1 00:00:04,699 --> 00:00:18,420 I'm Scott. I'm Russell. And I'm Leo. This is Spitball. Welcome to Spitball, where three 2 00:00:18,540 --> 00:00:22,280 project persons and a guest empty our heads of startup and tech product ideas that we 3 00:00:22,300 --> 00:00:25,660 have stuck up in there so you can all have them for free. Anything that we say is yours 4 00:00:25,660 --> 00:00:28,580 to keep. And this week, Russell, you brought our guest, didn't you, brother? 5 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:30,520 - Oh yes I did. 6 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,560 I have the famous Marc Boersma here, 7 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:38,380 who is currently the director of product 8 00:00:38,480 --> 00:00:40,320 for a company called Morey. 9 00:00:41,060 --> 00:00:41,840 - Morey, yep. 10 00:00:42,140 --> 00:00:45,140 -Morey, and there's a lot of cool stuff happening there, 11 00:00:45,260 --> 00:00:49,120 but we know him famously from our Ring Cam days. 12 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:53,180 He is famously proposed at the Piston Stadium 13 00:00:53,900 --> 00:00:57,420 and shamelessly plugged Ring Cam on a big screen there. 14 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:01,660 So yeah, it was quite incredible. 15 00:01:01,810 --> 00:01:03,880 I think hundreds of thousands of people, 16 00:01:04,739 --> 00:01:08,940 no, just thousands of people saw an amazing proposal 17 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:13,720 and a bunch of advertisements to every bride and groom 18 00:01:13,800 --> 00:01:15,780 walking through that arena. 19 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,640 - My wife does not know about that, so don't tell her. 20 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:19,940 - Oh, no? 21 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,000 - She doesn't know, so. 22 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:24,600 - Well, if Marc's wife's listening, 23 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:26,780 she was already engaged, so. 24 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:28,120 It makes it worse. 25 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:29,040 It makes it way better, right? 26 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:31,040 Yeah, good cover up. 27 00:01:31,220 --> 00:01:31,480 Nailed it. 28 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:33,180 Marc, welcome to Spitball. 29 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:35,760 Thank you. 30 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:36,780 Great to be here. 31 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:38,840 Another legendary introduction, Russell. 32 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,380 So when we have guests on who start off while we're warming up and talking in the pre-show 33 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:45,100 and they're like, "I have a hundred ideas. 34 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:46,240 What should I do with all these? 35 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:47,300 How do I pick just one?" 36 00:01:47,420 --> 00:01:52,520 We sometimes will play a round of intramurals where we pitch some of our reject half ideas 37 00:01:52,740 --> 00:01:56,199 just to clear the decks a little bit and something that we don't want to be a full pitch but 38 00:01:56,200 --> 00:01:57,700 that we think has a little bit of legs. 39 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:59,560 So we're going to do a round of intramurals 40 00:01:59,620 --> 00:02:00,440 to get us warmed up today. 41 00:02:00,720 --> 00:02:01,540 How are we feeling? 42 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:02,460 Who wants to go first? 43 00:02:02,620 --> 00:02:03,320 Who's itching? 44 00:02:03,900 --> 00:02:04,940 Do we all have an app idea? 45 00:02:05,060 --> 00:02:06,580 I think we might all have an app idea tonight. 46 00:02:06,660 --> 00:02:07,040 Is that right? 47 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:08,020 I could do an app idea. 48 00:02:08,020 --> 00:02:09,020 I can turn mine into an app idea. 49 00:02:09,020 --> 00:02:09,700 Let's do it all. 50 00:02:09,940 --> 00:02:11,060 Oops, all apps intramurals. 51 00:02:11,100 --> 00:02:12,220 Oops, all apps. 52 00:02:12,920 --> 00:02:13,720 All right, I got you. 53 00:02:13,760 --> 00:02:14,040 Let's go. 54 00:02:14,100 --> 00:02:14,460 Hit us. 55 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:14,840 What do you got? 56 00:02:14,940 --> 00:02:15,560 This is an app. 57 00:02:15,920 --> 00:02:17,180 I recently moved. 58 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:21,040 I have recently been putting lots of large things 59 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:26,180 into a old house with many corners and small staircases 60 00:02:26,180 --> 00:02:28,840 realizing this will not fit from here to here. 61 00:02:29,260 --> 00:02:31,640 I want an app where I could just take my phone, 62 00:02:31,820 --> 00:02:33,620 like do a quick look around the room, 63 00:02:34,220 --> 00:02:36,720 get a CAD model of whatever the thing is 64 00:02:36,780 --> 00:02:37,540 that I'm trying to move, 65 00:02:37,550 --> 00:02:40,200 that freaking mattress or dishwasher or something, 66 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:41,500 and just have it like, 67 00:02:41,820 --> 00:02:44,440 "Hey, you can fit that around this corner 68 00:02:44,760 --> 00:02:45,980 "only if you do it this way. 69 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:47,840 "If you hold the couch at this angle, 70 00:02:48,380 --> 00:02:49,220 "you can get it through." 71 00:02:49,220 --> 00:02:50,600 And it does all of that for you. 72 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:52,720 - You end up with like IKEA instructions 73 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:55,640 with like put on and slide down two feet, 74 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:56,940 Rotate 90 degrees. 75 00:02:57,260 --> 00:02:57,760 Yeah. 76 00:02:58,400 --> 00:02:59,200 That's awesome. 77 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:00,740 - That's the entire app. 78 00:03:00,820 --> 00:03:02,740 And I would kill for that this past weekend. 79 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,580 - So iPhones have LiDAR scanners and stuff 80 00:03:05,580 --> 00:03:06,420 for many years now, 81 00:03:06,420 --> 00:03:08,620 and there's apps to do the 3D rendering. 82 00:03:08,700 --> 00:03:10,500 There's a whole API suite for this. 83 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:11,740 This is very doable. 84 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:12,500 I love this. 85 00:03:12,940 --> 00:03:13,740 - It doesn't exist. 86 00:03:13,980 --> 00:03:15,260 I was literally looking for this 87 00:03:15,260 --> 00:03:18,380 when trying to get a stupid washing machine through, but. 88 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:20,360 - Amazon even has the like, 89 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,160 put this object in your room to see how it would fit. 90 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:23,780 - Yeah, the augmented reality part. 91 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:24,860 - You're almost there. 92 00:03:24,980 --> 00:03:28,000 You just need to show me how to get it to this spot, Amazon. 93 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:29,880 You're going to leave it on my back porch. 94 00:03:30,050 --> 00:03:30,880 The CAD models. 95 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:31,960 Hey, this is a mattress. 96 00:03:32,100 --> 00:03:33,300 It's a little bit flexy. 97 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:34,960 We could move it around this way. 98 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:36,200 Yeah. 99 00:03:36,860 --> 00:03:38,800 Well, what if you-- and then you could-- 100 00:03:39,180 --> 00:03:43,020 what if you entered in your physique numbers in terms 101 00:03:43,100 --> 00:03:44,560 of how much you can lift? 102 00:03:45,260 --> 00:03:48,280 And then it tells you, no, you need a partner for this. 103 00:03:48,460 --> 00:03:49,600 You're going to throw out your back. 104 00:03:50,540 --> 00:03:53,719 Here's-- in order to get it to this position, you got to-- 105 00:03:53,660 --> 00:03:59,720 This box if you grew up on a farm. Yeah, you have to here's the three-week weightlifting program you have to go through first 106 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:00,640 It's a fitness map 107 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:06,060 It measures the awkwardness of the item right like just like how awkward it is to hold 108 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:11,040 You know, there's no handholds on this perfectly smooth cabinet. You want to get down there? Yeah 109 00:04:11,460 --> 00:04:16,079 Well, if we want to if we want to scale it commercial, we'll just sell it to the moving companies 110 00:04:16,799 --> 00:04:22,079 You can upload pictures of everything you have to move it gives the two guys in a truck 111 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,000 instructions for 112 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:27,280 Everything to move how to get it in there most efficiently 113 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:32,420 Because it's all about efficiency with their revenue and their profit like more efficient more profitable 114 00:04:32,700 --> 00:04:36,880 So you give them step-by-step tells them they can bill you more. I 115 00:04:36,980 --> 00:04:41,800 Like it. Whoa, two houses one day with your app Scott. Yeah, there you go 116 00:04:42,340 --> 00:04:45,599 There's two men two houses one truck one day 117 00:04:51,480 --> 00:04:53,380 Two men and app in a truck. 118 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:58,940 That is actually, Marc, I did not think you could make money with this app until you said 119 00:04:59,060 --> 00:04:59,900 something like that. 120 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:02,300 Of course, Marc is away for that. 121 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:13,280 So when we moved out of our condo, my wife and I, the closest elevator was like, I don't 122 00:05:13,280 --> 00:05:14,600 know, 50 years old. 123 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:16,440 And it was crazy tiny. 124 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:23,460 And so these movers that we hired to do it, they did not account for how many trips down 125 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:28,660 that little tiny elevator they would need to take because they assumed it was a big 126 00:05:28,700 --> 00:05:30,760 elevator for a large condo building. 