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I'm Scott, I'm Russell, and I'm Leo.

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This is Spitball.

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Welcome to Spitball, where three gaming geeks and a guest empty our 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.

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Anything that we say is yours to keep.

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This week, I brought my friend and coworker, Mike.

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Mike is a sysadmin in the department where I work.

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He's a gaming geek and an enthusiast of nerd culture

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in a way that I think he would fit very well

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with the rest of us.

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Mike, welcome to Spitball.

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- Thanks for having me on your show guys.

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- This is gonna be really fun.

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I'm very excited.

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And of all the people in my life that are most involved

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in speed running and Twitch stream consumption,

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Mike is by far and above the top of that list.

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And you kind of introduced me to a lot of that.

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So this week to get us started,

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I have written a game that I'm going to call Any% Real.

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In this game, I'm going to go through and talk

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about a feat or a moment in speedrunning history.

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And all I need you to do is tell me if I made it up,

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or if that's a thing that actually happened.

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For example, Hades on a pomegranate.

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Modder Rudeism wired slices of a real pomegranate

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into a Makey Makey circuit board and escaped the underworld

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after 33 fruit-fueled runs.

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And that actually happened.

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That is a thing that somebody did on Twitch.

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They used a pomegranate as a controller.

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So I'm just going to go through these things.

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That's how abstract these are going to get, right?

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So I'm going to go through these

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and you just have to tell me

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if it's something I made up or not.

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Starting of course, as we do every week with our guest, Mike.

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Mike, Portal 1, the original Portal on a guitar.

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The entire puzzle platformer Portal

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was beaten with a guitar hero controller,

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strumming to shoot portals

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and using the whammy bar to crouch.

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- True.

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- Did that actually happen?

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- True, true.

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- That is absolutely

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I don't have the name

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of the streamers

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a lot of these to give credit, but there is a litany of bizarre controller things that

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have been invented over the years.

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I know.

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People, people love the Guitar Hero hardware and they'll do it for anything.

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Breath of the Wild, I think, was beaten with one.

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There's a lot of Guitar Hero

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I mean, like Mario 64,

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Mario 64 has been beaten a hundred ways to heaven and back.

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got Minecraft Ender Dragon via a telegraph key.

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Claims of slaying the Ender Dragon by tapping a Morse code

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on brass telegraph key.

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actually happen, true or false?

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- Guitar Hero I can believe.

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- Yeah, I made that one up.

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- Okay, I would be

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so impressed.

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- Russell, Celeste, the Puzzle Platformer on a DDR pad.

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using a Dance Dance Revolution floor mat, true or false?

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- It is so hard.

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Imagine just hopping across your living room

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trying to make that

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- Mike, "Breath of the Wild" on the Labo piano.

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In any run or any percent run,

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using nothing but the cardboard Nintendo Labo piano.

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- I made that one up.

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- Not yet, you could be the first.

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- Some people have used that for a lot of stuff

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I did a lot of searching to try to find any record of it.

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I didn't see anything that anyone had done that particular gumbo yet, but the Labo Piano

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is the killing.

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do you guys remember the Labo Piano?

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The cardboard box thing?

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When I saw the direct with that, I was like, "What are they doing?"

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It's very Nintendo.

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Controller anything, right?

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Scott, Pac-Man on a VR treadmill.

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Streamed tournament of pac

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-man runs while literally

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if that's not a real thing that absolutely needs to be I

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Want this to be real? Yes

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Still an opportunity would that be fun?

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That's its own idea. That's it

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like you're in the VR and you run around the corner is just a massive ghost coming at you. It'd be terrifying

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or even it doesn't have to be first-person

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You'd have to like scoot backwards to get it to start going down instead of up. I think that'd be so fun

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Yeah, but like ghosts coming it could be a horror game. Oh, yeah, it already is does that not terrify you that game is freaking

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exactly horrifying dies

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and then he comes back

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Is it three pac-mans with one life or three different? Whoa anyway?

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Just three brothers. Yeah, that's right Russell Skyrim with voice commands only was Skyrim ever completed

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Hands-free by mapping keyboard inputs to spoken phrases like move forward and heal.

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I hope they this was completed or is it like an idea?

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It was completed.

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Skyrim was completed hands-free.

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The game beaten any

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- Man, it had to happen.

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There's somebody that had no life for that, right?

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- Yep, there's a mod for it and everything.

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You could play that game today.

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it like M&M?

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Like how fast do you have to be talking to get the--

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- Left, left, left, left, left, right, I spell.

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- Strafe left, strafe right.

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- You know what's crazy?

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or I'm guessing guy,

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go through

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the entire game.

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guy yeah I mean I know is that more compelling more compelling or less than

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switch place Pokemon right I mean you're just watching the

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ESPN ate the ocho but video game version one more time through Mike Elden ring on

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a poppet extreme to every mandatory boss and Elden ring falling to a rewired

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Bop it toy with five twist and pull actions as the only inputs.

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I want it to be true so bad

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those I had that on my list

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I didn't I didn't include it on my final one because I had to narrow it down

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But that was one that I cut somebody used a toy saxophone to do Elden Ring and Dark Souls 1 through 3

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It was so funny to watch I was losing it

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That game is so hard.

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That's so hard.

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Bop it. Twist it. Pass it.

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Do do do do do do do.

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Roll it. Strafe it.

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Scott, Tetris on a Tesla steering wheel.

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An illegal 22-minute game of Tetris played on a Tesla steering wheel in autopilot mode while traveling down a Florida highway.

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Oh, that's terrifying.

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Uh, no, no way.

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I included Florida Highway.

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I was trying to get you.

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It's a Florida man.

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me, Leo.

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I heard Florida

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and I was like, sold.

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I have no idea.

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Can you actually interact with the steering wheel when it's in autopilot?

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games, but it has to be parked first.

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so hard.

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I was like, "I don't think you can move the steering wheel when the autopilot's on."

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that far and you have three lanes to work with.

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Portal no portal run a runner finished portal wall without firing a single blue or orange portal navigating purely with glitches and clever

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absolutely. It did not tool-assisted or anything

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it sounds like something. Yep. Somebody would do right?

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100% yeah

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clipping out of bounds, especially in anything before 2010 very easy in a lot of games

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Yep, Super Mario 64 when those guys are when they're exploiting all of the glitches and stuff that there are in that game

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It is a different game

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I'm not gonna do

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it justice

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But Super Mario 64 the parallel worlds thing where

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it keeps track

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of Mario's position on copies of the map out of bounds

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So like it's literally parallel maps

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your go so fastly you go exponentially fast as a glitch and fly off the map and then it figures out where you

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are on another map in space and then moves you over to that spot once it's

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caught up with itself.

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Especially when they're tool-assisted you watch

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somebody like glitch through a door and then boom and then they're like in the

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endgame you're like what the hell is this? This is not the same game that I

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grew up with. If I'm keeping track right I think that was a three-way tie but I

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could be wrong and I

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don't really care. That means you go first Leo.

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- It's been a long time since I got first.

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- That's how it works.

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fine.

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Yeah, of course, that's the rules.

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We all know this, okay.

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All right, guys, so I've got,

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you guys are always coming with the naughty stuff

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and I haven't bring a naughty idea in a while,

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so I'm gonna bring you something

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that I experienced recently,

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which was that I had an all day event

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on my calendar for work called possible vacation,

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which meant that nobody scheduled any events with me

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like two weeks ago,

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and then it ended up not having,

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I didn't have to take vacation that day.

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The thing fell through.

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And I had the whole day.

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Oh yes.

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I've not had this

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in a long time, but it was

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bliss.

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So I want to make a single little web app.

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I don't have a name for it yet, but you go to this web app, you log in with your

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Google calendar and you set some parameters.

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Like how many meetings a week do you want to have that are just filled with stuff

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and how soon before they get canceled?

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And what do you want to call them?

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Are they urgent?

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Are they AI generated?

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Are they names that you already know from your contacts, et cetera.

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And then one or multiple phantom fake accounts

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put stuff on your calendar a week or two or three out.

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And then when someone is casually looking

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at a moment in time, wow, he's really busy.

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He's got four extra events on that day

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that aren't actually real.

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And then in the days, hours, minutes,

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leading up to that day or those days,

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this bot cancels the event.

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Sorry, we have to reschedule.

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Maybe it puts it for a week later on the calendar.

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Maybe it deletes it entirely.

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could use real names from your directory or contacts.

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It could make up stuff, whatever you think makes sense

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for how you set the website settings.

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But this is a event space reserver

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that makes you look busier than you actually are.

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End of pitch.

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- Amazing, amazing.

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Leo, that technique that you went through,

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I do regularly.

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I just, I put-- - On purpose.

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- I put out of office and then I switch it to focus time

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after the day's over.

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So now people are like, oh, I thought it was out of office.

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No, it was focus time, everybody.

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If you

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were wondering where I was.

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You just misread it.

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Yeah, that's right.

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They don't spam you the day

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of.

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I just, even if, if I have any opening on there and it could be five minutes

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beforehand, I'll still get someone to hop on there.

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I want to, I want, I don't want to get rid of the meetings.

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I want to keep them there all day.

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Maybe 10 minutes in it cancels it.

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Oh, they no-showed.

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Ooh, there it is.

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And that'd be one of the settings.

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You just, meetings are slowly disappearing as you go down the day.

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You didn't have anything.

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Maybe it even leaves the event on there, but you're just

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lying about being busy.

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Honestly,

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that seems even simpler.

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So Leo, go have your web app go through your company directory

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and pick two or 10 people that you've never talked to.

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And then set a meeting with all of them in something,

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but not invite that other person.

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Right.

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Looks real.

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So obviously, company cultures all differ, right?

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So you'd have to have configurable settings

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about are these real, external or internal?

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Are these-- is it obvious?

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You're in a three-person startup.

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I think they're going to know versus I

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at a Fortune 500 company, who the heck are any of these people?

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And depending on the app, who are you in the event with?

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Exactly.

