An A-peel-ing Mystery Solved (Hour 2)

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We're going to get into.

Want to get into the year's weirdest gadgets.

All right.

Got that one coming up for you.

And Beth, this peel banana mystery.

We've got to get this figured out.

Yes, we have to figure this one out.

We will get into that one a little bit later as well.

And plenty more good stories that the day we get into our schedule, talk some local things

and plenty more.

We kick off the 9 o'clock hour as we usually do with our entertainment segment.

And I apologize, I can't remember.

Are you a friend of a fan of friends?

Yes.

I thought so.

I thought so.

I thought that was one of the reasons.

So I got this one here.

There's a certain friend's quote that people still yell at David Schwimmer.

And it could be pretty jarring for him.

It's obviously going to be one of two things either quote, we're on break or pivot.

Yep.

Okay.

I have no idea what I'm saying.

Well, he no doubt gets a ton of, we were on break, the one people are really aggressive

about his pivot.

Yes.

They yelled at him all the time.

David says quote, I get a lot of random people shouting pivot at me sometimes it's startling,

but also it's just a reminder that the series lives on.

He adds that hearing people tell him how much the show meant to them makes him feel, quote,

really grateful and blessed who have done something that people find so much fun.

Yeah.

Another quick note on him.

I don't know David Schwimmer that well, if being real about this, when that show was at

its peak, I always thought he was kind of the weak link.

I felt like that show, I didn't watch the show, but I dated people that did and stuff.

And I've seen enough of it to know, okay, these people are talented.

It isn't so much my thing, but that doesn't, you know, I respect good.

And that show was very well casted.

It really was.

And I don't know how good the writing was, but I heard good things about the writing.

So I could see why it was popular, why it did so well.

But he's been very honest about, hey, my career isn't gone exactly the way I wanted it to.

Right.

I kind of joked about this when he did a cameo on 30 rock.

And he gets that, you know, I may not do something that's this big again.

In fact, none of us will.

Even Jennifer Aniston who has probably the best career out of all of them, she may not

do something that hits that mark again.

Right.

So I go back to Larry Hagman with this and Larry Hagman being on the tonight show and

saying to Johnny Carson, I don't care if they put J.R. on my tombstone.

I get to act for a living.

I get to do what I love for a living.

And I think that for every actor that has an ego and kind of gets ugly, you know, idea

of, there are guys like him out there who just love to work and they never seem to lose

sight of.

Well, I get to do this for, I get to play Make Believe for a living.

Right.

And it's kind of cool.

Well, and the fact that it's a specific episode, he only yelled pivot for one specific

episode and it's when they were trying to get a couch up the stairs into the apartment

and they had to pivot around the corners of the stairwells to try to get it up there.

And he's at the bottom with somebody else at the top and he's yelling, that's a masterful

idea for a show.

Like a whole episode, I'm just trying to get a couch up in apartment stairs.

Oh my God.

Yes.

That's the interaction between him and the other guys that were helping him get it up

there.

It was hilarious.

That's a good idea.

By the way, I have to say though, I'm sure that his, you know, maybe a little, maybe

that disappointment, but not knowing what's going, it was a swage a little bit about

by getting a million dollars in an episode at the height of the show.

He's doing fine financially.

I feel like that helps a little bit, it seems to make smooth things over a little bit.

And to give him credit, he had the character that was the least, you know, out there.

And so he had to play it more suddenly.

And so it made it look like he was so winkly, but he was actually playing his character

beautifully.

Yeah, he was the, he was kind of the straight man of the show.

He would get his moments, you know, and you funny moments, but yeah, he was kind of

the straight guy in that.

So, didn't he, his character end up with Jennifer Aniston?

Yes.

I think they did.

Yeah, it did.

It did.

But you're so right about that that him being the straight man on the show, and oftentimes

that gets kind of lost in the show, it does, but it seemed like the character would

pretty good for him.

Yeah, it seems like, yeah.

