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

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This is Spitball.

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Welcome to Spitball, where three modem mystics and a guest empty our heads of startup and

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

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Anything that we say is yours to keep.

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And this week, I am delighted to be welcoming our guest.

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Today we have John joining us.

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John is a lot of things.

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John is a radiologist and a licensed pilot.

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VFR and IFR?

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- Yes. - Both?

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- Yes. - Yes.

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Kombucha business owner, D&D enthusiast,

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3D printing enthusiast, avid outdoorsman, hockey player,

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all around enthusiast of nerd culture.

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John, welcome to Spitball.

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- Oh, thanks, it's a pleasure to be here.

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Thank you for having me.

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- We're so excited to have you.

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This is gonna be a good time.

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John, among other things, you are a pilot

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and you have flown across state lines to come visit me and my family before.

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So for this week, I wrote a game that I'm going to be calling Plane Nonsense.

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In Plane Nonsense, it's very simple.

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I have...

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Humanity took a while to settle on the ideal form factor for

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planes and other flying machines.

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And, uh, for this week, I have a list of all kinds of wacky Wikipedia flying

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machines, and then a couple that I made up that I peppered in.

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So I not only have descriptions to read you, but I also am going to be sharing photos with you,

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which I'm very excited about. So if you're listening on your podcast app, look at the

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chapter markers. And we're going to start as always, as we do with our guest, John.

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Oh boy.

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John, I have to tell you about the Caproni CA-60 Trenzero. This is an Italian plane in 1921 that

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was a flying boat with a 100 passenger capacity, eight engines and nine wings. Is this a real

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plane or is this a thing that I AI'd up? Oh boy. I'm gonna thinky thing this one

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up. It looks like something that somebody might have tried but I don't think so.

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It's a real thing! It's the cruise ships of planes. It flew once and then it crashed on the second

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flight and never flew again but their dream was to make it transatlantic.

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That's right. That actually that checks out then. Yeah. We made it to the Titanic

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once. Let's fill it with people now and try it again. Right. Exactly.

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Scott, I am excited to tell you about the Goodyear inflatoplane, a 1956 standard

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looking fixed-wing propeller plane made entirely out of inflatable fabric. Real

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or made up? That looks like an inflatable plane and that definitely is made up.

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There is no way. That is a real photo of a real plane that I got from Wikipedia.

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That is there were 12 prototypes made between 1955 and 1962.

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Is that fit in a suitcase or something? That's crazy.

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Yeah, my checked luggage is another plane with my kayak.

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Russell, I want to tell you about the Vought V-153 Flying Pancake.

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This is a 1942 all wing design plane built for World War II.

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Real or made up?

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Um, that can't be real.

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That can't be real.

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That is a real plane.

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That's by the British.

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That's right.

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That one I recognize.

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You recognize it?

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Yeah, I do.

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I love how we go from landing gear.

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We need as many wings as possible for the Johns.

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And now it's just like, no, we just need all wing.

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That is all we're looking for now.

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More wings.

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Just one more.

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We need more wing.

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This thing was actually pretty successful

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and flew in 190 flights over World War II, but it had a pretty high angle of attack,

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which meant that takeoff landing stalls, it was a giant airbrake.

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It was really, really hard to go steeply with this thing, so it didn't take off as a design.

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The next one.

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Wow.

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John, I would like to share with you the BB Crabwalk STOL.

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This is a 1970s bush plane prototype that can handle high crosswinds due to 12 wheels

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that can swivel up to 120 degrees like caster wheels.

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That's funny because I was just looking at the Hummer videos with the crab walk, but

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I'm going to call it shenanigans on this one.

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That's shenanigans, I made that one up.

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It's just a bush plane with way too many wheels.

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It's a centipede.

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Yeah, that one's pretty obvious I think.

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Scott, the Conair XFY Pogo, a short and stout propeller plane from the Cold War era that

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It had tail two wings and then another tail to form an equilateral X and it took off vertically like a rocket

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Gonna say bullshit on this. How do you even get inside that thing? That's a real one

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It was around the same time in the Cold War that we were working on jets and they decided jets jets are better

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Jets are better.

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That's right.

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Russell, the

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Hiller VZ1

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Pawnee, a Cold War

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flying platform. There were

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six different models made with guardrails and

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helicopter controls that you sat on top

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of, spinning rotor blades.

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Real or made up? Just an old guy

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on a walker on a UFO. I think

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I've seen this before. This looks like a

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trampoline, like one of those

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exercise trampolines with

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quadcopter, you know? Early, early drone. But I think this is real. I think I've seen

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a video about this. This is real. Very good. Yes. I got to read you this quote. You ready?

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"Dynamically stable, even though the pilot and center of gravity were fairly high up.

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In testing, the prototypes flew well, but the US Army judged them to be impractical

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as combat vehicles, as they were small, limited in speed, and barely flew because of the ground

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cushion effect." I think this is a strategic camera angle we're looking at here from Wikipedia.

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Oh, it's like right off the ground.

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It's like an inch off the ground.

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One more time through.

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Next, we have the the Hafner Rotobuggy.

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John, this is a British World War Two prototype Jeep with

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helicopter blades for air dropping behind enemy lines.

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They tested being pulled behind trucks like a kite.

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That's real.

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That was a fake thing.

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Asked a Jeep with a helicopter blade on top.

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Gotta look up the Hafner Rotobuggy.

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It's awesome. The name is ready for this two men could fit in it and two men were required to pilot it one to drive

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It is an automobile and one to drive it with the control column as an airplane

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That thing's ridiculous tests worked, but there were more practical alternatives that came along Wow

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So they discontinued it Scott the clam clipper the sj11 clam clipper a 1940s flat

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Fuselage plane that can open along a horizontal seam creating a giant airbrake for short or damaged runways

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There's absolutely no way this is real

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The back wheel is like floating in the air

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Let's make a plane and let's make it fat. That's what this is. Clam clipper? That's just like the greatest name ever

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It's extra

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The Stippa Caproni, a 1932 giant wooden barrel tube

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with an airplane fuselage inside the tube

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and a quote, "in-tubed propeller."

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- Oh my, looks like it might work

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'cause that's what modern planes look like maybe.

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So I'm gonna say yeah.

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- Is that what modern planes look like?

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- Like the two on the side of those planes.

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- Literally a cannoli with a propeller dude.

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This is an Italian plane.

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It is Italian and you are correct.

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It's your people.

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You are right.

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That is a real one.

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The Bernoulli's principle made the aircraft's propeller way quieter and more

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efficient, but it had a low top speed of only like 81 miles an hour and 131

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So it didn't do very well, but cool idea in principle.

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Russell, I think you got all three, right?

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Am I right?

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I think you might've.

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Wow.

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Congratulations.

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I'm going to call you our winner this week because I'm not keeping track very

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closely.

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You did it.

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Great work.

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Would you like to pick who goes first?

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- Of course, that's what we do every week here, right?

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- That's right.

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- We're so consistent. - Who wants to go first?

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I'm gonna give it to Scott.

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- Do it, Scott, go first.

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What do you got for us?

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- All right, this idea came from earlier today

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when I was trying to Google something that I wanted

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and realized it didn't exist.

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I actually should, I almost texted Leo and be like,

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"You must know of this."

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Okay, there's a million streaming platforms right now,

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but I'm only watching one show at a time.

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I just feel like that's true with most people.

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All I want is a simple website

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that I can just toggle on and off.

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Hey, I'm watching this.

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This is on Paramount+.

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I wanna toggle on Paramount+.

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It'll automatically go through

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and start that subscription for me.

