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Transcript

Tape Comments Go Off Rails

SPEAKER_02 0:00

I remember when we tested the Hugo's Amazing tape, every comment like, that's sex tape. We use that in the bondage community. You remember the two crazy women that were testing it in the infomercial? They weren't testing it like how the commenters said they should have tested it.

Birthday Toast And Ladylocks Lore

SPEAKER_01 0:17

Over the years, the boys and I have tested a bunch of as seen on TV tools and products, and we were reminiscing on that content and thinking about if those tools and goods are literally any good anymore. So today we're answering the age-old question of our as seen on TV products scams or are they any good? But before we get into that, we are celebrating the 26th spin around the globe for our boy, Mr. Joe Minor, here. Let's knock it up. Happy birthday, thank you. Thank you guys. As we record this, literally the day of his birthday. Um, the young man grew his first gray hair today. Sam and I are quite proud. He's in his late 20s. Um, congratulations. Sam, I do believe, has a special treat for Sam's snack segment.

SPEAKER_02 1:05

This one is probably one of the most special treats I've ever got to bring. Bit of backstory, my my grandma, grandma Eleanor, she was world famous for her Ladylocks. I think I mentioned this before. So couldn't find the recipe. No, we're gonna send one off to a science lab. I did apparently I didn't need to do all that because my cousin Lisa apparently actually has the recipe. So she made these uh for Easter and they are literally Hold on all of the lore around the Ladylocks.

SPEAKER_01 1:37

Your cousin Lisa just comes steamrolling in. And she's been holding the secret family recipe.

SPEAKER_02 1:45

Those are that's fighting terms right there. No, no, thank goodness that she did it. She was kind enough to send me home with some now. These lady locks, I will say, whenever I get them from like a bakery or something, they make them too big and way too sweet. These guys. These look perfect. Oh, they're the perfect size. The the filling, it's not too sweet. Nice crispy shell on the outside.

SPEAKER_01 2:10

Let's get a con. Look at that shot. Can we get a punch on that? Oh, they smell like an old Italian woman's kitchen, Joe. You're gonna get first dibs on those as it is your birthday. Try one of those. I am I wasn't gonna eat any food today. Oh, you might have to try one of those. This is uh I he's been talking about these things for years. For years, years. You know what? For Joe's birthday, I will indulge here's to my health and happy birthday, Joe. Cheers. So straight out of the gate. Those are gaff. It's one of the most phenomenal ladylocks I've ever had in my life. Thank you for sharing those. Oh, they're wonderful. Wow. And it for me, it comes down to the ability to hold the crisp. Fresh Ladylock, you're getting the crisp all day, but these are at least two days old. Yesterday was Easter. She probably made them Saturday. At least she might have made them in the middle last week. She might have made them in January. Who knows? It could have been any time. The ability to hold that crisp, though, phenomenal. I would love it if you pulled out your cellular device right now on air and thanked her for blessing our lives with those. It's fantastic. And you're right, it's the perfect size. Our family makes them probably twice the size of that, and it's not bad from a length standpoint.

SPEAKER_03 3:34

Yeah, those are a great size because you could have them in volumes.

SPEAKER_02 3:36

Oh, yeah, you can just pop them. That'd be great, like a cookie table or something like that. Yeah. Because I like to indulge in a cookie.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

We're getting Yinzer on today's show.

The Cookie Table Fight

SPEAKER_03 3:46

No, we don't want to get into it. I don't believe in cookie tables, but we'll talk about that at a little time. Cookie tables? I didn't have one at my wedding. Oh, you guys did you?

SPEAKER_01 3:53

You guys had a wedding for photographs only.

SPEAKER_03 3:55

No. And love. Nope. That cookie tables are the most wasteful thing at weddings, and you can't prove me otherwise. No one touches them.

SPEAKER_01 4:00

They may be. You just have them into the right way.

SPEAKER_03 4:03

I get the tradition, but people overdo the cookie tables, and they're not made with love. They're just they could go get them from a We had a cookie room that looked like a war zone.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

It was picked clean. Yeah. We had like a million cookies.

SPEAKER_03 4:12

See, because you probably have a lot of people that eat cookies. My extended family, every wedding I've been to, people have cookie tables and no one eats the cookies. And so it's like for us, it just didn't make sense.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

We didn't have any left over. I mean, I'm talking, people were leaving grab bags and to go buy.

SPEAKER_03 4:26

People make your family like all the cookies?

SPEAKER_01 4:28

Everyone in our family for months was making cookies. There you go. Every woman. It was it was the it was the beacon of hope in their life for that year was the cookie table. It was insane. I was like, this is extreme. Then we got there. We couldn't figure out why no one was at the bar or the dance floor at my wedding. They're all at the cookie room. Yeah. Just going to town.

unknown 4:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:48

So I'm a big fan of cookie table. I'll fight you that one to the death. Yeah, that's cookie table.

SPEAKER_02 4:51

I like cookie tables. It just there's good ones and bad ones. I've been to weddings where it's you know what the bad ones I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_03 4:57

Well, it so happens that that's every wedding I've ever been to in my young age. Alright, so maybe you just haven't had a good cookie table.

SPEAKER_01 5:02

I think that's probably more than likely. I don't think he's friends with enough yenzers is a thing. The Yenser cookie table and like being a pit in Pittsburgh and doing it out of like need are two different things.

SPEAKER_03 5:12

I really want to go to a wedding that has like just pierogies and just like smelling. Super yenzer.

SPEAKER_02 5:21

Super yenser.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

A disappointing cookie table, though, I will give it to you, can ruin the case.

SPEAKER_03 5:30

I think that's just ruined our perspective on cookie tables being the disappointing cookie tables. The best one, my brother had a great cookie table at his wedding because it was like you said, but my family's not as big anymore. And over the years, people have passed away, so it's like that time of people cooking all that stuff wouldn't have happened for our wife.

SPEAKER_01 5:48

My grandmother not being able to cook the cookies was a huge problem. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 5:50

Just because she's seen all, but that would that would be a good business to get like a coalition of like Pittsburgh grandmas, different ethnic than they all do. Known as cookies. That's all the exactly. That's all they do is make homemade cookies. That's okay.

SPEAKER_03 6:03

Now we're talking. Thank you for bringing those in, Sam. That's a lot of nostalgia. My grandma used to make those.

SPEAKER_01 6:08

Yeah, I mean, you've been I can't believe they actually exist in the real world, Joe.

SPEAKER_03 6:11

I thought they were like made up. They were lost. I also thought you were gonna say you like thawed them from the freezer for today.

