Friends Keep Secrets

The Inventions Episode

Friends Keep Secrets

Show Notes

Maybe we got overconfident after inventing this brand new form of multimedia entertainment. We thought coming up with another genius invention would be easy for us but we realized we don't know anything and we don't know how to do anything. Have you ever tried to be inventive? It's harder than it looks. Oh - but Dave does a full-on freestyle and at least he’s good at that. Thanks for watching - inventors and non-inventors, we respect you!

What happens: 00:00 Layup Line Freestyle 03:49 Intro 04:17 Who invented the dental floss toothpick 05:24 Dental dams 07:38 Do you think we could invent something? 09:53 What's something that you wish existed? 10:59 Parachute for airplanes 11:59 Things that got invented by accident 13:40 Microphones, microwaves & mirrors 17:24 How they invented the internet 18:27 Void in the marketplace 20:42 Cryogenics & embryos 23:49 Lower back 25:00 The best invention of all time 27:29 This is a dot org 29:25 Jack Black’s mom 29:48 The laws of the universe 30:54 The Doomsday Clock 33:18 Medicine & brain chemistry 34:01 A practical invention 35:26 Sober pill 37:26 Macrohard 38:09 A good soundbyte 39:36 Robots 40:29 Bottles 40:51 Smart refrigerators 41:22 Top 10 underappreciated inventions 43:44 A great idea

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