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Weirdest Products Launched by Famous Brands · Be Amazed

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Marketing can be a difficult thing, especially when it comes to big brands trying to diversify and experiment.
• 0:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes they produce a hit like Cherry flavored Pepsi other times you get Pokemon Sea Salt and Cheese flavored water.
• 0:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Cheesewater really?
• 0:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Some of these products have to be bought to be believed, which is exactly what I did.
• 0:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: So join me as I purchase review and regret some of the strangest products ever released by Famous Brands.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're American at some point, you've probably found your fingers covered in the familiar cheesy, salty, orange, dittretis that is cheat-o-dust.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, that's cheat-o according to the cheat-o's marketing team.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever you call it, cheat-o's ones try to make people wear it on their face.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Allow me to introduce cheat-o's lip balm.
• 1:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Launched all the way back in 2005, it was initially met with overwhelmingly negative reviews.
• 1:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Man, who could have guessed people don't want to look like a messy toddler all day.
• 1:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: The ill-conceived product was discontinued shortly thereafter, but was revived under the or read my lips name a few years ago, albeit with a different lineup of flavors.
• 1:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, let's dive in, lips first.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's my first ever snack flavored lip-on purchase for all of $5.
• 1:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now according to the packaging, which labels this as Chito Plus lip balm, this is actually orange flavor.
• 1:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought orange was the Chito color, not the flavor.
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Guess I'll have to make do, let's open this sucker up.
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Time to hand this one off to a brave volunteer.
• 1:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Please welcome B-Based on paid intern number 442, who has kindly agreed to put his lips on the line in the name of science.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ha ha ha there's that beautiful Cheetos orange we all know would love.
• 2:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Rather than smelling like Cheetos unscrewing this smell like cracking open in orange soda.
• 2:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well 442 let's see them beautiful lips.
• 2:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Apparently it takes them a few clumsy tries to get an even coat on and even then the color barely shows up.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can just about make out a faint orange tent but you'd have to slather it on to actually get that signature Cheetos shine.
• 2:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Still, the flavor is orangey and leaves the lips super moisturized, verdict?
• 2:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Anyone fancy an orangey smooch?
• 2:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing gets my mouth watering like the smell of tomato soup.
• 2:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, just like Mom used to.
• 2:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Heat up.
• 2:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a staple food a lot of Westerners grew up with, particularly, the Campbells can't stuff, which might be the most famous brand of them all thanks to a certain Andy Warhol.
• 3:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's this design that inspired contemporary lifestyle store.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Lynn Blanche's Campbells, soup smell perfumed candles, which cost an unguidly 60 euros, some $65 each.
• 3:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nevertheless, just for you guys I bought one promising a classic tomato basil in.
• 3:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Mint, sent?
• 3:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't remember there being any mint in this soup or basil for that matter?
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh well, picture a small white candle in a glossy box that looks identical to a classic red and white Campbell soup can, the same iconic label Warhol painted, just shrunk down and turned into a
• 3:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Canjade candle is a cute Warhol homage, but the second I let the wicked smells like a candle.
• 3:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just a strangely floral candle.
• 3:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: The signature tomato scent in this is lacking big time, which is disappointing considering I could have bought at least 50 cans of actual soup for the amount this cost.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: verdict to make total waste.
• 4:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Being one of the most popular franchises in the world, Pokemon has had a lot of unusual tie in products like Pokemon Piggy Banks, Pokemon Squirt Guns, Pokemon toothpaste, Pokemon consoles, and Pokemon Cheesewater, still not over that.
• 4:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: The most beveling Poki product I was able to find however has got to be this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And for the uninitiated gangar is a purple grinning TV is looking Pokémon ghost with spiky fur in a huge red tongue.
• 4:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: This particular product is essentially a giant plush-ginger head mouth wide open with a three-foot long red felt tongue rolling out of it that you're apparently meant to use as a blanket.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, really.
• 4:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ali Express calls at the Pokemon Cartoon Kawaii Ginger-plush doll nap anime peripheral elf-tunks leap-low milk-purpose blanket, which uh, doesn't help.
