GMM 1946: Are These Products Worth It? (Test)

Will this product change everything? – Let’s talk about that. (bright synth music) – “Good Mythical Morning!” – Okay Rhett, which do you look at more times in a day, your family or your phone? – Well, I got a lot of pictures of my family on the phone, so. (laughing) – But that counts as your phone. – Okay, then my phone, sorry. – Your phone can do anything these days. – Right! – And you can do anything with your phone. – I can’t get my kids to do anything. – Not so with families. Today, we’re testing some wild, new, allegedly lifestyle-improving products that have all one thing in common. (chuckles) All have one thing in common. – I understand. – I’ll put the “all” anywhere. They attach to your cell phone or connect to it, including this thing, which supposedly lets you have phone conversations in public without anyone hearing. – So like, texting? – No. (laughing) It’s time for New Tool or Old School, cell phone products edition. – We’re gonna test a series of cell phone-reliant products designed to improve the way we currently do things. And then we’re gonna decide if we should go with that new tool or if we should stay old school. – I know. – Oh, I was telling them. (cheerful piano music) Everybody wants to be healthy and fit, but don’t you just hate how much work it takes to work out? In order to get quads of the gods, you can either do squats until the cows come home, or you can just push a button on your phone with the PowerDot 2.0 Smart Electric Muscle Stimulator! This EMS device not only helps relieve muscle pain after workouts, but also claims to be able (chuckles) to help increase muscle strength! – Whoa, but… (chuckling) You ran out of gas. – Able, I’m able! Okay, I’ve got this thing on already, now– – It looks like something from Beats. – Yeah, Dr. Dre did this. Okay, so here’s the deal. This is essentially a TENS unit that you can control wirelessly. Now, it’s a lot more expensive than your average TENS unit. $200 dollars on Amazon, yeah. – $200 dollars on Amazon. If you want two sets of pads, $350. – What! – Just an extra set of pads costs another $150? – I don’t understand how that works, but it actually does have 4.3 out of five stars, so people like it. I’ve got it hooked up to these muscles on my arm and I’m going to, you basically can dial it in right here on your phone and now it’s already on. And so I’m just gonna up the power until it starts contracting these muscles. – And this is for targeted muscle recovery or to have an enhanced workout. There’s different ways that they push this thing, but it’s just what a normal TENS unit does. In this case because of your phone connection, you have more mobility and not so many wires. And you’re not just sitting around doing this, which I guess I could be doing. Just trying to get my, get my forearm swole. (groans) – Now, you’re moving so much over there that you can’t see what’s actually happening. – I am not doing this to my fingers. Oh! (stammers) It’s unpleasant to say the least. For some reason, it’s only touching those two and a little bit on my thumb. – I can feel the electricity going through there. – What am I saying in Morse code right now? – I’m going to try this on my quad. – Huh. – Oh, you are? – Yeah, I am. – Okay. – Check this out, I didn’t wear shorts for nothing. (Rhett snickers) – Oh, so you’ve got a, okay, okay! (talking over each other) – [Rhett] Pop it off. – You need some help here? Put that one on there. (Rhett murmurs) Put this one on there, and this should make your quad pop in the same way that some good old squats would do. – Okay, so just wash this muscle here. – This is where I put my hands when I squat. I don’t know, it’s like I’m holding a invisible ball? – [Rhett] Look at this, look at this. – Look at that, I’m busting out of my draw, my drawers. – Can you… (stammers) – Oh, you’re poppin’! – [Rhett] See my knee going up and down, look at that. – (laughs uncomfortably) Oh, whoa! (talking over each other) – I have no control over this! – [Link] These are like two eyes– – I’m gettin’ swole! – And a nose. It’s kinda like your– – [Rhett] Oh gosh. – Your nose is wiggling, right? – [Rhett] Ooh, I