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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 terminal tinkerers and a guest empty our 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.

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And we have a friend this week of all three of ours.

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Scott, who did you bring along with us?

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I brought our good friend, Brandon.

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Brandon is a community builder for a local K-12 school,

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a world traveler, audiophile,

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and probably the only person I know who's met Morgan Freeman.

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So welcome, Brandon.

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Welcome, Brandon.

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Dude, what's that story? I don't know that.

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It's unfortunate I won't be able to bring the same vibrato

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that he's got to the podcast here.

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But actually, it was a high school senior year.

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robotics competition. He was at the national championships. Um, I knew he would be there.

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And so it was like main incentive to win and get, get to, get to the national levels.

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Well, we got to the national level and, uh, sure enough, I found him out by some of the stages and

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worked my way down through the crowd. Just like went right up to him. I'm wearing a Burger King

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crown. Uh, I, I, uh, I had it cause I was one of the operators of the robot. It said chaos,

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because Holland was Team Chaos.

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And I walked right up to him.

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And you know, you ever hand somebody your camera

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and you're like, take a picture.

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And of course, this is still quite before

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everybody's using cell phones for selfies.

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And you're just like, you do that

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and you later find out they took the worst picture ever.

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Well, I handed this person the camera

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and I said, please take a picture.

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And he's like, sure.

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So I'm sitting there and I go up to Morgan Freeman.

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I'm like, hey, it's nice to meet you.

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And he like pulls his hand back a little bit.

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And he goes, why is that?

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I'm like, well, you're a smart, like, I don't remember exactly,

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but I focused more on like the science and why he was there.

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It's kind of when he was doing some of the science work too, I said,

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and a great performer.

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And he goes, now that's what I want to hear.

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And he is cheesing and the Morgan Freeman voice puts his hand out.

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Well, the guy handed the camera to caught every moment perfectly.

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Like the handshake, the burst into smile.

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Like I went back, I went back on my,

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my little digital camera and I'm flipping through the buttons

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and I'm like, oh my gosh, I got it.

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That's awesome.

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One of the cool stories of the time,

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the voice of God, you know, was talking

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and spoke to me. I had no idea

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he was a robots guy. That's good to know.

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Yeah, it was when

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at that time he was doing the

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science show where he was

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exploring, I think, religion or something.

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But he was just doing a lot more of the science work.

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And so it was cool to see him there supporting the robots

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too. Well, we should have him for a guest

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pitch sometime. Yeah, see if you can get him on here.

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I'll come up after this.

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I'll call him up.

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I'll call him up.

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Yeah, you've got his number still, I'm sure.

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Hey, it's me, Brandon.

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You remember?

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The Burger King crown.

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The Burger King crown.

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Oh, man.

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Well, this week I thought we'd get us started with another round of Best of AliExpress,

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a game that we've played once or twice before.

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So in this one, I'm going to go around the circle here and give you three products,

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one of which I made up, and the other two are real things that are available on AliExpress,

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Wish.com, Teemu, whatever.

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So, as always, we're going to start with our guest.

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Brandon, I've got to tell you about three things.

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Number one.

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All right.

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The chicken helmet.

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A colorful, molded, protective, hard helmet that's slightly larger than a thimble for small pets, such as chickens.

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The fake pregnancy belly purse.

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A large, fleshy bump that straps to your belly to make it look like you're pregnant.

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No more waiting in lines, and it has a small pouch for keys, wallet, or snacks.

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Or the urn ring.

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A stainless steel jewelry ring with a screw on the side.

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unscrew, dump your loved one's ashes inside,

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and you can carry them around with you always.

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Which of those ones is one that my sadistic mind made up?

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I can see the belly pack.

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That's got to be a thing.

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And you know, people, I like the ones that have these little arms you clip on the chicken, too,

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and it looks like the chicken's running around with arms.

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So I can believe the hat.

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I'm going to go with the urn ring, although it seems pretty compelling.

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I'm going to say maybe that one's a stretch.

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I'm delighted to inform you that you could indeed purchase an urn ring.

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I made up the pregnancy belly thing.

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Oh, man.

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No way it's the earn ring.

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There we go.

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Not only that, I don't have a link to a specific product.

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It's a category on AliExpress.

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Earn rings.

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There you go.

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AliExpress.com slash W slash wholesale earn rings.

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500 for 20 bucks.

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We've got our idea for tonight then.

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That's how you sneak those movies into the theater.

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Grandpa.

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No more feeling bad about it.

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It's what he would have always wanted.

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Hope you tighten that screw down.

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Man, that is such a weird idea.

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Scott, number one, the AI plant whisperer,

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a small solar plastic device that sticks in the soil and claims to, quote,

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support 500 languages that send plant thoughts through Android or iPhone.

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That is not going to hunt it, okay?

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The Boo-T, a butt-themed tea strainer made of silicone.

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The bottom part looks like the poop emoji where you place your tea leaves,

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and it's attached to a round silicone butt cheeks that float above your cup.

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and that makes it easy to grab and remove it.

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Or three, the reflective full face visor,

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a shiny oil slick style rainbow sunglass lens,

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but full mask Daft Punk style.

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Only the visor, no helmet.

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Which of those three things is something I made up?

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We have Daft Punk that Leo likes.

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We have tea that Leo likes.

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I don't know about the plant whisperer.

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I'm going to go with the boo tea.

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I think you made that one up.

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The boo tea is unfortunately a real product on Wish.com.

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the plant talker the plant talker is not real yet well i'm sure someone's on it honestly surprises

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me i know there's ones that are like soil moisture sensors but nothing that uses ai to support 500

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plant languages yet russell number one the parted hair wig for cats says what it is on the tin a

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small silver hair parted down the middle perfect for your cat or dog number two the dream selection

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crystal necklaces, a set of what looks to be 12 crystals on chokers for your neck while

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you sleep.

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Each color corresponds with dreams that you want to have that night, including food, work

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problem, or quote, sexy.

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Or three, real starfish curtain ties.

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Billed as decorative, these starfish arrived in stank-like shellfish, and a woman cracked

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one open to discover there was actually starfish skeletons inside.

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Which of these things are a real thing or is not a real thing that you can get on AliExpress?

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I'm going to go with the starfish skeleton Russian doll thing, you know?

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That's a news headline from The Sun.

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That was a real thing that happened.

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It's cheaper to get starfish than to get an injection mold.

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A woman bought these starfish curtain ties to go on her shower curtain and one crumbled and stunk and all of them were real starfish.

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Wow.

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I guess it's cheaper to just use real starfish.

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I guess so.

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Depressing and kind of gross.

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All right.

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So we're 0 for 0, I think.

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One more time through.

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Brandon, the facial slimming face bandage, quote, prevent the cheeks sagging with this bright blue and yellow face mask.

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It wraps from the top of your head around the chin to hold your face in place.

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Number two, running endurance speed training parachute.

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A big black parachute that you clip to your waist belt to add resistance while you practice running.

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Or three, fingerprint randomizer gloves.

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A pair of gloves with a button on the back of the hand that claims to rearrange the capacitive dust on your fingertips.

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Which of those is fake?

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Can you repeat the first one, please?

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Facial slimming face bandage.