• 4:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: The images don't clear things up either with the model sticking their head in the thing, rolling themselves up in the tongue, and generally, being totally cringe.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So obviously for the price, I've just $35, I ordered one for myself.
• 5:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking out of the packaging, what the heck is this monstrosity?
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Gengar's eyes are wonky, the fur is matted, and weird patches, and the whole head sags like it's deflating.
• 5:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Rolling out the tongue doesn't help.
• 5:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's about three feet long, stitched on so loosely that one decent tug would probably tear it clean off.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: The whole thing looks less like a beloved Pokémon and more like a sickly stuffed animal with a serious medical issue.
• 5:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, against my better judgment, I'm going in.
• 5:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: The material is soft, but it smells wrong, like plastic and bad decisions.
• 5:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Also, I think it's eating my dreams.
• 5:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: I can imagine this would be very comfortable to sleep in.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's no way this product is real.
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I don't know why Pokemon would team up with AliExpress to release this in less?
• 6:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, it's a fake!
• 6:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: This gang art cushion was released by the Pokemon Company and P Bandai back in 2021 for $300.
• 6:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: It sold out quickly and what I seem to have bought is a horrible limitation.
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: They should have bought the cheese water instead.
• 6:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: In the US, Heinz is a brand that's synonymous with ketchup.
• 6:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Across the pond in the UK, however, the company is more famous for their beans.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And let me tell you that Brits love putting beans on toast, on baked potatoes, on fries.
• 6:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Basically, if it's beige, the Brits will put beans on it.
• 6:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: So, I'm almost not surprised that the hunt's baked beans pizza exist, and that it's so exclusive in the UK.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right, a frozen pizza's leathered in beans.
• 6:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: This limited product was available in the British grocery chain, Iceland, and once I found out about it, I couldn't resist.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you, importing a single frozen pizza overseas was in our deal, even though the pizza itself only cost a wearingly low £3, about $5, and this packaging is jarring, like I didn't think beans belonged on pizza enough already.
• 7:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Once it's out of the box, I'm staring at a pale cold disc, smothered in wood looks like a wet brown sludge.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine a frozen margarita pizza, and then someone's tip to full 10 of baked beans over the top of it before flash freezing a lot.
• 7:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: The beans are clumped in soggy piles across the cheese, have buried in tomato sauce and the whole surface has that grim glistening sheen you only get from food that's been frozen wet.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I genuinely can't believe I'm about to ask someone to eat this when I could have just done an episode about dolphins or something.
• 7:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, well, let's put this in the oven and see how it turns out.
• 7:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: 17 minutes later, a 200 degrees Celsius, sorry, 392 degrees Fahrenheit, and we're done.
• 8:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now something I could tell before he even taking a bite is that this is what?
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's saucy wet.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: The sauce from the beans combined with the tomato base has led to one very slumpy pizza with a gooey texture that I expected.
• 8:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can practically hear the knife squelching through it.
• 8:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well time for a taste test, and this thing is barely holding together.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: The slice is so slimy that the beans literally slide right off as I lift it.
• 8:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Today the truth of the flavor of the pizza isn't so much the problem as the mouthfeel.
• 8:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: beans retain a lot of heat and their rough texture combined with the gooey cheese just feels wrong.
• 8:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Vertic!
• 8:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: The brits can keep their beans.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hone as it may be to believe the bean pizza isn't the most disgusting licensed food product I've found.
• 8:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Say hello to Colgate Lesagna.
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, the same Colgate that makes the toothpaste.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Picture in 1980's style frozen TV dinner box white would the Red Colgate toothpaste logo plastered across the top, and a steaming pile of beef lasagna pictured underneath the brand most people associated with mint and fluoride.
• 9:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: With the story supposedly being the Colgate lunch online of TV dinners in the 80's the bridge out from toothpaste.
• 9:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Swedish Museum of Failures of Museum dedicated to branding catastrophes had a display on the Proudites.
• 9:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: However, the Cogate Legal Team reached out to the Museum stating Cogate had no records of such a product existing.
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, something about this mystery leaves a strange taste in my mouth.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: So what do you think?
• 9:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Clever hoax are Cogate quietly covering up their mentee shame.
