At this exact moment in time I have about three gallons of beer cheese soup just
sitting in my gut.
Shane, that's actually disgusting.
I want them to know the circumstances surrounding this video.
That was the breakfast that you chose.
A big old pot of beer cheese soup like a real Minnesotan.
(intro song) Hello, hello, welcome to the show, welcome to the show,
it's time to talk about our lives (Chloe bark)
Recently Shane and I have been discussing that you know maybe we should
open up a real business. Not like specifically a brick-and-mortar
business but along those lines where you know right now our only job is social
media stuff. Our only income is what comes from social media.
Yeah and it's great and it takes up all of our time.
But you know the internet could go away tomorrow.
And then we'd be like oh, well what do we do now?
Exactly, so we've been like we should really do something that is more concrete, like a
real thing that isn't just based on us.
And don't worry this is not about to be us being like, so, buy our coffee.
Oh, I thought it was going to be us being like we're leaving Youtube.
No no no, we're not pitching you anything.
Oh, no no. So we've been talking about that very casually for years.
This is just something we've been like we should probably have something real.
And it's also yeah it's like a dream too.
Yeah.
We'll be like wouldn't it be fun to start our own cruise line or you know like
whatever it is.
That's not one of the ones we've pitched but yes that that would be really fun.
Anyway we've been discussing businesses and we thought it
would be fun for us to sit down and both share a pitch for our business idea.
Pitch for each other.
And see what the other one thinks.
But also for you because we want this to be like Shark Tank and all of you are the judges.
I don't know if I prepared for it in this level.
Fancy yourself a Mark Cuban and be decisive and scrupulous.
No.
And all of you will hear our ideas and then vote in the comments.
Which business would you invest in?
My idea for my business is like one sentence Shane. Like I don't have a business plan.
Wow.
You don't either.
I have a 30 page document in my book bag. I am prepared for this video.
Oh no.
No to be honest I'm still figuring out the idea in my head as I speak. So I'm going to delay.
Alright you want me to go first?
Hannah's business idea. Here we go.
And we get to like...
Can I predict your business idea?
No. We get to like poke holes and each of us ask questions.
Be scrupulous like you said. We can ask questions.
Yeah, cause I want my business to be made. I don't want yours to be made.
Oh my god.
How about we do both of them?
What's your business idea?
My business idea is a swimsuit company.
Oh.
Yep.
I was not expecting that.
What were you expecting? That's why I wanted you to guess what it was going to be.
I was thinking candy.
Why? Well that's a good one too. Swimsuits and candy.
Alright a swimsuit company.
Or a farm that people can visit.
You don't get to, no. We're going with swimsuit.
Okay. Swimsuit company.
Explain.
As a lifelong swimmer, I know swimsuits better than anything.
I know swimsuits. I know two pieces. I know one pieces.
I know everything about them. I know leisure suits. I know practice suits.
I know racing suits. I know every kind of swimsuit. Why am I not capitalizing on this knowledge?
And have you ever struggled to find a swimsuit that is both functional and cute?
Wow.
Because I know I have.
Now we're getting into the crux of it.
You like my infomercial style?
I was going to say what sets you apart from every other swimsuit?
I just feel like a lot of them, I've been looking...
So I grew up only ever using functional swimsuits.
What does that mean?
Like ones for swim practice that were sold by speedo.com.
Like I never bought a bikini that was not a racing, I would buy bikinis from Joe Lynn where I
could get a practice bikini, wear it to swim practice and it stays put.
Yeah, cause most scoopier bikinis, you would swim right out of.
Well exactly.
And so I've recently only in the past couple years purchased my first bikini that is like
sold by a store where these are cute. Wear them to the beach.
- Not an athletic company. - Not an athletic company.
Exactly. Like not a Nike suit but like an actual bikini that is like this is cute and frilly.
Okay.
And I'm sorry and maybe I'm the only one that goes around in the water
in a fast pace but I jump in, right over my head.
Remember when your bathing suit fell off in front of all of my family?
Shane's family was visiting and
we were playing horse where we were using a basketball and shooting it and it was me
versus Andrew. It was an extremely intense competition and we were getting to the point
where we were doing absurd things that the other one could just not replicate. And so
I did one where I was like you have to start fully submersed underwater, shoot out of the
water and make the basket, okay. From far away. I shoot out of the water.
My top, gone and I was like (screams) Horrible.
And Shane and his entire family watching me.
So this business aims to solve that idea.
That problem. So a cute swimsuit that is also functional.
And I just think that would be a fun business.
I would love to work on that.
Are you designing these suits or are you bringing in more employees?
Are you gonna actually make it like?
Well, that's my question is like the only way I can think to do it is for me to
hand sew the swimsuits. But I don't know how to do that.
So I'd have to learn how to do that.
But that's not really a sustainable business model.
I don't know how people start a business where you sell more than one swimsuit at a time.
You have to get investors, you need capital.
And you need someone to make the swimsuits and then someone to help design them.
I would like to be involved in that but I'm not going to be like I know best because I don't know.
You're the idea person.
Yeah, but maybe someone that is better at designing swimsuits.
I think maybe a better idea would be Hand-sewn by Hannah. Swimsuits for Function.
I sell one a month. It's really expensive.
- I work hard. - And it's hideous.
