In this video I teardown a couple of my latest Menards finds and also ramble on quite a bit about movie plots, Hero's Journey and my pitch for "Revenge of the Jocks"
Revenge of the Jocks is definitely a movie that's going to happen and we can all reference this video when the Ben Heck v Movie Studio lawsuit makes headlines.
Those sunglasses are for activities such as running where these sorts of tech are popular as they allow your ears to be unobstructed for hearing traffic. I wear headphones that sit in front of my ears and project sound back at them to keep me fully aware of my surroundings.
Chevy Chevettes (and variants) sold 7 million examples and remained in production for over 20 years. It's one of the most successful vehicle platforms ever produced and no one ever confused it with a Corvette. 😁
I bought a Bluetooth FM transmitter for my car and it USES THE SAME voice. I hear that guy tell me “The Bluetooth Device is Ready to Pair” every time I get in my car…. “Paired”. Hearing it on this video was like hearing a friend’s voice on TV.
I'm helping. Not necessarily with their electronics tat...though I've bought some of that, too. I actually did get a reasonable set of Bluetooth earbuds from there for $5. The one thing I can't figure out is...why I have to always put the left earpiece in to the charger case first, otherwise the whole pair won't charge.
You give the manufacturer far too much credit with that RGB LED on the Bluetooth speaker. AP(A)102 would cost them much more, and they're totally unnecessary if you only have one pixel. But thanks to your nice close-up shot, we can see it's just a cheap 5050 RGB LED. Look closer, no IC in there. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed the teardown and stories.
Elevator pitch: Jock marries highschool sweetheart, nerd had a crush on her. Nerd goes on to be a Jeff Bezos type figure, jock ends up working for him in Amazon-style warehouse. Nerd visits warehouse, recognizes jock, slightly awkward reunion, invites him round for dinner. During dinner nerd humiliates jock for being poor/stupid/whatever, and then some sort of heist/scam/con ensues using jock's wife as bait.
best audio you've ever had.... "These glasses will self destruct in 5 seconds ... but only after Ben shorts the leads of the battery." "Revenge of the Pierres"
Those sunglasses would have been way cooler if they had the mirrors on them on the edges. You know that's something I never ask my optometrist about if I can ever get on a pair of glasses. I actually like the side mirrors to a degree.
These Glasses can serve as a reboot of Batman's Two face : "I was walking on the street wearing my sick gear listening to rap, when batman threw something and the lithium battery got fire on half of my face"
When you were talking about the hero's journey my wife (who has a masters in literature) was impressed as apparently no one ever really talks about that in terms of reviewing movies or books any more.
I think it goes deeper than Hero's Journey. Effective storytelling is a metaphor for the human experience, for life, love and death. Hero's Journey is like a guide, a scaffolding to build a story upon to ensure it hits the correct marks.
I needed this video to be about 4 times as long so the layers of Ben's sanity could continue to wain. I needed fully fleshed out side plots and singing. Oh we'll see you later *hops in chevette*
What a cool product those glasses are. I always wanted to wear a lithium battery of dubious quality to the side of my face. What could go wrong? 😁 IIRC in Revenge of the nerds II, the nerds were already kind of successful. Revenge of the jocks will never happen due to the current PC climate in the US. It would probably become a 2 hours lecture against bullying (useful, although it would be attached to the wrong medium).
The evony ads always drive me up the wall because they purposefully lose when the win strat is obvious af. Keeps me thinking about it though. So it’s decently effective advertising. Not that I’ll ever download it but I do think about it.
I would watch Revenge of the Jocks. I kept saying, "Cobra Kai! It's Cobra Kai! You're describing Cobra Kai," while you were describing the concept. Glad you got there. I would have been so frustrated if you hadn't.
That was smoke from the wires, not magic smoke. Wire smoke is well understood. The magic smoke is what would have come out of the battery if you kept shorting it.
Apologies if it’s been mentioned, but couldn’t the jock be working selling cell phones and win some sort of company contest to meet the creator of BookFace? Seems slightly plausible.