• 9:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Either way, onto the next wacky Proud Act.
• 9:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: We all remember scribbling with Crayola's crayons as kids.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Some of us drew dinosaurs, some of us drew astronauts.
• 9:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Me, I just drew YouTube thumbnails over and over again with a glazed over-look at my eyes.
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Amazing how things pan out, huh?
• 10:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Founded in 1903 Crayola brought color and crayons to children worldwide.
• 10:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: But over 90 years later in 1994, they decided it was time to bridge out into math.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: This Grand Company was keen to sink its teeth into the new areas of edalessence as a occasion, but wanted to remain unbrand.
• 10:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hence the Crayola.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: Calculator Let me describe this odd contraption.
• 10:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's the size and shape of a chunky old graphing calculator, but the entire casing is dressed up to look like a giant yellow and green Crayola crayon box, complete with the iconic Crayola logo running down the front.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now I know what you're thinking, but I promise this isn't just a box of crayolas.
• 10:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I bought this thing fair and square from a second-hand retailer for just $30.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: The calculator was manufactured in China by advanced concepts limited and they did a great job replicating the original product.
• 10:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Even the outside looks like a cardboard box.
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: It feels pretty old and flimsy, but to be fair it is nearly 30 years old.
• 11:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Popping it open is genuinely delightful, instead of normal gray calculator keys every single button is shaped like a tiny waxy crayon, each one a different color.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A red 7 of blue equals a green plus, it looks like someone melted a pack of crayoles onto a calculator face.
• 11:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta hand it to them, while the whole concept is a little silly they really committed to it, the buttons are strangely satisfying to press in and the screen hasn't faded at all either.
• 11:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Surprisingly, this thing was built the last.
• 11:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: That said, this isn't the most efficient calculator out there.
• 11:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't recommend this product to any aerospace engineers that need to do some heavy-duty calculations, but kids will probably think it's cute.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: Vertict, just don't let them eat the crayons.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: The trend of big companies releasing bizarrely-branded products has gotten so bad recently, it's actually inspired hard.
• 11:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: A fake product make up where the Google logo sits on top of a wooden stick in a metal hoop, like one of those old timey toys of Victorian kid would roll down a hill.
• 12:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ah yes, nothing says state of the earning and at browser quite like the game of Victorian child would play.
• 12:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Though are the crock some relative concept, basically a giant crock shoe shaped canopy complete with the signature ventilation holes punched right through the top, which keeps you about as dry as a regular pair of crocks due during wet weather.
• 12:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, are the M&M bullets?
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Where there was of us the need a literal shot of sugar.
• 12:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, these almost believable concepts are off from the mind of Moscow-based designer Ilya Kalimilin.
• 12:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: whose clever commentary on his series of unexpected products speaks volumes without any words whatsoever.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: My favorite of his fake products though, a Lego gun.
• 12:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Very clever indeed.
• 12:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Definitely highlights how one too many gun owning adults treat guns like toys instead of, you know, weapon?
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean that's real?
• 12:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no!
• 13:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: No one would be stupid enough to make a gun look like an actual kid's toy.
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: That'd be so dangerous.
• 13:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine if a kid got their hands on that and thought it was a toy, oh my god it is real.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Block 19 from Utah Base Company Cooper Precision is a customization kit for the clock 19 pistol, which
• 13:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: doesn't just look like LEGO, but is also compatible with actual LEGO pieces.
• 13:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: I searched everywhere for one of these because I couldn't believe such a dumb idea was real.
• 13:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: Turns out, neither could LEGO, who got Cooper to remove the kit from their website and make them promised to never make or sell anything like it in the future.
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Good to know that Toy Company understands child safety, but the gun company doesn't.
• 13:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if there's a candy out there with a better flavors than a kidcat.
• 13:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Orange, mint, and dark chocolate, blueberry muffin, it's like they thought of everything.
• 13:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: But this American assortment has nothing on Japan's.
• 14:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Japanese lineup is a full rainbow of bizarre kidcat flavors with dozens of regional and seasonal varieties that have absolutely no business existing.
• 14:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I ordered this wine selection after hearing tale of the legendary beast, that was Subhi Kit-Gat.
