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I'm Scott. I'm Russell. I'm

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Cara. And I'm Leo.

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This is Spitball.

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Welcome to Spitball where three digital dweebs and a guest empty their heads of startup and

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

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that we say is yours to keep. And this week, I brought our guest. This week, I'd like to

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to introduce you all to Cara.

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Cara's my coworker, my friend.

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She's a community activist in our neighborhood.

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She's a teacher at Hope College where we work.

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She's a project manager in my department,

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a casual tech enthusiast, I might say.

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Welcome to Spitball, Cara.

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We're so happy to have you here.

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- Thank you.

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Thanks for having me.

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What an intro.

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- This is gonna be so much fun.

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- I

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felt like I needed to applaud.

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That was so good. - Wow, please do.

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Why haven't you yet?

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Thank you so much.

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- We'll edit that in, right?

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Is that Lee?

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(laughing)

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- Thank you so much.

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- Yeah,

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I gotta have my like shock jock sound board.

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(laughing)

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There you go.

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This week to get us started,

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oh, one other thing that Cara is is a musician,

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which inspired my introduction game

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that I wanna do to get us warmed up today.

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We're just gonna call, oh, I didn't give this a name.

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- We're gonna call it Musical Mania.

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- Musical Mania.

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That sounds great.

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This week we're gonna play Musical Mania.

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I have a list of instruments here that I found over the centuries.

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Some of them real and some of them that I made up.

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I want to tell you about an instrument, you tell me if it's real or made up.

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That's all we're going to do today.

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So we start as we always do with our guest, Cara.

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I want to tell you about the Heckelphone.

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H-E-C-K-E-L-P-H-O-N-E.

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It looks kind of like a weird oboe, resembles an oboe, but it's pitched an octave lower.

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It's been called a bad English horn.

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Is that real or is that something I made up?

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No,

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you completely made that up.

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No, that's real. That was Sander our co-worker who said that it was a bad English word.

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That's a real thing.

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I

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want to bring that to a stand-up show.

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Sander,

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come on!

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He's always smarter than me.

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I

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know, he helped me with this game this week.

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Scott, I want to tell you about the glass harmonica.

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Harmonica without the H.

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It's a series of stacked glass bowls on a spindle, like a lathe,

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And it spins for you to put your finger on and do the glass on finger thing real or made

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That has to be

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real. That sounds so cool, dude. It was invented by Benjamin Franklin

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1761 I

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know I

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want one now

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Awesome, doesn't that sound fun? They're like all concentric with each other

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you must have had like a foot pump or something to keep that spinning. Yeah, I don't know how it's motors or electricity era

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You just have like a dude on the end cranking it or a mule

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just send it out

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in the field.

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for it. Okay, anyways.

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Russell, the serpent, a winding snake

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shaped base wind instrument that was

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popular in the 16th and 19th centuries

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quote a drunk bassoon.

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Is that real or is that made up?

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Quote not real.

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That is a real thing?

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16th and 19th

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centuries all three so far.

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Are these all real

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Leo? What's the fun if

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Cara

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Dangle bells elaborate head. I see. No, we got three two more rounds. Okay,

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Dangle

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bells elaborate headwear with chimes that the wearer manipulates using their face muscles

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really want this to be real. I think it's I made that I think it's fake

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Angle bells.

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Oh, thank you so much

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Dangle interesting

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name Leo.

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dangle bells is also a strip, okay

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It also reminds me of a dingleberry

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completely different

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Scott the fizzle plunk a woodwind instrument played by shaking carbonated water

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Forcing air through glass tubes.

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Hi. I gotta go with fake on that one. Yeah, I made that one up to very good

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some pop rocks in there Leo

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Diet Coke instrument

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Russell the crumb horn a Renaissance woodwind that had a curved end and buzzy sound with a reed that made it was in

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a wind cap

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I'll take it. I'll say it's real. Yeah, I think

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Renaissance woodwind instrument very good one more time through

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Cara

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the shawl me

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Imagine a trumpet, but with eight or so horns on the end,

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like a bouquet of flowers,

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and the trumpet valves controls

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the which horn the air went through.

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Real or fake?

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- That sounds so weird, that's fake.

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- It's real, it's real.

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- I'm fired.

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- It's spelled S-C-H

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-L-M-E-I,

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and it looks like a Dr. Seuss thing, it's whack.

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- Weird,

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- Scott, the hula monica, a large circular harmonica

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in the shape of a ring that emits a drone sound

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hula hooped.

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or fake? If that's not real we have to make that because that's

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incredible but I'm gonna say fake. I made that one.

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Dude you put the nervous little thing tips on every part of the hula hoop and you got it.

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Whoa whoa whoa whoa.

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Different lengths of hula hoop alright.

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Yeah thank you very much.

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Feeling creative. Yeah that's my pitch tonight too. Imagine the hula monica.

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take ten.

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All right, lastly, Russell. The Sackbutt. S-A-C-K-B-U-T. A medieval or

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renaissance predecessor to the trombone.

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It's not real because it has sack and butt in it,

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so you went dangle, sackbutt, like there's no way that it's real. That's a real thing. What are you doing?

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Yeah, it was just basically a sad trombone, but it had such a great name I had to include it. It's

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Two T, one T.

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Just make sure safe search is on, you'll be fine.

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- Sick, bud.

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- What a great game.

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- Cara, you got two, and I think both of these dudes

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well, who wants to go first?

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- I think you all got one then.

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really matter, we're not keeping track.

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The points don't matter.

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Who wants to go first this week?

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I went first like several times in a row.

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You're up, bud.

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Russell, what do you got for us this week?

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Hit us with an idea.

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All right, here's my idea. So we got instacart we got shipped we got all these other

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Services out there to deliver your groceries. Here's my problem every week every other week. I'm buying the same day for lunch or

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For sandwiches or for whatever else and you know, they always spoil like you have the vegetable drawer

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That's like always got the three apples that you're throwing out where celery goes to die. Yeah. Yeah

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It just seems like one of those things where if there was a service that could deliver the same stuff to my house

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for every single piece of food

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But for stuff that like I like it spoils within two to three weeks

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So here's the best part right like tomatoes, right? You're always buying tomatoes

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I would love to have tomatoes on my sandwiches,

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put to never, but I hate slicing them every week,

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doing all that meal prep.

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of lettuce, tomato, 'cause here's the thing,

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if I buy a Jimmy John's sub every week, one time a week,

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or a Chipotle burrito one time a week,

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if I could just have that delivered,

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I think I would save money,

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especially if like it was in my weekly rotation.

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So that would be the grift, if you will,

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would be the weekly delivery service for spoilable foods

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or for regular purchases.

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and you have your own sourcing, right?

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- Local's farmer market.

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- Local's farmer market,

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and you're just buying and you chain up the delivery time

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so that it all makes sense.

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So you're always maybe buying like a pallet of lettuce

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every week, but you're shifting off the delivery times.

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I think there's like an economy to scale there too.

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Um, but yeah, that's, that's simply the idea.

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It's just like a weekly for the perishable goods.

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The stuff that you know, you get every time.

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With a little bit of prep.

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Like if there was any sort of added prepped, any of this stuff, that'd be a huge.

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That's your premium add

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-ons.

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I like that.

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Like Amazon subscribe and save.

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Or you're like,

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yes, that, thank you.

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That's exactly the spin.

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It's just like, yeah, I'm guaranteeing like for six months

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something.

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What's your like, what's your value?

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Probably.

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So someone who's skeptical about this, how do you like sell it to them?

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Dude, you need this.

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And here's why.

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Three things.

