- I'm Scott.
- I'm Russell.
- And I'm Leo.
This is Spitball.
Alright, we're going with no script today.
Welcome to Spitball,
where three in-person non-social distancing entrepreneurs
and no guests empty our heads of startup
and tech product ideas that we have stuck up in there
so you can all have them for free.
And this week we're doing something extra weird.
We are in person because,
well the last time we did this was 100 ideas.
- 100 ideas. - That was many episodes ago.
- Yeah. - And we're back
because we've now reached,
as of the last episode two weeks ago, 200 ideas.
Yay!
(cheering)
That is fun for a lot of reasons.
We're so grateful to all the guests we've had over the years.
- Years.
- It's been like two and a half years, you guys.
- Oh my God.
And over the years, we come up with these ideas
as we're just milling about our everyday lives.
And many of them are not worthy of bringing there,
which is why we have the intramurals.
Once in a while, we'll have a guest on
and they're overflowing with ideas, which is so nice.
And then we can have an intramurals rapid fire round.
We thought for today,
we would have an oops, all intramurals rapid fire one.
So how this is gonna work.
I'm gonna set a timer on my phone here, 90 seconds.
- These are gonna be very short pictures.
(laughing)
So I think we can include that.
- Okay, and then that will be our activity today.
Who wants to kick us off first?
Who's got the first intramural?
You got this, all right.
Three, two, one, go.
- Three words, dog smell simulator.
I'm picturing a room with super strong smells
to just experience what it's like to be a dog.
And that is as far as I got with that idea.
- I hate when I'm in a room
and it's too strong of an odor.
It seems like that would be torture.
How do you make this fun?
I don't know, I see my dog Trooper
and he'll just be like focused on this one spot of grass.
Like it's the greatest thing ever.
And I'm like, it's gotta be something cool, right?
Wonder what that's like.
(laughing)
- Okay, okay, okay.
- Does it help me find things?
Like maybe that's-- - Sure, yeah.
You know what, you hide something around
and you gotta find it just by smell.
That was gonna be fun. - I was gonna say,
I think this already exists.
Have you ever walked in a Yankee candle?
It's awful.
(laughing)
- Oh, true.
But you hide a baked pie somewhere in the store.
- Ooh, there it is.
(laughing)
- Oh, maybe like a smell test.
You can see how good you are at smelling things.
- Like a super taster, but smell.
Super smeller.
- Hearing test, but smell test.
That would actually be fascinating.
- Read on the chart here for your eyes
and place your nose into this receptacle.
- How far away can you smell this Yankee candle?
- It's like the color test.
You guys remember doing this in middle school
where you draw a color on your hand in the dark
and you'd be able to see what color it is?
- I know.
- Do you know what I'm talking about?
If you draw an orange marker--
- Or if it's only red in the room.
- Yep, and then you draw an orange marker on your hand,
you're like, that looks purple.
Nope, in the light it doesn't.
It's like completely different color.
You could do that for smell.
- Okay.
- That would be it.
It's like a date idea.
(laughing)
You wanna go to the smell room,
see how good you are at smelling.
- You're gonna get reported for that.
End of idea.
- All right, who's up?
- I can go next.
- Go.
- Car horns are great,
and they're too loud for the friendly thing.
Sometimes I just want a car horn for pedestrians
or if somebody's walking in front of me
or I see that friend of mine or whenever,
I want a button on my dashboard
that's just a little like, doot doot,
like a little--
- Friendly tap.
- Friendly horn.
- I want a soundboard under my hood
with a big loudspeaker.
- Yes.
- I know that cop cars have the like,
the speakers on top and stuff
where you can grab the radio mic and just sort of talk.
I want that for civilians, for consumers.
- I could switch between the different ones,
that'd be great too.
- It's pedestrians, I wanna triple it.
I want like a truck car horn,
just make them jump, you know?
- Both ends of his finger. - I see Leo on the street,
I want him to fly.
- Angry, medium, low.
- You have your sentence out there.
Just another dial in your car.
- It's just an emoji, it's like angry and smiley.
- I've gotten really good at tapping the car horn
just enough to get a little like, boop, out of it.
Yeah, exactly.
But it's a finesse that I shouldn't have to master.
There should be a button dedicated for it.
- Yes, yes.
I scared Scott once, or I remember when I got my new car,
I like honked, double honked, and he's like.
(laughing)
And then I put my hand out the window
to like help alleviate the tension.
- But that's the thing, right?
It's friendly, I promise.
It wasn't trying to tell you that you're the worst.
If you hear someone honking at you,
you always know it's you,
and you always are like immediate worst case scenario,
and that's not acceptable.
Nine times out of 10, if you're honking at someone,
it's not because someone did something bad, right?
All right, that's it.
- That's good, that's good.
- That was good, that was good.
- Keep moving.
Russell. - Next, go.
scratch card Christmas.
- What does that mean?