Scams Or Legit TV Products

SPEAKER_01 6:19

I want everyone to eat one of these. These are 30 years old. On Joe's name day, we are gonna thaw these out. We're gonna see if he dies on his birthday. Well, now that we're done celebrating, you know, Joe's uh last last spin around the sun. Uh the as seen on TV stuff, I don't know why this came up, but we were just kind of, I think we were tidying the show doing a little spring cleaning, and we were seeing a few of the items that kind of just ended up sticking around. One of those being a flex seal product. Yeah. And then like a mini can of flex seal product.

SPEAKER_03 6:54

We were using it the other day as a thing. We didn't say go grab this. We said, Where's the flex seal? Where is it?

SPEAKER_01 6:59

And we're like, wait, we actually use that stuff. Yeah, so there are a couple of them that are, I I mean, I will say, worth their weight in gold.

SPEAKER_02 7:09

Yeah, I've got a personal story as one of the flex I'll wait till we get into it, but yeah, the flex seal stuff's legit. The flex seal stuff is very legit.

Infomercial Legends We Remember

SPEAKER_03 7:16

I went ahead and I pulled 18 tools and products that were from all the videos that we've done. I'll run through them real quick and then we can dive into some of our favorites. But we have flex seal, flex tape, flex caulk. We tested every flex product, that was a great video. Mighty putty, the gator grip, oxy clean, speed out, pro grab it, uh uh alien tape, mighty fix it, the fix it pro scratch repair pen, the ding king, which did not work, um, the auto hammer, roto razor, bit 360, the king measure. That's that's an OG one. The King Measure might have been was that the first tool we actually tested. That was the very first product. The speed out and that one were the two first ones we ever tested. Wow. Uh we have the quick strip and then the air broom and spin scrub are the two modern ones. Okay. But I I guess my question to you guys to kick it off, what were the best infomercials you remember? Were they products we tested or ones we couldn't get our hands on?

SPEAKER_01 8:11

I mean, yeah, there's a reason Billy Mays is the goat. Yeah. Anything Billy touched when I was a young man, I just looked at it and I was like, that product is probably so good I can't afford it, right? Or I'm too stupid to know how to use it. And like I still don't use OxyClean because I feel like I'm not even tapping into its capabilities. I also don't do my own laundry. But with that being said, OxyClean and the Sham Wow, straight up goats of asking on TV info commercials.

SPEAKER_02 8:38

Yeah, see, I was uh I'm a little bit uh younger, so I remember the tail end of Billy Mays, but I do remember Vince with the Sham Wow. That was a commercial I feel like I got bombarded with like I just like my childhood.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

They still allow Vince to be on the camera. Bro, Vince is he has a like how yeah, see if you can find anything on it, Joe. He has like a how-to launch a product for TV like like that, like Vince Sham Wow guy. He's I've been getting surfaced, yeah. He's on YouTube. The Sham Wow guy. Let's get look at that guy. That guy parties 100%. You can't a little too much. Yeah, Vince parties. Look at this. Two months ago.

SPEAKER_03 9:14

Vince, I'm gonna soak up the swine, pick up those liberal figures at the same vote to me, so I can represent one. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_02 9:21

He's in politics way long. Look that I just get hit with that's that's not real. Is that real? This is his tape. It's so real. What? It's so real. Usually most politicians wait till they're in office to have a controversy. He literally his controversies are already out. He's like, I'm still going for it.

SPEAKER_01 9:38

This dude's a coke head. Yeah, he gets after it. Vince so Vince is making a comeback in the in a I don't know if it's the right way, but you're you're so dude, the sham wow commercials. Unbelievable.

SPEAKER_03 9:51

Yeah. Unbelievable. I don't even want to watch it. Vince got really political, didn't he?

SPEAKER_01 9:56

Yeah, he did, man. He did. Yeah, well, you saw okay. Maybe what I saw, you see, there was episode one of a podcast, and don't see an episode two.

SPEAKER_03 10:04

So obviously he was like, do you get the probably got a lot of bad traction, man? I mean, he has a lot of shit public.

SPEAKER_02 10:12

Aside from uh Vince and Billy Mays, I feel like a staple of my generation is Phil Swift. Phil Swift, he's gonna be like our generation's Billy, Billy Mays.

SPEAKER_01 10:20

He's the best. There was a dude when I was growing up. See, you guys are an internet-based like generation, right? So you had the we didn't have that shit. You literally had housewives sitting in front of the TV calling in to a gentleman, I believe his name, his last name was Papali, and it wasn't the dude that made the Eagles roster. But he had the look up the rotisserie chicken dude. I'm pretty sure his name was like something Papale. It was the rotisserie chicken infomercial. This was the biggest thing ever. This guy. We gotta get his name.

SPEAKER_00 11:03

Stop skipping it. I'll probably say his name.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

I've used one of these before. I didn't know this was a little thing. We had one. Find his name. But anyway, my mom had one. We used it all the time. This is before you had rotisserie chickens in grocery stores as readily available. Right? And um it was unbelievable. This also led into we had this, like, I've been seeing these on TikTok now, they're back. But an automatic Ron Popel, sorry. So I was close with O'Callie. He Ron Popeel was his name. He was an infomercial legend. This dude's like a hundred years old now. I don't even know if he's still alive. But they they had an uh automatic bread maker that had its own it had an infomercial heyday. My mom got one, and for like a good like at least month, the whole house smelled like just fresh bread. But that was like an era of infomercials, and this was QVC just like coming, like powering through. It was wild. You actually had to sit there and watch the show to get the discount to order the shit. Yeah, couldn't just go online and then like grab a link and buy. Um, that's where Billy Mays built his foundation on that and then took it to another level after. And you got him and what what's his name? Ant Anthony, right? Right? There's the Anthony Dane. The British dude. Yeah, they had their TV show, then you've got the Sham Wow guy. So I actually I'm gonna throw that rotisserie chicken on my mount rushmore. If I if we did a rushmore, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

See, I never knew those from an infomercial. Those things are pretty sick. Oh, yeah. That's really Ron Popeel.

SPEAKER_01 12:43

He was Ron was always on the TV. Always.

SPEAKER_03 12:47

This guy?

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SPEAKER_01 12:48

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Kid Ads And Infomercials Then

SPEAKER_02 14:28

It was probably before all of our times. Uh I think I mentioned it when we were filming that unscrewed video with the juicer, uh, Jack Lane, the power juicer.

SPEAKER_01 14:36

We had a juicer growing up, probably got probably got it through an infomercial.

SPEAKER_03 14:41

I feel like we grew up more on the the end of um like kids' products being pushed a ton in our childhood. On infomercials? Yeah, like it was a big, like um a phloam? Was it foam one of those? That's when they had uh the cha Chia pets was huge. They would shove that down people's. Yeah, we have one.

