1 00:00:00,001 --> 00:00:02,580 (upbeat music) 2 00:00:02,580 --> 00:00:05,920 - I'm Scott. 3 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:06,760 - I'm Russell. 4 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:07,580 - And I'm Leo. 5 00:00:07,580 --> 00:00:08,420 This is Spitball. 6 00:00:08,420 --> 00:00:11,000 (upbeat music) 7 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:17,760 Welcome to Spitball 8 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:19,680 where three prototype profits, 9 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,680 that's us, and a guest to empty our heads 10 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,280 of our startup and tech product ideas 11 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:24,200 that we have stuck up in there 12 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,120 so you can all have them for free. 13 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:27,880 Anything that we say is yours to keep. 14 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:30,600 And Scott, I believe you brought our guest this week. 15 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:31,440 Is that right? 16 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:32,400 - I do. 17 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:34,080 I have brought Robbie. 18 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:35,400 Robbie and I work together. 19 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:36,840 We're at the same engineering company. 20 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:38,520 Robbie's a project manager 21 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:41,000 on the advanced product development team. 22 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:42,320 He's been the fearless leader 23 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,560 on many difficult engineering endeavors 24 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:47,520 and has probably brought more projects 25 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,280 from Napkin Sketch Life than anyone I know. 26 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:51,320 - Wonderful. 27 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:52,160 - Awesome. 28 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:52,980 Thanks guys for having me. 29 00:00:52,980 --> 00:00:53,820 I appreciate it. 30 00:00:53,820 --> 00:00:54,660 - This is gonna be a good time. 31 00:00:54,660 --> 00:00:55,480 - Thanks for coming. 32 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:56,320 - I'm looking forward to it. 33 00:00:56,320 --> 00:00:57,840 I think we're gonna be doing another guest pitch 34 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:59,560 like we have in the past. 35 00:00:59,560 --> 00:01:02,600 I know this is many months after the series has ended, 36 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:05,640 but I'm still a little bit bitter that Josh Smalley, 37 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:07,800 well, can we do spoilers for Great British Breakoff? 38 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:08,680 Has it been long enough? 39 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:09,520 I don't know. 40 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:11,360 It's been about a year, like eight, nine months. 41 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:13,760 - Morning, spoilers, Great British Breakoff. 42 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:16,800 - Spoilers for season 14 or series 14 43 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:20,560 if you're a true fan of British weird words for things. 44 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:24,080 Josh Smalley, he was the runner up this year. 45 00:01:24,080 --> 00:01:26,200 I mean, I think he should have won, 46 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,080 but he's a chemist and he is way smarter than all of us. 47 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:30,560 So we're gonna have to bring up 48 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,600 our intelligence level a bit. 49 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:34,280 - Hi, Scott, Russell and Leo. 50 00:01:34,280 --> 00:01:36,600 Obviously coming from a scientific background, 51 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:39,160 I think one that I've thought about would be pretty cool 52 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,200 would be having like tailored medicines, 53 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:43,960 even on an app format, 54 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:48,040 so you'd have all of your data on your DNA 55 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,680 or taken from a blood sample, for example, 56 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:55,760 and then all of your sequence, your DNA sequence, 57 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:57,440 your allergens, your immunity, 58 00:01:57,440 --> 00:01:59,960 histories of diseases and things that you've had 59 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:01,040 and they know everything about you, 60 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:02,960 that's all gonna be stored 61 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:06,520 so that if you were to have any illness 62 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:09,920 or anything or any disease coming in the future, 63 00:02:09,920 --> 00:02:14,400 that they'd be able to have a tailored treatment, 64 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,440 drug, antibiotic that will be specific to you 65 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:20,560 or they would know how to make one to be tailored to you. 66 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:22,360 So that's one thing I could foresee happening 67 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,240 as a pretty cool tech thing, wouldn't it? 68 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,760 I think that's what my suggestion would be. 69 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:30,800 So yeah, thanks for the question and enjoy discussing it. 70 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:32,480 - So thanks, Josh. 71 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,720 You're way too smart for all of us. 72 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:35,560 - Whoa. 73 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:36,400 - You can imagine a world-- 74 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,080 - Anything with a British accent is smart. 75 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,280 (laughing) 76 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:41,120 - So true. 77 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:42,720 - I think I got smarter just listening to him. 78 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:44,720 (laughing) 79 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,920 - You can imagine a world where you take your 23andMe 80 00:02:47,920 --> 00:02:50,960 type kit, you ship it off and a couple of weeks later, 81 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,760 you get your pills in the mail that make you no longer 82 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:56,640 make cilantro taste like soap 83 00:02:56,640 --> 00:02:58,180 because they've got CRISPR in them 84 00:02:58,180 --> 00:02:59,800 and they just sort of edit you up. 85 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:02,600 I already don't trust 23andMe and I haven't done those. 86 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:05,160 So that's a whole new level. 87 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:07,160 - Now I want them to mail me pills 88 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:09,880 to modify my genetic code. 89 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:10,800 - It's a crazy idea. 90 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,160 - The part that I think he's onto it with is, 91 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:16,520 you know, when you think about like, 92 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,280 what is our generation's version 93 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,120 of crazy historic medical procedures, 94 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,940 like lobotomies and things like that. 95 00:03:22,940 --> 00:03:26,280 When you tell your grandkids that we used to donate blood 96 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,840 to each other or that we used to donate organs, 97 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,000 they're gonna be like, what are you talking about, dude? 98 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:32,840 - Right. 99 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:33,660 - And he's kind of onto it. 100 00:03:33,660 --> 00:03:35,480 He's like, there's a specific medicine 101 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,080 that you're gonna get that will fight. 102 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:38,760 - Did you know when you get a kidney donated, 103 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:40,720 you just get the third kidney? 104 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:42,000 They don't replace one? 105 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:42,840 - I just learned that. 106 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:43,660 - Isn't that crazy? 107 00:03:43,660 --> 00:03:44,500 - I never knew. 108 00:03:44,500 --> 00:03:45,340 They just shove another kidney up in there. 109 00:03:45,340 --> 00:03:46,160 - I didn't know that. 110 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:47,600 - They just have a third kidney in their back. 111 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:49,320 - Yeah, having the- 112 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:50,280 - Kind of makes sense. 113 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,160 - Yeah, if we can, like you said, 114 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:57,120 maybe target drugs specifically for you. 115 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:58,760 Seems like maybe we could have less of that. 116 00:03:58,760 --> 00:03:59,680 Exactly. 117 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:01,160 - This was a movie, wasn't it? 118 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:02,260 Gattaca. 119 00:04:02,260 --> 00:04:03,440 - Was this Gattaca? 120 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:04,280 - No. 121 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:05,120 - Yeah. 122 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:06,240 - Yeah, I mean, a little bit. 123 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:07,080 A little bit. 124 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:08,040 - What happens in Gattaca? 125 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:09,440 I don't know, I haven't seen Gattaca. 126 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,200 - It's like a dystopian future eugenics world 127 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,040 where you can pick out all the traits that you want 128 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:18,240 in a baby genetically ahead of time. 129 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:19,560 - Designer babies. 130 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:21,280 - Designer babies all the way through. 131 00:04:21,280 --> 00:04:22,120 - CRISPR. 132 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:25,520 What happens to the, can you spoil Gattaca for our audience? 133 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:26,360 - Oh, I don't remember. 134 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:27,200 This is 20 years ago. 135 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,200 - He goes to space. 136 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:29,120 That's the spoiler. 137 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:29,960 - A guy, a normal human. 138 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,080 - We're spoiling Rayburn's bake-off in Gattaca. 139 00:04:33,080 --> 00:04:34,600 - 1997. 140 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,840 - The cornerstones of modern culture. 141 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:40,440 - Yeah, he goes to space. 142 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:41,280 - Interesting. 143 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:42,100 - That's the spoiler? 144 00:04:42,100 --> 00:04:44,120 - Yeah, I feel like the CRISPR designer babies 145 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:46,000 like discussion has been really ramping up 146 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:46,840 in the last few years, 147 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:50,040 and I'm sure we wouldn't have a ton of new ground to tread 148 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,320 with saying, "Oh, what if everyone else 149 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:55,720 was making their babies smart in utero?" 150 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:57,280 Then you feel pressure to do it too, 151 00:04:57,280 --> 00:05:00,560 'cause you don't want your kid to be the one left out. 152 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:03,180 Yeah, true, but also, I don't know, 153 00:05:03,180 --> 00:05:06,720 what if you had a DNA dating app 154 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:11,480 where you mail in your thing, 155 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:15,760 and then they say, "Wow, you two are very compatible 156 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:17,400 over on the other sides of the state 157 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:19,040 that you live in," or something? 158 00:05:19,040 --> 00:05:21,400 - Your DNA is compatible? 159 00:05:21,400 --> 00:05:22,240 - I don't know. - Dang. 160 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:23,640 - Most people's DNA is compatible, 161 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,160 if you know what I mean, right? 162 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,520 - How closely related to you are you 163 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:29,920 to this other person, right? 164 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:33,880 It's more of, avoid the second cousin thing. 165 00:05:33,880 --> 00:05:36,560 - It's anti-ancestry.com. 166 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:37,400 - That's right. 167 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:38,680 - Is there a sweet spot, though, 168 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,280 where it's like fourth and fifth cousins 169 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:42,720 is optimal for everything? 170 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,440 - You go, oh yeah, you go into the app, 171 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,200 and you say, "I pretty much want my kids 172 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,520 to have these traits," and then they match you up 173 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,760 with potential partners based off that. 174 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,320 - Whoa, I mean, I feel like if there was other crazy people 175 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:55,680 that were on that app, too, 176 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,280 that would be exactly what they're looking for. 177 00:05:57,280 --> 00:06:02,200 It's like, optimize, I'm not here for money or love, 178 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:04,400 I'm here for optimal children. 179 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:08,840 That's not a love corner, that's a-- 180 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:09,960 - Practicality. 181 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:13,560 - Your pay scale goes according to the level 182 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:15,600 of partner that you have for you. 183 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:17,760 - There you go. - Oh, there we go. 184 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:18,960 Robbie, you're good at this. 185 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:19,800 - That's dystopian. 186 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,560 - You've been thinking about this a little bit too much. 187 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,640 - You guys, yeah, oh, goodness. 