Episodes

One brand at a time

14 episodes so far. Each one is a full article with the sources at the bottom, and the video it came from at the top.

In February 2025, at an auction in Millersburg, Ohio, a cast iron skillet sold for nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

In 2019 the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled six hundred and sixteen thousand gas water heaters.

Pick up a Revell model kit in a store today and the box can look brand new, with fresh artwork and a copyright line from this decade.

Sooner or later a lot of front-loading washers start to roar when they spin, and a common reason is one small part at the back of the tub: a bearing.

The truck in this box says Tonka on the side. Tonka did not make it.

Walk down the refrigerator aisle and you will count a dozen names.

There is a dish in your kitchen right now with the word Pyrex on the bottom.

Walk up to the tool wall at Home Depot and read the names.

For forty-seven years, Maytag paid actors to sit in a chair and do nothing.