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Like, oh, you're in the event with someone, someone@gmail.com?

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That's weird.

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They're all

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gmail

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.coms?

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Maybe you have a really nosy boss.

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Maybe this thing also has access to your inbox and is picking some recent emails from external

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contractors or people not in your organization that you've contacted recently and is making

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some fan of events for you.

363
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I don't know.

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You can pick all that.

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That's in the settings.

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Make the engineers figure that

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out.

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That's just in the settings.

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You

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all saw that for us.

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I think you could do this like, as a trial run, just get three people to book calendars

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in a loop on one day.

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Just with each other?

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Yes.

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Just you and two

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other people.

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This is a buddy system.

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Yeah.

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So you sign into the app and nothing happens, but then when the second person in your company

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he

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signs up for the app, then you start

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putting events on each

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other's

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calendar without it.

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It's like a calendar yikyak almost.

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Exactly, right?

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Hide some character in the invite, like an asterisk or something.

388
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So you know this isn't a real one.

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Yes.

390
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Scheduled via third party.

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That would be awesome.

392
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I think I might have to do this.

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I like two people in my org that I probably could book meetings with and we just blow

394
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off the meetings.

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There's always a Zoom calendar invite on my calendar list

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that never actually happens,

397
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but I just leave it on

398
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there.

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Because whatever, right?

400
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I could delete it, but after 10 minutes, they don't show up.

401
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You're like, well, I'll delete it tomorrow or whatever, right?

402
00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:19,200
Sure.

403
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I

404
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mean, I could--

405
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Can we do an award show again, Leo?

406
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This is going to be the most wanted idea by me.

407
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Most wanted

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or most feasible, right?

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We could do a--

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I

411
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don't know--

412
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Best bang for your buck.

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--10-hour proof

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of concept.

415
00:13:31,420 --> 00:13:31,620
Yeah.

416
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Best bang for your buck.

417
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People

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would pay a dollar a year for this,

419
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and then you just put it up as a little web app.

420
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Truly have one day off?

421
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If in a month, I'd be ecstatic.

422
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No meetings.

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Maybe you

424
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could even have--

425
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it picks one day a month where it goes through and does

426
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this kind of thing.

427
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Or it spreads them out randomly if you

428
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feel like you're overburdened.

429
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And you can kind of pick your duration and frequency

430
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and all that.

431
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OK.

432
00:13:54,580 --> 00:13:57,560
You could fake-- you know how Zoom creates the summary notes,

433
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your app, to get the value?

434
00:14:00,040 --> 00:14:00,280
Just

435
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bullshit

436
00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:04,280
a full on meeting summary.

437
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Only it's all corporate speak.

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Synergized the outcomes to better meet client objectives.

439
00:14:12,500 --> 00:14:14,820
But we take it a step further and it attaches a Google doc

440
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that they can't view.

441
00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:16,800
[LAUGHTER]

442
00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:17,620
Oh, OK.

443
00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:18,240
OK.

444
00:14:18,500 --> 00:14:19,420
You don't have permission.

445
00:14:19,900 --> 00:14:20,620
Oh, man.

446
00:14:20,660 --> 00:14:22,800
If someone requests it, you got to quickly generate one.

447
00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,160
Meeting agenda transcript.

448
00:14:26,980 --> 00:14:28,740
19 pages, but you can't see them.

449
00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:28,960
That

450
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would look so legit.

451
00:14:30,300 --> 00:14:32,440
I don't even think--

452
00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:33,060
that looks like an important call.

453
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Don't have access to it.

454
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Yeah.

455
00:14:35,260 --> 00:14:37,220
Wow, this has 31 editors on it.

456
00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:38,540
This must have been really important.

457
00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:39,300
Wow, yeah.

458
00:14:39,300 --> 00:14:41,280
And it went over another 30 minutes?

459
00:14:41,839 --> 00:14:42,240
Yikes.

460
00:14:44,119 --> 00:14:45,420
That's even-- oh, wow.

461
00:14:45,860 --> 00:14:46,780
That's really a lot of value.

462
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I think it would be essentially free to build, which is

463
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the best part of this web app.

464
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You could run this on a Raspberry Pi for hundreds

465
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and hundreds of customers.

466
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Just meeting invites.

467
00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:00,760
Google Calendar or Microsoft Calendar, APIs are all free.

468
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Like there's an open standard for this.

469
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This doesn't need any sort of special sauce or whatever.

470
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It's just gonna take a little bit of time

471
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to like figure out how you want to make it

472
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configurable per person and boom, you're off.

473
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- Okay, I think your go-to-market too

474
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would just be like golf clubs or like country clubs.

475
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You go to country clubs and you say--

476
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- Tell me more.

477
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- Hey, you know, if you ever wanna get

478
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an extra day of golfing, there's this app.

479
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(laughing)

480
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Okay?

481
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- Put up

482
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posters.

483
00:15:26,220 --> 00:15:26,480
- Like, where

484
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are you going

485
00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:27,300
with this?

486
00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:27,980
Oh, yep, yep.

487
00:15:28,020 --> 00:15:29,640
- And then now the golf, like,

488
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these country clubs are like booking calendars,

489
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invites or whatever, like from

490
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official,

491
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other corporate, like you could get like

492
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serious other golfing corporation higher ups or whatever

493
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to just schedule over on top of each other.

494
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So it looks really important.

495
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And now, I mean, like you could coordinate even,

496
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I don't know if that's even,

497
00:15:49,500 --> 00:15:52,040
it might turn into a networking thing very quickly.

498
00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:54,560
- We just reinvented the rotary.

499
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(laughing)

500
00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,180
- Your local lion's club or whatever.

501
00:15:59,780 --> 00:16:01,800
- I mean, put it on billboards on highways.

502
00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:04,060
It's just this man looking really sad,

503
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head and hands on his chair.

504
00:16:05,860 --> 00:16:05,920
Too

505
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many meetings?

506
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And then you just have

507
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the logo of your app.

508
00:16:09,780 --> 00:16:10,660
- Meetings.ghost.

509
00:16:10,660 --> 00:16:11,320
- They'll find you.

510
00:16:11,340 --> 00:16:11,540
- Ghost

511
00:16:11,540 --> 00:16:13,040
.meet or something.

512
00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:13,500
- Subtly

513
00:16:13,500 --> 00:16:15,400
marketing this is gonna be the hardest part

514
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'cause

515
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like you

516
00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:16,580
can't have,

517
00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:18,020
everyone can't know about this.

518
00:16:18,180 --> 00:16:18,320
- Yeah.

519
00:16:19,080 --> 00:16:21,240
- But I'd wanna tell everyone if I was doing this.

520
00:16:22,700 --> 00:16:24,019
- Then your cover's blown

521
00:16:24,020 --> 00:16:24,240
and they'll

522
00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:25,160
never trust your calendar

523
00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:25,580
again.

524
00:16:26,500 --> 00:16:28,020
- Is there any cute ways to hide QR codes?

525
00:16:28,660 --> 00:16:31,040
- There was a thing where people were using image generators

526
00:16:31,180 --> 00:16:34,940
like stable diffusion to make a QR code look like a city

527
00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:37,220
where the buildings were the black and white spots

528
00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:37,560
and the

529
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windows and stuff,

530
00:16:38,500 --> 00:16:39,920
or like, you know,

531
00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,100
a woman's dress with an interesting pattern,

532
00:16:42,260 --> 00:16:43,820
but really the pattern was QR and stuff.

533
00:16:43,940 --> 00:16:45,600
There's, yeah, you can totally hide a QR code nowadays.

534
00:16:46,280 --> 00:16:47,880
- Hide it in the guy's plaid suit.

535
00:16:48,980 --> 00:16:50,100
He's wearing a skateboard. - Scan my

536
00:16:50,100 --> 00:16:50,480
tie.

537
00:16:50,980 --> 00:16:52,160
- Dude, the QR

538
00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,240
codes on billboards are

539
00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:54,360
always so funny.

540
00:16:54,480 --> 00:16:56,160
- Yeah, I don't know about this move though.

541
00:16:57,500 --> 00:16:57,740
Quick,

542
00:16:57,940 --> 00:16:58,420
stop what you're

543
00:16:58,420 --> 00:16:59,180
doing on the highway.

544
00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:00,080
Yeah.

545
00:17:00,980 --> 00:17:02,320
- It's like the most dangerous thing

546
00:17:02,340 --> 00:17:03,380
you could possibly imagine.

547
00:17:04,260 --> 00:17:06,220
I can't think of anything more dangerous

548
00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:07,380
than a QR code on a billboard.

549
00:17:08,939 --> 00:17:10,800
- Well, either way, they're gonna be on a medical leave

550
00:17:10,800 --> 00:17:11,780
or they're gonna be having less meetings,

551
00:17:11,980 --> 00:17:12,160
so.

552
00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:13,240
(laughing)

553
00:17:14,459 --> 00:17:14,660
- Win

554
00:17:14,660 --> 00:17:14,920
-win.

555
00:17:15,500 --> 00:17:17,860
Oh man, what if you carted like doctor's offices?

556
00:17:17,870 --> 00:17:19,319
You just get doctor's notes like,

557
00:17:19,540 --> 00:17:21,980
Oh, this sounds like my last site, the bullshit generator.

558
00:17:22,189 --> 00:17:22,660
You know what I mean?

559
00:17:24,579 --> 00:17:26,100
So you sign up for this, and it's

560
00:17:26,360 --> 00:17:29,120
putting events called proctologist on your calendar

561
00:17:29,190 --> 00:17:29,600
or whatever?

562
00:17:30,100 --> 00:17:30,300
Just

563
00:17:30,300 --> 00:17:31,180
colonoscopies.

564
00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:32,300
No one's going to say anything.

565
00:17:32,580 --> 00:17:33,240
No one's going to--

566
00:17:33,260 --> 00:17:34,000
Why are you having

567
00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:36,000
three colonoscopies a month, dude?

568
00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:37,560
What is wrong down there?