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One, you don't have to go to the, you don't have to spend nearly as much time

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in the grocery store, the stuff that always like, you know, how all these

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smart fridges that are out here are trying to prevent you from having spoiled food.

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Or like, here's your barcode scanner, scan all your food and make

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sure it doesn't spoil or whatever.

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Your milk always expires.

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Like with this service, we know when your milk is spoiled.

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We know when your stuff is done, right?

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Cause we, we, we tag it.

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And so we're delivering it ahead of your needs, anticipated needs, convenience.

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So now you're only going to the grocery store for the stuff that's off the

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menu or off your regular rhythm.

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Do you guys buy the same?

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Oh, let me ask.

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Like, do you guys buy the same crap every week all the time?

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stuff that yeah.

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yeah.

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Some.

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But guaranteed I would forget one of those things.

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We get yogurt every week and multiple containers of it.

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Once a month, whoops, forgot the yogurt.

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Then we're screwed for breakfast for multiple days.

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-Then you're going back to the store.

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-It's a bad month.

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-Dude, what if this was a food truck though?

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What if this was a delivery, you answer the door and you could

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change it up on the fly too, like, "Oh, if I got the wrong, I want

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strawberry instead of vanilla."

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The guy comes to the door with your basket of groceries. I don't know

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what you can swap things out

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What's the frozen foods and ice cream beige trucks that were like a posh one 90s like schwan's man's or something?

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I saw one of those trucks. Yeah, she wants me your sir. My last summer. It's like damn. Is that still a thing?

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You're almost there with like pre frozen. So it's basically like Sears catalog mail order

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Only can get it from them ice creams and frozen stuff that they would deliver on a truck to your house

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Really strange that that's still a thing in 2025

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I was surprised to see them around like I guess they must have some products that you can only get from them that people like

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Trader Joe's style or something. I don't know but you almost have that but with fresh stuff.

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Yes

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but lettuce

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Do you guys do meal like meal prepping at all like give your whole menu set for like a week or do you guys just

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go on the fly.

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Everything's changed since I discovered Costco. It's a mixed bag,

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right?

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There's eight or ten different like meals and we have a subset of them every

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week so we go through everything in about two weeks. Right, that's

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what happens with me too.

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Go through the same stuff, yeah.

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How

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is this different than the meal kit? Like

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your blue aprons or whatever.

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Have you guys done HelloFresh or Blue Apron?

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It's kind of fun.

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-Back

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in the day, yeah.

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-I did Hello.

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-It's like you spend all this effort to make this meal

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and it only feeds you for that one meal.

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-Yeah, that's the worst part.

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-You're

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not getting enough for--

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-It's

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great, you feel good, you cooked, and then it's gone

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and you're still hungry when you're done.

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-Yeah,

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it's not enough.

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-Then you have to clean up.

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-Double the food portions.

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-Small portion restaurant, but you get to do the dishes.

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-It's delicious food,

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terrible yeah because you don't have the next day or like yeah that's I feel

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like everybody makes two day two or three days worth of

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food.

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I'd pivot that into just

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hello fresh but it's just full meal prep you prep a week's worth of food with

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one meal kit.

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Are you guys making lunches? Are you guys making lunches every day?

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Forgetting to eat dude. Right okay are we just are we all just is this real life?

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Did you say forget to eat? Scott! You work at home now! It's part

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it's part of my

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- I'll pitch later.

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- Oh, okay, okay.

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- Cara and I are very fortunate to work at a college,

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although I don't know how often you take advantage of it.

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It is nice to have the cafeteria there.

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- Probably once a week.

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I typically bring something most days, but.

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- How do you decide what to bring?

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Do you bring the same thing?

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- I mean, first stop is leftovers.

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Like if I have leftovers, that's an easy thing.

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Every now and then I try to make a large batch,

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like soup or something,

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so that I can freeze those in single portions.

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But other than that, my typical go-to

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is one of those bagged salads with all the ingredients in it

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and I just eat the whole thing.

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Just the salad.

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- Right, okay.

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- I just bring the bag, that's it.

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Maybe an apple or something or a granola bar for a snack.

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I don't have time.

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I don't have time to think about, food isn't, yeah.

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I wish I thought about it more,

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but right now I'm definitely in a convenience stage of life.

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- Sounds like Russell has a convenient proposition.

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- Yeah, what if you got a bagged salad

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dropped off on your doorstop twice a week?

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- Mm-hmm.

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- Yep.

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(laughing)

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- The squirrels would love it.

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- That is true.

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How do we keep the rodents out?

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- Just as long as the tomatoes don't

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get squishy,

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I'd be out then.

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I wouldn't sign up.

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- It does seem like the kind of thing

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that you could partner with local,

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like the grocery store chain

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that already does local delivery.

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You just kind of have a scheduled order in there

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that gets repeated.

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Like you kind of facilitate the subscription part of it,

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you know?

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Like doesn't our local Meijer chain

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have grocery delivery built in now?

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I think you can get them delivered,

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but it's probably expensive.

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And it part is with shift or something.

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Yeah, you can't.

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I mean, I

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think you've got to do it

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through like Instacart or something.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And most places have a pickup now, too.

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Guys, why do I hate this shopping--

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like the online delivery services?

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I think it's just a pain.

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I think I just want the--

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I think I have a big problem right now

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where my lunches just suck.

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I end up eating a handful of pistachios,

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or I run upstairs and I'll be like,

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"What's in the fridge?

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"Oh, the end piece of bread,

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"some sriracha and some old ham.

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"Great, let's just send it."

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(laughing)

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And I'm like, let's just--

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- Bread butt.

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- Yep, I got 15 minutes, what do we got, right?

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I just want--

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- Spicy ham

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bread butt sandwich.

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- Maybe that's what it would be for.

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- Is that one of those instruments, Leo?

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- I think I might just need a lunch meal prep food service

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that isn't stupid expensive, that's pre-prepped,

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and it's like, pre-order your Jamie James

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instead of Jimmy Johns, right?

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Or--

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- Jamie James.

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- Jamie James.

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(laughing)

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Or--

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- That's your name, you got it.

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It's Jamie James.

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- The exact same sub.

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- Jamie Jums.

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(laughing)

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- But just delivered,

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you know?

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It's like,

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order the Vito, but it's--

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- The Vito.

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- Yeah.

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- The Jamie Jums Vito.

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Right, or like the Chipotle bowl,

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but it's all just made in your fridge, ready to go,

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but not from like, it's just like from the store.

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Like I just want another layer of convenience

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for my lunches so I don't have to think about it.

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And just put two or three every week in my fridge

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for my whole family, 'cause I can't eat by my,

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I can't eat lunches without my family being fed, right?

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That's just, and then that's like it, boom.

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Every week, never have to think about lunches again.

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I will for $20 a week bring you three lean cuisines and put them in your fridge for you

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Oh those suck

427
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They're terrible

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Maybe I'm just a millennial and I just hate everything everything inconvenient in my life

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I

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can really feel what you're expressing though. This is really this is burdensome

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I feel

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like I'm being psychoanalyzed by Cary

433
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Who is this person?

434
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Can't help it. His mild inconvenience is a host empathetic person I've ever met

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Well, you could start by using the salad bags like I do there you go

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So I did salad

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bags for a long time and then I've once you go through all the salad bags

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options

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Again there's like four or five that you've already had

440
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Asian zing. Yeah,

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that's a good

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point. I do feel that

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Yeah,

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and then I'm like, what do I want now?

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and then you're like then I rotate seasonally for like this salad bag to the sandwich then to the

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You guys maybe this is just a me problem

447
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It's also true that you know people say everything tastes better if you don't have to make it yourself

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You know, like my coffee tastes better if someone brings it to me. That's so

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true.

