This Past Weekend with Theo Von - American Originals Holiday Special w⧸ Mike Rowe

00:00:00.000 Today, we are presenting a special holiday episode where we recommend some genuine made-in-the-USA

00:00:07.700 products just in time for the holiday gift-giving season.

00:00:12.280 These are products that are actually made right here in America.

00:00:15.280 We really did our research.

00:00:16.980 So when you're buying something, you're supporting a fellow American.

00:00:20.100 And joining me for this merry mission is a friend with a laundry list of media accomplishments,

00:00:26.720 including the host of Dirty Jobs, as well as he was host on QVC.

00:00:33.000 He's America's blue-collar champion, and he's here today to help encourage you to support

00:00:39.140 American-made while checking off your holiday hitter list.

00:00:43.500 Today's guest is Mr. Mike Rowe.

00:00:48.840 Shine on me

00:00:51.480 And I will find a song

00:00:55.720 I've been singing

00:00:56.920 I can't believe we're doing this.

00:01:05.280 I know.

00:01:05.880 I mean, we talked about this like a year ago as a goof.

00:01:09.940 Like, Wayne's World meets QVC to celebrate American manufacturing.

00:01:15.160 And Theo's like, yeah, man, I'll do that.

00:01:17.180 We wanted to highlight American creativity.

00:01:22.400 You know, we want to just create gifts where it's like a lot of times you want to give a

00:01:26.400 gift to somebody.

00:01:27.380 And a lot of stuff we buy now in America is from other places.

00:01:30.260 So it was like, well, let's buy stuff that's from our neighbor, from our fellow American,

00:01:33.880 because then you're kind of given like two gifts.

00:01:36.120 It's like I'm giving one gift because I am giving an actual physical gift to my friend.

00:01:41.500 But then I'm given another gift because the money from it is going towards an American

00:01:46.200 family or an American company.

00:01:47.840 Well, the thing that got me, man, you've been touring for forever.

00:01:52.180 We've been to 250 something cities over the past four years.

00:01:55.240 So, yeah, well, anybody who gets around the country sees that things are tough in certain

00:02:01.380 areas, like really super tough in other areas.

00:02:03.560 And the idea of reinvigorating manufacturing and showing people what's possible.

00:02:10.160 I mean, that's the idea.

00:02:11.780 Like these products, people should know that nobody paid to be on here.

00:02:17.580 These are just items that we found made by people that we think are super cool.

00:02:22.660 And it would be great to crash their website and at the same time give the audience, you

00:02:28.220 know, something cool to stuff in a stocking.

00:02:30.760 Yeah, we just picked a lot of stuff that we thought was cool to us, you know?

00:02:33.600 Yeah.

00:02:33.840 And like Mike mentioned, we do want to say that none of these products are paid to be

00:02:39.060 here.

00:02:39.460 And a lot of these products are like companies that we happened upon in different places.

00:02:43.940 Some of them were businesses that we walked into when we're out on the road.

00:02:47.880 Some are ones that are near and dear to your heart and places that you've been a champion

00:02:52.380 for a long time.

00:02:53.700 And it's just nice to let people know that there is stuff that is made here in our country.

00:02:58.200 You have to seek it out a little bit.

00:03:00.640 And but that the the desire and and the the ingenuity is still there.

00:03:06.900 And we put together our best hodgepodge of Christmas gifts that you can give to somebody

00:03:12.560 you care about or even somebody that you don't.

00:03:14.400 Everything on this show is working right.

00:03:17.880 They've got a heartbeat and they figured something out.

00:03:21.580 And, you know, maybe you can drag them over the finish line.

00:03:25.240 I think we can start highlighting them.

00:03:26.560 Shall we jump in?

00:03:27.340 Let's jump in.

00:03:29.980 This is our first item from the Sullivan Glove Company.

00:03:33.760 Hailing from Bend, Oregon, the Sullivan Glove Company has been keeping their premium gloves

00:03:39.300 distinctly American-made since 1941, sourcing everything from within these United States

00:03:46.400 and crafting each glove through their dedicated and domestic 10-person team who managed to churn

00:03:52.900 out over 12,000 pair every year.

00:03:56.160 Sullivan Glove products are handsome and made for versatility.

00:03:59.620 They're perfect for a full spectrum of activities from a night out on the town to the ranch or

00:04:05.580 the workshop.

00:04:06.560 Sullivan Glove stand for warmth, durability, and the American spirit.

00:04:10.780 Get your special holiday someone's ands into some warm American-made goodness this year.

00:04:17.520 This feels great.

00:04:19.260 And what is this, leather?

00:04:20.680 That's elk.

00:04:21.480 This is deer.

00:04:22.200 Touch mine with yours.

00:04:23.060 Do that.

00:04:24.840 Oh, it's like two animals meeting in the woods, huh?

00:04:26.900 Here's what you do.

00:04:28.740 If you really want to mix it up, give me the one on your right hand.

00:04:32.400 I'll give you the one on my right hand.

00:04:34.360 Yeah.

00:04:35.440 I don't know that this has ever been done before at the Sullivan Glove Company.

00:04:39.300 But, oh, wow, these are, see, that's a heavier-duty glove.

00:04:45.540 Yes.

00:04:47.320 Yeah, this is very, has a very Russian sort of we-can-do-it type of thing. 0.95

00:04:53.160 I feel like you definitely, this thing a lot, you could do a lot.

00:04:56.700 You could also train that falcon with this one.

00:04:58.760 Sure.

00:04:59.640 The falcon will come back.

00:05:00.520 I feel like if you walked outside with this one on, the falcon will come back.

00:05:03.780 This was made for work, for sure.

00:05:05.700 These feel like almost, almost like driving gloves.

00:05:08.160 There was a guy on the show a while back, a guy, a small guy, which is a child.

00:05:13.860 And he was on here, and he found some gloves just in his pocket.

00:05:19.860 He found some, like, latex gloves in his pocket.

00:05:22.380 These gloves are in my pocket.

00:05:24.000 Are they really?

00:05:25.440 Rizzler.

00:05:25.900 That's his name, yeah.

00:05:27.160 Is that really his name?

00:05:28.300 Yeah, that's his name.

00:05:29.840 His first name?

00:05:30.720 Christian is his real name.

00:05:32.500 And he's somewhere, he's like six to eight years old.

00:05:34.480 He's a great kid.

00:05:36.040 And, but he actually, we sent him a pair of these.

00:05:37.980 Remember when I pulled these out?

00:05:41.700 Yeah.

00:05:42.260 Well, now I'm going to upgrade something even better.

00:05:45.660 Check these out.

00:05:46.580 These are really nice.

00:05:48.480 Ooh.

00:05:50.960 Well, I'll tell you this.

00:05:51.900 There's nothing I like putting my hand more in than something made right here in America.

00:05:58.860 I'll tell you that, you know?

00:06:00.060 I mean, there was, and that could have gone a few different ways, but I'm glad it went the way it did towards Solomon gloves, man.

00:06:05.300 I am too.

00:06:05.780 You know, these gloves were created by Edward Sullivan.

00:06:09.040 He got started producing gloves for World War II, mainly for the Navy.

00:06:12.320 That's how this glove company started.

00:06:14.240 And, and it's still here.

00:06:15.680 And it's up in Bend, Oregon.

00:06:16.960 And I'll tell you a little bit of something about Bend, you know?

00:06:19.320 That is a resilient place, Michael.

00:06:21.520 Sure it is, man.

00:06:22.100 It's the home of the last blockbuster.

00:06:23.960 You know what I'm saying?

00:06:24.720 They're stubborn people.

00:06:25.520 They like to do things their own way.

00:06:27.800 There's a lot of like, even just the way it's set up there, it's not like a regular little city.

00:06:32.400 It's little pockets of this and that, and somebody's in the woods sucking tree sap out of something.

00:06:38.880 You know, it's just that kind of people.

00:06:40.220 If I see somebody sucking on something, I'll look the other way.

00:06:43.200 You know, I'll support them. 0.55

00:06:44.760 You're walking through the woods, and you see a fella sidled up to a tree.

00:06:49.160 Say a maple.

00:06:50.100 Just slurping it?

00:06:50.900 Yeah, and he's sucking on the tree to get the sap out.

00:06:54.820 Do you approach?

00:06:56.380 Do you take a photo?

00:06:57.940 Do you step back?

00:06:58.840 Oh, I think you wait a few minutes until he steps back, and then you just let him spit it on your hotcakes.

00:07:04.200 That's what I'm saying.

00:07:05.280 That's, I mean, if it's pure maple, I don't know what he was getting.

00:07:07.780 But let's get back to the gloves here, Michael.

00:07:10.540 I do want to say there's only five glove companies left that manufacture in the USA.

00:07:15.580 They've got work gloves.

00:07:16.600 They've got driving gloves.

00:07:17.480 They've got rodeo gloves.

00:07:18.780 They've got going-around-town gloves.

00:07:21.240 They're all soft.

00:07:22.120 They're all supple.

00:07:23.160 They're all tough.

00:07:24.020 It's a great company.

00:07:25.100 Yeah, these can be great.

00:07:26.000 They have classic, it says, leather motorcycle.

00:07:28.680 Wow.

00:07:29.060 So if you want to get out there, and you want to get your baby girl one of those big sodas,

00:07:34.160 and let her sit behind you on a gold wing or something, and you want to get out there and show off, 0.69

00:07:38.840 you want to be a little Sturgis baby out there, you can do it in these Sullomons. 1.00

00:07:42.640 And they have rodeo and ranch.

00:07:44.560 If you want to, if you like dipping your nuggets in some deep ranch, you can wear these gloves and do it.

00:07:51.660 Is that what they mean, you think?

00:07:52.620 I don't think so.

00:07:53.640 Oh, these feel good, man.

00:07:54.980 Honestly, you can feel quality.

00:07:56.900 Like, you really, really, really know it.

00:07:59.340 You know it when you see it.

00:08:00.480 You really know it when you touch it.

00:08:01.780 But when, to your point, when you push your hand slowly into something that is undeniably of quality,

00:08:11.480 then all of your fingers come together in a joyous fist of solidarity.

00:08:18.180 Come together.

00:08:20.120 Right now.

00:08:23.320 And how do they smell?

00:08:24.780 Like, if you really had to sum it up, what is the aroma?