127 00:05:31,700 --> 00:05:37,940 And so it was a fixed rate quote and I guarantee they lost money because they had no idea. 128 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:42,140 But if they had your app, they'd be like, "Hey, it's this many elevator loads. 129 00:05:42,580 --> 00:05:47,140 This is the path to get all the way downstairs to the moving truck." 130 00:05:47,140 --> 00:05:49,700 to save them a lot of money on the job. 131 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:54,280 - Man, you run a 360 camera through your house ahead of time, 132 00:05:54,820 --> 00:05:56,520 like that's all it takes, right? 133 00:05:57,040 --> 00:05:58,720 If you really want to commercialize this, 134 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:01,280 you send them a 360 camera ahead of time 135 00:06:01,380 --> 00:06:03,580 and it just like, or I guess you could just do this 136 00:06:03,620 --> 00:06:04,760 with your iPhones, right? 137 00:06:05,260 --> 00:06:07,600 They have like full rooms, oh man. 138 00:06:08,060 --> 00:06:08,260 - Yep. 139 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:09,660 - That's actually dope. 140 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:12,740 - All right, someone give me a moment to intermural, 141 00:06:12,790 --> 00:06:13,240 I forgot. 142 00:06:13,580 --> 00:06:14,380 - Yeah, you're taking too long. 143 00:06:14,820 --> 00:06:15,240 Keep it moving. 144 00:06:15,580 --> 00:06:21,340 I have a, I'll piggyback off that because believe it or not, my app is kind of a moving 145 00:06:21,420 --> 00:06:21,620 app. 146 00:06:22,340 --> 00:06:30,100 So as we all know, the baby boomers of the generation are retiring and they are old enough 147 00:06:30,140 --> 00:06:31,620 now to be moved into nursing homes. 148 00:06:32,140 --> 00:06:37,820 So there is a lot of very old people moving into nursing homes and they have to sell all 149 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:38,900 their stuff, right? 150 00:06:39,110 --> 00:06:42,080 I was talking to my neighbor a few months ago going through this whole thing. 151 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,580 parents lived in the house, had to go into a nursing home, do an estate sale. 152 00:06:47,180 --> 00:06:52,600 So they have to pay hundreds of dollars for this company to come and evaluate everything 153 00:06:52,620 --> 00:06:53,260 in their house. 154 00:06:53,820 --> 00:06:58,300 And then they have to pay for them to move, warehouse all this stuff. 155 00:06:58,700 --> 00:07:03,360 And then this company takes it upon themselves to sell as much as they can from the house. 156 00:07:03,820 --> 00:07:08,160 And then they charge like a 35% commission fee on everything they sell. 157 00:07:08,340 --> 00:07:12,780 And it's just because the kids who are dealing with all this, because grandparents are not 158 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,580 able to anymore, don't want to spend all the time to do it. 159 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:24,400 So with the beautiful rise of AI, imagine being able to walk through your parents' house, 160 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:29,460 who are now in a nursing home, be able to photograph everything, and through image recognition, 161 00:07:29,820 --> 00:07:36,459 assign a price tag to everything, automatically list it on an estate sale website, and you 162 00:07:36,460 --> 00:07:41,900 take care of all of that yourself just via camera and app automatically posting it assigning 163 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,400 a price value which honestly if they make any money off of it it's great because they 164 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:50,060 just don't want to deal with the hassle. AI virtual estate sale. 165 00:07:50,580 --> 00:07:55,700 Beautiful. It could even list it on local Facebook marketplaces and eBay and all that 166 00:07:55,820 --> 00:07:58,100 stuff too. Absolutely. It doesn't even have to be physical anymore. 167 00:07:58,100 --> 00:08:02,300 List it at a high price and just keep knocking it down every week if no one buys it until 168 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:03,500 someone eventually grabs it. 169 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:04,060 Yeah. 170 00:08:04,820 --> 00:08:08,180 There really isn't much that the estate sale companies are bringing to the table 171 00:08:08,260 --> 00:08:09,880 that can't be commodified at this point. 172 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:15,880 Is there appraisal and organization of an event and price tagging and 173 00:08:16,180 --> 00:08:18,660 bargain, all that stuff is like so easy to automate. 174 00:08:19,300 --> 00:08:19,660 Yep. 175 00:08:20,140 --> 00:08:20,380 Wow. 176 00:08:20,740 --> 00:08:23,040 I don't know much about how estate sales work. 177 00:08:23,100 --> 00:08:25,920 I guess I didn't, there's a whole company that will just come in and 178 00:08:25,980 --> 00:08:27,520 just sell everything you own. 179 00:08:27,620 --> 00:08:27,880 Pretty much. 180 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,740 Imagine a garage sale, but the whole house you walk through. 181 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,140 A lot of people do it themselves. 182 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:38,520 But like most people don't have time, you know, like think 183 00:08:38,560 --> 00:08:40,260 of the kids are the ones that are doing it. 184 00:08:40,260 --> 00:08:43,000 And the kids are now, you know, 40, 50 years old. 185 00:08:43,030 --> 00:08:45,320 They have kids, they have jobs, they have all that stuff. 186 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,300 And this is a huge thing on their plate. 187 00:08:47,380 --> 00:08:49,380 So they hire a company to just take care of it all. 188 00:08:49,940 --> 00:08:53,660 Why can't an app with AI image recognition do it for them? 189 00:08:54,780 --> 00:08:56,640 I would like to walk around my house with a thing and 190 00:08:56,740 --> 00:08:59,360 just have it identify what stuff do you have that's worth a lot? 191 00:09:00,279 --> 00:09:02,220 Ooh, like, do I really need this? 192 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:03,140 I don't know. 193 00:09:03,220 --> 00:09:03,860 That's good. 194 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:04,760 That's good. 195 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:06,920 Your app sounds great just to do, right? 196 00:09:07,220 --> 00:09:09,100 Yeah, it's Russell's looking around over his shoulder. 197 00:09:09,839 --> 00:09:10,240 (laughing) 198 00:09:10,260 --> 00:09:12,340 Hold on, do I really need this model? 199 00:09:12,340 --> 00:09:13,360 You actually got like a thousand dollars of PLA behind you. 200 00:09:13,380 --> 00:09:15,380 Am I emotionally attached to this? 201 00:09:15,500 --> 00:09:15,740 Yeah. 202 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:18,420 Do I need that? 203 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:19,980 Am I ever gonna learn guitar? 204 00:09:20,939 --> 00:09:22,080 Yeah, exactly, right? 205 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:23,880 That's worth 300, $400. 206 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:25,660 I'm imagining Google Lens, 207 00:09:25,740 --> 00:09:27,520 but it's just labeling price tags on stuff 208 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:29,500 pulled in from like recent auctions or whatever. 209 00:09:29,600 --> 00:09:30,360 Even that would be sweet. 210 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:31,160 Yeah, yeah. 211 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,040 Dude, man, you sell that to Facebook, 212 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:34,500 they would just love that shit. 213 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:38,120 Just, oh, people are literally gonna video their whole home 214 00:09:38,180 --> 00:09:41,060 and tell you every piece of information that's in there. 215 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:45,040 Like, could sell and put ads for that all day, you know? 216 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:46,220 This guy's got a guitar. 217 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:48,820 - There's gonna be a black market for thieves 218 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:50,800 for this app, unfortunately. 219 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,160 - See, that's where I was actually gonna go, Marc, 220 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,060 with this, like, what if you had an open door lockbox 221 00:09:58,120 --> 00:09:59,360 with cameras throughout the house 222 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:02,259 and it turns into a vending machine style 223 00:10:02,260 --> 00:10:05,920 where you buy the item online and they unlock the door 224 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,020 with a bunch of cameras you can take and grab and go. 225 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:12,960 - Well, have you guys done that at airports? 226 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:13,980 - That's right. - Yeah? 227 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:18,000 - Airports are just like trust honor system kiosks 228 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:19,240 with cameras, right? 229 00:10:19,460 --> 00:10:20,320 - Yeah. - You don't even know 230 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:20,660 what happens. 231 00:10:21,580 --> 00:10:24,120 - There's an airport, actually a really tiny one 232 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:27,620 outside of Columbia, Missouri. 233 00:10:28,780 --> 00:10:32,660 And you go in, you just scan your credit card, 234 00:10:33,220 --> 00:10:34,000 and you walk in. 235 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:35,820 There's absolutely no employees. 236 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:39,480 You grab whatever you want, and you walk out. 237 00:10:39,740 --> 00:10:43,060 And then you get an email with what you grabbed 238 00:10:43,340 --> 00:10:46,080 and the price, and it just automatically charges you. 239 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:46,640 I've seen those guys. 240 00:10:46,740 --> 00:10:48,120 Yes, Denver has a couple of those, too. 241 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:49,440 Those are powered by Amazon technology. 242 00:10:49,820 --> 00:10:52,300 I went into the original Amazon prototype stores for those, 243 00:10:52,300 --> 00:10:53,200 the Amazon Go thing. 