Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks. In this episode, Robock and I have
Speaker 1: already started exchanging Christmas gifts. She got me a Koala bear.
Speaker 1: I got her a heated blanket that doubles as a
Speaker 1: wearable vest. She got me a paint sized can of
Speaker 1: potato chips. I got her a portable rocking chair. I
Speaker 1: also got her a ring and she's wearing it right now.
Speaker 1: And some of these gifts should be on your Christmas
Speaker 1: list too. And with that, welcome to this episode of
Speaker 1: Amy and TJ. Why are you giggling?
Speaker 2: Oh, because you acted as if we actually gave each
Speaker 2: other these gifts when it was our producer's idea for
Speaker 2: us to try out these potential holiday gifts.
Speaker 1: We you and I saw this Christmas exchange very differently then.
Speaker 3: So that's it. Nothing to open on Christmas.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not saying that, But this is a build up.
Speaker 1: It's a family tradition. Start like in October. Okay, just
Speaker 1: the slow, steady drip drip of gifts. But yes, it
Speaker 1: has been kind of fun. We have been we have
Speaker 1: new off. One day we came home and it was
Speaker 1: ten boxes downstairs of stuff.
Speaker 2: I totally forgot that. The iHeart producers said they were
Speaker 2: going to be sending us different products to sample over
Speaker 2: this next month, and so I kept getting things.
Speaker 3: I'm like, I didn't order this, what's this?
Speaker 2: And you'd think it would have sunk in at a
Speaker 2: certain point, but every time I got a box, I
Speaker 2: was confused, and then I finally realized, Oh.
Speaker 3: These are the products we're supposed to be trying out.
Speaker 1: And they said these were kind of things that got
Speaker 1: their attention, kind of hot gifts, some of them some popular,
Speaker 1: some useful, some strange, but then strangely useful.
Speaker 2: Some questionable, Like they were wondering, like does this really work?
Speaker 2: Is this really does this live.
Speaker 4: Up to the hype?
Speaker 1: You know what? We got? Some of these gifts proved
Speaker 1: us wrong. Yes, our initial our first reactions and impressions
Speaker 1: were absolutely wrong. And some of them we were we're
Speaker 1: using now in surprise, we're using them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And one of them I'm actually kind of obsessed with,
Speaker 2: maybe not even kind of, I am officially obsessed with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I guess we talked about this. We'll get
Speaker 1: in to it here down the road, but we have
Speaker 1: a list of I don't know the total number here,
Speaker 1: but these are kind of some fun things we were again,
Speaker 1: we didn't have anything to do with the list, but
Speaker 1: we have tested most of these things out. Go ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was also going to say, because we asked,
Speaker 2: these are not products that the companies asked us to
Speaker 2: test out. These aren't sponsors of our podcast, so we
Speaker 2: are fully free to say exactly what we thought about
Speaker 2: all of these products. So when you guys hear what
Speaker 2: we thought, it's actually what we thought, so you'll know
Speaker 2: whether or not you might want to try it or
Speaker 2: buy it for a loved one.
Speaker 1: And we're going to be kind. We're going to trash
Speaker 1: anybody products. Some of them just aren't for us, but
Speaker 1: we'll let you know what our experience is. Andy is
Speaker 1: in the room here, our superproducer, as always going to
Speaker 1: help us out here. What are we starting with?
Speaker 4: All right, it's the Ready Rocker, Okay.
Speaker 1: So tell me I'm going to do all these like this.
Speaker 1: How about this? Just your first impression when.
Speaker 2: This showed up, Well, my first impression was what is
Speaker 2: this thing? And what am I supposed to do with it?
Speaker 1: Okay? That one hundred percent was my reaction, like what
Speaker 1: is this thing? However, the once you put it together,
Speaker 1: it actually started to work and it was kind of cool.
Speaker 1: So to explain to the audience, it's just when you
Speaker 1: see it, it looks like kind of a V shaped chair,
Speaker 1: just with two sides and it has a little spring
Speaker 1: in between. So you put one side up against whatever
Speaker 1: surface you're sitting on, fits the wall that fits the
Speaker 1: chair back, and then you set the setting and lean
Speaker 1: up against the other bar and you can constantly rock,
Speaker 1: so you essentially have a rocking chair on the gup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're supported, your back is supported.
Speaker 2: Because I actually when I tried it out, I immediately
Speaker 2: thought of my mom. My mom has lived with a
Speaker 2: lifetime of back pain, and every time she sits in
Speaker 2: the car, she sits on a soft couch or any
Speaker 2: kind of a stool, she either has to get pillows
Speaker 2: to prop up her back or she has to put
Speaker 2: water bottles on the back of her back to get
Speaker 2: her spine straightened. She's actually coming into town this week
Speaker 2: and I cannot wait to have her try this out,
Speaker 2: because I actually think I don't think this is supposed
Speaker 2: to be for people necessarily who have back issues, but
Speaker 2: if you do have them, I feel like this could
Speaker 2: be a really nice gift or certainly something worth trying
Speaker 2: rather than trying to find pillows from around the house
Speaker 2: and stuff behind your back to feel supported. You definitely
Speaker 2: feel supported, And I believe this.
Speaker 1: Was designed initially by a woman who was looking for
Speaker 1: who had a I think had newborn and wanted to
Speaker 1: find a way. It was the new mother's Oh wow,
Speaker 1: for their back paying so they can take a rocking
Speaker 1: chair anywhere, being their bed and you can steal rock
Speaker 1: up against the headboard, so it is small enough that
Speaker 1: they you could even put it and carry on luggage.
