December 29, 2021 • 31 mins
Agenda:
- Emergency meeting (again)! Taxes are due we need our employer ID number from Iowa
Takeaways:
- Kate to complete taxes
- Matt taking a Lyft ASAP to the airport
- Everyone delete the medical records from their phone
- Thea to feed the office cat
- Someone to re-register Meta Market in Iowa
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Transcript
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Ben (00:07):
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This recording is improvisedfiction.
Similarities between it and thereal world are entirely
intentional.
Now enjoy the recording.
Kate (00:22):
hey everybody.
Okay.
So the recording's on, um, let'stry to make this one not too
long.
I know.
I'm sorry.
I had to like pull you guys awayfrom things during like this
holiday week, but, um, we just
Matt (00:35):
no, it's okay.
I was able to reschedule myflight.
So beyond the.
Kate (00:39):
Good.
Matt (00:40):
Like this never happened.
Assuming we get the sink done.
So
Kate (00:44):
Yeah.
I mean, it's just, it should beeasy.
Right.
We just need to find the EINnumber of better market.
That's it?
I just, I would
Matt (00:53):
like our federal tax ID,
Kate (00:57):
Yeah.
Matt (00:58):
must already have that.
Kate (01:00):
exactly.
We definitely have it somewhere.
Definitely.
Matt (01:04):
Well, hang on.
I mean, that's, that's on, uh,like that's on my tax, uh,
stuff.
I got my first couple of checksas a contractor before it went
through.
So I've got the, the federal EINright here.
Is this, is this the one you'relooking for?
Kate (01:18):
oh, no, we're looking for Iowa.
Iowa has a very specific taxcode and they have a different
EIN,
Matt (01:23):
Oh yeah.
Kate (01:24):
federal one, which.
Anyway, sorry.
But before we dig in, um, justto recap for anyone who ends up
listening to this recording, uh,where Mehta market, um, for now
very shortly that'll change, uh,we're a couch marketplace.
We're looking to, you know,revolutionized trade in so many
(01:46):
ways.
Um, and today we are justholding a quick, probably very
quick meeting to look very Iowatests.
Uh, I'm Kate I'm the chief ofstaff here.
Um, I worked directly underJohn.
Uh, John has told me that heexplicitly does not want to know
about anything having to do withfinances, unless it just
(02:06):
requires a signature.
So naturally I didn't invitehim.
Matt (02:12):
Right.
Uh, hi, I'm Matt, matt.yachts.
I am the CTO here at metalmarket.
And, um, I guess if it's on aDropbox, I can probably help you
find it.
Otherwise I don't know what I'mdoing at this meeting.
Kate (02:25):
Yeah, we did use that once.
Matt (02:28):
Oh, good.
Kate (02:29):
Anybody.
Sorry.
Matt (02:30):
I'll actually, I'll start looking.
Thea (02:34):
another Roba.
Yeah, I'm also not sure, eventhough I, I mean, I do know that
when Richard was here, I waswell-known for being able to
speak Richard.
So I guess that is why you havebrought me in today.
Kate (02:53):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Richard probably had it at somepoint and.
Oh, I should mention too, thatEric, it said he was going to
join.
Um, he said he was getting kindof patchy reception.
Oh,
Eric (03:09):
can you
Kate (03:10):
are you there?
Eric (03:11):
make.
Matt (03:13):
oh, it's the conference thing.
Hang on.
Let
Eric (03:14):
Yeah.
Um, no bars, no bar.
Matt (03:20):
Oh, there he is here.
Oh, there is.
Kate (03:23):
He's just, he's gone.
Matt (03:26):
Uh, yeah, it looks like he dropped from the call.
Okay.
Well, I've got him set for autoanswer.
If he calls back
Kate (03:34):
Okay.
Great.
Well, yeah, so we just need tofind this number.
Um, you know, we've used Googledrive.
We've used Dropbox.
We've used paper.
We wrote things on walls whenRichard was here.
Um, but the deadline is.
Thea (03:52):
I reached out to Chelsea since she's in the Iowa office.
Really, really helpful for this.
Um, but she is testing out herbunker in a, uh, post atomic age
kind of situation.
So she is going to beunreachable this week.
So we don't unfortunately havean eye ally down in the Iowa
(04:14):
office.
Kate (04:15):
God.
Okay.
I have a S I do feel likeunfortunately, a backup option
is going to be going straight tolike the government themselves
in Iowa and asking, um, whatthis is.
Matt (04:28):
oh, yeah.
That's um, that shouldn't be toowell, uh, during a holiday, it's
going to be a problem.
Thea (04:35):
also, um, Richard really pissed off.
Like most of the IRSrepresentatives in the state of
Iowa.
Um,
Kate (04:47):
no.
Thea (04:49):
yeah, if I, I don't know if you remember, but, um, he had
that really viral video of whenhe left.
In fact, that's the reason whywe decided to part ways with
Richard after his, um, Viralstunt video that unfortunately
(05:12):
resulted in the NSA being calledto an IRS office.
Matt (05:18):
Did not know that,
Eric (05:19):
Hey, can y'all hear me?
Thea (05:21):
Yeah.
Matt (05:21):
Hey, there's air.
Kate (05:22):
Hey,
Eric (05:24):
was able to tether to an internet cafe here.
Uh, sorry.
Uh, sorry for the July.
Kate (05:28):
are you on a dog?
Eric (05:30):
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's um, there's an internetcafe on, on the, by George,
behind me.
I've been just, uh, staying,stay in your there's.
There's a storm coming in.
So we, we haven't been able toship out yet,
Kate (05:44):
okay.
Cool.
I
Eric (05:46):
worry about it.
Uh, I got, I got some time.
Kate (05:49):
okay.
Well, you know what we'relooking for.
You got my email about the Iowa.
Eric (05:54):
Yeah.
Did you check Google driveDropbox and the walls yet?
Kate (05:59):
Yeah, I mean, pretty much.
Matt (06:01):
yeah, I've I went, I went through and did a second pass,
uh, just now on, uh, both the,the managed Dropbox and the old,
uh, Metamarkets, Gmail, Dropbox,uh, the private Google drive,
the managed Google drive, thesecret Google.
And the accidental Google drive.
Um, I
Eric (06:20):
Oh, even the accidental one.
Oh,
Matt (06:22):
Yeah, no.
Um, here's my worry.
So a lot of stuff that Richarddid was just on the walls, uh,
walls that of course we sendpainted over.
Um, and we have not had any luckwith the forensics team.
We hired to pull that paint off.
Um, But we do have a lot ofphotos, uh, from Richard's
(06:44):
office mate, um, mostly candid,uh, ones that were posted to
their Instagram.
Obviously the ones that had veryclear financial details on them,
we've had them taken down since,um, but we've been going through
the ones that we can find andOCR and them.
Um, unfortunately that projectis not very far along.
Um, so there's kind of a pile ofphotos I could share with y'all.
Eric (07:08):
Well, how many are there?
I can't, I can't be too much forus to go through, right?
Matt (07:11):
The ones from the Instagram, there's a collection
of 37.
Eric (07:15):
Yeah.
Oh, that's that's reasonable.
We could, we could, we couldjust look to them.
Right.
Matt (07:19):
the, uh, I mean, I've kind of already been through those,
um, as part of setting up theOCR project.
So.
Eric (07:26):
it.
Kate (07:27):
are all the numbers labeled though.
I feel like Richard often wouldjust write numbers on the wall
and we wouldn't know what theywere.
Matt (07:37):
that's a fair point.