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I have all my information set up.

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And it goes, every single,

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Netflix is different from HBO,

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is different from Paramount, whatever.

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And it'll just automatically go through the website

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and sign me up for that.

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And then when I'm done with that show,

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I go back to that website,

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turn that one off, turn on the next one.

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Yes, I'm gonna be paying for the full month on that,

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but that's better than paying for six at a time

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it is. And that's the entire thing. Just a simple on and off website that goes through and turns them on.

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Absolutely. Streaming services are becoming totally untenable. It's way more expensive than cable bundles ever were.

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Yeah. Mm-hmm. I hear a lot. I'm not a big football fan,

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but I know that it's an absolute pain to watch football games because they're on like 20 different services.

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I want the same thing. I just turn it on just for this game, turn it off, turn it on just for this game.

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I want to go to your website, Scott, and not say I am interested in Paramount Plus this month.

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I want to say I want to watch Ted Lasso and figure it out for me

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I want this thing to be a watch list system where like it's in the background

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Maybe it's even the app on the TV to like loading up whatever BS service. I need to be subscribed to oh

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I have to have peacock for that. I don't want to know that I have peacock right now. I

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Want to watch the show and just that's it

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When I've reached the end of the season it like ass. Hey you plan it on season two. What are you thinking?

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We noticed you dropped off that other show. Okay, and it's like managing it all in the background. Here's my credit card

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Here's my zip code figure it out

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We have all these freaking AI browsers now that can click boxes and sign up for stuff and all that for you

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Yeah, this seems automatable in a way. It wasn't three years ago

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I could have sworn this must have existed, but it just is not out there

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I would pay money for this service because you would save money for this like even if it was just a regular human being

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like

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- Uncle Mikey's subscription management system.

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(laughing)

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- Yep, like, listen, I just bought a subscription, bud.

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Like, can you turn this off after a little bit?

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Yeah, absolutely, man.

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- Oh, I should like that.

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- You know, end of the month, I got you.

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- It like, it finds the absolute limits

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of how many accounts you can share.

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Like, I know like, Paramount locks you down,

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but HBO doesn't give a shit.

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And they're just like, yeah,

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you can have as many people on this as you want.

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So we just max it out, trying to save everyone money.

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- It's five strangers that are just coordinating

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and one account on the back end.

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I'm logged in with xrxrzbo@monkeys.tv,

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but I don't even need to know

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because my TV just takes care of it for me.

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- You could probably take it

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beyond just streaming services,

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anything that's subscription-based.

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Just say, you know what, if I'm not using it, close it down.

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And then if I log in to use it again, sign me back up.

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And then the second I stop it, drop it.

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- Exactly, 'cause if I was gonna use it that month,

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then I'll pay for it for that month.

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but if not, just automatically turn it off.

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- Whoa. - Yeah, that's fantastic.

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- That's probably even better,

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'cause now you just have, that's the whole service, right?

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You pay monthly for it to track,

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and yep, that is awesome.

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Update the scripts.

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- Oh, I want that for a planet fitness or something,

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where I'm pulling into there,

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and it instantly signs me back up

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instead of having to go through

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the whole rigamarole each time.

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- Oh, yeah.

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- 'Cause the cancellation is just evil.

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- Or all those Apple free trials and stuff like that,

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or things that come with your hardware, just cancel them.

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When the free trial's up, just shut it down.

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- I noticed you haven't looked

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at that security camera in four months.

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You do not need the Pro Plus whatever subscription thing.

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Yeah, right, right.

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- Then you get robbed the next day.

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- It's like a watchdog on your phone and on your computer

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looking at what services you use a lot.

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I know that there are like the Rocket Monies or whatever

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from a few places that'll make it easy

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to show you what subscriptions you have.

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So it seems like we're like almost there.

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- And I think they'll cancel them for you,

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but I don't know if they're automatically running it.

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- I want them to sign me up too.

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- And they'll drop you, but yeah,

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they won't get you back in and help you

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with when the ones that you are using not drop.

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You know, you're gonna have to go through

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and still manually do that, I think.

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- You always need those like quickly.

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You forget later, but you need it when you need it.

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It's date night or whatever,

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and you want to watch that show and oh God,

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let me get the credit card

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and do the rigmarole and stuff.

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- I think the streaming services would love this too.

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If you just like had the setup.

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to make it easy to quit their service?

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- To sign up for their service, right?

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Like this is a sign up. - I suppose.

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- This is the sign up version, right?

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That's what you tell them.

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Oh, and there's a little caveat.

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I gotta turn, I gotta be able to turn these off as well.

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But you just, you start with the, yeah.

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- (mumbles)

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- Don't worry about that part.

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- That part's, you know, forget that part.

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But easiest way possible to sign up for your service, right?

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Or you sell, you have two different companies.

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The sign up one and the sign off one.

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And then, this is.

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What?

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And they each require a subscription.

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And they try to--

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the sign-off one cancels your sign-on one

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if you haven't used it in a while.

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The company that's doing the sign-up

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is one selling to the streaming services,

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and then the one that does this--

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the people on the other side don't really care.

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Well, like you said a minute ago,

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this could be just a person.

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So are those two people now managing

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the sign-ups and the shutdowns?

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Ying and Yang.

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-They hate each other.

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-Mortal enemies across the universe.

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-They're in the same office, they share a desk and they just despise each other.

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-It would definitely be more complicated for somebody like me

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who keeps half of his subscriptions so his daughter can watch stuff.

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-Right. -Oh, how does it know?

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-I'm like, "Can I cancel HBO now?"

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No.

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When's that season over?

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-That just means that everyone needs a subscription.

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That's all. Needs a service.

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-Or everybody needs me. -There you go.

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I was gonna say, well, offline, we'll talk about my login.

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Sorry, the service canceled it.

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I don't know what to tell you.

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The auto service canceled.

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We're putting John's HBO password in the podcast description.

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Don't keep this in, but I give my HBO to everyone because they don't give a crap.

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Like I have so many people on my HBO.

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It does seem like the kind of service that you could go to and make your daughter go

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to, and as a condition of keeping me in the family plan or whatever, daughter, you have

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to have an account with this thing.

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And she has the watchdog that also watches, "Hey, turns out, honey, you

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don't actually need that one service because the app told me," and it's like

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monitoring across all the people you share with and knows about those links too.

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Yeah.

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That, that, that would be amazing.

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It would save me a lot.

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I, I, it's actually gotten to the point.

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Yeah.

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It's so ridiculous that I think I would save a lot of money if I just canceled

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everything and just bought the shows that I want.

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That's the thing.

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It'll calculate that automatically.

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It's, "Hey, is it cheaper to just buy it by the episode?"

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PSA, do you guys know about Movies Anywhere?

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There's a website that Disney and a bunch of others

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came together and made years ago.

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You plug in your Microsoft and your iTunes

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and your YouTube music and your whatever else

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and you forget about it.

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And then when you buy a movie on one of the platforms,

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it just magically shows up on all of the other platforms.

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Everything you've purchased purchases.

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- I actually have that, yeah.

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- It's so awesome.

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You can just have that video that was free on iTunes

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10 years ago on all the services.

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It's great.

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- They just share with each other now?

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Yeah.

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It's one of the few exceptions to the rule

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that all these companies are evil

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and want you to be stuck in their apps.

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For some reason or another, they came together.

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I think I got a notification from one of them

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that they weren't participating anymore.

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Yeah, YouTube's temporarily having a dispute

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right now with Disney, but it'll come back.

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I hope.

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But yeah, kind of fun.

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We need that, but automatically managing subscriptions too.