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Yeah, man, people love beauty gimmicks.

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I'm going to go with the third one again.

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I'm going to hope it's the third one on this one.

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I made that one up.

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Isn't that a fun idea?

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That would be crazy.

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Fingerprint changing.

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None of these are claimed to work, Scott.

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You know, that's fair.

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Products are existent.

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Sure.

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I remember your lightsaber mouth lady from the first one.

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Cleans your teeth.

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That's right.

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The brush licking cat thing.

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Isn't that the one?

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Yes.

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I think that was a Kickstarter one, but yes, that was a good one too.

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Didn't it come in like a multi-pack too?

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The licky.

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Yeah, fun for the whole family.

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Oh, my gosh.

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Scott, number one, a clear shower liner for electronics.

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A cross between a transparent shower curtain liner and a closet shoe organizer that has pockets all along the outside to put your iPad, phone, baby monitor, et cetera, so you can watch your electronics while in the shower.

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Two, the Toast News, a smart toaster with a phone app that can burn your Google Calendar, Apple Reminders, or tasks or weather forecast into your morning toast.

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Or three, a wireless Kindle page turner.

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A small USB-C rechargeable black plastic clip.

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It attaches to the side of your Kindle.

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And a clicker remote that presses the button that makes the page turn.

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I've started to learn I just need to pick the one that I think Leo would want in life.

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And so I'm going to go number two.

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The Toast Vernon tells you the weather.

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It worked.

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That's true.

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Everyone needs that.

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That would be incredible.

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Just printed Jesus every couple of days.

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My agenda on my toast.

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I know they have a toaster where you can draw on the side.

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It's got a screen.

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You can draw on the side, and then it burns the image on the toast.

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It's a real thing.

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Yeah, that's cool.

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I haven't seen one that tries to put your morning news on it.

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Instead of seize the day, it's like eat the day.

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Yeah.

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You've got your S&P 500 graph on your first one.

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Oh, no.

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It's upside down.

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Lastly, Russell.

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Number one, the heavy workout computer mouse.

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What looks to be a dense metal USB-C computer mouse with sticky friction pads on the bottom to, quote, increase arm muscles.

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Number two, the banana duck lawn ornament.

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Look out, garden gnomes.

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This is a foot tall resin banana being peeled.

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But the exposed top banana part is a goose or duck neck and head.

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Or number three, rechargeable Crocs headlights.

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Small battery-powered plastic orb ornaments that snap into the holes in your Crocs and last, quote, 300,000 flashes probably.

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Which of those three?

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We got workout mouse, banana duck ornament, or Crocs headlights.

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They're all ridiculous.

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But I think the, like the, okay, the banana one's got to exist because that's just too crazy, Leo.

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I hope that didn't come from your own head.

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So I'm going to go with the first one.

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I made up the first one.

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You're absolutely right.

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Okay, yeah.

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so far that seems like a good kickstart of the workout mouse it seems like something that a

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gamer like oh man i just want to make some money for my man that would infuriate me little little

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finger treadmill on the tip of your mouse

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you guys have my number you didn't get it the first round any of you and all three of you got

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one on the second congratulations everybody three-way tie i don't know if that's happened

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yet on the show. Well done, everyone. I think that means

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Leo has to go first.

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Oh, shoot. Yeah!

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I will go first.

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So, I learned pretty recently

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that trains,

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just your standard Amtrak

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or freight trains

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that go through tracks in your town,

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have small radio beacon

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transmitters. They have one at the head of the train

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and one at the end of the train, and distributed

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power unit ones, and that's part of

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how the conductor system

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talks to the rest of the train.

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it puts out little beacon flashes for

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I'm changing the throttle, I am signaling things

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they don't go very far, only a couple of miles

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ham radios have studied the exact frequencies

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for the head of the train and the end of the train

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I originally was wondering, is there a way that we could do

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a flight radar 24 or marine traffic type thing

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where we could have a map of where all the trains are

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because there's no API that I've found, there's no publicly available data

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so that we could know, oh man, I've only got a couple minutes

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to make that intersection over there.

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The city that we live in is like bisected by a train track.

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That is the most annoying thing,

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and we could rant about that all day.

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Yep.

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But that doesn't seem practical.

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So I've got a practical idea.

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Imagine a small radar gun detector

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or like garage door opener size thing

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that you clip in your car,

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and it just tells you signal strength increasing

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or decreasing of the head and the tail of the train.

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I like that.

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So you've got a little thing

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that you're looking at near the windshield.

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You're already sitting at the train tracks and that first couple go by and you're like, oh, man, is this going to be a 10 second or a 10 minute thing?

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That's just ruined my day.

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You could look at a little detector and know, OK, two to four miles away is the end or wow, it's coming up quick.

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It must be there soon.

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I would use that thing constantly.

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Right.

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So I think this is doable.

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You've got just a little SDR like radio receiver and a couple of LEDs and you're golden.

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That's the pitch.

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I like it today.

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Today we were coming back from a field trip from the school,

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and just as we were getting about two streets away from the school,

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there's a train track, and of course the arms come down,

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and I hear the driver go, oh, no.

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Well, this train goes by, and it's three cars.

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And then I don't think the things even settled,

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and they were going back up, and there was no reason to fret.

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We were going to be on our way faster than a stoplight,

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and that would have told us.

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That would have given us the peace of mind.

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At the same time, last week, same track,

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15-minute coal train just stuck.

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Nothing you can do.

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I had a pizza in the car with me in the back,

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and I couldn't even go back to get it.

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I'm just sitting there smelling a pizza.

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Yes, Leo, I would love that.

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It's so niche, but it perfectly fits our niche.

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Is it?

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I don't know.

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I feel like this is a common thing, at least along the Midwest, right?

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It makes me think of the police radar, though,

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where people have them in their cars by the windshields,

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and then the technology kind of changed so fast

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that now they go off when you drive by automatic doors

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at stores and stuff, too.

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So you got to make sure, how do you prevent that from being interfered by trains, you know, going different ways or stuff too?

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Right.

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You'd have to, so basically I've been thinking a lot about that.

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If you have this signal strength is getting stronger or weaker, going up or going down steadily, because they put out little pings.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And you have that for the head and that for the end.

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I think you'd be able to work out pretty much everything you would care about.

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You got two reference points.

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So like, oh, wow, they're both really close together.

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I'm getting the ping at the same time from the start and the end.

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They're both increasing and decreasing at the same time.

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That must be a really short train, right?

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Or the tail is really far away, but the head's right next to me.

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Uh-oh, this is going to be a big one.

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You might be able to figure that kind of thing out, I think.

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Yeah, especially with, I feel like with enough data, you could really even know how far away that train is coming down the track.

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And then, you know, how far away it's gone from you.

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The frequencies, the UHF frequencies that it lives in, to spare you the ham radio tech nerd details, are not very good at like penetrating through stuff.

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So it's kind of line of sight.

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Best case scenario, you're looking at two to four miles away of signal strength if you're like looking straight down the track.

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Which is pretty much all that's relevant, right, at a train stop.

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Exactly.

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So you wouldn't be able to know like, oh, you know, it's a town over or whatever.

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It's coming by and you're almost there kind of thing.

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Okay, so I feel like your fate is sealed no matter what.

