9 drunk ideas that sound stupid (but are secretly genius)

21:00Sam Parr:Definitely not spray. Agreed. What's it called? The Irish... Irish gold. Irish gold. Or whatever it's called. Kerry gold. Kerry gold. So you slice. Yeah. You drop in the pan. It starts melting. Did you put too much? Did you put too little? Well, your pot committed to whatever decision you just made. You put too little. Now you got to have ketchup butter where you're trying to catch up by adding more, but now you got two butters melting at different rates. One's going to start, right? That's a problem. Put too much. Now you're just a butterball. Pans. So that's a problem. You got to nurse the thing.

21:33You're sitting there swirling. Well, I saw something and I'd like to show this to you. And you're going to think this is a stupid idea. I can tell you that right now. Isn't that the point? Well, the secret point is, I think I want you to like these ideas. But I want to just explain this thing. So you're going to see this video. You're going to think this is stupid.

21:51Sam Parr:It's a person who is putting a stick of butter, she's melting it, and she's putting it in an empty deodorant canister. This way, she's going to roll out the deodorant, aka the butter, and put it on the pan. So she's doing it on the pan, she's doing it on her toast, she's just rolling the butter like a deodorant stick. Super easy, no mess, control your volume, spread evenly, tons of dispensing problems solved. Now, you might think, again, stupid idea, but I'd like to draw your attention to the numbers in the corner. 2.8 million people have liked this video. 27 ,000 people have commented on this video.

22:32They love it. They hate it. It doesn't matter. It grabbed their attention. It's a very attention-getting product. And I just want to point out that in the comments, if you go study the comments of this post as I did, and I ran a sentiment analysis and, you know. Crunched the numbers. Yeah, it was pretty advanced statistical stuff. I don't want to make you feel dumb by telling you everything that I did, but I will tell you one thing that I found. There is a non-zero number of people who are like, oh, I do that. I've been doing that for years. And I don't know if you've ever seen, have you ever seen a diagram of what's called a happy path?

23:04Do you know what a happy path is? No. Is that the thing where someone walks across the grass and diagonally? Exactly. Like somebody paved a sidewalk to walk to someplace, but then everybody wants to walk a different direction. And so many people want to walk in a different direction that they basically, it forms a trail. And it's a trail of evidence that this is actually what people wanted. That's what I found. I found a happy path here. I think that people want a new form factor for this. And if you think that's silly, I'd draw your attention to something else very cool. Have you seen the new Vacation whipped cream sunscreen?

23:37Sam Parr:Yeah, those guys are wild. I've not seen the, I don't know about the new one, but I've seen a company called Vacation that makes whipped cream sunscreen. They have a new version. there's yeah i think i mean i think i explained it pretty well there um so basically they have this new form factor for sunscreen where they do it in a whipped cream bottle this thing's taken off goes viral every time on social media because it's super fun you spray it it looks like a dollop of whipped cream and it's just a more fun way to apply sunscreen uh my kids in their school right now is i was swim team season the most popular form of sunscreen was like a makeup brush powder So you just like powder the thing and you just like rub their face with a brush because kids don't like when you sort of have to put sunscreen like cream on them and rub it in.

24:21It kind of bothers them or the spray goes everywhere. So form factor changes, underrated, butter in a deodorant stick, make the butter that way. Make the butter a roll-on butter. And I think you have a pretty killer innovation in the butter aisle. The butter aisle is pretty stale. There's not a lot going on there. We got salted and unsalted. That's pretty much all we have.

24:42Sam Parr:There's like a, we talked about this a long time ago, but there's like a consistent pattern of New York places that go viral for like six months. And it's where you take a food and you do, there's like four categories. It's like you take a side food and you make it the main thing. So like instead of cookie dough ice cream, it's just cookie dough. You take like a normal food and you make it a different color, like a rainbow croissant. Yeah. And then the third one is you take like a thing and you make it really large or really small. Like that little, what are they called? Like Melissa's cupcakes.

25:20Sam Parr:I forget what they're called. Like little mini cupcakes. Yeah. Tiny food or gigantic food. Yeah. Like a 10 pound burger. Yeah. And we had, I forgot his name. The guy who started Groons. Chad. Yeah. Chad. Chad was awesome. And he was like, kept talking about like different forms. And he made it almost sound like, well, I just took athletic greens and I put it in gummy because it's easier. I just changed the form. Right. He didn't say that. We said that. And he was like, I'm not going to say that, but yes. But that is 100 % true. This whipped cream stuff, another great. I mean, that is great. Just it's, I don't even know.