Um, I was mostly using theresults of the OCR software to
decide whether there wassomething relevant in there.
So if it was just a series of,well, what does an EIN.
Kate (07:49):
in numbers.
There were just a bunch ofnumbers.
Okay.
Matt (07:52):
Yeah.
Oh, actually, um, numbers areone of the easiest things to
OCR.
It's the first thing that theyever trained, optical character
recognition to do cool stuff.
If you ever want to look up thehistory of machine learning, um,
okay.
Kate (08:05):
okay.
Well look, so
Matt (08:08):
How many digits
Kate (08:09):
yeah, let's Google.
How many digits are an
Matt (08:11):
in an Iowa AI yet?
Um, let's see.
State employer identificationnumber is six, a six digit
number with a three digitlocation code.
Okay.
But is that code also a number?
Eric (08:29):
well, that, that location code has to be from where we set
our office up.
So we should be able to find,figure that part.
Kate (08:35):
Um, okay.
But remember, we didn't alwaysstart into Moines.
There was that unincorporatedcounty in Iowa that we thought
would be better for, um,
Eric (08:46):
Yup.
Kate (08:47):
you know, storage purposes and
Thea (08:50):
Are you talking about, are you talking about Elkhorn?
Kate (08:54):
Elkhorn.
Yeah.
I think that's what we call.
Thea (08:57):
Yeah,
Kate (08:58):
So maybe we just never got issued a tax ID number because
we were incorporated in anunincorporated area.
Matt (09:06):
oh, that's not great.
Um, although,
Thea (09:09):
I think
Matt (09:10):
it sounds like you all remember where it was
incorporated, so we couldprobably call their office.
Eric (09:17):
they don't have an office
Thea (09:18):
Yeah.
I mean,
Matt (09:20):
do you, can you incorporate a corporation in an
unincorporated city?
I don't think so.
Eric (09:27):
Well, it happened.
So.
Thea (09:29):
yeah, it definitely happened.
Um, we were very secretive aboutmoving into Iowa because.
Tensions, as I mentioned betweenRichard and people in Iowa.
Um, so we never let Richard knowwhere the office was located.
(09:51):
Um,
Matt (09:52):
but,
Eric (09:52):
good idea.
Matt (09:53):
but
Thea (09:54):
yeah, I
Matt (09:54):
was also the one who filed.
He filed the registration forthe business without knowing
that well, then if Richarddidn't know, then that must mean
someone else did the business.
Kate (10:07):
I remember now we had the, the coding system where
everything related to Iowa, wehad like a, you know, a kind of
puzzle code to scramble all thenumbers in a certain way.
He wouldn't actually be able to,you know, divulge any
information about our Iowaoperations.
We just have to find the, uh,the key,
Thea (10:30):
The cipher.
Yeah, we had a simple cipher.
Matt (10:34):
We have to find both the cipher and the ciphertext.
I mean, if we don't know whichof these seemingly random piles
of numbers on the wallrepresents our Iowa EIN, then
even with the key, we won't beable to, we can't just like
decrypt a wall of a photograph.
Oh boy.
(10:54):
Um, are we sure we don't haveany contact in that office from
before Richard Stein maybe, or.
The state
Eric (11:03):
a second.
Wait, wait.
Remember Jen, when she wastraveling to Iowa, she got
violently ill.
Remember that?
Thea (11:12):
yeah, I do.
I do.
Eric (11:14):
we, do we have the health insurance documentation for when
we sent her to the ER
Thea (11:19):
Oh, that is a great, great question.
Kate (11:25):
we're really not supposed to be looking at employee health
records.
It's like
Matt (11:31):
we don't necessarily need to
Eric (11:32):
we had to pay, right?
Yeah, We just had to pay ourpart of the coverage.
Right.
Matt (11:36):
yeah.
So whoever our healthcareprovider in the state of Iowa is
like, we've got a policy withthem.
They would register our employeeID number, or that's a great,
uh, that's great.
Eric (11:48):
corn health.org?
Kate (11:51):
I don't, I don't know.
Where did you find thatinformation?
Thea (11:55):
Wait, I'm sorry.
That's our healthcare provideris Korn health.org.
Eric (12:00):
well, we got a local provider because we were still
setting up in, in different, uh,different places.
And, you know, we didn't have,we didn't have enough employees
to get a good rate with thenational provider.
So yeah.
Kate (12:11):
Right?
Eric (12:11):
the time that Jen was sent to the ER, it was, she was
covered by Korn health.
Matt (12:17):
I just want to, before anybody else goes, do not go to
corn health.com.
Eric (12:23):
It's dot org.
Yes.
Matt (12:25):
you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Okay.
Uh, do not.
Um, great.
Okay.
this whole thing is just alanding page to a phone number.
Eric (12:35):
ticket they get bought maybe.
Kate (12:38):
No.
Eric (12:39):
phone number.
Kate (12:40):
no, that's, I mean, there are a healthcare provider.
That's kind of the level oftechnology they're at
Matt (12:48):
well,
Kate (12:49):
here.
Let me see if it's, it'ssomething we can text.
Maybe it's like a, some type ofmobile number.
Um, I'll just shoot them amessage and say,
Eric (12:58):
I I'd call, but I, I can't.
Kate (13:01):
Yeah, you shouldn't call anyone from the dock, Eric.
Matt (13:05):
Eric.
How long are you going to be outon the ocean?
Is this like a day trip or areyou
Eric (13:10):
uh, yeah, I'll be out there for six, seven days
depending on, uh, whether yeah.
Matt (13:15):
pretty good.
Are you fishing or just, I'mjust seeing the sites.
Eric (13:19):
Uh, we'll do a little fishing and we'll do a little, a
little scuba, a little diving,um,
Matt (13:25):
that's great.
Cathy.
I've I forgot.
Weren't you on a.
Schedule we'll be on a retreatright now.
Thea (13:32):
yes, I was scheduled to be on a retreat.
Um, but unfortunately I gaveKate my emergency contact line,
uh, to the retreat center.
Um, as a place of trust, um, youknow, um, but I am learning how
(13:54):
to be more compassionate.
And so here I am,
Kate (13:59):
Yes.
Um,
Thea (14:02):
to get the ninth Kali chakra for the Dalai Lama
himself, but I am here in thestead.
Kate (14:08):
and helping us, you are, we are very thankful.
Um, corn health is, has textedme back.
Matt (14:17):
Oh, great.
Kate (14:18):
Yeah.
Um, they sent me like all ofJen's files.
They just texted me.
Pictures of pretty much all ofher medical records?
Matt (14:28):
Wow.
that cannot be HIPAA compliant.
Eric (14:32):
And also, sorry, I, from what I heard from Jen or some,
Matt (14:37):
Oh no, there's not photos.
And x-rays in there.
Are there.
Oh.
Kate (14:40):
there are definitely photos.
Um, yeah, I D I don't think Irealized the extent to which her
injuries were.
Um, but I might buy her also acouch for.
Eric (14:55):
yeah.
Thea (14:57):
do you mind uploading those to the pain and sorrow
Google drive?
Uh, the creative team keeps.
Kate (15:05):
I really think that's even more of a HIPAA violation that
hadn't has already happened.
Thea (15:11):
I'm sorry, I just, uh, I just feel like, you know, I'm
trying to build empathy with myteam and that would really help
to let people see how thesausage is made and, you know,
the people who really could putthemselves on the line for our
organization.
Eric (15:29):
I mean, Kate you're already seeing the images.