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So having this on your car, you're like, damn, I'm screwed anyway.

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It's just like, what's my time commitment?

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But you know what's a major inconvenience?

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It's like when you look at a bus in front of you and you're like, oh, crap, it's going to have to stop at the tracks.

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And you're like, oh, now we're going to have this crazy zipper merge.

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It's going to come out of nowhere.

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Everybody's going to try to pass each other.

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I'm not sure if this is possible.

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You get these devices on there, and now no buses ever have to stop at a damn train track ever again.

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You throw three or four of those bad boys on there because of redundancy, right?

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Huge market.

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Every single bus on the planet now doesn't have to stop at a light and create chaos for everybody that – for trains that aren't even there.

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Gosh.

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We've got warning bells.

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We've got flashing lights.

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We've got gates that lower.

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The trains themselves honk.

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Do we also really need buses to stop?

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It kills me.

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See if we get enough of these on there.

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We can live triangulate the trains if people are connected to their phone or whatever.

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And now we can show the trains on Google Maps.

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Show the trains driving around.

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I don't know why Amtrak or whoever doesn't just publish that anyway, but that's a story for another day.

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Dude, it would be cool if you contributed to the network, right?

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Like you had your devices out there and it connected to, you know.

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Can I tell you where this started?

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The open source API.

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I want to have a couple of, this was originally going to be a separate pitch, a couple of solar powered long range radio vibration sensors to stick on the poles near every intersection in my town.

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So then I could have like wall art where it's like a map of the roads of town.

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And then the intersections have LEDs that light up if they're being vibrated from far away.

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I think that'd be cool too, but it wouldn't be like scalable, right?

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You kind of have to like sneak it and hope the police don't find the devices you play.

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This makes me feel like I feel like it's at least once a week where I think of the Batman movie where they're using this, the cell phones, microphones, cell phone radars.

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You know what? Like that at the time that seems so possible, but so far fetched.

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And now with the concepts of AI modeling and data, I'm like, wow, it really is super plausible.

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They've mapped out our entire houses with our phones and like it no longer seems so possible.

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so far fetched. They're mapping it out

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and they know exactly what that room

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looks like. You're really into

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Morgan Freeman.

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This is too

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powerful for one man to have,

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Bruce.

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No, I

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know exactly what you mean. It'd be great if you could map.

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There's other things, I'm sure, in the world that

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it'd be great if we could just map.

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But yeah, Amtrak,

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I know you're listening. Put some

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cell radios and

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GPS trackers on your dang trains.

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Publish that data for people, please.

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Maybe they're embarrassed because it's always late.

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Then people could mine the data and see like, yep, 70% of the time they are behind schedule.

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Dude, that's a great point.

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My dad takes the train back and forth in Chicago.

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And you don't ever know if that train is going to be five minutes late, sometimes 15.

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And you're like, damn, am I just going to sit in this parking lot forever?

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And so it would be kind of cool to see, oh, stop at this stop, stop at that stop.

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I know where it is, right?

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transit is an app that'll do that too it'll kind of crowdsource oh there's some people on this bus

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and and we think this is where they are but um it seems like a lot of the municipal people have

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like solved this the the chicago trains and stuff they have like on the platform you know three

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minutes until this train arrives usually right don't they have little displays yes they do okay

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15 minutes late and then it shows up in five minutes and you're like what why do they even

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have this yeah really interesting all of it's off you're just nothing matters because i feel like

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they're just people that are like oh i'm gonna take my sweet ass time getting off the train and

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so let's just ruin the entire you know and every time somebody does that for like 15 stops you're

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just and they can never leave early you know they can't leave so yeah oh i had road scouts somehow

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i'm still having despite all this technology i'm still having visions of like somebody riding up

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on a horse with a lasso getting ready to

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hijack the train because they've watched

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their little dongle on their horse

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telling them, ah, it's a three-car

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train. We can round them up,

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boys. Circle the wagons.

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There's a stretch of four miles of

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country that it's about to go through. We saw it

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on Google Maps. Get them.

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The idea of a cowboy on his

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iPhone is lovely.

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What's the ham radio say, you know?

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that one actually lends itself pretty well to my idea oh perfect um get over to you which

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yeah which i have found myself being a traveler well throughout the u.s but in other countries

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and i think something i find my a position i find myself in is often like not always remembering

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all the stuff I like to do and see in places I like to visit. And I feel like for a long time,

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this has been years where I regularly think when I'm when I'm pulling up Google Maps, man,

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it would be really nice if I got notifications when I was near the types of things I was

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interested in, in such a way that like, like, I wish I could put in thrift stores, if I'm ever

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within three miles, and then change the distance. If I'm ever within 10 miles of a thrift store,

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I've always wanted to visit an Ikea.

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If I'm ever within 60 miles of an Ikea.

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And then when I'm out and about, my phone just says, hey, by the way, you're within 60 miles of an Ikea.

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And then you can go ahead and either tap, either tap like, okay, great.

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Yes, this is a known location.

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Or I can't make it there today.

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Skip it.

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Remind me again.

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And for me, that's like, wow, you could put genres.

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Dog parks.

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I want to know where all the dog parks are in my community when I'm out and about.

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I don't want to just stare at the map and, like, study them.

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like let me know if I'm ever within a block of a dog park walking my dog because then I can

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I can stop and if it's a known or unknown location and I feel like this lends itself really well to

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like customizing your genres of places the types of interests or things points of interest parks

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that kind of stuff um and then yeah you just go about your day and your phone lets you know

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and it's really cool because the idea lends itself to businesses being able to run like coupons or

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promotions when you're nearby to you, to your phone. Like it's, it's a great concept. So for

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me, like I wish when I was out and about, my phone was like, by the way, here's a thrift store

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within your two minute radius or your five block radius. And I'd be like, okay, cool. That's a

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known, I know about that one. Thank you. But that would work wherever I go. When I travel across

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the States, different countries, I just want to know without always having to stare at my phone

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or suit. So are you thinking that it's going to like, am I going to enter ahead of time? Hey,

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dog parks and thrift stores or is it just going to be watching you to be like brandon like really

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really likes starbucks over here every time i pass a starbucks i gotta let him know suggest yeah

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yeah you could you could definitely yeah i think i think if you entered categories like i like

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thrift stores dog parks and cafes you can start to you know find fusions or you can have suggestions

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as well hey we notice you're really desperate to go to that you know insert obscure store restaurant

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you know, you've never been to a Sonic.

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Leo, we see you're 300 miles from a micro center.

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Yeah, I've always wanted to go.

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So it's just an idea that I feel like,

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I don't know, I would use it,

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I would want to be notified regularly.

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Yeah, especially in new towns.

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In new towns and traveling.

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And every mapping service is like 90%

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of the way to building this

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and they just need that last little

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like one setting screen, yeah.

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And it seems like it would provide them

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with great information.

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You're essentially, instead of being like reviewing a store or restaurant with three or four stars, you're essentially giving them insight into places you might not have even been to before.

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And you're giving it like, I'll go 50 miles, 60 miles.

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You're giving them great consumer insight into like how desperate you are for that service, that thing.

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It's extremely valuable, but somehow I feel like I just get the feeling like it's too cool.

