Testing "ILLEGAL" Tech from MSCHF
- You may be familiar with a little company called MSCHF. They specialize in art-themed stunts. So whether it is teaming up with MrBeast to sell a bunch of toy cars, that some of which are actual real Lamborghinis, to making a bunch of perfect copies of a Picasso, just to mix up with the real thing and ship it out to people, or even allowing you to ship your (toy squeaks) into them, and they will melt them down and turn them into swords. Well, today we're going to be taking a look at some, a small fraction of the MSCHF items over the years to see if I can figure out, first of all what they are, and second of all, if this was a good idea or not, because I'll say some of the MSCHF things are a little scary, mostly for my monetization. Now I'll say that most of these items, we had to pick up from the secondhand market, mostly because MSCHF stuff usually shows up for a short amount of time during the drop, then they move on to the next wacky idea.
Uh-oh. Oh! Oh, I've seen these before, I've seen these before. These are the MSCHF booster packs. Oh, this is a good one, this is a good one. So- - No, those are the Boosted Packs. - Oh, sorry. The Boosted Packs.
So the Boosted Packs, and we have one, two, three, four, five of these. I think they did these maybe like two years ago, something like that, and the idea is that you don't know what you're gonna get. So you know, if you know me, you know, I like to open some Pokemon cards, but these can come with all kinds of stuff. Oh my God, it's a Social Security card is the very first thing. What the hell? That's an actual Social Security card. Wait, wait. Hold on, hold on.
Oh no, it's not. MSCHF Security Administration, I knew it. I'm like, "There's no way."
A Uline... (laughs) This is a Uline business card for, okay. Oh, here, we literally got the same ID again. We got a second Trudy Thomas. Trudy Thomas, you lost your damn Lockheed Martin ID.
- [Joanna] Twice. - That's unfortunate. A CVS card, this looks like, no, that's not real. I don't think that's real. This is kind of cool.
I'm not sure how to feel about it, honestly. It's like, it's kind of cool, but also sort of just like the novelty. Last five seconds, you go, "Ha, ha.
Oh, that's fake. Anyway." Do one of these cards have like a fricking Amex Black Card in it or something? Or like what do they say? - [Alex] Sort of, some of these cards will come with gift cards, and the gift cards are real and loaded with actual money. - What the hell? I got a picture of a little kid. (laughs) What is this? It's literally just a photo of a child.
So this is what we got for our MSCHF packs. Now I don't think there's any point to this. I don't even even think I have to guess, right? Like this is just a fun joke, right? - [Alex] There is kind of a point. - What's the point? What's point? - [Alex] The point is like, if you notice, most of these things are things you'd find in like a wallet per se, and it's called a Boosted Pack.
So it's kind of like as if you stole somebody's wallet and you're rifling through their stuff. - That's fair, so if you've ever wanted to pretend to steal someone's wallet, MSCHF has got you covered. How much do we pay for five of the Boosted Packs second edition? - [Alex] If you were to buy them from them, - Yeah. - originally, it was like 20 bucks a piece. - Woo, okay. How much did we pay?
- [Alex] On the secondhand market, you know, like 25 a piece. - Oh okay, so we basically paid a little over $100 for all these? - Yeah. - Okay. You know what? This first one, this first one's all right. It's fun.
A little goofy, but fun. All right. (light music) You didn't get the boot, did you? Did you get the boots? Did you get the boots? Oh no. (Alex laughs) - [Alex] We had to get the boots! - MSCHF, you will probably know, has a wide variety of things they've done over the years.
One of the more popular things in recent memories is the Big Red Boot, which have been copied, knocked off to oblivion. But this is the original Big Red Boots. Okay, let's get in there.
Oh, wow. I'm going in. (Alex laughs) Oh, okay, here we go. One, and... - [Alex] Well, it looked like they went on pretty easy.