(laughing)
- Yeah, this is a real bad one.
Custom scratch cards that you make
and you basically create like different raffles.
It's a white elephant gift kind of version of that
but you just create your own custom scratch cards
and at Christmas or like instead of white elephants
you do some sort of like raffle with the scratch card.
That's about as far as I can go.
- Like a lottery ticket.
- Like among family.
- Among family, right?
So you can do some crazy scratch cards.
- Yup, not like, oh here's dollars and cents.
- Coupon for a back rub.
(laughing)
10 minutes in paradise with Uncle Mikey or whatever.
- Yes.
(laughing)
That's it, that's it.
- No notes needed on that.
- Custom scratch cards would be very fun.
Scratch offs.
You're saying only like the thing that's underneath.
- Yeah, you'd make 'em, yeah, in general.
- Seems like corporations could,
like you could give these out
at the office Christmas party or whatever, right?
Like this is worth $10 from the company store
or this is, you know what I mean?
like $100 of our product or something.
- Some of those scratch cards are fun,
like with the bingo stuff, you know?
Now it's like, oh, I have five minutes
of moderate activity before I win or lose.
So I don't know, that's like it.
- We're gonna end up in some weird tax,
or we're gonna get in trouble with the IRS somehow.
(laughing)
- It's true.
- It's a gambling system.
Did you win or lose?
(laughing)
- Scott Hennie.
- All I have, another three word one, a lazy triathlon.
So I'm picturing like, I don't know,
it could be like a triathlon,
but eating or playing Super Smash Bros.
- Or like-- - Or like activities.
- Yeah. - Oh.
- Just like straight up,
who can chug the most beer or something
in one short amount of time?
- I love that.
That's like a perfect bar game.
Eat a basket of fries, two beers,
and then finish with like a sausage.
- You can have the same triathlete bumper sticker,
but it's from the sausage day, yeah.
You may recall you guys, for my bachelor party,
did a relay race of fast food.
- Oh, I remember that. - We had a quesarito.
You got a Taco Bell quesarito
and the seven burger patty steak and shake burger.
- That was so painful.
- We worked our way down the way
and trying to eat these monsters
and nobody felt good at the end of that project.
- This is why I forgot that one, yes.
Hey, that's why you gotta be an athlete, you know?
You gotta train, Leo.
You can't just go blindly to triathlon.
- I've spent the last 35 years training
for the triathlon, the lazy triathlon.
- I'm in the best shape of my life for this.
- Video games is fun, what other things could be in them?
- Lazy river, lazy river.
- Sitting.
- Sleeping, sleeping.
- Lazy boy can sit the longest.
- I've been trained for that.
- Sleeping would actually be fun.
Who can sleep for the longest duration based on like--
- It's a sleep tracking app.
(laughing)
- Yeah.
- End of pitch.
- How long could you just sit around and do nothing?
That sounds like there's a point when you're just like,
I need to move, right?
(laughing)
- I don't know, man.
- There's a reason these are intramurals.
- Before kids, my Saturdays, once in a while,
I'd carve out a day like, I've never played Firewatch,
let's do it, and then just like, eight hour marathon.
Oh, that's how Portal 2-- - It's dark out.
- When Portal 2 came out, oh my God, it was amazing.
All right, here's one that I don't even know
if we can get 90 seconds out of this one, you ready?
Gutters with built-in Christmas lights.
Why are those two separate products?
You have them connected at either end
with some sort of, I don't know, universal connection.
Maybe there's one that adapts to an outlet.
You plug it in once, you never replace them.
It's all built in.
If you're gonna have someone come out
and install gutters, which inevitably happens
at some point in the home life cycle.
- Might as well put an RGB strip across that whole thing
and keep it for every season.
- It should be fricking built in.
You can turn them off if you're not using them.
That's what we do with our Christmas lights.
They just stay on all year.
Or I would say attached all year, but not on.
- You can make really cool gutters too.
Really cool Christmas lights if they're like
integrated in there, not just like the string.
you could do like some backsplash and stuff.
Totally, just like when SolarCity was like,
"Why are we doing solar panels on the roof?
"We should make roof tiles out of solar panels."
- That's so smart. - We should frickin'
make gutters out of Christmas lights.
- Yes.
Different colors, LEDs last forever.
- Right. - Yeah.
You have every season covered.
You got the orange ones up there for Halloween.
You got the pink ones for Valentine's.
- Yes, I put on purple and orange on my Christmas lights
one day a year for Halloween,
and then I leave 'em off 'til Christmas,
and then, yeah, I do exactly that.
- St. Patrick's Day, green and white.
- Having a party, friends and family.
- Why is that a thing?
- I do, it's fun, but I don't know.
Even if you don't ever want to have them on
except for Christmas.
- Why is an exterior lighting, no this is awesome.
- Yeah, it needs to be a thing.
- This is a thing.