Re: "Why would you want a speaker in your glasses?" It makes a lot more sense if it's regular glasses, or something you wear everyday. Headphones pinch my ears against the feet of my glasses and that hurts me, and ear buds aren't comfortable for long wearing periods (even the memory foam ones). Bluetooth built-in to my RX glasses would be awesome. (Maybe not $300+ awesome, but I would definitely pay a little bit extra for something like that in the standard nerdy plastic frames.)
I like the revenge of the jocks idea. It could be The Rock beating up Mark Zuckerburg. Could have a monologue about how he doesn't want to comply to the metaverse. Then gives him the rock bottom. Roll credits.
Outside of conventions I don't get recognized that often IRL. Maybe 3 or 4 times a year. But for some reason it's always at Menards or, don't know why, Olive Garden.
Ben usually when I watch UA-cam videos about technology or programming then UA-cam serves me up some ad beforehand about technology or programming... but today, and I do hope that you see the funny side of it, the ad was about some potion that helps you if you are impotent... Google must know something about one of us that perhaps we don't even know yet... Anyway, great video as always. Love seeing you get cheap stuff and tear it apart and modify it and reuse bits... miss the Ben Heck show like crazy, those were some great years...
Dude. Your videos help me when I get anxiety or panic attacks and today was one of those days and then you drop this new video. Perfect timing. Thanks for sharing
The actual car was the Chevell. The point of a _Chevette,_ was that there was a period of time when the Chevell was in production, _and_ it was using a computerized engine that was _also_ used by the Corvette _with a different controller chip that gave better performance._ So people would buy a Chevelle, get insurance that was cheaper _because_ it was a Chevelle instead of a Corvette, and then swap the Corvette chip into the Chevelle, so that they'd have the performance of a Corvette with the insurance cost of a Chevelle.
My mom wrapped a 1982 Chevette around a telephone pole to avoid hitting a cow in the road. Wonder if hitting a cow would also push the motor thru the firewall?
@@BenHeckHacks These are the questions only MythBusters could answer with two correct model vehicles and average size dairy cow. Random telephone pole and a wig for Buster then a victory cigar for our answer my boy!
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Yes even the cow would have been bad that firewall was pretty thin and pushed into the center of the cab pretty far but luckily she walked away. Wow Chevette curb weight is around 1843-2035 pounds and a grown Holstein is about 1500 pounds. Mom chose well!
Looks sorta similar to an "LED Light up bluetooth speaker" I got from 5 Below 2 yrs ago! Multicolor led that also works as a night light in my bathroom. I have it connected to a Samsung Tablet I use for reading during my "Sit Down". Still working and I love the color changing lights!
I feel your pain. What really sucks even more, is when popular TV shows get cancelled after a huge season finale. I wonder how many crimes of passion can be linked to the twisted mental anguish this has caused. Seriously, directors should go to jail for leaving us hanging like this! Same with movies, though I suppose modern movies are mostly just very long TV shows, with one episode per season.
You are my A.D.D. spirit animal. Trashing a pair of sunglasses with giant clippers while actively trying to screenwrite a sequel to Revenge of the Nerds.
Mentioning snow glare, my main 'allergy' season growing up in Michigan was the winter. All of the sun light bouncing off of the snow always had me sneezing.
I can understand the speakers on glasses in theory : I can't bear closed headphones, or earbuds (if I have anything in my ear it gets irritated right away). So I use bone conduction headphones, which can get really expensive. Having speakers close to my ears but not making contact would be a cheaper compromise. Also gets rid of the issue of using speakers and glasses at the same time. But putting bad speakers in bad glasses doesn't help.
the glasses are for walking, earbuds do block off some if not most surrounding sound. meaning hearing traffic and people can be problematic. its the same setup that the quest does for passive audio. its weird, but it makes sense in context. even in an office setting this would work.
Make it where the Nerd came back into town for his mother's death and seen the jock as a manager somewhere but the Nerd had so many companies he didn't know he owned the company the jock worked at and the nerd's even nerdier evil assistant mentions in passing that the Nerd owns the conglomerate that owns the multinational corporation that owns a suite of companies which the company that the jock works at like say a tire recycling factory which would be the exact opposite of a tech company owned by the nerd. This would be why neither knew, even though they had a history but by taking away the jock's livelihood away from him has a knock on effect of half the town loosing their jobs. BOOMMMMMMMM!