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It's just too, it makes too much sense.

478
00:23:48,620 --> 00:23:49,420
They're not going to make it.

479
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:52,660
So if anybody's out there ready to make that app, I will use it.

480
00:23:53,220 --> 00:23:54,740
You're working on ring urns instead.

481
00:23:55,020 --> 00:23:55,320
I got you.

482
00:23:56,939 --> 00:24:00,700
The Google Maps and Apple Maps of the world are already doing,

483
00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:03,880
we think you're interested in this business,

484
00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:06,140
like recommendations and stuff too.

485
00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:07,580
That part's already even been done.

486
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:08,860
It's literally just-

487
00:24:08,860 --> 00:24:09,620
Setting radius.

488
00:24:09,620 --> 00:24:12,560
Notify me, please, on category.

489
00:24:12,740 --> 00:24:13,120
Yeah.

490
00:24:13,120 --> 00:24:16,220
Give them the category and give them the radius, and that's it.

491
00:24:16,220 --> 00:24:19,520
It's a straightforward, it's nothing tricky, but I don't know.

492
00:24:19,520 --> 00:24:22,160
I get this disheartened feeling like, I'm not going to see it.

493
00:24:22,380 --> 00:24:24,020
If I was a programmer, I'd make it myself.

494
00:24:24,540 --> 00:24:30,380
Google Maps has location sharing, so you can share with a partner or a friend, like, hey, here's where I'm at, in perpetuity.

495
00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:39,480
And if you do that mode, you can even say on your end, please let me know when the other person enters or exits a defined radius of a place.

496
00:24:40,020 --> 00:24:45,160
And so whenever, for example, my wife goes to hockey, it'll be like, hey, she arrived there safely when I get it.

497
00:24:45,300 --> 00:24:48,480
And she's told that I did that, and I'm told that I did that.

498
00:24:48,740 --> 00:24:51,840
And it's just a cool way to like set up a little, hey, don't worry.

499
00:24:52,020 --> 00:24:52,620
They got home.

500
00:24:53,020 --> 00:24:53,400
Don't worry.

501
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:54,940
They made it to the airport, whatever.

502
00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:58,860
That is like 98% of the way to what you want.

503
00:24:59,160 --> 00:24:59,440
It's there.

504
00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:00,480
It's mostly there.

505
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:01,580
It kills me.

506
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:06,900
But that last like 2% or 3%, that last 2% or 3% is like make or break for me.

507
00:25:07,120 --> 00:25:08,300
I mean, that's what I want.

508
00:25:08,860 --> 00:25:10,860
All this is an open street map too if you wanted to build it yourself.

509
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:12,920
Dude, this would be awesome.

510
00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:15,300
Like you call it pit stop or something, right?

511
00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:18,480
Or like, you know, you're just like an aimless traveler, right?

512
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,540
And so you just, okay, I'm going to go south.

513
00:25:22,060 --> 00:25:30,160
So me, when I travel to Florida, if I were to drive and I have kids, it would be awesome if there was some cool pit stop three minutes away.

514
00:25:30,380 --> 00:25:32,400
I can set the time distance, right?

515
00:25:32,980 --> 00:25:34,540
How far off your track, yeah.

516
00:25:34,660 --> 00:25:37,040
How far you're willing to drive off your route.

517
00:25:37,340 --> 00:25:45,900
Yeah, I'm willing to drive off my route as long as it's not like 10 minutes out and then I get there and then we're only there for 10 minutes because it sucks.

518
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,940
And then we go back another 10 minutes, right?

519
00:25:48,180 --> 00:25:53,160
Like it'd be awesome if there was just like little happy stops along the way.

520
00:25:53,360 --> 00:26:01,160
Like even a site like along the – I drive to Chicago a bunch and there's like this one path like an overlook.

521
00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:02,900
It's like on top of a dune or something.

522
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:05,300
I've never gone on that over path.

523
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,160
But I've always thought like, oh, it'd be so cool to see that.

524
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:11,840
I would be – but like that would be a perfect little stop for like 30 minutes.

525
00:26:12,740 --> 00:26:15,120
All right, we're going to take – get out of the freaking car, you know.

526
00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:21,260
But those like it'd be great for road trips when you're just looking for a little relief from being in the car.

527
00:26:22,300 --> 00:26:29,620
And then, you know, if you set your little let's say your categories or whatever, you can always be skipping over it or you might stop early.

528
00:26:30,260 --> 00:26:33,340
And how if I'm in that business owner, like I want that.

529
00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:35,600
No, I want to advertise for that.

530
00:26:35,900 --> 00:26:36,680
I want to. Yeah.

531
00:26:37,340 --> 00:26:39,960
Every time somebody passes like I am, that's how I make my money.

532
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,700
Right. It's also such a huge pain in the ass.

533
00:26:42,860 --> 00:26:47,780
I don't know why using Google Maps and Apple Maps to just like find a gas station while you're driving.

534
00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:48,340
Absolutely.

535
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:49,520
Along the route.

536
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,420
Why is this not solved?

537
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:51,960
It's bizarre.

538
00:26:52,420 --> 00:26:53,960
Get me the best gas station, please.

539
00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:55,800
Like Google, can you figure that out?

540
00:26:56,180 --> 00:27:02,880
Here's 40 gas stations behind you and in front of you that you could totally waste your time looking at dangerously while driving, right?

541
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:05,040
It's like just the next one, please.

542
00:27:07,060 --> 00:27:11,580
It's especially nice if you have like a loyalty card for a particular gas station.

543
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,020
And you don't just want to Google that gas station.

544
00:27:14,420 --> 00:27:15,020
You just want to know it.

545
00:27:15,140 --> 00:27:20,340
Anytime I'm by a Shell, I'm going to stop at Shell and can use my rewards card.

546
00:27:20,540 --> 00:27:21,640
Oh, that'd be so nice.

547
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:25,600
Yeah, I never like stopping at BP's just because of that damn oil spill.

548
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:28,060
We're the same way, same way.

549
00:27:28,580 --> 00:27:29,820
And it's coming since 11.

550
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,300
I'm surprised they're still there.

551
00:27:35,020 --> 00:27:36,820
Who shops at this anymore?

552
00:27:37,340 --> 00:27:38,660
You can do the anti-pit stop.

553
00:27:38,980 --> 00:27:41,020
I do not want to be five miles within.

554
00:27:42,620 --> 00:27:45,160
Take my route all the way around this BP.

555
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:47,220
Which is cool because it's something,

556
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,500
now this is tangent, but on the same route,

557
00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:52,200
if you could also pick types of routes

558
00:27:52,740 --> 00:27:55,580
that have the map route you based on more,

559
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,300
I want to take a particularly more scenic route

560
00:27:58,620 --> 00:27:59,320
or I want to take,

561
00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:01,640
these are just features I feel like are lacking from maps.

562
00:28:02,220 --> 00:28:03,540
I want to take a route that brings me

563
00:28:04,020 --> 00:28:05,320
by the most national parks.

564
00:28:05,780 --> 00:28:07,600
But I mean, you can sit there and search them,

565
00:28:08,180 --> 00:28:14,440
But it should be a simple, especially with the fusion of AI, I should be able to just type, this is the kind of route I want to take.

