1 00:00:02,580 --> 00:00:06,040 - I'm Scott. 2 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:06,880 - I'm Russell. 3 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:07,700 - And I'm Leo. 4 00:00:07,700 --> 00:00:08,540 This is Spitball. 5 00:00:11,120 --> 00:00:18,400 Welcome to Spitball, 6 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:20,300 where three hacker heroes and a guest 7 00:00:20,300 --> 00:00:22,380 empty their heads of startup and tech product ideas 8 00:00:22,380 --> 00:00:23,560 that we have stuck up in there 9 00:00:23,560 --> 00:00:25,480 so you can all have them for free. 10 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:27,120 Anything that we say is yours to keep. 11 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,520 And Scott, you brought our guest with us this week, right? 12 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:30,960 - I did. 13 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:33,880 We have our longtime friend, Ali, with us today. 14 00:00:33,880 --> 00:00:35,360 Ali is from Maine. 15 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:37,560 She's captain of the Trivia Trollops 16 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:38,680 and is currently a survivor 17 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:40,840 of the cicada apocalypse out in Chicago. 18 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:41,880 Welcome, Ali. 19 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,480 - Hi, glad to be here. 20 00:00:44,480 --> 00:00:46,200 - Oh, this is gonna be great. 21 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,600 Ali, like a guest before her, 22 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:50,720 has brought so many ideas that we thought this week 23 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:52,780 would be fun to do another intramurals round. 24 00:00:52,780 --> 00:00:54,160 So we're gonna do a warmup run 25 00:00:54,160 --> 00:00:56,280 with a couple of rapid fire ideas, one each. 26 00:00:56,280 --> 00:00:59,240 And who wants to go first? 27 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:00,680 - I can go first. 28 00:01:00,680 --> 00:01:01,840 - Do it, hit us. 29 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:06,840 - So anyone who has done a long car trip with children 30 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:10,040 understands the pain of the arm reach around, 31 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:13,180 handing a snack, messing with a tablet. 32 00:01:13,180 --> 00:01:16,360 I want a car conveyor belt. 33 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,800 I want a little platform next to my seat 34 00:01:19,800 --> 00:01:22,920 that I can put the snack on and I can just push it back 35 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:25,400 so I don't have to reach my arm around 36 00:01:25,400 --> 00:01:26,440 and they can take it off. 37 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:28,400 And then if they need help with the tablet, 38 00:01:28,400 --> 00:01:30,520 they can put it on, push it forward. 39 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:34,400 There's no grabbing, no danger while you're driving. 40 00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:36,920 I also drive a minivan. 41 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:39,920 So if my kids are in the back seat, I can't reach them. 42 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:40,760 - Like in the way back. 43 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:44,140 - I need a device that will get snack 44 00:01:44,140 --> 00:01:47,040 from point A to point B and keep me safe while driving. 45 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:48,280 - Snack delivery system. 46 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:49,720 - Does it go both ways? 47 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,800 Like the kids can, you know, sometimes if you're driving, 48 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,640 you have to get the snack that the kid has. 49 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:57,000 They just, it just sounds really good in the back. 50 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 - Oh yeah, it's the mom tax. 51 00:01:59,000 --> 00:01:59,960 I need a bite. 52 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:01,600 - The mom tax, there it is. 53 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,060 - One gusher please. 54 00:02:03,060 --> 00:02:06,460 - How about a whole pneumatic tube delivery system? 55 00:02:06,460 --> 00:02:08,720 Like a bank. 56 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:09,560 - You put an iPad through that? 57 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,520 - So I was thinking like if it's in the middle, 58 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:14,360 it's gonna stop kids from getting in and out. 59 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:16,480 So I was thinking you could put it like on the ceiling. 60 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:19,880 - Whoa, just like a claw that goes back and forth. 61 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:21,360 - Or like hooks all along it 62 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,360 so you can like hang the little Ziploc bag on it 63 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:24,560 and it goes back, that's fun. 64 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:26,680 - Yeah, like a laundry thing. 65 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:27,720 - Yeah. 66 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:28,920 - Yeah. 67 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:31,640 - Zip lines, you could zip line. 68 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:32,480 - Clothesline, yes. 69 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,960 - I like this idea just 'cause of the instant recognition 70 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:36,480 on both Leo and Russell's faces. 71 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,240 As soon as you said that, like, oh my God, absolutely. 72 00:02:39,240 --> 00:02:41,320 - Yes. 73 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,840 - You initially, you guys initially texted me 74 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,080 right before I got in the car to drive it to Michigan. 75 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,280 So of course I'm driving and I'm thinking 76 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:53,240 and as I'm thinking, I'm reaching behind to get a snack 77 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,120 and I'm like, oh my God, this sucks. 78 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:57,720 - That's the whole point of the show, man. 79 00:02:57,720 --> 00:02:58,560 Train your brain to look around. 80 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:00,400 - That's where the idea came from. 81 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,200 - See these problems, highlight it. 82 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:06,000 - For Scott, your doggy treat delivery, all right? 83 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:06,840 - There it is. 84 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:08,360 - You got Trooper in the back. 85 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,000 You know, I'm sure it's easier, 86 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,080 you can throw it back there and he'll figure it out. 87 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,920 - If I have treats up front and he knows it, 88 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:16,680 he is also up front. 89 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,440 There is no delivery system needed. 90 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,280 - But that is a good thought. 91 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:22,840 - Unless you trained him to be obedient 92 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:24,440 and wait in the seat for the delivery 93 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,160 and the conveyor belt to bring it to him. 94 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:30,280 - That sounds like the same thing with extra steps. 95 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:32,160 - Yeah, you could probably do that today 96 00:03:32,160 --> 00:03:37,160 with a couple metal cables and little chip clips. 97 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:41,720 You just, you know, get a couple angled cables, 98 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:45,240 zip line that, you know, from the front to the back. 99 00:03:45,240 --> 00:03:47,160 It only goes one way though, you know. 100 00:03:47,160 --> 00:03:48,800 - You can get a pulley, you just have a whole loop 101 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:50,400 and then you just gotta do this move to it. 102 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,200 - Just a big magnesium magnet and stick it up there 103 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:54,680 and just have it go back and forth. 104 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:56,760 - Guys are geniuses, yeah, just a pulley. 105 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,120 Just a pulley system, you know. 106 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:02,960 - Like a chairlift at a ski resort, yeah. 107 00:04:02,960 --> 00:04:03,800 - I didn't even think of that, yeah. 108 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:05,200 - You just got the constant loop going 109 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:07,760 and you just hang something like a sushi buffet or something. 110 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,080 - Yes, light it up and you got yourself a, 111 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,280 now it doesn't look like a conveyor belt system, 112 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,520 it looks like a decoration, you know. 113 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,360 - I really like this idea. 114 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:20,840 This is very easy to prototype. 115 00:04:20,840 --> 00:04:22,800 - Should have saved it for my Spitball. 116 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,720 - I have to move this to Varsity for the murals. 117 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:29,080 - Bring it up to JV. 118 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:30,480 - All right, Leo, what do you got? 119 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:34,120 - So there are music streaming apps 120 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,120 and there are audio book streaming apps, 121 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:40,040 but standup comedy has been languishing 122 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:41,960 without its own place, its own home. 123 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:46,280 And I am constantly annoyed that standup comedy albums 124 00:04:46,280 --> 00:04:49,000 are treated like music, like tracks, 125 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:50,840 where it doesn't really keep track like a podcast 126 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:52,200 of how far you are through it. 127 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,280 It doesn't recommend good similar artists in the same way. 128 00:04:55,280 --> 00:04:57,200 I wish that there was a dedicated, 129 00:04:57,200 --> 00:04:59,800 either built into Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, 130 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:01,120 or a totally separate service 131 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,480 that it was just for standup recommendations, 132 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,880 for keeping track of stuff that works like a podcast app, 133 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,280 but is better at, I mean, 134 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:11,400 there's thousands of comedy albums out there 135 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,000 and I'm a big fan, but discovery is hard 136 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,880 and keeping track of what I have and haven't heard. 137 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:17,520 If you try to go back to an album 138 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:18,760 that you partway listened through, 139 00:05:18,760 --> 00:05:20,520 it's so hard to figure out where you left off 140 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:22,600 because they're just treated like music tracks. 141 00:05:22,600 --> 00:05:23,520 I want that. 142 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:25,320 Come on, Spotify, who's the product manager over there 143 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:26,240 who needs a promotion? 144 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:27,080 - That's right. 145 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,920 I'm almost picturing like TikTok for comedy, 146 00:05:29,920 --> 00:05:31,760 where it's just like, I can just scroll 147 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:33,160 and there's another comedian there, 148 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,320 but it lets you save it off to the side 149 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:37,440 or remembers what you had before. 150 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:39,640 - I would love, yeah, that'd be great. 151 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:43,400 The YouTube algorithm, but for, or the TikTok algorithm, 152 00:05:43,400 --> 00:05:46,920 but just audio, or maybe it is audio and video too. 153 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,520 And it's doing a better job of that. 154 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:50,160 That is an underserved market 155 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:51,960 that I am a fan of and a part of. 156 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:55,200 - I actually really like that where it is just audio. 157 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:56,600 'Cause like I'm in driving in the car 158 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,200 and there's TikTok running, 159 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,080 but like it's just me hitting one button, 160 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:01,640 the skip button on something and I don't like it, 161 00:06:01,640 --> 00:06:03,240 but the algorithm's still there. 162 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:05,040 - Thumbs up, thumbs down if you want. 163 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:05,880 - Sure. 164 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:08,000 - You could sell a little like coin size accessory 165 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,000 that goes on the steering wheel. 166 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:10,440 That's a thumbs up and thumbs down, 167 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,560 little Bluetooth controller or something. 168 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:13,560 - Dude, that's really cool. 169 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:16,080 I think that's a million dollar idea right there. 170 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:22,560 - Yeah, man, get me like a wifi enabled iPod shuffle, 171 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:24,240 but thumbs up and thumbs down. 172 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:27,520 That's got constant stream of tracks from comedians. 173 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:28,400 I would love that. 174 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:30,600 I would eat that up, save for later. 175 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,040 I really like this person, really like this genre. 176 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:35,280 That'd be great. 177 00:06:35,280 --> 00:06:37,720 - I think that would make more comedians come online. 178 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,400 I feel like there's a lot of like maybe unknown comedians 179 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:42,520 that are local that you're just getting the- 180 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:44,640 - Yes, you fall into some niche. 181 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,360 There's like, oh, this random unknown comedian 182 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:48,520 is actually perfect for you. 183 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:49,360 That's a great call. 184 00:06:49,360 --> 00:06:51,000 - You could have like a discovery page 185 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,600 where it's like smaller people from like local clubs 186 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,600 in like San Diego or like Austin. 187 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:57,440 - 100%. 188 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:58,280 - Whoa. - I like it. 189 00:06:58,280 --> 00:06:59,480 - All right, Russell, you're up, what's up? 190 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:00,320 - All right. 191 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,800 This is true intramural 192 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:04,120 'cause I don't know where to go with it. 193 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:06,240 (laughing) 194 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:11,240 Okay, so interest rates are high, home buying is hard. 195 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:13,800 Why not make, and you know what? 196 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,040 I already trust my company with literally my livelihood 197 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:19,480 for medical health benefits. 198 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,080 Why can't I trust them with my home? 199 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:27,960 And so my suggestion is, is create a benefits package 200 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:30,640 that lowers my interest rate. 201 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:34,880 They own my home and now I can pay a part of my salary. 202 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:36,800 Maybe they match it, whatever. 203 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:39,400 - Oh, directly into your mortgage. 