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Maybe

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Maybe that's maybe there's something in that

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I

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just

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want to hire someone

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Russell to like run into your kitchen

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Once every other day and just like prep a bunch of vegetables on a platter

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Just get a bunch of cucumbers or whatever chop them up and just leave them there so you can come by and graze that'd

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be amazing

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Yeah, exactly what I want. That's exactly

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Like crowd share amongst several people a

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Culinary like a like a personal chef service

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The personal chef goes to this house on Mondays and makes a bunch of meal prep stuff for the week

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And then they go to that other house on Tuesdays and you split the cost among six families or something

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I feel like I have heard of something similar to that before

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Yeah, or maybe just yeah just like personal chef where they come make like three

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main dishes

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Cut up a whole bunch of fruit cut up a whole bunch of vegetables

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So it's just like grab and go ready to go leave it wrapped.

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That's it. That's it. Let's do that guys

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We all live next to each other

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One chef how long would that take them like three hours to cut up like 40 strawberries and apples and yeah

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Yeah, 40 strawberries in three hours

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One hour for 13 strawberries, so six strawberries in a half hour three strawberries in 15 minutes about five minutes to cut a strawberry

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It's not just

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strawberries. All right,

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I'm thinking a career change.

477
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I'll pay you Leo. I'll pay you

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You don't want me to be a I'm a terrible cook. I don't know what even know what to call this idea

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It started as like fresh rousine subscription

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Grocery delivery and it's pivoted into personal chef crop sharing crops

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-Yes,

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I want somebody to take care of our family's vegetable drawer.

483
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-You want somebody to take care of you.

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-I want a mommy.

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-This is-- Okay, I got to go next for my idea and I am embarrassed now at this point.

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-If

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it's

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a good pivot, do it, man.

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-I cannot judge anything you just said, Russell.

490
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-What's up, Scott?

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What's your

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idea this week?

493
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Yikes.

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-I recently got a new job.

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I, for the first time, am working fully remote from home.

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I am loving the no commute part instead of driving an hour each way.

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I'm really, I'm on my second week and I'm learning how much I am struggling with the

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routine part.

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I am just not taking care of myself as I used to when I used to have a rigid routine going

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through.

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Sure.

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I am, you know, I'm trying to do well in my first week or two and I'm working hard and

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just straight up forgetting to eat, or like, I'll try to bring a water bottle up here and

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it'll just be like untouched off to the side at the end of the day.

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I've never had great posture, but it's just getting worse and worse as I'm hunched over

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and closer to my desk every day.

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And so I was thinking, what is the stupid easy way that you could solve all of these

508
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small issues that are cropping up that I've never experienced before?

509
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And I want to put a dollar in the AI jar and do a machine optimization manager or mom.

510
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and it's just literally gonna be a camera

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off in the corner of my office,

512
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and it is gonna watch me all day

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and tell me to do things throughout the day.

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- Sit up straight.

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- Yeah, exactly.

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You're gonna wreck your back, sit up straight.

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I haven't seen you drink water in a while.

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(laughing)

519
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- Do you get to pick the tone of voice

520
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or the accent or whatever?

521
00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,240
- Absolutely, the most mom tone you possibly can.

522
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:06,440
It's 1 a.m., why are you still working?

523
00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:07,960
You're gonna regret that tomorrow.

524
00:21:08,580 --> 00:21:09,120
That sort of stuff.

525
00:21:09,620 --> 00:21:14,820
How about something green instead of chips, you know, or just eat in general, I guess.

526
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:15,680
And that's it.

527
00:21:15,940 --> 00:21:21,120
I feel like you could do that with a Waze camera, a open API to chat GPT and call it good.

528
00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:29,080
Or you could hire people overseas to just watch you and smack you for a very, very much cheaper.

529
00:21:29,300 --> 00:21:29,680
Yikes.

530
00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:30,580
Just the MVP.

531
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:31,240
Just the MVP.

532
00:21:31,260 --> 00:21:31,960
Oh man.

533
00:21:32,380 --> 00:21:35,240
That's a little dystopian, but I mean, everybody else does.

534
00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:35,660
Yep.

535
00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,720
That dude in some third world country goes home and tells his family what he does.

536
00:21:40,180 --> 00:21:43,340
I yell at lazy Americans to sit up straight all day.

537
00:21:44,540 --> 00:21:46,620
Carol, this is not our normal, uh...

538
00:21:46,940 --> 00:21:47,080
Yeah,

539
00:21:47,180 --> 00:21:48,220
these are terrible products.

540
00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:49,000
Wait, really?

541
00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:50,940
You shouldn't have

542
00:21:50,940 --> 00:21:51,380
said anything.

543
00:21:51,380 --> 00:21:52,180
I don't know any different.

544
00:21:52,700 --> 00:21:53,240
I like it.

545
00:21:53,560 --> 00:21:53,920
Okay.

546
00:21:53,920 --> 00:21:57,380
A little more of just our own pity parties of how we don't take care of ourselves.

547
00:21:57,580 --> 00:21:58,380
Welcome to our show.

548
00:21:58,420 --> 00:21:58,740
I know!

549
00:21:58,820 --> 00:22:01,380
We're babies who need moms.

550
00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:05,780
I think we're all just at the end of seasonal depression in our Michigan winter right now.

551
00:22:05,780 --> 00:22:06,320
-Wow. -Yes.

552
00:22:06,620 --> 00:22:06,840
-Well,

553
00:22:07,020 --> 00:22:09,060
I'm really feeling for you guys.

554
00:22:10,070 --> 00:22:11,160
It sounds really hard.

555
00:22:12,220 --> 00:22:12,660
-Interesting.

556
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,920
-I have a bunch of strategies.

557
00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:16,220
Scott, like a giant

558
00:22:16,220 --> 00:22:16,960
car

559
00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,160
boy that I have now next to my desk.

560
00:22:19,780 --> 00:22:21,760
-Do you have that? -Do you have a giant--

561
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:22,480
-That's exactly this.

562
00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:23,240
-I literally put this here

563
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,940
yesterday because I was struggling with it.

564
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,700
-What? -It's the only reason I was--

565
00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:28,120
-What is that?

566
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:28,720
-Okay.

567
00:22:29,380 --> 00:22:29,920
-Work from

568
00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:30,920
home, life.

569
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,800
-Is that a water cooler jug with a spigot on it?

570
00:22:33,840 --> 00:22:35,460
-That is exactly what that is.

571
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,060
It's a little electric spigot with a water bottle

572
00:22:38,180 --> 00:22:39,980
and I just keep it going all day.

573
00:22:40,780 --> 00:22:41,140
- Okay.

574
00:22:41,140 --> 00:22:41,500
- Wow.

575
00:22:41,900 --> 00:22:43,700
- Scott, these office people don't understand

576
00:22:43,710 --> 00:22:44,500
what it's like, okay? - Yeah, we just have

577
00:22:44,560 --> 00:22:45,760
one of those in a water cooler.

578
00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:48,040
- Yeah, you should move that

579
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,980
because then you would stand up.

580
00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:51,760
- If I

581
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:52,400
do, I'll forget to drink.

582
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:53,340
- After you drink enough of it,

583
00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:54,640
you end up standing up anyway, right?

584
00:22:54,730 --> 00:22:54,920
- That's it. - On

585
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:55,820
the other side

586
00:22:55,860 --> 00:22:56,340
of the room.

587
00:22:56,660 --> 00:22:59,960
- It's like a tangible version of the voice in your head.