SPEAKER_02 14:59

So we lost the chia seeds. We gotta find Bert's Chia hair. Yeah, yeah. It's really hard to get chia seeds.

SPEAKER_03 15:05

We um But like I feel like we grew up on that in the easy bake oven. Like that was okay, yeah, yeah. You know what I mean? Like they pushed that shit down kids' throats.

SPEAKER_02 15:12

They had the the crayon melter too, where you would take all your broken crayons and you put it in this basically like an oven for kids is kind of dangerous, but it would like heat it up so you could have like Whoa, you were eating crayons? No, you could eat a crayon, but no, no, you would take all the broken ones, melt it down into a multicolored crayon. Yeah, see, Joe, you might find it. Yeah, the crayon oven.

SPEAKER_01 15:31

Yeah, you forgot an A, but we'll see. There I don't believe anything you're saying right now. There was a crayon melting machine? Yeah, look a crayola crayon oven.

SPEAKER_02 15:40

No way. Yeah, yeah, find it, Joe. I remember this thing. It when you see the design of it, it looks like the most mid-90s thing in the world. Great times.

SPEAKER_01 15:49

Just such good times. It was it was Crayola. The easy bake oven was huge. I do recall that.

SPEAKER_03 15:55

Yeah, there this yeah. This? Yeah, it was great. And you put it in there and it would melt them together so you could get mixed colors.

SPEAKER_02 16:05

Well, it just looks like poop. It's probably impossible to clean. But it was gets dirtier and dirtier.

SPEAKER_03 16:12

See, they'd come out like that. Oh wow. Multicolor. Look at that. We didn't have that. Oh, they dropped it.

SPEAKER_02 16:19

And the uh there was the art thing too, where they'd give you a black sheet and a scraper, and as you would scrape it, it'd be like different rainbow colors.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

No, we still have those. Oh, that's still a thing. Oh yeah, my kids have those. They're great. Really? Well, you mean you get like the like I got my one-year-old, she just scrapes the whole thing off and giggles the whole time. Distracts her for like six minutes. Six minutes. That's great. I feel I will say, because that's gone, and there's also like incredibly strict like uh advertising guidelines. Advertising laws. Yeah, that's why those are gone. But you have to get like more and more and more savvy with it. And and I that's where you do got to give Phil credit where credit's due. Like the man is still getting after it. He launched a campaign like two months ago. Do you see it? No, yeah, he just came back. Yeah, I did. Phil just came back and he was getting freaking weird with it. I'm talking like I had hundreds of DMs from people that were like, Your boy Phil is losing his mind. And he had the goofiest Instagram posts and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 17:19

Um they came out with an epoxy, which was interesting.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:23

I mean, like they're a little bit late to that, I feel like.

SPEAKER_02 17:25

Yeah, they're just throwing their names on everything now. He made the crossover, he made the online crossover, I feel like, better than any infomercial host or honestly. I don't know that many that have. I remember uh he was on a John Tron video, did like 50 million views, where it was just like he was a guest on there and he's showing the products, and it didn't even feel like an infomercial. It's like 40 minutes long. I was like, I watched this all day long. Like he's just such a charismatic personality. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

You have to, because if you're in that business, your shit's getting served on the internet. People are uh laughing at it in the virality of it. And then you got idiots like us that are like sawing boats in half and trying to fix them with flex seal. Yeah. So it makes a ton of sense for him to be on the internet. He's just gonna capitalize on that.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

Well, this stuff works. I think the weird part is not all the flex seal works, but when we tested it, we were most surprised at how well it did for the floor. I mean, almost everything.

SPEAKER_01 18:13

Well, I don't remember what didn't work for flex seal. I'll tell you that. But I feel like it was few and far between.

SPEAKER_02 18:18

The most impressive flex seal thing I've ever seen. It's in my own house. This is like a couple months ago, and I have to get like my water main changed because when you close it, just a slight amount the main? The main, like the coming into the house, like the main shut off for my house. It's one of those old bonnet valves, and it's it's super old. So when you close it all the way, just a little bit of water comes out. So I put like an auxiliary one like a couple feet down, but I want to get like a Kristen's daddy's a pipe fitter, he's gonna come change the whole thing out. But coming right out of that water main, I'd had an elbow that went up, and it was this winter pinhole leak, it's shooting water, and I was like, uh, this sucks because it's all copper pipes. I'm like, I can't, even if I close this down, I can't solder it. Yeah, so I'm like, I don't wanna, and it was so low that if I were to cut it, it'd be hard to get a compression fitting on there. Also, it was nine o'clock at night, so I'm like rummaging through my garage seeing like what can I use to stop this? What's he got? Flex tape, two hose clamps. I wrapped it in a piece of flex tape, put two hose clamps on there, tightened it, and like I said, I'm gonna get this whole thing changed out probably in the next month or two. It's held. It's incredible. Three months straight, not a single drop. It's like solid.

SPEAKER_01 19:27

We did the exact same thing on a pinhole leak we had this winter, too. Yeah. And if you're wondering why we're getting so many pinhole inks and you're listening, Westview Water and you city of Pittsburgh for not cleaning your water because we have a shit ton of sediment and disease and a bunch of f garbage in our water. And uh yeah, you're uh costing homeowners a shit ton, and insurance is piling on top. So go to help Westview. Yours is Westview Water, that's mine. I'll just say no, dude. Westview has probably 5,000 uh insurance claims against their water right now. Um I've owned two homes that have had completely deteriorated copper pipes because of the sediment in their water. And the plumbers that my wife represents, all of them are repairing Westview, um Westview serviced water uh like homes and businesses and stuff. There because there's just so much aggregate in it, it's destroying copper pipe. That's up to code and everything. It's it's awful anyway.

SPEAKER_03 20:17

You can drill a well.

SPEAKER_01 20:19

Keep your well propaganda on the couch, yeah. Just call the miners and get yourself a well. Uh all that being said, though, that's why we have pinhole leaks, and flex seal works so good. Like the flex tape, on oh man, I had to we remember that 12 inches of snow we got in one day? That day, we popped a pinhole leak. Only thing that could save it was the exact same thing. Yeah. Flex seal. I was claims. God send. So, Father's Day, Mother's Day, birthdays, anything, any little celebration, grab a roll of flex tape, throw it in there, and give it to somebody you love. Please. This is not sponsored or endorsed at all. We are just fans of the product. Uh fill, fill with I just you know, fill with a brilliant idea there. Uh gotta give it to him.

SPEAKER_03 21:09

I mean, going back to like the flex tape commercial, just the funniest thing, actually testing this stuff, but I mean it worked.

SPEAKER_01 21:17

We did it. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:18

Their production is so good for these products, I will say. That's what just makes it so much better.

