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We Learn the Truth About “As Seen On TV” Products
By Kyle Pagan
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This week we sit down with a an entrepreneur who helped create “As Seen on TV” products you might’ve seen (on TV) and the dirty truth behind infomercials. He teaches us about the moneyshot and some of the scams behind them. If you were a huge fan of Billy Mays and you love the FlexSeal memes than this episode is for you. We also talk to an American furniture maker about the $300,000 furniture he hand-makes and the famous clients he services. There are three great interviews in this one:
I love old school infomercials. From Oxiclean, to the ShamWow, to the Shake Weight, and Brett Favre’s Copper Fit sleeve. We just don’t get infomercials like we used to. It’s just a nonstick pan one playing over and over on NBCSports Philly when there’s not a game on. Nowadays the closest we get to fun low budget infomercials with athletes in them is Kyle Schwarber or Saquon pumping CURE Auto Insurance. Even the local car dealer commercials feel like they haven’t had something original in years. It’s the same ones we’ve grown up with. “Jim Sipala wants to see ya in a Kia!” or “Jack! Sell ’em for less!” We need some fresh re-branding in the car dealer game:
It’s a fun one with interesting conversation and not to get all sentimental and shit, but after last week and the amount of takes and stuff that I’m sure flooded your timeline from both sides, we could all use a good chit-chat and I think there is some prime chit-chatting in this one. So if you need that here ya go.
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Kyle writes blog posts and does Man on the Street-style videos all around Philadelphia. He graduated from Temple University (a basketball school) in 2015. contact: k.pagan@sportradar.com