- Come on gutter companies, think outside the box.
- Throw all these things out there.
- We got 90 seconds out of the world to go.
(laughing)
- You're up, go for it.
- All right, you ready?
So this one is board game video instructions.
So the worst part about starting a new board game
is trying to explain the rules and get everybody
- Oh my god, yes. - I'm terrible at it.
- On the same page, so you create a whole YouTube
video library of just explaining board games.
They have to keep it entertaining, they gotta do--
- You gotta keep it short too, like this is like,
I'm gonna explain Catan in like,
less than three minutes or something.
- I regret to tell you both that this already exists.
- Does it really?
- We're gonna do it, this is a whole genre of YouTube.
I don't know what it is, but it's not good.
- It can't be.
- I haven't seen the shorts format,
that might or might not exist, that's a good idea.
- The short-- - Super short.
- I've seen some of the YouTube videos on this.
This is why I thought it was an email.
It's like maybe this exists.
Do you use it, Leo?
- Yes, I'm terrible at learning.
I think I inherited this from my mother.
I just cannot, my brain, I'd gloss over looking at the,
you need 12 Energon patches to equal one token
for the light beam, I just can't do it.
- I just won't play a game unless someone in the room
has played it before and be like,
we're not gonna go through instructions,
here's just what you do, go.
- You know what there needs to be?
Not YouTube channel, VR.
You need robots playing the game in front of you
and then you can hop in and out
to a simulation of the game happening.
That's what I need.
I wanna put on my headset and watch people play it.
- The most anti-social way to play the social game
(laughing)
that you're about to play.
But then you learn.
- I'm trying to give you some (mumbles)
(laughing)
- Hey everybody, put on your VR headsets for a second.
We're gonna learn the game for next hour.
What's the name of those game videos though, Leo?
Do you know?
- Not off the top of my head.
- Okay.
It's a like many channels have occupied the space already to burst. Okay, it's a
All right, I got it's just a TV remote that hides itself
So if you're ever watching too much TV and you I the one there's something that makes it like this is too much work
To find this TV remote because I lose it all the freaking time
And I'll end up going doing something else like if it would just kind of hey you've watched like 16 hours of the office
I'm gonna go hide myself
So you can't keep watching. It's like little wheels or something. Yeah, I don't know a little arm comes out and pulls itself away
It's got to turn off the TV first
Digital well-being feature like you you need to go outside. I'm probably apply it to other things in life. I don't know cigarettes cigarettes
- Like a cigarette pack.
- They crawl away.
- You're trying to cut down on salt.
You put it on the salt shaker
and it goes and hides itself or something.
- Just make it explode.
Just go all the way through, right?
- Cinder meal.
- Too much TV.
- Explode your remote.
- Next time you gotta order on Amazon now.
It's gonna take you two days to watch TV.
- This reminds me of that one idea with--
- Kara?
- Yes, Kara.
- What about, oh, yes.
- Responsibility.
She just wanted to teach kids about responsibility.
- The Tomagotchi remote.
- Yes.
- That's fun.
Hi, Kara.
All right, so phones and iPads are getting really good
at built-in captioning, but we have a need at my work
for easy to hand out devices that show captions
for like a theatrical event,
or there's a guest speaker here,
some sort of public event that you're going to,
and it would be nice to have captions,
but not everyone wants them 'cause they're distracting.
You can try to tell people like,
oh, go into your phone settings
and get captions turned on or whatever,
and use the microphone in that way,
or we as the building can provide
some sort of service or whatever,
but there needs to be a captions in a box.
I hand you an iPad looking device
that is using its microphone,
and it's just providing whatever captions it hears.
And I think all the things already exist now to do this.
And maybe it's just an iPad app,
that's why it's in there, I don't know.
But we have a personal need for like,
here, dummy proof, there's no buttons to press,
it's either on or off,
and all it's doing is showing captions in a big font.
- That's great. - Yeah.
- I don't know why that is not a product
that you can already get today.
Maybe it is, but I have done research
and I haven't found one.
- Yeah. - If you go into iPhone
or Android settings, there's like really, really good
built-in real-time captions now.
It just needs to be a product
because it's too hard for the people to figure out
how it works. - Got it.
Your target audience is literally the people
that can't use the app version of it.
Yeah, that makes sense.
- We need a jitterbug, but just the captions, you know?
- Yeah. - The kid-friendly
and old-person-friendly version.
- There's so many needs for that.
That's that would be awesome movie theater or whatever right - movie theaters could hand them out
Oh my god captions in movie theaters somehow. Yeah, or only you can see it
It's popular on the back of each seat, but it's like an OLED screen so that only you're seeing it
It's not like a big glowing rectangle in front of everyone. How do you do it without being distracting?
Yeah
Like an airport thing where you can like stand in a certain spot and it can it sees you
Your face recognizes it and then puts all of your in-flight information up on a giant screen and only you can see it
- That's Detroit, right?
