- It's Valentine's Day.
- And you know what that means.
- Gifts for your lady?
- No!
- Apparently they make Valentine's Day gift sets
that are specifically for man.
- But can only men enjoy them?
- It's LadyLike, and we're trying out
Valentine's Day gift sets for men.
- So Devin, have you ever thought,
wow I need to get my man a man-specific gift?
- No!
Here's the thing, he just needs something that's like,
thoughtful, simple, easy.
- I think that Valentine's Day, in theory,
is a gift giving holiday.
But the problem is, sometimes, often,
it lands on like a Tuesday, or a Thursday.
- Yeah.
- And I forget.
Or I don't care.
And then all of a sudden it's March,
and I'm in trouble for some reason.
- If I'm trying to assume what's gonna be in these,
I'm assuming bacon and football.
- It's a Valentine's Day gift
for people who receive whiskey stones at every holiday.
- Which, I mean, honestly,
what are you gonna do with all those?
You can't eat them.
- I don't call them men,
I call them people of whiskey stones.
(laughter)
Honestly the last Valentine's Day gift I got
was like two pieces of lingerie.
And I was like, is this a gift for me or for you?
- If somebody got me lingerie,
what they really got me was a trip to the mall
when I return them.
(laughter)
- Here we go.
- This says, "At least one person out of 7.4 billion thinks
"you are great."
This is educational because I did not know
the current world population, so.
- That's true. - Now I do.
- The front of the box says,
"Warning, contains awesome."
- It also says, "Fragile."
- [Mike] It's fragile with an accent mark on the E.
- Fragilé. - Oh, God.
- So this is duct taped.
Oh, you're doing well.
- Why do you think they had to duct tape this?
- Men love duct tape?
- Okay, oh we got a little card.
"Pro tip, you might want to limber up.
"This crate is a stubborn adversary.
"Capture the struggle on video,
"then strut your stuff on Facebook and Instagram
"at Mancrates."
- Wait, so we have to figure out how to open this?
- There's a crowbar.
- 'Cause men can't receive presents
unless they got to do tough stuff to open them.
- This is what I'm talking about.
The men in my life would just want to open a damn present.
They don't want to have to go through this test,
this emotional test.
- How do you?
- [Jen] Have you used a crowbar before, Kristin?
- Uh, once.
- It's funny like, this crate
is not actually very well constructed,
'cause I can see the glue.
- Yeah, I mean, it's not nailed together.
That's the thing is like,
how am I gonna get this part with a crowbar
when it's glued together.
- All right, let's see what's in here.
Oh yeah.
So this is a project.
Which I kind of like getting somebody,
like an experience.
It's a knife.
- I'm sorry that you couldn't be the one to open this.
- Now I want to destroy this.
Do you have a hammer?
This is actually working.
- We needed the tools.
It's not that we didn't know how to do it.
So, don't mansplain to us in the comments
about how we open a damn crate.
- Oh we did it, yeah!
We opened it!
- Oh, sorry. - It's fine, who cares.
(laughs)
- Oh and it also includes a recipe
for a smoking Old Fashioned.
- This is not only a knife, but it's a knife carving.
You carve designs onto the handle of your knife.
Right, it's a cute kit.
What's a lock back?
- It's a, hang on, I'll show you.
- [Kristin] Jen is gonna show you the knife.
- We got, wow.
- So this is the lock.
- [Devin] Oh so then.
- That's how you lock it.
- Oh.
- Okay finally, we got to the gifts.
- Okay (laughs).
- Wait, after all that!
It's an ice cube tray?
- It's a whiskey ice cube tray.
- It's whiskey stones! (laughs)
How much you want to bet that
every single thing we open is gonna have
something about whiskey.
And then here's some whiskey.
(Jen laughs)
Oh it's maple syrup.
- [Jen] Maple syrup with smoke on it.
Oh, tumblers.
All right, and we got bitters.
- Okay.
- So what else is happening here?
- It's a full out kit.
That you carve into the handle some of these designs.
- Oh so this entire thing is for the knife?
- Yeah, yeah, so you see right here,
carve, carve, carve it out, girl.
- Oh it doesn't say girl,
I was like that seems off brand if it says girl.
- This is a man art project.
- I'm gonna go ahead and say this is an amazing gift.
- I think so too.
- I feel like you're having more fun playing with the box.
- Yeah, honestly I enjoyed the box.
I don't really like those toys.
- Why is it that people think that men
only like whiskey related gifts and socks and ties?
- If you want your present to also be a game,
it's kind of fun to open a crate.
I mean it's fun to destroy stuff.
- So this isn't a craft that I want to do
at this particular moment,
but it is a really cool craft.
- The only flaw of this gift is that
it's targeted just for men.
And, or at least that's what the branding seems to imply.
- It's a good gift, right?
- Yeah.
Anyone can enjoy it, man, woman, anyone.
- Let's get into this next crate, girl.
- Oh, what the (bleep).
It's covered in duct tape.
I think, here's the thing,
I think the aesthetic is very cool.
