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What's up, guys? George Camel here. And you're probably wondering why I'm standing in front of a table with an assortment of items you may or may not have seen on tv. Well, it felt fitting for the occasion because today I'm testing iconic as seen on TV products to see if they're worth the money. So with that, we'll give a quick golf clap to Deleteme for sponsoring this channel and hop right into our first item. All right, let's kick it off with one of the goats of as seen on TV products, and that is the George Foreman Grill Rip King. And this product I actually owned as a kid. Well, not me personally, but my mom made many a meal on the George Foreman grill, and I don't remember it being particularly good, but we're going to find out. I'm going to slap some hot dogs on here, and because I have trust issues with hot dogs, I'm going to throw some gloves on just so I don't get a disease. Let's see how this works. All right. Oh, she. Oh, she's steamy. All right. Wow, these hot dogs are exceedingly warm already. I think that's a health risk. But do I go sideways to get some nice grill marks? Woo. All right, how many should we put on? I gotta make enough for the whole team. Thanks, but no thanks. The issue is that they're just rolling all the way down onto the grill, which I think is issue number one with this grill, but. All right, we're just gonna let them cook, as they say. We'll check on them at the end of the video. Inevitably, they will be burnt to a crisp by that point, and they'll still taste about the same. All right, next up, we've got Flex Tape, one of the greatest commercials of all time. And this bad boy comes in at about 15 bucks a roll. And I'm going to test it out with a bucket full of water, which I will destroy and attempt to repair it with Flex tape. Heavier than it looks. So I'm gonna have to drill a hole in this. It's my first time using a drill. Very excited to do that, and I'm trying to get it to where we get some leakage happening. Come on. Come on. This is the weakest grill of all time, apparently. Am I even close? How. How strong is the Lowe's $5 bucket that I can't even drill a hole into it? Let's try that again. There we go. Boom goes the dynamite. Okay, now the true test. Can I stop this leak with a piece of flex tape, we're gonna find out. I think they always slap the tape on to solve it. So I'm gonna try the old slap on move. Cause I think it looks cooler. Here we go. That was pretty good. Has that stopped? I gotta check underneath. Yeah, that leak is fully unleaked. I'm actually pretty impressed with this. Now the question is, could I have used duct tape? Maybe. But for how long would that have worked? I don't know. I feel like this is gonna be a forever solution. So I'm already team flex tape on this one. I would have have one of these at home. Now. I feel like it's not a good long term solution in your life if you're having to flex tape everything. That kind of speaks to deeper issues going on. But in the meantime, strong solution. All right, before we get to the next one, I got to do a quick dog check, see how my boys are doing. All right, not bad. We're starting to get some grill marks. That's what you want out of a hot dog. So far so bad. That's. That's 100% kosher beef. I can't imagine if we put one of those generic brand hot dogs on there. All right, next on our, we've got the shamwow again, One of the best ads of all time as seen on tv. You'll be saying wow every time you use this towel. And we're gonna test out to see if this thing can actually soak up this much water. And if you've seen the ad, I feel like they just soak up a whole bucket of water with a single shamwow. So I'm gonna check to see if that actually works. And here's what this thing actually looks like unfolded. All right, so the shamwows come in about 30 bucks for a four pack. So one of these. What is that mid. Put it at? I don't know, 750 a pop is what you're talking about. So we're gonna see. If I just drop this thing into this bucket of water, will it actually soak it up? Oh, I'm so nervous. All right, here we go. All right, all right. Not a lot of soakage happening. Let's see how much water's left when I take it out. It did a decent job. Let's see how many shamwows it takes to actually clear this thing. Can I do that? All right, just keep it going. Just keep. We're not stopping till there's no more water in this thing. Okay. Just roll it all around. All right, I think we're there. There you go. It took about three ShamWows to clear this. I don't know what situation you'd need this for where you're like, hey, I have