Speaker 1: Hey there everybody.
Speaker 2: It is Friday, December twelfth, and I'm sure you are
Speaker 2: in holiday shopping mode and so.
Speaker 1: You're probably stressing all of it.
Speaker 2: Now. You don't have a lot of time, love, let's
Speaker 2: just be honest. So this holiday Gift guide is hopefully
Speaker 2: going to help you with some of your last minute
Speaker 2: shopping ideas. We actually this is our second full week
Speaker 2: Monday through Friday, we have given gift ideas sent to
Speaker 2: us by our iHeart producers, and we'll have another five
Speaker 2: for you next week for you last minute gift shoppers.
Speaker 3: You know what they're getting good now. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 3: I'm not knocking some of the earlier ones, but some
Speaker 3: of these are now absolutely you should be considered.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're excited about them. And this next gift gift
Speaker 2: number ten for this Friday is and toilts that you
Speaker 2: will sleep better, You will wake up more refreshed because
Speaker 2: of the hatch Restore three alarm clock. Good All right,
Speaker 2: Here is what hatch Restore three Alarm Clocks says about
Speaker 2: its product. Say good night to your phone and hello
Speaker 2: to deeper sleep. The hatch Restore three helps you build
Speaker 2: a calming, screen free bedtime routine with soothing light plus
Speaker 2: sound pairings that quiet your mind so you can fall
Speaker 2: asleep easier and faster. They claim over eighty science backed
Speaker 2: sleep sounds, guided wind downs, and a dimmable clock help
Speaker 2: you stay asleep, while the gentle sunrise alarm supports your
Speaker 2: natural circadian rhythm, so you wake up refreshed, refreshed, no
Speaker 2: more jarring alarms.
Speaker 1: You don't even wake up to alarm.
Speaker 4: Clocks, really but jarring? Okay, go ahead, like you know,
Speaker 4: like what I had a question about? Is it? I
Speaker 4: have a question? Okay, and I keep stopping you along
Speaker 4: the way. I'm sorry, I've been again.
Speaker 1: It's fine, it's fine.
Speaker 4: My question.
Speaker 3: There is there an argument that you should not wake
Speaker 3: up suddenly, and that you should wake up in a
Speaker 3: gentle if waves are crashing and it wakes you up,
Speaker 3: versus is it affecting my sleep?
Speaker 1: It affects your energy and your mood for sure.
Speaker 2: Like even honestly, seeing you talk about waking up like this,
Speaker 2: I felt like calm, and then you went My whole
Speaker 2: body jarred and I felt negative energy.
Speaker 1: Wow, So I think that is something right.
Speaker 2: How you wake up, how you feel when you wake
Speaker 2: up scared to death or gently nudged awake, I would
Speaker 2: prefer the latter.
Speaker 4: Productive or lazy? Is this day I'm going to have gentle? Okay,
Speaker 4: go ahead?
Speaker 1: Yes, all right?
Speaker 2: So anyway, they say, the simple one button design makes
Speaker 2: it easy to control when you're half asleep, and the
Speaker 2: phone free setup means your bedroom stays a true rest zone.
Speaker 2: With curated routines and customizable content. Through the Hatch sleep app,
Speaker 2: Restore three helps you transform sleep into a ritual. They
Speaker 2: say that Restore was created by founders Anne and Dave Weiss,
Speaker 2: who struggles with newborn sleep and life long insomnia inspired
Speaker 2: them to build Hatch and this was a company that
Speaker 2: gained national attents on Shark Tank and it's become a leader,
Speaker 2: they claim in improving sleep for families and adults. Families
Speaker 2: because of newborns, they put these in their children's rooms
Speaker 2: as well to help them fall asleep and to wake
Speaker 2: them up gently. So they actually used this for their
Speaker 2: infants and then also for themselves.
Speaker 4: Sounds great.
Speaker 2: So it came from a need in their own family
Speaker 2: and they now are offering it to millions of us.
Speaker 2: You are somebody who struggles with sleep. In fact, you
Speaker 2: began morning run today with your sleep we get we did.
Speaker 2: We actually received or rings in this gift guide last year.
Speaker 2: My ORR rings score today is seventy nine. How what
Speaker 2: your and we went to bed at the same time,
Speaker 2: and we had the plans to wake up at the
Speaker 2: same time. None of that actually happened to. My sleep
Speaker 2: score says I got six hours.
Speaker 1: And twelve minutes. And it says that I went to bed.
Speaker 2: I'm looking to see where it says it at.
Speaker 1: Oh did I go to bed that late?
Speaker 4: See?
