December 1, 2025 • 40 mins
Special thanks to Zoey for joining us on this episode!
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:04 - Fire Truck or Fiber Tuck?
00:07:15 - Kill-o-Weight
00:15:54 - Recipe Documentation Cameras
00:26:32 - Smart Ducts
00:31:17 - Personalized Book Revisions
00:39:34 - Outro
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
I'm Scott, I'm Russell, and I'm Leo.
This is Spitball.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Welcome to Spitball, where three hero hackers and a guest empty our heads of startup and
tech product ideas that we have stuck up in there so you can all have them for free.
Anything that we say is yours to keep.
And this week, I'm so very excited to be welcoming
our long lost friend, nope,
the friend that we've had for many, many years, Zoey.
Zoey, we're so glad to have you here.
Zoey is someone who's been in emergency management
(00:39):
and crisis situations since I've met her or shortly after.
She's gone from campus security
to actual emergency 911 dispatch,
to volunteer firefighting,
to everywhere where there is something stressful happening.
She is the voice of reason
and the calm, cool, collected hero.
We are so excited to have you here, Zoey.
(00:59):
Welcome to Spitball.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Thank you so much.
I'm really happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
This is gonna be a good time.
And of your many hobbies and passions,
one of them that you've shared with my wife is fibering,
fibers, knitting and crocheting.
So I've written a little game that we're gonna call
Fire Truck or Fiber Tuck.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
In this game, we are-
(all laughing)
What podcast are we on?
- What are we talking?
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (01:28):
- It's a fiber tuck.
It's when you connect fibers together, like, you know,
crocheting.
- Never done that by myself.
- Well, you know,
Speaker 3 (01:37):
- It's not really an activity that you do with other people.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
- I was discouraged from going with that name.
- Oh.
(laughing)
Speaker 4 (01:45):
- Okay, we're sticking with the name.
The name's good.
You're all wrong.
- All right, let's talk about fiber tucking.
- Zoey, are you a fibering?
Are you a fiber?
- The fiber arts.
Have you heard this before?
- Zoey's like.
- Collectively calling knitting and crocheting
Speaker 2 (02:01):
is fibring.
- Fibering.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
- Off cam, she's.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
- I'm fibering away.
I'm tucking my fibers.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I didn't know that you knew.
(laughing)
By the end I'll have a full name.
- It's a good name, you're all wrong.
Can you live stream?
Sorry, okay, I'm gonna stop.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Anyways.
The hobbies of emergency management, that's not a hobby,
the career of emergency management
and the hobby of crocheting and knitting
are both filled with lingo.
And a lot of times those lingos sound like
they belong to each other.
So in this game, I'm just gonna give you a term like,
for example, a Russian join.
Is that from emergency management
or is that knitting and crocheting?
(02:40):
That's of course knitting and crocheting.
That's when you're knitting and you have two pieces of yarn
that you need to connect without creating knots
or needing weaves, right?
So in this game, we're just gonna go down the line.
I'll give you a term.
Tell me if it's one or the other.
Emergency management or knitting and crocheting
or fiber tucking if you wanna really lean into the term.
Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
- Big fan of that.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
- And we'll start as we always do with our guest.
Zoey, Zoey, frogging.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
- Emergency services.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
- That is ripping out mistakes in the yarn pattern.
(laughing)
Speaker 3 (03:06):
- Oh no.
I'm sorry, I really jumped on that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
- If Zoey's not getting these, we're all screwed.
- I'm very excited.
Scott, tinking.
- Oh gosh.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I have no idea.
Emergency services.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Tink, T-I-N-K is knit, spelled backwards.
It's moving backwards to remove a knit.
K-N-I-T-T-I-N-K.
Russell, tagline.
Two words.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
- I just want to say, I think that's fiber tucking.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
- That's emergency management.
It's a control rope to guide steady a load.
Very good.
Of course Zoey knows this, she knows all of them.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
- As you pull it up, so it doesn't go all like haywire.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
- You know how I know it's a good game?
We're 0 for 3, let's do another round.
(all laughing)
Despite your mocking and jar-jibbing,
I'm winning, I'm the one winning tonight.
(all laughing)
Zoey, steek, S-T-E-E-K.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
- I'm guessing fibers.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
- You're exactly right.
That's when you intentionally cut a knit fabric
to add an opening.
You've steeked it, or you add a steek, I guess,
I don't know.
Scott, a rip and run, rip, hyphen, N, hyphen, run.
- Please be knitting, crocheting, that's my guess.
- Emergency management, that's when you print
the dispatch sheet and tear it and take it with you.
Did you know that, Rowan?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
- Yes, I did.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
- Yes, you did, very good.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
- So are you actively crocheting?
- I think I'm--
Speaker 3 (04:31):
- Yeah, well, I'm--
Speaker 1 (04:32):
- Yeah, it's on topic.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
- You just said, and I had it sitting here,
and I was like, well, I might as well do something
with my hands.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (04:40):
- Like tucking.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
- She's answering 911 calls and knitting.
- It's a fiber tuck.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Russell, a magic loop.
- I will 500 for fiber tucking.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
- You're exactly right.
That's a circular needle trick for small tubes.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
- All my answers are gonna be fiber tucking, so.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (05:00):
- Last round through.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
- That's a good strategy.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
- This is the acronym round.
Zoey, K number two, TOG.
K2, TOG, T-O-G, emergency management or knitting crocheting.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
- I'm gonna go with fibers.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Knit to gather.
Very good, knit together.
Scott, BOLO, B-O-L-O.
- Emergency management.
- Very good, be on the lookout.
- Hey! - Excellent.
Russell, SABLE, S-A-B-L-E.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
- Emergency fiber tucking.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (05:33):
- Is that?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
- It's fiber tucking, but in an emergency.
- It is indeed, very good.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That stands for a stash acquisition beyond life expectancy.
When you buy so much yarn
that you don't think you're gonna use it before you die.
(laughing)
- Very nice. - Very good.
I think that there's some of you guys who got one.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
- It's a statistical anomaly.
I know, we should at least be getting like 50% on these
with all the random guessing.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
- I decided to just, if I didn't know what it was,
that it was in fact fibers.
- That makes sense.
- I thought about one of my own and I was like,
the Cleveland load, is that fibers or is that fire trucks?
I cannot believe that's either.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I want to write that down.
I'm going to just start.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
What's a Cleveland load?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
It's when you strap a bunch of hose line together,
and then you carry it up the stairs
so that you can have it hooked to an internal system for water.
Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Oh, water.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Water.
When there's too much, like too many stairs
to get up to the very top, you hook in on the stairwell.
If you're ever in a building and you look to the side,
and there's that big pipe.
- Yeah.
- It's for the fire department connect.
- Nice.
- That's not the right word, but that's a thing.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
- For the Cleveland load.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
- For the Cleveland load.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And now I feel like I should look it up
and I feel kind of bad.
Like maybe it's not right.
Don't put that in there.
They're gonna, they'll think I'm not real.
Second guessing myself.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
- I thought she was real,
but then she talked about some Cleveland load bullshit.
- It's the Toledo load.
That's the, that's.
- Yeah, that's right.
- Not the Cleveland load.
- Who wants to go first this week?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
- I can go.
I feel like I haven't gone first in a while.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Russell, you haven't gone first in a minute.
Russell, what is your idea for us this week?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
All right, so you guys know the term pumpin' iron, okay?
Pumpin' iron, sure.
Instead of pumpin' iron, what about makin' kilowatts?
Maybe this, I hope this isn't an idea
that we've done already.
No.
So why not set up your bike, your treadmill,
(07:37):
your whatever, to connect to a battery
that powers your home?
Okay.
charges your phone or whatever powers power banks.
OK, and that's it.
So like you simply put, you get exercise bikes,
you power your home.
What a better motivator to, you know, ride your bike when you feel like you're
(08:00):
actually doing something that benefits the environment, but also saves you a
little cash on the side.
Right. That's it.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
In Soviet Russia, you power your peloton.
(laughing)
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I think I saw a Black Mirror episode like that.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That was mandatory.
Now you hire a team of 10 people to power your home
with their bikes in your basement.
That's it.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Kind of traumatic.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I like that as a motivation factor though.
Like you have a TV in front of you,
but it's only powered as long as you're running on it
or something.
Or like your phone will only stay on
while you're doom scrolling
as long as you're moving your feet.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
or whatever is charging your iPad, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
- I think we just solved the obesity crisis.
(laughing)
I say we, I mean Russell.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
- Right, that's right.
One pedal at a time.
So you could turn this into the power bank.
You could do the power bank thing, right?
So, all right, I want 10 power banks.
They all charge up with my bike in the basement.
And then now I'm like always charging.
I always have a charge power bank in my house.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Do you envision this product being something you add on
to your existing equipment,
or is this a full-on Peloton alternative that you're selling?
It's gotta be the whole kit.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
- That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
- One would be easier to put in a box and ship, for sure.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
- I think the add-on would make sense.
We'll do both, all right?
We're gonna do both.
We're gonna have the add-on first,
and then we're gonna do the bike feature,
'cause I think with like 40 pulleys,
One pedal could generate 1,000 kilowatt hours.
Is that right?
And that's a fact.
Don't look it up.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I don't know if that math maps.
