Vitamins for Gamers, Tax Fraud as a Service, and Personal Tech History
Ep. 04

Vitamins for Gamers, Tax Fraud as a Service, and Personal Tech History

Episode description

00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:31 - Vitamins for Gamers
00:12:20 - Tax Fraud as a Service
00:20:28 - Personal Tech History
00:27:17 - Tinder for Dogs
00:31:07 - Outro

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- I'm Scott.

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- I'm Russell.

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- I'm Leo.

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This is Spitball.

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Welcome to Spitball, the Pitchin' Kitchen.

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Where three lovable scamps, that's us,

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empty our heads of all of the startup

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and tech product ideas that we have stuck up in there

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All right, Russell, what do you got?

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All right, guys.

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So my brother, he's been a he's been in the pro gaming scene.

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He's not a gamer himself.

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He like ran teams and ran teams.

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Yeah. Like he was like a manager, like a general manager for programming.

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He managed pro game teams.

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Yeah. Crazy.

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He helped get sponsors, do all this stuff.

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And then you start seeing all these like, you know, they're athletes, guys.

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These are these e-sporter athletes.

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Of course. Yes.

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It's a college sport now, right?

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Yeah. You get scholarships, you get D1, T1 schools.

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I don't know if that's awesome.

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And so but yeah, now you have all these gaming.

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It's there.

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If you think of them as athletes, right?

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What do professional athletes like sell?

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Like what's their branding?

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They sell like shoes, jerseys, all that other gear.

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OK. OK. One thing that's crazy.

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Okay, this is a mental game, right?

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So you gotta train your brain.

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You gotta fuel it.

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All right.

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You gotta make sure it's up at the top of the game.

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So you gotta, you gotta take your supplements to make your

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brain the best brain possible.

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I'm talking about, I are like daily vitamins for gamers.

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Okay.

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Performance enhancing.

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Oh my God.

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Uh, not drugs.

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performance enhancements to your gaming, okay?

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Increase your reaction time.

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- Sure.

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- Be more focused.

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Don't just drink caffeine.

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Take the healthy way, right?

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Here's what's crazy.

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I take B vitamins every once in a while.

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You guys ever like, it's the natural stimulants.

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Pop a five hour energy.

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Have you ever taken, like,

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five hour energies really change my brain?

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In a good way.

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- For the better or worse, okay.

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- Really?

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I like, like it's not like I'm shaky and stuff.

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- How so?

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- It's, I can, I'm just like connected to what I'm doing.

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Like I'm more, I'm less shaky, I'm less like ADD.

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It's like an ADD add on, I don't know.

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It's like reduces it.

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So I take, I would take not 5-Hour Energies,

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but my buddy, our buddy, Sean Lin,

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he told me about these B vitamin things.

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I start taking them and I'm like,

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whoa, I can like work better, focus more.

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- This isn't like placebo, you're actually feeling like,

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"Oh crap, this is really helping."

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- Yes, B vitamins. - That's awesome.

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- Really?

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- Multiplex, I don't know what the heck they get at Costco,

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but this like giant bar of them,

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I take it, makes your pee like Gatorade green.

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I don't know what.

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(laughing)

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So talk about, are you sure you weren't just

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vitamin deficient before? - It's not a side effect,

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it's a feature.

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- I might be vitamin, like I might need more B vitamins

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in my life.

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All that to say, all right, sometimes when you're,

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like even when you're lifting, right,

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some people take it and you get the mind-body connection

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better, right?

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I'm talking about a set of vitamins

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that you probably should take.

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Gamers are not the most nutritious type of people, right?

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And so you kind of sell it like IRLs, your dailies.

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Like there's all these terms that gamers use

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when they're doing like gaming.

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So you got your dailies, your weeklies, your monthlies

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or whatever, turn those into vitamins

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and now you're a better gamer, right?

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Stop drinking G fuel.

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- This idea is growing on me.

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- Okay, this is good.

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Like it's your pre-workout before your game.

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Take, yes, like.

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- This idea is brilliant because it already exists

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and you just wanna put a different label on it.

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This is a marketing pitch.

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This is not a, yeah.

