Welcome to “Good Mythical More.” People are hatching ideas for businesses all the time and starting them up, you know, trying to get people to invest their money so they can get it going. And we’re here to decide if it’s worth investing in, or if it’s worse than that, meaning it’s made up. Ah. These are probably dumb startup ideas. But first, let’s play ready, pet, go, Where we look at one of your pets. Why is this my favorite thing that I ever do? And try to guess the pet’s name. You can submit these with #GMMReadyPetGo, by the way. Pets are so important. BT Dubs. Pets are my favorite. This submission is from Zeb, Zeb. Let’s see it. Oh, it is a- Oh my goodness. [Link Is that a miniature horse? Hershey. Oh my gosh. I think- Hershey’s Kiss. It might be Hershey Squirt. That’s what they call him. Come here Hershey Squirt. You still into miniature horses? You still really into ’em? Not as much as I used to be. You got one named after you somewhere. No, it’s named Mini Wheat. Yeah, well, you know. But named after something that you loved. Have you been to see him lately? I bet, oh, uh. Can you even tell me where he is? He’s in his happy place. He’s dead? No, no, no, he’s very happy. Do they live longer than regular horses? This guy right here, Hershey Squirt. Trudi. Trudi, oh. Trudi’s in the water. Trudi’s in the snow. Trudi’s on a stump. Trudi’s everywhere. Trudi is everywhere. You can’t get away from Trudi. Can you get a little saddle for ’em, and put like a nutcracker on ’em? You know what I mean? Not like, ’cause you don’t wanna actually, but like a, like a nutcracker size little doll. Well, you can put a child on a miniature horse. I don’t know if you should. Not a problem. They probably got back problems. Well that, no, you’re making that up. I don’t know, man. Sometimes things that aren’t quite like, They can pull- You know what I’m saying? They can definitely pull people. Like is it- We’ve established all of this. Is a miniature horse, the dachshund of horses? We don’t know. And you don’t know either. They’re not longer, their legs are just, they’re smaller, their legs are shorter. So you’ll remember a period of time where we, we were, we weren’t obsessed with like startups, but we, like, we went through a period of time years ago where we knew about quite a few weird startups. And so I was concerned about this more, and that you might know things, but you won’t know things. When were we concerned about this? We were obsessed with startups? I don’t remember. Yeah. Remember when we did the, that, the golfing thing? The drutter. And we had a subseries that was about Kickstarter stuff. Okay, so is this more, is this like Kickstarter stuff, or is this- These are all startups, and I’ve looked at all of them, and I haven’t heard of any of them. So that’s what I’m saying is like, I’m excited about this. I think we were, we were more obsessed with like products. And these, I mean, some of them are products. Okay. Some of them are products. Some of ’em are services? Like this first one. Yeah. Washboard is now a defunct startup that would deliver its city dwelling customers $20 worth of quarters every month in the mail to use for their laundry for the price of $27 a month. So $20 worth of coins for $27 a month. So a $7 service fee. I guess this is not as crazy of an idea. This is an incredible idea because if you’ve ever, there’s been a couple of times in my life where I, like, spent like a, the one I remember is spending like two months in New York City in 1998, I don’t know. And I had to use like a laundromat, and it was a coin, it was a coin laundromat. Yeah, but didn’t they have a change maker? I mean, maybe? I don’t remember. Sure, I guess they did. But like then you gotta like have cash. To pay someone to mail you quarters. It seems so strange. Does anybody think this is an awesome idea? I mean- Rhett does. We’re assuming it’s real. It could just be fake. Do coin laundries operate on quarters now, I guess that’s kinda the point. Or are they on special tokens that would work with the machines? I think it depends, but you can use a card for a lot. A lot of ’em are on cards now. That’s the thing. Yep, that’s a good point. I think this is real. It seemed like a good idea, but it is defunct. And it was called Washboard? Washboard. It was real. But it only ever acquired 10 customers, and shut down after a week. Great idea though, Rhett, eh? Ouch. Ouch. What did they do with all those quarters? I bet you they turned them into paper money. Yeah. Wait. Or digital money. Speaking of paper money. What are we gonna do with all these quarters now that our business is defunct? I was riding along in the car with my son as I often do. And you know, being a good dad, You’re such a good dad. Full of knowledge. You’re so full of knowledge. My son will ask me a question sometimes, and it’s a lot, most of the times I’ll be like, “Son, you don’t need a dad for that. You need Google.” You know, sometimes I’ll say that, but, and sometimes- You don’t need a dad. Sometimes- Sometimes I’m feeling like a big, a big daddy, and I want to really answer a question. So he said, “Dad, what do you think? What is the largest bill denomination that was