00:08:27.680 They smell great.

00:08:28.560 The insides smell a little different than the outsides, but that's kind of nice.

00:08:31.520 That's how I like it.

00:08:32.780 Sullivan gloves.

00:08:33.500 Thank you guys for sending us a few pairs so that we could show them off.

00:08:37.060 All you need is glove.

00:08:38.900 All you need.

00:08:40.080 Bang, bang, Maxwell, Silver, Hammer, King.

00:08:43.180 Remember that?

00:08:43.740 That is a serious copyright infringement right there.

00:08:46.060 Is it?

00:08:46.260 I'll be amazed if you can get away with that.

00:08:47.720 Are you serious?

00:08:48.060 We'll see.

00:08:49.100 The Beatles, they're very grabby with their, what you call their IP.

00:08:52.940 Yeah.

00:08:53.560 But yeah, I think when people look back at this and wonder what the heck just happened,

00:08:56.980 the image that's really going to stick with them is the guy in the woods sucking the sap out of the maple tree.

00:09:03.040 Well, let's chat about a new product here, Mike.

00:09:13.880 I hate to keep us moving along, but we got a lot of products to hit.

00:09:16.500 Miles to go before we sleep.

00:09:17.860 Amen.

00:09:18.360 Some of those Sullivan gloves are so dexteritous, you could actually enjoy a fine piece of fruit in them.

00:09:25.080 I got to admit, I hadn't thought about that, but as Tim comes in with these delicious-looking, beautifully-wrapped, perfectly-boxed pieces of fruit,

00:09:37.480 I will say that the idea of eating them with gloved hands is appealing.

00:09:43.720 And we're talking about chukar cherries out of Yakima Valley, Washington.

00:09:50.700 Will you give us a little bit more intel on those, Mike Hill?

00:09:53.520 In the heart of Washington State's cherry country, an idea was hatched by a woman named Pam Montgomery,

00:09:59.860 whose family owned a cherry orchard.

00:10:02.280 As Pam strolled beneath the cherry trees, enamored by the sweet smell of the sun-dried fruits,

00:10:08.140 she began to experiment with storing the cherries without adding any sugars or preservatives, as was recommended.

00:10:17.100 Instead, Pam made a commitment to keep her cherries additive-free,

00:10:23.000 and eventually combined them with chocolate and chukar cherries were born.

00:10:28.080 Now sold in Seattle's famous Pike Place and from its headquarters in Prosser, Washington,

00:10:34.320 you can also find these in a variety of cherries and chocolates at chukar.com.

00:10:41.360 And that's chukar.com.

00:10:44.420 Oh, I love that.

00:10:46.620 Yeah, you got to think.

00:10:48.160 If you think about a cherry, it's really, some people say it's just a little apple.

00:10:53.480 Have you ever seriously heard of anybody referred to a cherry as a little apple?

00:11:00.120 Ever?

00:11:01.520 Nope.

00:11:01.920 All right.

00:11:03.500 There's no wrong answer, but part of why I wanted to do this was just to sit close enough to you for a protracted period of time

00:11:09.980 to see if I can become one of the few people on the planet with some insight as to how your brain actually works.

00:11:15.700 Well, I think it actually does a lot of times.

00:11:18.060 It's the real truth.

00:11:19.120 But there is something beautiful about a little cherry, because sometimes you want an apple.

00:11:22.860 Sometimes you want 40 apples, and you're like, oh, I can't eat all these 40 apples at one time.

00:11:26.780 And you see a cherry, and you're like, oh, okay.

00:11:29.120 So I'm going to—

00:11:29.860 Shorty showed up.

00:11:30.580 I'm going to put some out here.

00:11:32.120 Yeah, I'd love to have one.

00:11:33.200 You can see them.

00:11:34.020 Oh, wow.

00:11:34.800 They don't look like your normal cherries.

00:11:36.400 I would say they look like a dehydrated cherry, almost.

00:11:41.620 God, these are good.

00:11:42.560 I know.

00:11:43.340 They're amazing.

00:11:45.920 And I think just knowing that they're natural, knowing they're not all jacked up.

00:11:50.100 You see a lot of fruit these days, and it's doing peptides.

00:11:54.520 It's on GLMP-1 or whatever.

00:11:57.620 And it's on—you know, you'll get a pear or whatever, and it's been doing creatine.

00:12:02.340 You're like, what in the hell is this?

00:12:03.600 It's as big as a pumpkin.

00:12:05.220 You know, the most suspicious thing is the color.

00:12:08.560 When they're really super vibrant and when they look so delicious that, you know, that's just not how it is in life, man.

00:12:17.480 That's not what natural is.

00:12:18.780 This is natural.

00:12:20.260 Who would you get these for in your family?

00:12:21.720 Be honest with me, Mike.

00:12:22.540 Maybe for an office worker, you know, it's a thoughtful thing to do.

00:12:28.140 You know, once you're talking about an ingestible, you are getting into, like, a personal kind of thing.

00:12:35.220 You give it to perfect strangers.

00:12:36.880 Oh, I've sold bad pills to people over the years.

00:12:40.740 So inviting people to buy something that's good for them is certainly not a problem.

00:12:48.100 What's a new direction for you, then?

00:12:49.860 Yeah.

00:12:50.320 Oh, dude, I bought a batch of fake steroids from somebody in high school, injected it into my body for, like, 12 weeks, dude.

00:12:56.300 What happened?

00:12:57.040 I don't know.

00:12:59.480 Well, look, just for the record, if you're just tuning in, these are cherries.

00:13:04.460 They're natural cherries.

00:13:05.660 Don't inject them into your body.

00:13:07.320 There's no need for it.

00:13:09.480 Just put it in your mouth, chew it, and let the unmistakable delight of cherries the way God made them wash over your palate and thrill to the delight as it journeys through your digestive tract.

00:13:25.500 And I'll tell you this.

00:13:27.460 These come in a beautiful case.

00:13:31.780 What is this?

00:13:32.540 Look at that.

00:13:33.240 No, honestly, that's a great point.

00:13:34.900 That's 9 by 12, I believe.

00:13:36.500 Looks about right.

00:13:38.160 Maybe more.

00:13:38.960 I think that's a foot.

00:13:40.160 I think that's 12.

00:13:41.580 I think that's 12 by 9.

00:13:43.820 Okay.

00:13:44.660 Well, I guess it would be the same, wouldn't it?

00:13:46.280 9 by 12.

00:13:47.120 I wasn't going to challenge you there, Mike, because you're a universe.

00:13:49.920 That's at least a foot.

00:13:51.220 But the simple fact that you know these chocolate coverage areas are in here sleeping, and I know the lights are bright.

00:13:56.920 We're just going to expose them right away.

00:13:59.020 There we go.

00:13:59.460 Oh, yeah.

00:14:02.700 Look at that.

00:14:03.500 Raspberry truffles, vanilla almonds, classic cranberries.

00:14:07.280 You can see the list for yourself.

00:14:08.620 And then one layer comes.

00:14:10.000 Oh, my gosh.

00:14:13.140 Look at that.

00:14:13.920 And look at these.

00:14:14.840 I'm going to show these up so the baby girls at home can see them.

00:14:17.800 There we go.

00:14:18.740 Hello, Pam. 0.98

00:14:22.020 Hello, Theo.

00:14:24.060 Yep, that's me.

00:14:24.880 Thank you so much for being a part of our gift-giving holiday season and inspiring us with your Chukar Cherries story.

00:14:34.960 This is one of our heroes, Mike.

00:14:37.300 Hi, Pam.

00:14:38.500 Hi, Mike.

00:14:39.580 And, Pam, tell me this, and thank you so much for joining us today.

00:14:42.600 How do you – is it Chukar?

00:14:44.720 Chukar? 0.96

00:14:45.580 It's Chukar. 0.98

00:14:47.680 Chukar.

00:14:48.120 It's a bird.

00:14:49.300 You know the logo that looks like a little penguin?

00:14:52.920 Yeah.

00:14:53.320 Well, that's actually a Chukar bird.

00:14:55.780 That's awesome.

00:14:56.600 Yeah.

00:14:57.260 Congratulations.

00:14:58.240 And last – thanks.

00:14:59.820 And last year we dried 700,000 pounds of cherries.

00:15:05.920 Ooh.

00:15:07.020 Holy cow. 0.89

00:15:07.980 Oh, my gosh.

00:15:09.000 What's the most interesting thing about cherries that the average American would benefit from knowing but currently doesn't?

00:15:18.120 Probably the average wouldn't know that this is one of the best places to grow cherries in the world.

00:15:26.580 So how many people do you employ now?

00:15:29.080 About 75 a year.

00:15:31.620 Nice.

00:15:31.980 We really have focused on using U.S. products, U.S. labor.

00:15:38.480 Well, that's one of the things that stood out to us whenever we're searching for companies like yours is just the desire to use American products, providing jobs for other Americans.

00:15:49.060 Having people have a wonderful place where they like to work and customers that enjoy what you're doing, I think that will keep Chukar going.

00:15:58.620 That's the American dream right there.

00:16:00.380 Yep.

00:16:00.780 You're living it.

00:16:01.480 Exactly.

00:16:02.040 You're living the American dream through cherries.

00:16:03.980 I think it's terrific.

00:16:05.140 Amen.

00:16:05.420 Well, thank you so much, Pam, for creating Chukar cherries.

00:16:10.060 And Mike?

00:16:12.180 I'm literally going to order three of these for the holidays.

00:16:16.520 My family's going to absolutely love them.

00:16:19.080 They look great.

00:16:20.260 And it's just nice to know you're out there doing your thing for as long as you've been doing it.

00:16:26.040 Congratulations on building something great.

00:16:28.260 Thank you.

00:16:29.260 Thank you.

00:16:30.080 It's been my pleasure.

00:16:31.260 Thank you.

00:16:31.380 Thank you.

00:16:35.420 We could keep it moving, Mike.

00:16:41.620 Why wouldn't we?

00:16:42.700 I don't think there's any reason not to.

00:16:44.520 All right.

00:16:45.220 Oh, yeah.

00:16:45.580 This is a good one.

00:16:46.620 Crippling hot sauce. 0.77

00:16:48.480 When life gives you lemons, make hot sauce.

00:16:50.920 In a small Missouri town, Drew Davis did just that.

