Competition Apps, Our Bar, and Weather for Kids
Ep. 01

Competition Apps, Our Bar, and Weather for Kids

Episode description

00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:39 - Competition Apps
00:08:19 - Our Bar
00:17:14 - Weather for Kids
00:25:57 - Smart Furbies
00:27:36 - Outro

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- I'm Russell.

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- I'm Scott.

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- I'm Leo.

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This is Spitball.

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Welcome to Shark Stank, the rowdy show where...

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Hold on a second.

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Oh, I'm being handed something from our lawyers here.

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Oh, we cannot use that name.

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All right, got it.

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Welcome to Spitball, the pitchin' kitchen,

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where three lovable scamps empty their heads

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of startup and tech product ideas

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and anything else stuck up in there.

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So you can all have them for free.

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Anything we say is yours to keep.

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All right, Scott, hit us with that first pitch.

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- All right, so I want an app

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where everyone can pool money together

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and then it's a carrot and stick

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where you're incentivized in order to complete a goal

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or task.

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So how it would work is say all of us put $100 in

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and we say, we're all gonna work out

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for every single day this week or something.

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And then any one of us who completes that goal

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and you're accountable to everyone else in the group,

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but everyone who completes that goal gets their money back

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plus any extra of anyone else

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who doesn't complete that goal.

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So let's say Leo doesn't work out this week

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for whatever X days,

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he forfeits that week of funds that he put into it.

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And that goes to then Russell and myself.

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- Totally.

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- So that way there's no-

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- My work does this.

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- Do they really?

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What is it?

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- Yeah, the hold it for the holidays.

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Exactly that.

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promise to lose or maintain your weight from this day to this day, everyone puts into a pot and

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if you maintain it, you get it back. Awesome. Do you share the pot of people who don't make it?

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Yeah. Oh, that's perfect then. Okay. So is there an actual app for that? Is there like a jar?

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No, there is not. We do it all on paper. Awesome.

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So we would be your first customer, man. Fantastic. So I want to just pitch this or

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market this to... How do you make money?

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That's a great question, which is what we're going to discuss today.

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Yeah. But I want to pitch this to a bunch of

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competitive like sports teams or group of high schoolers or whatever

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that are just trying to do something.

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And they just want to freaking one up their friend in some form.

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The bigger the group, the more likely somebody will not succeed.

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So the various users are incentivized to get big groups together,

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which gets you more customers.

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Exactly. Monetizing that.

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I love this great question.

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It's a combo between Fitbit like challenges where you're challenging each other

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and doing the whole step contests that they have in like a Venmo type thing.

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Yeah, you all Venmo to this.

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You ever won Venmo's 100 bucks

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into this arbitrary pot over here?

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Totally.

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And then it'll just sit there

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until it automatically

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cashes you out at the end

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with whatever you deserve

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based on how well you did those goals.

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I was going to say, does it have to be

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like do good bets?

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Like what if it's just like bounties?

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So bounties take a picture.

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Yeah.

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So like take a picture of Leo's left

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butt cheek

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and everybody is putting money into a pot.

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Yeah, totally.

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Just like, like group dares.

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You call it like bet.

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You call it bet.

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I love this.

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You know, Gen Z, they always say, "All right, bet."

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And they go out and do something stupid.

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Like, this is like YOLO, but with money.

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Okay, okay.

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So it's important that we establish ourselves as cool with the Generation Z folk listening.

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It'll be the entire title will be in emojis and nothing else.

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else. Bet. Okay. So literally it like it either auto generates a dare or something that everyone

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has to do and anyone who doesn't do it forfeits their share for that one. Oh, I love it. Suggestions

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from the app. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. This week's challenge is we're gonna get arrested.

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The people who organize these, the ones who set the rules and try to gather friends and

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stuff into it, they could pay a flat fee per contest, right? So you could try to take

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a slice from everybody but seems like that everyone always gets mad when you

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try to take a slice of something like yeah for sure but if it's like you know

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$1.99 a contest and then once they get started up you have unlimited people in

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the contest and all the money does exactly what you say oh yeah you do it

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by people if you want to have 25 people it costs you got to get the premium tier

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or whatever or it's a flat fee no matter how many people that way you

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incentivize them more and more and more people that's good have some huge work

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bet going on, like what you're saying.