Speaker 1: Wow, we went to bed late last night?
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: It says I went to bed at twelve thirty seven pm.
Speaker 3: Okay, then this is accurate. I got two hours and
Speaker 3: twenty four minutes of sleep last night.
Speaker 1: This is a right, that's insane.
Speaker 3: So yes, my sleep score was forty four. I got
Speaker 3: uh but yes, I went. I fell asleep later than
Speaker 3: you did, so at around one o'clock. It says one
Speaker 3: oh four in particular. But here's my problem, babe, I
Speaker 3: was awake from about two thirty on. See that big
Speaker 3: white streak back that I was awake. So I tried
Speaker 3: to stay in bed, and I tried to get back
Speaker 3: to sleep, and I was wide the frick awake apparently,
Speaker 3: so the point is our gift guide. Now this is
Speaker 3: something I'm listening if this is something that can.
Speaker 1: Help me correct, all right, So here's the deal.
Speaker 2: I tried this out last night because I wanted to
Speaker 2: set it up so that we I thought we could
Speaker 2: wake up to it in the morning.
Speaker 1: Turns out I woke up alone, per usual.
Speaker 4: That sounds bad. That's come on, that.
Speaker 2: Sounds heero because you were I feel bad for you.
Speaker 2: You have insomnia. We need more solutions. But anyway, it
Speaker 2: took me quite some time to figure out the app.
Speaker 1: Last night.
Speaker 2: I was getting a little frustrated and realized that I
Speaker 2: had to do and they claim you don't, but I
Speaker 2: could not find a way to communicate with the clock
Speaker 2: without downloading a free seven day trial. Or you could
Speaker 2: do a free month long trial, but if you did
Speaker 2: the month long trial, you're signing up for an annual subscription.
Speaker 2: If I did the seven day trial, I was only
Speaker 2: signing up for a month to month subscription.
Speaker 3: But either way, this is one of those things where
Speaker 3: you have to contact and cancel or you're going to
Speaker 3: start getting charged.
Speaker 4: Correct.
Speaker 2: So I actually put it in my calendar six days
Speaker 2: from now to cancel, because I cancel it now, yes,
Speaker 2: I could cancel it.
Speaker 1: Now I will. But here's the other thing.
Speaker 2: When you go onto Amazon, because I did to get
Speaker 2: I got the reviews, so we'll get into all that.
Speaker 2: But and it even says on their website four ninety
Speaker 2: nine a month or forty nine ninety nine a year,
Speaker 2: but when you download the app it is six ninety
Speaker 2: nine a month and sixty nine ninety nine. So they
Speaker 2: have changed the rates fairly significantly, and it is not
Speaker 2: reflected on their website or on Amazon, so it's actually misleading.
Speaker 2: So if I were to go onto Amazon right now
Speaker 2: and buy this for myself or for someone else, it's
Speaker 2: actually more expensive in terms of the subscription than they
Speaker 2: are advertising.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to put that out there.
Speaker 2: And it may just be an oversight that they haven't
Speaker 2: had time to get around to updating how much it costs,
Speaker 2: but that is a big difference. Fifty dollars a year
Speaker 2: versus seventy dollars a year is a difference.
Speaker 3: Can I say that? Can I ask this? Because I
Speaker 3: was asking you, I was watching you here quite frustrated.
Speaker 3: We were trying to do other things, and you actually
Speaker 3: got caught up with this because we couldn't figure it out.
Speaker 3: Can you use the thing without a monthly prescription?
Speaker 1: They claim subscription?
Speaker 2: They claim you can, but you don't have access to
Speaker 2: a majority of the features.
Speaker 3: So it's a waste of money to buy the thing
Speaker 3: if you're also not going to get the monthly in
Speaker 3: your opinion.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I'm gonna get I'm going to get into
Speaker 2: all of this because I actually didn't want to just
Speaker 2: rely on my experience because sometimes I am technical, like
Speaker 2: I am logically challenged.
Speaker 1: Yep, would you agree with that?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: I don't know a little bit. I mean I you.
Speaker 4: Do that that? Oh I can't figure this out?
Speaker 1: I do do it?
Speaker 4: You do that?
Speaker 3: I think you can figure You're perfectly intellectually capable of
Speaker 3: figuring the stuff out.
Speaker 1: I do figure it out.
Speaker 2: I lived on my own for three years and I
Speaker 2: had to and I was able to.
Speaker 1: It was okay.