569
00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:38,820
Then you just give them a look,

570
00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:39,860
and then they back off

571
00:17:39,860 --> 00:17:40,200
immediately.

572
00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:41,900
You can't ask me that.

573
00:17:42,020 --> 00:17:43,100
MRI, MRI

574
00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:44,760
follow-up, MRI 2.

575
00:17:45,220 --> 00:17:45,460
You

576
00:17:45,460 --> 00:17:47,579
just like some serious--

577
00:17:47,580 --> 00:17:49,480
And it's every week for like three weeks.

578
00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:50,140
- Second opinion.

579
00:17:50,860 --> 00:17:51,660
- Second opinion.

580
00:17:53,340 --> 00:17:54,240
Angiogram, just like

581
00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:55,180
serious stuff

582
00:17:55,220 --> 00:17:56,560
that you would never touch.

583
00:17:57,380 --> 00:17:59,300
- Dude, I've never heard of a seventh opinion.

584
00:17:59,460 --> 00:18:01,420
Are you sure this is, who are you going to?

585
00:18:01,780 --> 00:18:03,680
- Tell the AI puts mammogram on there and you go, look.

586
00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:04,700
Don't

587
00:18:04,700 --> 00:18:05,300
judge me.

588
00:18:06,340 --> 00:18:07,720
- I'm very hypochondriac.

589
00:18:10,559 --> 00:18:12,920
Denise, you do not need to get your prostate checked.

590
00:18:16,020 --> 00:18:16,700
Don't tell me I live

591
00:18:16,700 --> 00:18:17,200
my life.

592
00:18:17,730 --> 00:18:17,820
(laughing)

593
00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:24,400
- All right, Mike, what have you brought for us this week?

594
00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:24,580
- All

595
00:18:24,580 --> 00:18:25,640
right, here's my pitch.

596
00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:27,660
Y'all ever sick of buying greeting cards?

597
00:18:28,130 --> 00:18:29,720
You gotta do it like, you know,

598
00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:31,780
eight to 15 times a year or more,

599
00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,540
depending on how much family and friends you have.

600
00:18:34,180 --> 00:18:36,300
What if there was a service where you could get

601
00:18:36,340 --> 00:18:39,180
a whole box of your greeting cards for the year?

602
00:18:39,880 --> 00:18:42,220
Subscription service, where you go into a portal,

603
00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:45,140
you pick out all the cards you want with your custom,

604
00:18:45,260 --> 00:18:46,580
like, oh, I love you so much.

605
00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:47,360
You're so great.

606
00:18:48,220 --> 00:18:49,860
You can even do custom signatures.

607
00:18:50,070 --> 00:18:52,140
You can put your dog photo in there if you want.

608
00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,440
Whatever, just fully customized cards,

609
00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:57,640
dressed up your own way, and then shipped to you.

610
00:18:57,710 --> 00:18:58,640
You can get it for just you.

611
00:18:58,750 --> 00:19:00,820
You can get the family pack so that the whole family

612
00:19:00,900 --> 00:19:04,140
has cards for each other for some low, low price.

613
00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:05,020
I don't know exactly

614
00:19:05,020 --> 00:19:05,480
if this is

615
00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:05,760
going to be

616
00:19:05,760 --> 00:19:06,680
a convenience thing

617
00:19:06,820 --> 00:19:09,540
or a cost savings thing, because I can't really

618
00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:10,860
beat dollar store greeting cards.

619
00:19:11,110 --> 00:19:13,960
But I can save you the time of having to remember, oh, crap.

620
00:19:14,140 --> 00:19:16,860
I gotta buy a card and paying that outrageous.

621
00:19:17,060 --> 00:19:19,220
If you're like me, Oh crap, I'm at Myers.

622
00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:19,640
I forgot.

623
00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:21,320
Now I got to pay $7 for

624
00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:23,900
a piece of paper that says, Hey, I love you.

625
00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:26,960
You know that I love you, but apparently this piece of paper is

626
00:19:26,980 --> 00:19:27,900
the only reason you'll believe me.

627
00:19:28,460 --> 00:19:30,460
So my love is worth 799,

628
00:19:33,360 --> 00:19:35,980
but yeah, thoughts, convenience, a hundred

629
00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:36,880
percent, the

630
00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:37,640
convenience is there.

631
00:19:37,740 --> 00:19:38,200
That's great.

632
00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:38,380
Yeah.

633
00:19:38,440 --> 00:19:39,000
Address is the

634
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:39,840
meal box.

635
00:19:40,180 --> 00:19:42,720
you're gonna do like a month of factor

636
00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:44,600
or blue apron or whatever meals,

637
00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:46,140
but it's greeting cards for a year.

638
00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:47,180
You're going

639
00:19:47,180 --> 00:19:48,820
in and the service already knows

640
00:19:48,940 --> 00:19:50,280
when Father's Day is this year.

641
00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:52,060
And it already knows when whatever,

642
00:19:52,140 --> 00:19:54,860
it even has got reminders that'll stick like in the thing.

643
00:19:54,940 --> 00:19:58,620
Like don't forget next Tuesday is your anniversary, man.

644
00:19:58,940 --> 00:19:59,700
- Well, the best part is,

645
00:19:59,740 --> 00:20:01,320
is we'll put them pre-sealed in the envelope.

646
00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:02,880
So that like, if you forget day of,

647
00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:03,940
you just go to the box.

648
00:20:04,260 --> 00:20:05,360
- An emergency one.

649
00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:06,540
- We're half

650
00:20:06,540 --> 00:20:07,980
a step away from like,

651
00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:09,240
it just ships them out for you.

652
00:20:09,660 --> 00:20:10,220
(laughing)

653
00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:11,020
In your

654
00:20:11,020 --> 00:20:11,240
handwriting, why not?

655
00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:11,940
Yeah, you just

656
00:20:11,940 --> 00:20:12,820
upload your signature.

657
00:20:14,020 --> 00:20:15,320
Yeah, that's what we're here to do.

658
00:20:15,820 --> 00:20:17,420
We're here to have the convenience

659
00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:18,940
of not having to be thoughtful.

660
00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:19,600
(laughing)

661
00:20:20,960 --> 00:20:22,120
At the very least, shipping them to you

662
00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:24,440
is a massive improvement over what we do now.

663
00:20:24,820 --> 00:20:25,400
100% agreed.

664
00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:27,580
The only thing I can't figure out is,

665
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:29,880
is so it's gonna be pretty front loaded on profit.

666
00:20:30,580 --> 00:20:33,660
January 1, it's gonna make a crap load of money,

667
00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:35,960
and then it's just gonna be a small drip

668
00:20:35,980 --> 00:20:36,840
for the rest of the year.

669
00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:39,220
So, gotta sustain that website,

670
00:20:39,540 --> 00:20:40,700
Got to budget really smartly.

671
00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:44,360
You could buy in the middle of the year.

672
00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:46,580
Father's Day would be a great time.

673
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:48,840
Any holiday is going to bring in more people.

674
00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:49,680
Because

675
00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:50,600
then you just re--

676
00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:52,020
you've got to make it so that you can just

677
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,100
use the Christmas cards for the year next

678
00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:56,760
if you forget to send it out.

679
00:20:56,930 --> 00:20:57,160
You know?

680
00:20:57,620 --> 00:20:58,180
It's like--

681
00:20:58,180 --> 00:20:58,440
Oh.

682
00:20:59,080 --> 00:20:59,700
Now there you go.

683
00:20:59,720 --> 00:20:59,980
There you

684
00:20:59,980 --> 00:21:00,120
go.

685
00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:01,520
I love it.

686
00:21:01,740 --> 00:21:04,920
I think the hardest part is the stamp, the address,

687
00:21:06,020 --> 00:21:06,740
and remembering.

688
00:21:07,340 --> 00:21:10,080
If I had a calendar that I would hang on my wall

689
00:21:10,580 --> 00:21:12,840
and like flip it, it's like 12 months,

690
00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,700
like literally 12 envelopes I'd take out once a month

691
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:16,880
and

692
00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:17,480
just at the

693
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:18,320
start of the month,

694
00:21:18,820 --> 00:21:18,880
I

695
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:19,340
just gotta

696
00:21:19,340 --> 00:21:20,600
do it, boom.

697
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,000
Like the first thing I do. - Like an advent calendar,

698
00:21:22,260 --> 00:21:24,480
you've got like your little slots that it goes in

699
00:21:24,540 --> 00:21:26,580
and then oh, look at that, we're in June already

700
00:21:26,650 --> 00:21:28,600
and you pull it out and there's your three cards

701
00:21:28,660 --> 00:21:29,120
for the month.

702
00:21:29,780 --> 00:21:31,020
- And you can send it right then and there

703
00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:32,640
and just even more thoughtful.

704
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:33,920
Wow, you got ahead of the game.

705
00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:36,640
You're like, that's amazing.

706
00:21:36,780 --> 00:21:40,020
I got three of the exact same cards from my other fellow

707
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:40,500
relatives.

708
00:21:40,860 --> 00:21:41,700
They are identical.

709
00:21:42,940 --> 00:21:43,640
It's incredible.

710
00:21:44,980 --> 00:21:46,500
Yeah, I think there's a mix up.

711
00:21:46,500 --> 00:21:47,660
You have to like--

712
00:21:48,040 --> 00:21:49,260
because if you have five--

713
00:21:49,360 --> 00:21:50,880
if it becomes really popular, you're

714
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,420
going to need like five different variations

715
00:21:52,590 --> 00:21:53,140
or something.

716
00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:53,600
That should

717
00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:54,220
be crowdfunded.

718
00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:54,600
Oh,

719
00:21:54,700 --> 00:21:54,860
yeah.

720
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:55,380
Different

721
00:21:55,380 --> 00:21:55,720
colors.

722
00:21:55,740 --> 00:21:58,740
I was going to say, you could bootstrap this in your garage

723
00:21:58,860 --> 00:22:01,900
by literally buying dollar store cards

724
00:22:02,020 --> 00:22:03,500
and like boxing them up for people.