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Yeah, $1.99, but 200 people participated, so it's nothing, or whatever your number is

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you decide on, right?

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Yeah.

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I love this.

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Or you can buy a...

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Maybe you only pay...

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Oh, only the cash out, only...

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You take a cut of the cash out, so it incentivized people to keep the money in the app and do

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more bets.

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Yeah.

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Because it's like...

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Whoa, that's clever.

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You know what I mean?

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Or PayPal or Cash App or whatever.

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Or...

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Yeah.

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Right.

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It's like, all right.

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Every time you do a cash out, it's a dollar.

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But if you keep winning bets, you save up your cash outs

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and you do $1 cash out for a thousand bucks

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instead of 30 $10 ones, okay?

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Keeps the bets going.

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- Or you do affiliate deals.

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So you've got like the local Nike store

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will do a one for one, but they'll pay you

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to be one of the cash out options.

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You can get a $100 gift card for 90 bet bucks or whatever.

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- Oh, I love that.

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- Dude, the what are those challenge, all right?

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You go to random people, you take a picture

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of the worst pair of shoes and you all bet

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(laughing)

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what are those?

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You know that meme?

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- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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- I very much, yes.

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(laughing)

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Russell's the chief creative officer for this.

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(laughing)

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- All he does is sit there all day

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and generate random crazy ideas for

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tweens to do. - Makes millions of people

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across the country do insane TikTok challenges.

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- God forbid they'll lose their $10 into this app

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that they put in if they don't hijack a car or something.

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- Guys, this is like quiz up, but crazier.

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Like you could have worldwide challenges.

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Like everybody votes on the craziest like bet.

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And it's like, what the heck is, you know,

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It's, what's the damn app that we use every day

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kind of at a certain time? - HQ?

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- What's it?

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- Be Real. - Oh, no, no.

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- Be Real, but with bets. - Be Real, mm-hmm.

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So at a certain time of day,

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everyone gets a notification that,

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look, you're gonna lose your money

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unless you do this thing right now.

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You have two minutes to take a picture if you're doing it.

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Good luck.

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- Or that's the game.

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It's just like we give $100 to whoever takes a photo

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of the biggest fish.

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- And so you can have-- - I love that.

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Scott's idea where you have like private friends group organized challenges amongst yourself

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and then the app itself has app sponsored worldwide challenges that you can choose to

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put yourself into also.

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So we're gonna get I love Russell's on there too where it's like hey take a picture of

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the biggest fish on here but we're just gonna get like a shit ton of pictures of generative

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AI fish like immediately afterwards of just me holding Moby Dick over the Grand Canyon

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trying to exactly trying to win the cash real quick.

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Then we're going to bunch of scripts.

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It's got to be like three second clips or something.

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It's got to be like something really hard to make it.

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AI.

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Dang, I don't know.

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Like that a lot, actually.

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Well, if we're firing up the app itself,

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we can choose so be real doesn't let you bring in pictures

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from elsewhere.

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You can just force them to use the your apps camera, right?

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Yeah, that's right.

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Verified photo taken here.

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That's our exit strategy.

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Be real.

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Buy this.

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You know, we're going to sell ourselves to this already startup.

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It'll be great.

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Yes. Real.

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That real urge.

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Yeah. And then they get bought by FanDuel and they'll they'll thank us.

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And it's the be real logo.

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But there's a little T drawn in between the E and the R.

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That real. Oh, my God.

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Actually, that'd be so much fun.

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I just want to do it for fun.

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All right. If anyone ever makes this out, please, please tag us and whatever.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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first and we will win every competition.

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You might want to sit at the spitball show on Twitter or podcast

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at spitball that show on Mastodon or whatever.

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We'd love to see your your app that you make.

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You can even take the name.

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You definitely won't for sure get trademark lawsuits.

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Now, anything you hear out here, you guys can have just.

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Russell, hit us up.

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What do you got this week?

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All right.

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So brewery idea, okay, our brewery.

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I think I might have told some people this, okay?

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There is a brewery called Our Brewery in our hometown,

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but we're not gonna talk about that brewery.

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We're talking about a crew of people, brewers, okay?