25:54Sam Parr:I bet you, I would imagine that this vacation sunscreen stuff, it's just fine. But the fact that they like put it in this weird form makes me want it and it looks delicious. Right now, one of the biggest trends is liquid vitamins. I don't even know why it's a trend exactly. You have to store it in the fridge. It doesn't taste that great, but some people want it. So like Mary Ruth, she's built like an empire on liquid vitamins right now. Roe, Roe Nutrition. They're like, they're selling, they're doing like, you know, millions and millions of dollars in revenue by just changing the form factor from vitamins are gummies and pills.

26:28Nope, now they're liquid that you store in the fridge and you drink cold because different people prefer things to different things. And it also gets attention. It gives you a reason to buy it, RTB. By the way, I think I realized why I like drunk ideas so much. Because some of them are like legit? No, I think it's because it's like a challenge. It's like, how believable can you make this terrible idea? It's like, you know, debate club where they're just like, you have to argue. You know, it's not your real opinion. They just assign it to you. You're for this or against this topic. That's what this episode is for me.

26:57It's like my debate club practice where it's like, take any idea and figure out a way to make it sound like half plausible.

27:04Sam Parr:yeah until you're like given the worst topic ever I remember in debate class they had give me this stuff that like capitalism is bad or something like that and I'm like I'm gonna fail I can't do it you start talking you rip your shirt Hulk Hogan style then you just come out in favor for it because you just can't do it it's sort of like being a defense attorney my sister was a defense attorney and she like had to like defend him I'm like how on earth do you do that that seems so hard to be able to just like defend someone you know is guilty That's us right now. Hey, let's take a quick break. You know that feeling when strategy is done, the brief is written, everyone's aligned, and you realize someone still has to sit down and actually create all the content?

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28:04Sam Parr:Ari, you seem like you're itching to say something. What do you got? All right. Have you guys seen this? Go to tincan.kids. Oh, my God. I've heard about this. So tincan.kids. Can you explain this? Everyone is sharing their numbers for their kids. So this is like a landline, but it works through the Wi-Fi. And you can, like, pre-program numbers in it. This is so awesome. Super safe to use. It's a physical phone, right? It's a physical phone. It's a physical phone, old school, with like a swirly cord. That was always fun to play with while you're on the phone. Look, they feature it right on there.

28:41Twirl that cord. Okay. So speaking my language. But this reminded me of a time a few years ago where I was like, you know what? I'm going to get rid of my smartphone. And what ended up happening with that was that I was like, okay, well, now I need a Garmin GPS. I need an alarm clock. I need to get a camera. You have to like unbundle all of these things. So when I'm looking at this, I'm like, okay, so these kids can reach each other at home, but how are you going to catch them? So I was like, how about beepers for kids? I love how some entrepreneurs right now are trying to ride the AI wave. And Ari's like, I'm going to ride this tin can wave.

29:24Not a lot of people surfing this tin can wave right now, but I see the future. Wait, by the way, a little stat on this. So the thing costs like$10 a month as a subscription to use. And they say they've sold hundreds of thousands. They just raised, they've raised a total of$15.5 million. I'm looking at it now. To grow the business. So you buy the phone for$100 and then it's$10 a month to be able to call non-tin-can phones. So, okay, free to call other tin cans, $10 a month to be able to call normal people's phones. This is awesome. The school in Kansas delivered free tin cans to 200 plus families and students.

30:01it's a it's like kind of riding the trend of getting kids off of smartphones as you said and it's super like viral like looking product like it makes you kind of stop and the name is

30:11Sam Parr:great and stuff like that yeah they keep selling out have you guys seen um uh what's the little radio sean that i have at my house tony's tony there's tony's is one and then the other one is called like yodo is it called yodo okay uh it's like a little box and there's cards you buy the cards for$10 and cards are sort of like a CD album where you like one card each will have an album. We have Beatles, we have Frozen, and then you can also record your own and you put it in this box and it plays music and it's screen-free music. It's so good. And I think that business is doing north of a hundred million in revenue.

30:46It's music, but it's also like nighttime stories and things like that. They do a little bit more too.