566
00:28:14,980 --> 00:28:25,100
And it should give you a route that takes you by the most historic homes, et cetera, without you having to sit there and individually pick them and map it out and reroute them so that it's the most efficient.

567
00:28:25,500 --> 00:28:27,900
I would love to see, hey, I'm at home.

568
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:29,340
I'm going to Target.

569
00:28:29,740 --> 00:28:31,680
Bring me by as many national parks as possible.

570
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:33,380
See where it ends up.

571
00:28:33,380 --> 00:28:35,020
You didn't know there was one in your own backyard.

572
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:36,800
38-hour detour, yeah.

573
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:49,500
this actually ties in perfectly with my idea excellent if we're willing to i like the fusion

574
00:28:49,620 --> 00:28:54,140
we got going on here yeah i love it yeah we're all tied together all right scott what do you got

575
00:28:54,260 --> 00:29:00,040
i i save this one for you brandon because uh you have traveled more than most people and i know

576
00:29:00,620 --> 00:29:06,199
and my little sister is currently in vietnam right now and i talked to her yesterday she was saying

577
00:29:06,220 --> 00:29:09,780
you know i i don't know anything about this country i'm just here with friends exploring

578
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,580
i just wish i had a local to help me with stuff and this is a similar idea to what russell's had

579
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:20,520
before but i just want to be able to have an app where where i'm in a new city i can dial a local

580
00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:26,180
or just hit a button and a local will pop up on my phone either through text or video and just

581
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:31,420
ask them recommendations what is the best place to eat that you like am i getting screwed over by

582
00:29:31,540 --> 00:29:36,180
this guy haggling with me right now like hey is there anything going on in this weekend or whatnot

583
00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:42,060
And that's it. Just a very simple call a local in order to figure out what's going on in this new place I've never been.

584
00:29:42,660 --> 00:29:48,780
And you could have, you know, if you can't find enough people when you're starting out, you could have a AI for the back of end of it.

585
00:29:49,220 --> 00:29:53,020
But eventually you're going to start getting enough people that this could be a legit thing.

586
00:29:53,260 --> 00:29:53,400
Whoa.

587
00:29:53,640 --> 00:30:02,940
I like that. Right when you said that, I'm imagining the, who wants to be a millionaire being like the, being the ringtone when you call in.

588
00:30:03,060 --> 00:30:05,540
And it's like, you've connected to your phone a friend.

589
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,020
These are going to be like vetted people too.

590
00:30:10,500 --> 00:30:11,640
Five star ratings.

591
00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:15,820
We were in the Virgin Islands a couple of weeks ago for an anniversary trip.

592
00:30:16,020 --> 00:30:16,420
And it was lovely.

593
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:18,520
But one of the evenings we were driving to dinner.

594
00:30:19,140 --> 00:30:26,700
And there was some sort of like fundraiser walk thing that maybe was like a 5K sort of thing.

595
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:27,460
But it was in the evening.

596
00:30:27,620 --> 00:30:28,380
Everyone had glow sticks.

597
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:29,440
It looked really interesting.

598
00:30:30,140 --> 00:30:31,520
No information about it anywhere.

599
00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:34,460
No information that looked like the starting or end point.

600
00:30:34,940 --> 00:30:37,180
No website that we could find from cursory Googling.

601
00:30:37,500 --> 00:30:42,840
Our waiter, who was on like way outside of town at the restaurant we ended up at eventually, didn't know what we were talking about.

602
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,500
Would love to like figure out what that was.

603
00:30:45,820 --> 00:30:49,020
I could have called a local right then and been like, right now, what is happening?

604
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,120
Or like you said, what's going on this weekend?

605
00:30:51,340 --> 00:30:52,300
What's the best dive bar?

606
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,720
Not just recommendations for, hey, where should I eat?

607
00:30:55,860 --> 00:30:57,820
But also like the hardcore information.

608
00:30:58,260 --> 00:30:58,780
Yeah, the insight.

609
00:30:59,040 --> 00:30:59,640
Yeah, the insights.

610
00:31:00,020 --> 00:31:01,460
Like, I am at this thing.

611
00:31:01,660 --> 00:31:02,280
What does it mean?

612
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:04,560
Or things that, yeah, locals would know.

613
00:31:04,780 --> 00:31:05,220
I love that.

614
00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:07,020
Honestly, even logistics too.

615
00:31:07,260 --> 00:31:08,520
You were saying you're in Virgin Islands.

616
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,380
I got to take a ferry from point A to point B.

617
00:31:10,620 --> 00:31:11,720
I've never done this before.

618
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:15,060
There's like 18 different ferries on different days of the week and hour.

619
00:31:15,220 --> 00:31:17,540
Which one should I do in order to get from here to here?

620
00:31:17,940 --> 00:31:18,900
Who's a local that knows this?

621
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,100
I think it's great for cultural exchange, especially if you're creating profiles and

622
00:31:23,180 --> 00:31:27,440
you're able to catch up with that person later, then you can also share some of your,

623
00:31:27,900 --> 00:31:34,140
you know, in your context, your cultural background and experience, you know, it's a neat way to build connections like that, too.

624
00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:34,960
Love that.

625
00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,920
So you know how the meta glasses were, like, all over the Super Bowl this year?

626
00:31:39,380 --> 00:31:41,120
I feel like it would be so perfect.

627
00:31:41,420 --> 00:31:48,060
You buy one of those, immediately connect to somebody, and now they're literally seeing and you're talking to them like that, right?

628
00:31:48,420 --> 00:31:49,700
Where the heck am I?

629
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:51,880
Oh, you were in a dangerous area.

630
00:31:51,900 --> 00:31:52,600
No, don't go that way.

631
00:31:52,740 --> 00:31:53,060
Get out of there.

632
00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:55,480
Take that headset off.

633
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,140
Yeah, that's a great application, Russell.

634
00:31:58,660 --> 00:31:59,620
Have you done this yet?

635
00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:07,220
So 1-800-CHAT-GPT when you call.

636
00:32:07,700 --> 00:32:07,880
What?

637
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:08,420
No.

638
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:09,480
Call GPT?

639
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,320
Hi, I'm ChatGPT, an AI assistant.

640
00:32:12,900 --> 00:32:15,800
Just so you know, our conversation may be reviewed for safety.

641
00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:16,460
Are you kidding?

642
00:32:16,860 --> 00:32:18,340
So how can I help you today?

643
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:21,340
I'm driving right now on the highway.

644
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,980
I'm on the south side of Grand Rapids on my way to the airport.

645
00:32:24,420 --> 00:32:27,000
And there's this big pyramid building over on the side.

646
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:27,700
What is that?

647
00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:33,300
Oh, that pyramid building is the Steelcase Pyramid, also known as the Pyramid Camper.

648
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:34,000
No shit.

649
00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:37,060
It used to be the headquarters for Steelcase, a furniture company.

650
00:32:37,620 --> 00:32:40,540
Now it's home to a data center and various other businesses.

651
00:32:41,260 --> 00:32:43,080
It's a pretty unique landmark, isn't it?

652
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:43,560
Yeah.

653
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,080
How old is Justin Bieber again?

654
00:32:48,399 --> 00:32:51,380
Justin Bieber was born on March 1st, 1994.

