This week on PandemicQuest Josh, Starr and Ben share insider trading tips via the dark web, explain why aliens haven't attacked yet, and their thoughts around starting a SaaS company for hand sanitizer. The truth isn't out there, it's in here! Can you handle it?

Links:

Kodak Calendar
Josh's Investing Blog Post

Daddy Daycare

Kindergarten Cop

Animal Crossing

Doom

Jack Bogle

Full Transcript:
Starr:
What's today, March 20th?

Josh:
Yeah.

Starr:
It stays March 20th for the next two months.

Josh:
So the freeze as a solution to the economic crisis. Just pause everything until it blows over. Yeah.

Starr:
Yeah, and the thing where that falls down is at that... it's like, well that would also... You wouldn't have to be your mortgage and all that. It's like they wouldn't be able to evict people. But then also you wouldn't get paid, and you still have to eat, so... I don't know. If you have to have a-

Josh:
Well, but maybe that's where the tax stimulus comes in. We just... Future tax payers can... can pay for that.

Starr:
Oh, I guess so. I was thinking an amazing potluck. It's just what you want in a pandemic.

Josh:
Yeah. I don't know about that.

Ben:
I like the idea of changing our whole calendar system for the pandemic. You know? Let's-

Josh:
Yeah, that wouldn't cause any trouble.

Ben:
Yeah, yeah. Let's forget Gregorian, forget Julian. Let's just build a new one. I like it.

Starr:
The COVID?

Ben:
The Covian?

Josh:
The COVID.

Ben:
I think it was Kodak... Kodak built their own calendar and for the greater part of 20th century actually ran by it. It's pretty sweet actually.

Josh:
Are you serious?

Ben:
Yeah, yeah. We should switch to that.

Starr:
Oh my gosh. You know, that's so... I mean, I don't really think I'm ever going to be like founder of Kodak rich. I don't honestly want to be, but if I was, that's the kind of shit to pull. It's like, okay guys, I invented a new calendar. You all have to do it just because money. You know? Because I've got it, so here's my calendar, chip chop. You know?

Josh:
Yeah.

Starr:
I should probably clue in our listeners. Given the current, crazy state of the world with everything literally being on fire and... I'm expecting aliens to come next week and blow up the White House or something. We're sort of just going to be winging it for the next few weeks until things stabilize a little bit, because it feels kind of weird to go on and in the midst of all this stuff be like, all right, so we're going to do... we're going to talk about VC versus Bootstrap. Go. And it's like, who even knows if VCs will exist in two months. They might just... right? They might all be wiped out by the virus. You don't know.

Josh:
It's possible. I was going to say, I don't know about the aliens though, because I think the aliens are probably also self-isolating right now. I don't know if they'd want to actually come here.

Starr:
Oh my gosh. Yes. I mean, it's kind of like a spaceship. It's like, I wish I had a spaceship for my self-isolation.

Josh:
Maybe that's why the aliens haven't actually arrived, because they've been just self-isolating this entire time. The entire history of earth. You know? This is hitting us late, so...

Ben:
Yeah. They're all like, humanity is a virus.

Starr:
So the one thing I was thinking about in the past couple podcasts we've done is we go... We come on and we do a podcast and we're like, oh yeah, this is the state of the world. And then we come in a week later and everything's completely changed.

Josh:
We're lagging. Yeah, we're lagging by a week. So just keep that in mind.

Starr:
Yeah, we're lagging by a week. So it's just... it's just interesting to me to think about because last week I was... I was saying, well you know, maybe we might be... Like my daughter's daycare might be shutting down, something, whatever. Then by Sunday my wife and I were both like... we're like, we're pulling that girl out. She's not staying there anymore. And then an hour after we emailed them, they're like, we're closing anyway. Sorry. And now, basically, we're in our tiny little Seattle, city house. We've got two people working from home, or trying to. We've got... My four year old daughter's at home. And I've been working on this backyard shed for a long time, or it's an office. It's intended to be a backyard office.

Josh:
Well, it's a daycare now.

Starr:
Yeah, I spent most of yesterday picking up the razorblades off the floor, literally. Use a lot of razor blades in construction. Who knew? And vacuuming up all the carcinogenic dust and everything, and to make it into a big playroom because it's like our living room is getting a little tight.

Josh:
Starr, even if you did none of those things, it sounds like it was still a safer environment than the daycare.

Ben:
Josh, that reminds me of the movie Daddy Daycare.

Josh:
You know, I haven't seen... I don't think I've seen that one.

Ben:
You still haven't seen it?

Josh:
I still haven't seen it.

Ben:
I know we've talked about it before. You have to see it.

Josh:
Yeah.

Ben:
It's hilarious.

Josh:
All right, well-

Starr:
That's not the "It's not a tumor" one, is it?

Ben:
No. No, that's Kindergarten Cop.

Starr:
Okay. Okay. Similar premise?

Josh:
Yeah.

Starr:
It sounds like a similar premise. It sounds like a direct rip off actually. You know?

Ben:
Daddy Daycare basic plot line is two executives get laid off and they can't deal with their kids. And they start a daddy daycare and hilariousness ensues... hilarity ensues.

Josh:
Classic. Classic thing to do.

Ben:
Yeah.

Josh:
Yeah. We got to corporatize this... this stay home thing.

Ben:
Can you imagine what Honeybadger Daycare would look like? I think that would be awesome.

Josh:
Absolute chaos.

Ben:
Yeah, exactly.

Josh:
Yeah.

Ben:
I think you just put in some padding on the walls and the kids go crazy.

Josh:
Yeah.

Ben:
Right.

Josh:
But back to the VCs. I read... I was reading the other day just because I've been doing a little trying to keep up on the state of... the state of that world where people's minds are at. And there are at least a few people talking about VCs investing in some sectors still. Especially sectors that are... the few that are still potentially seeing an increase as a result of this health, obviously, and in remote... remote work and stuff.

Starr:
I'm just trying to figure out how we can make a SaaS that like a hand sanitizer. It's like you pay a monthly fee and then you go on the website and then your hands are sanitized.

Ben:
That'd be cool.

Josh:
That would be... that would be an invention. Yeah. I do... We are going to be making some hand sanitizer here pretty soon. I've got... I've got a surplus of supplies, let's just say. So, I think-

Starr:
Oh, wow.

Josh:
I think we're going to be-

Starr:
Are you sure you want to be announcing that on the... to the public, Josh? Are you sure you want to be letting that-

Josh:
Well, I'm prett...