30:52Sam Parr:And you could also record your own. So I actually recorded like, or we had grandparents record a story and we put it on our phone and then the phone can then be attached to a card. And it's like, it's absolutely amazing. This business is so good. But Ari, I think your beeper idea is genuinely a good idea. I don't even, I mean, I almost feel like, are we going to need to edit it out of drunk ideas and put it into a main episode? Because kids love, like my kids love anything they could take with them. In fact, it's the bane of my existence that anywhere we want to go, they bring like so much junk.

31:23It's like he's bringing his Pokemon book collection when we're going swimming. It's like, you don't need a binder full of Pokemon cards. It's completely irrelevant. Or we're going to a doctor's checkup and they pack like a backpack of junk. And so they'd like having things with them and they, uh, they like wearing things. They like, you know, if you give them like a bracelet or a necklace or a chain or whatever, they like that type of stuff. Uh, we got them like a fanny pack. They loved a fanny pack. Like they kind of just like having their own stuff that they can bring with them when they go out.

31:50And so the idea of a clip-on beeper, I know for a fact, my kids would love that. Now, the question is, what do you do with it? Who beeps them and what is going on? And so like, you know, cause if I'm with them, you know, they're never really alone, right? My kids are not really like by themselves where I would need to page them or beep them to get them to like do anything. This, okay. This actually is one of the things that I think is going to be a future trends. So this is TikTok research that I'm quoting here. How old are your kids, Ari? Mine are nine and seven. Okay. So they're more away from you more often than mine.

32:25I got like, yeah. So she was saying this woman, this like TED talk lady was saying that the statistic was like 60 % of parents won't let their kid go to the next aisle over in a grocery store. And my thinking is Ari, are you a 60 or are you a 40?

32:44Sam Parr:Yeah. I'm a four. I was trying to convince my kids to walk home from the bus. To go get the groceries themselves. Charge it. I think there's going to be a backlash. I think there's going to be a trend later. Oh, like free range kids. Free range, more independence, unreachable, but still reachable. I think you're 100 % right. I saw a TikTok that was like, she just said free range kids. And I immediately was like, yes, what is that? I need to know what that is. I vibe with whatever that philosophy is. and I know I'm over-parenting. So definitely, I don't even know where to start, but I'm in line with that philosophy.

33:21It'll be a counter trend to like a lot of parents' instincts, which is to like over-parent everything, over-coach, over-parent, over-control kids. And it's exhausting for the parent and it's kind of exhausting for the kids. And you raise like a more fragile kid is the idea when you do that versus like letting them build a little independence. Are you 60? Are you 40? Grocery store? I probably would not let them go in aisle. Well, I mean, they do. So like, but I'm not like trying to let them just wander around by themselves. What about walking to school? No chance. No chance.

33:52Sam Parr:What age? At what age can you, can they do that? Dude, these are tough questions. Wow. I mean, I kind of think like a 9-10. Like I think that's when I would be like. That seems super reasonable. Yeah, agreed. But I still might be like walking 200 meters behind them, you know, for now. For a little while at least. Or I need the beeper. I need the air tag on them to see their progress and see where they're going, which I guess is the opposite of free range. I'm just sort of like, dude, I know people on them. I was out with this or we met, hung out with a couple recently. And, you know, the Nanit, like the baby monitor with the camera, the baby band.

34:27Sam Parr:They had one of those things. I don't think it was a Nanit, but they had the camera and it was on their 12 year old, like in bed. And I was like, you know, at what age are you going to like start exploring and doing some crazy stuff and don't want a camera on you? But it was insane, these people. I was like, you guys, 12 is old enough. All right. You're going to see the stuff you don't want to watch. So what would be the twist on this beeper thing? So what would they get? So one is, were you going down the path of location tracking or no? No, it's like, okay, so now just riffing off of the tin can.

34:59If your friend can only reach you, it works the exact same way a beeper used to work. I think I'm confused about beepers. You beep in the number you want them to call back. That's the way beepers work.

35:11Sam Parr:Dude, imagine this. You see a small, you have a tiny screen. You basically can only see like 10 numbers. And so oftentimes the 10 numbers would just be the number you want the person to call back. But if it's your dad, like what I used to do with my dad, I would just type in 911 and he knew to call home. I honestly think I'm going to make this idea. I think this is like my daughter. If her friend had one of these and she had one of these and she could send little secret messages basically. but like they're obviously innocent because there's only limited things you can really say, whether it's like, I think you could do voice to text now, right?