- I think that's in Detroit now.
- Really?
- Somewhere is--
- It already knows from facial recognition
who you are or something?
- And it knows, hey, you need to go this way down here
and your flight leaves in 36 minutes.
- Wow!
Surveillance state for good.
That's terrifying.
It's just guiding each individual person.
- Oh, wow.
- You said this is Detroit?
- I thought this was at Detroit.
I saw an article about it and was--
- It can't be.
- Impressed, you would have known about it by now, right?
- It's nuts.
- All right, let's do it.
I got this one.
The anti-social media site.
So it's literally just an entire social media site
memeing about social media sites.
(laughing)
- Okay, so it's not just for one person.
That's what I thought you meant by anti-social.
- Yeah, it's like full satire content.
- Just my notes app.
- Yeah, right.
(laughing)
It's like Creed Thoughts, the word document.
- Yeah, so I don't know.
It's just like, all right,
I'm posting pictures of my sunset beach
just satiring the whole thing through.
(laughing)
- That was basically my Instagram.
The first five years of Instagram
where everything was filtered and overexposed
and oversaturated and stuff, I just was repulsed by it.
So I started an Instagram and I just took a picture
of my big toe and made it really grainy and stuff
and took a closeup of something that was all blurry,
food that was all smeared and gross and whatever
and it was a parody Instagram.
- That's what I like.
I feel like I'd share and post more often on social media
because I'm just joking all the time.
- People are making fun of it.
- Yeah.
- It's delightful. - I really like that.
- I don't-- - The best parts of,
the most ironic, funniest parts of social media
captured in one spot.
- I'm delighted to inform you,
you can just do this with regular social media.
- It just doesn't feel right though.
- Go on TikTok and make fun of TikTokers, they love it.
(laughing)
- Right, I don't want the rest of the world to see it,
but I also like, your newsfeed has got my joke in there
while you're reading, like,
oh, I had a great summer vacation, you know?
- I have an amazing screenshot of one of my
older family members posted their Facebook status
Marketplace all lowercase because they were searching for marketplace and they posted it as a status
People Facebook subreddit has a lot of stuff like that of old people searching for a very inappropriate adult content
Scotty okay, I got water soluble plastidip for protecting your car from scratches
- The whole car.
So we always take, we go to a fish camp every year
and you're taking your car through the woods
and it always ends up with a bunch of scratches
from overgrown trees on the side.
Something you can spray on your car that protects it
and then you just go through a car wash afterwards
and it all melts away.
- Whoa, it's temporary.
- Yeah, it really pisses off the car wash
but keeps your car safe.
- I've always wondered what happens
when you get the wax coating, the expensive car wash thing.
Does that just like--
- It is essentially the same thing.
- Can I like really slather that on?
- Put on the inch thick wax.
- Have you ever played with Plasti Dip though?
Like that stuff's crazy.
It's like spray paint,
but it just turns into this like plastic coating
and you can peel it up like--
- Flex seal. - Yeah, essentially.
- Like wax. - Cover your car in it.
- Like candle wax, right?
I mean like, that'd be weird.
- And then it gets collected by the special bin
in the car wash and sold again.
(laughing)
- Rinse it, it's a pre-wash, you know,
before you go in the car wash, you do a pre-rinse.
- Well, know how we're successful
once the car wash starts putting out signs
being like, "No Plasti Dip inside," or something.
That's when you know you made it.
- You have to go to the hand spray and do an automatic.
- It'd be cool if you could pick different colors, you know?
It's like, you just rotate colors every once in a while,
right?
- Get it all over your windshield.
- Yeah.
(laughing)
- Yeah, does it translucent?
Oh, God.
- Today, Sharks, I'd like to pitch at you
a thing you're supposed to spray all over your car
that's thick, opaque.
(laughing)
- Horrible for the environment.
- Yeah.
They're gonna love it.
- We'll get the vegetarian version.
- Bring it back, aerosol baby.
- The vegetarian version?
- It's made of plant oil, okay?
(laughing)
- It's good for the environment.
- Yeah.
- All right, I've got something that's kind of practical.
I don't know if this is worth even discussing
in intramurals.
So my corporation, and I think many people's,
do a milestone gift.
You've been here five years, 10 years, 20 years, whatever.
It's the crappiest SkyMall knockoff garbage.
It's like very token, not great.
We are in a world where there are Amazon wishlists
and AI recommenders and all this stuff.
Can you make a new B2B company that says,
when it's time to do your milestone gifts,
we will take care of finding an exact personalized gift
just for them.
We'll scrape their Twitter,
we will see what ads are being advertised against them,
we'll look at their Amazon lists and stuff
and give you a couple of suggestions of things
to actually buy them that they want.
There needs to be a better wishlist app in general.
This is a huge idea.
- Wishlist?
- Yes.
I mean, in general.
Birthdays, Christmas.
