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This week Scott & Andre bring a revolutionary brunch restaurant, a genius idea for squatters, and the a clever way to stay comfortable in the hospital.

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https://feelbrilliant.com/
https://www.oreo.com/oreoid-1
https://ldrdates.com/
https://www.thepfunkygriddle.com/

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STI 79

[00:00:00] so I've been really digesting something. That's a serious issue. Andre. It's like, it's like a big, important thing. And I, and I need you to, I need you to talk to her now. Okay. I need you to go to oreo.com. All right now, we're going to talk about the Chromatica Oreos. Can you talk about Oreo ID and I need to know what you think about it.

Are you familiar with the chromatic Oreos? They come right up on this page. The lady Gaga, pink CoreOS. Oh, is that what that is? Yes. It's thieves. Don't buy them basically. So, so this is, this is okay. This is my thing. So forever Oreos, it was like. Yeah. Have you had Oreos? And then they're like, what if we did the double stuff?

And they're like, all right, what if [00:01:00] we kind of started doing, we start experimenting and I would say Oreo for a while had like a healthy mix of like, we'll do golden ones. We'll have some mint ones right then, but now it's like, they've like dialed it up to 11 with this Oreo ID. Where it's like, you can go and customize, like what kind of order do you want?

Do you want double stuff? Do you want sprinkles around the outside? Do you want a freaking picture on your Oreo? Because we can do it. We can put a picture right in your Oreo, like who won? What is this for? Who is the who's buying Oreo IDs? Uh, am I, I wouldn't say I hard disagree with you because I'm going through the process of setting up my Oreo ID right now.

Okay. So what I'm doing is. Um, traditional cookie read center because I love the red center cookies that they do for Valentine's day and red velvet and all these different things. And I'm going to dip it in five that I [00:02:00] loved a dipped Oreo, no sprinkles, because I don't like sprints. This is sprinkles.

Like just discussing you have to add sprinkles. What the heck in a way. All right. Nevermind. It didn't make me do sprinkles. And now I can add a photo or design. What are you going to add, please? Jack. Your Toby, your cat. Oh, what? I don't want to eat him though. I might do. Yeah, I bet it is annoying. You have to add sprinkles.

I kind of want to do you, you can skip it. It just, for some reason, like asks you twice. We can do steal this idea. Oh, I got go back and we can do yellow. That's a great idea. All right. So I'm going to do yellow center, white DEP, and then I'm going to do the steel, this idea of logo. And we will give this away too.

We will give a set of these Oreos away to anybody who shares a podcast and, and [00:03:00] proves that they have convinced a new strangers to listen to us. Hold on. I'm getting to the. Okay. They definitely, they need to improve the Oreo builder. So you don't think this is crazy. You don't think Oreo is just like, no, I don't think this is crazy at all.

I'm ordering steel, this ideal Oreos. This is going to be awesome. And I like the idea of being able. So what's hard though, is I want it to get to the last stage. So let me know if you can, but I couldn't ever get to the price screen. Like it kept freezing on me. Interesting. Let me try just picking everything so that maybe alone anyway, you know, I just, I see Oreo ads now and I'm like, these guys have jumped the ship, man.

They are just, no, you're wrong. This is awesome. This is so you can get a special box with your Oreos for $10 for five. Um, or it's two 50 in Oreo with a minimum order of 20 Oreos. [00:04:00] So, I mean, it's not cheap basically. I mean, this is definitely like a special occasion trade. Yeah. You're not going to go to , uh, your Oreo ID and put it on auto ship and just get your special customer as every week.

I got to get some more, I think this is a fun idea. I'm bummed that you didn't bring it for good idea. Bad idea. Yeah. I'm sorry about that. No, it's okay. It's just, when I buy something on the podcast, I want it to be during givi, but I bought thieves Oreos coming soon. We all now announced the winner of the beef Oreo and, and we will eat them on our Patrion.

So if you want to see, eat them, see them, it'll be live Harry Potter, which is new patron episode coming soon. That's right. That's right. All right, Angela, let's start a podcast. Let's do it. You're a thief and a liar lied about being a feat steal lie. We're going to steal the ship an idea that is fully formed, fully understood.

That sticks.

[00:05:00] Hello again, we're back baby. Back. We are the steel city of podcast. Scott Knudson, Andre Washington, Andre. Tell the thieves who are new here. What is steal this idea? I'm glad you asked. Welcome to steal this idea. Steal. This idea is the only podcast where every week Scott and I get together on Mike and we share our biggest and baddest business ideas ranging from apps to events, to stores, to technology and everything in between.

We give away billion dollar business ideas every week toward thieves. I come from about 10 years of sales experience. Andre comes from period, another 10 years of marketing experience. We don't, we're talking about. Okay. Uh, but the reality is we don't have the time or the means to , uh, to really just send these, to get these ideas to the love and attention they need.