Speaker 3: You absolutely could, So it's.
Speaker 1: Are you going to do that? Are people going, I
Speaker 1: don't know, if you like it? You have a for
Speaker 1: your mom? Yeah, take it everywhere.
Speaker 2: We I personally don't need to be rocking everywhere, but
Speaker 2: the baby thing makes sense. And then if you need
Speaker 2: support for your back, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: And they say for people who just need to keep
Speaker 1: moving when you're shitting down. This was Time magazine one
Speaker 1: of the best inventions of twenty twenty four. Wow.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm actually a little surprised by that.
Speaker 2: I think think it's it's nice, but it's nothing that
Speaker 2: I would use or that I would.
Speaker 1: Have chosen, because you're not there yet.
Speaker 2: And I've already moved way past the baby face.
Speaker 1: All right, these are ninety nine ninety nine at the
Speaker 1: time of this recording, so check that one out. What
Speaker 1: you got next for us?
Speaker 4: All right, this one looks really cool. It's the Cozy
Speaker 4: band wireless.
Speaker 1: Okay, see this one looked cool.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: I was very skeptical. Was my first impression of it?
Speaker 1: What was your first impression?
Speaker 2: I was excited at what it might actually be able
Speaker 2: to do, because you know me, when I'm running, You're
Speaker 2: a runner. I'm a runner, and I like to cover
Speaker 2: my ears when it's cold on days like this, and
Speaker 2: so I wear a band around my head oftentimes in
Speaker 2: the cooler months to protect my head and my ears.
Speaker 1: So let me tell you that is the exact first impression.
Speaker 1: First thought I had, How am I going to use this?
Speaker 1: How am I going to run? It's not very thick.
Speaker 1: Then we start looking at it and start reading up
Speaker 1: on it. It's actually not meant for us at all.
Speaker 1: It's not meant from running. It's considered a sleep headband. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a sleep HEADPA, So it's a you essentially have
Speaker 1: wireless sleeping headphone. So a lot of people it maybe
Speaker 1: is relate to this. They want to lay down somewhere
Speaker 1: while they're still listening to the TV or listening to
Speaker 1: some video or whatever it may be, and AirPods are
Speaker 1: not going to.
Speaker 3: Stay in and know and they're uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: So this was a solution to that.
Speaker 3: So I still feel like I could wear this running.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to say that, because what it does
Speaker 2: is it has Yes, it has speakers in the head
Speaker 2: wrap that are soft, and it's a really soft wrap.
Speaker 2: You put it around your head and the music comes
Speaker 2: out and it's really cool. I would say on a
Speaker 2: plane this would be amazing because you don't long flight
Speaker 2: a long flight because the air pods you don't want
Speaker 2: to fall out of your ear. It does feel very
Speaker 2: comfortable and cozy. That is true, and the running, I
Speaker 2: think it could still actually be great if you have
Speaker 2: air pods that fall out or they feel uncomfortable when
Speaker 2: they get squeezed by the head wrap that you wear
Speaker 2: to cover your ear. My only issue was that the
Speaker 2: sound quality isn't awesome. But if you're looking for like
Speaker 2: white noise, a lot of people like to go to
Speaker 2: sleep with white noise if your partner snores, Like you said,
Speaker 2: if you want to keep listening to something or watching
Speaker 2: something and not disturb your partner, my partners, your partner snores. Yes,
Speaker 2: that is true. But I can see a lot of
Speaker 2: uses for this. But I'm not somebody who'd want to
Speaker 2: wear a head wrap to bed.
Speaker 1: But a lot of people do, yep, and a lot
Speaker 1: of people like these things. But the major calling sound quality. Now,
Speaker 1: we do want to say it's going to be fine
Speaker 1: for what for your purposes watching TV, watching a video
Speaker 1: on your phone, that's fine. If you're looking for bows
Speaker 1: and sound quality from beats and all that, it's not
Speaker 1: that thing and not there yere maybe one day. But
Speaker 1: these are forty bucks, so.
Speaker 3: It's not, Oh that's totally great.
Speaker 1: It's a good gift. What you got next? All right?
Speaker 4: The next one is the hug sleep pod pillow.
Speaker 1: I don't completely When I saw it, I thought, what
Speaker 1: is this thing? And what are we supposed to do
Speaker 1: with it? What was your first impression?
Speaker 2: It's a it's an it's like an egg shaped or
Speaker 2: like a rainbow shaped. I mean, it's it's an odd shape.
Speaker 2: It's it's like half an oval. Is that a good
Speaker 2: way to put it? So it wasn't exactly good. I
Speaker 2: wasn't exactly sure. I know what what a body pillow is,
Speaker 2: and I know, so I guess you're looking to hug this.
Speaker 2: I like to hug you.
Speaker 4: When I sleep, when you don't get too hot.
Speaker 3: And then, yes, this is actually cool to the touch,
Speaker 3: I will say.
Speaker 1: They say this is a it's a memory phone pillow,
Speaker 1: and it is has a special curvature specifically tailored to
Speaker 1: adapt to various sleeping positions, and its shape enhances its
Speaker 1: therapeutic benefits, producing an extra layer of gently camping pressure
Speaker 1: for a more RESTful sleep. So this thing, actually, when
Speaker 1: you start messing around with it, it fits everywhere. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just it's not classified as a body pillow, but
Speaker 1: kind of sort of.