- Yeah, this is actually, this is not a bad, oh wow, okay. (Alex laughs) How do you do, fellow kids? - [Alex] Oh, you're a real boy now. - It's weird because like they're big, they're a little bit rubbery, but like, they're mostly just very firm. So I feel like I'm walking around like I'm a big like toy doll or something. You know what? If you see me walking down the street like this, you have permission to punch me directly in the face.
So the point of the Big Red Boots is to... - [Joanna] Look stupid. - No, it's to remind us all of the vanity and the lack of interest in fashion because really, if you can walk around with your Big Red Boots and feel confident in yourself, then that's all you need in life, is just a little bit of confidence. You need to display to the world the fearless ambition that you have.
Is that the purpose of the Big Red Boots? - [Alex] It's literally just cartoon boots for a cool 3D world. - That's it? - That's kind of it. (laughs) You made a really nice little speech though. I appreciate that. - Thank you, I appreciate it.
How much were the Big Red Boots? - [Alex] So if you bought them from MSCHF, - Yep. Yep. - retail, they were $350 at retail. - Oh, no. - [Alex] We paid including shipping and everything else, - Yep. - actually about 350.
- It didn't go up in price? - [Alex] It does for some of them, but this one, I was actually able to like talk to the guy, and I was like, "Hey, have you used it?" And he is like, "Yeah, I used it," I was like, "Okay. Well, if you just sell it to me for this, then you basically have used it for free and please give it to me." - Alex out here negotiating with the MSCHFers. Anyway, let's keep on going, shall we? Next, we have, "Alcohol, fragrance, water.
Product of MSCHF." Oh my God, Smells Like WD-40. - [Alex] Yeah. - Okay, I think I'm down with this. So it is 58% alcohol, 40% fragrance, that's a lot of fragrance, and 2% water.
Now I know that there's like a whole meta of like candles that are like smelling like old Macs or tires or whatever. Cologne's an interesting one. Aw, that's cute. It just says MSCHF in like a WD-40-looking font. This actually, wow, this is actually kind of premium looking. Oh wow, that actually smelled like WD-40.
I don't know why I'm surprised. It's like slightly sweeter than WD-40, but it's got that very like particular smell. This actually works really well.
I don't know what the point of this would be, other than a hilarious joke, right? There's no actual purpose for this or like some secret thing I'm missing, right? It's just, it smells like WD-40? - [Alex] You hit it right on the head. - How much was Smells Like WD-40? - [Alex] $48 if you buy from them, - Yep, yep, yep, 48 bucks. - which is, you know, if you know anything about them, that's fairly reasonable. - Reasonable-ish, yeah.
- [Alex] We bought it again on the secondhand market for $42. - Secondhand market. We made a profit. - Eh, well... - You know, if your definition of profit's real loose. This is cool. Honestly, it feels dumb.
It's because it's sold and it smells actually good. It smells like WD-40, man. I'm actually kind of about this thing.
- [Alex] So the next item does not need a box. - Yes. I don't need a box, lovely. Oh wait, no, wait. - [Alex] I just sent you a phone number.
I want you (Austin laughs) to copy this phone number. - This the feet thing? - What- - We did the feet thing for This Is, is this the feet thing? - Yes. Do it! - Oh, no. - Okay, so MSCHF has a AI bot. - [Alex] Everyone loves AI, right? - Everyone is a huge fan of AI.
And so with MSCHF, they've created a phone number. If you text it, it will send you things. Well, I guess there's nothing else for it, huh? Now we just wait. We just wait for it to come back. I'll just keep my phone on the side here. Soon as my feet pics show up, I'll let y'all know. All right, we've got AirPods? Candy AirPods, oh my God. They make candy AirPods?
I'm actually kind of down. Oh, but there's no case. Uh-oh, there's no case. Oh, it's a little melty-looking, I'll say, but that looks real-ish. Oh, we all know what I gotta do, right? - [Alex] Oh, oh, no. Oh, ugh. - Can I get a B-roll first? Okay, or are you just gonna- - Nope. (laughs)
- Tastes a bit like a candy cane, perhaps. It actually does not taste bad. This serves no purpose.