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So here's your big game plan.

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You buy Movies Anywhere, the company.

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You already have the licensing deals.

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You expand it.

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- Wow.

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- There you go.

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- The thought to actually own digital copies of movies

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and shows again sounds ridiculous,

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but maybe not anymore.

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You guys are convincing me.

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- You have young kids, Russell.

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Surely you've watched the same Frozen or Cars movie

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more than once by this point, right?

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- Right, and why am I paying for the subscription?

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- Cancel the subscription and buy three movies?

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- To watch the same shows over again, right?

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What am I doing, right?

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It's like.

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- The Office again, huh, Russell?

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Okay, why don't you just buy The Office?

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Right, like Carry Watch is three shows,

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maybe four on rotation.

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Like--

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And they're all four different services.

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We own the digital versions of that,

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like the physical copies of it.

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I bet, you know, but like, I don't know.

401
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Now I'm questioning everything.

402
00:17:21,980 --> 00:17:23,959
Sounds like you want to get a Plex server going

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is what you want.

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Right, right.

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And I can, you know, borrow.

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Yeah, right.

407
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'Cause I'm not gonna say anything illegal

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on this podcast, right?

409
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Yeah, no, you download some Linux ISOs from the Torus.

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What are those, Leo?

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Put them on your Plex server.

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Yeah, man.

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But yeah, that's interesting.

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All right, Leo, what do you got for us this week?

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Do you gentlemen have one or two foods or restaurant items or packaged things in a grocery

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store that used to exist that don't anymore, that you wish still existed somehow?

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Is there that one thing that you had that's nostalgic to you that they don't make or that

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one recipe or whatever?

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I was listening to an episode of a podcast

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a couple of weeks ago, and the guy was talking

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about how he, as a trade, is a flavor chemist.

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And you can just send him some stuff and he'll say,

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"Oh yeah, this is probably a little bit of oregano

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and this, that, the other,

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and I think this is how they made it."

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And he's got spectrum analyzer tools and all that stuff.

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Sharks, I'm coming to you today with an idea

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for flavor chemists as a service.

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If I could take the Teavana, which is now defunct,

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and send a little Ziploc baggie of this tea

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I have a stash of and say, what was in that?

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Please build me a recipe.

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I would pay a lot of money for that.

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I think there are many people out there

435
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who have that one Altoids that they don't make anymore

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from when they were a kid that they really wish

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they could have one more time or whatever.

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You buy a bag on eBay, you get an old copy

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of those Oreos that they don't make or whatever,

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you send it into my cool lab and they give you the recipe.

441
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- Whoa. - That's it.

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Flavor chemist is a service.

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So the Krabby Patty secret formula.

444
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Yeah, exactly.

445
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So lime Skittles, Leo.

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They used to be--

447
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I think it's now Green Apple.

448
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They did change it back, but I know what you're talking about.

449
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The Green Apple were not as good.

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OK, good.

451
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Then never mind.

452
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I don't need this service.

453
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No.

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Screw your idea.

455
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That's a great example, though.

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There were people mad about it.

457
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That was in a public library where they switched back.

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But there's a lot of things out there

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that they don't make anymore that I

460
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have again. Like what? What are you, what's the number one thing that you're like?

461
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Oh there's a Teavana tea, I don't know, I should have had more examples as I was

462
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going into this, let's see. What happens, like for the lime Skittles on there, if

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they weren't, let's say I want the green apple Skittles back because they don't

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make those anymore, what do I get back from the service? Is it just like

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here's the 36 ingredients? Here's 900 chemicals. I put them all together and I get like this gelatinous blob but it

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-Tastes exactly like green apples.

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-Yes, right.

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-Where am I supposed to get malodextrophosphates or whatever?

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[laughter]

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-Then you have another service that can put all those together for you.

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-I think as part of this, they could include some--

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You put it in an air fryer and you dehydrate it,

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and then you take it to the freezer that you have

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and crank it extra low or whatever.

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You could probably get some--

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It's not going to be perfect.

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You don't have an industrial warehouse assembly line like how it's made in your backyard

478
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But home kitchen could probably get you part of the way to making a skittle, right?

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Yeah, you have another variation

480
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It gives you the closest equivalent of what you can make with the ingredients that you would typically have without your menzo benzate

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Whatever you get the extract right like this like a vanilla extract

482
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But lime skittle that stuff is safe for human consumption. Maybe the company gives you some they're also a store

483
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You can buy your weird aspartame whatever that you need from them

484
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Yes, like your your first send-in recipe includes the first kit free. I've always wanted a bulk order red dye 40

485
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Who hasn't?

486
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Red dye 41 so much better. You're missing out. I

487
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Can see it working better for recipes like you just like wow, I really like that

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That that that chicken, you know dish they have at that one restaurant send in the dish

489
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And they could tell you how to make it at home or at that that fast food thing

490
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a lot of chefs that do that online that they'll say oh yeah if you want to make

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the the whatever it is the chick-fil-a you know breakfast sandwich here's

492
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what's in it really and here's the sauce here's how you make the sauce

493
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my gourmet version but but yeah the Skittles that'd be tough you know kudos

494
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to the guy who makes that at home yeah is it possible to do like a fourier

495
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transform unlike that chicken dish you're describing we're like this is

496
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like the flavor the culmination of everything but we're gonna break it out

497
00:21:52,380 --> 00:21:56,840
into all these things and mix them into a blob and send that to you?

498
00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:02,040
I think I'm stuck on the blob part. The texture is gonna be tough.

499
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:06,000
I'm just impressed by the four-year transformation, you know, that's

500
00:22:06,040 --> 00:22:10,600
radiology right there. If we can figure out what atmosphere an exoplanet has a

501
00:22:10,660 --> 00:22:13,780
hundred billion light years away, surely we can figure out what's in that chicken

502
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:19,220
nugget that you just sent in, right? I got one, there was a tea that Trader Joe's

503
00:22:19,220 --> 00:22:22,880
was made once like 10 years ago that was delicious it was a Black Forest

504
00:22:23,100 --> 00:22:26,640
cupcake black tea they never made it again I would buy it for a hundred bucks

505
00:22:26,740 --> 00:22:30,460
on eBay I'm sure someone out there has one left in a cupboard somewhere send

506
00:22:30,520 --> 00:22:35,880
that in boom okay what about eat your candle you know all those candles that

507
00:22:35,960 --> 00:22:44,460
smell so good you turn it into something you can eat oh there you tropical

508
00:22:44,460 --> 00:22:51,520
paradise candle. EatYourCandle.com. You know what? Along those lines, if they could make coffee that

509
00:22:51,780 --> 00:22:56,260
tastes like it smells the beans, that would be amazing. I want a chemist to

510
00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:04,360
figure that one out. I would like to eat a tropical luau, please. Russell, that's an amazing idea. I don't know, every time I

511
00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:09,920
smell the beans I'm like, "Ugh, it never tastes this good." Never does. I would, yeah, I

512
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:14,020
would eat that all day. That should be a chemistry problem. Let's call that guy up,

513
00:23:14,020 --> 00:23:15,560
-Right. Let's call him up.

514
00:23:16,830 --> 00:23:16,920
[laughter]

515
00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:17,680
-Solve this.

516
00:23:18,220 --> 00:23:20,760
-Now, I'm just thinking of all the things I want to eat but can't.

517
00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,640
This goes back to the whole Tide Pod thing.

518
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:24,420
What would that taste like?

519
00:23:24,960 --> 00:23:26,080
-Edible Tide Pods.

520
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,600
-If it tastes like how it looks.

521
00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:30,020
-Tastes how it looks.