725
00:22:04,050 --> 00:22:04,440
You don't even

726
00:22:04,440 --> 00:22:06,040
have to be the designer for the first

727
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:06,420
phase.

728
00:22:06,580 --> 00:22:09,400
Express like hundreds of greeting cards.

729
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,760
I bet there's like eBay lots of

730
00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:12,380
2000

731
00:22:13,780 --> 00:22:13,940
So

732
00:22:13,940 --> 00:22:15,240
something that I didn't write

733
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:15,620
a pack

734
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:21,840
I haven't googled this but I do wonder if there's some weird like copyright trademark thing that Hallmark has on certain phrases

735
00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:27,080
Something like that that seems like something a big corporation like them would do well

736
00:22:27,080 --> 00:22:30,480
I mean just think about it right like where else can you buy cards from as far as like branding goes?

737
00:22:30,540 --> 00:22:34,960
There's a couple different like major chains, but like I mean, I guess nobody wants to get to the market, right?

738
00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:35,780
Hallmark

739
00:22:35,780 --> 00:22:38,560
is American greetings the other one or are they gone

740
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:39,300
now American greetings?

741
00:22:39,340 --> 00:22:40,000
I still think that was a

742
00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:43,200
thing for a while and then love pop is the like pop-up

743
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:45,240
$20 folded one

744
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:45,880
got bought up by

745
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:46,360
big greeting

746
00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:46,640
card

747
00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:50,260
Do do they like go out like

748
00:22:50,970 --> 00:22:51,980
the outlet store

749
00:22:53,140 --> 00:22:53,480
Like

750
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:57,980
what if you buy me last year's Father's Day card? I thought you loved me son

751
00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:04,360
Like that would be the ticket Mike you just get like the backlog of all of the Hallmark

752
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,760
like all the nice card companies that like lose

753
00:23:07,980 --> 00:23:09,680
and you just resell them.

754
00:23:09,780 --> 00:23:11,860
Like they're just, they're not the popular ones, right?

755
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,920
And you don't care enough to know which ones you're getting.

756
00:23:15,100 --> 00:23:17,940
So hopefully, and well, me too, right?

757
00:23:18,100 --> 00:23:19,020
I would sign up for this.

758
00:23:19,060 --> 00:23:20,620
Like, it's like, whatever, just

759
00:23:20,620 --> 00:23:21,840
give me whatever you got.

760
00:23:22,100 --> 00:23:24,300
- Outdated culture, like, I love you.

761
00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:25,080
- Whatever you got.

762
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:26,740
- Game of Thrones character or whatever.

763
00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:27,600
You're like, this is not

764
00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:28,440
relevant anymore.

765
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:28,940
Well, that's

766
00:23:28,940 --> 00:23:30,180
why I got them on a discount, yeah.

767
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:31,600
(laughing)

768
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:35,060
Actually, yeah, so that just gives me,

769
00:23:35,180 --> 00:23:36,720
yeah, so I have a discount box

770
00:23:36,820 --> 00:23:37,000
from the

771
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:37,660
Russell's of the world.

772
00:23:38,380 --> 00:23:40,720
That's like 20 bucks and it's just a random scattering

773
00:23:40,940 --> 00:23:44,160
of like, thinking of you cards, sorry for your loss.

774
00:23:44,540 --> 00:23:46,100
Oh, and I did actually think of this.

775
00:23:46,180 --> 00:23:48,480
So if at some point, if you bought the year,

776
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:50,240
let's say somebody like dies,

777
00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:53,140
you can return the card and get a,

778
00:23:53,260 --> 00:23:54,820
I'm sorry for your loss card in exchange for free.

779
00:23:55,220 --> 00:23:56,320
- It's already got a stamp on it.

780
00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:57,420
You just send it back to the factory.

781
00:23:58,160 --> 00:23:58,900
- No card wasted.

782
00:23:59,560 --> 00:23:59,720
Yeah,

783
00:23:59,860 --> 00:23:59,960
it's super easy.

784
00:23:59,980 --> 00:24:01,919
- It's gotta be just pennies

785
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,840
to get the replacement card to the customer.

786
00:24:04,020 --> 00:24:05,080
Just let him keep it, right?

787
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:06,900
Like you get two free,

788
00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:09,820
didn't expect this is a year that you'd send out

789
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,140
for 50 cents.

790
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,360
- This Leo guy's had a death every single month.

791
00:24:15,370 --> 00:24:16,300
I don't know what's going on.

792
00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:16,700
- The thinking

793
00:24:16,700 --> 00:24:17,180
of your card

794
00:24:17,220 --> 00:24:19,260
is from the company to this customer.

795
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,520
Sorry that you're, everyone is dying so much.

796
00:24:22,900 --> 00:24:24,420
- This would be actually incredible,

797
00:24:24,900 --> 00:24:26,480
like as a software app to just,

798
00:24:27,020 --> 00:24:28,960
I think I should just do this in a spreadsheet

799
00:24:29,180 --> 00:24:31,900
where I take everybody I know

800
00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:36,780
across the board do mother, father, birth dates, you know literally

801
00:24:36,780 --> 00:24:37,720
all the address

802
00:24:37,900 --> 00:24:38,700
home

803
00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:43,880
address right just like setting up that's like the app to just make it

804
00:24:44,300 --> 00:24:48,260
remind me in general it's like you should probably contact these eight

805
00:24:48,380 --> 00:24:52,960
people on Father's Day yes you are also a father so contact yourself but like

806
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:54,060
other than that like who cares

807
00:24:54,060 --> 00:24:55,480
forget to wish

808
00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:56,020
yourself

809
00:24:56,020 --> 00:24:57,520
a happy Father's Day

810
00:24:58,139 --> 00:24:58,539
Thanks

811
00:24:58,539 --> 00:25:00,380
me. I love the card I got

812
00:25:00,380 --> 00:25:00,600
me.

813
00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:02,080
I mean, you could

814
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:03,700
kind of do something hokey like that in

815
00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:04,220
the box.

816
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,320
You like have the company sending you a bonus one that's to you. Like how

817
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:08,860
some...

818
00:25:08,860 --> 00:25:11,160
Happy birthday big guy. Thanks for shopping with us.

819
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:11,940
Yeah.

820
00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:14,520
How some companies like throw a chocolate in there or something.

821
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,060
It's... these cards are so cheap to get in bulk.

822
00:25:18,580 --> 00:25:21,000
That's gotta be nothing for the company to throw an extra one in there.

823
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:23,160
Happy birthday big guy.

824
00:25:24,380 --> 00:25:26,940
Here's a coupon, you lazy

825
00:25:26,940 --> 00:25:27,360
moron.

826
00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:28,820
I am a big guy.

827
00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:29,580
Thanks.

828
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:31,960
Bulk box.

829
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,180
You have a name in mind for this company?

830
00:25:35,740 --> 00:25:37,100
No, help me out here.

831
00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:39,140
Instacard.

832
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:42,240
That's pretty good.

833
00:25:42,860 --> 00:25:44,200
Instacart, put card.

834
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,040
Plus a lot of people accidentally end up on your website

835
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:47,960
when they're trying to

836
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:48,560
get a meal.

837
00:25:50,980 --> 00:25:51,420
Instacard.

838
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:53,120
One way to get SEO.

839
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:53,980
Hungry for cards?

840
00:25:56,660 --> 00:25:58,320
There's probably a better name out there.

841
00:25:59,060 --> 00:25:59,760
Forgotten loved ones.

842
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:01,120
And then you get it for Christmas.

843
00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:02,940
Maybe you can put that on like your Christmas list.

844
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:04,440
Like, can you imagine that?

845
00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,840
Hey, can you buy me this like ball card set for Christmas?

846
00:26:09,340 --> 00:26:11,280
We'll run Christmas specials for sure.

847
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:13,500
Black Friday for sure.

848
00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:14,100
Right.

849
00:26:14,220 --> 00:26:14,920
I mean, yeah.

850
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:15,420
Like you said,

851
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,840
the mad dash to get this done is the like last month of the

852
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:21,540
year and the first month of the year.

853
00:26:21,820 --> 00:26:23,400
Actually, I think I'd rather do it on Cyber Monday.

854
00:26:23,950 --> 00:26:24,420
I don't know why.

855
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:25,000
Just a vibe.

856
00:26:26,180 --> 00:26:26,700
There we go.

857
00:26:27,340 --> 00:26:27,900
Cyber Monday.

858
00:26:28,380 --> 00:26:28,960
Cyber card.

859
00:26:29,220 --> 00:26:29,960
Bulk box.

860
00:26:30,380 --> 00:26:35,000
Dude, what if you, sorry, I'm like now I have, what if you sold a printer, Mike?

861
00:26:35,860 --> 00:26:37,800
I was thinking if you could have hardware

862
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:38,360
with this,

863
00:26:38,460 --> 00:26:39,360
where it's either printing the

864
00:26:39,660 --> 00:26:43,840
card or even just printing like the addresses, like a very stupid, simple

865
00:26:44,100 --> 00:26:47,160
dino printer that just spits out a single label, you hit a couple buttons.

866
00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:50,280
It has pre-stamped envelopes, spits out the address you want,

867
00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:50,580
slap it on.

868
00:26:50,580 --> 00:26:52,820
You go to the website and just browse through hundreds of

869
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,900
Father's Day cards and pick one.

870
00:26:55,580 --> 00:26:59,140
StumbleUpon style, you just next, next, next, next,

871
00:26:59,320 --> 00:26:59,580
boom,

872
00:26:59,760 --> 00:26:59,980
print,

873
00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:01,500
and then it's different every time.

874
00:27:01,780 --> 00:27:04,700
You don't have to have 2,000 of the same card.

875
00:27:04,700 --> 00:27:07,660
You could generate all these different versions of it

876
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,740
and change some of the names and themes.

877
00:27:11,500 --> 00:27:12,660
Yeah, StumbleUpon did this.

878
00:27:12,860 --> 00:27:14,260
You could pick your favorite topics.