188 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:26,480 - How many kids do you have? 189 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:27,320 No. 190 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:29,720 - Yeah, I have three kids. 191 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:31,480 That's probably the most unique perspective 192 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:35,400 I bring to the show tonight, is I have three children. 193 00:06:35,400 --> 00:06:37,000 - No, I wonder if something, I don't know 194 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,920 if this is part of it, but let's say my vision, right? 195 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:45,200 Could I take a pill, could that help me cure my vision? 196 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:49,360 Laser eye surgery, sure, but maybe I just pop a pill 197 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,560 with some DNA, M CRISPR. 198 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:52,400 - Editing. 199 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:56,040 - My gut is a lot of it is about predictive medicine 200 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:57,520 versus what he's talking about, 201 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,840 which is specific medicine for you, 202 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:01,480 but it's being able to predict things 203 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,040 that people run into too late. 204 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:07,880 You guys hear about the lady that could smell dementia 205 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:09,360 or Parkinson's, that's right. 206 00:07:09,360 --> 00:07:11,400 She could smell Parkinson's a year 207 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:13,440 before people were diagnosed. 208 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:15,680 It's gonna be about predictive medicine, I think, 209 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:18,360 and helping stop things before they happen. 210 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:21,320 - I would take a pill that would give me that superpower. 211 00:07:21,320 --> 00:07:22,160 - Does it have to be pills? 212 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:23,000 Could he mail you a biscuit that he makes? 213 00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:25,080 - You would take a pill to help you smell Parkinson's? 214 00:07:25,080 --> 00:07:25,920 - Yeah. 215 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,880 - I could think of a lot of other pills I'd take 216 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:31,080 before I'd take that one. 217 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:35,400 - True. 218 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:37,720 - Thank you, whoever, what was his name? 219 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:39,160 (laughing) 220 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:41,920 Wow, genuine, thank you very much, Josh. 221 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:42,760 - Good thing we edited this. 222 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:44,440 - Josh Smalley, do you want me to say Josh Smalley? 223 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:45,800 There you go, you can say it. 224 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,640 - Thank you, Josh Smalley, eh? 225 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:49,760 Sorry. 226 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:50,920 Okay, we got it. 227 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:51,760 - So natural. 228 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:52,600 - Do a real one. 229 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,000 - Thank you, Josh, for sending that in. 230 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:55,560 It was really informative. 231 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,280 I can't, I can't. 232 00:07:58,280 --> 00:07:59,120 - That was great. 233 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:00,720 - We'll be in season 15. 234 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:02,200 - Yeah, fix it in post, make Leo fix it. 235 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,200 - That's right, yeah, AI, just AI it. 236 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:05,040 - Just AI. 237 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,120 - His name is Leo, Russell. 238 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:08,720 - No, sorry. 239 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:10,080 - Al, our editor. 240 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:15,440 - Leo, let's hear your best idea ever, let's go. 241 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:17,160 - Robbie, we don't know each other super well, 242 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,840 but I've been told you are hardware engineer 243 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,120 first and foremost, so your job today 244 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,120 is to tell me why this can't exist. 245 00:08:24,120 --> 00:08:29,120 So, soldering iron goes from zero degrees, 246 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,760 not zero degrees, room temperature 247 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,040 to hundreds and hundreds of degrees Celsius 248 00:08:34,040 --> 00:08:35,240 pretty dang fast. 249 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,520 I would love to have a switch on my dashboard 250 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,680 to make my windshield wipers get several hundred degrees 251 00:08:41,680 --> 00:08:43,920 Celsius right away so that I could ice scrape 252 00:08:43,920 --> 00:08:45,200 in a couple of seconds. 253 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:47,480 Why is that not a thing that I can already do? 254 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:49,840 Other than, you know, the lawsuits and the danger 255 00:08:49,840 --> 00:08:50,880 and the-- 256 00:08:50,880 --> 00:08:52,120 - The fire hazards. 257 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,360 - The bird that you solder and fry, you know, 258 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,160 because it landed on your windshield. 259 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,160 Isn't there like, why don't windshield wipers have heaters? 260 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:02,760 We live in the Midwest here where we get ice scraped on 261 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:04,440 and you either have to scrape it by hand 262 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:06,240 with a piece of plastic, which sucks, 263 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:08,440 or you spray it with de-icer and you sit 264 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:10,880 as you drag plastic and rubber across it 265 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:15,400 as it slowly chips away with your like car defroster on high. 266 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,120 Why can't my windshield wipers do this? 267 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:18,760 They are little scrapers. 268 00:09:18,760 --> 00:09:22,960 - I actually don't hate that as an idea at the outset. 269 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:24,360 I mean, rubber is your first, 270 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:25,760 like that's standing in your way, right? 271 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:27,480 You wanna be gentle with your glass 272 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:29,000 and don't wanna scratch your glass. 273 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:31,680 And so you're replacing that rubber with something. 274 00:09:31,680 --> 00:09:33,080 But I had a couple of times in college 275 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:35,480 where like I let my wipers get stuck 276 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:38,680 to the windshield with ice and then they snap off 277 00:09:38,680 --> 00:09:40,600 and then you gotta stop at Panera Bread 278 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,520 and wrap a cardboard coffee thing 279 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:45,080 around the end of the melts. 280 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:46,400 - This is a very common thing. 281 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:47,240 - It's all been there. 282 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,080 - Have you guys been there? 283 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,480 Have you guys been there? 284 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:55,560 So I'm a buyer before I'm a seller on this idea. 285 00:09:55,560 --> 00:09:56,680 I'm not gonna lie to you though. 286 00:09:56,680 --> 00:09:58,200 I mean, there are some, you know, 287 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,480 when you talk about the electrical connection 288 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,360 and the atmosphere and environmental. 289 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,080 - Just throw another battery in the car, it'll be fine. 290 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:08,000 - Yeah, exactly, yeah. 291 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:09,080 In your passenger seat. 292 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:09,920 - Just for your-- 293 00:10:09,920 --> 00:10:14,520 - There are lots of ways to make things hot quickly 294 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:18,160 with electricity, but I don't know what things 295 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:19,480 you can do that moderately. 296 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:21,240 So like we don't need to get to hundreds 297 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:22,400 and hundreds of degrees Celsius, 298 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:23,960 obviously to just melt water. 299 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,200 What would it take to melt ice, right? 300 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,080 - Scott, you know this, the bag sealer, 301 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,640 the plastic bag sealers, okay. 302 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:32,760 - Oh yeah. - That's not a bad idea. 303 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:33,800 - How do those work? 304 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,880 - It's just a metal wire, I think, 305 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:37,480 that runs electricity through it. 306 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,000 And you can set the gauge, right? 307 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:40,320 It's like, it's really-- 308 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:41,760 - Jank. - Like zero to one. 309 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:42,880 It's like janky. 310 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:49,120 But it's a long metal sponge thing that like kind of, 311 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,240 yeah, you press it down, it seals a bag and you lift it up. 312 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,600 They have this for vacuum sealers and all that other stuff. 313 00:10:54,600 --> 00:10:56,240 Throw that in the end of the windshield, 314 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:57,640 plug it in your car battery. 315 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:01,360 - Yeah, they look like the paper cutter 316 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:02,600 that was in the back of the classroom 317 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:04,200 that you could behead a cow with. 318 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:05,720 And somehow they just left open 319 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:07,280 for all the kindergartners to play with. 320 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,720 - Now we just need to run electricity through it. 321 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:10,960 (laughing) 322 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:12,360 - I mean-- - Heat it up. 323 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:14,440 - And here's the thing, do you really need it? 324 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:16,520 You need the wiper to sit in the right spot. 325 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:19,320 And realistically, you need to like warm up 326 00:11:19,320 --> 00:11:23,080 a three to four inch radius hole for you to see through. 327 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:24,840 If we're all honest. 328 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,400 If you haven't had your ice scraper 329 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:30,040 and you use the credit card in your wallet, 330 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:31,960 you don't do the whole windshield. 331 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,600 You do enough to see out of to start the driving process. 332 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:37,680 And I feel like we could accomplish that 100%. 333 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:38,800 - Very quickly. 334 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:40,160 And we already have the prototype, Scott. 335 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:41,040 It's right in your hands. 336 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:42,360 We just gotta figure out how to plug it 337 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:45,280 into your car battery, glue it to a windshield. 338 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:46,600 - It's crazy to me that we have 339 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:48,320 the rear windshield defroster 340 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,200 with the lines that are going through the glass 341 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,080 is so efficient and it works so well. 342 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:55,160 And then in the front, we just like blast it with cold air 343 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:56,600 that very slowly warms up. 344 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:57,440 - It's been a hope. 345 00:11:57,440 --> 00:11:58,280 It seems so inefficient. 346 00:11:58,280 --> 00:11:59,240 - For some reason, you're not willing 347 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,040 to sacrifice the black lines, right? 348 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:03,000 You remember Talladega Nights? 349 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,320 This is very distracting, but I do love Fig Newton. 350 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:06,560 - I personally probably would. 351 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:07,760 - You guys remember that? 352 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:08,920 (laughing) 353 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:10,120 - Yes. 354 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:12,000 I personally would take the lines on the front 355 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:12,840 if it was an option, 356 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,240 but I get that there's probably a hundred laws 357 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:17,520 and codes and regulations why that's not cool. 358 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,320 - Just make the lines clear, come on. 359 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:21,040 - If we can't heat the glass, heat a stick 360 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:21,880 and drag it along. 361 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:23,360 What if it's even just a separate thing 362 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,880 from the windshield wiper that is a similar motion? 363 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:27,600 - What if you could plug it in from the inside 364 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:30,000 and then you just like press it against the windshield 365 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:30,840 in the right spot? 366 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:32,400 - Transfer the heat through the glass. 367 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:33,240 - Yeah. 368 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:37,320 There's like a perfect line just sort of steaming off 369 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,200 from the outside. 