SPEAKER_01 21:23

So if you're a YouTuber, here's what I love. If you're a YouTuber and you're like trying to come up with concepts and ideas, like think about the brilliance of the simplicity that they are marketing with flex products. That's all you got to do as a YouTuber. What's the simple problem and what's a simple solution? Right? And then make it visually simple. That's what Phil does, an incredible job. If you just take something that's not typically visual and makes it visual, you're holding a 45 pound plate. Like you would never do that in the real world. But Phil thought of it. Look at his face curling to that. I'm doing just like piles of drugs to come up with these ideas because it's like they you gotta be pretty creative.

SPEAKER_02 21:59

Oh man, they might. Must. I would love to get a tour of the flex tape RD department where they're just picking up various objects with the tape.

SPEAKER_01 22:06

Crack a few cold ones with Phil. Yeah. Tell me your life's Phil. Tell me. Tell me what's going on, dude.

SPEAKER_03 22:12

Well, how do you feel about this truck that they're fixing that just happens to be a Dodge Ram?

SPEAKER_02 22:16

That tracks. Sorry, Dodge owners. He's not so he's like, let's test this out by going over an average road in the city of Pittsburgh with 55 potholes.

SPEAKER_03 22:26

Dude, side note, the potholes have been terrible this year from this bad winter. Every year this season. Every year, but it's like terrible this year.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

Kristen hit one so hard in her car and dented us. I've never seen this before. Dented the steel rim.

SPEAKER_01 22:39

And it was like there's one, there's one on a road to my house that you hit it and you're like the whole car jolt. Yeah. What is you can't get to them fast enough?

SPEAKER_03 22:47

We could all be roofers with flex tape. I mean, look at this. Look at the application. They're just that's crazy they don't fix that. And they just leave it exposed.

SPEAKER_02 22:55

Well, the thing they never say in these commercials, like flex any of the flex products, they are excellent, quick, temporary fixes. I think where it gets dangerous is when people see this and they're like, oh, so I could just properly fix this with the flex product. I don't think anyone's saying you should use this long term, but a temporary, like something like John's like a pinhole leak or anything like that all day. Yeah, see, I wouldn't recommend this, but Mike. I did it.

SPEAKER_01 23:18

It works. It did work. If you haven't watched that unscrewed video, which I highly doubt if you're listening to this, you haven't. Well, go watch it again. Go share it with a loved one. That video was so much fun.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

It was. I mean, we really had no idea if that boat was gonna float. There were boat police down the road.

SPEAKER_01 23:35

We weren't even supposed to be down there with the boat, weren't we? We basically broke like 12 laws. Sorry, guys. Not sorry. But flex tape, yeah, elite flex seal. Meh. I'm not really buying applications for the spray can. The roll on, though, solid. Yeah. You can, as long as you're patient, you can do the roll-on in certain applications, like that roofing application there. Obviously, you gotta bridge the gap, but you could throw some mesh tape or something on it, roll on, like get the same thing. How many times has the flex pace saved our asses with epoxy? That product. Yeah, the flex paste is basically mighty putty just in flexes branding. So that's another as seen on TV product, I feel like. Is you had Billy was like, I got Mighty Putty, and Phil's like, Billy, I'm making my own. And then they just went toe to toe, and only one of them could do all the coke. See, I thought the Mighty Putty was like the JB Welds.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

RIP Billy.

SPEAKER_03 24:27

Yeah, JB Welds got bought out, or no, it is JB Welds now. They were something else.

SPEAKER_02 24:31

I thought that was like the Mighty Putty where it's like the epoxy clay. You mold it and it gets hard. I believe JB Welds owns them now. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

But they used to be something else. There's a few companies that I mean, all it is is a two-part epoxy that's mixed. It comes in tubes. We get it here from Mohawk, it's the same thing.

SPEAKER_02 24:47

No, but I'm saying the paste we would use it, that shit was different. We like cram it in the joints. Like we get a leak, and it's like, where's the flex paste that we would like?

SPEAKER_01 24:54

We get a leak and we I think that's like oxygen activated. You get it out of the can. Yeah. Because if you if you let that can get any solidifies. Which actually is smart on Phil's behalf because you just make us buy more of it. Yeah. One time use.

SPEAKER_02 25:07

I don't know if Gorilla bought them out, or they just make the exact same thing now. When you go to Home Depot, you're left with this choice where you're looking at the Gorilla one, it's the same price, but bigger. And it's like, do I want to support Phil and get less product? Or get the exact same thing bigger, but I don't get that sweet.

SPEAKER_03 25:23

Yeah. Yeah. Gorilla makes some good products. It's all the same shit though.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

I I find Gorilla cracks me up, has nothing to do with this, but I find people like Gorilla Gorlu was marketed incredibly well, if you remember back in the day, another like TV marketing. And uh they were fixing everything with it. But it's because it was it's not a traditional glue, it's uh it's a I think a polyethylene glue or something. So anyway, it foams and like actually chemically binds shit together. Yeah. So the things it was fixing was it was great for, but it was not applicable in normal glue applications. People are like, oh, I'm just gonna replace all the glue of my life with gorilla glue. And then you just have like shit that gorilla glue should never touch. Yeah. You know, like you should be using, I don't know, CA glue or Elmer's glue, even if you're just like foam everywhere, it's stinks, like you're getting cancer from smelling it. Yeah, you're like gorilla glue had a good minute. Now they make all those products, but back when it was just their original product, they're fixing like remember, they were fixing everything outdoors you could think of. Well, in front of Broken Table, Gorilla Glue.

SPEAKER_03 26:23

Like a lot of the flex products are pricey compared to other ones. Like, I think one product that that would be great for them if it wasn't so pricey is the caulk. Yeah, the flex caulk. It was like super good when you guys tested it. Yeah, just it was such a small amount and it was so expensive.

SPEAKER_01 26:38

I uh I literally keep a can in my bathroom in case of like an emergency. Yeah. By emergency, I'm just I don't know, like see water somewhere. I just clean it and flex it. Because you don't have to get the caulking gun, you don't have to clean it up. It's just like all right there. But you're like, yeah, you're right.$18 a can, you're like, Yeah, it's a little up there. Now not meanwhile, you can buy culk in like five-gallon buckets. One bucket of coke, sir.

When Walmart Gadgets Fool People

SPEAKER_03 27:03

Well, and then after like all like those products, we started going towards gimmicky shit. Yeah, like the stuff you could actively go buy at Walmart. We got some older products like the Ding King, the Fix It Pro, um, the Scratch Repair Kit. That video was like very popular on Pullers Ranger fixing the one scratch.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

I just love in the in the video they were fixing a Ferrari. Yeah. Like, do you think some schmuck with a Ferrari is gonna fix his own scratch this pen here? Right? Oh, a$6 pen on my$600,000 sports car. Yes. Idiot.

