GMMore 2587: What’s The Best Water Bottle?

Welcome to Good Mythical More. We have the most popular water bottles that you can spend an exorbitant amount of money on, and we are going to assess them and rank them. For your viewing pleasure. But first we’re gonna boogie down now. Short crepe! Short crepe! I’m short crepe! I reserve cottage cheese! I wanna save my cottage cheese for myself. I reserved it. I typically don’t eat cottage cheese in the morning, but I did this morning and there’s no complaints from me. It’s the best type of cheese. It’s like little globs of wet, white. If there was a Family Feud and it was Stevie, Steve, Stevie Harvey, said, we surveyed 100 people and asked them, what’s the best kind of cheese? And there were 20 answers on the board. Like there’ve never been this many answers on the board. You think cottage cheese wouldn’t be? Cottage cheese wouldn’t be one of them. I mean, it’s great. I love it. In fact, I had some this weekend. I was very pleased. More people need to have it. I, you know, I’d like to be on the board. Well, if you were one of the 100, then there would be one. There would be one. Let’s see this first one. Now, I don’t know what this is. Owala? I thought that, isn’t this a, like a convenience store that everybody loves in Texas? What? That’s Wawa. Oh. Where is “Awawa”? It’s just Wawa, right? Where is Wawa? California? Florida? Virginia. Maryland. Virginia, Maryland. But it’s not “Awawa” it’s Wawa. But not this. So, Stevie, how much does this thing set you back? That is 27.99 and I’ve been told it is the current it water bottle. Hi, there. I’m leak proof, I’m insulated, and I have a built in straw. I know. Where have I been all your life? 24 hours cold. So. It did sound like you said, I’m Link proof, which we’re about to find out. Yeah. Yeah, I’ll be the judge of that. So, lift to unlock. Okay. Push button. Woo! And then, nicely done. Free sip spout. Do you like the built in straw? Oh, that’s what that is. You see how there’s like a little hole and a big, now that you’re sneezing i’m gonna try this one. – Do you like the built in straw? – You can try it after me. Because you have a lot of water bottle opinions, and so I just figured that maybe you would have an opinion about this one. When the one that I have comes up, I’ll tell you what it is. But yeah, I have two different types and they both have straw. I don’t like to turn up in public. But yours is exclusively a straw. It doesn’t have the ability to turn up. This is wild. Cause look, you can turn it up. You can turn it up. You can suck and, you can suck and turn up at the same time. I don’t want to try it. So, this is wild. Let’s, let’s, let’s, let’s, let’s take a look at this thing. First of all, does the straw, the straw does not go all the way to the bottom. See that gap right there? You’re got to have flow. Well, hold on. Yeah, but, but there’s a, there’s a, it tightens down and also there’s a thickness on the bottom. Yeah, but that’s it right there. There’s a thickness on the bottom. Well, there’s just water in the thing. You don’t need that much thickness. And then, what’s the washability of it? Like, does this even come apart? – Oh, gosh, what are you? – Yes. Okay, cause washability matters. There’s so many different layers to this thing. It’s like Fort freaking Knox. Okay. That’s where they keep all the gold. So. It’s highly secure. Are you, so? Cause that backs up. how do you feel about the washability? Because I just feel like I’m just gonna observe most of this. Cause I do not have opinions about this. I probably, maybe, will now, watching you. I actually love the integrated straw into the spout. Yeah, because if you’re not in public, and you’re like mountain biking, and you really want to turn up, you don’t suck out there when you’re mountain biking, right? When you really want to get it to going down the gullet, you don’t suck on it, right? It’s both and. I mean, it’s like, it’s options. Do you, when you’re really thirsty, you? Yes, I’m agreeing with you. What you’re saying is awesome, dude. Now, what about capacity? Because you drink a lot more water than that. That’s not going to get you through a couple of hours. I guess 24 ounces. Now, does it fit in a normal cup holder? It looks like it does. It does. Okay, so this, this gets a 10 from me. Whoa, where do we go from here? Well, it’s out of 25. There’s also a bigger, bigger size as well. So, that’s $27. That’s actually not too crazy priced. Yeah, let’s see the next one. Alright, now the classic. How much does a Stanley go for these days? 40 bucks for this 40 ounce. Now. Why do you got such a big handle? Like, what are we doing with this? Pull-ups? I like, I like the handle. I don’t like the trendiness of it because then you’re like joining a gang, basically. Well, apparently it’s over. According to the TikTok water bottle experts, it peaked and it’s done. You know how I know it’s over? It’s no longer trendy. You’re exactly right. Because two days ago I bought one of these for my mom. Oh, yeah. It’s over. It’s like Facebook. Like, actually, Christy did it. We were talking to mom on the phone and she’s like, she’s, you know, she’s got health things that she’s working through and this may sound funny, but we’re like, well, what have you been drinking? And she’s like, she drinks Diet Pepsis and tea. And we’re like, mom, that has caffeine in it. You’re drinking caffeine all day and all night. And then having trouble sleeping. And then having trouble sleeping and. And, and you’re dehydrated. Like you need to drink water, baby. And so Christy went out and bought her a Stanley and daggone, I should have sent her this one. I could have saved $40. What color did she