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

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This is Spitball.

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Welcome to Spitball with three Pythonic Pals and a guest empty our heads of

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startup and tech product ideas that we have stuck up in there so you can all

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have them for free.

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Anything that we say is yours to keep.

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And this week, Scotty, I believe you brought our guest.

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I did. I am excited to introduce Dave Harkey.

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And I just realized this, Dave, I think you and I have been working together for over 10 years now.

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Whoa.

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This year on a variety of projects and industries.

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I was always the hardware guy.

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Dave was the software guy.

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Like he's the one they called when the hardware looks fine, but nothing was working at all.

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[laughter]

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Dave, I--

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It was always hardware anyway.

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[laughter]

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That's right.

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We would fight all the time about that.

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Yeah.

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When he says I was the software guy, what he means was there was no other software

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guy.

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I was like the only guy you can go to.

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First string and second string and third string software guy.

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Oh boy.

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Well, welcome to Spitball.

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We're so glad to have you, Dave.

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Thank you guys.

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I'm excited to be here.

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Fun fact about Dave is that he also holds the record for the longest troubleshooting

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call at our last company.

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I think it was like 17 and a half hours of one call trying to fix a bug.

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Did you fix it?

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the call. Uh, yeah. When we ended the call, I took a screenshot. And so that's like, just like on my

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wall now. It's it's my it's my background. I feel good about that one. Well, on this show, from time

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to time in our little pre show chatting, sometimes the guests will say something like, Oh, I have a

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million ideas, and I don't know even which one to pick from. And Dave, you are one of those

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candidates. And when we have that, we will sometimes do a little warm up that we call

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Intramurals, which is our reject half ideas where we throw out the things on the list that aren't really deserving of a full pitch

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But are worth discussing something about so who wants to kick us off with an intramural this week? I will

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Okay, so

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metal detecting when you like you're trying to find treasure, but if

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Somebody's already been there. Like are you really finding treasure?

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So the idea is

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crowdsource metal detecting a map whereas your metal detecting

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You can put the point and when you metal detected on the map so you can see. Oh am I gonna find the

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1776 bullet from the war

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So I can sell it to a museum or not

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So that's I'm picturing like an app

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That's like a map with a fog of war like a real-time strategy game where it's a whole black and as you like a metal

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Detect you're like clearing the map open. That's fun. That's

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Cool there. I explore the whole beach and I've covered every square inch because I've been all the all the blank spaces

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But they fade they fade over time. So you have to Rick refill. Oh, that's good. Yep. Yep. Yep metal detecting crowdsource style

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I'm sure you could sell data to to somebody right? There's probably some way

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to like, oh. - I was just thinking,

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I wonder if this map could somehow like highlight like,

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this is an area where a music festival happened recently,

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or this is an area where there's frequently lost,

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you know, beach goers or something like that,

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where it would like tell you and guide you where to go to.

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- Literally a heat map of people that have,

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you found more things in this area.

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I like that.

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That's dope.

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I would buy Metal Detector getting pinged.

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Hey, you want to like win some free jewelry?

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Go to this spot.

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It'll pay for itself.

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I mean, it's stupid not to, you gotta get one.

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That's right.

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Get the whole family.

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Cover the whole fog of war.

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But only for a week or two.

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Yeah, that's true.

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And well, if there's people still there, do you think pick pockets would use this

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app to be like, Hey, I'm going to go get a head start on all the mail detectors.

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I'm gonna go see if I can find stuff actively in people's pockets.

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If it's not, if it ain't warm, I ain't getting it.

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Do they have to log it in the app when they do?

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Dude, yes.

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So a leaderboard for hijacking.

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Yeah, no way.

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It does seem like a lot of the places where pickpocketing would be, uh,

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lucrative are the same places where so too would metal detecting, right?

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You've got your like public transit and stuff frequently.

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probably a Venn diagram where they're like mostly just the same circle.

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The middle is there are people here. That are on foot, that are you know

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distracted by things and in a hurry to get somewhere else.

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Yeah. Oh then you could you could you could tier up your app so you know the

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free tier is metal detecting but if you want to pickpocket people for 15 bucks a

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month. Nice. You know where your cash can go. I know one organization that would be interested.

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Officer I paid for it. Exactly. That's what I was just gonna say. Yeah, you want to sell this data,

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how about to the feds? Look at all these self-selecting criminals. You could dig the gold

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or you could sell the shovels, guys. This is all about trying to skirt the line between making

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money and being part of an organized crime ring. Your honor, I didn't tell them to be pickpockets.

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I just had them pay me money to say where to go.

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- It's in my terms and conditions, you know?

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- You're like a pimp for pickpockets,

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trying to tell them where to go and what to do.

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- Pimp pocket.

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- The illegal. - Pimp pocket.

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- Pee pee pee. - You're a pimp pocket.

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- Hot pocket.

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That'll be called hot pocket.

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- Oh, that's nice.

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Hot pocket.

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- Hot pocket.

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- That might be a trademark problem.

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- Not the food version for the different industry.

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- Hot pocket, asterisk.

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Oh no, you just get rid of the vowels.

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P-C-K-T.

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- There you go.

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- All right, we were at a guy's weekend

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a couple of weeks ago,

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and I think under inebriation, somebody threw out,

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"Oh, oh, what about Drunk vs. High, the game show?"

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And I wrote that down on my list here,

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and I don't know anything more to say about it

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other than I have it on the list

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and I need to get it off the list.

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So how would you guys structure a game show

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called Drunk vs. High?

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A lot of very one-sided challenges depending

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Let's have an eating contest guess who's gonna win. Yeah most profound thought

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So is this where like the the contestants are

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Are either inebriated or high and the audience is trying to figure it out

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Maybe maybe it's like they're their loved ones. No, they would know him too. They're like third grade teachers. Come on

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Oh, yeah, Jimmy. Yeah, you can like talked a lot in the corner like

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The third grade teachers trying to figure out I was picturing like a family feud

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You got two sides lined up on each side and then something but that's way better

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like trying to figure out who's what by like you only get a certain amount of questions or

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Physical challenges you have to make them do

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Walk the straight line or something eat this whole bag of Cheetos pass the sobriety exam by a cop. I like that. Yeah

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Maybe there's a I don't know a take-home game that you play with your friends

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All right, everyone count off one two one two guess which team you're on

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All right, Scott. What do you got? All right. Parents are in northern Michigan right now during this nice polar vortex

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I just learned today that they have to keep the the city called everyone in their city and said hey

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You have to keep your water running all the time

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At least the so the water coming out is the thickness of a pencil

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We will pay for all water costs with this but pipes are freezing and this is cheaper for us

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Just you just a waste the water then it is for the damage. It's gonna be

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There is they're having a blast. They're just filling up water bottles and do whatever they want with that on there

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What can you do with unlimited free water?

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First thought was like I just want to stick a hose on this thing put it out in the backyard and make an ice rink

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or something but

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Infinite you can only do it like a pencil. You can only do it like a pencil width at a time

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Yeah, is that a minimum? I got to do a maximum. Could you run every faucet and get it all?

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They're paying for it.

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All of it or just some of it?

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They said that they would cover the costs, whatever

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it is, more than previous years of that month.

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Oh, so you'd pay the amount--

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That sounds like there's no upper limit.

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Infinite.

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No ceiling.

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So yes, ice rink is good.

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Till next year rolls around and you're like, oh, crap.

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I have to do it last year.

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Now I have to use more water.

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Could spray-- you get one of those ski sprayers or whatever

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that spray snow.

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Just make tons of snow.

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Polar vortex my ass.

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I don't think they want more.

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Yeah, double down.

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What about-- you know how some houses have the whole home

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generator?

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What about a turbine powered by the water pressure?

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So you've got-- yeah, you've got your electricity covered too.

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Bitcoin miner.

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You're charging your phone, or yeah,

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you're mining Bitcoin by some sort of apparatus

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that you've stuck in the bathtub.

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Thanks to the water department.

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Yeah, how much theoretical energy could the average water

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supply to a home generate if it was all put into a turbine?

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That's a great question.

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Somebody call Randall Monroe, XKCD,

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and get that guy on it.

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Wonder how many gallons that is per hour.

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Or like--

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I was wondering that too.

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Decent, right?

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I'm going to put two gallons per hour.

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That's a full ice rink in a couple days.

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That's your calculation?

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- You just think, just think, just think about a milk gallon

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jug underneath the sink with a pencil with the flow.

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- Per hour.

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- Per hour?

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Oh, that's probably right, every 10 minutes.