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Home brewers, they come together,

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they rent out like a commercial space or whatever,

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a brewery place, and they brew their beer

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and they host it, right?

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but anybody can come in and brew their beer

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and have it on the wall, right?

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So now you have a wall of different beers

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from all these different brewers that are all local, okay?

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Like these are people that would love to start a brewery

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but don't know how to get off the ground

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or like have this dream of being a brewer, okay?

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And you don't have to go off the ground.

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At that point, like you just, and then you have,

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okay, here's the nuance, okay?

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You have that community.

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it's a self-generating marketing machine, right?

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'Cause everybody that brews beer,

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like bottling and all that stuff is painful,

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annoying, all that stuff.

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So you just say, hey, come to my brewery.

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- Oh my God, I hate dealing with all the equipment

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and everything, yeah.

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- Yeah, it's just like, you have a key.

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Like, you can just come in and just drink beer

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and it's just kind of like those open bar concepts

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or I don't know how that legality goes,

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but we'll figure that out.

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But like, you just have people come in

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and just be like, all right, I brewed a new beer,

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come try it out, it's literally all tapped, okay?

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And here's the best part, you can have a small little

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no-code app, all right, or something,

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and you can rate beers locally, right?

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So now you can kind of create a little bit of competition.

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You can say, oh, wow. - The Russell tastes amazing

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this week, but man, the Leo just sucked, you know?

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- Yeah, Leo's great at IPAs.

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- They're all on the wall. - Yeah, but this guy's great

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red ales and you know now you have. And whatever one sells a lot you can have

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the revs split between the actual bar and the person who brewed it. Yeah you get a

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commission on that going through. You're not brewing the beer. It gives you incentive to be creative try new things and find

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something cool. So you have like you're having like actual brew days where like

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hey I've got all my equipment sterilized and whatnot and anyone can come in and

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for X amount you can try to brew your own beer I've got some basic ingredients

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You can mix in whatever you want.

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Throw in Tabasco sauce or whatever.

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Something crazy.

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And oh, I love that.

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And then we'll keep it fermenting and all that stuff and come back

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on this date at this time.

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And we, we take barrels, barrels to do bottling together with everyone.

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Well, yeah, you can do that.

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It's basically like, it's kind of like a co-op space, but like, and you can have,

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you can buy a bunch of barrels and just be like, all right, we got 40 barrels.

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Right.

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And as like literally the beer, instead of being in plastic kegs or glass bottles,

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It's in barrels and they just if you want to put it in a barrel, it just wrote.

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It's not it's better than nothing.

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I guess it's kind of like, you know, we would never do this otherwise.

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But there's a community space.

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Dude, it's incentivize it.

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If you brewed the beer, you drink for free that beer on it.

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So then people are constantly coming back and then they're coming to your space

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and they're incentivized to try other people's, but they'll physically be there.

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Oh, I like that a lot.

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And there are so many you're collecting some sort of payment to be entered in.

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Right. You have to pay for the ingredients plus some commission.

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Yeah. So yeah, that's the I think you can even collaborate with your local beer

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masters that are on staff, your brew masters who like help you figure out

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recipes and stuff. Yeah, exactly.

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Yes. All these things. Everybody's winning.

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Right. Here's another win.

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There are a lot of little breweries that are just there by themselves.

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Right. They're like they're like they want to be big.

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But and they threw a bunch of money into their brewery and they're like, oh,

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maybe we'll make it, maybe we'll be as big as New Holland or Founders and they can't be, I mean,

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just because the scale, it's like a scale issue. They can never bottle 100,000 bottles, right?

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But now they don't have to. They're just like the main brewer and they just open up their space. So

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everybody, every small brewery can do this and just say, we are hosting all small brewers to

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turn this into a community brewery. And now- And it's cost effective for you too.

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Yes, yeah, you you leverage the economy

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as a scale of buying the beer bottle at cost for everybody's cost, right?

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And you don't actually have to buy the equipment you're renting it.

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You can use it.

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Someone else can use your equipment next week.

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Exactly. You don't even have to pay for like is as the like commercial

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as the renter or the building owner or whatever.

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It's like people that are brewing the beer are paying for their own ingredients.

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They're making the beer.

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They're cleaning up after themselves, probably.

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And you're kind of just making them all of this stuff.

