All Consuming

What do you wear around the house, when you just want to be comfy, and look fresh and you're kind of feeling yourself? For some people, the answer is "I dunno" but for people who know, the answer is Jambys. Performance inactivewear for the great indoors. Meka leka hi meka hiney ho.

The English playwright Arthur Wing Pinero said "Where there's tea, there is hope." We bought some Ukiyo tea infusers for today's show, and we hope wasn't a waste of money. Joining us is the movie producer and tea aficionado Keith Calder to infuse some tea and some knowledge into our very unsteeped minds.

Close your eyes. Take a whiff. Now open your eyes, you're on the beach and it's 1988. You want to protect your skin and make it glow, so you reach for your bottle of Vacation, an "excessively good" sunscreen from the retro sexy makers of the Poolsuite FM radio station. Make no mistake, this is a horny sunscreen. So slather it on, soak up some rays and travel down memory lane with us.

Time was, milk came from cows. Now, milk comes from a lot of other places. Califia Farms makes a range of oat milks that have earned a loyal following, including our guest today, filmmaker Kailee McGee. We taste some oat milk, some mushroom oatmilk, even some hemp milk and see if it deserves the blue checkmark of milk.

The expression "like a warm blanket" means that something just feels right. Rumpl is a mission-driven warm blanket brand that just feels right. Made sustainably, with some cool innovative features, you'll want to get into this blankie by the fire and get moist with us. What? Nothing.

Sometimes you buy a product and it disappears into thin air. Today we discuss two such products: Boost Oxygen, which is oxygen in a can; and then Plus, a body wash whose packaging disintegrates in your shower so you can lather your bits without the guilt or murdering the planet.

"Fishwife" in the 16th century meant the daughters and wives of fishermen who sold fish at market. Fishwife in the 21st century is a hot DTC Instagram brand of ethically sourced tinned fish that come direct to your doorstep and goes real nice on a cracker. Fish is on the menu today so…let's get fishy I guess.

Are your feet disgusting? Then it might be time to pamper those wretched little guys with FEETS, a literal plastic bag filled with tea tree goop to naturally repair, cool and moisturize your foot skin. Today we got world-famous actor comedian Rob Huebel to join us for a spa day. What did you ever do? Not jackshit probably.

If you could get a needle poked in your arm and it could let you and your neighbors go back outside again, would you do it? If society could come back to health because your immune system had new knowledge, does that sound good? The m in mRNA is for messenger. And the message is take the vaccine, because we're all in this together.

Michael Pollan said "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." A company called Kencko makes it easy to do just that in powder form, giving you a super tasty way to get your daily dose of fruits and veggies in smoothies that take like 30 seconds to make. Shake what your momma gave you.

Writing is a technology. Using a pen's been around for longer than most of us have been alive. And yet, the pen is flat and pretty basic. That's why we're here to talk about the Parlo pen, a new twist on a very old idea. Measuring in at 10 inches uncapped and about half that in writing position, it's a slim, lightweight pen that's precisely focused on its purpose. What does it do? Disappoint you. [NOTE: This intro was written by an AI called Sudowrite, one of three writing tools we review on today's show, along with Rocketbook and Freewrite.]

Come fly with us, as we test out two travel products for travelers. Baboon to the Moon is a stylish yet rugged yet fun overnight bag to make a statement on the runway. Ostrichpillow is a pillow for your face, so you can get your beauty rest en route to your destination, even if your destination is more attention.

It's snacktime, All Consumers. Time to fill your snackholes with morsels of regret, and talk about it for the content. Today we do pork rinds without pork, beef jerky without beef, and meal bars without the meal, in search of the perfect way to make ourselves whole, nutritionally and emotionally.

On this week's episode, we bare ourselves and try "Gummies", a direct-to-consumer microdose gummy that promises to unlock your mind's potential. Does it work? Or does it just make you dumb?

Have you heard that blue light from your screens is kind of harmful? BLNQ is an eyeglasses brand that wants to solve this with handsome frames that cut the blue light out of your screen time. We had Miami photographer Devin Christopher on to try out BLNQ frames with us, talk about light, color, eyes and happiness.

It's a show where two friends, equally transfixed by the ads in their feeds, try a new product every week. Some are great, some are stupid, some are great and stupid. Join us on a journey through the first six months of bullshit we tried so you don't have to.

Sometimes, in order to be better, you have to pee better. Vessel is an in-home wellness tracker with an app and a thing that you pee on, like a pregnancy test, but instead of babies, it's for B9 folates; to tell you what your body really needs. Which at the end of the day, it's just love, man.