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Maybe, maybe a gallon per minute, 10 minutes?

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- That's pretty wide, a big asterisk on your calculation.

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- And on this round of Drunk Verse High.

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That is the perfect freaking question for Drunk Verse High.

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- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, wait, wait, wait.

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So you're telling me--

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- Think about a pencil.

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Look at how I pour this beer into this cup,

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how long it takes.

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Oh, oh, oh, damn it.

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Oh, someone get me a paper towel.

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- All right, Dave, you got it.

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- Yeah, what do you got, Dave?

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- All right, we all use,

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sorry, I'm crying still from that last round.

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We all use social media and we all,

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let's be honest, we all hate it.

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We're like, why am I on this thing?

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You know, four hours goes by and you're like,

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what did I just do with my life?

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I don't know why I keep going back to it,

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like a dog to its fauna, but here we are.

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We're all using social media.

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We all hate it.

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So I'm looking for any excuse I can

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to not use social media,

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to make it unappetizing to myself

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so I don't use it as much, right?

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One thing that I did recently, and this is a free tip.

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This is free for any listeners.

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I instead of using the Facebook app on my phone,

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I deleted the Facebook app and I used the browser on my phone

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and I log in through the browser.

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The UI is crap and I almost never wanna be on it

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because it always wigs out, doesn't work right.

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I get frustrated with it after 10 minutes.

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It's great, it sucks and it's great.

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So here's another idea down that vein.

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So somebody comes with an app

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that kind of is like a banner around your social media

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so you can like access it through this app.

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The only difference is that there's a ticker at the top

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and it says social media has earned.

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And every time you swipe up past an ad

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and they're making money off of you,

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that number at the top of the banner goes up.

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- Yeah.

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- By like a few cents, you know,

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15 cents every time you go buy, whatever it is.

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I don't know what the numbers are, I'm just guessing.

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But if I saw the insidiousness that is always happening

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but isn't visible to me and I just was reminded of that

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from this just ticker at the top or bottom,

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I would be like, okay, I hate these companies.

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Why am I on?

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I just want to be done with this.

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I'd get on for two seconds.

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- I'm getting angry just thinking about that right now.

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Imagining that number up there.

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I'm getting heart palpitations.

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No.

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You've got to have a little evil cartoon Zuckerberg,

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like, ha, ha, ha, ha, yes.

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Just handing the money to him.

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Eating it up like Pac-Man.

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Yeah, Canadians from South Park, right?

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Yeah, right.

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Yes.

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Dang, that is a good idea.

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I would take this as a browser extension on my desktop, too.

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Just every minute you're on Reddit,

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it's tallying up how much your time was

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worth that you could have been spending doing other things.

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Yeah.

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But no, your money is going right,

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your time is being converted into money

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and going right into Zuck's pocket.

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- I feel so dirty.

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I feel like I'm being like,

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I feel like a dirty rag being thrown around.

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Yikes.

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- That's great.

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- You put in your salary and it shows you

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not only how much they made off of you,

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but how much you could have been making.

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How much your time was worth.

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That last hour you, yeah, no, that was another X dollars.

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The opportunity cost yeah, that's a that really hits you in the belt

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Wow, this is a complete and fully fleshed idea ready for production. I have no enhancement suggestions. I know seriously

293
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That's great. What do you call it? Make me feel dirty?

294
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What do you that's what you call it? Yeah, just five more minutes. I'm dirty, honey

295
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Just can't put it down

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I'm trying to beat the height. Oh god. It would be

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I gotta earn

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Zuckerberg more money than Russell someone out there will gamify it for the wrong way. Yeah. Mm-hmm. You would make money by putting ads

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How much money we're making on you while Facebook is making money on you super targeted just to you now that truly is meta

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Do we need to end the show there? And thank you all for listening

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All right, who's up first this week? Leo, what do you got this week? Sure

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Okay, we have this flow in my house where my darling wife does not

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Remember to tell me about things that are coming up or things that we need to discuss

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So she says hey trigger word spoken assistant

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remind me to this later.

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And the flow like nine times out of 10 is,

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I see the note for her on the smart display in the kitchen

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and say, honey, were you supposed to talk to me about X?

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And she says, oh yeah, that's right.

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The reminder does not make it back to her.

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And I don't know why that is.

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So I have been thinking about like,

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how do I automate to make sure

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that I don't miss the reminder

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that she set for herself to talk to me?

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(laughing)

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like turn that into like a spoken word announcement into the room or like a

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little like "bing bong" every hour or something.

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And I don't quite know how that's worth.

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I need a grandfather clock.

321
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That's like a regular interval, just subtle in the background, like "doo doo".

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Don't forget that was that thing that you really wanted to remember

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from earlier for both of us.

324
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Said another way, I want a better ambient reminders system and none of the

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existing ones on the market are working for us.

326
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So what do you have for ideas for the audio announcement

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reminder system?

328
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My first thought was the Remembrall from Harry Potter

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that Neville uses.

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And it's a ball that changes color when he's

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supposed to remember something.

332
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If you have something in your house that just kind of lights

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up or a different color going through,

334
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because you don't want it too intrusive.

335
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How do you know--

336
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was there a color system for Neville?

337
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Nope.

338
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It was a very terrible product.

339
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So he looks at it and says, "Purple, uh-oh, that probably meant something.

340
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I wonder what that was."

341
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He forgets all the colors.

342
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Yeah, it's the same thing as like tying a string on your finger.

343
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That was the icon for I need to remember something, right?

344
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But yeah, I know that that's how that would go for me, right?

345
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I'm looking at the string like, "Shoot, that was important.

346
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What was that?"

347
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I guess I need the combination of the string or the remember all and like where to go.

348
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OK.

349
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What about this, Leo?

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So instead of turning off an alarm every morning,

351
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you turn on your alarm.

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Or before you go to sleep, you have

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to check all your reminders.

354
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Otherwise, an alarm will go off telling you--

355
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A gun to my head.

356
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That's right.

357
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You better check yourself at 11 o'clock.

358
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I'm going to turn on this alarm.

359
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You forgot to look.

360
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OK, yeah.

361
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Yeah.

362
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Introducing some sort of deadline or urgency to these reminders is a great idea. I need more stress in my life

363
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Did you check your reminders Scott?

364
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before the podcast a loaded gun

365
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All your toilets flush if you don't check your reminders all your toilets flush in the house. So they're crazy. That's

366
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Actually, yeah, why did all my toilets shit once? Oh

367
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That's right next Thursday

368
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Okay, something wild at a certain time

369
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Did you guys have relatives that had a grandfather clock or like a cuckoo clock or the bird one that made a bird chime every?

370
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hour I

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Feel like I have completely lost

372
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Like every single every hour chime that has ever existed does not happen around me anymore

373
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I don't know why that is personal life work life. Where did all those go? Is that like a generational thing?

374
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All phones and smartphones. Yeah, but like surely your office still has a wall clock on it, right?

375
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If you could do any of you fools go to an office. To what?

376
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That's right, I'm the only one that goes to a place to work

377
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Randomly in a park and you hear a bird and you're like, oh, it's three o'clock

378
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No

379
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Birds aren't real. I had a bird clock every like at my house. Yeah, right

380
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Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like you hear that pigeon it and you're like, oh, it's three o'clock somewhere and it's like

381
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The pigeons got 2 a.m. Energy for sure

382
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Waffle house. Yeah

383
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Kooing is he's eating his waffles

384
00:19:31,660 --> 00:19:34,020
Leo I do like the the flushing toilets is good

385
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If you want to keep it a little simpler

386
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Maybe you just flash all the lights in your house like once or twice or something and then a display pops up on all of

387
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your home displays. Like every hour, like a little dim, like I'm about to go to a

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theater show that's about to start, all the lights dim for a minute in the house.

389
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Yeah I'd prefer the THX sound come on. Yeah the Dolby THX sound.

390
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Take out the trash!

391
00:20:05,340 --> 00:20:09,200
I have a little E Ink display with calendar stuff, I've got all kinds of

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the knickknacks that are passive display of digital information and none of them are totally

393
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getting me to, I don't know, remind me about the thing when I need it to be reminded.

394
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Maybe that's an input/output thing or maybe that's a mode of conveyance problem and I

395
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haven't figured it out yet.

396
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So listeners, if you have any ideas, write it.

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Podcasts@Spitball.show.

398
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I'd love to hear your thoughts.