So we give them to you for free to steal. Would we like it, a check in the mail either publicly or not anonymously? Sure we'd love that. [00:06:00] Ideally, we're not going to hold you to the fire on that one. There's no kind of fact, we would love to see any of these ideas in the wild, no matter what. And yeah, this is , uh, I, I think, I think this is episode 79, so we're almost 80 episodes in , um, Andre, what of the 80 episodes?

We've talked about? A lot of them, you know, what's one episode that, that maybe you might recommend to a new thief. Like, Hey, I know you don't want to go listen to all 80, but maybe check out this one. Scott asks me this question all the time and I like to try and give a different answer every time. So I'm just thinking.

Oh, you know, what's what I liked. Um, is, do you remember Porter? Oh yeah. I see him. He's still your brother-in-law. He's still my brother-in-law. Uh, so Porter came on the show and gave us an idea called soil IQ and essentially Scott and I, at the time, it was springtime. We were complaining about how difficult it is to plant a garden because there's like soil problems is shade problems.

There's all these different things that are really hard to measure. And Porter came on the podcast and give us an idea called the [00:07:00] soil IQ. Uh, which was published last June. So, you know, with these can go and find it , um, go listen to that idea. I need some idea for learning about your soil in order to plant things in your yard.

Yeah, actually, I'm more about to start a garden up right now, and I really wish soil, like we said existed because that would really help me. Yeah. Um, Andre before we got to get show today. Um, so I got, I got the big idea. We have a couple of other kind of mini ideas we're gonna lead up to it. Um, but before we get into that, let's get into our favorite segment, which is good idea.

Bad idea.

What is on the docket today, sir? I will go first. So theos and Scott. Go to L D R dates.com. That's LVR. As in long distance relationship dates.com. LDR date says close the gap. Uh, our dates up close the gap by placing you and your partner in the same virtual room. I saw this [00:08:00] on Tik TOK and this website is a little it's somewhere between descriptive and not descriptive.

And essentially they have a virtual art gallery , um, museum, a virtual Island. And in their virtual spaces, you can create an avatar and go on virtual dates with your long distance partner. I'm watching it, I'm watching the video clip of this. I really wanted to hate this, but there's a part of me that thinks this is kind of fun.

You haven't, I'm going to be real. Like it is kind of stupid, but I mean, is it stupid or is this just like, kind of like part of modern life now? Right. Yeah. So, so what, what the video I'm watching, it's like, yeah, it looks like it's kind of a museum. And I imagine the concept is like, yeah, it's your avatar, it's their avatar.

You walking around and yeah. You see, it's like, this is a, a painting from so-and-so and there's description below it. And like, it looks like there are a bunch of different like areas that you [00:09:00] can kind of explore in this. Uh, yeah. There's like a treasure hunt and yeah, there's like a garden maze. And I could see, I mean, it's like playing a video game with, you know, kind of crappy, but that's, that's, that's the one thing it's like, these look like pretty chincy.

Yeah. Um, I would love, like, I wish that something like this existed in, in the real world, like almost like Minecraft, but like. In the real, there are museums in the real world. What are you? Sorry, the real world in the, in the, in the greater gaming space. Yeah. We're, we're basically like Minecraft has stuff that exists in it, but like it's Minecraft first and it's for people who play Minecraft, but having a big shared space, it's really accessible for anyone to go in and to make an avatar.

And like, you have this like really big, interesting world that like you could have, you could have a date in and people make stuff. Uh, this seems like. Somebody's got their hands on a 3d modeling kit. And I mean, it looks pretty bad. It looks like cocoa Mellon, [00:10:00] you know, not, it doesn't look good. I will say, I think the repeat customer base is probably pretty low, but I mean, so it looks like most of the dates are $6.

It's not too. I mean, the price is right. Which I see them as like a one ticket entry. Yeah. Presumably. So I feel like. Probably if you're a virtual or not a virtual couple, if you're a long distance couple, and you're looking to just do something kind of funny or flying $6 is in the range where it's kind of worth just trying.

Yeah. Yeah. Especially if you're like, we are long dead, like mine as well. Like what, what's six bucks and it like, yeah, it gets you talking about stuff and you get to see this big dumb pirate ship and yeah, yeah. Again, I, I re I want to hate this, but like, I do think there was something there. I think this is, this would be a good idea to steal and do better.

Um, I don't totally know. Yeah. I might put it, I might integrate it into a different platform and yeah. Um, cause you don't need, there's probably stuff on here that you like is [00:11:00] not needed, but LDR dates. That's funny. It's an interesting idea. That's something unique. Um, okay. I saw this, this ad on Instagram believes it's called stair slide.

Uh, this is an ad that probably I would see in you would not see , uh, cause it's, it's basically , uh, it is these plexi plastic , um, uh, almost like a sled, but you'd like you hook them, you, you, you stack a bunch of them up your staircase and just build basically a makeshift slide. Uh, but it's still they're light enough that like a kid could set it up and then you could like basically break it down really easy.