Speaker 2: It molds into your body and it feels like you're
Speaker 2: hugging someone who actually wants to be hugged.
Speaker 1: Wow, this is the wrong episode for that sweetness.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: But I'm not somebody who sleeps with a with like
Speaker 2: a huggy pillow, but a lot of people are.
Speaker 1: These are huge. He's a wildly popular all these body
Speaker 1: pillows and all this stuff.
Speaker 2: So if you're in the market for a hug pillow,
Speaker 2: I think this is a really good one.
Speaker 1: You should absolutely check this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not too big, which I think is good.
Speaker 2: Some of them have you like, I remember when I
Speaker 2: was pregnant all those years ago, they would have these
Speaker 2: huge pillows that like you could actually wrap your legs around, yes,
Speaker 2: because you were supporting this big belly and it was uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: So that I that's the only time I've slept with
Speaker 2: like a big pillow. But this one is a smaller
Speaker 2: version of it and for everybody. And if you like
Speaker 2: to sleep with the pillow, I think this is a
Speaker 2: good one.
Speaker 1: You're gonna love when you see the other products this
Speaker 1: company makes. Hug sleep to this company they make these
Speaker 1: I don't know the name, but they're like cocoons you
Speaker 1: wrap yourself in at night to where you you tuck
Speaker 1: in and you can't move.
Speaker 3: That would not be good for me.
Speaker 1: What some people think, and they like them.
Speaker 3: Replicates the womb.
Speaker 1: But when you see the pictures online, it just looks bizarre, but.
Speaker 3: It feels great. Apparently.
Speaker 1: Well, these things are around seventy bucks. Andy, what else
Speaker 1: you get? All right?
Speaker 4: The next one is this one's a good one. The
Speaker 4: split flask.
Speaker 1: Winter Winter Yeah dinner, it was so cool.
Speaker 3: The fact that you can keep, so it's it's basically like.
Speaker 2: All those cool water bottle flasks that all the young
Speaker 2: kids are walking around with these days. But this one's
Speaker 2: special because it has one half of it is for
Speaker 2: hot beverages and the other half is for ice water.
Speaker 2: So if you are still drinking your coffee but you
Speaker 2: want your ice water for later on, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Like to take it to the gym coffee and water,
Speaker 2: and they keep it completely keeps one half cold and
Speaker 2: one half hot.
Speaker 1: They stay totally separate. The cold side does have a straw.
Speaker 1: The other side has a flip little spout over there
Speaker 1: that you can drink out of. But it holds total
Speaker 1: of thirty ounces. And this one as soon as we
Speaker 1: saw it, like.
Speaker 4: Wow, what is there?
Speaker 1: No one thought of this before.
Speaker 3: It's very cool.
Speaker 1: It is absolutely cool. This one's uh retell us about
Speaker 1: eighty bucks. It's on sale as of this recording for
Speaker 1: fifty eight dollars. They have a number of colors to
Speaker 1: choose from. That's kind of a cool.
Speaker 2: I think it's a great gift for anyone in your
Speaker 2: life who likes yes, coffee and water. At the same time,
Speaker 2: I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 1: Well, coffee and water. Well no, no, I'm saying it's funny.
Speaker 1: Every morning almost I look at you, there's three cups
Speaker 1: or something in front of me.
Speaker 2: I do when I'm sitting at a table, I have
Speaker 2: absolutely I have my coffee, I have my water.
Speaker 3: What's my third beverage? Usually ast, sometimes not. That's just
Speaker 3: on celebratory mornings.
Speaker 1: You need a tri flask? All right? What else you
Speaker 1: got any? All right?
Speaker 4: Just a reminder also to your listeners if they want
Speaker 4: to try any of these out, check out the instagram
Speaker 4: or the description of the episode. We're going to have
Speaker 4: everything linked. But the next one on the list was
Speaker 4: the Commie ring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I need to be fully honest with this one,
Speaker 2: the calm me ring. I got it. It's really cute.
Speaker 2: I put it on my finger and I liked the
Speaker 2: it looked. But I did not wear it long enough
Speaker 2: to know or to be able to say yes, folks,
Speaker 2: because what it's supposed to be able to do is
Speaker 2: reduce anxiety. So you wear this and it's fashionable, but
Speaker 2: it's also they say functional. Where you actually if you
Speaker 2: wear it for a couple of days, they say it
Speaker 2: may take a couple of days.
Speaker 3: I did not take the time to do that. It
Speaker 3: can reduce stress.
Speaker 2: It can make you feel less anxious, and at the
Speaker 2: end of the day, I would just say that's an
Speaker 2: added bonus because it's it is really cute and it
Speaker 2: fits every finger. I actually ended up giving it to
Speaker 2: Sabine because she thought it was cute. So maybe we
Speaker 2: can ask her if she's less stressed. I gets stressed
Speaker 2: that an eleven year old has.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but you know what, she has calmed
Speaker 1: down a little bit last a couple weeks. But it
Speaker 1: has magnets in it. Apparently that's supposed to interact with
Speaker 1: the magnetic field. Already. Presidents, your body creates a magnetic
Speaker 1: force that alleviates your health. In several areas, they use
Speaker 1: acute pressure is what they call it, into therapy, magnet
Speaker 1: therapy for optimal well bearing. And some people swear by these.