399
00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:39,060
What about if you've got a sound system already hooked into your house, like the subwoofer

400
00:20:39,460 --> 00:20:50,440
just starts cranking out at like 20 hertz, 10 hertz, just rumbling your house to its

401
00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:50,920
foundation.

402
00:20:50,970 --> 00:20:52,000
What is that?

403
00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:55,020
That's good.

404
00:20:55,020 --> 00:20:56,600
You can put it in any room, basically.

405
00:20:57,050 --> 00:21:00,220
It'll ping you from the other side of the house because the house itself is moving.

406
00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,360
You don't need a speaker because the house is the drum.

407
00:21:05,180 --> 00:21:07,280
Couple years of that, you need foundation work, brother.

408
00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:10,340
But you never missed an alert.

409
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Instantly settle your house.

410
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Mm-hmm.

411
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[LAUGHTER]

412
00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:15,060
It's a whole new idea.

413
00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:15,400
I love it.

414
00:21:15,420 --> 00:21:16,840
What about receipt printer, Leo?

415
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Like every once a day--

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I fantasize about this.

417
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And now it's just like a receipt that's

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constantly getting longer and longer

419
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until somebody rips it off.

420
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And then, oh--

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Does all the things on it.

422
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It has the list as it's printing.

423
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And then it's like, whoa.

424
00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:32,520
Yeah.

425
00:21:33,060 --> 00:21:34,300
The only time that I've seen people,

426
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I've seen several IOT projects for that,

427
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but it's always like the daily morning brief of my calendar

428
00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:43,100
or shopping list or whatever, right?

429
00:21:43,220 --> 00:21:45,400
I've never seen it be an ongoing thing

430
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,980
that you have to remember to like purge.

431
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:49,200
I like that a lot.

432
00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:51,560
Like the reminder goes in and immediately prints.

433
00:21:52,180 --> 00:21:53,520
And then that's an action item

434
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because it has not been cleared yet.

435
00:21:56,380 --> 00:21:56,940
That's cool.

436
00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,799
You can hang those on the wall and fridge

437
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,580
and all that stuff too, if you want to remember for real

438
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:03,620
again, you know?

439
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:05,880
We need to make--

440
00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:07,760
OK, pivot to this idea.

441
00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:12,260
We need to make a printer whose paper that goes in

442
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:14,000
is a stack of sticky notes.

443
00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:16,760
I would love that what you're describing,

444
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,060
but it just popped out, like, boom, boom, even remotely.

445
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Here is the thing.

446
00:22:21,140 --> 00:22:23,440
I think receipt printer is carcinogenic.

447
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:27,240
It's not great to hold and stuff, the thermal paper.

448
00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:29,360
But just any off-the-shelf sticky note,

449
00:22:29,480 --> 00:22:31,300
you put inside this thing and it feeds it out.

450
00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:31,840
Oh, that's so good.

451
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:34,100
- And it's just like pumping them out, right?

452
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That'd be sweet.

453
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- Uh-oh. - Oh man.

454
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Somebody do this.

455
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I would buy one.

456
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(laughing)

457
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- Post it if you're listening.

458
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- Little toter. - We're gonna get this.

459
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It's gonna happen though.

460
00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:44,440
The amount of Post-it notes, that'd be cool.

461
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,440
- Oh, and then you could upload your own photo to it

462
00:22:49,500 --> 00:22:52,360
and then it would print out like a huge mural,

463
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like one sticky at a time.

464
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(laughing)

465
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,860
And then you could put the mural together.

466
00:22:58,480 --> 00:22:59,760
It's just black and white.

467
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Each one's a pixel.

468
00:23:00,700 --> 00:23:02,940
You gotta like assemble your mosaic.

469
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(laughing)

470
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- Could just get two different color

471
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post-it notes at that point.

472
00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:08,300
- No, shut up.

473
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:09,420
You're gonna print black.

474
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(laughing)

475
00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:14,560
- Wouldn't it be classy though?

476
00:23:14,620 --> 00:23:15,740
You go over to somebody's house,

477
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:17,760
they like, you know, they pull out the fancy wine,

478
00:23:17,820 --> 00:23:20,440
they pull out the, you know, the really nice cheese.

479
00:23:20,540 --> 00:23:22,040
You know, they've got some, you know,

480
00:23:23,380 --> 00:23:25,480
some steak, you know, marinating in the background.

481
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:29,860
And then you look over and like right above a really nice dining table.

482
00:23:30,780 --> 00:23:35,620
There's just like this sticky note collage of Mona Lisa right there.

483
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It's high art.

484
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:39,260
I'm sure you understand.

485
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,800
What if you can send sticky notes to other people's printers?

486
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,760
Like, Oh, I want to print something to Leo spit ball tonight.

487
00:23:49,100 --> 00:23:50,060
You share each other.

488
00:23:50,700 --> 00:23:51,320
Oh yeah.

489
00:23:51,540 --> 00:23:52,620
Answer your damn phone.

490
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:53,460
Oh, look at that.

491
00:23:53,540 --> 00:23:54,240
It must be for Russell.

492
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:57,980
I'd probably answer my phone way more if I got a Post-it note printout every time.

493
00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:02,100
If I could make you shoot out at your face, yeah baby.

494
00:24:02,860 --> 00:24:05,240
We're reinventing the fax machine and I love it.

495
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[laughter]

496
00:24:08,020 --> 00:24:09,620
The Post-it faxes!

497
00:24:09,710 --> 00:24:10,340
The Post-it faxes!

498
00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:14,100
Yes! Yes!

499
00:24:15,140 --> 00:24:18,640
Hey Boomers, you ever thought of this? What about a printer that we could send to each other?

500
00:24:19,380 --> 00:24:23,540
It's got a little nice line of stick on the back, you could just plop it on the wall.

501
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:28,900
Only if it screams like a dial-up entire American medical system depend on it, too

502
00:24:30,100 --> 00:24:31,980
Can I sign a contract on it? Yes

503
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:42,660
All right, Scott you're up what do you got I want to keep going off of Dave's

504
00:24:43,400 --> 00:24:48,440
Description of that nice house with the Mona Lisa and the wine and stay down there, but this is an idea

505
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,159
I've had for a while and I love a good segue

506
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:57,520
This is one of those ones that I really really wish I had done this during kovat because I would have been rich

507
00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:02,400
Okay, so there was a shark tank episode where they had a guy who had

508
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:08,740
Essentially like disposable wine glasses that were they had full of wine and there's like a peel

509
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:16,200
Aluminum top on it and it's like it's fully sealed and it keeps all the flavor and he'd had this whole big thing about how

510
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:21,300
It still tastes just as good when you get it. So let's combine that. Let's pretend we're in kovat times

511
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:25,100
And you're on all you're doing is sitting there in front of zoom all day

512
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,400
What if you could do wine tasting as a group?

513
00:25:28,860 --> 00:25:32,520
Virtually where every single person gets like a flight of these shipped to them

514
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:37,200
Of like six or seven fancy wine and you all open them together. You all try them together

515
00:25:38,020 --> 00:25:41,780
Somalia is on the call with you talking you through each one on there

516
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:47,900
and that's the whole companies that just ship out these groups and you have virtual wine tasting and the Somalia is

517
00:25:48,540 --> 00:25:49,820
11 labs or

518
00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:53,440
So you can scale it

519
00:25:55,460 --> 00:25:59,680
You could do this with other things too, I'm sure you did detect floral notes

520
00:26:03,180 --> 00:26:08,240
Maybe you have a kid version with like different hot chocolates or something or I don't know

521
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,760
It's the only work with things you can drink. Yeah, whiskies are great

522
00:26:11,180 --> 00:26:15,580
I was just really excited that they there's like a way that you could transport single serving wine

523
00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:20,580
That would have been really big for churches during COVID, you know, doing the communion thing.

524
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,200
Yeah, I was when you were describing it. I was thinking of the communion things. Yeah.

525
00:26:24,780 --> 00:26:30,520
Oh, yeah, they like tear off ketchup size cups, right? Like the creamer cup size. That's what it is. Yeah.

526
00:26:31,180 --> 00:26:32,000
Mm hmm. Yeah.

527
00:26:32,460 --> 00:26:38,640
We had the ones growing up where you peeled one layer of foil and it was a little wafer and then you peel the other layer and it was on top of the cup.

528
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,180
Mm. Yeah, yeah.

529
00:26:40,460 --> 00:26:41,280
So that is a thing already.