And they'll stack on top of each other. Um, what do you think it is? I think it's a good idea. A little excited. However, I mean, I was always the kid that when my siblings or my friends were going down the stairs on like cardboard boxes, I, as the kid, like grumpily standing at the bottom going, like, you shouldn't do that.

I don't die. Exactly. Like I was definitely a hundred percent that kid. So now I look at this and [00:12:00] it's just, I can't be sold that it's completely safe, like no way. So for a four-pack, which let's say one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So about 10 stairs. Get you that for a four pack that gets you all the way up.

About 10 average stairs. It's 200 bucks. So not cheap , uh, especially cause you can go buy like a plastic Fisher price. Uh, like, uh, uh, uh, slide, but not that long. Not that long, for sure. Not that long. Yeah. And those are gonna be like 30 bucks, you know, or 15 bucks used. Uh, and then like a landing pad, which is just a big foam thing for 40 bucks.

Again, $200 seems steep for what I'm seeing. That's what I'm saying. If this was, if this was half the car, this was a hundred dollars. I'd be like, you know what? I might, I could be talked into this. Uh, cause I have kids who are, I have a lot of young boys who loved the slamming things. In fact, I recently bought a , uh, a nugget couch and we tacked, we intentionally didn't open it until our newest kid was born so that our [00:13:00] kids had something to do and they build forts out of it and they jump off it and they slide down it.

So they wouldn't, they would love this, but like I just, for $200, like I could buy a switch light for $200. Yeah. You know, I would be interested. So one thing I've gotten really entail , um, for these that don't know, I'm planning a wedding right now, and you go to Etsy and you look for various wedding items and a lot of people sell plans, which is to say they sell like the , um, cut list to make something on your own.

Yeah. Um, and they're really helpful because you can basically take their cut list and get exactly the pieces of what you need. And it makes DIY really easy. I feel like this could much more easily be done in like that category. Sure. Um, because it comes out to $200. It's like, I need to make this a little more affordable.

Like it feels like this could be DIY. Yeah. It's like go buy this thing and like attach this thing on the bottom that, that that's the foot anchors or whatever. Yeah. I agree. That's [00:14:00] a, that's a good idea. But I do think, I mean, especially here in Utah, I, I, I imagined something like this. Probably do fine.

Take off. Yeah. Um, okay. What's this , uh, Indiegogo I'm seeing here. Yeah. So I hate to bring an Indego. I know you do. I'm predisposed to being myself not to buy it. So this is the Iggy effortless weight loss and calorie cloaking. You heard that right? Calorie cloaking build healthy portion control habits with this science-based mindful eating ball.

And what the Aggie is, is it is a bowl with a hump in the middle. Um, to create the illusion of the bull being fuller. And what it says is if you use their like little portion Nour, which shows you how much , um, starch now, which protein, it's basically a little divider that goes in there right in the middle of the ball.

And as long as you use their portion thing and you fill it to their specifications with fruits, vegetables, and starches and other stuff, it will be 600 calories [00:15:00] every single time. And that is the Iggy. What are your thoughts?

I don't know Andre. I mean, here's my problem. So in a perfect world, yes, I've got a cooked protein and a side of vegetables and fruit and the another side of cooked vegetables and other side of starches that I've made in the real world, which is the world that we live in. Uh, it is just, unless you have no kids and you really enjoy cooking it's it's so like, like even people, like my brother likes to cook, he cooks really well.

He cooks one big fancy dinner, like once, maybe twice a week. Yeah. Most of the time you're either eating out or you're eating a, a two course meal, which is like it's chicken and a salad, you know, and like, It's not like you're eating too much [00:16:00] there and if you're reading out, you would never use this. So I don't know, like, yeah, like I look at these bowls like that people have put together.

It's like in no war and no world. P like, have people have all this prepared who that like, Oh man, full mic just had a better way of portioning this. It's like, no, usually it's really hard to come up with sides. Like that's, what's hard about eating healthy is you have to like, Oh, I gotta, I gotta go skinny zucchini and then dice it and then season it and then cook it for 30 minutes.

And remember to do that on top of the protein that I'm making, you know? Yeah. So are you. At all interested in the technology, which is that they've created this bull that is heavier and looks to be deeper than it is because of they add this extra lining wall to the ball. What are your thoughts? All right.

Cause I think you're right. There are two elements, which is just one, the portion control piece. And then [00:17:00] two, this idea that your brain can be tricked into you feeling more full by seeing a more full bowl. Yeah. I mean, I do think there's something interesting about it. I I'm, I'm somebody who has good person control as a, like, I don't work out as much as I should, but I am able to stay skinny because I just stopped eating.

Yeah. You know, but if, if, if you struggle with that, then yeah. Maybe this might be the, I don't know. I think. Similarly, I don't really feel like I have a portion issue, but I'm pretty interested in this idea partially because, and Scott kind of said this earlier, but the bowls all look so full. Like they look like extremely nutritious, heavy bowls of food.

