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Talking Music: Mortimer & Monte In the Break Room, episode 16 When it comes to music, Mortimer knows what the hippest new sounds are: '80s rock, same as they've always been.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Snacking! Pickley EggsIt's Happy Snacking!, our recurring feature that teaches you the skills you need to make our signature handcrafted, fit-for-human-consumption foodstuffs. Never go hungry between meals again!This week, your lovable Internet pal Randall Cleveland comes OUT OF HIS SHELL and finds himself IN A PICKLE! Ha! Ha! Get it? Because eggs and pickles.
No, but seriously -- you're sure to give this video a standing OVA-tion! Ha! Ha! What's the matter? Can't you take a YOLK? Ha!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website TopChips: Real Actual Field Tests #10In this edition of Real Actual Field Tests, we try out the TopChips microwave potato-chip manufacturer. Can we really make potato chips in our microwave with this thing? And if so, as a follow-up question, can we make chips that look like great men from American History?Discover the answers to these intriguing questions -- and see the hilarious new configuration of Sean's facial hair -- in this week's Real Actual Field Test!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fame: Mortimer & Monte In the Break Room, episode 15Mortimer wants to light up the sky like a flame -- and not like in the way when he tried to use his backyard grill to distill his own ethanol. Monte, as usual, has a wet blanket for Mortimer's burnin' yearnin'.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sunpak FlexPod Gripper Tripod - $0.99With Special Guest TBAThe Features list for this thing doesn’t just describe a useful tripod. It’s also full of great band names.When we look over the specs for the Sunpak FlexPod Gripper Tripod, we have to remind ourselves we’re not looking at the schedule for South By Southwest. This lightweight, flexible gripping tripod isn’t merely an amazing way to stably mount a camera just about anywhere. It’s also the inspiration for enough band names to fill a week of Pitchfork review ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What We Saw at CES 2012Each of the past three years at this time, we've serenaded you with a ballad telling of the many wondrous sights we beheld at the Consumer Electronics Show. We're going to keep at it, too, until one day you associate this tune with January as strongly as you do any familiar carol with Christmas. And why not? It's only three years old now, but already every bit as irritating as "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer."
If you hate this video, then for Crom's sake DO NOT watch last year's install ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Woot Works: Building Our CES BoothIt's time for us to give our lanyards their annual wash and press, and start practicing our "networking" smiles in the mirror. CES is upon us! Have you ever wondered what kind of effort goes into the construction of trade show exhibitors' booths? No, you almost certainly have not, but you're probably bored at work, so go ahead and watch the pros build Woot's CES booth anyway.
And watch our blog all this week for more updates from the big expo in Las Vegas. Remember: You can't spell "cesspo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 2012 Resolutions: Mortimer & Monte In the Break Room, episode 14It's a new year, and Mortimer's making his annual fresh start. He's going to be a whole new monkey! But for real this time.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Little Drummer Boy: Ben the Over-Literal Dermestid Beetle Weighs InDermestid beetle? Or hum-bug? Nah, Ben loves the holiday season as much as anybody, but just because you're moved by the Christmas spirit, that doesn't give you license to inflict lifelong hearing damage on a newborn baby. How did a song about mistreating a helpless infant get so popular, anyway?Drum photo by furclik: http://www.flickr.com/photos/furclik/393061997/
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Nativity photo by midiman: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Snacking! No-Bake CookiesIt's Happy Snacking!, our recurring feature that teaches viewers the art and science of manufacturing delicious foodstuffs at home. You might want to go ahead and chug some pre-emptive Pepto now to lay down a good base coat: The Internet's own Randy Cleveland is about to demonstrate how you can make a tempting batch of "No-Bake" cookies in just one easy-to-follow step. There's no place like Happy Snacking! for the holidays!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Un-Wish List: A Million-Dollar Idea!Ah, the holiday gift-giving season! That magical time of the year when people who don't know you very well buy you things they have no good reason to expect you won't hate! With the "Wish-Me-Not Lost" (or something, name to be determined), you can let your loved ones know what you don't want before they saddle you with it.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Spy Net Night Vision Goggles: Real Actual Field Tests #9We attack the darkness! Watch as a crack team of Wootfolk put Spy Net's night vision goggles through their paces at the D&D table. We can't promise this video will answer all your questions about the product, but we can promise you it's considerably less creepy than that scene at the end of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Happy Snacking! Grilled CheeseLongtime listeners to Woot's old audio-only podcast no doubt treasure their memories of Happy Snacking!, our recurring feature dedicated to the art and craft of snack assembly. Brace yourselves, food fiends: This week, Happy Snacking! finally comes to nauseatingly vivid life on your video screen.