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You sell them the sterilization.

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and you sell them the actual ingredients to go with it

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and the yeast and the grain, the barley,

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and you just have a huge stockpile of it.

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I love that.

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- And waiters are basically free.

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You could literally have waiters that get paid in tips.

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Like that's what they, I mean,

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technically you're not paying them hourly.

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Which I know, I sometimes forget about that.

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- We might have the IRS on us on that one,

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but I like where it's going though.

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- But now you're a brewery that, you know,

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and there's wait staff there.

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- They're volunteers.

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- Sure, they're volunteers.

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- Yeah.

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- Our whole staff is volunteering, it's fine.

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- These Brewmeisters.

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- They make under $600, $599 a piece.

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- For tips.

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- That's fine.

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- See, okay, another name for this app is Brewmeister.

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All right, so it's like, you're brewing beers.

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Like you download the app, you know,

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and you can travel and here's another cool idea.

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New founders or Bells, they can do like competitions.

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They wanna try a new beer,

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but they don't wanna put their name on it.

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Put it in our micro breweries.

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- Sure.

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- And see.

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- You will test it. - Pseudo brewers.

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- Right?

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Like how do you know a beer's gonna be good?

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Well you throw it into our breweries,

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you put it under a pseudonym like Ellibs, right?

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Or whatever.

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Founders or Downers or something like that.

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(laughing)

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- I love that.

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And if you took really good notes of the recipe

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as you were making it,

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like someone could come along,

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you just, you made a kick-ass beer.

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You made the new Oberon or something.

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Like someone could come in and be like,

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I will buy that beer from you right here.

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I will purchase that recipe or whatnot on that.

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- Why not?

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- And to foster the community spirit,

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you can have your app not only show

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what's on tap right now

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and the leaderboard for the week and stuff,

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but be where your recipes are.

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And you can just, that open sources all of the recipes

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that everyone else is using right now.

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So you can take their recipe and change it, tweak it,

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add your own thing to it.

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Someone else can do the same to yours.

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And it's like this competition

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where everyone knows everyone else's.

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Yeah, it's a formula car race, right?

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- See, that-- - Oh, I like that a lot.

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Everyone's on level playing field.

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- That's a great idea.

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You can have, you can pay somebody to brew your beer

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and you come up with a recipe, or you brew your beer.

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Like you actually physically in the space brew it.

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- Sure.

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- Or you have somebody do it for you.

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Like, all right, here's the hops, the barley measurements.

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And, cause there are some beer brewers that are like,

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I'm done actually sitting in front of a pot of water

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for four hours and watching the beer brew.

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I just want it, I want it to be done this way.

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And I want like, you could have one brew maker.

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I don't know how many there are in the world,

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if it's like there are a lot of them out there.

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But you can just have like somebody that wants to become

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the brewmaker for founders, start at one of our little breweries.

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Like you just brew beer for hundreds of people.

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You tell them what tastes good.

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Food scientists, right?

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Like that's their like an entryway, a gateway into it.

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Right.

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So I won the weekly leaderboard 31 times in a row, and that's why you should hire me.

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It looks good on a resume. Totally.

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Yeah. The mainstays make themselves at that point.

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Right? Because they're making money.

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Like in a way, the brewers are making money to brew their own beer.

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And if they're hot sellers, I'll just make it again and again and again.

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And oh, you can be selling them the bottles, the labels, the everything.

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Like you're in complete control at that point.

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You have so many opportunities to just keep upselling.

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I love it.

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Russell's app definitely has a little like draw or import

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your picture for your label and we'll put it on the front.

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But it has our logo in the bottom corner, right?

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Of course.

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What would Spitball beer look like?

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- What would the Spitball brew be?

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- Spitball beer, I wouldn't drink Spitball beer.

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- Yeah, that has some word construction there

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that is not the most appetizing, yeah.

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- Yeah.

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- For a drink nonetheless, yeah.

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(laughing)

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- Fortunately, that doesn't work for us.

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- There's no good variation of that, it just sounds gross.

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- Shark stank beer, however.

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- Oh, the stanky.

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- Shark stank.

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- That's a half a Wisen, that's for sure.

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- I drink shark stank over Spitball, honestly.

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- Tough choice.

