Jul 6, 2026 · 59 min · 12 segments
Victor Varnado moved to New York in 1997. By 1999 he was in End of Days with Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Adventures of Pluto Nash with Eddie Murphy. Then he walked away from that path because…
Victor VarnadoGuestBrentHostTonyHostOh, yeah? Can you talk about what you're patenting?
So like you could say, have a game show on TV and the audience could be playing along live, whoever's watching.
And as the game progressed, like, you know, your, your place would move forward and you could play on your phone while you're watching the
game.
It's just basically like a simple one to mini gaming system for live broadcast.
So if you win, what do you, is there money involved or do you just get status or like, yeah, what happens?
Oh, you mean, well, I can actually, I can actually tell you how, how I'm using it
in our first like big test.
So in the first big test we're doing, um, we're doing like a tic-tac-toe live game show and then people play the tic-tac-toe game and when they get to like, you know, higher levels, it's an arcade game.
And when people get to certain levels, people watching in the audience, we're doing it live in bars right now.
So people watching in the audience, they've got an app on their phone and they can bet on with like stars or credits that they're given at the beginning.
Okay, so they can bet on their credit, with their credits, how far they think the person on stage is going to get in tic-tac-toe.
So meanwhile, they're watching a show where one at a time people come up on stage, they're playing the tic-tac-toe arcade game and it's projected on the screen so everybody can see what their moves are.
And then people get to bet on how far they think they're going to get score-wise on these little apps.
Oh, yeah? Can you talk about what you're patenting?
So like you could say, have a game show on TV and the audience could be playing along live, whoever's watching.
And as the game progressed, like, you know, your, your place would move forward and you could play on your phone while you're watching the
game.
It's just basically like a simple one to mini gaming system for live broadcast.
So if you win, what do you, is there money involved or do you just get status or like, yeah, what happens?
Oh, you mean, well, I can actually, I can actually tell you how, how I'm using it
in our first like big test.
So in the first big test we're doing, um, we're doing like a tic-tac-toe live game show and then people play the tic-tac-toe game and when they get to like, you know, higher levels, it's an arcade game.
And when people get to certain levels, people watching in the audience, we're doing it live in bars right now.
So people watching in the audience, they've got an app on their phone and they can bet on with like stars or credits that they're given at the beginning.
Okay, so they can bet on their credit, with their credits, how far they think the person on stage is going to get in tic-tac-toe.
So meanwhile, they're watching a show where one at a time people come up on stage, they're playing the tic-tac-toe arcade game and it's projected on the screen so everybody can see what their moves are.
And then people get to bet on how far they think they're going to get score-wise on these little apps.
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