• 14:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, that right, was Subhi.
• 14:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: A combination of chocolate, wafer, and spicy was Subhi pasted.
• 14:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: The exact same stuff normally served alongside Sushi.
• 14:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, I couldn't find anywhere online willing to deliver me a box for less than $100.
• 14:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I only chance to get a reasonably priced Wasabi KitKat was by ordering a random assortment of Japanese KitKats in bulk for $20.
• 14:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: Tragically, none of my lucky-dipped KitKats were resabbed, but I still got to try a lot of wacky flavors I never knew existed.
• 14:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: The matcha kidcat here had a subtle teeth laver that went surprisingly well with the chocolate.
• 14:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: The mysterious Halloween flavor was a little orangey and seasonal.
• 15:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Banana caramel was overwhelmingly banana, not so much caramel, contrast with caramel pudding which was caramel overload.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Peach Kit Kat tasted more like sugar sprinkles than fruit.
• 15:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Chocolate orange Kit Kat is a classic, so how much to be said there?
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Melon on the other hand was a strange but appealing collision of flavors.
• 15:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: verdict.
• 15:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: All that's sickly sweet is you can imagine.
• 15:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you thought Kit-Kan had gone crazy with the flavors then you've obviously never heard of Oreo cookies.
• 15:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: There the absolute worst offender for weird unsolicited flavors including products such as pumpkin spice Oreos, candy corn Oreos, PB and J Oreos, key lime pie Oreos, guys we get it, you're bored.
• 15:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: But eventually I discovered Peach Oolong T.O.R.O.s.
• 15:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Cookie Designed a taste like a 3500 year old Chinese tea.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was so weird I just had to try it.
• 16:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's open these suckers up.
• 16:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Each individual cookie comes in its own little wrapper printed with a cartoon panda which is genuinely adorable, points to the packaging team.
• 16:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Opening the packet the first thing that hit me was the smell.
• 16:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: These Oreos are surprisingly fragrant, smelling fresh and minty with just a touch of fruityness.
• 16:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: Twisting the Oreo apart reveals a filling so vivid it looks photoshopped.
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: A radioactive almost neon green yellow cream sandwiched between the usual dark chocolate biscuits.
• 16:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: They were absolutely nuts, camping on the food gathering.
• 16:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now let's talk taste.
• 16:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a little subtle at first, but then, where I'm your slap-in-the-mouth by the mint, followed by what I can only call the overwhelming taste of green.
• 16:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Fresh, earthy green.
• 16:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Strangely enough, this actually makes it okay with the slightly bitter Oreo chocolate.
• 16:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: The flavors mix more naturally than you might think, and their not as strange a combination as I first thought.
• 17:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Huff!
• 17:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I've had too many strange chocolates, though.
• 17:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Verdict?
• 17:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to need a big dose of normal chocolate to recalibrate.
• 17:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, not a literal trick-lojeeze.
• 17:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: When I was a kid, I drank Dr. Pepper like it was water.
• 17:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Probably because my mom thought Dr. Pepper was a real doctor and there's no way a doctor would put their name on something unhealthy.
• 17:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm happy this next product wasn't around when I was a kid or it would have been the only thing she had made.
• 17:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: These are Dr. Pepper baked beans, and they're exactly what you think they are.
• 17:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: A 10 of baked beans emulating the flavor of a nice cold glass of Dr. Pepper.
• 17:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, people fry steak in Dr. Pepper because they enjoy the meat absorbing and caramelizing all the sugar in flavor, so flavored beans can't be that bad, right?
• 17:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: What's the worst that could happen?
• 17:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, to start with, the can I bought from Walmart costs $10.
• 17:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Or then I could about 10 liters of Dr. Pepper.
• 18:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Already regretting this, and I opened the can up and was immediately hit by the smell of Dr. Pepper.
• 18:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: These are some stinky beans.
• 18:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's some in the microwave, and with a little editing magic we all done.
• 18:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, these actually taste like Dr. Pepper.
• 18:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: It isn't just some marketing bloy.
• 18:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: That was not prepared for this.
• 18:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I swear guys, there's even a fist to them, and it's not because they're past their use by date.