370 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:40,120 I like that. 371 00:12:40,120 --> 00:12:41,720 How hot can you get before the glass starts 372 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:42,840 to melt a little bit? 373 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:43,680 - Pretty high. 374 00:12:43,680 --> 00:12:44,520 - Yeah? 375 00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:45,400 - Yeah, yeah, you'd be good. 376 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:46,920 - What if you got like, 377 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,000 what are those electromagnetic stoves? 378 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:49,840 - Induction stoves. 379 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:50,840 - Induction? 380 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:52,680 Does water get heated by induction? 381 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:54,360 Could you just throw an induction, 382 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,880 like press it against the glass and just be like, 383 00:12:56,880 --> 00:12:59,520 send it, heat this water up. 384 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:01,480 - There are videos of people throwing boiling water 385 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:04,640 on their icy car and it just shatters the glass windshield. 386 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,440 So there is like a rapid temperature change problem. 387 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:09,640 - Too fast, too fast is a bad thing. 388 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:10,720 - Yeah, yeah. 389 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,080 - Man, they should fix windshields then. 390 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:13,920 That's not my problem. 391 00:13:13,920 --> 00:13:17,720 That's a, I sell the product that fixes the problem, 392 00:13:17,720 --> 00:13:18,560 the ice. 393 00:13:18,560 --> 00:13:21,800 - I wonder if you could like heat your de-icer though, 394 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,440 liquid, like just make it scalding hot 395 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,640 and then just spray boiling anti-freeze 396 00:13:27,640 --> 00:13:29,400 all across your windshield. 397 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,280 - You just unlocked a core memory for me. 398 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:33,880 My dad had a car that had that. 399 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:35,280 It was a heated reservoir, 400 00:13:35,280 --> 00:13:37,440 a small little bit that would do that. 401 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:39,280 And after a year there was a recall 402 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:40,880 and he took it in to get the recall fixed 403 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,000 and they disabled it permanently. 404 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:46,360 - Yeah, because that's a crazy idea. 405 00:13:46,360 --> 00:13:48,520 Those parts are all plastic. 406 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:50,560 My thought was, my thought was you run 407 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:51,500 what you're talking about. 408 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:53,720 You run it through the A pillar 409 00:13:53,720 --> 00:13:55,360 that is like the metal part 410 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,560 that goes on the side of your windshield, that's metal. 411 00:13:57,560 --> 00:13:59,720 And so you do have some leeway there 412 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:03,040 to run some hot water or hot material if you want to. 413 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:04,360 That's like the edge of your windshield, 414 00:14:04,360 --> 00:14:06,400 but it gives you some leeway to, again, 415 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:07,880 to be able to like look in the right way, 416 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:09,360 in the right area and drive. 417 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:12,640 - I would love to watch dribbling, boiling hot de-icer 418 00:14:12,640 --> 00:14:14,420 go through ice. 419 00:14:14,420 --> 00:14:16,600 That would be just art every morning. 420 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:17,640 - If you do it cool enough, 421 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,680 people are gonna sit and watch it anyways, right? 422 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:22,740 And then some idiots laying on the windshield 423 00:14:22,740 --> 00:14:24,340 in their high school parking lot and saying, 424 00:14:24,340 --> 00:14:25,180 "Hit it, hit it, hit it." 425 00:14:25,180 --> 00:14:26,720 And then the lawsuit comes. 426 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,900 (laughing) 427 00:14:28,900 --> 00:14:30,340 - Outside of a Panera. 428 00:14:30,340 --> 00:14:32,460 - Okay, this is a throwback. 429 00:14:32,460 --> 00:14:36,420 What if we did like salt, just like a little salt? 430 00:14:36,420 --> 00:14:39,620 Or chemical, is there like chemical- 431 00:14:39,620 --> 00:14:40,460 - I think that's some corrosion issues, yeah. 432 00:14:40,460 --> 00:14:42,060 - That you could throw at it? 433 00:14:42,060 --> 00:14:43,580 - Anti-freeze? 434 00:14:43,580 --> 00:14:45,060 - That's not anti-freeze. 435 00:14:45,060 --> 00:14:47,380 Anti-freeze doesn't work, I think, that well, right? 436 00:14:47,380 --> 00:14:49,140 Like something that melts fast. 437 00:14:49,140 --> 00:14:50,880 - It's called anti-freeze. 438 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,260 It makes the ice stop being so frozen. 439 00:14:53,260 --> 00:14:55,660 - Oh, I thought it's like- 440 00:14:55,660 --> 00:14:56,500 - No, you're probably right. 441 00:14:56,500 --> 00:15:00,820 - Anti-freeze prevents the freeze versus melting, right? 442 00:15:00,820 --> 00:15:02,700 I guess I'm wondering. 443 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:05,140 Like, I like your heated water idea, Leo. 444 00:15:05,140 --> 00:15:08,020 I wonder if you could like really salty water. 445 00:15:08,020 --> 00:15:10,220 Very, you know, boom. 446 00:15:10,220 --> 00:15:12,140 - You do have rust issues there. 447 00:15:12,140 --> 00:15:14,220 - What if you could, this is the crazy idea. 448 00:15:14,220 --> 00:15:15,060 I'm left field now, 449 00:15:15,060 --> 00:15:18,140 but what if you could create like a whole, 450 00:15:18,140 --> 00:15:21,180 like a pool that you fill up with hot water. 451 00:15:21,180 --> 00:15:24,340 You like build a barrier that you fill up with hot water 452 00:15:24,340 --> 00:15:26,300 and then you let that quickly melt the ice 453 00:15:26,300 --> 00:15:28,780 and then you just dump all the water out over your car. 454 00:15:28,780 --> 00:15:31,220 So it's not so much about applying hot water to your car, 455 00:15:31,220 --> 00:15:34,340 but it's about creating like a little bathtub 456 00:15:34,340 --> 00:15:35,860 that melts the ice really quickly 457 00:15:35,860 --> 00:15:36,700 and then you get rid of all the water. 458 00:15:36,700 --> 00:15:39,340 - Wait, like your entire car is enclosed 459 00:15:39,340 --> 00:15:40,540 or just around the windshield? 460 00:15:40,540 --> 00:15:41,380 - No, like you- 461 00:15:41,380 --> 00:15:42,220 - Just dunk underwater? 462 00:15:42,220 --> 00:15:43,140 - Like what if you could just bring, 463 00:15:43,140 --> 00:15:44,340 like what if you could bring up, 464 00:15:44,340 --> 00:15:46,620 you could bring up some walls around your windshield 465 00:15:46,620 --> 00:15:49,780 that make like a little pocket of hot water 466 00:15:49,780 --> 00:15:51,420 and then you just fill that with water 467 00:15:51,420 --> 00:15:53,860 and once the ice is gone and you release it all. 468 00:15:53,860 --> 00:15:55,900 - Like those old timey hot water bags 469 00:15:55,900 --> 00:15:57,780 that you put at the foot of the bed, but. 470 00:15:57,780 --> 00:15:58,620 - Yeah, yeah, yeah, you got it. 471 00:15:58,620 --> 00:16:01,180 - Put on the windshield, that's fun. 472 00:16:01,180 --> 00:16:03,820 - The walls can't come up 'cause there's so much ice. 473 00:16:03,820 --> 00:16:06,020 - That's true, yeah, ice always gets in the way. 474 00:16:06,020 --> 00:16:07,340 - If cars can have airbags, 475 00:16:07,340 --> 00:16:09,220 they can have hot water bags built in. 476 00:16:09,220 --> 00:16:11,380 You just press the button and it, 477 00:16:11,380 --> 00:16:12,780 you know, sprays all over it. 478 00:16:12,780 --> 00:16:13,620 - That's great. 479 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:14,460 - Ooh, okay. 480 00:16:14,460 --> 00:16:15,300 (laughing) 481 00:16:15,300 --> 00:16:17,780 I don't know why I got, I'm just thinking. 482 00:16:17,780 --> 00:16:18,620 - This is called Spitball. 483 00:16:18,620 --> 00:16:22,180 - Could you shake, could you vibrate your windshield 484 00:16:22,180 --> 00:16:25,180 so rapidly that would make all the ice fall off 485 00:16:25,180 --> 00:16:26,460 without it like- 486 00:16:26,460 --> 00:16:27,900 - Like break apart in chunks. 487 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:28,740 - Super sonic. 488 00:16:28,740 --> 00:16:30,620 - Just place some AC/DC into the windshield 489 00:16:30,620 --> 00:16:32,420 and just find the right frequency. 490 00:16:32,420 --> 00:16:37,420 - What if Northern cars have a Northern like layer 491 00:16:37,420 --> 00:16:40,940 on their windshield and you can just hit, I'm over ice, 492 00:16:40,940 --> 00:16:42,980 you hit a button on your dash 493 00:16:42,980 --> 00:16:45,820 and the top layer of your windshield just like, 494 00:16:45,820 --> 00:16:49,420 like peels off and you're like, 495 00:16:49,420 --> 00:16:51,100 hey, I've got another layer below this. 496 00:16:51,100 --> 00:16:51,940 - You buy disposable. 497 00:16:51,940 --> 00:16:53,580 - Like a screen protector. 498 00:16:53,580 --> 00:16:56,460 - You buy 20 disposable windshield layers. 499 00:16:56,460 --> 00:16:57,300 - One pack, get through the winter. 500 00:16:57,300 --> 00:17:00,220 - And you just have an Ontario screen protector 501 00:17:00,220 --> 00:17:01,060 on your windshield. 502 00:17:01,060 --> 00:17:02,340 - That's fun, I like that a lot. 503 00:17:02,340 --> 00:17:04,740 - I think that would, I would buy a 10 pack, 504 00:17:04,740 --> 00:17:07,940 stick it on my windshield in the beginning of winter 505 00:17:07,940 --> 00:17:09,540 and just whatever, right? 506 00:17:09,540 --> 00:17:11,500 - Or even, you know, the ice storm is overnight tonight, 507 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:12,460 so I'll just do it. 508 00:17:12,460 --> 00:17:13,300 - Yeah. 509 00:17:13,300 --> 00:17:17,260 - Or you buy a garage, but we're all in the city here. 510 00:17:17,260 --> 00:17:18,620 (laughing) 511 00:17:18,620 --> 00:17:19,700 - Can't afford garages. 512 00:17:19,700 --> 00:17:20,900 - That's a whole building. 513 00:17:20,900 --> 00:17:23,140 (laughing) 514 00:17:23,140 --> 00:17:25,380 - Wow. 515 00:17:25,380 --> 00:17:27,380 - Someday I hope I have a garage instead of a podcast. 516 00:17:27,380 --> 00:17:28,220 - A garage. 517 00:17:28,220 --> 00:17:29,700 (laughing) 518 00:17:29,700 --> 00:17:31,580 The modern day solution. 519 00:17:31,580 --> 00:17:35,060 No, this doesn't solve for the parking lot, 520 00:17:35,060 --> 00:17:37,780 the car, the, you're at work, you know? 521 00:17:37,780 --> 00:17:40,340 Like, I guess I'm wondering if I could like crack open 522 00:17:40,340 --> 00:17:42,140 like a can of salt water. 523 00:17:42,140 --> 00:17:45,180 I just like have 10 in my car, crack it open. 524 00:17:45,180 --> 00:17:47,260 - Fire extinguisher, just. 525 00:17:47,260 --> 00:17:48,460 - Oh, that's not a bad idea. 526 00:17:48,460 --> 00:17:50,500 - Sure, something like that, you know? 527 00:17:50,500 --> 00:17:53,500 - The high pressure one time use. 528 00:17:53,500 --> 00:17:54,660 - Little gasoline, I guess. 529 00:17:54,660 --> 00:17:55,500 - A little, you think. 530 00:17:55,500 --> 00:17:57,100 - And then you have your recurring revenue 531 00:17:57,100 --> 00:17:58,300 because they're disposable. 532 00:17:58,300 --> 00:18:01,020 So you've got your under pressure salt water canister 533 00:18:01,020 --> 00:18:03,260 that you crack open one time use, 534 00:18:03,260 --> 00:18:04,900 recycle the aluminum cans. 535 00:18:04,900 --> 00:18:07,700 - There are absolutely days that I would go out there 536 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:10,540 and I'm in a hurry and I have to de-ice the whole car. 537 00:18:10,540 --> 00:18:12,260 And if I could just crack something, 538 00:18:12,260 --> 00:18:15,980 even if it costs me to just make it a fraction of the work, 539 00:18:15,980 --> 00:18:16,820 I would absolutely use that. 540 00:18:16,820 --> 00:18:17,740 - Well, you've seen those things 541 00:18:17,740 --> 00:18:19,380 that they use to de-ice planes, right? 542 00:18:19,380 --> 00:18:22,020 They got those giant blasters that they're raising 543 00:18:22,020 --> 00:18:23,380 and lowering and shooting all over them. 544 00:18:23,380 --> 00:18:25,460 I want one of those really, yeah. 545 00:18:25,460 --> 00:18:26,540 - What about like hand warmers? 546 00:18:26,540 --> 00:18:28,460 Like what is the chemical in there? 547 00:18:28,460 --> 00:18:29,300 - The reusable ones? 548 00:18:29,300 --> 00:18:31,500 - Could I just like crack it open 549 00:18:31,500 --> 00:18:34,740 and then dump it all over the car and then just, 550 00:18:34,740 --> 00:18:36,900 all right, in three minutes I'll be whatever, 551 00:18:36,900 --> 00:18:37,900 I'm just driving. 552 00:18:39,340 --> 00:18:41,020 - There's the ones that are like the one time use 553 00:18:41,020 --> 00:18:43,100 like sand silicate stuff. 554 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:44,980 And then there's ones that are crystal 555 00:18:44,980 --> 00:18:47,620 that you like flip a coin, you break a coin in there 556 00:18:47,620 --> 00:18:48,460 and you can reuse them. 557 00:18:48,460 --> 00:18:49,300 - It's so true though. 558 00:18:49,300 --> 00:18:51,620 It's like the three times you need it in the winter. 559 00:18:51,620 --> 00:18:53,480 It's like the time when you're under the gun 560 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:54,860 from a timing perspective 561 00:18:54,860 --> 00:18:57,660 and there's a bunch of ice in your windshield. 562 00:18:57,660 --> 00:18:58,500 - Yep. 563 00:18:58,500 --> 00:18:59,340 - I'd pay for that. 564 00:18:59,340 --> 00:19:01,540 - I'm gonna put, I'm gonna buy, let's try this out Leo. 565 00:19:01,540 --> 00:19:03,700 We're gonna buy some heating pads. 566 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:04,540 - I love it. 567 00:19:04,540 --> 00:19:05,500 - A heated blanket. 568 00:19:05,500 --> 00:19:07,180 iPad screen protectors. 569 00:19:07,180 --> 00:19:10,300 - You get like a pack of 30 for like $10, 570 00:19:10,300 --> 00:19:12,740 stick them on the windshield and just. 571 00:19:12,740 --> 00:19:13,780 - Big old layer. 572 00:19:13,780 --> 00:19:18,100 - Needs a pull tab at the end. 573 00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:20,180 - Yes, every one, right? 574 00:19:20,180 --> 00:19:21,020 - Yeah. 575 00:19:21,020 --> 00:19:22,780 - What is the name of your idea, Leo? 576 00:19:22,780 --> 00:19:24,580 What did we come up with? 577 00:19:24,580 --> 00:19:26,940 - Well, it started with soldering iron windshield wipers 578 00:19:26,940 --> 00:19:29,580 and ended with a lot of different not that ideas. 579 00:19:29,580 --> 00:19:34,580 So I guess the aircraft de-icer, but home edition. 580 00:19:34,580 --> 00:19:35,900 That's what I really want. 581 00:19:35,900 --> 00:19:38,180 I want a little ride on aircraft de-icer 582 00:19:38,180 --> 00:19:39,900 that I'm just spraying my car with, 583 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:41,300 like a little lawnmower thing. 584 00:19:41,300 --> 00:19:43,880 (upbeat music) 585 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,340 All right, Scott, what do you got for us this week? 586 00:19:47,340 --> 00:19:50,220 - All right, so current company I'm working at right now 587 00:19:50,220 --> 00:19:54,620 has a program where they take engineers in the program 588 00:19:54,620 --> 00:19:57,380 and they spread them all over the company. 589 00:19:57,380 --> 00:19:58,660 They call it the RISE program 590 00:19:58,660 --> 00:20:00,840 where it's essentially a version of cross training 591 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:02,020 where you take these engineers 592 00:20:02,020 --> 00:20:03,140 and for the first six months, 593 00:20:03,140 --> 00:20:06,180 you're gonna be working on the manufacturing line. 594 00:20:06,180 --> 00:20:07,380 And then the next six months, 595 00:20:07,380 --> 00:20:09,720 you're gonna be working on logistics. 596 00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:11,000 And the next six months after that, 597 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,940 you're gonna be in the R&D department. 598 00:20:12,940 --> 00:20:14,980 And they just keep moving these people around 599 00:20:14,980 --> 00:20:17,100 to give them like this full breadth of knowledge 600 00:20:17,100 --> 00:20:18,940 of the inner workings of the company. 