1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,200 I'm Scott, I'm Russell, and I'm Leo. 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:17,240 This is Spitball. 3 00:00:17,240 --> 00:00:22,400 Welcome to Spitball, the Pitching Kitchen, where three lovable scamps, that's us, empty 4 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,760 their heads of any startup and tech product ideas that we have stuck up in here so you 5 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:28,200 can all have them for free. 6 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,640 Anything we say is yours to keep. 7 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:35,000 And this week is a special week because it is our first episode with a guest. 8 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:37,200 Please welcome to the podcast, Miss Stephanie. 9 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:38,800 Hey, it's Steph. 10 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:39,800 Welcome. 11 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:40,800 We're so happy to have you. 12 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:42,360 This is gonna be a lot of fun. 13 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:47,760 Steph and I work together in an IT department and we are constantly throwing ideas back 14 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:52,440 and forth about things that we wish existed, websites and startups and all that. 15 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:53,680 We think we're gonna have fun today. 16 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,640 All right, Scott, you're up first this week. 17 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:56,640 What's up? 18 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:57,640 What do you got? 19 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:03,320 So this is one that I just, or my wife and I thought of a couple of days ago and I haven't 20 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:04,560 been able to stop thinking about it. 21 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:11,160 We were out at a bar and we had biked there and as we were biking home, we played a game. 22 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,560 We kind of like rode onto a basketball court at a school and we were just kind of winding 23 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:17,400 around the hoops there. 24 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,880 And we had also just previously watched the movie Top Gun the other day, like the new 25 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:21,880 one. 26 00:01:21,880 --> 00:01:26,700 And as we're doing it, we're a little inebriated and we're pretending that we are both fighter 27 00:01:26,700 --> 00:01:31,720 planes trying to shoot down the other person on bikes like every kid has ever done. 28 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,680 And how we were doing it though is like if I got behind you and you're in my sights and 29 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,280 I would start counting as fast as I could to 20, like one, two, three, four, five, six, 30 00:01:39,280 --> 00:01:40,280 seven, eight, whatever. 31 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,120 The first one to hit 20 and you count up for wherever you left off would have shot down 32 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:45,120 the other person. 33 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:46,120 Sure. 34 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:47,120 And it was a fucking blast. 35 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:50,680 It was so much fun, probably because we were drunk. 36 00:01:50,680 --> 00:01:54,840 But I can't stop thinking about how I would do hardware for this. 37 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:55,840 Sure. 38 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,640 How do you actually make this into a quick, simple piece of hardware that you could place 39 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:05,360 on a bike, Bluetooth connected to your phone, and then have whatever features on there, 40 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:11,040 like picture an IR sensor pointed just directly forward and then a receiver that gives you 41 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:12,040 360 around you. 42 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:16,680 So you can be shot from any side, but you can only shoot your IR signal out front. 43 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:21,880 And every blast of IR would just be specific to whatever piece of hardware so it knows 44 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:23,280 who it's going to. 45 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:29,640 And then picture like something that actually holds your physical phone so you can clip 46 00:02:29,640 --> 00:02:30,640 it on your front handlebars. 47 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:34,120 And it has all your screen, like your health or your ammo count or whatever, and with a 48 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:35,800 simple button to shoot. 49 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:38,500 And that is the entire hardware section of it. 50 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:43,160 I would have a lot of fun with that, and I'm tempted to try it, but I don't have time. 51 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:44,160 That rules. 52 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,800 You've invented laser tag, but with a mount. 53 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:47,800 Laser tag on bikes. 54 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:48,800 Right. 55 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:50,560 That's what I was thinking, laser tag. 56 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:51,560 This sounds so fun. 57 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,680 Yeah, that's what it's used. 58 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:59,120 So the kit like clamps onto your handlebars and stuff, and you've got like a trigger on 59 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:00,120 the handles. 60 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,120 Okay, okay. 61 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:02,120 Yep. 62 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:03,640 Single button for your thumb and nothing else. 63 00:03:03,640 --> 00:03:06,120 I don't know how you avoid the lawsuits here. 64 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:07,120 What kind of lawsuits? 65 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:08,120 Someone's going to go flying, right? 66 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:09,120 Oh, I know. 67 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,560 Okay, well, then you just put it in big letters on top, like do not use ever or something. 68 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:13,560 Yeah, because that totally works. 69 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:15,160 Wait, is it like dangerous? 70 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:16,160 Is that what you're saying? 71 00:03:16,160 --> 00:03:20,040 I just feel like, you know, you're encouraging a bunch of people to do distracted driving, 72 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,680 but on bikes where they have no roll cage around them. 73 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:24,200 But this sounds awesome. 74 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:25,200 It's fair. 75 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,200 Every good thing in life is dangerous. 76 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:30,760 Starts with something dangerous until the lawyers get at it. 77 00:03:30,760 --> 00:03:31,760 Then you can't do it anymore. 78 00:03:31,760 --> 00:03:32,760 It's like lawn darts. 79 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:35,600 I feel like this is just an app though, right? 80 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:36,760 I feel like this. 81 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:41,800 Yeah, the vast majority becomes an app real quick where you, I mean, okay, if you got 82 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,760 multiple cell phones, you can have as many people as you want. 83 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:47,800 Tell me more about the software side that you're picturing, because I've only ever used 84 00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:52,280 a laser tag kits from like the nineties that had no smartphone component to them and they 85 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:56,560 just kind of made an explosion sound and you had three lives or whatever. 86 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:57,560 Right? 87 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:03,880 So what, what is, what is making a smartphone aware laser tag thing get you that probably 88 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:04,880 exists now, right? 89 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,840 Like, are there laser tag kits that pair your phone? 90 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,880 You think I feel like it has to, I haven't actually looked for that. 91 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:11,600 I mean, a great benchmark though. 92 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,480 All the zoomers are going to be mad at us. 93 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,960 That should exist like a laser tag for your phone. 94 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:23,080 I played laser tag on my iPad 10 years ago, grandpa. 95 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:24,760 Yes. 96 00:04:24,760 --> 00:04:31,520 So you've got lives, you've got, I think it's just health and an ammo count and a reset. 97 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,800 I mean, that's the absolute minimum MVP you could do for this thing. 98 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:36,520 You could add whatever features later. 99 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,360 But then with the app, then you would get more analytics. 100 00:04:39,360 --> 00:04:43,240 Like with the regular laser tag, you don't get to see like, oh, you got shot by this 101 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,880 person this many times and this person this many times. 102 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:47,880 Yes. 103 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,320 Longest stretch that you were in their sights or whatever. 104 00:04:50,320 --> 00:04:54,720 At an actual laser tag facility, sometimes they'll have like grenades or special like 105 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,520 multi shot and that kind of thing. 106 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,160 So there's, there's ways to expand it. 107 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:00,480 You could add missiles or something on there. 108 00:05:00,480 --> 00:05:01,480 Boom. 109 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:02,480 Pay to play, pay to win. 110 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:03,480 Pay to win. 111 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:04,480 I got it. 112 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:09,360 You got to upgrade to this 28 speed bike and that's the only way you're going to outmaneuver 113 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:10,360 them. 114 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:11,360 I'm a bike laser whale. 