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I'm Scott. I'm Russell. And I'm Leo. This is Spitball.

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Welcome to Spitball, the Pitchin' Kitchen, where three charming rascals, that's us,

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empty our heads of the startup and tech product ideas that we have stuck up in

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here so you can all have them for free. Anything we say is yours to keep. So we

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have Phil here, who we found on Friend of a Friend, the dating app for married

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people. From what I've heard, yeah, going back to episode two, yeah, I'm the

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friend named Phil. And if you go on Friend of a Friend, I am... you remember Tom from

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MySpace? I am the equivalent of Tom from MySpace, but Phil from Friend of a

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Friend. That makes sense. Did you cash out and take your millions to go be a

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photographer on Instagram with your life? I did, actually, yeah. It was, I think, 4.2

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million. And you didn't share any with us. How many followers does Tom have, like, on

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Instagram? You know, he's probably not on MySpace anymore, right? He's probably on

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Insta and like Facebook. Nobody's on MySpace anymore. Yeah, except for Tom. I mean,

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actually, they're kind of having a little bit of a resurgence right now,

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which is kind of cool. Aren't they more of a music thing? I haven't actually been

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on in, wow, a long time, but why would you go to MySpace? They were a music thing, and now they're

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pivoting back, I think. To just regular? They still exist? To be a music-centered but

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social network thing in general. Yeah, I know, they got bought by some venture

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capital firm, I think. But we're not here to talk about MySpace and its resurgence,

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how it's gonna dominate and take over TikTok. Are we on? We're recording this a little bit ahead of

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when you're listening to this, so maybe they did already buy TikTok and X, and now

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they are the social network to be seen. It's just called Y, and that's it. I'm gonna call it here, Leo.

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So, MySpace is the only social media network December, whenever this comes out. Yeah, it's the only

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media, social media left. That's all that's left. So, praise be to Tom and our MySpace overlords.

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Follow Spitball Show on MySpace. Excuse me, why? We all have to have social media

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platforms for tonight, that's it. All right, Scott, what's an idea that you have

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always wanted to make, but you do not have time for? I actually have thought

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about this one a lot, and it's still gonna be really half-baked. And it's even

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a website, but not a social media. I've always wanted thoughtsandprayers.com,

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but you can actually send something that's not just thoughts and prayers to

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someone in need. So, this is about as far as I got. So, I'm either thinking like some

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form of gift basket or like information or something. Yeah, exactly, the premium

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version is to get something tangible. Thoughts and prayers and fruit basket.

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Yeah, exactly. Could be a fruit basket, but there's always someone where like a couple

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just had a baby, or there was a death in the family, or something terrible has

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happened to their local hometown or whatnot. And you want to send thoughts

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and prayers, or maybe more than thoughts and prayers, something that could

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actually help them out in that moment. Okay, so what would be, like flowers? I'm

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trying to think what I would... I guess you could start there, different tiers on

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there, like edible arrangements. This is not relevant, but I just need someone to

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know that somebody out there is hilarious and bought thoughtsandprayers.com

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and it redirects to Texas.gov. I just did that like two minutes before this and it was

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cracking up. Very good. To the person out there doing that, well done. That is worth

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$12 a year. I think it was Greg Abbott, actually. Yep, so if you actually wanted

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to start this website and just say like, "Hey, okay, I want to give away for my

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friends who just recently had kids a break, or I just want to send them

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something," this would be really easy to do. A very quick website, have a couple of

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base products on there. I'll ship them a lasagna. And then you just drop ship

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everything from there. Fill it all out, have a couple of items on the home page,

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and then a form and a little bit of automation, you're drop shipping them all

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of these cheap or whatever things. Everyone's wins. Could you tie it into

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Uber Eats or GrubHub or anything like that? Absolutely. For like a nice hot meal for, "Hey, you had a kid, here." Or, "Hey, your

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grandma just died, here's a lasagna." Our Mealtrain app that we used was not the

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Mealtrain.com one, but we used an alternative that was like, "Do you want