601 00:20:18,940 --> 00:20:20,820 And there's all these stats and things with it 602 00:20:20,820 --> 00:20:24,340 about how they make just such good employees afterwards 603 00:20:24,340 --> 00:20:26,640 and they really enjoy the program. 604 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:28,620 And it's just all around a good thing. 605 00:20:28,620 --> 00:20:31,340 And I'm wondering, is it possible to create a program 606 00:20:31,340 --> 00:20:36,340 like this for getting introed into real world jobs, I guess. 607 00:20:36,340 --> 00:20:38,660 So like, instead of going to college, 608 00:20:38,660 --> 00:20:40,440 you come right out of high school 609 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:44,340 and you go in this multi-industry job rotation program 610 00:20:44,340 --> 00:20:46,420 that's gonna help you test out 611 00:20:46,420 --> 00:20:48,300 all these different various career paths 612 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:49,480 so that you can kind of settle 613 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,820 into that long-term role eventually. 614 00:20:51,820 --> 00:20:53,900 And I keep throwing this idea out in my mind. 615 00:20:53,900 --> 00:20:55,980 There's a lot of little hurdles that you gotta get through. 616 00:20:55,980 --> 00:20:59,280 But I feel like if I had an opportunity right out of school 617 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:01,260 to work as like in a restaurant 618 00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:02,980 or and then work for six months 619 00:21:02,980 --> 00:21:04,240 and then work as like a banker 620 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:05,540 for the next six months after that, 621 00:21:05,540 --> 00:21:10,020 I would just have a much better perspective of the world 622 00:21:10,020 --> 00:21:13,180 and whether the grass is greener or not in other places. 623 00:21:13,180 --> 00:21:14,020 And so I'm thinking, 624 00:21:14,020 --> 00:21:15,900 can we make some kind of umbrella company 625 00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:18,340 that partners with a bunch of different industries? 626 00:21:18,340 --> 00:21:21,020 You get paid a flat salary throughout the program. 627 00:21:21,020 --> 00:21:21,860 And by the end of it, 628 00:21:21,860 --> 00:21:24,920 you come out with a lot more real world experience. 629 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:25,940 And then you could add other things. 630 00:21:25,940 --> 00:21:27,500 - Local businesses get interns. 631 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:28,440 - Yeah, exactly. 632 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:29,880 It could be through interns. 633 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:30,980 It could be, honestly, 634 00:21:30,980 --> 00:21:32,660 interns would be a great thing for that. 635 00:21:32,660 --> 00:21:33,780 - Wow. 636 00:21:33,780 --> 00:21:35,380 Dude, that's really interesting, Scott. 637 00:21:35,380 --> 00:21:38,900 I feel like a lot of post grads from high school too 638 00:21:38,900 --> 00:21:41,220 would love to figure out that, 639 00:21:41,220 --> 00:21:45,580 not like take a full gap year or two doing this. 640 00:21:45,580 --> 00:21:48,280 They have, they live with their parents still probably. 641 00:21:48,280 --> 00:21:50,240 They're not gonna invest in a bunch of credits 642 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:51,540 that they don't wanna use. 643 00:21:51,540 --> 00:21:54,660 They'd go into college knowing what they want to do. 644 00:21:54,660 --> 00:21:55,900 Like that would be huge. 645 00:21:55,900 --> 00:21:57,060 - And you could tailor it to, 646 00:21:57,060 --> 00:22:00,020 I wanna hit these eight rotations over the next year 647 00:22:00,020 --> 00:22:01,300 or two years or something 648 00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:02,900 that you think could be interesting. 649 00:22:02,900 --> 00:22:03,780 And maybe if-- 650 00:22:03,780 --> 00:22:05,340 - My thought is before college 651 00:22:05,340 --> 00:22:07,220 is when it makes the most sense. 652 00:22:07,220 --> 00:22:10,020 It's like you think about like a red shirt athlete 653 00:22:10,020 --> 00:22:12,520 in college as the person who takes a year off 654 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,680 and really like plays on the team but learns how to play. 655 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:16,940 And it's the same kind of thing here 656 00:22:16,940 --> 00:22:18,660 where it's like I always tell people 657 00:22:18,660 --> 00:22:19,800 I went into engineering 658 00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:22,560 because I was good at math and science in high school. 659 00:22:22,560 --> 00:22:23,400 And I figured, hey, 660 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,780 this seemed like an interesting thing to start. 661 00:22:25,780 --> 00:22:27,540 And if I decide to do something different 662 00:22:27,540 --> 00:22:28,620 along the way, I'll do it. 663 00:22:28,620 --> 00:22:30,980 And I never really found an interesting enough a reason 664 00:22:30,980 --> 00:22:32,420 not to do engineering. 665 00:22:32,420 --> 00:22:35,420 But it was like I didn't opt out 666 00:22:35,420 --> 00:22:38,100 when if you had a program like what you're describing, 667 00:22:38,100 --> 00:22:39,260 I would have been able to opt in 668 00:22:39,260 --> 00:22:40,740 to something more intriguing. 669 00:22:40,740 --> 00:22:45,180 - Dang, you should, I mean, you throw this on in colleges, 670 00:22:45,180 --> 00:22:46,900 like their first, your first year, 671 00:22:46,900 --> 00:22:48,700 it's a five-year program, let's say, 672 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:50,660 or maybe it could be a four-year program 673 00:22:50,660 --> 00:22:52,060 'cause you're saving all your, 674 00:22:52,060 --> 00:22:54,180 you don't need to figure out your first year anymore, 675 00:22:54,180 --> 00:22:55,460 which is just like figuring out life. 676 00:22:55,460 --> 00:22:57,420 You just try things out. 677 00:22:57,420 --> 00:22:58,980 Part of the college program, 678 00:22:58,980 --> 00:23:00,980 it's what makes them different. 679 00:23:00,980 --> 00:23:02,460 I think that would be awesome. 680 00:23:02,460 --> 00:23:03,700 - The big thing with this program 681 00:23:03,700 --> 00:23:05,700 and the company was all about, 682 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:07,420 they really vet the people ahead of time 683 00:23:07,420 --> 00:23:09,100 and they make sure that they're go-getters 684 00:23:09,100 --> 00:23:10,500 and willing to put in the work 685 00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:13,700 and they're excited about new possibilities going through. 686 00:23:13,700 --> 00:23:16,100 - My high school in the Genesee County 687 00:23:16,100 --> 00:23:17,220 on the other side of the state 688 00:23:17,220 --> 00:23:20,540 had an option what they called the Skills Center 689 00:23:20,540 --> 00:23:22,820 where you could choose instead of, 690 00:23:22,820 --> 00:23:24,140 I think it was one or two credits 691 00:23:24,140 --> 00:23:26,140 in the middle of every other day, 692 00:23:26,140 --> 00:23:28,460 you would go to another place, 693 00:23:28,460 --> 00:23:30,940 like a 20, 25-minute drive away 694 00:23:30,940 --> 00:23:33,660 where other area schools also sent some students 695 00:23:33,660 --> 00:23:35,500 and it was like an on-the-job, 696 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:38,500 interni-apprenticeship type thing. 697 00:23:38,500 --> 00:23:39,740 They had a few different programs 698 00:23:39,740 --> 00:23:42,940 like car mechanic and cosmetology and a few other things. 699 00:23:42,940 --> 00:23:45,020 Instead of taking classes, you just kinda-- 700 00:23:45,020 --> 00:23:46,020 - Mechanics is a good one. 701 00:23:46,020 --> 00:23:48,540 - Yeah, it was a half-step above like woodshop 702 00:23:48,540 --> 00:23:49,820 where you were actually doing something 703 00:23:49,820 --> 00:23:51,620 a little more career-oriented. 704 00:23:51,620 --> 00:23:53,340 It seems like even high schoolers 705 00:23:53,340 --> 00:23:54,860 would benefit from what you're talking about 706 00:23:54,860 --> 00:23:59,860 where you can opt in where instead of taking eight classes 707 00:23:59,860 --> 00:24:03,900 or six classes, you take five or one or two less 708 00:24:03,900 --> 00:24:07,540 and then every day, every other day, you go and do this. 709 00:24:07,540 --> 00:24:10,380 You're just at the bank for three days a week 710 00:24:10,380 --> 00:24:11,720 for a couple hours. 711 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:12,900 That's a great way to like, 712 00:24:12,900 --> 00:24:14,060 yeah, it's sort of like the concept 713 00:24:14,060 --> 00:24:16,740 of the 100-level classes at college 714 00:24:16,740 --> 00:24:18,980 where you sort of, I'm gonna take intro to psychology 715 00:24:18,980 --> 00:24:20,900 to see if I like the idea of psychology majors. 716 00:24:20,900 --> 00:24:22,140 Oh, that wasn't for me at all. 717 00:24:22,140 --> 00:24:25,500 I'm gonna take survey of engineering 718 00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:27,900 to see if that's for me but like on the job. 719 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:28,900 That's super cool. 720 00:24:28,900 --> 00:24:31,060 - But at college, it costs you thousands of dollars, right? 721 00:24:31,060 --> 00:24:33,340 Where it's like if you can do it at a company 722 00:24:33,340 --> 00:24:35,060 and still add value to the company, 723 00:24:35,060 --> 00:24:36,940 you get paid a little bit for it, right? 724 00:24:36,940 --> 00:24:39,140 So it's like, I don't know, if I run a bank 725 00:24:39,140 --> 00:24:40,940 and I have somebody that's at least willing 726 00:24:40,940 --> 00:24:42,220 to learn about banking, 727 00:24:42,220 --> 00:24:43,860 even if they're changing light bulbs 728 00:24:43,860 --> 00:24:45,380 where they're around the bankers, 729 00:24:45,380 --> 00:24:46,940 they still get a chance to learn 730 00:24:46,940 --> 00:24:48,700 and they're doing value-add work 731 00:24:48,700 --> 00:24:50,980 and so it creates that win-win relationship. 732 00:24:50,980 --> 00:24:53,700 - You could also time it for a different industry 733 00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:56,620 seasonally like this restaurant happens to have, 734 00:24:56,620 --> 00:24:58,380 gets crazy packed in the summertime 735 00:24:58,380 --> 00:25:00,340 so we're gonna have our program rotation 736 00:25:00,340 --> 00:25:01,780 during the summer or something. 737 00:25:01,780 --> 00:25:03,300 So we have that extra staff. 738 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:05,780 - This seems like a feature that a temping agency 739 00:25:05,780 --> 00:25:08,220 could just like tack on to what they already do. 740 00:25:08,220 --> 00:25:09,300 - Oh yeah. 741 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:11,740 - Instead of me just sticking you in this place 742 00:25:11,740 --> 00:25:14,500 for a five-year contract doing coding or whatever, 743 00:25:14,500 --> 00:25:18,340 accounting, you are like rotated around. 744 00:25:18,340 --> 00:25:19,740 They already have the connections, 745 00:25:19,740 --> 00:25:23,420 they've got the supply of people to send around, win-win. 746 00:25:23,420 --> 00:25:24,260 - Yeah. 747 00:25:24,260 --> 00:25:25,100 - The companies are kind of knowing 748 00:25:25,100 --> 00:25:26,100 they're getting someone short-term 749 00:25:26,100 --> 00:25:28,380 so they plan a variety of things 750 00:25:28,380 --> 00:25:30,780 as part of like the agreement with the agency. 751 00:25:30,780 --> 00:25:32,380 - Yeah, I think the value-add though, 752 00:25:32,380 --> 00:25:35,620 like would you want an engineering intern 753 00:25:35,620 --> 00:25:38,620 that you have trying to doing work for you 754 00:25:38,620 --> 00:25:42,460 every four weeks come in and you teach them everything 755 00:25:42,460 --> 00:25:45,140 and then by the time they're ready to do something like-- 756 00:25:45,140 --> 00:25:47,700 - Yeah, the training aspect on that is 757 00:25:47,700 --> 00:25:50,660 you don't wanna have to retrain every single time. 758 00:25:50,660 --> 00:25:52,300 - But if the only goal is to get them to know 759 00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:54,300 what's happening at the business, 760 00:25:54,300 --> 00:25:56,840 it's like when I applied for my internship, 761 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,420 the company told me, 762 00:25:58,420 --> 00:26:00,060 one of the questions I had in my interview was, 763 00:26:00,060 --> 00:26:02,580 "Hey, would you be willing to change the light bulbs 764 00:26:02,580 --> 00:26:04,540 "if you came here as an intern?" 765 00:26:04,540 --> 00:26:06,540 And I was like, "Yeah, as long as I get to hang out 766 00:26:06,540 --> 00:26:08,360 "next to the engineers and learn what they're doing 767 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:10,260 "in engineering, for sure." 768 00:26:10,260 --> 00:26:11,380 And it's a little bit of that, right? 769 00:26:11,380 --> 00:26:13,340 Where it's like, I'll take out the garbage, 770 00:26:13,340 --> 00:26:15,880 as long as I get to hear what the guy is talking about 771 00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:16,920 that does the thing, 772 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,040 then I'll hang out there for a while, 773 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,560 especially if you give me, whatever, 774 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:22,560 15 bucks an hour or whatever the case may be. 775 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,200 - It is so hard to get the day in the life 776 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:28,540 like summary of what some of these career paths are. 777 00:26:28,540 --> 00:26:31,280 - When I was in high school, it was gonna be engineering 778 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:34,180 or the other thing my skills told me I would be good at 779 00:26:34,180 --> 00:26:36,080 was sports statistician. 780 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,720 And I was like, "Well, I love sports." 781 00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:40,480 I would totally be down to be a sports statistician 782 00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,880 and then come to find out that the world of computers, 783 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:45,560 we're gonna take over sports stats 784 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,880 and that would have been a terrible decision by me. 785 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:50,440 - Yeah, or the jobs like five, 786 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,640 there's like 10 or 30 gurus and statisticians 787 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:56,320 that beat the computers or make the algorithms, right? 788 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:57,560 You gotta be one of those guys. 789 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,000 - Yeah, yeah. 790 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:00,440 Wasn't gonna be that guy. 791 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,800 - Sounds like you're well-poised to be the programmer 792 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,480 of the statistician software. 793 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:11,360 You are the engineer that builds the next great algorithm. 794 00:27:11,360 --> 00:27:14,400 - Scott, this is a really interesting, cool, 795 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,280 did you come up with this yourself? 796 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,400 - This is where I'm currently contracted out to right now. 797 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:20,860 They have this internally 798 00:27:20,860 --> 00:27:23,400 and I just am watching these young engineers 799 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,640 go through this program and how happy they are 800 00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:27,480 and excited to go to the next rotation 801 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,240 and what do I get this time? 802 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,680 But they still have a comfortable living. 803 00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,080 They're still on salary through the whole time. 804 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:35,840 So there's no stress about job changes. 805 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:37,760 It's just learning and they love it 806 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:40,080 'cause they're just there to learn. 807 00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:40,960 - Whoa. 808 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,080 - I wanna bring that into real life though. 809 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,640 Take away all the scariness of job changing 810 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,720 so you can actually experience that. 811 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:50,200 - Dude, this is great. 