115 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:13,480 I'm going to spend a hundred dollars a day on this. 116 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,200 Cosmetics for days. 117 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:16,200 Yeah. 118 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:21,920 Is there a way we can turn this into an ARG where it's like world, like Pokemon Go, where 119 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:25,280 this is always happening everywhere and you just see people running around with their, 120 00:05:25,280 --> 00:05:26,640 you know what I mean? 121 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:30,520 Like they have to go out to certain checkpoints and get things at certain times. 122 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:34,080 And so you see the bikes just sort of flying around. 123 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:35,080 Is this a bad idea? 124 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:36,080 I don't know. 125 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,880 Well, I just pictured like, I mean, I love the bike aspect of it. 126 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:40,280 That's what made this so much fun. 127 00:05:40,280 --> 00:05:43,640 You're saying if we had a piece of hardware that you could just put on any phone and all 128 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,600 of a sudden it becomes like Pokemon Go or whatnot, where random people on the street 129 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,640 are playing, but you can only see who's playing through the app or whatever. 130 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:54,080 But then all of a sudden we're going to have people pointing their phones at other people 131 00:05:54,080 --> 00:05:56,280 like guns and then someone's going to get shot for real. 132 00:05:56,280 --> 00:05:57,840 So that might not be a good idea. 133 00:05:57,840 --> 00:05:58,840 We'll stick with the bikes. 134 00:05:58,840 --> 00:05:59,840 Yeah. 135 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:01,760 It can't look like a gun, but it doesn't have to. 136 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:02,760 Right. 137 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,840 That's the cool part about this is you maybe have some sort of like flag or denote some 138 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:10,080 way to say, oh, I'm playing this game on my bike or whatever, or maybe you'd even know 139 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,880 what the hardware strap to it, but it doesn't have to look like a gun because the bike is 140 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:16,440 the weapon in this fantasy world. 141 00:06:16,440 --> 00:06:21,680 Laser tag has the whole like gun connotation, whereas if you just have this, you know, starfighter 142 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,080 pilot or deemed or whatever, you know? 143 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:25,080 Yeah. 144 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:27,920 We found that the game didn't work too well when we were going home. 145 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,200 You know, you're pretty much going in from point A to point B in a straight line. 146 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,840 It was hard to get crazy fun maneuvers on there. 147 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:38,000 But when we were both on a very open court with random obstacles like basketball poles 148 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:42,280 and stuff, when we're maneuvering around, that's when it got extremely fun. 149 00:06:42,280 --> 00:06:44,800 So I don't know if it would be good at the randos on there. 150 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:45,800 That sounds fun. 151 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:46,800 I'm on the street. 152 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:47,800 Do there are a lot of parks. 153 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:51,440 I feel like this could this could exist in like some random parking lot. 154 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:56,520 You go to the one of the dead malls, you know, and you just we're going to meet up and do 155 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:57,520 bike tag. 156 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:58,520 I don't know. 157 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:04,320 Well, it'd be the because like in the neighborhood near us, they've been doing like Nerf wars 158 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:08,080 and they have they invite all the neighborhood kids and they come do a Nerf war. 159 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:10,600 Well, this would be the adult version. 160 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:11,600 Love that. 161 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:12,600 Totally adult version. 162 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:17,120 Well, yeah, as I said, it I was like, well, I can't adults have Nerf wars too. 163 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:18,120 Heck yeah. 164 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:22,040 We just got to make it a drinking game. 165 00:07:22,040 --> 00:07:23,880 That's all you get shot down and take a shot. 166 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:24,880 Move back. 167 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:29,400 I mean, what if you brought like paintball, like dying paintball facilities and you're 168 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:31,520 just like, all right, add bikes. 169 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:37,880 What if we just put a gun on the front of the bike? 170 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:39,200 It's just paintball. 171 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,400 There's no app or anything. 172 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,760 You have like an actual paintball gun on your bike. 173 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:43,760 You know, we don't even need bikes. 174 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,400 You guys just want to go play paintball. 175 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:48,640 Well, like you're all wearing helmets anyway, right? 176 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:50,220 Of course it's safe. 177 00:07:50,220 --> 00:07:52,080 You can still mount it to the front, right? 178 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:56,680 So you can't like, you know, side shooting or something, but like you can still have 179 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,280 like the same wing, like fighter pilot aspect, right? 180 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:02,600 So it's just mounted to the actual bike. 181 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:03,600 Yep. 182 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,000 Dude, that'd be, I mean, not paintball. 183 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:10,200 OK, replace paintball with Nerf darts, you know, replace paintball with Nerf balls and 184 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,360 you got a kid friendly version, right? 185 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:13,800 That would be pretty cool. 186 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,160 Just a full launcher on the front of some kind. 187 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:17,160 Orbeez. 188 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:22,040 Having it be fixed to the bike straight ahead is genius because if it's just like a gun, 189 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:24,280 you're just flailing it around shooting and stuff. 190 00:08:24,280 --> 00:08:26,120 But if you have to have strategy. 191 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:30,560 Yeah, you got to actually face them, which is why I really want to try it in pairs. 192 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:34,400 Like you actually have a wingman that you're working with because it was just two people. 193 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:35,400 I mean, we still had a blast. 194 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:36,400 It was just two people. 195 00:08:36,400 --> 00:08:40,000 But if I had a partner where they couldn't get behind me or someone could cut them off, 196 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,400 that would be sweet. 197 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:42,760 Dude, that is so cool. 198 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:45,720 I don't know anything about dogfighting strategy. 199 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,480 I have one data point. 200 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,760 Dude, you can bring like blankets to the fight to like blind them. 201 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:54,440 You know, you throw a blanket on somebody while they're... 202 00:08:54,440 --> 00:09:00,520 Can you imagine riding on a bike and throwing a blanket on someone? 203 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:01,880 Tangled up in their spokes. 204 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:02,880 Dude, it's war, man. 205 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:06,880 I don't know what to tell you. 206 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:07,880 War is hell. 207 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:13,880 All right, Leo, what you got? 208 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:15,760 All right. 209 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,120 This is something that I've actually built an MVP for and have in my personal life that 210 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:24,680 I need to, I don't know, bet against you guys and get feedback on and maybe expand into 211 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:27,040 mass production or have someone else take and run with it. 212 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:33,320 So Amazon has gone through a phase a couple of years ago where they made Lexa accessories 213 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:34,380 for everybody. 214 00:09:34,380 --> 00:09:39,840 So like for every possible thing that you could glue a computer in, they had like the 215 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:43,360 Lexa microwave and the smart whatever, right? 216 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:47,720 One of the things that they had that was an accessory was a clock, an analog wall clock. 217 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,660 And I was inspired by it the minute I saw it. 218 00:09:51,660 --> 00:09:57,800 It is a regular clock face and all along the rim of it is a bunch of white LEDs. 219 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:01,720 And the only thing that it did was it paired directly to your echo. 220 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:07,160 And when you set a timer, it lit up the LEDs to have a visual, always there representation 221 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,360 of how much time was left on your timer. 222 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,840 So like if you said set a timer for 10 minutes, it... 223 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,360 Oh, God, it's a full circle around a circular analog clock. 224 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:16,360 Okay, I got you. 225 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:17,360 Yes, exactly. 226 00:10:17,360 --> 00:10:18,360 It's the diameter of it. 227 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:23,840 And if you said set a timer for 10 minutes, the 12 all the way to the two would light 228 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:27,040 up to show 10 minutes left and it would tick down, right? 229 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:28,040 That's all it did. 230 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:33,240 And I looked at that thing and thought, what a waste of software on beautiful hardware. 