204 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,280 - Yeah, so my company owns my home 205 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:45,520 and they give some sort of benefit. 206 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,000 So instead of paying an insane interest, 207 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,720 it's like, hey, I will work for this company 208 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:54,640 for 10, 15 years if I get a 15 year mortgage 209 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:56,080 with no interest. 210 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,520 Like literally I am making so much money 211 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,360 by trusting my company with my homely livelihood. 212 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:04,960 I already trust them with my, 213 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:06,760 I mean my health benefits in a way. 214 00:08:06,760 --> 00:08:09,280 So like why not just take the million dollars 215 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:10,640 that's gonna go to a bank, 216 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:12,360 ensure that I'm gonna be with this company 217 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,360 for another 10 years. 218 00:08:14,360 --> 00:08:18,000 And I mean, hell, I'm already paying my principal. 219 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,200 Like it's just all around just, 220 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:23,960 I feel like everybody wins in this situation. 221 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:25,880 You get loyalty with a company. 222 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:27,320 - You're corporate overlord. 223 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,280 - Yeah, I mean. 224 00:08:29,280 --> 00:08:33,200 - The company owns your very livelihood and can abuse you. 225 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,520 - You know, in the same way a bank can do that, right? 226 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:36,360 What's the worst? 227 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:37,400 - I got evicted by my boss. 228 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:38,240 - Yeah. 229 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:41,040 - But what if you got demoted? 230 00:08:41,040 --> 00:08:42,560 Would they be like, okay, sorry, 231 00:08:42,560 --> 00:08:44,240 you gotta move to like the shittier house 232 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,600 two blocks down now. 233 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:46,760 - No, I think that's, 234 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:49,660 I think it's part of the package is you pick your home, 235 00:08:49,660 --> 00:08:52,320 whatever you wanna pick, they just own the home. 236 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,000 - The boss has the corner office 237 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:55,560 and has the lakefront property. 238 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:56,400 - Oh man. 239 00:08:56,400 --> 00:08:59,420 - There's something, if you get demoted, I mean. 240 00:08:59,420 --> 00:09:01,800 - That is interesting, Russell. 241 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,840 'Cause like all these companies out here, 242 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:05,320 if they're sitting on liquid cash, 243 00:09:05,320 --> 00:09:06,920 they can set their own interest rates. 244 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,120 They pay for it up front to the bank 245 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:10,840 or whoever the buyer is. 246 00:09:10,840 --> 00:09:14,560 You're paying 3% or whatever to your company. 247 00:09:14,560 --> 00:09:16,640 That, I love all of it, 248 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,000 minus the what happens when I leave that job. 249 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:20,200 - So you have to refinance. 250 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:21,960 As soon as you leave, you have to refinance 251 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:22,800 and go to a bank. 252 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:24,880 So you trust a bank anyway, right? 253 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,760 Or your next job, if this becomes popular, 254 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:30,680 takes on that same, like that's their benefit, right? 255 00:09:30,680 --> 00:09:31,520 So. 256 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:32,340 - I like that. 257 00:09:32,340 --> 00:09:33,760 You have it all pre-set up ahead of time. 258 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:35,080 Like if everything crashes, 259 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,400 then I'm gonna go to Huntington or whatever. 260 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:39,480 If I lose my job, I go to Huntington. 261 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:41,320 - Your Christmas bonus would be like 262 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:43,880 a 1% less interest rate. 263 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:44,720 - Hey, I would take that in a second. 264 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:46,800 - That would be an amazing bonus. 265 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:48,360 That would be incredible. 266 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:49,200 I'd be like. 267 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,000 'Cause like in a way, right? 268 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:53,060 It's like the same thing. 269 00:09:53,060 --> 00:09:55,360 It's money going to a bank instead of my, 270 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,260 like my boss is paying me to pay a bank. 271 00:09:58,260 --> 00:10:01,960 Like why not just cut the middleman out? 272 00:10:01,960 --> 00:10:03,560 - I'm sure we're missing a lot of things on this, 273 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:05,360 but I really like this. 274 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:07,520 - My boss gives me money and then I give it to a bank. 275 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:08,720 Why not cut out the middleman 276 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:10,240 and not have me any money? 277 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:11,680 I don't like having money. 278 00:10:11,680 --> 00:10:16,080 - Literally, guys, I was doing this mortgage thing 279 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:17,000 in our discord. 280 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:17,960 - Sure. 281 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:19,360 - Every dollar I borrow, 282 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,720 I pay 75 cents for every dollar I borrow over 30 years. 283 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:25,000 My first 10 years, 284 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,600 I am paying so much more money up front for interest. 285 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,280 And like, I literally am just renting my house 286 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:33,840 from the bank right now. 287 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:35,960 I just like, what the hell is this? 288 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:37,240 If I were to refinance, 289 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,720 I could have just rent from the bank even more. 290 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,720 There's something inherently evil 291 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:45,760 about the way interest rates are 292 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:46,640 and the way I want to own. 293 00:10:46,640 --> 00:10:50,040 And also it's a big problem for the world right now. 294 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:52,360 Sorry, this is beyond the rules now. 295 00:10:52,360 --> 00:10:53,520 So cut this out. 296 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,040 But like, we got problems. 297 00:10:55,040 --> 00:10:55,880 - Rise up. 298 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:57,540 - Hate the rich. 299 00:10:57,540 --> 00:11:00,560 - Like give me a flat fee 300 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:03,560 or let me own more of my house when I pay my mortgage. 301 00:11:03,560 --> 00:11:07,000 But I'm like, my company, like they have money. 302 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:08,240 Why can't they just buy my house 303 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:09,960 and I just get a discounted rate? 304 00:11:09,960 --> 00:11:11,240 I'll stay with them for 10 years 305 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,840 if they cut literally what I'm gonna do anyway, right? 306 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:14,840 If I'm already gonna stay there, 307 00:11:14,840 --> 00:11:16,080 like, I don't know, what's it to them? 308 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,400 So, that's it. 309 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:20,080 Somebody make that happen. 310 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:22,880 - I really like that. 311 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:25,760 - All right, Scott. 312 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,600 - How are you gonna eat the rich? 313 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:30,280 - What's your intramural? 314 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:32,200 - I had nowhere near that. 315 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:36,160 - I read an article the other day 316 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:40,120 of fabric that can block specific UV. 317 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,440 And my very first thought of that was like, 318 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,840 let's make SPF shirts, long sleeve shirts, 319 00:11:45,840 --> 00:11:47,760 where I can put it on and it's the equivalent 320 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:52,000 of having SPF 15 sunscreen on or SPF 30 sunscreen on. 321 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:52,840 - That's a thing. 322 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:54,040 - Is that a thing? 323 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:54,920 - Every parent-- 324 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:55,880 - Isn't that all shirts? 325 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:56,720 - Every parent knows this. 326 00:11:56,720 --> 00:11:59,040 - As a ginger, I can attest that is a thing. 327 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:02,080 - Are all shirts not SPF? 328 00:12:03,640 --> 00:12:05,280 - Yeah, but you just wear like a T-shirt, 329 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:06,880 I could get sunburned underneath it. 330 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:08,800 - I'm saying you just get, you specify like 331 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,800 the actual specific amount of how much SPF this is 332 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:12,640 and then brand it. 333 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:13,480 So, I have a full set. 334 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,520 I've got my 15, I got my 30, I got my 45 or whatever. 335 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:18,160 - This one's the tanning oil shirt. 336 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:19,000 - You know-- 337 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,520 - Yeah, exactly, SPF 5. 338 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:22,600 - That actually, honestly, Scott, 339 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:25,400 I think that would be very successful 340 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,600 'cause people probably don't connect the dots there. 341 00:12:28,600 --> 00:12:31,280 - As long as you branded it really obvious and in front 342 00:12:31,280 --> 00:12:34,800 and then you just target people who don't like to put on 343 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,760 icky sunscreen or something and then, I don't know. 344 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:40,640 - Which is me, I hate the feeling of sunscreen and lotion. 345 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:42,440 - There you go, now you can get a great tan 346 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:44,160 just by being outside. 347 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,480 - I have never considered that any item of clothing 348 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:50,680 that I wear is not already inherently SPF infinity. 349 00:12:50,680 --> 00:12:54,240 Like, does any UV light get through any outfits, clothes? 350 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,720 - That's why I was so excited about this particular article 351 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:58,880 is like this fabric, you can set the amount 352 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,000 based on thread, whatever. 353 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:01,840 So I'm like, yeah, let's just-- 354 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:04,360 - But it's not like translucent. 355 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:06,000 - It didn't look translucent. 356 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,400 I can't speak if you get that shirt wet, but. 357 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,680 - Yeah, 'cause I've seen like swimming shirts 358 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:13,480 and like exercise shirts, 359 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,440 but just not like a normal fabric shirt. 360 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:17,280 - Yeah, I don't wanna-- 361 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:18,600 - Is that the difference? 362 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,640 - I've seen like exercise ones where it's like 363 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,040 prevent all UV or UV proof or whatever. 364 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:25,000 I wanna do the opposite. 365 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,840 - It sounds like I'm hearing you say that this exact thing 366 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,760 is not, it lets through some 367 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:31,720 and that's the innovation. 368 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:32,560 - Yes. 369 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:34,680 - Before they just didn't let through any. 370 00:13:34,680 --> 00:13:35,520 - I mean-- 371 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:36,360 - That's interesting. 372 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,120 - Yeah, you could do the sun umbrellas, 373 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,840 you could do parasols, you could do not just clothes, 374 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,120 you could do like sheets, right? 375 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,760 Like literally you go to the beach and now you have a tent 376 00:13:47,760 --> 00:13:52,040 and the tent is literally like a UV lightener, right? 377 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:55,080 - Reducer, but not eliminator. 378 00:13:55,080 --> 00:13:57,160 - So I could like kind of tan. 379 00:13:57,160 --> 00:13:58,000 - Yes. 380 00:13:58,000 --> 00:13:59,480 - Instead of putting on sunscreen, 381 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,400 it's an alternative, 382 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:03,720 which you sell that to coral reefs all day. 383 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:05,440 - Ali, I think the blocker is, 384 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,160 you and I think of sunscreen as don't let any through, 385 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,120 but this is some people's definition 386 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:11,840 of only let some through. 387 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:13,400 - Which I don't want at all. 388 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:14,240 - Yeah, same. 389 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:16,160 (laughing) 390 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:17,000 - I want no sun. 391 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:19,480 - Interesting. 392 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,080 - Wow, you guys don't tan, huh? 393 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:22,760 - Not well. 394 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,280 - I come in two colors, red and white. 395 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:26,520 There's no in between. 396 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:27,560 - Very patriotic. 397 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:30,120 - Me and Scott have just a hint. 398 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:31,560 You know, the olive skin and the-- 399 00:14:31,560 --> 00:14:32,560 - Just a itty bitty. 400 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:34,280 (laughing) 401 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,520 - So for the Jersey Shore, Scott, is what you're saying. 402 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:39,680 We're gonna sell all these Jersey Shore. 403 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:42,800 - Those are some fun ones. 404 00:14:42,800 --> 00:14:43,640 Yeah. 405 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:46,040 - Should we like end it on like a, I don't know, 406 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:47,880 what award do you get in your ear murals? 407 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:49,080 - Participation trophy. 408 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:50,360 - All right, who? 409 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:52,120 Everybody gets a free T-shirt. 410 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:53,120 Yeah. 411 00:14:53,120 --> 00:14:54,480 - Yeah. 412 00:14:54,480 --> 00:14:57,080 - A free sunscreen T-shirt handed to you by a claw 413 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:57,920 in your minivan. 