@@BenHeckHacks mine wouldn't turn on. If you put a nice magnet next to it when you turn it on you could hear it click. Whatever I tried everything not just that. Fun videos! Hello from a short bit away from Milwaukee.
Catching up on your videos. I have just replaced my first Gen Pixel XL this that i've had since the first month it was available in the UK. Its still works fine but the battery doesn't last half a day now
They also flipped the hero/villain thing with the Emma stone "Cruella". Not necessarily the kind of movie I'd normally watch but I thought it was actually pretty good (though I'm generally the least critical critic)
While those cheap sunglasses aren't going to be great, a decent set use bone conduction. I also have a set for Bluetooth neck speakers that are actually really nice. They're for situations where you need to hear your surroundings. Things like cleaning up around the house where you're going from room to room. I also have an electric lawn mower and can do the lawn and listen to an audio book or work on landscaping or a garden.
you're not allowed to wear earbuds at amazon warehouses, so if you could replace the lenses with fake prescription ones it could be great for amazon workers
Revenge of the Jocks is definitely a movie that's going to happen and we can all reference this video when the Ben Heck v Movie Studio lawsuit makes headlines.
Hush now. Good bye
That's Kobra Kai. Just as I was typing out that thought, Ben was saying it.
Married with Children?
Mike Tyson
"I'll probably have to call it something else in France" is one of the funniest things I've heard on this channel 😂
Those sunglasses are for activities such as running where these sorts of tech are popular as they allow your ears to be unobstructed for hearing traffic. I wear headphones that sit in front of my ears and project sound back at them to keep me fully aware of my surroundings.
Chevy Chevettes (and variants) sold 7 million examples and remained in production for over 20 years. It's one of the most successful vehicle platforms ever produced and no one ever confused it with a Corvette. 😁
you have officially become the US version of Ashens. and i love it.
I bought a Bluetooth FM transmitter for my car and it USES THE SAME voice. I hear that guy tell me “The Bluetooth Device is Ready to Pair” every time I get in my car…. “Paired”. Hearing it on this video was like hearing a friend’s voice on TV.
2Boom: "I'm sorry Ben, I'm afraid I can't do that. This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it."
"God dammit MU/TH/UR!"
Pretty mad we never got to hear the bluetooth glasses. Now I will never know what the future holds for humanity.
Ben is keeping Menard's in business
I'm helping. Not necessarily with their electronics tat...though I've bought some of that, too. I actually did get a reasonable set of Bluetooth earbuds from there for $5. The one thing I can't figure out is...why I have to always put the left earpiece in to the charger case first, otherwise the whole pair won't charge.
The Geek owns the resturant and refuses the Jock service...
Sandra Bullock plays the lawyer that represents the Jock...
terminal agent: Welcome to Wisconsin, what brings you here?
me: I've heard of this glorious crap shack known as MENARDS and I must see it, eh.
You give the manufacturer far too much credit with that RGB LED on the Bluetooth speaker.
AP(A)102 would cost them much more, and they're totally unnecessary if you only have one pixel.
But thanks to your nice close-up shot, we can see it's just a cheap 5050 RGB LED. Look closer, no IC in there.
Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed the teardown and stories.
I get as much enjoyment from the insides of Menards junk as I do from the insights into Ben's brain 😄 Love the revenge of the Jocks idea!
Elevator pitch: Jock marries highschool sweetheart, nerd had a crush on her. Nerd goes on to be a Jeff Bezos type figure, jock ends up working for him in Amazon-style warehouse. Nerd visits warehouse, recognizes jock, slightly awkward reunion, invites him round for dinner. During dinner nerd humiliates jock for being poor/stupid/whatever, and then some sort of heist/scam/con ensues using jock's wife as bait.
best audio you've ever had.... "These glasses will self destruct in 5 seconds ... but only after Ben shorts the leads of the battery." "Revenge of the Pierres"
1:34 It's the brother of Dankpods' sexy speaker!
3-D print a better housing for that speaker. See how good you can get it to sound.