Season your skillets, cinch your apronstrings, and purge your stomachs to make room for grilled cheese the Happy Snacking! way. The Internet's own Randy Cleveland walks you through the manfuacture ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stuff Woot Didn't SellSometimes, looking over some stupid piece of junk we're trying to get you to buy, you might have asked "is there NOTHING Woot won't sell?" The answer: Yep! And, hey, it's sometimes hard to make that final call. These products put in a lot of effort to to get where they are, so it can be a difficult moment when we have to put one of them on the cut list.
Can be. It wasn't for the "Men Shaver," though.
Here staffers Jason and Sean show you that weird gizmo and a few of the other items we've ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website D-Link Gigabit Notebook Adapter - $5.99Selling OutSure it seems pointless, but that’s just because we don’t have the right sales slogan.How do you sell a million D-Link 10/100/1000 Gigabit Notebook Adapters? One leg at a time, that’s how! Or wait, that’s how I put my pants on in the morning. How I sell D-Links is by putting together sweet marketing slogans. LIKE THIS ONE:
“It’s like a tape deck adapter for your computer!”
Well yeah, I know most cars come with audio-ins for to hook up your MP3 player. That’s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Woot Works: Printing Our ShirtsHave you ever looked down at the shirt you had on and asked "where in tarnation did this come from, anyway?" We have, but we were only talking about a weird stain (which turned out to be barbecue sauce). Because we know EXACTLY where our shirts come from. They're all printed in, packaged at, and shipped out of our bustling Dallas area production facility! come take the video tour!
Watch for more "How Woot Works" videos in the weeks to come! We're looking forward to giving you more and long ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vitamouts: A Million-Dollar Idea!How are people supposed to get all these excess vitamins out of their bodies? It's obvious: The same way they got them in there. Come up with just the right regurgitative formula and you'll surf an enormous tidal wave of vomit that ultimately barfs you up on the beach of bountiful profits!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Home.Woot: Mortimer & Monte In the Break Room, episode 12It's not every day we add a whole new site to the Woot family! We're all pretty excited, but apparently not as excited as Mortimer. Bursting with enthusiasm at the announcement of Home.Woot, Mortimer bursts too into song.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martinis: Ben the Over-Literal Dermestid Beetle Weighs InSince when is every mixed drink a "martini?" Ben the Over-Literal Dermestid Beetle knows: Since never! You might say... it really BUGS him. (YeeEEAAAHHH, puts on sunglasses.) Wherever drinkers of cloying, cutesy cocktails slander the good name of martini, you can count on Ben to raise his whiny, irritating, abrasive voice to defend it. Preach on, brother Beetle!