Well, he was so good at it that people like have trouble thinking of him of anything but

Ross.

Right.

And he's mentioned that before, you know, so it's wild, too, because no other actors dealt

with that.

Even Matt LeBlanc has talked about how he's had a couple of opportunities, and been able

to kind of break from that.

Yes.

And everything.

And Perry was very, very able to play a bit in everything.

It's interesting that he's kind of the one that has been pegged into that.

The popcorn buckets became a huge thing in 2024.

A number of different movies and movie theaters realized, hey, this is one of the ways we

can bring people in, give them something nostalgic while also collectible.

Ah, get those collectibles out there, yeah.

And once again, we come back to IP and how important it is to own IP for these companies,

and why you're going to see more and more of those kind of things.

I don't know if they're going to remain popular, but you're only beginning to see the beginning

of the popcorn bucket thing.

So whether it is, you know, doing having the one they did, there was a popcorn casket

for No Sforatu, which is kind of-

I have the ear about that one.

Yeah.

That's cool.

That is cool.

I didn't know about that either.

But this may be one of the more unique, and maybe even the one that works out the best

and the best idea, I think.

And I don't say this much about our cinema industry, which I love.

I am one of the biggest lovers of cinema there is.

I don't ever want there to not be theaters.

What I don't want is people having to take out a mortgage to go see them.

Exactly.

Exactly.

That's not all on theaters.

It is on some.

It is.

And some quote you have to do.

You're reading on this and everything.

But it is an important thing that we keep theaters alive, not only for the economy of

communities and small rural communities like ours.

Yeah.

But for the love of entertainment.

And it's a thing that brings people, and we've talked about that, and brings people

together like sporting events, all those things.

It's in a public place.

We have less and less opportunities for strangers to sit around with strangers laughing.

Yes.

You know?

I think that's a great thing.

The cinema theater chain is taking things to the extreme possibly.

On Sunday, January 19th, which just happens to be National Popcorn Day, they're running

a Bring Your Own Bucket Promotion.

Okay.

Really?

You can bring in any container you want as long as it's quote clean and sterilized and

can hold popcorn.

They'll fill it for just five bucks, but if they decide it's not safe to use, they

can deny you.

Right.

Which makes sense.

It's smart.

Yeah.

And there's a catch, because there always is.

Your bucket can't be more than 400 ounces, which is about three gallons, so a mark puts

it.

The size of two extra large popcorns.

Okay.

All right.

That makes sense.

I think that's understandable.

I was wondering if they were going to do something like, because I could totally see

someone bringing like an oil barrel.

Yeah.

It's like, fill it up, man.

Not clean.

You know, Dan.

My dad would do that.

My dad would do that.

Or one of those big storage containers that you buy.

Yeah.

Rough mix.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Big two more bin.

Yeah.

Because that would just disrupt everything.

Yeah.

That's makes sense that they would do that.

There's still a lot of popcorn for really cheap, but it destroys the dream of possibly

walking in there, just putting in that keg and just like fill it up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Not doing that.

No.

No.

Don't be shy with the butter.

I don't know.

I love the idea.

Yeah.

I hope that more theaters do things like this and continue to do not only this, but to

find ways to work with the audiences and give audiences more incentive.

The movies should be enough.

It should be enough to be able to go and, hey, this movie, I'm dying to see this and I

got to see it on iMacs or something like that.

We all know that's not the case.

The movie industry is, while these movies are costing more and more to make, because they

can't stop making three hour movies and giving these directors insane budgets.

You don't have to.

You can say no.

Yeah.

Well, and especially as TVs have gotten larger and larger and larger, I mean, my dad has

what a 72 inch TV in flat screen in his, it feels like you're going to an iMacs in your

own living room.

Yeah.

So why not just wait and not pay for the movie when it's already going to come to you

on streaming to piggyback off of that bet.

We had Brian and the class that we teach on Sundays.

We've got a 16 incredible people, incredible people that I think every one of them can move

on to do great things.