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to sign up to bring them a meal, or do you want to send them a frozen soup-like

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thing?" These exist a little bit out there already. You could have that plus flowers,

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plus stuffed bears, plus fruit baskets. Yeah. Okay, then pivot slightly on that and

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just have it so you can make your own personalized campaign for this. "Hey, I

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want to raise awareness for something or another. Here's a way that you can donate

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or contribute in a meaningful, tangible way for this." So Kickstarter meets meal

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plans meets GrubHub. You can take the angle of how all the social

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cause, like with Tom's Shoes, they donate a child, a pair for every pair. You

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buy the basket and they donate money to the hurricane relief or whatever. I don't

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know if they're donating children. I was starting to say children's shoes, but I

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don't think that's children's shoes. Sorry about your new child. Yeah, that's very

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selfless of them. I've got an idea. So part of the joke behind the Thoughts and

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Prayers meme is that it does literally nothing. I'll send you my Thoughts and

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Prayers is code for, "You know what? I hope it works out for you." So should it be

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more than thoughtsandprayers.com? Better than Thoughts and Prayers? Possibly. This

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one option, or you have another option where instead of sending something

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tangible and helpful and good, I want to be silly. And you know what? Instead of

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Thoughts and Prayers, here's a little card that automatically gets drop-shipped

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in the mail to you. Basically a postcard that says, "Scott sends his Thoughts and

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Prayers." All in capital, ten times New Roman on just a single white card.

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It's like ShippaDick. Have you seen ShippaDick.com? That just rolls off the

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tongue. ShippaDick. You go to ShippaDick.com and then they just... you could have... you

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could have a big cardboard box filled with a bunch of cardboard dicks or like...

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Oh my god. Or a big poster board dick or whatever. I don't know if this will make the cut.

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Okay, what if you flipped it? Rather than you sending the Thoughts and Prayers, you

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contribute to a fund where if anybody posts "Sending Thoughts and Prayers,"

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people donate into some other thing. Like, I'm signing up for that. So now when

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anybody does say, "Oh, sending my Thoughts and Prayers," it's everybody else

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contributing and so it makes that person look way worse because they didn't do

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anything and everybody else... It tags it onto it to be like, "Oh, I like that." You

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can leverage the meme to make this like a social movement thing. Like a pay it

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forward in line at Starbucks type thing. But on... not Twitter. All of them. Yeah.

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So this famous politician I don't like said, "Thoughts and Prayers for this

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recent tragedy." So I'm going to do something tangible and contrast it with,

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"Hey, this politician did nothing." Oh, I love that. You find every hashtag,

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"Thoughts and Prayers," and just tack onto it and your marketing is done.

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Wow, look at all these people that gave their Thoughts and Prayers and I gave my

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hundreds of dollars, you know? And you have on your homepage the wall of shame

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that has all the people who have used it 12 times in the last, you know, 18 months.

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Dang! You could even make it like a resource center or something. Some... a school

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shooting or something terrible has happened here. I want to raise awareness

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for X and then have as much resources or how people can actually contribute to it.

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Vote out this person or help change this law to prevent this and then go about

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how you could actually, as an individual citizen, do more.

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Every time a politician does Thoughts and Prayers for like a tragic event, you

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auto-tweet something like awareness or... right, like some... so now every time they

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do it, they screw themselves over with 30,000 tweets.

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Shaming them. All in one blast. Every time they tweet, just a blast of a flood of

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people posting and tweeting over them, right? X-ing. Just like an auto-reply, "Hey,

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yeah, this politician said Thoughts and Prayers for this thing." You reply and

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retweet, "Hey, imagine if they'd actually done something productive. You can do

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that here. Come to our donation link and do something more than just Thoughts and

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Prayers." This is fun. Is that a thing? Can you like subscribe to like auto-tweets?