Just like the Cleveland mode.
The Cleveland light.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Couldn't I just like--
Speaker 2 (09:55):
1,000 kilowatt hours.
Anyway, next question.
Omega watts.
I was wondering exactly how much power someone for one hour
pedaling at a decent five mile an hour
to 10 mile an hour clip would actually generate.
I have no way to, like, is that enough to charge a phone?
I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
- Sounds like a question for Google.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
- Engineers will figure it out.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
- Yeah, it could be all software.
Why don't you just like lock out TikTok
or that office rerun that you're always watching
or whatever, unless you're actively pedaling.
Like, does this have to be literally generating kilowatts?
- Yes. - In case that math
doesn't math.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Oh, it does. - No, it has to be
about generating electricity.
(laughter)
Speaker 2 (10:37):
- Yeah, duh.
- I'm a fool for even asking.
(laughter)
Speaker 4 (10:42):
- So yeah, it's not like a motive,
like it's not like, that's a good point.
It's something fun about it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
- You ready for this?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
- Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
- Kill or wait.
- Oh.
- Just came to me in a dream, right now.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
- Same wavelength, same wavelength right there.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
- I had death in this episode, you know?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
- How many petals would it take to heat water
to turn it into steam, sir?
(laughter)
- So much.
This is my greatest spit pull of all time, but
Speaker 2 (11:08):
No, it's a treadmill in the kitchen and you can't cook unless you're boiling your own water
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Please sir, I'm so hungry
Speaker 4 (11:20):
We're gonna add the martini shaker attachment, okay
Speaker 1 (11:30):
They sell a pink one
Speaker 3 (11:33):
It's double the price, no big deal.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, right, exactly.
You could put it then in the middle of a party,
and now people could make their drinks by pedaling.
[LAUGHTER]
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So like, powers a blender, like a shaker.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Or you could just get an exercise, like an arm workout,
with the shaker.
They had shake weights.
Wasn't that a thing?
Shouldn't they just have put some ice cubes and some liquor
inside of it?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
All right, I'm going to keep spitballing on this,
'Cause what if you pressurized?
So there was this concept where if you pressurize something,
you can cool things or heat things up, right?
So what if you're pedaling and it actually is creating
a bunch of pressure in a can and turning it into heat,
but then that heat turns into electricity?
(12:21):
(laughs)
Speaker 1 (12:25):
- Is that how science works?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
- I don't think I'm keeping any of this in.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
- Somebody's gotta be an engineer on this call.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
tell me how crazy this is yeah I'm picturing you by the roadside pulling
out your bike and pedaling to pump up your tire because you don't have an
Speaker 1 (12:43):
actual pump with you but you've got this no but the pump creates steam
which then creates steam
Speaker 3 (12:49):
like crap I only brought my martini shaker
Speaker 1 (12:52):
it's like 18 steps but then it gives you electricity at the end
and then I can make a martini at the end
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I got a flat on the side of the highway,
but I got my step goal for the day.
Close my rings on the side of the highway.
(laughing)
Speaker 1 (13:09):
- Oh God.
- Hey. - Listen,
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I'm not the first person.
I bet there's some, some,
'cause, okay, why this came to me was,
when you're on a bike and you're pedaling,
it'll actually tell you how many watts you're generating
while you're biking.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
- Oh, you're right. - Did you know that?
- It does that.
The Peloton does it too.
- Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I've sat down at a bike before, a stationary bike,
where the console is like off,
and then it doesn't turn on until you start pedaling,
because it's using your pedal as part of its power source.
So this is a thing, but I don't--
I'm feeling used. Yeah, I guess
we're not collecting. (laughs)
You're just wasting electricity.
It's just not collecting the extra.
I guess so.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Okay, what if you put all these in a gym,
and now you get 40 people to create enough electricity
where it actually makes sense?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
- To power the gym.
- The gym.
- To power the person at the front desk's TikTok.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
- Their tablet to check you in.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
- With LED light bulbs, okay, technology has gone.
You can take what, a power bank and power an LED.
Sure, the HVAC unit, no, all right?
All right, we're not talking HVAC, all right?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
We're talking-- - We need more people.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (14:20):
- Economies of scale, hundreds.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
- Bring 'em in. - Mush, mush, mush.
Listen, we put it in a prison, okay?
And then now...
Speaker 3 (14:29):
They did this!
This was a real thing!
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Zoey, do you know this is...
Are you serious?
Which part of this?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah, they had people stepping on this like treadmill
and it moved water and then...
Speaker 4 (14:41):
What?
That's how they got water.
Yes, it's a real thing.
This happened in a prison?
Yes, see guys?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes, it was a prison.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
What are we doing?
We are just human batteries storing energy.
And we could just, if we could translate,
Speaker 2 (14:55):
we could turn that energy.
- Turning Doritos into charged phones.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
- Yeah. - All right, I got it.
In the 19th century, there were penal treadmills.
- Wait. - Remembering large,
wide wheel, I don't think I'm saying that right.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
- Did you say penal?
- You said it right. - Penal treadmills.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
- I did.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
- Don't let him dissuade you, you got it.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
- All right, resembling large, wide wheels
fitted with steps and the prisoners were sentenced
to hard labor.
They climbed the steps repeatedly,
causing the entire wheel to rotate
Speaker 1 (15:22):
and the tread wheels were--
-They literally put prisoners in hamster wheels
and said, "Power the city."
Speaker 3 (15:30):
-They've used them to pump water.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
-I'm just the first genius to commercialize it.
All right? We just used it to pump water.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
-I got to say, if I had a choice in my home
between having another stationary bike or a giant wheel,
that sounds like a cooler way to exercise.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
-That would be cool.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
-I don't know, these people look pretty sad in the pictures.
(laughing)
Speaker 4 (15:58):
- All right, Leah, let's see if you can top
that one this week.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
- All right, I almost transitioned away a little early.
I'm glad I didn't cut you off,
but you were talking about your martini shaker.
So my coworker and I were discussing earlier this week
that we both have a similar method of cooking,
which is to say we wing it.
You have your, uh, I guess I'll shake some of this and some of that and cook it for
(16:23):
until it feels vibey in the right, whatever.
And that is a great way to make really delicious stuff sometimes and not so good
stuff sometimes and never be able to recreate it.
So I am here, Sharks, today to pitch you a idea for either a feature on an existing
home camera setup, or maybe we just white label and make our own cameras that go
(16:44):
around the kitchen and track only what you are doing
when you are cooking.
You are grabbing this much of the oregano
and adding two eggs and this and that.
You can show the camera that, you know,
jar of whatever spice you're working with and stuff
if you think that's helpful,
or maybe there's a tagging system, I don't know.
So that at the end, it just outputs what you did.
(17:07):
Here's my recipe without having to write it down.
And then you can maybe even keep track
of rating these things and storing what worked
and what didn't.
And wow, when I used more butter on those cookies,
it seemed like it went well.
It'll help you find those patterns
across multiple attempts of the same recipe
and try to come at the perfect result.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I love that.
I also want that for alcohol.
What?
What do you mean?
I want it to just mix random things in a drink,
and then it comes back and generates a name for it,
and it tells me what was in that drink,
'cause I was probably too drunk to figure it out
at that time.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (17:44):
- That was Bud Light again, boss.
I don't know why you keep asking.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
- Still Bud Light.
Every time you ask.
- Ingredients, one, Bud Light.
(laughing)
Recipe name, Bud Light.
- Bud Light on the rocks.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (17:59):
- What kind of rocks?
I say you don't wanna know.
- Bud Light meat.
- I guess there were two ingredients.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
- Shaken in the martini shaker.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
- Is this a problem, Zoey, for you?
You're a fantastic cook.
Do you, are you a by the books,
follow the recipe person? Are you a wing it and go by vibes?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Only with baking. Baking is more of a science. Cooking is more of an art.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
For sure. And would you consider yourself one, the other, or both?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh, I'm definitely a cook. I am not a baker. We'll leave that to other people.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So you're not a recipe person then?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I'll follow one if it's in front of me. Or I'll be like, "Bill, read this." I don't need to read.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Do you have the problem of, "Oh man, that was an amazing pot pie. I would never be able to
recreate this." Or do you kind of keep track of it in your brain?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Keep track of it. Oh, I feel like that's not a fun thing to say.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Be like, oh, that's great. I'm just so this is a problem for only some people.
What I think is an A.I. Zoey and I can't hire you to sit in my kitchen and watch me do it bad
for an hour and then tell me here's what you did, dummy. So I need someone like you.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
That's not you because you're busy. I do that, too, Leah. I do what you do.
But I've I've simplified. I just now get a bunch of pre mixed. What are they called?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Lean cuisine.
(laughter)
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Pre-mixed lean cuisine.
That was really sad.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
That was way too poignant.
I consider myself a chef also.
I get the, what do they call it?
Damn it, I can't.
Spice blends, okay?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh, sure.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And all I do, the simplest way I can make a meal is
chicken, pan, spice, right?
Just the pre-mix, right?
Heat.
Heat. And it usually comes out--
for it. Real good. I did. It's to keep my fridge on. No spice tonight unless you pedal.