- That's the most consumerist thing we could possibly pitch.
- Capitalism!
- Yes.
I need that and I need a social version of it.
'Cause every year, everybody's like,
oh, what do you want for Christmas?
What do you want for your birthday?
I'm like, I don't know.
But throughout my life, I'm thinking like,
oh, I need that as a gift.
- You just have a registry.
Just an ongoing registry for yourself.
I love that.
- That should be a thing.
'Cause Amazon also gives you 10% back
when you're doing your baby registry,
that's what Amazon should do,
incentivize me to put up my wishlist.
- And there's such a stigma around this whole conversation
we're having right now,
where it sounds super self-centered and oh really,
but I would have rather received nothing
than the thing that I was offered, right?
And it felt token, it felt like you don't care
at all about this, you are checking a box, right?
- It's very possible to have worse gifts than nothing.
- Yeah, it could, okay, man, I could Spitball this,
but like you can reframe how you look at stuff, right?
Normally you just buy stuff instantly on Amazon.
No, make it hit the wishlist first,
let it sit there for two or three weeks,
slow down your buying through this app.
- There it is.
I have a relative who does that.
They will only ever,
they don't hit the add to cart button or ever,
they add to wishlist and then when there's a sale,
they think about it for a while,
they watch how the price changes,
very intentional about that.
And that's how you all should live your life, including me.
- Dude, we do this for steam all the fricking time.
- Right, it's Steam wishlisting but for things.
I love that.
- Don't make an auto buy.
Black Friday's gonna come around
and all of a sudden all of your list
gets purchased at once.
- If it's ever 50% off.
- You know, they upmark everything by 100%
and then cut it in half.
- No!
- Oh man, okay.
- It's what they're doing anyway.
- Okay, I'm gonna do workers pay to do work, okay.
(laughing)
So, you know how you have your gym memberships?
Okay, instead of that, it would be awesome
if I could pay to help people move wood
from the back of somebody's truck into somebody's house.
That's the idea.
(laughing)
- I don't understand still.
- So instead of like gym memberships, right?
I wanna be able to do something.
I don't like doing nothing productive.
Okay, I'm gonna lift this weight.
Sure, I'm making my gains,
but what I would love to do is like,
why don't I put my ass to work and do physical labor?
I would pay somebody to help route me to a spot
volunteer work to move cinder blocks from Menards to my friend's house or it
doesn't even have to be volunteer work it could be like that's when it clicks
for personal requests. Don't steer away from volunteer work. I love that. That's when it was
finally like okay I'm getting it. Yeah yeah I was actually thinking about it
like Menards would I would pay Menards like ten bucks a month to tell me where
to go to help people move. The local hardware store gym membership. Help grandma put bags of soil in her back trunk. Straight up though.
- Yeah, I don't know, you've convinced me here, man.
Instead of just, work is in like lifting a weight
and moving an object from point A to point B
and the expenditure of energy, not just like--
- Yeah, way more motivating than a gym.
- Yeah, dude, I like that a lot.
I think we did something like this already.
This was a pitch, right?
- Maybe.
- Workout club or something.
This is definitely different enough to be an intramural.
I don't know about the you're paying part.
- I know, I started paying, I was like--
- Menards would just be happy to have you, I think.
don't you think?
Or whatever local. - Yeah, that's the problem.
- Menards is such a Midwest thing.
Home Depot, both.
(laughing)
- Yeah, you gotta pay 'cause it's a--
- Hardware store fitness club.
You just, we need help unloading all these cinder blocks
from the shipment that came in this morning.
- Dude, mulch, like every year that season.
- You just wanna work at Menards?
(laughing)
I think that's really what you're asking.
- Just wanna move stuff.
Wanna move my body and make it be productive.
Sorry.
Flip a tire for an hour.
- Oh, how about you flip real tires
into this garbage contraction, right?
Like, that's what I'm saying.
- How about you work at the local tire store?
- All right, I got a subscription service
for rotating houseplants.
I am notorious for killing my houseplants.
I just want some guy with a big greenhouse
that has all the types of plants
and he keeps them healthy.
When I kill my fern, he just comes to the door
and swaps my dead one for a good one,
brings the dead one back to his warehouse.
- Like a parent with a hamster.
- Exactly, revives it and then gives it to the next person
'cause he actually knows how to keep the plant alive.
- Hey, that's incredible.
- Well, I need it is what it is.
- I get mums every year from my realtor
and it's like, I let them sit and die
in my porch every year, but why not rotate 'em?
You know, my fern like reaches near death
and then I just overwater it
and then it ferns somehow come back to life.
But like all the other plants die.
- Yeah, maybe you can give your feedback on each one.
"Hey, this one died because of this,
"just so you know for this next one."
Overwatered, this one hasn't seen sun in six years.
- Oh, it can have a little sticker on it.
"Last time you had this plant, here's what you did wrong."
- It's kinda cool.