879
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:15,640
Oh, man, StumbleUpon.

880
00:27:16,740 --> 00:27:18,660
And then you throw the print button in there.

881
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:19,100
Why can't

882
00:27:19,100 --> 00:27:20,720
a regular printer do this?

883
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,240
Can you just get card stock that's easy to fold

884
00:27:24,420 --> 00:27:25,220
that's already pre

885
00:27:25,220 --> 00:27:25,560
-printed?

886
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:25,740
- No!

887
00:27:26,620 --> 00:27:27,900
- Pre something in half.

888
00:27:28,140 --> 00:27:29,760
Like maybe your product is the innovation

889
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,440
of the special paper that it goes on

890
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,080
that makes it seem like a real greeting

891
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:34,220
card.

892
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:35,260
- Your family members won't love you

893
00:27:35,300 --> 00:27:36,200
if it's not on cardstock.

894
00:27:36,740 --> 00:27:37,260
- That's what I'm saying.

895
00:27:37,820 --> 00:27:38,240
- That's it.

896
00:27:38,260 --> 00:27:41,800
- You go to bulkcards.biz and then you buy a hundred pack

897
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,700
of your blank cards that go into a special whatever

898
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:45,580
that are already pre

899
00:27:45,580 --> 00:27:46,420
-creased.

900
00:27:46,700 --> 00:27:49,240
- I'll lobby to Congress to change card paper

901
00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:49,920
and then

902
00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:50,180
maybe

903
00:27:50,180 --> 00:27:51,500
we can start this new industry.

904
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:53,920
- Let's go Mike,

905
00:27:54,180 --> 00:27:54,700
I got that.

906
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,200
All Hallmark

907
00:27:56,200 --> 00:28:00,580
cards are just the thinnest, like toilet paper, thin stuff by

908
00:28:00,580 --> 00:28:01,120
law.

909
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:02,360
No, just printer paper.

910
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:03,820
All cards are on printer

911
00:28:03,820 --> 00:28:04,300
paper now,

912
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:05,040
so...

913
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,720
It's just the envelope now. You just unwrap the envelope.

914
00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:08,500
Instead of

915
00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:10,260
"right to repair," it's like "right to print card."

916
00:28:11,300 --> 00:28:12,060
"Right to print card

917
00:28:12,060 --> 00:28:12,460
law."

918
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:13,600
"Normalize it!"

919
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,220
"It's a beautiful card!"

920
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,120
The card lobby, man. They're intense.

921
00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,320
We'll bring back the "Burn-In Printer" episode idea.

922
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,860
And all cards are black and white, but beautiful.

923
00:28:25,900 --> 00:28:26,340
- But laser.

924
00:28:27,660 --> 00:28:28,120
- That's right.

925
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:28,520
Yeah.

926
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:29,760
Receipt paper.

927
00:28:31,060 --> 00:28:32,100
- All of our cards are on plywood.

928
00:28:33,020 --> 00:28:33,380
(laughing)

929
00:28:36,780 --> 00:28:37,800
- Little expensive to ship.

930
00:28:38,020 --> 00:28:41,400
- Actually, I went to a hotel recently

931
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,400
where all the key cards, they weren't plastic.

932
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:44,320
They were just made of wood

933
00:28:44,820 --> 00:28:46,140
with like laser etched into them.

934
00:28:46,180 --> 00:28:46,520
- Whoa.

935
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:48,720
- I mean, maybe we just ship a bunch of those

936
00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:49,940
all the exact same size.

937
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:51,060
- Was there a chip in them?

938
00:28:51,420 --> 00:28:52,160
- There must have been.

939
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:59,400
it and it opened the door. I don't know how else this would have worked. How eco-friendly. Why? Was that like a theme of the hotel or just... I don't know. Weird.

940
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:01,660
It's Millennials. Exactly.

941
00:29:02,010 --> 00:29:04,060
Yeah, it's Millennials. Another thing Millennials

942
00:29:04,060 --> 00:29:05,660
killed is plastic key cards.

943
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:10,380
I don't know, I like the idea of wooden thank-you cards or whatever. Just cards in

944
00:29:10,380 --> 00:29:10,720
general. Yeah.

945
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,760
Have a pre-built-in magnet on it so you can put it on

946
00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:13,140
the fridge.

947
00:29:13,620 --> 00:29:13,920
Oh, yeah.

948
00:29:14,330 --> 00:29:19,920
I thought you were originally gonna say this is like scraping obituaries and then sending your cards for people.

949
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:22,420
And then charging you like, "Hey, we

950
00:29:22,420 --> 00:29:24,560
saw someone in your love life die."

951
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:25,000
But, uh,

952
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:26,020
here's a card and...

953
00:29:26,020 --> 00:29:26,500
You sent them

954
00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:27,680
a really nice bouquet.

955
00:29:27,820 --> 00:29:28,740
That was really nice of you.

956
00:29:28,860 --> 00:29:30,040
It's $55, please.

957
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:30,480
Thank you.

958
00:29:32,670 --> 00:29:33,820
I don't have time to care about

959
00:29:33,820 --> 00:29:34,880
my loved ones anymore.

960
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,040
Take the greet out of greeting card.

961
00:29:37,260 --> 00:29:37,720
That's right.

962
00:29:37,860 --> 00:29:39,020
Just want a greeting card.

963
00:29:39,050 --> 00:29:39,160
Nice.

964
00:29:39,160 --> 00:29:39,300
There

965
00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:39,780
it is.

966
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:41,260
That's your catchphrase.

967
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:41,940
Greet.

968
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:43,060
Auto.

969
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,680
Take the greet out of greeting card.

970
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:48,660
Eaton card.

971
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:50,460
go that's an

972
00:29:50,460 --> 00:29:51,260
ink card.

973
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:57,660
That domain is free.

974
00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:01,260
You don't have to pay for that shit.

975
00:30:09,460 --> 00:30:10,060
So what

976
00:30:10,060 --> 00:30:10,980
do you got this week Scott?

977
00:30:11,660 --> 00:30:15,540
Alright so this idea I'm very excited for you guys

978
00:30:15,540 --> 00:30:19,820
opinions as Russell Leal, you're both fathers, but this stems from the idea or

979
00:30:20,020 --> 00:30:23,280
from me hanging out my brother. He is his youngest in daycare right now and I just

980
00:30:23,340 --> 00:30:27,080
learned about daycare notes where you just get like, I don't know, apparently

981
00:30:27,180 --> 00:30:30,380
it's starting to become required but daycares will send you, "Hey here's like a

982
00:30:30,420 --> 00:30:32,140
report of what happened during the

983
00:30:32,140 --> 00:30:34,980
day." In real time and like, "Boom! Your kid just ate

984
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:38,240
some pears! Boom! They went to the bathroom!" It's crazy. Yeah.

985
00:30:38,780 --> 00:30:39,180
Micromanaging

986
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:39,640
to the max.

987
00:30:40,380 --> 00:30:40,780
That's...whoa.

988
00:30:41,140 --> 00:30:43,580
So he was getting like an email of these where it's just

989
00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:46,100
like a summary of what's happening at the end of the day and all these things

990
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,260
going through and then he played it he just had some app in his phone where it

991
00:30:50,260 --> 00:30:54,300
read it out loud while he was driving and just like I'm just on my way home on

992
00:30:54,380 --> 00:30:58,800
my commute just go through some certain things and so this got me thinking like

993
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:02,700
if you emailed a bunch of things to a certain account could you just have a

994
00:31:03,220 --> 00:31:07,100
custom podcast for you on your morning commute every day where it's just going

995
00:31:07,140 --> 00:31:11,100
online here's your pet report here's some packages that are coming in throw

996
00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:15,760
in some, I don't know, fun micro learnings or songs you like, calendar cliff notes.

997
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:21,040
But I want to, I want to build custom podcasts just for you, tailored to you.

998
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:22,160
And that's it.

999
00:31:22,380 --> 00:31:22,500
That's

1000
00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:23,000
wonderful.

1001
00:31:24,780 --> 00:31:26,020
That's really your inbox.

1002
00:31:26,340 --> 00:31:26,880
Yeah, exactly.

1003
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,160
Just podcast it.

1004
00:31:28,220 --> 00:31:28,360
Yeah.

1005
00:31:30,420 --> 00:31:32,060
Can we add some other things on there?

1006
00:31:32,380 --> 00:31:34,060
Hey, uh, text your partner.

1007
00:31:34,340 --> 00:31:35,080
I'm thinking of you.

1008
00:31:35,140 --> 00:31:35,500
It's been

1009
00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:36,840
42 hours since

1010
00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:38,280
you last contacted them and

1011
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:39,560
non-logistically.

1012
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:43,200
It goes

1013
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,620
through your emails, "Pick up your child yesterday."

1014
00:31:47,910 --> 00:31:48,720
I knew I forgot

1015
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:49,020
something.

1016
00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:49,820
I hope you're listening

1017
00:31:49,820 --> 00:31:50,140
to this

1018
00:31:50,140 --> 00:31:51,420
on February 14th.

1019
00:31:53,050 --> 00:31:58,020
So I'm just looking at my email now, I'm like, "What would it say on my email right now?"

1020
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,340
Would you imagine this thing being something that you kind of set once and then you forget

1021
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,140
and then it's picking for you?

1022
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,540
Or are you saying something that you're curating?

1023
00:32:06,860 --> 00:32:12,920
"Send this news article I'm interested and this one thing I want to be reminded of tomorrow and whatever by hand."

1024
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:13,920
Probably both, right?

1025
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,200
Probably figure it out, too.

1026
00:32:16,620 --> 00:32:19,880
See where it cuts you off or where you stop listening to the podcast.

1027
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:24,020
It'll be like, "Oh, he's not interested in this part. We're not going to give him these updates anymore."

1028
00:32:24,020 --> 00:32:24,280
I

1029
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:28,640
prefer to learn and consume content via audio whenever I can.