35:43So I think you could hold a button on your beeper, say something into it and that would turn into text because voice to text is awesome now. So like whisper flow, I think you could send emojis or whatever, but basically anything. If they could just buzz each other, basically back and forth, they would do that all day. They would never stop. And the profits would never stop, Ari. It's free. You pay one cent a message and we just count on the addiction. Today's podcast is brought to you by my friends at Mercury. They make the world's best banking product. I think you know this already. I use Mercury for all of my businesses.

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36:57Sam Parr:All right, what do we got, Sean? What do you got? Okay, here, I'm gonna, okay, here, I have one that's an AI defense called Slop Stopper. And then I have another one called Mexican Benihanas, which I think you kind of understand the idea. You tell me which one you want. Is Benihanas not Mexican? What is it? Japanese? Benihanas. What is this? It's like hibachi, which is Japanese. I mean, they make like fried rice and they toss like shrimp into your mouth. So it's not Mexican food. As Japanese are known to do. Oh, yeah. It sounds like you want Mexican Benihanas. All right, so here's the thing. You know it already from the name.

37:35So in your mouth? Yeah, exactly. Chips, dips, guac cannon in the third course. Tell me you wouldn't want the guac cannon. Open your mouth. I'm not opening my mouth. So the best cuisine is Mexican food. I don't even think we really need to talk much about that. It's the best cuisine. The most fun dining environment is chef making food where the table is the stove, the guy's making it for you, fresh as can be, Food to mouth doesn't even hit the plate. Unbelievable experience. Pre-canned jokes, magic tricks, blah, blah, blah. You're sitting in a semicircle. So I think Benihana has already found an optimal food social experience.

38:14I think Mexican food has found the ideal food. One plus one equals three. Great.

38:21Sam Parr:I'm in. Have you seen the box? fajita, just a open casket fajita right in front of you right there. You know, when you bring fajitas to the table, they already bring it in a flaming skillet. Come on, let's make the table the skillet. Mariachi bands entertainment is built in. I've already mentioned the guac cannon, and I also have one more innovation that I was planning to keep close to the vest, but in the spirit of transparency, salsa lazy river running around the table at all times. constant motion salsa just dip as you go

39:02Sam Parr:were you laughing at yourself when you wrote that down babe i got it no i was like salsa lazy river that is primo shit i was like impressed with myself last night i was like that is a great I mean, that was the cherry on top. That's so good. I mean, I don't even know what to say. That's great. Benny Hanna's annual revenue, 300 to 500 million a year. Have you seen the documentary on Benny Hanna, the founder? No. Dude, look him up. I read his story before. He doesn't even have a great story. Yeah, his name's Rocky Aoki. You know who is, which is a great name. They should have called it Rocky Aoki.

39:45Sam Parr:You know who his son is, is Steve Aoki, yeah. And he was kind of like a wild man. Imagine being Steve Aoki and you're not the coolest guy in your family. It says that he competed in Japan in wrestling in the Olympics. And then he was amazing at track and field. But then he comes to New York, and I think he starts an ice cream truck, which goes okay. And then he eventually starts Benihana's, which goes public. And while he's doing this, he does all these weird competitions. Like, I think he was a professional powerboat racer. At one point, he, like, set a record for, like, flying a hot air balloon, like, across some distance.

40:23Sam Parr:And he even got in trouble by the SEC for insider trading because I think he was trying to, like, buy back Benihana. And he, like, thought, like, a bad report was going to come out, something crazy like that. But he's, like, this, like, amazing entrepreneur with a crazy, crazy, crazy story. he passed away at age 69 due to pneumonia accomplished with a liver of cancer and hep c yeah so we like to feel like you didn't need to add the hep c in there it says that his hep c was reportedly because his hep c came from a blood transfusion after a speedboat crashed under the golden gate bridge first of all you did a cover story on this guy for the hustle this photo you have of him absolute gangster Look at this guy.

41:07I love this guy. By the way, his quote at the top of this is maybe the tagline for the podcast. Money's not everything, just 99%. Rocky Aoki.

41:20Sam Parr:This guy's awesome, right? Classic. Classic Rocky. All right. Who's got one, Sam? I blew my load early on, dog. You had one? It was kind of one and a half. Bro, I was setting the expectations low, and you somehow? You somehow, you came in below. They're just so much lamer than y 'all's. Okay, let's end with this. So about eight months ago, we did this thing. So with Hampton, we build core groups. So it's a group of eight people. Are you doing a Hampton ad instead of a drunk idea? No. That's an incredible pivot. So we make - A Trump-esque double down on your part. I'm never saying sorry. We make core groups in different cities.