522
00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,860
-Yes. You see something that just looks delicious.

523
00:23:31,860 --> 00:23:34,240
-That's definitely more art. That's more interpretive.

524
00:23:34,330 --> 00:23:36,660
-I bet you I could come up with a flavor you guys would think,

525
00:23:36,660 --> 00:23:38,200
"Yes, that's Tide Pod." -That's Tide Pod.

526
00:23:40,220 --> 00:23:40,580
[laughter]

527
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:42,480
-Just a Tide Pod.

528
00:23:42,660 --> 00:23:43,420
(laughing)

529
00:23:49,220 --> 00:23:50,200
- Russell, what do you got for us this week?

530
00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:53,200
- All right, so this one's been in the hopper

531
00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:57,540
for quite some time, but I guess I didn't pitch it before.

532
00:24:00,279 --> 00:24:03,880
So I think I talked about, I have this electric scooter

533
00:24:04,799 --> 00:24:07,780
and it was really great 'cause I could go to the bars

534
00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:09,740
and just scooter home.

535
00:24:10,340 --> 00:24:12,700
Probably is pretty still illegal.

536
00:24:12,770 --> 00:24:15,880
I think that's still drunk driving.

537
00:24:16,230 --> 00:24:18,580
- This is all allegedly. - Allegedly, right?

538
00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:20,500
- Yeah. - Your honor.

539
00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:22,320
- There's no proof. - That's right.

540
00:24:22,780 --> 00:24:25,340
But I think what I'm suggesting is it'd be nice

541
00:24:25,380 --> 00:24:28,600
if I could drive there and then Uber home,

542
00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:30,700
but not leave my car there.

543
00:24:31,060 --> 00:24:32,100
I'll be fine in the morning.

544
00:24:32,260 --> 00:24:34,040
I just don't wanna go pick up my car,

545
00:24:34,740 --> 00:24:36,420
deal with all of that noise.

546
00:24:36,980 --> 00:24:40,680
So why don't we just start hooking up tow hitches

547
00:24:41,380 --> 00:24:45,080
to trucks and Ubers and say,

548
00:24:45,460 --> 00:24:49,680
hey, I'll pay an extra 25 bucks if you tow my car, right?

549
00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:55,940
This is a, you know, from a $10 Uber to now a $40 Uber ride,

550
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,620
but man, it is worth every penny

551
00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,460
'cause now I can have the five more drinks, let's say,

552
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:02,840
if I wanna have five.

553
00:25:02,940 --> 00:25:05,820
This was back when I could have five more

554
00:25:05,820 --> 00:25:11,000
and then just be able to get myself and my car towed home.

555
00:25:11,260 --> 00:25:12,700
These tow hitches are cheap.

556
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,400
It's like you could add them onto existing tow hitches.

557
00:25:16,420 --> 00:25:17,520
It's not a lot and you're like,

558
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,220
it's not like you're trying to hook up a chain and all that.

559
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,120
It's like two miles, you know,

560
00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:25,100
you put a limit on it or something and you're good, you know?

561
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,560
- Russell, I wanna, you can do without the tow hitch.

562
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:28,640
Just have normal Uber,

563
00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:30,960
but you just have one extra guy in the car

564
00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:34,360
who just hops out and drives your car home along with you.

565
00:25:35,140 --> 00:25:35,900
That's what I was thinking.

566
00:25:35,950 --> 00:25:37,900
- Uber guy follows you, picks him back up.

567
00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:40,220
- Uber X, Uber Black, Uber plus another guy.

568
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:42,540
- Yeah, exactly, Uber plus another guy, that's the website.

569
00:25:42,610 --> 00:25:43,720
- I mean, that's a real thing though.

570
00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:46,200
Yeah, I mean, people having to go back

571
00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:47,920
and pick up their car, especially if it's far away.

572
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:49,080
That's a real pain.

573
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:49,640
- Yeah.

574
00:25:50,140 --> 00:25:52,320
- So yeah, I like that.

575
00:25:52,580 --> 00:25:54,200
Some way to get that car home,

576
00:25:54,290 --> 00:25:58,300
whether it be by tow, flatbed, or an extra driver.

577
00:25:59,260 --> 00:26:01,540
Maybe they just have a Uber bus service

578
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:02,660
that drops off all the guys

579
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:03,780
that'll drive you home in your own car.

580
00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:05,560
Oh, that's true.

581
00:26:06,820 --> 00:26:08,300
The bus just pulls up to the bar.

582
00:26:08,380 --> 00:26:10,480
It's just making the loop a bus full of people.

583
00:26:10,660 --> 00:26:11,920
You got him, you got them.

584
00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:13,100
Our drivers.

585
00:26:13,380 --> 00:26:13,480
Yeah.

586
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:13,660
Yep.

587
00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:15,200
Just take them home.

588
00:26:15,420 --> 00:26:15,880
When they're done.

589
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:18,040
And then I think, well, the bus would just come again.

590
00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:18,720
Oh yeah.

591
00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:20,400
The bus is an Uber for Ubers.

592
00:26:20,740 --> 00:26:21,660
Uber for Uber.

593
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:25,580
Uber Uber.

594
00:26:27,460 --> 00:26:28,100
That's great.

595
00:26:28,180 --> 00:26:29,700
Cause like at last call, right.

596
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:33,820
Or like when all the bars closed, you just have the buses come and

597
00:26:33,820 --> 00:26:38,440
to start releasing all the people to drive them.

598
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:39,580
- What do you do?

599
00:26:39,980 --> 00:26:42,300
I'm a Uber, Uber, Uber, Uber driver.

600
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:43,900
- Uber squared. - Uber duper.

601
00:26:44,340 --> 00:26:44,740
- Uber duper.

602
00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:47,320
- This is okay, guys.

603
00:26:47,540 --> 00:26:48,700
Here's the other side of this.

604
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,020
It's a safety win, right?

605
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:52,380
Less drunk driving.

606
00:26:53,260 --> 00:26:56,580
Bartenders don't have to feel as nervous about over-serving

607
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,100
or less drunk drivers on the road, right?

608
00:27:01,580 --> 00:27:04,560
You get the city government to sponsor this program.

609
00:27:04,820 --> 00:27:06,420
All right, this is where we start going.

610
00:27:06,980 --> 00:27:08,980
- Make it municipal, I love that.

611
00:27:09,559 --> 00:27:10,360
- Incentivize. - That's right.

612
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:12,420
- Extra drinking.

613
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,640
We will pay you to drink more, love your government.

614
00:27:19,020 --> 00:27:20,200
- All right, all right, the angle's gotta be

615
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:20,960
a little different, right?

616
00:27:21,060 --> 00:27:22,860
It's sponsored by Budweiser.

617
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:24,320
- Yeah, right.

618
00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:26,360
- But yeah, it's a safety issue.

619
00:27:26,380 --> 00:27:26,900
- No, that's great.

620
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,860
You could definitely get other people to pay for this,

621
00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:33,900
whoever it is. It's either the bar, it's their city township, whatever.

622
00:27:33,990 --> 00:27:40,800
JAYLEE: I know in some places they have state laws, on the West Coast for example, where

623
00:27:41,380 --> 00:27:45,180
to drive Uber it has to be an electric vehicle, it has to be a Prius, it's gotta be... yeah.

624
00:27:46,780 --> 00:27:53,300
I wonder how many, like, what the stat breakdown is of the Uber and Lyft apps for what kind

625
00:27:53,300 --> 00:27:59,960
of cars there are. Are there a lot of, like, towing-capable, tow-package Uber drivers out

626
00:28:00,060 --> 00:28:03,100
there who are ready to be called up here in the Midwest?

