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Bethany talks about how her hometown was a "test city" for different products that never made it!

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(01:09):
Represents Show. Hello, Garrett H. Danielle Hello, Hi, Nate, Hi, Brodi, Hi, Hi,
Gregory T. What up? Bethany? Hi? Hi everybody, Nate. Yeah,

(01:32):
I'm Bethany. I'm going to be the host of your
podcast today. This is All Things Considered Today. Today we're
going to talk about mocking birds in the mating call first,
the Prie home companion, some folksy music in a fake

(01:55):
come mercial for malted milk. Okay. So, if you're listening
to the podcast like two or three days ago, I
was talking about how we were. It was the podcast
that Carla Marie was on. I was talking about how
being from ou Claire, Wisconsin. O Claire is a test
city for a lot of products. And so when I
was growing up, we would get sent these products, we

(02:17):
would try them out, and we would report back if
we liked them or not. And uh and so as
a result, I got to test out a lot of
products that that may or may not have made it
on the market. One of them was Wow chips that
were made with Olestra. The fake fact, somebody ate those here.
Scottie b ate a whole couple of bags those and
he pooped everywhere. We did too, Yeah, yeah, yeah, scary

(02:40):
and eyed. One of the first recorded comedy bits we
ever did was an Olestra spoof. Really is it in
the system? It's there? You play it, yes, to explain
to everybody what what the wow chips in the Olestra.
I can't believe you mentioned this, by the way, because
Brodie and I were not here for that podcast that
you were talking about. I was so Olestra was like
a fake fat substitute, so it was used on products

(03:02):
so that I didn't add fat, It didn't add calories
or cholesterol. Um, but it made it was also known
as olean, and it made you so sick. It would
give you stomach cramps. I believe the term was anal leaking.
When the wild Ships came, they were hanging on our
front door. I'll never forget it in a bag and
my mom read the thing and my mom and dad

(03:23):
would not let us as kids try them because they
were like, these will make you very very ill. Um.
So that's Olestra. So this I think I had been
with the Morning show for a couple of months I
wrote this bit and Secary knife voice it hit it.
GM probably presents the new put Olestra. Worried about the
Olestra has leaked out, so the new ones are coming

(03:44):
out sooner than expected. You'll be amazed at how quickly
a Lestra goes in and out of tunnels in one
end and out the other. It runs and runs and runs,
and because of the larger tank, you'll always have plenty
of gas. This car is so much get up and go,
you'll want to. You won't have to worry about tailgators.
No one will want to drive behind you. The seats
are contoured so you'll always sit flush. You'll pay for

(04:07):
a viewing, but it'll feel like you've had a catalaxative.
It also offers a soft ride than the leak and Colondental.
Listen to the sound of a Lestra and you'll hear
the sound of refinement. At GM, we stand behind every
product we sell except this one. Lest a product of GM,
who it stands for gotta make When you gotta go

(04:30):
go with a Lestra, you sound like you know what
that sounds like. It sounds like they took the older
actors and pitched their voices up show that they sound younger. Actually, hey, everybody,
that was scary as the announcer. We pitched him down. Yeah,
but I'm more focused on you, Brody. You sound like

(04:52):
I don't know a guy in his late twenties. There. Wow,
that was seven. I missed some of those old commercials.
That was funny stuff that I know. I love it
used to be encouraged to write those. You know what.
I noticed? We still have the same fart sound over
twenty years. Very good, Garrett, that's right, that's the same

(05:12):
one that we used every day. Do you think that's
something in such huge supply like a fart would be
something we would have a new sound of. Elvis said,
that's the perfect fart. Went through a library of farts
and made him listen to like a hundred. There's ten
of them. We have ten. We have ten farts sound
effects in our system, and that one right there, elvison,

(05:33):
that's the perfect farm. Late again, it's called fart number one.
Elvis hand picked the ten fart sounds from our library
of farts. He did, he doesn't remember that. They said,
not that one, it sounds too wet. That one's good.
I like that. Keep that. Why would you admit that,
ladies and gentlemen, I give you Elvis Durand's, uh, this
definition of the perfect fart perfect and that's that's why

(06:00):
he's in the Radio Hall of Fame. Remember like years ago,
they came up with a CD called Toilet Tunes or
something like that. Somebody farting Yankee doodled andy. Someone bought
that for their family. So okay, So I want to
circle back to that conversation because one of the things
I talked about was this um feminine hygiene product that