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Like, could we just break X or Twitter and just be like, "Alright, I barely use my

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Twitter account, but I will subscribe to like hundreds of different auto-tweets

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if that's a thing." Like, can you flood Twitter with enough tweets that make

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that tweet less relevant? Like, if 30,000 people were like, "Anytime this person

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tweets, I just want to bombard that tweet with a bunch of BS around it or..."

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Brigading. Well, Twitter probably has four people still working in IT, so you can

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probably do whatever you want. You want to log in and authorize

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thoughtsandprayers.com to post on your behalf, and then it just waits for the

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next wave. And when thousands of people all are in the wings ready to do it, it

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fires up the large language model, makes a bunch of variants of the same idea.

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Something like that, yes. There you go. I can't wait. Now that it's very cheap to have an

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unlimited firehose of medium quality content. So, would you call this the chat

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GPT of thoughts and prayers? It's powered by AI, of course. Social good. That's what

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we do here on this show. For the greater good. Sometimes.

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Alright, Leo. What is your idea? Alright, so this is a little different than usual

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because it's a refinement on an existing product that exists that I want to make

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better. So, the National Weather Service has radio stations all over the country

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and 97% of the population is covered by good signal for forecasts and upcoming

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whatever and severe weather alerts. You can buy a radio from one of two

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manufacturers that sits and waits, and if there is a tornado warning or whatever

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in your area, it'll light up and you don't have to have an internet

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connection and you don't have to have cell phone service or anything. It'll say

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tornado, you know, it's a smoke detector but for bad weather, right? And the radio

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that I have that does this works perfectly but the UI is trash. It looks

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like a clock radio from the 80s and you're navigating through this awful

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seven segment display to try to find your like you're with the manual looking

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up codes that correlate with your county and your type and inch. It's awful. So, I

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want to make something that looks kind of like a Nest thermostat. You've got a

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glass and metal sandwich that goes on the wall or on the bedside or whatever.

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You've got a beautiful circular display, perhaps some LEDs that are yellow for

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warning and red for alert sort of thing. You've got a screen that just if there's

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nothing going on right now, maybe it just has the local forecast or current

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temperature or something like that. But really the trick is when there's a

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severe weather alert, it chimes. It does something that actually gets your

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attention. It flashes. It wakes you. It's the kind of thing that I've played

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around with building something of but grabbing those signals and decoding them

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is more complicated than I'm comfortable doing with code and Arduinos and stuff

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today. But yeah, it's something that I think about a lot because it seems like

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the kind of thing I know we're in the age of cell phones and most of the time

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cell phone service is good enough but if there's an actual like hurricane

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situation in many regions or an earthquake or something that takes out

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infrastructure, these things often still work. Radio survives when internet is too

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congested or when your home electricity is out. Okay, this is why I love this

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because it's a hybrid IOT device where like I'm still connected to the internet.

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I can I read where I am. I can read my county codes or whatever and tell you I'm

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able to translate the information to you because I download all that. But if the

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internet goes out or power goes out or whatever, I'm still just fine because I

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can tune into this frequency because I have a special antenna receiver on here

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and can give you the alerts as needed and I'll just keep doing that until my

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battery dies. Totally, I love that. You remember the you'd be listening to the news and once in a while

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they'd test it and you hear the "AHH" sound, the three chirp, that that's what that is.

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It's called an SAME, a same alert and there's in that little gibberish block

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it says "Tornado warning in this area expires at this time seek shelter now."

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Wait, in that crazy noise? In the little "AHH" sound is it'll say like this is a

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severe thunderstorm watch in this area. That's what those decode to be. What? I never

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knew this. And you could just yeah and it's out there not only do they have it

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on TV and radio for like your TV in theory could like pick it up and display

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something in its UI was the idea back of the day but they also just broadcast

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them in towers all over the country and there's almost no gadget out there to

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pick them up and use them which bothers me. So who's your who's your target

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market here? Who are you trying to sell this to? I mean I would buy one right? You should

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always be in your target market yeah but if there's someone else. Your target market is

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people who have a smoke detector it's everyone should have one of these right?