588
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,660
You know, like a--

589
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:02,600
- Yes. - Yeah.

590
00:23:02,820 --> 00:23:05,500
hence the mom, no offense to moms, I am one,

591
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:10,100
but lots of guilt, lots of shaming.

592
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,300
- Yeah, so did you guys ever read "Foxtrot," the cartoon?

593
00:23:13,780 --> 00:23:14,960
There was one where it's a teenager

594
00:23:14,980 --> 00:23:17,700
and he's trying to study and he just can't focus

595
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:18,860
and he's got a big test tomorrow

596
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:19,920
and he goes to his mom, he's like,

597
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:21,540
"Can you just stand in the corner of my room

598
00:23:21,540 --> 00:23:24,020
"and just glare at me, please?"

599
00:23:24,020 --> 00:23:25,760
And that's what it took for him to start studying.

600
00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:27,760
I want that same level of shame.

601
00:23:28,559 --> 00:23:29,980
- Well, many

602
00:23:29,980 --> 00:23:31,280
moons ago on this show,

603
00:23:31,380 --> 00:23:34,740
You pitched an app that you would have your friends

604
00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,440
hold you accountable and guilt you

605
00:23:37,530 --> 00:23:39,220
if you didn't achieve a goal,

606
00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:41,620
like working out or quitting smoking or whatever.

607
00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,440
Could you have a network of accountability buddies

608
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,960
that are checking on each other?

609
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,700
You know, every couple of hours my app prompts me and says,

610
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:53,900
"Hey, does this picture of Scott look like

611
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:54,940
"he has drank his water

612
00:23:54,940 --> 00:23:56,180
today?"

613
00:23:56,180 --> 00:23:59,920
You could raz him or her, and then them to you.

614
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:05,320
It's weird to think to have a camera in my office connected to friends versus to some rich tech billionaire

615
00:24:06,100 --> 00:24:06,500
I

616
00:24:06,500 --> 00:24:07,860
don't know why that's easier to palette

617
00:24:07,860 --> 00:24:11,980
guys. That'd be so funny if we could just like Scott's up

618
00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:19,420
Just jump into discord and just be like Scott, what are you doing right now? Did you eat lunch?

619
00:24:20,460 --> 00:24:23,500
You could just have alerts on your computer like a pomodoro time

620
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:28,240
I mean like you don't need you don't even need a camera in your in the corner of your room

621
00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:30,320
You just need the webcam on on

622
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,000
your computer and just I was I was thinking about that

623
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,800
Like as soon as I start to realize these I immediately start to get into hardware

624
00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:41,380
How can I solve this with hardware through can I just have a timer on my desk every 30 minutes?

625
00:24:41,380 --> 00:24:43,860
It goes off and then I instinctively know to do this

626
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:45,980
But I just want someone watching for everything

627
00:24:45,980 --> 00:24:46,380
you

628
00:24:46,380 --> 00:24:49,840
Pavlov yourself into posture and drinking water and having lunch

629
00:24:50,220 --> 00:24:52,060
Mm-hmm. Ah, the lunch timer is going off

630
00:24:53,260 --> 00:24:53,360
- Dude,

631
00:24:53,900 --> 00:24:55,340
why don't they have chairs that do this?

632
00:24:55,460 --> 00:24:57,380
Like, is there not a smart chair out there

633
00:24:57,460 --> 00:24:59,860
that's like, oh, you're not sitting

634
00:24:59,860 --> 00:25:00,260
correctly

635
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:01,300
in your chair? - Shocks her butt.

636
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:02,000
- Yeah, or

637
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,400
the butt just falls out.

638
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:05,280
(laughing)

639
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:06,360
- Like a trap door.

640
00:25:06,700 --> 00:25:07,100
- Yeah.

641
00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,460
- That would keep you on your toes

642
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:10,620
if you knew at any moment.

643
00:25:10,860 --> 00:25:12,860
- You're in the middle of an important Zoom meeting.

644
00:25:13,220 --> 00:25:13,560
- See ya.

645
00:25:15,220 --> 00:25:16,680
- Some dudes live on CNN,

646
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,140
we're bringing in guest star analyst, whatever.

647
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:19,760
Just

648
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:20,380
fall

649
00:25:20,380 --> 00:25:20,800
through.

650
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,060
Oh man, that's great.

651
00:25:22,260 --> 00:25:24,200
There has been more than one point this week.

652
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,020
This is really sad, but I have been on a Zoom call.

653
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:28,440
I've been working with another engineer

654
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,080
and I had to grab something from the desk behind me.

655
00:25:31,190 --> 00:25:33,120
And I'm like, am I wearing pants right now?

656
00:25:33,660 --> 00:25:35,740
And I can't actually go over there.

657
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:37,540
So I'm just gonna talk around it until I can turn my--

658
00:25:37,540 --> 00:25:38,400
- The answer was no.

659
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:39,320
(laughing)

660
00:25:39,540 --> 00:25:41,260
- At least one, at least one time.

661
00:25:43,060 --> 00:25:43,420
- Okay.

662
00:25:43,780 --> 00:25:45,900
- I am not used to the work from home life, guys.

663
00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:48,220
I am just trying to learn this on the fly.

664
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,660
- I remember doing a Zoom call on one of my last jobs

665
00:25:51,660 --> 00:25:56,560
and a guy came on pitch black room, shirtless, camera on.

666
00:25:56,620 --> 00:25:58,960
You're like, oh God, turn off the camera.

667
00:25:59,360 --> 00:26:02,740
Yeah, it's, yeah, this is where mom really helps.

668
00:26:04,460 --> 00:26:08,540
Always wear a shirt in the office, son, just in pants.

669
00:26:09,100 --> 00:26:10,260
- Well, this is a pivot a bit,

670
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:12,940
but you know, there's some virtual webcam softwares

671
00:26:12,940 --> 00:26:16,060
out there that will like let you, you know,

672
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:20,940
put on Snapchat filters or through the pandemic,

673
00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:25,300
I used OBS so I could have like my camera say words and stuff.

674
00:26:25,360 --> 00:26:26,680
I'll be right back or whatever.

675
00:26:26,790 --> 00:26:29,480
You can kind of make a software webcam.

676
00:26:29,700 --> 00:26:31,660
What if you had that as your webcam?

677
00:26:32,260 --> 00:26:37,820
And 99% of the time it just showed a pass through of your webcam, but it's like, my

678
00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:42,500
webcam is set to the safety filter webcam, where if you stand up without pants on or

679
00:26:42,660 --> 00:26:45,760
you're shirtless or it detects something you don't want to see, then it just cuts

680
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:47,720
to black or turns your camera off.

681
00:26:48,060 --> 00:26:48,180
Huh?

682
00:26:48,620 --> 00:26:48,920
Huh?

683
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:50,520
It's the filter from yourself.

684
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:51,600
-That's pretty cool.

685
00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:52,740
-I'm not a cat.

686
00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:55,120
-Actually, that's not a bad idea, Leo.

687
00:26:55,580 --> 00:26:56,420
-Yes, that's really good.

688
00:26:56,740 --> 00:27:00,400
-The reverse Snapchat is you have the same outfit and the same background

689
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,660
every day and it just takes your eyes and mouth and your face.

690
00:27:04,830 --> 00:27:05,400
-A Snapchat filter

691
00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,300
of you in a suit in an office, but really it's just your

692
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,140
face naked with Cheetos on your chest.

693
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:13,600
They don't know that.

694
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,960
I virtual foregrounded myself.

695
00:27:18,020 --> 00:27:19,060
-That's amazing.

696
00:27:19,860 --> 00:27:19,940
-I

697
00:27:19,940 --> 00:27:20,440
love it.