And it's because of this lining of the bowl that creates like this really big bull that always kind of looks really full. Yeah. On the other hand, I feel like if I were to use this, I'd feel like a dog, [00:18:00] like how I, you know, they've done all these like creative things to make dogs more satisfied with less food.

Well, this is the , uh, this is the lunchbox problem, which is just like, this is cool and all, but once you use it once. Then you gotta, you gotta make sure you wash and clean it every single time. And yeah, I like this more because it is just a bowl though. Yeah. Where a lunchbox has like a hundred different pieces often that go into it.

Yeah. I just I'm out on the idea because I don't believe in the science of, if your brain sees a full bowl than it will get fuller faster. That just doesn't seem real to me. Yeah. But it's an interesting idea. I, I would rather just use a smaller fork and force myself to eat slower. So that's a good idea.

Let's let's market a toothpick on any girl and it's just like, literally, if you eat with this tiny little stick, it's really difficult to eat quickly. Um, okay. I got one last one here for you really quickly. Um, I really want to try this. So this is brilliant feel brilliant.com. I've we've talked about tons of [00:19:00] stuff like this before we made even have talked about this.

Um, but these are , uh, feel as great as you're supposed to naturally boost your energy focus and mood all without caffeine or other stimulants. So these are pills that look like big pills, man. Uh, and they have Palm Grande extract, green tea extract, Burdoch extract, Ginko extract. It's like a whole bunch of stuff that apparently.

Makes you feel nice. Why do you want to try this? I just, I think it would be fun to, to all of us take one before record and just see if it, like, if it's like at the end of it, like, did you feel any different we can trick ourselves. Yeah. It might even be more fun is if we gave , um, Diego, if we could somehow like placebo ourselves, right?

Like Diego. Gives us both a bottle and he, and one of the bottles is probably one of them was placebo. And at the end of the period of time, we each are like, do we think we were on the real thing of the placebo because of that truly genius idea that I just had, I'm going to buy it for the [00:20:00] podcast. Look, you have a time and you have a try one week for, for $1.

Right? That's that's the, the real hook. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm wondering how we can pull off the placebo. I wonder if you could, you could smash it up, but then it's like, does there's actually this blurb that talks about why it's best in the form that it's in. Oh, really? Can you buy like placebo pills?

Do you think? Oh, I surely like on Amazon now. I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah. I got to think there's sugar pills you could buy. The thing I'm worried about is like, with all the stuff that says it's in here, like yeah. I think this thing has a really particular taste. Yeah. So maybe, maybe you got a different chocolate.

So then we just , uh, uh, I think we, I think we can figure out a way to make the placebo work the test. Yeah. Cause even if, I mean, I've never seen these in person, so I could be maybe convinced that any white pill was this pill. How would I know the difference look big right now? And maybe by the time we [00:21:00] actually get this, they'll be whatever.

But yeah. Anyway, I w I really want to try it. I think it'd be fun to try. Uh, so yeah, brilliant connect. We'll let you know if this is just a bunch of crap or if the placebo effect works. Um, okay. Let's can do it for good to do about it yet. Andre. Um, let, let us now move to the main event here if you are. So I am so inclined, but before we move on, so as part of the discussion that we just passed, I looked up placebo pills on Amazon.

And boy, is there an interesting market on Amazon or the placebo pills? Well, so what's most interesting. That's marketed. Um, and I mean, by and large, these, when you search it, you're going to find mostly people that are selling capsules. So you can repackage your own Oh sure. Medication, but right up top, you'll see.

Zebo Zebo honest, placebo pellet designed to help you create a safe experience on your path to wellbeing. And Zibo is $20 for a. 45 pills that are just [00:22:00] placebo for the idea that, that the placebo effect is real. And the act of taking the pill will make you feel better. Interesting. Is that not fascinating as just a concept?

Huh? That's what it says. Zebra unique solution to promote wellbeing. We created a branded pill taking experience. And they don't tell you would send it like trust. That's just to make you feel better just by it. It basically says nothing. Now I it's clear that it is nothing. If you go down it's cellulose and gelatin, like literally nothing just by taking this you'll feel better.

Well, now we've got to try that too. That is bizarre. That is bizarre. Anyway. Anyway. Okay, Andre, top, top review. Sorry, sorry to keep interrupting. Tab review says best placebo pills. How would that, how does that work? Like these are the best placebos ever. I love these bladders crazy. [00:23:00] Anyway, that's Zibo the honest placebo pill.

That's hilarious. Okay, Andrew, I've got two ideas. One of them is , uh, smaller, but great. And another one is a little more fleshed out. So we'll say that one for the end. Yeah. So let's start with the first one. I wanted to make a joke like, so Scott is six foot and nine, five, six, I hope issues. So I felt like we could have made a joke there about how, like I'm smaller, but more significant.

And you're taller anyway. Let's hear your ideas. I'm rambling. Okay. So, so I recently was in the hospital with my newest born son, Ben. And as anybody who's ever been in a hospital knows it is not the most comfortable of places. Um, if you spent any time in a hospital, so I've spent some time in hospitals, never for the birth of a child yet fingers crossed.

