1 00:00:04,739 --> 00:00:05,460 I'm Scott. 2 00:00:05,740 --> 00:00:06,200 I'm Russell. 3 00:00:06,420 --> 00:00:06,880 And I'm Leo. 4 00:00:07,100 --> 00:00:07,800 This is Spitball. 5 00:00:17,179 --> 00:00:21,520 Welcome to Spitball, where three technical directors and a guest empty our heads of startup 6 00:00:21,660 --> 00:00:25,220 and tech product ideas that we have stuck up in there so you can all have them for free. 7 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:27,180 Anything that we say is yours to keep. 8 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,000 And Scott, I believe you brought our guest this week. 9 00:00:30,510 --> 00:00:31,200 I did. 10 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:32,800 I brought my good friend Meg. 11 00:00:33,020 --> 00:00:33,280 Hello. 12 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:40,140 Meg is a pharmaceutical account manager, but much more importantly, she is a gaming enthusiast, 13 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:45,620 Twitch streamer, theater nerd, anime cinephile, EMD connoisseur, cosplay designer, and all-around 14 00:00:45,740 --> 00:00:47,280 home-taught geek extraordinaire. 15 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:48,940 And she's going to fit right in on here. 16 00:00:49,620 --> 00:00:50,420 What's EMD? 17 00:00:50,590 --> 00:00:51,640 Do you mean EDM, Scott? 18 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:52,860 It's supposed to be EDM. 19 00:00:52,860 --> 00:00:53,080 (laughing) 20 00:00:53,500 --> 00:00:57,780 - I had a big conversation about EMDR today and like that. 21 00:00:58,260 --> 00:00:58,360 (laughing) 22 00:00:59,499 --> 00:01:02,060 For Peter Liu who's editing, I'm so sorry. 23 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,199 - I'm gonna keep it in and what's EMDR? 24 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:05,480 (laughing) 25 00:01:06,100 --> 00:01:08,240 - It's a form of therapy, like musical dance. 26 00:01:09,180 --> 00:01:09,580 (laughing) 27 00:01:11,220 --> 00:01:11,460 - Meg, welcome to Spitball. 28 00:01:11,460 --> 00:01:12,780 - We know what EDM is. 29 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:13,420 - Exactly. 30 00:01:13,740 --> 00:01:14,980 Welcome to Spitball Meg, how are you? 31 00:01:15,380 --> 00:01:16,960 - I'm great, thanks for having me guys. 32 00:01:16,960 --> 00:01:17,920 - We're so glad to have you. 33 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:18,800 This is gonna be really fun. 34 00:01:18,820 --> 00:01:20,440 - I'm flattered, who you thought of? 35 00:01:20,620 --> 00:01:24,080 In honor of you and Scott meeting at a DDM festival, 36 00:01:24,540 --> 00:01:26,560 I've written a game for us that I think will get us warmed up 37 00:01:26,580 --> 00:01:29,920 this week that I'm going to call Fun Rave or Fundraise. 38 00:01:30,460 --> 00:01:32,360 So in this one, I'm going to throw out a name. 39 00:01:33,119 --> 00:01:34,660 And all you have to tell me is, 40 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,640 is this the name of some sort of music festival 41 00:01:36,740 --> 00:01:37,820 that happens somewhere in the world? 42 00:01:38,420 --> 00:01:41,380 Or is this a recent graduate of the Y Combinator 43 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:44,460 fundraising venture capital, like demo day? 44 00:01:44,740 --> 00:01:46,060 So a startup that just started. 45 00:01:46,700 --> 00:01:46,900 - Okay. 46 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:49,880 - If I had said the bass coast, 47 00:01:50,220 --> 00:01:53,680 then you would say, of course, that that's the women founded boutique in the UK. 48 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,880 That is an electronic music festival started in 2009. 49 00:01:58,740 --> 00:02:00,720 As we do every week, I got to start with Meg. 50 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:07,340 Meg, Noisily, is that a music festival or a recent graduate startup? 51 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,640 Noisily, like the first thing I think of when I hear Noisily is maybe another 52 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:14,740 website with ly at the end. 53 00:02:15,380 --> 00:02:23,160 But Noisily sounds to me like a startup because I haven't heard, I've got a pretty good base 54 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,060 knowledge of like a lot of the North American festival scene at least. 55 00:02:27,090 --> 00:02:28,120 I haven't heard of Noisily. 56 00:02:28,460 --> 00:02:29,520 That's why I went worldwide. 57 00:02:29,800 --> 00:02:34,220 This is of course the Noisily Festival of Music and Arts that happens in Lancaster Shire 58 00:02:34,380 --> 00:02:34,960 in the UK. 59 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:36,680 And that would get me. 60 00:02:37,140 --> 00:02:40,140 It sounds a lot like a Noisily.ly or whatever. 61 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:40,560 Yeah, totally. 62 00:02:41,860 --> 00:02:44,140 Scott, Village Labs. 63 00:02:44,740 --> 00:02:48,620 to be startup right go and start up on that one yeah it's a fintech platform 64 00:02:48,780 --> 00:02:53,980 well done okay no one's gonna call their festival village labs I don't know it 65 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:03,780 sounds pretty EDM fringy to me Russell lumen orbit that's a gum I'll take 66 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:09,900 startup for 500 yeah they're building solar-powered data center constellations 67 00:03:09,900 --> 00:03:13,540 and they've rebranded recently to star cloud I almost called that one the one 68 00:03:13,900 --> 00:03:16,460 Star Cloud. That sounds like an EDM festival too, doesn't it? 69 00:03:16,470 --> 00:03:16,980 It does. 70 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:22,300 Star Cloud sounds like some of the prompt you'd get spit out from an AI when you're 71 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:27,120 like, "Hey, I've got this rocket ship company in this game that I'm building. What should 72 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:27,820 I call it?" 73 00:03:27,820 --> 00:03:29,940 "Chachapiti, give me 10 suggestions." 74 00:03:30,900 --> 00:03:33,440 Star Cloud sounds like a bargain bin video game. 75 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:34,899 Meg, Passage. 76 00:03:36,100 --> 00:03:41,360 Passage sounds like a rave. I don't think I've heard of it, but it sounds like a rave. 77 00:03:41,620 --> 00:03:42,420 It totally does. 78 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,880 AI copilot that automates customs, classification, 79 00:03:46,060 --> 00:03:46,700 and paperwork. 80 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:48,740 And also a rave. 81 00:03:49,140 --> 00:03:50,240 And also a rave. 82 00:03:51,940 --> 00:03:52,820 Scott Shambhala. 83 00:03:53,300 --> 00:03:56,280 S-H-A-M-B-H-A-L-A. 84 00:03:56,980 --> 00:03:58,940 I want this one to be EDM. 85 00:03:58,980 --> 00:03:59,760 I'm going to say festival. 86 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:03,580 Family run, sponsorship free, multi-stage rave 87 00:04:03,630 --> 00:04:04,460 in British Columbia. 88 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:05,020 Very good. 89 00:04:05,140 --> 00:04:05,500 I'm going to Canada. 90 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:06,140 Next year. 91 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:06,860 Are you going? 92 00:04:07,140 --> 00:04:07,880 Oh, very fun. 93 00:04:08,020 --> 00:04:08,560 Family friendly? 94 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:09,780 I have a bunch of Canadian friends. 95 00:04:09,980 --> 00:04:10,160 No. 96 00:04:10,540 --> 00:04:11,960 2025 is already sold out. 97 00:04:12,070 --> 00:04:14,040 People are doobie skinny dipping in the lake there. 98 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:15,960 Doobie skinny dipping? 99 00:04:16,140 --> 00:04:16,720 They doobie. 100 00:04:16,820 --> 00:04:19,940 There is a lake like right in the middle of all of it and people doobie skinny 101 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:20,760 dipping in that lake. 102 00:04:21,100 --> 00:04:22,140 Please don't burn your children. 103 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:24,460 They would love it. 104 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:26,560 They will learn. 105 00:04:26,860 --> 00:04:27,260 Russell. 106 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:29,480 Abundant. 107 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:30,960 Mmm. 108 00:04:31,780 --> 00:04:33,060 Ah, it's going to be a startup. 109 00:04:33,540 --> 00:04:36,440 Provides on demand human tele-ops workforce. 110 00:04:36,580 --> 00:04:37,480 A yes. 111 00:04:37,570 --> 00:04:39,740 To help rescue stuck AI agents. 112 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:40,340 Yes. 113 00:04:40,420 --> 00:04:45,580 YC company very good. Nice one more time through Meg rainbow serpent 114 00:04:46,540 --> 00:04:50,900 This is another one. I haven't heard of I you know in a perfect world. I have a 50/50 115 00:04:51,060 --> 00:04:56,620 I've got a goose egg right now. So realistically I can only either go up or stay where I'm at, right? 116 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:01,740 What's what's what's one more loss here? It sounds like 117 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:09,259 a four-day Australian bushed off side trance art workshop thing near Lexton, Victoria 118 00:05:10,340 --> 00:05:13,140 - I didn't rush up on my international EDM scene. 119 00:05:13,540 --> 00:05:14,660 - I had to go international 120 00:05:14,820 --> 00:05:16,560 'cause I figured you knew all the ones around here. 121 00:05:16,580 --> 00:05:19,020 - I got the North American one, Shambhala. 122 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:19,960 - You did. 123 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:22,440 Scott, Desert Hearts. 124 00:05:23,919 --> 00:05:26,060 - My gut instinct is EDM, 125 00:05:26,200 --> 00:05:28,120 but I've learned in this game to always say the opposite 126 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:29,440 when I think Leo's tricking. 127 00:05:29,580 --> 00:05:30,660 So I'm gonna go start up. 128 00:05:31,260 --> 00:05:33,500 - 72 hour house techno in love marathon 129 00:05:33,970 --> 00:05:35,080 in Flagstaff, Arizona. 130 00:05:35,100 --> 00:05:36,140 - Yeah, it's in the desert. 131 00:05:36,570 --> 00:05:37,900 - I figured you'd know about that. 132 00:05:37,980 --> 00:05:39,600 I just need to watch Meg's face on this. 133 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:40,200 (laughing) 134 00:05:40,660 --> 00:05:42,840 - Okay, I have a better poker face is what I'm hearing. 135 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:43,140 - That's right. 136 00:05:43,140 --> 00:05:45,360 - I heard, look, this was supposed to be audio. 137 00:05:46,180 --> 00:05:51,220 - Last one, Russell, Spacium, S-P-A-C-E-I-U-M. 138 00:05:51,720 --> 00:05:53,300 - That's an EDM, right? 139 00:05:54,300 --> 00:05:56,980 - Constructing robotic in-orbit refueling depot 140 00:05:56,980 --> 00:05:57,720 for spacecraft. 141 00:05:58,660 --> 00:06:00,760 Fresh off a $6.3 million seed round. 