Two of these individuals are very good friends and they're young ladies who just graduated

out of second city, 2021 respectively somewhere around there.

Almost every class for the last month and a half, we have had to stop them because they're

singing define gravity or something like that and I don't have any problem with those

songs.

Just we're trying to teach a class as any actors, you know, they're talking and stuff

on the side.

And this isn't zoomed by the way, but I just figured during the Thanksgiving break right

after that, when we got back, I figured, oh, they definitely saw wicked.

And I asked right away, like, what did you think of the movie?

How was it and everything?

And like, oh, we're waiting.

What?

Like, they're waiting until it came up because they knew that it was coming above on streaming,

like a week later.

And so they were just, they're college kids, they're saving a couple of bucks and they're

going to watch it.

They watch it at home together on the screen or whatever they did.

I don't know.

But it might be a big screen.

I mean, like Beth was talking about could be like a cinematic experience.

And with the streaming, they have some of the bat-related scenes and it's like having

the old DVDs and blue rays that we used to buy that would have all those extras to it.

The younger generation doesn't need to go to the theater.

They don't have the romantic love of this that we do.

So if it gets to kids, the theaters and these things and keeps the theater industry alive,

this is good for all of our economies, even if you don't like movies, man.

And part of the best, for me, the best part of going to the movie is the popcorn.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

It's the special thing.

And I think, I think something that they could consider, it's making it an experience,

right?

It's not just to see the movie.

It's the whole going to the movies as a thing, right?

Like sport, let's do another sports analogy.

Why do people go to sporting events?

It's not just to see the game.

It's to be with people, it's to do the experience, to get the hot dogs, to get the food, to get,

you know, the, the, the, the, the, the, do the wave or be up on the jumbo tron or whatever

it is, right?

That's what I think movies need to get to, that kind of thing.

I mean, I know it's different.

You can't do, you can't, like, walk around like a sporting event because it's a movie

and you need to be quiet for the other people to, you know, pay attention.

But there's got to be things that people can do in order to make it more of an experience.

This promotion, making it affordable to do it, because if you were to get one of those

large popcorns, you're paying, like, 15 bucks to be able to bring in your own container

and buy, and by the way, Disney was on the cutting edge of this, because down at the

parks, they sell specialized popcorn buckets and there are people that will wait in line.

The day that it comes out and the lines aren't like three hours long just to get a popcorn

bucket.

You can refill that popcorn bucket at any popcorn stand in the park for, I think, a dollar

or something like that.

Wow.

So it makes it a lot more, and they're also collectible, because it only makes so many

of them.

Whether it's popcorn at the movies or a hot dog at a baseball game, there's something

that tastes different at the game.

You can have it at home, but don't taste the same.

That's right.

And that speaks to the experience you're talking about there, Seth.

And what was the number one thing we heard from people that they wanted for Christmas

or Hanukkah or anything this year, and experience, travel or something like that, right?

You could do this with movies, and you could do it on a much more, you know, maybe affordable

level if you work with your community, if you work with the audience on this one.

You got it.

Like $5 Tuesdays.

Yeah, something like that.

I think more of those things is only going to be better for everybody.

And I think that you can easily, anybody who's good at business can make the cost effect

of this.

Right.

And finding the middle ground of that where you're still in the black.

They can do it.

Yeah.

And time to feel old, everybody.

Too late.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Already do.

Heck, I woke up this morning, it felt great, and then at the same time, it felt horrible.

I woke up.

Yeah.

I had my body killed.

A list of movies that turned 50 this year include some classics and some ones that I think

would take you off guard and be like, whoa, I didn't see it.

Oh, okay.

I've got like 18 of them here for some reason, not 20 or 15 or 10, but like, we're

numbers random.

So I'm going to just run through a couple of these, but some, I want to stick on.

But at number 17, one floor over the cuckoo's nest.

Wow.

That's right.

Top three dream roles for me.

Yeah.

We're talking 17, 18, 75.

