In this video I teardown a couple of my latest Menards finds and also ramble on quite a bit about movie plots, Hero's Journey and my pitch for "Revenge of the Jocks"
Revenge of the Jocks is definitely a movie that's going to happen and we can all reference this video when the Ben Heck v Movie Studio lawsuit makes headlines.
Chevy Chevettes (and variants) sold 7 million examples and remained in production for over 20 years. It's one of the most successful vehicle platforms ever produced and no one ever confused it with a Corvette. 😁
Those sunglasses are for activities such as running where these sorts of tech are popular as they allow your ears to be unobstructed for hearing traffic. I wear headphones that sit in front of my ears and project sound back at them to keep me fully aware of my surroundings.
I bought a Bluetooth FM transmitter for my car and it USES THE SAME voice. I hear that guy tell me “The Bluetooth Device is Ready to Pair” every time I get in my car…. “Paired”. Hearing it on this video was like hearing a friend’s voice on TV.
Elevator pitch: Jock marries highschool sweetheart, nerd had a crush on her. Nerd goes on to be a Jeff Bezos type figure, jock ends up working for him in Amazon-style warehouse. Nerd visits warehouse, recognizes jock, slightly awkward reunion, invites him round for dinner. During dinner nerd humiliates jock for being poor/stupid/whatever, and then some sort of heist/scam/con ensues using jock's wife as bait.
You give the manufacturer far too much credit with that RGB LED on the Bluetooth speaker. AP(A)102 would cost them much more, and they're totally unnecessary if you only have one pixel. But thanks to your nice close-up shot, we can see it's just a cheap 5050 RGB LED. Look closer, no IC in there. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed the teardown and stories.
I'm helping. Not necessarily with their electronics tat...though I've bought some of that, too. I actually did get a reasonable set of Bluetooth earbuds from there for $5. The one thing I can't figure out is...why I have to always put the left earpiece in to the charger case first, otherwise the whole pair won't charge.
That was smoke from the wires, not magic smoke. Wire smoke is well understood. The magic smoke is what would have come out of the battery if you kept shorting it.
What a cool product those glasses are. I always wanted to wear a lithium battery of dubious quality to the side of my face. What could go wrong? 😁 IIRC in Revenge of the nerds II, the nerds were already kind of successful. Revenge of the jocks will never happen due to the current PC climate in the US. It would probably become a 2 hours lecture against bullying (useful, although it would be attached to the wrong medium).
best audio you've ever had.... "These glasses will self destruct in 5 seconds ... but only after Ben shorts the leads of the battery." "Revenge of the Pierres"
Those sunglasses would have been way cooler if they had the mirrors on them on the edges. You know that's something I never ask my optometrist about if I can ever get on a pair of glasses. I actually like the side mirrors to a degree.
Apologies if it’s been mentioned, but couldn’t the jock be working selling cell phones and win some sort of company contest to meet the creator of BookFace? Seems slightly plausible.
Outside of conventions I don't get recognized that often IRL. Maybe 3 or 4 times a year. But for some reason it's always at Menards or, don't know why, Olive Garden.
The evony ads always drive me up the wall because they purposefully lose when the win strat is obvious af. Keeps me thinking about it though. So it’s decently effective advertising. Not that I’ll ever download it but I do think about it.
I needed this video to be about 4 times as long so the layers of Ben's sanity could continue to wain. I needed fully fleshed out side plots and singing. Oh we'll see you later *hops in chevette*
My mom wrapped a 1982 Chevette around a telephone pole to avoid hitting a cow in the road. Wonder if hitting a cow would also push the motor thru the firewall?
@@BenHeckHacks These are the questions only MythBusters could answer with two correct model vehicles and average size dairy cow. Random telephone pole and a wig for Buster then a victory cigar for our answer my boy!
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Yes even the cow would have been bad that firewall was pretty thin and pushed into the center of the cab pretty far but luckily she walked away. Wow Chevette curb weight is around 1843-2035 pounds and a grown Holstein is about 1500 pounds. Mom chose well!
When you were talking about the hero's journey my wife (who has a masters in literature) was impressed as apparently no one ever really talks about that in terms of reviewing movies or books any more.
