Bryan Green

So what I learned many years later was that my grandfather was also prone to spending money calling QVC, late-night infomercials, possibly 1-900 numbers, and spending dickloads of money on...

Me too.

Buying stuff.

Yeah.

Agreed.

Listen, millions of Americans must have, because in my research for TV psychics, I went down the 1-900 craze and the infomercial craze rabbit hole also, and it still remains a billion-dollar business.

It's got to.

The thing is, is that those kitchen gadgets, when they work, can be really cool.

They save you time.

They make food that you like, whatever it is.

I mean, there was that lady who was selling all kind of kitchen gadgets and cookbooks on how, you know, it was like an air boiler, right?

An air boiler?

What the fuck is an air boiler?

Right?

And he'd show these beautiful pictures of his food, and then you'd get the machine, and you'd never know how to work it.

Just a piece of junk.

You know, the George Foreman grill made that guy so wealthy.

He was a heavyweight champion of the world, but Don King took all his money like Don King took everybody else's money.

He was broke until the George Foreman grill took over the world.

I think my grandfather had like four of those.