Surprised the battery didn't short when he cut through the nose bridge. So many young players cut through both leads simultaneously.
I'll never forget the first time I had to swap out a connector on a freshly charged lipo pack and just snipped both wires at once..
Love that I got the same ad before your video as the one you showed with the Bluetooth speaker. Classic
I genuinely love these videos. Breaking down cheap ass electronics is weirdly calming.
As someone who use to work at menards, watching you rip apart their shitty electronics was extremely cathartic
Those sunglasses would have been way cooler if they had the mirrors on them on the edges. You know that's something I never ask my optometrist about if I can ever get on a pair of glasses. I actually like the side mirrors to a degree.
I'd watch that Shawshank Redemption sequel; If nothing else just to see how they mopped up the warden's brains and get them back in to his scull!
These Glasses can serve as a reboot of Batman's Two face : "I was walking on the street wearing my sick gear listening to rap, when batman threw something and the lithium battery got fire on half of my face"
Never even paired the glasses.
When you were talking about the hero's journey my wife (who has a masters in literature) was impressed as apparently no one ever really talks about that in terms of reviewing movies or books any more.
I think it goes deeper than Hero's Journey. Effective storytelling is a metaphor for the human experience, for life, love and death. Hero's Journey is like a guide, a scaffolding to build a story upon to ensure it hits the correct marks.
Literally got the ad you mentioned, when starting your video, before I could start watching, lol.
I need to get that tresh are!
Jock works at car dealership, like at a Bentley or BMW dealership. He could never afford one but the nerds can...
I needed this video to be about 4 times as long so the layers of Ben's sanity could continue to wain. I needed fully fleshed out side plots and singing. Oh we'll see you later *hops in chevette*
As a Menards team member, I approve of this lmfao
@6:38 that 8 pin chip looks like a class D power amp.... The battery management is near the DC in
What a cool product those glasses are. I always wanted to wear a lithium battery of dubious quality to the side of my face. What could go wrong? 😁
IIRC in Revenge of the nerds II, the nerds were already kind of successful. Revenge of the jocks will never happen due to the current PC climate in the US. It would probably become a 2 hours lecture against bullying (useful, although it would be attached to the wrong medium).
Smoking hot shades.
The evony ads always drive me up the wall because they purposefully lose when the win strat is obvious af. Keeps me thinking about it though. So it’s decently effective advertising. Not that I’ll ever download it but I do think about it.
I dont know what is funnier. The cheap stuff menards sells or that the cheap stuff is 10x more right to repair friendly than the real stuff
"Probably have to give it a different name in France." LOL, I about spit out my M&Ms
Your "Revenge of The Jocks" plot sounds like a Dhar Mann video
Love the idea for the movie! You kinda lost me at the beginning but brought me right back in at the end!
I would watch Revenge of the Jocks.
I kept saying, "Cobra Kai! It's Cobra Kai! You're describing Cobra Kai," while you were describing the concept. Glad you got there. I would have been so frustrated if you hadn't.
I'm starting to watch Ben's videos just for the talk.
That was smoke from the wires, not magic smoke. Wire smoke is well understood. The magic smoke is what would have come out of the battery if you kept shorting it.
Apologies if it’s been mentioned, but couldn’t the jock be working selling cell phones and win some sort of company contest to meet the creator of BookFace? Seems slightly plausible.
You brought Menards... I came here for Bud, but I like the content. :)
Any chance of a model number on the micro form the speaker?
Idea for a future video: project using nothing but parts scrapped from Menards tat.
Re: "Why would you want a speaker in your glasses?"
It makes a lot more sense if it's regular glasses, or something you wear everyday.
Headphones pinch my ears against the feet of my glasses and that hurts me, and ear buds aren't comfortable for long wearing periods (even the memory foam ones).
Bluetooth built-in to my RX glasses would be awesome.
(Maybe not $300+ awesome, but I would definitely pay a little bit extra for something like that in the standard nerdy plastic frames.)
I like the revenge of the jocks idea. It could be The Rock beating up Mark Zuckerburg. Could have a monologue about how he doesn't want to comply to the metaverse. Then gives him the rock bottom. Roll credits.
So how many people recognized you at Menard's?