I think it goes deeper than Hero's Journey. Effective storytelling is a metaphor for the human experience, for life, love and death. Hero's Journey is like a guide, a scaffolding to build a story upon to ensure it hits the correct marks.
These Glasses can serve as a reboot of Batman's Two face : "I was walking on the street wearing my sick gear listening to rap, when batman threw something and the lithium battery got fire on half of my face"
@@BenHeckHacks mine wouldn't turn on. If you put a nice magnet next to it when you turn it on you could hear it click. Whatever I tried everything not just that. Fun videos! Hello from a short bit away from Milwaukee.
I would watch Revenge of the Jocks. I kept saying, "Cobra Kai! It's Cobra Kai! You're describing Cobra Kai," while you were describing the concept. Glad you got there. I would have been so frustrated if you hadn't.
Re: "Why would you want a speaker in your glasses?" It makes a lot more sense if it's regular glasses, or something you wear everyday. Headphones pinch my ears against the feet of my glasses and that hurts me, and ear buds aren't comfortable for long wearing periods (even the memory foam ones). Bluetooth built-in to my RX glasses would be awesome. (Maybe not $300+ awesome, but I would definitely pay a little bit extra for something like that in the standard nerdy plastic frames.)
I like the revenge of the jocks idea. It could be The Rock beating up Mark Zuckerburg. Could have a monologue about how he doesn't want to comply to the metaverse. Then gives him the rock bottom. Roll credits.
The actual car was the Chevell. The point of a _Chevette,_ was that there was a period of time when the Chevell was in production, _and_ it was using a computerized engine that was _also_ used by the Corvette _with a different controller chip that gave better performance._ So people would buy a Chevelle, get insurance that was cheaper _because_ it was a Chevelle instead of a Corvette, and then swap the Corvette chip into the Chevelle, so that they'd have the performance of a Corvette with the insurance cost of a Chevelle.
Make it where the Nerd came back into town for his mother's death and seen the jock as a manager somewhere but the Nerd had so many companies he didn't know he owned the company the jock worked at and the nerd's even nerdier evil assistant mentions in passing that the Nerd owns the conglomerate that owns the multinational corporation that owns a suite of companies which the company that the jock works at like say a tire recycling factory which would be the exact opposite of a tech company owned by the nerd. This would be why neither knew, even though they had a history but by taking away the jock's livelihood away from him has a knock on effect of half the town loosing their jobs. BOOMMMMMMMM!
the glasses are for walking, earbuds do block off some if not most surrounding sound. meaning hearing traffic and people can be problematic. its the same setup that the quest does for passive audio. its weird, but it makes sense in context. even in an office setting this would work.
I can understand the speakers on glasses in theory : I can't bear closed headphones, or earbuds (if I have anything in my ear it gets irritated right away). So I use bone conduction headphones, which can get really expensive. Having speakers close to my ears but not making contact would be a cheaper compromise. Also gets rid of the issue of using speakers and glasses at the same time. But putting bad speakers in bad glasses doesn't help.
you're not allowed to wear earbuds at amazon warehouses, so if you could replace the lenses with fake prescription ones it could be great for amazon workers
They also flipped the hero/villain thing with the Emma stone "Cruella". Not necessarily the kind of movie I'd normally watch but I thought it was actually pretty good (though I'm generally the least critical critic)
While those cheap sunglasses aren't going to be great, a decent set use bone conduction. I also have a set for Bluetooth neck speakers that are actually really nice. They're for situations where you need to hear your surroundings. Things like cleaning up around the house where you're going from room to room. I also have an electric lawn mower and can do the lawn and listen to an audio book or work on landscaping or a garden.
I feel your pain. What really sucks even more, is when popular TV shows get cancelled after a huge season finale. I wonder how many crimes of passion can be linked to the twisted mental anguish this has caused. Seriously, directors should go to jail for leaving us hanging like this! Same with movies, though I suppose modern movies are mostly just very long TV shows, with one episode per season.
Yes that's true with Al Bundy, but it was also Revenge of the nerds as well with Bud Bundy, because the older he got the more nerdy he got, and less little brat brother.