Um, well, not really. [00:24:00] I probably. Anyway , uh, we, I, to get your personal, I don't plan on me or my fiance, having a child. Audrey is a surrogate physically. Exactly. Anyway , um, what are some of the reasons that it's really uncomfortable? So a baby or to be in the hospital? So one is that because it's so clinical , um, pillows are awful.

Blankets are awful. Uh, hospitals can only be so comfortable. And so because of that , um, Yeah. Th both for the, for the, you know, for my wife who was giving birth, like she it's like, we, we got to get out of this hospital as soon as we're in there. You know, what's the quickest we can get out. We want to sleep in our own beds.

Right. Uh, I ended up bringing my own pillow and blanket and even then I was still uncomfortable. Cause you're like on this really stiff couch. So it got me thinking, we pitched an idea on this show , uh, many moons ago called flight stop. And for the teams who haven't listened to flight stop. What flight stop is, is a, an idea of where inside of an airport, you can come and on, you know, on your flight to [00:25:00] JFK or to California, instead of like bringing a neck pillow and a blanket and a switch and all the stuff you just rent it, basically from landing to departure, right?

You could, you could rent kind of kits of things. Get a nice load, switch, some nice Bose headphones, a nice comfy blanket. Uh, you know, you pay 50 bucks, you have this nice, awesome. Instead of upgrading the first class, you just get something from flight stop and it's a lovely experience. Right. And there's other lots of other things to talk about in that episode, but it got me thinking, you know, why stop at the airport?

I would have paid money to rent. A comfortable experience inside of the hospital, I believe rented a Roku stick to watch movies because we didn't have, we just had basic cable. Yeah. I would have rented a Kindle for my wife that was full with books. I would have rented, you know, all sorts of things that get a nice, like a nicer pillow than the one that I had.

Um, you know, my kid not knowing this person and the last time my [00:26:00] kids came in for a little bit, I would have, I would've loved to have like a little kid distract my kids, you know, type of thing. Yeah. Uh, yeah, I just think there's a, there's a big market. And I know like, like you've taken your cats to vets before, like I'm thinking through all these places that you could have these basically like comfort and convenience, kiosks at the places where people are spending long durations of time and typically just waiting.

Yeah. Right. Exactly. Hey, it's a good idea. It's a really good idea. And. So flight stop, like I said, is like one of my favorite ideas of all time on the show, because it's so naturally intuitive. Like people hear it and they immediately are like, that is something that I really wish existed. And this idea gives me that exact same feeling, which is like, uh, not too long ago, we were waiting for a COVID test, which like COVID tests.

That's a whole different topic, but we were waiting, ultimately waited three and a half hours for a COVID test. Oh , um, like we had made an appointment, but we got [00:27:00] there and they were like, got it. We're just backed up. It's going to be three hours, but we were out of town. So we had to actually just wait for the tasks.

Like we couldn't just go home, like we would here. Um, and we literally just sat there, like talking and like on our phones and really uncomfortable, like in a waiting room. And how much better would have been, honestly, just with like a blanket. But even bigger than that is like how much better would it have been if we had had a switch, like, yeah, it would have been baller.

Right. And it's just like, it's such an obvious additional revenue stream. And what I think about for hospitals though, is like every hospital already has a spot for African flight stop and it's the crappy hospital gift shop full of like kitschy stuff that no one buys. Yeah. Just like rip that out and put a like, whatever this is.

Yeah, exactly. You put a slight stop there. And put blankets and switches and Kindles and iPads and all this stuff to make people more comfortable. And then, because it's all now part of [00:28:00] like this unified hospital experience, then when you are discharged, just like turn it all into the nurses station. And somebody comes around every day and brings it back to the front area.

The whole I can really think of is like that hotels might not want to because of germs, I guess. Which is like, yeah, but by the same token, hospitals are fine with you bringing in whatever you want from home. All right. Which could be carrying any number of things where it's like, if this, if all this stuff goes through the hospital system, they can disinfect and sanitize everything a lot more effectively than people that are just like putting together gym bags from home.

Right? Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, I think of these, these little comfort, you know, maybe you call it comfy house or something like that, but you, I think you, you, you, you think of places cause they're even there even things like hotels where like, think, think of those times where you've been, you've had to [00:29:00] stay on a work trip and you didn't bring the things you wanted.

So like, even if it's, maybe you skipped the flight, stop in the airport, but. In the, in the hotel kiosk or outside, or, or nearby, you know, at the, at the enterprise rent a car or whatever, like you just have these amenities, these yeah. These things, you have rents, it's actually crazy that hotels don't capitalize more on this.

Right. Because especially in like the more value hotel range, so like your best Western. Yeah. Your best westerns, your Gazans, you're like low level of Marriott's even , um, Where cause, you know, if you go and stay at , um, the four seasons, like you're going to be annoyed. If they're trying to upcharge you for a switch, like that won't make sense.

