Half-Baked Ideas and a Mega-Mailbag With Kevin Wildes and Joe House

What you'll learn

• 1 (01:17) **Episode Kickoff & Housekeeping** - Simmons introduces the jam-packed episode: Red Sox talk, Kevin Wildes with half-baked ideas, a mailbag with Joe House, and an Amanda Dobbins rant.
• 2 (03:26) **Red Sox Highs, Summer Lows & The Burrow Debate** - Wildes and Simmons commiserate over a tough Red Sox loss and the challenge of sustaining sports discourse through a quiet summer month.
• 3 (11:50) **Half-Baked Ideas: Credit Card Roulette & Food Towers** - Wildes kicks off the segment with an update on a past idea and a new social gambling scenario.
• 4 (14:16) **Half-Baked Ideas: Zoom Scrolling & AI Therapy** - Wildes pitches a feature to combat "doom scrolling" and male loneliness by forcibly connecting you with a friend via Zoom after a set screen time.
• 5 (19:11) **Half-Baked Ideas: Fallible AI & Hotel Dogs** - Wildes proposes intentionally introducing small, human-like errors into automated officiating (VAR, robo-umps) to preserve fan emotion and the ability to boo.
• 6 (25:03) **Half-Baked Ideas: Yankee Swap Betting & Mopenheimer** - Wildes pitches an idea for a betting platform that uses physical items instead of money, inspired by the trading section of *Yankee Magazine*.
• 7 (29:48) **Half-Baked Ideas: Auto-Checkout, Pigeons & Empty Nesters** - A listener suggests restaurants adopt a hotel-style "express checkout" where the bill auto-closes and you tip from your phone, eliminating the long wait to pay.

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