627
00:28:03,590 --> 00:28:08,040
I don't think anyone's ever Googled "tow package for Prius" before, but that would be interesting.

628
00:28:08,620 --> 00:28:08,840
[laughter]

629
00:28:09,780 --> 00:28:15,720
That's... yeah. I feel like most Ubers I've been in have not been towing-capable. So this

630
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,680
would be a supply and demand problem at first.

631
00:28:17,780 --> 00:28:22,840
Maybe more trucks would get sold and you'd see more truck Ubers, right?

632
00:28:23,250 --> 00:28:27,860
I mean they have like an uber XL don't they with the big vehicles like a SUV. Yeah

633
00:28:28,060 --> 00:28:31,640
Yeah, so you just add uber tow or a drunk towing, right?

634
00:28:38,020 --> 00:28:40,300
It's the Midwest we have all these snowplow

635
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:45,140
Trucks that are just kind of sitting there during the summertime like just they all have tow hitches

636
00:28:45,660 --> 00:28:55,220
You know, there was one time I rescued some surgical techs from a hotel bar and got them to the hospital in the middle of the night.

637
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:59,580
No, they weren't in the bar. They were coming from the hotel. I was in the bar.

638
00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:04,040
So, they weren't drinking.

639
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:11,420
Anyways, but it was like big snowstorm and everything snowed in and nobody could get in and out of this parking lot.

640
00:29:11,620 --> 00:29:16,120
And I'm there with my pickup truck and I had remote started it from inside.

641
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:17,280
I had no idea what was going on.

642
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,860
So they're standing by my pickup truck when I get out there, like, is this your truck?

643
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:21,380
I'm like, yeah.

644
00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:23,860
They're like, can you take us to the, you know, hospital?

645
00:29:23,980 --> 00:29:25,160
We're supposed to be in there working.

646
00:29:25,660 --> 00:29:27,740
Uh, they called us in because nobody else could make it in.

647
00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,700
And I'm like, I'm like, I can try.

648
00:29:31,180 --> 00:29:33,900
And, uh, and no one else was going to anywhere.

649
00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:38,540
And I, you know, I was parked, unfortunately on a, on a slope that I had to back up.

650
00:29:38,940 --> 00:29:40,580
Bottom line is I wasn't doing so well.

651
00:29:40,740 --> 00:29:43,260
And I'll be your designated drunk.

652
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,280
A, I think it was a Lyft driver, actually.

653
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:47,220
Actually, it might have been both.

654
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:48,840
He had the little signs in his window.

655
00:29:49,820 --> 00:29:52,980
In a minivan, he goes blasting through the parking lot,

656
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,600
around behind the hotel, blazing a trail,

657
00:29:56,040 --> 00:30:00,040
comes back the other way, pops out into the road and goes.

658
00:30:00,380 --> 00:30:02,480
And I'm just like, that guy is my hero.

659
00:30:03,620 --> 00:30:03,720
(laughing)

660
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:05,300
I don't think he was, I have no idea.

661
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:06,120
He was possessed.

662
00:30:06,420 --> 00:30:07,900
But anyways, I backed up into,

663
00:30:08,020 --> 00:30:11,420
I was able to back up into his tracks in my pickup truck.

664
00:30:11,570 --> 00:30:15,160
He went through in a Honda, whatever, the Odyssey

665
00:30:15,310 --> 00:30:15,760
or whatever.

666
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,140
And I'm in my F-150 and barely making it in his track.

667
00:30:19,490 --> 00:30:21,000
I was like, that guy is a stud.

668
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:22,360
(laughing)

669
00:30:23,820 --> 00:30:25,060
- Maybe it was a soccer mom, you know?

670
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:26,160
She's like, I gotta go.

671
00:30:26,310 --> 00:30:28,660
I gotta go somewhere and I gotta be on the move.

672
00:30:28,740 --> 00:30:29,300
This is it.

673
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:30,760
Minivan mode.

674
00:30:30,780 --> 00:30:31,340
- It could have been.

675
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:32,460
- Yeah, minivan mode.

676
00:30:33,060 --> 00:30:35,000
- Kid needs to be picked up from ballet, I'm going.

677
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:36,880
- Throw the e-brake, let's go, baby.

678
00:30:37,260 --> 00:30:43,260
just it was impressive we have far deviated from drunk to well yeah let's

679
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:48,820
make that happen right guys like front going I like it I think it's it has

680
00:30:48,860 --> 00:30:52,260
definitely merit good name it's definitely you know I know it's come up

681
00:30:52,300 --> 00:30:55,140
before with my friends or they're like yeah shoot I don't know how I'm gonna

682
00:30:55,180 --> 00:30:58,320
get my car to the next day I've got it you know be somewhere else in the

683
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:02,740
morning and it's just gonna be a pain so yeah that's cool I love that you don't

684
00:31:02,760 --> 00:31:06,340
to do anything to make it either you just literally make a website and then

685
00:31:06,260 --> 00:31:09,260
They just Uber to wherever you need to go or whatever it is.

686
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:10,340
It's all done.

687
00:31:10,380 --> 00:31:11,120
I do wonder.

688
00:31:11,440 --> 00:31:14,680
So like tow trucks do their thing when there's mechanical breakdown, but like

689
00:31:14,820 --> 00:31:19,340
how many tow trucks are sitting waiting for something to do day to day, right?

690
00:31:19,620 --> 00:31:23,300
That's probably more in the bad weather, but on a regular summer evening, like.

691
00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,640
People want to go out and call your service.

692
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,560
That's a good way for making a few extra bucks as a tow truck, right?

693
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,400
That's true.

694
00:31:29,660 --> 00:31:33,520
Honestly, people, people could just call the tow services to get Ubered home.

695
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:34,200
Yeah.

696
00:31:34,740 --> 00:31:34,960
Why not?

697
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:37,580
Well, we could set up the app for the services.

698
00:31:38,140 --> 00:31:40,420
Or not we, whoever develops this idea.

699
00:31:40,540 --> 00:31:41,420
Oh, no, we can't.

700
00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:43,600
Remember, this is the freebies.

701
00:31:44,100 --> 00:31:44,740
We give away.

702
00:31:45,060 --> 00:31:46,380
The idea is now yours, listener.

703
00:31:46,660 --> 00:31:48,400
Maybe we can keep it.

704
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:48,640
We can.

705
00:31:48,650 --> 00:31:49,420
We can try it.

706
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:50,680
We can do this one.

707
00:31:51,220 --> 00:31:51,980
I'll vibe code it.

708
00:31:52,420 --> 00:31:53,040
Delete everything.

709
00:31:54,180 --> 00:31:57,440
Yeah, man, it's like usually there's probably

710
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,320
one hour in the middle of the night

711
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:01,520
where all the tow trucks can just be sitting outside

712
00:32:01,580 --> 00:32:02,720
of the string of bars.

713
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:03,780
You know what I mean?

714
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:05,720
but then you have to sit in the...

715
00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:07,840
Can I sit in my car being towed?

716
00:32:07,940 --> 00:32:10,660
I don't know if I wanna be in a stranger's tow truck drunk.

717
00:32:13,420 --> 00:32:13,740
Wee!

718
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,120
It's like when you get to be in a boat

719
00:32:15,180 --> 00:32:16,100
getting towed or something.

720
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:19,840
You can be drunk driving,

721
00:32:19,980 --> 00:32:21,240
but my car's not even started.

722
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:22,200
- You won't remember it anyway.

723
00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:23,980
- Yeah.