530
00:26:41,300 --> 00:26:46,360
I went to a church once where they had two different colors and they were passing the plate around and I was like

531
00:26:46,420 --> 00:26:52,320
Oh, I've never seen two different colors. I've never been to this denomination before so I was like, I've never seen like white wine

532
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:57,300
That's kind of white grape juice. So I took the white and then I you know, I downed it

533
00:26:57,360 --> 00:27:00,940
Yeah, I was like, oh no, I just drink alcohol and I'm 19

534
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:08,740
Jesus would never

535
00:27:09,260 --> 00:27:15,360
What if you did have a communion plate where you were able to choose your flavor of Eucharist?

536
00:27:17,370 --> 00:27:17,480
I

537
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:18,980
Thought when you said the two different ones Dave

538
00:27:18,980 --> 00:27:21,680
I thought you're supposed to like take one and drop it in the other and shoot a bolt

539
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,420
Like it fizzes when you put it in

540
00:27:28,420 --> 00:27:30,020
bring up real fast.

541
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,940
This is the live, this is the quick quick go do it!

542
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:40,620
What are your tastes sir?

543
00:27:40,740 --> 00:27:44,380
Would you like a sweet body of blood of Christ this evening?

544
00:27:47,159 --> 00:27:52,360
Are we narrow casting to like just salty the earth mid-westerners here in our church jokes?

545
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:52,860
I don't know.

546
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,780
We may have just lost every last listener.

547
00:27:55,940 --> 00:27:56,580
I'll bring it back.

548
00:27:57,760 --> 00:27:59,880
This would be amazing for remote workers.

549
00:28:00,940 --> 00:28:03,420
My entire team is all over the US.

550
00:28:03,860 --> 00:28:06,920
And if I wanted to incentivize something cool

551
00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:09,160
that we could all do on a Friday--

552
00:28:09,380 --> 00:28:10,260
We struggled with that.

553
00:28:10,660 --> 00:28:15,000
The option is play Jackbox as a team or nothing else.

554
00:28:15,200 --> 00:28:15,580
Fortnite.

555
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:16,380
I like that a lot.

556
00:28:16,740 --> 00:28:17,780
Fortnite, yeah, that's true.

557
00:28:17,820 --> 00:28:18,440
That'd be--

558
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:18,960
Oh my gosh, man.

559
00:28:20,020 --> 00:28:21,320
I can't do Fortnite with my team.

560
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:22,600
There's just no way it would ever work.

561
00:28:23,419 --> 00:28:23,820
[LAUGHTER]

562
00:28:25,820 --> 00:28:28,520
Man, yeah, if you could couple that with cheese too, oh man.

563
00:28:28,860 --> 00:28:32,140
Like there's, there's some people who, you know, they're dry, respect that.

564
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:32,540
Totally.

565
00:28:32,980 --> 00:28:35,240
But like, who can pass up a good cheese?

566
00:28:35,580 --> 00:28:38,600
Like seriously, if you had a little, little flight of cheeses, like who

567
00:28:38,740 --> 00:28:39,920
wouldn't get excited about that?

568
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:40,500
Peel it off.

569
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:40,620
Yeah.

570
00:28:40,780 --> 00:28:41,200
Lunchable.

571
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:45,260
And there's all these meal kit services that have like scaled the ideas, right?

572
00:28:45,540 --> 00:28:49,260
Surely that supply chain, you just like work with one of those ones

573
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:50,640
and spin this off or something.

574
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:52,160
Absolutely.

575
00:28:52,620 --> 00:28:54,160
Peel your own charcuterie board.

576
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,140
making it a real fancy feeling and then having someone on the call being the

577
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,740
guiding experience is definitely the thing that has made this unique.

578
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:02,800
I like that a lot.

579
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:07,360
Different wineries all across the nation and just, Hey, we're going to bring this

580
00:29:07,460 --> 00:29:09,480
guy in who's helped create all these ones.

581
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,240
And he's the expert on this particular flight.

582
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:12,440
Cause they're all from the same spot.

583
00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:14,640
That would be, I'd pay for that.

584
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:15,660
That'd be pretty cool.

585
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:17,080
Yeah, I would too.

586
00:29:17,620 --> 00:29:22,380
That could even segue into like, did you enjoy this sampler flight?

587
00:29:22,660 --> 00:29:25,580
Well, then here's where you go to get your full bottles

588
00:29:25,780 --> 00:29:26,760
of whatever it is you get there.

589
00:29:26,780 --> 00:29:27,780
- Here's the QR code to purchase more.

590
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,000
- 10% off your first order, yeah.

591
00:29:31,020 --> 00:29:33,080
- And then you too can do one of these sessions.

592
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,460
If you invite 10 friends, we get,

593
00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:36,760
(laughing)

594
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,580
you make 10% of every sale.

595
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:41,700
- Work from home, be your own boss.

596
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,480
- You'll get 1% of each of them.

597
00:29:44,180 --> 00:29:45,500
And if they have 10 friends.

598
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:46,460
- Everyone under them.

599
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,560
- Yep, you're at the top of the chain.

600
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:54,560
(violin music)

601
00:29:54,700 --> 00:29:56,120
All right, Russell, what do you got?

602
00:29:56,780 --> 00:29:59,820
- Okay, so the other day I have like a lot

603
00:29:59,860 --> 00:30:01,880
of extension cords throughout my house

604
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,280
because I needed an outlet here,

605
00:30:05,290 --> 00:30:07,040
I need to bring something and plug it in

606
00:30:07,620 --> 00:30:10,160
and maybe think about if only we could charge,

607
00:30:10,540 --> 00:30:13,560
power things wirelessly, impossible right now,

608
00:30:13,660 --> 00:30:17,640
but the next best thing is power banks, right?

609
00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,859
And I'm just thinking what if there was a platform

610
00:30:20,860 --> 00:30:26,260
that I could use to swap out a lot of things,

611
00:30:26,700 --> 00:30:28,920
have different size power banks,

612
00:30:29,500 --> 00:30:32,160
so that I could kind of feel like everything

613
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,060
is a wirelessly powered device,

614
00:30:35,200 --> 00:30:39,560
but really I'm just swapping out either tiny battery packs

615
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,140
or big battery packs for all my devices.

616
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,060
So it's like a universal, like USB--

617
00:30:45,060 --> 00:30:46,440
- A drill battery for everything.

618
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:50,580
- Yeah, like how USB-C became the ultra standard

619
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,060
for all devices.

620
00:30:54,020 --> 00:30:56,100
Like what if you had a set of power banks,

621
00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:00,600
different sizes, shapes to connect into the same port

622
00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:03,820
and now everything is more or less wireless, right?

623
00:31:03,940 --> 00:31:07,660
Like my doorbell has a proprietary charger, right?

624
00:31:07,940 --> 00:31:10,540
And I have to buy that exact same battery pack, right?

625
00:31:10,540 --> 00:31:12,480
But I have like 30 power banks

626
00:31:12,510 --> 00:31:14,340
or if I just bought like a huge box,

627
00:31:14,420 --> 00:31:16,960
I could power a cooler.

628
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:19,200
I could power a fridge for an hour.

629
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,160
Like I could--

630
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,000
Oh, they're modular.

631
00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:23,820
You just stack them all and make a bigger one.

632
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:24,520
Yes, yes.

633
00:31:24,580 --> 00:31:27,120
If you can increase the size--

634
00:31:27,120 --> 00:31:30,480
my monitor doesn't necessarily need to be plugged into an outlet.

635
00:31:30,660 --> 00:31:34,840
It does, for a period of time, need to be--

636
00:31:35,060 --> 00:31:38,360
if I'm on the go for an hour, plug, plug, all right,

637
00:31:38,380 --> 00:31:41,219
I got my super pack on a dolly, and it's

638
00:31:41,220 --> 00:31:43,040
going to charge me for six hours.

639
00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:46,040
Just a pallet of lithium.

640
00:31:49,500 --> 00:31:51,900
Can you imagine a LAN party where everyone just shows up

641
00:31:51,940 --> 00:31:53,580
with their dollies and their monitors?

642
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:55,740
Hey, guys, I'm here.

643
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:56,740
At a park.

644
00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:58,720
No power draw, but--

645
00:31:58,720 --> 00:31:59,340
At a park.

646
00:31:59,940 --> 00:32:01,720
Just on a beach somewhere having a LAN party.