Outside of conventions I don't get recognized that often IRL. Maybe 3 or 4 times a year. But for some reason it's always at Menards or, don't know why, Olive Garden.
This is the first video of yours I've watched and almost immediately I could tell you were a fellow Wisconsinite. Definitely subscribed!
Ben usually when I watch UA-cam videos about technology or programming then UA-cam serves me up some ad beforehand about technology or programming... but today, and I do hope that you see the funny side of it, the ad was about some potion that helps you if you are impotent... Google must know something about one of us that perhaps we don't even know yet...
Anyway, great video as always. Love seeing you get cheap stuff and tear it apart and modify it and reuse bits... miss the Ben Heck show like crazy, those were some great years...
Dude. Your videos help me when I get anxiety or panic attacks and today was one of those days and then you drop this new video. Perfect timing. Thanks for sharing
Happy to help! Have another video coming tomorrow!
The actual car was the Chevell. The point of a _Chevette,_ was that there was a period of time when the Chevell was in production, _and_ it was using a computerized engine that was _also_ used by the Corvette _with a different controller chip that gave better performance._ So people would buy a Chevelle, get insurance that was cheaper _because_ it was a Chevelle instead of a Corvette, and then swap the Corvette chip into the Chevelle, so that they'd have the performance of a Corvette with the insurance cost of a Chevelle.
My mom wrapped a 1982 Chevette around a telephone pole to avoid hitting a cow in the road. Wonder if hitting a cow would also push the motor thru the firewall?
She might the right move. Hitting a cow is way, WAYYY more dangerous than hitting a deer.
@@BenHeckHacks These are the questions only MythBusters could answer with two correct model vehicles and average size dairy cow. Random telephone pole and a wig for Buster then a victory cigar for our answer my boy!
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Yes even the cow would have been bad that firewall was pretty thin and pushed into the center of the cab pretty far but luckily she walked away. Wow Chevette curb weight is around 1843-2035 pounds and a grown Holstein is about 1500 pounds. Mom chose well!
Love these. Keep getting Menards junk!
This needs to become a series
Looks sorta similar to an "LED Light up bluetooth speaker" I got from 5 Below 2 yrs ago! Multicolor led that also works as a night light in my bathroom. I have it connected to a Samsung Tablet I use for reading during my "Sit Down". Still working and I love the color changing lights!
What you are missing in your ‘remake’ is replacing all the male actors with persons that can’t act.
The 3rd minute, basically convinced me we need a…Heck Sound Board!!
I'm not sure about there but in Australia Jocks is the word for male underwear. So it makes it sound a lot ruder than it possibly does
Here it's "Jockies"
@@BenHeckHacks I'd buy that.
I kinda wanted to hear how the glasses sound. It looked like it would have a reasonable speaker. (Kinda like a smartphone boombox speaker)
Your videos are just the best man. The best.
“We’ll have to find a different name for it in France!”
The warden killed himself in shawshank redemption. I'm not sure how he would be on a hill watching the friends reunite.
There is also a tiny microphone on the PCB of the glasses. (15:17 and pause, next to BT-chip). I think it is made to make a phonecall when driving.
Totally awesome idea for "Revenge of the Jocks" in the Cobra Kai format
I feel your pain. What really sucks even more, is when popular TV shows get cancelled after a huge season finale. I wonder how many crimes of passion can be linked to the twisted mental anguish this has caused. Seriously, directors should go to jail for leaving us hanging like this! Same with movies, though I suppose modern movies are mostly just very long TV shows, with one episode per season.
You are my A.D.D. spirit animal. Trashing a pair of sunglasses with giant clippers while actively trying to screenwrite a sequel to Revenge of the Nerds.
when you said 'why do i buy this crap?' I instantly thought so we don't have to
Mentioning snow glare, my main 'allergy' season growing up in Michigan was the winter.
All of the sun light bouncing off of the snow always had me sneezing.
I think we would all like to see a tour of all the stuff that you’ve pulled out of all the Menards junk over the years! Make On my Brother
I can understand the speakers on glasses in theory : I can't bear closed headphones, or earbuds (if I have anything in my ear it gets irritated right away). So I use bone conduction headphones, which can get really expensive. Having speakers close to my ears but not making contact would be a cheaper compromise. Also gets rid of the issue of using speakers and glasses at the same time. But putting bad speakers in bad glasses doesn't help.