- It actually does look dope.
- I enjoy the aesthetic.
The act of getting into it sounds like a you project.
- I got that off. - Okay great, you did it.
"At least one person out of 7.4 billion
"thinks you are great."
Like that's so-
- That's like, that's kind of rude.
- That's such a weird, so passive aggressive.
It says, "There are probably more."
- But we don't (bleep) know.
- Can you just say that you love each other?
Just chill out.
- Can I help? - Yeah.
- Okay, now it looks fun.
- This is pretty fun actually.
- After Jen has done the work,
I'm like, this looks fun.
(laughter)
- Ma'am, you have a special delivery.
- Oh my God, I can't (squeals).
- Valentine's Day.
(laughter)
- It's so big.
(laughter)
Hold on.
(bleep)
It's sticking to the,
it's sticking to the table cloth.
If only we weren't men.
(laughter)
- Honestly this is kinda fun.
- It's, a bouquet of meat.
- Surprise, it's meat! - I think.
- Yeah.
- Oh, look at this, it's salami.
Calabrese salami, zesty with red chili pepper,
and it's got a rod attached to it.
- And it's taped shut with like normal tape.
- Why? - After all that.
(laughs)
It would be really funny if we just kept pulling tape off
and at the end there was like nothing.
(Jen laughs)
What's in here? - Cookies?
- Open up that tape.
- Ah! - Ah!
Oh wait is there anything else?
"Open me Binch." (laughs)
- Is that what it says, binch?
- Yes (laughs)!
- Oh! - Oh!
- Wait I thought this was the most perfect
gift that had ever existed.
- We have Italian dry salami, ooh.
California red wine with a hint of garlic, I want this meat.
- Right?
- It's honestly like very Pinteresty.
- Yeah. - It is.
- And I think that Pinterest is often feminized,
and talked about as something only women can do,
but this feels like a perfect Pinterest thing
that anyone could enjoy of any gender.
- That's true.
- It's time for me to open this meat though.
- Open up that meat.
- Good thing we have a knife to slice open this salami.
Time to circumcise this salami.
- Devin (laughs).
- [Jen] That's not how that works.
(screams) - Oh!
- Mm.
It's more subtle than I expected.
I definitely don't taste any red wine.
But the garlic's lovely.
- Yeah, very yummy.
All right well this was delicious.
- Yeah I am honestly in a much
better mood than I thought I would be (laughs).
- I hope there's cookies.
- Wait.
- Oh, it's beef jerky.
- Wait, I love this.
- These companies are in on the joke.
Companies know that a lot of people
are gonna get these man gifts and laugh at them.
And they're playing into a lot of stereotypes
about what men want.
And even though they're doing it on purpose,
I still find it very funny.
And it is fun to poke fun at them.
- Plus the inside of the heart box
has a guy riding a bull fighting a bear,
with brass knuckles.
- I know, that's what convinced me
that they're in on the joke.
- Yeah (laughs).
- They know that this is funny.
- And I think they're just trying to create
a little like, oh my God factor when you open the box.
- I had that.
- Yeah it's like, oh my, what, oh!
- I honestly would prefer this
over getting a bouquet of real flowers
because real flowers die, and these won't.
- These are cured so they are, you know,
they'll last for a long time.
- Should we try to ghost pepper?
Cheers. - Cheers.
It's more sweet than spicy.
- [Mike] Kristin had a different reaction.
- Are you okay?
- Yeah.
Oh, and there it is going down my throat.
This is is mm!
(squeals)
- What?
It's good, it's good.
- It is good, I don't know, or I don't.
(laughter)
- As the man on this shoot,
what did you think about those gifts?
- I love these gifts.
Like you, I don't think the knife one
was a right fit for me, personally.
But I acknowledge that many people,
regardless of their gender, love knives.
- Oh yeah.
- And then the sausage one was an absolute delight.
I love sausage.
I do.
- So, obviously gendering gifts is ridiculous.
- It doesn't really make sense.
- You don't need to say that gifts
are specifically for men or for women.
Like they could be for anybody.
- Yeah.
Just like we, our show is called LadyLike,
but like honestly, you don't have to be a lady to watch it.
- No.
- Or be on it.
- Yeah really, honestly (laughs).
- Mancrates makes sense if you
want to give someone something that's like
a little different, if they're hard to buy for,
you just want to get them an experience.
- I liked the second crate a lot.
- Mm-hm.
- I felt like I enjoyed that they knew that it was silly.
- Mm-hm.
- I enjoyed the fact that it was
different types of beef jerky. - Mm-hm.
- I mean I enjoy a tasting experience.
Like if someone gave me that I'd be like,
oh my God, you get me.
- Yeah, that was a nice gift.
- We tried Valentine's Day gifts for men.
- We did.
- Lady tested, lady, I don't know.
- Who cares (laughs).
- It doesn't matter, don't gender things.
- Okay trying Valentine's Day gifts for men.
- Lady tested.
- [Together] Crate-y approved.
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