655
00:32:51,420 --> 00:32:51,980
Anyway, yeah.

656
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:54,640
So I've used that as a party trick a couple of times.

657
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,020
It's free, and you can only do it a few times a month or something per phone number.

658
00:32:58,220 --> 00:33:02,300
But that kind of thing is fun to think like, wow, an AI could do this.

659
00:33:02,620 --> 00:33:11,500
But I feel like they still wouldn't know like, oh, that's the real good noodles place that just opened up or whatever, right?

660
00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:14,820
Like, it's getting closer, and it's a fun party trick.

661
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:21,740
On that note, I've had multiple of my elderly parents' friends ask me, AI, what is it?

662
00:33:21,860 --> 00:33:22,500
How does it work?

663
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:24,780
I'm just going to call that number from now on.

664
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:26,920
Be like, oh, no, you just call this number,

665
00:33:27,060 --> 00:33:28,220
and then you can talk to a robot.

666
00:33:28,780 --> 00:33:30,520
They gave that as a service.

667
00:33:30,900 --> 00:33:32,420
They don't have to log in, obviously, or anything,

668
00:33:32,740 --> 00:33:34,940
right before Christmas, and that was, I think, why.

669
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:36,820
So that people were going home to their friends and family,

670
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,180
and they could show that off, yeah.

671
00:33:38,460 --> 00:33:39,000
That's so smart.

672
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:40,920
It's a cool way to demonstrate it,

673
00:33:41,060 --> 00:33:42,620
and if you can come up with some interesting prompts

674
00:33:42,980 --> 00:33:45,440
to show on speakerphone in front of Grandma,

675
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:46,180
she might be interested.

676
00:33:46,660 --> 00:33:49,300
The concern I think I have for the idea,

677
00:33:49,740 --> 00:33:50,240
the challenge,

678
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:55,100
the obstacle to overcome is how do you prevent locals from becoming just

679
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:55,500
career?

680
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:59,800
I recommend the same four restaurants and they give me all this kickback.

681
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,260
Like how do you prevent that?

682
00:34:01,460 --> 00:34:05,060
That's going to incentivize locals to be the first ones on this for the new

683
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:05,400
town.

684
00:34:05,660 --> 00:34:06,460
Cause Oh yeah,

685
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:08,700
you should go to the such and such breakfast and joke.

686
00:34:08,820 --> 00:34:10,000
Cause my brother-in-law owns it.

687
00:34:10,139 --> 00:34:10,220
You know,

688
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,600
we really love subway sandwiches here.

689
00:34:15,259 --> 00:34:15,659
Oh,

690
00:34:18,340 --> 00:34:18,800
this apron.

691
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:19,860
I bought it at a Goodwill.

692
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:21,260
That's interesting, though.

693
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:22,580
How do you make sure that it's an unbiased,

694
00:34:22,940 --> 00:34:24,679
like not even just the local whatever,

695
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,300
but that it's not sponsored results?

696
00:34:26,580 --> 00:34:28,860
Casual Uber five-star rating systems.

697
00:34:29,540 --> 00:34:29,919
That's all you can do.

698
00:34:29,919 --> 00:34:30,980
You go, you get a bad burger,

699
00:34:31,179 --> 00:34:33,600
you rate the person who recommended it poorly.

700
00:34:34,159 --> 00:34:36,200
This guy gave me a bad recommendation.

701
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:38,840
Yelping on the person who recommended it.

702
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,919
It's like all the people who rated it in Yelp,

703
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:41,899
but you're rating them.

704
00:34:42,980 --> 00:34:43,520
You know what I mean?

705
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,159
That was a Black Mirror episode, wasn't it?

706
00:34:46,179 --> 00:34:46,560
Yeah, right.

707
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:47,679
Everyone has a rating.

708
00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:48,520
Or Meow Meow Beans.

709
00:34:48,679 --> 00:34:56,120
yes so like you know i think this would be one amazing for tourism so like i think maybe you

710
00:34:56,179 --> 00:35:02,020
were thinking of this like scott but like every town would want to connect somebody to a local

711
00:35:02,180 --> 00:35:06,520
because that would just mix it up a bit because like whenever you go to a town and you're like

712
00:35:06,700 --> 00:35:11,980
yelp or travel advisor trip advisor you're like is this really the best restaurant locals like

713
00:35:12,140 --> 00:35:17,739
and you're not really sure and then you go you know hang out with your friend months later oh

714
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:22,460
yeah i was in this little town they're like oh did you go to that restaurant what one the one

715
00:35:22,620 --> 00:35:27,980
that everyone goes to and you're like no i didn't go there so now you're like that's what i i hate

716
00:35:28,100 --> 00:35:32,700
the fomo aspect and so if there was like the local like yeah what options are you looking for

717
00:35:33,180 --> 00:35:39,420
you know you have a true guide like career professional at that i'd be so beneficial

718
00:35:39,860 --> 00:35:47,720
especially for like yeah cities every city would have a you know a 4-1-1 or a you know a whatever

719
00:35:47,740 --> 00:35:55,920
a different one one seven one one for fun seven one one for fun local uh okay wait a second that's

720
00:35:56,020 --> 00:36:05,360
a love corner but scott we'll incorporate that idea so that whenever we'll incorporate with the

721
00:36:05,500 --> 00:36:09,260
maps idea wherever you're walking around with when you're within 10 minutes of one of these

722
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:14,000
locals that's ready to show you around it lets you know and go up to

723
00:36:14,020 --> 00:36:16,500
You gotta be careful with these locals

724
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,460
Yeah, you're teetering on the edge of the world's oldest profession

725
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:24,260
Hot local Starbucks in your area

726
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,120
That would be a rom-com though

727
00:36:26,260 --> 00:36:27,580
You just made a rom-com

728
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:29,580
Just like, oh, I love this tour guide

729
00:36:29,780 --> 00:36:31,320
Helps me all over the place

730
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:32,760
It's ChatGPT

731
00:36:32,780 --> 00:36:34,540
I just keep calling asking for recommendations

732
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:36,900
But then I found out he's a robot

733
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:38,500
Yeah, he's AI the whole time

734
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:39,960
And then they find love anyway

735
00:36:39,980 --> 00:36:47,980
all right russell yeah i hope you're sticking with the theme

736
00:36:48,300 --> 00:36:55,100
ring that fits perfectly with our other three ideas oh i got something completely different um

737
00:36:56,020 --> 00:37:03,640
okay and it's my first ai idea but i think this is actually a really good one in the swear jar

738
00:37:03,780 --> 00:37:20,020
All right. All right. This is so I so whenever a new news article comes out, right, like some headlines, some huge, big article, I end up trying to read like eight different websites, a version of that same news article.

739
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:26,820
And it's such a pain. And then I don't know why, but then I end up reading all the comments and seeing what that's going on.

740
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,280
And that's all a whole nightmare, right?

741
00:37:30,100 --> 00:37:38,220
And so what I was thinking about is like, man, if only there was a Wikipedia site for news, like live news.

742
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:45,600
So a mix of like combining all these news articles, versions together, having people comment.

743
00:37:45,900 --> 00:37:54,320
So comment mimicking Reddit a little bit, but with like live news, you capture history and also what was being said about it, right?