00:16:54.940 Born with cerebral palsy, Drew started crippling hot sauce at 16 with $3,000, a folding table, and his grandmother's kitchen.

00:17:04.880 What began as a high school project became a national movement, selling over 500,000 bottles.

00:17:13.720 This incredible feat is one built on family, faith, and the belief that strength comes in all forms.

00:17:21.360 Every bottle is made and bottled here in America with bold, original flavors like spicy bacon, special treatment, and salsa verde, limping.

00:17:32.980 Drew's determination has inspired millions, proving that when you bet on yourself, even the hottest challenges can turn into something extraordinary.

00:17:42.380 Yeah.

00:17:42.880 Let me take a—I wouldn't mind taking a little hit of this deal with it.

00:17:46.700 Yeah.

00:17:47.160 So let's crack that open.

00:17:51.180 Get your little gander.

00:17:52.440 Get your little.

00:17:53.340 There we go.

00:17:54.640 Hmm.

00:17:55.160 Ooh.

00:17:57.320 Oh, yeah.

00:17:58.820 No, it's got a wang to it.

00:18:00.580 We got Drew on the line.

00:18:02.440 What's up, Drew Davis?

00:18:03.520 How are you?

00:18:04.580 Good.

00:18:04.940 How about you?

00:18:06.080 We're doing great, man.

00:18:07.560 I just accidentally drank a decent amount of your deal with it sauce, man. 1.00

00:18:12.700 That shit will give you the runs. 1.00

00:18:14.800 It will? 1.00

00:18:15.680 Well, it's good to know, man.

00:18:16.640 We just started the show.

00:18:17.960 The sauce gives you the runs better than I run.

00:18:21.280 Yeah.

00:18:22.740 Yeah, you won't give anybody the runs, huh?

00:18:24.860 Yeah.

00:18:26.960 When did you get it into your head to start making hot sauce?

00:18:30.960 So, actually, I had a school project.

00:18:33.700 It was due in two days.

00:18:35.400 I'm like, man, what am I going to do?

00:18:37.080 And I look down.

00:18:38.220 I look at myself.

00:18:38.940 I'm like, huh, it would be funny.

00:18:40.460 I like making fun of myself.

00:18:41.880 And I like hot sauce.

00:18:42.840 Let's present an idea called crippling hot sauce.

00:18:46.260 So, I was on deck and I get the grade back.

00:18:50.420 It's 82%.

00:18:51.660 And as a person with cerebral palsy, my brain is the only thing that works 100% well on my body.

00:18:59.500 So, I kind of got mad.

00:19:01.020 I was like, so I went up to the teacher and asked him why.

00:19:04.200 I'm like, I've never gotten a grade this low.

00:19:06.220 Why this grade?

00:19:07.860 He goes, oh, I thought it was a great idea.

00:19:10.680 Just didn't think you could do it.

00:19:12.240 Thought it was unrealistic.

00:19:13.200 So, I went home that day out of spite, learned how to make hot sauce and launched it.

00:19:21.020 And a couple of years later, we've sold hundreds of thousands of bottles, all while supporting people with disabilities along the way.

00:19:29.980 Let's go. 0.98

00:19:30.880 Fucking fantastic, dude. 0.98

00:19:32.280 It says on your box here that 5% goes to cerebral palsy research for every sale. 0.99

00:19:38.400 Is that right?

00:19:39.340 Yep.

00:19:39.780 I'm trying to fix this stuff.

00:19:41.680 Oh, hell yeah, dude.

00:19:42.980 I was going to say, I was going to recommend a chiropractor for you, but.

00:19:47.280 Yeah, I tried that.

00:19:49.000 Yeah, I bet, dude.

00:19:51.600 Drew, it's exciting, man.

00:19:53.380 Even just seeing you and feeling your energy, dude.

00:19:55.920 It just feels like the American spirit, you know, like, oh, I'll find a way to get this done, right?

00:20:01.280 I love that, man.

00:20:02.280 And I love this quote on the box.

00:20:04.340 It's not the hot sauce that put me in the wheelchair.

00:20:06.820 It's the cerebral palsy.

00:20:07.980 A bit on the nose, but, you know.

00:20:12.280 I just always have liked making fun of myself.

00:20:15.640 So now that I get to monetize that, I couldn't ask for anything better.

00:20:20.740 What makes this a perfect gift for someone for the holidays?

00:20:24.860 Man, I think it just encompasses, like, the true, like, a lot of our humor, and I think it does well.

00:20:34.740 So it's like a gimmick product that tastes well, but also does, like, great for the disabled community, which is 1.3 billion strong in the world.

00:20:46.120 Can you believe that?

00:20:46.820 Are you serious?

00:20:48.100 There's 1.3 billion wheelchairs in the world.

00:20:51.900 Wow.

00:20:53.000 Dude, imagine if we all raced, dude.

00:20:55.500 It'd be like the, um.

00:20:56.320 The running of the bulls.

00:20:56.660 No running.

00:20:57.500 Not running.

00:20:58.380 Yeah.

00:20:58.860 Like that, yeah.

00:20:59.660 Almost like the running of the bulls.

00:21:01.240 The rolling of the bulls.

00:21:02.600 How good is the product?

00:21:04.180 We are flavor first.

00:21:06.040 None of them are too terribly hot besides the ghost pepper palsy.

00:21:10.360 I guess specifically for, about cerebral palsy, do you feel like it's something that can be defeated one day?

00:21:15.160 Like, what do you think about that?

00:21:16.780 Yes, I do think so, because the, what cerebral palsy is, is it's brain damage to the cerebral cortex in your brain.

00:21:25.380 So my brain doesn't get the right messages to my legs for them to work.

00:21:31.520 Oh, yeah.

00:21:32.380 It's like 3G wireless or whatever.

00:21:34.840 Yeah.

00:21:35.820 My brain got one power, dude.

00:21:37.740 What are sales like?

00:21:41.540 We've done, like, two and a half million, um, this year, and, um, you know, still crippled, but at least I sell hot sauce.

00:21:51.500 Blessings to you, bro.

00:21:52.460 Happy holidays to you, and, uh, and thanks for being so creative.

00:21:56.000 Thank you so much for having me, guys.

00:21:58.120 You bet.

00:21:58.520 Peace, Drew.

00:21:59.280 Thanks, Drew.

00:21:59.880 Bye-bye hot sauce.

00:22:08.200 Ooh, are we going to take me out to the ballgame?

00:22:10.440 What do you got here, bud?

00:22:11.820 Well, what we have here is maybe, maybe the best baseball glove ever made.

00:22:18.300 These are Nakona baseball gloves.

00:22:20.000 Nothing may be more American than baseball, and with this next product, once again, we are going all American.

00:22:26.140 Nakona baseball gloves from Nakona, Texas, are a premium, customizable, American-made baseball glove worn by both young players and major leaguers alike.

00:22:37.480 These gloves have been in iconic baseball movies, Field of Dreams, A League of Their Own, you see them in ballparks all over the country.

00:22:46.540 America's Pastime deserves American leather made on American soil.

00:22:51.420 And when you visit their website, you will be treated to a grand slam of customizable options, from sizes and colors to personalized engraving and stitching.

00:23:01.980 Catch the holiday spirit this year with Nakona baseball gloves.

00:23:06.140 That's Nakona baseball gloves.

00:23:08.920 Yeah, that's a beautiful piece of, uh, equipment, huh?

00:23:12.880 Did you ever break in a glove?

00:23:14.860 Mike, we had a horrible—whoa!

00:23:17.620 They put my name on it.

00:23:19.100 Yeah, look at that.

00:23:20.080 Does yours have Mike on it?

00:23:21.040 Yeah, it does.

00:23:21.680 No!

00:23:22.840 I know, uh, Nolan Ryan was a famous Nakona user.

00:23:25.900 I remember that from growing up.

00:23:27.120 2026 is the 100-year anniversary.

00:23:30.100 For 100 years, they've been making these gloves right here in the USA.

00:23:33.940 These are the top baseball glove maker in America.

00:23:36.720 A great piece of art, which is what I would think of this glove as.

00:23:42.940 You know, it's not just a baseball glove.

00:23:44.680 It's a—it is a love letter to everything we're talking about.

00:23:47.260 You give that to the kid, and you make sure they see the story, and they understand what

00:23:53.560 they're getting, and they understand the company culture that made it.

00:23:57.660 And then, you know, then it's more than a glove, right?

00:24:00.400 Yeah, Bob Story, who is the founder of Nakona Gloves, he—there's a famous quote by him,

00:24:06.740 I'd rather take a bucket of worms and go fishing than import a Nakona glove.

00:24:12.780 Yeah.

00:24:13.140 He wanted to keep it American-made.

00:24:14.960 Yeah.

00:24:15.200 One beautiful thing that happened in World War II, they got a government contract to 1.00

00:24:19.320 send gloves over to— 0.80

00:24:23.140 Soldiers.

00:24:23.700 Over to soldiers.

00:24:24.540 Yeah.

00:24:24.720 So they could have some—a bit of something that felt American.

00:24:27.640 That's pretty amazing.

00:24:28.600 And those are the kind of stories, I think, when you get somebody a gift like this, that

00:24:31.480 you want to share, right?

00:24:32.300 It's like—it's like so much of it—yeah, you're right.

00:24:35.080 It's not about the product.

00:24:35.940 It's about the story, right?

00:24:37.540 It's about, like, a sense of tradition and a sense of why we do this and why you would

00:24:42.280 think this glove's perfect for somebody.

00:24:44.660 What's your favorite baseball movie?

00:24:46.060 My favorite of all time is League of Their Own. 0.94

00:24:48.720 Why?

00:24:49.040 Just devout lesbianism hidden behind war and sports. 1.00

00:24:55.060 I think that's right off their poster.

00:24:56.960 Some of the products that we're looking at have been around 100 years, right?

00:25:01.780 Some of them are almost institutional to the point where you can look back, see how they

00:25:08.480 built it, and be inspired by it.

00:25:10.480 And then some of them are first generation.

00:25:13.320 They're just getting started.

00:25:14.260 And, you know, I wouldn't put a value judgment, honestly, on what's better or what's more

00:25:21.180 important.

00:25:21.900 It's the idea.