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going to buy not endorsed by the FDA dot com real quick.

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People do it all the time.

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They just take you could partner.

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There's got to be some GNC drugstore brand that's ready to partner with you.

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You become the consultant. Yes.

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That's that's so smart, too.

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You probably don't have to change any recipe or anything.

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I'm sure there is something out there that is currently being mass produced

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that you could market in the right way to be like, enhance your,

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you know, mental abilities and reflexes up by X percent.

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You stamp a lightning bolts or something on it.

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- Yeah.

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- Exactly.

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You have a big display case that's RGB.

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I'm in.

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- Yes, none of it's FDA regulated too.

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So literally vitamins, supplements.

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Yeah, there's this weird.

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- What?

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- Yeah, protein powder, I guess,

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and all this other stuff is just not,

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you're kind of at your own risk there.

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I don't know the full, don't quote me on it,

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but I know it's not like the same as food and drugs.

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I don't know why they're allowed to do it.

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- It's a mixture of both, which means unregulated.

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- Which, but also--

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- We were the Food or Drugs Administration, not ant drugs.

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We can't do food or drugs at the same time.

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- They'll never see it coming.

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- Oh, that's so smart.

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It's so, not easy, but like,

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it's so doable to advertise for that too.

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Couple of intense gamer influencers,

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or just call your brother.

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I mean, yeah, he could.

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There's connections out there and people would take this

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and like it replaces the Mountain Dews, it replaces

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all the other stuff that people are supplements probably more aware of now.

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Yeah. Like those are our current supplements for gamers, right?

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Like we drink my Mountain Dew or have all this other stuff.

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But now it's like, oh, I'm just going to pop a I don't know, a stimpack

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or something, you know, you call it like Dimpak.

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Oh, Stimpak's a good name for that.

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Yeah, like video gamey recognizable as Fallout.

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But yeah, there you go.

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Like or partner with Bethesda, there's probably some like, yeah,

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it's fallout fallout over 20 years old yet.

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Oh my gosh. OK, here's you.

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You can rebrand it or like have special editions for certain games.

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You want to promote that new game coming out.

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We we rebranded this to match your, you know, this game

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Instead of the Flintstone vitamins or little Zelda vitamins now,

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little Minecraft creepers, you must construct additional vitamins.

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It's like the Halo Mountain Dew or World of Warcraft Mountain Dews

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or whatever a dish Call of Duty does this all the time, you know.

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But get a special code when you buy our vitamins.

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God, you could just keep diving into this more and more.

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This is the best one for RTS.

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This is the best one for first person shooters for this reason.

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Yeah, and there are some gamers that are just like, I invest all my money

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into my gaming setup.

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Why not invest it in?

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Yeah, like invest in yourself.

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Yes. Oh, wow.

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I'm a better gamer every day.

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I put my take my supplements.

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I do my stretches.

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You know, we could be the.

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Yeah.

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If you see like those hand exercises that you like,

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and it can extend your fingers with that little rubber thing in the center,

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have that as part of the promotion.

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That's the starter kit.

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Increased strength in your hand.

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This is a starter thumb workout regimens

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and then just a bottle of Adderall.

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Dude, I think that's like right in a way.

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Adderall is the the illegal substance, I think, in gaming

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or like there's got to be like a line right in there.

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But so where where the the you know, the regular supplements

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before you go down hard drugs,

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giving it crap.

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But I actually I really like this idea.

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Do let's just do it.

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This will be the first product released on Spitball.

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No.

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And last, once the FDA shuts us down, because your honor, we swear

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we thought that that wasn't regulated.

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We had disclaimers may not do anything.

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Dude, that's what liquid IV is, though, right?

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Like you get like people buy that shit all the time for like, I don't know.

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Yeah, it's just powdered Gatorade, right?

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It's great.

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I love it.

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Gatorade.

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They just took Gatorade powder and put it in pouches.

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Pedialyte, yeah.

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They'll be vials though.

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They'll be in glass vials with a cork.

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Oh God.

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Boom.

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Are there mixed drink or beer or alcohol

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that's marketed as like the healthy option?

