The $10M “AI Anti-Aging Bed” That Might Be Too Weird to Be Real

**Michael Girdley** (0:00)
Welcome to Acquisitions Anonymous. Today's video was myself and Travis going through a deal that I brought from Orlando.
That involves a smart mattress, AI, and a price that changed by 30 percent in three paragraphs of reading the teaser. So Travis and I had a great conversation. He's a super smart, well-spoken guy who knows a lot of stuff. So it was super fun to dig into it. Enjoy the episode and stick around to the end. You'll see how we felt about the deal.

**Bill D'Alessandro** (0:24)
Well said Acquisitions Anonymous.

**Michael Girdley** (0:30)
We don't have 100% beers anymore.

**Bill D'Alessandro** (0:32)
And thumbs downing on just the Plus Inventory Alarm.
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**SPEAKER_3** (2:10)
I can't wait to hear what this is.

**Michael Girdley** (2:13)
All right, Travis, good to see you. Okay. So I took the family to Japan for spring break. It was just like magical thing. My kids are 17 and 20 So this is kind of the twilight of kid time and you have young kids. So imagine how special things are now, but when it starts to end, it's like graduating high school, college, and like your first girlfriend breaking up like all in one. That's like the emotional thing of your kids starting to age out. So we take them to Japan, we're flying over there and like I'm thinking about business, I'm kind of stressed out and I'm chewing on my nail, and I chipped my tooth. Like and you know that annoying chipped tooth to where like your tongue touches it the entire time. And I started to do like the Japanese young lady thing, which was when I was talking, I would cover my mouth because I was embarrassed to my smile. So I call the dentist and I'm going to go through this for 10 days in Japan, embarrassed about my smile and I call the dentist like the day I get home, I'm like, can I get back in? And they're like yes in a week. So two days before I'm supposed to go back in, I'm sitting there thinking about business, I've got my thumb in my mouth, on my nail, I chip another tooth all at once.
So there I am, I'm looking like a vampire, I got two chipped teeth, I'm talking like a young Harajuku Japanese lady, young lady with my covering my mouth with my hand the whole time. And so I go into the dentist because my wife is like, are you excited for today? I was like, I'm so excited because I've been so frustrated by these chipped teeth. So I go to the dentist and the dentist is like, so what happened? She's like, did you bite it on a fork? I was like, no, I was chewing on my nail. She's like, well, what happened to the other tooth? I was like, also chewing on the nail.