744
00:37:54,940 --> 00:38:10,080
And so what's beneficial with the only reason this would work is because maybe the AI layer would actually read all hundred versions of the news article, synthesize a non-biased, non-political version.

745
00:38:10,540 --> 00:38:15,680
Let's say maybe matter of facts, maybe not factual version of all those articles together.

746
00:38:16,180 --> 00:38:19,100
Create a new article, the Wikipedia page, right?

747
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,240
The true news.

748
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:26,760
Without all the every second ad that you have to scroll by.

749
00:38:27,980 --> 00:38:29,740
It's not possible to read the news anymore, right?

750
00:38:29,980 --> 00:38:33,440
You know, it's like, I mean, besides all the politics or whatever, right?

751
00:38:33,580 --> 00:38:40,540
It's just more like, I kind of want to see what everybody's saying about it, but I don't have the time to read eight different versions of it, right?

752
00:38:40,780 --> 00:38:41,060
Sure.

753
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:42,880
I really like this idea.

754
00:38:43,380 --> 00:38:44,500
My background's in journalism.

755
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,360
And one of the websites, man, I don't remember the name offhand.

756
00:38:47,460 --> 00:38:48,760
It's been a while since I looked at it.

757
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:56,800
But it would send you in an email top news or political points or news things.

758
00:38:57,160 --> 00:39:04,600
And it would literally show you the Democrat viewpoint and the Republican viewpoint in a very short one paragraph version of each and their perspectives.

759
00:39:05,060 --> 00:39:08,100
And I just thought it was always a pretty well balanced.

760
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,240
It just showed you this is what they think, this is what they think.

761
00:39:10,460 --> 00:39:11,900
And it was cool to get that.

762
00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:18,920
So having something that would do that for different news stories and kind of do it like you said live, I think that'd be a really great way to get.

763
00:39:19,140 --> 00:39:23,300
The gist of information without having to sit and parse through piece by piece.

764
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:24,200
It's ground news.

765
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:24,640
Open.

766
00:39:24,860 --> 00:39:25,580
I've heard of that.

767
00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:31,900
There's a startup that does that where you'll get the news article with a blue and a red slider and you can kind of adjust.

768
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:33,160
That's really cool.

769
00:39:33,460 --> 00:39:34,100
That's cool.

770
00:39:34,580 --> 00:39:42,180
And then what would be great is you have the community upvoting different articles that are maybe more factual.

771
00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:47,580
You could have the community upload live true information.

772
00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:52,340
So like, let's say, you know, I was in D.C. when like a plane crashed or whatever.

773
00:39:52,580 --> 00:40:00,540
But like people uploads, they end up what they're doing is they upload all these like legit clips of real things that actually happened.

774
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:02,220
There's no news media behind it.

775
00:40:02,720 --> 00:40:04,420
You would like these are from people.

776
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:05,180
Yeah.

777
00:40:05,540 --> 00:40:10,140
I remember finding out about the Boston Marathon like a half hour before it hit the news because it was on the front page of Reddit.

778
00:40:10,600 --> 00:40:10,620
Yeah.

779
00:40:10,860 --> 00:40:12,400
2011, 2012, whatever that was.

780
00:40:12,460 --> 00:40:16,080
Probably some guy was there, had a video going and just uploaded it.

781
00:40:16,140 --> 00:40:16,240
Exactly.

782
00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:16,700
Yeah.

783
00:40:16,820 --> 00:40:17,360
Twitter this.

784
00:40:17,900 --> 00:40:18,080
Yeah.

785
00:40:18,220 --> 00:40:23,320
it's like this what do they call it when they there's like a when you're writing a paper or

786
00:40:23,460 --> 00:40:29,340
whatever it's a primary source is that what it is like it's like this is this is that like you have

787
00:40:29,460 --> 00:40:34,160
all the primary sources you have all the news media versions people upvote the ones that are

788
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:38,860
good that might be bad what's cool is like how we would make money is maybe all these news sources

789
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:44,420
are trying to up their rating based on the community sentiment or like you can help set

790
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:49,440
that up and you get analytics to say oh everybody thinks her articles are shit because they're

791
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:55,320
downvoting the hell out of it every time somebody posts like our link in this you know the the news

792
00:40:55,500 --> 00:41:01,140
page right so there's just like a self-feeding machine i think and it brings power back to the

793
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:07,900
people who read the news and because of the ai it's a robot in theory if you program the robot

794
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,060
there should be no biases, right?

795
00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:11,940
Right?

796
00:41:12,540 --> 00:41:12,740
I know.

797
00:41:13,020 --> 00:41:15,460
Somebody's got to fix the robot to be unbiased, right?

798
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:17,160
And maybe people are biased about robots,

799
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:18,240
but that's on them, right?

800
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:21,980
I think there's something there

801
00:41:22,140 --> 00:41:25,960
that we can maybe make it not laning in any direction.

802
00:41:26,420 --> 00:41:29,280
And that's where I thought the AI layer is kind of cool.

803
00:41:29,560 --> 00:41:31,680
What I like about this is it invites

804
00:41:32,060 --> 00:41:35,579
a more international perspective

805
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:39,420
where you can quickly draw from other articles in other languages

806
00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:43,820
and then bring them into English or whatever the target, the end languages.

807
00:41:44,540 --> 00:41:46,560
And you're trying to draw not just from the U.S.,

808
00:41:46,660 --> 00:41:50,220
but literally other news sources and parsing through that.

809
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:51,720
That's really interesting too.

810
00:41:52,100 --> 00:41:55,220
I know when we talk about travel, we kind of have the travel theme here.

811
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:56,940
And it still works, Russell.

812
00:41:57,640 --> 00:41:58,840
You're right on board with us here.

813
00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:00,800
It's good. I'm glad.

814
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,560
I was in South Korea.

815
00:42:04,860 --> 00:42:09,360
When I was in South Korea, I visited the border between South Korea and North Korea.

816
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:10,320
It's called Panmunjom.

817
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:12,000
It's a joint security zone.

818
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:19,660
They've technically been at an armistice, a ceasefire, but they've been at war for however many years now, 50 years or something.

819
00:42:19,820 --> 00:42:20,540
I don't remember exactly.

820
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:29,460
Now, when I went there doing the tour, literally as I'm going there, taking the bus to the joint security zone that's kind of shared between North and South Korea,

821
00:42:29,860 --> 00:42:33,420
The driver was telling us, oh, yeah, just recently, they're giving us history on that zone.

822
00:42:33,940 --> 00:42:38,340
And he said, yeah, just just last week, a soldier got his leg bone off by a landmine.

823
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:43,640
But he said that these landmines have been there for 30, 40, 50 years.

824
00:42:44,020 --> 00:42:47,220
Right. They've been there for so long and erosion has moved them.

825
00:42:47,580 --> 00:42:53,380
This is what the bus driver says. He's like, it's it's really anybody's guess who that land, you know, who put the landmine there.

826
00:42:53,500 --> 00:42:57,680
And it didn't even matter because it wasn't like it was an intentional attack.