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and then people are drinking it

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and they're like, that's the best damn beer.

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- Fun IPA.

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(upbeat music)

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- All right, Leo, what do you got?

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- I unfortunately have something less bro-y

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and more wholesome.

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I'm coming to you today with a product idea.

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So I think a lot, I have a one-year-old and three-year-old,

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so I think a lot about user interfaces

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and all that for kids, right?

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- As every parent does.

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- Yeah, right.

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How do I make them more independent

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so they stop needing me to look stuff up for them?

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So seven segment displays, liquid crystal displays,

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like you see on your microwave or old car radios

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where they've got the eight, right?

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Where you can make all 10 digits out of the eight.

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- Any number out of it.

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- Yeah, seven segment displays.

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That kind of LCD, you can stamp to be any shape

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or size or whatever.

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So your air fryer or your oven or whatever,

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you can, they'll order those custom

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where it has all of the features

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that can be lit up electronically.

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So we can design our own, right?

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So going off of that premise,

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I would like to design something

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that's about a five by seven size

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of one of those liquid crystal displays,

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where it is a stick figure of a little boy

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or a little girl, a person.

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And they have on different outfits.

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You have the stamping,

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the shape of a winter coat that can be turned on or off,

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or long pants and sweatshirt,

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or T-shirt, or swimsuit or whatever, right?

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And this is a,

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what is the weather going to be like today?

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You can have a little umbrella in their hand

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that we can turn on or off.

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And we put this down wherever they get changed

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for the morning or some spot where they can see it

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or reach it.

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And it's got just a little stick figure,

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sort of like a game and watch.

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You remember the old Nintendo things?

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Yeah, one of those, a little character

18:55

that looks kind of like that, where it's got your,

18:57

hey, it's gonna be really cold out today, little Jimmy.

19:01

So here's a guy wearing a winter coat and looking chilly.

19:04

and maybe you even have like the actual numbers

19:07

and a sun or a cloud or whatever above him,

19:10

but it's just a, hey, here's what you should expect today

19:12

to make you feel a little bit more in control

19:14

and less at the whim of whatever mom tells you

19:18

that she looked up on her phone for the weather today, right?

19:21

- Whoa, okay.

19:22

- Yes.

19:23

- End of pitch.

19:24

We have this discussion every day.

19:25

What's it gonna be like today?

19:26

Because my son is very nervous about stuff.

19:29

He likes to know what's coming.

19:31

And we every day talk about

19:33

what the weather's gonna be today.

19:33

We look it up together and he can't do that on his own.

19:36

You could have an ESP 32 or an Arduino or something behind one of these little

19:39

displays, pulls down the weather once a morning and once in the midday.

19:43

And then it sleeps otherwise.

19:45

Which it knows.

19:46

Yeah.

19:46

I like that.

19:47

Okay.

19:47

Yeah.

19:48

Got to make it fun Leo.

19:48

We can sell the subscription.

19:49

You got to, it has to be like elf on a shelf.

19:52

It's got to have a name.

19:53

Like it's got to be like.

19:54

That's not fun.

19:55

No kid likes elf on a shelf.

19:56

Okay.

19:57

What about like that?

19:59

It's for the mom.

20:00

Like Lil Jimmy or something.

20:03

Like, oh, this is curious.

20:05

George is all of our kids.

20:07

You know, he's always walking around.

20:09

Yeah, you could have your affiliate deals, right?

20:11

After this product is successfully proofed, you have a different stamp

20:14

that's got Elsa on it or whatever the heck you work with.

20:18

Yes.

20:18

Disney or Bluey or whatever that you have your characters version.

20:22

But all you need to do is get the design of a character

20:27

that's in at least every possible pose for a few different outfits

20:31

and storm clouds above him or whatever, right?

20:33

Yeah.

20:34

I feel like there's so many applications to something's too, even outside of

20:38

dressing for the weather for that day.

20:40

Like I've heard before where like you have, I think it was you, Leo, that you

20:43

have a light outside of your office that'll light up if it's, Hey, now it's

20:47

not a time to disturb me because I'm in a meeting or something.

20:50

Yep.

20:50

You're on air, but knows.

20:51

Yeah.

20:52

I should not come in to talk to dad about whatever.