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Not like light beers,

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but something that has vitamins and stuff in it.

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Oh.

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That seems like a niche too.

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Some kind of kombucha if I had to guess.

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You're gonna drink the Bud Light anyway,

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but what about Bud Light Enhanced

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that has 12 essential vitamins and minerals?

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- Bud Light Enhanced.

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Didn't the vitamin water people get sued

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'cause they were saying their drink is healthy?

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- It's just sugar water, yeah.

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Vitamin water is way far away

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from like Gatorade and Pedialyte, yeah.

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- Okay, what if you combine liquid IV in a drink,

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liquid IV and alcohol, okay?

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No hangover, you can drink as much as you possibly want

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because every time you drink, you're actually

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having a liquid IV too.

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Oh, man.

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Did we just solve hangovers for the--

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I think that's it.

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And you have to buy 10 of them and drink them all in order

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to feel anything.

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So we have our built-in recurring revenue.

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All right, we'll sprinkle a little ibuprofen

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in every bottle, all right?

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We just--

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[LAUGHTER]

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Grind up ibuprofen in liquid IV, put it in an alcoholic drink.

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We'll call it Five Loko.

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Five ibuprofen in each.

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All right, we strayed away from your idea, but I love it.

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I mean, it's applicable to other industries, right?

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I feel like you could apply this to school, maybe.

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I don't know.

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You could say, hey, instead of being a better gamer,

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you're a better student, right?

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You could rebrand it to that.

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It's about training the brain, making

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it have all the vitamins, the soup that your brain is sitting

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is filled and ready to go for your day.

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I don't know.

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- You're selling me.

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It's just truly a marketing exercise there.

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- It really is.

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- Existing products, slap your own label on,

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drop ship it, and then advertise like crazy.

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- Dude, and like, sometimes vitamins are like,

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all these vitamins are a little confusing.

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Like, should I take D3, fish oil?

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There's an element of like, all right,

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what vitamin do I take?

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Let's just gamify it a little bit.

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Or make it just more like, oh, I take these every day

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because it's just what IRL vitamins or dailies, my dailies tell me.

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Right. There is definitely a skew toward old in the multivitamin

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like centrum silver looking like I've I've never really taken a multivitamin

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before because it looks like it's targeted toward people who are 100 years old.

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If there was some hip and trendy with the hashtag teens multivitamin,

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I might at least look at it.

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You know, I walk by that island think that I cannot possibly be relevant to my life right now

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And maybe I'm just gotta be something between the Flintstones. Yeah, exactly

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Okay, what is the Gen Z? We'll call it like slay, you know slay your day

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Slay vitamins

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Every day slay

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Your everyday slay yeah, multivitamins suck by the way

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I just feel like there's something about multivitamins that I don't like. They're targeted towards old people.

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How would you say neon green urine afterwards?

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I mean it feels, when I take my B vitamins, it feels like I'm doing something. Even if it doesn't because of

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Because my pee comes out a little like neon. Like I don't want to, but all that to say is it's like oh man

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I'm performance enhancing right now.

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All right, Scott, what do you got?

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- All right, so this is a very half-baked one

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that I was thinking about literally on the way over here.

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So the IRS, off to a good start,

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allows you to do, like you can do deductions

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for your home business right here.

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I can write off pretty much anything

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as long as it's related to my business.

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If I'm using a certain room in my house,

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I can say that it's my office

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and this many square feet goes towards that.

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If I'm driving somewhere for my business,

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picking up something, buying parts,

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I can write off the gas that I used on that

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and any maintenance on my car.

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There is so much potential in there,

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and I'm wondering, is there a way that we could optimize

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that or create an easy guide or blog or something

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in order to guide people to get the most that they can

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out of their tax return at the end of the year?

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Not like H&R Block or TurboTax being like,

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oh, you can deduct this and this.

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Like, no, we're gonna help you set up a business

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and do the absolute minimal work possible

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for the IRS to consider it a business

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and also give you a step-by-step instructions

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of what you're allowed to write off

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up to how much you're allowed to write off

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before it raises a flag at the IRS.

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Please don't come after me.

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- You wanna create the next TurboTax.