Speaker 2: Yes, some people, I really I've heard so many people
Speaker 2: over the years talk about how magnets have helped them
Speaker 2: feel less nauseated when they get on planes, they're not
Speaker 2: as anxious, and a lot of people swear by the
Speaker 2: power of the magnet. I've never had I've actually worn
Speaker 2: magnets on my pressure points to try and avoid nausea
Speaker 2: at altitude. None of that's ever really worked for me,
Speaker 2: but I think some bodies might respond differently to the
Speaker 2: power of the magnet. So you know, if you have
Speaker 2: somebody who loves the magnet, what is it called magneto therapy, magnetotherapy,
Speaker 2: and believe like this is a great gift because it
Speaker 2: really is cute and fashionable and then functional.
Speaker 1: Right, And these things are normally seventy five bucks. They
Speaker 1: are on sale as of Black Friday for forty five dollars.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Okay, that's great. Next up, Andy.
Speaker 4: This one, I'm actually getting four. I have three God children.
Speaker 4: Just side note, too many God kids. That's a side note.
Speaker 4: But the relief, Koala, I am getting for two of them.
Speaker 4: They were just born. So I'm so excited. This item
Speaker 4: is get perfect. It's the relief Koala.
Speaker 1: You know what, what if you ever need to hear?
Speaker 1: What a compliment that many people want you to be there?
Speaker 2: God, I was thinking that too. You have been like
Speaker 2: three times over chosen as family. Yeah, not just family,
Speaker 2: chosen family members are all the more special because that's amazing. Yes,
Speaker 2: we inherit family, but we choose God parents. That's really
Speaker 2: sweet and not that surprising.
Speaker 3: Actually we know you so well.
Speaker 1: Three three to give it them one but damn h yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't even have kids on my own.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, So this cool what is it called again?
Speaker 2: The Koala Relief relief Koala Bear? First of all, it's adorable, okay,
Speaker 2: so just to say that looking at it makes me happy.
Speaker 3: Then we put batteries in.
Speaker 2: It, and it's actually really really sweet. You can it
Speaker 2: can play La lullaby, it can. It might be a
Speaker 2: little creepy to some folks, but it makes a childlike
Speaker 2: breathing noise and it actually the belly gets warm and
Speaker 2: it moves, so I actually when you hold it close
Speaker 2: to you, it's almost like you have a little baby
Speaker 2: like like breathing belly to belly warms up and it
Speaker 2: makes this little noise.
Speaker 1: So I just you know, man, you got into full
Speaker 1: baby mode.
Speaker 3: I did. But that's I can see how a baby
Speaker 3: or a young child would like it and almost want
Speaker 3: it for comfort to go to sleep with. So yes,
Speaker 3: a young child, not me.
Speaker 1: Yes, or adult as well. They recommend it for emotional support,
Speaker 1: stress relief, and calming presence. Better sleep every single night
Speaker 1: with that moving chest art beat sounds and the soft
Speaker 1: night light, and they even build it. Some people have
Speaker 1: talked about they've taken it on a plane with him.
Speaker 2: Okay, before I mean, I actually said, when you hold it,
Speaker 2: it makes you feel less alone.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you're feeling lonely, it does. There's
Speaker 3: something to it. You hear it, you feel it breathe,
Speaker 3: and you.
Speaker 2: Feel the warmth. There's not a downside unless you think
Speaker 2: it's creepy.
Speaker 1: No, I don't. Well, it first showed up, we didn't
Speaker 1: know what it was. Our first impression of this is
Speaker 1: what is this?
Speaker 2: Why?
Speaker 1: Why is it here?
Speaker 2: Like? Why am I getting a Koala Bear? I didn't
Speaker 2: order a Koala Bear? Who ordered a Koala Bear? But
Speaker 2: then we realized put two and two together, and I
Speaker 2: think it's really sweet.
Speaker 1: These are around twenty five bucks.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I accident. Wait we can play this hold on?
Speaker 1: Oh my god?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, that's the that's the slightly creepy child breathing
Speaker 2: noise that it makes.
Speaker 1: I'm snoring. It's supposed to be a baby snore.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to turn it off now. I didn't mean
Speaker 3: to push the.
Speaker 1: It's on the footstock. Okay, stop, it's there. It's right there. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 1: it's child prooved.
Speaker 2: Apparently it's just amy proof.
Speaker 3: It's very similar.
Speaker 4: Well, we got next in the next one is the
Speaker 4: or ring.
Speaker 2: Boom, Okay. This is our newest obsession. In fact, when
Speaker 2: our producers asked us if we wanted one of the
Speaker 2: or rings or we wanted to try them out, DJ
Speaker 2: didn't walk. He ran to the nearest best buye he
Speaker 2: could find so that we could try on our size,
Speaker 2: get it to our producers so we could get the
Speaker 2: rings asap. You were super excited about it before we
Speaker 2: even got I was.
Speaker 1: Focused, okay, and they had a deadline. They needed no
Speaker 1: answer very quickly. But you've heard so much about these.
Speaker 1: Everybody obviously knows about these by now. But it's a
Speaker 1: way for you to track your health and for you
Speaker 1: and I, more than anything, the obsession has gone with
Speaker 1: has been about our sleep. Hi. Every single night we
Speaker 1: get out, well morning, we get up and we look
Speaker 1: and you do it almost immediately to see what kind
Speaker 1: of sleep you get, and it gives you how many
Speaker 1: light sleep, rim sleep, deep.