698
00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:21,100
(laughing)

699
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,760
- Every once in a while, the filter will disappear too,

700
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,120
and you'll just be like, whoa, that's a filter!

701
00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:28,760
- It changes the color in your

702
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:29,220
pocket

703
00:27:29,220 --> 00:27:29,700
square

704
00:27:30,020 --> 00:27:31,480
so that you look different every day.

705
00:27:31,940 --> 00:27:32,980
- Rotates out the suits.

706
00:27:33,020 --> 00:27:33,960
- Is that a new tie?

707
00:27:34,740 --> 00:27:35,140
(laughing)

708
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:36,040
Well,

709
00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:37,800
there are apps out there now for like,

710
00:27:38,060 --> 00:27:40,660
I'm gonna get Warby Parker glasses,

711
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:43,020
not a sponsor, or Ray-Bans or whatever,

712
00:27:43,140 --> 00:27:45,320
and you can go to their website and virtually try them on.

713
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:47,980
So the technology for like, show me my camera,

714
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:51,100
but with this different outfit is definitely already there.

715
00:27:51,570 --> 00:27:53,880
We just need that, but business casual.

716
00:27:54,740 --> 00:27:55,180
(laughing)

717
00:27:55,820 --> 00:27:56,620
- That's so much better.

718
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,600
All right, Leo, what do you have this week?

719
00:28:04,820 --> 00:28:07,140
- I wish I had a virtual butler that, no.

720
00:28:07,980 --> 00:28:11,100
Okay, I'm gonna bring it out of whatever rut we're in

721
00:28:11,220 --> 00:28:13,420
with virtual moms and try to do something

722
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:14,280
a little bit more fun.

723
00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:19,360
So, the concert ticket buying experience is bad,

724
00:28:20,820 --> 00:28:23,080
and we all know that the ticket masters of the world suck.

725
00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:25,940
But one thing that I haven't found any first

726
00:28:25,940 --> 00:28:28,940
or third party service be aware of is taking

727
00:28:28,940 --> 00:28:30,760
into account exactly where I live

728
00:28:30,790 --> 00:28:33,180
and the travel time it takes to get to the place.

729
00:28:33,580 --> 00:28:36,700
I am more likely to go see a C-list artist

730
00:28:36,900 --> 00:28:39,800
that I have mid feelings about if they're in my town

731
00:28:40,380 --> 00:28:42,639
versus I'm willing to travel a long way

732
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,040
to go to that one artist I really love.

733
00:28:44,380 --> 00:28:46,260
I wish that I could go to a service and just like,

734
00:28:46,620 --> 00:28:49,200
tier list, hey, here's all my listening history

735
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:51,940
on my Spotify's or Apple Music's or whatever's.

736
00:28:52,340 --> 00:28:54,220
Here's artists that I care about or whatever.

737
00:28:54,740 --> 00:28:56,820
Tell me if they're like,

738
00:28:57,100 --> 00:28:59,020
someone that I frequently listen to,

739
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:02,820
if they're anywhere within like 500 miles of me.

740
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:04,600
But if there's someone that I've listened to

741
00:29:04,660 --> 00:29:07,560
even occasionally, or someone else in the same genre

742
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:09,780
that I might enjoy and they're closer to me,

743
00:29:10,140 --> 00:29:11,340
also tell me about that.

744
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:15,720
There's no recommendation system that takes into account where I am, and it kills me.

745
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:21,360
There's a really cool service called bandsintown.com that'll tell you like, "Hey, here's, you know,

746
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,960
go and follow every artist you want," and it'll tell you if they're near you.

747
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:29,180
But some of them are like, "Oh, you could go across Lake Michigan to two states away

748
00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:30,040
and go see them."

749
00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:33,380
It's like, "I don't want to do that for this one that I don't care about that much."

750
00:29:33,380 --> 00:29:34,800
But I still want to know if they're nearby.

751
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,740
There's no like custom radius for each artist, right?

752
00:29:38,900 --> 00:29:44,480
So I guess I want a better way to be notified of when people are near me doing a show that

753
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:45,420
I might be interested in.

754
00:29:45,820 --> 00:29:48,120
Does anyone have any ideas about how to make that experience better?

755
00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:53,200
Dude, there's like whole jobs out there for promoters when they come into town.

756
00:29:53,380 --> 00:29:57,380
Like you probably hire a promoter to like spin up the demand, right?

757
00:29:57,860 --> 00:29:59,440
I think this is like the reverse of that.

758
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:04,480
So like you post up your Spotify, like if you listen to Spotify, I use this one.

759
00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:09,260
There's one that it looks at my Spotify playlist and will tell me about bands that are coming

760
00:30:09,340 --> 00:30:09,460
in.

761
00:30:09,540 --> 00:30:10,880
Is it the same thing or is it different?

762
00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:11,180
Bands in

763
00:30:11,180 --> 00:30:11,980
town is one of them.

764
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:12,580
There might be others.

765
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:13,040
Okay.

766
00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:13,620
Yeah.

767
00:30:13,740 --> 00:30:17,700
And so that's like, I'm like, oh my God, they're coming live right near me.

768
00:30:17,820 --> 00:30:19,220
So I'm like hype about that.

769
00:30:19,340 --> 00:30:23,460
But yeah, for like the local small bands, they're all in like New York, whatever, but

770
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:28,040
sometimes they'll show up close enough by where I'm like, oh my gosh, I can't believe

771
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:28,180
it.

772
00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:32,920
Yeah, you could do the reverse and you could tell the band

773
00:30:33,180 --> 00:30:36,980
to come to Grand Rapids because of,

774
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:41,320
and so that's how you make it worth everybody's wild, right?

775
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:44,520
So it's more like by you sharing your data to the bands,

776
00:30:44,660 --> 00:30:45,100
the bands

777
00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:46,160
can now come to you.

778
00:30:46,340 --> 00:30:48,960
- 900 people have registered interest in this area.

779
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:50,580
That's probably something those services

780
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:51,520
are already doing, right?

781
00:30:51,540 --> 00:30:52,260
You gotta hope.

782
00:30:52,740 --> 00:30:54,900
- I would hope so, but I don't know if it's--

783
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:55,860
- Seems like that'd be really valuable.

784
00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:56,000
- I

785
00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:57,699
guess like, would you be more willing

786
00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:00,880
share that data if you knew your favorite bands were looking at it versus

787
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:05,240
the other way around right yeah it's not some major corporation harvesting your

788
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:06,400
data it's like oh

789
00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:07,420
and

790
00:31:07,420 --> 00:31:10,360
you know what's cool is like you could probably even add

791
00:31:10,380 --> 00:31:15,520
more analytics to that to say oh if you they like this band yep you know these

792
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,520
these fourth fourth tier fourth level tier bands could be like oh if they

793
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:25,279
like them let's do some marketing around our band and or there's a 76% chance

794
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:26,640
You'll like this band over here.

795
00:31:26,810 --> 00:31:30,260
You like Green Day. Here's a Green Day cover band at your local bar

796
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:31,880
Like headliners,

797
00:31:32,180 --> 00:31:32,420
right?

798
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:36,300
Like you could find out your local band that could be your headliner or something, right?

799
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:40,280
Bands in town if you're listening, please give me a custom radius per each band

800
00:31:41,740 --> 00:31:42,860
That's really all I want

801
00:31:42,980 --> 00:31:46,560
I want a feature request more than I want a full-on app, but I'll build it if no one else will

802
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:53,759
I would absolutely love that. It seems like those services have so much data on like what musicians that are similar

803
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,080
that lots of people tend to congregate.