You have to come in the easy access interior on that little Bluetooth speaker. I wish every device could be opened up that easily... But not so shockingly.
Speakers near your ears can be useful for long bicycle rides, they dont cover your ears so you can hear your surroundings, I wouldnt buy those sunglasses though, I have a bicycle helmet with the speakers built into it.
5:14 But they are just going to bring him back in 20 years. It's a never ending cycle as each generation becomes profitable again. Eventually, in thousands of years, one won't be able to live long enough to watch every Bond movie, even with the enhancements. The storage media degradation alone will ensure that keeping copies of every movie intact is a monumental task, and likely a pangalactic endeavor. Eventually wars will be fought over physical copies, rights, and even canon. In the smoldering ruins there will just be fragmented bits of stories, salvaged and spun and re-spun into new versions as entire societies rebuild. This will happen countless times as humanity slowly evolves out of the physical realm. First there will be old wives tales spoken around campfire and finally legends etched in stone, nobody there to read them, slowly eroding away as the universe cools and reaches thermodynamic equilibrium.
The survivability of the James Bond film series shouldn't be in much doubt for at least another century. New physical copies for all of the films are being produced annually, have been for years and are being disbursed on a global scale. Film prints from the Connery era still exist, and whilst I'm have no definitive proof, this is just as likely true from the Moore era to No Time To Die, which is still technically in its theatrical run and was shot directly on film stock. The difference between Marvel films and 007 films is that, 007 films pretty much wrap up the storyline in a single film without much continuity going into future films. Until the Craig era, there really wasn't any extensive continuation of plot elements. There were a few minor things in the Connery days, but these were not vital like the SPECTRE and No Time To Die storyline of Dr. Swann. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yR2lgxy-htU.html James Bond Will Return
@@Rickmakes this one was made by Chevrolet. The one we had was gas burner w'4-speed manual... Seemed like you could get them with a diesel too... Wish i had it now!
Dude. Your videos help me when I get anxiety or panic attacks and today was one of those days and then you drop this new video. Perfect timing. Thanks for sharing
for Revenge of the Jocks, couldn't you make one of big nerds Jeff Bezos, and one of the Jocks a worker at one of the warehouses? I think that's a good starting point, I can see it now! Jeff Bezos is doing a thing for press where he is touring one of the facilities (which just so happens to be the one the Jock works at)... then it continues from there. Whether it's a thing where Jeff recognizes the Jock and they go out for dinner and things go sour or not is another matter.
1. Yes, you can get Bluetooth speakers at thrift stores for 5 dollars. Yes, you need to be very very lucky. 2. Time for me to start a "cheap junk from Big 5" series. Big 5 is another one of those stores that sells cheap electronic junk for no reason (and they're a sports store!).
Ben, WHERE is the music video for "Kristen Dunst Eyes"? Also, have you ever thought about mailing Bud to Abu Dhabi and throwing an AirTag and GoPro in there to document his journey? Just remember to cut holes in the box so he can breathe, don't make the same mistake I did.
Um, speakers that are open to the air on both sides cancel themselves out, especially the bass. That's why ALL speakers are in enclosures. 🤔 Enclosure volume and rigidity (resistance to resonance) are very important to how a speaker sounds.
Or "Friend Face" the social media app in the UK comedy series The IT Crowd. I love the episode where they have a black box with a flashing LED in it and inform Jen their manager that the box is "The internet". She has to do a presentation to the upper managers on what the internet actually is and takes the flashing black box. Hilarious.
My wife got me the actual Bose sunglasses (they exist) for Xmas. They are cool, and they do sound great, and friends and family agree. But I am still not sure of the use case. I wear sunglasses in the car, but the car has a stereo so I don't really need the speakers. And sunglasses don't make sense indoors. So they only work for being outdoors in an environment where you're not worried about getting run over by a car. At the pool or mowing the lawn with my electric mower perhaps.
Rey didn't have a heroe's journey, because she's not a hero. She's a mary sue. There was no where for her to journey. Seriously Ben, find a higher quality of cough syrup to drink.
