Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Mark Rober

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1117 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Yeah, exactly.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

It's kind of hilarious.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

But we'd see how much, you know, they're making, I think, like $30 million a year running three shifts 24 hours a day.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

They'd been doing it for a decade, three of these.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

So we went there with, you know, our glitter bombs.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

First of all, I hired, like, eight people to work undercover for eight months just to learn, just to, like, find out what the week would be.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

To work there?

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

At a scam center, yeah.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

I wanted to learn their weaknesses.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And one of them, it turns out, is you can bring lunch boxes out onto the floor.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

You can't bring phones, you can't bring anything else, but they let you bring your lunch and like a water bottle.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

So we designed like a lunch box that we put like a hundred cockroaches in, but then it had a ball screw and a remote timer on a trigger.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

So the wall would move forward.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

So basically these cockroaches would start getting squished and then a door open.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

So all the cockroaches would run out at once.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

We had a smoke bomb in there.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

Of course, we sent him a glitter bomb.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And then we filmed it all in these CCTV footage.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And it's hilarious footage.

Modern Wisdom
#1035 - Mark Rober - How to Engineer a Life You Love

And, you know, my thing is like,