SPEAKER_02 27:35

Once we used it and I saw how it worked, I was like, this is this is actually super hokey because all it is is just like a little bit of clear coat in there. It's like the same thing as if you're like spraying something when you scuff it and you hit it with another clear coat, it fills it in and goes away. I'm like, there's nothing special about this. Nothing about it at all.

SPEAKER_01 27:51

Except I'm all about it. I was like, I love it. Well I'm not gonna lie, I thought about it this weekend too. Uh no. So I've been talking a lot of shit on my uh my wife's driving skills, right? So we have uh an expedition, we have the Max, it's the bigger one. We can fit all of our infinitely growing children and like a car seat. It's right, so we got four kids, me and her, and then all the doohickeys and doodads. We got a haul everywhere, right? So we have this giant SUV. I'm all she's driving it into some stuff. There's some dings and scratches on it, right? And I'm like, I like make fun of her for it. I had to eat all my words this weekend because I pulled three-quarters of the way into the garage so I could get the whole way around it because we were had Easter weekend stuff. I'm vacuuming out the truck, and I'm like, I want to make sure I can walk around. Out of habit, I walk into the house and I just hit the garage door button, dropped the door right onto the tailgate of the truck. Now, the door is sensors, obviously, but just gave it a nice little with the piece of metal that hangs on the bottom there, and went up and I looked at it and I was like, I could use that scratch marker that we had as a shop from 1996 right now, and not even tell her. Instead, I sent her a voice note and said, I can't talk shit on you anymore. I apologize. There's God telling me to stop talking shit on my wife. So, Sarah, I know you actually listened to the show. Um, there's your credo. There's your she's there's a credit you deserve. Um, she's not, you know, she's not a terrible driver. She's actually a better driver than me. She can drive, she could probably give you a run for your money driving stick. Oh, see. She grew up driving it. Yeah. Maybe she's gonna do it. Yeah, so I could have used that this weekend though, Sam.

SPEAKER_03 29:22

There was that one. I think one I thought was hilarious that you guys tested was the uh the the ding king. The ding king was funny. It just caused more dents. That's what it did. It was, yeah, it was and that glue wouldn't come off. Yeah, you had to like scrape it off. I mean, it was granted that mini truck is a little Whoa, dude. It's a little dented already.

SPEAKER_01 29:41

No, my uh I got a buddy that does paintless dent repair. Yeah, and when I talk to him about it, what you actually don't realize is when you dent the metal, metal moves, so it gets thinner where the dent is, and that metal moves. Sorry, that metal moves outside of the dent. So the ding king, when you pull it back, you still have the thick area of metal. That that's why you watch them tap as they try to tap the metal back to get that smoothness in it. If you're watching like PDR stuff, which you get nothing out of in the ding king. The ding king, you're just pulling that thing out and then it makes another dent dents around it. Yeah. Um, but I love the fact that that thing made probably some some people a couple million bucks there, uh, sold to the homeowner back in the day. And it probably actually was the catalyst of the industry of paintless net repair.

SPEAKER_02 30:25

Yeah, we can give credit where credit's due. I remember when you're the Ding King. When your friend came up seeing his tools in comparison to the ones that they uh they give you with the Ding King. I was like, Oh, this is a very different, very different setup here.

SPEAKER_01 30:36

Yeah, we have these like little plastic like nub thingies on the Ding King. He's got these like super nice carbon fiber tools that like have all this like anti-scratch stuff on, so he can like reach really long and like really lightweight, and these things were like heavy and basically just made your truck up more.

SPEAKER_03 30:52

Yeah. Then the stuff at Walmart's all like I feel like a ploy just to scam older people. Oh, 100%. It's like right at the end cap when you're checking out, seems like you could use it, none of it works properly. Or kids, I mean, we got that football in those games that was the Doritos blankets. Yeah, those Doritos blankets.

SPEAKER_01 31:13

Nothing new. Yeah. Sam gave that one to his uncle for Christmas, he said. Yeah, he enjoys it. Loves it. Are you being serious?

SPEAKER_03 31:21

I wonder what happened to those.

SPEAKER_01 31:23

Some of those, though, the speed out, good tool to have in the box. Yeah, that thing actually worked.

SPEAKER_03 31:28

I thought the tiger wrench, that's throwing it back. The tiger wrench wasn't too useful, but it's one of those tools I feel like if you lose a lot of wrenches, it's not bad to have at times. No.

SPEAKER_01 31:40

Very rare case. It's not replacing a pipe.

SPEAKER_03 31:43

I'm just saying, if you lose a lot of stuff, it is not bad just to in a quick instance. I'm not saying to use it all the time, but it's not bad to have laying around.

SPEAKER_02 31:53

It would no, it's just so cumbersome. It's so bad. Anytime we've ever had to use it on something, or like, let me try to get you can't get any leverage on it. It's this big and it's got a swivel head on it, so just fighting you the whole time. No, it's a horrible stay away from the tiger wrench. Stay away from the tiger wrench.

SPEAKER_01 32:10

Which one was the gator grip. No, what so you're talking about the multi-head. Yes, and they had eight heads or whatever, and they all turned. That thing sucked. That thing was sick. What was the one though that clamped on it? That was another wrench that was supposed to replace your pipe wrench. Your oil filter. That was the um Oh, the strap wrench or whatever. Yeah. It was another I thought it was a tiger wrench. What are you talking about?

SPEAKER_03 32:34

Explain it real quick.

SPEAKER_01 32:35

It just had a sliding head on it and it was like it's like a I don't know. It was like a crescent wrench? It was I'm supposed to replace a crescent wrench, a pipe wrench, channel logs. Like an open-end, like it was yeah. I can't remember what it was called. No, no, no, it's not any of those. Uh we didn't test this. No. It's just a pipe wrench. No, keep scrolling down, no. Keep scrolling down. Because we tested the grip it. Yeah, keep scrolling. Give me some scroll, give me some scroll, give me some scroll.

SPEAKER_03 33:05

I thought it was the tiger wrench. We're gonna lose- they're not gonna be more as we go farther down.

SPEAKER_01 33:09

Give me the tiger wrench. Google the tiger wrench. Or GPT or whatever the fuck you do now.

SPEAKER_03 33:15

Google search. Tiger Wrench.

SPEAKER_01 33:17

Look at that thing. That was awful. This thing was great. And they're like 12 people. I think I'm getting confused with a TikTok wrench. Oh, the tick- we did one on TikTok. That was like a sliding-headed wrench that were like reports of every wrench in your life.

SPEAKER_03 33:30

Yeah, that was TikTok. TikTok has some wild shit nowadays. I feel like that's the modern ass scene on TV. Just looking at it.