647
00:32:02,890 --> 00:32:04,720
I just think about all the limitations

648
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:11,200
that the plug-to-wall creates, but also

649
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:15,420
small device that needs to be that doesn't need like a plug right I just

650
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,800
need a little bit of juice and power this board right here is annoying it's

651
00:32:19,860 --> 00:32:24,340
like I got that game board I have to like plug it in it and I wish I could

652
00:32:24,380 --> 00:32:28,220
just buy a battery pack or something that could allow me to be more wireless

653
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:33,140
with it even if it's just for an hour but that's it just like an open platform

654
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:39,519
power bank system and this is such a solved thing for like household small

655
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:44,040
handheld tools, right? You've got your same battery bank that powers your

656
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:48,880
chainsaw and your leaf blower and your weed whacker and stuff that can also go

657
00:32:49,020 --> 00:32:54,040
right into your snowblower and lawnmower that are bigger things. They just kind of

658
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,600
you need five of them instead of one or whatever. There's so many different

659
00:32:57,700 --> 00:33:01,500
ecosystems for that. We just want to like expand that. Yeah, I'm thinking like

660
00:33:01,740 --> 00:33:06,120
small things too. You could create like ways to shut like if I leave cabinet

661
00:33:06,120 --> 00:33:07,240
doors open all the time.

662
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,100
Oh, if only I had a little power device

663
00:33:10,820 --> 00:33:14,480
to shut the damn cabinets every time it gets open.

664
00:33:14,940 --> 00:33:15,420
Right?

665
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:17,800
Like, now it becomes feasible.

666
00:33:18,540 --> 00:33:19,340
Wait, hold on.

667
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:20,240
What?

668
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:23,280
It's just a motor that's--

669
00:33:23,580 --> 00:33:25,900
Something that simple now is possible.

670
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,280
Accidentally chop your finger off.

671
00:33:28,420 --> 00:33:29,040
Oh, Jesus.

672
00:33:29,060 --> 00:33:30,160
It's a gentle push.

673
00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:31,820
It won't have a lot of power.

674
00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:34,960
But that's just like, you can now create a bunch of--

675
00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,360
you can open it to a bunch of different small devices

676
00:33:37,660 --> 00:33:40,740
that would never make sense to use or exist

677
00:33:40,980 --> 00:33:43,640
because you'd have to like get a battery

678
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,400
and power the battery, nobody wants to swap them out.

679
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,840
So you just, you'd hot swap it all the time.

680
00:33:49,190 --> 00:33:50,840
How do you solve the irritation

681
00:33:51,060 --> 00:33:53,820
of having to charge this ecosystem that you've created?

682
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,320
It sounds like a nightmare to have like 200

683
00:33:57,180 --> 00:33:59,160
very dead batteries across your house.

684
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:00,700
Then buy-- It's a slot.

685
00:34:01,380 --> 00:34:02,200
Yeah, it's like a bookshelf.

686
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,800
Like you'd have a bookshelf of all your different

687
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,060
battery slots and you just, you'd always have,

688
00:34:08,260 --> 00:34:09,639
you'd have so much redundancy.

689
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:10,560
That's the point.

690
00:34:10,659 --> 00:34:13,220
You'd have like 40 battery packs,

691
00:34:14,020 --> 00:34:16,780
different allo, different amounts that it can store.

692
00:34:17,740 --> 00:34:18,760
- I'm almost thinking the opposite.

693
00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:21,540
Let's go as wasteful as possible on it.

694
00:34:21,639 --> 00:34:24,800
Like picture being able to walk into a gas station

695
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,460
and buy like a like little tiny,

696
00:34:28,020 --> 00:34:31,340
but fully charged battery pack with a little USB-C guy on it.

697
00:34:31,580 --> 00:34:33,120
And it's just like, and they'll last forever.

698
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:34,780
And you can just plug them in,

699
00:34:34,940 --> 00:34:36,240
like for an emergencies or something.

700
00:34:36,340 --> 00:34:37,120
Hey, my phone's dead.

701
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,540
Go in my car and grab one of these guys and plug it in.

702
00:34:39,980 --> 00:34:42,139
And just to always have a fully charged battery

703
00:34:42,260 --> 00:34:43,500
that works with USB-C.

704
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:45,120
And then you just use them everywhere.

705
00:34:45,179 --> 00:34:47,399
And when they run out, you buy more, capitalism.

706
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:50,840
- Jeff Geerling, the YouTuber and tech guy

707
00:34:51,139 --> 00:34:53,540
did a blog post this week that's very apt.

708
00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:54,600
It's right on this topic.

709
00:34:54,740 --> 00:34:57,440
He was talking about in defense of the AA battery.

710
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,059
And just about like every gadget that he owns right now

711
00:35:01,060 --> 00:35:03,580
that uses a rechargeable lithium battery,

712
00:35:03,740 --> 00:35:06,040
has a shelf life, the things from 10 years ago

713
00:35:06,140 --> 00:35:08,600
that use lithium are just starting to degrade or whatever.

714
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,520
He pulls out some cassette recorder

715
00:35:11,660 --> 00:35:12,560
from the 80s or whatever.

716
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:13,480
The thing works great

717
00:35:13,540 --> 00:35:15,680
when you can just pop fresh batteries into it, right?

718
00:35:16,060 --> 00:35:18,400
And it was just waxing poetic about how nice it was

719
00:35:18,460 --> 00:35:20,560
to have the standard that everything worked with

720
00:35:20,580 --> 00:35:23,780
and it seemed like it made things not have a shelf life

721
00:35:23,860 --> 00:35:25,300
based off of battery technology.

722
00:35:25,580 --> 00:35:28,340
And what you're proposing is the AA battery

723
00:35:28,340 --> 00:35:30,900
but rechargeable and everything uses it.

724
00:35:31,340 --> 00:35:34,680
We need to A, get everything back on AA's or C's or D's

725
00:35:35,060 --> 00:35:37,580
and B, make them all have USB-C ports

726
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:39,240
and you just plug them in and charge them.

727
00:35:39,240 --> 00:35:40,220
- I like that even more.

728
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:41,460
We'll make a piece of hardware

729
00:35:41,660 --> 00:35:43,680
that you could put two AA's into

730
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,960
and it just outputs as five volts USB-C.

731
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:46,820
(laughing)

732
00:35:46,820 --> 00:35:48,080
And then you use that for everything.

733
00:35:48,580 --> 00:35:50,680
And then you buy, then we invest in AA batteries.

734
00:35:51,340 --> 00:35:52,080
- Oh, there it is.

735
00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:53,180
Everything's AA'd.

736
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:54,640
- Everything's AA again.

737
00:35:55,140 --> 00:35:57,260
- I could charge my fridge and my monitor on the go.

738
00:35:58,180 --> 00:36:00,260
I can power my whole ass computer.

739
00:36:02,460 --> 00:36:05,180
That way you can walk around with a computer monitor,

740
00:36:05,860 --> 00:36:07,600
the thing we all dream about doing.

741
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:10,000
You don't get it, honey.

742
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:11,820
I can do it here or here.

743
00:36:13,140 --> 00:36:13,520
I don't know.

744
00:36:14,100 --> 00:36:16,960
Leo, you could have all of your cabinets with Russell's device

745
00:36:17,220 --> 00:36:20,420
slam at the same time in order to remind you of something

746
00:36:20,860 --> 00:36:21,820
that you had forgotten earlier.

747
00:36:23,220 --> 00:36:24,980
Why are the cabinets all going ghost?

748
00:36:25,780 --> 00:36:32,700
The idea of having to like reach and grab a snake spaghetti pile of USB-C cables and

749
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:38,060
plugging in each individual AA battery sounds like a nightmare, but if I could throw them

750
00:36:38,140 --> 00:36:41,840
all on a tray and they all start wirelessly charging, even if it's really slow, dude,

751
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:43,520
that would be sweet.

752
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:47,440
I have been trying to get away from alkaline for the few things that we have, toys or whatever

753
00:36:47,580 --> 00:36:53,280
that do use AA, AAA, and remembering to snap them into the charger that I have that's fiddly

754
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:58,600
and getting them seated just right so they charge and these ones discharge over time if I don't use them blah blah blah

755
00:36:59,260 --> 00:37:05,080
We need to convenient size a standard battery size that is easy to charge for sure man

756
00:37:05,180 --> 00:37:11,520
Yeah, I'm more I'm more thinking like you you have you ever see those packs at convention centers

757
00:37:11,570 --> 00:37:17,940
Or they have like five battery packs in a single drawer and you can like rent one, right?