Speaker 2: Sleep, and then it tells you if you were restless
Speaker 2: or not. It tells you your latency l how quickly
Speaker 2: you fell asleep, how often you woke up in the
Speaker 2: middle of the night. And it's really been fascinating because
Speaker 2: I think all of us have I focused at least
Speaker 2: on how long I've slept, but sometimes I think, oh,
Speaker 2: I was in bed for eight hours, so I slept
Speaker 2: for eight hours, maybe it took me five minutes to
Speaker 2: fall asleep. Well, I am seeing things like you were
Speaker 2: in bed for eight hours and thirty minutes and you
Speaker 2: only got six hours and two minutes of sleep, and
Speaker 2: then on top of it, you only got you know,
Speaker 2: twenty two minutes of deep sleep.
Speaker 3: So it's been shocking to me.
Speaker 2: And you get a score each morning not only about
Speaker 2: how you slept, but then how ready you are for
Speaker 2: the day. So what actually tells you you shouldn't be
Speaker 2: as active today you should rest today, or you got
Speaker 2: great sleep last night, you should exercise. So they actually
Speaker 2: increase your caloric goal based on how you slept. It's
Speaker 2: really fascinating. I say all of this to say, yours
Speaker 2: has been extremely confirming and disturbing all at the same time.
Speaker 3: Today you showed.
Speaker 2: Me how much deep sleep you got last night, and
Speaker 2: the answer.
Speaker 1: Is I mean, it's non exact science.
Speaker 2: It said he got zero minutes of deep sleep last night.
Speaker 2: And now it's like I should reach quickly for your
Speaker 2: phone to see what kind of day it's going to
Speaker 2: be like with you, because you.
Speaker 3: See your sleep been so far, well you've actually.
Speaker 2: Been I think you're so tired, you've been giddy, and
Speaker 2: you've actually you've been laughing a lot, which is not typical.
Speaker 2: But yeah, because it was so abysmal today. I actually
Speaker 2: you've actually got six hours of sleep, which is good for.
Speaker 1: You, of terrible sleep, but it was terrible sleep. Been
Speaker 1: on the flip side, have been times that you have
Speaker 1: gotten more sleep, but I have gotten better sleep yep.
Speaker 1: So it's that's interesting and you will get hooked on that.
Speaker 1: And look, anytime you focus on your health and now
Speaker 1: some kind of reminder right there every day of moving
Speaker 1: more moving, less, sleeping more, better sleep. It's I think
Speaker 1: it's great. It gives you stress scores, It keeps your
Speaker 1: heart rate, tells you what you're resting, heart weight, even
Speaker 1: wells when you're sleeping, an activity score.
Speaker 3: It also does your temperature.
Speaker 2: You were a little under the weather and it actually
Speaker 2: said that you had an elevated temperature to ease, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, I thought that was all fascinating. Look, I
Speaker 2: have always I have loved my Apple Watch for years now,
Speaker 2: but that's been the focus has been on my steps
Speaker 2: and my running and my active like. That's been something
Speaker 2: I focused on, which has also been great because it
Speaker 2: gets you to exercise more, you want to close your rings,
Speaker 2: all of that.
Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: But this has been really cool because the other part
Speaker 2: of your day is sleeping, or the other part of
Speaker 2: your twenty four hour cycle is sleeping, and none of us,
Speaker 2: at least I haven't put that much focus on it,
Speaker 2: and I hadn't realized how the quality of your sleep
Speaker 2: is far more important than the quantity of your sleep
Speaker 2: and trying different things out, like I've been trying different
Speaker 2: things to say, is this going to help me get
Speaker 2: better sleep? And they even told you today that you
Speaker 2: shouldn't spend so much time in bed not sleeping, so
Speaker 2: that when you do go in bed, you'll hopefully sleep better.
Speaker 1: Wow you read that from my thinger I did. I
Speaker 1: didn't even see that.
Speaker 2: I read that today, Oh wow, because I was concerned
Speaker 2: when I saw zero minutes of deep sleep. That offered
Speaker 2: a suggestion that maybe you not get in bed unless
Speaker 2: you're going to sleep.
Speaker 1: And these things are good looking. A few options the
Speaker 1: three and three point fifty four, the or a ring
Speaker 1: four and then go up to five hundred bucks.
Speaker 3: So wow, it's expensive.
Speaker 2: But if you're invested in trying to sleep better and
Speaker 2: actually help your waking hours but better, I fully think
Speaker 2: this is an amazing gift. And the charging was pretty cool.
Speaker 2: If you charge it, it lasts for eight days. That's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2: So if you're traveling, you don't even have to bring.
Speaker 3: Your charger with you.
Speaker 1: You know. One downside, I hate to call it that,
Speaker 1: but I was a little turned off about the idea
Speaker 1: of having to sign up to a membership and have
Speaker 1: a monthly subscription. You kind of you have to pay
Speaker 1: to get certain and unlock certain features. I didn't deep
Speaker 1: dive into all of that, but you know, the idea
Speaker 1: gives somebody gift and then they have to pay for it.
Speaker 1: Kind of a thing. Just the idea that kind of.
Speaker 2: Six bucks a month, I believe, So it's not something
Speaker 2: that's terrible. It's like basically two cups of coffee a month,
Speaker 2: or maybe one cup of coffee here in New York.
Speaker 2: But you know, that is something to consider if you're
Speaker 2: giving someone a gift and say, and by the way,
Speaker 2: now you'll have to spend X amount of dollars per
Speaker 2: year to use the gift I.