This just serves the purpose of being a hilarious little gag 'cause someone thought that, "Wouldn't it be funny if I could eat AirPods and we could sell as a product?" - [Alex] That is correct! These have no purpose whatsoever. And if you were to buy them from MSCHF when they dropped, they're sold out. Almost everything that we bought has been sold out but- - Did we buy this directly from MSCHF? - [Alex] No, but if we did, it would've been $50, five, zero. - Brother! How much do we pay for it? - [Alex] This is one of the very few things where we paid less.
So we paid 45. - I feel like I just ate about one AirPod worth of value. This is funny and well done. I don't think you should eat it though. I think it's better to keep on your shelf as a gag because you're an artist and you like to let everyone know that AirPods are better licked than listened to.
Also, I'm sad to say, it has now been almost 20 minutes and I've still received no feet pics. It may be offline, but you can watch that clip of the This is video where we so lovingly discovered the depravity that MSCHF have unleashed on the world. "'Tax Heaven 3000', the dating sim that does your taxes. Get to know each other." "I wanna know something about you that's really personal.
Like what's your Social Security number?" (laughs) That was the moment, that was the screenshot I saw. Apparently, this will actually, I dunno if it's true or not, but supposedly this will actually file your taxes for you. - [Alex] Yes, it will actually do that.
- That is an insane thing to do, and I love it. - [Alex] I will say that they did it for the, (Austin laughs) so they did it last year. I don't think that they've updated it for this year 'cause you know, every year, taxes are different. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. They did this once. Wait, where's the Social Security card?
(laughs) They have prepared me. I have a fake Social Security card. Let's do this one. Oh, she uwu-d, she's uwu-ing immediately.
Fine, you got my Social Security number. - [Alex] (laughs) That's all it takes. - That's it. - Just for somebody to ooh- - Look, I'm a man, it's very simple.
Am I filing singly or jointly on your 2022 federal tax return? Is she trying to ask if I'm married or not? I guess I'm filing singly, I guess. "That's great, are you married?" Well, actually I am married. I'm just filing separately. (laughs) Oh no, wait. Oh no, I mean, no, no, no. Don't worry about, no, singly filing.
No dependents, it's fine. - Oh, oh, okay. I see where this is going. - No! I've already lost taxes! Oh no, I have so much explaining to do and I also still have to file my taxes. No! I know I don't need to ask about this. I know this is a free game.
- Well... - Okay, so you're very lucky because while the program itself was free, I could have gotten the deluxe version. - What's the deluxe version? - [Alex] The deluxe version is this program on a CD, - Oh, that's kind of good. - but also a Iris body pillow.
(Alex laughs) - And you didn't get this for what reason exactly? - [Alex] Well, it was sold out. I mean, immediately, come on. - Oh, okay, okay. - [Alex] How many people do you think got that? - Well, that's fair. - But those lucky bastards,
they paid 90 bucks. - Alexagate? What is Alexagate? "Bye bye, Bezos." How could you? Jeffy B, I want Jeffy B included in all of my private conversations. - [Alex] Well, you will need one of these. - Okay, got it. So this is an Alexa, we'll plug it in. Also, Sorry if you have an Alexa in your house,q but we're not censoring the word Alexa 700 times.
So you just gotta deal with it. "Clap/tap commands, tapping three times on the device or clapping three times will cause Alexa to switch between listening and blocking modes." Oh, so you put this around your actual Echo, and then it will block people listening versus turning it on based on what you want to do. Oh, okay. Wow. This is very intimidating-looking. Good Lord, okay.
- [Alex] This is one of the few like electronic things that it seems like MSCHF built from kind of the ground up. - Yeah, this looks like actual real engineering, not just some funny joke. - Okay. - So just to test it, hey Alexa, what time is it? - [Alexa] The time is 3:35 PM. - Okay, so clearly, it works.