414 00:14:57,920 --> 00:14:59,360 (laughing) 415 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:01,560 - I couldn't pay your bill, yes. 416 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:02,400 - All right, Russell, you're up. 417 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:03,680 What do you got for us this week? 418 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:04,520 - All right. 419 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:05,360 - What's your varsity idea? 420 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:08,320 - Hmm, you know, it's a little off the wall, 421 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:13,320 but you know, sometimes I look at the infrastructure. 422 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,440 You know, sometimes it's just good to look up in general. 423 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,040 When you're going for a walk, you know, look up at the sky 424 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:21,920 and then you see all these power lines everywhere 425 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:25,280 and you're like, this is ugly. 426 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,360 And you know what's funny about power lines 427 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:32,360 is they go to every single home in any community, right? 428 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,960 And you know what else goes to every home? 429 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:39,200 Mailmen, UPS drivers. 430 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,360 There are people that do stuff every day 431 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:43,760 and they go to your house. 432 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:48,520 So why not create a system or a device 433 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:53,040 that connects to power lines to suck the power 434 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:56,440 out of the power lines and deliver your mail every day? 435 00:15:56,440 --> 00:16:01,040 You just have a mail carrier right in the utility lines, 436 00:16:01,040 --> 00:16:02,320 house to house. 437 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:06,440 I just don't see why we have the infrastructure. 438 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:08,200 Let's just add a device to it. 439 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:09,040 That's it. 440 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:09,860 Simple idea. 441 00:16:09,860 --> 00:16:10,700 - Wouldn't it blow up? 442 00:16:10,700 --> 00:16:13,440 - You tell the engineers to not let it blow up. 443 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:14,280 All right. 444 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:15,560 - Oh, I passed the many. 445 00:16:15,560 --> 00:16:16,400 - That's the engineer's problem. 446 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:17,360 - Requirement number one. 447 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,320 - The boys down in engineering have that solved. 448 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:21,280 Yeah, that's their problem. 449 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:22,520 - That's all you gotta do. 450 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:23,560 - Okay, I want to back up here. 451 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:27,240 Are we talking about like transferring data modularly 452 00:16:27,240 --> 00:16:32,240 through the power line or a claw that rides the power line 453 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:35,200 holding your Amazon package? 454 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:37,040 - The second, the latter. 455 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:38,600 - We're talking about claw machines tonight. 456 00:16:38,600 --> 00:16:39,760 - That makes me so happy. 457 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:42,520 - You've got a series of baskets that are traveling 458 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:45,360 like little locked safes all along the power lines. 459 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:50,360 They only unlock when they arrive at the house itself. 460 00:16:50,360 --> 00:16:52,840 They leach a little bit of ambient current 461 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,120 off of the line that they're hanging on, which is a thing. 462 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,440 - Delivers the mail, delivers packages. 463 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:03,360 You know, somebody somewhere said, 464 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:08,360 "Let's run wires on poles to every home in America." 465 00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:10,240 And nobody bat an eye. 466 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:14,160 Why can't we use those wires for other things? 467 00:17:14,160 --> 00:17:16,040 - I have a question. 468 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:17,200 - We're not taking any. 469 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:18,040 (laughs) 470 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:18,920 - Several. 471 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:19,760 Go ahead, Ali. 472 00:17:19,760 --> 00:17:22,880 - If the power line is buried, what do I do? 473 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:24,840 - I was thinking a little bit about how many of them 474 00:17:24,840 --> 00:17:27,440 in our neighborhood are currently being undergrounded. 475 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:30,040 - You tell your city to put poles back up. 476 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,440 You tell them they messed up. 477 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:34,600 - Do you know how much money I spent 478 00:17:34,600 --> 00:17:36,280 to bury that power line? 479 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,080 - You know how it's a great idea to take all 480 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:41,200 of our critical infrastructure and dangle it up on poles, 481 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,600 precarious poles, blowing in the breeze? 482 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,320 - It eliminates USPS. 483 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:46,760 - My boss likes to tell, 484 00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:48,280 I don't know if it's an old wives tale or what, 485 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,240 but a story about how the dog used to know 486 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:52,160 when the phone was gonna ring before it rang. 487 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:53,240 Did I tell you guys about this? 488 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:54,080 - No. 489 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:56,800 - So, I don't know if it's true or not, 490 00:17:56,800 --> 00:17:59,400 but the dog would be outside and it would start barking 491 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:00,520 and then a few seconds later, 492 00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:04,920 the landline phone back in the 60s or 70s or 80s would ring. 493 00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:06,600 And after a while, they realized, 494 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:11,400 well, there's a 60 volt current that would go along 495 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:15,360 the telephone line wire as it went to the house 496 00:18:15,360 --> 00:18:17,920 to make the bell ring on the landline phone. 497 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:20,520 And they were clipping the dog to the thing 498 00:18:20,520 --> 00:18:23,920 and the dog running along and over the years 499 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,120 had worn down the shielding on the cable. 500 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:30,240 So it was just getting zapped as the phone was about to ring. 501 00:18:30,240 --> 00:18:31,960 So you'd hear a ruff, ruff, ruff, ruff, 502 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:33,440 and then the phone would ring 503 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,960 'cause he was getting a little shock. 504 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,240 I do worry a little bit about the wear and tear 505 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:40,440 of a bunch of little baskets going along 506 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:42,480 all of our critical infrastructure. 507 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,120 - Did they name the dog Sparky? 508 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:48,240 - I hope so. 509 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:50,720 Oh, wear and tear, huh? 510 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:51,560 - Yeah. 511 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,360 - You know, somebody could fix that, right? 512 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:56,520 - I'm not here to be a naysayer to your genius. 513 00:18:56,520 --> 00:18:58,320 - It's a problem for the engineers. 514 00:18:58,320 --> 00:18:59,560 - That's right, okay. 515 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:03,440 You could use the bots to repair the wear. 516 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:04,680 - I was actually just thinking that. 517 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:06,720 - It's spraying a little bit of sealant or something. 518 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:07,560 Yeah, sure. 519 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:08,380 - There we go. 520 00:19:08,380 --> 00:19:09,720 You see, the engineer in the room thought of that 521 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:10,840 before everybody else. 522 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:11,960 - Some Flex Seal. 523 00:19:11,960 --> 00:19:13,880 - Flex Seal. 524 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,240 I actually love the idea of some kind of sloth looking bot 525 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:19,800 on wheels, like goes along, gets to the pole 526 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:22,840 and like slowly grabs to the other side of the pole 527 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:24,840 and then continues on. 528 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,360 That would just be incredible to see a bunch 529 00:19:27,360 --> 00:19:28,200 of those running around. 530 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:29,400 - That'd be great. 531 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:31,860 - But what would you do in a traffic jam? 532 00:19:31,860 --> 00:19:33,720 - Right. 533 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:37,040 Well, we could have like extendable where they go, 534 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:37,920 - Oh. 535 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:40,440 - You know, over and under and around each other maybe. 536 00:19:40,440 --> 00:19:42,840 - Okay, now that Scott has said sloth, 537 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,480 that's what I'm imagining and it would be adorable. 538 00:19:45,480 --> 00:19:47,240 So can we do this? 539 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:48,440 Like, can we make them, 540 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:49,280 - Reaching around. 541 00:19:49,280 --> 00:19:50,760 - Oh, that would be so fun if you gave them 542 00:19:50,760 --> 00:19:53,080 like little cute faces. 543 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:53,920 - The thing is, 544 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:55,440 - And they like hold the letters in their mouths. 545 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:56,320 - Yeah. 546 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:57,160 - Right. 547 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:00,760 But these workers 24/7, post people, right? 548 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,400 They're working nine to five, you know, 549 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:06,240 they have to sleep, they have a benefits. 550 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:08,560 No, I'm just saying like, you just get rid of, 551 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:10,640 you don't have to worry about time. 552 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:13,200 Literally mail arrives, when it arrives, 553 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:15,360 it could arrive three times a day. 554 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:18,440 It can arrive no times in a day. 555 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,320 You've changed the way logistics as a whole works 556 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,720 by using already existing infrastructure 557 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:27,400 that taxpayers have already paid for. 558 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:29,800 Boom, nobody loses. 559 00:20:29,800 --> 00:20:30,960 - Except the mailman. 560 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:32,760 - Except the mailman's pension. 561 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,040 You know. 562 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:36,080 - Russell, the more you talk, 563 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:38,400 the more I think you are a corporate overlord. 564 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:43,640 - Listen, if we were in the business to keep people working, 565 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,200 we would never have a lawnmower. 566 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:46,360 We'd have scythes. 567 00:20:46,360 --> 00:20:47,200 We would... 568 00:20:47,200 --> 00:20:51,600 - You're saying you want the USPS 569 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:55,200 to be the largest robotics maintenance contractor. 570 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:56,440 - One of the biggest. 571 00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:57,280 - Building these bots. 572 00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:01,040 - Right, buses, like if you think about all the jobs in cars 573 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,760 would be taken away if we just mass produced more buses. 574 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:04,960 No, I don't know. 575 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:06,240 Maybe I am a corporate overlord. 576 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:07,440 All I have to say is, 577 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:12,280 I just think there's underutilized something 578 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:15,480 with utility poles all over the nation. 579 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:17,600 - The engineer in me is crying. 580 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,440 - They're gonna go away if we just bury them, right? 581 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:22,480 To Ali's point, like let's just bury them, 582 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,520 but why not just sell the access? 583 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,520 I guess like, how's this? 584 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:30,680 Open access to utility poles. 585 00:21:30,680 --> 00:21:32,120 What if we level that up a little bit? 586 00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:35,680 So you just like, you charge rent on utility poles. 587 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:37,240 I don't know if that's how it works today. 588 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:39,560 - I would steal so much power if that was the case. 589 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:40,440 - That is a thing. 590 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:43,680 So like the AT&Ts and Comcasts of the world 591 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,800 work with our local contractor, 592 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,560 at least who owns the pole, 593 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,960 our local utility company puts it up 594 00:21:50,960 --> 00:21:53,120 and then basically they pay rent, yeah, 595 00:21:53,120 --> 00:21:55,400 to put their own cables up on the existing infrastructure. 596 00:21:55,400 --> 00:21:57,040 - I mean, there we go. 597 00:21:57,040 --> 00:21:58,400 - Why not USPS? 598 00:21:58,400 --> 00:21:59,240 Throw it on there as well. 599 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:00,080 - You're basically there. 600 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,840 - That actually could do a dedicated USPS line. 601 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:03,880 - Yes, right? 602 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:04,760 Let me throw this out there. 603 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,120 What if Amazon was like, we're gonna do this? 604 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:09,360 Like we got billions of dollars, 605 00:22:09,360 --> 00:22:10,440 we don't know what to do with it. 606 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:11,280 Would you pay-- 607 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:12,840 - Abandoning the drone project. 608 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:14,880 - Yes, they're abandoning the drone project 609 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:17,960 and now they're like, Amazon premium, 610 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:21,600 we need access to your utility pole, 611 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,080 but you have to pay $100 more a year, let's say. 612 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,320 Would you pay $100 more a year 613 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:28,520 to get your packages delivered? 614 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:29,560 - Same day. 615 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:32,800 - Well, they would be like replacing paying people. 616 00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:34,680 They shouldn't charge me more for this. 617 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,240 I don't care how it gets to my house. 