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Museum of Failure Celebrates Bad Ideas, Silly Designs and Overhyped Products

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0:00 foreign check it out y'all ah Brooklyn's newly opened Museum of failure oh celebrates bad ideas silly designs and over hyped products that's cool oh products too oh that's cool is the HD DVD in there you know what Blu-ray whooped its ass not to brag but I was an early adopter of HD DVD yeah that's not really a brag is it no not really um no dude because everyone was saying oh porn's like you know if porn adopts it then it's gonna make it and if you remember at the time HD DVD was adopted by porn and so everyone thought that's the biggest gainer for H2 DVD nah but then blue away why did blu-ray kick its ass Sony just kept on delivering they

0:51 kept on signing other Studios to it and it just comes down to the product and the supply you know what I mean yep yeah yeah damn this new Museum in Sunset Park section of Brooklyn proves that even the most successful businesses can have terrible ideas and stuff like that it's called Museum of failure a lot of successful businesses oh yeah dude so I'll talk about a couple things that are in there and then of course we get to Riff on what other things we think could totally go organic formats we're just like JK news anything um so in 2011 for example there was Bic for her pens anybody remember this wow big for her do you remember this it was solely development marketed to Target women the only difference was that there was glitter and a higher price tags that was it stupid Oh I thought it would be like better shape for hands or something no it just had glitter on it like a nice curve ████ already had pens dude yeah

1:42 and they're going to Sanrio anyways hey do you guys all have the getting this thing from the like writing a lot and drawing in a lot like you know this this right here like a callus that didn't go away yeah like I feel like we all developed this as writers you know the new generation they don't have that all right they got their typer so they have it on their thumbs right here and here yeah or they might even just have carpal tunnel and ████ from being on their phones do you have that they're gonna get early onset we're gonna need cyborg hands and ████ yeah that's kind of tired that's gonna be thick yeah so there's Google Glass if anybody remembers oh yeah oh my God bro one of the funniest things about Google Glass because I was a tuber right and I still I guess I am but they were doing prototypes for Google Glass you got one no no but there was people that I was around at all times at Maker Studios who were like walking in with Google Glass and like

2:33 they're trying to sell it but like you they can tell you can tell they don't really think it's that cool but it's cool that they got one earlier yeah yeah and that's all they had with it yeah like so you're walking around YouTube space La back in the day and people Google Glass and it's like dude this ████ ████ sucks what was the point of it it was like oh dude like I'm using my eyeball to like Google something right now it's like dude that sucks like it took it takes like four minutes for them to Google something it's like you think that that's cool like you're an early adopter oh cool you got Google ass like everyone thinks you suck dude everything's you look weird that's how people worry about Snapchat specs too all right oh damn and then like Pokemon Snap comes out like five years later people using AR on the phone that's the application right but yeah there was the rejuvenate electric facial mask from 1999 a beauty product that shocks the face with electrical stimulation I think

3:23 people still use stuff like that for sure they do not remember that that s███'s probably gonna come back watch the uh to make a younger face yeah stimulate the nerves yeah definitely someone's gonna do it there's the now discontinued Segway Scooters yes Dean Cayman that was oh yeah they were a thing and then they're just gone remember they had tours that was a dumb invention because I had a lot of fun on Segways Segways are tight but they're gone it was pitched it was pitched as like the big question mark right and it was like gonna be the next flying machine potentially and he was like teasing it like it's the next innovation of people moving and everyone was expecting like you're gonna be floating around and ████ and then like the Segway came out and I was like that's it yeah yeah I mean it's pretty lame it's because the rent to cops use them and that just made it like you want to murder your product immediately yeah and you look so dorky with a helmet and just like a collar Segways do look stupid but

4:15 when you ride them they look fun it was pure B2B right like you're selling to businesses like or like security for it yeah and like that's not people moving like they just have tours remember they would be like segments yeah hell yeah dude I think that would be cool but but it's difficult to make those that shape look cool but now they have the one wheel have you seen that yeah it's it's this it's almost the same technology unicycle but on a skateboard you just stand on it and it's dude bird scooters are more Innovative than Segways yeah so they're more fun and they're faster they're more they're more compact what to do the electric scooter you're like oh this is far better this is way better I think when you're standing this way it just feels cooler than standing this oh for sure yeah yep there was the uh massive set of

5:06 metal tip darts a long game that used to be sold to kids but uh they just ended up being weapons that people would throw so just lawn darts yeah that were metal tips you're just poking holes in your grass yeah dads there was a uh a strange looking hula chair which was a machine which promised to give its users abs while they would watch a movie or do some work however when yeah I remember they sold it a lot at the Asian stores yeah but when when somebody said yeah the problem is when when you sit down on it uh it the the rocking and the spinning was so intense that it would be you couldn't focus on anything else so that would just be just be like this the whole time dude I just played PS5 VR you ever play this oh is it sweet oh my God she's like dope dude Horizons sick oh my god dude so me and my buddy Chris Mormon right he's the ████ poker guy he had he just bought this ████ because he got

5:56 tilted after like losing a hand or whatever and he's like I'm buying VR ████ it and so he buys he buys his VR ████ he's like Steve come play VR like let's ████ let's get ████ up and play VR so I was like all right so then I go over this place and we're playing VR and like I got this headset on and ████ and I'm mountain climbing and my brain is just completely tricked like it looks it it looks like a game right but you're so close to the surface it's like come it's like I see this Cliffside I know it's not here but my brain thinks it's right here and I'm scared of it and like I'm supposed to like you have these two controllers like they're holding like this so you keep keep on holding the buttons so that you can climb so you go back to that the climb you like that and dude your brain is like I am like I might my ████ heart went into my stomach I was like I am ████ 50 feet up even though it looks like a game but it looks like incredible and then it has me like