231 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,460 What if we could show other stuff on this? 232 00:10:35,460 --> 00:10:39,760 So a couple of years ago, I made my own basically. 233 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:40,760 Made your own clock? 234 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:44,760 I took a bunch of RGB LEDs and put them around a clock. 235 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:52,040 And I have a working prototype of color along the rim representing my Google Calendar, or 236 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:53,780 the weather or other information. 237 00:10:53,780 --> 00:10:59,160 So when I look at this clock, if I have an event from two to three, and my Google Calendar 238 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:03,500 is orange on the screen, then between the two and the three is lit up in orange. 239 00:11:03,500 --> 00:11:04,500 And so... 240 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:05,680 Oh, that's cool. 241 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:10,080 Yeah, for the next 12 hours, you kind of have a quick glanceable view of what your calendar 242 00:11:10,080 --> 00:11:11,080 is going to look like. 243 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:13,600 You don't know what it is, but you know something is during this time. 244 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,760 Yeah, I'm going to be busy from noon to four this afternoon. 245 00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:20,120 Oh man, it's going to be a big long afternoon or look at that, my whole morning's free kind 246 00:11:20,120 --> 00:11:21,120 of thing. 247 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:25,120 And it switches between that and a temperature gradient like you'd see on your local news 248 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,520 where it's going to be really hot in the afternoon. 249 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,560 So it's all red over down there. 250 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:31,760 And it's really, really pretty. 251 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:32,960 And it's functional. 252 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:36,000 Wait, how does the temperature one work again? 253 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,120 I don't get that. 254 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:41,240 So it shows the next 12 hours, wherever the hour hand is now. 255 00:11:41,240 --> 00:11:46,320 Oh, every LED lights up with every single one of them is the correct color according 256 00:11:46,320 --> 00:11:47,320 to temperature. 257 00:11:47,320 --> 00:11:52,720 And it's a spectrum from like a dark purple all the way through blue to green to yellow, 258 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:56,280 orange and red for how cold or hot it will be at that moment. 259 00:11:56,280 --> 00:12:00,720 So you just kind of end up with like a yellow to orange to red to orange again. 260 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:03,440 Oh, it's going to get me pretty hot in the next few hours. 261 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:04,880 Does temperature fluctuate that? 262 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:05,880 I guess it does. 263 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:06,880 Yeah. 264 00:12:06,880 --> 00:12:07,880 Enough. 265 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,720 I mean, oftentimes I'll look at it as just solid yellow for the next 12 hours. 266 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,760 I'm like, okay, the temperature will be steady, but that's useful too. 267 00:12:13,760 --> 00:12:17,360 And so I kind of want to make more stuff where, you know, if it's going to be raining, then 268 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:19,400 it'll twinkle at that point or. 269 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,940 Oh, on just those numbers between two to three or whatever. 270 00:12:22,940 --> 00:12:26,200 Or if it's going to be a storm, it'll like flash like lightning or something. 271 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:27,200 Yeah. 272 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:28,520 So there's more you can do with it. 273 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:33,160 But I, I kind of am at the point where I don't know what the next step is other than, hey, 274 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:39,640 I kind of made this hacky thing just for me with hard coded my calendar in it, you know, 275 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,000 and it's working, it's working. 276 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:43,000 It's right there. 277 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:44,000 It's fantastic. 278 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:51,320 It's that it's an Ikea clock and some Ada fruit LEDs and a little Arduino and it works 279 00:12:51,320 --> 00:12:52,320 pretty well. 280 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,080 But is this something that anyone in the world but me would be interested in? 281 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,080 I guess is my first question. 282 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,040 I mean, it's like, I know it depends how much it costs. 283 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:02,040 Right. 284 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:03,040 I suppose. 285 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,520 But it's like one of those cool little devices you give to a friend, right? 286 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:12,720 They're like, like, oh, like, here you go, dude, you like weather and clocks and tech, 287 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:14,840 you know, thrown on your wall, right? 288 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,600 Wait, I know a guy. 289 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:20,960 Every single YouTuber on the planet. 290 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:21,960 Like the fish. 291 00:13:21,960 --> 00:13:22,960 The fish. 292 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,600 The big mouth billy bass. 293 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:28,440 Everyone knows a guy that would like the bass. 294 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,320 I may have one of those on the wall right next to my clock, actually. 295 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:34,800 I think you made him an Alexa, too, didn't you? 296 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:35,800 Yes. 297 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:37,520 An Alexa fish. 298 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:43,040 When you ask the trigger word, it lifts its head and talks in sync to the voice. 299 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:44,880 It's pretty goofy. 300 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:45,880 Amazing. 301 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:46,960 Yeah. 302 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:48,040 So that's my pitch. 303 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,620 Is it one ring of LEDs or multi ring? 304 00:13:50,620 --> 00:13:54,480 Right now it's just one ring and there's five LEDs per hour. 305 00:13:54,480 --> 00:14:00,400 So you couldn't have it be more of a strip if it was nicer or maybe even multiple. 306 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,840 Like if you had right now, if I have an event from two to four and my wife has an event 307 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:09,520 from three to five, the overlap is like a mix between the colors. 308 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:14,640 So if I was red and she was blue, that it's purple in the middle, you can usually tell 309 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:16,280 at a glance what it's doing there. 310 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,440 But that took some some math. 311 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:26,800 Yeah, I feel like if you could pick like three rings that you would have one be the calendar, 312 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:33,160 one be the weather temperature, and then the next would be like if it's raining. 313 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:34,360 That's where my head goes. 314 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,820 Or you create like, you know, they have that in the bar graph thing where the temperature 315 00:14:37,820 --> 00:14:40,160 increases over time. 316 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:46,360 On the Apple on the Apple weather app, like night sky does this you show dark sky, yeah, 317 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:52,400 dark sky increases, it goes closer to the ring, the larger ring and down as temperature 318 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,240 increases and decreases. 319 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:58,220 So would you have it like is the x axis for that in the middle? 320 00:14:58,220 --> 00:15:02,520 So it's like a wave that's going out farther from the middle and then back in when it's 321 00:15:02,520 --> 00:15:03,520 getting hotter or colder? 322 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:04,520 Yes, yes, yeah. 323 00:15:04,520 --> 00:15:10,000 You almost need like a full LCD or OLED screen, something like that. 324 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:14,240 Put an iPad up there, all the pixels we need. 325 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:19,360 Let's just make an Apple watch with magnifying glass, you know, or a Fitbit, you know, then 326 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:20,840 you can make your own watch faces. 327 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:27,400 Why don't I just tape the Google Calendar app on a tablet to my wall, and then I'm I 328 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:28,400 can see it all the time. 329 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:29,400 Yeah. 330 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:30,400 No, it looks that'll look ugly as hell. 331 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:31,400 Like the bird. 332 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:36,280 You guys ever have those bird clocks? 333 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:37,520 The bird every hour? 334 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:40,520 Oh, yeah, they do the different chirp on each. 335 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:41,520 Oh, yeah. 336 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:44,400 I'll be walking through the woods one day and I'll be I'll hear a random bird be like, 337 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:46,360 Oh my god, it's 630 or something. 338 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,360 Just my childhood nostalgia flashed back. 339 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:51,360 I'm at grandpa's house. 340 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:52,360 Exactly. 341 00:15:52,360 --> 00:15:56,960 No, there's somebody and they had a bird clock and I didn't know it. 342 00:15:56,960 --> 00:15:59,920 I'm like, where's this bird? 343 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:01,500 He's very on the hour. 344 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:02,880 Just leave it in a drawer. 345 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:04,880 There's something trapped in the wall. 346 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:05,880 Yeah. 347 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:07,640 Dude, that's that's what you got to add, Leo. 348 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:10,520 You can bring back the the analog bird clock. 