get? I think cream, this color. So. I thought it really suited her. Why do people care so much about this? Well, it has four different, spout locations. Like you have this, you can do a straw and then turn it. Oh, look at that. See, show it to the people. Four different though, that’s two. So then you can, like, now you see, you can guzzle that, guzzle that. You’re on your mountain bike. And now keep rotating it. Something else happens, I think. Cause it says right here. Nothing else can happen. Flow state three position lid with rotating cover for versatility. No splash straw, quencher, straw quencher. Open drink spout or fully closed, fully covered and closed. Yep, it is leak proof. It’s leaking. It’s leaking a little bit. Maybe we’ve done it wrong. Maybe you have to flip it. All the way around. No, that’s where the straw hole is. But it said it was a leak proof straw hole. Well, that’s good. Well, yeah, if you put the straw in it and you turn it upside down, it’s leaking more. It really gets going if you do that. I’m just, I’m just, I’m testing it. In what, in what, sense is it leak proof? I don’t know, Rhett. In no sense, I guess. Here’s the thing that I don’t like about this one. It’s got an exposed straw. You can put an eye out with this thing. Like if you’re. Yeah, if you get excited. And seriously, you can really hurt yourself or someone you love or anybody. If you’re gesturing hard. Telling a story. But if you, if, if you forget that the straw is there and you think it’s on the sip, I’ve injured myself that way before. That’s why you wear glasses. No, that’s why I have. Actually, they’re not prescription. – I have the Hydro. – They’re just goggles. I have the, shut up. I have the Hydro Flask version of this. I don’t, it was given to me. It’s shaped exactly like this, but on the top, it has a straw. That connects to the entire lid and makes it leak proof. You just couldn’t wait. You said you were gonna wait. Oh, do we have that one? I couldn’t tell. I couldn’t wait. Yeah, we got a lot of water bottles to get through. I just feel like we’re losing people. No, no, there’s a type. I gotta give it to them. There’s a type that’s still watching. My, when I go to drink and I forget that there’s a straw, the straw is flimsy. It’s a flimsy straw. A rubber straw? Yeah, it’s a rubber straw. And that’s what you want. And it can bend over exactly. Yeah, it can bend over all the way. It can double back on itself. Leave the Owala in there, it’s number one. This is number two. But yeah, you want, you want like a, a boingy straw, I think. Now this thing, Yeti, how much is this? That’s also $40, but that’s a 26 ounce. And you know, we put ice water in all of these last night. Yeah, so this should be really, really cold. Because the thing that Yeti is known for is how, you know, good it holds that. So this doesn’t, this doesn’t move. And then that moves. Do you want to? Or do you want me to? So, this is suck only. It’s pretty cold, huh? Yeah, it’s pretty cold. It’s not, I wouldn’t say it’s any colder than the other ones. Oh, okay. And, I mean, this is leak resistant. Ultra Link, Link resistant. It feels like there’s a problem with getting the access to that water. Like, if I was really, really thirsty. If I’ve just been horsing it up a mountain. Rhett wants to, Rhett wants to just, just take it down. Okay, this is how I hike. You can turn it up. I, if I’m hiking up a mountain. Didn’t work. Oh, well. I, this, I don’t advise this, I’m just telling you. I don’t know what it is about me. I say to myself, you don’t get water until you get to the summit. – Seriously? – I don’t advise this. That’s stupid, man. And I get to the summit, and I drink it all at once. Dude, you gotta. I’m like a camel. But that’s too much, your body. I’m not saying I’m – Your body says. – I don’t advise it. Too much, I’m rejecting a bunch of it, and you have to pee immediately, probably. And then I come back down the mountain, and I’m still okay. You’re still living. Classic. This constant sipping thing. Listen, once the world just completely falls apart, and we’re in a constant state of fear, looking over your shoulder, just trying not to get killed, at that point, you’re not going to want to be sipping every four minutes. You know what I’m saying? You want to gulp once, when you’ve got a good, you got all, all, like you’re in a good lookout spot. You’re like, I keep my eyes open the whole time. And just taking it down. No one’s going to sneak up on me. Okay. He’s going to, he’s going to get picked off multiple times, and be like, and then somebody watching him from the location. And it’s like, yeah, every four minutes or so he’s sipping. Look at me when you’re gulping. You can’t do this. When you’re sipping on a straw, you can see constantly. I can see while. I’ve never seen you drink and focus on anything else besides the drinking in my entire life. I’ve actually never seen you do anything and focus on anything else at the same time. Well, no one actually can, it’s a myth. Multitasking is a myth. You don’t think that I can gulp and look? Rhett, you’re sucking on a straw. Yeah. That’s not, that’s not gulping. Okay, well. You gotta turn it up. Okay, God, it’s so complicated. That’s the thing I said you could do. Now you gotta show me the thing that I say you can’t do. You don’t think I can gulp? And look. See, look, one eye, it’s obstructed. You don’t have any depth perception. I would spin. I get, I get to the summit, and then I just like. You, you said that you were not, okay. All right. You’ve done good, Rhett. You’ve done good. Nobody can sneak up on me. So this right here is the classic Hydro Flask. How much does this thing cost? Too much? 36. And it’s