My electric stove. But that's my trick. But like to that end though, there's always like
(19:49):
I think of the vegetable drawer. Yeah. So you make one meal that's recipe, right? All
right. I need this much stuff. And then you but then you have all this extra. I have two
Two extra buns, I have three extra carrots,
I have two extra celery, and a half pound of ground beef.
Throw it in a pot, put it on some burger buns,
and now I got some vegetable sloppy joes, right?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
- There you go. - Sure.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
- Right, I mean, a little bit like that, right?
Maybe with some barbecue sauce?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
- Yeah, just reconstitute it, make it.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
- Cook it long enough, it turns out, you know?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Reconstitute. - What do I call that?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
- What do you call that? - The fiber tucking?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
- Must go. - Oh.
- Must go. - Everything in the fridge
must go, like. - Ah.
- Ah. - Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
- Very good.
- Musco. - Thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, everything.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
- My dad used to take old expired cereal
that we weren't gonna eat anymore
and like bread chicken with it and stuff.
Like it really weird with whatever was going
in the cabinet bad.
- What does chicken with fruity pebbles taste like?
- Yeah, we had stuff like that before.
It wasn't good.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
- What a childhood.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
- Yeah, but I think I am a bad cook
and a creative just make it, wing it cook
because that's the environment
Speaker 4 (20:58):
fostered in right? You can make spice blends real good if right? Is that what
you're saying too? Like you were saying yeah and then you just throw it all
together in a pan if you just know how much of each it's just that's the hard
part right? If you throw too much paprika it's like oh you can't solve it you just
Speaker 2 (21:18):
eat through it. It could do some trend analysis the last three times that you made something
like this you said it was too spicy every time try it you know I can coach
Speaker 4 (21:24):
you a little bit. Yeah dude this is recipe development I think 101 you just
experiment around long enough and you find out something that you really like,
right? So it's just note-taking. That makes sense. Just note-taking.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Without the writing down notes. "You really like chicken."
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Sorry, that was my Alexa voice, but I can't hear myself. It's Zolexa.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Thank you. Can you tell me a bad one? Tell me a bad one, Leo.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
- Oh, you're, like a-- - Recipe?
- Yeah, did you ever, have you ever made something
that's just like been awful?
Yeah, Scott has.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
- David Webster put in, he said,
oh, we have Chinese five spice.
You should add some of this in.
And he dumped in like the entire thing.
And this is back in college when you're like
feeding yourself for a week at a time with it.
And I ate that slop of Chinese five spice
that tasted like Christmas for a goddamn week.
And I can never go back to that flavor.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
- Was it pasta?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
It was like, you know some variation of pasta by the end of it. I do not want the recipe for that one
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Where did it go wrong? I wish I had an assistant to tell me I
This this wouldn't have been fixed by a I coach
But I was making a like a zucchini and turkey ground turkey burger and I couldn't figure out why they were so watery
Like they were really like weird the texture wasn't right and then I realized I had bought a cucumber and not a zucchini
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So awful I
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Wish I could give you this side device could give you some like preventative measures be like hold the phone
Speaker 2 (23:07):
That's not a zucchini
Speaker 3 (23:09):
If you leave that turned on any longer, it will start a fire see no joke life and safety
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I will say when bacon is in an airfryer
It goes from crisping nicely to burn smoky mess in about 30 seconds
Speaker 3 (23:22):
And if I could have a little guy who's watching that for me, that would be helpful. I feel similarly about avocados
What are they good? Yeah, they're like good for a minute and 50 seconds. Yeah
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Hard hard hard hard hard good brown. Damn it. I missed it again
Speaker 3 (23:38):
If somebody could tell me what that's gonna be like the perfect opportunity then I would love that. That'd be good
Optimal ripeness, that's interesting. Yes, there's gonna be like an algorithm for that, right?
We'll be perfectly ripe on Tuesday at 12 p.m. Between 12 p.m. and 12 o'clock
Speaker 1 (23:58):
This is your window wake up at 3 a.m.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Sticking needles into your food
Trying to like extract and mix chemicals to figure out when optimal ripeness will be it's a whole set
Speaker 4 (24:10):
- You know there is some person that would take that,
love that alarm idea and literally wake up at 3 a.m.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
being like, yes, my best avocado is slightly better
than it could have been.
- Yes, so good.
- And then you could never go back either.
Once you start trying it there, you're just like,
I have to do this forever now.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
- I've had the perfect avocado at 3 a.m.
and it changed my life.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
- My avocado alarm's gonna go off in three hours,
I gotta stay up for it.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
- Alarm-ocado.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
- Leo, I've made a mistake,
I've made that same mistake with coriander
instead of cinnamon.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
- Ah, yes.
That's a spicy one.
That's a spicy meatball.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
- And it ruins the whole thing.
- Put cinnamon in your meatballs?
- What were you making?
- I was making a cinnamon,
I had extra biscuits that you get in the tins.
- Grams?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Oh yeah, like Pillsbury.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
- That's the what, Pillsbury ones?
And then I wanted to, I'm like,
what are we gonna do with this?
So I was like, oh, you can throw cinnamon, sugar on it,
turn it into like monkey bread real quick, right?
Nope, not with coriander, can't do that.
So if we could be more like free-flow-y
without making a mistake like that,
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but I guess it was the spice wasn't even labeled correctly.
So it's not like I would have tried to.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
- That's a tough one for an AI
if you're an unlabeled spice person.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
- Yeah, that was a--
Speaker 3 (25:31):
- What kind of life are you living?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
- That was like, I don't know why I mixed.
So this is what happened.
just like yelling into the middle of the kitchen like,
"I don't know, it smells like nutmeg."
(laughing)
Speaker 1 (25:42):
- It's either nutmeg or chili powder.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
- I bought coriander and then I wanted to make
cinnamon sugar so like I could put it on French toast
and all that other stuff.
And so that's what happened.
I've been using coriander sugar instead of cinnamon sugar.
And I never used it after the--
- How was it?
- It was awful and I'm like,
"All right, I don't know why this,
"I don't know why cinnamon sugar sucks now."
Speaker 3 (26:06):
- My childhood was way different than this.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
- My cinnamon sugar is just not like the store bought stuff.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
(laughing)
- And so I'm using,
and then I ended up like keeping it in my cabinet forever.
And then I'm like, all right, I gotta get rid of this.
So then I turned it into that biscuit thing
and then I realized it was coriander this whole time.
So.
- Yep.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And now you have cinnamon sugar?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
- Yeah.
Now I have cinnamon and now I have sugar
cause I'm never gonna make that mistake again.
Just not gonna, not gonna pre-mix cinnamon sugar.
- Fool me once.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
All right, Scott, what's your idea for this week?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I am excited because I actually have a hardware idea this week.
I have recently moved and in the last two weeks I have turned the heat on for the first
time because it's fall/winter now and learned pretty quick that my house does not hold heat
very well and it is a large house and I do not need to heat all of it at the same time
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when it's just me there.
So, Leo and I have played with these little fan things
before that you stick into your vents
and they force more air out into certain rooms on there.
And I've had an idea for a while where like,
well, couldn't you just like IOT these guys
and like have vents where it just shuts off
different rooms at different times so that,
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hey, I'm not in this room over here,
we don't need to pull heat into that.
But my experience with those little fan things
that blow up is one, they kinda suck,
And two, there is no universal thing
that fits into every room in your house,
or every type of vent that you can close off
and open and close them.
So what I wanna do is just take a goddamn air bladder,
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something that I can just like with a little fan on it,
shove it inside each of my vents,
and the whole thing just blows up
to block out the vent fully,
and then deflates itself to shut it completely.
That way it's completely universal,
and it'll just have some smarts to it
where, hey, you haven't been in this room in a long time.
We're not going to heat that room at all.
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And that's the whole idea.
That's great.
That's it.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
How does it know you're in the room?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Motion sensors?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You put a tag on you.
And then as you go from room to room, it tracks you.
I'm like--
Honestly?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
You have to implant a chip.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I like that.
It just takes your RSSI of your Bluetooth from your phone
to be like, oh, you're closer to this room.
I'm going to turn off the ear bladder
so this room actually heats up or something
and just gathers data over time with that.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
There are so many ways to detect presence.
The newest Philips Hue Hub, the Hue Hub Pro or whatever,
it uses the signal between the different light bulbs
to know, oh, that was a couple of milliseconds
slower than usual, so there must be someone in that room.
It has motion sensing via the connection.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Oh, I hate that.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
There's that, there's IR, there's your millimeter waves.
There's so many different ways to figure out
which room you're in right now.
What?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Wi-Fi even I know that's spooky. That's crazy. Yes. It is spooky. That's the right word for that. Yeah, but if you're comfortable
Save several dollars on my heat my house
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Surely ducts are like a standardized size, right? Couldn't this be like a system of flaps or something?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's what I would have thought about the damn vents, but every single one was different
Speaker 4 (29:23):
But what's nice about the air bladder thing is it's probably really compact, right?
You just stick it on the side and then when you want it to fill it'll just fill it up, right?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
It's super low profile. Well, just a question. I'm picturing a large whoopee cushion. How is it filling?
What is it filling with air air from what like a fan the air?