618 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:38,560 No, I would pay, I would take $100 less 619 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,560 if a human delivers it to my door versus the robot. 620 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:43,040 You're incentivizing this wrong. 621 00:22:43,040 --> 00:22:44,920 I wanna, I mean, it would be kind of fun 622 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,360 to watch your robot go along the lines. 623 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:48,360 Maybe I'd pay a hundred bucks for one year 624 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:49,920 to watch your little bots do their thing. 625 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:50,760 That would be kind of fun. 626 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:52,120 - Especially if it was sloth shaped. 627 00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:53,240 - That's true. 628 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:54,120 The sloth packs. 629 00:22:54,120 --> 00:22:55,080 - That's the most important part. 630 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:56,280 - You talked me into it. 631 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,320 - I guess you're right. 632 00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:01,080 I guess the Amazon is saving money, maybe in a way. 633 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:02,000 So why would you pay more 634 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,960 for the way that packages get delivered? 635 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:05,960 Unless it was faster, right? 636 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:07,200 - They talk about how the last mile 637 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:08,480 is the hardest part in logistics. 638 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,760 So maybe this is it. 639 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:11,600 - There it is. 640 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:12,680 There it is, Leo. 641 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,400 We'll call it, that's the company name. 642 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:15,960 The Last Mile. 643 00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:17,800 - Makes it sound like the last surviving mile. 644 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:19,280 Like you're gonna burn it all down. 645 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,080 - The Last Mile High Club. 646 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:22,920 (laughing) 647 00:23:22,920 --> 00:23:25,360 - This dystopian image of a Amazon truck 648 00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:28,800 pulling up to a power line and just like putting sloths. 649 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:29,640 - Unloading all the sloths. 650 00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:30,720 - All these sloths onto it. 651 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:34,040 All of them full of packages and they all scurry away. 652 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:36,680 - Oh, but there could be like a subscription fee 653 00:23:36,680 --> 00:23:38,360 and you could change the animal. 654 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:39,280 - Ah, there you go. 655 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,800 - Like you could choose who's gonna deliver your packages. 656 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:43,000 - Who's it gonna be today, buddies? 657 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,280 Oh, it's a giraffe. 658 00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:47,320 Oh, he's got his little neck around the power line. 659 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:48,680 - He left a paw print. 660 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:49,880 - Oh, it's a squirrel. 661 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:52,000 No, wait, that's just a real squirrel. 662 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:53,360 - It's Blue from Blue's Clues. 663 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:55,040 It's your favorite Paw Patrol guy. 664 00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:56,120 Whoa. 665 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:57,160 - Oh no. 666 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:58,480 What if you ordered food 667 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,440 and the squirrels actually got your food? 668 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:01,800 - That's some door dash. 669 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,840 - There you go. 670 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:05,160 - All the crows and seagulls and shit 671 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,880 are gonna learn immediately about this. 672 00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,600 - Ali, that's brilliant. 673 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,240 - Scott, you nailed it, dude. 674 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,840 Imagine just like all the old burritos sitting at Chipotle 675 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,200 waiting to be picked up by door dash. 676 00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:20,160 You just, you literally throw it in the power lines 677 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,080 and the sloth picks it up and gets you there. 678 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,600 - So could we make like a sushi train, 679 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,640 but all the way from the sushi restaurant to my house? 680 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,240 - The same company that's doing the minivan retrofit 681 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:31,760 for the conveyor belt system. 682 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,360 - The squirrels have never been happier. 683 00:24:34,360 --> 00:24:35,640 - Would you guys travel? 684 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,120 What if it was a people mover? 685 00:24:38,120 --> 00:24:40,360 What if you rode it like a zip line? 686 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:42,560 - I don't think you know what a people mover is. 687 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,560 (laughing) 688 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:45,400 - Zip line. 689 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:47,760 - Yeah, I would zip line to Chipotle. 690 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:50,720 - You know, like public transportation 691 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:52,720 by utility pole, all right? 692 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,840 Literally clip in, it's got the power 693 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,880 and they just move you around. 694 00:24:57,880 --> 00:24:59,480 - It would make me feel like Spider-Man. 695 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,440 - I think it would be fun. 696 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:02,880 I keep flip-flopping between, 697 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,960 this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. 698 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,160 This could work, I actually like this. 699 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:08,680 Put a disclaimer in this episode, 700 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:11,320 must take 10 milligram edible before listening. 701 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:13,720 - Warning listener, do not try zip lining 702 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,560 from power lines in backyard. 703 00:25:15,560 --> 00:25:16,680 (laughing) 704 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,120 - This is like, you have to build 705 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:21,160 an entire city infrastructure on it, right? 706 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,600 Like imagine no roads. 707 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:27,280 You replace all roads with giant ass utility poles 708 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,040 and you zip line from point A to point B. 709 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:32,760 Just the entire infrastructure. 710 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:34,080 Gondolas. 711 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,520 - At this point, it almost feels like 712 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,400 you're reverse engineering it though. 713 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,520 Like you wanna build a whole city 714 00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,840 with these poles that do all these things 715 00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,720 and then, oh yeah, we'll just add the power into that too. 716 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:46,560 - Afterthought. 717 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:47,400 - Yeah, and fuck solar 718 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:48,840 'cause that would ruin the whole idea. 719 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,080 You know, if everybody had solar on their roofs, 720 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:54,920 that would destroy the whole infrastructure thing. 721 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,240 But, okay, here's another way to spin it. 722 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:58,760 Power companies need to figure out 723 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,320 what to do with these utility poles 724 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,520 and now power isn't on it anymore. 725 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:03,360 - Why not? 726 00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:05,040 At that point, yeah, you know what? 727 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,120 Spitballers, this is gonna need your help. 728 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:08,960 - This is gold. 729 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:11,960 Can't believe you're giving this away for free, man. 730 00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:14,200 (laughing) 731 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:23,520 - Scotty B, what's your idea this week? 732 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:26,360 - It's not the level of an hinge as I need to be, I think, 733 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:28,720 but we're gonna try to get up there. 734 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,200 Okay, fell down a YouTube rabbit hole last night 735 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:35,640 and you see those videos of people that train crows 736 00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,960 to be like, "Pick up cigarette butts," 737 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:39,640 or "Bring me coins," and stuff. 738 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,480 Why can't we automate this entire process? 739 00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:47,280 Why can't we make a crow training vending machine thing 740 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,560 that we just franchise all over 741 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,040 and we just put it in a park and it is fully autonomous 742 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,480 in that it goes through all the different stages 743 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,320 to train crows to bring X to it. 744 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:02,520 And then we just place them all over the country. 745 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,320 I don't care if they're bringing you dollar bills 746 00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,400 or it's for garbage cleanup or something. 747 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,280 It's like, this YouTube was explaining, 748 00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:10,080 it's four stages to train a crow. 749 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,600 First you need to make it really obvious for them 750 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,000 and you have to lay a bunch of coins 751 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:15,160 and they accidentally knock one in 752 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,920 and a sunflower seed comes out. 753 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,760 Then the next stage, they make it a little bit harder. 754 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:21,520 You have to pick up the coin and drop it in. 755 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:24,040 And then the third stage, the coin is on the ground 756 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:26,960 and by the fourth stage, they are just flying out. 757 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,040 All you need to do is keep this thing fully stocked 758 00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,920 with freaking bird seed and then empty it 759 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,560 every once in a while like a vending machine. 760 00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:38,400 - The first ever, that's the entire idea. 761 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,960 - A new business out there, it's called Birds as a Service. 762 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:47,240 You got SAS, you got Software as a Service, 763 00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:52,240 you got platforms, now it's just getting Birds as a Service. 764 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,440 This is the funniest thing I've ever heard. 765 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,000 - I thought the birds worked for the bourgeoisie. 766 00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:59,360 (laughing) 767 00:27:59,360 --> 00:28:02,640 - I thought there was an experiment involving crows 768 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:05,600 and trash collection where they were doing this 769 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,120 and they were teaching them to collect food and stuff, 770 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:10,280 but then the crows were-- 771 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:11,960 - Got addicted to the cigarette butts. 772 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,520 - Creating new litter in order to, they were bringing, 773 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,560 they were like, oh, I can just go grab trash 774 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,920 and throw it all over and then bring some of it back 775 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:22,920 and then that also gets me the reward. 776 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,960 - It's like training an AI. 777 00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,120 - Yeah, so there's some unintended consequences 778 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:30,560 for teaching birds, find as much trash as you possibly can 779 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:31,400 and bring it to-- 780 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,720 - They're probably just gonna end up robbing people 781 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,800 if you train them to get shiny objects. 782 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:37,600 - They'll be taking it from your trash machine 783 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,440 to the neighbor's and back and forth, back and forth. 784 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,280 - What would you want specifically the birds 785 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,040 to be putting in this bird training vending machine? 786 00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:50,200 - The optimist or nice person would be like, 787 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,720 again, cigarette butts or just pieces of litter 788 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,000 or something. 789 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,560 The more Slytherin person is like shiny objects, 790 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,520 coins, dollar bills, fives are up. 791 00:29:01,520 --> 00:29:03,280 - Dude, could we get these birds 792 00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,360 to like deliver surveys to people? 793 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:07,560 (laughing) 794 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,080 - On your power lines. 795 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:10,680 - Yeah, deliver DoorDash. 796 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,720 - I'm just, I'm thinking the corporate entity out there 797 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:16,840 is like, man, how do we reach our customers? 798 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,680 Let's hire crows as a service 799 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,400 to deliver paper surveys to people 800 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,680 and pick them up like after they fill out the survey, 801 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,120 the crow drops the $2 in its mouth 802 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,760 and then takes the survey 803 00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:34,680 and delivers it to the vending machine. 804 00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,840 - That might add like 19 more steps 805 00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:41,840 to my four step box that I'm trying to make, but. 806 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,120 - The engineers will figure, 807 00:29:44,120 --> 00:29:46,360 I mean the botanists or whatever the. 808 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,200 - We just lost all our engineers as subscribers on here. 809 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,120 - Sorry, that was not the engineers. 810 00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,520 It's more of the, yeah, the vets or the vet techs out there. 