Maybe you could just do like areaction video to the
Thea (15:33):
Yes.
That would be really great.
Eric (15:35):
upload.
Thea (15:37):
Or just describe them in vivid detail.
It could be a good storytellingexercise for you.
Kate (15:42):
Okay.
Okay.
Eric (15:44):
Anyway, is, are there, are there any, any indications of
the,
Matt (15:48):
yeah.
Eric (15:48):
state EIN.
Matt (15:49):
I just got a, a, a text that, that I could get on an
earlier flight.
So maybe we could look for theEIN first.
Kate (15:57):
sure.
Sure.
Okay.
So, um, I do see a number onhere, which I think is close.
Uh, It, the problem is it's sortof handwritten.
Um, I guess they don't use anysort of computer records and
it's, you know, a doctor'shandwriting.
So let me just go through them,let me list them out and then
(16:21):
we'll figure it out together.
Matt (16:23):
Sure.
Kate (16:24):
The first one is either a C E B or three.
Matt (16:33):
Wow.
That's a lot of possibilities.
Okay.
Kate (16:35):
The second one is either an L I or, or dash, you know,
like how you have
Matt (16:44):
Wow.
I really thought you were goingto say a one.
Um, okay.
A
Kate (16:48):
No, it's definitely not a one.
Matt (16:52):
Okay.
Kate (16:53):
There's a little arrow that someone pointed to it in a
rope, not
Eric (16:56):
Not a one.
Oh,
Matt (16:57):
Oh, wow.
Kate (16:59):
Um, Okay, the next one is either a oh, or a zero or an E
or a B.
Thea (17:11):
Okay.
Um, Kate, you said that, I mean,I know that, um, there are
multiple medical records there.
Is there any way that we couldcompare them together to, to
maybe get some clues
Kate (17:25):
Ooh.
Yeah.
Okay.
Uh, I'm just going to delete theones that have the pictures in
them.
Um, I'm going to, there wasactually four pages that each
have the medical record writtenon them.
So the EIN number, I mean,
Thea (17:39):
Has anybody fed the office cat?
Cause this cat is going nuts.
Matt (17:44):
no, no.
I thought we had building staffto do that.
Kate (17:49):
yeah.
Thea (17:50):
I don't know.
I mean, Kate.
Kate (17:53):
for the holidays?
Matt (17:55):
Oh, yikes.
Thea (17:57):
Okay.
Kate (17:58):
Got the cat's been neglected.
Thea (18:01):
Okay.
I'm I'm it's all right.
I'll make sure I feed her beforeI leave.
Yeah.
Eric (18:08):
you're going to use the cat food in the refrigerator,
right?
Thea (18:12):
Yeah, of course.
Um,
Kate (18:13):
cat food at the refrigerator.
Thea (18:16):
yeah.
Kate (18:18):
Is it the things that look kind of like little jerky balls?
Eric (18:24):
Yeah,
Thea (18:24):
They're in the, they're in the little, like a glass Mason
jars.
Matt (18:29):
they're specially made
Eric (18:31):
really nice.
Thea (18:32):
Yeah.
Kate (18:33):
been giving those to guests.
I won't do that anymore.
Um, okay.
Matt (18:40):
it's technically food grade.
Kate (18:43):
Okay.
Eric (18:44):
Th the numbers, the numbers.
Kate (18:45):
The numbers, I'm texting you all each a different image.
Okay.
We're just going to go throughtogether.
And then like at the same time,we'll say the number or letter
we think each one is.
And then, you know, if we cometo a majority without
influencing each other, youknow, then that's probably what
it is.
Right.
Matt (19:05):
Okay.
I
Kate (19:07):
already gone through the first three.
Did everyone get their dog?
Thea (19:11):
oh God.
Matt (19:13):
Um,
Eric (19:13):
a little low Rez on two G.
Thea (19:17):
you included the photo in this one and
Eric (19:20):
Oh, yep.
Thea (19:21):
why we can't share that with the larger team.
Oh, wow.
Kate (19:25):
can put right to that.
Thea (19:27):
I didn't even know a bone could break like that.
Eric (19:30):
Oh my
Kate (19:31):
Oh, Jen has a special types of bones.
Okay.
Just.
Let's start with the fourth
Eric (19:39):
numbers.
Yes.
Kate (19:40):
the numbers or letters.
We don't know what they are.
Okay.
So I've done the first three,everyone identify your fourth
and then we'll just say what wethink it is at the same time.
Mm
Matt (19:51):
to drop this into a captcha solver
Eric (19:55):
Oh, no.
Matt (19:57):
because those are great at reading all kinds of squiggly
letters and numbers.
Kate (20:01):
Okay.
This is like our own personalcapture sulfur.
Um, Is everyone ready?
Thea (20:08):
Yes.
Matt (20:10):
Okay.
Yes.
Kate (20:12):
3, 2, 1 Z.
Thea (20:17):
Okay.
Matt (20:19):
Okay.
I just, do you just want to backup, um, the Iowa state
documentation says that thenumber we're looking for is six.
Eric (20:28):
yeah.
Oh, it says
Matt (20:29):
dash followed by three digits.
Yeah.
So now we're looking fornumbers.
Eric (20:33):
Okay.
All right.
Matt (20:36):
Hopefully that changes some things.
Kate (20:40):
I
Thea (20:40):
I,
Kate (20:41):
so you look like twos.
I'm going to say.
Thea (20:44):
I'm gonna say a nine.
Matt (20:46):
okay.
So we've got two fours, a nineand a two at nines and fours
look real close.
Would you be willing to beswayed towards.
Thea (20:54):
Yeah.
I could be swayed for.
Kate (20:57):
I can't believe this is how we're doing this guys.
We get this number wrong.
We have so many penalties.
Uh,
Eric (21:06):
Can we like check it.
So like a verification site,
Matt (21:10):
I mean,
Eric (21:11):
there's gotta be only like
Matt (21:12):
Yeah.
Every, every state maintains abusiness registry and you can
usually look up an employer bytheir, uh, EIN.
So we can, we can go throughthis process.
We'll come up with a list ofprobably no more than a dozen or
two potentials, and we can justpunch them in and see which one
is actually us.
Kate (21:31):
okay.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Okay.
Let's just do the othersquickly.
So we've got the fourth one.
Let's do the fifth one, uh, 3,2, 1 0, Calvin.
Thea (21:49):
I'm sorry.
I'm pretty sure this is in theinfinity sign.
Kate (21:53):
Number.
Thea (21:55):
I know.
I'm just saying what I've seen.
Okay.
I'm pretty sure it's either anomega or an Infiniti.
Kate (22:02):
Oh my God.
Thea (22:04):
It's not a number,
Eric (22:05):
Okay, so three or three or five then,
Thea (22:09):
both of those.
I mean, it's like two circleslike this together.
Kate (22:14):
We know what that looks like.
Thea (22:18):
I just don't know what other number this looks like.
Matt (22:21):
I'm going to yet, I'm going to write that
Thea (22:23):
Oh, to eight, like this, like.
Eric (22:29):
Alright, one more, one more.
Kate (22:30):
Okay, one more time with the first ones.
Okay.
3, 2, 1.
Thea (22:44):
I said, I said, too, it's a real number then I'm still not
convinced.
I'm not convinced.
The last number was not aninfinity side.
Matt (22:53):
Okay.
Kate (22:54):
let's just
Thea (22:55):
maybe they're progressive in the Iowa.
Eric (23:00):
and you're just countable and uncountable infinities, and
they're in there, theirdatabases.