But at some of these like lower level, you know, value a hotel chains where they totally recognized that they probably aren't the best hotel in the area. Yeah. The ability to just like quickly rent out like a pill, you know, a memory foam pillow or something like that. Um, [00:30:00] or, you know, the room doesn't have.

Like, eh, deluxe cables. So you want to rent a Roku stack or something like that. Like all of that makes a lot of sense. And also hotels are another place where you actually spend a lot of time just waiting around, like waiting for a flight, waiting for a check in time. Like there's a lot of room to improve that experience too.

One thing that we've never really nailed down with fight stop or with this idea is like price point questions. Yeah. And I wonder, so you were just at the hospital. So I don't know, let's say that the only thing that they could deal with from your , um, intake to your discharge, how much would you have paid to rent a switch?

Let's say the animal world where you didn't have a switch that you can bring from home. Uh, and, and I think w w when flight stuff I talked about, like, it's hard to put a price on individual things, probably the way to do it is to package stuff together where you have like the. The kit with six things in it, or, you know, four or five things in [00:31:00] it.

Yeah. Um, so then maybe it's easier to do a blanket and a pillow and some slippers or something. Yeah. And I think that being around 20 bucks , uh, you know, where you're getting it for a couple of days, like, I think I would have been fine doing that. I think it, if I knew I was going to the hospital for several days, And, and I was able to get a switch and kind of electronics package and a couple of things, like, I think I would for sure pay 40, 50 bucks to like, have that stuff, you know, especially if I didn't have a switch, like I have switch, but yeah.

You know, probably most people don't or most people like, for example, I have a switch, but realistically won't even want it to in the hospitals, like watch a movie. And I have an iPad, which is convenient, then I have to watch a movie on, but I don't really have any, I like movies downloaded to it. Yeah. And I'm in a hospital where the wifi is like not going to be the best in the [00:32:00] world.

So the ability to rent an iPad that already has some movies on it. Um, Allah like Delta, just stuff like that. Hey, it's going to be a big value. Add on just bringing my own iPad. There are things like that where it's like, Hey, rent the iPad for 10 bucks and Kelly's movies on it like that. I think anybody would sign up for that.

Um, so I think there's lots of things like that. Anyway, company, house flight, stop, whatever, and to call it, I think there's just a much bigger market now that I, as I, as a kind of think through and have gone through an experience where I would've paid for more luxuries than, than I had access to it's Canadian.

It's a really good idea. What do you have for me? I saw this on Tik TOK, and this is like the King of all underdeveloped ideas, but I know that you'll have a lot to contribute on this. So there's a place in Tennessee and this is the only place that I could find like this, that, have you ever been like Korean barbecue?

Yeah. So it's like Korean barbecue is a. [00:33:00] Yeah. It's like a D well, so Korean barbecue though, like as a restaurant experience, like where they have a grill and the table, when you like throw meats and stuff on it. So now you're talking about teppanyaki, which is a different, no, no, no, no, no, no. I know what you're talking about, where it's like, yeah, it's, it's a personal grill.

You can get yourself like , um, so that's a really fine idea, right? Like truly very, very fine. But I saw a tick dock today. There was a place in Tennessee that had. A, it was like a brunch place. And you could cook your breakfast on like your own little griddle at your table that was built into your table.

Just like Korean barbecue is built into your table. And I was like, this could be like a major revolution in like the Sunday brunch area. Do you disagree? You're making your disagree face? No, I'm just trying to think through it. So for example, they bring up the menu. And so if you haven't been to Korean barbecue before essentially they bring up this menu, it has like a hundred different things on it, [00:34:00] because what they do is you order like the teriyaki beef, and they bring out a plate with a bunch of raw teriyaki beef.

That's been marinated and I'm sharing like a huge event or teriyaki for however long. Um, and you then take it and you put it on the grill and you cook it for however much time. Yeah, until it looks done or until it there's usually maybe like a card that says how long different meats take to cook and then you pull it off and you eat it.

And it's fun because you're like cooking your own food and it's fine. Cause you can order these like little Allah cart type items. So they pictured it for this like cooker on breakfast, on the griddle at your table is much like, um, Korean barbecue. I don't want it to just be like the cheap $20. Oster griddle that just like sits on the table.

It's built into the table. It's a good experience. Um, and you get a little menu and it's like chocolate chip pancakes, blueberry pancakes. And then they come around with a little like cute picture of pancake batter of your various order and you put it on and you are [00:35:00] sausage links, and then you put sausage links on McGriddle and you let them cook a little and you play around with them.

You order bacon and you put your bacon on your griddle. Then you cook it all in you, as it finishes, you take it off and you eat it and then if you're still hungry, you order something more. Wouldn't that be awesome. I think that would be awesome. So, so is this is, this is what you're saying. This breakfast thing does that exist, or I read that there was a place in Tennessee that has this.