Martini photo by Flickr user chris.corwin: http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickerbulb/95054208/
Coca-Cola photo by Flickr user hoyas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Smith & Wesson Micro90 Compact LED Pistol Light with Rail Mount - $39.99Please Light ResponsiblyAre you one of those people with lots of guns? Are you tired getting laughed at for taping your flashlight to the top?Sure, when you first yell “Who goes there?” the bad guys are intimidated. But then they see you with that big pile of duct tape ruining your weapon’s sleek lines, and they start to wonder if you know what you’re doing. Suddenly that element of surprise is gone, and God help you if you’re using some cheap My Little Pony flashlight. Man, y ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JEOPARDY! Champ Ken Jennings Opens a BOCKen Jennings, 74-time JEOPARDY! champion and author of the new book MAPHEAD, knows a lot of stuff. But he doesn't know what might be inside one of Woot's notorious Bags O' Crap! Or he didn't, anyway, before opening this one in our studio recently.Watch our complete conversation with Ken on our blog, here!
http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=19443Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dumb Dogs: The Stupid 6!The domestic dog is often called "man's best friend." Well, it's no secret -- some of y'all's friends are super obnoxious. Just because you've known someone since college doesn't mean you have to let him drag you down for the rest of your life. Seriously, you can do better. The derpy dog portraits featured in this week's podcast were drawn by Adam Ellis. You can see more of Adam's awesome work at his blog, here:
http://www.booksofadam.com/
If you hated this video, you should probably avoid ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How Woot Works: Our Product PhotosIt's hard to sell people stuff if they can't get a good look at it first. That's why we take so many product photos! But where do these come from? Well, visual light reflects off the surface of the items we're selling, and passes through a convex piece of glass called a "lens," which -- Oh, wait, you just meant --
Uh, Dallas. They come from Dallas.
Look for more "How Woot Works" videos in the weeks to come, as we slowly retract the veil of mystery which has shrouded our operations for so ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website NBA Lockout: Mortimer & Monte In the Break Room, episode 11If you know Mortimer, you know he loves basketball with an intensity rivaled only by... well, by every other feeling he has. He's sort of manic. But anyway, he loves basketball. With the season in jeopardy, he's freaking out.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cuisinart Stainless Steel 200-Watt Hand Blender - $24.99ShhhLook, honey, a mime! Can we stop for a minute? Let’s stop for a minute and watch the mime.Is that great, honey? Look, he’s in a glass box! He’s trapped in that glass box! Oh, it’s a really big glass box, isn’t it? Wait, what’s he doing now? Oh, it’s the kitchen! Honey, the glass box has a kitchen! Isn’t this fascinating? Are you watching? Why aren’t you watching? Why can’t you support the arts, honey?
Hey, he’s got a Cuisinart Stainless Steel 200-Watt Hand Blen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Monkey Games Are DoneWARNING: THIS VIDEO CONTAINS GRUESOME FOOTAGE OF OUR CEO'S PERFORATED FINGER. The sun has set on Woot's first ever Monkey Games, a highly organized, month-long, company-wide effort to depress productivity! Some may question the wisdom of squandering so many workday hours on such frivolity -- but from our perspective, we'd have to say the Games were a huge success.
(Seriously. We have to say that.)
These games had it all, though! The intoxicating stimulant of victory! The total downer of d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scrabble Variant Blog: A Million-Dollar Idea!Why isn't there an online Internet web page site devoted to novelty rulesets for the board game Scrabble? Maybe there is; we haven't actually done any research on this. But if there isn't already one, the person who creates it stands to make millions! (In nerd-bucks, a type of "cred" not redeemable anywhere for anything.)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Never Dress Your Dog In ClothesIt's Pet Week on the Woot blog! And what better way could there be to kick it off than with this video? (Don't answer that, actually.) We're busting fresh and funky rhymes about life on the streets -- specifically about the high social price dogs pay when their people make them wear little jackets, or boots, or Halloween costumes.
This is on the REAL tip. Dogs were meant to rock the all-over fur look, y'all. Putting them in anything else is just an exercise in humiliation.
Now, we're not ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website "BOGO" : Ben the Over-Literal Dermestid Beetle Weighs InSure, he's only one person. And yes, he may be small. And sure, he may have an abrasive manner. But Ben the Over-Literal Dermestid Beetle is steadfast. Throw at him what you will, world! This is one little Coleopteran crank who's standing firm for the principles that... uh, basically no one else cares about.
I mean, take this video, for example. "BOGO?" Who gives a crap?
