- When it comes to stress, do stars matter?
- Let's talk about that.
(techno music)
- "Good Mythical Morning."
- If there was ever a year
when we needed a stress relief products,
this is it.
What stresses you out the most?
- The most?
Well, I have a number of things.
You with a knife.
You gesturing too close to my face.
You driving in a car and trying to have a conversation.
You try to organize my office.
- That's enough.
Okay, I get it.
I get it, okay.
So I asked stress you out.
- You, you do.
- Alright, so, luckily for you, and for all of us,
we live in a consumer society.
Which means there's lots of products out there
that can fix anything, including me.
- Okay, all right. I'm hopeful.
- So what we've done is,
we have dropped some dough on Amazon,
and we've acquired some strange, stress reducing products
for us to examine.
It's time for, "One Star Versus Five Star Products
For Stress: Which is Worthy of All our Free Press?"
- That's what this is, free press?
- That's right. Yeah.
- Okay, we're gonna check out two items
that have been advertised on Amazon
to help relieve stress or promote better sleep.
Now, one of the items will have a majority
of five star ratings and the other will
have a majority of one star ratings.
I almost said five again, but that's one.
- Nope.
We're gonna test each product.
And then we're gonna guess which one has
the one star ratings, predominantly.
Escalating points each round.
And the winner gets to keep an item of their choosing.
- Oh!
- Score!
- Free press.
- [Stevie] Hey guys.
- Hey.
- [Stevie] First up, we've got
the professional silicone cupping therapy set for $21.99,
versus the ProsourceFit acupressure mat
and pillow set for $19.99.
- Whoa!
- [Stevie] Which is the one star product?
- Well, here, just give a little feel of that because that,
- Whoa, that's sharp!
- That's bound to hurt.
- It's about a help, I think.
- Oh, really?
We'll lay down on this in a second, but first this,
this cupping situation.
What you doing?
- Is this?
Oh, it worked.
- Oh, is that how?
Am I going to have-
- Hickeys? Yeah.
- I don't want, here, put one back there.
- I've never done cupping.
- Give me some more.
Okay.
- But is it, is it totally?
You know, take them off your shoulder.
- It's on there.
- You're gonna get, you don't.
Oh crap.
(crew laughs)
- Now, if you leave that on there for longer,
I think it would have really, like those two back there.
- You wanna just keep 'em on there?
- Yeah, keep them
- You want to put one over each nipple?
- Not really.
- Well, let's just see what happens.
- I don't wanna,
I don't want outie nipples.
- No, outie nipples are in.
- Then do it to yourself.
- Ah, you caught me.
- I mean, I can feel that this is really sucking.
- The fact that it that easily just stuck to you, and it,
- See if you can pull one off
- And it just,
- Oh.
- Oh look, and it's doing the cupping thing.
- And, it's not,
- Oh, here's a whole diagram
of all the places I could do it.
- Pull the last one off.
- You could do it on your,
- is that, did that leave?
That hurt a little bit.
- Boy, you can really do it anywhere.
You got a spot right next to the wiener you can cup.
(crew laughs)
Hey, I am just being, I'm just telling you what,
- I mean, I already knew that, I just didn't wanna,
Well, I'm gonna take this thing to the streets.
Well, I mean, you can do it on the street.
- Well, you know what?
Hold on.
I've been through lots of therapies for my backs and stuff.
I feel like I would be a good source,
good test for this.
- [Stevie] Did you say backs?
- Yeah, I got two backs.
That's my problem.
- He's been through a couple.
- I've got a conjoined twin that,
- Just get down there.
- That's just a back.
It's just a back right inside my back.
- Do you want this under your lower back?
- I call him Barry.
Barry the back.
- Do you want, maybe this under your lower back?
- I think that goes under your neck.
Let me ask Barry.
Yeah, that goes under your neck.
He speaks to me through my spinal, oh gosh.
- Oh, you went a little.
- Ooo, that feels good.
- You gotta go.
- Oh.
- That feels good?
Cause it hurt my hands.
- Yeah, but sometimes pain is good.
Ask John Cougar Mellencamp.
- What about, what if I do this?
- Oh, God, oh,
that just makes me laugh.
- I mean, I've never resuscitated anybody.
- Recessitated?
What is that?
Oh, eh, oh! Okay.
- Does that help?
What about?
(Rhett exclaims)
- Listen, both of these products are great.
Okay, let me get up.
- How's that?
So I kind of want to try it for a second.
Ah, ow.
That is a bit prickly.
Who wants to buy a bed of nails?
- [Stevie] Honestly, the best part of that for me
was your shorts and shoes Link.
I'm really glad that we got to take a look today.
- Summer's winding down.
I've fully embraced it.
I found these shoes in our locker
and I'm like, boy, these look stupid.