It's like a big parachute. That's like air compressor having the air going down the vent
All day all night
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Mommy I hear something in the walls. The deflates would be hilarious on there. Just your father
It's a good good good good ghost. I mean this would be great for just daytime nighttime
Speaker 4 (30:07):
The amount of money you'd save the amount that electric companies would pay for that
Like they subsidize nests, right? If they could yeah, they would pay for these
Speaker 2 (30:18):
It means that they could save less money in the grid or whatever right? Less time that your furnace is blowing. Yeah
Speaker 4 (30:25):
for a hole, you know, like you just do it better because literally the air vents
stop from going. That's awesome. That is amazing. So put some smarts on it so that
Speaker 1 (30:35):
all of them don't inflate at once. That would probably be bad.
Boom!
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Well yeah, what would happen if you did that? Just cut off all the vents.
I think that.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You ever watch a Bax fan fall over?
Yeah.
That's not pleasant.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
That is such a real thing, right?
It's "Wooooom!"
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's like that, but it's your house's infrastructure.
You just know it's unhappy.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
It's just your house's infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Cool idea. I like that. That is a unique approach that I don't think anyone's done before.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
All I need is a Meyer bag and a small air compressor.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Plastic grocery bag!
That could work!
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Gary Green.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Alright, Zoey, what have you brought us this week?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Well, hello. I don't know if you know this about me. I don't know. How do you start this?
Nailed it. So I'm I'm a reader. I'm a reader of books typically and
Of a certain type of books that some may call smut
Okay, I typically call them
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romanticy and I get personally annoyed when the character is
Just way too young. So I'm looking at they're always like 19 year olds are old saving the world always of age
But always just like a little ick
So I would like an app or something I can attach to my Kindle
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That will make it will increase the age of the female character
by like 20 years
Speaker 2 (32:15):
20 years. Yes, please. How young are these girls?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
19 apparently, all of them.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Oh, geez.
Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
So, that would be something that I would like.
And not only that, I would, so a couple different things I would like it to change about the
books I'm reading.
One is I would like to change the age, obviously.
And then I'd also like to change the names of some of the characters.
Not so long ago, I was reading a book and the main character, the villain, actually,
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was named Philip.
(laughing)
Speaker 1 (32:50):
- That's your husband's name.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
- That is my husband's name.
And I was mad at him for like the entire time
I was reading the book.
And he does enough things wrong on his own,
he doesn't need any help.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (33:06):
- Okay.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
- So I want it to be changing the name of the villain
to something else so that my husband stays out of trouble.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
- When this changes the age of your character,
Is it just like, hey, I find the number 19
and I change that to 40?
Or is it like, I see that they're on Snapchat.
I'm going to rewrite that to Facebook sort of thing?
Ooh.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
That's kind of mean.
But no.
The--
[LAUGHTER]
It's a-- yeah, it's a number substitution.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Just the number.
Just the number.
MySpace.
[LAUGHTER]
Speaker 1 (33:36):
MySpace.
Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
You know, it figures it out.
No, that makes sense, though.
Less-- I don't know.
If they're 19, Zoey, are there things
that they do that are very 19?
Or are they just putting the age as 19
and they're doing 36-year-old, 32-year-old things?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
- Why even mention their age?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
- I think you make a good point there
because if they're 36 years old,
are they making these bad mistakes,
the 19-year-old characters?
Or are they just tired and they're like,
"I am not saving the world.
"The world has enough problems of its own.
"I'm just gonna take a nap."
Back to my hand crafting.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
- I'm going to bed at 10, are you kidding me?
Phillip is keeping you awake the whole time, right?
That's why you gotta change the name.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
- I mean, the fact that you're reading this on a Kindle,
right, it's gotta be like a feature
that Kindle could just add in their OS.
It doesn't need to be another device.
We're so close.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
- I would pay such money for this.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
- Maybe even the authors could like write variables,
like take in the reader's demographics.
If they are female, then describe the men in more detail.
And if they are of this age,
and make everyone else their cohort
and that kind of stuff, right?
We need like choose your own adventure
that dynamically adjusts at book open time.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
- This is a pick a path, but it's like pick an age.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
- You don't even know that you're on the path, right?
It's just, you've set once in your Kindle, your birth date
and how you identify in so many ways,
your hobbies, your whatever,
and books like customize a little bit to you.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
- That's a great service.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
- Just ages it with you.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
You can sell these to authors, right?
So you can keep the heart and the concept of the novel.
And then you work with the author
to create the two or three cringe-free variations, right?
'Cause that's what they don't wanna have happen, right?
Is like your reader cringes
because of something small like that.
Or, well, I mean, it's not small
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because it's annoying the whole time.
'Cause now you have this whole image
that's completely different.
So like, cringe mode, like you can set different settings
and all this other stuff.
And then, like, there you go.
You work with authors, publishers to make more book sales
because you can set variations.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
- I would love to set my settings to be like,
totally not me and see how that affects like,
do I even understand what's happening here?
Damn fam, that slaps.
What?
Like, this is in Zoomer mode, I guess,
or whatever, gen alpha slang.
(laughing)
Speaker 4 (36:02):
- That'd be interesting.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
- I just realized my example is extremely heteronormative,
like white cis male.
Like, get it?
'Cause women like men.
Obviously you'd set your preferences and stuff.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
- Could I make it so that my wife,
when she's reading books,
is only putting my name in there
instead of somebody else's?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
- Even better. - Wow.
- Yes.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
- Whoa.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
- Christian mode.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
- I am so in love with you right now.
You would not believe this book I was reading.
Had your name in every character.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
- Russell, the captain of the NFL hockey team.
- That's right.
(laughter)
Speaker 2 (36:38):
- Did you say the NFL hockey team?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
- I just fucked up, I know.
As soon as that came out of my mouth.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
- That's the best.
I was gonna say like, it's parental controls too,
so like, things got steamy when they held hands.
Aw, mom must not let me read that part,
so it censored it out and put something dumb in.
(laughter)
Speaker 3 (36:58):
- Or it could take the names and make them
like, gender ambiguous or, you know.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
- Oh, true, true.
- It's a pat.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Everyone's Patton Ashley.
No, no, like two different names, not like everybody's--
Ashley's doing so good.
[LAUGHTER]
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Batting, batting Ashley.
[LAUGHTER]
I knew what you meant.
Everyone's Patton Ashley.
I knew what you meant.
I think that there's a subset of interactive medium forward
authors who would be excited about this,
and you're gonna make a lot of authors extremely angry.
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Like, "How could you compromise the craft?
Of course I wanna say exactly what this character is.
It's my character."
But like-
Speaker 4 (37:43):
- Have you put down a book, Zoey,
because it's just been so cringe?
Like right at the beginning,
or like once a character comes out and you're like,
Speaker 3 (37:50):
"Oh gosh, I can't read this anymore."
- Yeah.
Anytime the character's name is Russell,
I'm like, "Oh God, no."
Speaker 4 (37:57):
(laughing)
- Barf! - That's a lot of books,
let me tell you, Zoey.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
A lot of books, okay? - Right?
Apparently you just keep putting your name
Have you already made this and that's why all the books I keep reading keep popping up, Russell?
Speaker 4 (38:07):
It's in your settings. It's been pranked.
That's right, and that's why Phil's the villain.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
[laughter]
Speaker 4 (38:13):
The fill-in.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
The one time.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
The fill-in villain.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Also happened like, if it's like a family member and I'm like, "Oh, God, no."
Speaker 4 (38:24):
I'll immediately throw it in the garbage, right?
Speaker 3 (38:28):
And that one gets returned to Kindle Unlimited.
Thank you very much for your time, author.
- I thought you'd put this into the world.
Pick better names.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
- You could totally make troll books
where you have this whole romantic novel happen
and they never shared their real name
and then at the very end, it's just like,
- Your dad's name.
- Your mom's name.
- Hold on, hold on.
(laughing)
- Just completely ruin the whole book.
- Hate that, I hate everything about that.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
- As they approached each other in tender embrace.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Like, no, oh God.
- What's your real name?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
- Dad.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
- Scott.
(laughing)
- My dad's name is Scott.
(laughing)
Speaker 3 (39:06):
- I think that's somehow why fantasy authors
sometimes are like, and his name was Zorlax.
And I'm like, finally, somebody I can understand
and get behind, you know?
- Literally. - Not any of these.
- Zorlax. - Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
- Sounds like a medication, like a prescription drug.
- Talk to your doctor.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
- Do you have chest palpitations?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
- This week's episode of Spitball
is brought to you by Zorlax.
It's your sponsor!
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Well, dear listener, if you have a song in the background while reading your favorite
romanticy novel, we're really glad you had a song.
Thank you very much for engaging, and thank you very much for joining us, Zoey.
This was really fun.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Happy to have been here.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
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(dramatic music)
I'm Scott, I'm Russell, and I'm Leo.
This is Spitball.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Welcome to Spitball, where three hero hackers and a guest empty our heads of startup and
tech product ideas that we have stuck up in there so you can all have them for free.
Anything that we say is yours to keep.
And this week, I'm so very excited to be welcoming
our long lost friend, nope,
the friend that we've had for many, many years, Zoey.
Zoey, we're so glad to have you here.
Zoey is someone who's been in emergency management
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and crisis situations since I've met her or shortly after.
She's gone from campus security
to actual emergency 911 dispatch,
to volunteer firefighting,
to everywhere where there is something stressful happening.
