hi there recently one of my neighbors dozed off while watching the olympic luge finals and
literally fell out of his chair well as soon as that happened i went down to the basement
workshop and i covered my favorite chair and my favorite jumpsuit with velcro and as you
can see it works like a charm but i have the uh thank you very much so here's to velcro
uh join us tonight for our gala tribute to that miracle space age fabric of the 80s velcro
well yeah i don't i don't look like a jerk here do i no you look fine it's fine to me dude okay
could you get me down because i'm having trouble with that uh artery staying there yeah smelling
yeah yeah let me make a few calls
hell yeah okay fellas cut dave man
all right
thank you
you know the
you know the the grammy awards were televised earlier tonight and
well what better time to have a little fun with velcro
you'll never guess where this is pulling please welcome the director of both industrial sales
i'm sorry director of industrial sales for velcro usa mr michael heater michael
how are you nice to see you now uh if you'll uh can you just give me a hand down here with this
stuff michael and now if i come off here wrong i'm gonna uh you're gonna hug me yeah here we go
yeah oh okay great thank you now that's uh this is this is a real uh tough velcro isn't it you look
like a spaceman but is this extra strength this is the super velcro tell us what it is first of all
that velcro is and then and then tell us how you came about it well velcro is a series of hooks and
loops a male and female uh-huh one grabs the other and sticks okay so i'm the male i'm covered here
now with loops right no you're the male what are these that's the loop over there no no these are
loops here are they these are the hook well these are the hooks i'm sorry okay these are the hooks
those are the loops now how was this developed to inventive a gentleman by the name of george
demestral he patented in 1948 after a couple of years walking through the woods with his dog
hunting uh he figured that that little burdock burr had to use for something
uh-huh these are birds that would stick to him and right that was where the idea came from so
took him several years that's what we had a lot of pain and he finally came up with it
okay why don't you show us uh uh some of the different applications of modern day velcro here
well this is a golf shoe nice looking sleek velcro right there
what do you have there well it takes a real man to pull this apart
it is a tension block now what do you do with that that's just a for exercise to show the
people how strong the velcro is oh i see okay you can't get that apart at all you try it
okay and what are these right here these are hair rollers that we make for the professional beauty
supply houses all different sizes and we make millions of them yeah and they for different
size well they stick right into your hair don't know uh and then you have this a toy uh a rifle
and it shoots what velcro bullets i almost didn't make it to your show they caught me going through
security oh with the rifles sure they gave it time now how does that work put it on the end
we built this suit can you can you do the stirrups down there sir
okay now we've come up with a couple other adaptations for uh uh velcro and it's used
a lot in the space program isn't it indeed and everyday life and stuff where's the basketball
oh there it is go ahead and throw me the basketball just go ahead and there you go
okay oh easy all right now now give me uh just give me a uh a softer one
kind of a uh kind of a whole new meaning to the world of velcro
all right uh do we have anything else that we were going to show here anything else in
there okay one more thing here take your take your ball back could we have the trampoline
out now this wall is again covered with uh the other half of the velcro right
all right now uh have you ever done anything like this i haven't no maybe a drum roll
now theoretically i'll i'll hit the wall and stay there right yes theoretically
okay go high as high as i can go okay
i can't uh
there's uh there's very little i can do from this position uh no no so i guess
i guess we'll just we'll what do we do we'll go to a commercial that's fine thank you mr
heater thank you very much for being here on our salute to velcro night thank you thank you sir
you