142 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:01,620 Sorry, that was another Y Combinator. 143 00:06:01,620 --> 00:06:03,260 - Dude, that's a Star Wars, like, 144 00:06:03,700 --> 00:06:04,980 - I know. (laughing) 145 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:06,920 - Refuel in space. 146 00:06:07,420 --> 00:06:11,360 Yeah, I didn't realize Y Combinator was graduating like so many space projects nowadays. 147 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:15,160 I mean, they have like refueling just in general for aircraft. 148 00:06:15,380 --> 00:06:17,700 It makes sense that spacecraft would need it too. 149 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:20,860 Space Wars, that's why, you know, patrol space. 150 00:06:21,100 --> 00:06:26,920 They're just creating the things that Space Force can use to justify having Space Force. 151 00:06:27,419 --> 00:06:28,680 Justify having it, right? 152 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:29,000 Yeah. 153 00:06:31,380 --> 00:06:32,560 Scott, I think you got a perfect score. 154 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:32,920 Am I right? 155 00:06:33,940 --> 00:06:34,240 Really? 156 00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:34,920 Pretty sure you did. 157 00:06:35,220 --> 00:06:35,400 Yep. 158 00:06:36,620 --> 00:06:37,160 Let's go. 159 00:06:37,180 --> 00:06:39,480 Does that mean I get to go first? 160 00:06:40,540 --> 00:06:41,500 What do you got for us this week, Scott? 161 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:42,760 All right. 162 00:06:43,020 --> 00:06:46,480 So this is a pretty simple idea, but I talked to my little sister about it. 163 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:47,180 I'm excited now. 164 00:06:47,660 --> 00:06:51,980 I recently watched this viral video where there's a Senator standing at a podium and 165 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:53,820 they're holding up different food pair products. 166 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:57,520 Like here's the, here's two Gatorades, two Skittles, pasta, bread, whatever. 167 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:00,540 And then they explained that this is the American version and this 168 00:07:00,580 --> 00:07:01,900 is the non-American version. 169 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,979 And then it was like a, we all know this is going as a 10 minute rant about how 170 00:07:05,980 --> 00:07:09,760 awful the stuff is that they put into the American version of the exact same thing. 171 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:14,160 You got the red dye 40, that titanium dioxide, subway bread is not even 172 00:07:14,340 --> 00:07:15,680 considered bread, all of that. 173 00:07:16,300 --> 00:07:20,180 Uh, my little sister spent a lot, went to school in Europe and she came back and 174 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,360 was just like, I can't believe how much better I felt like just living in Europe. 175 00:07:24,820 --> 00:07:26,720 Just, and I couldn't figure out what it was. 176 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:30,520 And then as soon as I got back to America, it all came back and how much, how 177 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:33,500 awful I feel just based upon the food that we're eating here. 178 00:07:33,900 --> 00:07:38,120 So there is a, people know all this already, but there's just been a bigger 179 00:07:38,380 --> 00:07:41,840 movement coming out lately of people just realizing this more and more. 180 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:47,640 And I want to create a EU grocery store in America, a hundred percent EU imported 181 00:07:47,740 --> 00:07:53,240 products, like nothing is allowed in there that, um, is goes against 182 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:54,440 the European union standards. 183 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:55,660 And that's it. 184 00:07:55,780 --> 00:07:59,280 It'll be a premium product, import everything, but people can eat all the 185 00:07:59,380 --> 00:08:00,960 good stuff that doesn't have all the crap. 186 00:08:01,580 --> 00:08:01,860 That's it. 187 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:02,960 Brick and mortar store. 188 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,000 maybe we'll do an online version so it's easier to ship to people in the US. 189 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:09,880 It's an exotic Asian market or whatever. 190 00:08:10,020 --> 00:08:11,260 But it's just cheap. 191 00:08:11,380 --> 00:08:15,560 That's what my immediate thought was is we think about like these market things 192 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:18,780 and a lot of times they're like peddling spices that are from their countries of 193 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:19,180 origin. 194 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:19,780 Nope. 195 00:08:19,780 --> 00:08:20,500 I want Skittles. 196 00:08:20,660 --> 00:08:24,100 But yeah, England like invaded everywhere for their spices. 197 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:25,500 Didn't use a single one of them. 198 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:26,380 Don't. 199 00:08:28,780 --> 00:08:32,360 I'm very curious of the types of things we are putting in this store. 200 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,200 Yeah, I want all the same products and if there's not, I want like the closest equivalent 201 00:08:37,289 --> 00:08:37,740 of product. 202 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:41,419 Like, this is an Areciz, but it's essentially the same thing and I want to have like the 203 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:44,180 Areciz logo above it and then the product below it. 204 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,480 So people, you know, stupid Americans can figure out what we're buying here. 205 00:08:47,820 --> 00:08:48,500 That's fun. 206 00:08:48,630 --> 00:08:53,000 It runs into all of the problems of like, you know, the Kinder Egg stuff, right? 207 00:08:53,060 --> 00:08:55,260 Where like we have certain things we can't have. 208 00:08:55,380 --> 00:08:55,540 Yeah. 209 00:08:56,060 --> 00:08:58,740 So I'm curious the overcome for that. 210 00:08:58,960 --> 00:08:59,900 But beyond that. 211 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,500 I feel like the bar is going to be a lot lower of being 212 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:06,220 at the import into America versus the other way around. 213 00:09:07,420 --> 00:09:07,820 Probably. 214 00:09:08,520 --> 00:09:09,940 I think I've told you this before. 215 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,320 I was traveling in Nepal, and there was this young lady 216 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:13,280 from Germany there. 217 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:14,740 And she was telling me about Aldi. 218 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:16,920 And Aldi in Europe, especially in Germany, 219 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:19,920 is like Walmart, Target, Megaplex. 220 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:22,600 She's like, yes, I got my cell phone and my camera 221 00:09:22,700 --> 00:09:23,820 that I have here at Aldi. 222 00:09:23,940 --> 00:09:24,940 I was like, really? 223 00:09:25,540 --> 00:09:27,600 The Aldi that expresses itself in the US 224 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,100 is budget store brands like, you know, 225 00:09:31,820 --> 00:09:34,940 Froot Loops knockoffs and cheap food and stuff. 226 00:09:35,030 --> 00:09:38,480 Whereas there it's like Megaplex supermarket, right? 227 00:09:38,780 --> 00:09:41,660 We need to like pitch this idea to Aldi. 228 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:43,480 Just have like one aisle that is-- 229 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:44,000 - That's the exit strategy. 230 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,520 - You're already a distributor and everything in Aldi UK. 231 00:09:46,820 --> 00:09:48,540 Like just bring it to all your stores here. 232 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:50,320 Set outside a corner of your store 233 00:09:50,440 --> 00:09:51,480 and just bring all that stuff 234 00:09:51,540 --> 00:09:52,780 that you're already selling over there. 235 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:55,740 - Dude, it's, I mean, Mexican Coke is really popular 236 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:57,320 because, and that's what they call it, right? 237 00:09:57,440 --> 00:09:59,900 'cause it's in a glass bottle and it's sugar cane 238 00:09:59,960 --> 00:10:01,360 instead of high fructose corn syrup. 239 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:02,960 - High fructose. - Whatever. 240 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:03,500 - Cocaine. 241 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:06,240 - Just like, can you smuggle that across the border? 242 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:07,480 You know what I mean? 243 00:10:07,620 --> 00:10:08,380 Instead of fentanyl. 244 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:10,200 (laughing) 245 00:10:12,340 --> 00:10:12,820 - Jesus. 246 00:10:13,260 --> 00:10:16,980 - Are we accusing the Brits of smuggling the fentanyl? 247 00:10:17,420 --> 00:10:18,480 - It's all Aldi, man. 248 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:19,960 - We're gonna bring, why don't we just grow 249 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:22,760 all the EU equivalent stuff and Skittles 250 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:24,160 and manufacture it in Mexico. 251 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:26,680 (laughing) 252 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:32,000 here. And then people can just drive through it too. Like why not just redo everything 253 00:10:32,140 --> 00:10:37,980 EU brand right across the border and then import it or people as they're driving through 254 00:10:38,500 --> 00:10:42,920 that way you don't have to deal with the whole tariff import stuff. You know what I mean? 255 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:49,200 It's like duty free. Yes. Let's just be next to an airport. I want like explanation placards 256 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:54,920 in the aisle way of like how it differs in the US. What and why. Here's all the ingredients. 257 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:57,500 So that way people are incentivized to buy. 258 00:10:57,700 --> 00:11:00,280 Yeah, like here is why you're here buying it. 259 00:11:00,500 --> 00:11:01,520 You've got that picture. 260 00:11:01,540 --> 00:11:04,940 Why don't I just pick up the things that's $3 less 261 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:05,720 over at Starbucks? 262 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:08,640 Here's all the side effects of the titanium dioxide 263 00:11:08,860 --> 00:11:11,180 that you're going to experience if you eat the regular version. 264 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,160 Of the red dye 40 that is only allowed in America. 