just, it’s called wide mouth. This is what you want. This is what you think you want. I’ve had too much water. Now, this is what I have. And, see right there, this is my personal one. This is actually what I need though. I’ll label it. Because when you get to the top of the mountain, you gulp. But look at this thing. This thing. This thing’s pretty. Pretty leak proof. Pretty being a relative term. Well, the thing that I like about it, it’s not that it’s leak proof, is. Setting that aside for a moment. Look at that. See, see how boingy it is? It’s a safety feature. It’s a safety feature, I need that. When I forget that I have a straw. What brand is it? It says Hydro Flask. It’s a, it’s a, it’s like the Stanley, but it’s got a, it’s got this, and then that comes off. Now there’s no gulping option for this thing. So, this comes off, you can take it off and gulp. And you, and it’s very washable. Like the way that, you can take this out, you take this apart. It’s so big, you hike with something that big? This one’s for the car because it goes in my, it fits in the cup holder. So this is my number one. This is my number one. Even, even better than the Owala, even though I really like it. There’s, it’s too, it’s like Fort freaking Knox. Now, is that label, for this video, or is that just personally you needed to really let everyone know that it was your. It looks like it’s been on there a while. Yeah, cause what, what is the confusion there? Cause, you know, do other people in your family have the exact same one and that’s? No, no, no. Okay. Only me has this. Okay. But I do not, I’m prone to misplace things. And if they’re important to me, I like to label them. Like, that’s why my dogs have labels. And that’s why, that’s why my water bottle has a label. And that’s, that’s, that’s pretty much it. My medication has a label. That’s important. Yeah. Which one of your reusable label makers created that one? Yeah, yeah, this is, this is the superior label maker. It is simple. Tape and, tape and mark. But yeah, I leave this thing around in places, so. Okay, so you’re saying that’s your favorite one. It’s got a handle, it fits in a, it fits in your car. Now this thing right here is, is the, is the big loser. S’well, I think they, I think they. I’ll hike with one of those. Keep things cold for 36 hours. It actually is. You have to, you have to take the lid off. You know, top of the mountain. And then, what are you looking at? There’s still ice in there. Pure ice almost. Yeah. That’s pretty, pretty. I’m surprised it, is it colder than the, Yeti? There’s a lot of ice in there. There’s no ice in any of these. This is the only one that’s still got ice in it. It’s pretty. It’s fairly expensive for the size. It’s 17 ounces and it’s $35. Yeah, it keeps cold 36 hours. Yeah, and even the Yeti only says. I could run with it. Let me, how long? Oh yeah. It should be noted that this was popular in the early 2010s and peaked in 2015. So. What does it feel like to be like responsible for one of these brands that like is suddenly gaining this traction, but you know that because the people of the water bottle world are so fickle. It won’t last. It won’t last. Right. But man, they’re still making them. It’s just. The glory’s gone. I remember, I remember when we felt excited about it. You’d go into like gift shops and like paper stores. This was a swag bag staple here. Yeah, and they, they would have like a cylindrical thing. Now this is old school right here. The Nalgene. Now, Gene. This is when, this is when people started really. We’re gonna make it clear. They don’t want any BPA or BPS. I like this because you can tell what you’re drinking. If it’s Kool-Aid? Sometimes I’ll take Kool-Aid up there. I mean, this is very granola. This is very hiker. This thing comes off and then you can just wolf it down if you get to your destination. But it doesn’t fit in the car. Doesn’t fit in a cup holder. Only 14 bucks. They’re virtually indestructible. They’re very light once they’re empty. They do not keep anything really cold. The thing I like about them is that the top is attached. So my family, it’s going to use the term my family, right? Cannot lose the lid. So what’s your favorite? I think S’well is, well, S’well, it keeps it really cold, but there’s, the capacity’s low. It’s hard to, you know, you gotta do a lot of twisting to get the lid off. And then you’re gonna lose it. Honestly. But this is, this is not good. Because of the, because I use these in the context of hiking. That’s when I take a water bottle someplace. And I put it in my bag. And I don’t wanna think about what way it’s facing. That’s why I like the screw tops. So, I actually like all three of these the best. Dude, you’re so different. Now, the water bottle that I use in my office is the Air Up. I still, I got the Air Up. I still use that. The former sponsor. Yep. Okay. So you’re all. And that’s got the flavored little pods and stuff, which I still find cool. I’m just afraid of there’s, there’s a lot of springs in this thing. There’s a lot that could go wrong. It also looks like a play school product. Looks like it’s for kids. Yeah. Yeah. But the tech, I mean, it looks, the way it works with that built in straw thing. It’s pretty cool. It’s pretty cool. It just feels like. Sip straw, swig spout, it’s got both of them. Yeah, they got funny names for them. It says it is easy to clean. Who would’ve thought, who would have known that the Stanley logo kind of looks like the Food Lion logo. I know, I’ve noticed that. And that’s not a good thing Not a good thing. There we have it, a definitive ranking. And, as if we needed more water bottles.

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