She is the voice of reason
and the calm, cool, collected hero.
We are so excited to have you here, Zoey.
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Welcome to Spitball.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Thank you so much.
I'm really happy to be here.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
This is gonna be a good time.
And of your many hobbies and passions,
one of them that you've shared with my wife is fibering,
fibers, knitting and crocheting.
So I've written a little game that we're gonna call
Fire Truck or Fiber Tuck.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
In this game, we are-
(all laughing)
What podcast are we on?
- What are we talking?
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (01:28):
- It's a fiber tuck.
It's when you connect fibers together, like, you know,
crocheting.
- Never done that by myself.
- Well, you know,
Speaker 3 (01:37):
- It's not really an activity that you do with other people.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
- I was discouraged from going with that name.
- Oh.
(laughing)
Speaker 4 (01:45):
- Okay, we're sticking with the name.
The name's good.
You're all wrong.
- All right, let's talk about fiber tucking.
- Zoey, are you a fibering?
Are you a fiber?
- The fiber arts.
Have you heard this before?
- Zoey's like.
- Collectively calling knitting and crocheting
Speaker 2 (02:01):
is fibring.
- Fibering.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
- Off cam, she's.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
- I'm fibering away.
I'm tucking my fibers.
Speaker 4 (02:07):
I didn't know that you knew.
(laughing)
By the end I'll have a full name.
- It's a good name, you're all wrong.
Can you live stream?
Sorry, okay, I'm gonna stop.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Anyways.
The hobbies of emergency management, that's not a hobby,
the career of emergency management
and the hobby of crocheting and knitting
are both filled with lingo.
And a lot of times those lingos sound like
they belong to each other.
So in this game, I'm just gonna give you a term like,
for example, a Russian join.
Is that from emergency management
or is that knitting and crocheting?
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That's of course knitting and crocheting.
That's when you're knitting and you have two pieces of yarn
that you need to connect without creating knots
or needing weaves, right?
So in this game, we're just gonna go down the line.
I'll give you a term.
Tell me if it's one or the other.
Emergency management or knitting and crocheting
or fiber tucking if you wanna really lean into the term.
Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
- Big fan of that.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
- And we'll start as we always do with our guest.
Zoey, Zoey, frogging.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
- Emergency services.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
- That is ripping out mistakes in the yarn pattern.
(laughing)
Speaker 3 (03:06):
- Oh no.
I'm sorry, I really jumped on that.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
- If Zoey's not getting these, we're all screwed.
- I'm very excited.
Scott, tinking.
- Oh gosh.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
I have no idea.
Emergency services.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Tink, T-I-N-K is knit, spelled backwards.
It's moving backwards to remove a knit.
K-N-I-T-T-I-N-K.
Russell, tagline.
Two words.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
- I just want to say, I think that's fiber tucking.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
- That's emergency management.
It's a control rope to guide steady a load.
Very good.
Of course Zoey knows this, she knows all of them.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
- As you pull it up, so it doesn't go all like haywire.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
- You know how I know it's a good game?
We're 0 for 3, let's do another round.
(all laughing)
Despite your mocking and jar-jibbing,
I'm winning, I'm the one winning tonight.
(all laughing)
Zoey, steek, S-T-E-E-K.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
- I'm guessing fibers.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
- You're exactly right.
That's when you intentionally cut a knit fabric
to add an opening.
You've steeked it, or you add a steek, I guess,
I don't know.
Scott, a rip and run, rip, hyphen, N, hyphen, run.
- Please be knitting, crocheting, that's my guess.
- Emergency management, that's when you print
the dispatch sheet and tear it and take it with you.
Did you know that, Rowan?
Speaker 3 (04:27):
- Yes, I did.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
- Yes, you did, very good.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
- So are you actively crocheting?
- I think I'm--
Speaker 3 (04:31):
- Yeah, well, I'm--
Speaker 1 (04:32):
- Yeah, it's on topic.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
- You just said, and I had it sitting here,
and I was like, well, I might as well do something
with my hands.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (04:40):
- Like tucking.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
- She's answering 911 calls and knitting.
- It's a fiber tuck.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Russell, a magic loop.
- I will 500 for fiber tucking.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
- You're exactly right.
That's a circular needle trick for small tubes.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
- All my answers are gonna be fiber tucking, so.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (05:00):
- Last round through.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
- That's a good strategy.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
- This is the acronym round.
Zoey, K number two, TOG.
K2, TOG, T-O-G, emergency management or knitting crocheting.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
- I'm gonna go with fibers.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Knit to gather.
Very good, knit together.
Scott, BOLO, B-O-L-O.
- Emergency management.
- Very good, be on the lookout.
- Hey! - Excellent.
Russell, SABLE, S-A-B-L-E.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
- Emergency fiber tucking.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (05:33):
- Is that?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
- It's fiber tucking, but in an emergency.
- It is indeed, very good.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That stands for a stash acquisition beyond life expectancy.
When you buy so much yarn
that you don't think you're gonna use it before you die.
(laughing)
- Very nice. - Very good.
I think that there's some of you guys who got one.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
- It's a statistical anomaly.
I know, we should at least be getting like 50% on these
with all the random guessing.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
- I decided to just, if I didn't know what it was,
that it was in fact fibers.
- That makes sense.
- I thought about one of my own and I was like,
the Cleveland load, is that fibers or is that fire trucks?
I cannot believe that's either.
Speaker 4 (06:17):
I want to write that down.
I'm going to just start.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
What's a Cleveland load?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
It's when you strap a bunch of hose line together,
and then you carry it up the stairs
so that you can have it hooked to an internal system for water.
Oh.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Oh, water.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Water.
When there's too much, like too many stairs
to get up to the very top, you hook in on the stairwell.
If you're ever in a building and you look to the side,
and there's that big pipe.
- Yeah.
- It's for the fire department connect.
- Nice.
- That's not the right word, but that's a thing.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
- For the Cleveland load.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
- For the Cleveland load.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And now I feel like I should look it up
and I feel kind of bad.
Like maybe it's not right.
Don't put that in there.
They're gonna, they'll think I'm not real.
Second guessing myself.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
- I thought she was real,
but then she talked about some Cleveland load bullshit.
- It's the Toledo load.
That's the, that's.
- Yeah, that's right.
- Not the Cleveland load.
- Who wants to go first this week?
Speaker 4 (07:12):
- I can go.
I feel like I haven't gone first in a while.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Russell, you haven't gone first in a minute.
Russell, what is your idea for us this week?
Speaker 4 (07:17):
All right, so you guys know the term pumpin' iron, okay?
Pumpin' iron, sure.
Instead of pumpin' iron, what about makin' kilowatts?
Maybe this, I hope this isn't an idea
that we've done already.
No.
So why not set up your bike, your treadmill,
(07:37):
your whatever, to connect to a battery
that powers your home?
Okay.
charges your phone or whatever powers power banks.
OK, and that's it.
So like you simply put, you get exercise bikes,
you power your home.
What a better motivator to, you know, ride your bike when you feel like you're
(08:00):
actually doing something that benefits the environment, but also saves you a
little cash on the side.
Right. That's it.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
In Soviet Russia, you power your peloton.
(laughing)
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I think I saw a Black Mirror episode like that.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (08:18):
That was mandatory.
Now you hire a team of 10 people to power your home
with their bikes in your basement.
That's it.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Kind of traumatic.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I like that as a motivation factor though.
Like you have a TV in front of you,
but it's only powered as long as you're running on it
or something.
Or like your phone will only stay on
while you're doom scrolling
as long as you're moving your feet.
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Ooh.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
or whatever is charging your iPad, yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
- I think we just solved the obesity crisis.
(laughing)
I say we, I mean Russell.
Speaker 4 (08:50):
- Right, that's right.
One pedal at a time.
So you could turn this into the power bank.
You could do the power bank thing, right?
So, all right, I want 10 power banks.
They all charge up with my bike in the basement.
And then now I'm like always charging.
I always have a charge power bank in my house.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Do you envision this product being something you add on
to your existing equipment,
or is this a full-on Peloton alternative that you're selling?
It's gotta be the whole kit.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
- That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
- One would be easier to put in a box and ship, for sure.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
- I think the add-on would make sense.
We'll do both, all right?
We're gonna do both.
We're gonna have the add-on first,
and then we're gonna do the bike feature,
'cause I think with like 40 pulleys,
One pedal could generate 1,000 kilowatt hours.
Is that right?
And that's a fact.
Don't look it up.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I don't know if that math maps.
Just like the Cleveland mode.
The Cleveland light.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Couldn't I just like--
Speaker 2 (09:55):
1,000 kilowatt hours.
Anyway, next question.
Omega watts.
I was wondering exactly how much power someone for one hour
pedaling at a decent five mile an hour
to 10 mile an hour clip would actually generate.
I have no way to, like, is that enough to charge a phone?
I don't even know.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
- Sounds like a question for Google.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
- Engineers will figure it out.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
- Yeah, it could be all software.
Why don't you just like lock out TikTok
or that office rerun that you're always watching
or whatever, unless you're actively pedaling.
Like, does this have to be literally generating kilowatts?
- Yes. - In case that math
doesn't math.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Oh, it does. - No, it has to be
about generating electricity.