42:03Sam Parr:And so like if we have like six people in Austin and they need a core group, we have to go out and find like three people that'd be a good fit for them. And so we hired this kid. We came up with this idea because we couldn't find a good service that did this. But we hired this kid and we paid him$100 a person. And he went and he found, I think, 200 people that could be potential fits for that core group. And he researched each person. And we sent this thing we call bulky mail. But that's like a direct marketing term. But we sent a gift that was super customized and directly related to that person.

42:38Sam Parr:So for example, there was a company called Honey Bookkeeping. It was like a bookkeeping service. And we sent them this artisanal, amazing honey. And we wrote this special letter just for them. And it's taken about six or seven months in order to get the ROI data on this. but it was one of our best marketing channels where we like made this super customized gifts. The problem was that I had to find a kid who like kind of knew how to do this, but we were just making it up as we went. And so I think that someone can truly make this a product where you upload your lead list and you make heavily, heavily customized gifts based off the person's social media or their website.

43:22That's a great story. Good recovery. there was a guy who was doing something called jumbo mail or dumbo mail or something like that and his tagline was every nobody opens their mail everybody opens a package and um i was like yep actually makes total sense and it was like a big kind of like what you call bulky like kind of like looking package and then you put whatever you want inside but i don't think he was doing the full customization for sales but that's pretty cool i like that idea how much would you pay to send those out, right? You have a pretty high LTV product. We are paying$100. Per person.

43:57Per person, yeah. That's probably too low for like buying stuff, putting it in a package, sending it out, doing the research. Like that doesn't make sense, right? It'd have to be like much more than that.

44:05Sam Parr:Yeah. I mean, it was just like a kid doing a one-off thing for us. So like he probably made... But you had to include the cost of the stuff inside. It could have been$200, but a lot of the gifts weren't expensive. They were just very relevant. So like someone could have tweeted out their favorite band and it was like, a vintage t-shirt of that band or something like that. Like it wasn't like, or for the bee thing, it was like a$20 thing of honey. But then it was a handwritten letter. And the ROI on this marketing campaign that we did was amazing. It was really good. It was very, very, very good.

44:38Sam Parr:And there's this other company called World 50. Have you ever heard of World 50? No. World 50 is a community for Fortune 5000 executives. It does hundreds of a million a year in revenue. If you go to their website, you will not see anything about it other than like a login. And the way that they get a large percentage of their customers is sending mail, like really cool letters to executives. And so that's where we were inspired by it. Very effective. Very cool. Ari, did you have one more? Otherwise, I can bring us home. Are you just going to? I also blew my load, so. You're a load blower, huh?

45:16Sam Parr:Oh, you're Sean. I'm a little different when you say it for some reason. No, you had another one. before Mexican Berijanas. I got several more, but I mean, now it's embarrassing for you guys. So I will graciously pretend that I was also out of ideas. No, tell me SlopStop. Oh, SlopStop. This is stolen from a guy. I got to find him on Twitter. Basically, what he realized is like, hey, you know how AI is making it really easy to do like mass outreach, mass personalized outreach. It's like, you know, here's an AI sales, SDR, right? A sales development rep. So they scrape email addresses, they email you, they text you, they call you.

45:54It seems like it's from a real person, but it's not. And so that's just going to be like a huge problem in the future. So this guy said, if you can't beat him, join him. So what he did was a very interesting thing. He created the defense. He was like, I'll catch the slop. So he basically, you reach out to him, his AI will reply. It'll ask several questions. You need to now go research and reply to those questions. And he says, you know what? I'm kind of interested in a call. Let's book a call. He books a call. And, you know, it basically like just wastes the other person's time right back. And I thought, oh, that's kind of cool.

46:28And I thought he should go further. He should have an AI show up to the call. And on the call, he should ask more questions and request detailed follow-ups that they have to go produce, you know, case studies and whatever else they're trying to sell. And then he should ask for the contract. Be like, I think I'm almost ready to sign here and get the contract. Then he'll send back red lines, absurd red lines. Now you're paying a lawyer to have to deal with that. And at the last minute, he just ghosts you and never comes back. And I think that is going to be the defense that you need to stop the insane amount of slop you're going to have coming at you from sales reps.