804
00:31:56,110 --> 00:31:57,080
Like if I like these,

805
00:31:57,220 --> 00:31:58,980
then I tend to like these other ones, right?

806
00:31:59,120 --> 00:31:59,440
- Totally.

807
00:31:59,830 --> 00:32:01,660
- You gotta be nine tenths of the way

808
00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:03,400
to building a better recommendation system.

809
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,080
Here's some live events in your area

810
00:32:05,180 --> 00:32:08,620
for standup comedians, for podcast recording events,

811
00:32:08,780 --> 00:32:11,160
for all kinds of live shows, improv night,

812
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:12,460
all that kind of stuff, right?

813
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:14,700
- Yes, all live shows, right?

814
00:32:14,980 --> 00:32:16,560
Yeah, comedians I didn't even think about.

815
00:32:16,660 --> 00:32:16,880
- Yeah,

816
00:32:17,220 --> 00:32:18,560
you like these three comedians.

817
00:32:18,700 --> 00:32:20,380
Here's this other guy who's like a local dude,

818
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,120
up and coming, you might enjoy his stuff.

819
00:32:23,180 --> 00:32:24,400
It's kind of similar, right?

820
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,180
Is this just-- is this an app then that you--

821
00:32:27,180 --> 00:32:28,880
in the introduction, you just say, hey, I

822
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:30,160
like stand

823
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:30,360
-up.

824
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,300
I like X-type genre of band.

825
00:32:32,310 --> 00:32:33,520
I live in this area.

826
00:32:34,140 --> 00:32:34,380
Go.

827
00:32:34,660 --> 00:32:36,340
And then it will occasionally notify you

828
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:38,260
throughout time that such and such is happening.

829
00:32:38,700 --> 00:32:39,080
Totally.

830
00:32:39,460 --> 00:32:39,840
That'd be great.

831
00:32:40,180 --> 00:32:43,040
My brother's in a band, and they always play at one bar

832
00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:44,500
venue in Ann Arbor, right?

833
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:49,620
And he said that there's like five or six math rock,

834
00:32:49,780 --> 00:32:53,020
super heavy metal, jazzy metal bands in the area

835
00:32:53,220 --> 00:32:55,620
and they all only go to each other's shows.

836
00:32:56,260 --> 00:32:59,040
No one else goes to these concerts but each other, right?

837
00:32:59,140 --> 00:33:00,000
So they all know each other.

838
00:33:00,660 --> 00:33:01,840
And it's like a scene.

839
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,500
I wanna know what other scenes like that are in my area

840
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:06,720
that I just don't know about.

841
00:33:06,860 --> 00:33:09,760
Like, is there a thing that happens every week in this area

842
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:11,360
that I just am not clued into

843
00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:13,200
'cause I'm not in the right social circles or something?

844
00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:16,560
I want a bubble busting notifier, right?

845
00:33:17,020 --> 00:33:18,540
- Celery guy can come by to your house.

846
00:33:20,260 --> 00:33:20,620
(laughing)

847
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:21,480
- Did you hear?

848
00:33:21,660 --> 00:33:22,220
- Did you hear?

849
00:33:22,820 --> 00:33:23,180
(laughing)

850
00:33:23,180 --> 00:33:24,360
- That's a pretty close-knit circle.

851
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,340
- So like, okay, what, is there like a band,

852
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,740
a local band matching network or tool?

853
00:33:32,300 --> 00:33:34,820
So for example, Leo, like you have this band

854
00:33:34,860 --> 00:33:36,380
that you really like and it turns out

855
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,100
there's a local band that's similar

856
00:33:38,330 --> 00:33:42,440
and they throw concerts and do gigs all over town.

857
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:44,240
Would you be willing to, like, I guess like--

858
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:45,040
- Be groupie, yeah.

859
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:45,340
- Would you want?

860
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:46,600
Yeah.

861
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:47,720
- Or like their stuff?

862
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:52,920
just more like, yeah, like maybe there's like a way to learn about local bands

863
00:33:53,620 --> 00:33:55,580
through your normal music subscriptions.

864
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:56,240
Good question.

865
00:33:56,380 --> 00:34:00,400
And then go, I'm trying to like throw it, throw it around, right?

866
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:05,360
Like go bottom, like update your playlist for local bands that match your playlist.

867
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:09,360
And then you hear about their shows and then you go to their concerts.

868
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:09,740
Right.

869
00:34:10,159 --> 00:34:15,219
Like, it'd be cool if there is a local band that you had, like that you jived

870
00:34:15,220 --> 00:34:18,700
with and they had a like they did their gigs all around town.

871
00:34:18,879 --> 00:34:20,440
But it reminds me of this band.

872
00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:25,399
There's our buddy, Neutral Milk Hotel was like so cool.

873
00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:28,960
And it's like all it was like in a small little section in Detroit.

874
00:34:29,580 --> 00:34:33,100
And they had like little concerts throughout Detroit until they made it big.

875
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:37,560
And they went all just be cool to go to be one of the first shows of that

876
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:38,639
or something like that.

877
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:38,899
So

878
00:34:38,899 --> 00:34:39,419
hard

879
00:34:39,419 --> 00:34:42,979
to know if you're going to a show for someone who's about to blow up

880
00:34:42,980 --> 00:34:45,700
or, you know, that will always remain.

881
00:34:45,700 --> 00:34:48,639
I think there's a lot of stories out there for, you know,

882
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,139
this band always remained niche and that's okay too.

883
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,280
Support art either way, it doesn't matter

884
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:54,080
how popular they are.

885
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,000
Cara, what have you brought for us tonight?

886
00:35:01,170 --> 00:35:01,600
What do you got?

887
00:35:02,060 --> 00:35:03,200
- Okay, here's my pitch.

888
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,700
So you know that feeling when you are tired at work

889
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,160
and you finally get to come home,

890
00:35:11,540 --> 00:35:19,780
You put on your comfy clothes, sit on your favorite spot on the couch, get a drink, get your blanket, right?

891
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,600
Everything you've been thinking about all day long.

892
00:35:22,990 --> 00:35:24,140
You get tucked in.

893
00:35:24,660 --> 00:35:26,900
Perhaps you tuck the blanket around your legs.

894
00:35:27,020 --> 00:35:27,640
I mean, whatever.

895
00:35:28,380 --> 00:35:29,680
You're finally in your spot.

896
00:35:30,100 --> 00:35:33,000
And then you're like, shit, where's the remote control?

897
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:33,700
100%.

898
00:35:34,260 --> 00:35:34,960
Every morning.

899
00:35:35,220 --> 00:35:35,440
Okay.

900
00:35:36,420 --> 00:35:36,800
Thank you.

901
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:38,560
So put a pin in that.

902
00:35:38,660 --> 00:35:40,640
That's just one of my contextual pieces.

903
00:35:40,860 --> 00:35:40,980
Okay.

904
00:35:41,460 --> 00:35:52,120
Now picture also that your two tween sons love to watch TV in their hangout spot in the basement

905
00:35:52,680 --> 00:36:00,900
and any time you need to request that they stop what they're doing and join you for dinner,

906
00:36:01,460 --> 00:36:08,580
do a chore, anything other than be in front of the TV, a couple things happen or have happened.

907
00:36:08,980 --> 00:36:13,040
the remote control has disappeared entirely.

908
00:36:13,700 --> 00:36:18,020
Or a fight breaks out because we can't decide

909
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,600
who's got to turn off the TV to come upstairs.

910
00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:24,040
And then it's like a point of tension, right?

911
00:36:24,140 --> 00:36:26,000
Like we've been waiting five minutes to have dinner,

912
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:26,680
all this stuff.