Speaker 1: Just gave, you know, just not even the money. Now,
Speaker 1: it's just on the crystal subscription. I have another thing
Speaker 1: I'm signed up for monthly.
Speaker 2: And then if you stop wearing it, you'll forget you
Speaker 2: have the subscription and they're paying for it.
Speaker 3: You're not even using it.
Speaker 2: I know.
Speaker 3: That's my life.
Speaker 1: That's where we are. Okay, this next one, Andy, I
Speaker 1: just love.
Speaker 4: The zonly wireless heated blanket and jacket.
Speaker 1: First impression when you saw it, what.
Speaker 3: In the heck is this? And where would I wear this?
Speaker 1: And then with it all I put it on so.
Speaker 2: You charge a battery and then it connects to circuits
Speaker 2: I guess in this.
Speaker 3: Large wearable long robelike.
Speaker 2: Vest and it heats you up, so if you are
Speaker 2: someone who is cold, I would just for me, I
Speaker 2: would wear this around the house with people who I
Speaker 2: know in love.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't wear it in front of people I did
Speaker 3: not know. Well, no, because you look silly, I don't
Speaker 3: think really.
Speaker 2: I thought it looked like like a game of Thrones.
Speaker 2: Kind of robe, but without the arms.
Speaker 1: They are well dressed in that show wardrobe does.
Speaker 2: Fine job, Yes, but like would you you would not
Speaker 2: wear this out in public? Yeah, underneath the jacket you
Speaker 2: would carry out with No, you would.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it can be styled a certain way, Okay.
Speaker 3: I would like to see that.
Speaker 2: I'll take a picture of it and post it on
Speaker 2: social media the next time.
Speaker 1: You want to wear it to the right place, okay,
Speaker 1: which would be like a five year old's T ball game.
Speaker 3: I thought you were to say, an ice skating rink
Speaker 3: or something.
Speaker 1: You know what. I don't think, but maybe we like
Speaker 1: to go to the ice skating.
Speaker 3: Rink you are not wearing. You're not being truthful.
Speaker 1: Okay. What I'm saying is it looks better than you
Speaker 1: are giving it credit for. And I'm saying it does.
Speaker 1: Look it's a blanket that you can wear like of
Speaker 1: a vest, and it doesn't count a drap. You actually
Speaker 1: are wearing what feels like a long vest. And yeah,
Speaker 1: you put the battery in the pocket. You can go
Speaker 1: anywhere and the battery lasts for three hours of charging,
Speaker 1: so you can.
Speaker 3: And it does warm you.
Speaker 2: It absolutely warms your core and so it's it absolutely
Speaker 2: is effective. And I just feel like if instead of
Speaker 2: having just a I don't know, a blanket, if you
Speaker 2: have that around you when you're a you know, at
Speaker 2: the couch you have to get up to go I
Speaker 2: don't know, refresh your drink or get a snack.
Speaker 3: You can, you can. It's like you don't have to
Speaker 3: worry about leaving the blanket behind you. Just take it
Speaker 3: with you because you're wearing it.
Speaker 2: Okay, but yes, in the house only for me, Okay,
Speaker 2: all right, we're going to try it.
Speaker 1: One hundred and four bucks right now as of this
Speaker 1: recording for the wireless heated blanket and jacket that is
Speaker 1: syl weight.
Speaker 3: To get that styled photo.
Speaker 1: From you, fine, Well, the name all this next one was.
Speaker 1: It threw me. I didn't know what we were getting.
Speaker 4: It's the I'm so sorry from saying this run Vanilla
Speaker 4: a la vista potato chip?
Speaker 1: Is that Bania a la vista?
Speaker 3: That nia because it's from Spain.
Speaker 1: They're from Spain, right, Yes, and these are quite possibly
Speaker 1: the best chips in the world. No thereir Bill. Some
Speaker 1: people say these are frankly, even if they don't taste
Speaker 1: like the best. Yeah, the effort and the materials put
Speaker 1: into them make them the best chips in the world.
Speaker 2: Okay, So they come in what looks like a paint can. Yes,
Speaker 2: and I actually had to figure out how I was
Speaker 2: going to open it. So I had to take a pin.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, I was like, where's my paint can opener?
Speaker 2: But I ended up using a knife like the or
Speaker 2: the back of a spoon, the back of any sort
Speaker 2: of you know, utensil, and I was able to pop
Speaker 2: it open pretty quickly. So they were super fresh. My
Speaker 2: only so I thought they were good and crispy. But my,
Speaker 2: but this is me because I'm an oversalter. I thought
Speaker 2: they could have used a little more salt. I like
Speaker 2: things very salty and crispy.
Speaker 1: Let's not hold that against these folks, because every plate
Speaker 1: of food that's ever put in front of you, you
Speaker 1: say needs more salt.
Speaker 3: That is true. And in my defense, I have low
Speaker 3: blood pressure.
Speaker 1: So why is that you first?
Speaker 3: Because because people are gonna start coming.
Speaker 2: At me saying, oh, that's so unhealthy. You shouldn't be
Speaker 2: taking in so much salt I take. I take salt
Speaker 2: pills like electrolyte pills because I know that I need
Speaker 2: extra salt in my life. So that is why I
Speaker 2: don't even taste food. I just put salt on it
Speaker 2: because I know it's gonna need more.
Speaker 1: You know it's gonna need more because it's not salty enough.
