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Hey, it's Dave, one of the Hatch Co founders. Hope you're having a lovely holiday. As an avid listener of the Nightly, I wanted to join in the fun in choosing a favorite episode to release. My choice is too many shoes and not enough bubbles because it's the perfect description of my life. Never ending search for life hacks just really makes me feel seen. Thanks for listening. We really appreciate it and we hope we help your nights be a little cozier and a little funnier. Happy holidays and hope to see you in the new year with new episodes.
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Hello there. I am kp.
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And I'm Matt. Welcome to the Nightly on Hatch plus, where everything feels like the inside of a new pair of slippers.
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I love a slipper. I'm a big house shoe person. Are you?
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Yeah. I do like a pair of slippers, but I'm terrible for a novelty slipper, which it gets dangerous when you've got stairs.
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Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah. Sometimes you can't choose slipper over safety.
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No, you certainly shouldn't, though.
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Yes. I want to know a little bit about how your life has been. Matt, if your life was an inspirational poster, what would be the image and what would be the word? What do you got?
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Well, I saw an inspirational poster actually yesterday and it had a zigzag line that looked like a pair of stairs. And actually this fits really well with the slippers, but it just said on it, falling down is an accident. Staying down is a choice.
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Wow.
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For me, it wasn't even the inspiration of, like, you know, it's up to you to get back up again. I just love that staying down is an option. I found that comforting. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's nice.
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Yeah. Thank you very much. Yeah. How about you? What's your inspirational poster looking like?
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Okay. I did a lot of socializing this weekend and my truth is that I'm sore from dancing with my friends and I think that, you know, speaks to my age. But maybe there's something inspirational about that where it's like, dance like your doctor's not watching. You know, I really danced and I got sore and maybe I got hurt. I can't tell yet. We'll find out tomorrow what's actually still hurting. But I was glad I did it. I had a great time dancing around and goofing around with friends.
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Nice. Well, there you go. That's a really good message. I think dance like your doctor's not watching. It does mean you can drink loads of pints as well.
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It sort of seems like one of those, like, maybe Facebook memes that your like 60 year old mother shares with like a minion on it. So maybe it's not the most true to me, but that's okay. It's inspirational nonetheless.
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Yeah, it still counts. It absolutely still counts.
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All right. I don't feel great about that one, Matt, but if I could think of one later, I'm going to stop everything and get a new one going. Okay.
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You got it? Yeah, we can do that.
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Okay. Thank. How about we move on to a little something about our life that might need some help and see if the other person can do that helping. So, Matt, what is a small problem that you could use a life hack for?
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It's something that's been getting to me for ages and I've not done anything about it. But I love shoes. I've got loads of different pairs of shoes for different things and I don't know what to do with them because I've got no good storage method. And I had a shoe rack for a while, but because the angle of it, they all just slid off and then you end up with a jumble of different shoes and it just. You end up not wearing any of them because you can't find the other shoe. And it's been a real problem for a while. So I could do the hack for that.
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It is a tough one. Shoes just take up so much space compared to like shirts or anything else. You can't just throw them all in a drawer because. I agree. I also have a good amount of shoes because I think it can really plus up an outfit if you have a good pair of shoes in a cute color or a different style.
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I think that's the first thing I look at when I meet someone for the first time. I was curious. You tell a lot about someone, what shoes they wear? I think.
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Yeah. Do you create a judgment in your head or all shoes are valid to you?
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All shoes are valid. Whatever you want to wear.
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Okay.
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Flip flops. Depends on the weather, I was gonna say. Yeah. I've seen a few people wearing that the wrong time of year.
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Flip flops in the winter. I would have. I would have to judge a little. I'd be confused.
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100. Yeah. I shouldn't see your toes.
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Yeah, I. I think they've really. They need a strong inventor to get in here because I think our best bet right now is, you know, Those ones that are like dressers and then you can pull the actual drawer, angle that one out. But you really can't even fit that many shoes in that. And it takes up a ton of space in your house.
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I think that's the thing, isn't it? Yeah. Because they've still got to sit side by side.