ever produced? Or what is the largest dollar bill denomination that is produced? And I said, “I don’t know. I think, I think there’s a thousand dollar bill. I don’t think there’s many of ’em, but I think there’s a thousand dollar bill.” And then I was like, “Get Google to answer this question. And let’s see.” Now what do you think the actual answer to this question is? Well, there’s a thousand dollar bill. Is there? Why would you have a song, ‘It’s All About the Benjamins’, if there was a bigger bill? Benjamins the biggest bill. $100. You’re, you’re right, now. As of this year, or basically like, I don’t remember the last time but- So there was a $500? There was a time. $525. What do you think the largest ever produced was? A $723 bill? Nope. A $1,000 bill. $10,000. Oh wow. So the largest bill ever created, there was a series of them, in 10,000, of $10,000 bills. And I think this is like- Who was on it? This is like in the ’30s or something. Can you pull it up? And they basically, they stopped producing them because it was so difficult to distribute them because, especially back then, this was like more than everybody’s net worth. Salmon P. Chase. 1918, first printed in 1918. Governor of, and senator, from Ohio, served as Secretary of Treasury under Abraham Lincoln, and became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Chase is remembered by most people as the guy on the $10,000 bill. Hold on. First of all, Shepherd was Googling, so I’m gonna blame this on Shepherd. He did not tell me that the largest was a $100,000 bill according to this article. That was first, never circulated or issued. Okay, so he was right. Sorry, Shepherd. I know you don’t, I know you don’t watch. So they made a hundred thousand dollars bill, but they didn’t release it. They released a $10,000 bill, and you can still get them. The $100,000 bill has Woodrow Wilson on it though. But they regularly fetch more than $100,000. So if you want to own one, you can pay a $100,000 to get a $10,000 bill. Now, so basically the largest bill that’s made today, and issued, is the $100 bill. Second question. What’s the most common bill denomination that is currently printed? What is the most common bill? Um. 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, or 100? I know what they are. I’m giving you time to think. So, you know, I’m trying to be entertaining. ‘Cause watching people think is not entertaining. So I’m just gonna say numbers. There’s also a $2 bill. Well, I was gonna say, the $1 bill, but I’m gonna have to go with one up from that. The $5 bill. One up from that would be the $2 bill. Well, you know, not that’s a, that’s an educated guess. You know, Link. That’s not a bad answer, but it’s wrong. The $1 bill was the most printed until the $100 bill became the most printed more recently. There’s more 100’s printed than any other bill. I, my guess was, Which is the biggest bill! My guess was 20. Because when you go to an ATM, you get it in twenties. Right? That’s a good- But like a hundred, I guess if people are like hoarding cash, they want hundreds. Is that the reason? Briefcases worth of hundreds. Hoarding. Hoarding. I’ve learned enough from you. Okay, let’s keep going. Let’s learn more from Stevie. Let’s keep going. Blippy was a startup that called itself the Twitter of personal finance, a social media platform where users connected their credit cards to broadcast every purchase they made. Things went wrong when it was revealed that Blippy’s code allowed four users’ full credit card numbers to be exposed to the public. This has nothing to do with the children’s entertainer? No. Blippy. Now with Venmo, you can, you share all the purchases through that. So it’s kind of happening again. If you, if you would like to turn that on. I feel, I feel weird when I use Venmo, and like I’m seeing these people that I barely know paying people that I don’t know for services that I shouldn’t be privy to. Well, they need to make that private. What kind? Gimme an example of a service that you don’t wanna be privy to. Like babysitting. I don’t wanna know about babysitting. Yeah. Yeah, that’s not something you should share about. And then they’ll use like emojis. I don’t know. It’s just, it doesn’t seem right to me. It seems, it just seems like a wrongheaded idea. Huh. I’m spending all my money on this, this, and this, and I want everybody to know it. I guess that, I guess some people wanna brag their way out there like that, but. Hey, I’m dropping a load on babysitting tonight. I want everybody to know. I don’t understand the social aspect of it at all. Does anyone understand that? I don’t. No. Does anyone understand the social aspect, is it a shame thing? Like for if somebody hasn’t paid you back. Anything that can be shared, why not share it, man? Let’s start it up and see what happens. I think this is, I mean I think this is real. It sounds too normal to not be real. Yes, it was real. It only lasted for a year. It raised over 13 million dollars in funding. Yeah. Why? But all in quarters. Because, all that matters is the people behind it, Stevie. But the Venmo. I guess so. I mean, do you Venmo? Do you Venmo? I Venmo, but always choose private. I