(06:20):
was tested in Oa Claire, Wisconsin. It turns out we
were the only test city for this and it was
called on Viv Mini Forms, And I was trying to
explain to you guys how these things worked. So my friends,
I went on Facebook and I reached out to my
friends and I was like, do you guys remember this
and do you still have any And my girlfriend, Sherry,

(06:42):
God bless her mother. Her mother loved these things so
much that she wanted to skew the market data and
convinced the company that everybody in oau Claire loved them.
So she bought the stores out of on Viv Mini forms,
which means that today she still has them. And so
this is what the container looked like. So it's like
a purple sort of oval cylindrical tub. And I'm gonna

(07:07):
I think I'm gonna tweet these out, so follow me
at Radio Bethany. I'll tweet out the picture of the
on VIV miniform. The back of it has all of
the instructions on how to use it, to shove it
on up there and the way it works. Sherry was
nice enough to actually post a picture of her holding
an miniform. Now, it's about an inch and a half long.

(07:28):
It's made with the same material as a Maxi pad,
so it's like absorbent cotton. But it has a little
tab in the middle, so it's like a like a
large pea pod that you opened up. And then it
has a tab in the middle and the t the
tab goes Okay, as long as you say it in

(07:49):
a clinical form, you're okay. So let's say this. The
commercial said, it doesn't go in you, it goes on you.
So if you were to take, if you were if
you were to take let's say you have had a wind,
Let's say you had a window and the window had shutters. Okay,

(08:09):
and the shutters were like they closed over a window
that let into a house, okay, and the windows the
window shutters were pink maybe sort of fleshy colored. Okay,
So the on VIV miniform would go, it's like you
open up the shutters and sort of like place the

(08:29):
VIV up against the open window and then like close
the shutters again to like keep it in. Does that
make sense? Yeah? Yeah, cool, So the tab went like
in between the window shutters to like keep it in place.
And then what happens though, if there's like an explosion

(08:49):
in the house, that's not going to stay in. That's
gonna blow right out. The windows are going to keep
that in. That's just gonna go everywhere, right. So, Um,
what I'm trying to say is it didn't work very
well and it never made it to market. Hashtag crotch canoe.
So why does she keep them that she think it's
gonna be worth something one day? Maybe? Well, her mom
has lived in the same house for years and years

(09:09):
and years, and it's one of those things like look
in your house. I'm sure you have something from like
ten years ago in your house. Um, but I'm gonna
sweet out pictures of the on viv mini form. You
got sixty four in each tub, and the tub came
with a bra strap hair band that had a jewel
on it, because this is back when bra strap hair
bands worth it. No, no tampons go bad, right, don't
they expire or something or after a while. Yeah, there's

(09:31):
like how LOLd? How old are these mini forms? Twenty
years old? There still? Oh no, they're still as effective
as they were when they were made. Yeah. Probably, As
my mom's friend said, those will last through one sneeze,
which is about right. Yeah, it's just it's like putting
a cotton ball and trying to prevent your period with
a cotton ball. I wonder why they picked your town though,

(09:54):
like like just like why Burger King picks a specific
town in Middle America to to test out of a
specific burger. Yeah. I think it was like we were
an average sized Like it was like sixty four thousand
people in Eau Claire. We were like mostly white, We
were you know, average income, average family size. I think
there was just like we were super average in every way,

(10:15):
and so they thought that people of an ethnic background
cannot use the en VIV. I think they can. I
think that though, at this, think about it twenty years ago.
Think about like it was just a different time. So
what was being represented on TV? Mostly white people. What
was being represented in marketing mostly white people? Um, and
we were mostly white people. I don't think New York
City ever, was the test market for anything, because no, no, no, no,

(10:36):
they're not going to do it here. Now. Why is
it that, like Seattle is the big test market for
a lot of things a lot of different cities. It depends,
I guess, just a cultural mix. I know, Eerie, where
I grew up, it was a McDonald's test market. So
we would get We got the mcribb sandwich before anybody.
So there's this thing. We're going to McDonalds. One day,
was like, what's this thing on the menu? It's until
you pressed into a mold with some sauce on it.