349 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:11,520 The bird clock. 350 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:16,240 For you know, your grandpa, your dad. 351 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:17,240 Gen Z bird clock. 352 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:18,240 That's right. 353 00:16:18,240 --> 00:16:19,240 That's cool. 354 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,880 We have a niche product. 355 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:23,320 How can we make it more niche? 356 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:24,720 I downloaded the app. 357 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:25,720 It's the bird app. 358 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:27,440 It'll chirp every hour, right? 359 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,080 So you got to put an app star behind it, Leo. 360 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:31,080 Boom. 361 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:32,640 And a speaker can have different. 362 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:36,800 Yeah, I can't stop thinking about what the Gen Z or millennial bird clock is it like 363 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:38,360 means on every hour? 364 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:39,640 What's the equivalent on that? 365 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:40,640 I like tortles. 366 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,640 Oh, it must be noon. 367 00:16:43,640 --> 00:16:48,240 That is not a bad idea either. 368 00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:53,080 No, you have that clock and then there's like a bug in it or it got reset and somehow it's 369 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:55,200 not linked to your account anymore. 370 00:16:55,200 --> 00:16:59,320 And so there's just like lights up there and you're like, I have something at two o'clock. 371 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:00,320 What is it? 372 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,880 You can't find it because it's not on your account. 373 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:04,880 Something is looming. 374 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:06,200 The Russians hacked it. 375 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,600 Now it's just flashing at me. 376 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:09,600 Right. 377 00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:12,440 I really do like the idea of just one or two rings around it. 378 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,080 The simplicity of this is what makes it so good. 379 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,520 Like I'm watching your clock twirl in the background. 380 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:18,520 That's so cool. 381 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,760 Every 15 seconds it switches and it does a little animation between the two. 382 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:25,520 And it's been, you know, something that I kind of worked on for a while and haven't 383 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:26,520 touched again. 384 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:29,000 And I look at it every day, but I love it. 385 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:33,640 I keep thinking, what are other pieces of data that live on a timeline that I could 386 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:38,800 visualize like for the next 12 hours, the temperature, my calendar, the fact that you 387 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:42,320 got your work schedule on there plus weather like that's awesome. 388 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:43,840 I don't know. 389 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:46,960 I think that is plenty right now as an MVP to go to market with. 390 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,520 I think it's an app store. 391 00:17:48,520 --> 00:17:49,960 Like I like why? 392 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:51,040 Why think of it yourself? 393 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:57,760 You know, just let other people make the cuckoo clock sound or the, you know, the grandfather 394 00:17:57,760 --> 00:17:59,960 clock and just have people. 395 00:17:59,960 --> 00:18:00,960 Totally. 396 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:01,960 Yeah. 397 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:03,040 Come up with their own ideas. 398 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:08,760 And maybe I don't go to Ikea and hot glue LEDs to the back of clocks that they sell 399 00:18:08,760 --> 00:18:11,440 anymore, but I actually get it manufactured somewhere. 400 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:16,000 Well, now that it's on this podcast, if someone else wants to take it and productize it, I 401 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:17,000 won't be mad. 402 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:18,000 It's got to show us though. 403 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:20,640 But maybe I'll open source what I have so far or something. 404 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:23,800 Everything said in this podcast is copyrighted by Spitball. 405 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:29,320 We made it three episodes in before we're super protective over ideas now. 406 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,360 Just saying, we're going to sue you if you're famous. 407 00:18:32,360 --> 00:18:37,160 Episode one, we're like, anyone can have this, but episode three, we will send our lawyers. 408 00:18:37,160 --> 00:18:38,160 We're starting to like our ideas. 409 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:39,160 No, we just need a royalty. 410 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:40,160 I just want a royalty. 411 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:41,160 Just 10%. 412 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:42,160 A free clock, right? 413 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:43,160 A dollar a unit. 414 00:18:43,160 --> 00:18:44,160 Venmo us what you think is fair. 415 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:52,360 I don't know how well that Amazon clock sold, but maybe I could just buy their extra inventory 416 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:57,160 and flash their firmware, scratch off the logo on the back and call it mine. 417 00:18:57,160 --> 00:18:58,160 That's interesting. 418 00:18:58,160 --> 00:18:59,160 I wonder if you could do that. 419 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:02,000 If you could just straight up reflash it on there. 420 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:03,000 It might just be an ESP32. 421 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:04,000 All the hardware's there. 422 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:05,000 Yeah, or Arduino or something. 423 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:06,000 I don't know. 424 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,320 I don't think they're colored, but you can make something. 425 00:19:08,320 --> 00:19:09,560 Yeah, let's go look it up. 426 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:17,240 We'll find some Amazon warehouse bins, the dump bins and start buying clocks. 427 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:22,280 All right, Steph, you're up. 428 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:23,280 What do you got? 429 00:19:23,280 --> 00:19:28,560 So coming from the Midwest, we have lots of snow all the time. 430 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:33,200 Well, you're always pushing it and shoveling it. 431 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:37,400 And there was a really big snowstorm a couple of years ago, and there was no place for the 432 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:38,760 snow to go. 433 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:40,920 We were out of space. 434 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:46,040 You couldn't even see my neighbors because the pile of snow was like eight feet high. 435 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,800 And it's like a 10 foot strip of grass between our two yards. 436 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:54,600 And we both just snowblowed together on top of the one pile between our houses. 437 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,440 And there was just too much and it had nowhere to go. 438 00:19:57,440 --> 00:20:06,480 And so I thought, well, snow in frozen form has huge volume, but melted, it would take 439 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,840 up a tiny bit of space. 440 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:17,480 So what if you could shovel your snow onto this snow melter platform down at the end 441 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,000 of the road that would drain into the storm drain? 442 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,360 Then you would have no more snow. 443 00:20:22,360 --> 00:20:24,020 That's brilliant. 444 00:20:24,020 --> 00:20:30,320 So like a giant tarp or something, some material and spot that you shovel onto. 445 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:31,320 Okay. 446 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:35,960 What happens to in storm drains in the winter? 447 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,880 Do those just freeze up or do they still work? 448 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:40,880 Do they freeze since they're underground? 449 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,320 I feel like I should know this. 450 00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:44,880 I know. 451 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:45,880 They're underground. 452 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:51,120 They say if you don't want your pipes to freeze to have like a pencil of water flowing, then 453 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:52,200 it won't freeze. 454 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:54,760 So I think storm drains don't freeze because they're always just flowing. 455 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:56,000 That makes sense. 456 00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,000 Like some creeks. 457 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:02,440 And so I'm picturing like a two by four heated plate or something that you would push the 458 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,480 snow onto and then it would melt and then go down the drain. 459 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:09,320 I had an aquarium with a beta fish for a couple of years and it came with a little 460 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:15,680 like, I don't know, a little bit bigger than a credit card size, just rubber flap and a 461 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,560 long cord that went right into the wall. 462 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:18,720 And all it did was heat. 463 00:21:18,720 --> 00:21:22,600 Like you just stuck it in the aquarium in the rocks or whatever and it just heated stuff. 464 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:24,760 You want that, but a little bigger. 465 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:25,760 That's brilliant. 466 00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:26,760 Yeah. 467 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,960 Like a heating pad for your driveway. 