724
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:25,720
Turn up some music.

725
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:32,380
- All right, John, what do you have for us?

726
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,120
-All right, so background.

727
00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:41,220
At various points in my timeline, I found myself having a battle with a toilet.

728
00:32:42,420 --> 00:32:42,840
-Yes.

729
00:32:43,740 --> 00:32:45,080
That could be several things.

730
00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:46,460
-I know, right?

731
00:32:47,060 --> 00:32:47,700
-Did you lose?

732
00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:48,880
-It's a battle.

733
00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:50,060
-Sometimes I've lost.

734
00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:56,400
No, so for various reasons, I found myself in situations where I'm regularly

735
00:32:56,500 --> 00:33:00,900
having to plunge a toilet amongst other issues, but plunging for sure.

736
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,240
when I was working at a camp as a maintenance guy, and then later as a

737
00:33:04,460 --> 00:33:09,540
counselor, I was a little type A kid growing up and didn't get enough fiber.

738
00:33:09,580 --> 00:33:11,760
And so I had my own problem growing up for a little while there.

739
00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,860
A little too much toilet paper, not enough flushes, you know what I mean?

740
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:17,940
But anyways, yeah.

741
00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:19,020
And I was just like, you know what?

742
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,440
In this day and age, the modern world, we shouldn't have to plunge toilets.

743
00:33:22,700 --> 00:33:23,520
You know, first and foremost.

744
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:25,680
That's the first part of this idea.

745
00:33:25,920 --> 00:33:26,900
And then I was thinking, you know what?

746
00:33:27,140 --> 00:33:29,760
Actually, the toilet is, it's a brilliant idea.

747
00:33:30,260 --> 00:33:32,480
The design is great for like the 1800s,

748
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,380
but it's been a long time since anybody's really updated.

749
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,940
Sure, we got these seats that, you know,

750
00:33:38,100 --> 00:33:40,700
will clean your backside and maybe light up at night

751
00:33:40,780 --> 00:33:41,620
when you walk by.

752
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:45,440
But I want like a really smart toilet

753
00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:47,140
that does a lot of things for me.

754
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:48,740
So that's what I came up with.

755
00:33:48,820 --> 00:33:50,740
And I think in some ways,

756
00:33:50,860 --> 00:33:52,320
some of these things exist out there,

757
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:54,360
but I'm not sure that the whole package does.

758
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:55,680
And I'm not sure what exists out there.

759
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:57,020
Maybe some of this is out there.

760
00:33:57,140 --> 00:33:58,460
So here's my idea.

761
00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:01,960
First of all, you have something that breaks up big loads

762
00:34:02,340 --> 00:34:03,240
and sends them through.

763
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,480
And maybe we don't need that elbow anymore.

764
00:34:06,060 --> 00:34:09,620
Now, the elbows are mainly to keep the swamp gas out

765
00:34:09,620 --> 00:34:11,879
of your house, but maybe we can do it

766
00:34:11,899 --> 00:34:15,200
with valves or some kind of flapper mechanism or something.

767
00:34:16,580 --> 00:34:18,300
Again, it's not for us to design.

768
00:34:18,379 --> 00:34:20,220
This is for you, the inventor out there--

769
00:34:20,240 --> 00:34:21,379
The engineers will figure it out.

770
00:34:21,379 --> 00:34:21,639
--to figure this out.

771
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:22,780
But yes.

772
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,200
But have a garbage disposal down there.

773
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:29,080
Just send that stuff through it.

774
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:30,340
So it's not going to get stuck anywhere.

775
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:36,679
Or, or jets have jets that are just black, just, just blasting this thing.

776
00:34:37,220 --> 00:34:39,220
I've got a couple of names for these, for this idea.

777
00:34:39,490 --> 00:34:42,020
And that gets into one of the names, but, uh, but then here's the thing.

778
00:34:42,139 --> 00:34:44,320
I mean, so we're already processing all this stuff.

779
00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:46,340
It's like, maybe we could be testing it.

780
00:34:46,340 --> 00:34:49,200
Maybe we find out this, you know, we could do a fecal analysis.

781
00:34:49,340 --> 00:34:51,940
We'd find out, Hey, maybe this guy's got colon cancer.

782
00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:53,159
He's low blood in there.

783
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,980
Uh, you know, or he's, he's peeing and there's a little blood in there.

784
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,080
That means different things or protein in the urine or hey, wait a minute.

785
00:35:01,180 --> 00:35:02,580
There's a little glucose in your urine.

786
00:35:03,020 --> 00:35:06,780
Um, then we can detect, uh, early onset, uh, type one diabetes

787
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:08,560
before they go into a crisis.

788
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:10,000
You know, can we do that?

789
00:35:10,860 --> 00:35:15,220
Um, you know, maybe, uh, get your, uh, get your floral in that, you know,

790
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:20,880
it basically be like, um, it'd be like Theranos for poop, but like not a scam,

791
00:35:21,100 --> 00:35:22,660
but not a scam, please.

792
00:35:22,820 --> 00:35:24,799
So the episode that there are notes for poop

793
00:35:26,780 --> 00:35:27,100
- Poopinosis.

794
00:35:28,180 --> 00:35:28,260
(laughing)

795
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,300
- All right, I'm opening the spreadsheet again

796
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,440
and renaming from smarter toilets to Fair enough for poop.

797
00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:35,020
- We'll call it fair enough for poop though.

798
00:35:35,380 --> 00:35:36,280
You know, so I got a couple ideas.

799
00:35:36,660 --> 00:35:37,680
So it's a really smart toilet.

800
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:39,020
So it could be the IBM.

801
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:40,840
(laughing)

802
00:35:43,739 --> 00:35:45,580
Or because of the Jets and stuff like that,

803
00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:47,380
we'll call it the Turd Buster 2000.

804
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:48,620
The TBDK.

805
00:35:48,780 --> 00:35:48,900
- Excellent, excellent.

806
00:35:50,020 --> 00:35:50,200
- Yeah.

807
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:52,260
So that's kind of what I'm going with, you know,

808
00:35:52,380 --> 00:35:54,140
and like the sky's the limit, you know,

809
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:56,300
you could be running all kinds of things

810
00:35:56,300 --> 00:35:58,680
AI looking at your poop, who knows what it'll come up with.

811
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:00,520
But yeah, that's my true.

812
00:36:00,900 --> 00:36:03,800
I'm delighted to inform you that the urine analysis that you add

813
00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:06,740
to a toilet does exist withing this one as of last year.

814
00:36:06,860 --> 00:36:09,620
But everything else garbage disposal makes a lot of sense.

815
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:10,880
Yes. Yeah.

816
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,980
Now, now, you know, I've got there's there's layers to this to this cake.

817
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:15,520
Gross. So

818
00:36:17,460 --> 00:36:18,980
you don't have to go into the other layers.

819
00:36:19,340 --> 00:36:22,940
So I hate dealing with, you know, the poop, but also like the toilet

820
00:36:23,260 --> 00:36:24,060
and, you know, cleaning up.

821
00:36:24,060 --> 00:36:26,780
And like when I was a camp counselor, the kids never hit the toilet.

822
00:36:26,980 --> 00:36:27,620
So it's nasty.

823
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:29,160
And it's just like, you know what?

824
00:36:29,380 --> 00:36:31,640
This this whole room, I should be able shut the door, hit a button,

825
00:36:31,980 --> 00:36:36,440
and it just sterilizes the thing, just drops the bleach and then rinses it out.

826
00:36:36,860 --> 00:36:39,400
And and it's like, why does that not exist?