a whole bucket of water and we're going to see exactly how much liquid is in here now. Oh, yeah. I'm going to get this on the dor forming grill. Just start a little fire. That'll be fun. Why the water is discolored is a little disconcerting, but we're not going to go there. Take that Vince offer. I could do your job any day minus the drugs. I'm not doing that part. Whatever it takes to get to a ShamWow ad, my guy. Pretty impressive. I mean, I wouldn't mind having one of these around, but I think your average towel or, you know, like a microfiber cloth, something that can really soak up some liquid, would do the job. But as far as products go, it's really not bad. And it's made in Germany and I feel like the Germans are, you know, they know their products, they know how to. I don't know why they were like, the Germans will know how to create the shamwow. Give it to them. But so far, mildly impressed. For 750 a pop, I'd probably purchase four to just kind of keep one in the car, keep one in the garage just in case you got some spillage happening. You hear that sizzle? Yeah. All right, next up on our as seen on TV product list, we have the Shake Weight, a very memeable product that I will try for you to see how it works. He's going to do it. Look at that. I feel stronger already. And the reason I'm not using this as intended on the box is because that would make this episode not safe for homeschoolers and create a meme out of me that I frankly don't want on the Internet. But it does promise to shake your way to firm and fabulous arms and shoulders in just six minutes a day. Who verified that it's six minutes and not any less? I don't know. But it also comes with a free DVD and for the price we paid for it, 199. I would say it's probably worth a try. But you're paying 19 bucks for this retail about 10 times that cost. And I don't even know. I guess I'd like to see someone who went. The Shake Weight is what did it for me. For years I struggled to gain muscles to lose weight. And as soon as I got the Shake Weight. Saved my life. Look at me now. All right, our next product is Zoomies, which apparently are some sort of zoom binocular glasses. Introducing Zoomies, the compact, hands free, high power binoculars you wear like sunglasses. Now, because I already have glasses, I got to put these on top of mine. These run about 18 bucks. And I'm confused who this product was made for. Like, is it made for like a peeping tom, a stalker type, or just an avid bird watcher who isn't comfortable carrying around binoculars? I don't know, but we're going to see. Oh, yeah, look at that. I got to say, it's got little knobs on the side where you can zoom out and zoom in, but you have to do it at the same time so that you're tracking on both sides that it's not too wobbly here. All right, let's try these out. Oh, actually not bad. Okay, I'm all the way zoomed in now. You know, at 18 bucks, I don't know that I'd buy these. Cause I don't understand the point. I see more, but more isn't better. Like, it's not as. 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You're gonna be in a great mood all day. Cause you're gonna be slapping your troubles away with the Slap Chop. And what it's supposed to do is chop up anything you need to be chopped up with the ease of one of those bad boys. So we're gonna try this, starting with some peanuts. Let's try that. Maybe we'll make some peanut butter out of this later. Let's see what we got here. Oh, perfect. It still has the seal for freshness. Okay, let's. There we go. Yeah, those are fresh. I can't deny that. All right, so what we're gonna do is unscrew this bottom part. You can see the blades there. Do they come with custom blades? Is this the only blade? I'm gonna drop it into here that feels like the right amount. And then we're gonna screw this back on. And then I guess you just do this. I didn't put that on properly. Let's try that again. Come on. Ooh, ooh, she crunchy. Does it. Does it stay? How do I get it to stay on? You're already losing me. Slap Chop. We already made a mess out here. But you know what? We're already here. Die peanuts. If you have a peanut allergy, you're really excited about this. All right? It actually did a really good job chopping them up, which I can now use for, I guess, a topping on ice cream, which I'm not a fan of. Like, out of all the toppings you could have chose, you were like, get some chopped peanuts on there. That's what I love right now. Give me some Oreos. Give me some cookie dough. But it did a good job chopping them. Let's see. If I keep going, we'll make it finer. Yeah, even better. Get a good look at that