If I had outdoor and indoor plants
and they rotated out in the winter and the summer.
- Oh, that's cool. - I like that.
- You just want a gardener.
(laughing)
- It's a too much, no, no, no.
It needs to feel like a SAS service, okay, Leo?
- So it's a service that partners
with your local greenhouse.
Your local greenhouse subscribes to this.
- Makes me feel good, right?
- Yeah, the altruistic part of that.
(laughing)
Otherwise it's not, yeah, not millennial friendly.
- I've told this story on the podcast before,
but my dad was moving out of an apartment
and his brother was going to move in to the apartment.
So he had this big wall filled with plants
and he said, "You're just gonna take care
"of each one of them."
He gave him a bunch of notes about it.
And then right before he moved out, he salted all of them.
(laughing)
So his brother was like, "I don't know what happened.
"I tried to follow your instructions."
(laughing)
- I mean, that's amazing.
- It was only like a couple weeks, what did you do?
All right, I've got an actual banger, you ready?
- Yeah.
- Your misinformed relatives who are too politically bent.
There's nothing we can do to save them,
except I've got something that will save them.
Cameos, AI generated from the politicians that they admire.
You go to my service and you say,
"Hey, Tim, Grandpa, whatever,
Did you know that I actually was listed in the Epstein files
and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,
and the service is an end-to-end video generation
and place advertisements for that demographic
so that they happen to pot it online.
- Leo, this is not an interview.
(laughing)
- It's cool. - I could talk for hours
on this.
- This is our last episode, we're gonna get canceled and--
- I don't know if I actually want this in the world.
It's gonna make everybody madder, but it'd be--
- It'd make me feel good.
- How close are you to ice right now?
(laughing)
- Stay far away.
- This can happen to both sides.
It doesn't necessarily need, but we all know who it's for.
- My grandma would bite on every one of those videos.
I could make a video of me saying, this isn't real,
and she would believe the videos that I made
that were fake, more than I would say.
- I think the reason I don't wanna do this as a full pitch
is because this is not a net good to release upon society,
but boy oh boy, it would make me feel good inside.
- Oh, Leo, that is so scary.
I want it so bad.
You go here and you say, here's three opinions
that my crazy uncle believes.
Generate a video of Marco Rubio talking about
how they're nonsense or whatever.
Wouldn't that be fun?
- Yeah.
You could just, well like Cameo could just be like,
hey, instead of doing Cameos,
you wanna just AI generate yourself for your results instead?
- That's a good one right there.
- It's not in their interest to make something like that,
don't you think?
- No, but it's in ours.
- I don't know, now Kevin Malone can do 'em for,
the volume goes up.
- I don't think people want--
- It's nice to stay the same.
Oh, I know people don't want them.
Hey, for half the price.
Beyonce singing you happy birthday personally to you
for like $5 instead of $4,000.
There you go, right?
Yeah, exactly though, demand.
All right, this one's definitely an intramural.
OK, so easy local fundraisers.
So I got hit with a Little Caesars or a Buffalo Wild Wings
fundraisers all the time because they have the capacity to do
it.
this would be just a fast, easy way to get local businesses
to make fundraisers through these channels, right?
- Oh.
- Be like a B2B sass.
- Buzzword-y.
- Yeah, buzzwords versions of local fundraisers.
So now schools can just be like,
"Oh, I wanna use local pizza shop and."
- Girl Scout cookies and whatever,
but actual places in your hometown.
- Right. - I love that.
- No Girl Scout cookies.
- We would sell these little discount cards
that was like, good for a year,
you go to the local ice cream shop
and get a small plain scoop or whatever.
And I always felt guilt,
like nobody actually wants to buy those things, right?
If you are actually selling something legit
from the local business, that's great.
So your business coordinates those?
Like the details of what offers to--
- They're selling it at a discount.
Everyone wins them.
- That's what, yeah.
- They're a nonprofit.
The business can write off their partnership
with this SaaS business as like a tax write off or whatever.
- All the things that they do,
they're able to get away with.
- Oh, I like that a lot.
- That's heartwarming.
That's way better than AI cameos for old people.
(laughing)
- Had to balance the--
- Thank you for bringing some love to me.
- The world is right now.
- Restoring faith in humanity.
- Oh wait, wait, wait, I actually do remember this one.
- Okay.
- If you are somewhere where you don't have water
or anything and you just,
like I don't even have hand sanitizer,
what if I just have like a little piece of sandpaper
and I could, yeah, I scrape away the badness on my hands.
And that's the whole idea.
A credit card in my wallet that's just abrasive.
- Ow.
(laughing)
- That would work.
- Hey, I'm desperate.
I wanna eat these French fries, but you know what?
I just did something with my hands
and I'm just gonna wipe away the three fingers
I'm gonna use for it.
- You hawk a loogie on it beforehand.
(laughing)
- To sanitize.