• 18:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: That wouldn't say the flavor is great, but it's surprisingly accurate, in fact the beans leave a bit of a sickly acidic aftertaste in the mouth.
• 18:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I heard it.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I need something else.
• 18:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, the Gertune character we all know in love sounded the hedgehog.
• 18:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: Being famously fast, funny, and blue, what food crossover do you think makes the most sense for this character?
• 18:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe a blue bun chili dog?
• 18:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Sonic's favorite food, it's fast food, and it's blue, makes sense, right?
• 18:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: But now, now, what Sonic's creator Sega released was this?
• 19:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is Sonic the Hedgehog Curry.
• 19:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: And yes, before you ask it's genuinely electric swimming pool blue, make sure that they could be carry the exact color of cartoons on a himself, lay it over up high, left lane wide rise.
• 19:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: No filter, no editing, that's just what it looks like.
• 19:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: A propose of nothing, did you know Blue Food coloring has been linked to tumors and rats?
• 19:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Really?
• 19:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: Don't know why I brought that up.
• 19:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, Sega released this abomination exclusively in Japan in 2018 to promote the release of Sonic Media Plus.
• 19:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: with packets being reselled on eBay for upwards of 33 dollars.
• 19:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, I couldn't get my hands on a Sonic Curry as all retailers that previously sold the product appear to be out of stock.
• 19:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't feel like I'm missing out though, according to one review of the stuff taste disturbingly creamy and it turned your poop blue.
• 19:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Can't it glad I dodged this blue bullet?
• 19:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of products, no one asks for, let's talk about Colone, specifically Colone in a box covered in cartoon faces.
• 20:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: As you can imagine, my job is exhausting.
• 20:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, a lifetime of snacking in front of the computer is made to feel that way.
• 20:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: That Kyberica sweat if I have to close more than one tab, so basically, I don't smell great.
• 20:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thankfully, I got my hands on this.
• 20:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Emogy... KILLOON!
• 20:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, everyone are what an emoji smells like.
• 20:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Besides, that one, of course.
• 20:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: The box is decked out with all your favorite emojis, laughing faces, hearts, sunglasses, guy, the whole gang, plastered across the cardboard and cheerful primary colors.
• 20:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: According to the description, the column contains a fragrance suggestive of strength, individuality, and seduction.
• 20:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ha ha, sure.
• 20:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's see what we're dealing with.
• 20:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: For some reason, I expected the liquid inside to be bright emoji yellow, but it's actually a totally normal looking clear cologne.
• 21:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's have a whiff.
• 21:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, this probably won't surprise you, but this isn't exactly a subtle or nuanced aroma.
• 21:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: It fills the room and lingers for a long time.
• 21:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: It smells like a strong overwhelming mix of a teenage girl's perfume in an old ladies.
• 21:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was so bad I thought it might be a fake product, but it was released by AirVolk, a company that specializes in perfumes for kids.
• 21:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Wait, back up, kids!
• 21:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: And at the online description of this thing claims the fragrance suggests seduction?
• 21:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: verdict someone in the marketing department has got some serious explaining to do.
• 21:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: The emoji perfume isn't the only baffling cologne I've found now, and it definitely wasn't the cheapest.
• 21:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: I spent around 20 bucks on the emoji cologne, but spent over 300 on this official WOPper Cologne.
• 21:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right now you can smell like the king, the Burger King that is, isn't science amazing.
• 22:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: This product was part of a limited time promotion back in 2015 which explains why picking up an unopened bottle was so pricey.
• 22:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is not some cheap slap dash product it comes in a sleek black presentation box with the Burger King crown logo printed in gold foil like it's a thousand dollar fragrance.
• 22:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Everything about it exudes class right up until the bottle slips out of the box and clatters out of my desk.
• 22:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: The battle itself is in big containing just over an ounce of liquid, which is between 30450 sprays, considering we're talking about burger smell though that should definitely be enough.
• 22:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: So to answer the million dollar question, does this Cologne smell like a wiper?
• 22:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: More than I thought it would.
• 22:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's peppery, but still smells distinctly like Cologne with perfumey notes.
• 22:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's synod mix.