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This is a supplemental TurboTax,

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but instead of marking all the things

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that you got for income or whatever,

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you are marking all of the,

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it's asking you a question and answer style.

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- Yeah, more of like the precursor to that.

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Like here is how you do this throughout the year.

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You could set up a business, call it whatever you want,

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and you claim that it does this,

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and by doing that and these couple additional steps,

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maybe you could sell one item or however much it requires

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for it to be considered a business.

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- Dude, it makes sense.

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People do this all the time.

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Like people are doing this every,

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it's like every single person.

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- Oh yeah, absolutely.

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- Right?

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So there's, I feel like two ways to look at it, right?

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Can I, how broad can I be?

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What's the business that's super broad?

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And then what can I write off?

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Right?

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- Yep.

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- And like the minimal amount of work, right?

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So it's like, I think of vloggers, right?

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You can be the worst vlogger or podcaster.

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(laughing)

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- But as long as you have a vlog up on a website

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that is talking relatively close

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to what you're vlogging about, that's brilliant.

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- Every time you try to-

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- You needed that $6,000 gaming rig for editing.

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We've seen a 600,000% increase in vloggers this year.

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- Guys, when you travel, every time you travel,

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just take a vlog video, upload it to YouTube.

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Doesn't have to be good.

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It's just gotta be there.

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And then the IRS is like, I guess you did this for work.

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Wow. (laughs)

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I mean, when they watch the video, it'll be bad,

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but like that's, you can write off everything.

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- If you haven't messed up your taxes before,

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the IRS gives you one freebie.

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So maybe we're gonna use up to that freebie.

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- That freebie is a secret.

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- So the punishment, the stick that the IRS wields

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is the audit, right?

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So maybe how you guarantee this with your insurance

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that you're selling to them is audit guidance

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or protection, 'cause this is gonna make your chances

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skyrocket, right?

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- Oh.

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- Right?

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So you'd have the, you are more likely to get audited

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and here's exactly what you need.

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Let us help you prepare for it ahead of time

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so that it's easy to go through by the TurboTax audit insurance.

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That's it's one step.

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No, that's a really good idea, though.

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Gives you a guide of how to make it as least likely as possible to get audited

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while still optimizing your deductions and tax return.

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How to start a sham business to

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commit tax fraud.

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Step one, don't call it a sham.

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I mean, like, that's the thing.

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If you make it like what is defining the business,

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it's not the quality of the business, right?

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It's you don't have to be a good business to get a write off,

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which is why. Yeah, you could.

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Like you could start a fitness blog or a travel blog,

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and all you do is write off.

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I go and travel all the time.

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Every time I travel, I take 50% of the costs.

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Oh, I like that.

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You start as a questionnaire on our on this website

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that guides you through this process.

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You'd be like, what do you do?

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Like, do you like exercise?

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Do you like birdwatching?

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Do you like whatever?

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Put your hobbies and your work and everything in here,

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and we will give you the optimal business, the optimal write offs for it.

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You drive a company car.

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You live in company housing.

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It's the company of housing.

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Yeah, right.

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I mean, churches and schools and stuff do it.

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Universities, I mean, it's got to be legal for them to own housing

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and rent it or give it free to an employee.

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It's not like a huge win, right?

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You're not going to be making unless you're making a lot of money or not.

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You're you'll I don't know how much money is there,

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like five grand a year, maybe, let's say in tax.

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I'd be I'd do that in a heartbeat if I could get five.

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Yeah, that's true.

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That's pretty huge.

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Like but like even like two to three grand.

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But then you're kind of, I don't know, doing you can

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you can actually apply it to something that you're interested in doing.

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You're in a way helping people create a starting point for their business.

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Right. Like that they may be interested in.

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Like, "Oh, I've always wanted to start a blah business.

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Great, let's put that under this umbrella."

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Maybe it's like umbrella-izing a bunch of people's ideas

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or what they do.

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- This pitch you've devised requires a small army

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of extremely proficient tax lawyers

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who are willing to commit tax fraud.

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- Nope, just one very disgruntled accountant.

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- There you go. - That's true.