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It wakes you up in the middle of the night when there's severe weather and

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you didn't know the tornado was coming. It's safety. It's safety. Could you build this into

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existing smoke detectors? So you've got your smoke detector it's wired into the house

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typically. You got your backup battery. It's also got a small radio receiver two

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LEDs yellow red weather service warning weather service the other one. Carbon monoxide

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detector. Why are they not together? I recently replaced all my smoke detectors

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and they have Wi-Fi now and it's really nice to say not only hey the smoke

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detectors are going off in every room but it is because something was detected

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in this room. It says it on your phone and you can dismiss it. Super great. Yeah

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and you can say I'm a bad cook or fajitas mode. Burger mode. But yeah exactly put it

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into a smoke detector. I love that because it's in every room it's autogast

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like you said it has power. It made me very angry. These smoke detectors that I

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bought all have a lithium-ion battery in them. I don't know why the hell it took

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us 30 years as a nation to decide that the 9-volt battery chirp was a bad

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system but the minute that I saw that I was like angry that I hadn't had that

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10 years ago. Your smoke detectors are hardwired in by default. Okay yeah

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and then the lithium-ion is a backup. Instead of the 9-volt. Yeah they all should do this

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right but anyway that aside I love the idea of building it into something

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that's already in the house like a smoke detector. Did you say that radio like lives on

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after an event? Like so like oftentimes the sites that transmit still are

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getting like they have backup generators at every one of them and they are still

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broadcasting and all that. So when there's a hurricane and stuff ham radio

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is often in the area doing the coordinating of like emergency services because

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cell phones aren't working and yeah so it's radio regular work all you need is power.

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Can I go to okay cuz like I don't think so radio is dying right like in general

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like who's got a radio anymore? I listen to it every day in the car. That's a

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podcast Phil we've talked about this. Sorry I'm old. You see Phil you are such

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a Gen Xer all right you're such an old man. I'm a millennial thank you. I think

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radio has a place in the world. This might be the place Leo you can get every

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single radio station on the planet to be like oh there's this safety thing that

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goes into your home and now every Gen Zer has a radio again and they're like

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whoa free music that's not Spotify. I don't know. Totally. Ad free. Just kidding it's

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definitely got ads. Definitely has ads. A curated playlist based on the number on

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the dial. Vinyls and smoke detectors are coming back. We just received a severe

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weather alert and we'll tell you what it is after this ad from Squarespace. Oh no.

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Squarespace have you ever wanted to make a website? I think it's like I don't know

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if you could lead with the the safety measures but then now you have like a

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fun little like radio in your home that. It tells me if I'm gonna die. Yeah like

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so you've got a combination fire detector, carbon monoxide detector, severe

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weather alert, AM/FM radio. Sorry I take that back. Not AM. AM can go fall in a

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hole and die. In my line of work we call this scope creep. Just throw another

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antenna on the circuit board and you can put whatever you want. Well wait are you

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already connected to a radio or this is completely different? So you know how you

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tune your radio to listen to music between 88 and 108? There are more

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frequencies above and below that and this one happens to operate at 160

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point 162 point something megahertz right? So you can tune to it with a

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special radio and it'll be like the forecast tomorrow is partly cloudy in

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your area. Like it's not fun to listen to usually. But if you put it to some lo-fi

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beats. Weather in your area is good. I'm not picturing using this in an audio

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capacity other than hey we just we were listening to the radio for you we

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learned that there is a flood watch and now we're telling you about it in some

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other way right? Dude Oklahoma's gonna love this. Totally. Every Oklahoman. I still

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think there's a there's a market for an all-in-one safety device of that. I am

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surprised it doesn't exist. Smoke detector, carbon monoxide, severe weather you get

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from the FM. What other safety devices could we put in there? This podcast is

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gonna save hundreds of millions of lives over the course of its eternity. And

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raise a bunch of money by shaming politicians for saying thoughts and prayers. We really are

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altruistic here. Wait is that where we started this one? The thoughts and prayers podcast episode?