811 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,640 - For real though, I feel like this would not be 812 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,240 complex hardware. 813 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:01,960 Once you have one working one, 814 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,320 you just duplicate it and put them all over 815 00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,280 and they just work on power and bird seed and that's it. 816 00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,240 - Dude, adopt a highway campaigns, right? 817 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:12,080 - Yeah. 818 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,200 - Like all over you get, right? 819 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,040 We just literally. 820 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:15,880 - Beach cleanup. 821 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,120 - We get prisoners to do that work. 822 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:19,880 I mean, let's get some. - Why not birds? 823 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:20,720 - Why not crows? 824 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:21,560 You just. 825 00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:22,640 - Alfred Hitchcock would be so proud. 826 00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,040 - The crow hive, right? 827 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:26,320 And they just go out and they collect all the trash 828 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:27,320 on the sidewalk. 829 00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:30,840 You can bring beehives to like commercial farmers. 830 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:35,320 They hire beekeepers to travel and bring entire beehives 831 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,560 to pollinate farms. 832 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,840 Why can't we do this for trash cleanup and robbery? 833 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:43,160 - Like bring the crows. 834 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:44,400 Yeah, I see what you're saying. 835 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:45,640 - Yeah, in a truck. 836 00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,360 - I think a big difference is bees instinctively 837 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:49,660 pollinate flowers. 838 00:30:49,660 --> 00:30:51,920 There's no training of crows involved 839 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:52,880 or training of bees. 840 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,760 - How many generations of natural selection 841 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:57,200 would it take before crows just have an instinct 842 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,080 where they have to clean up trash all the time? 843 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,160 - So we're breeding a slave? 844 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:04,000 Race of birds? 845 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,320 - Oh yeah, there's an ethical problem there. 846 00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:07,720 You exist to serve butter, right? 847 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:10,720 - Carrier pigeons, they did that. 848 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,360 What happened to the carrier pigeon? 849 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:15,440 You know, it's just an alternative to carrier pigeon. 850 00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:16,360 - Birds are smart. 851 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:17,200 - Yeah. 852 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:18,600 - What happened to the carrier pigeon? 853 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:19,640 - I mean, let's just make it. 854 00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:20,640 - Technology happened. 855 00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:21,680 - I guess that's true. 856 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:22,560 It is whimsical. 857 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,160 It would be fun to send love notes 858 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:25,640 via carrier pigeon or something. 859 00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:26,480 - Power line. 860 00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:32,180 If it's cheaper than a stamp, all right. 861 00:31:32,180 --> 00:31:34,560 - I have a vision for what this box would look like. 862 00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:36,120 - How many crows would you need? 863 00:31:36,120 --> 00:31:38,160 - I wish I knew more about it. 864 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:39,000 It doesn't matter. 865 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:40,960 You just put it out there and they will figure it out. 866 00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:42,000 You could get a hundred crows, 867 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,280 you can get one crow and it'll just keep going. 868 00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,400 Maybe it'll train other crows. 869 00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:47,400 - Governments would pay for this. 870 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:48,240 I don't know. 871 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,680 I think that governments would pay for this 872 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:51,220 if you could actually figure it out. 873 00:31:51,220 --> 00:31:54,040 - It's like the aerial version 874 00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:55,940 of like the Silicon Valley companies 875 00:31:55,940 --> 00:31:57,740 that hire the fields of goats 876 00:31:57,740 --> 00:32:00,000 that they don't wanna pay for mowing their lawns. 877 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:01,640 So they just pay for goats instead. 878 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:05,200 You're just not paying for a beach cleaner truck, 879 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,400 a Zamboni that goes and cleans up the beach. 880 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,820 - Oh, it's real. 881 00:32:09,820 --> 00:32:11,800 - Some of the already exist. 882 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,400 - The crow box.com. 883 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:14,240 I'll put the link. 884 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,800 - Oh, congratulations to the crow box.com 885 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,040 for scooping us before we even published. 886 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:21,660 - Okay, but do they sell to like theme parks? 887 00:32:21,660 --> 00:32:23,260 - Okay, this is sick actually. 888 00:32:23,260 --> 00:32:24,820 - What if you did a different model, Scott? 889 00:32:24,820 --> 00:32:29,260 You train crows for every theme park in the country 890 00:32:29,260 --> 00:32:32,380 and now their theme parks are always clean 891 00:32:32,380 --> 00:32:34,740 and you create crow training as a service. 892 00:32:34,740 --> 00:32:35,580 You just-- 893 00:32:35,580 --> 00:32:36,600 - Russell, yes. 894 00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,340 Also, this is open source. 895 00:32:38,340 --> 00:32:39,600 - Yeah. 896 00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:40,440 Wait, what? 897 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,060 Crow box is open source? 898 00:32:42,060 --> 00:32:44,700 Like crow training? 899 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:47,260 - The dude did a TED talk about it. 900 00:32:47,260 --> 00:32:48,500 I just looked it up too. 901 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:50,320 - God damn it. 902 00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:51,160 - Sorry, man. 903 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,000 Someone beat you to it. 904 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:52,820 - It's open source. 905 00:32:52,820 --> 00:32:53,660 - This is fun. 906 00:32:53,660 --> 00:32:54,500 - It's open source. 907 00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:56,400 That means that like anybody can do this. 908 00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:59,300 Like they've given away the training manual 909 00:32:59,300 --> 00:33:01,500 and now every theme park in the nation 910 00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:03,600 could have crows on demand. 911 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:04,440 - Every beach? 912 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:06,640 - This is actually way cooler than what I was picturing. 913 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,320 - It's like the cats at Disney. 914 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:09,640 - There's cats at Disney? 915 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,400 - Oh, you haven't heard about the Disney cats? 916 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:12,240 - No. 917 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:13,060 - Yeah, the cats. 918 00:33:13,060 --> 00:33:15,120 Yeah, they got a bunch of cats to keep the mice away. 919 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:16,720 - They like house and feed them. 920 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:17,560 - Really cool. 921 00:33:17,560 --> 00:33:19,120 - I guess that makes sense. 922 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:20,320 - And at night they all come out. 923 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:21,160 - Whoa. 924 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:22,760 - Oh my God, I gotta watch this TED talk. 925 00:33:25,340 --> 00:33:30,680 All right, Leo, what's your Varsity idea for this week? 926 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:31,680 - I've got a really simple one. 927 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,680 All you need is some space, a big warehouse. 928 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:35,520 You ready for this? 929 00:33:35,520 --> 00:33:36,840 It's another simple one that can be boiled down 930 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:37,960 to just a couple of words. 931 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:42,200 Store for single socks, single shoes, single boots. 932 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:43,520 If someone comes to your store, 933 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,840 you just have every make, model, whatever, 934 00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,960 of shoe, boot, sock that you have. 935 00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:52,060 And you on the inside buy a regular pair 936 00:33:52,060 --> 00:33:53,360 of New Balance, whatever. 937 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:54,760 You buy a pair of whatever socks 938 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:56,600 and you ship just one of them 939 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,440 because I'm sick of losing just one of socks, 940 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,600 kid shoes, sandals, whatever. 941 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,440 And the washer dryer eats them up, right? 942 00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,400 Wherever the heck they end up going. 943 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:10,200 I have many one single socks. 944 00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:11,800 I don't know where the heck they go. 945 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:14,360 I think that they're just in my washing machine 946 00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,800 in the unreachable spots or something. 947 00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:17,640 I don't know. 948 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:21,340 But I would go to a store and pay 60% of the cost 949 00:34:21,340 --> 00:34:24,440 for 50% of the product and just get one back. 950 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,640 - Leo, I love this. 951 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:30,400 - All you have to do is buy a pair of two socks 952 00:34:30,400 --> 00:34:32,920 and then you sell it and you make 10% profit, right? 953 00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:34,040 On each sale. 954 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:36,640 - I have a basket of single socks. 955 00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:37,480 - Right. 956 00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,080 - Next to my basket of match socks. 957 00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:41,000 And I keep saying, 958 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,120 "Oh, I'll find the matching sock eventually." 959 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:43,960 I never do. 960 00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:47,400 - And I'm up to like a dozen or more single ones 961 00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:49,040 and I have never seen them. 962 00:34:49,040 --> 00:34:50,920 And I need to part with them. 963 00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,920 But would you go to a store and name what kind they are? 964 00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:56,120 Some of my socks are nice. 965 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,600 - So I think you said like mail it off. 966 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:00,320 This could be like a set, like, 967 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,200 "Okay, here's my sock, match it and mail it back to me." 968 00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:04,040 Like an Amazon thing. 969 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:04,960 - Or an exchange. 970 00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,960 Maybe you mail it in and that goes to someone else's house 971 00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,200 as their complete set. 972 00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:10,880 And then you in return have a credit 973 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:13,000 that you can spend when you need to. 974 00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:14,880 - So similar but different. 975 00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:18,640 I saw this YouTube video of amputees. 976 00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:23,280 And what they do is they find people with the opposite leg, 977 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:27,360 but the same shoe size and they exchange shoes. 978 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:28,400 So they're like, 979 00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:31,600 I don't know if it's an online like chat or like meetup, 980 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,200 but it's something where like you go and you find, 981 00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:35,440 "Hey, I've got a right leg. 982 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:37,200 You've got a left leg size 10. 983 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:38,680 Let's just, you buy a pair of shoes, 984 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,280 I buy a pair of shoes and we'll trade shoes." 985 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:42,120 - Unreal. 986 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:43,120 - It's so great. 987 00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,520 How many amputees out there wish that they could go 988 00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,240 to my cool new website that I just registered 989 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:50,160 and shop for every kind of shoe. 990 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:52,440 And we just buy the pair of shoes on the backend 991 00:35:52,440 --> 00:35:55,080 and ship them the one, charge them, you know, 992 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:56,720 60, 70% of the cost. 993 00:35:56,720 --> 00:35:58,280 And then we have the other one on hand 994 00:35:58,280 --> 00:35:59,600 for when someone else comes along. 995 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,360 And then over time we accrue more and more 996 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:02,640 and more and more single ones 997 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,040 'cause no one's buying the other one. 998 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,840 Yeah, maybe donate it to Goodwill. 999 00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:08,080 I don't know what you do with it. 1000 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:10,440 - Leo, just picture in a dedicated app 1001 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:12,360 that you have for this where you scan your socks 1002 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,680 and it just pulls up the match on your website 1003 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,000 and just all ready to go in your cart and you ship it out. 1004 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:18,760 - What you could also do is like, 1005 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:22,000 if I mail you a single sock, 1006 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,480 you could mail me back a fresh new pair of like matched socks 1007 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,400 and then you could just hold the single sock 1008 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,880 until someone sends you the matching one. 1009 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,160 And it would also cut down on textile waste, 1010 00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:34,560 which is a huge problem. 1011 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:35,880 - Yeah, you gotta filter out the ones 1012 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,880 that are obviously like too worn. 1013 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,400 I know that Goodwill has a big problem with that 1014 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,480 and Salvation Army, they'll get a lot of donations 1015 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,960 for garbage that really is past its usability. 