So we're gonna put this over the top of it. Okay, it's blinking. Does it pair? What do I do? Okay, so, "Clap or tap three times to activate."
Okay so... (claps) Is it a solid X? It is, okay. "So when it's in blocking mode, it'll prevent your Echo from hearing any audio commands." Hey Alexa, what time is it? Oh my God, it actually works. - [Alex] Yes. (Austin claps) It's off. Hey Alexa, what time is it?
- [Alexa] The time is 3:35 PM. - Is it just like sending out like white noise or something that like wrecks the mics on the Alexa? - [Alex] That is correct. - I actually kinda like this thing. How much is the Alexagate? 'Cause I'll tell you, they spent some real money building this thing with all the little speakers that blast the microphones, and I don't think they made any money on this thing. This looks expensive.
- [Alex] Yeah, so it retailed for $100. - (laughs) More than most Alexas. Okay, all right. - [Alex] I mean you can also put that on the big towery one. - Sure, sure. How much did we pay for it? - [Alex] We paid $150.
- So a moderate markup. Hey Jeffy B, I hope you're listening. You're looking real good today, buddy. You shine that forehead of yours? Your yacht's looking good. Not your little yacht, your big yacht. I would love a ride, if you don't mind. Thanks.
Next up, we have Dead Startup Toys. I'm afraid. All right, let's do this, let's do this. So first up, we have the Theranos Minilab, and it's got StockX Verified, oh. Oh, this came from StockX, didn't it? - Sure did. - Uh-oh, that's not a good sign.
"Cause of death, non-existence and fraud." (Alex laughs) This is a funny idea, I like this. Aw, that's adorable. It's the little doohickey that is supposed to test your blood. It doesn't do anything, much like the real thing.
(Alex laughs) The Coolest Cooler, five-year lifespan. "Cause of death, non-delivery and the Oregon Department of Justice." So it's the Coolest Cooler.
So it had a little bottle opener. You had the speaker, you could close it up. You could push a little blender in it.
Dude, that's freaking great. Man, MSCHF spent some money putting this thing together. This thing is sick. Dude, these are absolutely incredible. I gotta ask though, how much was this new? And probably more relevantly, how much did we pay on StockX for our Dead Startup Toys? - [Alex] So each one of those toys individually, so you can't actually buy those, well, back when it was still a drop, $40 a piece - Oh boy, okay. - or 160 for all of them. - Okay, how much did we pay? - [Alex] You know how you said that not a lot of MSCHF things appreciate in price? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. This didn't either, right? - [Alex] No, this was like $400.
- So I'm assuming there's no point to this, besides just making fun of a bunch of companies that sucked, right? - [Alex] No, I mean there is a point. The point is that like extreme capitalism is bad in many ways 'cause it also breeds like a lot of companies that make these products and extreme claims, right? - Yeah. - A lot of these products, if they just didn't lie their asses off just so they could like raise money like crazy, would've probably been okay.
- Yeah, yeah. Well, what's a little bit of lies, deception, and clickbait between friends? I mean, I wouldn't know anything about it. (chuckles) I've never done that before. Well... Oh, well...
(production beeps) MSCHF Illegal Chips. There are four bags with three flavors, Casu Marzu Maggot Cheese, Horse Meat, and Fugu Poison Blowfish. Did MSCHF really just make a bunch of chips flavored like illegal not okay things to eat? - [Alex] Correct, yes. That is it. (laughs) - So I walked around the office, I looked for volunteers to try Horse Meat chips, and these are the sickos who showed up. (Alex laughs) Well, let's start out with some Maggot Cheese flavor. - It smells like - Dust from 1970. - the insulation department
of Home Depot. - Ah, oh, I got a little one. - [Austin] Smart move.
- No, it totally does smell like insulation. - That's what I... (laughs) - What the hell? - Okay, ready, set... Oh, that's stale.