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Thoughts and prayers smoke detector. Right yeah. First my severe weather alert thing fails to warn someone and

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then we use Scott's service to raise money for the victims. So they can buy them for

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next time. Every senior citizen must have thoughts and prayers severe weather

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smoke carbon monoxide detector. Symbiotic marketing. I think our businesses should

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partner. Yeah. We could do like some cross marketing. I mean we'll have all four

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connected by the end of this it'll be good.

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Russell what's something that you wanted to do that you haven't had time for? Guys

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I think this fits the theme that all of a sudden spurred on. I hate I've tried all

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these meal prep apps. Meal like HelloFresh all these other shit I don't

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know why they just all kind of suck or too expensive. I paid $50 for this meal

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or I don't know maybe it's like 12 whatever whatever HelloFresh wants to

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tell me it's worth. But it's like yeah but it's like three shrimp and you're

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like this is for a couple like I don't know like give me something to leave in

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my fridge after. They definitely minimize the quantity and sell you on the quality

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and then you open the box and you're like oh my gosh they spent like 30 bucks

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on the styrofoam ice packs all this other crap right. Yep. I'm thinking of a

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more efficient way to do this we'll call it something like Mealtime. Local food

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prep. Alright take all the food in these supermarkets that are not going to

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expire but maybe in the next like they're aging out. The app let's say does

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meals not chicken not like Instacart not like these things you can pick and

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choose recipes and then it's all meal prepped. You're doing your grocery

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shopping or you're going and you pick up your meal that you've had prepped

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already and so when you go home it's like it's like having a recipe and then

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it goes into Instacart and adds all the items to the cart and then you leave the

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store with like five portions of the meal because nobody I don't think any

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home cook anybody that cooks at home makes a meal for just that day you know

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they kind of make it for like two or three days. I'd prefer not to but you're

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right the portions are so small that's what it ends up being. Right that's and

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then you're like what the hell I'm trying to save time. Partner with these

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grocery stores you get a little bit of a cut like hey I'm gonna buy all your

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chicken and I'm gonna make a special on my app where chicken "bleu" is

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ten dollars off you know because we got chicken that's like oversold here right

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and so Meyers not really doing sales anymore like our local grocery store is

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it because they sell all the overstocked pork because Mealtime's got it right

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they're gonna take all they're gonna buy anything that's on sale and do that. So

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that's it and now you go partner with Thoughts and Prayers and now you're

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like all right Mealtrain right you pick up but it's all pre-measured and stuff

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guys like I want I want to feed a family of five you can change you know actually

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make it user experience centric. Wait I need to clarify on this one then so when

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I go to the grocery store am I coming away with like a pre-made frozen meal

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depending on what I wanted or the ingredients everything I have ready to

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go for to make the meal at home myself? That second one. Got it okay.

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All pre-measured based on your requirements we take the yeah you

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measure the chicken and you measure the ingredients and now boom. So we just need

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to find some way for someone to hide and live in like a grocery store preparing

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this and then selling them out of the parking lot. That's it. Love it. Right you

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just you I mean the strip malls that are always connected to those grocery stores

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you just open shop there and it's a drive-thru you know. Love it. Where you put

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in a van you drive around with the van you bring it to everyone's neighborhood

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you got your Ziploc bags you got your meal prep that's all in one. You see like I want to cook

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the food but I want to cook it my way which is the I'm gonna make it for three

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days. Shop for me for that one meal versus going to the grocery store buying

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more of everything and then forgetting shit. It's super easy to do so whoever's

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on this podcast this will disrupt Instacart. Shit they'll be like give me

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your business. Please disrupt it this actually sounds very helpful. It does

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sound very helpful. There's a an existing startup called Imperfect Foods. Love those guys.