- Guys, this is intramural. - It's a big shine.
- No bad ideas, all right.
So how often could you reuse one of these things?
- I don't know.
- How long do germs stay on sandpaper?
- There you go.
There was some, you can rotate it, you know,
you get the sander.
- A belt sander.
- Yeah, like, you know, those, yeah.
Just like vibrates, right?
'Cause then it'll really clean it very quickly.
- Could you ultrasonic all the germs away
with some sort of vibrating thing?
- Your hands are just going nuts.
- Wait, couldn't you get a UV light?
That would be just like a card.
- No, we have no electricity, we have no water, no soap.
- This is the future.
- We just have sandpaper.
- We were talking about it at breakfast a couple days ago.
What about UV lights for pockets
so that you could just have your hands sanitized
all the time.
Oh yeah, constant exposure to UV, what could go wrong?
You get hand cancer.
- Hands-er.
- Your phone would be very clean though.
- It's true.
Maybe the second your hand goes in there it turns off.
It's only for your phone.
It's like a pocket protector.
You put it on your pants pockets and it's just battery powered.
You just sew it into the side of your pants and you're just like rubbing your thighs.
It's got a little magnet to power it like those old flashlights so you don't need batteries
in them.
Brilliant.
So I want a small device for the kids in the back seat that is a grid of small LCD screens
or E-ink screens or something, right?
It's a bingo card and this is things that other people have crowdsourced submitted to
be on the lookout for near your location.
So you, "Oh, there's a interesting farm over there, so someone has submitted to be on the
lookout for a cow.
Oh, there's a fun billboard in this location, so that shows up on their thing."
It's like a scavenger hunt bingo sort of thing for them to be always hunting for on the outside,
right?
be like paired with an app on the parents phone for controlling exactly
what that's amazing that's a really good idea
ways but for scavenger ways like how ways pops up and it's like yeah is there
a cop nearby we could have that but like oh I just saw I don't know an
interesting billboard or something right put your root in ahead of time and it
knows what the landmarks are things are gonna be in here and watch out for this
thing the offline oh that's really good yeah
- McDonald's, 10 McDonald's logos
between now and your location.
- How many Starbucks can I see?
- I was thinking that beautiful statue
that's next to the highway,
but you know what, McDonald's is good.
- They're gonna sponsor it.
Boom.
- That's the ads.
You gotta look for the Wendy's.
Oh no.
Yeah, it's free for you.
Just sell us your kids' eyeballs.
- If you find 10 McDonald's logos,
you get free chicken nuggets at your local.
(laughing)
- But think of it though,
you got like a worldwide database that's growing
of cool, interesting things to find.
I feel like that's the kind of wheel that,
once you get it going and reach critical mass,
that you have more and more content.
It'd be good.
- Yeah, self-feeding machine.
You gotta put cops on there, though.
Every time you see a cop, you get--
- Dad's little helper.
- Oh yeah.
(laughing)
That's a great one.
- It contributes just a whiz.
(laughing)
Dad, it's the fuzz!
(laughing)
- Leo, you might need to bring that back for a full idea.
That's a good point.
- Oh, thank you.
World Wide Road Trip Sightseeing Bingo.
- That's amazing.
- That's the name of that one.
- I'm picturing the hardware already.
What do you got, Russell?
Bring it home.
- This is the better gym bag, okay?
So I've, for some reason, whenever I have my gym bag,
I end up mixing my dirty clothes with my clean clothes,
and I just want a rotation system
that has my pre-workout, my protein powder,
that I can just pull out of my bag when it's empty
and replace it with the clean stuff.
and I throw the entire dirty laundry basket,
like the whole thing, net and all, okay, socks.
- Your protein shake container in the washing machine.
- Yes, I'm like at that point, right?
You get the dishwasher bag and you got the other bag, right?
- Oh, sure, okay, okay.
- And then it comes out of the dryer,
still in the netted bag, ready to go.
So like every day you're just rotating just the bag.
- Oh, I love that.
You're like changing a drill battery,
but it's just like throw it in the washer and the next.
Oh, that's so good.
- Yeah, fully redundant.
You got your whole pack of shirts and shorts
just for the gym, in and out, that's it, no thoughts.
>> There are those laundry bags for things
that are like stringy or whatever,
that are fragile, that you put in there,
but you don't-- >> Raw bags, yeah.
>> Yeah, exactly, you don't put those in the dryer, do you?
>> These you will.
[laughing]
This one goes right in the dryer.
>> The engineers will figure it out.
>> Yep, these you will.
>> You fool, we've already thought of that.
>> It's just extra large.
>> The answer is the engineers will figure it out.
>> I really like that, Russell, that's a good one.
>> Saves all that head thinking.
>> I don't, I think you should make them disposable,
just sell the pods.
- Those are bull.
Oh yeah, those too.
- These gym shorts. - One time use shorts.
- One time use shorts.