I had to get my mind in there.

So yeah, 75 is the year we're looking at, yeah.

And man, just instant classic when it came out and still well respected to this day.

That doesn't happen that often.

And actually in some ways, while some of it didn't age well, the majority of it is aged

incredible and incredibly ahead of its time, whether you're talking about the book or

the movie.

Some of the greatest acting you will ever see cinematically is in this movie and so much

of it has nothing to do with the lead actors.

Yeah.

It's great.

The whole cast is amazing in it.

Yeah.

I love.

I get goosebumps thinking about that movie.

The Sunshine Boys at 16.

Oh my gosh.

Three days of the contour at 15.

Okay.

That's a good classic.

A espionage film.

Yeah.

The 14 dog day afternoon.

And a cop.

Boy, we talk about movies ahead of their time.

Way ahead of their time.

Holy cow.

Again, maybe not similar to Billy Crystal's role in soap, maybe not done perfectly, but

representation.

Yes.

Yes.

And way ahead of its time and representation.

Also one of the more odd movies that was a hit.

Yes.

And on paper, there's no reason that movie should be successful at all, none.

And yet it's it was at a very unique now.

If it came out today and it was big, I don't think we would be a surprise in the 70s

for that to be.

Yeah.

That's all.

Yeah.

We got to give some love to Sydney Lament, the director.

He made, so he created so many great movies and he's not appreciated as he should.

Nearly enough.

Yeah.

One of my top 10.

Yeah.

Maybe top 20, but top 10 top 20 favorite directors and the work of Al Pacino and the

star power of Al Pacino in that, and that kind of, especially Rocky Horror picture show.

Oh my goodness.

Wow.

Had to wait.

I had to wait till I was taking a sip, that was perfectly time.

I didn't realize that movie was that easy.

That's crazy.

I didn't think of that.

Like the cult classic.

Yeah.

It's like the one that started it all is like the idea of cult movies was Rocky Horror.

And I think that wasn't that Tim Curry's like first really, that was just breakout role.

That's a breakout.

Yeah.

It was too legend shortly after that, but yeah, that was the role that really put it,

especially because in legend, he's in all the makeup and everything and stuff, so.

But yeah, that was not only one of the, to both of your piggybacking on both of what

you said there, it's still relevant.

Yeah.

It's still people this hollow come ahead of their time, at other time, at other movies,

at other times.

It's really something.

Rollerball comes in here.

Another one that was a little ahead of its time, James Conn.

That's a sci-fi movie that's interesting that's on there, because I don't know if it was

a big hit or not, I've read the short story that is based on what's called Rollerball

Murder.

Yeah.

It's a boy.

Talk about kind of a downer of a movie though, it's just be warned everybody, doesn't have

api.

One of my top five favorite movies of all time, I don't think I've ever mentioned before,

and it's one that will come up in the director's playhouse one of these days, when Seth and

I, Cooley High.

Cooley High.

Cooley High.

Now, long before for our generation, boys in the hood or menace society or some of those

movies that really gave you a look at inner city life, and a bit of a more realistic one,

while also still being Hollywood, Cooley High was way ahead of its time, really way ahead

of its time when it comes to that stuff.

I am now.

I'm going to have to watch that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That sounds really good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a big one.

There's a couple of movies like that that came out around that time, but that's one of those

ones that never gets talked about.

But this should have been.

The return of the Pink Panther.

Oh, the Pink Panther movies.

Peter Sellers.

Yeah.

That's so much fun.

Anything, anything Peter Sellers did.

I would watch it.

Right.

And I'll watch it again.

And I'll watch it the rest of my life.

Well, and that theme song, once you get it in your head, that earworm.

The animations that they had at the beginning of the year.

Those were some of my favorite parts.

You got to say.

Got to say.

Yeah.

At number seven, best three out of five.

Molly Python and the Holy Grail.

Oh.

Billy a flesh wound.

Who did that?

Who did that?

Who did that?

Who did that?