244 00:10:53,280 --> 00:10:53,600 They're cool. 245 00:10:54,420 --> 00:10:54,920 Yeah, it's awesome. 246 00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:56,320 So there's a bunch of cameras all in the ceiling, 247 00:10:56,420 --> 00:10:58,260 watching like, oh, he picked this up, put this down, 248 00:10:58,580 --> 00:11:03,540 And they build it as like they are incredible AI whatever it's amazing that we've developed technology 249 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:09,000 We're robust know and it came to light that it's just a bunch of underpaid people in India watching cameras a guy in the back 250 00:11:11,220 --> 00:11:14,320 Picked up the salad he put down the salad he picked up the salad 251 00:11:15,380 --> 00:11:18,720 Yeah, I don't know if that's still the case, but if Amazon can do it 252 00:11:19,260 --> 00:11:22,540 We can we can do it with the state to hire 253 00:11:22,890 --> 00:11:25,579 So the company comes in with a briefcase filled with cameras 254 00:11:25,580 --> 00:11:29,180 They stick it up to the ceiling and then strangers walk around the house 255 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:34,320 Scan their credit card and just pick up that clock and that priceless China and they walk out 256 00:11:36,460 --> 00:11:37,800 You can haggle on the app 257 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:46,580 I'll give you 50 for everything. All right, what you got? I don't know if I have if this idea has any legs 258 00:11:46,700 --> 00:11:53,579 We'll see if there's something here. So IMDB has an awesome and pretty famous database of trivia per movie 259 00:11:53,580 --> 00:11:58,880 There's dozens of like, "Did you know that while filming this scene this interesting thing happened?" 260 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:02,140 Or, "They actually had to break up this into four different blah blah blah." 261 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,760 Right? It's fascinating and I feel like it isn't being used for anything interesting or fun. 262 00:12:06,940 --> 00:12:11,140 So I would like to make some sort of either Duolingo style, like, 263 00:12:12,340 --> 00:12:17,820 learn some interesting facts about the things that you already have in your recently watched list or something, 264 00:12:18,100 --> 00:12:23,700 Or maybe even it's like a head-to-head trivia game that you're playing with people. 265 00:12:24,740 --> 00:12:31,420 Somehow gamifying this corpus of data into something that brings it to light in a better way than having to go and find it myself. 266 00:12:31,820 --> 00:12:35,420 I don't know what kind of... what the structure is here, which is why it's an intramural. 267 00:12:36,540 --> 00:12:40,620 I love those movie facts too. Like, they always bring me joy. 268 00:12:40,620 --> 00:12:47,140 So that's but you have to remember to go in like I don't know not only be intentional about that movie that you're interested in 269 00:12:47,260 --> 00:12:49,460 But I don't just remembering to do it at all 270 00:12:49,700 --> 00:12:54,100 Yeah, honestly, like my gut reaction is if I'm watching a movie and you know 271 00:12:54,280 --> 00:12:57,480 I think it's like Amazon Prime does it when I pause it shows me? 272 00:12:57,580 --> 00:13:01,320 Hey, he's all the characters on the screen like I could just pause at a random point 273 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:07,540 It'll tell me either a tidbit about the movie or about that scene or something. Did you know that Amazon owns IMDb? 274 00:13:10,199 --> 00:13:10,600 Yeah 275 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:17,440 We're so freaking close the feature you're called you're talking about is called Amazon x-ray. They should just put the facts in there. Yes 276 00:13:18,140 --> 00:13:21,200 That's what I would be most interested in those facts when I'm actively watching it 277 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:26,840 You pause like 10 minutes into the movie, you know when Russell Crowe died at the end of this then he blah blah blah 278 00:13:28,199 --> 00:13:28,600 spoiler 279 00:13:30,540 --> 00:13:32,180 That's a real concern yeah 280 00:13:33,520 --> 00:13:39,740 This could be just like an add-on to subtitles or like an app and like, you know, if you get some title thing, yes 281 00:13:40,940 --> 00:13:42,100 - Put it during the movie. - What's the trivia going? 282 00:13:42,500 --> 00:13:45,400 - Yeah. - It listens to the audio on the movie 283 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,020 and then like a thing pops up. 284 00:13:47,180 --> 00:13:48,720 Maybe you could do this on your phone, right? 285 00:13:48,770 --> 00:13:51,860 It just listens to the audio or time syncs up 286 00:13:51,980 --> 00:13:54,480 and now you just have that going at the same time. 287 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:57,540 - Zoomers are reading and watching TikTok and stuff 288 00:13:57,600 --> 00:13:58,840 while having their movie on anyway. 289 00:13:59,220 --> 00:14:02,460 So put it on the screen that they're actually looking at. 290 00:14:02,500 --> 00:14:02,920 I love it. 291 00:14:03,220 --> 00:14:04,560 - I love that, yeah. 292 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,320 'Cause if I'm watching, let's say I'm watching a movie 293 00:14:07,420 --> 00:14:09,419 for like the third time 'cause I'm with a group 294 00:14:09,420 --> 00:14:10,820 and they've never seen it. 295 00:14:11,060 --> 00:14:13,800 I would love to pull out my phone and learn all these facts, 296 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:16,860 but they probably don't want to be distracted by all these facts 297 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:18,620 while they're watching a movie for the first time. 298 00:14:19,090 --> 00:14:22,060 And so I can pull it out and still enjoy by learning a bunch more stuff 299 00:14:22,180 --> 00:14:23,140 that I didn't know. 300 00:14:23,410 --> 00:14:24,860 Are you going to be able to hold your tongue though? 301 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:27,960 Hey guys, did you know Vigo actually broke his toe? 302 00:14:30,820 --> 00:14:31,180 Yeah. 303 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:34,200 We'll call the app Pompous Critic. 304 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:38,020 You guys wouldn't believe this. 305 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:39,220 Hey, hey, hey, guess what? 306 00:14:39,260 --> 00:14:39,700 Guess what? 307 00:14:39,940 --> 00:14:40,720 Shut up. 308 00:14:42,639 --> 00:14:43,680 All right, Russell, what do you got? 309 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:44,120 - That's awesome. 310 00:14:44,180 --> 00:14:47,660 Okay, mine is extremely like illegal and borderline 311 00:14:47,900 --> 00:14:51,860 not helpful to society, but we'll see how this goes, okay? 312 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:53,980 This is why it's an intramural, all right? 313 00:14:54,679 --> 00:14:59,040 So I knew a guy, I know some folks that are trying to get, 314 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:01,660 stay in the United States with their H-1B 315 00:15:01,660 --> 00:15:03,180 and try to get an H-1B visa. 316 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:07,819 Now it turns out all you need to qualify for that 317 00:15:07,820 --> 00:15:10,900 is a good enough job title to get through the bureaucracy 318 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:12,300 of the government. 319 00:15:14,180 --> 00:15:18,560 So why not just create an app slash company, kind of like-- 320 00:15:18,580 --> 00:15:21,160 you guys remember that one movie about the college that 321 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:22,980 wasn't real and you got degrees? 322 00:15:22,980 --> 00:15:23,300 Yeah. 323 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:23,960 Yeah. 324 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:24,460 Yeah. 325 00:15:24,460 --> 00:15:24,500 Yeah. 326 00:15:24,500 --> 00:15:29,880 That's what I'm trying to do with a company. 327 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:31,880 What kind of business would exist 328 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,900 that would just hand out pompous titles to interns? 329 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:35,980 Ringcam.com. 330 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:46,440 So I think this would be funded by parents of people whose kids go to school and want 331 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:48,800 them to stay in the United States to get opportunities. 332 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:56,460 So you create fake kind of jobs that are paid for by the rich parents of those kids and 333 00:15:56,460 --> 00:15:59,960 you take a commission and all you're doing is making fake job titles until they find 334 00:15:59,960 --> 00:16:00,520 their real job. 335 00:16:01,060 --> 00:16:04,880 So now they're like an engineer, a mechanical engineer 336 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:07,820 for Box Tech Guru. 337 00:16:08,380 --> 00:16:08,760 LLC. 338 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:10,200 OK, that's the company. 339 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:12,900 See, completely white label, and that's it. 340 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:15,400 I feel like you're just describing 341 00:16:16,740 --> 00:16:19,880 a new level of Ivy League college admissions. 342 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:20,480 Yeah. 343 00:16:21,460 --> 00:16:22,020 [LAUGHTER] 344 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,100 This business, this app could have just 345 00:16:25,140 --> 00:16:27,100 like a portfolio of shell companies 346 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:29,260 that it's assigning people to and stuff. 347 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:30,380 Constantly shifting. 348 00:16:30,980 --> 00:16:33,200 Although, Ring Cam-- or Ring Cam, oh my god. 349 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:35,600 LinkedIn recruiters are going to hate you. 350 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:36,100 Yeah. 351 00:16:37,240 --> 00:16:37,640 Oh, yeah. 352 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:40,020 Oh, we're looking for a VP of engineering over here. 353 00:16:40,060 --> 00:16:41,000 This guy looks great. 354 00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:45,200 He was-- his parents paid for the VP of engineering position 355 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,820 in my company, so-- 356 00:16:47,860 --> 00:16:50,040 Vice president and a freshman in college. 357 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:50,660 Amazing. 