827
00:36:39,700 --> 00:36:41,440
And I guess it does exist, supposedly.

828
00:36:42,099 --> 00:36:43,620
Somewhere, somewhere cooler than air.

829
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,160
But but but yeah, so and then I thought, well, you know,

830
00:36:47,460 --> 00:36:50,040
maybe you could just have this all as a plug in unit plug and play.

831
00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:51,960
Like you just deliver the whole thing.

832
00:36:52,140 --> 00:36:55,440
It's a self-contained bathroom that you just install.

833
00:36:55,650 --> 00:36:56,480
You just hook up the thing.

834
00:36:56,510 --> 00:37:00,040
You just hook it up to your plumbing and electrical and any room's good to go.

835
00:37:00,740 --> 00:37:01,260
Just drop it.

836
00:37:01,340 --> 00:37:03,880
Just drop it by a by crane into the house.

837
00:37:04,370 --> 00:37:07,280
You know, I mean, I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this, but if I haven't,

838
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,600
my dad stayed at a cheap motel somewhere down south years and years and years ago.

839
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:16,360
And the bathroom in the cheap motel was one molded unit from the sink

840
00:37:16,410 --> 00:37:19,940
to the toilet, to the shower, to the whatever was like those molded showers

841
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:20,360
that you get in.

842
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:21,340
but it was the whole thing.

843
00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:24,520
And it had a little drain at the bottom middle.

844
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,400
So you could just freaking hose the whole thing down, shower

845
00:37:28,519 --> 00:37:29,860
and sink and toilet.

846
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:33,060
All of it was one molded plastic piece that you just put in.

847
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:36,160
I want to. Yeah, I might not be the first to that idea, but you know,

848
00:37:36,540 --> 00:37:38,940
I think I would incorporate it for homes.

849
00:37:39,240 --> 00:37:42,440
But most importantly, like grind the poop up, get it out of there.

850
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:43,780
Don't let it get stuck.

851
00:37:43,940 --> 00:37:46,140
Anyway, I don't want I don't want to get stuck in the elbow.

852
00:37:46,460 --> 00:37:48,260
I don't want to get it stuck down the pipe.

853
00:37:48,300 --> 00:37:52,920
I don't want anybody after ever like be trying to bust that up. Yes, it should be busted

854
00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:57,340
I love the idea of just having a pressure washer in my toilet where I mean, it's just water

855
00:37:57,540 --> 00:38:01,600
That's all a pressure washer is right? It's just a little more force the lid

856
00:38:02,060 --> 00:38:07,900
30 gallons, right like a different lid. There's there's no reason you could this could be the lid. Yeah. Oh, yeah

857
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,820
just turn the lid you get you buy a special lid it like

858
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:18,280
like

859
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:20,220
all the water pressure that you have

860
00:38:20,340 --> 00:38:21,760
because you attach another hose to it,

861
00:38:22,140 --> 00:38:23,340
which is easy, right?

862
00:38:23,500 --> 00:38:25,020
Just shoots it down, right?

863
00:38:25,140 --> 00:38:25,680
Just like--

864
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:25,940
- I like that.

865
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:28,940
They actually have something like that for plug sinks,

866
00:38:29,460 --> 00:38:31,220
that it blows up a balloon in your sink

867
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:34,360
and then it shoots water through the center of the balloon.

868
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,320
And so it creates the seal

869
00:38:36,740 --> 00:38:38,620
and then the water pressure pushes the plug through.

870
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:39,300
- Whoa, okay.

871
00:38:39,820 --> 00:38:42,820
- So, but again, I don't wanna be bringing a hose

872
00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,360
into my toilet and dealing with that nasty.

873
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:45,700
I just want it to work.

874
00:38:45,980 --> 00:38:48,000
But if your seat did it, that's cool.

875
00:38:48,140 --> 00:38:50,500
If it somehow actually creates a seal

876
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,160
and then pressurizes the thing, it

877
00:38:52,220 --> 00:38:52,940
wouldn't even have to be water.

878
00:38:53,130 --> 00:38:56,060
You could just have like an air tank.

879
00:38:56,660 --> 00:38:58,920
Yeah, compressed air could just blow that thing through.

880
00:38:59,400 --> 00:38:59,840
[LAUGHTER]

881
00:39:01,540 --> 00:39:02,720
You better have good plumbing.

882
00:39:02,760 --> 00:39:03,260
Oh, yeah.

883
00:39:04,940 --> 00:39:08,920
And the poor guy working the sewers that day.

884
00:39:09,300 --> 00:39:09,540
Whoa.

885
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:12,620
Not good.

886
00:39:14,260 --> 00:39:15,620
But no, I think that's it.

887
00:39:15,660 --> 00:39:19,620
They do make a toilet plunger that seals to the rim

888
00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:21,160
of the bowl itself.

889
00:39:21,380 --> 00:39:23,300
And then it does the pressure thing.

890
00:39:23,640 --> 00:39:25,800
Yeah, where you like kind of push on the whole thing

891
00:39:25,860 --> 00:39:29,260
and it acts like a big airbag almost that you're pumping.

892
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:30,360
So build that in.

893
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:31,820
Build that into the seat, it's so good.

894
00:39:31,860 --> 00:39:34,300
'Cause again, I don't wanna deal with a nasty plunge.

895
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,180
100%, I love that.

896
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,680
You also said why, like we could just get rid of the trap,

897
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,020
right, the P-trap, right?

898
00:39:41,100 --> 00:39:41,340
Yeah.

899
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:42,560
Like why even have that?

900
00:39:42,820 --> 00:39:45,180
- That's like also the cause of problems.

901
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:46,420
- It is.

902
00:39:46,540 --> 00:39:48,880
I mean, you're trying to take a cylindrical structure

903
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:50,880
and move it through a S-turn.

904
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:53,700
(laughing)

905
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:54,240
- Right.

906
00:39:54,480 --> 00:39:56,240
- It's kind of the square peg in a round hole thing.

907
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:57,580
- Something like that.

908
00:39:57,720 --> 00:39:58,780
- And so here's the thing,

909
00:39:58,940 --> 00:40:01,360
that's the way your sigmoid colon is.

910
00:40:01,420 --> 00:40:02,700
That's why they call it the sigmoid colon

911
00:40:02,780 --> 00:40:03,580
'cause it's like an S.

912
00:40:04,800 --> 00:40:08,900
But when you poop, the muscles of your intestines,

913
00:40:09,500 --> 00:40:11,380
they will pull things straight

914
00:40:11,380 --> 00:40:12,900
and create a straight shot out.

915
00:40:13,420 --> 00:40:15,880
And I mean, that would be hard to do mechanically

916
00:40:16,020 --> 00:40:16,560
with a toilet.

917
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:17,820
So you just keep it straight.

918
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:18,800
(laughs)

919
00:40:19,539 --> 00:40:23,620
But, and then, but the only question is then,

920
00:40:24,180 --> 00:40:25,380
yeah, you know, there's two things.

921
00:40:25,940 --> 00:40:28,700
I don't think anybody uses it for finding their rings

922
00:40:28,780 --> 00:40:30,220
or whatever that dropped down the toilet.

923
00:40:30,530 --> 00:40:31,520
At that point it's gone

924
00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:33,500
because the poo's pushing it through.

925
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:36,800
But people do use it so that you don't get that gas.

926
00:40:37,410 --> 00:40:38,620
So you just need something,

927
00:40:39,140 --> 00:40:40,820
and a water seal is a great solution for that.

928
00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:42,440
but something to seal it.

929
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:43,220
- Trap door.

930
00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:44,400
I don't, I mean, right?