00:25:23.220 Whether it's Bob Story, who 100 years ago, you know, says, I'm going to do this the way

00:25:28.260 I'm going to do it.

00:25:29.300 Or whether it's the kid with, you know, Drew, with cerebral palsy, or the lady making the

00:25:33.600 cherries.

00:25:34.180 I remember—though I wasn't good at baseball, I remember that glove.

00:25:37.760 I can remember exactly what it looked like.

00:25:40.000 I'll never forget my first car, first baseball glove, pocket knife my granddad gave me.

00:25:45.760 Some of that stuff matters.

00:25:48.100 Yeah.

00:25:48.660 And now that I think about it, they were all American-made products.

00:25:51.780 Yeah.

00:25:52.160 Yeah.

00:25:52.600 That's the thread.

00:25:53.820 Yeah.

00:25:54.060 That's the spirit.

00:25:55.080 Whose life would change if you present them with a glove like this and Bob Story's story?

00:26:03.700 Yeah.

00:26:04.320 Now you got a gift.

00:26:05.880 Maybe it's not your son or daughter.

00:26:07.640 Maybe it's a niece.

00:26:08.420 Maybe it's a nephew.

00:26:09.180 Somebody loves baseball.

00:26:11.220 Somebody's going to unwrap this, and they're never going to forget it.

00:26:14.360 That's an American dream right there.

00:26:23.440 I want to thank Shopify for sponsoring this special American-made holiday gift episode.

00:26:30.760 A lot of the brands we've been talking about today run on Shopify.

00:26:35.940 Those are real people making real products, trying to build something honest right here in the U.S.

00:26:43.460 I remember I saw somebody was selling glacier water, melted, get you a little half a jug of that, or get you a quart, or get you a little cup.

00:26:55.720 They even come in one of those little baby sippers.

00:26:58.740 Shopify has always supported entrepreneurs from some of the largest corporations in the world to your favorite shop right down the street.

00:27:06.160 And that's what I love about Shopify.

00:27:08.340 It's the engine behind small shops, behind mom and pop garage dreams.

00:27:14.840 Even in the craziness of the holiday season shopping, Shopify gives the little guy a fair shot.

00:27:21.820 So, if you want to join millions of hardworking men and women that managed to create their American dream out of nothing, head to Shopify.com slash Theo today.

00:27:33.220 You've got the ideas, and you've got the grit.

00:27:36.380 Shopify has the know-how to help turn that dream of yours into a future legacy.

00:27:42.280 It can happen.

00:27:44.520 You can do it.

00:27:45.500 You know, we all hate buying clothes, and after a week, they're falling apart.

00:27:51.540 You'll see something on the ground.

00:27:53.080 It's like, what is that?

00:27:53.640 It's part of your clothes.

00:27:54.740 Dang.

00:27:55.680 Your shirt broke down on the side of the road.

00:27:58.060 Not with American Giant.

00:28:00.320 If you listen to this podcast, you've probably heard me talk about American Giant before.

00:28:05.640 They make high-quality clothes, and they make them right here in America.

00:28:10.100 Right here.

00:28:11.220 I bought a sweatshirt from them about a year and a half ago, and I love it.

00:28:14.560 It's one of my favorites.

00:28:15.900 I bought a zip-up hoodie from them and a really great black T-shirt as well.

00:28:20.740 They were started more than 10 years ago by this guy named Bayard Winthrop, who was fed

00:28:25.620 up with everything feeling so cheap.

00:28:27.820 I love knowing I'm supporting an American-made brand.

00:28:30.940 Yep.

00:28:31.680 I mean, from the cotton grown on American farms all the way through the finished product

00:28:36.700 made entirely in the USA, I think an item from American Giant would make the perfect Christmas

00:28:42.060 gift for the guy or girl in your life, because it comes with a story.

00:28:46.500 Tell them the story.

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00:29:03.300 And starting now throughout the holiday season, you can find links to all of these companies

00:29:08.220 at TheoVaughn.com slash AmericanOriginals.

00:29:12.540 One thing I wanted to share with you right here next is a company that I learned about

00:29:20.980 about 10 years ago.

00:29:23.120 Oddly Sweet Dolls.

00:29:25.140 People collect all kinds of things, from baseball cards to watches to rocks.

00:29:31.560 So this shouldn't be too crazy to hear.

00:29:33.980 I collect Oddly Sweet Dolls.

00:29:36.820 That's a true story.

00:29:38.320 For the last 10 years, I've been buying these dolls for my own collection, and sometimes

00:29:41.720 I'll send one to a family member or friend.

00:29:44.700 Oddly Sweet Dolls are created in the one-woman art studio of Miss Lacey Michelle, who hand-sculpts

00:29:52.220 every creepy, cute doll straight from her home workshop.

00:29:56.620 What began in 2009 as an experiment in sculpting faces what became a world of imperfect, soulful

00:30:03.220 characters, each brought to life with humor, heart, and a touch of mischief.

00:30:09.000 After surviving a brain tumor while 27 weeks pregnant, Lacey turned creation into her therapy,

00:30:15.520 infusing every piece with gratitude and grit.

00:30:17.860 Entirely American-made Oddly Sweet Dolls stands for originality, resilience, and the

00:30:23.660 beauty of imperfection, proof that even the strangest ideas can be oddly sweet.

00:30:29.860 How long have you been buying these, honestly?

00:30:32.420 Probably about one decade.

00:30:34.780 How many do you own, personally?

00:30:37.180 I think I have 11.

00:30:39.320 But I've given some as gifts.

00:30:40.960 How many have you given as gifts?

00:30:42.900 15.

00:30:43.340 Is this a thing you talk about often on the pod?

00:30:47.140 A lot of people don't know about this.

00:30:48.560 I think a lot of people are going to run with this, really.

00:30:53.180 This field, maybe not like headline news, but you're an open book.

00:30:57.480 That's the charm of you, man.

00:30:59.580 Just the eyes.

00:31:00.800 Some of them seem like maybe they've been using or are in recovery.

00:31:03.560 But I did love the fact a lot of them, like some of them have a meat cleaver or a different knife.

00:31:10.200 Just the fact that they're willing to work.

00:31:12.560 Millions of people have hundreds of millions of dolls.

00:31:16.840 Yeah, I think I would remember going over a certain friend's homes and some of their moms

00:31:20.580 or stepmoms would have a doll room and be like, this is where the dolls are.

00:31:24.840 Oh, dude, I just remember my friend, I would sleep at his house.

00:31:28.460 Dude, his mom would, if you got up to go pee in the middle of the night, she'd make the bed 1.00

00:31:32.180 while you were up. She's very organized.

00:31:34.780 Was this the same you were telling me about in the back of the car on the road trip? 0.95

00:31:38.900 Yeah, my buddy that was masturbating behind a map. 0.77

00:31:41.340 His family was driving somewhere. He's pretending he's reading a map. 0.99

00:31:44.300 Yeah.

00:31:44.760 And he was touching his body behind it.

00:31:47.160 Hmm. What do you, I mean, what do you get a guy like that for Christmas?

00:31:50.500 I mean, a bigger map, maybe.

00:31:53.540 There's something about it to me that's very much like, even though something's messed up,

00:31:58.980 there's still, please find something endearing about me.

00:32:01.880 And just the fact that Lacey Michelle was pregnant and is dealing with a brain tumor 0.89

00:32:08.860 at the same time, you know, that has to be like fear and hope at the same time.

00:32:13.360 So much going on.

00:32:14.280 See, that's interesting because, you know, if you have fear and hope in the same feeling,

00:32:19.640 then you can also have creepy and cute on the same face.

00:32:23.280 For sure.

00:32:23.920 When you accidentally get your sonogram picture mixed up with your MRI scan, you know,

00:32:32.000 and you're showing somebody the baby and they're like, that's the baby?

00:32:35.220 It's, where is it?

00:32:36.360 It's by your brain?

00:32:37.560 Yeah.

00:32:37.820 You know what I'm saying?

00:32:38.360 But just the whole ambiance of that is absolutely kind of wild.

00:32:41.500 But that's the stuff that people go through.

00:32:43.580 And that's the stuff where creativity comes out of.

00:32:45.700 I really believe that kind of thing.

00:32:47.100 Yeah.

00:32:47.260 And here we are.

00:32:48.400 I'm inspired.

00:32:49.160 I'm inspired by her story to have two things growing inside of you at the same time.

00:32:52.900 And one of them is really good.

00:32:54.100 And one of them is really bad.

00:32:55.320 Right.

00:32:56.060 The fact that she makes each one of these, it's pretty fascinating.

00:32:59.860 Yeah.

00:33:00.100 I mean, the attention to detail on them.

00:33:02.240 Yeah.

00:33:02.540 No, it's great.

00:33:03.200 It's great.

00:33:03.780 And I do know it's a limited item.

00:33:05.180 This item, she'll probably only have maybe 150 to 200.

00:33:08.400 So if you do go to her site and she's sold out, then that's awesome, right?

00:33:13.040 And you can go back next year.

00:33:14.660 And these are out of Salt Lake City as well.

00:33:16.500 I want to say you've been there.

00:33:17.520 It's a beautiful area.

00:33:18.820 It's very nice.

00:33:19.560 If you haven't been there, it's beautiful.

00:33:20.980 It is gorgeous.

00:33:21.780 It's beautiful.

00:33:22.700 Do you know why some of the heads are severed?

00:33:25.020 So you don't have time for a statue.

00:33:26.320 I don't have time for a statue.

00:33:27.640 There you go.

00:33:28.620 This is an ornament.

00:33:30.600 For a Christmas tree.

00:33:31.620 Yeah.

00:33:32.360 You could hang it on a maypole.

00:33:33.360 You could hang it on a friend that's not moving much.

00:33:35.620 Sure.

00:33:36.080 How have your friends reacted who have received one of these gifts from you?

00:33:41.340 I think they're excited about it.

00:33:42.760 Some people are afraid to display the truth, though.

00:33:45.040 Yeah.

00:33:45.540 And I think that's what these things are doing.

00:33:47.920 And it just shows you, like, this is neat to me.

00:33:50.460 To somebody else, it may not be.

00:33:51.820 But there's probably a ton of other creators who are making really neat stuff and can.

00:33:57.140 Like, you can have a whole business.