358 00:16:54,460 --> 00:16:55,220 Dude, yes. 359 00:16:55,900 --> 00:16:57,360 Internships, you know, it's basically 360 00:16:57,680 --> 00:17:00,300 fraud paid for by my app. 361 00:17:00,300 --> 00:17:04,160 So simply put, you know, it makes me think, 362 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:06,620 you know, when Twitter shut down, right? 363 00:17:07,079 --> 00:17:09,620 How many people could totally say they worked at Twitter 364 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:12,160 and got laid off by-- - You couldn't verify it. 365 00:17:12,660 --> 00:17:14,160 - That's right, who's gonna verify that? 366 00:17:14,199 --> 00:17:15,640 - No one's gonna call Twitter, yeah. 367 00:17:16,079 --> 00:17:17,780 - For three years, actually, guys. 368 00:17:17,920 --> 00:17:18,500 - Did you really, wow. - I was their 369 00:17:18,500 --> 00:17:19,740 head of product, yeah, I know. 370 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:21,780 - Head of product. (laughs) 371 00:17:22,780 --> 00:17:24,880 - I saw that with a lot of Toys R Us managers, too. 372 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:26,980 - Yeah. - There we go, right? 373 00:17:27,799 --> 00:17:29,480 That's it. - That's fantastic, Russell. 374 00:17:29,580 --> 00:17:30,900 I love that. 375 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:31,280 Yep. 376 00:17:31,660 --> 00:17:33,600 A close cousin to tax fraud as a service, 377 00:17:33,780 --> 00:17:35,360 pitched many, many episodes ago. 378 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:35,880 I love that. 379 00:17:35,900 --> 00:17:36,780 That one was legal. 380 00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:39,820 Visas as a service is pretty bad. 381 00:17:40,740 --> 00:17:41,140 Visify. 382 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:43,720 Do it. 383 00:17:44,020 --> 00:17:45,020 You got first this week, Scott. 384 00:17:45,460 --> 00:17:45,680 All right. 385 00:17:46,180 --> 00:17:47,600 I do not have children. 386 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:49,520 All three of you have children. 387 00:17:49,800 --> 00:17:51,580 This is an idea for people with children. 388 00:17:51,780 --> 00:17:54,460 I want to know if this is a good idea or a bad idea. 389 00:17:55,340 --> 00:17:57,880 I spent last Thanksgiving with nieces and nephews. 390 00:17:58,540 --> 00:18:04,700 They are at ages where indoor voices are a thing that has to be reminded to them quite a bit 391 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:11,300 It got to a point where I'm wondering could we just put like a decibel meter on the wall or just like a bar 392 00:18:11,470 --> 00:18:17,900 You just say hey if this bar crosses this threshold three you get three strikes and if it hits it too many times then 393 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:24,080 Something happens. You lost your gold star for the day. Yeah, I don't I don't know something along those lines 394 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:25,940 That is as far as I got with that idea 395 00:18:26,180 --> 00:18:28,020 Would this work? Because it's not a shot collar. 396 00:18:28,020 --> 00:18:28,700 It's not a shot collar. 397 00:18:29,740 --> 00:18:38,380 Yeah, well, the hard, you could make this in an afternoon and then make a website and just start selling these out if you get a little TikTok movement going. 398 00:18:39,100 --> 00:18:40,280 Would this sell? Would it work? 399 00:18:40,700 --> 00:18:50,320 You know, Scott, that is, I think that's a phenomenal idea because we do something very similar with our oldest, Lena, getting out of bed. 400 00:18:50,799 --> 00:18:57,520 She's got a nightlight that we can control from our phones, and she knows that if the light is not green, 401 00:18:58,060 --> 00:19:03,240 she is not allowed out of her room. It turns green when it's her wake-up time, you know, and 402 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:07,040 it works. Not all the time, but it works. So... 403 00:19:07,380 --> 00:19:07,940 All hail the light. 404 00:19:07,940 --> 00:19:08,720 That's a great idea. 405 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:13,060 You know where this would be useful for? You should sell this to schools. Put it in their cafeteria, 406 00:19:13,340 --> 00:19:18,980 keep the volume below this certain level, put it in the classroom. Hey, don't forget, we're in yellow mode right now, kids, 407 00:19:18,980 --> 00:19:23,180 So quiet voices put it on the hallway as you're walking by all that stuff 408 00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:28,080 Yeah, yellow mode it like moves the max threshold down or something like hey, it's yeah 409 00:19:28,780 --> 00:19:33,000 Remember, we're in a zone two and there's four zones. You can't go above that or whatever 410 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,800 They literally have that at my son's elementary school. They'll be like, hey, we're walking through the hall 411 00:19:36,940 --> 00:19:41,440 So we're at level two for our quiet voices right now or whatever and no hard way to know right? 412 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:46,059 Yeah, yeah, it's just it means nothing right to quantify it for them 413 00:19:45,980 --> 00:19:51,860 Yeah, I mean you got you got you got schools you got daycares you got I mean everything 414 00:19:52,539 --> 00:19:53,580 every classroom 415 00:19:56,600 --> 00:19:58,840 Your case will be thrown out old man 416 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:08,280 Honestly, this could be it this could be a solution for the for the detriment of open office concepts that have plagued our working 417 00:20:08,540 --> 00:20:10,120 Society even oh 418 00:20:10,520 --> 00:20:12,100 Yeah, just stop talking 419 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:15,800 Yeah, right cuz libraries secretary of state 420 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:25,980 Gamified decibel meters. This is fun. Yeah, I think kids forget or they just don't even know that their voices are so loud 421 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:29,580 Exactly what was happening all the time all this past adults - I 422 00:20:31,060 --> 00:20:35,360 Have several people in my life that escalate each other to the point where they're screaming at each other 423 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:35,780 Yes 424 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,780 So, how do you make it not into a game that the kids are trying to you know 425 00:20:39,620 --> 00:20:43,060 If you see like us one of those signs that tells you how fast you're going 426 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,180 How does the kid just not want to hit that? 427 00:20:46,380 --> 00:20:50,400 Scott this is what you do you put a bowl of Skittles and as they scream 428 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:54,120 Skittles just pour into a blender and dissolve in front of them 429 00:20:56,700 --> 00:21:00,400 And the law it just like hundreds of Skittles and then let's start screaming no 430 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:05,679 But then they stop immediately because they don't want more Skittles to honestly, you know 431 00:21:06,100 --> 00:21:08,820 Blender makes so much noise that it keeps the blender going 432 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:15,800 Skittle drops in to the bull right or something 433 00:21:16,370 --> 00:21:21,120 So if you stay below the meter only one you get a skittle you get a ski or like some version of that, right? 434 00:21:21,500 --> 00:21:26,420 But then as soon as they scream hundreds of skittles just burn into a fire dog treat 435 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:34,280 That's the loud light platinum version, you know, you get that you get the blender and the skittles 436 00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,500 -The loud light. -The loud light. 437 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:39,980 -Or you do fake coins for a pizza party. 438 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:41,820 You want to get boring with this, right? 439 00:21:41,830 --> 00:21:44,860 You get the fake money dollars. -I'm going to pour some Skittle blenders. 440 00:21:46,100 --> 00:21:48,920 -Pour the money out when the coin-- People are too loud. 441 00:21:49,220 --> 00:21:52,720 That would be-- -Yes, hang up their favorite stuffed animal 442 00:21:52,940 --> 00:21:53,640 above the blender. 443 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,140 -It just lowers a little bit each time. 444 00:21:58,580 --> 00:21:59,020 -No. 445 00:22:00,660 --> 00:22:01,100 He's-- 446 00:22:01,980 --> 00:22:02,800 -Woofie, no. 447 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:04,920 - We're trying not to scar another generation. 448 00:22:06,500 --> 00:22:07,260 - Well then don't yell. 449 00:22:07,540 --> 00:22:08,220 - Don't yell. 450 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:09,600 (laughing) 451 00:22:11,340 --> 00:22:14,360 - You remember what happened to your doll's little toesies. 452 00:22:15,100 --> 00:22:15,720 - It's your trauma. 453 00:22:17,180 --> 00:22:19,080 Guys, I literally was joking with Gary, 454 00:22:19,140 --> 00:22:20,400 my daughter's 14 months, 455 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:22,060 and she only knows how to scream 456 00:22:22,100 --> 00:22:23,780 at the top of her lungs for anything. 457 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:27,760 And I'm like, do they have bark collars for their daughters? 458 00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:30,860 They just, like a little vibration to know, 459 00:22:30,940 --> 00:22:32,480 oh, that's a little loud, right? 460 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,840 Not like a shock collar, but like-- 461 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:36,460 That's what shock collars can do. 462 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,180 This is much better, Scott. 463 00:22:38,180 --> 00:22:39,120 I think it's-- 464 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:40,080 I want it on record. 465 00:22:40,120 --> 00:22:42,280 I did not recommend shock collars for children 466 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:43,560 in this idea at any point. 467 00:22:43,980 --> 00:22:45,600 No, no, no, we're changing the episode title. 468 00:22:45,780 --> 00:22:47,340 Shock Collars for Kids by Scott. 469 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:49,880 [LAUGHTER] 470 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:52,960 The louder they get, the shockier it gets. 471 00:22:58,100 --> 00:22:59,980 All right, Leo, what do you got for us this week? 472 00:23:00,180 --> 00:23:00,820 It's so funny. 