Speaker 1: Like it doesn't taste salty. Correct, Okay, then that's different
Speaker 1: from you needing salt.
Speaker 2: It's well, I think my body knows what it needs,
Speaker 2: and that's why I like the way extra salty things taste. Okay,
Speaker 2: But anyway, these chips are fresh and crisp, and they
Speaker 2: It actually does come in a pretty cool package if
Speaker 2: you give it as a gift.
Speaker 3: It looks festive, it looks fun.
Speaker 2: It doesn't look like you bought a bag of chips
Speaker 2: at the at the store and said Merry Christmas or
Speaker 2: Happy Holidays. It actually does look cool, and they do
Speaker 2: taste pretty good.
Speaker 1: But this family apparently only gets its materials from a
Speaker 1: specific place in Spain and the specific potatoes. They've only
Speaker 1: used these for ninety something years, and they fry them
Speaker 1: in some high quality olive oil and boom, they don't
Speaker 1: have enough sauce.
Speaker 3: So you're telling me there are healthy potato chips, then
Speaker 3: those actually exists.
Speaker 1: They're just good.
Speaker 3: You can feel a little less guilty about eating them.
Speaker 1: But it's a cool get. But keep in mind, these
Speaker 1: things are like forty fifty bucks ten Wow, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't. I'm going to just say this right now.
Speaker 2: I would not pay forty dollars for that ten of
Speaker 2: potato chips.
Speaker 3: I would not.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: I would pay three ninety nine for my bag of
Speaker 2: lats that are extra salty.
Speaker 3: That's just me though. How about you? Would you pay
Speaker 3: forty dollars for those?
Speaker 1: You could take the girl out of Georgia.
Speaker 3: You can't, just being honest.
Speaker 1: No, that's all right. But it is a cool when
Speaker 1: you see it's a bright yellow can I think blue
Speaker 1: riting or something. It does look like cool, and it
Speaker 1: does look like you're getting something special, and it is
Speaker 1: something special in there. It's a delicacy, especially.
Speaker 2: If you have a potato chip lover in your life.
Speaker 2: It's a fun it's a funny.
Speaker 1: Body potato chip lover. All right, let's do Oh you
Speaker 1: got to do this? Next one? And to give us
Speaker 1: the last one. I didn't get to taste this.
Speaker 4: Oh we still got two more, two more? All right?
Speaker 4: First up the Sweet Remedies chocolate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh okay, so I got these? When you weren't around.
Speaker 2: Plus let's just say TJ does not like chocolate, so
Speaker 2: he would not have even tasted these.
Speaker 3: And my daughters went around otherwise.
Speaker 1: This is how you're covering, yes, not saving any more. Yes.
Speaker 2: And then my daughters weren't around. Otherwise I would have
Speaker 2: given them given it to them. But when I opened
Speaker 2: it up, I laid it out and it was delicious,
Speaker 2: so I tried all There were three different types of chocolate.
Speaker 2: There was dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate, correct
Speaker 2: and like in this bark, And they were so good.
Speaker 2: I had to throw them away because I knew that
Speaker 2: if I left them in my apartment, I would have
Speaker 2: gone through the entire thing very quickly by myself and
Speaker 2: eaten way too much chocolate.
Speaker 3: So I actually were so good I had to get
Speaker 3: them out of my apartment.
Speaker 1: That is a great strategy.
Speaker 4: Where was I I don't know.
Speaker 1: You said I wasn't around you.
Speaker 2: I don't know you weren't. It was just I opened
Speaker 2: them when you were at your place, and I was
Speaker 2: at my place for a brief period, I'm sure, and
Speaker 2: then I left them out and you I just didn't
Speaker 2: point it out because I knew you didn't like chocolate,
Speaker 2: so I just had them in the apartment and didn't say, hey,
Speaker 2: by the way, we got these chocolates from the producers
Speaker 2: of Our Heart to try out, because I knew you
Speaker 2: wouldn't try them out because you don't like chocolate unless
Speaker 2: it's one hundred grand bar.
Speaker 3: That's the only chocolate I've ever seen you eat in love.
Speaker 1: Wow. But that's I'm sorry, Sweet Remedies, folks, I would
Speaker 1: have loved to have tasted your product.
Speaker 3: You would not have.
Speaker 1: I would have tried a product I was to review
Speaker 1: a product, taken them. That's on me.
Speaker 3: That's on me.
Speaker 2: But they were excellent. It was delicious. I don't know
Speaker 2: how much they cost, though.
Speaker 1: How are they going to use that for? Can you
Speaker 1: campaign with that? Can you use that in your ad?
Speaker 1: So good you'll throw them away?
Speaker 2: I mean if yes, maybe, I don't know if Look,
Speaker 2: if I I could have shared them, I would have
Speaker 2: kept that.
Speaker 1: That's a good marketing strategy. Okay, what you gotta love, Tandy?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 4: The last item is the Nori Press steam iron. And
Speaker 4: just before you go over this one, just remember everything
Speaker 4: is linked in the description of this episode, and check
Speaker 4: out your Instagram. Amy and TJ podcast for all of
Speaker 4: the things.
Speaker 2: Okay, so this was very exciting to me. First of all,
Speaker 2: you love an iron. In fact, if we book an
Speaker 2: Airbnb or a Verbo anywhere, one of the things you
Speaker 2: asked me to always check that's in the amenities is
Speaker 2: whether or not they have an iron.