20:55

Yeah.

20:56

I feel like there's so many other applications that as well that you

20:59

you could do with something like this,

21:00

a little simple seven segment display or something.

21:03

- Absolutely.

21:04

- This is what's happening today in some form.

21:06

- Yeah, and with something so simple,

21:07

they don't take hardly any power,

21:09

so you can wake up Wi-Fi,

21:11

pull down information, turn off Wi-Fi,

21:13

and they'll last months and months

21:14

on some lithium ion battery.

21:17

Mom's happy because it's something

21:19

that you can pay 99 cents a month for

21:21

and kind of forget about,

21:22

and it makes them, their kid, a little less needy.

21:25

- Are there other things

21:27

that you wanna communicate to your kid?

21:29

Like today we are going to do this.

21:31

We're going to go to the beach or whatever.

21:34

- Totally.

21:35

That's exactly what we do. - Regular things.

21:36

- We have one of those.

21:37

- Yeah, we're going to grandma's house today

21:38

and you have a little grandma icon up there or something.

21:40

- Yes, we have an E Ink screen on our wall that does that.

21:43

It's got icons for what days are school

21:45

and what days are bath days.

21:47

- School is a great one.

21:48

- Yeah. - Bath days.

21:49

Oh man, yeah, these are sweet.

21:50

- So I have that now.

21:51

So we could have that.

21:53

If you do the seven segment display thing,

21:55

then you gotta be a little bit creative

21:56

about like knowing ahead of time every possible option.

21:59

But if you go E Ink.

22:00

- Honestly the E Ink one is a great way.

22:02

- Yeah.

22:03

- You can have so much more versatility on there.

22:05

And then you can literally, they wake up and be like,

22:07

"What is my day today?

22:08

Oh, it's this."

22:09

And they come in no anxiety.

22:12

- E Ink is perfect for that

22:13

because it doesn't take any power

22:15

unless it's updating, right?

22:16

So you could have it sit and be completely off

22:20

and it wake up once a day,

22:21

grabs what's going on today and shuts back off.

22:23

Totally.

22:24

- Yeah, I love that.

22:25

preset it ahead of time.

22:27

Or like you said, even on a schedule going forward,

22:29

you can program all your school days at a time.

22:31

- Mine just pulls from Google Calendar.

22:33

I'd rather not have to build out the whole infrastructure

22:35

of like all of the servers for what are the possible options

22:40

for grandma's house and whatever else icons, right?

22:42

- It's blank canvas too.

22:45

- Well, that's okay.

22:45

Someone else will take this idea and make it for you.

22:46

- Yeah, when you make this, it'll be great.

22:48

- Yeah. - Yeah.

22:50

- The only real cost prohibitive part

22:53

is actually spinning up.

22:54

If I'm going to go seven second display with little game and watch Jimmy,

22:57

you've got to actually once you have the design, pay someone to make the stamp,

23:01

the tool, and that's the hard part.

23:03

You've got to have like the cutter for the factory to have.

23:06

So that's expensive.

23:08

But once you've built one proof, manufacturing a bunch of those things

23:12

is really cheap or we just scrap the whole seven second display thing.

23:16

We go eink and we just pre-programmed to have little.

23:19

Sure.

23:20

I really like the eink one.

23:22

You have so many options on there.

23:24

Yeah, blank canvas.

23:25

Yeah.

23:26

And then we won't need to raise our children.

23:28

Leo, we can just have these E Ink displays.

23:30

To raise our children.

23:33

It'll tell you now is time to eat.

23:35

Now is time to brush teeth.

23:36

So you can get a display and then just stick a battery on the back

23:39

and all of it's one big soldered board.

23:41

You just put it in like a picture frame that you cut a mat out.

23:44

You're good.

23:45

Are they cheaper now?

23:46

I thought they were like.

23:47

When you get big, they get really expensive, but they're like 40 to 60 bucks.

23:50

So you can make this $100 product with a subscription fee and you're good.

23:53

Oh, can we just buy a bunch of used Kindles and rip them apart?

23:57

That's exactly what the one that I have is from

23:59

a company in the Middle East somewhere buys a bunch of Kindles

24:04

that are headed for the landfill, pops the screen off of them

24:07

and built a PCB to go around it.