(laughter)
Speaker 2 (10:37):
- Yeah, duh.
- I'm a fool for even asking.
(laughter)
Speaker 4 (10:42):
- So yeah, it's not like a motive,
like it's not like, that's a good point.
It's something fun about it.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
- You ready for this?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
- Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
- Kill or wait.
- Oh.
- Just came to me in a dream, right now.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
- Same wavelength, same wavelength right there.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
- I had death in this episode, you know?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
- How many petals would it take to heat water
to turn it into steam, sir?
(laughter)
- So much.
This is my greatest spit pull of all time, but
Speaker 2 (11:08):
No, it's a treadmill in the kitchen and you can't cook unless you're boiling your own water
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Please sir, I'm so hungry
Speaker 4 (11:20):
We're gonna add the martini shaker attachment, okay
Speaker 1 (11:30):
They sell a pink one
Speaker 3 (11:33):
It's double the price, no big deal.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, right, exactly.
You could put it then in the middle of a party,
and now people could make their drinks by pedaling.
[LAUGHTER]
Speaker 2 (11:45):
So like, powers a blender, like a shaker.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Or you could just get an exercise, like an arm workout,
with the shaker.
They had shake weights.
Wasn't that a thing?
Shouldn't they just have put some ice cubes and some liquor
inside of it?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
All right, I'm going to keep spitballing on this,
'Cause what if you pressurized?
So there was this concept where if you pressurize something,
you can cool things or heat things up, right?
So what if you're pedaling and it actually is creating
a bunch of pressure in a can and turning it into heat,
but then that heat turns into electricity?
(12:21):
(laughs)
Speaker 1 (12:25):
- Is that how science works?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
- I don't think I'm keeping any of this in.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
- Somebody's gotta be an engineer on this call.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
tell me how crazy this is yeah I'm picturing you by the roadside pulling
out your bike and pedaling to pump up your tire because you don't have an
Speaker 1 (12:43):
actual pump with you but you've got this no but the pump creates steam
which then creates steam
Speaker 3 (12:49):
like crap I only brought my martini shaker
Speaker 1 (12:52):
it's like 18 steps but then it gives you electricity at the end
and then I can make a martini at the end
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I got a flat on the side of the highway,
but I got my step goal for the day.
Close my rings on the side of the highway.
(laughing)
Speaker 1 (13:09):
- Oh God.
- Hey. - Listen,
Speaker 4 (13:10):
I'm not the first person.
I bet there's some, some,
'cause, okay, why this came to me was,
when you're on a bike and you're pedaling,
it'll actually tell you how many watts you're generating
while you're biking.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
- Oh, you're right. - Did you know that?
- It does that.
The Peloton does it too.
- Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
I've sat down at a bike before, a stationary bike,
where the console is like off,
and then it doesn't turn on until you start pedaling,
because it's using your pedal as part of its power source.
So this is a thing, but I don't--
I'm feeling used. Yeah, I guess
we're not collecting. (laughs)
You're just wasting electricity.
It's just not collecting the extra.
I guess so.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Okay, what if you put all these in a gym,
and now you get 40 people to create enough electricity
where it actually makes sense?
Speaker 2 (13:56):
- To power the gym.
- The gym.
- To power the person at the front desk's TikTok.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
- Their tablet to check you in.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
- With LED light bulbs, okay, technology has gone.
You can take what, a power bank and power an LED.
Sure, the HVAC unit, no, all right?
All right, we're not talking HVAC, all right?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
We're talking-- - We need more people.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (14:20):
- Economies of scale, hundreds.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
- Bring 'em in. - Mush, mush, mush.
Listen, we put it in a prison, okay?
And then now...
Speaker 3 (14:29):
They did this!
This was a real thing!
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Zoey, do you know this is...
Are you serious?
Which part of this?
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Yeah, they had people stepping on this like treadmill
and it moved water and then...
Speaker 4 (14:41):
What?
That's how they got water.
Yes, it's a real thing.
This happened in a prison?
Yes, see guys?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
Yes, it was a prison.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
What are we doing?
We are just human batteries storing energy.
And we could just, if we could translate,
Speaker 2 (14:55):
we could turn that energy.
- Turning Doritos into charged phones.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
- Yeah. - All right, I got it.
In the 19th century, there were penal treadmills.
- Wait. - Remembering large,
wide wheel, I don't think I'm saying that right.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
- Did you say penal?
- You said it right. - Penal treadmills.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
- I did.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
- Don't let him dissuade you, you got it.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
- All right, resembling large, wide wheels
fitted with steps and the prisoners were sentenced
to hard labor.
They climbed the steps repeatedly,
causing the entire wheel to rotate
Speaker 1 (15:22):
and the tread wheels were--
-They literally put prisoners in hamster wheels
and said, "Power the city."
Speaker 3 (15:30):
-They've used them to pump water.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
-I'm just the first genius to commercialize it.
All right? We just used it to pump water.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
-I got to say, if I had a choice in my home
between having another stationary bike or a giant wheel,
that sounds like a cooler way to exercise.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
-That would be cool.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
-I don't know, these people look pretty sad in the pictures.
(laughing)
Speaker 4 (15:58):
- All right, Leah, let's see if you can top
that one this week.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
- All right, I almost transitioned away a little early.
I'm glad I didn't cut you off,
but you were talking about your martini shaker.
So my coworker and I were discussing earlier this week
that we both have a similar method of cooking,
which is to say we wing it.
You have your, uh, I guess I'll shake some of this and some of that and cook it for
(16:23):
until it feels vibey in the right, whatever.
And that is a great way to make really delicious stuff sometimes and not so good
stuff sometimes and never be able to recreate it.
So I am here, Sharks, today to pitch you a idea for either a feature on an existing
home camera setup, or maybe we just white label and make our own cameras that go
(16:44):
around the kitchen and track only what you are doing
when you are cooking.
You are grabbing this much of the oregano
and adding two eggs and this and that.
You can show the camera that, you know,
jar of whatever spice you're working with and stuff
if you think that's helpful,
or maybe there's a tagging system, I don't know.
So that at the end, it just outputs what you did.
(17:07):
Here's my recipe without having to write it down.
And then you can maybe even keep track
of rating these things and storing what worked
and what didn't.
And wow, when I used more butter on those cookies,
it seemed like it went well.
It'll help you find those patterns
across multiple attempts of the same recipe
and try to come at the perfect result.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I love that.
I also want that for alcohol.
What?
What do you mean?
I want it to just mix random things in a drink,
and then it comes back and generates a name for it,
and it tells me what was in that drink,
'cause I was probably too drunk to figure it out
at that time.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (17:44):
- That was Bud Light again, boss.
I don't know why you keep asking.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
- Still Bud Light.
Every time you ask.
- Ingredients, one, Bud Light.
(laughing)
Recipe name, Bud Light.
- Bud Light on the rocks.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (17:59):
- What kind of rocks?
I say you don't wanna know.
- Bud Light meat.
- I guess there were two ingredients.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
- Shaken in the martini shaker.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
- Is this a problem, Zoey, for you?
You're a fantastic cook.
Do you, are you a by the books,
follow the recipe person? Are you a wing it and go by vibes?
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Only with baking. Baking is more of a science. Cooking is more of an art.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
For sure. And would you consider yourself one, the other, or both?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Oh, I'm definitely a cook. I am not a baker. We'll leave that to other people.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
So you're not a recipe person then?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
I'll follow one if it's in front of me. Or I'll be like, "Bill, read this." I don't need to read.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Do you have the problem of, "Oh man, that was an amazing pot pie. I would never be able to
recreate this." Or do you kind of keep track of it in your brain?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Keep track of it. Oh, I feel like that's not a fun thing to say.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Be like, oh, that's great. I'm just so this is a problem for only some people.
What I think is an A.I. Zoey and I can't hire you to sit in my kitchen and watch me do it bad
for an hour and then tell me here's what you did, dummy. So I need someone like you.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
That's not you because you're busy. I do that, too, Leah. I do what you do.
But I've I've simplified. I just now get a bunch of pre mixed. What are they called?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Lean cuisine.
(laughter)
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Pre-mixed lean cuisine.
That was really sad.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
That was way too poignant.
I consider myself a chef also.
I get the, what do they call it?
Damn it, I can't.
Spice blends, okay?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Oh, sure.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
And all I do, the simplest way I can make a meal is
chicken, pan, spice, right?
Just the pre-mix, right?
Heat.
Heat. And it usually comes out--
for it. Real good. I did. It's to keep my fridge on. No spice tonight unless you pedal.
My electric stove. But that's my trick. But like to that end though, there's always like
(19:49):
I think of the vegetable drawer. Yeah. So you make one meal that's recipe, right? All
right. I need this much stuff. And then you but then you have all this extra. I have two
Two extra buns, I have three extra carrots,
I have two extra celery, and a half pound of ground beef.
Throw it in a pot, put it on some burger buns,
and now I got some vegetable sloppy joes, right?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
- There you go. - Sure.
Speaker 4 (20:13):
- Right, I mean, a little bit like that, right?
Maybe with some barbecue sauce?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
- Yeah, just reconstitute it, make it.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
- Cook it long enough, it turns out, you know?
Speaker 3 (20:20):
Reconstitute. - What do I call that?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
- What do you call that? - The fiber tucking?
Speaker 3 (20:23):
- Must go. - Oh.
- Must go. - Everything in the fridge
must go, like. - Ah.
- Ah. - Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
- Very good.
- Musco. - Thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Yeah, everything.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
- My dad used to take old expired cereal
that we weren't gonna eat anymore
and like bread chicken with it and stuff.
Like it really weird with whatever was going
in the cabinet bad.
- What does chicken with fruity pebbles taste like?
- Yeah, we had stuff like that before.
It wasn't good.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
- What a childhood.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
- Yeah, but I think I am a bad cook
and a creative just make it, wing it cook
because that's the environment
Speaker 4 (20:58):
fostered in right? You can make spice blends real good if right? Is that what
you're saying too? Like you were saying yeah and then you just throw it all
together in a pan if you just know how much of each it's just that's the hard
part right? If you throw too much paprika it's like oh you can't solve it you just
Speaker 2 (21:18):
eat through it. It could do some trend analysis the last three times that you made something
like this you said it was too spicy every time try it you know I can coach
Speaker 4 (21:24):
you a little bit. Yeah dude this is recipe development I think 101 you just
experiment around long enough and you find out something that you really like,
right? So it's just note-taking. That makes sense. Just note-taking.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Without the writing down notes. "You really like chicken."
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Sorry, that was my Alexa voice, but I can't hear myself. It's Zolexa.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Thank you. Can you tell me a bad one? Tell me a bad one, Leo.
Speaker 4 (21:54):
- Oh, you're, like a-- - Recipe?
- Yeah, did you ever, have you ever made something
that's just like been awful?
Yeah, Scott has.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
- David Webster put in, he said,
oh, we have Chinese five spice.
You should add some of this in.
And he dumped in like the entire thing.
And this is back in college when you're like
feeding yourself for a week at a time with it.
And I ate that slop of Chinese five spice
that tasted like Christmas for a goddamn week.
And I can never go back to that flavor.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
- Was it pasta?
Speaker 1 (22:23):
It was like, you know some variation of pasta by the end of it. I do not want the recipe for that one
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Where did it go wrong? I wish I had an assistant to tell me I
This this wouldn't have been fixed by a I coach
But I was making a like a zucchini and turkey ground turkey burger and I couldn't figure out why they were so watery
Like they were really like weird the texture wasn't right and then I realized I had bought a cucumber and not a zucchini
(22:57):
So awful I
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Wish I could give you this side device could give you some like preventative measures be like hold the phone
Speaker 2 (23:07):
That's not a zucchini
Speaker 3 (23:09):
If you leave that turned on any longer, it will start a fire see no joke life and safety
Speaker 2 (23:14):
I will say when bacon is in an airfryer
It goes from crisping nicely to burn smoky mess in about 30 seconds
Speaker 3 (23:22):
And if I could have a little guy who's watching that for me, that would be helpful. I feel similarly about avocados
What are they good? Yeah, they're like good for a minute and 50 seconds. Yeah
Speaker 2 (23:33):
Hard hard hard hard hard good brown. Damn it. I missed it again
Speaker 3 (23:38):
If somebody could tell me what that's gonna be like the perfect opportunity then I would love that. That'd be good
Optimal ripeness, that's interesting. Yes, there's gonna be like an algorithm for that, right?
We'll be perfectly ripe on Tuesday at 12 p.m. Between 12 p.m. and 12 o'clock
Speaker 1 (23:58):
This is your window wake up at 3 a.m.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Sticking needles into your food
Trying to like extract and mix chemicals to figure out when optimal ripeness will be it's a whole set
Speaker 4 (24:10):
- You know there is some person that would take that,
love that alarm idea and literally wake up at 3 a.m.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
being like, yes, my best avocado is slightly better
than it could have been.
- Yes, so good.
- And then you could never go back either.
Once you start trying it there, you're just like,
I have to do this forever now.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
- I've had the perfect avocado at 3 a.m.
and it changed my life.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
- My avocado alarm's gonna go off in three hours,
I gotta stay up for it.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
- Alarm-ocado.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
- Leo, I've made a mistake,
I've made that same mistake with coriander
instead of cinnamon.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
- Ah, yes.
That's a spicy one.
That's a spicy meatball.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
- And it ruins the whole thing.
- Put cinnamon in your meatballs?
- What were you making?
- I was making a cinnamon,
I had extra biscuits that you get in the tins.
- Grams?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Oh yeah, like Pillsbury.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
- That's the what, Pillsbury ones?
And then I wanted to, I'm like,
what are we gonna do with this?
So I was like, oh, you can throw cinnamon, sugar on it,
turn it into like monkey bread real quick, right?
Nope, not with coriander, can't do that.
So if we could be more like free-flow-y
without making a mistake like that,
(25:20):
but I guess it was the spice wasn't even labeled correctly.
So it's not like I would have tried to.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
- That's a tough one for an AI
if you're an unlabeled spice person.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
- Yeah, that was a--
Speaker 3 (25:31):
- What kind of life are you living?
Speaker 4 (25:33):
- That was like, I don't know why I mixed.
So this is what happened.
just like yelling into the middle of the kitchen like,
"I don't know, it smells like nutmeg."
(laughing)
Speaker 1 (25:42):
- It's either nutmeg or chili powder.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
- I bought coriander and then I wanted to make
cinnamon sugar so like I could put it on French toast
and all that other stuff.
And so that's what happened.
I've been using coriander sugar instead of cinnamon sugar.
And I never used it after the--
- How was it?
- It was awful and I'm like,
"All right, I don't know why this,
"I don't know why cinnamon sugar sucks now."
Speaker 3 (26:06):
- My childhood was way different than this.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
- My cinnamon sugar is just not like the store bought stuff.
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
(laughing)
- And so I'm using,
and then I ended up like keeping it in my cabinet forever.
And then I'm like, all right, I gotta get rid of this.
So then I turned it into that biscuit thing
and then I realized it was coriander this whole time.
So.
- Yep.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
And now you have cinnamon sugar?
Speaker 4 (26:24):
- Yeah.
Now I have cinnamon and now I have sugar
cause I'm never gonna make that mistake again.
Just not gonna, not gonna pre-mix cinnamon sugar.
- Fool me once.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
All right, Scott, what's your idea for this week?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
I am excited because I actually have a hardware idea this week.
I have recently moved and in the last two weeks I have turned the heat on for the first
time because it's fall/winter now and learned pretty quick that my house does not hold heat
very well and it is a large house and I do not need to heat all of it at the same time
(27:00):
when it's just me there.
So, Leo and I have played with these little fan things
before that you stick into your vents
and they force more air out into certain rooms on there.
And I've had an idea for a while where like,
well, couldn't you just like IOT these guys
and like have vents where it just shuts off
different rooms at different times so that,
(27:22):
hey, I'm not in this room over here,
we don't need to pull heat into that.
But my experience with those little fan things
that blow up is one, they kinda suck,
And two, there is no universal thing
that fits into every room in your house,
or every type of vent that you can close off
and open and close them.
So what I wanna do is just take a goddamn air bladder,
(27:45):
something that I can just like with a little fan on it,
shove it inside each of my vents,
and the whole thing just blows up
to block out the vent fully,
and then deflates itself to shut it completely.
That way it's completely universal,
and it'll just have some smarts to it
where, hey, you haven't been in this room in a long time.
We're not going to heat that room at all.
(28:05):
And that's the whole idea.
That's great.
That's it.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
How does it know you're in the room?
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Motion sensors?
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That's a great question.
Speaker 3 (28:11):
You put a tag on you.
And then as you go from room to room, it tracks you.
I'm like--
Honestly?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
You have to implant a chip.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
I like that.
It just takes your RSSI of your Bluetooth from your phone
to be like, oh, you're closer to this room.
I'm going to turn off the ear bladder
so this room actually heats up or something
and just gathers data over time with that.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
There are so many ways to detect presence.
The newest Philips Hue Hub, the Hue Hub Pro or whatever,
it uses the signal between the different light bulbs
to know, oh, that was a couple of milliseconds
slower than usual, so there must be someone in that room.
It has motion sensing via the connection.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Oh, I hate that.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
There's that, there's IR, there's your millimeter waves.
There's so many different ways to figure out
which room you're in right now.
What?
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Wi-Fi even I know that's spooky. That's crazy. Yes. It is spooky. That's the right word for that. Yeah, but if you're comfortable
Save several dollars on my heat my house
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Surely ducts are like a standardized size, right? Couldn't this be like a system of flaps or something?
Speaker 1 (29:19):
That's what I would have thought about the damn vents, but every single one was different
Speaker 4 (29:23):
But what's nice about the air bladder thing is it's probably really compact, right?
You just stick it on the side and then when you want it to fill it'll just fill it up, right?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
It's super low profile. Well, just a question. I'm picturing a large whoopee cushion. How is it filling?
What is it filling with air air from what like a fan the air?