6:46 scaling side to side over like a waterfall and like if I'm like 500 feet in the air or some ████ it was scary as ████ and I I got motion sickness after like 25 minutes of this ████ damn that's crazy but it's having you like oh ████ there's a beast here you pull a bow out with your left hand you ████ go like this with your right hand and you fire an arrow by letting go and it works this ████ is so cool it's accurate it works it's so sick this is fun how is the comfort of it though honestly like it was great if not for the motion sickness of only the climbing stuff got to me the rest of it was fine because that's the hard part with like the the other like the meadow ones and stuff like that at the end of the day you still got this giant ████ machine on your head that like gets really intense you know what I mean but dude it's the closest thing I felt since like when we all got N64 played in 64 for the first time like this is like the next thing wow I felt

7:37 the first time I played a VR it was so crazy I went out made with like some some family and we all played like a round of VR and it was so crazy afterwards where I was like I have to get one of these and I did and then I bought one and I was like all right I had enough did you ever try the porn no I haven't I would play the boxing though maybe I'll try it today there was notoriously no games for like a while right except for beat saber or whatever boxing game was this Horizon ████ is like next level that's amazing that one looks taupe yeah you know what else is in here the DeLorean oh yeah that's a massive failure because it's just the only model and then that's it the failure yeah it's in the shop the whole time it's a failure for the guy who made it because he died not even knowing how much of a cult classic it would be but he was also a con artist too was he yeah do you ever watch the documentary about him yeah but he was uh he didn't actually get

8:29 convicted no he was misunderstood and The Deloreans released by GMC DMC DMC oh yeah so there's no other brand I mean they don't have any other cars it's the only one yeah but now they do now they got these like new ones but they're not net they're not technically Deloreans they're just trying to revive the brand isn't it like an electric DeLorean or something yeah oh that doesn't work it's kind of its own thing but I still think there it's a success in theory but not for the dude like not for the reason he wanted it to be how did Back to the Future get it get that yeah so the story is that it was going to be a dish a washing machine is yeah it's like a fridge or some ████ fridge or some ████ and then um like I think it was zemeckis or Bob Gale the writer saw the DeLorean like that they're like that looks like it yeah that's way better than a washing machine a better cell

9:19 yeah it was originally going to be a washing machine something like that either that or a fridge looked like a fridge yeah yeah yeah oh like Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures when they go in the food like the phone booth want something that everyone knew that like is like in your home or like around you right so it's relatable but then they didn't know how they were gonna do it yet so you know what you know you know in Indiana Jones when when in Indiana Jones he like jumps into a fridge to escape a blast yeah yeah so one of their early Concepts was that that's how Marty travels back in time he jumps through this fridge to escape this nuclear blast and it sends it back in time wow yeah but that's like you know that's not a cool classic I also never get made because like a lot of people don't realize that like for people that love Deloreans they get that news every year that this is gonna happen and we've been seeing it for them is cyber truck ever coming on I don't know give up I kind of gave up you you

10:11 gave up your deposit or what it was only 100 bucks but I would like to see it come out I think it's such a cool why I think it's lagging you think elon's too busy on Twitter yeah you think he's just ████ off on Twitter probably but it's been like three years now yeah but this dude busy fighting American corruption American hegemony yeah yeah but the DeLorean failed because it was overpriced when it came out and it didn't deliver on anything they said it was gonna do like refrigerate food well just in terms of like the performance it was super underpowered because it didn't meet all these regulations so they had to down grade everything on it and they still released it so people were like where's my car I paid all this money for and it was just a piece of ████ and of course it breaks all the time and the funniest thing about the 88 miles an hour thing is it could barely go 80. the speedometer 85. so that means my Land Cruiser could beat

11:01 it uh easily yeah most cars most cars can beat it has the engine of a station wagon it's like not wow it's not like it looks sexy yeah it's fun to drive pretty slow dude there's a handling pretty good no it's no power steering whoa you got a three-point turn you end up with freaking so fast arms and you got people crowding you only reason why you would get a DeLorean is because of Back to the Future that's it that's or or you like the story I guess of like John's have you met any DeLorean enthusiasts that don't really care about Back to the Future No I not really well Chad has one and we he has it signed by Bob gay on the dash and by the the chick who was the Jennifer in the first movie she has like a suit store in in Studio City and I told you guys we took it out Valentine's Day to an arcade and when we showed up every single dude there was

11:51 like we wanted to suck on a dick bro like you guys are getting your dick sucked by all these ████ nerds and then we go and we go to the Pinball Hall of Fame right and then when we're leaving everyone's watching us leave and we're like all right see you later nerds and then we get in the car and like it won't start it's like click click click click and then all the Nerds are like so excited because they get to help us push startup and then it won't start and it's Valentine's Day so then me and like Nikki and um my buddy Chad's wife V they had to pick us up to take us to dinner for Valentine's Day and we had to leave the car at the Pinball Hall of Fame and figure it out later in the tow truck my car would probably not work no no exaggeration four to five times a year it would just conk out for one reason or another wow that's a bad invention and then there's little things there's like things you just have to live with you're like like oh okay sometimes the key just

12:41 won't turn if I gotta sit here card wasn't on uh Back to the Future it would have just been a fluke but it looks so sexy it does stainless steel is awesome yeah it's great and in the suicide door yeah I mean you got enough people that are putting electric motors in those you don't need that one true and if you get someone who's like super nerdy and they do the the sound effect of the golden door that like the back of the future Gucci I'll pay for that I'll pay 35 grand for that yeah it is a fail here [Music] oh [Music]

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