Let me try 'em.
Talk about a dumb product.
You know, if you want to immediately look stupid
- Don't give those things any free press.
- There you go, right there.
But there's something kind of addictive
about my toes being individually.
Anyway, that's not what this is about.
I can talk more about it in More.
For now,
- I'm so confused.
- This is one star.
They're just not strong enough.
- I think it's the fact that people know.
- Is it a three, two, one?
- [Stevie] Yeah, you're giving away too many hints.
You're competing.
- What I was going to say is,
I think people who do cupping know
that there's something more to cupping
than what's happening with these.
- Yeah, that's sub-cupping.
- And this is like,
this is a nice experience for me and Barry.
- [Stevie] Okay, so hold your hand over
the one star product in three, two, one.
- Marion Barry?
- My Barry. My back.
Did you listen to what I was saying?
- Yeah, it just sounded like you said Marion Barry,
the mayor.
- [Stevie] Okay. You are both correct.
It received the most one star ratings
because the density of the cups do not lead to relief,
but more pain.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [Stevie] Next up, we've got HC_DIY,
large, magic, big balls for $21.99,
- Large, magic, big balls?
- [Stevie] Large, magic, big balls versus
the ZQuiet snoring elimination set for $99.95.
Which has the most one star reviews?
- This snoring set has a freaking spray.
- Yeah, you spray it right in your nose.
- Alright, well, let's try it out.
Kills 99.9% of bacteria, mint scent,
cleans and sterilizes oral appliances.
Oh, so you don't spray this in your oral appliance.
ZQuiet.
Here it is. Okay.
- My neck's just a teeny bit too big for this.
Let's see if your neck'll fit it.
Oh gosh, it's got my hair.
- Want this?
Ooo, that's cold.
- I'm thinking these make a beautiful pearl necklace.
(Link gasps)
- Are you telling me that you're neck's too big for that?
- I could not get it around my neck.
- Well, shoot. Do I got a pencil neck?
- A little bit.
I wasn't gonna say anything.
I was just, I mean,
I was just gonna let the product speak for itself.
- It's making some vein bulge happen.
- That's not what it's supposed to do.
Hey, serious warning on these.
- Magic balls.
- Do you know about what happens if you give these to kids,
and they eat one and then they wait a little bit
and they eat another one?
They die.
- Because their intestines,
where it doubles back, it connects.
- Yeah, these magnets are really, really, really scary
if you've got little kids.
Because they get in on the intestines
and they go together and they have
to perform this emergency surgery.
- How do you even know this?
- Because my wife is worried about everything, man.
But they work great, I mean.
- The thing is, I know what you do with this.
You just mess around with it.
- Yeah, yeah.
- Now this stuff, I mean, there's lots of instructions.
- I can make myself a bracelet.
- - So you just put it in your mouth.
Do you put both of them in your mouth?
- Wow, look at that.
You know, I've been wearing a lot more jewelry lately.
- "Start with device one your first night.
Place in your mouth.
When inserting ZQuiet, hold the mouthpiece."
Oh, right I've already inserted it.
- What are you saying?
Where do you spray this?
- I don't know, I can't understand myself.
- You don't spray this in the mouth?
- Device two, that cleans it.
Device two makes your bottom jaw go out further.
- What are these stickers in here?
(Link snoring)
- Well, let me clean device one while you're doing that.
(nozzle squeaking)
Takes a while to get going.
- All right, we're ready to vote.
- [Stevie] Okay, put your hands over
the one star product in three, two, one.
Yeah, you're both correct.
Reviewers just said it was simply ineffective.
(Link coughing)
- [Stevie] Oh no!
Get that, why, oh God.
- Yeah, when people want to,
- I think I'm having a reaction.
- Yeah, this says do not consume.
And keep out of reach of man children.
- [Stevie] Okay.
Next up we have Homearda steam eye masks for $10.99,
- [Link] Ooo, steam.
- [Stevie] Versus the MaxKare large heating pad for $34.99.
Which is the one-star item?
- Okay.
- Well this is a freaking heating pad shirt.
- Well, this begins to heat up as soon as you remove it
from the pouch and you have to put it
on your eyes immediately.
Oh gosh, oh.
- Oh, there's urgency happening over there.
- Ooo, 104 degrees.
And it's got hearts on it.
- Is it a real hot?
- I can't get it around my ear.
Okay.
- I'm gonna see if I can get this around my,
- Oh gosh.
- My back.
So we got this thing turned on.
- You want to get your eyes hot with me?
- Not, well, I want to put this on first.
- I got you one warming up, buddy.
- Okay, warm it up.
- I don't know where it opens
because I can't see it anymore,
but probably there.
There? Yup.
- Oh, there's gotta be an easier way to put this thing on.
Okay.
