Video · 2026-08-06 · 56m · 5 moments

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

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Claim◆

Reverse vacations — a week-long lock-in camp where you remove yourself from your normal routine to dramatically increase productivity — is a missing market.

Sean pitches 'reverse vacation': volunteer lock-in camps where you leave your routine not to relax but to grind on a single goal, with identity changes, cold showers, hard conditions, and a status/bragging element — the productivity mirror of vacation and the missing extreme work equivalent of extreme fitness challenges.

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Sean: So I am going to pitch you my first drunk idea, which is reverse vacations. It's basically a lock-in camp. You take a week off of your normal routine, but you're not going to relax. You're not going to sit sit in a cabana at the beach. You're going to lock in. And it's you go to these essentially um like professional penitentiaries and you go and you lock in. You are literally locked in. You set a goal... and something that just changes your identity. You're not normal Sam. You are here on a mission. You're here to do a thing. It's not again, it can't be luxury. We're not trying to get you to relax. This is David Goggins is playing like kind of like on the ambient sound... Shower showers are all cold. You're eating slop. We're not optimizing here... You should feel a little unwell by the end of this, but you know what you're going to do? You're going to lock the hell in. And we're going to give you something to brag about.

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Street calisthenics battles staged like UFC fights and rap battles constitute a compelling new sport/competition format.

Sean describes 'Last Man Standing' — street calisthenics athletes battling around a pull-up bar in a circle, with walkouts, characters, nicknames, betting, and brutal workout sets — and argues it's a made-for-content spectacle that deserves to go national.

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Sean: It's exactly like a rap battle meets a UFC fight... there's looks like there's a hundred people in a room and they are all crowded around a very small circle where there's a pull-up bar... There's a guy doing a walk out like a UFC fight... He's got like a character. He's got like a mask on and like a cool looking chain. His name is Extra Money... there's an undercard where there's two guys going after it and they do a battle and they do face offs. They do they like have music walking in and they get face to face and they're talking trash to each other and people are betting on it... And then there's a final battle... 100 burpees, 50 muscleups, 75 dips, and then 75 squats with a 65 lb dumbbell. ... I don't think there's a name for this, but there's this entire community of people who are into... And this guy Abu I think that's his name. He turned it into a competition. I don't even think it has a name, but 100% this could become a thing and be all over the country.

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A giant Mr Beast-style claw machine where visitors win huge prizes would be an unbeatable retail spectacle.

Sam pitches scaling the claw machine up Mr Beast-style into a store-sized spectacle where prizes are a PS5 up to a golf cart, arguing the wow factor and manufactured lines drive foot traffic and attention.

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Sam: I think claw machine, but just scaled up Mr. Beast style. So, like, don't you ever go shopping like in your downtown and you're like, how is this store open? Like, who how many people are buying candles from here?... So, we find one of those and we just replace the building with a giant claw machine. So, it's a claw game, but the claw is huge and the prizes are huger... a PS5 is the smallest prize you could get... There's like a baby grand piano in there. There's like, you know, a small golf cart... but it's the same odds, but it's like, you know, 10 bucks ago... And I just think that would be a spectacle. And I think people would want to see people doing it... I'm a big like sucker for lines. If I see that there's a line to a place, my brain just automatically assumes it must be great and worth it.

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Changing a product's form factor — like butter in a deodorant stick — is an underrated innovation that sells purely on attention.

Sean argues that repackaging ordinary products (butter as a deodorant-style roll-on, whipped-cream sunscreen, liquid vitamins) drives revenue on attention alone, citing a viral 2.8M-like butter video and the 'happy path' of existing demand.

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Sean: She's 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... Super easy. No mess. Control your volume. Spread evenly. Tons of dispensing problems solved... I would just like to draw your attention to the numbers in the corner. 2.8 million people have liked this video... They love it, they hate it, doesn't matter. It grabbed their attention. It's a very attention-getting product... There is a nonzero number of people who are like, 'Oh, I do that. I've been doing that for years.' ... I found a happy path here. I think that people want a new form factor for this... form factor changes underrated. Butter and a deodorant stick. Make the butter that way. Make the butter a roll on butter.

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Claim

A clip-on beeper for kids is a genuinely viable product that will ride the coming free-range-parenting counter-trend.

Ari pitches kids' beepers (a modern twist replacing the landline-like Tincan.kids), and Sean argues the real driver is an emerging free-range-parenting backlash against overparenting that will make 'unreachable but still reachable' devices mainstream.

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Sean: Sean: I think there's going to be a backlash. I think there's going to be a trend later where like free range, more independence, unreachable, but still reachable... Ari: I don't even know where to start, but I'm in line with that philosophy. It'll be a counter trend to like a lot of parents instincts which is to like over 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 when you do that um versus like letting them build a little independence.

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Reverse vacations: the missing extreme-work market✦ from: Reverse vacations — a week-long lock-in camp where you remove yourself from your normal routine to dramatically increase productivity — is a missing market.Form-factor changes are an underrated innovation✦ from: Changing a product's form factor — like butter in a deodorant stick — is an underrated innovation that sells purely on attention.Sells purely on attention✦ from: Changing a product's form factor — like butter in a deodorant stick — is an underrated innovation that sells purely on attention.

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