SPEAKER_02 33:37

Yeah, just live selling junk and marketing. They haven't looks like he's getting ready to take the lug nuts off his uh tire with a tiger. Because it's capable of doing that. Fully aluminum polished tire, though. Yeah, there's no way it'd be the strongest man alive to break a lug with like a four-inch tiger ring.

SPEAKER_03 33:53

It's probably an ATV or something that's not actually. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

Don't give credit more credit than we're doing.

SPEAKER_03 33:59

Did the gator grip? Did you you guys hated this one for some reason? It sucked.

SPEAKER_01 34:03

We actually got one in that box. Yeah. I I think so. Sunday's unscrewed video is you're listening to this on a Friday or Saturday, we get a gator grip and a mystery box. Yeah. And I couldn't believe it. It's straight out of the 90s. Like literally, still in the 90s packaging.

SPEAKER_02 34:20

I feel like it's like a rite of passage. Like every Ron Man has that experience where you're in need of a specific size socket or something, and you come across that in the toolbox and you say, you know what? I'm gonna chance it. I'm gonna see if this gator grip has what it takes to break this, so I don't have to go find whatever size socket I'm looking for. Then it breaks inside of the socket, and you say, Why'd they even make this? Why is it cracking? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:43

That was a waste of time. That gator grip was amazing. Instead carry a hundred sockets to whatever you're working on.

SPEAKER_03 34:48

One that we tested that was super underrated, alien tape. Arguably too good. Too good. That tore drywall off the walls.

SPEAKER_01 34:58

I still hate that shit. I thought the alien tape was like made they made it seem like you should be using it like all over your home. And this product was way more intended to create like a watertight barrier between two strips of metal on the outside of your house.

SPEAKER_03 35:14

That you could wash if you ever chose to.

Hugo’s Amazing Tape Gets Weird

SPEAKER_01 35:17

Yes. Yeah, you're right. We have paint missing all over the building from testing the freaking alien tape. Yeah. Just it because it ripped off the paper, the wallpaper, excuse me, the drywall behind. It's that shit was massively overestimated in what it should be doing.

SPEAKER_02 35:34

I I remember when we tested the Hugo's Amazing tape that elicited a response that I don't think any of us were pre were prepared for. We're like, this is weird tape. It sticks to itself, but not to other stuff. Like, that's kind of a goofy product. Every comment, they're like, that's sex tape. They've got sex tape. We use that in the bondage community. And it was just like this whole group of commenters that I didn't know were a part of. Hold up. I had wait, what? If you go back to that video, the top comments are like, sex tape, that's bondage tape. Yeah, Hugo's amazing tape. I don't even want to pull that up.

SPEAKER_01 36:05

Thankfully, I do not read the comment section at that depth. Are you kidding me? No, no. Do you remember the two crazy women that were testing it in the infomercial?

SPEAKER_02 36:15

They weren't testing it like how the commenters said they should have tested it. What?

SPEAKER_03 36:19

You're into the lore, Pola. That's insane. That is so insane.

SPEAKER_01 36:26

That tape is no business existing in my eyes. Like, no, no, no, no. It's great for sex work and bondage and all the multitude of industries where you don't want it to stick to you. You know, you're like, whoa, wait, what? Well, unscrewed, and this uh episode took a wild right turn. So uh good for good for hopefully Hugo's is still in business, you know.

SPEAKER_03 36:47

We don't want to the last two I want you guys to reminisce on real quick were the auto hammer in the king measure. The auto hammer was that had the nails that automatically sat and then you came out the handle? Yes, so elite ahead of its time. It didn't work as it needed to, but come on. You loved that. It was it was all it was fun. You weren't getting anything close to accurate hammering. But it was cool that your hammer had nails in it. It was you had to load your hammer, like shake the hammer and then hit shit with it. And the king measure, I think, is what did everything. That was horrible. The king measure set it off. The king, it might have been a bad product, but it was a great time. Yeah, you could say it with the hammer.

SPEAKER_01 37:24

You know why he's saying that? Because he loves that Rycon, that like$250 digital, like you can like talk to AI and shit with it, with a completely unnecessary tape.

SPEAKER_03 37:36

They came out with a new one we're gonna buy. We gotta do it. What's on the new one? It's just smaller now. Oh, good. That's good. Yeah, you probably would like it.

SPEAKER_02 37:45

I've never used that tape for any of the crazy functions it advertises, but there's a handful of times where we're in like the office, it's like, how big is this? And I have to grab that thing, and I hate it because it's so big, I'm like, I can't even maneuver it like a regular tape. It's it's a little bit the king measure crawled so that tape could walk.

SPEAKER_01 38:03

Can you can you pull up an image of the king measure? The king measure had the string in it, it had the laser in it.

SPEAKER_03 38:08

No, do you remember the king measure wasn't supposed to come with a string? It was supposed to be. I remember when we bought it, it didn't say it had a string, and then whenever we got it, it had the string.

SPEAKER_02 38:18

Yeah, it was awful.

SPEAKER_03 38:20

You remember this, Pula?

SPEAKER_02 38:21

See, if they're gonna do one of these gimmicky products, this is what I never understand. It's like, all right, like we want to try to swindle some people into thinking this is a decent product. They get like the worst graphic designers to do their logos and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 38:33

Like it just made for blind old people. Look, I know they could have been. Like my grandfather would get got on that 100% above you. You're buying that. I know you are all day. The roll mode? Remember, it was like, yeah, you could get a circumference of a pipe. Why would you need that? Oh no. We tried. King measure, you gimmicky best. But then the string, what what are you measuring with the string? King measure crawls. It could be all over the place. Raycon or whatever that thing is called could could could run.

Rapid Fire Scam Or Legit

SPEAKER_03 39:03

Yeah. Well, I say we go through them actually. I have uh some of the most famous ones. Go through you guys are gonna rank them if they're uh scams or actually legit products. Okay. S tier? No, that's uh that's you're just gonna say scam or legit. Okay. S tier will be it'll be later. Um just if you think it is a a product that you should buy, consider if you see it, or if it's just a complete and utter scam. Um first up we'll go flex seal. Legit. Legit 100%. I think it's legit. Uh we got flex tape. Legit. Legit. Probably the most legit.

SPEAKER_02 39:37

Flex caulk. Legit. I'll probably disagree here. I feel like it's a bit gimmicky.

SPEAKER_01 39:43

This is coming from a man who's wearing a caulking shirt and has a caulking badge, a caulking card, and calls himself the king culk. Of of the what the f is the union he made up? The cultures union.