265 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:15,740 There's so many things. 266 00:11:15,740 --> 00:11:17,740 You know how some of the store brand generic, like, 267 00:11:17,820 --> 00:11:21,000 great values will have, like, compare this 268 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,520 to actual bottle of Windex right on there. 269 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:28,780 And you want like that but the opposite where everything's on there compare this to Reese's peanut butter cups 270 00:11:28,960 --> 00:11:33,980 But way better you have like the equivalents like front and center. It's super obvious what this thing is 271 00:11:34,380 --> 00:11:39,140 Yeah, yeah, cuz I think you had mentioned before the whole bread thing. That was my favorite one 272 00:11:39,140 --> 00:11:45,300 I saw a whole series recently of people going around and like picking up like bread and picking up the ingredients and it's like if 273 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:48,699 You told like a bread maker to use these things to make 274 00:11:51,820 --> 00:11:53,860 You've made a long cupcake. Yes 275 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:04,640 To see what at that same value are we then worried about making bland food? 276 00:12:05,740 --> 00:12:06,740 We're good enough for 277 00:12:07,540 --> 00:12:10,180 Parisian bacon, right? There's got to be a way to make it good 278 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:17,520 We'll just start a movement and be like try this diet for three weeks or something and see how much better you'll feel and you 279 00:12:17,540 --> 00:12:20,740 Have to try it. Don't knock until you try it and then you'll get them. Hope it'll be great 280 00:12:20,740 --> 00:12:24,080 But not don't do organic stuff come over to the UK 281 00:12:33,460 --> 00:12:39,440 That is a perfect segue Scott you're going to someone you're telling him about this what is your cool store called 282 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:42,400 the eurozone 283 00:12:46,060 --> 00:12:48,360 You food is better and that's it 284 00:12:48,200 --> 00:12:49,400 Yeah, there you go. 285 00:12:50,140 --> 00:12:50,500 EU food. 286 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:51,900 EU food is better. 287 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:53,180 Eat up, EU. 288 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:54,800 Eat up, hey, that's great. 289 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:55,860 (laughing) 290 00:13:01,420 --> 00:13:02,820 All right, Leo, what do you got this week? 291 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,000 All right, Meg, I don't know if you were part of this era, 292 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:07,560 but Russell, Scott, maybe Meg, 293 00:13:08,020 --> 00:13:09,400 what was the best part of MySpace? 294 00:13:10,060 --> 00:13:11,600 You got to code it yourself, 295 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:12,240 and you could have music. 296 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:13,200 Get the music custom. 297 00:13:13,490 --> 00:13:14,640 You got to do it yourself. 298 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:15,840 Music, that's what I'm gonna get at. 299 00:13:16,200 --> 00:13:22,580 So there was a website like 10 years ago called turntable.fm that has come and gone and I think maybe it's launched again or something 300 00:13:22,760 --> 00:13:28,100 But its whole shtick was you have this little avatar and you're in one of many rooms and it's kind of chatroom style 301 00:13:28,839 --> 00:13:33,420 But you are building a playlist of music from music services or YouTube or whatever 302 00:13:33,980 --> 00:13:38,680 And then there's a stage at the front of the little avatar room and you play music for everyone else who's in the room 303 00:13:38,820 --> 00:13:43,440 So it's like a collaborative like game kind of where you're playing music for each other and stuff 304 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:44,920 Park that idea. 305 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:51,200 I would love, I was looking recently into what it would look like for FCC rules to have 306 00:13:51,300 --> 00:13:54,480 my own radio station for funsies, just a little hobby side thing. 307 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:57,720 And you can't have a terrestrial radio station, essentially. 308 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:03,380 You get like 200 feet of wattage and then you can barely reach the neighbor's house, 309 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:03,660 right? 310 00:14:04,280 --> 00:14:05,860 But we have the internet in front of us. 311 00:14:06,420 --> 00:14:14,339 I want to bring back the magic of MySpace where we have this choice of two to 10 songs 312 00:14:14,340 --> 00:14:18,720 that play that are your profile, that are your mood, that are your season of your life 313 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:19,220 that you're in. 314 00:14:19,630 --> 00:14:26,420 And I want to build a social network that is location-based music, where as I'm walking 315 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:34,420 around other users have pinned playlists to spots in the world and you can listen to each 316 00:14:34,460 --> 00:14:39,619 other's pins as you are walking through the neighborhood or walking by that museum and 317 00:14:39,620 --> 00:14:40,560 and they have that one exhibit, 318 00:14:40,780 --> 00:14:44,380 and oh, they've curated lists from the 1940s right now, 319 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,640 or you're walking through that college campus, 320 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,920 and wow, that dorm room has some really eclectic taste 321 00:14:50,060 --> 00:14:51,920 right here because there's 12 dudes 322 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,420 who have all built really weird playlists, or whatever. 323 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:58,240 It's radio, but it's internet-based, 324 00:14:58,540 --> 00:15:00,980 and this could be a feature within Spotify, 325 00:15:01,260 --> 00:15:03,240 or it could be its own separate service, I don't know yet, 326 00:15:03,580 --> 00:15:07,059 but I would love to recapture the personalization 327 00:15:07,060 --> 00:15:10,640 that was MySpace music with places in the world. 328 00:15:11,100 --> 00:15:12,680 - I'm just immediately picturing like, 329 00:15:12,860 --> 00:15:14,340 you go to a fancy restaurant and they're like, 330 00:15:14,420 --> 00:15:16,380 "This wine will pair perfectly with this dish." 331 00:15:16,380 --> 00:15:18,660 And so often, "And this song will pair perfectly 332 00:15:18,820 --> 00:15:21,800 with downtown Manhattan or something." 333 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:23,820 - You're laughing, but I've been to Alinea. 334 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:25,560 They already, not only do they do that, 335 00:15:25,590 --> 00:15:30,660 they pump in smells to like a meal, to enhance the meal. 336 00:15:31,180 --> 00:15:32,520 - I purposefully picked this one 337 00:15:32,580 --> 00:15:34,140 'cause I knew that you're a music enthusiast. 338 00:15:34,500 --> 00:15:40,800 It seems like there's something missing as far as the social aspect of music. 339 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,680 You can see what other people are playing on Spotify if they also happen to have Spotify, 340 00:15:44,860 --> 00:15:46,760 and that's about as social as it gets right now. 341 00:15:47,250 --> 00:15:50,080 There have been attempts over the years, but they never really reached critical mass, so 342 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:53,600 maybe you have to piggyback on the Apple Music's of the world or something, I don't know. 343 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:55,260 But we're so close. 344 00:15:55,290 --> 00:15:55,800 We have the internet. 345 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:55,940 Yeah. 346 00:15:56,380 --> 00:16:03,000 It definitely feels kind of like it could be a Spotify thing, but also it gives me Spotify. 347 00:16:03,540 --> 00:16:04,500 Did you ever see that, what is it called? 348 00:16:04,580 --> 00:16:06,500 Spotify thing or whatever, the car thing? 349 00:16:06,630 --> 00:16:07,780 - Oh yeah, car thing, yeah. 350 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,300 - Like, I imagine it almost is like, 351 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,900 it was an old failed thing, Spotify tried. 352 00:16:13,900 --> 00:16:14,360 - It's awesome. 353 00:16:14,600 --> 00:16:18,920 - It was basically like a dash MP3 almost. 354 00:16:20,110 --> 00:16:22,400 - Like a screen for cars that don't have screens 355 00:16:22,700 --> 00:16:24,400 and you can connect to Spotify 356 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,740 and basically you can change songs or that's it. 357 00:16:28,060 --> 00:16:28,640 You couldn't imagine. 358 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:30,800 - Imagine Apple CarPlay or Android Auto 359 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,020 except only Spotify and no screen. 360 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:34,600 - That's kinda sorta what it did. 361 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:35,360 - Exactly. - Right. 362 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,180 - Honestly, that's a great idea. 363 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:39,240 That little gap between technology. 364 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:41,340 - And then they discontinued it and bricked all the hardware. 365 00:16:41,340 --> 00:16:42,260 - They bricked it. 366 00:16:42,660 --> 00:16:43,420 It was crazy. 367 00:16:43,660 --> 00:16:46,800 You can't even use it to connect to your Spotify now. 368 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:47,720 It just doesn't work. 369 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:48,280 - Yep. 370 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:50,300 - But there was lots of, anyway, 371 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:51,920 that was a little side tangent. 372 00:16:52,080 --> 00:16:54,180 But yeah, so Spotify is like, you know, 373 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:56,960 I feel like the one to be involved in that type of thing, 374 00:16:57,120 --> 00:16:59,840 but I would also worry about bad actors. 375 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:02,360 How do we prevent bad actors? 376 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:04,900 I was just thinking what theme song. 377 00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:05,980 - The whole campus is just Rick Rolls. 378 00:17:05,980 --> 00:17:06,339 - Yes, exactly. 379 00:17:06,339 --> 00:17:06,780 - Yeah. 380 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:09,520 - I would love that app for that reason. 