know. I use Venmo in the following situations. Like sometimes you’ll go to a farmer’s market or like the, like the- Taco stand near my house, you can Venmo. One of those thrift places. Not a thrift store, but like the outside thrift place in like Silver Lake, wherever that is. Are you talking about, like a yard sale? Flea market. The flea market, yes. Oh. Outside, thrift place. Outdoor thrift places. Yep, yep, yep. The flea market. A vendor who’s outside. That’s the only time I use Venmo. You only use it in outdoor settings? Yeah, I can’t- Do you share- I won’t use it inside. Your purchases? You use it from the inside it’s credit only. Maybe Apple Pay. Maybe Apple Pay. Under a roof? Apple Pay. That’s my rule. I always use Apple Pay when I’m buying stuff online now because, thank goodness, all your information’s already in there. Yeah, all your information? You don’t have to, you don’t have to put, well you’d have to put the information in over there anyway off a credit card. Yeah. I mean I, in fact, how many times are you- So, so much better. How many times do you buy something, put something in your cart, and you get to the checkout, and they don’t have Apple Pay, and you say “peace.” It’s a frustrating experience. I do it all the time. Yeah. Because I’m a sucker for Instagram advertisements. Of course, do we have Apple Pay? Oh. Good question. Next. Next. Well, let’s look into that. Thank you. This social media startup marketed itself as a social, I think we do, as a social media platform for girls too young for Instagram, who still wanted to take part in a safe community of their peers, ages 8 to 12. But it never saw success for a variety of reasons, including that the advertising made it a magnet for adult men. Bronies. Attempting to join. Yeah. Adult men. Leave it to adult men. Oh yeah. Look at that. I went to mythical.com, and not only do we have Apple Pay, but when I go to add to cart, it just says buy with Apple Pay just right there. And it’s the first thing, maybe ’cause it knows I’m on this phone, but more payment options. Let me tell you all the payment options here. We’ve done it. I’m so proud. I’m so proud of our team for pulling that together. We have Shop Pay, we have Apple Pay, we have PayPal, and we have Google Pay. And we’re grown men, staying in our lane. Should I buy something from us right now? Yeah. Buy something from us. I don’t feel right about that. I mean, I’d buy something- Don’t let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. I’d buy something from us. I pay, I’m paying taxes on that. Yeah. I’ll take all of it though. You don’t get- Buy it from me. You don’t get the taxes. I don’t get the taxes. You don’t get- That’s a good point. I don’t get the taxes. Hey, you know what? I could put this into four interest-free installments of $12.50. Yeah, you can, you can use a payment plan. I’m gonna put this hoodie on a payment plan. This is not what we’re trying to promote today. What we wanted to promote today was not something you have to pay a lickity split dime for. That’s true what you said, Stevie, all these so far are true. I was, I was segueing into a promo. Oh. My dad has a podcast. Oh, sorry. It’s free. I take it all back. I take it all back. Dispatches from Myrtle Beach. Forget what I said. Watch it on YouTube at Dispatches from Myrtle Beach. It’s a channel. You can watch my dad talk to me. He brought in Nancy. Oh, that’s, I love it when he does that. Good old Nancy. Well I didn’t mean old, I’m not calling you old, Nancy. Hey, come on now. His wife Nancy, brought her in, and we ganged up on Dad to try to get him to change his hairstyle. I was like laying into him trying to get him to grow a mullet. I couldn’t believe it. Dad had never grown a mullet. Really? What did, he’s not going to though. How come? I was like, “Dad, you grew up in the land of mullet. You never had a mullet?” His hair is not bad. And so yeah, I was like, “I want you to get a mullet.” And he was like, “Well I gotta talk to Nancy,” and then- Is he gonna do it? Stay tuned. Stay tuned. Does Charles accept Apple Pay? Ah, no. He has an AOL email address. Yeah. So you can send him your credit card information directly to that. Wherever you get your podcast, Dispatches from Myrtle Beach, especially YouTube. So I’m gonna say it’s real. I’m gonna say, yeah, it’s like little girls having their safe little thing. Invest. Why are you making it sound, like, that way? You didn’t have to make it sound like that. Well, it needs, that’s what it is. It was a safe little thing to keep creepy men out. Now it’s a safe little thing. Okay. It was real. Yeah. And also, Britney worked for them. What? Britney, tell us about that. The community manager had a lot of work to do. Come to the mic. Come to the mic. Oh yeah, we gotta know about this. She said the community manager had a lot of work to do. Britney, how’d you get mixed up in this situation? When I first moved to LA, I wanted to be a writer, but I needed a job to come out here. So I started working at this startup, which seemed like it had a really great mission, and it very quickly got very scary. That’s sad. Man. And that’s all you’re legally allowed to say? So what are the, what are the, what are the girls doing? They’re just getting their brain rotted on Instagram and TikTok. Yeah. The girls don’t have a safe place of their own. They’re on Instagram. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Britney’s actually kept track of all 8 to 12 year old girls since. That was your job. And here’s where they are now. Wow. We’re gonna go through and get all the backstory. What about all those girls? Wow. Okay. Well I’m glad you’re, you know, I’m glad you’re here now. Me too. Remember the first time you got a $2 bill? Boy, what a thrill. Man, my grandfather gave it to me. It’s one of the only things he ever gave me, besides some meat and cheese. The startup, Doo Dooer, calls itself the DoorDash of pet waste and allows users to mark their location on a map, no matter where they are, and be connected with a nearby freelancer who will come pick up their pet’s poop for them. Like, when you’re on a walk? Wherever you are. They don’t follow you around. If you just mark it, and then you’re like, I don’t wanna pick that up, and you keep walking? Yeah. And then you, somebody comes up and gets it. They give you little trackers. Is that, is that what you’re saying? Yeah. Everywhere that your, everywhere your dog takes a crap, everywhere your dog takes a crap, it’s- Not little trackers. My assumption would be, it’s like in app like a pin. No, you drop, you drop a little tracker inside the poop pile. A doo-doo pin. And then they go and they find it. No, you can do it in the app. Oh yeah, you do it in the app. That’s what I said, like five minutes ago. Is that, I’m asking you, is that what you’re saying? Hold on. Is it while you’re on a walk? Listen. Here’s the thing, I don’t have all the information except for what I just read to you. But, I’m assuming, given technology these days, that yeah, you pin it, you can pin stuff on the, so you just pin it on the app. I think they come to your yard. No, it says, “Allows users to mark their location on a map, no matter where they are.” Yeah, Rhett. So, well what about between the time that they get there? This is stupid. What do you think is gonna happen with it? There’s too, this is never gonna work. There’s so many holes in this plan. It’s fake, dude. Yeah. I really tried to sell it. I really tried to sell it. Y’all didn’t think through that. That was fake. Good try though. I remember the first time I spent a $2 bill. Boy, I felt like a highfalutin’ fogy. Did- Oh. That’s a good segue. ‘Cause it’s like- It’s a good segue into this. It’s like, it felt like it was worth more than $2. You know? It kind of is. If you’re willing to spend a $2 bill. No. That’s why the $10,000 bill is worth $100,000. When I’m a granddad, that’s the thing I’m gonna do. I’m gonna have a wad of $2 bills. Okay. Lemme tell you. I was just, I was trying to tell you a second ago, my grandfather was very absent, and he thought he could make up for it with $2 bills, and it did not work. What about, what if I added some meat and cheese to it? Yeah. I mean, I do like that. Hey, here’s a little meat, here’s a little cheese, here’s a $2 bill. Now get the hell outta my life. Is that what he did? Yeah. But he was from Michigan, so he didn’t talk like that. Here’s a little meat, here’s a little cheese. He was a Yankee. He wasn’t a Brit. Speaking of old age, or age in general, our last one, Agester, Agester. Was an online community described as hot or not, but for age, where users- A safe place for old people. Where users would be connected with a photo of a person and have to guess how old they were. And then all those little girls started infiltrating. Yeah, it was a reverse problem. We have to go somewhere. It’s so fun. You just click on ’em and say how old they are. They’re all so old. 103. Yeah. I usually put crazy numbers like 200. 400 once. Yeah. I’m trolling these old people. You, you, you, you what now? You say how old they are? You say how old they are? Yeah. You guess, you guess how old they are. And then what? And then you- And then you date ’em? And then, then you hook up? If you get it right, you get, you get a little nooky? Is that how it works? I don’t know. I don’t know what happens then. And then I guess the ages reveal? A little grandpa nooky. And then the person gets your guess and feels bad about themselves? Mm, I guess. A little gran-nooky. That’s right I’m 85. Your place or mine? I’m invested. That’s how it works, right? Y’all do the online dating. It’s all just about hooking up. That’s what it is these days, right? What do the memes say? It’s just about finding a, it’s- Take my money. It’s so can hook up as fast as possible. That’s what it’s about, right? Take my money. That’s what’s happening? It’s just a chlamydia fest, right? Because that’s the one that everybody’s getting, right? Clam bake! ‘Cause that’s what everybody’s getting, right? When you’re gonna be 85, you don’t have to worry about it. Young, Jimmy Bridges is just like, “Woo, clam bake!” Oh my God. It was real. We need to get outta here. Check out Dispatches from Myrtle Beach, Link’s Dad’s podcast that he lets Link be a part of because Nancy joins this week. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.