473 00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,500 My main idea that I was going to bring before you even said 474 00:23:03,560 --> 00:23:07,540 anything about this is also a LED-based information 475 00:23:07,820 --> 00:23:08,560 visual for kids. 476 00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:09,360 Oops, all LEDs. 477 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,200 Oops, all LEDs for kids. 478 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:16,820 So I want to solve the age-old generational problem of the, 479 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:18,620 are we there yet in the car? 480 00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:22,380 I think we could make an LED bar, a strip of some kind that 481 00:23:22,460 --> 00:23:27,040 goes behind the passenger and driver's seats on the ceiling 482 00:23:27,040 --> 00:23:31,680 that represents the map data progress toward our destination. 483 00:23:32,300 --> 00:23:34,820 So you program in on your phone or whatever, 484 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:36,260 we are headed from here to here, 485 00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:37,640 it's gonna be a 23 minute drive, 486 00:23:37,670 --> 00:23:40,840 and you just got like the dots traveling from left to right 487 00:23:40,940 --> 00:23:42,540 that they can see, oh, we're about halfway, 488 00:23:42,700 --> 00:23:44,260 or oh, we got a long way to go still, 489 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:45,560 or look at that, we're almost here. 490 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,000 It could do five minute warning, 491 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:50,340 like gentle breathing blinkings. 492 00:23:50,820 --> 00:23:54,560 It could do your turn signal, we're about to turn, 493 00:23:54,660 --> 00:23:56,240 so it lights up on one side for a minute. 494 00:23:56,420 --> 00:23:59,200 You could just to communicate, where are we on our journey 495 00:23:59,420 --> 00:24:00,920 to the backseat passively so that you 496 00:24:01,060 --> 00:24:04,820 stop having that we're almost there conversation or the dad, 497 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:05,720 how long left? 498 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:07,160 Dots on the road. 499 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,040 I immediately think this is like Pac-Man. 500 00:24:09,140 --> 00:24:10,900 Like Pac-Man is eating all these treats going. 501 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:12,940 So let's bring Russell's Skittle idea. 502 00:24:13,300 --> 00:24:14,980 Every time you hit one of those dots on the map, 503 00:24:15,020 --> 00:24:15,920 a Skittle comes out. 504 00:24:16,050 --> 00:24:16,580 As long as you've been quiet. 505 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,220 Shoots at their face, one mile intervals or something. 506 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,320 I need a decibel meter from your company, Scott, in my car. 507 00:24:24,340 --> 00:24:25,520 Hey, that's a good spot for it. 508 00:24:26,140 --> 00:24:32,420 So so this might get way too complicated to expand on the idea. 509 00:24:33,340 --> 00:24:33,760 Yeah, please. 510 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:43,100 But like, so my kids, we have a DVD player right in our in our minivan that we, you know, have a bunch of DVDs for for the kids on long road trips. 511 00:24:43,660 --> 00:24:49,220 And what if what if the speed of the movie synced up to the time it takes to get to the destination? 512 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:53,420 So the movie ended right when you got there. 513 00:24:53,740 --> 00:24:57,800 You stick in all the bonus scenes and you loop a couple times here and there. 514 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,160 Or it's just like picking from your media library from the hundreds of movies. 515 00:25:04,530 --> 00:25:06,080 Recommend any of these movies will fit. 516 00:25:06,180 --> 00:25:09,900 If we grab this, this, and this episode, it'll be exactly 38 minutes or whatever. 517 00:25:10,140 --> 00:25:10,820 That's cool. 518 00:25:11,340 --> 00:25:13,240 Dude, I want that for like airplanes and stuff. 519 00:25:13,300 --> 00:25:13,840 That's a great idea. 520 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:18,540 Well, little kids, if it's a little faster, if the movie, you know, vocals go a little 521 00:25:18,940 --> 00:25:21,220 faster or a little slower, they're not going to notice. 522 00:25:21,220 --> 00:25:24,640 I mean, they're watching like Shrek and stuff, and it's like, you know, they don't care. 523 00:25:25,340 --> 00:25:30,820 And so I would also absolutely try to break that system to be like, I'm going like down the street, play Shrek. 524 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:31,500 Let's go. 525 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:32,360 Hey, donkey! 526 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:33,240 [mimics donkey] 527 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:35,160 [laughter] 528 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,140 Somebody once told me the world's gonna roll me. 529 00:25:38,559 --> 00:25:38,960 [laughter] 530 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:40,760 End credits. 531 00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:41,760 [laughter] 532 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:44,760 I love that. 533 00:25:44,860 --> 00:25:47,680 No, the LED progress bar, Leo, is so smart. 534 00:25:47,980 --> 00:25:48,140 Yeah. 535 00:25:48,580 --> 00:25:53,180 I think I've pitched before like LED countdown timers for kids to visualize that just around the house 536 00:25:53,180 --> 00:25:54,660 So this is kind of a natural extension 537 00:25:55,040 --> 00:26:00,440 Maybe it's even something you could take in the house and turn into the 10-minute timer for just everyday life - I don't know 538 00:26:00,740 --> 00:26:02,200 Yeah, I mean use it for timeouts 539 00:26:02,980 --> 00:26:08,080 Right now your timeouts gonna be five minutes this time ten minutes a modernized 540 00:26:09,220 --> 00:26:12,559 controllable sand timer that's synced up to 541 00:26:13,060 --> 00:26:18,120 Your you know Google Maps that you've pulled up for your driver destination thing 542 00:26:18,180 --> 00:26:21,780 That's yeah, that's genius because then it doesn't have to be a car. It can be anywhere 543 00:26:22,140 --> 00:26:29,280 You can sync it up no matter the setting. That's great. Yeah, you make a smart sand timer adjusting the aperture 544 00:26:29,420 --> 00:26:34,220 I guess between the two I don't know how to do that now like somehow measuring the weight or something 545 00:26:34,220 --> 00:26:38,100 I don't even know how that would work. I have seen people do like the falling sand visualizations on 546 00:26:38,660 --> 00:26:46,020 LED matrix matrices, so you could probably have like a digital display that's, you know, simulating sand or something, but that's not as cool. 547 00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:49,940 We love physical representations of digital data on this show. 548 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:57,740 It'd be a great app to add, like, as a, I feel like there's little menus you can add to your iPad while they're watching a 549 00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,420 show at the same time as, like, your LED time. 550 00:27:00,460 --> 00:27:06,740 So instead of doing physical, you could just be watching your show and there's an overlay of your, of your drive on top of it 551 00:27:06,620 --> 00:27:10,960 That's like oh two minutes left so that show is gonna be done 552 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:15,180 My kid loves to wait until the show's over before he gets out of the car 553 00:27:16,060 --> 00:27:22,000 There was a fit. You know what I mean? It's like it's just it's not it's not sass. It's TAS time as a service 554 00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,580 But if you have a 45 minute drive 555 00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:33,660 Then you're right Marc turning that 48 minute show into a 45 minute show is easy stretch it by 1.01 556 00:27:34,340 --> 00:27:38,580 speed or whatever and you're good to go right? Yep. That's fun. That was some 557 00:27:38,660 --> 00:27:42,240 quick math I just did. I don't know. That works out perfectly. 558 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:52,780 Russell what do you got for us this week? So I'm driving around a lot and I see a 559 00:27:52,780 --> 00:27:57,140 lot of empty lots and every time I see these commercial empty lots I'm like man 560 00:27:57,260 --> 00:28:02,820 I'd love to put a coffee shop there or a taco truck or something like that 561 00:28:02,620 --> 00:28:07,500 that right but the thing is it's such a high risk to put something in that 562 00:28:07,740 --> 00:28:15,720 location so I would love to do pop-up trial trucks as a service right so if 563 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:20,440 you want to launch a coffee company in this spot you pop up a food truck 564 00:28:20,660 --> 00:28:26,460 that's there 24/7 or whatever or like a you know you bring in the Amazon house 565 00:28:26,940 --> 00:28:32,200 place your bagel shop there and run it for three months now whoever is 566 00:28:32,100 --> 00:28:37,040 co-interested in that experience, shares in that risk and that investment. 567 00:28:37,660 --> 00:28:43,940 So you're just the service that provides the business, literally business in a box for 568 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,820 those given locations and you share in the profits and earnings. 569 00:28:48,500 --> 00:28:51,760 And that's, that's, it's, yeah, it's kind of like... 570 00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:52,700 Russell, that's amazing. 571 00:28:53,150 --> 00:28:54,140 Oh, and it's house shopping. 572 00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:59,859 I'm looking at like modular homes, like, they're like, you can get very high end, crazy nice 573 00:28:59,860 --> 00:29:03,860 houses now that they're just like pick in place put together on there just do 574 00:29:03,940 --> 00:29:08,180 that with stores just like I'm gonna turn this empty lot over here into a 575 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:12,120 Starbucks or some equivalent coffee shop three different pieces come together all 576 00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:16,140 out of shipping containers set it up for temporary all you need is a concrete 577 00:29:16,260 --> 00:29:20,640 platform Tom Scott's lateral podcast is a like a puzzle lateral thinking thing 578 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,299 and they had a question on there what is it that White Castle did to insulate 579 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:29,520 themselves from rent hikes and failing store locations and stuff. 