Thea (23:06):
I don't know, Richard was always trying to move them
farther to the left, you know,maybe succeeded at a small.
Eric (23:12):
Okay.
Matt (23:12):
Okay.
Let's see I'm on iowa.gov.
Um, what's do business entitiesand we're going to do a search
by business number.
Um, great.
So I'll just start typing thesein.
I'm going to guess that's athree, a one, a zero four.
We'll start with three there.
Uh, one.
(23:34):
Okay.
Um, Nope.
That's, that's not it.
Uh, it's an inactive business.
As of 2005,
Kate (23:43):
What's his name.
Matt (23:44):
um, uh, uh, via to auto LLC.
Kate (23:49):
Okay.
Matt (23:50):
That's, uh, that's what that messed on us.
Okay.
So, um, all right.
If we like the three, um, I'mstill just collapsing the LDI
and the dash.
Those have to be a one, a zero.
So then next, next change wouldbe a seven.
Kate (24:07):
not a one
Matt (24:11):
Yeah.
I don't know.
Kate (24:11):
a number.
Matt (24:12):
should we just take it out if we take that out?
We still, oh yeah, we have.
How did we get to seven digits?
We have seven digits out
Eric (24:21):
Whoa.
Matt (24:22):
out of an initial six
Thea (24:23):
Maybe the infinity was choose
Eric (24:26):
two zeroes.
Matt (24:27):
two zeros.
Okay.
So then that gives us zero,zero.
Now that's still, now, now we'rejust way off.
Kate (24:37):
just add
Matt (24:38):
But if I put the one back.
Eric (24:40):
the, the one, uh, the one is a, is an errant stroke.
It's a, not a one.
It ignore it.
Matt (24:45):
I put it back then that gets us to nine digits.
Eric (24:48):
Oh,
Kate (24:51):
Try it.
I don't know.
Just try
Matt (24:53):
let's see what we got.
All right.
Um,
Eric (24:56):
We should do an escape room
Matt (24:57):
oh wow.
They're giving me a capture.
Uh, and then an unusually largenumber of page visits has been
detected.
Eric (25:05):
Sure.
Well, that's fair.
Kate (25:07):
don't tell me if the captured is wet nine numbers or
something.
Matt (25:10):
oh, wow.
They're making me do it a secondtime.
Okay.
Um,
Eric (25:14):
have to find the, the boats in the, in the picture?
Matt (25:16):
wow.
Um, uh, no, I just keep clickingthe I'm not a robot button and
continue and they keep sendingme back.
I,
Kate (25:24):
what if we use these pictures as our capture in our
product?
Matt (25:30):
Jen's medical.
Kate (25:32):
No, no pictures of the pictures of the numbers,
Matt (25:35):
Oh, gosh, I mean, we could do that, but that would be so
many people that would have tosign up in order to solve them.
Kate (25:45):
We're having kind of a big new year's rush.
Yeah.
Matt (25:49):
All right.
Let me open this in
Thea (25:50):
Particularly they would be identifying.
So like where's the bone in thephoto.
Eric (25:57):
the numbers not the,
Kate (25:59):
We're not sending medical pictures as the cap shot.
It's the picture of thehandwritten numbers
Eric (26:06):
we do need a country.
Thea (26:07):
Oh yeah.
Kate (26:10):
Oh, yeah.
Cause I guess encapture, youneed to know if they did it
right.
Uh, well, Matt, how long do youthink it'll take you to punch in
the options we've come up withso far.
Matt (26:23):
I mean, it really depends on when and for how long the
website lets me back on.
Let me see if I can do anincognito window.
Eric (26:32):
oh, nice.
It's a government site.
It's probably not.
Matt (26:35):
Yeah, probably not too sophisticated.
Um, I can't I drag this window.
Um,
Kate (26:42):
Wait, does it say copyright 2004 on the bottom of
this website?
Oh God.
Matt (26:48):
Oh, yeah, it sure does.
Wait, hang on.
Um, y'all were going to feelreally stupid.
Uh, the business entity searchpage also has a search by name.
Kate (27:03):
I know our name,
Eric (27:04):
Oh, wow.
Matt (27:05):
So let's just met at Marquette.
Kate (27:09):
Metta Metta, mark.
It.
You might want to add in,
Matt (27:13):
Oh, no results.
Kate (27:15):
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that probably
Thea (27:17):
it might've been, it might've been the cipher.
Kate (27:21):
Yeah.
Matt (27:22):
The what?
Oh, the cipher to keep Richardfrom.
Kate (27:26):
Yeah.
Ciphered our name?
Thea (27:29):
I'm sorry, I'm just laughing.
Cause I've just been here solong.
Oh, all.
Um, no Richard, Dave, see, I'm aRichard speaker.
Um, yeah, Richard did have acipher that he use edits
possible.
Sometimes Richard got somethings Crossy wise that he used
(27:52):
the cipher name instead of thereal name.
I don't remember the cipher, butI do know the last thing Richard
said to Chelsea is this isn't awild goose chase.
If you go to the place where youcan find it, finally, you see
your own face.
Matt (28:09):
okay.
So like a mirror
Thea (28:13):
Maybe that's it.
The ciphers mirror.
Kate (28:15):
Mirror, maybe it's you're supposed to mirror.
Matt (28:19):
R a M E T a M tech rum atom.
I'm going to be very upset ifthis is the bid.
There.
There it is.
Eric (28:29):
my God.
Thea (28:30):
Oh, we did it.
Matt (28:31):
There it is.
Okay.
Wait, let's just, uh, here, letme put it on the tablet and pass
this around.
Can, can y'all verify, is thatthe address where we registered
the company?
Is this us.
Thea (28:45):
Yeah, that's us.
Matt (28:47):
Okay, well that we're going to, we're going to have to
file another DBA.
Uh, so they know we're doingbusiness as Metro market, but
it's great that we foundourselves.
Kate (28:58):
well, I was gonna say, I mean, I know we're going to talk
about like our name change nexttime, but have we thought about
tech from Adam?
Eric (29:06):
No.
Matt (29:08):
Yeah, I don't, I don't think it works tech room atom.
I mean, how.
I don't know, you know, soundslike a thing for Kathy and her
team.
Um,
Eric (29:18):
And let me, let me, let me think on it.
Matt (29:20):
I'm just going to say yes to this rebooking and, um, yes,
to this lift and I'm going toget back on our way, so good job
Kate (29:28):
get outta here.
I'll hold down the Fort in theoffice.
Eric (29:32):
Okay.
Matt (29:32):
Kate.
You're not going on vacation.
Eric (29:35):
Yeah.
What
Kate (29:36):
Now it's like being alone here.
It's like a mini vacation.
It's like a state case.
Matt (29:42):
hang on.
I distinctly remember youputting vacation on your to-do
list.
Thea (29:47):
Yeah.
And, and,
Kate (29:49):
Yeah.
I have no meetings today.
It's just me and the office andmy vacation to do list.
Thea (29:57):
and why hasn't the captain?
Kate (30:00):
I forgot to move that from the office to do a list of the
vacation, to do
Matt (30:04):
kind of mean.
Kate (30:05):
Okay.
I'm sorry about that.
Matt (30:07):
the key take care of yourself.
Okay.
Please take some time off.
Thea (30:13):
W we talked about self care.
You should take some time forself.
Eric (30:19):
Good to take a break.
Matt (30:23):
oh, okay.
Kate (30:25):
Eric's gone.
Matt (30:27):
Yeah.