812 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:51,840 Like we should make this, Scott. 813 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,920 Or somebody needs to build this one. 814 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:58,180 Like if somebody already has the resources, 815 00:27:58,180 --> 00:28:01,120 the capabilities, like this is just an add-on 816 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:02,320 to what they already do. 817 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:04,760 I think the market could be flooded for this 818 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:06,040 'cause you have your temp agencies, 819 00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:08,440 you have your colleges, you have your high schools. 820 00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:09,260 - Here's the deal. 821 00:28:09,260 --> 00:28:10,520 Would colleges pay for this? 822 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:11,760 If you went through this program 823 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,480 between high school and college, 824 00:28:13,480 --> 00:28:14,680 let's say there was a semester 825 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:15,920 where you go through this program, 826 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:20,400 it's like would colleges be willing to offer some payback 827 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,720 for you putting people through this program 828 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:23,960 and validating the fact 829 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:25,560 that they're gonna be a good college student? 830 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:26,400 - Great idea. 831 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,120 - It's almost like a study abroad program, 832 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:29,880 but just here, yeah. 833 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:31,240 Like an added on service. 834 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,520 - There's tons of grants that we use at our company too 835 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,920 for training and stuff that like the state of Michigan 836 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,020 will pay for you to take X classes and whatnot. 837 00:28:40,020 --> 00:28:42,280 I'm sure that there's ways that you could finagle language 838 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,480 so the government could pay for chunks of this. 839 00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:47,840 - Yeah, I think the Career Development Center 840 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,920 or whatever, the one responsible 841 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,700 for putting jobs in front of you, right? 842 00:28:52,700 --> 00:28:55,540 I feel like that's part of the value add for colleges. 843 00:28:55,540 --> 00:28:57,080 I think there might be like, 844 00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,340 the more people that get into the front door, 845 00:28:59,340 --> 00:29:02,200 when they leave a college, they're more likely to, 846 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,640 maybe there's some sign-on bonuses or something for that. 847 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:06,680 - These companies could recruit 848 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:07,880 right out of the program too. 849 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:09,800 Like, hey, you're good at this. 850 00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:10,640 I think you'll be great. 851 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:11,880 I'll pay you this much salary. 852 00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,360 Just ditch this program and come work for me right now. 853 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,640 It's like a way to interview people live 854 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,920 without any obligation. 855 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:20,960 - It's the internship to employee pipeline, 856 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,400 but you get the rotating buffet 857 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,720 like you're at a sushi restaurant 858 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,400 with the conveyor belts of employees coming by. 859 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:28,440 - I don't wanna get too high level, 860 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,080 but it's like it speaks to where the world's moving to, 861 00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:33,200 where it's like you used to need the four-year degree 862 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:34,700 to get to the finish line, 863 00:29:34,700 --> 00:29:36,960 but there's so many ways to gain knowledge nowadays 864 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:38,560 where if you had a program like this 865 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,000 and a company that's willing to help you 866 00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:41,280 kind of along the way, 867 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:42,600 you're 90% of the way there 868 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,000 and knowing what you need to know. 869 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,440 - Yeah, and you have the relationships to talk to 870 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,360 as you're going through college. 871 00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:54,080 I feel like the college academia bubbles bursting soon. 872 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:55,120 - Shrinking. 873 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:56,800 - Shrinking, yeah. 874 00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,920 Like remote schooling is becoming more popular. 875 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,000 - Trade schools. 876 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:03,280 - Yeah, trade school. 877 00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,480 This'll be interesting. 878 00:30:06,480 --> 00:30:09,240 You may launch it and by the time you launch it, 879 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,400 just the college, the whole landscape changes. 880 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,000 - Disrupt the industry, guys. 881 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,480 Disrupt higher education, come on. 882 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:19,200 - Hey, Billy, do you wanna study abroad in Italy 883 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,080 or do you wanna work in the back of a restaurant 884 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,880 for the next 30 years? 885 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:23,800 - That's a pitch. 886 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,200 (laughing) 887 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,780 (upbeat music) 888 00:30:27,780 --> 00:30:32,160 - All right, Russell, what do you got this week? 889 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,540 - All right, so a little about me. 890 00:30:34,540 --> 00:30:36,320 I have a 3D printer 891 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:41,320 and it goes unused a significant amount of time, we'll say. 892 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:42,320 - So say we all. 893 00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:45,240 - And it just, I mean, I feel like if you own a 3D printer, 894 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,640 you kinda have this like love it 895 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:48,920 and you use it all the time 896 00:30:48,920 --> 00:30:50,680 and you pause and you kinda let it sit 897 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:51,840 and you're like, what do I print? 898 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:53,440 I don't know, the world's my oyster, 899 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:58,440 but I have no shells to oyster hooks. 900 00:30:58,440 --> 00:30:59,480 Okay, that's not a, 901 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:01,440 world is my oyster, 902 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,240 but I just don't know what crackers to put on it. 903 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,040 (laughing) 904 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:08,800 Anyways, that's not the analogy I'm looking for. 905 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:09,760 Yeah, that's what they say. 906 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,640 Yeah, it's the 3D printer community. 907 00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:12,480 - It's 3D printer lingo. 908 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:13,680 - I'm sure. 909 00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,840 Yeah, everybody that is listening to this podcast 910 00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:17,600 knows about the 3D printer community. 911 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,000 So basically they're really popular. 912 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:22,520 These new ones are really good 913 00:31:22,520 --> 00:31:24,600 and really easy to work with. 914 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:29,420 And I guess now you have hundreds, maybe thousands, 915 00:31:29,420 --> 00:31:32,520 maybe dozens of us out there that have 3D printers 916 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:34,840 or hundreds of thousands of us 917 00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,240 that just let it sit, it sits around. 918 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,600 And I would love to, let's say, 919 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,360 be a part of a network that allowed me to use my 3D printer 920 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,000 for things that would contribute to something, 921 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,160 whether that's manufacturing products 922 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,920 for a nonprofit, a for-profit or whatever. 923 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:54,400 And there's some give and take sort of scenario for this. 924 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:55,960 - Oh, I see where you're going. 925 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:57,400 - If I dial in my printer 926 00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:01,880 and maybe I work with this company and set the profile, 927 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:05,400 like there's a lot of ways to really automate this. 928 00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,320 - You get some credits to like spend into the network 929 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:10,080 if you need extra parts. 930 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:14,720 - Yes, or they send me a spool of filaments, 931 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,440 maybe half a spool, 932 00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,560 and I have to print a certain amount of parts 933 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:22,500 and it gets sent to some QA facility or whatever 934 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:23,540 to make it happen, right? 935 00:32:23,540 --> 00:32:28,240 Now you have like really cool mass manufacturing 936 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,200 at prototype manufacturing, we'll say, at scale 937 00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:36,260 to meet like a demand for a hundred pieces. 938 00:32:36,260 --> 00:32:39,320 Like Scott, your IDLE-TC product, right? 939 00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,360 Like you could post it to the network. 940 00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,240 Anybody that has these filaments 941 00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:47,000 and all these other things can send you, 942 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:48,520 or somebody might buy the filament 943 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,040 'cause I'm like, "I want that marble filament, 944 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,280 "but I don't have a reason to." 945 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:55,160 So I will print three IDLE-TCs, make half my money back. 946 00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:56,160 And now I've got like- 947 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,640 - Make all your money back at that. 948 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,280 - Discounted spool, right? 949 00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:02,720 Yeah, there's some shipping stuff and challenges, 950 00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,400 but now it's kind of like tapping into this network 951 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,320 of builders wanting to support each other too 952 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,500 that can use their 3D printer for something else 953 00:33:11,500 --> 00:33:13,320 than a piece of furniture. 954 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,760 - Yeah, I don't wanna pay for an injection mold tool, 955 00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:20,360 but I also don't have the ability to print 956 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:21,540 a thousand of these at home. 957 00:33:21,540 --> 00:33:23,280 I could just tap into this network, 958 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:25,440 have them print it all across the country, 959 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,440 they ship it to a central facility, 960 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:30,200 and then I get a box with my a thousand prints in it, 961 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:33,240 all for much less of the price than the injection mold tool. 962 00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:35,360 - It's Uber for shapeways. 963 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:36,560 - Uber for shapeways. 964 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:40,440 - Yeah, I think the shipping logistics gets expensive. 965 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,680 - Maybe, I mean, a lot of plastic stuff's pretty lightweight. 966 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,040 Most of these places go by weight, it wouldn't be terrible. 967 00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,680 - Yeah, you're probably shipping regardless, right? 968 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,080 So it's like you have the discount in shipping costs, 969 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:54,560 you also have the fact that 3D prints can do stuff 970 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:56,720 that like tool parts can't do. 971 00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:58,560 You can print things that you can't do 972 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,360 with plastic injection mold, 973 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:02,320 and so that's like an extra value add. 974 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:03,920 I think it's a huge win. 975 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:05,760 - Oh, I didn't think about that. 976 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,240 Yeah, that's a good, nice. 977 00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:10,120 - The print in place stuff that you can get 978 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:12,520 where like all the pieces are already snapped together 979 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:13,720 and stuff, yeah. 980 00:34:13,720 --> 00:34:16,280 - Yeah, I had a meeting with a client recently actually, 981 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:17,720 and we were talking about doing, 982 00:34:17,720 --> 00:34:19,000 it was actually, it was metal parts, 983 00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:21,400 but we were talking about doing like metal castings 984 00:34:21,400 --> 00:34:24,000 or how do you do forged parts, 985 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,520 and he goes, "What if we 3D printed it in metal?" 986 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:27,720 And I was like, "We haven't really worked 987 00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:28,800 "in 3D printed metal." 