1030
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:29,100
And

1031
00:32:29,100 --> 00:32:30,260
NotebookLM's

1032
00:32:30,260 --> 00:32:34,500
automatic little podcast generator is something that I've really enjoyed.

1033
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:41,720
I would love to have the I press this button and then every morning my five-minute summary of what I need to remember

1034
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:42,080
today

1035
00:32:42,220 --> 00:32:42,320
Is

1036
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:43,280
they're ready to go?

1037
00:32:43,550 --> 00:32:45,180
It doesn't all have to be logistics either

1038
00:32:45,270 --> 00:32:48,800
Although I would love like a weather report in the morning on days. It knows I'm sailing or

1039
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:49,100
something

1040
00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:49,560
Yeah,

1041
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,340
but just something where it's I don't know. Here's a fun joke

1042
00:32:53,540 --> 00:32:59,480
Here's a random song that we think you'll like it just adds everything you possibly can to get you just up and running in the morning

1043
00:32:59,940 --> 00:33:00,980
Oh, you cannot

1044
00:33:00,980 --> 00:33:01,320
further

1045
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:02,640
monetize it with voice packs

1046
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:04,280
Samuel

1047
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:05,060
Jackson is

1048
00:33:05,060 --> 00:33:06,600
reading my morning weather.

1049
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:12,760
Dude, the morning, like recap, like your morning news, just

1050
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:13,400
in audio

1051
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:13,900
form.

1052
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:14,900
That's amazing.

1053
00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:16,640
Everything that I care about.

1054
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:18,740
We're there.

1055
00:33:18,940 --> 00:33:19,040
We

1056
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:19,380
can build

1057
00:33:19,380 --> 00:33:20,120
all of this.

1058
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:20,920
There's nothing that's

1059
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:21,480
out of reach for

1060
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:21,700
this.

1061
00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:22,820
10 years from now.

1062
00:33:22,820 --> 00:33:24,980
I would honestly love to go back and listen to like, what

1063
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:26,200
was my day 10 years ago?

1064
00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:28,520
You know, what was it telling me to do?

1065
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:29,280
I mean, you could even

1066
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:30,840
construct that on the fly, right?

1067
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:32,400
Or it would include that as

1068
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,600
like a time hop type thing

1069
00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:34,760
as part of your today one.

1070
00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:36,500
Did you know five years ago today,

1071
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:39,440
you were up in Wisconsin doing that whatever?

1072
00:33:39,620 --> 00:33:40,440
Like, oh, thanks.

1073
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:41,260
That could be one of the

1074
00:33:41,260 --> 00:33:41,560
segments.

1075
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:42,220
- That's awesome.

1076
00:33:42,740 --> 00:33:43,780
Throwback Thursday, baby.

1077
00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:44,240
Bringing

1078
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:44,740
it back.

1079
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:46,460
- 10 years ago today, you leveled up in Farmville.

1080
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:47,800
(laughing)

1081
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:50,100
- What a waste of a life.

1082
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:51,360
(laughing)

1083
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:53,280
- It would be interesting

1084
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:53,460
though,

1085
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:54,360
what stuff it could scrape, right?

1086
00:33:54,460 --> 00:33:55,380
I mean, it could get all kinds of

1087
00:33:55,380 --> 00:33:56,120
things.

1088
00:33:56,540 --> 00:33:57,800
- I'd love a video version of this.

1089
00:33:58,260 --> 00:33:58,700
That'd be awesome.

1090
00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:00,480
I think I'd watch a YouTube video

1091
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:01,160
somehow.

1092
00:34:01,460 --> 00:34:03,780
If you could, you just want to watch stuff while you're driving.

1093
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,740
And you

1094
00:34:05,740 --> 00:34:06,600
guys are commuting.

1095
00:34:07,140 --> 00:34:07,220
Who

1096
00:34:07,220 --> 00:34:09,480
commutes true?

1097
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:11,120
What would be on the video?

1098
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:12,960
Drinking my coffee and looking at my email.

1099
00:34:13,139 --> 00:34:13,340
What do you

1100
00:34:13,340 --> 00:34:13,860
mean Russell?

1101
00:34:14,080 --> 00:34:15,120
Like, what would you even watch?

1102
00:34:15,460 --> 00:34:18,139
I would just like me, if it could watch

1103
00:34:18,139 --> 00:34:20,620
myself reading my own inbox, but it's AI.

1104
00:34:21,940 --> 00:34:27,159
It would be like, uh, like replays of all the, like, so like Google

1105
00:34:27,159 --> 00:34:29,659
I/O clips, Microsoft

1106
00:34:29,659 --> 00:34:30,200
clips,

1107
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,159
AI clip, whatever.

1108
00:34:32,340 --> 00:34:33,919
Like if I'm into that right now, right?

1109
00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:36,379
If they're not putting video content out there,

1110
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:37,800
then maybe it would just be like

1111
00:34:38,300 --> 00:34:40,580
those terrible YouTube videos of, you know,

1112
00:34:40,820 --> 00:34:43,540
screenshots of news articles that scroll through slowly

1113
00:34:43,700 --> 00:34:44,659
and tell you about it.

1114
00:34:44,879 --> 00:34:45,600
Yeah, I don't know, I'm

1115
00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:46,080
just--

1116
00:34:46,159 --> 00:34:47,000
- I don't know this.

1117
00:34:47,260 --> 00:34:47,980
Tell me more about this.

1118
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:48,600
What is this?

1119
00:34:48,620 --> 00:34:48,820
- You know,

1120
00:34:48,980 --> 00:34:51,480
like, I mean, you watch any vlogger,

1121
00:34:52,020 --> 00:34:54,159
they'll just be talking at the screen like this,

1122
00:34:54,300 --> 00:34:56,039
and then all of a sudden they'll just take a clip

1123
00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:57,820
of a screenshot of some news article

1124
00:34:57,850 --> 00:34:59,020
and talk about the news article

1125
00:34:59,090 --> 00:35:00,440
while slowly scrolling through it.

1126
00:35:00,620 --> 00:35:01,280
- Yeah, yeah.

1127
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,680
- Or like a tweet, like, oh, this tweet from this person

1128
00:35:05,180 --> 00:35:06,700
said, and they'll read it out loud,

1129
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,020
and they'll show you the tweet,

1130
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:10,600
and then you'll be like, oh,

1131
00:35:10,660 --> 00:35:12,740
and then here's all the controversy behind it, right?

1132
00:35:12,860 --> 00:35:14,520
- It's reactivating, yeah, it's frustrating.

1133
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:16,180
- Yeah, something like that, right?

1134
00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:20,940
- So you want a React video, but your calendar and inbox.

1135
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:23,220
- Well, I mean, he probably wants to throw

1136
00:35:23,220 --> 00:35:24,180
in some entertainment, right?

1137
00:35:24,300 --> 00:35:24,940
like a

1138
00:35:24,940 --> 00:35:25,440
fail army

1139
00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:26,240
video or something,

1140
00:35:26,460 --> 00:35:28,040
like somebody crashing into a fence

1141
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:30,420
or just something a little lighthearted to start the day.

1142
00:35:31,460 --> 00:35:32,680
Dude, all my emails,

1143
00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:35,360
my morning podcasts would have a lot of coupons.

1144
00:35:36,180 --> 00:35:36,620
(laughing)

1145
00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:38,600
You'd have a coupon.

1146
00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:38,960
You won't

1147
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,920
believe this, Kohl's is having a sale.

1148
00:35:41,220 --> 00:35:41,500
Heck yeah.

1149
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:46,660
My Meyer recap email, my Slick Deals recap

1150
00:35:46,660 --> 00:35:46,980
email,

1151
00:35:46,990 --> 00:35:47,140
you're

1152
00:35:47,140 --> 00:35:49,480
like, oh shit, gotta unsubscribe to those.

1153
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:50,380
TikTok shop,

1154
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:51,180
Timu.

1155
00:35:51,860 --> 00:35:54,260
$5 off a $20 purchase at Jimmy John's.

1156
00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:55,120
Yeah.

1157
00:35:55,720 --> 00:35:56,600
Kind of want to know that, though.

1158
00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:57,800
Yeah, that's true.

1159
00:35:57,980 --> 00:35:58,160
That's

1160
00:35:58,160 --> 00:35:58,640
a good one.

1161
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:00,800
That's like, well, I know what my lunch is today.

1162
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:01,560
It

1163
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,740
could cross-reference with your actual receipts

1164
00:36:03,820 --> 00:36:04,360
you've received.

1165
00:36:04,540 --> 00:36:06,460
You don't actually spend anything from here.

1166
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,600
But you placed three orders in the last three months

1167
00:36:08,660 --> 00:36:09,380
from this other place.

1168
00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:11,140
So this coupon or sale or something

1169
00:36:11,250 --> 00:36:12,200
might be relevant to you.

1170
00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:14,520
Oh, it would be good for bill emails, too, right?

1171
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,420
I mean, I know we mostly have auto pay in the modern era.

1172
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:18,400
But still, like--

1173
00:36:18,460 --> 00:36:19,440
Don't forget, tomorrow your

1174
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:20,740
electric's getting shut off.

1175
00:36:21,180 --> 00:36:21,420
- He'll

1176
00:36:21,420 --> 00:36:21,740
be able to bid that

1177
00:36:21,740 --> 00:36:22,580
bill in four months.

1178
00:36:24,180 --> 00:36:24,780
- Thanks, robot.

1179
00:36:30,860 --> 00:36:32,380
- All right, Russell, what do you got this week?

1180
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,560
- All right, so my idea, it's a little politically charged,

1181
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:37,580
but we'll see how it is.

1182
00:36:37,620 --> 00:36:39,280
I'm not gonna go full politics on this,

1183
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:43,080
but I've always been curious about, you know,

1184
00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:45,440
power to the people, we the people, right?

1185
00:36:45,940 --> 00:36:47,700
And then I'm always hearing about lobbyists,

1186
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:51,620
just big corporations being able to buy politicians, okay?

1187
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,520
I don't know much more than that,

1188
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,700
but I do know about Kickstarter and crowdfunding, okay?