827
00:42:57,940 --> 00:43:18,780
Right. The guards take these routes regularly. The erosion had caused it. Well, it was interesting because they let us then go ahead and tour the joint security zone. Well, about that was when I last that was my last thing there. And about two days later, I'm back in the U.S. Well, that same that same story is like international news here. It was news here for like a month about, wow, is it possible?

828
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:23,460
Basically, the U.S. was like, did the North Koreans put a mine there to blow up a soldier?

829
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:28,400
And they made it seem like it was this very recent, relevant mine, like some soldier had put it out there.

830
00:43:28,580 --> 00:43:32,400
And meanwhile, even South Korean soldiers were like, nope, you can still tour.

831
00:43:32,580 --> 00:43:35,240
Don't worry, we've cleared this track route.

832
00:43:35,660 --> 00:43:39,900
So having that sort of international news, drawing it from it, really helps break down those barriers.

833
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,320
I think that's a really cool concept, a great idea.

834
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,320
Oh, yeah, that's super interesting.

835
00:43:44,960 --> 00:43:50,580
I think the BBC articles sometimes are more unbiased than the US ones.

836
00:43:51,020 --> 00:43:51,780
So it's cool.

837
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,460
And it'd be great if people rated, oh, the BBC one's great.

838
00:43:57,339 --> 00:43:58,420
They're so dry.

839
00:43:58,780 --> 00:43:59,040
It's great.

840
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:00,700
It's just like a list of facts.

841
00:44:01,580 --> 00:44:03,600
A mine was in South Korea.

842
00:44:04,240 --> 00:44:05,480
It roshed up from erosion.

843
00:44:06,240 --> 00:44:07,100
It was detonated.

844
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:08,780
It's the best.

845
00:44:08,820 --> 00:44:10,100
There's no sensationalism.

846
00:44:10,260 --> 00:44:10,720
I also use the BBC.

847
00:44:11,020 --> 00:44:11,900
No, not at all.

848
00:44:13,500 --> 00:44:22,940
Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation run a Wikinews, like, crowdsourced one page, one wiki thing per news event.

849
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:25,380
And it's not very popular.

850
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,380
And maybe this is the thing that they need to, like, revitalize it.

851
00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:33,900
I think it's at Wikinews.org, but, yeah, it'd be really cool to, like, have a reason to go there.

852
00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:34,620
Right.

853
00:44:34,900 --> 00:44:39,420
I don't want to be a jerk about it, but, like, I don't, yeah, I don't really visit that as much.

854
00:44:39,500 --> 00:44:40,640
Yeah, Wikinews.org.

855
00:44:40,780 --> 00:44:41,600
I don't really use this much.

856
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:42,660
And maybe this is the,

857
00:44:43,220 --> 00:44:45,960
the judge that'll get them up and becoming something.

858
00:44:46,220 --> 00:44:49,220
I think this is just like a combination of like reading,

859
00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:52,120
using AI to read every popular news network,

860
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:53,700
finding the matching stories.

861
00:44:53,900 --> 00:44:55,480
Cause literally they just copy each other anyway.

862
00:44:55,780 --> 00:44:55,900
Right.

863
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:57,060
And probably write it in AI.

864
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:00,720
And so you just throw it all together in one spot,

865
00:45:01,040 --> 00:45:03,900
all the things that all these major news outlets or not.

866
00:45:04,120 --> 00:45:04,140
Right.

867
00:45:04,340 --> 00:45:05,320
That's where other people,

868
00:45:05,500 --> 00:45:07,200
the community plugs in and adds more.

869
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:08,820
You just create like,

870
00:45:09,020 --> 00:45:13,060
even just a hub of this one news story is kind of cool,

871
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:14,260
like a piece of history.

872
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:15,820
And yeah,

873
00:45:15,940 --> 00:45:17,620
it's something that Wikipedia can't do.

874
00:45:18,580 --> 00:45:19,880
And I guess I was wondering too,

875
00:45:20,020 --> 00:45:20,380
like maybe,

876
00:45:20,860 --> 00:45:22,480
I don't know how Wikipedia does it well,

877
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:28,260
but like people are able to just edit their articles and it's somehow like

878
00:45:28,360 --> 00:45:30,740
probably the most factual stuff out there.

879
00:45:31,240 --> 00:45:32,280
Cause the community,

880
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:32,940
I don't know,

881
00:45:33,220 --> 00:45:34,700
manage it really well.

882
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,080
But if you could apply that to these,

883
00:45:37,300 --> 00:45:37,380
like,

884
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:38,620
like let's say the,

885
00:45:38,740 --> 00:45:43,320
the source article that the ai generates or whatever be really interesting to see like

886
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:49,640
you know oh the top comment that gets hundreds of thousands of upvotes gets incorporated into

887
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:57,060
what the ai puts as news right or like yeah yeah it's bias is weighed on the ones that are the

888
00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:03,280
people agree on um i want this to exist i definitely don't want to run it because i feel

889
00:46:03,380 --> 00:46:08,700
like as soon as i launch something like this i would get targeted by every terrorist i was just

890
00:46:08,720 --> 00:46:14,540
thinking that they would all come for you local or outside of local right um and all the news

891
00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:19,920
sites would hate you too scraping their content but i think this is the perfect startup for like

892
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:24,560
this is like the unicorn startup that some crazy person could do because it's a perfect mix of

893
00:46:24,820 --> 00:46:32,280
solving the fake news problem and it's ai and it's what people want so i yeah i've been sitting on

894
00:46:32,300 --> 00:46:36,480
that one for a little bit it'd be fun if you could take all these news articles and rewrite it in

895
00:46:36,500 --> 00:46:43,320
your own custom style like make the top three news headlines for today but write them satirical

896
00:46:43,460 --> 00:46:51,200
and funny and exaggerated or write them in a way where they are using analogies like insects because

897
00:46:51,500 --> 00:46:59,480
i'm a i'm a bug scientist or whatever i don't know this is my domain use these kinds of analogies i

898
00:46:59,600 --> 00:47:01,360
Certain fart jokes every two minutes.

899
00:47:01,380 --> 00:47:03,360
Describe the world news as a haiku.

900
00:47:03,860 --> 00:47:05,140
We all have our own version.

901
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,140
A haiku about every, yeah,

902
00:47:07,460 --> 00:47:09,000
every one of you just had your own.

903
00:47:09,840 --> 00:47:11,200
It's like a multiverse.

904
00:47:11,220 --> 00:47:12,680
It's all I get every day is one haiku.

905
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:14,340
One haiku per news article.

906
00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:15,060
That's fun.

907
00:47:15,500 --> 00:47:16,540
And then burn it onto your toast.

908
00:47:16,600 --> 00:47:17,660
You can see that in like a newspaper.

909
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:20,900
Yeah, you open up your daily toast

910
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:22,260
and you know, there it is.

911
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:23,540
Well, dear listener,

912
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:25,400
if you're enjoying our podcast

913
00:47:25,740 --> 00:47:26,440
over your morning toast,

914
00:47:26,980 --> 00:47:27,360
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915
00:47:27,940 --> 00:47:28,860
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916
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:30,660
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917
00:47:30,820 --> 00:47:31,220
This was great.

918
00:47:31,340 --> 00:47:32,300
Yeah, thank you for having me.

919
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:33,200
It's a delight.

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