468 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:30,960 For a sore back. 469 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:34,000 I just want to figure out the math here. 470 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:40,720 How much energy does it take to move a two by four block of snow equivalent? 471 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:42,160 To melt it down, you mean? 472 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:43,160 Yeah. 473 00:21:43,160 --> 00:21:45,600 Because like, I just keep coming back to flamethrowers on here. 474 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:49,280 Like I just want to do a propane flamethrower, like facing right on top of that and you're 475 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:54,280 just pushing snow into this open flame and then you're good to go. 476 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,680 One can an hour or something. 477 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:57,680 Or one can five minutes. 478 00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:58,680 Yeah. 479 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:03,560 You could have like a snowbox and then you have the flames come down from the front and 480 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,080 you would push it into the box. 481 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:06,880 The flames would come down and melt it. 482 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:08,480 I figured this was just a slow thing. 483 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:13,400 So like you, at the end of the driveway here in the Midwest, we have these awful like icebergs 484 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:14,400 that form. 485 00:22:14,400 --> 00:22:18,600 But if you just had like a strip all the way along it, it doesn't have to melt it in a 486 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:19,600 couple of minutes. 487 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:25,040 It could be like I push it onto there and then over the night or over the day, it just 488 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,680 sort of slowly melts it. 489 00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:27,680 Okay. 490 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,120 That might be the thing. 491 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:30,800 Because if it's like an energy thing, right? 492 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:34,800 Like I can see like it costing a ton of electricity or whatever, right? 493 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:40,360 Maybe there's like, you know, when it's really hot out or like 32 degrees, snow could melt, 494 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:41,360 right? 495 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:46,400 If you maybe put a tarp over it or like some sort of like passive heating thing. 496 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:47,400 Totally. 497 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,280 And then you're shrinking it down, right? 498 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,280 It's like if the volume is too big, like how do you shrink it? 499 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:53,880 Maybe just a black tarp. 500 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:54,880 Is that all it takes? 501 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:56,920 Like, but it's covered. 502 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,120 What you want is a solar like pool heat. 503 00:22:59,120 --> 00:23:05,040 You know how they have those like, yeah, you can go to a hardware store and get a big old 504 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:09,560 plastic container with black hose that just snakes through it and you set it in the sun 505 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:15,200 and add it to your pool loop and it slowly heats it with just making it warm in the sunlight. 506 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:16,200 Just from sunlight. 507 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:17,720 It's just a greenhouse and a black. 508 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:18,720 Yeah, yeah. 509 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:20,760 You could even make like a closed loop. 510 00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:27,000 So like antifreeze, you throw antifreeze into a couple tubes, you stick them in the thing 511 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,480 and like a little just a little bit of heat, right? 512 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,320 Will slowly melt the snow over time. 513 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:35,560 It's got just got to be a little bit warmer than 32, right? 514 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:39,840 There was some kind of material and trying to remember what like piezo something. 515 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,040 It's just a it looks like a flat piece of ceramic tile. 516 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,080 If you run a current through it, one half gets really hot. 517 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:47,800 The other half gets really cold. 518 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:53,120 And just depending on how much electricity in the or the direction of the electricity, 519 00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:54,160 one of those two things will happen. 520 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:57,720 So like if I were to reverse the flow, the cold side would get hot and the hot side would 521 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:58,760 get cold. 522 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:03,240 And so you could use they're not very efficient, but you could use them to make like if you 523 00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:07,160 put it in a box with the walls made of this, you could either have a heater or cooler or 524 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:08,720 flip a switch and it would be the opposite. 525 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:13,840 And I'm just trying to think we made a tile platform of this ran a crap ton of electricity 526 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:14,840 through it. 527 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,160 Could the cold side just be the side facing the ground? 528 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:18,160 Yeah, exactly. 529 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:19,160 Mm hmm. 530 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:20,160 Yeah. 531 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,160 The cold just has to go somewhere. 532 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:25,760 You could I mean, you could channel it out to wherever you want or up in the air or something. 533 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:27,040 Interesting, man. 534 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:35,080 OK, I'm thinking simple firewood, water or something like how do you how do you bring 535 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,440 it like I just think that there's got to be another solution besides an outlet that you 536 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,440 an extension cord that you run out there. 537 00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:43,440 Propane. 538 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:49,720 Well, I was wondering how much solar energy like we're talking about, like how much heat 539 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:54,720 do you need and how much energy does that take to melt the lower layer? 540 00:24:54,720 --> 00:25:01,720 And then would solar be enough like sorry, shot in the dark here. 541 00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,720 OK, compost piles. 542 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,720 All right. 543 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:11,080 OK, in December, in December, stay hot. 544 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:12,720 No, they stay hot. 545 00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:13,920 The comp really. 546 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:14,920 Yeah. 547 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:18,480 If you go around, there were houses on Mackinac that used to heat themselves through the winter 548 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:22,920 using just what from the like the gas, maybe. 549 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:28,400 No, it's just the the reaction, the chemical reactions going on of a bunch of little microbes 550 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,920 in there eating and pooping is enough to generate heat. 551 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:32,920 What? 552 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:33,920 Yes. 553 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:41,080 OK, could you have your compost be in a hole in the ground and its lid is flush with the 554 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:46,120 ground then and it's like putting off the heat and that's what you shovel the snow onto 555 00:25:46,120 --> 00:25:49,520 water piping heat pile. 556 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,560 OK, somehow get the OK, maybe figure this out. 557 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,480 We'll figure this out with like the engineers. 558 00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:59,720 We'll hire the engineers to figure this out. 559 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:00,720 Wave your hands a little bit. 560 00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,680 We got a compost pile over here. 561 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,680 We have a snow pile over here. 562 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,120 How do we bring the heat from here to there? 563 00:26:10,120 --> 00:26:16,320 OK, Steph's about to blow our minds. 564 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:20,040 So I think I've had this conversation with Leo before. 565 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:27,080 We've argued about when you use the oven and you're done cooking, whatever you're cooking, 566 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:31,640 do you leave the door open and have it heat your house or do you leave it closed? 567 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:37,160 But he said, where does the heat go if the door is closed? 568 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:45,120 Well, what if you could have a fan blow that extra heat from the oven out there because 569 00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:46,680 you're cooking more in the winter? 570 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:47,680 That's brilliant. 571 00:26:47,680 --> 00:26:51,400 Yes, Steph, I don't know if you're joking or if that's just the most genius idea I've 572 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:52,400 heard today. 573 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:58,080 You could probably pull heat from addicts in the winter, right? 574 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:03,640 Well, because our company, they have heated sidewalks in some places because it's using 575 00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:05,600 the excess heat from somewhere. 576 00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,400 So I was like, well, what is a heat source in your house? 577 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,200 OK, another idea. 578 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:11,960 Sorry to take this. 579 00:27:11,960 --> 00:27:19,400 OK, you know how you run your AC in the summer and you heat your house in the winter? 580 00:27:19,400 --> 00:27:22,120 Yeah, I'm with you. 581 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:23,120 No. 582 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:25,680 OK, store it old school. 