B cam. Gotta use you somehow to write this off for tax purposes. All right, we got the peanuts. I'm gonna lay them out here. Yeah, there's some that are. I mean, it's ground to a pulp. That's okay. Wow. Oh, wow. This is an unlimited amount of peanuts. This is a real five loaves, two fish situation over here. They just keep on coming. All right, next up, I'm gonna try some apples with it just to make sure this thing. These are solid apples. All right, we're gonna see if we can chop this bad boy up. One chop. Not great. You really gotta slap chop it. Okay. They're all stuck to the bottom. I don't know if that's a peanut situation, if that's what caused it, but they are not coming back out. Don't love that. There we go. All right, we're getting somewhere. Still not great. If you can see that. I'm not impressed with its apple cutting abilities, which I feel like is one of the main things you'd use a slap chop for is for fruit. So on that basis, this thing is not worth the 26 bucks they're demanding. I think you can get one on Amazon that's a shopper for way less that does a better job. I will say the best part is this. It is fun just to do this. I mean, kids would love doing this. All right. All right. We got to some shards of apples. I wouldn't say they're, like, sliced. Well, not something that I would want to eat. It looks like something your kid ate and then spit back out. So we're gonna just leave those there. Yeah, no, thank you. Not worth the money. All right, the next product is the Magic Bullet. This one, I feel like, really held its own over time. It runs about 35 bucks. And these days, I feel like there's mini blenders all over the market. But this one feels like it was the first one to really, really crack that consumer ceiling on blenders that was out. I feel like blenders were a thing that you had the big one or you didn't own one at all. And this one really made it accessible for all of America to be able to blend. So we're going to attempt to make some peanut butter from scratch here. I've never made peanut butter from scratch before, so I'm going to guess what goes into peanut butter. Peanuts, for sure. I know that much. He's right. Okay, let's. That's a good amount. Let's add some salt. I like, gotta have a little salt in there. I think these are already salted, so I don't think I need much. All right. And then I'm Gonna use some coconut oil, I think you gotta have. I don't think we need much, but just a little bit to help it blend. All right, let's put it to the test. It's got different containers and such here, but I'm just gonna use this one. Be safe at home. Sharp blades here. All right, I'm gonna screw that on, and then this goes on top. And we're gonna find out if I can make peanut butter in 30 seconds. Hey. Oh. I don't know if you can tell, but it stopped blending about three seconds in, which is not a good sign. Let's see what's going on here so far. Would not purchase especially for $35. Let me just stir it around and try it again. I don't want to sully the good name of the Magic Bullet in case I'm just doing it wrong. Not a lot of butter, just mostly peanuts still at this point. Come on. I think I'm doing cpr right now. Still nothing. I'm gonna come back in a little bit. Three hours later, I feel like if they were doing this as seen on tv, they would magically have the peanut butter ready to go. To make you think. Yeah, we needed more time, but here's what it would end up being. So let me see what's going on in here. It smells like peanut butter. How about this? If you like extra, extra, extra crunchy peanut butter, you're gonna love the Magic Bullet. But if you had 35 bucks, I'd tell you to spend your money elsewhere on literally anything else. Even that. That's as close as we got to making a peanut butter today. And I wouldn't give this to my worst enemy. Unless you're allergic to peanuts, in which case, a great thing to give your enemy. All right, next up, we've got the Ped Egg Classic. This is used to exfoliate the bottom of your foot. You know, it gets a little crispy under there. I'm not gonna go much further. Cause I think you guys know what I'm talking about. But a lot of the guys probably could use one of these. Now, obviously, I'm not gonna demonstrate this one for you live, but my friend Dr. John Deloney volunteered his foot before we shot this, and I wanna show you what came out of it. There you go. It smells just like parmesan cheese, which is disgusting, but it makes me never wanna eat Parmesan cheese again. And there's more where that came from. So you use this part, this metal. It's a little sharp, and you scrub the foot until