Speaker 2: I can put furniture together from my kia. I can, Yes,
Speaker 2: all right, So what was it like this morning? I
Speaker 2: will say that I laughed because I did appreciate there's
Speaker 2: a bright light that comes on, so it mimics the sunrise,
Speaker 2: and that comes on first. So you actually, if you
Speaker 2: put it by your nightstand. The idea is that your
Speaker 2: circadian rhythm is actually, uh, well, that thing inside of
Speaker 2: all of us biologically that we're like supposed to wake
Speaker 2: up with the sun. It triggers that, or it says
Speaker 2: it does, and so you're supposed to wake up before
Speaker 2: the bright light. I did not, but some people might.
Speaker 2: And then it sounded like a flock of seagulls came
Speaker 2: into the bedroom I was. I didn't know, and I
Speaker 2: honestly didn't have the tolerance for it last night to
Speaker 2: pick the sound I wanted to wake up to, so
Speaker 2: I just let it be what it was.
Speaker 1: But I have to tell you, I was like, I
Speaker 1: didn't know where I was.
Speaker 2: I thought I was on vacation maybe, and we were
Speaker 2: like in tricks and caicos or something, and there were birds,
Speaker 2: because that's not a sound.
Speaker 1: That you here in New York City.
Speaker 2: So I was actually initially confused as to where I
Speaker 2: was when I woke up.
Speaker 1: And then I was like, okay, I kind of like that.
Speaker 1: I liked it. It was I felt like I was
Speaker 1: surrounded by nature.
Speaker 3: You didn't have it next on the nightstand, but to
Speaker 3: the delight thing you didn't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe if I had had it right next to the bed.
Speaker 1: The light would have woken me up first. But here's
Speaker 1: here's the deal.
Speaker 2: Amazon reviews, seventy one percent of folks who are verified
Speaker 2: buyers of this product gave it five stars, seventy one
Speaker 2: percent yeah, and another nine percent gave it four stars,
Speaker 2: So eighty percent of the reviews are overwhelmingly positive.
Speaker 1: So I wanted because I didn't want to.
Speaker 2: Be a naysayer about whether or not you should get this,
Speaker 2: but I wanted to.
Speaker 1: Review some of I'll give you two good reviews.
Speaker 2: The Hatch alarm clock has completely changed how I wake up.
Speaker 2: I love the sunrise feature. It gently wakes me with
Speaker 2: light instead of a loud alarm, which has made me
Speaker 2: feel so much more rested. There are tons of customizable
Speaker 2: options for light, colors, sounds, and routines, which makes it
Speaker 2: easy to personalize and adjust based on my mood. It's
Speaker 2: easy to use, looks sleek on my nightstand and genuinely
Speaker 2: improve both my mornings and my sleep. Highly recommend. Okay
Speaker 2: another one. I used to struggle with going to bed
Speaker 2: with my phone right next to me, always checking email,
Speaker 2: text and making sure my alarms were set on my phone.
Speaker 2: But since I got the hatch restore three. It's been better.
Speaker 2: I can leave my phone charging away from my bed.
Speaker 2: I don't have to worry about not hearing my alarm
Speaker 2: or not waking up, And it's been a relief to
Speaker 2: not have that distraction right before bed, and I can
Speaker 2: rely on the alarm on the hatch to wake me up. Look,
Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with technology near me, but
Speaker 2: some people do. And that's one of the big features
Speaker 2: of this that they say that's the biggest problem for
Speaker 2: a lot of folks getting to bed is that they're
Speaker 2: on their phones and they're engaging their minds and they're interacting,
Speaker 2: and they're they're firing right right before they go to sleep,
Speaker 2: and that makes you not be able to go to
Speaker 2: sleep initially. And so if you take your phone, you
Speaker 2: can even take your phone out of your room and
Speaker 2: put this alarm clock, and you now aren't going to
Speaker 2: be tempted to pick up your phone.
Speaker 4: People don't do that anymore. We don't use alarm clocks.
Speaker 4: Phone right there, right, I didn't think about that. I
Speaker 4: don't but phone. I'm not on my phone at night
Speaker 4: kind of guy.
Speaker 2: I was just gonna say, I wish that were your problem.
Speaker 2: Because that would be easy to fix. But I don't
Speaker 2: see you on your phone at night.
Speaker 1: We don't.
Speaker 2: We usually watch some silly movie and it's the last
Speaker 2: thing I remember, and I fall asleep to watching a movie.
Speaker 2: But they say that you're not supposed to do that either,
Speaker 2: bother I've gotten used to it. I didn't used to
Speaker 2: do that, you know, I do that since I've been
Speaker 2: with you. I used to be a white noise girl.