1189
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,840
So my idea is called like buy that,

1190
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,560
like vote with your money, we'll say, okay?

1191
00:37:07,220 --> 00:37:11,100
And all you do is you put up bounties for politicians

1192
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:15,839
to then write bills and earn the money

1193
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,380
when they pass the bill.

1194
00:37:17,980 --> 00:37:20,420
So we would just create a lobbying system

1195
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:22,300
crowdfunded by the people.

1196
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,600
And you incentivize people to write the bill.

1197
00:37:26,670 --> 00:37:29,000
If you write the bill and you push it through the House,

1198
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:30,680
you get 25% of the cut.

1199
00:37:31,460 --> 00:37:34,680
And let America lobby the politicians.

1200
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:37,660
I'm sure there's a,

1201
00:37:37,900 --> 00:37:40,080
you don't need a dinner with a politician

1202
00:37:40,250 --> 00:37:43,700
if you just, there's $2 million on a bank account somewhere.

1203
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:47,500
You know, for on Venmo, right?

1204
00:37:47,840 --> 00:37:49,640
Like this is just Kickstarter for lobbying.

1205
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,300
Like what's hard about that?

1206
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:52,700
Let's just make it out there.

1207
00:37:52,940 --> 00:37:53,840
Like, we

1208
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:54,520
vo - Vosel,

1209
00:37:54,940 --> 00:37:57,400
that's brilliant. Like if you, this,

1210
00:37:57,620 --> 00:38:00,340
you're literally calling out politicians by name to be like,

1211
00:38:00,740 --> 00:38:02,380
Senator such and such, if this

1212
00:38:02,380 --> 00:38:04,620
bill passes, we don't care how it happens,

1213
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:09,080
but if it passes, this gets deposited in your account. That's

1214
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:09,280
it.

1215
00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:09,860
Good luck. - Or

1216
00:38:09,860 --> 00:38:10,560
to, you know,

1217
00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:11,720
your donation of

1218
00:38:11,720 --> 00:38:12,460
the nonprofit

1219
00:38:12,460 --> 00:38:13,000
of choice.

1220
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,000
Super PAC blah blah blah. Yeah,

1221
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:15,460
this is the

1222
00:38:15,460 --> 00:38:16,260
ultimate giving

1223
00:38:16,260 --> 00:38:16,800
up of your

1224
00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:20,320
Ideals and say this is how the system works and

1225
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:24,220
we're not gonna pretend embracing it. Yeah, it's embracing the broken shitty system

1226
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:29,960
If you can't beat him join him, you know what I'm saying? Like, holy shit Russell.

1227
00:38:30,230 --> 00:38:32,480
Why not by the politicians for the people?

1228
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,919
It would be really fun to see what the top like 10 to 20

1229
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,620
projects are that are at the top of the leaderboard at any given week. Like, what do

1230
00:38:41,620 --> 00:38:42,620
people actually really

1231
00:38:42,620 --> 00:38:44,320
want past here? Because I'd bet

1232
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,660
you probably would skew to younger, you'd probably skew to

1233
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:54,220
people with more money. Like, the highest pots would be deep pockets,

1234
00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:59,040
and then what are the things that would be out in the open for anyone to see? That'd be the key to all this, is that

1235
00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:02,700
you have it, like, public, right? You can see what the things are that are the top leaderboard.

1236
00:39:03,180 --> 00:39:06,920
Special interest groups that only rich people do I'm trying to think of what that would

1237
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:08,140
be. Oh

1238
00:39:08,740 --> 00:39:10,000
It's interesting like

1239
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:14,480
well all of the actual traditional like rich lobbyists would not use this service, right?

1240
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:18,400
This is all the little guys. So what what does average America?

1241
00:39:19,240 --> 00:39:25,500
Well together to put the most money toward when they're not privately meeting to get a new airport made or whatever, right?

1242
00:39:25,860 --> 00:39:28,300
I say I don't really know how lobbyists themselves work

1243
00:39:28,340 --> 00:39:31,880
Like how do we get someone in the door to make that actually happen get that money in there quote-unquote?

1244
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:32,860
legally

1245
00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:34,640
Right

1246
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:35,400
form a super

1247
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,860
PAC and anything's legal. I think is how the current system works. I don't like that

1248
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:39,040
Yeah,

1249
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:44,000
what the politicians figure there's probably a lobbyist group that would be like chomping at the bit for this like oh, yeah

1250
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:49,460
I mean if you get like 10% of every lobbying dollar like I'm we can make that work, right?

1251
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:57,820
They're just gonna use it to funnel in millions and millions of dollars from like one large donor into one person

1252
00:39:57,820 --> 00:40:00,119
Oh, no. No, we did it in lots of small ones into

1253
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,300
Russell's program here. Hell

1254
00:40:02,300 --> 00:40:02,860
yeah, whatever

1255
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:08,100
Why would the rich person want to do that instead of just doing what they already do today, though?

1256
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:12,520
What's the advantage of putting it on the public leader board and making it look like I guess faking?

1257
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:13,440
I guess I'm going back to

1258
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,820
the breaking bad episode where they're like we have to funnel this money somehow

1259
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:20,480
Let's get lots of zombie computers to do small donations to

1260
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:21,160
this instead

1261
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:22,180
of one large one

1262
00:40:22,180 --> 00:40:23,140
So we hide it better

1263
00:40:23,140 --> 00:40:26,660
makes it look like this is an important issue to the average voter. I guess

1264
00:40:26,660 --> 00:40:27,359
yeah

1265
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:28,200
Could

1266
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:32,120
you get like 10,000 credit cards and just put $10 in there?

1267
00:40:32,440 --> 00:40:32,500
Like

1268
00:40:32,500 --> 00:40:34,700
that would just be like insane, but maybe

1269
00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:40,460
Dear politician, we will give you 10 million dollars in Amazon gift cards, but they're all

1270
00:40:40,460 --> 00:40:41,280
$10 gift

1271
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:41,620
cards

1272
00:40:42,540 --> 00:40:43,880
It's a little inconvenient

1273
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:44,640
to redeem them,

1274
00:40:44,720 --> 00:40:45,700
but you have a staff

1275
00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:48,080
They'll put it all in your account for you

1276
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:51,380
We'll give you 10 million dollars, but please you have to go to the Bitcoin ATM and

1277
00:40:51,380 --> 00:40:51,940
the local

1278
00:40:51,940 --> 00:40:52,880
BP

1279
00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:54,939
That's right

1280
00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:56,560
So I've

1281
00:40:56,560 --> 00:41:01,200
been on the verge of pitching an idea every week and I'm like no I don't want to get into politics on here

1282
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:05,300
But I want to make just I want to make a new political party just some scratch

1283
00:41:05,340 --> 00:41:11,540
It's not gonna have anyone in it like you don't have the representatives you're voting in like you don't even know their faces or who they

1284
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:16,220
Are blah blah blah just like this is the party a hundred percent based on metrics and nothing else

1285
00:41:16,530 --> 00:41:21,380
We have accomplished this we have accomplished this and then if we go forward

1286
00:41:21,510 --> 00:41:24,160
These are the things we're gonna do and that's the entire purpose of the party.

1287
00:41:24,260 --> 00:41:24,580
I'll tell you more

1288
00:41:24,580 --> 00:41:24,900
about this

1289
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:25,280
I don't

1290
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,220
understand the anti party

1291
00:41:27,220 --> 00:41:28,120
like yeah.

1292
00:41:28,640 --> 00:41:30,320
Yeah, it's just it's not a party

1293
00:41:30,740 --> 00:41:32,380
It's like a it's an initiative

1294
00:41:32,380 --> 00:41:33,280
It's like a movement

1295
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:33,660
like you

1296
00:41:33,660 --> 00:41:34,680
just exactly this would

1297
00:41:35,500 --> 00:41:36,180
Do any person

1298
00:41:36,180 --> 00:41:40,520
could get voted into this position and I'm going to vote on exactly what this website says

1299
00:41:40,520 --> 00:41:41,240
going through

1300
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:46,600
It's like a super Democratic Party right where you're basically voting for what the directives are.

1301
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:48,400
Yep, and nothing else

1302
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,500
I can't be swayed. I can't be lobbied. I can't do any of this on here

1303
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:53,580
- I'm just describing democracy,

1304
00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:54,340
but in a party.

1305
00:41:55,180 --> 00:41:56,720
- But actually working on it.

1306
00:41:57,160 --> 00:41:57,380
But I

1307
00:41:57,380 --> 00:41:58,860
don't know, it's the charismatic

1308
00:41:59,060 --> 00:42:02,060
that always get elected and are able to flow through on there.

1309
00:42:02,060 --> 00:42:05,260
I want to remove all of that and have it purely on metrics.

1310
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,240
And I feel like your system would help

1311
00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:07,440
with this.

1312
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,120
- They are vessels for the

1313
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:11,460
system

1314
00:42:11,460 --> 00:42:12,400
and nothing more.

1315
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:13,220
- I mean, they should be a robot.

1316
00:42:13,380 --> 00:42:13,660
- And

1317
00:42:13,660 --> 00:42:15,820
you could incentivize people to put money in.

1318
00:42:16,140 --> 00:42:16,960
Because then you could--

1319
00:42:17,140 --> 00:42:20,120
every dollar you put in, we invest it and make more money.

1320
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,680
So like put actual dollars up, not

1321
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:24,320
Kickstarter dollars, right?

1322
00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:25,120
Ooh.

1323
00:42:25,380 --> 00:42:26,680
While it's sitting in that escrow,

1324
00:42:26,820 --> 00:42:29,500
it's just making more money on there for the party.

1325
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,200
Dude, you know how many--

1326
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,100
all the other parties that your people are donating to all

1327
00:42:34,100 --> 00:42:35,920
of a sudden get funneled into this too.

1328
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:36,520
So all

1329
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:37,620
these parties lose

1330
00:42:37,620 --> 00:42:40,020
money if this app becomes successful.