it's all. Yeah, you can see it there. Actually, I think they could use these at Olive Garden, you know, a little more pet egg, my good sir. Keep going until I say y' all are gone. When you're here, you're family. And then you can actually clear out the rest of it if you lift up this top piece. Here we go. Wait for it. Oh, there we go. All right. And then this part comes off to store said Parmesan cheese. That's, I guess, where it all collects. And so, as you can see, John Deloney's foot is mostly made of parmesan cheese. Is what I'm gathering from this, a disgusting product. But at $9, I don't think it's a bad one, to be honest, because I've seen some of these on the market. You're gonna pay 10 bucks. And now, while I haven't tested this on my foot, I would recommend this to any man in your life who's got a little Parmesan cheese stuck to their heel, if you will. All right, the next product is the Chill O Matic, which is a fun name if you live in 1993. And what this is supposed to do is take a room temperature beverage, you stick it in here, and then it's supposed to make it cold within 60 seconds. If this thing works, I'm telling you right now, I will buy one at $27. So this suctions to the bottom of this. You put your ice in the bottom. All right, here we go. Do that. Suction this thing to it. Come on. I don't know that it's suctioning. We're gonna see. All right, let's try that again. It's suctioned now. All right. All right, here we go. So I've suctioned the can to this piece, and I'm gonna put this whole thing inside. There we go. I'm gonna add some more ice over it. All right, let's see if this works. There we go. That'll do it. Turn it on and it's just gonna spin for 60 seconds. And then apparently make this beverage ice cold. And go. It's not spinning. Maybe too much ice. Let's try it again. Maybe still too much ice. User error. Collar bars. We'll go to color bars, some spongebob music. Two hours later. There we go. All right, let's try this again. I'm going to put this piece in here. It may have not been connected properly. That may have been my bad. All right, there we go. So this is how it's supposed to work spinning the beverage. So I'm gonna try to stick this onto here. All right, that is on there. Stick this back in. It might be too much ice in there. Who knows? Let me take some out. I think the team did me dirty telling me to put a bunch of ice in there. Okay, let's try that again. No spinach. Oh, it's not connected. This is going really well for me. This is why I could never be an as seen on TV spokesperson. Can you imagine if I was representing the chill out matic? They would have fired me instantly. Said, vince, get back in here, Billy Mays. Then get that guy to do it. All right, it's going. Let me take a little more ice out. Let's try it again. All right, we're there. So close. I think there's just too much. Oh, see, now it's. It's actually spinning. You know what, I'm gonna dump the ice and then put it in afterwards. They didn't give me instructions. Guys, That looks better already. How little ice can I put in here for this thing to work? Maybe I just need a few ice cubes. Just gonna do a handful at the bottom. Maybe that's enough. Okay, okay. The devil is real. We now know that. All right, 60 seconds on the clock. Let's see if three ice cubes are able to chill this thing in 60 seconds because that's all you can put in there. I am pleased to report that this thing is no colder than it was 30 minutes ago. Good enough. Hey, let's check on those hot dogs, shall we? Wow. Now I know how those hot dogs at 7:11 on the rollers, how they get that beautiful color. Let me see if I don't want to touch it because it's so hot. Here, try this. Let's get a tight shot on that. Glizzy. I wouldn't give my dog this thing, but I think the George Foreman actually was one of the better products we experienced today. And that's not a compliment. Most of these products are absolute dog doo doo. And I would not purchase them unless it was a gag gift for a family member that I did not like very much. So all that to say, you gotta be careful where you spend. Don't fall for the hype, whether it's a TV commercial or an Instagram ad. Just think, if they're marketing it this hard, is it really that good? Or is it just good marketing? And that's a way you can avoid wasting money on things that you don't end up needing or using. And if you enjoyed this video, you're going to love this next one. 14 things under 100 bucks that are actually totally worth the money. So click here to watch it next or use the link in the description. Thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.