758
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:22,700
Yeah, it'd be like that ports. Yes. Yes, and then it would be kind of like that

759
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:26,740
But you'd have one in your house, and then you it's just like

760
00:37:27,580 --> 00:37:34,600
Next level version of that because you think about how many things are stuck six feet away from an outlet

761
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:39,220
Like what if I didn't have to have my TV here? I barely turn it on

762
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,840
But when I do right, I don't know how big this battery pack is but alright

763
00:37:45,310 --> 00:37:51,380
I plug it I plug it in there it works for an hour, but I have two in the hopper right so I get one

764
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,940
Oh, TV turned off.

765
00:37:54,620 --> 00:37:55,100
Swap, swap.

766
00:37:55,780 --> 00:37:56,760
- The TV's dead.

767
00:37:56,820 --> 00:37:58,920
It takes 96 double A's.

768
00:37:59,380 --> 00:37:59,480
(laughing)

769
00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:02,120
Can't wait to change all those.

770
00:38:02,140 --> 00:38:03,460
- No, you wouldn't need to.

771
00:38:03,540 --> 00:38:07,600
It's like a box the size of a laptop, right?

772
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,140
You know, okay, you could get the--

773
00:38:09,580 --> 00:38:10,920
- You got your snowblower battery

774
00:38:11,020 --> 00:38:12,040
that goes in the back of the TV.

775
00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:14,140
- I just don't know how big they have to be.

776
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,480
I don't understand the size requirements

777
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:22,520
to like power a TV and like for an hour.

778
00:38:23,060 --> 00:38:24,400
- Nor I. - Scott knows.

779
00:38:25,380 --> 00:38:27,160
What is the size of a door? - It's so funny.

780
00:38:27,220 --> 00:38:27,880
- The hardware guy.

781
00:38:28,580 --> 00:38:30,460
- My current job right now is,

782
00:38:30,740 --> 00:38:32,480
hey, if we have our device,

783
00:38:32,580 --> 00:38:35,860
this nice camera, wifi, high energy device,

784
00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:38,280
what if we had a battery powered version?

785
00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:40,000
What would it take to do that?

786
00:38:40,380 --> 00:38:43,940
It's an absolute nightmare, just in every sense.

787
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:47,160
- How much power, like how big of a fricking battery?

788
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:48,700
How many double A's?

789
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,440
How many double A's?

790
00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:53,080
Can we convert this into double A's?

791
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,900
I can imagine 96 double A's in a package, right?

792
00:38:56,340 --> 00:38:57,500
Would that charge--

793
00:38:57,520 --> 00:38:58,420
For one TV circle.

794
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:00,300
Would that power a TV for 10 minutes?

795
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:02,960
How many watts is my television?

796
00:39:03,220 --> 00:39:05,020
The thing is, is all of these electronics

797
00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:06,860
are being designed with the assumption

798
00:39:07,060 --> 00:39:09,200
that there is no battery constraint, right?

799
00:39:09,500 --> 00:39:12,340
So assumedly, the next TV you would buy

800
00:39:12,380 --> 00:39:14,240
would be more efficient with its power usage

801
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:16,080
and wouldn't be doing whatever it does

802
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:17,000
that doesn't need to do.

803
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:21,800
Oh, I could-- yeah, I could buy and-- or I could sell TVs

804
00:39:22,040 --> 00:39:24,720
especially made to be battery powered.

805
00:39:25,300 --> 00:39:25,700
Yeah.

806
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,100
These would be-- all of your accessories

807
00:39:28,380 --> 00:39:31,680
eventually would need to be designed with this in mind.

808
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,460
You're going to have some stuff that can't be.

809
00:39:33,980 --> 00:39:36,300
Your 3D printer back there needs to get really hot

810
00:39:36,380 --> 00:39:37,460
and stay that way for hours.

811
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:38,800
That's not going to be battery powered.

812
00:39:39,940 --> 00:39:40,400
But--

813
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,300
There's coffee machines that are battery powered.

814
00:39:44,500 --> 00:39:50,440
But the Onyx or whatever, it's like for contract jobs or whatever, contractors at job sites.

815
00:39:51,620 --> 00:39:54,260
Does it work on like a, like a DeWalt drill battery?

816
00:39:54,260 --> 00:39:54,820
I think it works.

817
00:39:54,980 --> 00:39:56,200
It's like, cause that's awesome.

818
00:39:56,200 --> 00:39:57,720
It's like 80% battery.

819
00:39:58,460 --> 00:39:59,100
Do you know what I mean?

820
00:39:59,140 --> 00:40:02,220
It's like just a big battery.

821
00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:03,540
Size of a vending machine.

822
00:40:03,820 --> 00:40:04,020
Yeah.

823
00:40:04,220 --> 00:40:07,520
I think it's like a, yeah, like a tote, like this little tote.

824
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:08,360
Like that.

825
00:40:08,500 --> 00:40:08,620
Like.

826
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:13,260
I think Scott may have just learned a terrible truth about your design.

827
00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:15,220
about your idea.

828
00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:18,280
What are we talking?

829
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:21,720
- Average LED television is running at about 100 watts,

830
00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:24,380
which is gonna be, going through the math,

831
00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:28,660
about 50 AA batteries for roughly 30 to 60 minutes

832
00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:29,660
of practical use.

833
00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:30,540
- That's not bad.

834
00:40:30,900 --> 00:40:31,340
- What's showing?

835
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:33,500
- 50 AA's for an hour?

836
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:37,720
- No, for 30 minutes, so 96 for an hour, I was dead on.

837
00:40:37,940 --> 00:40:40,380
- Wait, it's not like you're throwing out these AA's,

838
00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:41,640
you're actually just, you're taking

839
00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:43,480
and you're plugging it back into the charger, right?

840
00:40:43,580 --> 00:40:46,720
So you have basically 100 double A's, two packs.

841
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:48,900
And every movie you ever want to watch

842
00:40:48,980 --> 00:40:52,100
has a built-in intermission while you change out 96 batteries.

843
00:40:52,460 --> 00:40:54,520
You plug in the 96 battery box.

844
00:40:54,970 --> 00:40:56,300
You know, it's--

845
00:40:56,300 --> 00:40:57,480
96 batteries.

846
00:40:57,520 --> 00:40:59,020
Is it any less efficient, though?

847
00:40:59,140 --> 00:41:00,940
Because I'm still burning the same amount of coal

848
00:41:00,980 --> 00:41:04,000
to charge my battery than it is to power my TV.

849
00:41:04,330 --> 00:41:06,560
I just happen to put it in a box before I put it in.

850
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:07,080
Some heat loss.

851
00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:08,440
Wait, what problem are we trying to solve?

852
00:41:08,540 --> 00:41:10,620
I'm trying to solve the plug problem.

853
00:41:10,940 --> 00:41:12,600
Why do I have to plug everything in?

854
00:41:12,660 --> 00:41:15,640
If I could just hot swap batteries all day, right?

855
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:18,540
Rechargeable batteries, guys.

856
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:20,680
Not like throw out a hundred batteries

857
00:41:20,740 --> 00:41:22,320
after watching TV for an hour.

858
00:41:22,540 --> 00:41:25,140
- I mean, if Severance season three drops

859
00:41:25,540 --> 00:41:26,820
and so does my power,

860
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,240
you know I'm gonna invest in this thing.

861
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,420
I'm absolutely going out and buying one from the store

862
00:41:32,420 --> 00:41:33,080
so I can finish.

863
00:41:33,460 --> 00:41:34,320
- A hundred an hour.

864
00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:35,780
- Yeah, a hundred an hour.

865
00:41:36,070 --> 00:41:38,920
So like a Splendor, like a board game box

866
00:41:38,980 --> 00:41:39,860
would be the size of it.

867
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:40,720
It's big.

868
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:41,500
- Yeah.

869
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,080
So you'd have a closet full of fricking power banks.

870
00:41:46,200 --> 00:41:46,640
[LAUGHTER]

871
00:41:48,020 --> 00:41:50,200
But I don't want to have everything on--

872
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,880
a bunch of extension cords running throughout my house.

873
00:41:53,380 --> 00:41:55,880
I have a bunch of temperature sensors

874
00:41:56,060 --> 00:41:57,820
that run on AAA batteries around my house.

875
00:41:57,920 --> 00:42:00,960
It's fun to see which rooms are efficiently

876
00:42:01,030 --> 00:42:03,620
or not efficiently heated in a house from the 1800s.

877
00:42:04,160 --> 00:42:07,440
And every night, my smart home platform

878
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,500
will notify me if any of them are under 10% battery

879
00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:10,860
or whatever.

880
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:12,320
and sometimes several happen at once.

881
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:13,760
That would be essential.

882
00:42:15,340 --> 00:42:18,380
Things silently dying would be awful.

