Some Silly Inventions That Became Wildly Popular
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What are some silly inventions that became popular?
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Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck and Jerry's here too. And it's time to buckle down and get serious about some silly inventions that turned out to be pretty popular.
Yeah, man, this takes me right back.
It does, because this is a super kind of 80s, but I really associate most of this with the 90s, don't you?
Oh, I just mean this episode takes me back to like 2012.
Oh, gotcha. But yeah, sure. Yeah. Well, this article was clearly written around 2009 or 2010 by our esteemed colleague, Jonathan Strickland.
Esteemed.
Oh, yeah. There's loads of esteem going his way from us. We're talking today about some silly inventions. Typically, they were what you would call direct response TV marketed types of inventions or products, right? Which are What those like the little thing, at least in the United States, that little red icon that says as seen on TV. Those are basically across the board direct response TV marketed products.
That's right. And by direct response, that basically means we want to make more money. And we'll do that by making like an infomercial. And instead of the infomercial saying like, and now go to your store and buy this thing, even though a lot of the stuff you could find in drugstores and like maybe a Bed Bath and Beyond or something like that.
Sure.
But generally what they were trying to do was sell direct to you, get a direct response by putting like an 800 number up. You could call and order. So that just means they get more juice for themselves since they're not having to sell it to a store.
Yeah. And often it's like, yes, of course they wanted more profit, but they also wanted to be able to pay off the third mortgage they took out on their house to get this invention of theirs out.
Yeah, maybe.
To the public, you know, there's a lot of these that were just invented by some person, you know, as a good idea. And luckily for them, they took off and became super popular. Yeah. So there's one that it wouldn't qualify in any really way, shape or form as a silly invention. So we didn't include it on this list. But it is the most the greatest selling direct response TV marketed product of all time, far and away. And it's the George Foreman Grill. From what I saw in the last like 20 plus years, more like 30 years, I think, it sold about a billion dollars worth of product.
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