1331
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,040
Because instead of donating to this representative,

1332
00:42:42,260 --> 00:42:45,540
you're donating to the issues and the problem or whatever.

1333
00:42:45,780 --> 00:42:47,600
It's like, oh, shoot.

1334
00:42:47,900 --> 00:42:49,039
That could-- that could--

1335
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:50,860
I would probably get murdered.

1336
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:53,920
It would look like it wasn't a murder.

1337
00:42:54,140 --> 00:42:54,800
You know what I mean?

1338
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:56,980
You would commit suicide.

1339
00:42:57,860 --> 00:42:58,340
That's

1340
00:42:58,340 --> 00:42:58,500
right.

1341
00:42:58,500 --> 00:43:00,680
I would fall asleep at the wheel,

1342
00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:01,200
like

1343
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:01,620
not

1344
00:43:01,620 --> 00:43:02,040
driving,

1345
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:03,460
up your Tesla while playing

1346
00:43:03,460 --> 00:43:04,100
Tetris.

1347
00:43:04,240 --> 00:43:06,260
For those House of Cards viewers out there,

1348
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,400
stay away from Subways.

1349
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:10,440
Oh, yeah.

1350
00:43:10,980 --> 00:43:12,500
That's exactly what would end up happening.

1351
00:43:12,940 --> 00:43:14,520
So this is why I can't launch it.

1352
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:16,460
This is free for anybody out there.

1353
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:19,260
Let me know when it's live, right?

1354
00:43:19,860 --> 00:43:21,100
So I can put some money in.

1355
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:21,820
Yeah.

1356
00:43:22,430 --> 00:43:23,540
I love your idea, Russell.

1357
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:24,460
That's so good.

1358
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:26,760
I think it'd be really easy.

1359
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,920
You just get Reddit and Kickstarter combined

1360
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,080
and you do something super quick.

1361
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:33,580
And if you put actual--

1362
00:43:33,720 --> 00:43:36,320
you could verify with credit cards, basically, too.

1363
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:37,720
So it's actual votes.

1364
00:43:38,240 --> 00:43:38,960
They're actually

1365
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:40,140
dollar votes.

1366
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:40,860
It's interesting.

1367
00:43:42,220 --> 00:43:46,199
But as long as you can see the public ledger of who

1368
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:51,100
has backed what? Oh boy, we are like teetering on the brink of crypto, aren't we? Shoot.

1369
00:43:52,180 --> 00:43:53,020
Blockchain. I

1370
00:43:53,020 --> 00:43:53,420
said it.

1371
00:43:53,420 --> 00:43:54,520
Once the word ledger comes in.

1372
00:43:54,540 --> 00:43:57,100
I'm going to go ahead and just say the word blockchain, then we'll keep walking.

1373
00:43:58,720 --> 00:43:59,260
As long

1374
00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:04,100
as you have a list of all of the most recent transactions that are coming in, whether they

1375
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:07,740
came from... you want to make sure that they came from some sort of unique individual,

1376
00:44:08,900 --> 00:44:12,340
and what project they went to. It doesn't really matter for the rest of the stuff, right?

1377
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:14,120
Yeah. Interesting.

1378
00:44:14,200 --> 00:44:14,800
Right.

1379
00:44:15,260 --> 00:44:21,280
I was gonna say concerned about foreign affairs meddling, but then again, oh, we're already in that so

1380
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:22,320
We see

1381
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:23,060
perfect a good point

1382
00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:26,200
So us I guess my only thing would be how

1383
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,020
do you determine the issues as well?

1384
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,500
Like how do we know what we're lobbying for? Is it just anyone

1385
00:44:30,500 --> 00:44:31,960
can go there and start anyone

1386
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:32,500
can make

1387
00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:32,780
anything

1388
00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:34,840
Anyone can make I want this law to pass

1389
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:39,480
See, that's a little scary cuz are they writing the law? Cuz like I mean

1390
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:47,640
Hypothetically getting super negative here. So if a foreign entity that wanted to put in like a horrible bill to destabilize some section of the government like

1391
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:50,100
Hit it and like this really long

1392
00:44:50,180 --> 00:44:53,020
I mean, I guess you were trusting the people to like self-govern, but be weird

1393
00:44:53,250 --> 00:44:55,040
I guess you could go out and be like hey

1394
00:44:55,340 --> 00:45:02,120
Then you just shame them afterwards such-and-such senator passed this bill because he took this bounty. What an awful person

1395
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:02,920
We should vote him out

1396
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:07,020
I mean kind of right like I don't see why we can't do it that way

1397
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:07,820
A key part

1398
00:45:07,820 --> 00:45:11,780
of this is you watch the posts rise to the top, more and more money flowing

1399
00:45:11,940 --> 00:45:14,760
in and then you make it very obvious when the money goes out and

1400
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:15,680
exactly where it went

1401
00:45:15,700 --> 00:45:15,880
to.

1402
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:19,800
Yeah, there's no subtlety here, like "Oh my god, look at how much that's dipped!"

1403
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:20,500
Yeah, I like that.

1404
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,680
I mean, if I was a foreign actor though, I think that would be pretty smart to

1405
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:25,800
create

1406
00:45:27,339 --> 00:45:28,680
a bunch of Reddit bots.

1407
00:45:30,120 --> 00:45:31,660
But I think that's already happening, yes.

1408
00:45:33,220 --> 00:45:34,600
I mean, that'd be a way to do it.

1409
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:38,860
I'm sure there's probably sneakier ways than some shitty vibe coded website that

1410
00:45:44,340 --> 00:45:47,540
There are lots of websites out there that somehow verify your

1411
00:45:48,900 --> 00:45:53,860
Citizenship or your billing address or your whatever to make sure that you're here. Social Security number

1412
00:45:54,260 --> 00:45:57,160
Yeah, just enter in your social security number on this website. What could

1413
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:57,560
go wrong?

1414
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:04,220
Can you get credit cards? I guess you could get credit cards for other countries, right?

1415
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:06,640
Can I open I guess? Yeah, why not? Are you just by the

1416
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,760
prepaid visa cards, right? Yeah prepaid visa

1417
00:46:09,320 --> 00:46:09,820
There's probably a way

1418
00:46:09,820 --> 00:46:09,920
to

1419
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,240
detect that on our website and not allow those huh?

1420
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,500
Yeah, that's what we're gonna do. We're gonna detect

1421
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:18,480
Freedom Leo, are you trying to restrict?

1422
00:46:20,300 --> 00:46:22,200
We'll just make a law that allows it it's fine

1423
00:46:22,460 --> 00:46:24,400
I will post it on the website and see who votes you

1424
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:26,960
guys know what happens when stuff like this is on the internet, right?

1425
00:46:26,960 --> 00:46:29,040
Like what why is the number one?

1426
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,940
Pot for 18 million dollar bounty make turtles illegal

1427
00:46:33,940 --> 00:46:35,080
or whatever. It's

1428
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:35,860
gonna be something like

1429
00:46:35,860 --> 00:46:37,040
troll posts

1430
00:46:37,180 --> 00:46:38,420
It doesn't make any sense.

1431
00:46:38,500 --> 00:46:40,740
You know, it's some senators gonna pass it

1432
00:46:40,960 --> 00:46:43,360
Yeah, like rename Air Force One to like

1433
00:46:43,360 --> 00:46:44,780
plenty McPlane

1434
00:46:44,780 --> 00:46:45,600
face or something

1435
00:46:45,660 --> 00:46:45,800
Yeah,

1436
00:46:45,940 --> 00:46:48,200
making a grilled cheese is a federal

1437
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:48,520
offense

1438
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,180
But the internet would like cheer it on, you know, that

1439
00:46:57,180 --> 00:46:58,140
would go bad right away.

1440
00:46:58,140 --> 00:46:59,400
That's the best for this company because

1441
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,860
no senator's ever gonna pass making grilled cheese

1442
00:47:01,940 --> 00:47:02,460
is legal.

1443
00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:07,900
The pot just keeps growing and then we reap the benefits of the investment of that amount.

1444
00:47:08,580 --> 00:47:09,440
Love that idea, Russell.

1445
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:14,920
You get, you know, poly bucks, you know, you can be donated to some other problem, right?

1446
00:47:15,260 --> 00:47:15,660
You know, you

1447
00:47:15,660 --> 00:47:16,400
can't get it out.

1448
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:17,160
It's

1449
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,920
Bodie McBoatface, but it's, uh, it's Congress.

1450
00:47:20,260 --> 00:47:23,120
Or you just make the, that's like your profit models.

1451
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:25,940
Every time a bill doesn't pass, it's like, oh, well, we take that.

1452
00:47:26,340 --> 00:47:27,540
So oh,

1453
00:47:27,820 --> 00:47:29,700
yeah, there's a time limit on it.

1454
00:47:30,380 --> 00:47:31,080
Oh, yeah, dude.

1455
00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:32,620
The clock will start our own political

1456
00:47:32,620 --> 00:47:33,000
party.

1457
00:47:33,060 --> 00:47:33,580
Right, Scott?

1458
00:47:33,660 --> 00:47:36,200
Like, nameless party, faceless,

1459
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:38,460
make some gambling in there, too, or like you're voting

1460
00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:38,840
on whether or

1461
00:47:38,840 --> 00:47:40,000
not it'll pass or not.

1462
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:41,500
You put some extra cash

1463
00:47:41,500 --> 00:47:41,840
down.

1464
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:44,220
Spin the

1465
00:47:44,220 --> 00:47:44,940
wheel 10

1466
00:47:44,940 --> 00:47:45,880
free politics.

1467
00:47:49,119 --> 00:47:51,000
It's sad how much this fits in America.

1468
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:53,040
Yikes

1469
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:59,180
For every yeah, it's like Robin Hood like right don't they just like give out free stocks or

1470
00:47:59,180 --> 00:47:59,520
something

1471
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,620
It's all meaningless I guess at that point oh man

1472
00:48:06,860 --> 00:48:09,080
That's what happens when we sell to private equity, you know

1473
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:17,180
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