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They're kind of sort of in this vein. Do you know about that? Yeah we use them. The ugly pumpkins and

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mm-hmm yeah yeah yeah they're trying to eliminate food waste you know discount

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delivery shippable boxes from your local it seems like something that they could

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pivot into doing like they're kind of kind of sort of meal kitty which they

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don't really do now you want to make some some recipe type suggestions and

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build off of what they're doing a little bit right? That's genius it's like I

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don't I don't need the fancy stuff I just need dinner tonight. Would this be a

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day of so it's like four o'clock five o'clock you're leaving work shoot I

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didn't plan dinner I'm going to pull the app see what they've got oh they've got

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pork and green beans that are within a day or two of going bad so tonight's

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dinner is pork and green bean something yes they've made the meal okay so it's

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day of hey here's what today's expiring food is come on in and get it. I love this

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you get a kit we've got it ready yeah that's great it doesn't have to be like

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full-on expiring it's like two or three days before they put that sticker on it

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you know dinner tonight I just want that somebody do that and what's great is

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that you could sell it at the normal price like I think I go to the grocery

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store and buy it at that same price but you partner with the store and you're

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just making cuts on the margins that everybody's getting so yeah the store

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wants to get rid of it it's just gonna be lost product you're taking it off

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their hands and even if it's for a discount for them yeah selling that

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label is better than it could be yeah TJ Maxx of grocery stores you know it's

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like all the oh fuck god TJ Maxx my wife used to love shopping there used to she

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doesn't anymore now TJ Maxx got canceled didn't you hear I'll send some thoughts

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and prayers Phil welcome we're ready for your idea pitch it to the mischievous

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three I just want to say I am I'm honored to be here you three have been

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an inspiration to my life since I've met you guys 36 minutes and 29 you are an

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inspiration in my life so I'm so - we started with the recurring segment

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Russell's Love Corner of course play the theme music yeah oh yeah sorry

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so I have another introduce introduction to Russell's Love Corner so I believe

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you guys are familiar with the concept of tinder so tinder grinder you swipe

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through hey they don't seem like what I'm looking for they do seem one like

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what I'm looking for what about tinder or grinder for those who have given up

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on love in life so let's say it's the holiday season which is coming up you

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are getting ready to go back for holidays with the family and you are

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sick of your mom or dad or aunt or grandparents saying hey what are you

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when are you gonna find someone to spend your life with why why do you keep

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coming back alone so that's where I'd like to introduce not tinder but settler

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settler so you're going home for for Christmas for Hanukkah for Thanksgiving

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and you don't want your parents to think that you're a waste of humanity who no

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one finds value so you open up the app settler I am male looking for I'm a

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hetero I'm a heteronormative guy so I'm gonna default to saying looking for a

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woman to go to Thanksgiving with so I pull up the app I swipe through all my

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parents would like you so I'm gonna swipe right north that was the good one

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I'm sorry thank you Russell you have to face the direction so you swipe north on

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the like 80 to 90 percent of people who your parents would not object to seeing

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you with because to be honest seeing you with literally anyone is better than

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seeing you alone they swipe north on you both of our families think hey our child

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or family member has a partner who is a improvement over being alone it's a win

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win symbiotic relationship I have a question I will not take any questions

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all right is the person that you are matching with an actor pretending to be

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your boyfriend or girlfriend or is this actually trying to like bottom of the

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barrel find matches here is there another tab that you can select for

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hiring a hooker instead four millennial white middle-aged married men here who

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don't know how tinder is supposed to work that's the key to Russell's love

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corner obviously you just swipe north we've been over this oh that's right

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we're best right experts we're basically experts yes thank you Leo yeah I think

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that's hilarious can you imagine her yes settler like okay well what if you had a

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boyfriend or a fake girlfriend fake boyfriend and you just like all right

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we're gonna FaceTime um you know they're not here right now and you just full-on

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cameo the whole experience all right all day you're like I got 30 calls today

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back-to-back okay so one so one subscription level lets you cameo with

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professional actor another subscription level lets you hire in an actor for in

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person on those days there you go and like the base tier is you have someone

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chat responding this probably look mom I'm dating someone look mom it's my

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boyfriend see they said they love me it's to a different school he goes to

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school in Canada he could be here he doesn't have cell phone service so he

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can't video chat but he can he can text - and then every year you can change the

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person it just looks like wow they're really playing the field you know they're

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really they're really trying for an upcharge you can get the same actor same

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FaceTimer same in person for that premium fee every time you have to hire

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the same actor to keep the lie going it goes up in price yeah until you

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eventually fall in love and get married seems like a rom-com like in the making

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oh yeah this is a hallmark one they actually do fall in love at the end. That's how you market this.