1016 00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:49,960 But if you're able to take in a stream of you and I's pile 1017 00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:53,240 of socks that we cannot find matches for anymore, 1018 00:36:53,240 --> 00:36:58,040 everyone who donates into that bucket gets a few sock bucks 1019 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:00,480 that they could spend on the completed matches 1020 00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,240 that we're unable to assemble. 1021 00:37:02,240 --> 00:37:03,560 That could scale. 1022 00:37:03,560 --> 00:37:06,720 That would be tedious for the poor wage slaves 1023 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:10,520 who have to match socks all day, every day, forever. 1024 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:11,800 (laughing) 1025 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:13,880 That is truly doubtful. 1026 00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:16,760 - Okay, okay, I'm gonna spin this a little to say like, 1027 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,040 all right, you lose one sock, you send that sock in, 1028 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,920 they destroy it and recycle it, upcycle it 1029 00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:25,840 to make two socks, right? 1030 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:30,640 Or, you know, instead of using it as raw material, 1031 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:34,760 it could duplicate itself, turn one into two, right? 1032 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:35,720 'Cause I feel like-- 1033 00:37:35,720 --> 00:37:36,840 - Turn it back to yarn, yeah. 1034 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,480 - Yeah, or, you know, I have a bunch of one socks, 1035 00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:43,760 I would love to recycle that sock 'cause, hell, 1036 00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:45,760 nobody's gonna find the other one maybe. 1037 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:50,000 Give me a pair back and now there's some sort of, 1038 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:52,760 I don't know, money logistics thing 1039 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,600 that solves for that, right? 1040 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:59,680 - Hmm, I think you just discovered or pitched recycling. 1041 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:00,920 (laughing) 1042 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:05,480 - It's kind of like the Tom Shue's model for one sock. 1043 00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:10,480 You donate one sock, you get a pair back, right? 1044 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:13,800 - I don't think your math works there. 1045 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,920 For every one sock you give us, we'll give you two back. 1046 00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:18,760 It's a great business. 1047 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:20,640 - Yeah, I just, no, it's true. 1048 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,560 I just, you know what, I have a hard time figuring out, 1049 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,640 like, if I were to give this one sock 1050 00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:29,000 that I know I only have one sock, maybe they duplicate it. 1051 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,160 Maybe they look at my sock and they're like, 1052 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:34,320 you know what, I bet I could copy this sock. 1053 00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,040 Like, literally, like, because I don't think it'd be 1054 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,640 that hard to create another sock that looks very similar 1055 00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,240 or a shoe or something, I don't know. 1056 00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:45,640 There might be something there to, like, do that. 1057 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,680 - Instead of writing Nike on it, you write Nacky 1058 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,280 and then you're suddenly like a Chinese, you know, 1059 00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,800 copyright infringing knockoff dealer. 1060 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:54,720 That's awesome. 1061 00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:57,400 - It's tailoring, right? 1062 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,200 It's not trying to clone anything. 1063 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,040 - We've tailored you another identical sock 1064 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:04,560 that says New Balance on it. 1065 00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:07,560 - Yeah, no, I don't think that's illegal, right? 1066 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:08,640 - Ah! 1067 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,280 - You could even just start your own sock company 1068 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:13,440 where the whole motto is like, 1069 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,880 hey, all of our socks look the same. 1070 00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,040 So when you lose the pair, 1071 00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,360 like, we'll just send you another one. 1072 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:21,880 - What a concept. 1073 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,760 It's so simple, I love it. 1074 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:25,160 Why is that not a thing? 1075 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,280 - Yeah, I've been very slowly trying to transition 1076 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:31,440 my collection from cheap 24-pack awful socks 1077 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,000 to, like, nice wool ones, and it's been great, 1078 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,560 but they are all different and it sucks 1079 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:38,360 that that's the downside to it. 1080 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,440 'Cause I lived that life, I would just have, you know, 1081 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,520 50 pairs of identical white cheap Hanes socks 1082 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,800 and it was fine, like, it was not great or not terrible, 1083 00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:48,720 but it is a real upgrade to get nice socks. 1084 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:49,840 I would highly recommend it. 1085 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:51,120 I've reached that point in my life 1086 00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:52,800 where I'm excited to get socks as a gift 1087 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:54,960 and I've just come to accept that about myself now. 1088 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:55,800 - Welcome to your 30s. 1089 00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:56,920 - It's like true middle age. 1090 00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:57,760 - It really is. 1091 00:39:57,760 --> 00:39:59,400 - Socks and your Christmas stocking 1092 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,040 is now, like, the best thing ever, 1093 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,400 rather than the worst. 1094 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:03,680 - Feels like a personal attack, Leo. 1095 00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,800 I go to Costco and I buy the Puma, like, 1096 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:10,280 80 pairs of the low-cut ankle socks. 1097 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:11,120 - And they're all the same 1098 00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,160 and you don't have this problem and I'm jealous. 1099 00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,880 - Yeah, that's because I've bought so many packs of them, 1100 00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:18,400 like, literally, I can't even shut the drawer on my socks. 1101 00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:22,360 I have to make sure there are enough dirty socks 1102 00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,920 so that I can close my clean drawer sock. 1103 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,520 But, you know, I don't know if this is 1104 00:40:26,520 --> 00:40:27,800 too much of a curveball here, 1105 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:31,320 but I feel like there's a market for, 1106 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,160 like, a really, like, that missing sock. 1107 00:40:34,160 --> 00:40:35,440 And there are some cases where you're like, 1108 00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:37,640 oh man, I love this pair of socks, 1109 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:40,600 or I have, like, shirts that I really like 1110 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,520 that are way past, like, they're overworn, 1111 00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,480 they've lost their color, they're worn out. 1112 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,480 If I could send my shirt to a company 1113 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:52,720 because I have a lot of sentimental value or whatever, 1114 00:40:52,720 --> 00:40:57,400 it could recreate it or make a like-new version of that. 1115 00:40:57,400 --> 00:40:58,960 That would be really cool. 1116 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:00,960 'Cause, like, if it is like a cheapo sock, 1117 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:02,760 like, it does make sense, like, you know, 1118 00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,400 just throw it out and buy, like, a pack of 80 again. 1119 00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,680 But if it's a really nice sock or shirt 1120 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:10,520 or sentimental or pants or whatever, 1121 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:12,040 like, it's a mix of, like, 1122 00:41:12,040 --> 00:41:14,080 like, I have this dress shirt right here that I'm, 1123 00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:18,080 it's definitely past its time of use. 1124 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,920 And I would just love an exact same shirt. 1125 00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:22,360 Just get me the same one. 1126 00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:24,360 - Renewal service, refurbishment. 1127 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:25,200 - Low subscription. 1128 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,400 Yeah, or, like, get me a brand new one for all I care. 1129 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:32,120 Like, if you can't fix it or restore it or refurbish it, 1130 00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,000 just, like, I will pay 80, 1131 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:37,200 I will pay more than I paid for the original shirt 1132 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,120 to get the same exact shirt 1133 00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:40,440 'cause I don't have to think about it. 1134 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:41,520 I don't know if you guys have that, 1135 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:42,640 I hate buying clothes, 1136 00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:44,800 so that's probably a little bit of a curveball. 1137 00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,120 So just, yeah. - Me too. 1138 00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:47,600 - If I find a shirt that I like, 1139 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,120 I just, get me 100 versions of that shirt, 1140 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:51,560 but I don't wanna store it all in my house, 1141 00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:55,160 so, like, can you just keep it for 100 years? 1142 00:41:55,160 --> 00:41:58,000 And I'll buy it when I need it or something? 1143 00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,840 - Well, I feel like you could have, 1144 00:41:59,840 --> 00:42:01,320 like I said, a subscription service. 1145 00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,720 So be like, I'm gonna subscribe to this shirt. 1146 00:42:03,720 --> 00:42:05,720 So every, like, three years, 1147 00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:08,120 they'll just send you the same shirt. 1148 00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:08,960 - Oh. - Oh. 1149 00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:10,360 - And then that way you'll just keep, like-- 1150 00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:11,560 - That's interesting. - Rehabbing, 1151 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,160 like, refreshing the shirt that you really like. 1152 00:42:14,160 --> 00:42:16,320 - Yeah, then you never have to worry about your sock, 1153 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:18,320 missing sock, you just get new ones. 1154 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:19,720 - And you don't have to go shopping 1155 00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:21,040 'cause you have something you like. 1156 00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:22,400 You can go on a website and be like, 1157 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,440 I'm gonna subscribe to that shirt, 1158 00:42:24,440 --> 00:42:27,000 and then they'll just send it to you every couple years. 1159 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:29,480 - And you look the same in every family photo 1160 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:31,200 from the '90s until now. - I try that. 1161 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:32,160 Change the color. 1162 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:35,400 You know, every other year, you can mix it up, 1163 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,840 but it still fits the same, yeah. 1164 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,880 - I just wanna give Leo a warehouse and see what happens. 1165 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,360 - Just use my garage. 1166 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,160 - I'm gonna end up with a lot of single socks 1167 00:42:44,160 --> 00:42:45,600 that I have no matches for. 1168 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:47,800 - I'm just drowning in a sea of socks. 1169 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,320 - I swear I saw one that looked just like this 1170 00:42:50,320 --> 00:42:52,120 somewhere in this warehouse. 1171 00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:53,680 - Just be dreaming in socks. 1172 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:54,600 - I think there are a lot of people 1173 00:42:54,600 --> 00:42:57,200 that would just buy one sock, you know what I'm saying? 1174 00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,120 - I know the brands and styles 1175 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:00,760 of the ones I have singles of. 1176 00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,000 I know it's a lot to ask of like, 1177 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:04,480 here, just find me matches, 1178 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:06,320 but if I was able to go to a place and say, 1179 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,840 I need one of these blue darn tough socks, 1180 00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,960 I need one of these whatever hiking socks, 1181 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:13,880 I would pay the discount. 1182 00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,400 I don't want to buy another pair 1183 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,240 because then I have three, not one. 1184 00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:18,240 - Yes. - Yeah, no? 1185 00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:22,120 Or I have a pair of Keens where my dog chewed on one of them 1186 00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,560 and the buckle thing is all torn up and stuff. 1187 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:26,480 I would replace just one of them if I could. 1188 00:43:26,480 --> 00:43:29,360 I guess if they had a refurbishment, I could do that. 1189 00:43:29,360 --> 00:43:32,000 But yeah, sometimes things are damaged beyond repair 1190 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:34,080 for just one of two things. 1191 00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,680 Your mittens, I went skiing years ago 1192 00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:39,000 and I tore up one of my gloves 1193 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:40,880 holding onto the tow rope too long 1194 00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:42,280 and the other one's fine still, 1195 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,120 but I guess I'm just gonna throw away both of them 1196 00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,080 because one of them's all screwed up. 1197 00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:47,280 I would buy a single glove from that company. 1198 00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,880 - What if, Leo, instead of trying to replace the glove, 1199 00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,920 you sent, like, Ally has a basket of one socks, right? 1200 00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,280 What if you sent the whole basket of gloves, socks, 1201 00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,800 whatever, and they, I guess this is recycling again, 1202 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,560 but they turned it into something that you wanted, right? 1203 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:08,240 So they took your stuff, they took your materials 1204 00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:11,800 and turned it into a blanket or, yeah. 1205 00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:13,320 - I was gonna say, the company 1206 00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,080 that does the T-shirt blankets. 