913
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,540
So I feel like the remote control

914
00:36:28,580 --> 00:36:32,080
has kind of become an additional family member recently.

915
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:33,100
(laughing)

916
00:36:33,540 --> 00:36:35,180
Just like a really dominant presence.

917
00:36:35,820 --> 00:36:38,740
So I want to know, here's my thought,

918
00:36:38,740 --> 00:36:45,800
how can I easily find, how can we easily find the remote controls, but also like make taking care of it

919
00:36:46,020 --> 00:36:52,600
interesting enough for my children that they'll want to be responsible with it. I've got some friends who are extremely creative

920
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,860
um, and I've also seen some photos online via my research of

921
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,240
solutions for how to not lose

922
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:06,880
the remote control. My one friend, her husband just takes a whole bunch of duct tape

923
00:37:07,300 --> 00:37:09,320
and wraps the whole remote control

924
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,560
to

925
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,940
a piece of block of wood.

926
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:18,400
You know, I've got another friend who has it tucked inside a pool noodle.

927
00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,620
The problem with these solutions is that

928
00:37:22,900 --> 00:37:23,420
aesthetically

929
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,280
unpleasing in every way and I kind of care about like,

930
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,740
I don't want my living room to look awesome except for a bright blue pool noodle.

931
00:37:32,620 --> 00:37:34,820
So my idea is that

932
00:37:35,220 --> 00:37:43,160
there's some sort of like incentivized element to taking care of the remote control. Think

933
00:37:43,859 --> 00:37:50,240
Tamagotchi. I was gonna say Tamagotchi. In the form of remote control, like it's a pet, right?

934
00:37:50,660 --> 00:37:56,600
Yes. And, and then like some perhaps premium elements, you know how a lot of like the smart

935
00:37:56,720 --> 00:38:02,020
TV remote controls have just like the Netflix button on it, the Hulu, the streaming service

936
00:38:01,940 --> 00:38:07,800
buttons on them. Maybe there's some partnership elements to that, like the reward and incentive

937
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:13,900
system could be like a percentage off your subscription fee or like, you know, take care

938
00:38:13,900 --> 00:38:18,220
of your remote control for this amount of time and you'll get this percentage off your monthly

939
00:38:18,720 --> 00:38:20,220
cost, whatever. Or

940
00:38:20,220 --> 00:38:21,060
really,

941
00:38:21,570 --> 00:38:24,740
you know, put it towards like focus on the kids and make it look

942
00:38:24,820 --> 00:38:29,060
like a, I don't know, that there's like a little pet, a Tamagotchi inside. Every time you like

943
00:38:29,060 --> 00:38:34,140
reconnect it to its, you know, charging station or wherever the remote control

944
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:38,260
home is, it feeds it and nourishes the remote control soul.

945
00:38:38,940 --> 00:38:39,460
You know what I'm saying?

946
00:38:39,620 --> 00:38:40,260
Remote console.

947
00:38:41,300 --> 00:38:41,700
Yes,

948
00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:42,100
absolutely.

949
00:38:42,340 --> 00:38:45,380
What if you put a watch battery in the remote and it's just like the

950
00:38:45,660 --> 00:38:47,920
battery is like going to die in 24 hours.

951
00:38:48,260 --> 00:38:50,420
And so you have to put it on the charger.

952
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:51,040
And so it's like,

953
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,480
it doesn't work unless you charge it.

954
00:38:53,860 --> 00:38:54,920
You're in your comfy spot.

955
00:38:55,020 --> 00:38:56,860
And all of a sudden you're like, damn it.

956
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:58,360
We didn't charge the remote.

957
00:38:58,460 --> 00:39:00,120
So you have to get up and sit next

958
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:00,620
to the TV

959
00:39:01,620 --> 00:39:05,920
Yeah, but the kid version of that it's like that'd be so painful. Yeah, and it's like feeding

960
00:39:05,980 --> 00:39:06,260
I just

961
00:39:06,260 --> 00:39:09,820
don't want it to come between us anymore. You know, yeah and

962
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:16,120
Nor do I want to have to get up after I've waited all day to sit down

963
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:17,960
What was me, you know,

964
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:18,840
no totally

965
00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:20,940
in in line with tonight's theme. Yep.

966
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:22,220
You're right with it

967
00:39:23,240 --> 00:39:25,220
But the difference is that I am a mom

968
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:27,000
That's the difference.

969
00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:28,440
Yeah

970
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:28,880
Even

971
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:29,600
moms need

972
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:29,960
help.

973
00:39:30,540 --> 00:39:31,480
Yeah, that's it. That's it

974
00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:32,060
my

975
00:39:33,380 --> 00:39:39,100
Built-in TV smart TV apps are starting to get janky and not work, right?

976
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:40,640
So I bought a Google TV

977
00:39:40,980 --> 00:39:46,780
Streamer and it has a feature where you can open your phone and press a button in the app and it'll make the remote chime

978
00:39:46,860 --> 00:39:51,900
Yeah, it'll it'll beep but it's not whimsical and fun and your version is way better

979
00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:56,620
Yeah, like in order for a kid to do that. They got to have a phone. I'm not ready for that.

980
00:39:58,020 --> 00:39:58,420
Yeah

981
00:39:58,420 --> 00:40:02,320
And there's all kinds of like amiibo games

982
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:04,460
and the Skylanders thing.

983
00:40:04,460 --> 00:40:05,440
I don't think that's a thing anymore,

984
00:40:05,580 --> 00:40:07,400
but all kinds of like figurine based,

985
00:40:07,900 --> 00:40:10,500
the TV's video game is interacting

986
00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:12,900
with a real thing somehow.

987
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,160
So you could even like gamify this

988
00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:17,080
where the little remotey, the remote

989
00:40:17,140 --> 00:40:18,620
is doing something on the screen

990
00:40:18,700 --> 00:40:20,260
and now he needs to be fed or whatever.

991
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:23,240
And you like have your little happy remote guy.

992
00:40:23,380 --> 00:40:24,980
Yeah, there's totally potential here.

993
00:40:25,240 --> 00:40:25,660
That's fun.

994
00:40:26,060 --> 00:40:28,200
I mean, it's teaching responsibility, right?

995
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,220
Which I think we all need, it sounds like,

996
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,160
including means Scott.

997
00:40:33,380 --> 00:40:33,760
Definitely.

998
00:40:34,480 --> 00:40:34,800
Especially.

999
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:36,720
It's like, why don't you just take care of yourself?

1000
00:40:37,660 --> 00:40:38,560
It's so easy.

1001
00:40:39,340 --> 00:40:40,260
Why don't you take care of the remote?

1002
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:41,080
Like, that's just a

1003
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:42,960
simple--

1004
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:44,420
Let's start there, guys.

1005
00:40:44,460 --> 00:40:44,960
Let's start

1006
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:45,600
there.

1007
00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:46,280
Baby steps.

1008
00:40:46,580 --> 00:40:46,860
Yeah.

1009
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:48,240
You can have a little pillow.

1010
00:40:49,060 --> 00:40:49,220
Yeah.

1011
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:51,420
Well, and taking care of it could

1012
00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:52,300
look a lot of different ways.

1013
00:40:53,260 --> 00:40:56,200
Another element is we have also noticed a trend

1014
00:40:56,260 --> 00:40:59,760
with our remote controls that after a fairly short period

1015
00:40:59,770 --> 00:41:02,900
of time, like the battery cover becomes loose,

1016
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:04,780
breaks, falls off, disappears, whatever,

1017
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:06,960
because the remote control is also like a fidget toy.