That was what I saw on the tic-tac. But it took talk was like very non-descriptive. And when I searched for the place, I couldn't find it on the internet. Interesting. So I am sure that it exists, but I think that there's room to bring it to your local market, for sure. Yeah. Um, and then, I mean, obviously in a perfect world, it would be so wildly successful that you could franchise it, but for theaters out there that love brunch and want to like bring more experiential food type options.

The griddle at your table, I think is a really cool [00:36:00] solution. So what's stopping you on Dre from doing a similar thing with , uh, hamburgers. Um, I mean the only thing that I would say about, like, why don't you do this for every food is just that Oh yeah. Not every food. Yeah. I mean, it's like burgers are more complex and they create more smoke and it's just like a different cooking process where pancakes.

Uh, pancakes and like bacon and sausage cooked breakfast food inside. Yeah. Also they cook fast. Right. Which is part of, what's fun about green. Barbecue is it's it's thin strips of meat that cook in just a couple of minutes. Yeah. And that seems to be the sweet spot where it's like fun and it's not like.

You're doing too much of your own cooking or too much of your own work. Yeah. So I feel like brunch is a good sweet spot for that kind of stuff. Yeah. I, I remember one of the first ideas I had forever ago when I did, when I realized I was an idea, guy was I had a buddy who worked at Coldstone and I thought to [00:37:00] myself, Coldstone is cool, but I have a hard time seeing Coldstone lasting forever.

Uh, you said that, I said that , uh, I know why wouldn't it last forever? Well, I, I, I, so in my mind I was like, yeah, like ice cream is good and all, but like, I stopped going to Coldstone. As I imagine most people do you go to cold? Cause he's never been there. You've got a few times then you just said kind of solid stopped going to cold set.

Like most people don't go to Coldstone regularly. Cause it's like kind of an experience to go right. Yeah, once you did it, it's like, wow. Ice cream, ice cream is ice cream. Right. Anyway, my thought was it's, it's surprising to me that Colson doesn't make a, doesn't double the size of their stores and basically have hot rocks and cold stones.

And it's the same process. We're basically doing smash burgers. , you know, it's what do you want? Onions, great. Smash them in, what do you want? This case? Jalapeno is awesome. And then they make the burger for you. And then yeah. Now you slide down to the Coldstone [00:38:00] and then you do the same type of thing. Right.

And then you're having lunch there also, and you can get lunch with a small ice or whatever. Right. Um, and so this, this has made me think of that, which is like experiential dining, I think is definitely. On the rise. Um, you know, and the things like teppanyaki and, you know, we've pitched ideas. Yeah. They talked about the need for warrant experience.

Yeah, no, I, as I think through it, yeah. I really do think that if I like, if it's like, yeah, well this and this and this great, here's the hash Browns and put them down. You get, you get that big , uh, the big metal flipper, and then you get like a little bottle of cooking oil or whatever, and some butter. Um, and yeah, you're kind of like in charge of making sure that it like flips well and yeah, you were the arbiter of your, so I found the restaurant and it's called the P funky griddle in Nashville.

And I sent a link in the chat because God, I want you to go to it and click the video in the upper right [00:39:00] corner. The P funky griddle. It's clearly very small. I think they maybe have like four tables. Uh, it's a small, small place. But watch that video and tell me that this is not the best idea ever. So it shows them like making pancakes on the griddle, adding mix into their pancakes, making it a little omelet on the griddle.

Well, French toast action. Okay. This is awesome. I want this so bad. You can make a grilled cheese on the griddle. You can make French toast on the griddle. Yeah. So P funky girdle, all probably the worst name. Yes. A truly horrible name, but a truly novel concept. It's a cute little, yeah. This is like a small looks like you can maybe choose to or not to have that.

Um, but yeah, yeah, you don't want this so bad and those are kind of small. It's kind of meant for four people. I do think having bigger tables, having it be like a. A cool experience. And again, especially where you may, you [00:40:00] throw in a little dash of what temp and Yaki offers, which is like, Hey, you know, if you do this, you know, your, your waiter is like giving you tips on like how to flip it.

You know how to flip it up in the air and like, go watch this. If you do this, you know, uh, yeah, this is a waste of your eggs, don't stick or whatever. Um, Yeah, I know. I wanted you to be more interested in this idea to be honest, because the more I think about it, the more obsessed and with this, like it makes me honestly want to go out and buy a griddle tomorrow.

I'm going to start engineering a table. I've got a griddle almost every morning. I cook a lot of breakfast, so you get it. I get it. Now. It'd be fun if you could. Okay. I can't even begin. So it's kind of used to work together. How fun would it have been if you and me and our team could have gone down a log griddle experience together, that would have been awesome.

I often, I often opine that I hate that there was not a good. Like a fancy breakfast place anywhere nearby? No, there's um, there's just like original [00:41:00] pancake house, you know, it just, it said it's good, but like, I want like a nice gourmet, this joint I ain't right. Original pancake house was the first place even.