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- I suppose that once you set it up once,

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unless there's a big change in tax law,

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It doesn't need to be changed too much, right?

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Yeah.

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I guess your exit strategy is do this until you force the IRS

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to change the rules because you've broken the system so much.

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And what's so wrong with that?

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Right. Like Congress isn't going to pass any changes.

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I don't know.

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I think a lot of people are becoming more savvy to this, too.

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I think you're just helping an already existing trend

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make more sense to people so you don't feel like the dangers of

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Am I going to get audited?

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Exactly.

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It's intimidating because you're afraid of that audit.

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But at the same time, you don't need to go out and even get an LLC

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or a partnership for this.

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You could do this as a sole proprietor.

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Here's my small business. Here's my write offs.

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And you know what? I do this.

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I do this to some extent.

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I still have my consulting technology business. Right.

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And it it was booming before COVID or during COVID.

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And then it kind of is like petering off. Right.

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I throw some money in there, but every time I buy like AirPods or something, right?

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I put it, it's a business expense, but then there's a lot of, you know, gray area.

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Let's say that.

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Don't quote me IRS, but like this is a, for the podcast,

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we're entertaining purposes only.

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Uh, but sometimes you buy a thing, you know, like a pair of AirPods or a new

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computer and sure, 50% of it's being used for business.

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You write 100% of it off, right?

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One ear pod is for business.

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The other one's for me for entertainment purposes only.

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But yes, that's exactly like it's I mean, that's the thing.

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I mean, accountants that we've talked to or I've worked with in the past

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are always like it is a little bit the IRS is going to want you to do this.

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And when you do the audit, it's just about correcting what you did wrong.

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They're not like trying to dig for fines at you the whole time.

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at least my understanding.

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So never been audited.

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So people have been audited.

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Feel free to join our show.

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We can love to hear you.

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That's the way.

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But yeah, right in podcasts, it's about that show.

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Yeah.

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It's about your recent audit experience.

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Next week, I really wish I hadn't said that.

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All right, Leo, what's your idea?

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All right.

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So the thing that makes the time hop app successful, that

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app that you sign into, and then it pops up 10 years ago,

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you did this right is nostalgia.

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People love a play where they are reminded of old moments.

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The thing that they had forgotten about is dug back up from

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the Internet.

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Right.

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I am weird in that I have nostalgia for early technology that I owned, and I think that I'm not alone in this.

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So, this is part time hop, knockoff, and part forum signature generator.

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I would love to have a web app, a website that I go to, and I just type in and search for every phone that I have owned from the beginning to the end to generate an image to share with.

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It is so easy to make something like that viral where you have the image that it spits out with your website.com

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watermarked in the corner where you just say you're the first five

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laptops that I had

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20 years ago to now and how they've changed and see them all stacked up side by side and to get

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Specs and to see release date and how long did you have them and all that stuff and a nice little infographic generator

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I'd love to have a forum signature generator where I can put in every phone

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I've owned 'cause I kind of do it by hand in Photoshop once in a while when I remember.

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And I've got 15, 20 phones on there and it's fun to see them all side by side.

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And people have weird pride for things like that.

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I think I'm not alone.

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So yeah, I want to go to smartphone.history and type in everything and get like a, you

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know, there's databases out there of every phone ever made with pictures and stuff.

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You could even see them like relative to size to see how big all the phones have gotten

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over the years.

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And you have that built in virality.

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Like I said, you've got your share to Facebook,

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share to Twitter, share to Mastodon,

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share to whatever buttons right on it.

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And people can collaborate and talk about them.

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Here's the link to mine, what's yours?

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And you just kind of have a little thing

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to reminisce over, you know?

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- Yes, I love this.

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I had the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 when it was popular.

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- Is that the exploding one?

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- That's the exploding one.

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That you can't bring out an airplane?

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But you don't have it anymore, right? You would have sent it in.

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I can't disclose that legally.

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The IRS is listening still.

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Right.

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They called their friends at the FBI.

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They're calling over.

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Exactly.

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No, I think it's cool because like especially for millennial types like us who kind of grew up with the boom,

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you can kind of see, oh you had the Nokia, like how cool would it be to have the Nokia phone that everybody talks about in your

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or your list, right?