SPEAKER_02 39:59

Uh where he went. Yeah, but that's the thing. Like with cult, there's so many different types and so many different applications. And even like in a bathroom, you're typically using like silicone or like siliconized culk or something like that. And I just don't like that it's this random general purpose. We don't know what the recipe is. It's basically an Alex. I don't know if it's an Alex. I think it's an Alex. It's like that kind of a makeup. I felt it dry and it gets like rock solid. And I'm like, this is like whenever I do like trim or anything, I always use the Alex Flex, and I'm like, if I use something like this, it would just be a nightmare. Like as time would go on that.

SPEAKER_01 40:33

When I use it, it didn't do any of that. Oh, really? Maybe it's a mystery. Maybe.

SPEAKER_03 40:40

Still legit, still vibe. Put it in the cupboard. Uh we got Mighty Putty. Legit. What that's a scam. I thought it was a scam. He tried putting those lights on the mini truck, dude, and it would not stick over hours.

SPEAKER_02 40:52

Okay, for anything like that, no. I I like it. Like they had a video of someone repairing like a ceramic mug with it for basic stuff. I wouldn't use it to adhere anything you care about. Flex putty all day.

SPEAKER_01 41:04

Remember the flex putty? Yeah. We were able to do that. We did that like like I was it pulled me up on a crane. Wasn't that super glue? Yeah, that was the flex glue. That was a flex loop or super glue. No, it was a flex putty on that metal thing. Oh yeah, we did we you're right. We did the workbench.

SPEAKER_03 41:18

And then the flex glue was the logs, remember? Yeah. It said you could put two metal blocks together with a drop of glue, and then you could lift up to like 10,000 pounds.

SPEAKER_02 41:27

It worked extensively, but I don't know how many times I want to lift it up in that.

SPEAKER_01 41:31

All those labels f ⁇ ing lie. They needed like what's his name did uh uh Jerry Rig Everything did that video similarly. With Tesla. He like put a bunch of money into it.

SPEAKER_03 41:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:40

He really did it. Did it the right way?

SPEAKER_03 41:42

Uh we have your favorites. I know this answer. The gator grip. No, garbage. Nope. Umxyclean.

SPEAKER_02 41:49

Extremely legit.

SPEAKER_03 41:50

Legit, yeah. That stuff works too well. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 41:53

Oh man. Anytime I have a stain in something, no matter what the stain is, no matter if it's like it's been set in and dried, it'll just get anything out. OxyClean's amazing.

SPEAKER_03 42:01

Uh we have the speed out. Legit. Legit. Good old Tom Tom Silva, your favorite. Alien tape.

SPEAKER_02 42:09

Uh he promoted it, remember? I forgot it was Tom Silva. Uh Alien taped garbage. Yeah, don't put that in your house.

SPEAKER_03 42:16

We have Mighty Fix It. It was the tape we tested. I don't remember.

SPEAKER_01 42:20

Isn't it the one that got hard and I built a hammer out of it? Yeah, no, garbage. JB Welds owns it now. Yeah, I remember. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I didn't like that. That stuff was sick. It was great, but it was like eight parts. You need like a well-ventilated area, remember? You had to wear gloves. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You couldn't get it on your skin. Yeah, you get it on your skin, you gotta go to the hospital. Like, don't buy that.

SPEAKER_03 42:39

The Fix It Pro scratch repair pen.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Junk. Put it on your nostalgia shelf all day.

SPEAKER_03 42:45

Don't use that. Then the good old ding king. Junk. Garbage. We have the my favorite, the auto hammer. Stay away. Garbage. It's a great hammer. The roto razor.

SPEAKER_01 42:56

Those are all terrible. The roto razor was terrible. What was the roto razor? It was that little like uh Dremel, like for engraving glass. Oh, that's terrible. Oh no, it was that death wheel. Yeah. Get this out of here, too. Just buy like a rip.

SPEAKER_03 43:12

I remember I had that like little, I don't know. I forget which one that was. That was the um tested so much shit. They were it's meant for like carving glass and stuff. Yeah. I forget what the name of it was. I do remember that. That was that was a famous one. Um then we have the bit 316. Don't say it's bad because we have you both on camera saying it's incredible. The bit that was the one that like locked and loaded with the Yeah, and then you could you locked it, turned it, loaded it.

SPEAKER_01 43:34

Yeah, that I actually like that. I wish someone could figure out a better way to do it. Yeah, I agree with that.

SPEAKER_03 43:39

But I mean, that's fair. Uh the King measure. Oh never.

SPEAKER_01 43:42

Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 43:43

Quick strip. Just get a regular set of wire strippers. Yeah. They're quick enough. You guys did love this one. John broke it early in the test. The air broom.

SPEAKER_02 43:53

I was a fan. I was concrete floors? I was impressed. Wait, is this the one where you

SPEAKER_03 44:00

Took that jar of mayonnaise and dumped it on the ground and that thing cleaned it up. I think maybe it's like a squeegee. And then John like broke it by accident.

SPEAKER_02 44:08

Actually, that was surprisingly good. Okay, I remember which one you're talking about.

SPEAKER_03 44:11

And then those the Ruby horsepower, the spin scrubbers. Do you guys remember?

SPEAKER_02 44:16

Get the brush that could go into your drill that actually has like a high RPM to it and clean with that.

SPEAKER_03 44:23

Yeah, that that's all I have for that. So then that moves us into putting these all on a on a list. S tier, A, B, C, and F. We're gonna go through one by one. You're gonna tell me which ones go where. Is F like all? Yeah, like complete and utter scam. They should be arrested for uh putting it on there. All right. Uh let's start with the King measure.

SPEAKER_01 44:46

Scam. F? Oh yeah. You can't even use it as a tape measure because it had a piece of string. Like it's measure what?

SPEAKER_02 44:57

Two people to look at this flaccid log here.

SPEAKER_03 45:01

Alien tape.

SPEAKER_01 45:03

It probably B, but like be careful. Yeah, I agree with that. Gator grip. I'll say C. It might get one or two jobs done, but do not go to that thing all.

SPEAKER_03 45:14

Are you serious? C.

SPEAKER_01 45:16

Don't put that on any nut you care about.

SPEAKER_03 45:18

Wow. You guys blew my mind. Uh the the the the scratch and repair fix pen. F. F? The thing is out of that range.

SPEAKER_02 45:31

Yeah, but the thing is, if you ever actually get a scratch in your car, you go to AutoZone wherever, and they literally have pens that are factory match to your paint color with the same little clear coat thing. It'll do the same thing. This is just a junky version of it. I need one for your exact paint color.

SPEAKER_03 45:48

I'm going A. A dear baby, yes. It was ahead of its time. It was ahead of its time.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

Before they had it at AutoZone, before they had it at the stores where you can buy it now.