The show that was, like a cult show that was on for only a few seasons in Britain, you

know, that never want anyone expected anything to happen.

And they come up with a movie that becomes like one of the greatest comedies of all time.

I mean, I'm telling you.

Some of my earliest memories, the hearing was constant or actually sitting around watching

your old body bite.

And impersonating the characters and just being blown away by their style, their timing,

everything about those guys, everyone of those individuals.

Now that movie.

I didn't see until a little bit later.

And I did not realize when I watched it, I'd be watching like the next airplane for me.

Right.

I guess I saw airplane actually before Molly Python.

Really?

Because I was so into, my dad was so into the TV show.

So I watched all the old sketches of all of that before I really saw the movies.

And I got into the movies much later.

But for me, it was actually the perfect time because I understood the comedy much better.

Right.

They're timing.

Their delivery was so different.

And I didn't know what that would do for me as somebody who, some, I, I still to this

day, if I had the money, I would create a sketch comedy channel that's nothing but sketch

comedy.

Yeah.

And, and I, I could do this because I know every sketch comedy show there's every day.

That's true.

And I've watched them all.

And all of them, every single one of them has some tied to Molly Python, whether it's

Mr. Show of Bob and Dave and David Cross and Bob Odin Kirk and how every sketch had

to lead into the next on what Saturday live does to this day with live theater, but also

mixed in with some sketch, recorded sketch comedy.

Molly Python started that.

They started all of that.

Yes, they did.

It's incredible what they've done.

What they accomplished with that show.

And they gave us Terry Gilliam.

Yeah.

Terry Gilliam.

One of the great directors.

Yeah, directed Bob.

Yeah, the older guy.

And that's one of those ones that is maybe out of all these movies is probably going

to be watched the most going forward.

Right.

It's out of scenes and habits and especially with today's way we watch a lot of stuff nowadays

is in clips.

Yeah.

You don't go back or watch whole movies so much, but you watch clips.

Well, and I remember that being kind of like the right of passage when you were in

a high school back in my day is that everybody was watching that and everybody was quoting

that.

It was like the most quoted movie in high school.

And I don't know if it still is today.

One of the more important moments in cinematic history is the black exploitation moments where

you had a lot of those movies and a lot of opportunities come up again for stories and

different things.

And the Foxy Brown is pretty high up there, but a movie that we snuck in to go see as kids

where two young four was Dolomite.

Oh, yes.

No.

No, we didn't know what we were going in to see.

We just saw a cool guy with a gun, but we went in and saw that movie did not understand

half of it.

Doesn't matter.

But it was so cool.

It's a classic.

It is.

It was so cool.

It was so classic.

It is.

And Jaws.

Oh, my gosh.

Do you see that coming?

Yeah.

The movie that changed cinema.

Yep.

You made a lot of people afraid of sharks.

Yeah, that too.

There were no 4th of July, big 4th of July weekends or summer Hollywood, big hits.

The blockbuster was not a thing until Jaws.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Change the game.

Did they do it?

We are going to come back with a quick story.

We'll come back and get in here before our news break.

It is Beth and Seth and James taking you through your morning at WFHR.

Welcome back, everybody.

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Seth, Beth and James here with you, I messed this up.

My name doesn't rhyme.

That's a sound.

Those are like the only two F names out there, so don't feel bad.

It's just those two.

It would be tough.

I tried to change my name to Seth.

Jaws?

Jeth?

Jeth?

They'd be almost too close to Jeth.

Yeah.

And then when we were getting married and stuff, they're like, what are you going to name

your kid?

Yeah.

Come on.

Or math.

Yeah.

Neither work.

Neither work.

A little bit later after our news break, we're going to get into the SES 2025, the year's

weirdest gadgets.

That's always fun.

That's always fun.

Got that one coming up for you.

But right now, the mystery we have been dying to get into for 48 hours now.

There is a town in Nottingshare, Nottingshare, England that's grappling with a bizarre mystery.