Speaker 2: I used to always put and so they have on
Speaker 2: this actual feature you can pick all sorts of noises
Speaker 2: to fall asleep to nature sounds.
Speaker 1: I think we had falling rain. Remember, I was like,
Speaker 1: what is that sound? It's falling rain.
Speaker 2: They also have meditations that you can listen to to
Speaker 2: guide you into sleeping.
Speaker 1: That's that's true. Sideways, the sideways rain, blinding rain.
Speaker 4: I knew you would come up with something.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: When we come back, I am going to read the
Speaker 2: bad review that made me feel very validated. We'll tell
Speaker 2: you where you can buy this, and we'll tell you
Speaker 2: the price because it is hefty, and that is part
Speaker 2: of the negative review and part of my concern in
Speaker 2: terms of giving this as a gift. And we will
Speaker 2: tease you Monday's gift. This is a very exciting one
Speaker 2: that we have coming on Monday, so stay with us.
Speaker 1: Welcome back everyone.
Speaker 2: We are on gift number ten of our holiday gift Guide.
Speaker 2: We are talking about the hatch Restore three alarm clock.
Speaker 2: They say you can put your phone, you can put
Speaker 2: it out of your room, and you certainly don't want
Speaker 2: to keep it near your nightstand if that's distracting you
Speaker 2: and preventing you from getting a good night's.
Speaker 1: Rest because you're using that as your alarm clock.
Speaker 2: But then you know, you see the text pop up,
Speaker 2: or you got a notification a DM from someone somewhere,
Speaker 2: and then you get back on your phone and it
Speaker 2: prevents you from going to bed. This is the answer.
Speaker 2: Don't need your phone anymore. You've got your handy alarm
Speaker 2: clock next to you.
Speaker 3: We described the way this thing looks. It doesn't look
Speaker 3: like an alarm clock. Traditionally, it looks like it was
Speaker 3: a half a sem like a half moon.
Speaker 1: It looks like a cool speaker. Almost.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's how it is. It's ground.
Speaker 3: Know they have different colors, but this one's gray. But
Speaker 3: the speaker part, it looks like a speaker. You can't
Speaker 3: see anything but then it illuminates with the time and
Speaker 3: anything else.
Speaker 2: On it, uh, just the time, and you get the
Speaker 2: sunrise effect when the alarm goes off. It's really it's pretty.
Speaker 2: It's an attractive product for sure. Putting it on your nightstand,
Speaker 2: it actually looks really nice and elegant and sleek. It's
Speaker 2: not it doesn't look like an annoying alarm clock. It's
Speaker 2: actually really gorgeous. So here is the bad review I
Speaker 2: saw on Amazon, and there were a couple similar to this,
Speaker 2: and this is where I kind of fell on things.
Speaker 2: But this is it's harsh. Greed has ruined this product,
Speaker 2: and I really hope that Hatch fixes this and makes
Speaker 2: their content free and more customizable because this is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: And by the way, the morning birds sound isn't peaceful
Speaker 2: at all. It's like five seconds song, so it's very
Speaker 2: repetitive on loop. That's what I woke up to this morning.
Speaker 4: The birds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was a lot. It was a lot
Speaker 2: of birds that were recorded. Okay, this is what he
Speaker 2: went on to say. I still have a month to
Speaker 2: return this product, and I plan on doing that because
Speaker 2: it's only been one day and I'm already frustrated with
Speaker 2: the greed and the in shiftification of this product. Make
Speaker 2: it simpler, make the app interface better, make the product
Speaker 2: not rely on a subscription. Be a product that's actually
Speaker 2: reverent to the problems that it claims to solve. Inner
Speaker 2: Piece and rest. Don't shove the paid functionality in our
Speaker 2: face before the basic free functions.
Speaker 1: So he's saying that even so he did.
Speaker 2: This without subscribing, I actually couldn't figure out how to
Speaker 2: make it work without getting it, but he because mine
Speaker 2: just basically was at like a firewall page and I
Speaker 2: had to accept the free trial in order for me
Speaker 2: to get into the content. So I'm guessing maybe everybody
Speaker 2: has to do that, and then you just cancel it.
Speaker 2: But once you cancel it, they say, all the stuff
Speaker 2: you could be getting, all the features you actually really want,
Speaker 2: are right there dangling in front of you, and you
Speaker 2: can't access them until you get the subscription. So it
Speaker 2: sounds like everyone who loved it and was happy with
Speaker 2: it went in with the mind that they were going
Speaker 2: to subscribe, that they were going to use this product
Speaker 2: with all of the bells and whistles, And if.
Speaker 4: You do that and you're committed to that, then this
Speaker 4: might work.