381 00:17:11,100 --> 00:17:11,920 - When we think of this, 382 00:17:12,199 --> 00:17:14,220 we just picture how Russell will abuse it. 383 00:17:14,300 --> 00:17:15,800 And that's your test case. 384 00:17:15,800 --> 00:17:16,740 - He's the hell out of that, man. 385 00:17:17,020 --> 00:17:18,100 - What's so in now? 386 00:17:18,180 --> 00:17:20,819 - But also it's so cool to be able to maybe just tap 387 00:17:21,060 --> 00:17:23,720 into like what a bunch of people have left 388 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:26,180 as like an impression for that area. 389 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:28,439 Like the vibe that they want 390 00:17:28,439 --> 00:17:30,100 or that they were feeling at that time. 391 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,260 - So I found one app that's kind of, 392 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:33,740 sort of a little bit like this. 393 00:17:33,860 --> 00:17:36,160 And it's shtick is that you leave a song 394 00:17:36,260 --> 00:17:37,720 on the map Pokemon Go style 395 00:17:37,820 --> 00:17:39,260 and then other people can collect them. 396 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:40,640 Which is cool. 397 00:17:40,710 --> 00:17:41,560 And I like that a lot. 398 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:43,980 It's like song map or something like that. 399 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,680 Neat, but not playlist enough for me. 400 00:17:48,820 --> 00:17:52,300 I wanna be able to like walk by someone's home 401 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:55,040 on my evening walk or drive on my commute 402 00:17:55,140 --> 00:17:58,800 and hear more than just one song that someone left. 403 00:17:58,950 --> 00:18:01,360 I wanna like get a radio station experience, you know? 404 00:18:01,780 --> 00:18:03,740 - Yeah, you want the Spotify DJ, 405 00:18:04,060 --> 00:18:05,840 but without it being an AI DJ. 406 00:18:06,230 --> 00:18:09,340 - I want all of my friends Spotify DJs is what I want. 407 00:18:09,550 --> 00:18:10,700 I wanna learn about them. 408 00:18:11,260 --> 00:18:13,900 - Which is so, what a good idea, honestly. 409 00:18:14,050 --> 00:18:17,280 It gives like, we already have like Geocache. 410 00:18:17,380 --> 00:18:19,780 It's like basically just Geocaching songs. 411 00:18:20,120 --> 00:18:21,560 - Yes, exactly. 412 00:18:21,940 --> 00:18:24,160 Geocaching my friends Spotify DJs. 413 00:18:24,650 --> 00:18:26,640 It would be so fun to dip into anyone 414 00:18:26,780 --> 00:18:28,279 who's given permission just to like hear 415 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:31,880 what your DJ for the week would have played. 416 00:18:33,020 --> 00:18:34,220 Doesn't even have to be location based. 417 00:18:34,250 --> 00:18:36,100 I wish I could just dip into my friends' 418 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:37,460 playlists of the week, that's cool. 419 00:18:37,980 --> 00:18:39,800 - It'd be cool if there was like an event 420 00:18:40,140 --> 00:18:41,900 where you'd walk around with Bluetooth speakers. 421 00:18:41,930 --> 00:18:43,900 You know how annoying that is when people walk around. 422 00:18:44,580 --> 00:18:46,560 But if everybody's walking to certain locations 423 00:18:46,780 --> 00:18:47,840 and it's all playing the same song. 424 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:50,820 - They're perfectly synced to the exact moment. 425 00:18:51,380 --> 00:18:53,040 Everyone's phones are all, oh that's fun. 426 00:18:53,180 --> 00:18:54,860 - That'd be interesting. - It's giving silent disco. 427 00:18:56,860 --> 00:18:57,580 - Yes, yes. 428 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,780 I wish more people had the turntable FM experience that I had. 429 00:19:01,780 --> 00:19:02,620 It was really cool. 430 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:10,100 We had six to eight people in my office who are all in various, like we aren't all in 431 00:19:10,140 --> 00:19:10,880 the same room, right? 432 00:19:11,380 --> 00:19:13,780 And it was 2015 or so. 433 00:19:14,310 --> 00:19:17,940 And we all had headphones on and we were taking turns getting up on stage and playing music 434 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,680 for each other in the background while we worked. 435 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:20,600 It was so cool. 436 00:19:20,610 --> 00:19:25,360 It was like having communal control over the office radio station or something, but just 437 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:25,900 for us. 438 00:19:26,320 --> 00:19:29,160 and we sort of curated a vibe together. 439 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:29,760 It was really neat. 440 00:19:29,940 --> 00:19:32,180 - I feel like they've already got some of this technology 441 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:34,220 for Spotify because they do jams. 442 00:19:34,460 --> 00:19:37,120 So you can already like connect with other users. 443 00:19:37,780 --> 00:19:40,420 So I definitely feel like we need to pitch this to Spotify. 444 00:19:40,660 --> 00:19:42,120 Hey Spotify, if you are listening. 445 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:43,240 - Totally. 446 00:19:43,700 --> 00:19:44,140 - Classic edgy strategy. 447 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:47,540 - When you do the jam, does it like take your 448 00:19:47,840 --> 00:19:50,200 and their interests into account together 449 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:51,820 and try to find mutual interest? 450 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,000 - So it does, there's two different ways 451 00:19:54,060 --> 00:19:55,720 that you can like blend with your friends. 452 00:19:55,840 --> 00:20:00,700 One is literally called a blend where it takes your music taste and your friend's music taste 453 00:20:00,740 --> 00:20:03,940 and curates a playlist with like your commonalities. 454 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:04,600 Oh, that's cool. 455 00:20:05,060 --> 00:20:08,600 And it tells you who like it pulled that interest from. 456 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:14,040 And then there's also Spotify jams where real time you build a playlist together and you 457 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:15,160 don't have to be next to each other. 458 00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:21,000 I've done this like across, you know, work floors with other people where we're all connected 459 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,740 into the same jam and we're adding stuff to this list and we can all control it at the 460 00:20:24,820 --> 00:20:25,200 same time. 461 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:30,240 That's super cool. So I'm yeah, like you said, we're on the cusp of this. This is maybe just 462 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,620 one more layer, which is the physical location on Earth feature. 463 00:20:34,180 --> 00:20:36,340 We're going to hear about it in a couple of months. We're going to know. 464 00:20:37,620 --> 00:20:39,160 That is the premise of this show. 465 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,960 I put something out in the world that I kind of want to see happen. I don't want to make 466 00:20:43,980 --> 00:20:49,240 a business out of this. Spotify, Apple Music, you can have it. Or YouTube music. Maybe this 467 00:20:49,260 --> 00:20:54,540 will be the first feature that people care about from YouTube. Finally climbed to relevance. 468 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:55,540 (laughs) 469 00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:58,540 - How many different like, there's like YouTube TV, 470 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:01,660 YouTube premium, YouTube music. 471 00:21:01,940 --> 00:21:04,460 Is that YouTube Red or is those two different things? 472 00:21:04,780 --> 00:21:06,220 - This is Leo's favorite rant. 473 00:21:07,940 --> 00:21:10,380 - Yeah, Google is a startup incubator 474 00:21:10,500 --> 00:21:11,840 where all 50 of their companies 475 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:13,240 happen to have the word Google in front. 476 00:21:13,620 --> 00:21:15,100 - Yeah. - It is a nightmare. 477 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:16,580 - I'm done being their guinea pig. 478 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,380 I jumped off of, yeah. 479 00:21:18,740 --> 00:21:20,820 - Ever since Aloe, I've been burned too much. 480 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:21,680 - Yeah. 481 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:23,740 - My whole house is like Google. 482 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,520 I've got the Google Hubs, I've got the Google Nest, 483 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,080 I've got my camera, everything, 484 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:29,880 my whole home is a Google environment. 485 00:21:30,060 --> 00:21:31,500 I wish I could wean off of it. 486 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,740 - There's a lot of good stuff until a project manager 487 00:21:35,140 --> 00:21:36,340 decides it's not interesting anymore 488 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:38,040 and then they discontinue it all. 489 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:38,640 - Yeah. 490 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:45,580 - All right, Russell, what do you have for us this week? 491 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:48,440 - Okay, so this one's interesting. 492 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:49,880 I was gonna start off with like 493 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:52,980 some Meyer Briggs Strength Finder thing, but no. 494 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:54,600 We're going to do something better and different. 495 00:21:55,340 --> 00:21:56,700 Horoscopes for MBAs. 496 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:57,040 Yeah. 497 00:21:57,860 --> 00:21:58,380 [LAUGHTER] 498 00:22:00,420 --> 00:22:01,160 We'll save that. 499 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:01,760 I'm putting this on. 500 00:22:03,220 --> 00:22:05,720 So this reminds me of Scott's plant idea. 501 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,480 I'm going with the musical theme here. 502 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,080 You know how everything has a resonance frequency? 503 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,980 And you can tie that resonant frequency to a musical note. 504 00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:15,700 OK? 505 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:15,940 Right. 506 00:22:16,380 --> 00:22:17,220 We're talking brown note? 507 00:22:18,559 --> 00:22:19,080 [LAUGHTER] 508 00:22:19,620 --> 00:22:20,140 Yes. 509 00:22:20,780 --> 00:22:22,420 Straight to the brown note. 510 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:23,980 Straight to the point. 