Someone is leaving plates of peeled bananas at a street corner and they have been appearing

every month for over a year.

Wow.

Every stranger, even stranger, they usually show up on the second of every month.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Locals can't figure it out.

Some think the peeled bananas could be intended for wildlife, some think it could be some

kind of religious offering because there's a church across the street, but most people don't

have a single clue.

No idea.

I mean, so many questions about why bananas, you know?

One person put up signs that say, please, respectively, no more bananas.

The uncollected plates are rotting bananas leave such a mess.

But that woman later decided to take the sign down and she said, quote, I don't really

want to make it like a feud.

I don't want it to become a big thing.

I think it's a special thing for someone and I wish them well.

There you go.

Now, first off, that's just kind of cool.

Yeah.

Somebody kind of self-govern themselves there, you know, oh, wait a minute, maybe I, we

just don't have enough accountability or enough owning of things in life.

I think that's kind of cool that they did that first, right?

But quote, but if they could come back and clean up the mess a few days later, that'd be

lovely.

That's, that is a good point, you know, about just leaving it there to just rot away.

I mean, that doesn't sound very cool.

But at the same time, this is where England, we're talking about England here, well known

for their elaborate pranks, crop circles, anybody.

I mean, so it's, I'm not surprised, totally not surprised.

It's unclear if any officials are actually looking into this or if any detectives are

on the case, but it's 2025.

So who knows?

Who knows?

Who knows?

I want to show you guys, let me see if I can get a picture of this here.

What they should be doing is leaving a bowl of water there because if you put the banana

peels in the water, then you can use the water and it's healthy for your plants.

Yeah, yeah, I see.

And then you just dump the water, because it's, it's right beside bushes and things like

that.

So you just put the water in the bushes and there you go.

It is so small, it's, I expect it to be a huge plant, yeah.

I expected something much bigger than that, very small plate of peeled bananas.

So, now the whole plate is full of peeled bananas.

It is full, but it's, but small, that it's right next to a bush and it seems like almost

a specific place.

And it's, it's the bananas.

It's not the banana peels.

Right.

It's the actual bananas.

Yeah, I was thinking it was just banana peels.

Oh, okay.

Oh, well, that would be dangerous.

I mean, that's comedy 101.

Right.

Yeah, you're just going to have a nut, but people, well, maybe they're out there offering

it for anybody that's hungry, you know, and I, you know, while that might be good,

I, you know, I would say like that, if that was the case, that would make some sense

in the conversation.

Right.

And I do think that peeled bananas are one of those more safe things that like, you know,

trying to find something that everybody would like.

I could see bananas being that.

Sure.

But that, I would think, you know, maybe the, it would be on something, a, a, a, high

up for a human.

Right.

That it's on the ground makes me think of an animal.

Yeah.

And it's just like, is there any specific animal that loves bananas that lives in the

wild, other than monkeys?

And I don't believe they have a huge monkey, you know, there's a wild binobo, he is

wandering around.

Yes.

I don't know.

I, gosh, I, I want to follow up on this.

That is a mystery, though.

Yeah.

That is a mystery of true mystery.

And I do think, and, and Seth hit on this right away, and I, I really do think that this

is noteworthy, especially as we're talking about the 50th anniversary of Monty Python's

Holy Queen.

This is England.

It could just be for comedic.

Yes.

It could be.

Yes.

It could be.

It could be.

It could just be a prank.

It just could be a couple of guys.

They wanted to make their community known.

And so this was how they did it.

That's true.

Yeah.

I mean, well done.

And you did it.

You did it.

Yeah.

You showed up on the Central East.

People are talking radio stations.

Now, you're counting the smells like bananas.

So, you know, hating things.

Yeah.

The worst things that could smell like.

That's true.

We will take a time out.

We'll come back and have some more fun.

On the show.

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Morning show at WFHR.

Hope you all are having a great start to your Wednesday out there.

Happy Wednesday, everybody.

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You're going to get into an interesting fun topic with you right now.