Do you ever want to feel something…different, maybe even better? Do you want to sleep nicer, or focus harder, heal stronger, find balance? That's what the makers of Beam want for you. And they've made a series CBD powders, capsules and even a salve for your lips, we think.

quip is an electric toothbrush designed to encourage good habits. I mean, it's fine. No, it's a good product. There's floss and toothpaste and shit.

Drink. Dot. Haus. It's more than just an apéritif, with rich, complex flavors derived from fruits, herbs and botanicals. Haus is a lifestyle, and Haus will sell no apéritif before its time. This, my friends, is the time.

It's winter time, and that means there's snow, and when there's snow, it means you gotta throw. That's where EGO comes in, with their Power+ electric snow blower. Take everything you think you know about snow blowing and throw it away, because this is a revolution…in throwing snow.

The future of revelry is in our hands. So say the makers of a no-booze beverage suite called Kin Euphorics. Crafted from balancing adaptogens, replenishing nootropics, and other bullshit. Our friend Molly Young is our very special guest to help us drink this and feel better.

Did you know you can make tea out of mushrooms? That doesn't mean you should, but you can. And today we're trying a variety of adaptogenic mushroom lattes from our dear friends at Lifehouse Tonics. It's tea time, mushroom heads.

You know, light is everything. Light is life, light is truth, good light can make a bad day better. And here's a way to bring good light into your world. It's from Gantri, a maker of 3D printed lights that looks as beautiful off as they do on. And also, Glow, a night light from Casper that's way cooler than a mattress.

How pure is your water? I mean, there's no way to know really, but you can hydrate with a Larq water bottle and obliterate those cooties so that you can be a happier, cleaner human. Let's get wet.

Does your body hurt? Do you long to be touched? Then today's products might be for you. Because we tried out the Chirp Wheel+ by Chirp. It's a wheel that you put your body on, to make it feel good. And Halo is head massager with the looks and brains of a dumb sexy robot. Let's get it on.

Hey, good lookin'. Let's fry up an episode about cookware with today's hot topic: Equal Parts. Equal Parts makes nontoxic ceramic pots and pans that are aesthetically pleasing, and easy to clean. Join us in the test kitchen.

Hey, get the shit out of your ears and listen up, because we're going to talk about an ear cleaning system with a teeny tiny camera that connects to an app on your phone and it's called Spade. Ear cleaning reinvented, reimagined. Let's dig in.

Today's product is unabashedly called BALLS. It's a hair grooming product for one specific purpose—one specific region. Can you guess what region? I'll give you a hint, it's the BALLS. Groom them safely and effectively with BALLS.

Oats are the most powerful grain on the planet. And overnight oats? It's game over, don't even get me started. Mush is overnight oats that are creamy, flavorful and fun. So we're gonna eat some and talk about it.

If you could put a couple drops of liquid under your tongue and make all your troubles go away, would you do it? Here's a company called Feals that wants you to give yourself the gift of calm. We weren't so sure it would work on us so we recorded this episode in three parts. Let's take some drugs.

Just breathe. Slow down, step away, get comfortable with a cushion designed just for meditating. It's a meditation cushion called Walden. And today, we're talking about how to practice meditation, with a very special guest and a very special cushion. On a very special day. Take a breath.

Have you ever wiped your ass with bamboo? No, I'm serious. It's 100% tree-free toilet paper, and it's called Reel with two e's. We're going to be talking about Reel toilet paper, and toilet behavior in general. It's good for the planet, it's good for your butt, and all your special places. Let's get clean down there.

Get ready because shit's about to get real. And when it does, you're going to want to be prepared for 72 hours or less. That's why today, we're talking about Judy, an emergency preparedness kit that comes with everything you need if tomorrow goes bad.

We have dandruff. There I said it, and it feels good to get that off our chests, which may never be dusted with our flakes again…because for this episode, we tried a new haircare system called Jupiter. Let's brush it off…together.

Today, we're not too hot and we're not too cold; we're just right. Because we're talking about the world's first temperature-controlled mug. It's called Ember. The perfect episode awaits.

We found out about a pillow. A new kind of pillow. A new shape of pillow. And that shape is cube-like. It's a cube-like pillow, and it's called Pillow Cube. Sleep on it with us, won't you?

Today's show, we're going to be talking about Magic Spoon. It's kids cereal…for adults. It's sugar-free, it's tech-forward, it's very colorful, it's engineered fun. Let's recapture the energy of childhood, shall we?

On today's show, we're going to be talking about NUGGS from a company called Simulate. It's a simulated chicken nugget experience and we're gonna see how it measures up against…chicken nuggets.