580 00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,180 And they've done this where the entirety of a White Castle store, 581 00:29:33,850 --> 00:29:36,480 more or less all their locations can be put on a truck and moved. 582 00:29:37,060 --> 00:29:39,900 So if they're like, if they have a landlord that hikes up the rent of the lot 583 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:43,620 too much or their location isn't doing well, they can just like move down the 584 00:29:43,740 --> 00:29:46,300 street or across town or whatever with the same building. 585 00:29:46,820 --> 00:29:47,360 That's yeah. 586 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:52,620 You want to like White Castle-ify the, the idea of trying a business for the first time. 587 00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:52,840 Yeah. 588 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:53,700 That's so fun. 589 00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:57,880 And there's so many like empty lots now, I feel like, or spots where like, 590 00:29:58,060 --> 00:30:02,860 "Oh, I want to launch a coffee shop, but I want to make sure it's going to be cool, 591 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:05,480 valid," you know, like foot traffic. 592 00:30:05,700 --> 00:30:06,780 You're making all these assumptions. 593 00:30:06,810 --> 00:30:07,680 You just de-risk. 594 00:30:08,170 --> 00:30:11,400 You only need like three or four different types of stores too. 595 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,620 Like your classic restaurant, your classic like commerce store. 596 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:17,300 Coffee one would be its own. 597 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:17,860 Oh man. 598 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:23,440 Like bubble tea locations, like all these like unique little things that are like, 599 00:30:23,500 --> 00:30:24,180 Oh, that'd be cool. 600 00:30:24,300 --> 00:30:25,200 Or like crumble cook. 601 00:30:25,300 --> 00:30:27,520 I mean, I don't know why crumble cookie is just killing it everywhere 602 00:30:27,900 --> 00:30:29,560 because I guess cookies, but like. 603 00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:30,440 It's because weed's legal. 604 00:30:33,700 --> 00:30:35,560 There's definitely a correlation there. 605 00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:37,280 Boom, a weed truck. 606 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:39,440 You could just roll up in a weed truck, right? 607 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:41,260 Test the location, you know? 608 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:42,000 Yeah. 609 00:30:42,340 --> 00:30:45,920 But how unique do these different designs need to, I mean, if you want to try out 610 00:30:45,980 --> 00:30:50,760 a Froyo shop versus a bubble tea place, that can be the same building, right? 611 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:56,000 Like you don't, it doesn't need to have a ton of specialized exterior layout or whatever. 612 00:30:56,300 --> 00:30:56,380 Right. 613 00:30:56,940 --> 00:30:57,420 Exactly. 614 00:30:57,800 --> 00:30:59,900 I'd say you just keep the exact same building. 615 00:31:00,440 --> 00:31:02,340 It's supposed to kind of be janky. 616 00:31:02,710 --> 00:31:08,040 If you are not providing a good enough product to get past the jankiness, 617 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:09,960 that's telling you a lot already. 618 00:31:10,420 --> 00:31:10,620 Right. 619 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:11,300 Sure. 620 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:16,900 The brand isn't perfect and like the quality isn't great maybe, but if you 621 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:21,260 you still get foot traffic and people coming to the store, 622 00:31:21,340 --> 00:31:23,300 it means there's something there, right? 623 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:25,000 - You're doing something right with your product. 624 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:26,900 - You're filling a gap. 625 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:29,820 - Yeah, 'cause the type of companies that you're describing 626 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,740 are, it's really, really difficult to prove 627 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:37,360 that you have a good solution and a valuable offering 628 00:31:37,940 --> 00:31:42,100 before investing a bunch of money in an actual location. 629 00:31:42,660 --> 00:31:44,300 So that's great. 630 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:48,140 - Like Subway, like even Subway franchise locations, right? 631 00:31:48,340 --> 00:31:53,040 Like I think franchises should be our huge customer of ours 632 00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,320 to help de-risk their costs as well. 633 00:31:56,460 --> 00:31:59,540 'Cause they're, I think, sharing in some of the investment 634 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:01,920 or the brand equity, right? 635 00:32:02,060 --> 00:32:04,620 So if you're just launching Subways everywhere 636 00:32:04,690 --> 00:32:06,080 and half of them shut down, 637 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:07,660 well, it looks bad for the brand. 638 00:32:07,740 --> 00:32:10,560 So make a, you know, we create like a Subway truck 639 00:32:10,860 --> 00:32:13,799 that goes to random locations and sees if people 640 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,820 or modular home sees that people are gonna roll up to that. 641 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:20,200 You post up for three months and move on, right? 642 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,020 - I think it needs to be longer than that 643 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,800 because our small town here had a Popeyes move in 644 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,260 about two years ago and I've never seen it in my life 645 00:32:29,340 --> 00:32:33,320 where a drive-thru line goes out to the road, 646 00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,960 in, wraps around the building once, 647 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:38,020 wraps around again to the window, 648 00:32:38,260 --> 00:32:40,080 a double-layered drive-thru wrap, 649 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,500 And now, two years later, empty, totally gone. 650 00:32:43,940 --> 00:32:45,520 Raising Cane's up in Grand Rapids, 651 00:32:45,700 --> 00:32:47,260 open last week or a couple weeks ago, 652 00:32:47,620 --> 00:32:49,400 same story, just line out the door. 653 00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:51,900 I think it's not gonna be lined down the street 654 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:53,760 in three months, right? 655 00:32:53,900 --> 00:32:55,960 So you need to get over that initial hump 656 00:32:56,220 --> 00:32:59,160 of it's got novelty to it, everyone wants to try it 657 00:32:59,180 --> 00:33:00,140 'cause it just moved in, 658 00:33:00,390 --> 00:33:02,400 and see what the actual traffic will be like 659 00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:04,700 like six months or a year down the line, you know? 660 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:06,880 - That's true, that's so true. 661 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,280 You can just pick up and move. 662 00:33:08,540 --> 00:33:10,120 Oh, and you still make the money. 663 00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:13,380 You're like, you're still ran a successful business 664 00:33:13,860 --> 00:33:16,700 for a year, but you quit while you were ahead. 665 00:33:17,180 --> 00:33:18,820 - Or you even test, you wanna be Subway, 666 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,940 why don't you put in like Bob's Generic Sandwiches 667 00:33:21,980 --> 00:33:24,040 in that spot for a year, see if people like it, 668 00:33:24,140 --> 00:33:26,720 and if they don't, then you know that's not a good spot 669 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:27,960 for your Subway or vice versa. 670 00:33:28,220 --> 00:33:29,580 Wow, there was a lot of sandwich demand 671 00:33:29,700 --> 00:33:31,000 on this side of whatever. 672 00:33:32,820 --> 00:33:36,319 - I was even thinking like, what if you partnered 673 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:41,820 with companies who are closed during the times 674 00:33:42,340 --> 00:33:43,640 where you want to be open. 675 00:33:44,540 --> 00:33:50,020 And so if I have a dinner type restaurant idea 676 00:33:51,100 --> 00:33:55,360 and a local coffee shop is never open after 4 PM, 677 00:33:56,180 --> 00:33:58,600 can I strike a deal with them to set up my pop-up shop 678 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,520 or even just use their location, quick rebrand in the evenings? 679 00:34:03,610 --> 00:34:05,320 They get to split in my revenue. 680 00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:09,320 I'm not interfering with their business because they're closed during that time 681 00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:14,200 anyway. How many restaurants in Holland are closed on Sundays or Mondays? Like 682 00:34:14,240 --> 00:34:19,260 that's like a staple thing. Like all the restaurants in Holland closed on 683 00:34:19,419 --> 00:34:25,760 Mondays, right? So just replace those with a temporary pop-up. That's great. I just 684 00:34:25,879 --> 00:34:30,360 pull a lever and all the signs like flip from like Mr. Hughes to something else. 685 00:34:30,980 --> 00:34:36,820 Yeah. That makes me wonder like how many other synergies are there between you. Yeah, it's a good, yeah exactly. 686 00:34:36,980 --> 00:34:41,520 It is. There are, you've got your coffee versus, you know, that they always close at 2 p.m. or whatever. 687 00:34:41,570 --> 00:34:46,860 I wonder what other yin and yang businesses could go together like that. That's interesting. 688 00:34:47,899 --> 00:34:50,620 Breakfast places and dinner places, right? Naturally. 689 00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:56,700 Yeah, we've got a couple greasy spoon diner type places that I think close after lunch. You could have your fine dining 690 00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:01,120 in the same run down whatever for dinner. 