- That's so stale. - That's not helping. - Next up, we've got Fugu Poison Blowfish. So you want a little bit of poison sack action in your mouth? - Oh, yikes. Okay. - This one is technically- (Austin coughs) Oh geez, all right. - [Kinsey] That might be worse. I'm not sure. - No, it's better, I think. - Is it better?
- There's more flavor, but I don't know if it's better. - There is more flavor, but the base is still drywall. - It tastes like spoiled. - I regret this. I guess we gotta do Horse Meat now? I'm sorry. To be fair, everyone volunteered for this.
"Horse Meat flavored. Sell by April, 2022." - [Ken] Oh, yikes. - [Alex] Well, that's just the best buy date. That's not when it expires. - It's only a couple years behind. - This one's better.
- It tastes like barbecue drywall. - This one is better like by a lot. - Oh, yeah. - I wouldn't choose to eat this, but if this flavor was on like a Lay's, I would eat it. So how much do we pay for our Illegal Chips? - [Alex] So if you bought them directly from MSCHF, they were $12 a bag. - Yep.
Okay, expensive but like not crazy. - [Alex] We paid $50 for all four. - For all four. - And how much would the equivalent weight in Home Depot drywall be? - Is there a point to this? Is the point to highlight the ridiculous global system of what you can and can't eat and the regulations, they're just trying to keep you down when you're trying to nom on the horse stuff? - [Alex] Yeah, actually that is pretty much it. - Thank you, everybody, for coming to join. - I appreciate the help with the Illegal Chips.
- Yeah. - Welcome. - Mm, wow, it's very small. That's it. Okay, what do we got here? Email Capsule Collection, Angelfire, PC CD-ROM.
What is this? - [Alex] I mean, you know what Angelfire is? - I, of course, do. But could you just refresh the audience, who definitely remembers, I mean, doesn't remember what Angelfire is? - [Alex] So Angelfire is like one of the really old-school web hosting platforms. - [Austin] Oh, this is like GeoCities era? - [Alex] Yeah, so they created a bunch of email addresses based off of old legacy things. So Heaven's Gate, The Pirate Bay, Megaupload, 4chan, and Angelfire. So they made email addresses. - Oh, that's kind of sick. So how much were these?
- [Alex] So if you bought them off MSCHF, each one was $250. - Yeah. - [Alex] We paid $310. And again, this is one of the less desirable ones. So like obviously like The Pirate Bay or 4chan ones are gonna be like- - Yeah, I like The Pirate Bay one, I'm not gonna lie. So I gotta figure out how to get the CD.
I'm not gonna lie, I wanna be careful with this box, but it's kind of stuck in here. - [Alex] Oh, you actually wanted to activate it? Well, I don't know- - What did you think was gonna happen to the segment? - Well, 'cause if you do that, then you can never (laughs) sell that. - Oh, it's a one-time use kind of thing? - [Alex] Yes, because only 50 of each domain was ever made. Did you actually think there's a second that you put this in front of me and I was not gonna actually do it? - [Alex] (sighs) I guess not.
- Yeah, of course not! I do need an external disc drive though. - [Alex] Oh, we don't have one of those, sorry. - Goodbye, $300. Hello, dumb email address. Ah.
Let's do it, let's run Angelfire.exe, baby! This is a questionable decision. - Yep. (catchy keygen music) - That's kind of hilarious. - That's keygen-ass music. - [Alex] That's kind of hilarious, I like that a lot.
(Alex laughs) - My email address, radman@angelfire.biz. Generate password. Okay, copy the password and let's log in. Doesn't work. (catchy music continues) This music's suddenly feeling a whole lot less cool.
Has it been so long that they made a temp email for and it doesn't work anymore? Did I just spend $300 and it doesn't work? Hmm. Well, that's unfortunate. (Alex and Austin laughs) Radman signing off. (catchy music continues)
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