SCS to 2025.

The consumer electronics show in Vegas.

It's a pretty big one every year.

A lot of the newest tech comes out.

A lot of new tech that's probably not going to be out there for a couple of years.

But sometimes it's getting the, you know, getting out there before.

Yes, right.

It can build.

A lot of these inventors will come to this.

They have an idea and maybe get investors for set.

Right, right.

That the big consumer electronics show in Vegas started today.

And as always, it's got a ton of amazing products.

Plus a few little weirder ones.

And guess where we're going to put our focus?

Oh, the weird ones.

It's what we do.

We love weirder.

It is our wheelhouse.

A robot vacuum that picks up dirty socks.

All right.

Please.

It's like, it's like a love it.

It's like a Roomba with, I love the inflection of that.

There was both comedy and neat.

There's a sincerity in there.

Yes, yes.

I live with three men who all just take off their socks and leave them wherever they take them off.

It's like a Roomba, but with an arm on top that picks up stuff you tossed on the floor.

A company called Robo Rock.

Wow.

It's just a prototype.

So no word on pricing.

But probably worth a thousand dollars to those that have to deal with this stuff.

It can pick up small items that weigh less than 11 ounces.

There you go.

Like socks right now.

There is a bit of a video on this one.

I'll see if I can get it up here for you guys as you can see it.

There we go.

Yeah.

All right.

Yep.

There it goes.

It looks like the size of a Roomba.

Yeah.

About the size.

And moving a little slow.

And it seemed to have trouble picking up coins and prototypes.

It is prototype.

Remember that.

Think of the claw in those machines.

Yep.

Yeah.

And it worked about as well.

Yeah.

It did get it the second time.

And I think that this could be also entertaining.

Yes.

I'm just sitting there every day.

It's nothing got TV.

And you're just watching your Roomba, right around picking up socks.

Electric roller blades.

You wear the battery around your waist like a belt and control the speed with a remote.

The top speed is 18 hours.

18 miles an hour.

And for 800 bucks you can relive the 90s and possibly break a hip.

Wow.

And not even get the benefit of the exercise.

Yeah.

Right.

You just roll along.

Just kind of stand there.

I don't think this is a horrible idea.

But this was such an 80s 90s idea.

Yeah.

It really, yeah.

This one.

The technology just wasn't there yet.

E-bikes make a lot more sense.

Yes.

This bikes are, you know, constantly.

You know, they're always forever.

Bikes have been around for a long, long time.

And you still, you know, pedal inside.

It's a good thing.

But roller blades.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Man.

An electric salt spoon.

What?

It's been in the works for a while.

It went on sale in Japan last year.

A week current of electricity hits your tongue and makes stuff taste saltier than it really is.

Wow.

So you get the benefits of the flavor without the added sodium?

Absolutely.

Salt.

Yeah.

Well, I can see some news for that.

Okay.

Yeah.

You can't get them in the US yet.

But they're selling them for 125 bucks in Japan.

Wow.

I don't know how that works out to US dollars, but it's a lot.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a lot for a fork.

Yeah.

A table with working legs.

It's called the Mimo, and it walks around.

The prototype looks like a small side table with a Pixar lamp on top.

Very apropos.

Yeah.

The idea is an AI robot you can talk to, but it also looks like furniture.

Because that's what we like to do is talk to our furniture.

Well, playhouse comes along.

Yeah.

This is the floor room.

This was a way of its eye.

When cherry comes, we'll talk.

So it's not a table you can really use, though.

No.

No, it's not.

It's just small.

Yeah.

It's just walking AI.

This is the lamp work.

Yeah.

I guess it's the lamp works.

The lamp works.

Then there are places in our houses that are darker, so that would be helpful.

This has so many issues with it.

But the idea of, you know, oh, I need something to eat on.

I need something to, you know, what we've been doing this forever with card tables,

or the old TV trays, you know, that kind of thing.

So I think something like that could have a possible, you know, use.