931
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:44,860
I don't know.

932
00:40:46,299 --> 00:40:48,340
Even if it was just trap door.

933
00:40:48,940 --> 00:40:51,880
- Trap doors are kind of how the incinerating toilet things

934
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:53,800
work for like campers and stuff, right?

935
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:55,380
Like the sawdust ones.

936
00:40:55,780 --> 00:40:56,140
- I don't know.

937
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:57,920
- That is a thing, but they're not water.

938
00:40:58,060 --> 00:40:58,200
Yeah.

939
00:40:58,880 --> 00:40:59,240
Yes.

940
00:40:59,330 --> 00:41:00,940
We have so many competing ideas out there,

941
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:02,780
but we've never put them together to one good one.

942
00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:03,800
- Yeah, man.

943
00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:05,000
Even the test, right.

944
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,540
Just like, it does feel like we've, I don't know,

945
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:09,200
some of that stuff, it feels like we're

946
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:10,200
in ancient technology.

947
00:41:10,420 --> 00:41:13,800
Like as a millennial, right, we should be past the point.

948
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,520
- I'm entitled to the best toilet technology that we can.

949
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,700
- The minor inconveniences of life,

950
00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:20,980
it's not even minor anymore.

951
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:22,460
Like they're just real.

952
00:41:22,820 --> 00:41:24,440
They're just like the inconvenience.

953
00:41:24,540 --> 00:41:26,700
The first world problem is now the problem.

954
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,860
And it's, but like, this is like, I don't know.

955
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:31,140
I've had some problems,

956
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:32,700
like there have been some toilet problems

957
00:41:32,740 --> 00:41:34,680
and you're just like, I hate to be the guy

958
00:41:34,780 --> 00:41:36,000
that's always having to do it.

959
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:37,700
Like I'm always the dude, right?

960
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:38,800
I don't know.

961
00:41:39,580 --> 00:41:40,860
This just feels like that.

962
00:41:42,040 --> 00:41:43,460
Yeah, it's a dirty job.

963
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:43,860
It is.

964
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:47,560
And it feels like technology could be the solution on that

965
00:41:47,620 --> 00:41:50,200
one, that we don't need to be living in the dark ages.

966
00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:51,980
No pun intended there.

967
00:41:53,140 --> 00:41:53,580
[LAUGHTER]

968
00:41:56,300 --> 00:41:56,740
John.

969
00:41:58,980 --> 00:42:01,960
We've been living in the world where water toilets are a thing.

970
00:42:02,020 --> 00:42:03,140
Why don't we do fire toilets?

971
00:42:03,600 --> 00:42:05,260
Like, why can't this be fire toilets?

972
00:42:05,470 --> 00:42:05,580
No.

973
00:42:05,860 --> 00:42:06,220
No.

974
00:42:06,500 --> 00:42:08,600
Well, they do have incinerating toilets, right?

975
00:42:08,860 --> 00:42:10,300
Let's just turn, let's just do that.

976
00:42:10,740 --> 00:42:11,540
- That's a real thing?

977
00:42:11,850 --> 00:42:12,980
I thought we were making that up.

978
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,520
- Just burn through like propane on every flush?

979
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:18,900
- What do you mean?

980
00:42:18,980 --> 00:42:19,720
It's just fuel.

981
00:42:20,060 --> 00:42:21,340
- I don't think they're, I think they're electric.

982
00:42:21,700 --> 00:42:22,020
Maybe even.

983
00:42:22,020 --> 00:42:23,480
- You don't have to light a candle after.

984
00:42:23,780 --> 00:42:24,620
- You cook the poop.

985
00:42:24,660 --> 00:42:25,420
- They turn to ash.

986
00:42:26,180 --> 00:42:27,620
- Nah, you get the poop fan, you know,

987
00:42:27,740 --> 00:42:28,600
and it burns outside.

988
00:42:29,060 --> 00:42:31,900
- You can vent the gases just like anything.

989
00:42:32,060 --> 00:42:32,340
- Right.

990
00:42:32,970 --> 00:42:34,600
It shouldn't smell because it's burning.

991
00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:36,460
You're burning all the bad smell.

992
00:42:36,980 --> 00:42:37,700
(laughing)

993
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:41,300
- You've never burned hair before, have you?

994
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:43,900
- Things that burn don't stink, we all know this.

995
00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:44,940
(laughing)

996
00:42:47,100 --> 00:42:48,540
- Is it, are we burning off the methane?

997
00:42:48,890 --> 00:42:49,500
Are we burning?

998
00:42:49,740 --> 00:42:50,960
- You gotta burn it completely.

999
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:53,120
You burn it enough, yes.

1000
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:53,540
- Okay.

1001
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,880
- Then you just have CO2.

1002
00:42:56,780 --> 00:42:57,220
(laughing)

1003
00:42:58,420 --> 00:42:58,680
- Okay.

1004
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,500
- Partially burn poop, partially burn poop,

1005
00:43:00,740 --> 00:43:01,260
probably not great.

1006
00:43:01,820 --> 00:43:02,260
(laughing)

1007
00:43:02,900 --> 00:43:05,260
- If you burn poop it doesn't stink, 'cause you burned it.

1008
00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:10,240
No, no, they have composting toilets, but they also have incinerating toilets.

1009
00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:11,300
Composting.

1010
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:13,260
That's what I was thinking of earlier that I didn't say right.

1011
00:43:13,720 --> 00:43:13,860
Yeah.

1012
00:43:13,980 --> 00:43:18,760
There's all kinds of things, but yeah, nothing as far as I know that just

1013
00:43:19,780 --> 00:43:21,120
disintegrates it, pushes it through.

1014
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:25,620
Make sure, whether it's a blade spinning in there, it chops it up, but yeah.

1015
00:43:26,460 --> 00:43:32,260
Or a combination, because probably there's sometimes where even the

1016
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,080
turd buster ain't breaking it up and then you need a little force.

1017
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:36,040
That's right.

1018
00:43:36,180 --> 00:43:39,060
That's right. Not even the poop knife.

1019
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,240
The poop knife. Not even the poop knife.

1020
00:43:41,740 --> 00:43:45,940
That was the first thing I thought of when you said this idea, like an auto poop knife that just comes down.

1021
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,580
Honey, I built this really cool new invention. You gotta come see it.

1022
00:43:55,460 --> 00:43:57,620
We burn poop to keep it moving.

1023
00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:05,580
Well, dear listener, if you have us on in the can, as so many of you do while you're working on your morning project,

1024
00:44:05,580 --> 00:44:12,080
Thank you very much for listening today, and we hope you enjoyed yourself. Thank you very much John for joining us. This was delightful

1025
00:44:12,660 --> 00:44:16,360
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1026
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:18,600
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1027
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:18,980
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1028
00:44:19,060 --> 00:44:24,020
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1029
00:44:24,180 --> 00:44:25,380
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1030
00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,400
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1031
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:32,180
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1032
00:44:32,220 --> 00:44:36,840
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1033
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:38,780
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1034
00:44:39,380 --> 00:44:45,700
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1035
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,200
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1036
00:44:51,060 --> 00:44:54,880
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1037
00:44:55,020 --> 00:45:00,120
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1038
00:45:08,420 --> 00:45:12,080
- Oh man, I'm not gonna stop thinking about this problem now.

1039
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:12,900
(laughing)

1040
00:45:12,900 --> 00:45:16,180
I can't believe I'm on a prehistoric piece of equipment.

1041
00:45:16,620 --> 00:45:17,100
You know what I mean?

1042
00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:18,220
Every time. - Yeah.