kinda like it. (groans) It’s easier than squatting, I’ll tell you that much. – It definitely is. I’ve got this thing up on 22.6 right now. (laughing) (groans) I love the, I love the sensation. Oh, oh, oh look, if I let my foot extend. Look, look at that. – Your whole leg, man. – My whole leg. – Look at that, and you could be checking emails. You could be writing tweets. (laughing) – Look, I’m literally, I’m so relaxed right now. I’m doing nothing. It looks like I’m doing this on purpose, but I’m not. – And I’m workin’ hard, I’m kinda sucks. – I’m goin’ up, I’m goin’ up. (talking over each other) – Oh, oh, oh God! (laughs) I’m at 25! (groans dramatically) Yeah, I kinda like it. – If you don’t watch out, your right leg’s gonna be twice as big as your left. (yelling) It’s real fast! (yells) What just happened, it paused– – Dude, don’t– – Okay. – I don’t want you to get a over-swole leg. Okay, I mean, physical therapists swear by TENS. – I’m kinda into this. – I like the wirelessness, so yeah. I’m feeling a little out of breath, are you? – No, I feel great. – Really? – I feel like I could now squat. – So we are agreeing that we are into this new tool. – Yeah, I mean, and you know what? I think I look kinda cool with the little… – Now, don’t put it in your ears. That would be (chuckles) bad idea. (cheerful piano music) Now, I remember making paper airplanes before they became the Twitter direct message icon. But, who needs to master the nuances of paper based physics when your phone can control your paper plane for you! – What! – Introducing the POWERUP 4.0 Smartphone-Controlled Paper Airplane Kit! Wow! Use your phone to a paper airplane. You still have to make it, so– – [Rhett] I’m excited for you. – For the beginning here, I’ve done some pre-folding but you still have to fold the thing yourself. The phone doesn’t do that for you. – Nothing wrong with a little pre-folding. Just like the old days. – Hey, we got a sub today, man. Let’s totally let ’em have it with the paper airplanes, you know? – I know, I know. I was planning on lettin’ ’em have it. – Okay, so I’ve got a nice… – Yeah, yeah. – It’s the start of something. – [Rhett] And then fold the little battle wings up. – Oh, you’re already, you’re making your battle wings? – [Rhett] Battle wings! And then I actually, I am a proponent of putting– – Now, does yours have this, this electronic skeleton? – I don’t believe so. Hey, that’s not a bad paper airplane. A lot of people don’t like to do this. – I mean, that’s heavy. Is this thing gonna fly? – Look at that. – Right, so now, it’s been a while since I made one that was actually… – Whew, you get old and you get better at things. (talking over each other) – And then I got to put some, oh! I’ve out-taped myself here. – [Rhett] It’s very complex here. – Well, it definitely takes longer to make, we’ve established that. – Yeah, I would’ve already hit the sub like seven times. – Hit the sub? – The substitute teacher. – [Link] Oh. (chuckles) – Who threw that?! – Not me, I’m still making mine. – There’s always one kid who points. Don’t be the kid who points. If somebody throws a paper airplane at the sub and the sub says, “Who threw that?!” Everybody’s like, (stammers) “I don’t know, it happened so fast. It happened so fast, we don’t know.” I’m not advocating throwing paper airplanes at the sub. I’m saying, but if someone does, don’t be a rat. Now, if this one that Link has hits the sub, it’s gonna be the guy with the phone. (chuckles) – Right. – The sub’s gonna know, it’s gonna be the guy looking at his phone like, (grumbles). – I think I’ve done this right, does that look right? Okay, so I’m gonna turn this on. – Well okay, so– (talking over each other) You think we should do the control group first to see if I can get into the hula hoop for Chase, and then see if you can do better? – Yeah, let me make sure I can connect via Bluetooth to the phone here. – Oh – Yes! – Says flight is ready. – And then, see, I hold that. – I wore my shorts to school today. It’s really cold outside, but I don’t like to wear jeans. – Check this out, man, look. – There’s frost on the ground, but I’ve got on shorts. – When I push up on this, 15%, 17%, 