511 00:22:25,380 --> 00:22:26,880 No. So this 512 00:22:27,140 --> 00:22:28,700 idea is where 513 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:30,540 you take the resonance frequency of 514 00:22:30,660 --> 00:22:31,580 different things throughout the 515 00:22:31,820 --> 00:22:33,360 house and you stick 516 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,060 these knockers on them. 517 00:22:35,460 --> 00:22:36,360 That's probably a better name for 518 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:38,320 that. And basically it 519 00:22:38,340 --> 00:22:38,920 would tap. 520 00:22:39,150 --> 00:22:40,360 You find all the different musical 521 00:22:40,420 --> 00:22:41,860 notes, you taps and then basically 522 00:22:41,870 --> 00:22:43,800 you hit play and it'll play songs 523 00:22:44,380 --> 00:22:45,400 based on a bunch of different 524 00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:47,000 resonance frequencies in the house. 525 00:22:47,010 --> 00:22:48,920 You have to hit and find all 526 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:50,760 the different right notes in 527 00:22:50,940 --> 00:22:53,060 any like location 528 00:22:53,060 --> 00:22:56,920 hit play and all of a sudden you're playing music with little knockers you 529 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:01,120 know all over the house okay all right that's it 530 00:23:01,300 --> 00:23:06,080 chop a better name the knockers is not good little knockers 531 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:19,540 that's his rap name okay so you want to turn inanimate objects in your house 532 00:23:19,420 --> 00:23:20,620 into a musical instrument? 533 00:23:20,780 --> 00:23:23,180 Well, not. It's more like a party trick. 534 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,540 Right. You know, it's like all these YouTube videos or what? 535 00:23:26,540 --> 00:23:27,460 And how do you do videos? 536 00:23:27,620 --> 00:23:30,400 There's a lot of like people like Stomp. 537 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:33,540 Remember Stomp where you like me? Yeah. Yeah. 538 00:23:33,540 --> 00:23:36,580 Yeah. It's just like making it's just a creating a different experience. 539 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,180 Right. Little party trick you throw out there. 540 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:41,300 Extreme Stomp Home Edition. OK. 541 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,660 Yeah. Birthday, baby, kids, birthday parties. 542 00:23:45,060 --> 00:23:47,260 Oh, man. All the cool little nursery. 543 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:48,460 What's our target audience? 544 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:50,980 I don't know if it has to knock it. 545 00:23:51,180 --> 00:23:56,020 You could just put, you just have a small speaker and you input that frequency into whatever the object is. 546 00:23:56,580 --> 00:24:02,140 The object will reverberate at that frequency and essentially play that note, turn anything into a speaker. 547 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:09,480 I think what Russell wants is a device that finds an object's resonant frequency and then plays it for you. 548 00:24:09,940 --> 00:24:14,960 And then you have to go around and use those as individual notes and your house is a piano. 549 00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:16,380 - Love that. - Your house is a piano. 550 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:17,640 - Yes. - Yes. 551 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:17,900 - Yes. 552 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,800 - Yes, and then you can like maybe even use your phone, 553 00:24:20,900 --> 00:24:24,400 like tip like A, B, you know, you literally tap the notes. 554 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:25,660 - Once you've got them on there. 555 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:27,580 - Yes. - All you need is a microphone 556 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,340 and speaker, which your phone has. 557 00:24:29,460 --> 00:24:32,060 This could be software where it does a sweep. 558 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:32,680 Ooh. 559 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:34,720 - You gotta sell them the hardware, 560 00:24:35,020 --> 00:24:36,000 which is just a mallet. 561 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:38,340 And like, you gotta buy this very special mallet. 562 00:24:39,180 --> 00:24:40,020 - A knocker. - For $300. 563 00:24:40,300 --> 00:24:41,440 - Beat the shit out of your fridge. 564 00:24:43,020 --> 00:24:44,880 - A regular tool would have worked, 565 00:24:45,060 --> 00:24:47,340 But everybody says the mallet works better. 566 00:24:47,680 --> 00:24:47,800 - Yeah. 567 00:24:48,420 --> 00:24:48,900 - The knocker. 568 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:50,340 - You're a marketer. 569 00:24:50,420 --> 00:24:50,980 - The knocker. 570 00:24:51,700 --> 00:24:51,820 (laughing) 571 00:24:51,820 --> 00:24:54,080 We gotta come up with a different name, guys. 572 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:55,400 We gotta. 573 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:57,340 - Russell's already bought the domain, man. 574 00:24:57,580 --> 00:24:57,760 - Yeah. 575 00:24:58,840 --> 00:24:59,800 - Knockers.com. 576 00:25:00,340 --> 00:25:01,140 - Oh, I think that's taken. 577 00:25:01,980 --> 00:25:03,520 - LilKnockers.com, also taken. 578 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:04,760 - I'm on the LilKnockers subreddit, 579 00:25:04,860 --> 00:25:06,120 and it is bleak, man. 580 00:25:06,300 --> 00:25:07,060 (laughing) 581 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:12,140 - I feel like the FBI agents won't like it if we say that. 582 00:25:12,300 --> 00:25:12,940 - Yeah, probably not. 583 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:21,280 이것은 모든 어린이를 유사한 뇌에 변화시켜 줄 것입니다. 584 00:25:22,540 --> 00:25:24,160 그들은 그것을 사랑할 것입니다. 585 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:27,880 그들은 그냥 주변을 뛰어다니며 그들을 울려주면 586 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:43,320 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 딴 587 00:25:43,340 --> 00:25:48,480 back of every dorm door I have lived on, she can pound on my mirror to get me to 588 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,080 like go do things. So now that my mirror doesn't live on the back of the door 589 00:25:52,220 --> 00:25:57,720 it's still where she pounds on because she's used to... yeah. So I'm just imagining my cat 590 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:02,460 with access to this technology. She already pounds on that mirror. 591 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,160 Imagine if she just... like yeah some bass behind it. 592 00:26:08,340 --> 00:26:13,640 So a sound wave has both the pitch that it's at, but also the timbre. 593 00:26:14,620 --> 00:26:20,120 So why a piano playing a G, middle C or whatever sounds different than a guitar. 594 00:26:20,630 --> 00:26:25,520 So what kind of, are you thinking like a percussion sort of whatever that fridge 595 00:26:25,780 --> 00:26:29,600 makes, where you hit it and it sort of, are you looking to like, electronify it? 596 00:26:29,620 --> 00:26:29,820 Okay. 597 00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:30,160 Okay. 598 00:26:30,260 --> 00:26:30,460 Okay. 599 00:26:31,140 --> 00:26:34,260 Mallet lifts up, drops up, drops. 600 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:35,740 Oh, this is automated. 601 00:26:36,380 --> 00:26:36,520 Yeah. 602 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:37,820 This is electronically controlled. 603 00:26:37,860 --> 00:26:39,400 I'm learning more about this idea every time. 604 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:39,620 I like it. 605 00:26:39,620 --> 00:26:40,760 - I wasn't picturing this right. 606 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,860 So you're attaching various devices that wallop, 607 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,080 like a kick drums hammer? 608 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:48,600 Yeah, okay, okay. 609 00:26:49,020 --> 00:26:50,080 - He wants a metronome. 610 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:50,320 - Pen. 611 00:26:52,059 --> 00:26:53,280 Okay, this is another note. 612 00:26:54,380 --> 00:26:55,760 All right, I get four of those 613 00:26:56,180 --> 00:26:57,820 throughout all these different items in my house. 614 00:26:58,000 --> 00:26:58,220 - Robotic. 615 00:26:58,940 --> 00:27:00,600 - Now I can play music across. 616 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,160 - A four chord song, 'cause you only need four. 617 00:27:03,180 --> 00:27:03,720 - There you go. 618 00:27:03,860 --> 00:27:04,080 - There we go. 619 00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,000 - You are making a Chuck E. Cheese band. 620 00:27:06,060 --> 00:27:07,280 - You gotta buy the eight pack though. 621 00:27:07,500 --> 00:27:09,380 a Chuck E. Cheese animatronic band 622 00:27:09,460 --> 00:27:11,280 out of your home's household objects. 623 00:27:11,580 --> 00:27:12,200 - I like that. 624 00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:13,900 - Your phone knows what-- - I show up to my friend's house. 625 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,440 I throw all these mallets all throughout the house 626 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,520 and now I'm playing music randomly. 627 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:19,440 - I love it. 628 00:27:19,940 --> 00:27:20,420 - That rules. 629 00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,480 Can you picture the mechanism in front of a kick drum 630 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:23,760 that the person has their foot on? 631 00:27:23,900 --> 00:27:24,380 - Exactly. 632 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:25,580 - It's that, I love that. 633 00:27:26,060 --> 00:27:26,800 But with a robotic. 634 00:27:26,940 --> 00:27:28,380 - And that's cool 'cause the app will know, 635 00:27:28,460 --> 00:27:30,460 it'll hit it once, learn what note it is, 636 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,080 and then be like, "Okay, here's all the songs 637 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,760 "you can play with what you've put out there." 638 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:35,160 - I have to show you guys something 639 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:37,480 'cause it just reminded me of the app I have 640 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:42,200 Automaton have you guys heard of it? I didn't know they had an app. Oh 641 00:27:42,460 --> 00:27:45,420 The automaton sir, they're like the weird. Yeah, man 642 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:52,440 No, it's a big music note, but Pac-man mouth at the bottom and then you rest your finger does the black plays that on late-night 643 00:27:52,540 --> 00:27:52,900 shows 644 00:27:59,100 --> 00:28:03,840 Know that there was an app I'm very excited to learn more about this. It's cuz it's an electric one 645 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:11,000 It's an electric automaton and so it's electric. It's not it feeds into the app and then the app can like I 646 00:28:12,740 --> 00:28:16,640 Remember the summer of Dylan went electric it was a tomatone 647 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:24,020 So just a bunch of robotic mallets whacking your fridge and your safe stove and stuff 648 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:28,960 Yeah, that's ace. You know that one you're watching called. I already got little knockers 649 00:28:33,259 --> 00:28:33,820 knockers 650 00:28:36,159 --> 00:28:36,960 -Mallet music. 