883
00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:21,440
So if you could get like some sort of automated daily,

884
00:42:21,580 --> 00:42:24,060
like here's the three packs you should switch out

885
00:42:24,100 --> 00:42:25,780
in the next two days report, you know.

886
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:26,680
- Print that on a sticky note.

887
00:42:26,700 --> 00:42:27,420
- That would make this.

888
00:42:29,940 --> 00:42:31,180
Forget to tell somebody.

889
00:42:31,660 --> 00:42:32,400
- Swap your batteries.

890
00:42:33,820 --> 00:42:34,580
- They die anyway.

891
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:35,800
Yeah, there you go.

892
00:42:36,380 --> 00:42:38,640
Yeah, you put my sticky note printer

893
00:42:38,900 --> 00:42:40,400
right on top of that sucker and you're good.

894
00:42:40,480 --> 00:42:46,180
battery powered. Yes. Until it dies and it can't tell you to change the battery. No!

895
00:42:52,620 --> 00:42:57,620
All right, Dave, what do you have for us? All right, guys, I've got to pick. I've got to pick

896
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:01,520
and maybe you guys can help me pick. Can I give you three categories and you guys pick one? Yeah.

897
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:08,160
Okay, sure. All right. All right. So something to help with your physical health, something to help

898
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:13,200
with your social health and something that helps nobody's health.

899
00:43:13,460 --> 00:43:13,760
That one.

900
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:14,340
That one.

901
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:14,980
That one.

902
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:17,020
I think we have to go with that one.

903
00:43:17,140 --> 00:43:17,660
That's tempting.

904
00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:18,820
I like social health.

905
00:43:18,820 --> 00:43:24,820
I feel like there's some party vibes in social health too, but no benefit whatsoever is our

906
00:43:24,900 --> 00:43:25,180
brand.

907
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:28,380
It's no one.

908
00:43:28,380 --> 00:43:29,140
Not useful.

909
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:30,000
All right.

910
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:31,160
Useful to no one?

911
00:43:31,460 --> 00:43:31,700
In.

912
00:43:34,180 --> 00:43:34,480
Hit us.

913
00:43:34,620 --> 00:43:35,440
Let's charge forward.

914
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:55,980
So, okay, so this is just to just to qualify this. I have to qualify this. This is a product that I would never want to actually build myself or promote. So I just I'm going to get that out there. It'll make the very obvious why afterwards. But so so we like Netflix streaming platforms.

915
00:43:55,980 --> 00:44:01,240
That's just how we consume video these days, streaming content.

916
00:44:02,380 --> 00:44:03,680
So you've got these big platforms.

917
00:44:04,660 --> 00:44:09,260
They're always trying to create new content to come out.

918
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,760
They're spending a crazy amount of money to have new content come out.

919
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:18,060
So they're probably already researching this behind closed doors.

920
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:23,700
But what about if you could generate your own movie with AI?

921
00:44:24,380 --> 00:44:34,960
you could like say, you know, it's Friday night. I've got my flight of wines that I've imported

922
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:39,880
with my friends. We want to sync up a movie together, but we're all feeling like we want,

923
00:44:40,100 --> 00:44:46,940
we want a comedy. We want a comedy. It's a good laugh night. And you know, we don't have all night

924
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:51,540
because we've got kids and somebody's going to have to, you know, get up to white buns or

925
00:44:51,340 --> 00:44:56,480
or something. So we're half an hour, you know, we want half an hour movie.

926
00:44:56,940 --> 00:45:01,880
That's a comedy. And you just like, you kind of like input the parameters and

927
00:45:01,900 --> 00:45:06,700
then you, you know, throw it out there and then you get a movie back that one

928
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:12,340
that's nobody's ever seen before. Right. It's custom made for you and whatever

929
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:17,260
you put in there. Like, okay, yeah, I want like, uh, somebody who, um, well,

930
00:45:17,260 --> 00:45:20,740
you probably can't like say I want Jack Black in it, but like somebody who's

931
00:45:20,740 --> 00:45:23,060
like kind of stocky.

932
00:45:23,060 --> 00:45:23,780
License your likeness.

933
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:24,800
Yeah, there you go.

934
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,380
You know, so maybe you could like pick from like characters

935
00:45:28,470 --> 00:45:30,400
or whatever, like types of characters, whatever.

936
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:32,360
And it will come up with a plot.

937
00:45:32,420 --> 00:45:35,260
It'll come, you know, hey, I want a fun twist at the end.

938
00:45:35,430 --> 00:45:39,120
You know, and so like, it just writes the whole script.

939
00:45:39,650 --> 00:45:43,040
It all of a sudden like creates a soundtrack to it.

940
00:45:43,310 --> 00:45:45,680
It creates the actors and what they're gonna do.

941
00:45:45,770 --> 00:45:47,900
And so like all of this on different layers

942
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,260
is like generated behind the scenes, right?

943
00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:51,820
You're not seeing any of that.

944
00:45:52,260 --> 00:45:55,300
All you get is this prepackaged movie back that says,

945
00:45:55,740 --> 00:45:57,780
hey, this is the movie you asked for, right?

946
00:45:58,240 --> 00:46:01,200
And so there's another layer to this, right?

947
00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:03,380
So this would be kind of like interesting

948
00:46:03,860 --> 00:46:05,860
to play around with, you know, whatever.

949
00:46:06,720 --> 00:46:08,860
Some of the ones you get back, they're gonna be duds, right?

950
00:46:09,020 --> 00:46:10,420
We've seen AI-generated content.

951
00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:12,060
Some of it is you're just gonna be like,

952
00:46:12,180 --> 00:46:13,060
okay, this is terrible.

953
00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:16,140
Like this is worse than the Star Wars holiday special.

954
00:46:16,420 --> 00:46:18,380
Like I don't know why we try this.

955
00:46:18,620 --> 00:46:21,940
But sometimes you're gonna actually get a good movie back

956
00:46:21,980 --> 00:46:22,840
and you'll be like, "Hey, you know what?

957
00:46:22,860 --> 00:46:24,500
"This was decent."

958
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:27,500
What if you could save it on a platform

959
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:30,000
and send it to your friends and be like,

960
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,920
"Hey, I just watched this pretty cool,

961
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,540
"I generated and watched this pretty cool movie.

962
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:35,960
"What do you guys think?"

963
00:46:36,100 --> 00:46:39,240
And they can download that themselves.

964
00:46:39,700 --> 00:46:41,980
It's already generated, so they can watch it themselves.

965
00:46:42,420 --> 00:46:44,600
And who knows, maybe they could say,

966
00:46:44,700 --> 00:46:48,600
"Hey, that was cool, but I need more Jack Black in it."

967
00:46:48,600 --> 00:46:55,480
They could like regenerate X and that it creates like, you know, a new version of it, but it's

968
00:46:55,540 --> 00:46:58,540
got Jack Black or you know, somebody who looks like Jack Black in it.

969
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,500
You know, there's two twists at the end or something.

970
00:47:03,100 --> 00:47:07,860
You know, it's because it's like this platform where you could just share your generated

971
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:08,900
videos with each other.

972
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:14,000
And you know, maybe there's a leader board or like, you know, new this week, you know,

973
00:47:14,060 --> 00:47:17,880
and the people have like give a thumbs up to some videos that are out there.

974
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:19,000
So they're like climbing the leaderboard.

975
00:47:19,180 --> 00:47:22,660
I wonder who's generated a good movie this week, you know?

976
00:47:22,740 --> 00:47:24,540
And so you just like log on and see.

977
00:47:25,020 --> 00:47:25,280
Anyway.

978
00:47:26,100 --> 00:47:26,280
- Yeah.

979
00:47:26,580 --> 00:47:27,580
- So what do you guys think?

980
00:47:27,700 --> 00:47:31,020
So obviously terrible idea for obvious reasons.

981
00:47:31,260 --> 00:47:32,840
AI is just gonna ruin the world.

982
00:47:33,260 --> 00:47:36,580
But if we get generated movies out of it

983
00:47:36,620 --> 00:47:39,200
that we can share with each other, I mean, guys.

984
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:40,800
- Curated, generated movies.

985
00:47:40,940 --> 00:47:41,380
- Curated.

986
00:47:41,460 --> 00:47:42,760
- Boil the oceans, let's do it.

987
00:47:43,100 --> 00:47:44,540
- I love that you're like, exactly.

988
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:46,200
I need this exactly 30 minutes.

989
00:47:46,420 --> 00:47:49,600
Here is my entire Netflix history of all things I've watched before.

990
00:47:50,180 --> 00:47:52,220
Just make me a movie based on all this, go.

991
00:47:52,700 --> 00:47:55,480
Here's three photos of my friend Scott making the British villain

992
00:47:55,580 --> 00:47:57,220
that dies horrifically at the end.

993
00:47:58,060 --> 00:47:58,680
That's right.

994
00:47:58,860 --> 00:47:58,940
Yeah.

995
00:47:59,220 --> 00:48:02,000
Paddington 2, except it's a horror movie.

996
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:07,000
I love the idea of like all of my friends that are going to watch this

997
00:48:07,180 --> 00:48:11,460
movie together contribute some scene or some plot twist or something.

998
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:14,420
And so now everybody's like, oh, yep.

999
00:48:14,460 --> 00:48:15,980
The duck, uh, the, yep.

1000
00:48:16,060 --> 00:48:16,700
That was me.

1001
00:48:17,790 --> 00:48:19,900
Yeah, the flock of ducks.

1002
00:48:19,980 --> 00:48:21,100
That brings it back to art.

1003
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:21,900
Yeah, yeah.

1004
00:48:22,380 --> 00:48:26,740
And then your prompt to it is like, just make all this flow together nicely in a good movie.

1005
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:27,980
This pile of spaghetti.

1006
00:48:28,030 --> 00:48:29,320
It's like Cards Against Humanity.

1007
00:48:29,360 --> 00:48:29,980
That's how we stop everybody.

1008
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,260
That's the platform's job.

1009
00:48:31,380 --> 00:48:36,180
Your job is to be like, I want a giant rubber duck attacking a, you know, whatever.

1010
00:48:36,580 --> 00:48:38,860
And you just throw that in there as part of the bot.

1011
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:40,280
Like, what's this movie called?

1012
00:48:40,440 --> 00:48:40,920
Flock You.

1013
00:48:41,420 --> 00:48:42,140
This is weird.

1014
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:43,800
And it's a rom-com.

1015
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:48,440
Like we just everybody agrees on like rom-com and then there's a duck attacking a

1016
00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:53,180
Building scene you're like whoa somebody definitely

1017
00:48:54,540 --> 00:48:57,360
Just in the background outside as they're having their romance. That's right

1018
00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:04,060
You're just messing with the parameters. You're like everything about this reads scary movie, but right at the end you're like yeah

1019
00:49:04,220 --> 00:49:05,920
And I wanted to have a feel-good ending

1020
00:49:08,180 --> 00:49:10,160
Swelling romance drama really fun

1021
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:16,280
There's just some stuff that I think human creativity could not achieve and that might be one of those situations are like

1022
00:49:17,580 --> 00:49:21,200
10 wild prompt scenes and they just put it all together somehow

1023
00:49:21,380 --> 00:49:27,340
It's like long-form Sora. Are like famous actors in the future gonna be a fully AI generated?

1024
00:49:27,580 --> 00:49:32,060
Like you were saying like a Jack Black, but not Jack Black. So it creates some new character named

1025
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:37,800
Wilbur or something but then Wilbur becomes really famous in all these movies on these platforms

1026
00:49:37,800 --> 00:49:44,200
I want to have Wilbur in it like who owns the rights to Wilbur at that point and it's like the AI actress

1027
00:49:45,540 --> 00:49:52,340
Oh, yeah, the one that came out. She was like a Tilly Norwood. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's a there's a company last fall that made

1028
00:49:52,940 --> 00:49:56,640
What you're describing Wilbur, but it's a lady who's

1029
00:49:57,700 --> 00:49:59,880
Willing to be licensed to be in movies

1030
00:49:59,960 --> 00:50:07,000
That's entirely fictional and she has like a whole biography and everything the company made around her Tilly Norwood, but she's not real

1031
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:08,160
Weird.

1032
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:08,760
Weird.

1033
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,080
She has an Instagram account and everything.

1034
00:50:13,020 --> 00:50:14,060
You guys, I mean, like, okay.

1035
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:18,020
So, so this idea, like, do you, do you think behind closed doors right now,

1036
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:22,300
Netflix is like looking for a way to do what we just described?

1037
00:50:22,720 --> 00:50:23,120
A thousand percent.

1038
00:50:23,660 --> 00:50:26,940
I mean, open AI is doing this with short form stuff now, right?

1039
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:29,280
With Sora, there's, there's, we're so close.

1040
00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:34,180
Dude, like all the computer generated costs could just be AI generated.

1041
00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:39,560
Man, it would be so fun to go to like a dedicated like movie theater experience for this

1042
00:50:39,720 --> 00:50:45,840
Everyone's waiting at the door and they're typing in their three prompts and their one actor that they want. It's crowdsourced

1043
00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:47,560
It's like yeah, exactly

1044
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,080
Yes, you could go with friends or with strangers

1045
00:50:59,080 --> 00:51:01,160
300 people that brings it back to fun

1046
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,440
- Yeah, you could generate this on a small scale,

1047
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:06,000
except you can remove the movie component, right?

1048
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:09,460
You just do like audio book or like, you know,

1049
00:51:10,100 --> 00:51:12,600
start there, but I guess it's not,

1050
00:51:12,820 --> 00:51:14,560
nobody's gonna actually wanna listen to

1051
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:16,780
30 minutes of AI slop, right?

1052
00:51:16,860 --> 00:51:17,620
I'd rather watch it.

1053
00:51:18,180 --> 00:51:18,580
(laughing)

1054
00:51:19,620 --> 00:51:21,780
It's like, whoa, did you see the way their legs moved?

1055
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,140
Like, whoa, that's AI, right?

1056
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:26,820
- How many fingers?

1057
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:29,640
- It's gonna put the main character trips

1058
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:30,940
five times in a row.

1059
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:32,260
It's just.

1060
00:51:33,020 --> 00:51:33,500
(laughing)

1061
00:51:33,820 --> 00:51:34,360
- Unexpected.

1062
00:51:35,380 --> 00:51:36,260
- Did they trip again?

1063
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:37,520
(laughing)

1064
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:42,040
- Must not be acknowledged.

1065
00:51:42,540 --> 00:51:43,120
- Tippy Norwood?

1066
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:44,740
- No, Trippy Norwood.

1067
00:51:44,960 --> 00:51:45,340
- Yes.

1068
00:51:46,840 --> 00:51:47,920
- Right, even sitting here,

1069
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:49,660
we're having like these fun ideas come up.

1070
00:51:49,700 --> 00:51:52,480
It would be really fun to like surprise each other

1071
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:55,780
in the one story we all created together without realizing

1072
00:51:55,780 --> 00:51:59,540
This is at least like a, like a Jackbox type game or something.

1073
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:00,580
Right, man.

1074
00:52:00,660 --> 00:52:01,200
That's funny.

1075
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:03,960
The bachelor party version would be wow.

1076
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:04,720
That'd be a,

1077
00:52:06,540 --> 00:52:08,880
the adult NC 17 game.

1078
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:11,500
That's going to be out before the regular version, man.

1079
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:12,600
Just gets quiet.

1080
00:52:12,660 --> 00:52:14,000
All of a sudden everybody's like, Oh boy,

1081
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:21,260
well, dear listener, if you are sitting in your living room with

1082
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:24,740
earbuds in next to a partner watching the screen, imagine.

1083
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:27,660
whatever it is that they're watching was generated.

1084
00:52:29,180 --> 00:52:31,880
And you could be prompting it to take a total left turn

1085
00:52:31,950 --> 00:52:32,360
right now.

1086
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:34,080
Thank you very much for listening.

1087
00:52:34,240 --> 00:52:35,560
And we hope you enjoyed yourself.

1088
00:52:35,690 --> 00:52:37,260
And thank you, Dave, for joining us.

1089
00:52:37,300 --> 00:52:38,140
This was so fun.

1090
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:38,780
You're welcome.

1091
00:52:39,040 --> 00:52:39,960
Yeah, thank you for inviting me.

1092
00:52:40,060 --> 00:52:41,620
I'll be sure to change my batteries now

1093
00:52:41,720 --> 00:52:42,960
that Russell is going to be--

1094
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:43,320
That's right.

1095
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:44,360
That's right.

1096
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:45,600
You don't need to power your outlet.

1097
00:52:45,700 --> 00:52:46,820
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1098
00:52:48,180 --> 00:52:51,060
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1099
00:52:51,090 --> 00:52:53,080
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1100
00:52:53,799 --> 00:52:54,160
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1101
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1117
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1118
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