It's probably not going to fit.
That's a good idea. I like your idea.
Thank you.
All right, let's take a quick break to consider that idea and prepare ourselves
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Are you ready for my idea?
Yes, I am. I wish I could guess.
It is, I'm coming up with it right now, an airline.
Oh my gosh, Shane.
That only flies people who use wheelchairs.
That's a horrible, horrible idea.
Oh my God. I like the idea.
Shane...
Go ahead, what's wrong? There will be an airplane.
You sound like a toddler coming up with an idea.
Where the whole inside is just one chair along the side for a caregiver or family member or friend,
whoever you're flying with, and then rows and rows of beautiful, open wheelchair spaces.
One person can fly on the plane, not in a chair?
We'll account for that.
One person and the rest are wheelchair users?
If you're traveling with more non-disabled flyers, have them use a different airline.
We don't want them.
Are these private flights or is there more than one family on the plane?
There can be more than one. It's a regular-sized airplane, commercial airplane.
And it flies what route?
We hit every major city on a continuous loop, kind of like a train.
But it only goes one direction? So if you're trying to get from New York to
Pennsylvania, you're going to have to go through Detroit, Minneapolis...
No, that's the first stop, New York to PA is easy.
It's New York to Florida that you don't want, then you go all around the country.
Look, but as we earn a profit, we will add more planes, more routes.
How are you going to buy your first plane? Because that is millions and millions of dollars.
Same way you're beginning yours. Everyone watching is going to invest a few thousand.
I thought we were taking this seriously.
I am.
No, you're not.
How could would it be if there was a company that exclusively flew wheelchairs?
That would be great.
You cannot do that. You will not have enough money to do that.
I am dreaming.
You can't even buy a tiny jet.
I am dreaming of a better tomorrow.
Okay, a brewery.
That's what I was going to guess, a brewery bookstore combo.
Coupled with a bookstore.
I know my husband.
And a dog park, indoor dog park.
- That's probably my best idea. - That's my idea.
That's our idea. Rude, rude, rude.
Oh, I'm sorry. You're right.
Tell them about that idea.
The indoor dog park.
Hold on, hold on.
Can we all acknowledge, I won. Okay. Moving on. I won.
Holy crap.
Here's our idea.
Our idea. It's very Minnesota-esque, and there's a lot of other states that would benefit from
it, but here it's really a problem. In the winter, there is nowhere to walk your dog.
Outside it's sometimes negative 20 degrees. It's deadly. Yeah, there's ice on the street, and there's
like salt on the street. Our dog cannot walk outside in the winter because of the salt.
She burns her paws and she can't walk. So we have to put these booties on her.
- She hates them. - She hates them.
We're slipping and sliding. Shane can't go on the walks ever.
As soon as it starts to snow, he's out for nine months.
So we're like, why is there nowhere to walk?
There used to be a mall actually where you could walk your dogs inside and they
canceled that program because people would let their dogs poop and not pick it up.
Terrible idea.
It's a good idea. Anyway, I would like an indoor walking track.
This is not a dog park with loose dogs.
I would like an indoor walking track. It's a very, very large warehouse.
And regulated. You do not let your dog off the leash.
No.
You pick up after your dog.
Yeah. There's people monitoring this situation. We have employees.
We have armed guards.
We have a guard walking around.
And it's just a place where you can walk in the winter where it is warm, with your dog.
And like tropical.
Yeah.
We're gonna make the inside, we're talking like we're doing it.
I know.
Inside's going to be like a tropical...
Pleasant, really nice.
Yeah. Beautiful trees.
Water.
Yeah.
A lazy river. And then right outside that there is a brewery that looks into the dog area.
That's a real thing. You're just copying that.
Yeah but that's when dogs are off leash.
Yeah. Dog park.
Yeah. Don't like that.
We can't take Chloe. I would never take Chloe to a dog park.
So I would like a leashed area that is inside.
And then in the basement, a speakeasy bookstore.
This is not part of it, everybody.
All in one.
No. No. What do you do with your dog when you need to go to the to the bar or the brewery.
We have babysitters.
No.
Walkers.
No. No, no, no, no. This is becoming this is out of hand.
I like thinking of business ideas.
As I can tell you really you've stretched your imagination with this assignment.
I went practical, real. You went with airline.
Airline that excludes everybody except for one tiny group of people.
Not even their family members.
People that use wheelchairs and one other individual.
No one else.
I just want to be able to fly in my chair on an airplane.
Yeah, but that's not what this is about.
This video is about real ideas.
Solving a personal problem often leads to being...
But to buy a 747?
I'm assuming I have millions. I have millions of investors.
Millions of investors. Okay. Then it's a great idea.
If you can buy the plane and buy the gas and pay the pilot
and any whatever rented airport space, for millions and millions
and maybe billions of dollars, great idea.
Okay. Thank you, I will. Let me know what you think down below.
Don't think about the reality.
No, it's very much about the practicality of the idea.
So think about that.
- Think of all the wonder. - Nope.
Think about joy.
What do you think would be a better business for our livelihood to depend on
since we started this by saying sometimes social media can be a little precarious.
So let's think about that.
Yeah, if social media goes away I'm going to begin an airline.
Okay, everyone. Have a good day. We'll see you soon.
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