00:33:58.560 The fact that Lacey Michelle does this and has an entire business built around it,

00:34:03.100 the fact that she's going to be able to fulfill 150 to 200 orders for Christmas gifts this year,

00:34:07.940 dude, that's, to me, it's fascinating, man.

00:34:09.900 Is there someone in your life that has something going on just below the surface?

00:34:15.380 Something they may not be keen to talk about casually in polite company,

00:34:21.800 but something that nevertheless needs to be tapped into, maybe, just maybe,

00:34:27.540 a doll like this is exactly what they've been waiting to receive.

00:34:32.400 They just don't know it yet.

00:34:33.720 And they won't until Christmas morning when they unwrap it

00:34:37.760 and the universe suddenly starts to make sense for the first time.

00:34:43.060 Amen.

00:34:52.280 There's been some neat stuff, man.

00:34:53.640 Thanks so much for, uh...

00:34:54.700 Hey, kid, man.

00:34:55.860 Onward.

00:34:56.480 This is from our friends at Scraggly Bush,

00:35:00.200 a truly unforgettable American original,

00:35:03.020 where deep from Papillon, Nebraska,

00:35:05.900 a husband and wife have turned laughter and hard work into a true American dream.

00:35:10.280 Craig and Carly Summit founded Scraggly Bush.

00:35:15.800 After Craig's high school trapping hobby and a gag wedding gift,

00:35:20.560 the Fur Squallet, also known as a Squirrel Wallet,

00:35:24.240 sparked a wild idea.

00:35:26.440 With a COVID stimulus check and a lot of faith,

00:35:29.820 they began sewing fur goods by hand in their home workshop.

00:35:34.180 Today, their creations include raccoozis, possum packs,

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00:35:52.080 Scraggly Bush is more than a business.

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00:35:58.640 to turn even the wildest idea into something worth hoarding.

00:36:03.100 So this is a squirrel, or it was.

00:36:05.940 This was an actual squirrel.

00:36:08.060 And maybe it was hunted.

00:36:10.920 Maybe it was found.

00:36:11.800 I don't know the etymology,

00:36:14.340 but I know it was a real squirrel.

00:36:15.560 You can get them pretty easy.

00:36:16.700 But now it has a zipper where its abdomen used to be.

00:36:20.240 It has a satin-lined interior.

00:36:22.040 Oh, is that satin in there?

00:36:23.300 Yeah.

00:36:25.340 Oh, that is nice.

00:36:26.720 Wow.

00:36:26.840 Right?

00:36:27.300 Yeah, very nice.

00:36:28.040 Keep some pills in there.

00:36:29.360 Keep whatever you want in there.

00:36:30.300 Car keys, pair of glasses.

00:36:33.100 The aforementioned pills, whatever, medication, whatever it is.

00:36:37.520 Medication, we could say.

00:36:38.560 Jelly beans, whatever you want in there.

00:36:40.120 Sure.

00:36:41.180 And squirrels are notorious for hoarding and hiding things anyway.

00:36:44.440 So they're still getting to live the life they want.

00:36:47.280 Right.

00:36:47.980 You could actually fill.

00:36:48.860 Without all the hassle of being alive.

00:36:52.340 You know?

00:36:53.340 Sure.

00:36:54.500 Sure.

00:36:55.440 I mean, what about nuts?

00:36:56.960 That's the ultimate irony. 0.99

00:36:58.240 Oh, if you pop that bitch open, it had some cashews in it, dude. 1.00

00:37:01.140 Right. 1.00

00:37:01.460 I'd be the happiest guy in the world.

00:37:03.180 The squallet right there.

00:37:04.400 And that's for males and females.

00:37:06.360 Sure.

00:37:06.780 And you've got a little, like a carabiner right here.

00:37:09.640 Right?

00:37:10.100 So you can clip it, I guess, to your belt loop, maybe.

00:37:14.400 One beautiful thing about this company is that they received a COVID stimulus check and

00:37:18.480 created something from it.

00:37:19.880 Right?

00:37:20.080 This company makes $250,000 a year.

00:37:23.240 All fur is sourced and harvested from American hunters.

00:37:26.660 There are no farmed furs.

00:37:28.340 This is straight out of God's refrigerator, the forest.

00:37:31.460 And there's also the raccoozie right here. 0.99

00:37:33.800 If you get tired of drinking out of a squeozie, you got that raccoozie, baby. 0.99

00:37:36.720 And it's more of my, this is a little thicker fur.

00:37:39.700 And that's, this is from a raccoon, a raccoon body.

00:37:42.200 That's where this hide is from.

00:37:44.180 Nice insides.

00:37:45.320 It's dry, beautiful tail.

00:37:47.160 You want to let a kid play with the tail while you stand there and drink at regular level?

00:37:51.500 If you got a son and wants to bat that tail around while you're drinking here at human

00:37:54.860 level?

00:37:55.320 If I see somebody drinking out of that?

00:37:57.480 You don't ignore it.

00:37:59.020 Ah.

00:37:59.980 I mean, what baby girl ain't going to want that squalette? 1.00

00:38:02.760 Think of the story you're going to have.

00:38:04.540 Keep your couple condoms in that thing, too, if you're in high school.

00:38:06.960 You've got Astro Glide.

00:38:08.320 You've got birth control.

00:38:09.860 You could have.

00:38:10.980 Mint gum.

00:38:12.020 Mint gum and aromatherapy candle.

00:38:14.360 You could outfit this squirrel.

00:38:16.260 Men, you want to improve your odds in a rough and tumble, unpredictable dating world? 0.61

00:38:21.940 Hollow out that squirrel and never take it off your belt.

00:38:24.680 Look, I've got to work early tomorrow, but I'm in, you know? 0.97

00:38:28.960 That's Scraggly Bush.

00:38:30.200 That's their company right there.

00:38:31.380 We can go support them.

00:38:32.460 Thank them so much for their creativity.

00:38:35.320 Yeah, man.

00:38:35.880 Why settle for a bush when you can have a scraggly one?

00:38:38.280 Let's keep it moving, man.

00:38:50.160 One of the things that I'm inspired by is the way that people use things in their area, you know?

00:38:55.320 And one of the best stories that I've heard about that, turning something kind of a negative into a positive, is with the Albizia Project.

00:39:04.580 Under the Hawaiian sun, where the trade winds rustle through wild forests, a once destructive tree has found new life.

00:39:12.240 The Albizia Project transforms Hawaii's most invasive wood into stunning handcrafted cutting boards that help restore the island's native forests.

00:39:23.900 Husband and wife founders Joey Valenti and Christine Johnson, alongside their team, hunt Albizia trees and turn them into heirlooms made entirely on Oahu.

00:39:34.520 From their Wahaewa workshop and cafe, they're building strong community, one cup of coffee and one cutting board at a time.

00:39:44.660 They make a few legendary surfboards out there as well, out of Albizia also.

00:39:50.060 This holiday season, give something with true aloha, proof that even the most invasive species can be transformed into something regenerative, enduring, and proudly American.

00:40:00.920 Look at that, man.

00:40:01.840 It's just amazing that they, ooh.

00:40:03.760 Ooh, pick that up.

00:40:04.940 Yeah.

00:40:06.020 Ooh.

00:40:07.380 Lighter than you think.

00:40:08.700 Yeah.

00:40:09.160 But stronger than you know.

00:40:10.800 Gosh.

00:40:12.160 Yeah.

00:40:14.180 Hmm.

00:40:15.280 New wood smell?

00:40:16.300 Yeah, smells great, man.

00:40:18.860 Imagine you walk into somewhere and they got a couple onions cut up on that thing, baby boy.

00:40:26.340 Couple of carrots.

00:40:28.940 It's a hard, yet light wood.

00:40:30.860 Hard and light, surprising, boy.

00:40:32.160 I can't think of a better combination for everything you would want in a cutting board.

00:40:36.100 Hawaii tourism plummeted during COVID, so they got a $250,000 U.S. Forest Service grant to launch the company.

00:40:43.960 Wow.

00:40:44.480 Yeah, I think the invasive species thing is fascinating.

00:40:48.100 You've got to be very careful with what you introduce into an environment.

00:40:53.100 Oh, it's like bringing someone horrible home for the holidays to meet your parents.

00:40:56.420 That's an invasive species writ large.

00:40:58.860 Yeah, it is.

00:40:58.920 Something you're not going to have with this.

00:40:59.980 One of the beautiful things about this is then not only are you creating a gift, you're giving a gift to Mother Nature, too, because you're getting bad things out of the forest.

00:41:06.660 But the other thing, too, it's like it's super personal.

00:41:11.100 Like that specific piece of wood gets traced back to a specific tree.

00:41:16.340 It gets traced back to the specific person who cut it.

00:41:19.420 That's what these guys do.

00:41:20.420 They knew where it grew.

00:41:21.780 They knew who cut it.

00:41:22.680 And it's only possible through what they would call a super localized domestic supply chain.

00:41:29.800 So it's like, yeah, if you need a cutting board, you can go to any retailer and you can buy any cutting board.

00:41:35.560 And now there's a piece of wood in your kitchen and that's it.

00:41:38.500 You use it until you don't use it anymore or whatever.

00:41:40.480 But that's not the Albizia project, brother.

00:41:42.660 No.

00:41:42.960 That's not cleaning up Hawaii, keeping it natural.

00:41:46.660 Yeah.

00:41:46.900 Which is one of the most greatest gifts that we get in the world is nature.

00:41:53.000 It's a big one.

00:41:53.740 And it's a family-run business.

00:41:54.940 Who would this be a good gift for?

00:41:55.960 Obviously, a mom would love this, especially with the story.

00:41:58.560 Like, mom, you're one of the things.

00:42:00.100 Or mom, remember when you tried to marry that guy? 0.95

00:42:01.980 He was an invasive species.

00:42:03.340 Glad we don't have him.

00:42:04.440 Look, whatever it is.

00:42:05.520 I mean, look, I'd say.

00:42:07.100 Donnie or whatever his name was.

00:42:07.980 Don.

00:42:08.860 You can use it as a small charcuterie board as well if you want to put you a little summer salt.

00:42:12.200 There's a little bit of winter meat.

00:42:13.920 You can do that.

00:42:14.420 And you can use this one as a makeshift paddle.

00:42:19.260 I'm not saying you should or shouldn't.

00:42:21.300 I'm not saying you shouldn't.