691 00:35:01,460 --> 00:35:01,600 Yeah. 692 00:35:02,120 --> 00:35:03,580 I wonder if you do that seasonally too. 693 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:05,220 Yeah, that's what I was thinking. 694 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,140 So, I mean, there's like Grand Haven, Holland. 695 00:35:08,740 --> 00:35:10,720 Those are tourist towns in the summer. 696 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:14,420 And, you know, engagement customers plummet in the winter. 697 00:35:15,020 --> 00:35:18,880 So if you had, you know, seasonal yin and yang business ideas. 698 00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:21,160 Cross country ski shop over the winter and... 699 00:35:21,820 --> 00:35:22,180 Yeah. 700 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,480 Find and see food place in the summer. 701 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:27,660 This is kind of like the spirit Halloween model 702 00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:30,160 Yes 703 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:37,540 So warehouse for 11 months of the year one month they take over an abandoned warehouse and sell it all 704 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:49,920 Marc close us out. What do you got? What's your billion-dollar idea? Oh boy. No pressure 705 00:35:53,780 --> 00:35:55,140 Okay, so 706 00:35:55,140 --> 00:36:00,780 This is an homage to Ringcam because I was trying to narrow down what I wanted to talk 707 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,040 about and I had an idea that's wedding related. 708 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:10,960 So there was a season of my life a few years after I graduated where every single person 709 00:36:11,060 --> 00:36:12,300 I knew was getting married. 710 00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:19,680 So I had a couple summers straight where nearly every weekend I was at a wedding or actually 711 00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:22,240 standing part of the you know party whatever. 712 00:36:23,220 --> 00:36:32,700 And I noticed a huge trend where no wedding ever goes according to plan. 713 00:36:33,020 --> 00:36:37,620 There's always delays, there's always miscommunications, no one knows what's going on. 714 00:36:38,580 --> 00:36:46,020 And so I'm sitting in a parking lot with the whole bridal party of a wedding and we're 715 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:50,420 standing outside and we're supposed to go into the reception area and we're being told 716 00:36:50,340 --> 00:36:53,200 to wait and we've taken no pictures yet. 717 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:55,700 We have no idea what's going on. 718 00:36:56,020 --> 00:37:01,140 And we sat there for 45 minutes and everyone was like, I wish we had a way to know what 719 00:37:01,180 --> 00:37:01,860 was going on. 720 00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:09,760 So enter in the, I don't have a creative name for it yet, but a wedding, a wedding day planning 721 00:37:09,940 --> 00:37:10,240 app. 722 00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:10,820 Okay. 723 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:11,620 So here's how it goes. 724 00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:12,320 Start to finish. 725 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:18,600 You're invited to a wedding and you get invited and you get access to, to this app, this website, 726 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:25,280 And you are classified by your role in the wedding just an attendee on the bride or the groom side 727 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:29,240 A part of the wedding party, you know groomsmen bridesmaid 728 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:30,940 best man, whatever 729 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:32,420 and 730 00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:37,080 You're put into those groups and not just the wedding planner that they hired 731 00:37:37,420 --> 00:37:42,760 But the bride and groom and everyone can all communicate with the specific parties that need to know information 732 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,980 Whenever something happens so through that app you get the full itinerary 733 00:37:47,140 --> 00:37:50,600 You get messages from the planner like, "Hey, we're delayed 20 minutes. 734 00:37:50,940 --> 00:37:51,420 Something happened. 735 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:53,600 Hey, now everyone, notification. 736 00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:54,580 You got to go over here. 737 00:37:54,700 --> 00:37:55,500 It's going to take 10 minutes. 738 00:37:55,720 --> 00:37:57,480 Just a reminder, we're meeting over there." 739 00:37:57,740 --> 00:38:04,540 And so it is a way for the wedding planner to communicate with each group if schedules 740 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:06,100 change, which they always do. 741 00:38:06,820 --> 00:38:13,580 Everyone can get notified, especially in messages that apply to particularly your role in the 742 00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:13,900 wedding. 743 00:38:15,300 --> 00:38:20,540 And then on the opposite side as an attendee or as the actual person getting married, it 744 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:26,520 becomes a way for everyone to share all of the pictures, all of the footage, all the 745 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:31,960 videos that everyone who attended the wedding took and captured. 746 00:38:32,470 --> 00:38:39,060 And so when Anne and I, my wife, got done with our wedding, we had all the photographer's 747 00:38:39,060 --> 00:38:43,460 pictures that we hired and we got a few sent to us from friends and stuff. 748 00:38:44,020 --> 00:38:49,260 But there are hundreds of pictures, special moments that got captured that we will never 749 00:38:49,420 --> 00:38:50,660 see, never know about. 750 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,780 And if everyone used this app as a, not just a planning coordinating app, but as a data 751 00:38:55,900 --> 00:39:00,740 dump for wedding footage pictures, we would be able to look through all of that stuff. 752 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,040 We'd be able to see it, save the ones we liked. 753 00:39:03,510 --> 00:39:10,840 And so it's not just for the wedding planner, but also for all the attendees to share, comment, 754 00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:11,460 whatever. 755 00:39:12,180 --> 00:39:15,960 It's a full-blown wedding day planning app. 756 00:39:16,480 --> 00:39:20,120 And we're gonna scale it, we're gonna get the user base, 757 00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:22,760 we're gonna ride it for about two to three years, 758 00:39:23,060 --> 00:39:24,580 and then we're gonna sell it to the not. 759 00:39:24,640 --> 00:39:26,680 - Yeah, yeah, or Zola or whatever. 760 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:28,320 - They would love this. 761 00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,700 - This could translate one for one 762 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:33,340 with complicated family vacations 763 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,580 that you're bringing in additional people to, 764 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,560 or family reunions, or any situation 765 00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,460 where you're trying to coordinate more than six people 766 00:39:41,460 --> 00:39:44,600 who are not immediate family onto a schedule of some kind, 767 00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:44,900 right? 768 00:39:45,260 --> 00:39:47,720 Just have a giant sign at the entrance of whatever 769 00:39:47,820 --> 00:39:49,760 the event is with a big QR code and be like, 770 00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:51,640 scan this immediately, log in here, 771 00:39:51,730 --> 00:39:53,320 and then all your info in one spot. 772 00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:54,080 Could be web-based. 773 00:39:54,780 --> 00:39:55,820 Yeah, web-based, honestly. 774 00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:00,080 Man, I love this idea because I think during the wedding, 775 00:40:00,340 --> 00:40:03,520 my wedding, everybody was texting me or my wife about, 776 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:06,820 hey, just we're friends, right? 777 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,560 So obviously, you can tell me where to park. 778 00:40:09,820 --> 00:40:11,280 "What table am I at?" or whatever. 779 00:40:12,140 --> 00:40:13,520 - Yeah, just those little things 780 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:15,000 that doesn't seem like a big deal 781 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:16,080 when you're texting your buddy, 782 00:40:16,540 --> 00:40:18,460 but you realize, oh, they're getting texts 783 00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:20,940 from hundreds of people that day probably, right? 784 00:40:22,260 --> 00:40:24,160 And they're all more important than your stupid little 785 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:25,480 where do I go text, right? 786 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:27,480 This would be, I think the group, 787 00:40:27,820 --> 00:40:31,340 the tagging of what party you're in is so helpful, 788 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:34,640 because if my parents were in that group chat 789 00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:36,480 or saw those posts coming in, 790 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,260 they would be able to respond, 791 00:40:38,340 --> 00:40:40,680 Or somebody, like kind of that group thinking, 792 00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:42,660 would be like, right, where is everybody? 793 00:40:42,660 --> 00:40:44,760 Some actual escalation inside there. 794 00:40:45,340 --> 00:40:46,180 Keep a ticket system. 795 00:40:46,220 --> 00:40:48,380 You've been escalated to tier two tech support. 796 00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:49,000 It's grandma. 797 00:40:49,220 --> 00:40:49,780 She's on it. 798 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:51,060 Uh-oh, tier three. 