1018
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,560
So perhaps we could have some--

1019
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:11,420
- No, stop!

1020
00:41:11,900 --> 00:41:12,880
- Screaming for agony.

1021
00:41:14,100 --> 00:41:15,020
- It could do that,

1022
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:15,620
yeah.

1023
00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:18,140
We could build in a fidget element

1024
00:41:18,460 --> 00:41:20,440
to the remote control or something.

1025
00:41:20,950 --> 00:41:21,600
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1026
00:41:21,660 --> 00:41:22,180
- I don't know.

1027
00:41:22,540 --> 00:41:24,460
We just had a lot of fights over remote control.

1028
00:41:24,740 --> 00:41:25,720
- The fidgets that

1029
00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:28,020
are like little things to crank

1030
00:41:28,140 --> 00:41:29,460
or slide back and forth or whatever

1031
00:41:29,530 --> 00:41:31,240
are moving magnets and charging it.

1032
00:41:33,380 --> 00:41:33,740
- Brilliant.

1033
00:41:33,740 --> 00:41:35,500
- So you don't have to put batteries in it ever again.

1034
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:36,600
- I take care of

1035
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,060
my devices, like my AirPods,

1036
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:43,000
my Apple Watch, my phone, but for some damn reason,

1037
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,160
this remote is just--

1038
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:45,800
- Gone.

1039
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:47,140
- Bottom of the list.

1040
00:41:47,700 --> 00:41:48,720
Yeah, yeah.

1041
00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:49,640
- It's a problem for adults too.

1042
00:41:49,660 --> 00:41:54,320
spill food on it? Right! It's like oh let's just shove this in the couch

1043
00:41:54,420 --> 00:41:58,760
cushion like why? But then you look in the couch cushions and it's not there and all of a

1044
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,460
sudden it's across the room. Oh maybe that's... sorry I'm like thinking if it

1045
00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:07,600
leaves the room it just explodes. I don't know something like absolutely insane.

1046
00:42:08,340 --> 00:42:09,100
Start screaming.

1047
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:14,160
No! I'm within 30 feet of my TV so I'm happy again. I

1048
00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:14,780
guess I like

1049
00:42:14,780 --> 00:42:19,700
the charger element of it like juicing it up in order to if you take care of it

1050
00:42:19,740 --> 00:42:21,000
it stays alive

1051
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:21,600
like

1052
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:24,840
Tamagotchi style. I just feel like Cara's gonna lose in that

1053
00:42:24,900 --> 00:42:27,920
one she's gonna come home from her hard day at work and the remote's gonna be

1054
00:42:28,020 --> 00:42:29,780
literally dead off in the corner.

1055
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:32,020
What if when you first set up the TV parent

1056
00:42:32,060 --> 00:42:37,380
override yeah the streaming device you set your maximum screen time because

1057
00:42:37,460 --> 00:42:42,220
that's the terminology we all use right you your kids get up to 20 minutes of

1058
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,960
screen time, but in order to access all 20 minutes,

1059
00:42:44,970 --> 00:42:46,640
they have to have accrued that

1060
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:47,320
over

1061
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:47,840
the course

1062
00:42:47,940 --> 00:42:51,040
of the last 24 hours, like a vacation gets accrued

1063
00:42:51,050 --> 00:42:51,680
over a year.

1064
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:52,400
- There it is.

1065
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:56,280
- By the TV has to have the remote in sight

1066
00:42:56,500 --> 00:42:57,580
for all 24 hours.

1067
00:42:58,540 --> 00:43:01,940
Somehow the TV has a little camera and it's looking

1068
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,120
at the room and if it can't see the remote,

1069
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:05,780
then the clock has stopped.

1070
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:08,020
- Oh, I love that.

1071
00:43:08,100 --> 00:43:10,980
Just like, there's just a timer off in the corner

1072
00:43:10,980 --> 00:43:14,340
always ticking down and that's your screen time and like you'll know there'll

1073
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,840
be a little LED next to it that'll light up and be like I can't see the remote I

1074
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,700
can't see it and then the numbers are going down until you put it back

1075
00:43:21,780 --> 00:43:22,340
somewhere obvious. "Five

1076
00:43:22,340 --> 00:43:24,860
-year-old look the lights off we gotta find the remote!"

1077
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:28,540
Find it! You gotta find it quick you're losing your precious TV time!

1078
00:43:29,460 --> 00:43:30,060
This is just like

1079
00:43:30,060 --> 00:43:33,580
the Wiimote right doesn't like the IR blaster you just take that

1080
00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:37,280
same concept and throw it on the remote or you just use a Wiimote I don't know

1081
00:43:37,740 --> 00:43:38,480
Remodify it. The remote

1082
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:39,360
can't see right now.

1083
00:43:39,660 --> 00:43:45,020
Call it a dad. Device, oh come on, device

1084
00:43:45,220 --> 00:43:48,420
allocation detector something. Droned.

1085
00:43:49,860 --> 00:43:50,260
Droned.

1086
00:43:53,500 --> 00:43:55,640
Dispatcher. Oh gosh we've done it.

1087
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:56,160
Guys,

1088
00:43:56,860 --> 00:43:59,960
Woe is Me. That is our theme of the

1089
00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:00,040
episode.

1090
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:01,020
Thank you for listening

1091
00:44:01,020 --> 00:44:02,560
to Woe is Me. We hope you enjoyed

1092
00:44:02,620 --> 00:44:06,119
yourself. And thank you very much Cara for joining us on Woe is Me. It's been a

1093
00:44:05,940 --> 00:44:06,760
What a delight to have you.

1094
00:44:07,020 --> 00:44:07,460
Thanks

1095
00:44:07,460 --> 00:44:08,040
for having me.

1096
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:09,000
Thank you.

1097
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,760
Our website is Spitball.show.

1098
00:44:12,060 --> 00:44:16,260
There you can find links to our YouTube channel, social media, email us, feedback, comments,

1099
00:44:16,420 --> 00:44:16,660
ideas.

1100
00:44:16,740 --> 00:44:17,480
We'd love to hear from you.

1101
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:19,020
We're podcast@Spitball.show.

1102
00:44:19,420 --> 00:44:21,760
That's also how you can follow us on the Fediverse, such as Mastodon.

1103
00:44:21,860 --> 00:44:25,840
We are podcast@Spitball.show or on BlueSky at Spitball.show.

1104
00:44:26,260 --> 00:44:27,960
Our subreddit is r/spitballshow.

1105
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,640
Our intro/outro music is Swingers by Bonkers Beat Club.

1106
00:44:30,740 --> 00:44:35,940
Please, if you wouldn't mind, you know that one friend of yours who is a new parent and

1107
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:38,400
doesn't yet know that their remote will never be seen again?

1108
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:40,320
Shoot him a quick link to this show.

1109
00:44:40,350 --> 00:44:42,240
They have something to listen to in the nights and weekends.

1110
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:45,920
Follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you get your podcasts.

1111
00:44:46,020 --> 00:44:48,320
That's the best way for people to find out about the show.

1112
00:44:48,990 --> 00:44:50,260
New episodes coming out in two weeks.

1113
00:44:50,630 --> 00:44:51,160
We'll see you then.

1114
00:44:54,700 --> 00:44:55,360
(dramatic music)

1115
00:44:59,420 --> 00:45:01,440
- I brought my most empathetic friend on here.

1116
00:45:01,660 --> 00:45:04,300
You guys just bitched and moaned about your sad lives.

1117
00:45:04,980 --> 00:45:06,360
- Yeah, 'cause it's really hard, you guys.

1118
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:07,800
(laughing)