We'll just
Kate (30:29):
all right, well, we're, we're good.
Just, uh, now I have thatnumber.
I'll do the rest of the Texas.
Um, and.
See you all next week.
Matt (30:38):
Okay, everybody take care.
Kate (30:41):
I
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Kate (00:22):
hey everybody.
Okay.
So the recording's on, um, let'stry to make this one not too
long.
I know.
I'm sorry.
I had to like pull you guys awayfrom things during like this
holiday week, but, um, we just
Matt (00:35):
no, it's okay.
I was able to reschedule myflight.
So beyond the.
Kate (00:39):
Good.
Matt (00:40):
Like this never happened.
Assuming we get the sink done.
So
Kate (00:44):
Yeah.
I mean, it's just, it should beeasy.
Right.
We just need to find the EINnumber of better market.
That's it?
I just, I would
Matt (00:53):
like our federal tax ID,
Kate (00:57):
Yeah.
Matt (00:58):
must already have that.
Kate (01:00):
exactly.
We definitely have it somewhere.
Definitely.
Matt (01:04):
Well, hang on.
I mean, that's, that's on, uh,like that's on my tax, uh,
stuff.
I got my first couple of checksas a contractor before it went
through.
So I've got the, the federal EINright here.
Is this, is this the one you'relooking for?
Kate (01:18):
oh, no, we're looking for Iowa.
Iowa has a very specific taxcode and they have a different
EIN,
Matt (01:23):
Oh yeah.
Kate (01:24):
federal one, which.
Anyway, sorry.
But before we dig in, um, justto recap for anyone who ends up
listening to this recording, uh,where Mehta market, um, for now
very shortly that'll change, uh,we're a couch marketplace.
We're looking to, you know,revolutionized trade in so many
(01:46):
ways.
Um, and today we are justholding a quick, probably very
quick meeting to look very Iowatests.
Uh, I'm Kate I'm the chief ofstaff here.
Um, I worked directly underJohn.
Uh, John has told me that heexplicitly does not want to know
about anything having to do withfinances, unless it just
(02:06):
requires a signature.
So naturally I didn't invitehim.
Matt (02:12):
Right.
Uh, hi, I'm Matt, matt.yachts.
I am the CTO here at metalmarket.
And, um, I guess if it's on aDropbox, I can probably help you
find it.
Otherwise I don't know what I'mdoing at this meeting.
Kate (02:25):
Yeah, we did use that once.
Matt (02:28):
Oh, good.
Kate (02:29):
Anybody.
Sorry.
Matt (02:30):
I'll actually, I'll start looking.
Thea (02:34):
another Roba.
Yeah, I'm also not sure, eventhough I, I mean, I do know that
when Richard was here, I waswell-known for being able to
speak Richard.
So I guess that is why you havebrought me in today.
Kate (02:53):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Richard probably had it at somepoint and.
Oh, I should mention too, thatEric, it said he was going to
join.
Um, he said he was getting kindof patchy reception.
Oh,
Eric (03:09):
can you
Kate (03:10):
are you there?
Eric (03:11):
make.
Matt (03:13):
oh, it's the conference thing.
Hang on.
Let
Eric (03:14):
Yeah.
Um, no bars, no bar.
Matt (03:20):
Oh, there he is here.
Oh, there is.
Kate (03:23):
He's just, he's gone.
Matt (03:26):
Uh, yeah, it looks like he dropped from the call.
Okay.
Well, I've got him set for autoanswer.
If he calls back
Kate (03:34):
Okay.
Great.
Well, yeah, so we just need tofind this number.
Um, you know, we've used Googledrive.
We've used Dropbox.
We've used paper.
We wrote things on walls whenRichard was here.
Um, but the deadline is.
Thea (03:52):
I reached out to Chelsea since she's in the Iowa office.
Really, really helpful for this.
Um, but she is testing out herbunker in a, uh, post atomic age
kind of situation.
So she is going to beunreachable this week.
So we don't unfortunately havean eye ally down in the Iowa
(04:14):
office.
Kate (04:15):
God.
Okay.
I have a S I do feel likeunfortunately, a backup option
is going to be going straight tolike the government themselves
in Iowa and asking, um, whatthis is.
Matt (04:28):
oh, yeah.
That's um, that shouldn't be toowell, uh, during a holiday, it's
going to be a problem.
Thea (04:35):
also, um, Richard really pissed off.
Like most of the IRSrepresentatives in the state of
Iowa.
Um,
Kate (04:47):
no.
Thea (04:49):
yeah, if I, I don't know if you remember, but, um, he had
that really viral video of whenhe left.
In fact, that's the reason whywe decided to part ways with
Richard after his, um, Viralstunt video that unfortunately
(05:12):
resulted in the NSA being calledto an IRS office.
Matt (05:18):
Did not know that,
Eric (05:19):
Hey, can y'all hear me?
Thea (05:21):
Yeah.
Matt (05:21):
Hey, there's air.
Kate (05:22):
Hey,
Eric (05:24):
was able to tether to an internet cafe here.
Uh, sorry.
Uh, sorry for the July.
Kate (05:28):
are you on a dog?
Eric (05:30):
Yeah.
Yeah.
There's um, there's an internetcafe on, on the, by George,
behind me.
I've been just, uh, staying,stay in your there's.
There's a storm coming in.
So we, we haven't been able toship out yet,
Kate (05:44):
okay.
Cool.
I
Eric (05:46):
worry about it.
Uh, I got, I got some time.
Kate (05:49):
okay.
Well, you know what we'relooking for.
You got my email about the Iowa.
Eric (05:54):
Yeah.
Did you check Google driveDropbox and the walls yet?
Kate (05:59):
Yeah, I mean, pretty much.
Matt (06:01):
yeah, I've I went, I went through and did a second pass,
uh, just now on, uh, both the,the managed Dropbox and the old,
uh, Metamarkets, Gmail, Dropbox,uh, the private Google drive,
the managed Google drive, thesecret Google.
And the accidental Google drive.
Um, I
Eric (06:20):
Oh, even the accidental one.
Oh,
Matt (06:22):
Yeah, no.
Um, here's my worry.
So a lot of stuff that Richarddid was just on the walls, uh,
walls that of course we sendpainted over.
Um, and we have not had any luckwith the forensics team.
We hired to pull that paint off.
Um, But we do have a lot ofphotos, uh, from Richard's
(06:44):
office mate, um, mostly candid,uh, ones that were posted to
their Instagram.
Obviously the ones that had veryclear financial details on them,
we've had them taken down since,um, but we've been going through
the ones that we can find andOCR and them.
Um, unfortunately that projectis not very far along.
Um, so there's kind of a pile ofphotos I could share with y'all.
Eric (07:08):
Well, how many are there?
I can't, I can't be too much forus to go through, right?
Matt (07:11):
The ones from the Instagram, there's a collection
of 37.
Eric (07:15):
Yeah.
Oh, that's that's reasonable.
We could, we could, we couldjust look to them.
Right.
Matt (07:19):
the, uh, I mean, I've kind of already been through those,
um, as part of setting up theOCR project.
So.
Eric (07:26):
it.
Kate (07:27):
are all the numbers labeled though.
I feel like Richard often wouldjust write numbers on the wall
and we wouldn't know what theywere.
Matt (07:37):
that's a fair point.
Um, I was mostly using theresults of the OCR software to
decide whether there wassomething relevant in there.
So if it was just a series of,well, what does an EIN.
Kate (07:49):
in numbers.
There were just a bunch ofnumbers.
Okay.