I'm watching it again while a print finishes up (I blame you for my 3D printer purchase, BTW).
That speaker makes you sound like Harrison Ford.
The camera being tilted makes me feel like I’m falling or something….
You're starting off 2022 strong with the first Jennifer Connelly reference at the start of the yea!
"It wasn't lies Jenny. It was acting!"
the glasses are for walking, earbuds do block off some if not most surrounding sound. meaning hearing traffic and people can be problematic. its the same setup that the quest does for passive audio. its weird, but it makes sense in context. even in an office setting this would work.
Make it where the Nerd came back into town for his mother's death and seen the jock as a manager somewhere but the Nerd had so many companies he didn't know he owned the company the jock worked at and the nerd's even nerdier evil assistant mentions in passing that the Nerd owns the conglomerate that owns the multinational corporation that owns a suite of companies which the company that the jock works at like say a tire recycling factory which would be the exact opposite of a tech company owned by the nerd. This would be why neither knew, even though they had a history but by taking away the jock's livelihood away from him has a knock on effect of half the town loosing their jobs.
BOOMMMMMMMM!
When I went to my 20 year high-school reunion it was basically what you described. All the nerds were well off and all the jocks and bullies were not.
love your videos sir but mr. heck what do u use them batteries for just curious
Random portable projects though at this point I probably have more batteries than I need.
Does your camera still work on the Pixel 2? Mine died factory reset didn't fix it.
Barely. I believe the battery reports level erroneously under 30%. Very often I'll snap a photo while something else is happening and it hard resets.
@@BenHeckHacks mine wouldn't turn on. If you put a nice magnet next to it when you turn it on you could hear it click. Whatever I tried everything not just that. Fun videos! Hello from a short bit away from Milwaukee.
I can remember selling those stupid Oakley mp3 player glasses for $300 at Circuit City 20 years ago. How far we've come.
Did you even try the glasses to see if they work before tearing them apart?
I was waiting for them to be at least turned on.......
SAVE BIG MONEY AT MENARDS
I came for the tat, I stayed for the screenplay, haha.
Catching up on your videos. I have just replaced my first Gen Pixel XL this that i've had since the first month it was available in the UK. Its still works fine but the battery doesn't last half a day now
Waiting for ben to get copyright striked on his own song because youtube is crazy
We used to have Chevettes in the UK (I think they were from GM's UK subsidiary, Vauxhall), affectionately known as Shove-its.
How can you be copyright struck? What did you do?
"Bose" actually makes/made Sunglasses with speakers as well. And they are actually quite good from what I hear.
There was a microphone inside the sunglasses!?
Another this old Tony spoof. I LOVE IT.
I love these Menards videos! Let's go!
They also flipped the hero/villain thing with the Emma stone "Cruella". Not necessarily the kind of movie I'd normally watch but I thought it was actually pretty good (though I'm generally the least critical critic)
Jock should be a plumber or electrician. Doing upgrade on Geeks house/mansion.
Revenge of the Jocks..sounds good, as long as the nerds win in the end
While those cheap sunglasses aren't going to be great, a decent set use bone conduction. I also have a set for Bluetooth neck speakers that are actually really nice. They're for situations where you need to hear your surroundings. Things like cleaning up around the house where you're going from room to room. I also have an electric lawn mower and can do the lawn and listen to an audio book or work on landscaping or a garden.
I never knew Menards existed until I watched NakeyJakey's video making a joke using their "saving big money at Menards!"
(1:13) This reminds me of that Kipkay video where he took the shell of a stick-on air freshener and used it as a project enclosure
It "died" ... not "I tried to flash some funky firmware onto it" :D
Did Ben forget to try the glasses before tearing them apart? I wanted to see how crappy they were.
"Revenge of the Jocks" is basically the original idea behind "Cobra Kai"
you're not allowed to wear earbuds at amazon warehouses, so if you could replace the lenses with fake prescription ones it could be great for amazon workers