20% power. (whirring) And then if I go like that, it sends more power to one of the two back ones to steer it. – Whoa, so you can steer! – Yeah, you steer it like that. All right, you are up against the wall, buddy. – Are you aiming for me or the aircraft carrier? – I’m going straight for the aircraft carrier. – All right, old tool first. – You’re throwing it too hard. (laughing) – What! – It’s gone. (laughing) (talking over each other) You know what, I had another one prepared just in case this would happen. It’s not quite as good, I don’t think. But here we go, aircraft carrier. – Oh! – Right through the hula hoop! – Right through the hoop. (talking over each other) – So from my first attempt, I’m just gonna try to go through the hula hoop. I’m gonna go up to 40%. (whirring) Let’s just say, why not? (plane thuds) – [Rhett] Well, it was going for the mountains. – Can we tag team this? – I’ll throw it and you control it? – Instead of having it do the two things at once? – Yeah. – I mean, ’cause in class– (talking over each other) – I’d love to do one thing at once. Okay, I’m gonna count down, three, two, one go. – Yeah! (yelling) – Now, I took it down to 20% and then I brought it back up. That’s why I had the dip. Let’s try, let me see if we can land it on the aircraft carrier. – We can do this. – I’m gonna throw it back to you. Three, two, one, go. – Did you see that? I killed it at the right time. We make a good team! Three people is really what you need to make this thing work. (laughing) – You gotta get the whole class collaborating. – All right, on the aircraft carrier, I think I got it now. Three, two, one. (whirs) – Yeah! (yelling) – We landed in the water next to an aircraft carrier! – I think the sub would be really impressed! – It’s fun though, and the learning curve wasn’t too steep because I mean, I was starting and stopping that thing. Again, I’m voting new tool! – I agree, I think this is an improvement. – New tool! – This is an improvement on old school and hey, we need to go to Dodger Stadium, get in the upper deck, take it all the way on. (mimics zooming) And then get kicked out. (cheerful piano music) – When I was a kid, one of my favorite wrestlers was the Macho Man, Randy Savage. He had wild outfits, he talked like he was constipated. – Oh yeah! – Yeah, he was intense, man! In the same way that our friend, Cotton Candy Randy is intense, but maybe a little creepier. So we decided to combine them both– – Oh yeah! – Into the Cotton Candy Randy Savage tee. – Step over to mythical.com, brothers. Well (stammers) Hulk said “brothers,” so sorry. – He probably said “brothers.” (talking over each other) – Maybe every once in a while. Mythical.com if you wanna get this. Okay, nobody likes to hear a loud, one-sided phone conversation in public, right? Unless you happen to be a spy collecting information, am I right, or you’re the spy and you don’t want everyone around you hearing all that juicy, classified intel, am I right? – I don’t know yet. – Okay, either way, this is the Hushme, described by the makers as, “A personal acoustic device that will help you protect speech privacy and reduce noise pollution when speaking on the phone in open space environments!” – This is one of those manufacturing accidents that happens at the VR headset facility. But I’mma put this thing on. – So as you can see, as Link gets this thing secured on his face– – Become Bane. – It’s designed to muffle your voice, so there’s a tight fit around the mouth. And then you put the headphones– – Yeah, it’s got the ear buds. – The ear buds in, so you can have a phone conversation. So what Link’s gonna do, is Link is going to call Chase, who is in another room. And he’s going to say a number of secret phrases, and I’m gonna come back here like I’m in public, just sitting on a bench, minding my own biz-wax. – First of all, what do I look like? – A moron. – I look like (stammers) I’m a guy with a mustache with a VR headset over my mouth. – I if I saw somebody in public, I would be like, “Oh, he must’ve just had surgery on his mouth.” You know what I’m saying, I would just be like, “Oh, that guy has got an issue that he’s dealing with. I’m not gonna stare, I’m