Matt (07:52):
Yeah.
Oh, actually, um, numbers areone of the easiest things to
OCR.
It's the first thing that theyever trained, optical character
recognition to do cool stuff.
If you ever want to look up thehistory of machine learning, um,
okay.
Kate (08:05):
okay.
Well look, so
Matt (08:08):
How many digits
Kate (08:09):
yeah, let's Google.
How many digits are an
Matt (08:11):
in an Iowa AI yet?
Um, let's see.
State employer identificationnumber is six, a six digit
number with a three digitlocation code.
Okay.
But is that code also a number?
Eric (08:29):
well, that, that location code has to be from where we set
our office up.
So we should be able to find,figure that part.
Kate (08:35):
Um, okay.
But remember, we didn't alwaysstart into Moines.
There was that unincorporatedcounty in Iowa that we thought
would be better for, um,
Eric (08:46):
Yup.
Kate (08:47):
you know, storage purposes and
Thea (08:50):
Are you talking about, are you talking about Elkhorn?
Kate (08:54):
Elkhorn.
Yeah.
I think that's what we call.
Thea (08:57):
Yeah,
Kate (08:58):
So maybe we just never got issued a tax ID number because
we were incorporated in anunincorporated area.
Matt (09:06):
oh, that's not great.
Um, although,
Thea (09:09):
I think
Matt (09:10):
it sounds like you all remember where it was
incorporated, so we couldprobably call their office.
Eric (09:17):
they don't have an office
Thea (09:18):
Yeah.
I mean,
Matt (09:20):
do you, can you incorporate a corporation in an
unincorporated city?
I don't think so.
Eric (09:27):
Well, it happened.
So.
Thea (09:29):
yeah, it definitely happened.
Um, we were very secretive aboutmoving into Iowa because.
Tensions, as I mentioned betweenRichard and people in Iowa.
Um, so we never let Richard knowwhere the office was located.
(09:51):
Um,
Matt (09:52):
but,
Eric (09:52):
good idea.
Matt (09:53):
but
Thea (09:54):
yeah, I
Matt (09:54):
was also the one who filed.
He filed the registration forthe business without knowing
that well, then if Richarddidn't know, then that must mean
someone else did the business.
Kate (10:07):
I remember now we had the, the coding system where
everything related to Iowa, wehad like a, you know, a kind of
puzzle code to scramble all thenumbers in a certain way.
He wouldn't actually be able to,you know, divulge any
information about our Iowaoperations.
We just have to find the, uh,the key,
Thea (10:30):
The cipher.
Yeah, we had a simple cipher.
Matt (10:34):
We have to find both the cipher and the ciphertext.
I mean, if we don't know whichof these seemingly random piles
of numbers on the wallrepresents our Iowa EIN, then
even with the key, we won't beable to, we can't just like
decrypt a wall of a photograph.
Oh boy.
(10:54):
Um, are we sure we don't haveany contact in that office from
before Richard Stein maybe, or.
The state
Eric (11:03):
a second.
Wait, wait.
Remember Jen, when she wastraveling to Iowa, she got
violently ill.
Remember that?
Thea (11:12):
yeah, I do.
I do.
Eric (11:14):
we, do we have the health insurance documentation for when
we sent her to the ER
Thea (11:19):
Oh, that is a great, great question.
Kate (11:25):
we're really not supposed to be looking at employee health
records.
It's like
Matt (11:31):
we don't necessarily need to
Eric (11:32):
we had to pay, right?
Yeah, We just had to pay ourpart of the coverage.
Right.
Matt (11:36):
yeah.
So whoever our healthcareprovider in the state of Iowa is
like, we've got a policy withthem.
They would register our employeeID number, or that's a great,
uh, that's great.
Eric (11:48):
corn health.org?
Kate (11:51):
I don't, I don't know.
Where did you find thatinformation?
Thea (11:55):
Wait, I'm sorry.
That's our healthcare provideris Korn health.org.
Eric (12:00):
well, we got a local provider because we were still
setting up in, in different, uh,different places.
And, you know, we didn't have,we didn't have enough employees
to get a good rate with thenational provider.
So yeah.
Kate (12:11):
Right?
Eric (12:11):
the time that Jen was sent to the ER, it was, she was
covered by Korn health.
Matt (12:17):
I just want to, before anybody else goes, do not go to
corn health.com.
Eric (12:23):
It's dot org.
Yes.
Matt (12:25):
you.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Okay.
Uh, do not.
Um, great.
Okay.
this whole thing is just alanding page to a phone number.
Eric (12:35):
ticket they get bought maybe.
Kate (12:38):
No.
Eric (12:39):
phone number.
Kate (12:40):
no, that's, I mean, there are a healthcare provider.
That's kind of the level oftechnology they're at
Matt (12:48):
well,
Kate (12:49):
here.
Let me see if it's, it'ssomething we can text.
Maybe it's like a, some type ofmobile number.
Um, I'll just shoot them amessage and say,
Eric (12:58):
I I'd call, but I, I can't.
Kate (13:01):
Yeah, you shouldn't call anyone from the dock, Eric.
Matt (13:05):
Eric.
How long are you going to be outon the ocean?
Is this like a day trip or areyou
Eric (13:10):
uh, yeah, I'll be out there for six, seven days
depending on, uh, whether yeah.
Matt (13:15):
pretty good.
Are you fishing or just, I'mjust seeing the sites.
Eric (13:19):
Uh, we'll do a little fishing and we'll do a little, a
little scuba, a little diving,um,
Matt (13:25):
that's great.
Cathy.
I've I forgot.
Weren't you on a.
Schedule we'll be on a retreatright now.
Thea (13:32):
yes, I was scheduled to be on a retreat.
Um, but unfortunately I gaveKate my emergency contact line,
uh, to the retreat center.
Um, as a place of trust, um, youknow, um, but I am learning how
(13:54):
to be more compassionate.
And so here I am,
Kate (13:59):
Yes.
Um,
Thea (14:02):
to get the ninth Kali chakra for the Dalai Lama
himself, but I am here in thestead.
Kate (14:08):
and helping us, you are, we are very thankful.
Um, corn health is, has textedme back.
Matt (14:17):
Oh, great.
Kate (14:18):
Yeah.
Um, they sent me like all ofJen's files.
They just texted me.
Pictures of pretty much all ofher medical records?
Matt (14:28):
Wow.
that cannot be HIPAA compliant.
Eric (14:32):
And also, sorry, I, from what I heard from Jen or some,
Matt (14:37):
Oh no, there's not photos.
And x-rays in there.
Are there.
Oh.
Kate (14:40):
there are definitely photos.
Um, yeah, I D I don't think Irealized the extent to which her
injuries were.
Um, but I might buy her also acouch for.
Eric (14:55):
yeah.
Thea (14:57):
do you mind uploading those to the pain and sorrow
Google drive?
Uh, the creative team keeps.
Kate (15:05):
I really think that's even more of a HIPAA violation that
hadn't has already happened.
Thea (15:11):
I'm sorry, I just, uh, I just feel like, you know, I'm
trying to build empathy with myteam and that would really help
to let people see how thesausage is made and, you know,
the people who really could putthemselves on the line for our
organization.
Eric (15:29):
I mean, Kate you're already seeing the images.
Maybe you could just do like areaction video to the
Thea (15:33):
Yes.
That would be really great.
Eric (15:35):
upload.
Thea (15:37):
Or just describe them in vivid detail.
It could be a good storytellingexercise for you.
Kate (15:42):
Okay.