• 22:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Vertic.
• 22:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Definitely isn't making me hungry for burgers though.
• 22:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, after those two perfumes I now smell like a mix between a really weird child and burger-loving madman.
• 23:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know I'll use this officially licensed McDonald's McFlurry shower gel to freshen myself up.
• 23:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Once again, this is not a joke.
• 23:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2022, McDonald's franchises in Austria released a range of shower gels named after iconic menu items including McFlurry and Big Mac.
• 23:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: With the burger-based Big Mac one smelling supposedly of cucumber and the McFlurry of pampering chocolate, I went with the sweeter selection for the low-low McVey Brise of $57.
• 23:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Apparently because they were released as promotional items, the only way to get your hands on them nowadays is through eBay.
• 23:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hence, why we paid $57 for a shower gel.
• 23:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: I am going to kill 4-4-2.
• 23:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, it's mild fine and produced a decent lather.
• 23:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'd better test this more thoroughly though.
• 23:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Give me one minute.
• 23:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Wait, who's recording this?
• 23:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Perfect, next product, next product!
• 23:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: From ScentedSoft as steamy paperbacks, yes?
• 24:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: The next product is a romance novel in Noong, you will not guess who published it.
• 24:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: It may shock you to hear, but I'm an avid romance reader, and in the mid-2001 institution that was keen to get into the romance novel, market was none other than Nascar.
• 24:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: As that's right, that Nascar, the racing sport all about cars, brawls, and test us to roam.
• 24:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're anything like me, you're realizing this isn't the stereotypical romance setting, but NASCAR realized how male dominated their brand was and and attempt to attract the women folk produced a series of NASCAR themed romance novels.
• 24:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: The series began in the early 2000s with the latest seemingly published in 2011.
• 24:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: And total NASCAR produced 67 of these novels penned by a wide range of authors.
• 24:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: No idea how much they held their brand, but I got my hands on one for all of $2.
• 24:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Clearly not an item end now.
• 24:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is Dangerous Curves by Pamela Britain.
• 24:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sounds or racing.
• 25:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Here's a little dramatic reading I'll even do character voices.
• 25:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the president of the Racing Association, isn't it?
• 25:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: CCS, after a linda of the big boobs left?
• 25:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm not making this up, that's the character's name.
• 25:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, where were we?
• 25:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: It is, plain said.
• 25:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: You think he's calling to tell you you can't race?
• 25:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a good church that he is.
• 25:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: But they can't do that?
• 25:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, you see.
• 25:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: They can.
• 25:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's racing.
• 25:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: She finished for him.
• 25:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know, but it's socks.
• 25:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: And at that look of resignation on his face, CC founder self-touching his jaw despite telling yourself, no, no, no.
• 25:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Haha, okay, that's enough before I get canceled.
• 25:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's clear this is a departure from regular NASCAR activities, verdict.
• 25:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: The shift gears before things get too steamy.
• 25:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Time for a bit of nostalgia.
• 26:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you grew up in the late 90s and early 2000s, there's a good chance that Wildhaired anime kid would enjoy gravity-defying hair spikes brings back a lot of memories.
• 26:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Good and bad.
• 26:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: YuGiho, an anime about a card game from a manga series created back in 1996.
• 26:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, to celebrate 25 years of YuGiho, the fine folks had Konami created this in 2021.
• 26:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Maleni Yum.
• 26:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Serial?
• 26:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you weren't in the know in the anime, they were magical artifacts called millennium items that gave you powers, and look, it was commercial for a card game, okay?
• 26:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the gist of it.
• 26:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: And for that sweetness, don't you?
• 26:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: I bought a box for?
• 26:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I'm really not proud of this, $50.
• 26:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Look, it was sold out everywhere, and I just had to know what it tasted like.
• 26:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, let's open this up.
• 26:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: And inside is Serial.
• 26:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: That's it, laying round beige little puffs that look exactly like every other generic kids cereal you've ever seen.
• 27:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: And a single piece of shape like a magical millennium item, or a card, or a dual disc, just sand round sugary spheres, but a let-down.
• 27:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh well, now for the taste test.
• 27:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Man, it's so spungy.