not gonna stare. I’m gonna look away. – It tastes funny in here. – I can hear you, but it is muffled. – I’m yelling now. – $229, okay? Is it worth it? Let’s find out. – The correct speaking voice is a soft tone, as though speaking not to disturb a sleeping child. Quieter than a normal speaking voice, but above a whisper. – I think just talk like you were, you want Chase to be able to hear you, but you don’t want me to, you know, don’t whisper. – All right, you want me to call Chase? – Yeah. – Okay, I’m gonna call Chase and I’mma tell him some things. – I’m just out here in the park. It’s colder than I thought it would be. But I got my shorts on down, I don’t what to do. (muffled speaking) – Turn the relaxer off? – [Chase] You used to collect computer mice? – Yes, Chase heard me. You didn’t hear me? – I thought you said “Turn the relaxer off.” – I said, “I used to collect computer mice.” I’ll talk a little louder. (muffled speaking) – Sometimes I give gnocchis little finger buddies. – See, you heard that one! – [Chase] I heard that one. – Is that what you said? – Yeah! – Gnocchis? – Not all frogs go to heaven, Chase! – That’s easy, not all frogs go to heaven. When you yell and you’re mad, I can definitely hear you. But the first time I definitely could, I mean, that would have been a private conversation. – I’m holding a private conversation in public, but I’m wearing this. (muffled speaking) – If you talk like that in a normal tone, I can understand every word. – I can’t think of anyone who would want to wear this. – It might be the case that you would wanna wear that if you were gonna have a conversation on a train or something like that. Or I’ve gotta have this conversation when I’m in the Uber and I don’t want the guy– – Well, try the old school, which would just be, I don’t know, cover your mouth. – Okay, well you gotta go sit back there and just see. – [Chase] Hey, Rhett. – Hey Chase, what’s up, man? – [Chase] Oh you know, just talking to Link. And then you called, so I decided to hang up with him and say hi to you. – Well, I never had a banana. – You never had a banana! – (murmuring) I mean, but are all Simons named after Simon Says? – Are all Simons named after Simon Says. – No Chase, my dream house is made of Spam! Did you hear that? – Definitely hear that, I can hear all of it! – Well, okay. – But you know what? – Bye Chase, save me a banana. – I mean, you could hear everything I said too. You didn’t look like a total doofus. – I think the thing is, is that– – And how much does this thing cost, $230? – This is ill-fated, I just, I hate to say it. It was a Kickstarter in 2017. They put a lot of time, a lot of research into it. – No, no, no, no! – And now it’s finally available to the public, but I just don’t think this thing’s gonna fly. I think it’s gonna stay grounded. – So this has gotta be old school! – Yeah, you know what? – Just whisper, cover the mouth. – Whisper, go into a port-a-potty or something. – Or reschedule your phone conversation. Anything to avoid looking like this. – Okay, but I will say that we actually did learn that the PowerDot and the power paper airplane are new school and they’re worthy for us to upgrade from old school to new school. But the Hushme, we’re gonna silently or quietly hush that into the trash, probably. (Link speaking unclearly) – What? – Thanks for subscribing, click on that bell! – You know what time it is. – Hi, I’m Nicholas from Bordeaux in France and I just finished falling this origami cockatrice from 100 square of paper. And it’s time to spin the Wheel of Mythicality. – Whoa, that’s a lot more impressive than what we’re about to be. – Did he say 100 squares of paper? Or one square paper? – I would be equally impressed, regardless. – Right, yeah. (chuckling) – Regardless of the answer. – That’s true. Click the top link to watch us fly some tricked out paper planes! The old school way at Good Mythical More. – And to find out where the Wheel of Mythicality’s gonna land. (whirring) – [Rhett] Oh yeah! Cotton Candy Randy is back and he’s feeling more macho than ever. Get the Cotton Candy Randy Savage tee now at mythical.com.

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