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

All right. If you're out there, raise a glass. We are doing a favorite of this podcast, one of the favorite episodes. The people demanded it. The people begged for it. This is Drunk Ideas.

I feel like I could rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. Uh. I put my all in it like no days off. On the road less traveled, never looking back.

The premise of Drunk Ideas is I have a lot of business ideas that are awful, and if I came to the podcast and I told you the awful ideas were great, you would think I'm dumb. So we created Drunk Ideas where I could take my bad ideas-

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... and under the guise of alcohol, mm, you know, more things go. Yeah, you s- you laugh it off. And so these are ideas that are half-baked. They're, they're, uh, a little silly, but there's a nugget. There's a nugget of something in all of these ideas. All right? They're not just completely silly. Um, so that's Drunk Ideas. We've done this a few times before. I always love doing them. I, I beg Sam to do it. I don't know if Sam loves it as much as I do, but I'm like, "Dude, you ready for one? I've got, like, 20 ideas in the hopper." And he's like, "All right, fine."

Well, you're, you're, you're like the funny guy, but also, is it true that you actually keep a running list of this?

Of course, yeah. Like in my Slack, I just write the ideas, and I write Drunk Ideas, so then when the time comes, I just search drunk idea, and I got my whole list filtered for me already.

Wha- [laughs] what are some... Okay, uh, th- that-

I think that's in Atomic Habits. Well, that system I just described-

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... I think that's the featured case study.

How, uh, how long is that Slack, and who is in it? And are the p- other people in it like, "Dude, shut up"?

[laughs] Yes to the last one. I don't even know what the first two questions were. Also, producer Ari is actually not producer Ari today, co-host Ari today. Ari, how does it feel? We brought you out of retirement back onto the pod.

Back by popular demand. Is that the phrase? I don't know.

Actually, no, it's like back by, um, like assistance. We were like, "Sam, do you have any ideas?" And Ari's like, "For example," and then she said a great drunk idea, and we were like, "No, no, no. That's your idea. You have to bring-"

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"... that to the table." [laughs] And so now she, she got dragged onto the show.

I've got a couple, Sean. I've got a couple that actually are pretty awesome, but you wanna go first?

I'm... All right, I'll start. Uh, this is a... Let me give you a little diagram. All right? Let's make a visual for all our visual learners out there. Sam, this is you, normal routine, Monday through Friday, Saturday and Sunday. You do whatever you do. You have a certain level of productivity, a certain level of happiness, a certain, uh, autopilot that you go into. Now, when you wanna relax, and you want to be less productive, more relaxed, and more happy, we call that going on a?

I don't know. What, what, what am I s-... Break?

Vacation, correct.

Vac- [laughs]

Thank you. So all right, so that's called going on a vacation, so you could think of that like the pen moving down in productivity but up in other factors like relaxation and enjoyment.