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Yeah.
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So that's a big chunk of space. So you're only ever going to fit sort of five or six pairs in a drawer.
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Yeah.
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If I had more heeled shoes, I say more. I don't think I've got any with a significant enough heel to hang them. But that could be. That could be an option.
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Right.
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No platforms, like some sort of rail system.
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Oh, that's interesting because they do have, like in your closet, you can put it on the rail and it's, you know, a hanging shoe rack, but it's kind of wibbledy. Wobbledy. And your shoes, they get a little thrown in there sometimes. I speak from experience.
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I can imagine. It sounds like I bought a load of those. They're hangers, but off of them there's kind of a bar with loads of different gaps. It. So you can hang multiple shirts on one hanger.
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Exactly.
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It's great for the first five minutes once you've done it, but then as soon as you go to look for a shirt, you knock it and they all fall off.
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Yeah.
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And it's. The whole thing's a nightmare.
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That's one of those where it's like, you can't move with that. Like that's not going to make it to two apartments that you live in the other. I mean, I think the real hack for you is we got to get you to win the lottery or something and get you a shoe room. A whole room, a closet full of shoes. Much like Carrie in Sex and the City. That feels like the best example for you.
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That would be amazing for me. Yeah, that would be the ideal situation. I mean, I suppose. I don't know how happy my girlfriend would be with it, but I could in theory do that now. Just. If she's away for a couple of days, surprise, clear out the bathroom and we'll. Yeah, I'll just have a bit of a shoe room and then we can go and shower at the local gym or something.
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I mean, she should do that for you. That seems like not a huge ask. Just. Everyone upend their life for your shoes.
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Yeah. That's what relationships are all about, isn't it? It's compromise, give and take.
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Yeah. So far, my only actual Hack has been just shove them in my closet at the bottom and make the rest of my clothes have to adjust up.
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Right.
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Fold my pants a little higher.
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How often do you sort of clear out? Is that. I mean, I suppose that's a sensible solution, isn't it? Just having a bit of a clear out. But you never know when you might need them.
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Yeah, I like really am hard on my shoes, so I have to update my shoe collection frequently. I think I stomp.
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And where do you take them?
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Donate. Unless they're like really trashed and then Trash.
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Yeah, yeah, maybe that's what I should do.
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Tell me when you donate and I'll just go right behind you and buy them all up. Sell them for hire.
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I see what this is all about now.
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Yeah, make a killing. Yeah, I know the hack. Get rid of all of yours, sell them for a penny each and call me up.
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I mean, it gets them out of my way, to be fair. So, yeah, I might look at that.
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Yeah. Good. All right, good.
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What about you then, kp, I know you've got a sort of a shoe problem as well, but what else have you got that you need a bit of a hack for?
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I, you know, and I don't even feel so strong about this hack, but there's got to be one other invention here and I know it's a field that has had so many inventions, but it's water, juice, soda. How can I get more in my home and not have to buy a bunch of little bottles? So like, I like a bubbly drink. I'm not a huge soda, but for me I would be preferring to have a flavored seltzer a lot throughout my day. And I think the options are like buy a big bottle knowing that it's going to get flat at some point or that you have to drink a gallon of fresh seltzer a day. Maybe that's too daunting. Or I'm just having a bunch of little bottles. And then, you know, some geniuses came up with the SodaStream. However, I had one. The homegrown bubbles are not the same as the factory bubbles.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah, no, it's. They're really flat. Things aren't right in the SodaStream world. It's just not a viable option.
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Okay, well that was going to be my first solution. So that's out the window.
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That one's out. And you do have to replace the CO2 bottles quite frequently and then you have to return your old ones. So it's a lot of a chore. It's not impossible, but it is a bit of a chore. You got to stay up to date on those CO2 bubbles and I think, well, I'll hear your thoughts first and then I'll hack myself.