Ben the Over-Literal Dermestid Beetle, that's who.
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Serbian tank photo by expertinfantry: http://www. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travels With Woot: Call of the Wild MuseumCome with us to Gaylord, Michigan, the Paris of Otsego County! Gaylord probably has lots of virtues -- but to us, it's chiefly known for being home to the famous Call Of The Wild museum of North American wildlife, a can't-miss stop for devotees of classic roadside attractions and for aspiring taxidermists alike.
Enjoy the video -- and if there's an interesting site or event near you that you think the Travelcam team should visit, let us know about it in the comments below!
Fat chance it'l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Monkey Games are On!SEE Woot staffers go head-to-head in what we assume are OSHA-approved tests of skill, speed, strength, dexterity, and charisma! Take a vicarious taste of the sweet Thrill Of Victory! Or choke on the bitter Agony Of Defeat! (Either one's fine with us. What do we care? They both break up The Monotony Of The Workday.) Friends, the 2011 Monkey Games are on, and you can follow all the action on our blog throughout the month of August. And watch the Woot blog for details on how you can play along ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pizza Is Neat, But Only To EatEveryone's always saying how great pizza is. Well, what's so great about it? It's good at exactly ONE THING. It's high time someone took pizza down a peg.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Strange Poop!The Woot podcast team busts tha dopey beats and spits a terrifying tale of fecal fiendishness that's sure to make number two on the pop charts.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hangin' at the LodgeIt's important to learn to cope with people who aggravate you, because you don't always get to choose who you spend the most time with. Maybe you've got annoying family members. Maybe some of your classmates get on your nerves. Maybe it's certain coworkers who grate on you a little. Or maybe you've been shot, gutted, caped, had your hide stretched over a manikin form and hung on the wall between a couple of yammering morons.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Variable Exchange Rate Sports: A Million-Dollar Idea!Don't you hate it that EVERY time a running back carries the ball into the end zone, you know EXACTLY how many points he's earned? Wouldn't big-league sporting events be more exciting with a little more uncertainty built in?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dumb Country Lyrics: The Stupid 6!As Brad Paisley says: "This is country music." As our podcast team adds: "...and some of it is exceedingly stupid."
The STUPID SIX, our longstanding audio podcast feature, comes to you in video form for the first time this week, bringing with it a half-dozen examples of some of the stupidest country music lyrics currently in heavy rotation.
The derpy portraits of the country artists featured in this week's podcast were drawn by Adam Ellis. You can see more of Adam's awesome work at his bl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RED DAWN and the PG-13 Rating: This Week In History!It was this week in 1984 when the first PG-13-rated film came out. The picture was RED DAWN, and the rating was a way for the MPAA to say "a lot of people get shot full of holes in this movie for kids." More showbiz news: Llike a dog that eats its own vomit only to barf it up again, MGM is remaking RED DAWN!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tales of the Desktop Mo'aiBehold the Desktop Mo'ai! Who created these mysterious stone heads? And for what purpose? No one knows. Their origin is an ancient mystery, shrouded in the mists of time gone by, forgotten forever, like the name of the guy who built Newton's Cradle, or the author of "You Want it When?" Thanks to decades of research by leading anthropologists, we do know at least one thing about them, though: They're divided on the question of diet cola for breakfast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Waring Pro Professional Popcorn Maker - $49.99We Hear It Also Helps Calm RiotersThere’s one phrase that always pushes you over the edge. “Free popcorn.”Take a look at these two pitches:
PITCH A: “Hey, welcome to JerkCorp! We require you use six different sets of key cards for maximum security, you can’t talk to anyone with a badge that doesn’t match your level, you only get two minutes for lunch and it has to be taken in our on-site cafe where you can only get crackers and juice. Plus overtime is mandatory and also unp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scandal "Gates" : Ben the Over-Literal Dermestid Beetle Weighs InYou can't just go around making prefixes and suffixes out of any syllables you like. There have to be rules for this sort of thing, or society will break down completely. At least Ben the Over-Literal Dermestid Beetle thinks so. He's sick of all these m*********ing "gates" on these m*********ing scandals! Bill O'Reilly photo by Wikimedia Commons user "Karppinen." Jon Stewart photo by Wikimedia Commons contributor "The lorax."