988 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,960 And he goes, "Well, I'm partnered with a company 989 00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:32,360 "that does 3D printed metal. 990 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:33,840 "Would you be willing to look into that?" 991 00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:36,520 I was like, "Oh, that's the coolest thing ever." 992 00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,360 Like if you had access to three of those organizations, 993 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,680 now all of a sudden you could hit your numbers 994 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,480 with 3D printed metal parts, 995 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:46,520 and now even metal parts are not off the table. 996 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,400 So I think the world is kind of at your fingertips 997 00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,240 on this one. 998 00:34:49,240 --> 00:34:51,800 - Is this on the blockchain then? 999 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,600 (laughing) 1000 00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,040 - Got my print coins. - Heck yeah. 1001 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,040 - I earned some print coins by letting my printer 1002 00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:58,880 churn out whatever something sent to it, 1003 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:00,800 and then now I can spend my print coins 1004 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,880 to make someone else make stuff. 1005 00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:03,800 That's fun. 1006 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,320 - And the thing is if people got paid for it, 1007 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:07,160 if people got paid to utilize their printers, 1008 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:08,640 now all of a sudden they're incentivized, 1009 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:09,960 like you say, to purchase a printer 1010 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,440 where they weren't before. 1011 00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:12,960 - Like how your Tesla's gonna make money 1012 00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:14,480 because it'll go around and be a robo-taxi 1013 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:15,320 when you're not using it. 1014 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:16,480 - Yes, yes. 1015 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:17,720 - Any day now, Elon. 1016 00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:22,280 - Is that, you're saying blockchain, 1017 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:23,880 and it reminds me, it makes me think 1018 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:25,840 that it's kind of blockchain-y, right? 1019 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:28,080 It's like, oh, there's a network of prints, 1020 00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,360 I buy, I'm like, all right, I'm gonna claim 1021 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:33,240 three of these, print 'em, send it, 1022 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:35,880 it's, you know, maybe the tokens 1023 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:38,800 or the dollar amount or whatever's up in the air, 1024 00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,400 but yeah, maybe that's a thing. 1025 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,640 - Minting the coin is something, yeah, 1026 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:46,320 you only mine when your printer 1027 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,960 is actually doing physical work. 1028 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,400 - I don't know about the coin part, but yeah. 1029 00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:52,240 (laughing) 1030 00:35:52,240 --> 00:35:54,400 - It just screams crypto for some reason, 1031 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:55,760 I don't know why. - Yeah, it does. 1032 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:59,600 - Decentralized manufacturing, right? 1033 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:00,680 That's our company title. 1034 00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,480 - What about maybe like farmer co-op, 1035 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,800 but printing, maybe give it a little more 1036 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,200 wholesome bent than blockchain crypto, bro. 1037 00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,960 - Yeah, we've kind of burned all those buzzwords 1038 00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,040 in the last couple years. - Or organic printing farms. 1039 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,800 - Yeah. - Organic printing farms. 1040 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,120 Made with real organic plastic. 1041 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,480 - Free-range grass-fed. 1042 00:36:18,480 --> 00:36:20,320 This is a free-range 3D print. 1043 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,000 (laughing) 1044 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:23,880 - Well, PLA is made from corn, right? 1045 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:28,880 I may be a simple man working on the printer farm. 1046 00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,160 It's not much, but it's honest work. 1047 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:32,600 - Yeah, you know what's funny? 1048 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:34,800 I think a lot of the 3D printing community too 1049 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:38,720 is deep in the figuring out how to create models 1050 00:36:38,720 --> 00:36:41,040 to get cheap prints, filaments, 1051 00:36:41,040 --> 00:36:42,360 and there's just a lot of, 1052 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,760 1% of people that have 3D printers 1053 00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,080 have 10 or 15 of them, 1054 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:50,440 and so they're printing random stuff. 1055 00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:52,200 I think they would benefit the most 1056 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,840 and also be the biggest earners, right? 1057 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,280 I mean, like Scott-- - Print coin whales. 1058 00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:01,720 - Yeah, like, would you, or I guess in our day, 1059 00:37:01,720 --> 00:37:04,200 would we have used this, or would you use this now? 1060 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:08,920 Like, if IdleTC could just produce 13 of them outsource. 1061 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:10,840 - If I had the sales for that, 1062 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,160 that I would need to get multiple printers, 1063 00:37:13,160 --> 00:37:15,600 then I would absolutely consider that. 1064 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,680 - Well, in the Ringcam days, I remember going over 1065 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,320 and you guys would just have that one printer 1066 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,040 doing its four little special brackets that you needed 1067 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,080 over and over and over. - Oh, that poor printer. 1068 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:27,040 - Someone would walk by it and scrape off 1069 00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,440 whatever just finished and start the same job again 1070 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:30,600 over and over. 1071 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,880 If you could have that one part printed, 1072 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,000 you know, 200 times across the nation 1073 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,000 by everyone doing one job and sending it to you, 1074 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,640 that'd be pretty cool. - That would be a lot faster 1075 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:42,720 than one $200 printer bot printing straight 1076 00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:44,400 for four and a half years. 1077 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,280 - I'll say too, like, my oldest son 1078 00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:49,960 is really into Pokemon right now, 1079 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:53,520 and he's discovered the value of generative AI. 1080 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,040 And so he's been making his own images 1081 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,160 of his own creations of Pokemon, 1082 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,000 and like writing in Microsoft Word 1083 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,160 the descriptions of them. 1084 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:02,960 And for his birthday, and I'm hoping this episode 1085 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:04,480 doesn't air before his birthday comes, 1086 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,080 because I've bought him his Pokemon cards, 1087 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:08,560 like I had them custom made. - Genius. 1088 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,160 - But if I could have like a 3D print 1089 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,920 of his like Pokemon creations that I could just source, 1090 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,400 I don't have a 3D printer at my house, 1091 00:38:15,440 --> 00:38:18,880 but if I could do that, even that like as a one-off 1092 00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:20,880 would be super intriguing to me. 1093 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:23,080 And so if that's like so readily available 1094 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:25,720 that you could just send an order and have a one-off print, 1095 00:38:25,720 --> 00:38:27,000 I think that's a whole new market 1096 00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,600 that opens up because of this. 1097 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:30,760 - And yeah, Shapeways and a few others exist 1098 00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:32,200 where it's the business 1099 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,320 that has the industrial machines for this, 1100 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:35,520 but there's something wholesome about it 1101 00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,400 being like the guy down the street. 1102 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:38,240 - Yeah, totally. - And you're kind of 1103 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:39,840 peer-to-peer. - What is the closest 1104 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,680 3D printer I could get access to? 1105 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:42,600 - Oh, that's good. - Oh, it's a good house 1106 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,040 is down for me. - Yeah. 1107 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:45,480 - It saves on shipping costs, 1108 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,200 you can just drop it off at some point or pick it up. 1109 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:49,400 - That was something that I was, 1110 00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:51,240 yeah, the elephant in the room for me the whole time 1111 00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:54,560 was, oh man, there's so much more like carbon wasted 1112 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,200 by making all this stuff jet across the country. 1113 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:00,760 Like, can we somehow make, yeah, local, that's the sell. 1114 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:02,440 You send it to the network and they say, 1115 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,320 yep, down the street, I'll meet you downtown 1116 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:06,520 on my lunch break or come on by my house, 1117 00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:07,960 it's on the porch. 1118 00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:08,800 Yeah, I love that. - That's so smart. 1119 00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:11,120 - Then you learn about your neighbors a little more too. 1120 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:12,440 - This is like a real thing 1121 00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,640 with like just regular printers. 1122 00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,640 The print.me, do you know what I'm talking about? 1123 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:17,880 - Send my boarding pass to my neighbor. 1124 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:19,280 - I don't own a printer anymore. 1125 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:20,680 When you desperately need a printer, 1126 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:24,320 you go to Simpatico Coffee, okay, 1127 00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,640 and they have a booth called Print Me 1128 00:39:27,640 --> 00:39:30,680 and you pay $10 and you print. 1129 00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:34,080 Yeah, it's the minimum amount to print one piece of paper 1130 00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:36,560 so that I can get this thing signed, right? 1131 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,560 - Wow. - Spin on that. 1132 00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:40,040 - They better notarize it too. 1133 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,960 - Yeah, I mean, in a way it's validated 1134 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:45,320 with this regular piece of paper printing. 1135 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,560 You can kind of take that same aspect. 1136 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,000 They got a map, you can see where the printers are 1137 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:51,720 and you can go to a coworking space 1138 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:54,200 or a coffee shop or whatever. 1139 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:55,560 You can apply that, I love that. 1140 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,400 The local idea of, yeah, there's 30 3D printers 1141 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,120 in your area willing to print your print. 1142 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:04,060 Here are the prices, here's their ratings, right? 1143 00:40:04,060 --> 00:40:06,360 Like you can do all that stuff. 1144 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:09,100 What printer they have if you wanna get in details of it, 1145 00:40:09,100 --> 00:40:12,640 but I mean, shoot, like Scott would beat me every day 1146 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:14,600 on that system because he's got the AMS 1147 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,000 and he's got the killer 3D printer. 1148 00:40:17,000 --> 00:40:20,120 I got like the, I'll undercut him on price, but. 1149 00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:22,880 (laughing) 1150 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:24,320 - He mints more coin than you, 1151 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:26,360 more print coin on the blockchain. 1152 00:40:26,360 --> 00:40:28,720 - I guess too, it makes me think, 1153 00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:31,480 what if I could buy direct? 1154 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:32,920 For example, you're going on these websites 1155 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,720 and you're looking to get a 3D print model. 1156 00:40:35,720 --> 00:40:37,840 Rather than like trying to figure out 1157 00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:39,400 how to download and print, there's a button 1158 00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:40,740 that's just buy now. 1159 00:40:40,740 --> 00:40:43,020 You click it on every site that hosts 1160 00:40:43,020 --> 00:40:44,320 a bunch of these 3D prints. 1161 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:45,160 - That's cool. 1162 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,600 - Buy now, and then it lists it in the network 1163 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:52,600 and somebody could claim it and then ship from my printer. 1164 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,060 - And it's an auction system where like, 1165 00:40:55,060 --> 00:40:56,760 yeah, I love the claiming idea. 1166 00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,560 You put the thing out there, there's a 30 day or whatever. 1167 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:02,100 You say how long you, how urgently you need it, 1168 00:41:02,100 --> 00:41:04,120 and then people can like wait for the price 1169 00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:07,160 to slowly go down and then they bid on it 1170 00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,440 and they get like however many coins 1171 00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:10,760 for printing that thing for you. 1172 00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,320 And then you get like a natural market. 1173 00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:13,160 Oh, that's fun. 1174 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,400 - Yeah, I mean, something like that, right? 1175 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,240 Like that would be cool. 1176 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:18,760 - Not what you were thinking, but yeah. 1177 00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:19,760 - I love that though, Leo. 1178 00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:22,160 - That went way better than what I was originally thinking. 1179 00:41:22,160 --> 00:41:23,400 So I'm all about it. 1180 00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:24,240 - You know what I mean though? 1181 00:41:24,240 --> 00:41:26,200 Like you go and you say, I wanna do this job, 1182 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,360 my maximum I'd pay is this much money. 1183 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,000 And then it slowly like lowers until someone claims it 1184 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:33,040 and then that's how much it's worth to them, you know? 1185 00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:33,880 That's cool. 1186 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:34,720 - Dude. 1187 00:41:34,720 --> 00:41:36,180 - Like a reverse auction. 1188 00:41:36,180 --> 00:41:38,200 I would use something peer to peer co-op 1189 00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:40,280 that benefits my neighbor instead of, 1190 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:41,460 once in a while I do ship off. 1191 00:41:41,460 --> 00:41:44,860 Like I designed dog tags for my dogs years ago 1192 00:41:44,860 --> 00:41:46,920 and 3D printed a couple of prototypes. 1193 00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,920 I liked how they looked, sent it to Shapeways 1194 00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:50,080 to get it printed in metal. 1195 00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,560 And it was, you know, 30 or 40 bucks to get each one of them. 1196 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:56,360 So not the cheapest option, but it's kind of wholesome 1197 00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,120 to have like the thing that I know that I made, right? 1198 00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:01,640 And I totally would send that to the business 1199 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:03,760 that lives in my town that just happens to have 1200 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:05,360 one of those that they're not using right now. 1201 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:06,200 - That's really cool. 1202 00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:07,700 - So during the height of COVID, 1203 00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:11,020 I got on a web call with a friend of mine 1204 00:42:11,020 --> 00:42:15,740 and he was helping my son experience 3D printing 1205 00:42:15,740 --> 00:42:17,460 was like this kind of experiential 1206 00:42:17,460 --> 00:42:20,580 because we're all locked in our houses, can't experience it. 1207 00:42:20,580 --> 00:42:22,500 So he said, I'm going back to the Pokemon thing. 1208 00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:26,180 He said, "Hey, draw a Pokemon and I'll 3D print it for you." 1209 00:42:26,180 --> 00:42:29,740 And he drew a Pokemon and he was like maybe six at the time. 1210 00:42:29,740 --> 00:42:32,540 And it was a poor, poor drawing. 1211 00:42:32,540 --> 00:42:37,300 And he got 3D printed and my son saw the 3D print. 1212 00:42:37,300 --> 00:42:38,740 And it was that moment where you're like, 1213 00:42:38,740 --> 00:42:39,780 this is incredible. 1214 00:42:39,780 --> 00:42:42,900 Like he gets to see his creation be turned into reality. 1215 00:42:42,900 --> 00:42:45,080 And he looked at me and he said, 1216 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,640 "Hey dad, why are my drawings so bad?" 1217 00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:50,460 (laughing) 1218 00:42:50,460 --> 00:42:52,660 - There's a lot of revelations in that day. 1219 00:42:52,660 --> 00:42:57,740 Childhood innocence shattered. 1220 00:42:57,740 --> 00:42:58,580 - Yeah. 1221 00:42:58,580 --> 00:43:01,160 (upbeat music) 1222 00:43:01,160 --> 00:43:04,660 - Robbie, let's hear it. 1223 00:43:04,660 --> 00:43:06,820 Let's hear your best idea ever. 1224 00:43:06,820 --> 00:43:07,660 - Yeah, man. 1225 00:43:07,660 --> 00:43:10,100 I've got a few of them, but I'm a physical product guy. 1226 00:43:10,100 --> 00:43:12,700 So I'm gonna hit you guys the physical product idea 1227 00:43:12,700 --> 00:43:14,020 that you can riff on a little bit. 1228 00:43:14,020 --> 00:43:14,840 - Excellent. 1229 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:15,880 - A couple of Genesis stories here. 1230 00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:19,100 So one is my kids, I have three of them. 1231 00:43:19,100 --> 00:43:20,660 I mentioned that maybe earlier. 1232 00:43:20,660 --> 00:43:25,260 Always, they get really into kind of the pop culture 1233 00:43:25,260 --> 00:43:29,740 and social media and the YouTube personalities. 1234 00:43:29,740 --> 00:43:31,820 And I don't wanna like, 1235 00:43:31,820 --> 00:43:34,700 I don't wanna hurt the viewership of Spitball here, 1236 00:43:34,700 --> 00:43:37,900 but if there's any popular YouTubers watching right now, 1237 00:43:37,900 --> 00:43:38,720 I'm sorry. 1238 00:43:38,720 --> 00:43:41,940 They all put out total crap when it comes to like, 1239 00:43:41,940 --> 00:43:44,600 Christmas gifts and things like that. 1240 00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,460 You can buy like a mystery ball and it's a big plastic ball 1241 00:43:48,460 --> 00:43:50,620 and it has plastic bags inside. 1242 00:43:50,620 --> 00:43:54,260 And the plastic bags inside have crappy plastic toys 1243 00:43:54,260 --> 00:43:59,060 and they sell it for $50 and it's like $5 worth of stuff. 1244 00:43:59,060 --> 00:44:00,260 And they ask for it. 1245 00:44:00,260 --> 00:44:02,300 It's like, I'm trying to be a good dad. 1246 00:44:02,300 --> 00:44:04,200 So I'm gonna buy it, but you know, ahead of time, 1247 00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,540 it's not gonna be worth its weight, right? 1248 00:44:06,540 --> 00:44:07,660 And so that's one moment. 1249 00:44:07,660 --> 00:44:09,460 And then the second moment is I've done this a number 1250 00:44:09,460 --> 00:44:11,900 of times and my kids get Christmas gifts. 1251 00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:15,860 And then we clean out the toy room in order to make room 1252 00:44:15,860 --> 00:44:18,920 for the new crap that we just bought for Christmas. 1253 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:20,640 And in cleaning out the toy room, 1254 00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,780 they discover a toy that they had two or three years ago. 1255 00:44:23,780 --> 00:44:25,140 They haven't touched. 1256 00:44:25,140 --> 00:44:27,300 And that turns into the toy they play with 1257 00:44:27,300 --> 00:44:28,500 for the next two or three weeks. 1258 00:44:28,500 --> 00:44:30,320 And it's like, come on, man. 1259 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:33,020 Like I just bought hundreds of dollars 1260 00:44:33,020 --> 00:44:34,180 worth of new Christmas toys. 1261 00:44:34,180 --> 00:44:35,180 Now we have the old one. 1262 00:44:35,180 --> 00:44:38,860 So my idea is this, a large toy box 1263 00:44:38,860 --> 00:44:41,900 that's holds all the kids toys over the past X amount 1264 00:44:41,900 --> 00:44:45,040 of time and when you hit a button on the toy box, 1265 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,740 it presents you with one toy from the past 1266 00:44:48,740 --> 00:44:50,660 and you can pick it up and play with it. 1267 00:44:50,660 --> 00:44:53,460 You can vote on it and say, I like this toy 1268 00:44:53,460 --> 00:44:55,500 or I don't like this toy. 1269 00:44:55,500 --> 00:44:57,260 And if you vote that you don't like it, 1270 00:44:57,260 --> 00:44:59,180 it puts it in a recycle bin. 1271 00:44:59,180 --> 00:45:02,000 And if you do like it, it puts it back in the, 1272 00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:03,740 I will play with this later bin. 1273 00:45:03,740 --> 00:45:04,780 And it actually sort-- 1274 00:45:04,780 --> 00:45:05,620 - The trap door underneath it. 1275 00:45:05,620 --> 00:45:07,420 - It sorts your toy room for you. 1276 00:45:07,420 --> 00:45:12,140 I think the MVP for it is all downvoted toys go into a box, 1277 00:45:12,140 --> 00:45:15,100 all upvoted toys go into their own holding compartment 1278 00:45:15,100 --> 00:45:17,020 and then it presents it for you. 1279 00:45:17,020 --> 00:45:19,580 I think there could be nuanced ways to deal with it 1280 00:45:19,580 --> 00:45:22,580 in terms of the amount of times things get downvoted. 1281 00:45:22,580 --> 00:45:24,260 You could do like the Pandora system 1282 00:45:24,260 --> 00:45:26,460 where you get a certain amount of downvotes at a time. 1283 00:45:26,460 --> 00:45:29,320 - Or it's how long it spent out like this one. 1284 00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,220 Wow, you guys got like four weeks out of this one 1285 00:45:31,220 --> 00:45:32,060 where that one was only, 1286 00:45:32,060 --> 00:45:33,380 you got bored out of it after two days. 1287 00:45:33,380 --> 00:45:34,260 - Totally. - Yeah. 1288 00:45:34,260 --> 00:45:36,340 - But the bottom line is I want a toy box 1289 00:45:36,340 --> 00:45:39,400 that separates out the bad toys I need to get rid of 1290 00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,880 and upvotes the good toys so we pull them out 1291 00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:43,900 at the right time so they don't have to buy junk 1292 00:45:43,900 --> 00:45:45,260 from my kids every Christmas. 1293 00:45:45,260 --> 00:45:47,500 - Robbie, this rules. 1294 00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:49,020 I have a four and two year old also. 1295 00:45:49,020 --> 00:45:52,780 And we have a thing where about every week, 1296 00:45:52,780 --> 00:45:56,380 maybe every two weeks, we do a toy rotation, quote unquote. 1297 00:45:56,380 --> 00:45:57,760 We're getting rid of all the trains. 1298 00:45:57,760 --> 00:45:59,540 They're going away for many months. 1299 00:45:59,540 --> 00:46:01,300 We're gonna get new stuff out of the closet 1300 00:46:01,300 --> 00:46:04,420 and we have like a subset of stuff out at any given time. 1301 00:46:04,420 --> 00:46:05,880 The kids feel less overwhelmed 1302 00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,340 and we get that effect you're talking about often. 1303 00:46:08,340 --> 00:46:10,100 When we're about to like, oh God, 1304 00:46:10,100 --> 00:46:11,780 I'm gonna be gone at a conference for four days 1305 00:46:11,780 --> 00:46:14,780 or oh man, the kids are sick or whatever it is, 1306 00:46:14,780 --> 00:46:16,700 we just, let's just do a rotation 1307 00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:19,380 and we'll get that like immediate hit of a new thing 1308 00:46:19,380 --> 00:46:22,100 they haven't seen in a while and it always works. 1309 00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:22,940 Productizing that is genius. 1310 00:46:22,940 --> 00:46:25,740 - I was picturing a toy bin with a kid sitting in front of it 1311 00:46:25,740 --> 00:46:28,060 swiping left or right like Tinder. 1312 00:46:28,060 --> 00:46:30,500 - Slapping into a Power Rangers, yes train. 1313 00:46:30,500 --> 00:46:31,480 - On the iPad. 1314 00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:36,020 - Are we training the kids for Russ's left corner? 1315 00:46:36,020 --> 00:46:36,900 - That's right. 1316 00:46:36,900 --> 00:46:38,660 Do you love this toy or do you not? 1317 00:46:38,660 --> 00:46:44,660 - This Marble Run set is three and a half stars, yeah. 1318 00:46:44,660 --> 00:46:46,900 I think the ideal version of it though 1319 00:46:46,900 --> 00:46:49,220 is some version of, you know, the useless mechanism 1320 00:46:49,220 --> 00:46:51,220 where it's like you put something on top of the box 1321 00:46:51,220 --> 00:46:52,060 and then you hit the button 1322 00:46:52,060 --> 00:46:53,820 and like a hand comes out and grabs it 1323 00:46:53,820 --> 00:46:56,380 or like the finger comes out and like hits the off button. 1324 00:46:56,380 --> 00:46:57,980 Yeah, it's like, it is kind of that thing 1325 00:46:57,980 --> 00:47:00,500 where it's like you put something on the toy box 1326 00:47:00,500 --> 00:47:01,340 and then you hit a button 1327 00:47:01,340 --> 00:47:03,140 and then it grabs it and pulls it away 1328 00:47:03,140 --> 00:47:04,380 and based on how you vote on it, 1329 00:47:04,380 --> 00:47:06,460 it like sorts it in different areas. 1330 00:47:06,460 --> 00:47:08,740 - A reverse vending machine, that's genius. 1331 00:47:08,740 --> 00:47:10,460 - Yeah, exactly. 1332 00:47:10,460 --> 00:47:11,300 - I love that. 1333 00:47:11,300 --> 00:47:12,260 - And then when they hit the button 1334 00:47:12,260 --> 00:47:13,720 and they're like, I want a new toy, 1335 00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:15,700 then it does, it kind of does what you say, Leo, 1336 00:47:15,700 --> 00:47:17,640 or it like gives them something new and interesting 1337 00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,980 maybe they haven't seen for a year or six months. 1338 00:47:20,980 --> 00:47:22,660 - It's doing the sorting algorithm of like, 1339 00:47:22,660 --> 00:47:24,740 here's one that I know you haven't touched in a long time. 1340 00:47:24,740 --> 00:47:26,300 Let's see how well it works. 1341 00:47:26,300 --> 00:47:27,140 What do you rate it? 1342 00:47:27,140 --> 00:47:28,180 Yes or no thumbs up. 1343 00:47:28,180 --> 00:47:29,700 How long do you actually keep it out? 1344 00:47:29,700 --> 00:47:30,940 Yes, that's great. 1345 00:47:30,940 --> 00:47:32,020 It's kind of like the book idea. 1346 00:47:32,020 --> 00:47:32,940 So a couple of episodes ago, 1347 00:47:32,940 --> 00:47:35,500 I pitched a smarter bookshelf 1348 00:47:35,500 --> 00:47:39,620 where like it would keep track of what books, 1349 00:47:39,620 --> 00:47:41,380 where I know they get put away 1350 00:47:41,380 --> 00:47:44,000 and how often I've taken them out to read them and stuff. 1351 00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:45,720 I also want this with my closet. 1352 00:47:45,720 --> 00:47:47,000 I haven't mentioned this as a pitch, 1353 00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:48,320 but this is something that's been on my list. 1354 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:50,200 I want exactly what you're describing, 1355 00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:53,960 but every shirt, pants, sweatshirt that I own 1356 00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:55,960 has like an NFC tag on it or something. 1357 00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,320 And I know how long it's been since I've worn it. 1358 00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:00,000 And I don't wear that shirt very often 1359 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:00,960 so I can get rid of it. 1360 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:02,040 I want the toy bin, 1361 00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:04,880 but for knowing I actually don't wear that shirt. 1362 00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:08,080 - Yeah, scan yourself as you walk out each day. 1363 00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:09,060 I like that. 1364 00:48:09,060 --> 00:48:10,300 (laughing) 1365 00:48:10,300 --> 00:48:12,200 - You wear that sweatshirt every three days. 1366 00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,720 - So you don't like NFC tags or barcodes on a toy, right? 