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pivot pivot pivot I've got a movie idea. Settler. S E T T L R. Settler Katan the movie. I admit I cannot wait for the commercial for your app

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original app Phil because it's just gonna be a bunch of happy couples

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looking at the camera going I settled I settled I settled and you can settle too

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I married down no I married down we both married down and both our parents

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remind us of that better than nothing nothing is our tagline there are a lot

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of green card marriages that would absolutely jump on this we've reinvented

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the VHS or magazine based Russian wife system from the 70s that I swear people

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say existed but I cannot imagine that that was actually a real thing the mail

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order bride thing is that real? Have you watched 90-day fiance like that's real

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all I'm going to say is if ICE is listening all marriages that are created from this

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app are truly love marriages and not for the sake of visas that's a good market

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yeah we know who to advertise to ICE? No. When we do targeted marketing we will

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target everyone except ICE. Man I bet you could just even this gets really like

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just download pre-made videos just like all right I like this video it's like oh

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they just sent me a happy Thanksgiving video and it's just like them hey and

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they just do your name it's straight-up cameo like you could just do that like

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it's cameo with escorts is what we have just created here I was thinking this

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was tinder for people who've given up there is a real YouTube channel

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opportunity here where it's just hundreds of videos of hey hun I hope

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you're doing a great having a great holiday with whoever yeah Thanksgiving

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I'm so excited to chat later 200 videos you repeated everyone with different

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names hey hey Russell great great no just say babe we'll talk later babe hun

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well if they use the name it's more believable because according to

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grandparents technology can't be fake I'm still confused am I showing this to

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my grandparents at Thanksgiving yeah am I walking around with a tablet being

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like guys you want to see my latest video from my girlfriend who's totally

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real who's totally real and goes to the other school it shuts them up you know

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that's the thing it just shuts them up and then you can have a nice holiday do

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you guys know about the happy birthday videos on YouTube you can find like

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happy happy birthday Michael it's like a robot and there's like 6,000 of them and

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each channel we need that it's great instead of like happy happy birthday

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Michael it's hey hey Russell how you do it

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fade to black oh they must be going through a tunnel they have bad service

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in Canada that's right in Canada where they're at girlfriend in Canada comm

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slash this is an app that we all can participate in right they don't have to

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know we're married right we can just yeah and to be we can we can just be

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like the perfectly oh that looks like that looks like a good fit right the dad

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bod the the messy hair like that's definitely more of that person's type

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ah and every time they use your video they pay for the whole thing and you get

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a cut guys we could just we could be making bank we are the cameo for escort

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fake relationships and this is all just a stopgap until we get real-time stable

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diffusion and we're generating our girlfriend in the right yep yeah just

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like how uber is like yeah the drivers are temporary someday it'll all be

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robots will be well the people that were paying to say I love you so much honey

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baby wait babe no Kuru we love you I would pay extra be called buckaroo hey

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lovable scamp Oh loveable scamp it's the premium tier Phil thank you for joining

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Russell's love corners adding to that segment and we just want to hear keep

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the brain alive so thank you thank you for joining this pitfall shy anything

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you want to say I mean to be perfectly honest being on the show is probably the

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second greatest honor in my life the first greatest honor being the first

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podcast I was on okay live show I don't think anybody all right I've never heard

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of that show scratch that scratch that scratch that I appreciate you guys and I

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plan on taking my idea fully to market to the exclusion of all of you making

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another 4.2 million and retiring with comfort can you retire with comfort at

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4.2 million I economy actually don't think so not in today's economy yeah

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