Nixon photo by the White House photo office.
Bedbug photo by fl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bed-Twetter: A Million-Dollar Idea!How are kids supposed to kick the bed-wetting habit if no one teases them about it? And how are all your mattress-moistening kid's friends supposed to tease him if they don't even know he pees the sheets? You can count on Bed-Twetter to leak the news, so to speak. It's the first Web 2.0 system for preventing the nighttime wees.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website An Alligator Cannot Grow a MoustacheThe alligator has a lot going for it, having been nearly perfected way back in in prehistoric times. That's right, I said "nearly." They're great survivors, it's true, but an alligator could never have narrated THE BIG LEBOWSKI. Alas, if only the crocodilians could grow facial hair. This video features alligator photos by Flickr users http2007 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/http2007/4088291291/), engelcox (http://www.flickr.com/photos/engelcox/85054783/), and Bogeskov (http://www.flickr.com/ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travels With Woot: Champlain Valley Expo (2008)Warm, summer-like weather has us thinking thoughts of the old county fair. (It also has us outdoors playing hooky when we should have been making this week's video.) So join us in a look back at 2008's Champlain Valley Expo in Essex Junction, Vermont! It's an old video, but you probably haven't seen it.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Woot Podcast MailbagWhat should Woot customers do when they have questions about their orders or other customer-service-type issues? Simple: Post in the forums or email service@woot.com. Sure, you could call -- but you're not going to get anyone who can help. You'll get the video podcast guy. Or worse, you could get our pal Joel, director of Shirt.Woot, who describes the time he accidentally fielded a customer service call and ended up with a desk full of smoked turkey.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website HP Pavilion Slimline PC with Blu-ray - $289.99Just The Way You AreEveryone’s so obsessed with being “thin” or “slim” when it’s really what’s on the inside that counts.Thin, thin, thin, that’s all I ever hear anymore from the tech media. I swear, if I were a product at some companies, I’d have a self-esteem issue before I even got off the assembly line. Who cares about how thin your computer is? What are you going to do, spread butter on toast with it? Use it to jimmy open your front door? Field dress a deer?
I dun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travels With Woot: Lion Country SafariDid you know there's a place in Florida where you can see all kinds of exotic animals roaming around? And we don't mean Dennis Rodman's Miami Beach estate, though he probably does keep snakes or something. We're talking about Lion Country safari, America's foremost drive-through zoo! It's kind of a weird joint. Home, home in the swamp /
Where the rhinos and antelope romp /
You can watch lions play /
From your old Chevrolet /
Keep your windows rolled up, or get chompedListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Portable Nacho Delivery System: A Million-Dollar Idea!Recently our friend and co-worker Josh confronted a terrible dilemma. With a freshly-purchased tray of nachos in hand, he saw his bus approaching his stop, two blocks away. Should he drop his nachos and run for it, or hang on to them and miss the last ride home for another hour? That's some kind of SOPHIE'S CHOICE, right there. No one should have to face such a decision. Inspired by Josh's tragic story, we invented the Portable Nacho Delivery System on the spot, sketching it in liquid chees ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rock and ScissorsWith Paper out of the picture, Scissors's relationship with Rock has changed, and maybe not for the better. It can be like that with groups of friends sometimes. You can't always tell who the linchpin is -- who's the guy who holds the group together and eases tensions between everybody else. Not to have Paper around, that's been hard on Scissors. In fact, he's been crushed.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tax Time: Mortimer & Monte In the Break Room, episode 10In this week's episode, Monte gives Mortimer some tax planning advice. Who would listen to that guy about money? He doesn't even have pockets.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |