00,680 --> 00:15:06,620
And then on your end, all you need is like press this one to find something in a catalog and queue it up and send it over to their player.

380
00:15:06,620 --> 00:15:08,160
It could also be good for kids too.

381
00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:08,740
Oh yeah.

382
00:15:08,740 --> 00:15:10,180
Put your Daft Punk down there.

383
00:15:10,180 --> 00:15:14,280
How much of the content is behind paywalls and like how do people get around that, right?

384
00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:16,960
You can't like YouTube playlist somebody, right?

385
00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:28,360
That's the beauty of the podcast industry where you don't have, yeah, with YouTube and with Spotify and all this, you're going to have to kind of make a deal with these content owners, the record labels, the media rights holders and stuff.

386
00:15:28,360 --> 00:15:33,220
But in podcast world, everything is like freely distributed unless it's an exclusive to a platform.

387
00:15:33,220 --> 00:15:36,580
For a little while there, like Joe Rogan was a Spotify exclusive or whatever.

388
00:15:36,700 --> 00:15:39,560
You got those here and there, like this one's only available on Audible.

389
00:15:39,560 --> 00:15:46,020
But for the most part, most shows are just here's the link, here's an MP3 file, download it, do whatever you want with it.

390
00:15:46,020 --> 00:15:54,220
That's why I love podcasts so much is it's one of the last remnants of the old internet where like anyone can come along and just host a podcast and it's just available.

391
00:15:54,220 --> 00:15:56,560
And you can do what you want with distribution.

392
00:15:56,560 --> 00:16:01,460
That's why there's a hundred podcast apps and websites and directories and stuff.

393
00:16:01,460 --> 00:16:02,420
I love that.

394
00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:05,180
And this is just one other interface.

395
00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:09,420
But for the technologically unable, I don't know.

396
00:16:09,420 --> 00:16:14,140
You have a friend who's blind, who doesn't have the ability to navigate a computer very well.

397
00:16:14,140 --> 00:16:17,420
She can walk up and press that thing that you've queued up for or something.

398
00:16:17,420 --> 00:16:18,140
I don't know.

399
00:16:18,140 --> 00:16:18,460
Dude.

400
00:16:18,460 --> 00:16:18,940
Okay.

401
00:16:18,940 --> 00:16:19,520
Yeah.

402
00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:19,940
Leo.

403
00:16:19,940 --> 00:16:20,220
Hit me.

404
00:16:20,220 --> 00:16:21,940
I have so much to Spitball on this.

405
00:16:21,940 --> 00:16:22,340
Pivot.

406
00:16:22,340 --> 00:16:23,520
You know the Tony box?

407
00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:26,160
Is that the like NFC tag thing?

408
00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:26,780
Yeah.

409
00:16:26,940 --> 00:16:28,540
So there's this kid thing.

410
00:16:28,540 --> 00:16:33,180
So I guess like, just to Spitball over that, it's a box.

411
00:16:33,180 --> 00:16:38,300
You put a Elsa doll on it and it plays Let It Go.

412
00:16:38,300 --> 00:16:39,240
Like a song.

413
00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:39,600
Right?

414
00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:40,480
Kid music player.

415
00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:40,700
Yeah.

416
00:16:40,700 --> 00:16:42,640
Literally you buy action figures.

417
00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:43,680
Oh, got it.

418
00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:43,780
Got it.

419
00:16:43,780 --> 00:16:44,080
Got it.

420
00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:44,340
Okay.

421
00:16:44,340 --> 00:16:44,980
Okay.

422
00:16:44,980 --> 00:16:47,980
So, but it's a kid, right?

423
00:16:47,980 --> 00:16:52,920
It's not like a, it's not like this would be an adult kind of like more mature experience.

424
00:16:53,100 --> 00:17:00,240
That's like a physical media, but like, let's say instead of it being like a Amiibo looking doll thing, it's like literally cards.

425
00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,020
Oh, it's not even CDs at this point.

426
00:17:03,020 --> 00:17:13,760
I'm just sending grandma a hundred cards, each of them with like an episode or she taps her one episode, her card on there every morning and it plays the latest episode of the Daily from the New York Times or whatever.

427
00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:14,560
Whoa.

428
00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:18,540
You could record your own voice saying, hey, grandma, miss you.

429
00:17:18,540 --> 00:17:19,000
You're the best.

430
00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:19,980
I'm DJing for grandma.

431
00:17:20,260 --> 00:17:20,520
Yeah.

432
00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:27,280
And like, she can save all these little cards in her little Rolodex and, you know, pull them out whenever she wants.

433
00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:27,960
Like, Merry Christmas.

434
00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:34,880
Like, you could sing a happy birthday song to her and if she's missing you, you know, she can play her little card, right?

435
00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:40,040
Or you could be reading, you know, a story or a book or vice versa.

436
00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:45,140
Like, grandma could record a story, right?

437
00:17:45,140 --> 00:17:48,280
That she has, like, maybe this device is also the recorder.

438
00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:57,840
So, let's say you give her a stack of cards and she plugs in a card and she hits record and now she does like, oh, this one time when you were a little boy.

439
00:17:57,840 --> 00:17:59,060
I love this, blah, blah, blah.

440
00:17:59,060 --> 00:17:59,500
Right?

441
00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:00,060
Yeah, totally.

442
00:18:00,060 --> 00:18:01,620
Well, impersonation.

443
00:18:01,620 --> 00:18:05,040
And then now she's sending you a card and now you have that.

444
00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:16,520
So, not everybody has a reason to have this box because it's like your digital exchange of, like, kind of an audio version of a mailing card or, like, instead of it written.

445
00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,580
But it's a little more authentic, a little bit more, I don't know.

446
00:18:19,580 --> 00:18:23,460
Just minimum features on it because you've got to have as few features as possible.

447
00:18:23,460 --> 00:18:27,580
And it's easy to take one of those cards and put it in the mail or whatever, get it to somebody else.

448
00:18:27,580 --> 00:18:27,820
Yeah.

449
00:18:28,140 --> 00:18:32,780
Or you just get a notification on your phone because, you know, it's just a one-way sort of thing.

450
00:18:32,780 --> 00:18:34,320
But then we can't sell that other person a box.

451
00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,300
Well, the box, like, you can probably...

452
00:18:37,300 --> 00:18:38,080
They have a subscription service.

453
00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:38,200
Of course.

454
00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:39,460
You can probably do both, right?

455
00:18:39,460 --> 00:18:40,380
You can probably save...

456
00:18:40,380 --> 00:18:44,480
Like, you can have the physical media version, you know, if you want to make it special.

457
00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:46,900
Or you have the digital version, right?

458
00:18:46,900 --> 00:18:47,800
Like, your app connects.

459
00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:50,620
You can still do it for, like, the high-tech people and all that.

460
00:18:50,620 --> 00:18:51,640
So, yeah.

461
00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:55,840
The Tomies and the Jukies of the world are, like, kid-friendly for sure.

462
00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:57,040
But it does seem like...

463
00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:01,580
Like, adults love walking up to a jukebox and perusing a catalog and picking a thing.

464
00:19:01,580 --> 00:19:04,200
Just make it a jukebox.

465
00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:04,420
Right?

466
00:19:04,420 --> 00:19:06,160
It just flips through all the cards.

467
00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:09,400
It's just a massive jukebox with a little ESP32 inside.

468
00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:12,400
I meant more, like, it's...

469
00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:17,700
There's something good about having physical things that represent digital data, right?

470
00:19:17,700 --> 00:19:22,980
And it feels good to, like, open your binder of CDs and flip through to find something.

471
00:19:22,980 --> 00:19:24,380
And we've lost that in the digital age.

472
00:19:24,380 --> 00:19:32,960
So, this is a neat way to, like, take that song, album, podcast, episode, video, YouTube video you love, and, like, imprint it onto a thing.

473
00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:33,320
Yeah.

474
00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:35,000
Have an artifact for it.

475
00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:35,780
I don't know.

476
00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:43,840
I get the same kind of feeling in that when you first mentioned it, I immediately thought of, like, mixing somebody a CD.

477
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:44,240
Yeah.

478
00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:44,620
Right?

479
00:19:44,620 --> 00:19:45,100
Yeah.

480
00:19:45,100 --> 00:19:46,740
The mixtape has died.

481
00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:56,040
My father-in-law gave me a Christmas gift last, no, two years ago of the entire Leonard Skinner best of in CD form.

482
00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:59,780
So, he would be a good person for this.

483
00:19:59,780 --> 00:20:00,140
That's great.

484
00:20:00,140 --> 00:20:01,260
He does not like technology.

485
00:20:01,260 --> 00:20:01,700
No.

486
00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:03,320
That was a re-gift, Scott.

487
00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:05,000
He got that, like, 30 years ago.

488
00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,260
And he's like, I gotta give this to somebody.

489
00:20:06,260 --> 00:20:07,020
You know?

490
00:20:07,140 --> 00:20:11,580
He got it last, the Christmas before and said, oh, I don't have a CD player either.

491
00:20:11,580 --> 00:20:13,640
It's a thought thing.

492
00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:15,920
I think you could do the same kind of photo frame.

493
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,460
There's always the photo frame things that are advertising on podcasts.

494
00:20:18,460 --> 00:20:20,340
Like, do you remember the Aura?

495
00:20:20,340 --> 00:20:20,460
Aura.

496
00:20:20,460 --> 00:20:26,100
Aura Frames is always like, it's so easy for you to set up, and then you ship it to your loved one, and then you manage it.

497
00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:27,200
It's the same kind of thing.

498
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:36,820
You advertise, you market toward the hip and trendy Gen Xer or Millennial or Zoomer who's, like, actually doing the buying and configuring, and then they ship it off.

499
00:20:36,820 --> 00:20:39,280
Who always needs a gift for mom and dad.

500
00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:40,400
They're hard to buy for.

501
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:41,080
They are.

502
00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:43,980
You've given yourself an ongoing responsibility.

503
00:20:43,980 --> 00:20:45,340
Grandma called again.

504
00:20:45,340 --> 00:20:47,000
She's run out of podcast episodes.

505
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:47,740
God damn it.

506
00:20:47,740 --> 00:20:51,240
It was silent the whole time.

507
00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:52,680
Well, you had it on mute, you know?

508
00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:55,320
I'm tired of listening to Dan Carlin.

509
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,600
Give me something else.

510
00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:58,800
Oh, that'd be cool.

511
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:03,000
But, like, I don't know, even audio, like video audio or something.

512
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:08,460
There might be, it'd be cool to have, there's, like, old baseball games or something you want to listen to.

513
00:21:08,460 --> 00:21:12,780
Like, maybe some, like, nostalgic stuff that might be more relevant to their time.

514
00:21:12,780 --> 00:21:13,520
It's like, oh.

515
00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:15,780
December 7th, 1941.

516
00:21:15,780 --> 00:21:17,740
Maybe not.

517
00:21:17,740 --> 00:21:19,960
The first man on the moon.

518
00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:21,900
Tear down this wall.

519
00:21:21,900 --> 00:21:22,840
Yeah, right.

520
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,480
Yeah.

521
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:26,980
Want to relive those moments?

522
00:21:26,980 --> 00:21:28,220
You guys remember Hit Clips?

523
00:21:28,220 --> 00:21:34,640
Little boom box that had, like, a SD card-sized chip and it'd play 30 seconds of a song?

524
00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:35,240
Yes.

525
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:36,700
Like, cereal box.

526
00:21:36,700 --> 00:21:39,140
This is, like, a late 90s, early 2000s thing.

527
00:21:39,140 --> 00:21:44,880
I had those, but for, like, Star Wars action figures and it'd play, like, a voice line from the character or something.

528
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,000
Whatever the minimum amount is, they won't get sued.

529
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:54,380
If you, these things solve for all of your lowest possible bitrate of NSYNC needs.

530
00:21:54,380 --> 00:21:59,620
They sounded like garbage and they only played, like I said, about 30 seconds of a song anyway.

531
00:21:59,620 --> 00:22:07,280
But, yeah, it seems like you could take the time to embed the actual, like, storage and chip stuff into these cards.

532
00:22:07,280 --> 00:22:08,120
But you don't have to.

533
00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:11,780
Just make it, like, an NFC thing and it pulls it down from the internet.

534
00:22:11,780 --> 00:22:12,720
Oh, yeah.

535
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:17,660
No, the NFC thing, I mean, the CD could even have an NFC tag on it, too.

536
00:22:17,660 --> 00:22:19,800
So, if they can't figure out, you could have both, right?

537
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:20,040
There you go.

538
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:20,860
Whoa.

539
00:22:20,860 --> 00:22:20,980
Whoa.

540
00:22:20,980 --> 00:22:23,160
I put an NFC tag on my CD.

541
00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:28,500
Can we circle back to the original idea of, like, mailing someone something?

542
00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:35,400
Because I really like the idea of, like, propaganda bombing someone with, like, 100 episodes of the Joe Rogan podcast, right?

543
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:40,600
There's something really appealing to me about sending people content they don't want to hear on a CD.

544
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:46,520
I finally found my niche audience for the Podcasts on CDs project.

545
00:22:46,520 --> 00:22:47,160
Oh, no.

546
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:48,920
Trolls.

547
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:49,440
Yeah.

548
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,840
The original vision for that was, you know, I want to send this to someone.

549
00:22:53,840 --> 00:23:00,440
Let me go on, browse the catalog, add to cart, add to cart, add to cart, send, and then you send it off and we fulfill it.

550
00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:04,500
It's dirt cheap to buy blank media still in bulk.

551
00:23:04,500 --> 00:23:05,260
You burn it.

552
00:23:05,260 --> 00:23:06,180
You put it in an envelope.

553
00:23:06,180 --> 00:23:12,380
You send it via media mail, which is the cheapest possible USPS thing, and it counts as a thing that you can do.

554
00:23:12,380 --> 00:23:16,840
And for, like, really, really cheap, you can mail CDs with podcasts on them.

555
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:18,720
But nobody wants that.

556
00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:19,760
So, now I'm giving it to you.

557
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:24,000
But you're telling me that I have the ability to do that myself right now if I just burn enough CDs?

558
00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,140
I mean, yeah, go for it.

559
00:23:26,140 --> 00:23:26,720
Buy CDs.

560
00:23:27,080 --> 00:23:28,440
You can get them on AliExpress.

561
00:23:28,440 --> 00:23:31,280
I know what you guys are getting for Christmas.

562
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:37,280
A spindle of 100 blank CDRs.

563
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,280
White elephant here.

564
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,720
I'm burning every episode of this podcast onto them.

565
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:50,940
All right, Scott, I think you're up.

566
00:23:50,940 --> 00:23:51,740
What do you got for us?

567
00:23:51,740 --> 00:23:52,500
Okay.

568
00:23:52,500 --> 00:23:55,280
This idea came from two parts.

569
00:23:55,540 --> 00:24:00,120
One, there is a shop down the street that just went up for sale.

570
00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:04,260
There's a lot of, like, random buildings that are just kind of going up for sale, like space for rent.

571
00:24:04,260 --> 00:24:08,360
And then, two, I watched Bob Ross last night.

572
00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:13,580
And if you've ever tried to follow along with Bob Ross, like, hey, I am feeling artistic.

573
00:24:13,580 --> 00:24:16,240
I'm going to get some paints out, and I'm going to try to copy him.

574
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,840
You are humbled extremely quickly.

575
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:24,720
And every time there, I'm always like, is it just because, like, I don't have all the right stuff?

576
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,340
I don't have all the acrylic paints and the titanium white and all the things and the easel and blah, blah, blah.

577
00:24:29,740 --> 00:24:41,440
So, I want to take one of Russell's ideas from a while back where he was, it was an old love corner where he's like, I want to create some cool, clever dating ideas that people can do because I'm running out of date ideas.

578
00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:50,820
And I want to lease a space and turn it into, like, a tryout studio where every month we are just constantly cycling new things.

579
00:24:50,820 --> 00:24:56,040
So, like, the first month, I'm going to have a bunch of Bob Ross easels and other things in setup and him playing in the corner.

580
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,060
And you can just go in and try that out.

581
00:24:58,060 --> 00:25:05,920
You could turn that into, like, a professional chef or I want to do the Great British Bake Off and I put everything in front of me and I just have this full setup on here.

582
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,100
And, but we'll just constantly be cycling this.

583
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:15,140
And if you've got, like, four or five of these locations or however many, you could just keep moving the stuff around between them all.

584
00:25:15,140 --> 00:25:15,820
Oh, yeah.

585
00:25:15,820 --> 00:25:16,420
Going through.

586
00:25:16,420 --> 00:25:18,800
And then it keeps something new and going through.

587
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:23,560
It can be a subscription service or just constantly blast all your old patrons on there.

588
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:32,200
And there are so many random things that I have always wanted to try once, but I just don't have the setup or time or anything to get that going.

589
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:32,800
Whoa.

590
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,160
And that is my idea.

591
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:35,780
I want to make Bob Ross.

592
00:25:35,780 --> 00:25:38,000
Yeah, a little date zone going through.

593
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:38,740
And that's it.

594
00:25:39,060 --> 00:25:42,360
I want to get this place next door and paint Bob Ross.

595
00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:43,660
That's very clear.

596
00:25:43,660 --> 00:25:44,360
For the first month.

597
00:25:44,360 --> 00:25:45,640
Yes, for the first month.

598
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:50,680
And then the next month it's going to be, like, learn to do stop motion animation or.

599
00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,140
Learn to solder with your spouse.

600
00:25:53,140 --> 00:25:53,620
Yeah, exactly.

601
00:25:53,620 --> 00:25:54,440
Woodworking.

602
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:54,840
Hell.

603
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,860
Russell's example on his was knife building or creating a knife.

604
00:25:58,860 --> 00:25:59,780
Knife throwing.

605
00:25:59,780 --> 00:26:00,840
Knife throwing.

606
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:03,380
Maybe not a good one.

607
00:26:03,380 --> 00:26:04,140
Create and throw.

608
00:26:04,140 --> 00:26:07,260
Here's a block of steel.

609
00:26:07,260 --> 00:26:08,320
Get to the target.

610
00:26:08,320 --> 00:26:09,060
But I think, yeah.

611
00:26:09,060 --> 00:26:10,840
Any form of creating or cooking or other thing.

612
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:11,340
And that's it.

613
00:26:11,340 --> 00:26:14,200
Dude, this sounds like the escape room network or whatever.

614
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,480
Like, have you heard of?

615
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:16,060
Yeah.

616
00:26:16,060 --> 00:26:16,620
No, go ahead.

617
00:26:16,620 --> 00:26:17,380
What is that?

618
00:26:17,380 --> 00:26:18,200
Well, I don't know.

619
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:19,300
They just have conventions.

620
00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:23,580
And, like, literally there's escape room networks that they share and exchange ideas.

621
00:26:23,580 --> 00:26:25,780
So, like, you might have an escape room idea.

622
00:26:25,780 --> 00:26:26,580
You build it.

623
00:26:26,580 --> 00:26:33,820
But then you can sell or trade that escape room and all their locks and all the little props to another escape room.

624
00:26:33,820 --> 00:26:36,640
And so now you're kind of, it turned into this, like, trading thing.

625
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,740
And I think they've gone into, like, you know.

626
00:26:38,740 --> 00:26:44,740
That's, like, for some reason the escape room network built off of that and, like, created their own rotation.

627
00:26:44,740 --> 00:26:45,700
Right?

628
00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:49,080
Like, I love the idea of an escape room on that, too.

629
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:55,640
But I always feel like if I buy a building and I put an escape room down there, my audience is only so big.

630
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:57,120
It's only local.

631
00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:59,460
And over time, people are going to be like, ah, we did that.

632
00:26:59,460 --> 00:27:00,180
I don't want to do that anymore.

633
00:27:00,180 --> 00:27:03,040
I want to be able to keep monetizing on that lease.

634
00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,880
A lot of that stuff's permanent-ish.

635
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:07,880
Where, like, yeah, that's hard to refresh it.

636
00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:13,460
Well, like, I think your date, this date in a month box is, like, kind of similar.

637
00:27:13,460 --> 00:27:15,620
Learn to make a bonsai tree or something.

638
00:27:15,620 --> 00:27:16,080
Yeah.

639
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,080
Like, why not?

640
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:18,300
Like, become a botanist.

641
00:27:18,300 --> 00:27:20,680
Like, learn how to keep your plants alive, right?

642
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:21,780
Yep.

643
00:27:21,780 --> 00:27:22,140
Awesome.

644
00:27:22,140 --> 00:27:24,720
I love your idea of having multiple locations and they rotate, too.

645
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:24,940
Yeah.

646
00:27:24,940 --> 00:27:26,380
That's what sold it for me.

647
00:27:26,380 --> 00:27:30,440
Because, like, one business doesn't want to have easels that are sitting untouched for two years.

648
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:30,760
No.

649
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:33,960
You don't want another warehouse to store all this crap.

650
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,240
You just want to give it to some guy in Philly or something.

651
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:36,560
Yeah.

652
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:37,940
Ship all these easels.

653
00:27:37,940 --> 00:27:45,940
So, is your business then the marketplace that connects the franchisees together instead of you operating the store?

654
00:27:45,940 --> 00:27:46,980
I think so.

655
00:27:46,980 --> 00:27:52,660
I think you'd have to start with multiple locations initially or you have to start with the franchise initially.

656
00:27:52,660 --> 00:27:54,600
It would be an upfront thing, but it wouldn't be crazy.

657
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:55,040
Open four.

658
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,420
Honestly, you could just have two and just cycle back and forth.

659
00:27:57,420 --> 00:28:00,160
And then when you're ready, open a third and get a third idea and going.

660
00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:04,720
How do you teach the people who are doing the task how to do the task?

661
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,480
Is there, like, a person there?

662
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:08,000
Is it a recording?

663
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:08,520
Nope.

664
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,200
There is a projector and there's YouTube playing.

665
00:28:11,740 --> 00:28:14,160
I want this as minimal as possible, man.

666
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:19,360
I want a single teenager running the whole operation who has no idea what's going on.

667
00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:21,240
That may limit you on the...

668
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:21,480
Interesting.

669
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,780
You probably couldn't get to build something if it involves, like, a hammer, right?

670
00:28:25,780 --> 00:28:27,320
Well, okay, for real.

671
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:28,720
Like, you ever see, like, master...

672
00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:29,060
What is it?

673
00:28:29,060 --> 00:28:30,340
Master class or something?

674
00:28:30,340 --> 00:28:31,360
There's just some...

675
00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:31,500
Yeah.

676
00:28:31,860 --> 00:28:35,540
Just make a deal with those guys and have, like, hey, I would like to project one of

677
00:28:35,540 --> 00:28:38,820
your classes up on here and I will provide all the stuff up for that.

678
00:28:38,820 --> 00:28:39,180
Okay.

679
00:28:39,180 --> 00:28:42,820
I mean, you could absolutely bring in a specialist to someone who just hangs out there.

680
00:28:42,820 --> 00:28:43,680
That'd be cooler.

681
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:44,320
I'm just...

682
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:49,180
But it's the teenager at the store who has to, like, troubleshoot and, like, answer people's

683
00:28:49,180 --> 00:28:49,700
questions.

684
00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:50,420
The TA.

685
00:28:50,420 --> 00:28:51,880
The TA.

686
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:52,720
Exactly.

687
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:57,320
I mean, you could probably find local community people that are experts in cooking or experts

688
00:28:57,320 --> 00:29:00,420
in painting or, like, the closest thing to it and you hire them for a month.

689
00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:02,340
And I'm sure they'd love to talk about it, right?

690
00:29:02,340 --> 00:29:03,140
And I'm sure after...

691
00:29:03,140 --> 00:29:03,400
Yeah.

692
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:08,220
After going through one class and surviving it, they'd be like, oh, yeah, I could absolutely

693
00:29:08,220 --> 00:29:10,480
teach another class of this, let alone another 100 people.

694
00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:15,320
But, like, with the rotating model, you have to have that collective of people for each of

695
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,060
these tasks in each geographical area.

696
00:29:18,060 --> 00:29:19,340
Economies of scale there.

697
00:29:19,340 --> 00:29:23,320
Well, what if you make sure you're near a local college or something and, like, you then

698
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,000
partner with some professor that's in a similar and supplement that?

699
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:30,480
Like, I bet there's an art teacher out there that teaches for high school kids.

700
00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:34,440
That could totally do this class and need supplemental income that's after school.

701
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:35,860
You do that for cooking.

702
00:29:35,860 --> 00:29:37,580
All the basic dating.

703
00:29:37,580 --> 00:29:42,840
Let's say all your model is based off of, like, local teachers or whatever, right?

704
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:49,080
Honestly, so I used to work at one of those old-time photography places, right?

705
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:55,520
And it was much, much more important to have someone who could, like, was happy and enthusiastic

706
00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,580
and willing to interact with people than it was to have someone who knew how to take a

707
00:29:58,580 --> 00:29:59,020
good picture.

708
00:29:59,020 --> 00:30:02,000
You did not need to know how to take a good picture in order to do that.

709
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,900
The people just had to have a good time.

710
00:30:04,020 --> 00:30:08,440
So I think if you found the right person, they could absolutely learn whatever it is

711
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:12,380
that month's rotation is very quickly to the point that they could have people have a good

712
00:30:12,380 --> 00:30:12,620
time.

713
00:30:12,620 --> 00:30:16,080
You just have to make sure that your chosen activities have, like, zero.

714
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,100
Yeah, exactly.

715
00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:20,460
Very low learning curve that the intern...

716
00:30:20,460 --> 00:30:21,720
Oh, I wanted to learn shooting.

717
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:24,120
Damn.

718
00:30:24,500 --> 00:30:24,760
Yeah.

719
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:30,080
Like, you'd be selective on there, but I'm sure, like, candle making or creating the

720
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,100
perfect perfume blend or whatever this month could be good.

721
00:30:33,100 --> 00:30:35,820
Just have them sign a razor or razor a waiver.

722
00:30:35,820 --> 00:30:37,500
But, dude, you could get, like...

723
00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:40,000
I mean, there are so many different things, too.

724
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,400
Like, the crickets or whatever.

725
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,720
You can do arts and crafts.

726
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:47,180
You could do, like, oh, here's the theme of the month.

727
00:30:47,180 --> 00:30:48,100
Like, you could...

728
00:30:48,100 --> 00:30:48,520
I don't know.

729
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,260
You could have some of the, like, makerspace stuff in there.

730
00:30:51,260 --> 00:30:52,980
Like, yeah.

731
00:30:52,980 --> 00:30:54,120
Like, you have a laser engraver, right?

732
00:30:54,140 --> 00:30:54,960
Did you say the crickets?

733
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:55,680
Yeah, the cricket.

734
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,220
They're called crickets or cry cuts?

735
00:30:57,220 --> 00:30:57,800
Cry cuts.

736
00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:58,780
I don't know what you're talking about, man.

737
00:30:58,780 --> 00:30:59,100
I'm trying.

738
00:30:59,100 --> 00:30:59,440
What is the freaking thing?

739
00:30:59,440 --> 00:30:59,980
Like, the 3D...

740
00:30:59,980 --> 00:31:01,240
Oh, the vinyl cutter.

741
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:02,040
The vinyl cutter.

742
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:02,580
The vinyl cutter.

743
00:31:02,580 --> 00:31:03,220
I got it.

744
00:31:03,220 --> 00:31:03,400
Yeah.

745
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:03,860
That's what I'm talking about.

746
00:31:03,860 --> 00:31:04,520
There's a brand name.

747
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:04,940
I got it.

748
00:31:04,940 --> 00:31:05,380
Yeah.

749
00:31:05,380 --> 00:31:05,540
Yeah.

750
00:31:05,540 --> 00:31:07,840
Some specialty equipment that you can bring in.

751
00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:08,320
Yeah.

752
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:08,780
And then what?

753
00:31:08,780 --> 00:31:10,920
It's just run the equipment and draw...

754
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:11,840
Like, laser engravers.

755
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:12,420
Right, Scott?

756
00:31:12,420 --> 00:31:15,400
Like, you just run a laser engraver and you teach somebody and then now they're just,

757
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:17,100
like, coming up with ideas or what...

758
00:31:17,100 --> 00:31:18,020
I guess there's...

759
00:31:18,020 --> 00:31:18,340
I don't know.

760
00:31:18,340 --> 00:31:20,020
There seems to be overlap there.

761
00:31:20,020 --> 00:31:20,700
That's just super...

762
00:31:20,700 --> 00:31:24,000
And you want to make it like, hey, we got to do this before the end of the month because

763
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:24,680
we're going to...

764
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:25,600
We won't be able to do...

765
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:27,000
It does help drive traffic, doesn't it?

766
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,240
The limited time only.

767
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:28,540
Yeah.

768
00:31:28,540 --> 00:31:28,780
Yeah.

769
00:31:29,060 --> 00:31:33,040
And then you box it all up in a U-Haul and you drive it over to Nebraska and you grab

770
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:36,480
whatever they had last month and you drive it to your other franchise and you...

771
00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:37,580
Change places.

772
00:31:37,580 --> 00:31:42,980
You do a loop once a month where you spend two days on the road and switch out everyone's

773
00:31:42,980 --> 00:31:43,360
easels.

774
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:44,620
I really...

775
00:31:44,620 --> 00:31:45,980
I just love the rotating thing.

776
00:31:45,980 --> 00:31:48,340
You could be, like, the date spot for a couple, right?

777
00:31:48,340 --> 00:31:51,960
If you're only doing the one thing, they go on the one date to your place.

778
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:53,280
But, like...

779
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:54,400
But it's always new and exciting.

780
00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:55,340
And it can become their thing.

781
00:31:55,340 --> 00:31:56,320
Their cute little thing.

782
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:57,520
Their first date was there.

783
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:58,620
They go there every month.

784
00:31:58,840 --> 00:31:59,040
Yeah.

785
00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,600
And, I mean, it's kind of great because they have to go every month.

786
00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:03,880
Like, they have to...

787
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,600
They have to go on a date every month.

788
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:08,000
Like, whether you hate them or love them in the moment.

789
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,020
You could sell subscriptions.

790
00:32:09,020 --> 00:32:10,940
Six months of...

791
00:32:10,940 --> 00:32:11,160
Yeah.

792
00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:12,000
Subscription service.

793
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:15,900
In the next 12 months, you get six hole punches on your card to do one of the things

794
00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:16,640
that interests you.

795
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:17,880
You could even...

796
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:18,920
Completely blind, too.

797
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,920
Like, hey, we're not even going to tell you what this one is this month.

798
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:21,900
Or you don't even have to know.

799
00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:23,680
You just got to show up and it's going to be something fun.

800
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:24,580
You have to build a reputation.

801
00:32:24,580 --> 00:32:26,500
Would you go on a mystery date today?

802
00:32:26,500 --> 00:32:27,660
That's a big ask.

803
00:32:27,660 --> 00:32:28,620
Depends how much it is.

804
00:32:28,620 --> 00:32:30,020
Depends how much it is.

805
00:32:30,020 --> 00:32:30,540
That's it.

806
00:32:30,540 --> 00:32:31,820
That's the right answer.

807
00:32:31,820 --> 00:32:34,360
I could risk 50 bucks, not 100 on this.

808
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:35,400
Like, you know?

809
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:37,820
The core idea is convenience, for sure.

810
00:32:37,820 --> 00:32:38,880
You don't even need to rotate.

811
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,680
Like, I bet there's even, like, a whole set of dating apps.

812
00:32:41,940 --> 00:32:42,620
Or dating apps.

813
00:32:42,620 --> 00:32:42,640
Dating apps.

814
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:47,140
Dating eye date making ideas that are just disposable.

815
00:32:47,140 --> 00:32:49,040
Like, bonsai trees, right?

816
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:50,840
You don't need 100 pots, right?

817
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,220
You just send home with everybody with their stuff.

818
00:32:53,220 --> 00:32:54,720
You don't need to keep anything.

819
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,660
Like, easels, yeah, you probably need to.

820
00:32:56,660 --> 00:33:01,020
But, like, that's something that you store and you maybe rotate every year or something, right?

821
00:33:01,020 --> 00:33:02,420
Bonsai trimming scissors?

822
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:04,180
I can't just give those away.

823
00:33:04,180 --> 00:33:06,620
A U-Haul full of them.

824
00:33:06,620 --> 00:33:08,120
Yeah, you can buy, like, those kits.

825
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:11,520
Like, 20 bucks for a bonsai tree and you learn how to keep it up or whatever.

826
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:12,900
But maybe, I don't know.

827
00:33:12,900 --> 00:33:13,440
That's not.

828
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:16,940
I'm not the expert on the date ideas.

829
00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:18,020
Yes, you are.

830
00:33:18,020 --> 00:33:19,000
You're literally the expert.

831
00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:19,220
You're literally the expert.

832
00:33:19,220 --> 00:33:20,080
See, matchmaking?

833
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:20,240
You're what?

834
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:21,020
Maybe a little more.

835
00:33:21,020 --> 00:33:24,660
Once you're matched up, I don't know what you're going to do.

836
00:33:24,660 --> 00:33:27,540
That cadmium yellow is not going to buy itself.

837
00:33:27,540 --> 00:33:33,920
All right, Anthony.

838
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:35,900
What have you brought us this week?

839
00:33:35,900 --> 00:33:40,200
Well, this idea comes to you once again from Twitter.

840
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:40,660
Oh, boy.

841
00:33:40,660 --> 00:33:42,860
Yeah, hell yeah.

842
00:33:42,860 --> 00:33:43,860
Brace for impact.

843
00:33:45,060 --> 00:33:52,540
This is an idea that I've had since before my episode of the podcast aired because it took you guys so long to put it out.

844
00:33:52,540 --> 00:33:55,340
No.

845
00:33:55,340 --> 00:33:59,320
So there's some Twitter drama that happened, right, that I made a note of.

846
00:33:59,320 --> 00:34:02,740
Here's the scenario, right, that inspired my idea.

847
00:34:02,740 --> 00:34:09,660
So an individual who has a disability, right, is ordering Uber Eats.

848
00:34:09,660 --> 00:34:13,160
And they live on, like, the third floor of some apartment, right?

849
00:34:13,380 --> 00:34:18,260
And the driver gets there and he has, like, a broken leg or something.

850
00:34:18,260 --> 00:34:22,140
He can't climb the stairs to get up to the top of the apartment, right?

851
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:27,940
So he physically can't deliver their food and they can't come downstairs to get it.

852
00:34:27,940 --> 00:34:30,860
And, you know, somebody tweets about this.

853
00:34:30,860 --> 00:34:32,520
It blows up on Twitter, obviously.

854
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:38,120
It turns into some whole argument about, I don't know, who is in the right, who is in the wrong kind of thing, right?

855
00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:42,560
So my pitch is to solve for this obvious problem.

856
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:54,660
A drone service that connects your gig economy delivery drivers to individuals who maybe live in apartment complexes, dorm rooms, right?

857
00:34:54,660 --> 00:34:57,760
Areas like these that are maybe a little bit more difficult to deliver to.

858
00:34:58,020 --> 00:35:05,060
That can ferry whatever good that they've purchased from one individual to the other to avoid this kind of problem.

859
00:35:05,060 --> 00:35:05,600
Middleman.

860
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:06,960
A drone for a drone.

861
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,180
The last hundred feet.

862
00:35:08,180 --> 00:35:09,660
The last hundred feet.

863
00:35:09,660 --> 00:35:10,500
That's a good start.

864
00:35:10,500 --> 00:35:14,540
Everybody's solving for the last mile when it comes to logistics, you know?

865
00:35:14,540 --> 00:35:16,040
This is the last hundred feet.

866
00:35:16,460 --> 00:35:21,440
And there's, I mean, look, there's a legitimate reason to have something like this, right?

867
00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:30,460
Because the people who use a lot of these delivery services, like they have the data on this, are disproportionately people who, you know, struggle with physical disabilities.

868
00:35:30,460 --> 00:35:33,660
And the same is actually true for some of these gig economy services.

869
00:35:33,660 --> 00:35:39,880
More of their, like a higher percentage of their employees are people with disabilities than the general workforce, right?

870
00:35:39,880 --> 00:35:41,700
This is going to continue to be a problem.

871
00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:45,940
This situation might be coming up more than, we might actually be solving for something.

872
00:35:46,100 --> 00:35:46,740
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

873
00:35:46,740 --> 00:35:48,900
Dude, these drones could, like, charge in the car.

874
00:35:48,900 --> 00:35:53,580
They, like, pay, like, you know, they're, like, they're just literally a passenger, right?

875
00:35:53,580 --> 00:35:57,040
You roll down the window and it zooms out, zooms back in.

876
00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:58,140
That's what I was going to ask you.

877
00:35:58,140 --> 00:36:02,860
Do you think that this drone is a retrieval robot for the person who called the service?

878
00:36:02,860 --> 00:36:09,220
Or is it a last hundred feet sending service from the driver or delivery person?

879
00:36:09,220 --> 00:36:10,060
I could see either way.

880
00:36:10,060 --> 00:36:16,060
I figure it'd be easier to sell to maybe the companies that are running these services than the

881
00:36:16,060 --> 00:36:17,500
individuals in their homes, but I don't know.

882
00:36:17,500 --> 00:36:26,400
I just had this crazy dystopian image of a semi, a McDonald's branded semi truck that's just going, like, up and down suburbia like an ice cream truck.

883
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:31,020
And there's drones flying off of it, dropping off door dashes on people's doors.

884
00:36:31,020 --> 00:36:31,320
Oh, sure.

885
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,180
This is how you actually eliminate the workers themselves.

886
00:36:34,180 --> 00:36:35,700
Fully automated.

887
00:36:35,700 --> 00:36:36,480
Whoa.

888
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,320
A mobile McDonald's.

889
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:39,260
Mobile McDonald's.

890
00:36:39,260 --> 00:36:41,800
You can have self-driving cars and then you have the whole thing.

891
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:42,700
You know what I mean?

892
00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:47,780
Like, self-driving car goes to restaurant, picks up food, brings it to car.

893
00:36:47,780 --> 00:36:51,980
Car goes to place, self-drives, delivers food at door, leaves.

894
00:36:51,980 --> 00:36:53,700
Soon we'll have robots eating it too.

895
00:36:53,700 --> 00:37:00,140
Well, so, you know, a lot of these, like, food places, fast food places, they don't employ delivery drivers, right?

896
00:37:00,140 --> 00:37:03,220
Because they don't want to have to pay all of these people and have all these extra employees.

897
00:37:03,220 --> 00:37:07,480
But what if they could have a drone fleet instead?

898
00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:08,100
Oh, my God.

899
00:37:08,100 --> 00:37:09,360
I'm sure they'd jump all over it.

900
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,680
They could avoid doing business with the Ubers of the world, right?

901
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:15,320
Cut out that extra cost, that middleman, right?

902
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,300
Instead, we become their middleman selling them this product.

903
00:37:18,300 --> 00:37:18,740
Whoa.

904
00:37:18,740 --> 00:37:21,080
That they couldn't totally make themselves and do without me.

905
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:27,500
Getting the robo-taxi or human driver, bringing the drone to near them is the secret sauce.

906
00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:32,520
Because all these startups that are thinking about drone delivery, like Travis Kalanick and Uber back in the day,

907
00:37:32,580 --> 00:37:35,780
who are like, yeah, we don't even want to have human drivers in the next couple years.

908
00:37:35,780 --> 00:37:37,040
It's all going to be robots, right?

909
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:42,140
The problem with the drone idea is that they don't have the battery and capacity and stuff.

910
00:37:42,140 --> 00:37:47,200
So if you're driving it to the last, like, neighborhood down the block and then sending them out,

911
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:48,460
that's something I hadn't even considered.

912
00:37:48,460 --> 00:37:49,080
Okay.

913
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:51,560
What if, like, this sped up delivery?

914
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:53,220
So what if you're...

915
00:37:53,220 --> 00:37:53,320
Okay.

916
00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:55,700
Could you do this for UPS drivers at FedEx?

917
00:37:55,700 --> 00:37:57,420
I was just thinking about the Amazon truck.

918
00:37:57,420 --> 00:37:59,620
The Amazon truck drives to the end of your street.

919
00:37:59,620 --> 00:38:00,700
I was thinking about the power lines.

920
00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:01,880
What if the...

921
00:38:01,940 --> 00:38:10,200
What if post offices, okay, like the mailman, he just drives down the block as fast as he can.

922
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:10,940
And it just...

923
00:38:10,940 --> 00:38:11,940
Zoop!

924
00:38:11,940 --> 00:38:14,940
30 drones go out to all...

925
00:38:14,940 --> 00:38:15,740
Yeah.

926
00:38:15,740 --> 00:38:16,940
And then they...

927
00:38:16,940 --> 00:38:21,140
And then they all come back in one spot, maybe at the end of the block.

928
00:38:21,140 --> 00:38:22,160
Sorry.

929
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,580
There's a little spin of it.

930
00:38:23,580 --> 00:38:25,960
And then you go to each block.

931
00:38:26,060 --> 00:38:30,580
So, like, let's say the post office just goes every block and, like, up and down 30 streets.

932
00:38:30,580 --> 00:38:37,260
And then at the end goes and picks up all these, let's say, like, you know how they have those scooter drop-off, like, scooter ports?

933
00:38:37,260 --> 00:38:37,800
Yeah.

934
00:38:37,980 --> 00:38:43,280
So, now you just have, like, up and then they just go up and they pick up all the little drone modules.

935
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:49,180
And now they just delivered all the mail in 20 minutes through all these drones.

936
00:38:49,580 --> 00:38:53,980
Only if there's a speaker that's blasting right of the Valkyries while that's happening.

937
00:38:53,980 --> 00:38:55,600
But yes.

938
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,640
How do we eliminate the driver from this equation?

939
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,000
I really want this to put as many people out of work as possible.

940
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:04,740
Mail people!

941
00:39:05,420 --> 00:39:07,120
I was going to ask the opposite.

942
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:13,580
It seems increasingly likely with every year that robotic drivers are going to be...

943
00:39:13,580 --> 00:39:17,260
They're never going to capture the entire market, it seems like.

944
00:39:17,260 --> 00:39:23,160
Like, every year that goes by, we get promised, yeah, self-driving cars are totally going to be the thing in the next five years.

945
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,500
And then they never are because it's harder and harder.

946
00:39:25,500 --> 00:39:28,620
And we've got our Waymos of the world, but it's not...

947
00:39:28,620 --> 00:39:33,040
It's looking more likely that there will always be somewhere for a human to be in this equation.

948
00:39:33,260 --> 00:39:38,600
So, I'm wondering if this is a product that we manufacture and sell to the Uber driver.

949
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:42,760
It's a car-mount charging system with a grapple.

950
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:43,400
Oh, man.

951
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:44,600
You are an Uber Eats driver.

952
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:48,580
You want to, like, boost your delivery rate by 30%?

953
00:39:48,580 --> 00:39:51,180
You put this sucker in the passenger seat.

954
00:39:51,180 --> 00:39:55,040
It flies for a couple minutes and does the last little trip for you.

955
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:56,120
You open your window.

956
00:39:56,120 --> 00:39:56,920
It goes out.

957
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:59,660
It brings the little bag to the porch and then comes back.

958
00:39:59,660 --> 00:40:02,180
And then it's doing the thing that you're describing.

959
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:04,240
But it's a product you're selling the driver.

960
00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:06,540
Because it makes their life easier, their work more efficient.

961
00:40:06,540 --> 00:40:06,880
Yeah.

962
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:14,020
They're able to then do more deliveries per route, which, I mean, they're all paid in gig economy world by the delivery, I think.

963
00:40:14,020 --> 00:40:19,580
I'm sure there's going to be some person who's going to optimize that completely with a traveling salesman problem.

964
00:40:19,580 --> 00:40:25,720
I mean, like, I could hit these three and deliver to these guys with these drones so I could meet up with them later while I pick this one up.

965
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:30,440
You could really monetize this by, like, saying, all right, we will supplement your income for this.

966
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,320
So it's like a $1,000 drone, let's say.

967
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,940
Every delivery, we take $3.

968
00:40:34,940 --> 00:40:35,700
Yeah.

969
00:40:35,700 --> 00:40:36,220
Yeah.

970
00:40:36,220 --> 00:40:37,220
And so now...

971
00:40:37,220 --> 00:40:37,820
Oh, yeah.

972
00:40:37,820 --> 00:40:39,120
Pays for itself over time.

973
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:40,360
Now you just get it out of time.

974
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:41,260
But then you have recurring income.

975
00:40:41,260 --> 00:40:41,880
Yeah.

976
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,540
And, like, now you sell it.

977
00:40:43,540 --> 00:40:44,640
And now they're just...

978
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,660
Like, now you just created the market.

979
00:40:46,660 --> 00:40:50,500
So instead of buying, like, a $1,000 drone, it's like, oh, I pressed this button.

980
00:40:50,500 --> 00:40:52,920
And now I have to give $3 for every delivery.

981
00:40:53,300 --> 00:40:56,480
And I have to do a minimum order or else I have to pay.

982
00:40:56,480 --> 00:40:57,460
Like, boom.

983
00:40:57,460 --> 00:41:01,840
You've just created the gadget that every Uber driver is like, oh, yeah, I got that gadget.

984
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,280
It's, like, the cool thing.

985
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:04,800
Now it becomes, like, a pride thing.

986
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:05,060
Yeah.

987
00:41:05,060 --> 00:41:07,560
You got to include a sticker in the box for the back windshield.

988
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:08,260
That's right.

989
00:41:08,260 --> 00:41:08,400
Oh, me?

990
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,560
I deliver with last 100 feet.

991
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:11,140
Drones.

992
00:41:11,140 --> 00:41:14,100
This doesn't have to fly either, right?

993
00:41:14,140 --> 00:41:17,140
It could just be a car, like, one of those regular...

994
00:41:17,140 --> 00:41:19,620
A little RC car that zips up the drive.

995
00:41:19,620 --> 00:41:24,600
I don't know how it's going to make it to the third floor of Anthony's apartment building, but...

996
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,480
Well, they got to have an elevator, right?

997
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,380
So it's got to be able to press a button on an elevator.

998
00:41:28,380 --> 00:41:29,260
Oh, my God.

999
00:41:29,260 --> 00:41:30,960
Dear customer, open your window.

1000
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:31,620
Yeah.

1001
00:41:31,620 --> 00:41:38,020
Imagine stepping into an elevator and, like, a floating McDonald's bag on a drone, like, comes in with you.

1002
00:41:38,020 --> 00:41:39,900
It's just, like, third floor, please.

1003
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:45,140
I feel like the quadcopter is a little more dangerous than, like, those tanks.

1004
00:41:45,140 --> 00:41:47,380
Like, what are those, like, tank-looking things?

1005
00:41:47,380 --> 00:41:51,040
And you make a cute little face on it, and it says, excuse me.

1006
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:51,400
Of course.

1007
00:41:51,400 --> 00:41:52,860
Can you help me press the elevator button?

1008
00:41:52,860 --> 00:41:56,800
Please reach forward and grab the McDonald's bag from the flying death copter.

1009
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:01,840
Retrieve McDonald's now.

1010
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,360
Retrieve McDonald's now.

1011
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,760
Is that a beehive outside my door?

1012
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:07,680
Nope, that's the dovery.

1013
00:42:08,740 --> 00:42:11,920
My driver must be using that stupid drone app.

1014
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:13,980
At 6 p.m., the skies go dark.

1015
00:42:13,980 --> 00:42:28,300
Well, dear listener, if you just ordered Uber Eats and your food is being delivered by some sort of automaton,

1016
00:42:28,300 --> 00:42:32,820
please brace for impact and tune in to the next episode of our show.

1017
00:42:32,820 --> 00:42:33,840
Thank you very much for listening.

1018
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:35,020
We hope you enjoyed yourself.

1019
00:42:35,020 --> 00:42:36,320
And thank you, Anthony, for being here.

1020
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:36,940
This was awesome.

1021
00:42:37,340 --> 00:42:40,160
I will create dystopian fiction with you anytime.

1022
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,920
There is a recurring theme, isn't there?

1023
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:48,900
Our website is Spitball.show.

1024
00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:52,080
There you can find links to our YouTube channel, other social media.

1025
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:53,940
Email us feedback, comments, ideas.

1026
00:42:53,940 --> 00:42:55,020
We'd love to hear from you.

1027
00:42:55,020 --> 00:42:56,720
We are podcast@spitball.show.

1028
00:42:56,720 --> 00:43:00,860
That's also how you can follow us on the Fediverse, such as Mastodon, we are podcast@spitball.show.

1029
00:43:00,860 --> 00:43:03,100
Our subreddit is r slash Spitball show.

1030
00:43:03,560 --> 00:43:05,920
Our intro-outro music is Swingers by Bonkers Beat Club.

1031
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:09,180
If you wouldn't mind, please, is there a friend in your life who's always telling you,

1032
00:43:09,180 --> 00:43:11,980
man, I have this great idea for a sci-fi dystopian novel?

1033
00:43:11,980 --> 00:43:13,240
Send them a link to this show.

1034
00:43:13,240 --> 00:43:15,740
They'd love to hear from us, and I think that they would enjoy it.

1035
00:43:15,740 --> 00:43:17,440
That's the best way for people to buy it out about the show.

1036
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:22,660
Write us a review also on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever it is that you're listening to your show.

1037
00:43:23,300 --> 00:43:24,820
New episode's coming out in two weeks.

1038
00:43:24,820 --> 00:43:33,820
We will see you then.