00:42:24.540 I would definitely paddle some kids if they let you paddle someone else's kids. 1.00

00:42:28.460 I'd run across the street right now and, you know, don't.

00:42:32.420 Yeah, you're right.

00:42:33.460 You could not want to use one of these to surf on.

00:42:36.200 But they do make surfboards.

00:42:37.440 They make lamps.

00:42:39.140 They make a plethora of different options.

00:42:41.580 With Albizia, you can check it out.

00:42:42.900 Imagine you want to cut something.

00:42:44.920 What are you going to cut it on?

00:42:45.960 Your counter?

00:42:46.800 No.

00:42:47.380 No.

00:42:47.820 Your friend's back?

00:42:48.860 A strong friend?

00:42:50.300 Possible, but no.

00:42:51.860 Get a cutting board.

00:42:53.440 From an invasive species.

00:42:55.580 Yeah.

00:42:56.320 That's been repurposed and reimagined into something truly useful.

00:43:00.300 That's what I'm talking about.

00:43:01.120 It's like going to a detox center for wood.

00:43:05.740 You go in somewhat misplaced and not necessarily welcomed in the world you find yourself, but

00:43:13.620 you come out repurposed, reshaped, reinvigorated, and who knows, one day re-gifted.

00:43:20.960 Yeah.

00:43:21.920 Yeah.

00:43:30.740 A lot of guys out there, they don't know what's going on, right?

00:43:34.660 Yeah.

00:43:35.680 And they're lonesome or whatever.

00:43:37.540 I will tell you this.

00:43:38.180 If you have those types of feelings sometimes, the thing you can do is blaze up a tit in your

00:43:42.140 room like this. 0.99

00:43:42.960 These are candle tits. 0.93

00:43:48.500 They're made in this country. 0.98

00:43:50.480 Let me pop off that A cup for you, homie. 1.00

00:43:52.580 Come straight out of Chicago.

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00:43:59.680 Founded by an artist named Bailey, this one-woman brand hand casts every candle from real bodies

00:44:07.240 to celebrate shape, self-love, and good humor.

00:44:10.580 Each piece is made from locally sourced wax, poured and finished by hand.

00:44:16.080 Some come for the fun, others for farewell, a keepsake made before surgery, helping them

00:44:22.640 see their body with tenderness instead of fear.

00:44:25.900 What started as a bold art experiment is now a movement that supports breast cancer survivors

00:44:31.600 and anyone learning to appreciate one of God's year-round holiday treats.

00:44:36.080 During this festive season, skip the vanilla jar candle and motorboat yourself over to

00:44:44.660 CandleTit.com, handmade in Chicago, because nothing warms a room like compassion, confidence,

00:44:52.260 and a perfect pair of wicks.

00:44:55.120 A thick tit will keep you warm, homie. 1.00

00:44:57.280 I know that.

00:44:58.180 That's why a tit's got two sides on it, one for each hand, brother. 0.96

00:45:00.740 Who am I to disagree?

00:45:03.580 Why aren't these lit?

00:45:04.980 You can blaze one up.

00:45:06.520 I didn't know you wanted them all lit. 0.89

00:45:07.820 Freak.

00:45:08.500 It's almost more like a time capsule in a way for people that are going to go through

00:45:12.660 possible adjustments to their bodies.

00:45:15.460 You know, people that could be dealing with breast cancer or breast removal, something

00:45:19.020 like that.

00:45:19.760 To have a keepsake, to have a fun kind of almost a time capsule way.

00:45:24.300 You lock that tit in forever with these blazers, you know? 1.00

00:45:27.840 Sure.

00:45:28.240 And you spark one of these things up at a campfire, it's going to be a great story.

00:45:31.860 Who don't like talking tit with their buddies or their family?

00:45:36.840 You know what? 0.98

00:45:37.420 My sister and I have never even talked about tits, but I spark one of these up. 0.99

00:45:42.140 Who knows what can happen?

00:45:43.980 I mean, this is an American doing something creative, doing something cool.

00:45:47.040 You guys can check it out.

00:45:47.880 We just, we sparked up five of them right now.

00:45:50.280 Right there, you got an A cup.

00:45:51.460 I was breastfed on an A cup and, oh, it's harrowing to see it.

00:45:55.540 You ever watch a baby try to get milk out of an A cup tit?

00:45:57.800 I have.

00:45:58.240 Oh, it's harrowing.

00:45:59.060 I've seen it.

00:45:59.560 Like he's beating on a drum.

00:46:00.820 I felt bad for the kid.

00:46:03.040 It's horrible.

00:46:04.080 17.

00:46:04.980 Yeah.

00:46:05.420 And the kid was me.

00:46:07.420 Oh. 1.00

00:46:07.960 Well, damn. 1.00

00:46:08.540 That's right on. 1.00

00:46:09.960 Okay.

00:46:10.120 I want to tell you about this.

00:46:20.580 All right.

00:46:20.840 So, we had a show in Casper, Wyoming.

00:46:24.100 I get back to my room and somebody had got me a little box of Donnell's candies.

00:46:30.360 People are so sweet.

00:46:31.420 And I didn't know if I wanted it or not.

00:46:33.300 I was like, well, what is this?

00:46:35.140 And I cracked it open, dude.

00:46:37.420 And this is, I kid you not, the best toffee I've ever had in my life.

00:46:45.120 Mm-hmm.

00:46:45.660 And their place was just a few blocks from us.

00:46:49.280 Uh-huh.

00:46:50.480 And so, I had to get loaded up on it.

00:46:53.760 I got me some Donnell's.

00:46:54.620 I ate my whole box in one night.

00:46:56.020 Couldn't even sleep.

00:46:56.920 I want to tell you a little bit about it.

00:46:59.880 These candies have been curated by the Stepp family since 1956 when Don and Elma Stepp opened

00:47:06.700 their little shop on St. Patrick's Day.

00:47:09.520 And for nearly 70 years, their family has handcrafted toffees, chocolates, caramels, and

00:47:13.900 other sweets using the same original recipes in copper kettles.

00:47:17.160 Three generations later, every batch still carries that small-town pride and patience. 0.82

00:47:22.700 So, this season, skip the bullshit French truffle or that Chinese-made laffy-taffy and 0.99

00:47:28.380 give the gift of truly American-made sweetness, Donnell's Candies, where holiday tradition tastes 0.98

00:47:34.320 better when it's American. 0.77

00:47:35.840 And every piece gonna make you holla for joy and slap your cousin. 0.98

00:47:41.100 That's good. 1.00

00:47:41.480 So, if you hate your cousin, I can put two pieces of this in and go whoop his ass. 1.00

00:47:45.280 You know what I'm saying? 1.00

00:47:45.860 But it's good, man.

00:47:46.720 Hey, Josh.

00:47:51.660 There was something perfect about it for me.

00:47:53.800 And I'm gonna try one more of their candies live right here.

00:47:55.920 I've never even tried it.

00:47:56.940 Donnell's Candies Almond Brittle.

00:47:58.900 Never had Almond Brittle.

00:48:00.000 Hmm.

00:48:01.000 While his mouth is full, I'll tell you, three generations strong.

00:48:04.740 What started with Don, Elma, and their son, Mike, now includes grandson, Ryan.

00:48:09.240 They're still crafting candies by hand 70 years later.

00:48:12.380 And if that doesn't make your mouth water, my friend, I don't know what will.

00:48:15.840 Dear God, it's good.

00:48:17.660 This is beautiful.

00:48:18.320 I can't recommend it enough.

00:48:19.840 It's an American company.

00:48:20.880 You'll support them.

00:48:21.920 They got a great website.

00:48:23.060 They can fulfill a lot of orders.

00:48:24.340 They'll let you know when they can't.

00:48:26.500 But I don't think you can go wrong.

00:48:27.860 Supporting such a company like Donnell's Candies.

00:48:36.740 I couldn't even close my eyes.

00:48:37.960 I had so much toffee that one night.

00:48:39.900 It wouldn't close because of the pressure.

00:48:41.000 But it was good.

00:48:45.980 The pressure.

00:48:53.620 I know some of these products we were asking around to some of our friends to see if they

00:48:57.760 recommended any in their area.

00:48:59.460 And my friend, Kate Thornton, wanted to recommend a domestic company in her area.

00:49:04.980 So I thought we'd see if she could help.

00:49:06.460 Can you hear us, Kate?

00:49:07.500 I can.

00:49:09.400 Oh, it looks nice out there.

00:49:10.960 What's going on out there?

00:49:12.340 This is my real backdrop.

00:49:13.720 Can you believe that?

00:49:14.900 Seriously?

00:49:15.460 That's not AI, Kate?

00:49:16.520 This is not AI.

00:49:17.620 That's Whitestone Mountain.

00:49:18.820 And this is Whitestone Mountain Orchards that is sending you some fruit.

00:49:22.420 And Hal and Claire, they're the ones running that orchard.

00:49:26.060 And they do an excellent job like through and through.

00:49:28.400 Thank you so much, Kate, for recommending one of your neighbors.

00:49:30.280 Can you tell us how often do you guys harvest apples?

00:49:34.240 We start harvesting pears in mid-August and then start working our way through apples all

00:49:41.340 the way up until now.

00:49:42.400 Usually it goes into November, but it's a pretty long season.

00:49:45.700 So we're all kind of cranky at the end of it.

00:49:47.520 But it's a beautiful day.

00:49:49.020 So what's to be mad about?

00:49:51.460 How many kinds of apples are there?

00:49:53.060 Well, there's at least 30 on the commercial market, but there's over 7,000 different varieties

00:49:57.800 worldwide.

00:49:58.400 I told you they're more than you think.

00:50:00.860 There are a lot of apples.

00:50:02.040 Who's keeping them?

00:50:02.760 How do we get more of them?

00:50:03.760 Well, you got the Granny Smith. 0.88

00:50:05.640 You got the Golden Delicious.

00:50:07.600 Cosmic Crisp.

00:50:08.360 That's my favorite.

00:50:09.480 That's three.

00:50:10.840 So there's 6,997 more.

00:50:14.880 That's a lot of apples, man.

00:50:16.340 What are these apples here?

00:50:18.560 And how do you like them?

00:50:22.120 Right, Kate?

00:50:23.440 Yeah, I've heard that one before.

00:50:25.100 I bet you did.