1207 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,160 - Sock blanket. (laughs) 1208 00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:18,720 This is my old sweaty socks. 1209 00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:19,560 Isn't it great? 1210 00:44:19,560 --> 00:44:20,400 Snuggle up. 1211 00:44:20,400 --> 00:44:22,520 - Sure, there's a very specific audience 1212 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,480 on the internet for that, so. 1213 00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:26,160 - Yeah, right now. (laughs) 1214 00:44:26,160 --> 00:44:28,560 - The same people who buy Gamer Girl bath water, I think. 1215 00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:29,920 - That's what I was going for earlier 1216 00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:31,040 with the one sock thing. 1217 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:32,360 Like, people would just buy the sock 1218 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,360 as long as you didn't clean it, you know? 1219 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:35,560 (laughs) 1220 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,160 - Oh no, they don't want it clean. 1221 00:44:37,160 --> 00:44:38,000 - Yeah, I was gonna say. 1222 00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:39,240 - Not at all, right, yeah. 1223 00:44:41,820 --> 00:44:46,680 - All right, Ally, what have you brought for us this week? 1224 00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,240 - So I am a very ADHD person 1225 00:44:50,240 --> 00:44:53,080 and I live by the to-do list. 1226 00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:54,640 But as an ADHD person, 1227 00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:58,440 I also have the object permanence of an infant. 1228 00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:00,520 If I don't see it, it doesn't exist. 1229 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,960 Like, out of sight, out of mind is very real. 1230 00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:07,360 I want a visual to-do list 1231 00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:12,100 where I can take a picture of the chore I need to do. 1232 00:45:12,100 --> 00:45:14,320 The dirty dishes in the sink, 1233 00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:16,320 the laundry basket of clothes, 1234 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:19,080 the bag I need to go to Old Navy and return. 1235 00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,840 And I want, maybe we've got all these AI advancements, 1236 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:24,740 it can make me a to-do list, 1237 00:45:24,740 --> 00:45:27,760 but I want a to-do list app 1238 00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:30,200 where I can take a picture of the chore I need to do 1239 00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:31,760 and then it'll make me a to-do list 1240 00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:33,640 and I'll have all its little pictures of the things 1241 00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:34,760 so I can look at it and be like, 1242 00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,800 oh yeah, I need to walk back to the kitchen 1243 00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,000 and do my dishes. 1244 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:38,840 - Ooh. 1245 00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:39,980 - You can swipe right and swipe left 1246 00:45:39,980 --> 00:45:42,400 on the pictures of the things I need to do. 1247 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,120 That's for tomorrow, that's for tomorrow. 1248 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:45,520 Oh no, I'll do that one now. 1249 00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:47,440 - Well, the other idea I had, 1250 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:49,240 kind of like thinking of it, is I would love it 1251 00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:52,560 if then I could put like a timer on the to-do item 1252 00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:54,120 and then it would buzz me, be like, 1253 00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:56,680 hey, this is a chore you need to do today. 1254 00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:58,600 Buzz me like 8.30, like hey, 1255 00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,960 you're gonna get ready for bed, go do your dishes. 1256 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:02,520 - This is what your dishes look like, Ali. 1257 00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,160 - Scott, is there some kind of physical product 1258 00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,240 that you could recommend that-- 1259 00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:08,960 - Ali, I love this so much. 1260 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,640 I have struggled with ADD the entire life. 1261 00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:13,920 I just got this in the mail yesterday. 1262 00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,300 This is a board I have been designing 1263 00:46:16,300 --> 00:46:20,200 that is literally, I put, so describing this out loud, 1264 00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:22,000 it's just a rectangular board 1265 00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:25,880 with different spots on it to put tasks, 1266 00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,680 things I need to do daily, weekly, whatever. 1267 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,680 I have LEDs on one side that'll light up 1268 00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:33,860 when it is time to do that task. 1269 00:46:33,860 --> 00:46:36,560 It is Sunday night, you need to take out the trash 1270 00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:38,720 and this LED will light up on it. 1271 00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:40,640 When it is completed, I hit the button 1272 00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:44,120 to be like it is done and the LED turns off and goes on. 1273 00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:46,840 And I wanna combine this with what you're saying, 1274 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,740 which is just like I can take a picture of something of, 1275 00:46:49,740 --> 00:46:51,100 that's just the easiest way. 1276 00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:52,760 Oh my God, there's something I need to do later. 1277 00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:54,180 I take a quick snap of it 1278 00:46:54,180 --> 00:46:55,740 and then it's already gone from my mind. 1279 00:46:55,740 --> 00:46:56,920 I move down to the next thing. 1280 00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,920 Combine it with something that literally shines in my face 1281 00:46:59,920 --> 00:47:03,120 to be like you need to do this at this time now. 1282 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,400 - Yes, that is exactly what I need. 1283 00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,840 - I love that so much. 1284 00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:10,560 So, okay, you have, Scott, 1285 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,440 you have the Ring cameras in your home, right? 1286 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:16,480 Could you use it to make the list 1287 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,040 so like you could see how dirty your dishes are 1288 00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,600 and it sends you a picture of your dishes 1289 00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,080 or your garbage can? 1290 00:47:23,080 --> 00:47:26,600 Like this is, you know, like the state of your chore. 1291 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,200 - That's nuts. 1292 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,240 - The litter box has passed the threshold of dirty 1293 00:47:31,240 --> 00:47:32,680 and now it's lit up. 1294 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:34,880 - I'm gonna have to put money in the AI swear jar. 1295 00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:36,840 We're not supposed to talk about AI here, 1296 00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:39,880 but like, yes, Russell, you could, 1297 00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:41,560 with everything that's been going on nowadays, 1298 00:47:41,560 --> 00:47:44,280 like how hard could it be to train an AI to be like, 1299 00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:45,560 tell me what's in this picture. 1300 00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:49,200 Do you see a full garbage can or an empty garbage can? 1301 00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:51,200 Throw that with some if this, then that, 1302 00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,880 and be like, hey, it's time to take out the garbage 1303 00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,300 or the dishes are piling up in the sink. 1304 00:47:56,300 --> 00:47:57,400 It's time to do this. 1305 00:47:57,400 --> 00:47:59,760 - Hey, you need to go replace the toilet paper 1306 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,640 in the bathroom before you get in there 1307 00:48:01,640 --> 00:48:03,560 and realize you need to replace the toilet paper 1308 00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:04,440 in the bathroom. 1309 00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:06,040 'Cause I don't remember to do that when I'm done. 1310 00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,440 I'm like, that is a problem for a future Ali. 1311 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,200 - Thousands of hours of toilet videos. 1312 00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,640 - She said a hundred of these little automations in there. 1313 00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:19,520 - The AI has to sift through those poor AI models. 1314 00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:23,040 - If there's ever an AI uprising, they're gonna be pissed. 1315 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:25,520 - Literally pissed with water. 1316 00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:28,360 No, anyways, no, but that's a great example. 1317 00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,840 - Have you ever just taken a picture of anything 1318 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,300 and uploaded it to chat GPT and then like, 1319 00:48:33,300 --> 00:48:36,280 describe this to me and how much detail it'll go into 1320 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:38,240 of everything that's in that picture? 1321 00:48:38,240 --> 00:48:41,680 - I see a Labrador slash Husky breed 1322 00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:44,000 that is sitting on next to a fireplace 1323 00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:45,920 that is this color and the blah, blah, blah. 1324 00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:47,960 It just goes into so much detail. 1325 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,240 It absolutely could tell if a trash can is full 1326 00:48:50,240 --> 00:48:52,080 or if there's dishes in the sink or something 1327 00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:53,560 or if the toilet paper needs to be refilled. 1328 00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:54,400 - Yeah, exactly. 1329 00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,640 - Going back to the to-do list, 1330 00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,600 that would be so easy to like take a picture of something. 1331 00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:02,400 And then if you want to have the picture to-do list, 1332 00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:04,440 that's great, but you could have an AI program 1333 00:49:04,440 --> 00:49:07,200 that would convert it to a text to-do list. 1334 00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:08,840 - Yes, an actual task. 1335 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,160 - I love checking boxes and crossing things off 1336 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:12,000 on my to-do list. 1337 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,280 It makes me feel like making my to-do list, 1338 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:17,440 I write make to-do list and I cross it off at the bottom 1339 00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,040 'cause it makes me feel productive. 1340 00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:19,880 - That's cool. - Totally. 1341 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:22,240 - I've bounced off of task list apps before. 1342 00:49:22,240 --> 00:49:24,280 And I think partly because of the friction 1343 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:25,680 of getting stuff into them. 1344 00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:27,560 I don't want to like stop what I'm doing 1345 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:28,420 and remember to get it in there. 1346 00:49:28,420 --> 00:49:30,120 So if it was a quick, you know, 1347 00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:32,520 take a picture of the thing and you're done as the input, 1348 00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:34,400 that rules, like it'll figure out 1349 00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:35,960 what you're trying to say actually. 1350 00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,480 - Yes, it could even ask like the one confirmation. 1351 00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:40,400 You take the picture and one confirmation pop up. 1352 00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:42,960 Did you mean to do a task to do the dishes or something? 1353 00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:43,800 You don't have to type anything. 1354 00:49:43,800 --> 00:49:46,560 You just hit yes on there and move on. 1355 00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,640 - Are you listening to do list or somebody? 1356 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:50,860 - I could take a picture of my kitchen and be like, 1357 00:49:50,860 --> 00:49:52,200 did you mean to do dishes? 1358 00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:53,040 Check yes. 1359 00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:54,680 Did you mean to wipe off counter? 1360 00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:55,880 Yes, like. 1361 00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,280 - Rapid fire, the seven different suggestions. 1362 00:49:58,280 --> 00:49:59,400 Yes, no, no, yes, no. 1363 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,300 - The ability to just snap a picture. 1364 00:50:02,300 --> 00:50:03,800 Oh, Ali, that is so good. 1365 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:04,640 - There's something there for sure. 1366 00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:06,760 - I think the, like, so you know, 1367 00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:08,920 when you see your completed checklist, 1368 00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:09,920 you're like super sad. 1369 00:50:09,920 --> 00:50:12,880 Imagine just a photo gallery of all your chores 1370 00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:14,560 that you completed this week. 1371 00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:15,400 How sad is that? 1372 00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:17,520 - It's like a green checkbox on all of them. 1373 00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,940 - I love seeing the TikToks of like come clean with me 1374 00:50:20,940 --> 00:50:23,680 and they do the before and after 1375 00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:25,600 or like the time lapse of the cleaning. 1376 00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:27,240 I will never do that. 1377 00:50:27,240 --> 00:50:29,280 But if I had an app where it was like, 1378 00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,720 take a picture of the chore and then when it's done, 1379 00:50:31,720 --> 00:50:32,940 I can take another picture. 1380 00:50:32,940 --> 00:50:35,080 And there was like a little animation 1381 00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:36,320 that made me feel happy. 1382 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,280 Like, give me the dopamine, please. 1383 00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:39,920 - Here's your year in review. 1384 00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,960 You've cleaned 6,000 plates this year. 1385 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,800 - Your week in review of your chores. 1386 00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:45,980 But I mean, like, imagine, 1387 00:50:45,980 --> 00:50:49,760 I think there's something actually incredibly psychological 1388 00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:53,240 about training yourself to love doing chores 1389 00:50:53,240 --> 00:50:57,940 by like getting multiple dopamine hits from one chore. 1390 00:50:57,940 --> 00:50:59,280 Like, I think there's like a pro, 1391 00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,760 like a literal mental programming 1392 00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:06,360 that you can do, this app turns you into a chore machine. 1393 00:51:06,360 --> 00:51:09,600 And now you're like, yeah, addicted to chores. 1394 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:10,720 I don't know. 1395 00:51:10,720 --> 00:51:13,840 - You could make it at a game, 1396 00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:15,520 compete with your friends 1397 00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:18,480 who has completed their dishes first tonight. 1398 00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,560 Like, I challenge Scott, like, 1399 00:51:21,560 --> 00:51:24,040 hey, who's gonna remember to take the trash out first? 1400 00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:25,560 - Photo proof required. 1401 00:51:25,560 --> 00:51:28,640 - Or you have a particularly like terrible chore 1402 00:51:28,640 --> 00:51:31,200 and you're like, look at this dish pile. 1403 00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,880 Like, you're just social. 