SPEAKER_03 45:59

And then we have the Airbroom.

SPEAKER_01 46:01

B's fair. Special application of it.

SPEAKER_03 46:04

That's surprising. Uh we'll go flex calc.

SPEAKER_02 46:07

A. I would not put it up there, but where'd you put it? I'd put it at B or C.

SPEAKER_03 46:12

We'll put it at B.

SPEAKER_02 46:14

What the I can't believe your hate for the Flex Calk.

SPEAKER_03 46:17

That actually blows my mind. You don't like that. Oh yeah. Flex traditional. He said it was incredible. We're pulling up the video time.

SPEAKER_01 46:23

There's no way I said it was incredible. He wants uh uh he doesn't even feel like dripless caulking guns. He's like, I want to tr I want to hold it.

SPEAKER_03 46:30

Here it is. I knew where's he at?

SPEAKER_02 46:33

Now see, but this is different. This is a rough application.

SPEAKER_03 46:37

This is not you in 4K, man.

SPEAKER_02 46:39

Wait, where's the gun at?

SPEAKER_01 46:41

Phil's you know how brilliant Phil Swift is? You don't need it. Wow. Are you prepared?

SPEAKER_02 46:46

I'm ready. Three, two, one. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

SPEAKER_01 46:50

Isn't that incredible? Is that not one of the three most satisfying things you've ever done in your life?

SPEAKER_02 46:55

That's pretty impressive.

SPEAKER_01 46:56

Phil, you gentlemen.

SPEAKER_02 46:57

What's good called? That was a polite. This is impressive.

SPEAKER_00 47:00

Front doors.

SPEAKER_02 47:01

That was a leading question. Is this not the most impressive thing you have? What am I supposed to say then? No.

SPEAKER_03 47:06

I'm just saying, man, you seem pretty excited to use it then.

SPEAKER_02 47:10

Use it in a pinch. Don't use it for anything you care about.

SPEAKER_00 47:15

Let's go.

SPEAKER_03 47:16

OxyClean?

SPEAKER_01 47:17

S tiers. S. It's a it's the goat of cleaning product. Uh speed out. That's A for sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 47:25

Then we have it's the same version of that, the ProGrab. It's the same thing. It's just a different brand of the bits. Okay, we'll go F. I'm brand loyal. The auto hammer. Bullshit. You guys can't at least do a C. For what pro what they have proprietary nails.

SPEAKER_02 47:44

Once you run out of the nails, what do you do?

SPEAKER_01 47:46

Call somebody for help.

SPEAKER_03 47:48

I need nails. Uh the Ruby horsepower brush.

SPEAKER_01 47:52

Oh, such trash. Absolute garbage. Despicable.

SPEAKER_03 47:56

The mighty tape. Mighty tape? Who was that one? Or is this putty? Sorry, I can't see these loadings. It's putty. Uh we have mighty putty.

SPEAKER_01 48:04

Mighty putty is a A or B tier. Yeah, that's fair. Don't try to don't try to like stick your tile on backsplash with it.

SPEAKER_03 48:11

Which one, Pula?

SPEAKER_02 48:12

Do A, A tier, don't you? Okay. Yeah, I like the Muddy, Mighty Putty.

SPEAKER_03 48:16

We have the bit 360.

SPEAKER_02 48:19

What the fuck? The bit 360 is go with the B. Yeah, B or C.

SPEAKER_03 48:24

Head of its time, another one. Head of its time. The Ding King. F F. We have the Roto Razor Saw. F.

unknown 48:34

F.

SPEAKER_03 48:35

Uh Mighty Tape.

SPEAKER_01 48:37

I think Mighty Tape is a direct knockoff of flex tape. And then JB Weld bought it, and now it's Oh that, okay, the stuff that, yeah, that shit. It works, but like it's way too complicated. It's the epoxy with the mesh and it was all sticky. I had to wear I think I had to wear like a full wetsuit. It's the stuff that dries like a cast. Yes. Those wire strippers. Garbage. F. There are companies that make those that are good though. Not that company.

SPEAKER_03 49:04

And our favorite two.

SPEAKER_01 49:08

I'll say it. Probably B. B. I could go with that. I just don't know. The roll-on is good. The spray, I don't know. Like when the have we ever needed it?

SPEAKER_02 49:17

I've never used the spray for anything personally. Like, yeah. And last but not least, flex tape. You know where to put that. You know exactly where to put it in the case. Top rope. Wow. The disparity between the S and F tier is hilarious. There's so many gimmicks.

TikTok And Live Selling Next

SPEAKER_03 49:36

There are so many gimmicks out there though. We haven't even tested the whole half of them. Really? We've done a hundred acidine on TV products. The problem with the whole Astin on TV category is we can't find half of the products that were maybe not these heavy hitters that are still sold. This is before we had Claudette, our new assistant.

SPEAKER_01 49:54

Yeah, it was before. We might have to bring her out of the retirement. When we stopped letting her smoke inside, we had to get rid of her, but we might have to bring her back. We might have to. Ziggs inside and more acid on TV. Back to the good old days. Back to the good old days. Excellent. Well, I'm I'm not gonna lie. The reminiscing here, even though it doesn't seem like it was that long ago, when was that video published, Joe? It was almost it was over two years ago. But now I'm getting confused with there's just been so many tests. So with all that being said, what do you want to see us? What vein of the internet's asshole have we not tried things in yet? I know we're getting recommendations. QVC's been asked a lot, but we don't even know how to use that.

SPEAKER_03 50:40

Yeah. QVC well, uh, whatnot, the live selling app.

SPEAKER_02 50:44

Whatnot, I could get into. Wouldn't it be bad to get uh TikTok products that are only through live sellers? Like that's the the caveat, is that it has to be someone live selling.

Builder Bunker And Wrap Up

SPEAKER_01 50:55

I'd want to make sure though we're having the most interesting conversations on the live sale possible. Like I want I'm gonna FaceTime in wearing a disguise. Alright. Be like, hey, you sell what you got, you sell me here, right? I think that'd be fun. So what we got whatnot and QVC. If you guys got something else, let us know in the comments down below. That's gonna be a wrap on this episode. A lot of fun with the reminiscent and the reflection. Really appreciate each and every one of you. If you want to get early access or any of our behind-the-scenes content, make sure you're checking out the builder bunker. Uh, I think it's next week we have an incredible, I would say, bunker access only piece of content that is on the back end of our unscrewed video that's uh dropping here after this episode comes out that will be quite fun. Joe and I are gonna have to punish ourselves with like 10,000 calories of food. Um so if you're into that kind of thing, it's the best place to get it. Share it with your friends, your family, the people you love, people you hate, we don't care. We love you all, and we'll see you on next week's episode.