Speaker 2: For you just find and it does have a lot of
Speaker 2: really cool features. But I can imagine how frustrating it
Speaker 2: is if you already paid and I'm going to say
Speaker 2: how much it costs one hundred and sixty nine dollars.
Speaker 2: So if you already invest one hundred and sixty nine
Speaker 2: dollars in an alarm clock for better sleep, and then
Speaker 2: realize that you now have to pay seventy dollars a
Speaker 2: year to access the features that you paid for, that's annoying.
Speaker 4: God, that's annoying.
Speaker 2: And when you're giving a gift that is so important
Speaker 2: to know that you are requiring someone to now pay
Speaker 2: seventy bucks a year.
Speaker 1: Imagine that. Think about this. You have this alarm clock
Speaker 1: for five years. That's three hundred and fifty bucks.
Speaker 5: But I if you had to roll the price of
Speaker 5: the of this into the cost of the device, I mean,
Speaker 5: I wonder what that would be.
Speaker 3: Is this just what companies do as a money grab?
Speaker 3: I don't want to be dismissive in that way, but
Speaker 3: this is, for me at least, an awful product. And
Speaker 3: I say that not because I didn't use it or
Speaker 3: anything else, but it's offensive to me. You give me
Speaker 3: this wonderful device. You pay me for this great device,
Speaker 3: but TJ, if you want this great device to work,
Speaker 3: you gotta pay me some more every month for this
Speaker 3: thing to work.
Speaker 4: It's dah. I hate those kinds.
Speaker 2: Of products because what happens is you don't even realize
Speaker 2: and you forget because obviously, yes, you put it on
Speaker 2: a loop you don't even know, and.
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem bad. Seven dollars a month, that's a you.
Speaker 2: Can't even go to McDonald's for seven dollars, so get you.
Speaker 2: But so you think, oh, it's no big deal, and
Speaker 2: then you start looking at all the subscriptions you have
Speaker 2: for all of this technology. And then also it's hard
Speaker 2: to remember to cancel. And I'm sure it's easy to cancel,
Speaker 2: which I'll be doing in just a moment, but it's
Speaker 2: I think that's something that needs to be considered when
Speaker 2: giving a gift.
Speaker 4: Can we use it? Yeah, can we use it?
Speaker 2: I'm going to try to figure out how to use
Speaker 2: it without it and see what that's like, because look,
Speaker 2: folks did say that it was fine and it could
Speaker 2: be used, but it was just annoying on the app
Speaker 2: because you're constantly being given all sorts of tantalizing reasons
Speaker 2: why you should go ahead and subscribe.
Speaker 3: And don't want to be harsh on this, but a
Speaker 3: lot of organizations all excuse me, a lot of products,
Speaker 3: a lot of companies do this. I'm just against this idea.
Speaker 3: I mean, I can't even judge the product and use
Speaker 3: the product, but I just this idea drives me crazy.
Speaker 3: And especially for a gift, who pay you give somebody
Speaker 3: a gift that costs them money.
Speaker 1: That's tough, ye it is, And that's just.
Speaker 2: And so if you're buying it for yourself, you're going
Speaker 2: and knowing that you're almost certainly going to want the subscription,
Speaker 2: and that's just. And I just wanted to point out
Speaker 2: because it says it's only four ninety nine and forty
Speaker 2: nine ninety nine oz. You're it's it's moved up by
Speaker 2: twenty percent, right am? I?
Speaker 1: Right with that?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 2: So it's something to be considered. And it's on Hatch
Speaker 2: dot com or you can go on to Amazon and
Speaker 2: get this product. But we are really excited about Monday's gift.
Speaker 2: And here's part of the teaser. Sabine TJ's daughter saw
Speaker 2: it and got so excited she went crazy when she
Speaker 2: saw Monday's gift, and so much so that you actually
Speaker 2: went online and bought She's not going to listen to this, right,
Speaker 2: I don't think.
Speaker 1: Okay, she bought.
Speaker 2: You bought one for her, and you're gonna put it
Speaker 2: under the tree for her for Christ.
Speaker 4: She wanted to take it before we were able to
Speaker 4: review it. She was out of here with that thing
Speaker 4: and I had to stop her. She was trying to
Speaker 4: steal it.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was that exciting, and so yes, this is
Speaker 3: going to be good for kids and adults.
Speaker 4: This is a great gift, all right.
Speaker 1: We can't wait to bring that to you. But thank
Speaker 1: you for listening to us. Everyone.
Speaker 2: On this Friday, I'm Amy Robak alongside TJ. Holmes, Happy
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