Speaker 3: Because you like your clothing unwrinkled.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 2: You iron your T shirt. So this is something that
Speaker 2: you really really like. And sometimes they don't have an iron,
Speaker 2: we actually have to to change, Like we can't go
Speaker 2: somewhere where there isn't an iron.
Speaker 3: That's a problem. So this is the perfect perfect thing
Speaker 3: to travel with. First of all, it's total travel size.
Speaker 2: And it's it looks like it's a steamer, but it's
Speaker 2: a portable iron. And so I actually tried it out,
Speaker 2: and what I love the most about it is you
Speaker 2: can get the sleeves so well, Like I put my
Speaker 2: sleeve in between these two little mini irons and it
Speaker 2: got perfectly pressed. I actually pressed my sweater today with
Speaker 2: this iron. And you can put it on cotton wool linen.
Speaker 2: It has all the different settings for all the different
Speaker 2: types of fabric. If you had done it would have
Speaker 2: looked better.
Speaker 3: I was in a hurry, but it was way more wrinkled.
Speaker 1: Just me. She's been break dancing since she ironed it last.
Speaker 3: You know, with the sleeves were so wrinkled and now
Speaker 3: they're not. Like the sleeves are the easiest thing to
Speaker 3: do with this.
Speaker 1: No, really, I came in today and you were raving
Speaker 1: about this product.
Speaker 3: I really liked it.
Speaker 2: And maybe because I said, I didn't know if this
Speaker 2: was cotton or wool or whatever, but maybe if I
Speaker 2: put it on a higher setting, it was not that hot.
Speaker 2: But I thought it did a really good job. And
Speaker 2: I love the fact that you can bring it with
Speaker 2: you because if anyone is a traveler in your life
Speaker 2: or you know, and likes to have their clothes look
Speaker 2: a certain way, or maybe they just need to be
Speaker 2: less wrinkled, and you just want to give a gentle suggestion,
Speaker 2: this product is really great.
Speaker 1: What's your suggest what's that water you gave me in
Speaker 1: the bottle supposed to get wrinkles out? Oh?
Speaker 3: Yes, he does not believe that wrinkle release works nice.
Speaker 1: It does.
Speaker 3: I use it all the time.
Speaker 2: You just pull it out straight and hang it maybe
Speaker 2: where you're showering, and you spray it and it releases the.
Speaker 3: Wrinkles you've been making fun. You say, has that water
Speaker 3: treating you?
Speaker 2: It's not water, it's water that smells good.
Speaker 3: It's not. It actually has properties.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you the science behind it, but it
Speaker 2: is absolutely worked in a pinch for me, and I
Speaker 2: love putting it on my sheets. But you know what
Speaker 2: this actually I just thought about this. If you like
Speaker 2: to fold your sheet over your bed, like to make
Speaker 2: it look like a hotel, you could totally take this
Speaker 2: and just and get that top little part of your
Speaker 2: sheet to make it look nice and fresh for your
Speaker 2: guests or for yourself when you come back in after
Speaker 2: a hard day's work. I love coming into looking at
Speaker 2: a bed that's all perfectly made and pressed.
Speaker 3: This is good.
Speaker 1: You really want to sharpen up those sheets, throw a
Speaker 1: little wrinkle release on it before you hit it.
Speaker 3: The iron mell's good too, right, it's a win win.
Speaker 1: I actually don't know the cost on this product. I
Speaker 1: do not have that one in front of me, so
Speaker 1: I apologize there, but ropes out of the list today.
Speaker 1: We know the rings, But aside from the rings, you
Speaker 1: had to get me one product on this list, what
Speaker 1: would it be?
Speaker 2: M that's a okay. Obviously, the orror ring was something
Speaker 2: that we absolutely loved. I actually might say, to make
Speaker 2: sure I am correct, if I picked one more product
Speaker 2: that I would personally purchase. Ooh, the split flask and
Speaker 2: the iron are really tied. I think those two are
Speaker 2: things that I would actually use and love and be
Speaker 2: happy to open.
Speaker 3: For a holiday gift.
Speaker 1: You are getting a koalas.
Speaker 3: We already have it. Are you just going to regift it?
Speaker 1: Well? No, I just want you to be able to
Speaker 1: open something and be excited that she won't be lonely anymore.
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. If you had to pick one thing,
Speaker 2: what would it be other than the orr ring?
Speaker 1: For you?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: For yourself?
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know. I am the flask. I can,
Speaker 1: but I don't drink a lot of hot drinks.
Speaker 3: Tea drink.
Speaker 1: But I'm drinking hot tea by seven am.
Speaker 3: And you only have drink it.
Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, well, folks, Merry Christmas to you.
Speaker 3: Happy holidays.
Speaker 1: Please tell them again where they can find all this
Speaker 1: stuff in.
Speaker 4: So all of it this is going to be in
Speaker 4: the description to today's episodes, so you could see the
Speaker 4: full giftless there. Amy and TJ Podcast as well. They'll
Speaker 4: have links the Norri Steamer thing. By the way, the
Speaker 4: Norri Press is ninety.
Speaker 3: Dollars ninety bucks.
Speaker 4: Okay, so check everything out wherever you can.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it as always. Andy for Amy, I'm not
Speaker 1: allowed to speak for you. I'm TJ.
Speaker 3: Holks and I'm Amy Roeboch.
Speaker 2: Happy holidays everybody, and happy shopping the
Speaker 1: Tea Shop, the tas