00:50:26.280 Whitestone Mountain Orchard.

00:50:27.440 This card says, thank you for your order and for supporting small family-owned farms.

00:50:32.840 Your apples include an American heirloom from the 1800s and a new variety.

00:50:38.620 Remember to ripen your pears by leaving them out at room temperature for several days.

00:50:43.520 How do you know her again?

00:50:44.920 I know Kate.

00:50:46.340 Well, we met just online, but then she came to our comedy show.

00:50:49.760 And then we went and saw a concert together one time, I think.

00:50:53.460 That's nice.

00:50:53.900 I don't remember exactly.

00:50:55.380 Oh, we went for a walk somewhere, remember?

00:50:58.480 Yeah, we went for a walk in the park with Zita.

00:51:01.180 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:51:02.080 But yeah, we know each other.

00:51:03.160 What does it even matter?

00:51:04.160 I was like, this lady's got some nice fruit. 0.96

00:51:06.480 Yeah, I'd like to learn more about it.

00:51:09.140 That was it, dude.

00:51:10.080 It's good people, Mike.

00:51:11.200 What is your problem?

00:51:11.960 I don't have a problem with it.

00:51:13.080 I'm trying to celebrate the fact that you're still curious enough to go on the Instagram,

00:51:17.500 look around, and find a picture of fruit.

00:51:22.180 It's called stalking people, Mike, and lurking.

00:51:25.280 But thanks for highlighting that.

00:51:27.320 Yes.

00:51:27.900 But I picked a good person this time because Kate's one of the best, and she just spends 0.99

00:51:31.880 so much time in the community with farmers, learning about farming, working on her own

00:51:36.200 farm, all types of stuff.

00:51:37.560 She's just constantly, if you watch her social media, it's always a good time.

00:51:41.400 I think it's a Christmas miracle, Kate.

00:51:43.780 I appreciate you being part of it.

00:51:46.380 Well, thank you.

00:51:47.440 This is my absolute passion.

00:51:49.640 My family's been doing this for a long time, so it's a privilege to be able to highlight,

00:51:53.840 even if it's not my family, but other families that do this.

00:51:56.640 So, thank you.

00:51:57.780 I love this fruit.

00:51:58.700 This is great.

00:51:59.540 If you want to have a nice story to tell your family and get them some fruit that's

00:52:05.780 American grown, and it's not one of the big vendors.

00:52:09.380 It's more of a mom and pop organization.

00:52:11.720 Is it, Kate?

00:52:12.800 Yes.

00:52:13.180 It's absolutely family-run.

00:52:15.380 You can learn all about them on their website.

00:52:17.240 They do a great job of explaining everything.

00:52:19.360 I love it.

00:52:19.820 That's Claire and Hal right there.

00:52:20.920 Let's zoom in a little bit so we can see the good people that are there and that work

00:52:24.120 there.

00:52:24.400 Oh, that's awesome.

00:52:25.760 I like them apples.

00:52:26.640 That's my kind of area.

00:52:27.760 Yeah.

00:52:28.460 Kate, thank you so much for highlighting them and for just being a part of this holiday

00:52:33.620 gift show.

00:52:34.940 Well, I adore you both, so let me know if I can help in any way.

00:52:39.480 Appreciate it.

00:52:40.120 Have a good day.

00:52:41.640 All right.

00:52:42.320 Bye, you guys.

00:52:43.100 See ya.

00:52:43.800 Bye, Kate.

00:52:45.120 That was Whitestone Mountain Orchard, established in 1993.

00:52:48.460 Mike, I do want to let you know, sometimes it's nice to have something in your mouth.

00:53:01.460 You know it.

00:53:02.360 Well, sure.

00:53:03.180 And Olympia Provisions is our next company that we're going to feature.

00:53:07.060 There's an old saying where I'm from, and it's that American meat is the real good kind

00:53:12.240 of meat.

00:53:14.200 And where are you from again?

00:53:15.240 It's Louisiana, right?

00:53:16.020 From Louisiana, yeah.

00:53:16.840 That's what they say down there?

00:53:17.880 That's what people were saying that to each other.

00:53:20.300 Some people even wrote it down.

00:53:22.240 And here we got some of the best all the way from Portland, Oregon.

00:53:24.980 This is not just made in America.

00:53:26.380 It's independently owned by its founder, Elias Cairo, who first discovered his passion for

00:53:32.480 cured meats when on an apprenticeship in Switzerland.

00:53:36.200 Upon returning home, he perfected a curing process that has seen the company grow to a team

00:53:40.420 of 150 that crafts tens of thousands of pounds of cured meats every week.

00:53:46.220 Their secret, no automation, no gimmicks, just skill, time, and care.

00:53:51.960 What do you got, Mikey?

00:53:53.240 Well, this appears to be a summer sausage.

00:53:55.480 Yes.

00:53:56.460 Bet you found that in my grandmother's drawer, huh?

00:53:58.680 Get that meat out, Whitey. 1.00

00:54:00.120 This is good, huh?

00:54:03.340 It's delicious.

00:54:04.380 Salami with red wine and fennel.

00:54:06.800 Really?

00:54:07.500 I'm going to have to text my sponsor, but I'll have a little cut of it.

00:54:10.240 Why don't you chop into that bad boy for us right there? 0.70

00:54:13.440 Lucanico.

00:54:14.580 Greek-inspired sausage with garlic, oregano, and lemon zest.

00:54:18.380 Three fully cooked sausages right here.

00:54:20.620 God, that looks good, Michael.

00:54:21.760 And they don't just have these.

00:54:22.820 They have dog treats as well.

00:54:23.720 If your dog gets jealous, because every time, you know, when you crack open your meat, your

00:54:26.960 dog comes around. 0.97

00:54:27.900 He's a bum. 1.00

00:54:28.500 He ain't been doing shit all day, but he pulls up to get your shit. 1.00

00:54:32.460 Give him a dog treat right there from Olympia Provisions. 1.00

00:54:35.080 Pure pork.

00:54:36.000 These guys are slanging meat.

00:54:37.520 What a perfect stocking stuffer.

00:54:40.560 It's already been stuffed.

00:54:42.500 Olympia Provisions, guys, that's cured meats.

00:54:44.400 You want something that's American-made.

00:54:46.480 It's been sourced from America for a long time.

00:54:48.580 You want to put together a charcuterie board, you want to get somebody some summer sausage 0.76

00:54:51.880 that's right here in America.

00:54:54.780 Cured and tastes, that's the best tasting I've ever had, I think.

00:55:05.100 You're a belt guy or a suspenders guy?

00:55:07.840 I've never worn suspenders except for once for Halloween.

00:55:10.560 Good day.

00:55:12.240 Right.

00:55:12.880 Like, it's something you can snap with enthusiasm.

00:55:15.580 It was like having a cup of coffee without having one.

00:55:17.700 And that snap would get you going, dude. 1.00

00:55:19.280 Hitting you right in the nipples. 0.99

00:55:20.640 You have to walk back into work. 1.00

00:55:24.480 Calavera Tool Works.

00:55:26.680 Deep in the woods of Johns Island, South Carolina,

00:55:29.980 Michael Williams ditched corporate life to do something truly uplifting.

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00:55:53.860 from American-raised leather and solid U.S. hardware.

00:55:57.980 These aren't just belts, Theo.

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00:56:00.980 This holiday season, skip the tie and give this handsome gift

00:56:04.080 that could literally hold up Santa's britches 0.93

00:56:06.480 after power-munching through a stocking full of cookies.

00:56:08.980 Handmade on Johns Island, tough as a $2 Christmas steak

00:56:12.600 on New Year's Eve.

00:56:14.180 And built to outlast the Christmas dinner politics.

00:56:17.940 God, that's a belt right there, huh?

00:56:20.980 If somebody spanked me with that, I would get my act together. 0.87

00:56:23.920 All my dad had to do was walk in the room and go.

00:56:30.680 Never had to use it.

00:56:32.940 Oh, yeah.

00:56:33.680 Straightens you right up.

00:56:34.940 I want to go right now to a testimonial.

00:56:36.620 From Jackson.

00:56:37.520 Yeah, let's hear it from him.

00:56:38.440 What does he have to say about these Calavera belts?

00:56:41.300 Hi, folks.

00:56:42.000 I recommend Calavera belts and tool belts.

00:56:47.560 They're really well made.

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00:56:53.240 So, go check out Calavera belts.

00:56:56.580 You heard it.

00:56:57.320 Here's a sentence I've never said before,

00:56:58.860 but this is a belt you can pass down to your loved ones.

00:57:01.400 Amen.

00:57:02.280 Well, it'll grow with you, it'll shrink with you,

00:57:04.680 but it'll never let you down.

00:57:06.580 And it'll always keep your pants up.

00:57:08.340 Amen.

00:57:16.500 Yeah, I've never had any goose, man.

00:57:18.360 I'm trying to think of something nice that I've had around the holidays.

00:57:20.560 Maybe a lot of turkey?

00:57:23.240 A ham?

00:57:24.360 Oh, yeah.

00:57:25.220 A good Christmas ham?

00:57:26.420 Oh, yeah, man.

00:57:27.320 Yeah, I've liked a good ham.

00:57:29.720 I like the way it looks.

00:57:31.340 Well, there's no reason to put a ham in one of these.

00:57:34.320 Do you want to jump into one of these right now?

00:57:36.180 Yeah, I'd love to see.

00:57:36.960 What do you have here?

00:57:37.620 This is a Dutch oven.

00:57:38.900 Ooh.

00:57:41.040 Strap in.

00:57:41.840 Okay, yeah, dude.

00:57:43.200 Let me out of the covers, brother.

00:57:44.640 Tell me more.

00:57:45.800 Smithy Ironware.

00:57:47.020 Down in Charleston, South Carolina,

00:57:48.540 there's a workshop where the holidays smell like cast iron and cornbread.

00:57:53.020 And that's where Isaac Morton started Smithy Ironware,

00:57:56.420 restoring old skillets before deciding to make his own.

00:58:00.220 Each piece, crafted by hand,

00:58:02.520 polished to a mirror finish and built to last for generations.

00:58:06.260 Today, every single Smithy, skillet, and carbon steel pan

00:58:10.420 is made from 100% recycled American iron.

00:58:14.240 Poured and polished in an old naval base turned foundry.