583 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:32,680 OK, why get rid of why get rid of something that's totally useful in the summer? 584 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:39,400 Yes, instead of having the melted snow because snow in itself has big volume. 585 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:43,680 Well, melted to a liquid instead of putting it down the storm drain, you make it into 586 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:46,680 cubes and leave it outside to refreeze it. 587 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,920 And then those are the cubes that you set in your house to cool it in the summer. 588 00:27:49,920 --> 00:27:53,080 Just hold on to them for a few months. 589 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:54,120 There's a real thing. 590 00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:55,520 They're called ice houses. 591 00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:58,920 We're just back to the 1800s. 592 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:00,280 What's wrong with that? 593 00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:02,200 That's free energy, baby. 594 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,440 Like in Texas, we could. 595 00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,560 The old freezers are called ice boxes because you just put a cube of ice in there. 596 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:09,560 Boom. 597 00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:14,280 I'm just I'm just wondering why we in Michigan, but any Midwest city, you would ever have 598 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:20,480 an AC unit if we could just figure out how to store these mountains of snow. 599 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:25,600 OK, as insane amounts of snow, they do this enough. 600 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:26,600 What is it like? 601 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:32,080 Some manufacturing plant will run the run an ice machine all night because it's energy 602 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,600 efficient so that they keep the. 603 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,360 Have you heard about this? 604 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:40,440 It's more energy efficient to make the ice at night because the electricity is cheaper 605 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,360 at night so that they can use it throughout the day. 606 00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:44,360 Yes. 607 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:45,360 So it's not more energy efficient. 608 00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:46,360 It's just cheap. 609 00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:47,360 People do this. 610 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:48,360 It's cheaper. 611 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:49,360 Yeah. 612 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,360 Well, there's free ice every year. 613 00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:54,360 I don't know. 614 00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:57,960 I just I'm like it's a wasted resource, man. 615 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:00,400 It's free resource falling from the sky. 616 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:05,160 We just free cooling, free heat, free cooling, dude. 617 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:06,160 I don't know. 618 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,840 Can we turn it into energy? 619 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:15,560 So our roofs sometimes around here have those little like melty snake things that keep the 620 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:17,440 ice dams from forming. 621 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:18,620 How do those work? 622 00:29:18,620 --> 00:29:19,880 This is just that. 623 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:20,880 Right. 624 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:23,400 But in a place I always thought that was electricity. 625 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:24,400 That's what I mean. 626 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,520 I'm coming back to the beginning here. 627 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,280 Are those really that expensive to operate that we're trying to figure out ways to store 628 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:31,760 ice for six months? 629 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:33,120 Like why don't we just plug it in? 630 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:34,120 I don't know. 631 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,040 How are those not super expensive? 632 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:42,040 I guess I just feel like the amount of calories it takes to melt snow is like crazy. 633 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,040 Like it just it's way. 634 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:44,040 All right. 635 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:45,040 I'm going to go to chat. 636 00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,840 You be the fifth podcast guest. 637 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,560 I need to Google this. 638 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,240 We don't Google things anymore, Stephanie. 639 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:55,840 How much energy? 640 00:29:55,840 --> 00:30:00,720 Googling is so 2021. 641 00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:01,720 And first half of 2022. 642 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:03,560 Large language models are where it's at. 643 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:04,560 They will be our engineer. 644 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:05,560 All right. 645 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,720 What about snow compression? 646 00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:09,240 Compress the snow. 647 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:10,240 Into ice. 648 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:11,560 Is that water? 649 00:30:11,560 --> 00:30:17,880 I wonder if you like simultaneously heat and compress snow into giant ice blocks. 650 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:18,880 Yeah. 651 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,000 Compressing stuff heats it up, right? 652 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:25,480 So you guys ever remember those graphs in physics where it's like, here's the three 653 00:30:25,480 --> 00:30:28,880 states of water and you have the center point and whatnot. 654 00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,360 I think if we compress it, it's just going to turn back into water at that point. 655 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:36,080 And then it goes down the drain. 656 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,180 We're trying to make it go from solid to liquid here, Scott. 657 00:30:39,180 --> 00:30:44,560 Can you use the weight of the snow to compress snow to melt snow? 658 00:30:44,560 --> 00:30:46,000 This idea has got legs. 659 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,360 When I was growing up, we had I had grandparents who their main trash in their kitchen was 660 00:30:50,360 --> 00:30:51,640 a big trash compactor. 661 00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:55,520 You closed it and every few minutes, not a few minutes, every few days or whatever, you 662 00:30:55,520 --> 00:30:57,400 press the button and it's smashed into a little cube. 663 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:59,440 I thought it was the coolest thing. 664 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:00,520 We just need that. 665 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,440 But for snow and then it turns it into ice and drains or into water and drains out the 666 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:05,920 bottom into the storm drain. 667 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:06,920 Right. 668 00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:07,920 Yeah. 669 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:09,920 How much pressure do you need? 670 00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:10,920 Yeah. 671 00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:14,080 I just asked chat that chat GPT that it's called pressure melting. 672 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:16,200 Apparently, it is very much a thing. 673 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:18,840 Is it hard to do? 674 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:22,960 When I park my car on top of the snow, what compress? 675 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:26,280 Oh, I'm thinking of ways to use your way. 676 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,280 Use the cars. 677 00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:28,280 Yeah. 678 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:31,400 Or like, yeah, something like that. 679 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:32,400 Why not? 680 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:33,400 Hmm. 681 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:36,040 So, your whole driveway is a big pad. 682 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,240 You shovel the snow. 683 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:39,240 What? 684 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:40,240 Yeah. 685 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:42,840 Like, what if you I don't know, instead of. 686 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:43,840 All right, here we go. 687 00:31:43,840 --> 00:31:44,840 I got it. 688 00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:45,840 Car sized box. 689 00:31:45,840 --> 00:31:47,280 Car sized box. 690 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:52,960 When you're not in your driveway, it is up at ground level. 691 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:55,020 One of the sides of the box is ramp. 692 00:31:55,020 --> 00:32:01,880 You shovel all of the snow into that drive up onto box, which pushes it down and compresses 693 00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,160 it and liquidizes it. 694 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,280 And then it goes through your house's plumbing out to the sewer lines. 695 00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:07,280 Boom. 696 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:15,360 Like, I know it sounds like is this sounds like it's possible between pressure like pressure 697 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:16,920 should melt snow. 698 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,840 We're going to get like a single email with like three lines of math being like, you guys 699 00:32:20,840 --> 00:32:21,840 are stupid. 700 00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:26,120 Well, ask that guy to solve this problem then. 701 00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:27,120 All right. 702 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:28,560 At least we're trying over here. 703 00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:32,520 This would take enough electricity to power Las Vegas for eight years. 704 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:33,520 Okay. 705 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:34,880 But my driveway is clean. 706 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:35,880 That's right. 