651 00:28:37,700 --> 00:28:38,600 -Stomp it home. 652 00:28:40,100 --> 00:28:40,840 -Stomp it up. 653 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:41,660 -I don't know. 654 00:28:42,260 --> 00:28:45,160 We can't do it, but the little knockers are like the standard ones, 655 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:46,740 and then you can buy the big knocker, 656 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:50,100 which is the base one that you put on your fridge or your wall or something. 657 00:28:50,559 --> 00:28:51,320 -Oh, jeez. 658 00:28:51,780 --> 00:28:52,340 -There we go. 659 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:53,880 Maybe we just stick with it. 660 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,120 Maybe that's how we go viral, innocently calling them knockers. 661 00:28:57,639 --> 00:29:01,080 -Viral YouTuber goes crazy with 200 knockers. 662 00:29:01,420 --> 00:29:05,660 Musical mallets is good. We have Hammer Time. 663 00:29:06,100 --> 00:29:08,100 Oh, is that trademarked? 664 00:29:08,940 --> 00:29:10,740 Probably. Hammer Time. 665 00:29:10,820 --> 00:29:14,060 And then you just start like the Hammer Time music instrument. 666 00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:15,100 That's it. 667 00:29:15,380 --> 00:29:17,880 That it's the whole phrase, but everybody calls it Hammer Time. 668 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,140 Stop. HammerTimeMusicalInstrument.com 669 00:29:21,300 --> 00:29:21,500 Yeah. 670 00:29:23,419 --> 00:29:25,380 That's the test song too. 671 00:29:25,580 --> 00:29:27,480 Once you hang it up on all of our... 672 00:29:27,220 --> 00:29:29,480 Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum 673 00:29:31,639 --> 00:29:36,840 Gotta give you an example. So yeah clearly just seem like the kind of thing that you know comes in a four-pack 674 00:29:36,890 --> 00:29:42,960 But then somebody online has bought 200 of them and has turned some warehouse into a root bouldering machine or something 675 00:29:43,860 --> 00:29:46,920 You know crazy instrument. Here's all the Bohemian Rhapsody or whatever 676 00:29:47,140 --> 00:29:51,420 That's what you do you hire that guy to do that and then you take a tick tock video of it 677 00:29:51,460 --> 00:29:53,840 And that's the promotion. That's a great idea 678 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:58,980 Yeah, some guys gonna take this and just put it on it get 88 of them and put them on a piano 679 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:01,800 Just go in full circle, man 680 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:07,820 88 pianos of different sizes 681 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,080 From the little tiny toy piano for kids all the way to like a baby grand 682 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,720 Not hitting any of the notes you just hit the piano. This is my piano piano 683 00:30:29,380 --> 00:30:34,940 And he replaced all the mallets and the hammers inside of it with real hammers 684 00:30:37,620 --> 00:30:41,140 Nice I like that I heard you like piano so we turned 685 00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,960 All your pianos into a piano so you can piano your pianos 686 00:30:46,980 --> 00:30:49,399 piano out of increasingly smaller 687 00:30:49,400 --> 00:31:05,280 pianos I love little not that's the testimonial right at the top of the page 688 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:16,680 Meg what do you have for us this week all right guys I have for you a problem 689 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,800 I'm sure we have all experienced before. 690 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:20,500 So let's walk through it with me. 691 00:31:20,500 --> 00:31:20,820 Are you ready? 692 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,280 We're going to an anime convention. 693 00:31:23,580 --> 00:31:26,700 We have just spent the last four months 694 00:31:27,060 --> 00:31:28,920 and realistically the last week 695 00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:30,760 actually working on our cosplay. 696 00:31:32,740 --> 00:31:36,300 And it is this giant petticoat dress. 697 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,480 It is giving you social distancing prior to COVID. 698 00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:43,100 I don't know if you've seen a petticoat. 699 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,800 That thing makes you like two to three times larger 700 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:52,740 than you are in a perfect circle. And I ran into this specific problem of, I got to a 701 00:31:52,820 --> 00:31:59,180 place like Yomacon and I've realized, I don't know if I can actually get around. I'm in 702 00:31:59,220 --> 00:32:05,660 this giant dress trying to go up an escalator with petticoats on. Not only that, I had to 703 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:11,040 figure out the tram system to get between the different buildings that they hold, like, 704 00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:16,580 at and figuring out a tram system in an unfamiliar city 705 00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,240 in a giant cosplay. 706 00:32:19,220 --> 00:32:21,300 'Cause I'm also holding a giant sword and shield. 707 00:32:21,700 --> 00:32:25,100 I'm cosplaying as Rose Quartz from Steven Universe. 708 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:27,720 So it's pretty big, hair's big too. 709 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:28,720 - Very good. 710 00:32:28,890 --> 00:32:31,600 - And the whole time I got very lucky 711 00:32:31,820 --> 00:32:34,560 because I was able to use my friends as a cosplay handler, 712 00:32:35,210 --> 00:32:37,140 which is essentially the person that goes around 713 00:32:37,190 --> 00:32:39,300 and deals with things like doors. 714 00:32:40,100 --> 00:32:43,400 I can't read because I physically can't get to it 715 00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:44,280 beyond my dress. 716 00:32:45,340 --> 00:32:46,840 Not only that, but like things like 717 00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,700 when there are cameras taking pictures of me, 718 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,320 I can't necessarily see what the back of my wig looks like. 719 00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:56,780 There is not a service currently for cosplay handlers 720 00:32:59,099 --> 00:33:02,320 to hire somebody to come in 721 00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,360 and do that kind of work for you. 722 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:05,300 - A Sherpa. 723 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:06,280 - Yeah. 724 00:33:08,820 --> 00:33:11,080 If you are unfamiliar to this area, 725 00:33:11,100 --> 00:33:13,980 you don't have a friend that you can rely on, 726 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,780 or if you and your friends are in cosplay, 727 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:18,420 what are you gonna do? 728 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:23,900 So, yeah, my idea is a collective of craftsmen 729 00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:26,200 who can get together, craftspeople in general, 730 00:33:26,820 --> 00:33:28,880 who are knowledgeable in cosplay 731 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,760 or in the handling of cosplay at different events 732 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:37,160 to essentially have like a hiring system, 733 00:33:37,220 --> 00:33:38,820 like a LinkedIn style for that. 734 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:40,820 I want it to go beyond that though. 735 00:33:40,820 --> 00:33:43,000 I want you to be able to like schedule ahead of time 736 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:44,100 to have these people there. 737 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:47,220 I also want whatever this cosplay handling service, 738 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,140 I want them to have some kind of like partnership 739 00:33:50,380 --> 00:33:51,200 with the conventions. 740 00:33:51,820 --> 00:33:54,820 So that way there are just cosplay handlers available 741 00:33:55,020 --> 00:33:56,700 to rent throughout the convention. 742 00:33:57,740 --> 00:33:58,940 - Yes, that's it. 743 00:33:59,600 --> 00:33:59,980 - Amazing. 744 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:01,620 - I think it's like the premium, 745 00:34:02,060 --> 00:34:04,860 like you have a special pin or something 746 00:34:04,860 --> 00:34:07,920 and you paid to be a cosplayer 747 00:34:08,419 --> 00:34:10,280 and everybody's opening your doors for you. 748 00:34:10,379 --> 00:34:13,100 People are looking for the cosplay pin 749 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,240 or like, I don't know, some sort of method 750 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,659 to identify who you are and if you paid for it. 751 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:21,020 And they're doing, there's just a fleet of people, 752 00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:23,580 I'm guessing, throughout this convention 753 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:24,919 that are helping you do everything 754 00:34:25,700 --> 00:34:27,000 because you have the, I don't know, 755 00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:28,700 the RFID tag or something. 756 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,840 - Yeah, I'm feeling like, almost like cosplay EMS also, 757 00:34:32,020 --> 00:34:34,320 where like, you can take advantage of that app 758 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,659 to do location-based, like, this is the convention we are at. 759 00:34:38,780 --> 00:34:42,780 Here are all of the EMS workers that can repair your cosplay, 760 00:34:42,980 --> 00:34:45,480 that can follow you around to make sure you're eating and drinking, 761 00:34:45,740 --> 00:34:49,159 that can, whatever, rent them for a little period of time, 762 00:34:49,639 --> 00:34:52,540 or maybe a subscription service where, whatever, 763 00:34:52,780 --> 00:34:56,240 and you can, like, go based off of, like, their experience. 764 00:34:56,399 --> 00:34:59,480 'Cause sometimes maybe I need, like, somebody to style my wig, 765 00:34:59,980 --> 00:35:01,520 and that kind of person is gonna be different 766 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:06,440 than the kind of person who needs to like hot glue back together, whatever just fell apart. 