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People wanna talk about that.

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- There were moments, the first iPhone

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and the Motorola Razr.

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And there were these iconic devices for us.

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There were the shitty Verizon feature phones,

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like the LG Chocolate or whatever, right?

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So people are like, "Oh, I totally remember

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"having that one specific thing."

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And it's kind of this bonding experience

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for young millennials like us, I guess.

23:42

- Okay, have you heard of TierList.com?

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- Or you can like, it's, it reminds me of that.

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You have like S, A.

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- What is it?

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- You rank.

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- The tier maker.

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- Yeah, you rank random things, right?

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So like Disney movies, you rank them from S tier,

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A tier, B, C, D.

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And people then talk about,

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why the heck did you rate it D or C or A or F or S, right?

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- Totally.

24:08

- And so everybody's talking about that.

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So I guess it's kind of like,

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if you created a similar app that does that,

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but for your history of, I mean,

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you can apply this to devices,

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you can apply this to other things,

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but like, that's cool.

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Totally doable and totally viral.

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Like, yeah.

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- And as a side note,

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I do need to make an S tier, A tier, B tier list

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of every phone I've ever owned now.

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(laughing)

24:30

- You see?

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- He's gonna start on that immediately.

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- Palm pre, number one, baby.

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Never let webOS die.

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- Dude, that's how you start it.

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That's how you market it.

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Go to MarketLeo.

24:38

You do the tier list of phones

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and you say, I built this on-

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- Tier maker, yeah.

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- Time phone.

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- Oh, you're thinking mine should be just a direct knockoff

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this new site?

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- Did you do a little bit of,

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I mean, you can't copyright tier list, right?

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Like that's just a freaking box.

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- Use it as a very encouraging baseline

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for what you're doing.

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- I think the secret sauce of this would be the database

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that it pulls from, right?

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You could have, all I type in is Palm Pre or iPhone

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and it's the list of all of them.

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- Yeah, I do not remember any types of phones that I have,

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but just the very general, like it was like an Evo,

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something, something, something.

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And if you popped up all the ones with filter by what carrier I was on

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filter by a couple of years where I know I had it.

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Oh, there it is.

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Oh, wow. That's right. It did look like that.

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You know, you have that moment for yourself and then you share it

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because you're excited about it.

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Nostalgia is such a big seller for that, too.

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I really wanted one of the first ideas I ever wanted to try

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and I never got around to it.

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So here you can have this one for free, too.

25:36

I always wanted to do like a day in the life of me.

25:38

That would be the name of the company.

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And you go and you rent.

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This is before body cams were a thing.

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You essentially rent a body cam and you wear it all day.

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It just to be like, well, what was a day in the life of high school?

25:50

Scott, like, and you know, it goes to all the sporting.

25:53

They ran cross country.

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He did homework.

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His walk to school or whatever.

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I'd love to see that right now.

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What I was doing, who I was talking to, what people look like.

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And I'm sure 20 years from this moment right now, I'd love to see

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what I'm doing today.

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So it's just a way to encourage that.

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But then technology got too fast and caught up.

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Now everyone's got a camera in their pocket.

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It's incriminating too now.

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Everybody's so worried about everybody, you know, self-incriminating.

26:17

Body cams for life.

26:19

No, sir.

26:20

Body cams don't invoke a happy feelings in people right now.

26:24

Cameras on the face or wherever in general, people had a pretty

26:28

allergic reaction to a few years back with like Google glass and all that.

26:32

Yeah.

26:34

That'd be cool for the tier list though.

26:36

Like you said, like, I don't know, I bought the Google glass.

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I owned it.

26:40

You know?

26:41

interesting tech accessories you've owned over the years or something. Yeah.

26:45

I don't know. I feel like there's elements. Yeah. Like what else is there?

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Like I think just display, like there's like trophies,

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things that you don't want to throw away, you know,

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and then you want to take a picture or have some sort of validation of it.

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I had this, you know, that way you could throw it away,

27:01

get rid of the box or whatever. Sure. Um, whoa.

