i know my hair is crazy today yeah it's crazy that's just what it's going to be okay hold on
let's try and get this camera level set up here um oh crazy it's just all right hey everybody
out of savage uh in my cave with a show-and-tell today no i am not doing a joe biden impression
i'm wearing one of my favorite pairs of aviators i know i fixed a pair of old ray-ban aviators on
tested last year that pair has broken again i still have to repair it so this is my
this is one of my go-to pairs this is an old stainless steel pair of um who makes these
these are oh my god it's just two is it too small um american optics that's what this is hold on
um
five and a half american optics yeah these
that much light on me those ray-bans i fixed last year on tested
um those are expensive restored ray-bans by a company called retrospects um and i
i that's not what i'm going to pay for a pair of sunglasses by any stretch of the imagination these
you can find on ebay for like 75 bucks they're fantastic and the reason that i've got them out
is because of today's show-and-tell which happens to be a gift from my friends at luna replicas.com
knowing me you know that i love all things nasa and space and by the way holy hell we landed one
of our crafts on another celestial body last week it's totally amazing and in celebration of that
lunar replicas sent me a case for my eyeglasses yeah um and i'm about to open it up uh
i want to bring in you for a close-up so you can see kind of how awesome the way lunar replicas
does things because um luna replicas founded by my friend max keiserman uh is a company devoted
to making realistic beautiful usable replicas of nasa hardware um because they love the history
of american exploration or the world exploration and they choose max chooses to celebrate it
i can't think of a better reason to make stuff and sell it to people um and i'm delighted to
have a friendship with max that i get to receive these things from time to time um let me switch
this to a close-up uh so there's my glasses in here this is the package from lunar replicas
let's open them up just a little bit um first and foremost they include a sticker a lunar replica
sticker looks very much like a nasa sticker i just dig that stuff um it comes in an anti-static bag
which feels delightfully authentic are there two oh there's two glasses cases in here oh
my goodness oh stickers okay got to get to those in a minute these are right okay so
this is the sunglass pouch and the the thing about the sunglass pouches these two are
oh pouch pen oh wait this is a pouch for pens and miscellaneous and this is
the sunglasses pouch okay so note that lunar replicas has has exactly replicated the label
and typeface i see that luna rep lunar rep they're making it clear to anyone who did any
tiny bit of research that these are not authentic bits of nasa hardware
um inside this is a piece that was very hard to replicate and it is this so this is exactly how
nasa's uh uh astronaut issued sunglass case worked you took your aviators you put them in there and
they were protected because they had this heart oh sorry let me just clip that and close it for
real there we go they were protected because of this internal shell creating some structure
around the glasses and when max and i first met he was asking me for advice about replicating
this and i gave some advice about vacuum forming max went out and actually he actually went through
all the trouble to have this injection molded it is a perfect replica it's just beautiful
oh man look at that see that that is like that is worth keeping in my car right this is not made of
beta cloth like the originals it is made in a coated nylon similar to my space suit um
and it's a beautiful piece that's it that's just i just wanted to show you what luna replicas
is doing you can have beautifully authentic pieces of nasa hardware sent to your door by
these guys we'll kudo link in the comments below um and it just makes me really happy
so um lovely they sent me two actual two actual pouches one is the nasa pouch for pens and
miscellaneous and the other is a sunglass pouch um and uh yeah this bit of injection molded plastic
is a fantastic no nobody else made this right like some of these exist from nasa but
max's is the most accurate one out there if you want a lovely sunglass case that uh that
is a that harkens to the american space age then get thyself some of these uh sunglasses
one of these sunglass pouches from luna replicas um i know this sounds a little like a commercial
for lunar replicas um and that's because it is i want max to sell tons of his stuff i
i i'm not interested in commerce for commerce sake but i love the idea of making something
that you're passionate about that you sell to other people who are passionate about
those things that is why i formed a company to sell my bags and aprons and other
various sundries and bits and bobs and it is a link that i share with max kaiserman the founder
of lunar replicas that he makes this uh because he loves american space america and world space
history um the the history of humans let me put it this way he loves the history of human space
flight and chooses to celebrate that while also making the things he makes available to other
people and that is a delightful life's mission plus oh some critical space item stickers for me
to put where i would like oh yeah we're gonna figure out where these go yeah yeah that's that's
my next task thank you guys for joining me for this very quick and dirty show and tell um i am a
happy camper these are gorgeous thanks max thanks everybody for joining me i will see you next time