Right.

But this I don't know.

It depends on how it walks, too, man.

It looks like it's like a spider.

It looks like it's a kids chair.

That's metal.

Right.

Yeah.

Each part is attached by their own arms kind of thing.

Yeah.

I'm not, this particular model I would not do.

I can only imagine being alone and, you know, just forgetting about this thing,

you know, corner my eyes.

See this thing?

Yeah.

No.

Totally happened.

Totally.

I don't need that.

I don't know.

A stringless guitar.

Hmm.

Okay.

I'm going to show this to Melissa.

It's like an adult version of those push button guitars for little kids,

but it's much more adult version of it.

Oh.

It's a toy.

So, it's 100 bucks, you can feel like you're playing guitar without actually playing guitar.

So, it's a version.

There's a very guitar people rejoice.

Guitar hero, kind of thing.

Oh my gosh.

Yeah.

This is the kids version.

Okay, I'm sorry.

That's the kids version showing us.

I wanted to see, cause all these have, uh, a, yeah, here we go.

Okay.

Um, it is a, let's see where's, uh, of course.

Oh, of course.

Skeletal agreements stuff.

Yeah, yeah.

Yup.

Um, but there it is.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

It looks like a real guitar.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, it does.

Yeah.

In a way, yeah.

What do you call it?

What do you call it?

What do you call it?

The frets, yeah.

The frets, yeah.

The frets, yeah.

The frets, yeah.

The frets, yeah.

The frets, yeah.

The frets, yeah.

And I don't know if you're going to put all the time, money into it, I just say, you know,

try to just learn guitar.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And finally, a tune, a tiny robot that blows on your, uh, drink to cool it down.

Okay.

Okay.

I got nothing.

Really?

I got nothing out of it.

We're getting to that point now.

That's just what we put in society.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No wonder.

No.

If you were ever wondering what privilege looks like.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, a tiny robot that blows a drink, cool your drink down, is that.

Oh, wow.

And, uh, and-

You're going to imagine how much time that would take.

And the wonderful Rick and Morty show Rick is a genius.

And Rick invents a little robot that just as all its purposes is to butter his waffles.

See?

And toasted everything.

Yeah.

Life imitating art right there.

That's where we're at.

Like, I mean, I don't know if I want to look at what this looks like.

And-

No, they do say it costs like 25 bucks.

Okay.

So, at least it's not like exorbitant.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The Fufu machine as they're calling it.

Now, I don't even-

Oh, here it is.

Okay.

It looks like a little tiny bear that hooks on the side.

Oh, it does.

And then it blows down in.

It's got to come back.

You know, I had this wonderful invention already in my house that will do the same thing.

It's called an ice cube.

Yeah.

Just throw an ice cube in there.

Throw a cube in.

It's what I-

I've done with some electric ice cube.

I've never come to a bowl of soup that I didn't put in the ice cube in.

Like, I-

Oh, that's fine.

There you go.

Yeah.

I think that work is such a good point.

Oh, yeah.

That could work for soup.

Yeah.

There we go.

There we go.

Yeah.

We just helped you.

We just helped you pivot your-

Not just coffee.

Pivot too.

Yeah.

Nice callback.

Nice callback.

It is called the Fufu machine.

So, I-

I mean, that part might-

I'm guessing it says the Fufu.

Yeah.

It's an automatic poetic.

I-

I-

I'm actually-

I'm not let down by this list, but I'm almost-

I want to know what else-

The creative community-

You know what?

They need to market it as a beauty supplement,

because it saves you from having to pucker your mouth.

So, you don't get as many lines.

There you go.

There you go.

We're coming up with this marketing thing.

It's writing itself right here.

It's actually not that.

That's actually not-

That's not that.

I mean, that's all about-

That's all the-

There's your pivot, you know.

There you go.

Do it that way.

Yeah.

I think-

I think one of the things I would like about this,

these are all cool, and I like this article,

and I want to see these more and more and everything.