27:07

If you say blockchain or NFT though, I'm kicking you off the show.

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- Oh, there we go.

27:11

Let's bring it back.

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- No digital trophies.

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- Right?

27:14

I don't, I think there's something there.

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27:19

- All right, so we had one of our first guests write-ins

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with submitting an idea.

27:25

All they have said here though is "grinder for dogs."

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And I'm not really sure where they were trying

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to go for this one.

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So thank you, Phil @PJPhil.

27:35

Yeah, so.

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- If you'd like to send in your own ideas,

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They could be as simple as that pitch.

27:45

- We can make this work.

27:47

Okay, so--

27:48

- Does Grindr for dogs insist that they're gay?

27:50

- No, I was more thinking of like the GPS aspects of it,

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but like--

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- What is the GPS aspect of Grindr?

27:58

- Grindr is fascinating compared to the other dating apps.

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So like Tinder or Bumble or whatever,

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they're all looking, you know,

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you can see someone's profile

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The mechanism is swipe left or right.

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Grinder is just, hey, these are the people within your area.

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X proximity.

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And here's their profiles.

28:17

Really?

28:17

That you can react to from there.

28:19

So so it's always changing.

28:20

Yeah. So maybe grinder for dogs would be you go to a dog park and like deer.

28:26

Oh man, how would this work?

28:28

You set up your profile.

28:29

They set up their profiles.

28:30

They bang in our dogs, banging each other.

28:32

You know, I think that's where they have.

28:35

That's where the confusion.

28:36

No, you pull up and hold on.

28:37

Oh, I got you still thinking.

28:38

What is what is this guy trolling us?

28:40

You pull up in a parking lot

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and you happen to glance at your app

28:43

and says there are currently 12 dogs here.

28:45

There's this, this, this and this.

28:47

He needs a little bit of distance.

28:48

That one over there is super extra friendly

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and loves the breed that you happen to have.

28:53

That's amazing.

28:53

You get the full profile of any dogs that are coming here.

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Or, you know, who's at the dog park at this time.

28:59

You can look at the popularity of the different times

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or your dog is a best friend if you go to a dog park enough.

29:05

The Pokédex for dogs.

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The Pokédex for dogs.

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There you go.

29:09

He's taking a picture of the dog and it knows.

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On Grindr.

29:14

No, I'm just...

29:14

Pokédogs.

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Pokédogs.

29:18

They can play, I guess.

29:20

Like, I wonder what else you could do.

29:21

Like, so is it...

29:22

I wonder if he was like, when he submitted this, was looking for like an app to like play with dogs or, you know, did he leave a description?

29:30

Like, is it like, hey, let's do some doggy playdates.

29:33

The message consisted of those three words,

29:36

grinder for dogs.

29:38

So that is what we are working with here.

29:41

- You know, quality posts for quality podcasts.

29:44

You know what I mean?

29:46

Yeah, okay, all right.

29:49

So GPS dog hangouts, how do you monetize that?

29:54

Advertise.

29:56

- Yeah, that's how it is every time.

30:00

Just put a bunch of chewy heads on there and call it good.

30:03

There is a chewy within 5.6 miles from you.

30:06

Or chowhound, whatever they're called.

30:10

- Love bones.

30:11

Love bones.

30:14

But okay, but maybe there's a little bit of a market

30:17

for like dog breed matching or something.

30:20

Like people wanna breed their dogs.

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I don't know.

30:23

Like, is there a market for that?

30:25

- Based on GPS location, like.

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- I need my dog to get pregnant now.

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sexy Dalmatians in your area.

30:31

I don't know.

30:34

I feel like that's hard.

30:35

I feel like that's not usually an urgent thing that they need done, but maybe.

30:39

I mean, it's maybe just hard to find other dogs.

30:42

You know, it's hard out here being a dog, looking for other dogs

30:46

to make babies, I guess.

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But I don't know.

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I mean, those are some that's like a promoting backroom

30:52

breeding or something.

30:54

Just like.

30:54

Thanks, Phil.

30:59

What is this guy thinking?

31:00

Either too much or not enough, I'm not sure.

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