It's like a big parachute. That's like air compressor having the air going down the vent
All day all night
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Mommy I hear something in the walls. The deflates would be hilarious on there. Just your father
It's a good good good good ghost. I mean this would be great for just daytime nighttime
Speaker 4 (30:07):
The amount of money you'd save the amount that electric companies would pay for that
Like they subsidize nests, right? If they could yeah, they would pay for these
Speaker 2 (30:18):
It means that they could save less money in the grid or whatever right? Less time that your furnace is blowing. Yeah
Speaker 4 (30:25):
for a hole, you know, like you just do it better because literally the air vents
stop from going. That's awesome. That is amazing. So put some smarts on it so that
Speaker 1 (30:35):
all of them don't inflate at once. That would probably be bad.
Boom!
Speaker 4 (30:40):
Well yeah, what would happen if you did that? Just cut off all the vents.
I think that.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You ever watch a Bax fan fall over?
Yeah.
That's not pleasant.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
That is such a real thing, right?
It's "Wooooom!"
Speaker 2 (30:55):
It's like that, but it's your house's infrastructure.
You just know it's unhappy.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
It's just your house's infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Cool idea. I like that. That is a unique approach that I don't think anyone's done before.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
All I need is a Meyer bag and a small air compressor.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Plastic grocery bag!
That could work!
Reduce, reuse, recycle. Gary Green.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Alright, Zoey, what have you brought us this week?
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Well, hello. I don't know if you know this about me. I don't know. How do you start this?
Nailed it. So I'm I'm a reader. I'm a reader of books typically and
Of a certain type of books that some may call smut
Okay, I typically call them
(31:44):
romanticy and I get personally annoyed when the character is
Just way too young. So I'm looking at they're always like 19 year olds are old saving the world always of age
But always just like a little ick
So I would like an app or something I can attach to my Kindle
(32:07):
That will make it will increase the age of the female character
by like 20 years
Speaker 2 (32:15):
20 years. Yes, please. How young are these girls?
Speaker 3 (32:19):
19 apparently, all of them.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Oh, geez.
Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (32:23):
So, that would be something that I would like.
And not only that, I would, so a couple different things I would like it to change about the
books I'm reading.
One is I would like to change the age, obviously.
And then I'd also like to change the names of some of the characters.
Not so long ago, I was reading a book and the main character, the villain, actually,
(32:45):
was named Philip.
(laughing)
Speaker 1 (32:50):
- That's your husband's name.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
- That is my husband's name.
And I was mad at him for like the entire time
I was reading the book.
And he does enough things wrong on his own,
he doesn't need any help.
(laughing)
Speaker 2 (33:06):
- Okay.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
- So I want it to be changing the name of the villain
to something else so that my husband stays out of trouble.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
- When this changes the age of your character,
Is it just like, hey, I find the number 19
and I change that to 40?
Or is it like, I see that they're on Snapchat.
I'm going to rewrite that to Facebook sort of thing?
Ooh.
Speaker 3 (33:26):
That's kind of mean.
But no.
The--
[LAUGHTER]
It's a-- yeah, it's a number substitution.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
Just the number.
Just the number.
MySpace.
[LAUGHTER]
Speaker 1 (33:36):
MySpace.
Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
You know, it figures it out.
No, that makes sense, though.
Less-- I don't know.
If they're 19, Zoey, are there things
that they do that are very 19?
Or are they just putting the age as 19
and they're doing 36-year-old, 32-year-old things?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
- Why even mention their age?
Speaker 3 (33:53):
- I think you make a good point there
because if they're 36 years old,
are they making these bad mistakes,
the 19-year-old characters?
Or are they just tired and they're like,
"I am not saving the world.
"The world has enough problems of its own.
"I'm just gonna take a nap."
Back to my hand crafting.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
- I'm going to bed at 10, are you kidding me?
Phillip is keeping you awake the whole time, right?
That's why you gotta change the name.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
- I mean, the fact that you're reading this on a Kindle,
right, it's gotta be like a feature
that Kindle could just add in their OS.
It doesn't need to be another device.
We're so close.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
- I would pay such money for this.
Speaker 2 (34:30):
- Maybe even the authors could like write variables,
like take in the reader's demographics.
If they are female, then describe the men in more detail.
And if they are of this age,
and make everyone else their cohort
and that kind of stuff, right?
We need like choose your own adventure
that dynamically adjusts at book open time.
Speaker 3 (34:50):
- This is a pick a path, but it's like pick an age.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
- You don't even know that you're on the path, right?
It's just, you've set once in your Kindle, your birth date
and how you identify in so many ways,
your hobbies, your whatever,
and books like customize a little bit to you.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
- That's a great service.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
- Just ages it with you.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
You can sell these to authors, right?
So you can keep the heart and the concept of the novel.
And then you work with the author
to create the two or three cringe-free variations, right?
'Cause that's what they don't wanna have happen, right?
Is like your reader cringes
because of something small like that.
Or, well, I mean, it's not small
(35:30):
because it's annoying the whole time.
'Cause now you have this whole image
that's completely different.
So like, cringe mode, like you can set different settings
and all this other stuff.
And then, like, there you go.
You work with authors, publishers to make more book sales
because you can set variations.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
- I would love to set my settings to be like,
totally not me and see how that affects like,
do I even understand what's happening here?
Damn fam, that slaps.
What?
Like, this is in Zoomer mode, I guess,
or whatever, gen alpha slang.
(laughing)
Speaker 4 (36:02):
- That'd be interesting.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
- I just realized my example is extremely heteronormative,
like white cis male.
Like, get it?
'Cause women like men.
Obviously you'd set your preferences and stuff.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
- Could I make it so that my wife,
when she's reading books,
is only putting my name in there
instead of somebody else's?
Speaker 3 (36:20):
- Even better. - Wow.
- Yes.
Speaker 4 (36:22):
- Whoa.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
- Christian mode.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
- I am so in love with you right now.
You would not believe this book I was reading.
Had your name in every character.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
- Russell, the captain of the NFL hockey team.
- That's right.
(laughter)
Speaker 2 (36:38):
- Did you say the NFL hockey team?
Speaker 1 (36:41):
- I just fucked up, I know.
As soon as that came out of my mouth.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
- That's the best.
I was gonna say like, it's parental controls too,
so like, things got steamy when they held hands.
Aw, mom must not let me read that part,
so it censored it out and put something dumb in.
(laughter)
Speaker 3 (36:58):
- Or it could take the names and make them
like, gender ambiguous or, you know.
Speaker 4 (37:03):
- Oh, true, true.
- It's a pat.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Everyone's Patton Ashley.
No, no, like two different names, not like everybody's--
Ashley's doing so good.
[LAUGHTER]
Speaker 2 (37:15):
Batting, batting Ashley.
[LAUGHTER]
I knew what you meant.
Everyone's Patton Ashley.
I knew what you meant.
I think that there's a subset of interactive medium forward
authors who would be excited about this,
and you're gonna make a lot of authors extremely angry.
(37:37):
Like, "How could you compromise the craft?
Of course I wanna say exactly what this character is.
It's my character."
But like-
Speaker 4 (37:43):
- Have you put down a book, Zoey,
because it's just been so cringe?
Like right at the beginning,
or like once a character comes out and you're like,
Speaker 3 (37:50):
"Oh gosh, I can't read this anymore."
- Yeah.
Anytime the character's name is Russell,
I'm like, "Oh God, no."
Speaker 4 (37:57):
(laughing)
- Barf! - That's a lot of books,
let me tell you, Zoey.
Speaker 3 (38:00):
A lot of books, okay? - Right?
Apparently you just keep putting your name
Have you already made this and that's why all the books I keep reading keep popping up, Russell?
Speaker 4 (38:07):
It's in your settings. It's been pranked.
That's right, and that's why Phil's the villain.
Speaker 3 (38:12):
[laughter]
Speaker 4 (38:13):
The fill-in.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
The one time.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
The fill-in villain.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
Also happened like, if it's like a family member and I'm like, "Oh, God, no."
Speaker 4 (38:24):
I'll immediately throw it in the garbage, right?
Speaker 3 (38:28):
And that one gets returned to Kindle Unlimited.
Thank you very much for your time, author.
- I thought you'd put this into the world.
Pick better names.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
- You could totally make troll books
where you have this whole romantic novel happen
and they never shared their real name
and then at the very end, it's just like,
- Your dad's name.
- Your mom's name.
- Hold on, hold on.
(laughing)
- Just completely ruin the whole book.
- Hate that, I hate everything about that.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
- As they approached each other in tender embrace.
Speaker 4 (38:53):
Like, no, oh God.
- What's your real name?
Speaker 2 (38:57):
- Dad.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
- Scott.
(laughing)
- My dad's name is Scott.
(laughing)
Speaker 3 (39:06):
- I think that's somehow why fantasy authors
sometimes are like, and his name was Zorlax.
And I'm like, finally, somebody I can understand
and get behind, you know?
- Literally. - Not any of these.
- Zorlax. - Yeah.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
- Sounds like a medication, like a prescription drug.
- Talk to your doctor.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
- Do you have chest palpitations?
Speaker 2 (39:26):
- This week's episode of Spitball
is brought to you by Zorlax.
It's your sponsor!
And Fireball.
And Fireball whiskey.
Well, dear listener, if you have a song in the background while reading your favorite
romanticy novel, we're really glad you had a song.
Thank you very much for engaging, and thank you very much for joining us, Zoey.
This was really fun.
Speaker 3 (39:44):
Happy to have been here.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
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