I went, once restaurants opened up again. Okay. So I'm going to throw a curve ball here. I was going to pitch one of the, I think I'm going to save it. Cause I have another idea. I want to talk to them about really quickly. Um, cause I, cause it is a workshop, but it. It's something that we could use and what we're doing right now.

Okay. And I think there's an angle here and maybe it's stupid, but so. So Scott is the King of the sizzle. He makes me want, the idea is so bad that even if it's horrible, I'll celebrate just cause they didn't want it is. So there are warehouses and office buildings that are often vacant, right? Whether it's it's for lease, right.

Like I drive by places like, Hey, we got rooms released. Right. [00:42:00] And there's a pioneer in this space of capitalizing on , uh, On places that are for lease that's , uh, our short term, which is spirit Halloween, right? So this is the idea. So it's, it's a, it's a service called squatters. And the idea is this , uh, if you have a flexible enough business, you can come in and say, Hey, I'm not going to sign a lease, but I'm going to squat in your space.

Because the moment you do sign lease will be gone within an hour. Right? And so they're basically leasing out their space for pennies on the dollar, because otherwise it's just sitting there and, and th the, the trade-off is, Hey, we at a moment's notice are evicted. We can't put anything up, but like for small, nimble operations that just need internet and they need indoors and need some space.

Uh, I think there's an angle here for a service where they, they just basically are [00:43:00] facilitating these businesses saying, Hey , uh, we'll, you know, keep us up to date on your inventory. And, and we have ,  we have all these clients who like a podcast or like a small store and you take what , um, kind of these new, we work operations where there, you know, it's a shared workspace.

Right. But they're trying to get you into an agreement. They're there. They got a hold. Space there, but like there's tons of office space that are just like vacant. And so I think there's, I think there's room for a squatter type business where you can get in and out, you're there for weeks at a time. You might be moving around.

Uh, yeah. What do you think? This is a good idea. I'm one of the reasons that it strikes me particularly is I was surprised Southeast today. I work completely from home, but formerly I, and before the pandemic I had coworking space. And what kind of annoyed me about it was that it was a six month agreement.

Like it wasn't just like come in, come out. Um, and I think about this all the time when, I mean, I think of it actually related to like homelessness. Which is like not [00:44:00] the best business model, but it's like, there's all these vacant hotel rooms and all these vacant, like heated spaces in winter that nobody is using, which kind of annoys me.

But I like the idea, which is just like there. And I think I understand why you're saying it, which is like this podcast often needs a space to be well, and we're nimble enough where it's like, we could be anywhere. Um, but we need some, we just need a spot. How cool would it be? Hey, a thousand dollars until I get a one-year lease.

I know that's what they want.  but we don't need that. And like, we just aren't even sure what the future holds, right. From a space perspective for how cool would it be if there was a, what are we calling this idea? Squatters, squatters app. And I'd like just lists a bunch of places near you. And like the daily or hourly rate.

And you could just like click book and you understand that it's only for X number of time only until something else comes up. But until then it's yours. It's like, that's a really efficient [00:45:00] way to use space. Right? Yeah. And then it's also, it's like, so what do you need to do then is like integrate with these like RFID lock systems to instantly provision you a key when you buck so that you can just like, hold your phone up and get in.

Yeah, like that's, that would be so seamless and so awesome. And it's dumb that nothing like that exists with how much vacant space there is in this company. You think you could find places that are often empty or they go through long periods of time where they're empty and, and you are brokering agreements with them again, much like spirit Halloween.

They're saying, Hey, we don't want this all year. Give us this vacant building for one month of the year and then we'll be out. Yeah, and there'll be out and they get, and they get that space for really cheap. That's a good idea. And I think, I think you could even, yeah. Do it in places like that, where squatters goes in and they set up tables that are like desks, working spaces, they have lockers, they have whatever, you know, locked, locked areas or something where [00:46:00] it's like, Hey, you can come in here.

And our AR whatever is that we can pack everything up in less than a day. So once, once it's ready, it's done, but you're getting paid something other than just nothing. Yeah. We'll pay your energy bill. It's a good idea. It's a good idea. Yeah. Like I know this podcast would pay for such surveys and I have a feeling that there are many podcasts in America.

Yeah. They just need a studio. They just need a space that they can go. That's not their house. That's our business. But there are like billions of businesses or a lot of businesses, not billions. That needs just like temporary space or need space for a day or week or night. And the rise of we work and we work type things, killing, and spaces and whatever, like is only a Testament of that, of like people just need a place to do work, you know, for short periods of time or whatever that's going to do that.

Squatters squatters. That's going to over the episode, Andre. I think we got a good one here. I think so, too. Um, [00:47:00] where can the Phoebes. Uh, contact us. So the very best place is WW dot. Go steal this idea.com, where you can find links to our Instagram or Twitter and everything in between. Um, you can follow Scott and I directly on Twitter at underwater zero and at Scacchi amazing.

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