1404 00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:35,280 - The final boss. 1405 00:51:35,280 --> 00:51:38,040 - Yeah, like taking the embarrassment 1406 00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,320 out of dirty homes or whatever. 1407 00:51:40,320 --> 00:51:44,040 You're like, my mess today, my mess tomorrow. 1408 00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,440 And it's like dirty clean, right? 1409 00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,520 Like something about the authentic elements 1410 00:51:49,520 --> 00:51:52,320 of social media, you post about it, right? 1411 00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:53,240 I don't know. 1412 00:51:53,240 --> 00:51:56,320 - Well, if we wanna make this like more addictive, 1413 00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:58,240 you add the social media component 1414 00:51:58,240 --> 00:51:59,840 and you say like, oh my God, 1415 00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:02,760 add me on like chorely.com. 1416 00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:04,960 And then like your friends can comment like, 1417 00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:08,240 you go girl, like vacuum that floor. 1418 00:52:08,240 --> 00:52:12,200 - Whoa, what if, do you guys have like honey do lists? 1419 00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:13,200 Are you, you know what I mean? 1420 00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:14,440 Like, okay. 1421 00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,080 - My husband works at a hardware store. 1422 00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,720 My honey do list is very long. 1423 00:52:18,720 --> 00:52:20,840 - So like wives, let's say, 1424 00:52:20,840 --> 00:52:25,840 will gamify their husbands into competitions. 1425 00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:27,960 - Yes. 1426 00:52:27,960 --> 00:52:29,320 - This one's worth 12 points. 1427 00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:31,160 - This might be something. 1428 00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,000 - This might need a whole nother spit ball here. 1429 00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:34,640 Husbands are completely oblivious. 1430 00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:36,000 They have no idea. 1431 00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:36,840 - Yes. 1432 00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:38,200 - Well, it's like how, you know, 1433 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:40,080 peer pressure as an adult is watching 1434 00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:42,160 your neighbor mow their lawn. 1435 00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:44,960 Be like, oh, my neighbor vacuumed today. 1436 00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:46,360 I guess I should vacuum too. 1437 00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:50,000 - Guys, I think that like competitive honey do lists would, 1438 00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:54,040 I think just, there might be a destruction of society, 1439 00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:55,600 the fabric of society. 1440 00:52:58,080 --> 00:52:59,760 - No, it would be so efficient. 1441 00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:01,200 - Wives sitting on the couch, 1442 00:53:01,200 --> 00:53:02,800 just manipulating their husbands 1443 00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:04,880 into being meatheads against each other. 1444 00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:05,720 That's great. 1445 00:53:05,720 --> 00:53:08,360 - I think the momentum of it existing 1446 00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:10,160 would just be like all of it. 1447 00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:11,720 Like it wouldn't even be wives competing 1448 00:53:11,720 --> 00:53:12,760 against each other at some point. 1449 00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,600 It would just turn into men competing against each other 1450 00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,280 all of a sudden because wives started it 1451 00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,960 and then it just, it's a mind of its own at that point 1452 00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:24,240 because the male competitiveness. 1453 00:53:24,240 --> 00:53:27,720 - Which has been their plan all along from the beginning. 1454 00:53:27,720 --> 00:53:29,160 - Oh my gosh. 1455 00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:30,560 That's a dangerous Spitball. 1456 00:53:30,560 --> 00:53:32,120 Like I feel maybe. 1457 00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:32,960 - That's a good one. 1458 00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:33,800 - Ally, you're the, 1459 00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:34,760 (laughing) 1460 00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,160 Ally, Ally's sitting here like sitting on 1461 00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,080 a billion dollar idea. 1462 00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:43,360 Like I'm gonna turn every man into a chore machine 1463 00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:45,680 through gamification. 1464 00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:46,520 - Competition. 1465 00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:48,120 - Hey, I was just thinking about this for myself, 1466 00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:50,680 but if I'm gonna get y'all to do the chores for me, 1467 00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:52,320 bonus points. 1468 00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:53,880 - Leo did more chores this week 1469 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:55,680 and now my wife's telling me about it 1470 00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:59,120 and now I gotta fricking do 10,000 steps 1471 00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:00,440 and do my chores. 1472 00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:01,680 (laughing) 1473 00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:03,400 - Of like a weekly leaderboard. 1474 00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:04,320 - You're not measuring steps, 1475 00:54:04,320 --> 00:54:08,200 you're measuring miles traveled holding a vacuum. 1476 00:54:08,200 --> 00:54:12,480 - You could get sponsors and then like 1477 00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:13,720 on the weekly leaderboard, 1478 00:54:13,720 --> 00:54:14,560 they could have like, 1479 00:54:14,560 --> 00:54:16,520 "Oh, you've won like a $10 gift card. 1480 00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:18,280 "Like take your wife out for coffee." 1481 00:54:18,280 --> 00:54:21,760 - You just won the Windex Weekly Window Wiping Champion. 1482 00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:22,880 - Yeah. 1483 00:54:22,880 --> 00:54:24,080 - There's the ads. 1484 00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:25,160 (laughing) 1485 00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:26,720 - You've earned a date night. 1486 00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:28,880 - Win a free Dyson vacuum. 1487 00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,640 - Ooh, if I could win myself some like scrub daddies, 1488 00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:32,880 I would be all for that. 1489 00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,280 - Guys, is this like a thing that could happen? 1490 00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:38,080 Like this feels weirdly like, 1491 00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:39,280 there are stupider apps, 1492 00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,520 I guess is what I'm thinking that are more successful. 1493 00:54:41,520 --> 00:54:44,720 Like way more stupid, way more successful. 1494 00:54:44,720 --> 00:54:45,840 Like, I don't know. 1495 00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:48,400 - We grew up in the generation where we had apps 1496 00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,960 that were literally pretend Zippo lights on our phones. 1497 00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:53,280 Do you guys remember that? 1498 00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:54,600 - Fart apps and yeah. 1499 00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:56,240 - Fart apps like. 1500 00:54:56,240 --> 00:54:58,280 - These apps are all about the networking effect, right? 1501 00:54:58,280 --> 00:54:59,840 You gotta have like other people on there 1502 00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:01,560 to feel like there's a community there. 1503 00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:05,040 So how do you incentivize initial signups? 1504 00:55:05,040 --> 00:55:07,840 - I mean, I think part of the social media element 1505 00:55:07,840 --> 00:55:11,120 of that to be like, "Hey, add me on this app." 1506 00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:13,160 - I think it starts as a to-do list. 1507 00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:17,000 It evolves into the social media elements. 1508 00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:17,840 So like you can't. 1509 00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:20,120 - Reel them in with the picture thing, yeah. 1510 00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:21,120 - And then you add like, 1511 00:55:21,120 --> 00:55:24,200 "Share your chore with your friend." 1512 00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:26,440 And then sharing your chore is, 1513 00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:28,760 "Compete against your chore lists." 1514 00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:29,600 Right? 1515 00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:31,640 And then all of a sudden it turns into. 1516 00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:32,680 - That's true. 1517 00:55:32,680 --> 00:55:35,480 - Husbands kill each other over chore lists. 1518 00:55:35,480 --> 00:55:37,240 (laughing) 1519 00:55:37,240 --> 00:55:39,600 - I'm gonna go throw a rock into my neighbor's window 1520 00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:41,040 so they have an extra chore. 1521 00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:42,760 I get ahead of them. 1522 00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:43,600 - That's just more points. 1523 00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:44,440 - Clean up the class. 1524 00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:45,680 - No, that's cheating. 1525 00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:46,520 - That's right. 1526 00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:48,960 Neighbors are doing their husband's chores. 1527 00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:49,800 - I was just gonna say, 1528 00:55:49,800 --> 00:55:53,000 you wanna do their lawn and yours to get the bonus points 1529 00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:55,480 and disincentivize them from getting the points this week. 1530 00:55:55,480 --> 00:55:57,920 - I'm gonna shovel so many driveways this winter. 1531 00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,240 - Exactly, right. 1532 00:55:59,240 --> 00:56:00,440 - That's the power of this app. 1533 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:04,240 I think there's something dangerous. 1534 00:56:04,240 --> 00:56:05,480 - Competition, man. 1535 00:56:05,480 --> 00:56:06,680 - See, but at the base of it, 1536 00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:10,800 I really do just want a visual to-do list. 1537 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,600 And I want something where I can take a picture 1538 00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:14,840 and then walk away, 1539 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:17,960 'cause that is the amount of attention span I have. 1540 00:56:17,960 --> 00:56:20,200 I take the picture, I go somewhere else, 1541 00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:22,880 and then I still have the image where I can look at it. 1542 00:56:22,880 --> 00:56:25,680 And be like, oh yeah, I didn't just forget about that 1543 00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:27,680 'cause I walked through a doorway. 1544 00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:29,520 - Facebook just started out as sharing pictures 1545 00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:31,200 with their friends, and now look at them. 1546 00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:32,280 Evil corporation. 1547 00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:34,840 I'm just, Chorleys, Chorleys. 1548 00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:36,880 - So many evil corporations tonight. 1549 00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:37,720 - I guess so. 1550 00:56:37,720 --> 00:56:38,920 - Just a couple steps in between. 1551 00:56:38,920 --> 00:56:40,360 - No, I like the idea of a visual. 1552 00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,000 I don't know why that's not a, 1553 00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:44,720 it just seems like a accessibility thing too. 1554 00:56:44,720 --> 00:56:47,600 - There's gotta be someone listening to that to-do list 1555 00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,800 right now, or I don't know, Apple Reminders. 1556 00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:53,080 That's gonna be at WWDC 2025. 1557 00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:54,280 New feature to Reminders. 1558 00:56:54,280 --> 00:56:56,760 Take a photo, we'll use Apple intelligence 1559 00:56:56,760 --> 00:56:58,320 to turn it into a task. 1560 00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:01,440 - Or I think Ali's idea of being just photo-centric, 1561 00:57:01,440 --> 00:57:04,600 like photo-forward instead of an add-on to an existing, 1562 00:57:04,600 --> 00:57:07,160 it's just something's inherently different about that. 1563 00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:10,080 And you have to, if you lean into the whole photo element, 1564 00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:13,040 I think it's more different and fun, 1565 00:57:13,040 --> 00:57:14,960 'cause everybody has their own way to do to-do lists. 1566 00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:16,920 And it's just, I don't know, the photos sound better. 1567 00:57:16,920 --> 00:57:19,520 - Well, and like Leo said before, 1568 00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,240 my biggest problem with any to-do list app 1569 00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,520 is the input element, where it just takes more time 1570 00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,640 for me to input it into the phone, 1571 00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:30,280 where if I could very quickly do it, 1572 00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:32,680 it would be such a game changer. 1573 00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,040 And a photo is the fastest way to do it. 1574 00:57:35,040 --> 00:57:36,800 - We could do this with a Polaroid camera right now. 1575 00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:40,920 Like just put the Polaroid on a stack of Polaroid tours. 1576 00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:43,160 I don't know, that'd just be wasteful. 1577 00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:48,080 There's the MVP, yeah, I guess, is the Polaroid camera. 1578 00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:50,560 (laughing) 1579 00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:53,440 - Oh, one of my tasks was clean up Polaroid mess. 1580 00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:54,280 That's right. 1581 00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:56,480 - Taking a picture of the Polaroid. 1582 00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,400 - It's a picture of the stack of pictures. 1583 00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:00,400 - That's amazing. 1584 00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:01,800 - Thank you for listening, listener. 1585 00:58:01,800 --> 00:58:05,080 We hope you enjoyed yourself, you new chore machine. 1586 00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:06,520 And thank you, Ali, for being here. 1587 00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:07,760 This was a lovely time. 1588 00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:08,800 - Thank you for having me. 1589 00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:11,280 - Our website is Spitball.show. 1590 00:58:11,280 --> 00:58:13,000 There you can find links to our YouTube channel, 1591 00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:15,840 social media, email us questions, comments, ideas. 1592 00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,560 We'd love to hear from you or podcast@Spitball.show. 1593 00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:20,280 That's also how you can follow us on the Fediverse, 1594 00:58:20,280 --> 00:58:21,120 which is Mastodon. 1595 00:58:21,120 --> 00:58:23,440 We are podcast@Spitball.show. 1596 00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:26,240 And our subreddit is r/spitballshow. 1597 00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:29,000 Our intro/outro music is "Swingers" by Bonkers Beat Club. 1598 00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:30,840 Please, if you wouldn't mind, take a break from your chore 1599 00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:33,400 and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify. 1600 00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:34,480 I know you're doing the dishes right now, 1601 00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:35,720 but would you mind drying your hands off 1602 00:58:35,720 --> 00:58:38,040 and just real quick, hit that add button, 1603 00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:39,560 leave us a review, it'd really help us. 1604 00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:42,520 And it's the best way for people to find out about the show. 1605 00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:45,080 A new episode is coming out in two weeks. 1606 00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:46,160 We will see you then. 1607 00:58:48,740 --> 00:58:51,480 (dramatic music)