707 00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:42,480 All right, Russell, let's see what you've got now. 708 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:43,880 All right. 709 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,520 So I'm going to do a dating app, I think again. 710 00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:47,520 Hell yeah. 711 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:48,520 Russell's Love Corner. 712 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,040 I'm a married man. 713 00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,040 Every other episode. 714 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:52,040 Russell's Love Corner episode two. 715 00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:53,040 I'm in. 716 00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:54,440 We need a sound for that. 717 00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:56,440 Welcome back to Russell. 718 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,760 Can you say welcome back to Russell's Love Corner? 719 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,520 Welcome back to Russell's Love Corner. 720 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:03,520 Brown chicken, brown cow. 721 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,600 Hit us up. 722 00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:07,880 I'm so excited. 723 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:14,080 So you know, I've got a many dating app ideas, but as a married man, I will never do them. 724 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:17,720 As we previously established, married men cannot invent dating apps. 725 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:18,720 That's right. 726 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,320 Like watch me. 727 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,200 This is my favorite dating app. 728 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,160 It's called Sonder. 729 00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:27,160 Okay. 730 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:32,360 If anybody's seen, there's like this viral YouTube video about how you pass people all 731 00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:40,120 the time and their lives are just so intrinsically complex, like your own, I don't know, this 732 00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:47,120 deep BS that tells people like, hey, when you pass somebody on the road, like especially 733 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:52,600 in a major city, it's just kind of crazy how that person that you'll never see again is 734 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:55,760 going to live their entire life and you will never see them again. 735 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:56,760 All right. 736 00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:57,760 Okay. 737 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:02,960 So the dating app, all right, takes that concept and says, all right, whenever you pass people 738 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:07,560 that are single and on the app, you kind of match, right? 739 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:08,560 It's a light match. 740 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,440 You don't actually get to know each other. 741 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:11,440 It's just a light match. 742 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:17,320 And the more instances where you're passing people, you get more hits, right? 743 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,080 And eventually the more hits you get with people, the more likely you are to match with 744 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:22,080 them. 745 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:25,760 This is a concept that actually Nintendo DS did. 746 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:26,760 Street pass. 747 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:27,760 That's what I was thinking of too. 748 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,120 I don't know what this is. 749 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:32,120 It's insane. 750 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:36,440 You, if you had your Nintendo DS in your pocket and you walk by another person that had a 751 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:42,680 Nintendo DS in their pocket, you would exchange information and like get points and like special 752 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,360 prizes and stuff in your game. 753 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:46,360 Right. 754 00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:47,880 And it was sick. 755 00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:53,440 You could, what was also crazy is if you went to like certain wifi hotspots, right, you 756 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:57,960 would pass with multiple people at that wifi hotspot. 757 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:05,460 And so basically now this dating app is not a swipe and be it's matching with people that 758 00:35:05,460 --> 00:35:10,840 do similar stuff as you that you would normally pass by in life. 759 00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:14,520 Oh, so I'm putting all my interests on here ahead of time. 760 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:18,400 Like I like sailing or I like, no, whatever. 761 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:24,680 No, you are living your best life and connecting to wifi hotspots and you're passing by other 762 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:25,680 people's phones. 763 00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:26,680 Right. 764 00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:28,360 And every time. 765 00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:33,160 So if you and some other girl go to the same Kroger every week, it'll match you and you 766 00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:37,680 just miss each other like by one minute. 767 00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:42,200 Like let's say you go on the same commute every day to nearly the same spot, to the 768 00:35:42,200 --> 00:35:45,280 same gym, but you're always off by one hour. 769 00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:46,280 Right. 770 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,960 Talk about that one small town girl living in a lonely world. 771 00:35:49,960 --> 00:35:56,480 Like imagine you just missed that your life partner, because you take the train 10 minutes 772 00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:00,840 after them, you go to the gym one hour after them. 773 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:01,840 Right. 774 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:05,240 So you have like the perfect life together. 775 00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:11,760 This app would solve that through wifi hotspots and passing by people. 776 00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,920 So now we're matching people on. 777 00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:19,440 So like it kind of incentivizes the more you do, the more you're likely you're to match. 778 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:20,440 Right. 779 00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:24,960 So if you go to concerts, you go to events and how cool would it be if 10 years down 780 00:36:24,960 --> 00:36:27,880 the road you're like, Whoa, I match with you. 781 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:34,720 We passed each other a hundred times, never saw each other until this moment. 782 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:35,720 Right. 783 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:38,920 Until we started having the, like, this goes beyond dating app almost. 784 00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:41,480 This is like cool for life also. 785 00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,840 Like I would love to like have a friend that I meet down the road. 786 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,840 I'm like, Whoa, let's see if we pass each other like a million times. 787 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:52,960 Like I don't know, but all I have to say is I feel like the dating app version would be 788 00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:57,840 way cool because it just matches people more authentically. 789 00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,120 Right. 790 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,120 That's it. 791 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:01,120 I love this. 792 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:06,920 So I need to credit a guy named Shannon, C H A N N O N Perry, who wrote a blog post last 793 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,680 fall, actually about a year ago today in August of 2022. 794 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:18,440 This person took their Google history, their location history, which they had about 10 795 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,440 years worth of and their partners, and they overlapped it and did a bunch of math and 796 00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:28,480 Python and learned that before they met, they had 33 times that they were within a hundred 797 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:35,320 meters of each other and talked about like, there were 2,700 something coordinates that 798 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,440 were both recorded at the same point in time, but it only lasted for a moment. 799 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:39,600 I was at university. 800 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:44,120 They were working near at the time and stuff, but here were the 33 near misses. 801 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,360 And over here at this spot over here, it happened many times and stuff. 802 00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:53,360 I'll put the link in the show notes, but this exact idea, you could, you could even leverage 803 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:55,080 Google's existing location history. 804 00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,840 So you don't have to like start from ground zero and begin, but even say like straight 805 00:37:58,840 --> 00:37:59,840 up imported. 806 00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:00,840 Yeah. 807 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:04,600 You begin your journey in your cool new app by importing where you've been for the last 808 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:05,600 10 years. 809 00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:06,600 Yeah. 810 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:07,600 All that. 811 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:09,760 See how many near misses you've already had with people. 812 00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,920 It's like time hop, but time travel. 813 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,560 Time hop, but with friends. 814 00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:16,560 Time hop with friends. 815 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:17,560 Yeah. 816 00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,360 And, and distances, right? 817 00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:20,800 Like in geography. 818 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:21,800 Strangers. 819 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:22,800 Time hop with strangers. 