767 00:35:06,540 --> 00:35:09,220 Just a guy walking around with hot glue guns. I love it. 768 00:35:09,220 --> 00:35:15,620 Totally. So we are a tech startup nerdy targeted show. So I think everyone listening knows what 769 00:35:15,660 --> 00:35:20,300 this is. But can you give the two sentence version of why you like cosplay and what it 770 00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:25,160 is for in case someone doesn't know? Yeah, absolutely. So cosplay is for 771 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:32,140 pretty much any fandom, but it originated realistically with anime. And it is a way for 772 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:39,900 those who are creative enough to literally create the costume pieces to imitate their favorite 773 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:47,380 character from any fandom, whether that be a manga or an anime or people cosplay and dress up as 774 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:52,480 costumes and a lot of other stuff. But it is typically seen around in anime. Have you had 775 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,520 any notable, "God, I wish I had this person" moments 776 00:35:57,060 --> 00:36:00,040 with costume falling apart, or just wish you had a guide? 777 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,440 - Yeah, definitely costume falling apart. 778 00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:04,620 - Oh no! 779 00:36:06,340 --> 00:36:08,800 - I briefly talked about this actually recently, 780 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:09,400 which is funny. 781 00:36:09,620 --> 00:36:13,140 I made a whole sword out of Worbla, 782 00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:14,540 which is a thermal plastic. 783 00:36:15,020 --> 00:36:15,320 - Whoa. 784 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:18,780 - Yeah, so the base of it, this is what I mean, 785 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:20,880 is it takes a lot of knowledge 786 00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:22,380 and there's a lot that goes into it. 787 00:36:23,180 --> 00:36:24,900 The base was like a wooden dowel 788 00:36:25,020 --> 00:36:27,200 that I then molded with foam around it 789 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,020 and did inlay designs on, 790 00:36:29,140 --> 00:36:31,080 and then I put Worbla on top of that 791 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:32,740 and then created it. 792 00:36:32,940 --> 00:36:34,640 But there was a point at which 793 00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,020 I had worked the Worbla too much 794 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:38,480 and it was beginning to crack, 795 00:36:38,580 --> 00:36:40,160 and it cracked real big. 796 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:42,980 And I didn't know how to handle it 797 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:44,260 'cause my paint was chipping 798 00:36:44,420 --> 00:36:46,460 and I had to go and get somebody 799 00:36:46,740 --> 00:36:48,240 with emergency modge podge 800 00:36:48,620 --> 00:36:50,720 and do just a slab job. 801 00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:51,720 so it would hold together. 802 00:36:52,420 --> 00:36:54,120 And so thankfully, I was able to, 803 00:36:54,260 --> 00:36:56,460 you know, I happened to be 804 00:36:56,580 --> 00:36:58,080 there with many friends who have 805 00:36:58,220 --> 00:36:59,980 like cosplay connections and 806 00:36:59,980 --> 00:37:01,160 so they could go out and be like, 807 00:37:01,240 --> 00:37:03,160 hey, who's got the sink and 808 00:37:03,420 --> 00:37:04,140 and save the day? 809 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:06,240 But it'd be nice if I had a whole 810 00:37:06,300 --> 00:37:06,840 service. 811 00:37:07,540 --> 00:37:09,560 Uber for emergency 812 00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:10,320 sewing. 813 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:11,920 Yeah. 814 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:12,520 Yeah. 815 00:37:12,980 --> 00:37:14,100 That's cool. Partnering with the 816 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:15,280 convention seems like your easy way 817 00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:16,320 in for a business like this. 818 00:37:17,060 --> 00:37:17,260 Yeah. 819 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,640 We will for a fee or 820 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:26,200 for free. You convention people advertise this too, and then we just charge the customer directly. 821 00:37:26,300 --> 00:37:30,100 It doesn't cost you anything, but it gives you brownie points, like, we love cosplayers and 822 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:34,760 here's a service we brought in, but the convention doesn't have to pay necessarily. It could just be 823 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:40,420 the people who need the services or vice versa. Would you like to do a scholarship for the people 824 00:37:40,620 --> 00:37:46,320 who are coming in, you know? The convention will cover your first one repair for free if you make 825 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,440 make an account or something. 826 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:47,800 Yeah. 827 00:37:48,190 --> 00:37:49,540 And it might be nice for people who 828 00:37:49,700 --> 00:37:51,900 have those kinds of skills to make a little bit of money 829 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,700 as their own freelance agent doing that kind of work. 830 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,780 I have a couple of seamstress friends 831 00:37:57,780 --> 00:37:59,480 who maybe don't want to necessarily commit 832 00:37:59,540 --> 00:38:00,860 to making a whole cosplay. 833 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:04,240 But if they're at a con, they'll sign up for $20 834 00:38:04,620 --> 00:38:06,180 to fix somebody something real fast. 835 00:38:06,260 --> 00:38:06,560 Absolutely. 836 00:38:06,770 --> 00:38:07,720 You have a captive audience. 837 00:38:08,150 --> 00:38:10,900 They just roll in with their sewing machine, hot glue gun, 838 00:38:10,940 --> 00:38:11,600 and 3D printer. 839 00:38:11,780 --> 00:38:13,980 And they just got the little booth in the back ready to go. 840 00:38:13,980 --> 00:38:14,480 I love it. 841 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:15,420 Yeah. 842 00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,120 You glossed over the guide side of this, 843 00:38:18,220 --> 00:38:21,060 but I feel like that's way more applicable 844 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:22,340 to a general audience. 845 00:38:22,580 --> 00:38:27,980 The conference local employee guide person. 846 00:38:28,340 --> 00:38:29,700 Yeah. That's cool. 847 00:38:30,220 --> 00:38:32,200 Yeah, just having somebody who's been 848 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:33,840 to that kind of a convention before 849 00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:35,180 can then walk you through, 850 00:38:35,780 --> 00:38:38,380 here's an escalator that you can get your consul. 851 00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:38,840 (laughing) 852 00:38:39,300 --> 00:38:42,480 Here's how these trams work to get to this place. 853 00:38:43,060 --> 00:38:45,540 Here's where on the schedule your next shoot is. 854 00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,340 you know, type of thing, almost as like manager. 855 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:49,180 - Totally. 856 00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,240 - Is this like a cosplay network? 857 00:38:51,460 --> 00:38:53,480 Like, why isn't this maybe more of a 858 00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,420 like social network type of app 859 00:38:56,560 --> 00:38:57,920 where if you're at the convention, 860 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:01,620 you know, people helping other people out, right? 861 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:03,520 Rather than it being a whole network service 862 00:39:03,580 --> 00:39:05,740 or a paid service, you could just like-- 863 00:39:05,740 --> 00:39:06,160 - Peer to peer. 864 00:39:06,420 --> 00:39:07,500 - Peer to peer, right? 865 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:08,300 Hey, I have-- 866 00:39:08,300 --> 00:39:09,120 - Who has extra LEDs? 867 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:10,360 I've got a hot glue gun. 868 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:10,820 - Yeah. 869 00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:12,460 - And then live at the convention, 870 00:39:12,550 --> 00:39:15,860 you can hit like EMT needed for this 871 00:39:15,860 --> 00:39:20,240 out your note and now people are like, oh, I can help with that. Or I'm not cosplaying. 872 00:39:20,300 --> 00:39:23,440 In my profile, I list all the stuff that I'm good at and have. 873 00:39:23,660 --> 00:39:23,780 Mm-hmm. 874 00:39:23,780 --> 00:39:27,360 And other people list needed this and I'm pinged. Yeah. 875 00:39:27,460 --> 00:39:31,740 Or I'm cosplaying or not cosplaying. Maybe like you rotate or you didn't do it that time, 876 00:39:31,820 --> 00:39:35,920 but you're there to help people. So you bring some extra stuff and you just- 877 00:39:35,920 --> 00:39:40,860 The next day you aren't cosplaying, so you're available to then swap for somebody. Yeah. 878 00:39:41,300 --> 00:39:44,240 Yeah, I don't know. I guess that sounds easy. 879 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,320 It may be easier, but that's also cheaper. 880 00:39:51,059 --> 00:39:56,240 It's more wholesome. It is less of a business, but it sounds like that's the community, though, to tips. 881 00:39:56,640 --> 00:40:02,400 It's great. I feel like cosplayers are kind of like, you know, one of those like that community of people that want to help each other. 882 00:40:02,460 --> 00:40:03,660 When you're here, your family. 883 00:40:04,020 --> 00:40:05,960 That's it. There's definitely like a section of them. 884 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:13,400 I think part of that is just getting everybody on the same social media to work that, right? 885 00:40:13,420 --> 00:40:17,980 Because some people use like Discord, some people are like Instagram, some people, you 886 00:40:17,980 --> 00:40:18,520 know, everything. 887 00:40:19,180 --> 00:40:22,360 So it's what is the best forum for that too? 888 00:40:22,680 --> 00:40:22,840 Right. 889 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,420 We don't need another social app. 890 00:40:24,420 --> 00:40:25,040 We need another. 891 00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:26,820 Oh, we'll say the opposite. 892 00:40:28,340 --> 00:40:30,540 Immediately the same, the opposite thing. 893 00:40:30,540 --> 00:40:31,400 We need another one? 894 00:40:31,430 --> 00:40:32,599 Is that what... 895 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,900 I mean, it's kind of cool to have your own niche in that way, but like, yeah, I could 896 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,780 see people being like, "Oh, I don't want another Facebook." 897 00:40:39,780 --> 00:40:39,820 Right? 898 00:40:40,180 --> 00:40:40,420 Yeah. 899 00:40:40,880 --> 00:40:45,040 It almost gives me more like, I don't know if you guys will have ever heard of this. 900 00:40:45,060 --> 00:40:46,240 Have you ever heard of Ravelry? 901 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,560 So it's a website for hosting patterns. 