• 27:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's send this spoonful to the shadow realm.
• 27:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: Now I wish I could tell you there was something novel about this cereal but come on.
• 27:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Look at it.
• 27:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: They're just balls of condensed sugar and milk.
• 27:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Perfect?
• 27:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you were five years old, it'd probably be the most amazing thing you've ever tasted.
• 27:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're anything else, if you might as well, probably be enough.
• 27:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Still this isn't the weirdest food based on a well-known character I found.
• 27:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a baffling, I slowly molded into the exact likeness of?
• 27:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: Daniel Crack.
• 27:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, the actor, emerging from the sea in his iconic, tight, loose swimming trunks, six pack and all, melt it on a wooden stick.
• 27:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was released with the film Casino Royale back in 2009.
• 28:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Talk about our lessons to chill.
• 28:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Still, it doesn't feel good to be jealous of a popsicle's abs.
• 28:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you think lollipops can't get any more suggestive though, I have bad news.
• 28:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's also a Georgia being slimy popproduced for the release of the Phantom Menace where the candy-shaped Lake Georgia's long-duping head and his even longer, suggestively shaped tongues sticking right out toward whoever's about to lick it.
• 28:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I don't know how you're meant to enjoy the street without raising some eyebrows.
• 28:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Still, I bet they were disturbingly significant number of people who enjoyed the prospect of Frenching Jajar.
• 28:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: Last up on our weird product tour, and we're going back to the self-tricile to a famously transparent famously short-lived experiment.
• 28:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: In 1992, Pepsi tried to distinguish themselves from their biggest competitor Coca-Cola with crystal Pepsi.
• 28:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: The goal was to create a drink with the same recognizable Pepsi flavor but that looked completely different from Coca-Cola.
• 29:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: This led to the creation of the Crystal Clear Crystal Pepsi, which took the world by storm.
• 29:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Just kidding, it was discontinued just over two years later in 1994.
• 29:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: David Novak, its conceptualizer, says he still believes the idea was brilliant, but was poorly executed.
• 29:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: The product just didn't taste enough like Pepsi.
• 29:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: The company brought the drink back in 2018, and I managed to snag a bottle on eBay for just 15 bucks.
• 29:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted a bottle from the 90s, but something tells me I would have died in the moment to drop it my time.
• 29:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: Still this beverage is years old, so I'm understandably a little hesitant to try it.
• 29:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: The liquid inside is completely clear, water-clear, no caramel color at all, which is the ol' gimmick, and also looks alarmingly flat with no visible bubbles whatsoever.
• 29:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's open it up.
• 29:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oof!
• 29:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: There was no visit all when that was unscrewed.
• 29:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: even shaking the dang thing isn't getting me any bubbles.
• 30:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: While seeing as my life as far too valuable to risk, let's welcome our old friend BMA's intern for 4-2 for a taste test.
• 30:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Bottom's up, kid.
• 30:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: According to our camera at here, the drink is unsurprisingly as flat as it can possibly be.
• 30:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: Y'all bruise still smells like Pepsi, but the flavor is sweeter.
• 30:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Bird-It's hard to tell, whether this is how the drink is always tasted or it's simply absorbed some of the natural taste of the delicious, biodegrading plastic.
• 30:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Not content would simply poisoning my compatriot once I decided to put in an order for a can of Virgin Colum.
• 30:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: And no, that's not just what bull is used to call any Colum, I drink.
• 30:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Virgin primarily known for their music and airline services launched Virgin Colum in 1994 when they were eagerly expanding in different markets.
• 30:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well not an unmitigated failure the beverage was discontinued in 2009, but I still managed to find a can.
• 30:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it arrived completely empty, despite the tab and seal still being in place.
• 31:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is made even more annoying when you learn I paid $10 for this.
• 31:04
  [UNKNOWN]: Ugh!
• 31:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the theory is that the can I purchase was for a display purpose is only a never-contained the drink to begin with.
• 31:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll really shame as I was looking for a depositing my underlying little bit more.
• 31:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that wasn't pretty crazy journey through weird and wacky products.
• 31:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Would you want to give any of these a try?
• 31:22
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• 31:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for listening.