799 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:52,900 You're over to the sister-in-law. 800 00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:55,080 Patching in wife. 801 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,440 Honestly, though, if it had the itinerary, 802 00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,920 you could be blocking off, like, at this time, 803 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,680 the big headline on the front page of my wedding app 804 00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:04,680 is this is where parking is. 805 00:41:04,820 --> 00:41:06,940 And when this block happens, that's 806 00:41:06,940 --> 00:41:09,480 You're like guiding the person through the day, right? 807 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,100 All the attendees, that's awesome. 808 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:11,840 - Yep. 809 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,400 - I think making that agenda is so hard though. 810 00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:16,200 I think looking back though, 811 00:41:16,420 --> 00:41:19,080 I would have loved to like think through, 812 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:21,720 like you have to kind of pretend to be the person 813 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:22,480 that's at your wedding. 814 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:23,440 Did they get the hotel? 815 00:41:24,220 --> 00:41:25,960 Did they get their gift bag? 816 00:41:25,980 --> 00:41:28,520 Are they, like you have to literally go through three days 817 00:41:28,580 --> 00:41:31,260 of this person's life in order to figure out every step. 818 00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:33,320 And it's always the minor inconvenience 819 00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:35,220 that can throw everybody off, right? 820 00:41:35,340 --> 00:41:37,460 Like, how do I get back to the hotel room 821 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:39,000 after the wedding, right? 822 00:41:39,340 --> 00:41:41,540 You had this whole thing planned out with the caterer, 823 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:43,840 but you just didn't communicate it through the agenda 824 00:41:44,060 --> 00:41:45,800 because you just forgot that line. 825 00:41:46,380 --> 00:41:49,180 And then now the hive mind has to communicate out, 826 00:41:49,240 --> 00:41:50,860 like, everybody just tell everybody 827 00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,660 there's a shuttle coming every 20 minutes 828 00:41:52,660 --> 00:41:53,440 or something, right? 829 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:55,240 Like, that's hard. 830 00:41:55,260 --> 00:41:57,340 And I think, I guess what I'm saying is like, 831 00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,760 the agenda making, the parking stuff, 832 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:02,800 these are for all the, it's like Reddit 833 00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,860 for this wedding, right? 834 00:42:05,460 --> 00:42:07,640 People randomly post stuff and randomly comment, 835 00:42:08,140 --> 00:42:08,960 and it can be anonymous. 836 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:10,140 I don't know if it has to be anonymous or not. 837 00:42:10,140 --> 00:42:11,600 The chattering board or whatever, yeah. 838 00:42:11,900 --> 00:42:14,060 I don't know if I want my family commenting 839 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:15,740 or ability for them to comment. 840 00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:17,040 (laughing) 841 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:19,980 Russell, you bring up a great dynamic. 842 00:42:20,100 --> 00:42:24,180 So we've talked about communication with different parties, 843 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,660 but what about the day of Corb Daters communication 844 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:28,440 with vendors? 845 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:34,820 like the catering, the DJ, the minister, 846 00:42:35,020 --> 00:42:36,940 everyone's added in that, the photographer, 847 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,740 and they can communicate with each of those people 848 00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:42,780 for coordinating things. 849 00:42:42,780 --> 00:42:45,040 'Cause I mean, day of wedding coordinators are huge. 850 00:42:45,340 --> 00:42:48,020 Like that is, everyone's getting them now. 851 00:42:49,020 --> 00:42:52,840 And so that's having that person be able to communicate 852 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,520 with all the vendors and set the entire invite list up 853 00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:57,840 to communicate with one another. 854 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:02,740 this is the centralized place to like have all their phone numbers and know 855 00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,060 when things are arriving. It's getting calendared. It's getting, yeah, 856 00:43:06,300 --> 00:43:08,780 you're getting task lists like, okay, flowers have arrived, 857 00:43:08,900 --> 00:43:11,820 but where is this thing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 858 00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:14,520 And I like out of the building or something. 859 00:43:15,860 --> 00:43:20,740 One in one thing that I don't like about the way things like this are currently 860 00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:25,500 handled is I don't want to group chat that is time bound. Yeah. 861 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:31,120 They are so annoying and you know, they're just blasting in messages while they're active. 862 00:43:31,660 --> 00:43:34,220 And this is a, this is a short duration type thing. 863 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:41,020 And to have that all within an app that also contains all the information about the wedding 864 00:43:41,290 --> 00:43:46,260 so that I'm not dealing with like Facebook messenger or like a group chat on my phone. 865 00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:48,820 Everyone's communicating via this interface. 866 00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:49,840 That's great. 867 00:43:50,340 --> 00:43:51,800 I think that's your model. 868 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:56,280 through the vendors, like you're talking as a couple 869 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,100 to all these vendors, the vendors would pay maybe 870 00:43:59,260 --> 00:44:01,900 into this service for whatever reason, right? 871 00:44:01,940 --> 00:44:03,420 Whether it's to talk to other vendors, 872 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,080 but then you as the bride and groom get this benefit 873 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:11,280 of agenda, day of wedding coordinator, group chats, 874 00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:14,920 all that jazz, right, for free and included 875 00:44:15,100 --> 00:44:16,300 because you're working with that vendor. 876 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:20,340 The vendors upselling that as a free service to what, 877 00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:23,700 Like, if you cater with me, you get this awesome app as well. 878 00:44:24,220 --> 00:44:24,580 Yes. 879 00:44:24,580 --> 00:44:24,900 That's good. 880 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:27,020 And then now the caterer also has control 881 00:44:27,180 --> 00:44:29,460 over the photographer, like a little bit 882 00:44:29,460 --> 00:44:30,240 of that communication. 883 00:44:30,740 --> 00:44:31,180 So it all comes together. 884 00:44:31,180 --> 00:44:32,500 I only pick people on Prime. 885 00:44:32,550 --> 00:44:34,540 I only pick people with this service, my vendors. 886 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:35,480 Yeah. 887 00:44:36,020 --> 00:44:38,620 I was going to pitch a much worse version, which is you 888 00:44:38,860 --> 00:44:40,640 are the couple, you're looking at it, 889 00:44:40,700 --> 00:44:43,460 and oh, this florist has paid to be like-- 890 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,380 have you thought about this kind of whatever? 891 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,060 This is like the catalog of services for you to pick from, 892 00:44:48,140 --> 00:44:50,240 and they're advertising for places in there, you know? 893 00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:55,460 But I feel like you having like recommended partners and stuff that are curated is way 894 00:44:55,660 --> 00:44:58,440 better than just another place to show ads. 895 00:44:59,180 --> 00:44:59,380 Yeah. 896 00:44:59,540 --> 00:45:06,040 I think, yeah, I think the person this gets sold to is the wedding planner slash day of 897 00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:06,560 coordinator. 898 00:45:06,740 --> 00:45:06,860 Yeah. 899 00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:07,340 Yeah. 900 00:45:07,420 --> 00:45:13,500 And then they offer it to their clientele as an add on service, uh, or they just use 901 00:45:13,500 --> 00:45:16,900 it behind the scenes just for vendor communication stuff. 902 00:45:17,420 --> 00:45:20,540 And yeah, that's, uh, it's like a, 903 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:25,960 Like an Asana or monday.com or whatever, but hyper specific to like agendaing. 904 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:31,020 It's a project management tool, but specifically for event coordination and 905 00:45:31,140 --> 00:45:32,820 planning, I wonder if something like that exists already. 906 00:45:33,260 --> 00:45:33,640 That's cool. 907 00:45:33,860 --> 00:45:33,960 Yeah. 908 00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:37,960 And if you, as like a, like, let's say I'm the one getting married. 909 00:45:38,320 --> 00:45:42,800 If all the wedding planner told me was, Hey, if you use this app, you'll be able 910 00:45:42,860 --> 00:45:47,480 to collect everyone's photos and videos and everything like that from everywhere. 911 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,440 I would, I would instantly be like, Oh yeah, of course. 912 00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:54,000 Like I'm gonna do that and you can white label to like you go to 913 00:45:54,820 --> 00:45:58,120 Bob and Diane calm and it's actually powered by this 914 00:45:58,380 --> 00:46:04,560 It's a you know website generator and there's a view for vendor of you for coordinator view for a party of you for guests 915 00:46:05,060 --> 00:46:10,940 Regular guests totally. Yep. That's great. 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