902 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:50,220 So I crochet. 903 00:40:50,460 --> 00:40:50,720 Oh, yeah. 904 00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:55,420 So it'll host like crochet and like knitting patterns. 905 00:40:56,340 --> 00:41:01,960 So maybe something along those lines where it's more community focused in that way. 906 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:03,280 Yeah, I see. 907 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:05,400 I wonder if there is like a different thing 908 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,220 it could piggyback off of already, 909 00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:08,660 like Ravelry or something. 910 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:10,580 Oh yeah, if there's a cosplay.net. 911 00:41:10,580 --> 00:41:11,340 Existing service. 912 00:41:11,780 --> 00:41:12,320 Yeah, right. 913 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,060 I have yet to see any like official ones, 914 00:41:15,060 --> 00:41:17,500 but I just think it would be so neat to have a 915 00:41:17,980 --> 00:41:20,680 well known in the community style, 916 00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:23,840 like cosplay EMS that goes around to different conventions. 917 00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:26,880 So you're, you know, familiar with them in general. 918 00:41:27,980 --> 00:41:30,920 Yeah, the easy way to rocket to popularity 919 00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,960 would be to piggyback off of getting the convention 920 00:41:33,180 --> 00:41:35,560 behind you and have a service to offer them 921 00:41:36,220 --> 00:41:39,400 that then puts your logo all over their posters 922 00:41:39,660 --> 00:41:43,180 and their website and pamphlets and all that stuff. 923 00:41:43,380 --> 00:41:46,620 Like looking for this, we partnered with your business 924 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,300 to like get you the service and help you need. 925 00:41:49,380 --> 00:41:50,260 Yeah, that's really cool. 926 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:52,360 - And there's multiple conventions, 927 00:41:53,180 --> 00:41:54,340 not just anime, right? 928 00:41:54,620 --> 00:41:56,700 Comic-Con, there's so many different conventions. 929 00:41:56,700 --> 00:41:57,800 - Gen Con. - Yep. 930 00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:00,380 Like it just, there's so many. 931 00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:05,580 So why it should be a service or like you could create a service, right? 932 00:42:05,680 --> 00:42:08,920 That's external third party and just tap into this, right? 933 00:42:09,300 --> 00:42:09,440 Yeah. 934 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:13,440 You could even white label and like offer to come alongside the existing 935 00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,320 app and just not have, you know, you can just be an infrastructure company for 936 00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:23,320 this, but then you show up, you add like extra long canes for doors, right? 937 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:28,680 There's a special cane for a door so you can open it or, you know, somebody 938 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,060 -They gave you the map of the convention center 939 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,760 that they had custom made for extra wide costumes. 940 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:37,460 Here's elevators, here's bathrooms. 941 00:42:37,460 --> 00:42:41,320 -The door height is this amount for the people that go in on stilts and stuff. 942 00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:43,780 -This is your optimal path based upon your dimensions. 943 00:42:43,900 --> 00:42:45,300 -You have to go through this entrance. 944 00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,340 If you try that one, you're going to get stuck. 945 00:42:48,060 --> 00:42:49,220 -Garage Bay 5. 946 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:53,280 -You just talk to Eddie for the forklift. 947 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:53,800 -Yes. 948 00:42:55,240 --> 00:43:00,840 pivoting. You are going around the convention center that's happening ahead of time in the 949 00:43:00,980 --> 00:43:02,040 days leading up to the event. 950 00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:07,720 And you're measuring all of the things you're taking, you know, augmented realities, pictures 951 00:43:07,820 --> 00:43:11,920 and measurements of door frames and of trams and of whatever. 952 00:43:12,620 --> 00:43:18,620 And then you're then gating all of that behind an app that people like you, the participant, 953 00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,680 are downloading where you say, I want to get from here to here. 954 00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:23,580 and it's a navigation transit app 955 00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:25,340 where it says you can't go through this door, 956 00:43:25,340 --> 00:43:26,600 you gotta go around that way. 957 00:43:27,060 --> 00:43:31,220 You're like the very niche boutique navigator. 958 00:43:32,060 --> 00:43:32,620 - Yeah. - That's cool. 959 00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,820 - I'm more so thinking, yeah, it's like, 960 00:43:35,150 --> 00:43:38,100 you could hire like a, yeah, someone who's like a local guide 961 00:43:38,260 --> 00:43:40,440 and if you have this planned ahead of time, 962 00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:43,100 part of their duties could be going out and scoping, 963 00:43:43,340 --> 00:43:46,400 like, here's the dimensions of my weird cosplay 964 00:43:46,620 --> 00:43:47,780 with its crazy wings. 965 00:43:48,380 --> 00:43:52,620 Are there any issues you think I'm going to run into walking around? 966 00:43:53,780 --> 00:43:56,300 Not only that, but literally to have them follow you 967 00:43:56,420 --> 00:43:59,960 while you're also walking around so you don't knock some kid out with your wing. 968 00:44:01,100 --> 00:44:05,160 Will this theater seat be compatible with 12-foot wings? 969 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:05,440 Yes. 970 00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,580 What's cool is you can map this convention center out once, 971 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,680 have it in your app and you have the base tier 972 00:44:13,140 --> 00:44:15,320 and then the premium tier being like, you know, 973 00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:18,400 handyman services or whatever follow follow. 974 00:44:18,620 --> 00:44:19,680 I don't know what to call it. Right. 975 00:44:19,940 --> 00:44:22,220 Put in your personal like statistics 976 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:23,720 and we'll tell you if you can fit. 977 00:44:23,900 --> 00:44:25,120 Yeah, exactly. That's what I was. 978 00:44:25,180 --> 00:44:26,880 Yeah. I hadn't thought of it like that. 979 00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,380 Just mapping the whole actual convention center out 980 00:44:29,480 --> 00:44:30,180 as an additional. 981 00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:31,540 That'd be good, too. 982 00:44:31,780 --> 00:44:34,000 Honestly, it would be good to have a better map. 983 00:44:34,060 --> 00:44:34,700 Let's be so real. 984 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,780 Half of the convention maps are so bad. 985 00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:37,820 Yeah, 100 percent. 986 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:38,360 Oh, yeah. 987 00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:41,300 They are not built for giving advice to people 988 00:44:41,420 --> 00:44:42,520 with 12 foot fairy wings. 989 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,960 Look, we've been spending the last three days building those fairy wings. 990 00:44:51,000 --> 00:44:52,300 You thought it was three months. 991 00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:54,400 We spent three days with a lot of hot glue. 992 00:44:54,540 --> 00:44:58,200 We didn't got a whole lot of brain power left up there to figure out what you mean when 993 00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,660 you changed what number we're in five times. 994 00:45:02,100 --> 00:45:07,260 Well, dear listener, we know that you're taking a quick break between sessions over with us 995 00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:08,060 in your ear. 996 00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,480 Thank you very much for listening to us while you're at your con. 997 00:45:11,780 --> 00:45:15,480 We appreciate you being a listener and thank you very much Meg for joining us. 998 00:45:15,540 --> 00:45:16,280 This was so much fun. 999 00:45:16,620 --> 00:45:17,460 Yeah, happy to be here. 1000 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:18,320 Thanks for having me guys. 1001 00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:19,120 Oh, what a pleasure. 1002 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,100 Our website is Spitball.show. 1003 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,880 There you can find links to our YouTube channel, other social media. 1004 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:27,420 Please email us feedback, comments, ideas. 1005 00:45:27,420 --> 00:45:28,500 We would love to hear from you. 1006 00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,420 We are a podcast@spitball.show. 1007 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,300 That's also how you can follow us on the Fediverse such as Mastodon. 1008 00:45:33,580 --> 00:45:37,100 We are a podcast@spitball.show or at bluesky at Spitball.show. 1009 00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,200 Our subreddit is r/SpitballShow. 1010 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:42,060 Our intro/outro music is "Swingers" by Bonkers Beat Club. 1011 00:45:42,500 --> 00:45:46,220 Please, if you wouldn't mind, that one friend who you don't totally understand, who's always 1012 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:49,960 dressing like that one Naruto character they keep talking about, and you don't know what 1013 00:45:50,020 --> 00:45:52,380 the hell they're talking about, tell them to listen to the show. 1014 00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:53,740 We think they'll really enjoy this episode. 1015 00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:55,080 We'd love to have them as a listener. 1016 00:45:55,300 --> 00:45:56,980 And please, if you wouldn't mind, leave us a review. 1017 00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:00,780 Apple Podcasts, Spotify, whatever it is that you listen to, leave us a review. 1018 00:46:01,060 --> 00:46:02,920 Subscribe, add, wherever you get your podcasts. 1019 00:46:03,340 --> 00:46:05,180 That is the best way for people to find out about the show. 1020 00:46:05,660 --> 00:46:06,940 New episodes coming out in two weeks. 1021 00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:08,280 We will see you then.