(10:59):
That's probably just the other sauces they have mixed together.
I can answer the Seattle thing that is, some companies
choose to open up their create their businesses based on
the workforce that's available to them. And so one of
the reasons Nordstrom, which started I believe in Seattle, didn't
come to the Northeast for many years is they will
worry they wouldn't find the kind of customer service people

(11:19):
here that they were accustomed to in other markets. They
didn't know if New York and New Jersey people could
be as friendly and as as uh as customer service oriented.
And so if you have a company and you want
let's say you want tech people, you're gonna open up
in in Silicon Valley. So Seattle is the culture and
the vibe of the people fits certain companies, so they
open there or they test their products there. Now. Now,

(11:41):
of course the conspiracy theorist and me I would say
that it was a government conspiracy and there was Claire.
You know, it was built over something. There was something there,
and the government wanted to test these things on the
people there, you know, take them out probably. You know,
same thing in Seattle is probably too many people are
trying to take them out. So the test things there
an eerie for sure. You know, the rib is killing.

(12:03):
You've got to take people out over there, right. I fully,
I fully, I like to believe in most conspiracy theories
just because it's more fun than not. That's right. Um.
By the way, Facebook is so fast, I don't I'm
never on it, but my friend Sherry was just like, yeah,
go post him on Twitter. That's fine. So I'm gonna
post these on Twitter. So by the time you hear this,

(12:25):
go to at Radio Bethany and you will see the
pictures of the v mini form. They don't go in you,
they go on you. And the commercial was three women
sitting around a kitchen sink talking about their periods. Can
you talk about it? That's what we did. We always
sit around then talk about our periods right around the
kitchen milk and our and our yogurt that has probiotics.

(12:47):
At any point, did they put a canoe shaped paper
towel in the sink the demonstrate It's really funny that
you say that. They actually took a sponge. They had
one of those faucets that went up and over. It
was like, you know, like and so she turned on
the fauce it and then she took a sponge and
placed it in her open palm and like put it
up to the faucet and it stopped running water because
it didn't go in you, it went on you. And

(13:10):
then yeah, condom, really, no condom would go around you.
Do you have the big hookie thing and you're putting
the thing to catch the thing. I don't. He's told
us that many times. The test products. Did you get
to do in Claire? Because again we're all sitting here
in wonderment, because again we don't have examples of this year. Yeah. Um,

(13:32):
the big two that I remember were did anything work? Like,
are we using anything now that worked? So far? I'm
hearing the iPhone. Yeah, I'm hearing leakage in the front
and leakage in the back, so far from you. I'm
trying to think those are the only two that I remember,
but I'm sure there were some from But I do
remember there was a commercial, a car commercial that was
shot in au Claire because Claire had been voted one

(13:55):
of the one of America's cities. Like it was a
really non it is And they still have banners that
hang in ou Claire that says, like au Claire voted
one of America's cities, and it was it was a car. Commercially,
my friend Adam got to be in it. New York
is like known as the greatest city in the world.
Claire's just happy with being called a city. We are,

(14:16):
in fact a city. You can't take that away from us.
Be Bethany would saying what year was ou Claire voted
the best city in the world. They still have the
banner still hanging up? Oh gosh, I mean I was
in high school and hang up? Yeah, I God. I
go into a restaurant that had the best pizza in
two thousand and two. Yeah, yeah, they still have and

(14:37):
they're still proud of. I would get worried if I
walk into a doctor's office and said vote voted one
of the the best doctors in two thousand two. Like, uh,
pizza place in New Here it says best Sicilian voted
best Sicilian Pizza two thousand seven. Why would you have
that up? I don't know, because for the last ten

(14:57):
years you have sucked. Yeah. Hey, then I get a
two thousand seven slice. Please. There's a place and literally
it's on their sign. I know you're talking about Nope,
Well this one is on it and it's clearly not
the same place. But I'm like, well, maybe they just
didn't have enough money to pay to update the freaking sign.
It's on their permanent sign voted best pizza. Uh. Notable

(15:20):
people from Oa Claire, Wisconsin, Bethany, Uh, are you you're
on the list right let's see. Oh, you better be
making that list. Hold on, let's go under w I
don't even know anybody else from Wisconsin. There is no
w Are you on Wikipedia? No, no, I am nowhere
on this list of notable people from o Claire, Wisconsin.

(15:42):
That's bullshit. All right, everyone listening, Go on Wikipedia today
and add Bethany Watson the most famous people. This is
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