- You take the whole, you buy a case of seven of them
for the week, put the old pod in the trash.
They're paper shorts.
(laughing)
- I could just make a crinkling around Planet Fitness.
- Paper shorts.
(laughing)
- Paper clothes.
- That's excellent.
Russell, you had a closing game for us.
- Oh yes, I was thinking, you know we--
- As we come to the end of 200 ideas, what is the next--
- 230 now.
- What is the next 200 ideas hold for us, sir?
- So, yeah, I thought this last game would be fun to,
we have 200 plus ideas, because if you think about
all those ideas that spun up more ideas,
like, there's plenty.
And I thought of an idea of what to do with that content.
And I was like, oh, maybe I'll save that for now,
at this very moment.
- We are building a beautiful database, aren't we?
things that maybe sometimes do already exist,
but often are novel.
- So I was like, all right, I just thought of it right now
'cause I actually had an intramural idea
that I'm like, man, I can actually make this
into a Spitball idea that would be about spitballs.
So I was like, oh, let's do it.
If you guys have ideas around what to do
with all this content,
not just like throw an ad on there, right?
This is actually something crazy.
- Everyone puts ads on their podcasts.
We wanna do something innovative, much like our show.
- Not that we're gonna actually run with this
'cause, you know, we, the whole theme of Spitball
because we need somebody else to do it for us.
- That's right, exactly.
- So listeners, if you want to do this for us,
to support the pod, we don't have a Patreon,
we don't have anything, so just make this happen.
- Everyone agrees the hardest part's having an idea,
and the easy part's just executing it.
(laughing)
- Of course, it's so hard to make these ideas, guys.
- So we need to figure out how to make this podcast money.
Innovative, novel idea.
- Maybe even something to do with all this content
that we have, right?
Besides making the traditional make-to-make videos
and all that stuff, like something crazy.
- I can start if you want me to start with one.
And then I can, so we could take all 400 ideas,
200 ideas and turn it into a kid's book, a picture book.
(laughing)
Okay? - Coloring book.
- Every page is an idea that we've come up with.
- Oh, wow.
- You print it and you just read it.
It's toilet humor.
It's a great, great way.
- Uncle John Spitball reader.
- Yup, yup.
(laughing)
thing like 200 ideas from three dudes and a guest that will never start them
right and that's it we just sell it to all our well I don't know we don't sell
it we just make it and we put it online and now it's a digital ebook or a
purchase that's great all right I've got a totally different one you're really
sweet a gamified contest for we give the description of the thing we've made and
people have to come up with fun names for them portmanteaus or puns or
or whatever, I often struggle with that
'cause I often end up taking our raw recording
and come up with like, what do we call this idea?
And usually there's something, but sometimes I'm like,
I don't know, we need a title for this damn show.
So-- - That'd be fun.
- It'd be fun to crowdsource that, right?
Like a little game, like do you like this or that more?
You submit your own, some fun names crawled to the top.
Yeah. - That'd be awesome.
- Pulse punning skills put to the test.
Twitter but for name, clever names of businesses.
- First thought when you said that was,
I was trapped in an airport once
for a 12-hour layover because I kept getting delayed.
And I'm just sitting at the bar,
and all these people were delayed because there was a big storm.
And we all became really good friends by the end,
and everyone's like, "That is such a,
"that is really good advice, I gotta try this,
"I'm gonna connect with this guy," and blah, blah, blah.
And I just wanna do Spitball for Spitball.
Spitball as a service, you know?
Where we're, yeah, you do a live show going through,
and someone comes up and we just give 'em ideas
of how we would go about it.
- You should do a live show.
- Yep.
- That's trodden territory.
- That'd be fun.
- Literally fun.
Stay tuned, listeners.
- Stay tuned.
- Why not?
Let's do it.
We could do it locally.
- I love that.
- We just have-- - Local.
- Yeah, we just have people walking
at one at a time, right? - We have
- Bring all the mics.
- Yeah, people do podcasts, but mobile, that'd be fun.
- Co-working space, we just roll up at a co-working space
and be like, "Hey, if you guys got ideas,
"come on in."
- What's your startup idea?
- Yeah.
- Get you right here, right now.
- We put up a sign that's like, "What's your startup idea?"
That'd be so fun.
We gotta find like a busy couple of hours
to be on the street.
- Look at us, podcasters.
- We're gonna sit with our headphones.
- The modern street performer.
- With a cup.
(laughing)
- That's how we make our money.
- We have a talent that we'd love to share
and it's spitballing.
What does that mean?
- Sit down and give us your favorite idea.
Oh no, it's too good and secret.
- Well, dear listener, if you are walking down the street
and you see three white dudes in the Midwest
sitting at a card table who wanna have you on their podcast
to tell them about their cool startup idea,
make sure you stop at the table and say hi.
And thank you very much for listening for 200 Ideas.
We'll see you in the next 200.
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