- When you're ready to apply this,
- Well, I look like a freaking.
- [Stevie] You look like a Disney Prince,
but like a medical Disney Prince.
- Come over here, Princess.
Let me check your vitals.
I do look like a freaking.
Ooo, it's warm too.
- I wouldn't know.
- It's really good.
- Let me just feel and just understand what's happening.
Is that you?
- Yeah, that's me.
That's me, man.
- Is that you Prince Medical?
- Prince Medical!
And then I'm putting this on.
On my face.
- It's real hot.
- [Link] It's real hot.
- It's hotter than my eyes.
- My eyes are not hot at all.
- Yeah, it's supposed to be 104 degrees.
What's up with that?
- Do you need to crinkle them or something?
- I think I gotta go double.
- Well, I don't know, do you lick 'em?
How do you make 'em hot?
- I'm going 208 degrees,
- Prince Medical's over here
a little bit disappointed in the eye region.
- Prince Medical must take the throne from Hot Eyes.
- [Stevie] The thing is, is that you know,
network would make a scripted series called Prince Medical.
- Are yours hot? Yours aren't hot.
- Prince Medical versus Hot Eyes.
No, Hot Eyes just makes it appearance.
- I kind of think this would look better
without a shirt on underneath.
- I doubled up and I feel nothing.
- It's medical evening wear.
All right, I'm ready to I'm ready to vote.
- Yeah, me too.
- [Stevie] Okay, hand over the one star item
in three, two, one.
- The eyes just didn't get hot.
- Not getting hot.
- [Stevie] Yup.
And that's exactly what the reviewers said.
- Yeah.
We're three for three man.
- I'm rubbing 'em and everything.
- We're both gonna get to choose something.
And I know what I want to role play as.
- Whoa, Prince Medical,
I think this is the first time I've seen you.
- Yeah, look at me.
- Hot Eyes was just going around looking hot.
- I don't need glasses and my hair needs to stay poofy.
- Wow.
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You wanna get cozy like Prince Medical.
Stevie, what we got?
- [Stevie] Okay, guys.
Get hype and get Zen because we have
the Flint rehab premium quality therapy putty at $14.89,
versus the tabletop Buddha Zen garden at $19.99.
Which has more one star ratings?
- You know it's a Zen garden when there's a rock in it
that says Zen on it.
- Yeah, when you're the kind of person
who wants to have a Zen garden,
you really want a rock just yelling "Zen!"
"Zen, remember?"
- Well, you can always'
- "Zen!"
- Just turn it around.
- Yeah, but , why you gotta put a rock with Zen on it?
- Well, there's a cactus candle, but two of them are broken.
Matter of fact, all three of them are broken.
- Did you know that therapy putty comes
in different consistencies from extra soft,
soft, to medium, to firm.
- Oh, I'm going to try.
- Did you know about this?
- Are you into extra soft?
- I went with the extra soft just to see how soft.
- I'm gonna go with the firm.
This is so firm, I can't can't even get it out.
- Yeah, because the extra soft
is not as soft as I would have expected.
- Ooh, yeah, that's really,
look at that forearm bulge.
- What?
- Or not.
- What was the word?
- Bulge.
- This is to like, rehab hand strength, or I don't know,
Pictionary in the hospital.
- It's not like physical therapy putty, I don't think.
What else do you think it is?
Now, this relaxes you.
- Yeah. Okay.
Increase flexibility, improve strength,
prevents stiffness?
- Rake some dirt and there's nothing more satisfying.
You know what?
Every time I'm faced with a Zen garden,
- Smells good.
- I think to myself,
I'ma put one of these in my house.
- How about that one?
- I got that section over there on the side
of my yard where Jade craps.
- Yeah, put that there and see if she craps on it.
- I'm thinking about turning her crap zone
into a rakeable Zen garden.
I mean, I'm raking it anyway to get up the crap.
- I would take the Buddha away from that.
Yeah, just keep it sand.
Okay. I think we know what's going on here.
- [Stevie] Okay, hand over the one star item
in three, two, one.
- It's gotta be the, oh, we disagree.
- [Stevie] You're split.
- Oh, oh, oh.
Yeah, what am I putting over the putty?
I'm not, yes.
I was holding the Buddha and for some reason I thought
that was my answer, yes.
- [Stevie] Guys, you've done it.
You have a queen sweep.
That is the one star item.
- Yeah, this is like a Zen mustache.
- We just know our stars.
- Yes!
- I mean, that's the thing.
You can take home, Prince Medical.
I'm gonna take home,
- He's still warm.
- Prickly boy for me and Barry.
And we're going to rub it all night long.
- I think what I'm gonna do.
I mean, to get fully into Prince Medical.
Now I got it.
- Now, here we go.
- Now we're both happy.
You know what we're going to be doing
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