24:09

That's awesome. Good for them.

24:12

It's called Ink Plate.

24:13

They are not a sponsor of the show, but I love them.

24:15

Not a sponsor yet.

24:18

We have so many sponsors.

24:20

We have to check the list each time to make sure they're not on.

24:22

- Dude, I feel like children calendaring

24:24

is like really difficult.

24:25

Like that's a problem.

24:26

Like when you have two, three, four kids,

24:29

especially when they're going to school,

24:31

got different play dates, you're just like feed them,

24:34

nap times, you're just like, how do you manage all that?

24:36

It just, you need a calendar.

24:38

You need something.

24:39

It's, yeah.

24:40

- I've heard like, one of my coworkers has like a stoplight

24:43

that they keep in their kid's room,

24:46

where it's just like, you know,

24:47

red, yellow, green or whatever.

24:48

And it's literally like, if it's red,

24:50

It means it is still bedtime.

24:52

You shouldn't come out of your room yet because it's 4 a.m.

24:55

or something like you can't leave the room until it turns green

24:59

at whatever time you set it.

25:00

And the kids like really respond to that.

25:03

They really respect the stoplight.

25:04

I don't know if I've seen that before.

25:06

Is that a product that's already exists?

25:07

We have the exact same setup. It's great.

25:09

Yeah. Does everybody make their own version?

25:11

Hatch. Oh, OK.

25:13

Oh, Hatch. Oh, yeah, I have Hatch.

25:15

Hatch. Yeah, it's a sound machine.

25:17

Do you have one?

25:17

Yeah. I didn't know they had alarms and stuff for that.

25:20

I guess it's just crazy to me how much they like live and breathe by it though

25:24

Which means that your E Ink guy would be great for that

25:27

The hatch little sound machine guy has like an RGB that you can put timers on and that's exactly what it's for. Yep

25:32

Oh my gosh, I didn't know I had one of these already

25:35

And that's the kind of public service this shows all about oh, yeah

25:42

Product already exists that I already own boom

25:48

You were about to pitch me on the thing that you have at home right now, dude.

25:51

Done.

25:52

And it's a sound machine.

25:54

What a great idea this would be.

25:55

Won't someone make this?

25:57

All right, Leo, give me a random noun, anything in the world.

26:05

Furby.

26:06

Okay, we're gonna add the word smart in front of it.

26:08

Russell, what are multiple features of a smart Furby?

26:11

Smart Furby.

26:13

Oh man, it's just, it's Furby connected to the internet, right?

26:17

So anything you ask it, it responds with an answer

26:20

from the internet.

26:21

It's Alexa Furby.

26:23

- So it's like the people that hook Alexa up to the fish,

26:27

the bass or whatever, and they'll be like,

26:28

Alexa, what's the weather?

26:29

And the fish comes out and be like, it's 47 degrees.

26:32

- Yes, with the crazy Furby voice,

26:35

and you gotta keep all the annoying parts of a Furby.

26:38

- But it translates it into that crazy Furby language

26:41

of horrible, scary gibberish.

26:43

- That's right, and then it self-destructs.

26:45

- It's also, it's gotta have some security.

26:47

- 30 seconds.

26:48

- Of course it does.

26:49

As all Furbies should.

26:52

- You've gotta pull it right from the OpenAI API

26:54

so that you can befriend it,

26:56

learn to enjoy your time with it,

26:59

grow a relationship with it.

27:00

- Oh God.

27:01

- Dude, next year that's happening.

27:03

That's like, we don't even need to put on the podcast

27:05

'cause there's gonna be 30 Tickle Me Elmo AIs.

27:09

- Smart Furbies.

27:10

- Oh God.

27:12

- Yeah.

27:13

- Cameras in the irises on each of them,

27:15

a facial recognition going through.

27:18

- All right, I don't like smart Furby,

27:19

you do not have my investment.

27:21

(laughing)

27:22

You talked me out of it.

27:24

- We literally go to pitches to talk them out of this

27:26

and how terrible idea it is

27:27

'cause we don't want this in the world.

27:29

- The anti-pitch.

27:29

- Love me, I am Furby.

27:31

- The anti-pitch.

27:33

Hey, that's a good idea for a podcast.

27:34

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