00:58:18.580 They are as beautiful as they are.

00:58:20.220 Tough kitchen heirlooms meant to be passed down, not tossed out.

00:58:23.940 So, if you're looking for a gift that says forever,

00:58:27.500 forget the foreign-made gadgets

00:58:28.900 and give the skillet that could cook an all-American Christmas breakfast 0.65

00:58:32.400 for your grandkids one day.

00:58:34.520 I love that, having grandpappy skillet.

00:58:38.060 Ooh, that's a heavy deal there, man.

00:58:39.800 That has some real weight to it.

00:58:41.100 Look at, I mean, it's a good, you know, seven, eight pounds.

00:58:45.060 That's beautiful.

00:58:45.800 It's solid as can be.

00:58:47.160 It will, it'll simply never wear out.

00:58:49.580 Anything in there will taste good.

00:58:51.260 I mean, like a, like what?

00:58:52.420 Like a, like a lamb stew, a beef stew, right?

00:58:56.800 Put some beef carrots in, put it on a low heat.

00:58:59.420 It's not a classic Christmas meal, but what a, what a true,

00:59:01.940 I mean, the smell, man.

00:59:03.020 When you walked into your house growing up

00:59:05.480 and you smelled food, what is the smell you most remember?

00:59:09.260 I'll say maybe mom would make a little bit 0.90

00:59:10.720 of a holiday jambalaya in there.

00:59:12.860 Oh, that's nice.

00:59:14.040 See, that's festive and at the same time,

00:59:16.780 demographically authentic to where you come from.

00:59:20.180 God, if I ate, I could have probably one egg out of that

00:59:23.280 and probably make me something good.

00:59:25.960 You get a big, you get an ostrich egg.

00:59:27.840 You ever see an ostrich egg?

00:59:29.060 Nah.

00:59:29.540 I'm no pervert, brother.

00:59:33.560 But I'll eat a nice egg out of that

00:59:35.380 and go get out in the world, find me a job, find me a wife.

00:59:40.080 Made from 100% recycled American iron.

00:59:43.300 Look at that.

00:59:44.120 Look at them working on it right there.

00:59:46.660 Building a handle.

00:59:48.680 Doing all the work so you don't have to.

00:59:50.560 All you got to do is cook you up something.

00:59:52.760 Make your daddy something.

00:59:54.460 Your daddy won't talk to you and make him something.

01:00:03.440 Grandma looking for a new hobby?

01:00:05.580 Hey, grandma.

01:00:06.980 Or do you have a creepy uncle who needs a woodsy cabin activity, huh?

01:00:11.360 Who is it?

01:00:12.720 Or maybe just a fun tradition for you and the kiddos.

01:00:15.340 Heart puzzles are gorgeous American-made gifts

01:00:18.540 right out of central Indiana.

01:00:20.980 Puzzles will keep you sharp.

01:00:22.360 Yeah.

01:00:23.060 I do love the puzzles.

01:00:24.340 I can't get enough of them.

01:00:25.340 Oh, I love them, dude.

01:00:26.040 I sit there.

01:00:26.540 I sit there with my stepdad.

01:00:27.500 He likes to make puzzles.

01:00:28.360 He made a bunch and put them on the walls at home.

01:00:30.920 Like he framed them?

01:00:31.760 Yeah, he framed them.

01:00:32.440 Like a jigsaw puzzle?

01:00:33.400 Mm-hmm.

01:00:33.740 And then you frame it and you put it up?

01:00:34.940 Yeah.

01:00:35.660 Why not?

01:00:36.280 But he loves doing it.

01:00:37.220 It's fun to sit there together.

01:00:39.280 You know, he's like,

01:00:40.100 Hey, can you help me find the pieces?

01:00:41.400 I can't find them.

01:00:42.040 He's lying.

01:00:42.500 He's just trying to spend time with me.

01:00:44.260 But it's nice.

01:00:45.320 It's beautiful.

01:00:46.020 Shout out, Rhett. 0.94

01:00:46.820 I enjoy doing that with you.

01:00:48.300 If you want to get somebody a puzzle,

01:00:49.600 why just pick one up off the shelf from some company you don't even know?

01:00:53.240 Get one that's made by one of your fellow Americans. 0.97

01:01:04.960 These are great little ornaments and gifts, Mike, right here.

01:01:08.580 Prodigal pottery.

01:01:09.520 There's a ministry out of central Alabama called King's Home,

01:01:13.320 who is doing the Lord's good work by serving women and children fleeing domestic violence,

01:01:18.080 homelessness, and trafficking.

01:01:20.240 That's heavy, but it's happening.

01:01:22.760 Through custom-made mugs, bowls, and Christmas ornaments with their self-made business,

01:01:28.500 Prodigal Pottery, these amazing women are turning ceramics into salvation. 1.00

01:01:33.240 God bless us all, but especially these women at King's Home.

01:01:36.580 Come, oh, come all ye faithful, Theo.

01:01:40.000 Wow, that's beautiful.

01:01:40.740 Great way to support everybody.

01:01:42.340 Well, they make things like this beautiful sheep right here.

01:01:45.060 Look at this sheep, Mike.

01:01:46.300 That's a good-looking lamb.

01:01:48.120 Yeah, I meant lamb.

01:01:49.860 Well, I mean, I'm just thinking, you know, the lamb of God.

01:01:52.780 Oh, yeah.

01:01:53.300 Is a lamb a sheep?

01:01:55.460 Yeah.

01:01:56.620 Yeah.

01:01:57.260 They make Christmas ornaments, mugs, candles, soap dishes, and bowls.

01:02:00.860 One thing that I think is pretty special is last night,

01:02:02.700 Jenna, who is the current director, drove three hours up here to bring us ornaments from them.

01:02:09.800 And we have a video right now that she sent.

01:02:12.700 Prodigal Pottery is very personal for me as it gave me my life back.

01:02:17.300 But this isn't just about me.

01:02:18.700 It's about the hundreds of women who have walked through the door hopeless, beaten, 0.99

01:02:22.960 and not sure if they were going to live to see another day.

01:02:26.320 And I get the privilege to watch women find hope and the lights come back on in their eyes

01:02:32.220 and watch them regain their lives back.

01:02:35.700 I get to watch women get their children back, to buy their first cars, to buy their first houses,

01:02:40.960 things that we think we would have never going to achieve.

01:02:44.280 And only through the dignified work and the safety of Prodigal Pottery were these women able to just heal. 0.89

01:02:51.720 Well, thank you, Jenna.

01:02:52.660 Thanks so much for bringing them.

01:02:53.580 I'm glad that we could talk about them.

01:02:55.500 And, yeah, this is great.

01:02:56.580 You can go on here, buy one item, and tell the story when you give it away to somebody.

01:03:00.140 Thank you.

01:03:30.140 It's constantly evolving that it can come or go, you know?

01:03:34.200 But the only thing that keeps it going is us.

01:03:38.740 If we really want to celebrate the people who are making stuff here,

01:03:42.480 whether it's an ornament or an ax, we've got to support them.

01:03:47.920 Yeah, stuff like this is important to me, you know?

01:03:49.820 I think some people think that, you know, America this or America that,

01:03:53.840 but in the end, America is just us.

01:03:55.840 It's us.

01:03:56.900 Yeah.

01:03:57.040 And it's how we, like, operate and how we choose to operate.

01:04:00.000 And if we can choose to buy something from our neighbor, then we win.

01:04:04.640 Did I learn so many stories of so many different groups today?

01:04:07.380 Yeah.

01:04:07.540 It was great.

01:04:08.040 I mean, the guys chopping down trees that are bad and turning them into wood that we can use for products,

01:04:13.420 you know?

01:04:13.900 Knowing that Nakona Gloves sent their gloves over to people in World War II

01:04:16.800 so that those guys could have a respite from the nightmare to throw a baseball back and forth for a few minutes.

01:04:22.440 And do something that feels like home.

01:04:24.220 Yeah.

01:04:25.220 When they're on the other side of the world.

01:04:26.860 There's a family that's challenging.

01:04:28.500 Like, you know, sure, you could buy fruit from some of these companies that have been doing it for hundreds of years and stuff,

01:04:33.680 but you could also get it from a company that's been doing it for 15 or 20 years that has five people working at it that can ship them out.

01:04:41.360 You know?

01:04:41.540 It's like there's just different options out there.

01:04:43.640 And sometimes some of those options don't get as much advertising or don't get the word out there.

01:04:47.380 So, yeah.

01:04:47.780 And if you see something that you guys like, just let us know in the comments.

01:04:51.820 And if we couldn't feature one of your products and we'd spoken to you, we're really sorry about that.

01:04:57.060 Some of it just became time.

01:04:58.260 Like, we thought this would take a few hours, and we've been here for probably 12 hours, which is, it's okay.

01:05:03.740 You know?

01:05:04.020 It's just, but it is a long day, and so we tried our best.

01:05:07.440 And I know that you tried your best, too.

01:05:09.280 Everybody we introduced you to, though, has a spirit that we admire.

01:05:15.540 That's Christmas.

01:05:17.200 Yeah.

01:05:17.720 Oh, oh, oh.

01:05:20.220 Happy holidays, Mike.

01:05:22.240 Happy holidays, Theo.

01:05:23.960 Now I'm just floating on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.

01:05:29.840 I must be cornerstone.

01:05:32.280 Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.

01:05:40.580 I can feel it in my bones.

01:05:44.880 But it's gonna take...

01:05:47.280 Rinse takes your laundry and hand delivers it to your door.

01:05:55.620 Expertly cleaned and folded.

01:05:57.200 So you could take the time once spent folding and sorting and waiting to finally pursue a whole new version of you.

01:06:03.260 Like tea time you.

01:06:05.240 Mmm.

01:06:06.060 Or this tea time you.

01:06:08.620 Or even this tea time you.

01:06:11.160 So did you hear about Dave?

01:06:12.160 Or even tea time, tea time, tea time you.

01:06:15.320 Mmm.

01:06:16.320 So update on Dave.

01:06:18.260 It's up to you.

01:06:19.300 We'll take the laundry.

01:06:20.780 Rinse.

01:06:21.340 It's time to be great.

This Past Weekend with Theo Von - November 28, 2025

American Originals Holiday Special w⧸ Mike Rowe

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