Okay.
Eric (15:44):
Anyway, is, are there, are there any, any indications of
the,
Matt (15:48):
yeah.
Eric (15:48):
state EIN.
Matt (15:49):
I just got a, a, a text that, that I could get on an
earlier flight.
So maybe we could look for theEIN first.
Kate (15:57):
sure.
Sure.
Okay.
So, um, I do see a number onhere, which I think is close.
Uh, It, the problem is it's sortof handwritten.
Um, I guess they don't use anysort of computer records and
it's, you know, a doctor'shandwriting.
So let me just go through them,let me list them out and then
(16:21):
we'll figure it out together.
Matt (16:23):
Sure.
Kate (16:24):
The first one is either a C E B or three.
Matt (16:33):
Wow.
That's a lot of possibilities.
Okay.
Kate (16:35):
The second one is either an L I or, or dash, you know,
like how you have
Matt (16:44):
Wow.
I really thought you were goingto say a one.
Um, okay.
A
Kate (16:48):
No, it's definitely not a one.
Matt (16:52):
Okay.
Kate (16:53):
There's a little arrow that someone pointed to it in a
rope, not
Eric (16:56):
Not a one.
Oh,
Matt (16:57):
Oh, wow.
Kate (16:59):
Um, Okay, the next one is either a oh, or a zero or an E
or a B.
Thea (17:11):
Okay.
Um, Kate, you said that, I mean,I know that, um, there are
multiple medical records there.
Is there any way that we couldcompare them together to, to
maybe get some clues
Kate (17:25):
Ooh.
Yeah.
Okay.
Uh, I'm just going to delete theones that have the pictures in
them.
Um, I'm going to, there wasactually four pages that each
have the medical record writtenon them.
So the EIN number, I mean,
Thea (17:39):
Has anybody fed the office cat?
Cause this cat is going nuts.
Matt (17:44):
no, no.
I thought we had building staffto do that.
Kate (17:49):
yeah.
Thea (17:50):
I don't know.
I mean, Kate.
Kate (17:53):
for the holidays?
Matt (17:55):
Oh, yikes.
Thea (17:57):
Okay.
Kate (17:58):
Got the cat's been neglected.
Thea (18:01):
Okay.
I'm I'm it's all right.
I'll make sure I feed her beforeI leave.
Yeah.
Eric (18:08):
you're going to use the cat food in the refrigerator,
right?
Thea (18:12):
Yeah, of course.
Um,
Kate (18:13):
cat food at the refrigerator.
Thea (18:16):
yeah.
Kate (18:18):
Is it the things that look kind of like little jerky balls?
Eric (18:24):
Yeah,
Thea (18:24):
They're in the, they're in the little, like a glass Mason
jars.
Matt (18:29):
they're specially made
Eric (18:31):
really nice.
Thea (18:32):
Yeah.
Kate (18:33):
been giving those to guests.
I won't do that anymore.
Um, okay.
Matt (18:40):
it's technically food grade.
Kate (18:43):
Okay.
Eric (18:44):
Th the numbers, the numbers.
Kate (18:45):
The numbers, I'm texting you all each a different image.
Okay.
We're just going to go throughtogether.
And then like at the same time,we'll say the number or letter
we think each one is.
And then, you know, if we cometo a majority without
influencing each other, youknow, then that's probably what
it is.
Right.
Matt (19:05):
Okay.
I
Kate (19:07):
already gone through the first three.
Did everyone get their dog?
Thea (19:11):
oh God.
Matt (19:13):
Um,
Eric (19:13):
a little low Rez on two G.
Thea (19:17):
you included the photo in this one and
Eric (19:20):
Oh, yep.
Thea (19:21):
why we can't share that with the larger team.
Oh, wow.
Kate (19:25):
can put right to that.
Thea (19:27):
I didn't even know a bone could break like that.
Eric (19:30):
Oh my
Kate (19:31):
Oh, Jen has a special types of bones.
Okay.
Just.
Let's start with the fourth
Eric (19:39):
numbers.
Yes.
Kate (19:40):
the numbers or letters.
We don't know what they are.
Okay.
So I've done the first three,everyone identify your fourth
and then we'll just say what wethink it is at the same time.
Mm
Matt (19:51):
to drop this into a captcha solver
Eric (19:55):
Oh, no.
Matt (19:57):
because those are great at reading all kinds of squiggly
letters and numbers.
Kate (20:01):
Okay.
This is like our own personalcapture sulfur.
Um, Is everyone ready?
Thea (20:08):
Yes.
Matt (20:10):
Okay.
Yes.
Kate (20:12):
3, 2, 1 Z.
Thea (20:17):
Okay.
Matt (20:19):
Okay.
I just, do you just want to backup, um, the Iowa state
documentation says that thenumber we're looking for is six.
Eric (20:28):
yeah.
Oh, it says
Matt (20:29):
dash followed by three digits.
Yeah.
So now we're looking fornumbers.
Eric (20:33):
Okay.
All right.
Matt (20:36):
Hopefully that changes some things.
Kate (20:40):
I
Thea (20:40):
I,
Kate (20:41):
so you look like twos.
I'm going to say.
Thea (20:44):
I'm gonna say a nine.
Matt (20:46):
okay.
So we've got two fours, a nineand a two at nines and fours
look real close.
Would you be willing to beswayed towards.
Thea (20:54):
Yeah.
I could be swayed for.
Kate (20:57):
I can't believe this is how we're doing this guys.
We get this number wrong.
We have so many penalties.
Uh,
Eric (21:06):
Can we like check it.
So like a verification site,
Matt (21:10):
I mean,
Eric (21:11):
there's gotta be only like
Matt (21:12):
Yeah.
Every, every state maintains abusiness registry and you can
usually look up an employer bytheir, uh, EIN.
So we can, we can go throughthis process.
We'll come up with a list ofprobably no more than a dozen or
two potentials, and we can justpunch them in and see which one
is actually us.
Kate (21:31):
okay.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Okay.
Let's just do the othersquickly.
So we've got the fourth one.
Let's do the fifth one, uh, 3,2, 1 0, Calvin.
Thea (21:49):
I'm sorry.
I'm pretty sure this is in theinfinity sign.
Kate (21:53):
Number.
Thea (21:55):
I know.
I'm just saying what I've seen.
Okay.
I'm pretty sure it's either anomega or an Infiniti.
Kate (22:02):
Oh my God.
Thea (22:04):
It's not a number,
Eric (22:05):
Okay, so three or three or five then,
Thea (22:09):
both of those.
I mean, it's like two circleslike this together.
Kate (22:14):
We know what that looks like.
Thea (22:18):
I just don't know what other number this looks like.
Matt (22:21):
I'm going to yet, I'm going to write that
Thea (22:23):
Oh, to eight, like this, like.
Eric (22:29):
Alright, one more, one more.
Kate (22:30):
Okay, one more time with the first ones.
Okay.
3, 2, 1.
Thea (22:44):
I said, I said, too, it's a real number then I'm still not
convinced.
I'm not convinced.
The last number was not aninfinity side.
Matt (22:53):
Okay.
Kate (22:54):
let's just
Thea (22:55):
maybe they're progressive in the Iowa.
Eric (23:00):
and you're just countable and uncountable infinities, and
they're in there, theirdatabases.
Thea (23:06):
I don't know, Richard was always trying to move them
farther to the left, you know,maybe succeeded at a small.
Eric (23:12):
Okay.
Matt (23:12):
Okay.
Let's see I'm on iowa.gov.