46:58If you're any kind of business owner, you're just going to get bombarded from all directions.

47:03Sam Parr:So at The Hustle, we sent so many emails and we would get like tens of thousands of vacation responders and stuff like that in like the company inbox. And I would browse them to see if there's anything interesting. What would have possibly been interesting? Like sometimes people would actually tell us, like it wouldn't just be, it would be replies. Even if we didn't ask for a reply, people would reply back with like interesting insights. And there was this one service, you might remember the name of it. I can't remember the name, but it was like, hey, it would auto reply and it would say, hey, in order to combat spam, I make emails who I've never talked to.

47:38Sam Parr:I make you pay me$1 to read your email. And it was pretty brilliant. Do you remember what that was called? There's been a few of those. Balaji started one called Earn that he ended up selling to CoinBets, but it's the same thing. It's a reverse inbox. So you publicly put out an inbox with a price and it says, I'll read a reply to all messages that paid my vig. It's the only true defense of spam is if you attached a price to everything you had to send. And if you're a normal person, that price could be so low, but a spammer sending millions of emails, so you would make it expensive for spammers, but essentially free for normal people because it's such a low, low amount.

48:16It was never implemented in the email system because there was no micropayments when email and the internet was early on. Now with crypto, you could do it, but it's too late. We've already set up all our systems, so nobody wants to adopt these things.

48:26Sam Parr:This thing was really cool. I don't remember what it was called, but I think it was really effective because every once in a while, I would pay a dollar to reach them to test it. Why mail or something like that? There was one other one. That's what I'm talking about. It was called something mail. Yeah, it was in their email signature. It was like, by the way, if you really want me to reply, do this. You know what you should do, by the way? Why don't brands do this? When you send out mass mail and then you get like a vacation autoresponder, like, oh, I'm back on July 15th. I'm in Aruba. You should just have the AI respond.

48:55Like, how was Aruba on the 16th? So thoughtful, right? Nobody's ever asked you how your vacation was after the vacation responder.

49:04Sam Parr:I'm like horrible at names right now. What's the name of the company that I think we both invested in that does mailers for e-com brands? Oh, Postpilot? Postpilot. They're killing it. They're killing it. People are sleeping on mail, man. And then you and I, you know, we had Alex on. Our friend Alex, Alex Daniels, has a company where he sends like hundreds of thousands of magazines out, which are basically just advertorials for a particular brand. And I know his revenue and profit numbers, they're pretty amazing. It's pretty crazy how much we're still sleeping on mail. Yeah, we use Postpilot for like our e-com brand and we would do like re-engagement campaigns.

49:41Was it effective? Yeah, you bought before. We haven't seen you in a little while. Like, send a little thing that's like a postcard, essentially. And they're super effective. I mean, the ROI, I don't remember off the top of my head, but it was like 5 to 8x return on your investment. So it's like, it's kind of a no-brainer to do. It's just like unsexy, so most people don't do it. And most people believe it's kind of like, you know, ads don't work on me. They're sort of like, well, you know, junk mail, that's junk. And it's like, no, there's a reason it's being sent to you because people are still getting a return.

50:11They would not be spending the money to send this to you if there was no return.

50:15Sam Parr:I just went to the Postpilot website, and they have an explainer video. And it's you and me explaining what it is.

50:25Okay, you're welcome. All right. One last idea for you. Very simple. Very simple. Before we sober up and get back to our daily life. By the way, if you like these episodes, in the comments on Spotify, on YouTube, tell us. I'm going to read all of them after this. We'll do more. Because I have to kind of, as you can see, coerce Sam into doing these episodes. So I need some ammo to back me up when you're doing these. Dude, I gave great commentary. You did. You did. You did. In fact, I might have you just pitch this idea. I'm going to give you the name. You got to pitch it. Like Debate Club. Ready?

51:02Take your roommate to work day.

51:07Go ahead. You have 10 seconds to think.

51:12Sam Parr:Well, you are 22. Your roommate works at home and just faps all day. And you decide to get him out of the house and you want to bring him to learn how to be an accountant. It sells itself. Something like that. So, you know, I was thinking about this. Because sometimes we get asked for advice. God knows why. And one of the things I consistently see is that there are smart, hardworking people that just never find their thing. In fact, if I look at like a lot of my friends from high school or from college, much smarter than me, much more like hardworking and kind of fastidious. They'll stick with things.