1367 00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:16,740 And every time they take it, 1368 00:48:16,740 --> 00:48:19,760 they just scan upvote, the upvote scanner, 1369 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,200 the downvote scanner, right? 1370 00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,600 And now you have a log of all your barcodes 1371 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,480 and your inventory tracker. 1372 00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,840 - I don't even know if you need like NFC tags on it. 1373 00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:30,640 I was just with Robbie the other day 1374 00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:33,360 and we were at like this little kiosk. 1375 00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:35,280 You could purchase food in this building 1376 00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:36,780 and there was no attendant there. 1377 00:48:36,780 --> 00:48:38,120 It was just like a platform 1378 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,240 and you put whatever food you wanted to purchase on it 1379 00:48:41,240 --> 00:48:43,600 and it instantly rang it up with a camera system 1380 00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,120 and said, "Here's your total swipe here." 1381 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,120 You can do this all with cameras. 1382 00:48:47,120 --> 00:48:48,600 - Oh, I guess that's true. 1383 00:48:48,600 --> 00:48:50,600 Just throw an old smartphone on it, 1384 00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:52,840 run the app and just maybe run that. 1385 00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:54,160 - Or like a self checkout 1386 00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:55,640 when you go to pick the produce. 1387 00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:57,960 T-R-A-O, train set, got it. 1388 00:48:57,960 --> 00:48:59,840 - And is there a way to do like an exchange 1389 00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:01,040 or something on the back end 1390 00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,960 where like all of our bad toys now just get put in boxes 1391 00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:06,360 and like, you know, given away for free or donated. 1392 00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,000 But it's like, if you have the same system 1393 00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:09,320 as other people, could you say, 1394 00:49:09,320 --> 00:49:11,440 "Hey, our kids think these toys are garbage. 1395 00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,000 Your kids think these toys are garbage." 1396 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,400 But I think my kid would actually like to try that. 1397 00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:16,840 - Based on the data of what they like. 1398 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:18,760 'Cause you have all that now, that's a great idea. 1399 00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:19,600 - Yeah. 1400 00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,240 - It's like Storazon, but for kids. 1401 00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:22,480 - Yeah, it's Storazon. 1402 00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:24,700 - A few episodes ago, Russell pitched an idea 1403 00:49:24,700 --> 00:49:26,160 that I haven't stopped thinking about 1404 00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,400 where you've got your own storage unit 1405 00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:30,000 but you don't know where it is. 1406 00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,800 And instead it's like things get whisked away 1407 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:34,960 and inventoried and you can check them back out 1408 00:49:34,960 --> 00:49:36,400 from your own library of stuff 1409 00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:37,240 but they're just being stored away. 1410 00:49:37,240 --> 00:49:38,080 - Delivered to you by Prime. 1411 00:49:38,080 --> 00:49:39,800 - And delivered to you in two days shipping. 1412 00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:43,800 Yeah, you have Fisher Price is my first Storazon. 1413 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:45,400 (laughing) 1414 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:50,280 - Guys, I have on my ideas list, toy rotation shared. 1415 00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,560 A shared toy rotation where you literally, 1416 00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:53,400 I didn't want to say-- 1417 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:54,240 - There you go. 1418 00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:55,060 - Yeah. 1419 00:49:55,060 --> 00:49:55,900 - Clearly this is it. 1420 00:49:55,900 --> 00:49:56,740 - Yeah, it's it. 1421 00:49:56,740 --> 00:49:58,200 Like you just, you send it to the network 1422 00:49:58,200 --> 00:49:59,680 of share economy, right? 1423 00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,120 And it's like you have your toy library, right? 1424 00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:03,560 And you're giving donations to it 1425 00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:06,780 and you're pulling random toys to pull from. 1426 00:50:06,780 --> 00:50:07,620 But-- 1427 00:50:07,620 --> 00:50:09,760 - You lice all the crap out of that thing 1428 00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:11,320 the second it comes out of the box. 1429 00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,000 You just gotta de-lice it. 1430 00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:13,840 Ugh. 1431 00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,440 (laughing) 1432 00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,920 That was in someone's mouth like an hour ago for sure. 1433 00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:21,120 - It makes me think though, 1434 00:50:21,120 --> 00:50:23,760 where do all the toys that go? 1435 00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:26,960 Like I feel like the amount of toys that I've gotten 1436 00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,680 and I must give them all away or like, 1437 00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:31,120 but like, or maybe I just throw them out. 1438 00:50:31,120 --> 00:50:34,640 But like there have been so many children before my kid 1439 00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:38,120 and I think how much crap they've generated. 1440 00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:41,940 Like why, like is this all living in Goodwill 1441 00:50:41,940 --> 00:50:43,980 or has Goodwill said any kid toy 1442 00:50:43,980 --> 00:50:46,180 would just send it right to the trash? 1443 00:50:46,180 --> 00:50:49,140 'Cause there must be hundreds of thousands of pounds 1444 00:50:49,140 --> 00:50:51,460 locally every day. 1445 00:50:51,460 --> 00:50:53,660 Just, it should just go to a toy library 1446 00:50:53,660 --> 00:50:54,980 or something, right? 1447 00:50:54,980 --> 00:50:58,540 - I think there's way more landfills than you're aware of. 1448 00:50:58,540 --> 00:51:01,900 And there's also way more children being born 1449 00:51:01,900 --> 00:51:04,300 than you're aware of that get secondhand toys, right? 1450 00:51:04,300 --> 00:51:06,740 Like there's a lot of kids living with secondhand toys. 1451 00:51:06,740 --> 00:51:09,500 My kids are playing with stuff that I played with 1452 00:51:09,500 --> 00:51:10,500 when I was a kid. 1453 00:51:10,500 --> 00:51:12,500 And I think that some of it is that, right? 1454 00:51:12,500 --> 00:51:13,340 - Us too. 1455 00:51:13,340 --> 00:51:14,180 - But yeah, a lot of it's garbage. 1456 00:51:14,180 --> 00:51:15,000 It's garbage. 1457 00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:17,220 There's, let's not walk around this topic 1458 00:51:17,220 --> 00:51:19,540 that it's all plastic waste. 1459 00:51:19,540 --> 00:51:21,920 - We should, what is it, break them down, 1460 00:51:21,920 --> 00:51:23,580 throw it into my 3D printer network 1461 00:51:23,580 --> 00:51:27,580 and now we got plastic, recycle, melted down into PLA. 1462 00:51:27,580 --> 00:51:28,660 - Turn it into spools of filament. 1463 00:51:28,660 --> 00:51:29,740 - We'll melt them really hot 1464 00:51:29,740 --> 00:51:31,420 and then we'll clean our windshields with it. 1465 00:51:31,420 --> 00:51:33,020 (laughing) 1466 00:51:33,020 --> 00:51:34,340 - In a circle. 1467 00:51:34,340 --> 00:51:36,580 (laughing) 1468 00:51:36,580 --> 00:51:38,020 - Yes, man, yes. 1469 00:51:38,020 --> 00:51:40,740 I wonder too, like what's cool about your idea, Robbie, 1470 00:51:40,740 --> 00:51:42,860 is that not only do they pull it off the shelf, 1471 00:51:42,860 --> 00:51:45,320 it sounds like they're also putting a toy away. 1472 00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,780 So like that is ingenious. 1473 00:51:48,780 --> 00:51:50,540 - It's a little bit of the monkey in the cage 1474 00:51:50,540 --> 00:51:52,660 learning to like press the button to get a reward. 1475 00:51:52,660 --> 00:51:54,020 Like if I want to play with a new toy, 1476 00:51:54,020 --> 00:51:56,420 I got to clean up this set and put it back away. 1477 00:51:56,420 --> 00:51:59,140 You're like conditioning them to keep things clean, you know? 1478 00:51:59,140 --> 00:52:00,820 - I didn't want to pitch it that way, 1479 00:52:00,820 --> 00:52:05,320 but it is totally a psychological pick up your toys. 1480 00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:10,320 You can use the awesome toy box if you pick up your toys. 1481 00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,620 - Give a toy, take a toy, right? 1482 00:52:12,620 --> 00:52:13,780 - Well, it's not my rule. 1483 00:52:13,780 --> 00:52:15,340 Yeah, that's how the box works. 1484 00:52:15,340 --> 00:52:17,380 You got to put the whole train set back into the box, 1485 00:52:17,380 --> 00:52:19,220 otherwise it won't spit out a new fun thing to play with. 1486 00:52:19,220 --> 00:52:20,060 - That's right. 1487 00:52:20,060 --> 00:52:20,880 - You're not the bad guy. 1488 00:52:20,880 --> 00:52:21,720 - That's just how it goes, sorry. 1489 00:52:21,720 --> 00:52:22,540 - Brilliant. 1490 00:52:22,540 --> 00:52:24,580 - It would also teach your kids how to hack the system 1491 00:52:24,580 --> 00:52:28,260 'cause they would like keep the good toys outside the box 1492 00:52:28,260 --> 00:52:29,740 and never put them away. 1493 00:52:29,740 --> 00:52:31,580 So you'd be teaching your children 1494 00:52:31,580 --> 00:52:33,460 probably nefarious activities, but. 1495 00:52:33,460 --> 00:52:36,020 - Fill it full of shoes and stuff, 1496 00:52:36,020 --> 00:52:36,860 trying to get it to spit out their toys. 1497 00:52:36,860 --> 00:52:39,660 - Just Indiana Jones-ing it with a different object 1498 00:52:39,660 --> 00:52:40,500 of similar weight. 1499 00:52:40,500 --> 00:52:42,140 - You go to grab the recycling box 1500 00:52:42,140 --> 00:52:45,620 and it's all your clothes that they've thrown in there. 1501 00:52:45,620 --> 00:52:47,140 - Who put a bag of pennies in here? 1502 00:52:47,140 --> 00:52:47,980 - There's my wallet. 1503 00:52:47,980 --> 00:52:50,220 (laughing) 1504 00:52:50,220 --> 00:52:51,060 - Yeah, right. 1505 00:52:51,060 --> 00:52:53,460 (laughing) 1506 00:52:53,460 --> 00:52:54,940 - They're looking for that one toy 1507 00:52:54,940 --> 00:52:56,980 and they just go through all of them at once 1508 00:52:56,980 --> 00:52:58,660 and they're just like, nope, nope, nope, nope. 1509 00:52:58,660 --> 00:53:00,020 Oh, the toy's not in this. 1510 00:53:00,020 --> 00:53:00,860 So I guess. 1511 00:53:00,860 --> 00:53:01,700 - Oh, that's true. 1512 00:53:01,700 --> 00:53:02,520 (laughing) 1513 00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:03,360 - Yeah. 1514 00:53:03,360 --> 00:53:04,200 (laughing) 1515 00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:05,020 - Throw off all the data. 1516 00:53:05,020 --> 00:53:05,860 - The algorithm could account for that. 1517 00:53:05,860 --> 00:53:08,300 - It's true, you can only do like three toys an hour. 1518 00:53:08,300 --> 00:53:10,360 Just, it locks, right? 1519 00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:13,940 - There's gotta be the like optimization algorithms 1520 00:53:13,940 --> 00:53:16,260 out there where it, I don't know. 1521 00:53:16,260 --> 00:53:17,940 How do you, it's sorting algorithms. 1522 00:53:17,940 --> 00:53:19,780 How do you take this list of things 1523 00:53:19,780 --> 00:53:21,620 and put them in order of most favorite to least favorite? 1524 00:53:21,620 --> 00:53:23,220 You gotta like throw some ones 1525 00:53:23,220 --> 00:53:24,540 that you think might be duds out there, 1526 00:53:24,540 --> 00:53:26,340 mix them in with the ones that are classics 1527 00:53:26,340 --> 00:53:27,820 that are always a big hit, you know? 1528 00:53:27,820 --> 00:53:29,740 - Yeah, there's gotta be a way to like force rank them too 1529 00:53:29,740 --> 00:53:31,300 if you like have two toys, 1530 00:53:31,300 --> 00:53:33,420 like put the one you don't want back. 1531 00:53:33,420 --> 00:53:34,240 Yeah, there's a lot. 1532 00:53:34,240 --> 00:53:35,220 I think there's a lot of ways to do it. 1533 00:53:35,220 --> 00:53:38,740 - How many times is something repeat dispensed 1534 00:53:38,740 --> 00:53:41,980 before it like loses its veneer and shelf life? 1535 00:53:41,980 --> 00:53:44,580 And yeah, there's so much interesting stats. 1536 00:53:44,580 --> 00:53:46,620 - I like the Pandora method of like, 1537 00:53:46,620 --> 00:53:49,220 you get three down votes, you know? 1538 00:53:49,220 --> 00:53:50,900 And then like you're stuck with this toy 1539 00:53:50,900 --> 00:53:52,180 if you don't like it. 1540 00:53:52,180 --> 00:53:53,180 Yeah, exactly. 1541 00:53:53,180 --> 00:53:54,000 Yeah. 1542 00:53:54,000 --> 00:53:55,020 But Russell, you're right. 1543 00:53:55,020 --> 00:53:58,420 I fear that if you open up the recycling piece, 1544 00:53:58,420 --> 00:54:00,180 it's gonna have like the Brussels sprouts 1545 00:54:00,180 --> 00:54:03,100 you tried to get your kids to eat a month ago 1546 00:54:03,100 --> 00:54:05,220 that they just shoved into a toy box. 1547 00:54:05,220 --> 00:54:06,740 (laughing) 1548 00:54:06,740 --> 00:54:08,420 - Gotta check it regularly, yeah. 1549 00:54:08,420 --> 00:54:10,060 Well, thank you very much for listening, everybody. 1550 00:54:10,060 --> 00:54:11,100 We hope you enjoyed yourself. 1551 00:54:11,100 --> 00:54:12,480 And thank you so much, Robbie. 1552 00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:15,340 Man, I'm gonna be thinking about that all week now. 1553 00:54:15,340 --> 00:54:16,180 - Thanks guys. 1554 00:54:16,180 --> 00:54:17,000 I appreciate you having me on. 1555 00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:17,840 It was a fun time. 1556 00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:18,680 - Dude, come back anytime. 1557 00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:20,340 I hear you have more ideas. 1558 00:54:20,340 --> 00:54:22,660 Our website is Spitball.show. 1559 00:54:22,660 --> 00:54:24,780 There you can find links to our YouTube channel, 1560 00:54:24,780 --> 00:54:27,380 all you recent Google podcast refugees. 1561 00:54:27,380 --> 00:54:28,900 We've got our shows on YouTube now. 1562 00:54:28,900 --> 00:54:30,500 All their social media, follow us there. 1563 00:54:30,500 --> 00:54:32,180 We're at Spitball.show. 1564 00:54:32,180 --> 00:54:34,380 Email us questions, feedback, ideas, 1565 00:54:34,380 --> 00:54:35,460 things that we missed. 1566 00:54:35,460 --> 00:54:36,940 Maybe the toy box already exists 1567 00:54:36,940 --> 00:54:37,780 and we didn't know about it. 1568 00:54:37,780 --> 00:54:39,380 We're podcast@Spitball.show. 1569 00:54:39,380 --> 00:54:40,580 We'd love to hear about it. 1570 00:54:40,580 --> 00:54:42,300 And that's also how you can follow us on the FedVerse 1571 00:54:42,300 --> 00:54:43,140 such as Macedon. 1572 00:54:43,140 --> 00:54:45,420 We're just podcast@Spitball.show. 1573 00:54:45,420 --> 00:54:47,300 Our subreddit is r/spitballshow. 1574 00:54:47,300 --> 00:54:50,100 Our intro/outro music is "Swingers" by Bonkers Beat Club. 1575 00:54:50,100 --> 00:54:51,420 Please, if you wouldn't mind, 1576 00:54:51,420 --> 00:54:52,860 especially on Spotify, YouTube, 1577 00:54:52,860 --> 00:54:54,100 we'd love a five-star review. 1578 00:54:54,100 --> 00:54:56,180 Subscribe, rate, leave comments, 1579 00:54:56,180 --> 00:54:58,420 wherever you are listening to us right now. 1580 00:54:58,420 --> 00:54:59,860 If there's a button next to the name, 1581 00:54:59,860 --> 00:55:01,060 Spitball, please press it. 1582 00:55:01,060 --> 00:55:03,180 That would really help other people find the show. 1583 00:55:03,180 --> 00:55:05,340 New episode is coming out in two weeks. 1584 00:55:05,340 --> 00:55:06,460 We will see you then. 1585 00:55:06,460 --> 00:55:09,060 (upbeat music) 1586 00:55:09,060 --> 00:55:11,820 (dramatic music)