Um, what's do business entitiesand we're going to do a search
by business number.
Um, great.
So I'll just start typing thesein.
I'm going to guess that's athree, a one, a zero four.
We'll start with three there.
Uh, one.
(23:34):
Okay.
Um, Nope.
That's, that's not it.
Uh, it's an inactive business.
As of 2005,
Kate (23:43):
What's his name.
Matt (23:44):
um, uh, uh, via to auto LLC.
Kate (23:49):
Okay.
Matt (23:50):
That's, uh, that's what that messed on us.
Okay.
So, um, all right.
If we like the three, um, I'mstill just collapsing the LDI
and the dash.
Those have to be a one, a zero.
So then next, next change wouldbe a seven.
Kate (24:07):
not a one
Matt (24:11):
Yeah.
I don't know.
Kate (24:11):
a number.
Matt (24:12):
should we just take it out if we take that out?
We still, oh yeah, we have.
How did we get to seven digits?
We have seven digits out
Eric (24:21):
Whoa.
Matt (24:22):
out of an initial six
Thea (24:23):
Maybe the infinity was choose
Eric (24:26):
two zeroes.
Matt (24:27):
two zeros.
Okay.
So then that gives us zero,zero.
Now that's still, now, now we'rejust way off.
Kate (24:37):
just add
Matt (24:38):
But if I put the one back.
Eric (24:40):
the, the one, uh, the one is a, is an errant stroke.
It's a, not a one.
It ignore it.
Matt (24:45):
I put it back then that gets us to nine digits.
Eric (24:48):
Oh,
Kate (24:51):
Try it.
I don't know.
Just try
Matt (24:53):
let's see what we got.
All right.
Um,
Eric (24:56):
We should do an escape room
Matt (24:57):
oh wow.
They're giving me a capture.
Uh, and then an unusually largenumber of page visits has been
detected.
Eric (25:05):
Sure.
Well, that's fair.
Kate (25:07):
don't tell me if the captured is wet nine numbers or
something.
Matt (25:10):
oh, wow.
They're making me do it a secondtime.
Okay.
Um,
Eric (25:14):
have to find the, the boats in the, in the picture?
Matt (25:16):
wow.
Um, uh, no, I just keep clickingthe I'm not a robot button and
continue and they keep sendingme back.
I,
Kate (25:24):
what if we use these pictures as our capture in our
product?
Matt (25:30):
Jen's medical.
Kate (25:32):
No, no pictures of the pictures of the numbers,
Matt (25:35):
Oh, gosh, I mean, we could do that, but that would be so
many people that would have tosign up in order to solve them.
Kate (25:45):
We're having kind of a big new year's rush.
Yeah.
Matt (25:49):
All right.
Let me open this in
Thea (25:50):
Particularly they would be identifying.
So like where's the bone in thephoto.
Eric (25:57):
the numbers not the,
Kate (25:59):
We're not sending medical pictures as the cap shot.
It's the picture of thehandwritten numbers
Eric (26:06):
we do need a country.
Thea (26:07):
Oh yeah.
Kate (26:10):
Oh, yeah.
Cause I guess encapture, youneed to know if they did it
right.
Uh, well, Matt, how long do youthink it'll take you to punch in
the options we've come up withso far.
Matt (26:23):
I mean, it really depends on when and for how long the
website lets me back on.
Let me see if I can do anincognito window.
Eric (26:32):
oh, nice.
It's a government site.
It's probably not.
Matt (26:35):
Yeah, probably not too sophisticated.
Um, I can't I drag this window.
Um,
Kate (26:42):
Wait, does it say copyright 2004 on the bottom of
this website?
Oh God.
Matt (26:48):
Oh, yeah, it sure does.
Wait, hang on.
Um, y'all were going to feelreally stupid.
Uh, the business entity searchpage also has a search by name.
Kate (27:03):
I know our name,
Eric (27:04):
Oh, wow.
Matt (27:05):
So let's just met at Marquette.
Kate (27:09):
Metta Metta, mark.
It.
You might want to add in,
Matt (27:13):
Oh, no results.
Kate (27:15):
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that probably
Thea (27:17):
it might've been, it might've been the cipher.
Kate (27:21):
Yeah.
Matt (27:22):
The what?
Oh, the cipher to keep Richardfrom.
Kate (27:26):
Yeah.
Ciphered our name?
Thea (27:29):
I'm sorry, I'm just laughing.
Cause I've just been here solong.
Oh, all.
Um, no Richard, Dave, see, I'm aRichard speaker.
Um, yeah, Richard did have acipher that he use edits
possible.
Sometimes Richard got somethings Crossy wise that he used
(27:52):
the cipher name instead of thereal name.
I don't remember the cipher, butI do know the last thing Richard
said to Chelsea is this isn't awild goose chase.
If you go to the place where youcan find it, finally, you see
your own face.
Matt (28:09):
okay.
So like a mirror
Thea (28:13):
Maybe that's it.
The ciphers mirror.
Kate (28:15):
Mirror, maybe it's you're supposed to mirror.
Matt (28:19):
R a M E T a M tech rum atom.
I'm going to be very upset ifthis is the bid.
There.
There it is.
Eric (28:29):
my God.
Thea (28:30):
Oh, we did it.
Matt (28:31):
There it is.
Okay.
Wait, let's just, uh, here, letme put it on the tablet and pass
this around.
Can, can y'all verify, is thatthe address where we registered
the company?
Is this us.
Thea (28:45):
Yeah, that's us.
Matt (28:47):
Okay, well that we're going to, we're going to have to
file another DBA.
Uh, so they know we're doingbusiness as Metro market, but
it's great that we foundourselves.
Kate (28:58):
well, I was gonna say, I mean, I know we're going to talk
about like our name change nexttime, but have we thought about
tech from Adam?
Eric (29:06):
No.
Matt (29:08):
Yeah, I don't, I don't think it works tech room atom.
I mean, how.
I don't know, you know, soundslike a thing for Kathy and her
team.
Um,
Eric (29:18):
And let me, let me, let me think on it.
Matt (29:20):
I'm just going to say yes to this rebooking and, um, yes,
to this lift and I'm going toget back on our way, so good job
Kate (29:28):
get outta here.
I'll hold down the Fort in theoffice.
Eric (29:32):
Okay.
Matt (29:32):
Kate.
You're not going on vacation.
Eric (29:35):
Yeah.
What
Kate (29:36):
Now it's like being alone here.
It's like a mini vacation.
It's like a state case.
Matt (29:42):
hang on.
I distinctly remember youputting vacation on your to-do
list.
Thea (29:47):
Yeah.
And, and,
Kate (29:49):
Yeah.
I have no meetings today.
It's just me and the office andmy vacation to do list.
Thea (29:57):
and why hasn't the captain?
Kate (30:00):
I forgot to move that from the office to do a list of the
vacation, to do
Matt (30:04):
kind of mean.
Kate (30:05):
Okay.
I'm sorry about that.
Matt (30:07):
the key take care of yourself.
Okay.
Please take some time off.
Thea (30:13):
W we talked about self care.
You should take some time forself.
Eric (30:19):
Good to take a break.
Matt (30:23):
oh, okay.
Kate (30:25):
Eric's gone.
Matt (30:27):
Yeah.
We'll just
Kate (30:29):
all right, well, we're, we're good.
Just, uh, now I have thatnumber.
I'll do the rest of the Texas.
Um, and.
See you all next week.
Matt (30:38):
Okay, everybody take care.
Kate (30:41):
I
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