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Did you see this? I don't even know what you call it. Chrome extension. It's a chrome extension that lets you dim or hide all the mass produced fake brands on Amazon. So knockoff shopping. You remember I was asking for this a year ago. I was like, I want to shop on Amazon just from brands that have been over that are over 50 years old. Right. Because that just squeezes out the W, N, P E T H moe the A he. I'm not even going to say that. Y, X, Y, L Y, L, U and mm joyin tomy go Donliff Gondolph. That's what it looks like. There are. I have a flurry of sort of slop brands on Amazon and this Chrome machine you don't like buying from Coofandy allows you to dim them or even remove them entirely. Of course, a lot of people do their shopping on mobile, so. So you'll need to fire up the desktop in Chrome with the browser. But if you're doing some serious shopping, probably makes a lot of sense. Pete Oxenham says it's beautiful. He de slopped Amazon and it is a nice feature. I can imagine this being very popular. I liked that. This little tweaking of your Internet experience seems like the good news. Define says Chinese airdroppers deserve to make a living too. The funny thing is I don't think they're airdroppers. They're making the actual products. Yeah, they're manufacturers. Drop shippers. Well, they're. Yeah. What is drop shipping? Drop shipping is where you're using another manufacturer. You're not even necessarily even holding. No, this is straight from the factory for sure. Yeah. And I respect the hustle. I just, I find that a lot of these products end up, you know, not keeping around very long. Yeah. I love this because I imagine if you get a little bit of a community on here, it will automatically hide or dim or gray out the brands that are suspected to be slop or junk or knockoffs. But you can click on individual brand and say, trust this brand. This was a false positive. You can block this brand or you can dismiss for this particular item. Maybe it's fine, you can report it as a real brand. So they're going to be able to collect all of that information across the user base and, and then merge that together. So the system should get smarter over time, I imagine. But who knows how long Amazon allows this to go on? I imagine that the margins on some of these sloppier brands are potentially better and so there might be a financial incentive to prevent this type of plugin from running roughshod all over Amazon.com, but at least for now, you can go and enjoy it and take it for a spin at knockoff shopping. Amazon without the knockoffs filters out the trademark squat pseudo brands the Szhluxs and Horse. These are weird brand names. Very, very weird brand names. I'm surprised they don't come up with a normal name. Like if you're going to be a sketchy dropshipper with a knockoff product, it's pretty easy to go to an LLM and say, why not just be the silverware company of China? Well, that or you know, dog beds. Here the examples are Casper and Carhartt come up with another term, the Buddy Dog supply company. There's a bunch of words you could use. I don't know. It doesn't seem like rocket science, and yet it feels like a cat walked across the keyboard. With some of these brands.

Yesterday, the Topolino. It's coming to America. Tiny two seat electric microcar they're calling it. Starts at $14,000, almost half the price of the other electric golf cart that we talked about last. What was that last Thursday? We talked to him. But you can fit a lot more people in the amble. The amble, yes, that's right. I like this move from. I like this move from Fiat. You like it? I think that their cars are generally unserious and so I think it's good to just lean into that. Okay. Okay. And I think they're trying to price this so that when people are thinking, hey, I need a new car, should I go out and buy like a crossover SUV or there's no way anyone can consider this for their main car. It's impossible. No, but you can. If you typically roll around with a handful of people and instead of buying one car, oh, you buy a bunch of them for 60 grand. You'll need a trainer. You know how you know the range on this thing? 46 miles. 46 miles. I mean, I guess if you have a 10 mile commute, you can commute here. They launch an EV with 46. 46 miles of range. It's nothing. And they should have called it. They should have called it. How long is your commute? It's less than 10 miles. Less than 10 miles. They should have called it the Fiat Dice because every time you leave the house you're rolling the dice. It's £1,000. So you can deadlift it with another friend. Are you serious? £1,000? Yeah. This thing's tiny. It's really, truly like so, so small. They're saying it's the cutest car ever made. Look at the speed. The top speed tops out at 25 miles an hour. That's with a street legal low speed vehicle kit. By default, it only goes 19 miles an. So how long would it take you to get here? 19 miles an hour. 30 minutes. Yeah, 30 minutes. Wow. Not bad. Not too bad. Maybe, maybe you gotta do it. Okay, you guys are laughing, but you won't be laughing when I pull up to the office with fleet of these, with five of these. And you need a support car, like a multiple support behind you. Yeah. No, the Topolino is the support you just have here. You have a series of. You just go train mode. Well, our next guest is the owner of a Hummer Evidence.

This is obviously a more tech forward show, but like the vast majority of businesses are not tech businesses. Right. There's like H vac businesses all over the place. There's pool cleaners, There's a lot of shit you can do for money. And so I like, unless you want to be a trillionaire, you can be a billionaire in just about any boring business you look at. What's his name? Is it Brad Jacobs? Yeah, yeah. Six times. Yeah. Make a few billion dollars. Yeah, a few. And then he has a sequel, a few more billion. You guys are kind of, you guys are very. I never thought of you as home building materials. Yeah, there's just a lot of businesses out there. And so it just depends on like what the goal is. But any business done for like zooming all the way out, if you do one thing for 40 years and you get better every year, you're going to fucking dominate. And so on some level going after the tech opportunity though they're for sure are the big mega winners. It's easier to compete against the people who are going after the pool cleaners. There's just, there's like, there's less sophisticated players, there's less capital. And so having a little bit of street smarts and a lot of work ethic can get you pretty far there. And you look at that compared to like, you know, you look at the guy who's doing 7 million a year, top line, two and a half million dollars in bottom line doesn't really work that much. Has a crew of guys. Is that the life you want? Yeah, because there's nothing, like, there's nothing wrong with that. And so I think it's deciding first to the younger guy, like, what do I want or what is an acceptable outcome. And then what of the many, many paths that are ahead of me have the highest likelihood of me getting there. And then once you pick that path, know that if you stick with that path for 20 years, the likely that you fail is basically zero. As long as you have some feedback loop for improvement, that's basically it. Figure out where you want to go, find the highest likely path of getting there, and then do not let the opinions of strangers or people who do not have what you want dissuade you from getting there.