820 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:23,800 Yeah. 821 00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:24,800 Dude. 822 00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,200 That'd be so cool. 823 00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:28,360 That would be really cool. 824 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:29,800 Even outside of dating apps. 825 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,720 Like I'd love to see that for random people. 826 00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:32,920 Like have we ever met before? 827 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:33,920 Do I know you? 828 00:38:33,920 --> 00:38:37,360 You always hear those stories of like, wow, I'm in the background of my now wife's Disney 829 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:40,120 photos when they were on vacation or whatever. 830 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:41,120 Yeah. 831 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:42,120 There's probably way more of that. 832 00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:44,280 When they're both like eight years old or something. 833 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:45,280 Right. 834 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:50,600 When it's harder to fake, cause you know, you can put on your Tinder profile like, oh, 835 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:54,480 I like reading and you know, biking. 836 00:38:54,480 --> 00:38:59,160 But this is actually like, okay, are they actually going out biking or? 837 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:00,840 Do you like hiking? 838 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:01,840 Have you been hiking? 839 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:07,720 Or like, oh, my GPS says you haven't left your house in four weeks. 840 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:09,560 You'd be perfect for this person though. 841 00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:10,920 They live next door. 842 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:12,760 They never leave their house. 843 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:17,000 What helped inspire this app is because I know, as I said before, my wife's friends 844 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:19,120 are very single. 845 00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:25,160 Any guys living on the, you know, listening to this podcast, I got some hookups. 846 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,400 They don't, sometimes they don't leave the house. 847 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:29,400 Sometimes they don't do anything. 848 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:33,440 And I'm like, oh, so your chances of meeting anybody are zero. 849 00:39:33,440 --> 00:39:35,640 And they're like, oh, they don't want to be on any dating apps. 850 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,200 Oh, well then your chances are like negative zero. 851 00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:40,440 Well then here's Sondra. 852 00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:41,440 Right. 853 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:42,440 Yeah, exactly. 854 00:39:42,440 --> 00:39:46,480 So if you're looking for anything, just run the app on your phone and you will find your 855 00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,800 perfect match just by living your life. 856 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:49,800 Right. 857 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:50,800 I don't know. 858 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:52,080 Like, well, hopefully, right. 859 00:39:52,080 --> 00:39:54,400 Do something, walk your dog, go to the dog park. 860 00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,120 I don't know anything. 861 00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:00,000 And you will get matches with people that do similar things that you do. 862 00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,120 And now your first date is something you already do. 863 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,120 You don't have to figure it out. 864 00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:08,120 Right. 865 00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:09,120 Or you at least have stuff to talk about. 866 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,120 Oh, man. 867 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:12,240 You also once a month go over to the whatever. 868 00:40:12,240 --> 00:40:13,240 Yeah. 869 00:40:13,240 --> 00:40:14,240 I remember going over there recently, too. 870 00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:15,240 Yeah. 871 00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:16,240 Oh, wow. 872 00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:17,240 I didn't even think about that. 873 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,400 This is great, man. 874 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,400 We have the same chiropractor. 875 00:40:21,400 --> 00:40:27,480 It was love at first sight. 876 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:28,480 Yeah. 877 00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,720 I hate when he cracks my back that way. 878 00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:32,720 Yeah, I know. 879 00:40:32,720 --> 00:40:33,720 Me too. 880 00:40:33,720 --> 00:40:34,720 We're in love. 881 00:40:34,720 --> 00:40:37,640 Hating on the chiropractor for the whole first date. 882 00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:38,640 So how'd you meet? 883 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:43,560 Well, we met like 80 times and we didn't even know it. 884 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:44,560 This is I like this. 885 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,720 This is really fun. 886 00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:54,160 It's my favorite idea that I will never launch like this is like, but hopefully somebody 887 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:58,720 does so I can just install it on my phone and then be done with my life. 888 00:40:58,720 --> 00:41:01,240 Can you make this so I can have the friend version? 889 00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:02,240 Right. 890 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:03,240 Not the dating app version. 891 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:04,240 Right. 892 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:05,240 Yeah. 893 00:41:05,240 --> 00:41:06,240 Just I want to meet new people. 894 00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:07,240 That's great. 895 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:08,240 Yeah. 896 00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:09,240 I'm going to make it a fair. 897 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:10,240 Okay. 898 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:11,240 Got it. 899 00:41:11,240 --> 00:41:12,240 Please. 900 00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:13,240 A fair free. 901 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:14,240 Can I have the affair free version? 902 00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:18,880 Now it's $10 a month. 903 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:19,880 No affairs. 904 00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:24,080 Sorry, married men and women. 905 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,680 The terms and conditions are going to be very confusing. 906 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:33,240 So kind of like that where you're talking about location based alerts and communication 907 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:38,400 is I was wondering when you started to talk if it would have been you are somewhere and 908 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,600 it alerts you that someone single is nearby. 909 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:42,840 I'm like, would it tell you who it is? 910 00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:46,400 Or would it just be like, oh, someone single is nearby. 911 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:47,400 Just chat up everyone. 912 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:52,760 You know, I could see an entire YouTube channel dedicated to guys getting that notification 913 00:41:52,760 --> 00:41:57,840 on their phone and just be looking up like groundhogs all around them. 914 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,800 I would watch that all day a compilation of that. 915 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:04,040 So is it bumbled where the women choose first? 916 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,040 Yeah. 917 00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:06,040 The women speak first or whatever. 918 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:10,160 You have that where the men you have to specify, but when you get the app set up, the men can 919 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,720 only receive notifications and the women can only send them and they can press one button 920 00:42:13,720 --> 00:42:16,280 and everyone in the area is just notified. 921 00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,640 They just get pinged. 922 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,000 Send out a pulse. 923 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,640 12 dudes. 924 00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:25,880 The woman pulls out the app and it's like, there are 41 dudes around you who will be 925 00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:26,880 notified. 926 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:27,880 You press the button. 927 00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:28,960 That's brilliant. 928 00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:30,320 I think that has something. 929 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,880 I think you could tap into that a little bit. 930 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:37,720 Like if I'm going out with friends and I want to like have somebody approach me, but that's 931 00:42:37,720 --> 00:42:38,720 something like that. 932 00:42:38,720 --> 00:42:39,720 I think that's a different dating app. 933 00:42:39,720 --> 00:42:40,720 I think that's a different one. 934 00:42:40,720 --> 00:42:41,720 Yeah, probably. 935 00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:42,720 Save that for next week's dating app. 936 00:42:42,720 --> 00:42:43,720 That's another one. 937 00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:44,720 Yeah. 938 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:45,720 Russell's Love Corner. 939 00:42:45,720 --> 00:42:50,600 Tune in next week to Russell's Love Corner. 940 00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:52,640 Oh yeah. 941 00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,360 Well thank you very much for listening this week. 942 00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:55,720 We hope you enjoyed yourself. 943 00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:57,160 Thank you so much, Steph, for being here. 944 00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:58,160 This was a lot of fun. 945 00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:59,600 Thanks for having me. 946 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,880 Our website is Spitball.show. 947 00:43:01,880 --> 00:43:03,600 We would love to hear from you all. 948 00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:04,600 Seriously. 949 00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,960 Please email us feedback, comments, ideas, things that you've done with the ideas at 950 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:08,960 podcast at Spitball.show. 951 00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:11,800 Follow us on social media. 952 00:43:11,800 --> 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