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So the problem is you want carbonated drinks but you don't like the soda stream bubbles and you don't like constantly using the smaller bottles. So we need to find a way of basically storing thousands of liters of carbonated drink CO2. Yeah, well, I mean my initial thought and this came at a perfect time. My local football club, their water tank exploded the other day and they had to get a new one. And I didn't realize these tanks existed but it's like sort of 100,000 liter metal tank. So I suppose in theory you make a sort of vacuum in it and keep the carbonated in. That could be an option. Obviously does take up storage space, having 100,000 litre tank in the house.
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Yeah. Now Matt, I think you've misrepresented yourself. You've said you're just a comedian, I think you're a scientist because there's something there.
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Okay, you're on board with the tank.
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I do live in New York City where is really limited, but I'd have to move to a two bedroom and then one of the bedrooms would be a huge litered tank.
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Yes. I mean that seems to be our solution for everything is just convert a room in your house and put the problem in there.
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Yeah, that's kind of our only thinking is the, I don't know, bigger, that's all we got. I don't know, just the bigger thing.
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You can get hot water taps, can't you? Is there any way of sort of mainlining kind of soda through seeing that's what I'd like.
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Maybe I just kind of want. When you go to a restaurant you have the fountain drink machine. Can I just hook in my own fountain drink machine in my home? I would have to assume yes.
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I don't see why not. But obviously the next question there is how do you feel about the bubbles from those machines? Are they adequate?
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Yeah, I feel good about this. I think some places have the bubbles turned really high, which I like and if it's my own home, I can turn the bubbles. You know, I'd have to check about the safety, make sure I'm not exploding the water tank like your football club did.
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Yeah, don't worry about that. I think that's part of the fun, isn't it? If you're going to put that in, just roll the dice. Every Time.
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The constant explosion risk could be good for my neighbors. Here's my hack. And it's the hack I don't want to hear is I think I gotta get over it and just drink regular water more.
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That's a good point.
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You just can't always have bubbles. Bubbles are a treat and I enjoy getting a bubbly drink when I'm out and about. Maybe bubbles are for outside and still water is for inside.
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There is your inspirational poster.
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Thank gosh. We got there because I did not want to keep the old one. My truth now, Matt, is I don't even really like to dance and I don't really know how. So I didn't like that I ended the poster with that. So I'm really happy that now bubbles are an outside sport. Still water is for inside.
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Yeah, I think that's a good way of looking at it. You can have too much of a good thing. So maybe that is the thing to do. Just keep them to the outside world. Give you something to look forward to. And then at home, just go for the old plain acoustic water.
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And it is a nice. You know, if you work, get your work done early. Okay, now you go get the treat of a bubble. You can get bubbles anywhere. That's a nice treat for me.
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That is a nice treat. This is a tangent, but I've got to ask it, please. What's bubble tea?
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Oh, great question. It's like tapioca balls are in a milk tea. So it's like tea of any kind and then a lot of milk.
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Right.
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And then there's balls made out of tapioca. So that's why you have that thick straw. And then you take a sip here, choke a little on sort of pretty large balls of tapioca. But then you chew and they're delightful.
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And people drink that out of choice. So that's like iced tea. So the bubbles have nothing to do with like carbonated. Is that right?
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That's true. Yeah. No carbonation in those.
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Oh, okay. Well, there we go. I did not know that. Yeah, I've been waiting to ask that to somebody for ages and it's never come up.
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No, this is the perfect tangent. You should try it. I think it's. You do have to kind of get the hang of it. You gotta train for this. You gotta be in the right headspace.
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Yeah, it sounds risky.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, get a life insurance policy before you do it. But it's not bad. It's quite delicious.
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Thank you very much for that. Appreciate it.
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Maybe that could be a hack for me, too is maybe I just have bubble tea only.
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Yeah, maybe. I mean, you sound like you enjoy it. Why not go with that? Change it up a little bit. No carbonated stuff needed.
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Well, Matt, I feel very, very hacked with what we've come up with. I'm just gonna keep treats for the outside world, and that feels good to me. And with that, I'd say I'm getting pretty sleepy. So I think I'm gonna turn in.
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It is about that time and I will talk to you next time. Night, kp.
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Good night, Ma.
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Sa.
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