51:50They're consistent. They have all the elements you need to be really, really successful. But I feel like if you never find your thing, you'll never find out what you're made of, right? You'll never get to your 100 % of what you can do. So I think, although I'm not particularly intelligent or hardworking, I did find my thing. And in finding my thing, I got out whatever juice I had and my fruit got squeezed out. And I only got there through happenstance, through luck. I stumbled into, I met the right person at the right time of the right conversation, got the right exposure, tried the right thing.

52:22And I stumbled and bumbled into it. I think people don't really, there's not really great ways. There's no food courts for your career. There's not great ways to go even find out what are my options, what's on the menu, what's possible. And so I kind of think if the world had a take your roommate to work day where you could kind of go see what life is like at somebody else's job for the day, it would just broaden the exposure of what you even see. And you might like get inspired. You might realize like, damn, the place I work is crappy. I need to get like, this is my roommate. They're not like, why do they deserve to have such a better environment?

52:55I need to upgrade. So it might just cause you to raise your standards. It might cause you to have new ideas, to discover a new industry, to discover what a new role is like. So I think people don't really have good ways to get exposure to different career paths to ever find their thing. And instead, they're just asked the question, what do you really love? What's your passion? And it's like asking my four-year-old, what's your favorite food? And he's just only eaten cheese pizza and mac and cheese. He doesn't really even know. And I got him to try salmon recently. He loves salmon. He just had no idea.

53:25And you got to broaden the horizons. And so that's Take Your Rommate to Work Day.

53:29Sam Parr:I've always wanted like Airbnb experiences for different jobs. Oh, you want to go do it for the day? Yeah, because I've always, like when I see Mike Rowe, remember the show Dirty Jobs? I was like, I want to try it. So you don't know that show? No, what is it? I don't remember which channel it was, but when you and I were like eight years old to 15 years old, it was on all the time. And he, it was called Dirty Jobs. He kind of had an Anthony Bourdain energy where he was like this, he was a successful like Hollywood guy, but he like kind of had blue collar energy to him. And he would spend the day with a blue collar guy explaining how this dirty job works.

54:06Sam Parr:But it was more like teaching you about life and getting to know the characters. So it was like a guy whose job it was to clean sewers or do porta potties or garbage man or work, you know, like, or work on a farm, whatever. And he would like explore. And now it's sort of become his shtick where he has lobbied the government and he's done well where he is getting funding in order to help fund electrician schools or rather he funds scholarships to those things. He's a little bit of an American hero, if you ask me. He's pretty badass. And this show was on forever and it was so good. And I always remember thinking, I'm like, I wish I could explore because I always was entrepreneurial.

54:44Sam Parr:And when you're thinking of a new idea, when you think of a new business idea that's totally outside of your realm, What do you do? You have to like figure out who the person that you need to contact is and then like beg them if you can come and like shadow them or do something like that. Like our friend Austin has a new company and it's related to some type of blue collar industry. And he's like cold emailed a ton of them and he'll go for a day to like shadow them and search for problems that he could try to solve on their behalf. Well, we at Take Your Remake to Work Day appreciate your support for the idea.

55:13It's a little wind in our sails. All right, should we vote for our favorite idea, the winner? of drunk ideas, round three or four, whatever this is, I will remind you of the ideas. So I brought reverse vacation, butter deodorant, stop the slop, Mexican Benijanas, and take your roommate to work day. Sam had last man standing, the calisthenics showdown. He had the jumbo, dumbo male idea. And then Ari had the claw machines idea, idea, the kids' casino, and she had kids' beepers. And so those are the ideas. I know what I'm voting for. You can only vote for one.

55:57Sam Parr:Write down what you want. All right, we're going to reveal. Everybody got theirs? Yep. Three, two, one. What do you got? None of us. You can only see mine. So, Ari, you voted four. Have you ever seen the look on women's faces when they do the guac table side, I'm going Mexican venijadas. Mexican venijadas, yes. Sam, what did you have? Kids beeper. You had beeper. I had beepers as well. So Ari, you, on your first time, came in and just stunted on us. What did they say last time you were on? You mogged us. Ari came in and just idea-mogged us. And now beepers is ready for action. I think we should create this company, by the way.

56:44This is a great idea. All right. That's it. That's the pod.

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