Ryobi's 2021 New Tool Release with Ryan Aduddell

This is episode number 146 of The Homeowner Show. Whether you're DIY or looking to hire, we're here to help you find the best information and options for you and your home. My name is Kevin Hackett, and here with me is Craig Williams.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to The Homeowner Show. We're glad that you could join us for another live edition of The Homeowner Show. here live on Facebook and now live on Instagram.

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And then you can also check it out on the YouTubes.

Yeah, YouTube's gonna be up. This summer is kind of crazy, man. It's gonna be— we might be delayed from time to time, but it's gonna be up. So if you want to see us there, go find us there. But man, tonight we're just gonna jump right in because we got kind of a fun episode.

Yeah, and we were having so much fun with the last one.

Yeah.

That we just decided to have Ryan Adettle back from Liberty Mutual.

That's right. What's up, Ryan?

What's up? Love talking tools. Let's do it.

Yeah, so we're gonna be— we're gonna be— so Ryobi or Ryobi?

It's Ryobi.

How do you say it, Ryan?

I say Ryobi.

There you go.

Of course you do.

Good man.

Because you're a consumer.

No, because it's like my name. Ry.

Ryan.

Ryobi.

It's just the right way.

Yeah. But they have gone out of their way to make sure that we pronounce it the way that they want us to.

Ryobi. And if you watch what we are— have watched, and which is like the, the, the push that they make, their, their new introductory deal of all of their New tools, those sorts of things. They go out of their way to say Ryobi over and over and over. I think they're trying to change the culture, and I'm telling you right now, good luck. It ain't gonna work. It ain't gonna work.

Either that, I'm gonna start calling him Rian.

I'm gonna have to change the name of my son. And yeah, people already think that his name was a girl's name, so it's not going to get better if we start putting the, the why is a hard—

Did you boy name sue him?

No, I absolutely did not. Nope, it is what it is.

It's just what it is.

Yep. Well, you know, you can't assume anything anymore, so— No.

Yes, I can. Well, watch me.

Good luck with that.

So here's what we're gonna do tonight. We have, um, we've gone through And we have watched the Ryobi introduction of their 2021 lineup of tools, right? And we're gonna kind of watch this video in the background and we're gonna make commentary on it, right? So you're welcome to go and, and watch it along with us if you like.

Yeah, you can go pull it up on YouTube. We're actually going to be releasing like a shortened condensed version of this just so you can see like what all the tools are.

Right.

So that's going to be a video that we throw up on the Facebook and the YouTube. Just, I mean, it's just like 2 or 3 minute video just so you can see what the tools are going to be.

Right.

Most of them are hitting stores by now anyway. But we're gonna, we're gonna, we're actually gonna stream this video and we're gonna, you know, make snarky comments about it as it goes by.

Yeah. And they are going to be snarky because this was a pretty lame—

It was, it was, it was kind of a dud.

I mean, our professional opinion Ryan, you'll— you'll—

Ryan.

Sorry. We'll determine what your thoughts are because you've not actually seen this yet. We kind of felt like this was a pretty big dud.

Do you have any Ryobi tools?

I don't. Okay. As a professional amateur, I don't have any yet.

Okay. Maybe this is the moment. This will be the—

It could be.

Okay.

Yeah.

So you guys ready?

I'm ready. All right, so here's—

here's—

Roll that beautiful bean footage.

Chip Wade bringing things in. All right, all right, let's see what we got here.

Okay, so, so as he begins here, he— first of all, he— I, I really love his, his bald head look. Yeah, that's really good.

You would be into that.

Yeah, that's really good.

Well, he'd probably use their polishing tool because it is glaring.

Yeah. Okay. So one of the things that they're pointing out right now is that they have over 225 tools.

That there is no other market out there that even comes close.

No, no. And that's really where they win. I mean, because they do have— they have more tools than anybody else. And they have, they have some really creative ones.

Unique, I would say.

Yeah, for sure.

They've got a ton of things. And all of their batteries work for pretty much everything except for whenever you go from their, their 18-volt battery up to their 40-volt battery. That's, yeah, that's, that's a whole different type of thing. Right?

Right. And so right, right off the bat, here's one of the things that irritates me. So that's like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. So they got 9 tools right there. Okay, so they're also telling us that now they have over 30 of the brushless tools, which always, their brushless line is really nice.

Yeah.

But of the ones that they have that they're showing right now, and it's like drills and impacts and, uh, what do you call that?

Um, and these are all automotive stuff, I'm pretty sure. I think so. Yeah, showing automotive tools right now.

Yes. Um, so it's a ratchet. That's the word. Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah.

So, and this is what irritates me when they say that we have 25 new tools. So like 4 of those are different sized ratchets.

They're the same tool. Yes. Different sizes.

Different sizes.

Half inch, 3/4 inch, inch, whatever, right?

So it's, it's, it's just one of those things that bothers me. It's like, okay, you tricked me into watching the video. You told me you had 25. And like, now you've already marked off 4 of those. And it's the same tool with just a different head. And now I will say one of the things that I, if I remember right, from these, because they haven't gotten into it yet, but like, they have adjustable heads on these ratchets, which is super cool, and extensions on them. Yes, that can move. And so that, that makes it really, really helpful. And one of the things that I noticed when I watched this video, and here we are, we're in the garage shot now, is they seem

to be making a pretty big emphasis on the automotive line.

Yeah, I mean, this is the first time that they've done that. I mean, there's always been— I mean, there's a lot of tools that you can use on your vehicle, right, if you really want to. But part of it is like right now they're showing Just taking the lugs off of your vehicle. I mean, for a long, long time, you're using one of those crossbars, right? You're hand ratcheting these things.

Or an air hammer.

Or air gun if you have an air gun. But if you don't have one, I mean, those, those tools are expensive. Those air gun tools are very expensive.

Are they? Yes.

I mean, by the time you— I mean, you got to think about it because you're buying the tank. Buying the hose, you're buying the gun. I mean, they're, they're not inexpensive to purchase.

This—

the one of the things I love about Ryobi, or in really any of these cordless tools, the tools themselves are really pretty inexpensive.

Yeah, the tools are.

Yeah.

So these are actually probably some of the more interesting ones that, that they have, which is the variable speed polisher and sander, and then the buffer tool.

Right.

Um, and yeah, which is not really like a— it's really stepping outside, I think, the bounds of what they normally have, because most of what I think they have are like for like repair or like for a specific job, whereas this is more like maintenance of your car.

Right.

And that's why I said it was like— it really felt like they were really leaning into the automotive side. Um, you know, because like some of what these things are that they're doing, like I've bought attachments for my drill to do these things. And now they're coming out with specific tools to do some of these tasks.

Ryan, would you use anything like this for your vehicle if you had it?

Oh yeah, I mean, if somebody rolled up with me and said, use these tools, definitely. I mean, but really what you're looking at is it's just Barbies for guys, right? You buy the Barbie and you get all the accessories with them. So that's where they're gonna make all their money. It's not on the actual powerhouse. It's on all the attachments that go along with it. And it kind of makes you wonder, are they going to try to get into the tool leasing game on the commercial side? Because you have all these Snap-on trucks driving around and they're leasing out all this equipment. Well, if they're going to go commercial, because obviously in this setting, you know, nobody has a lift in their garage.

Right. Right.

You know, they're, it looks like they're trying to break into, or at least give the illusion that this is commercial equipment.

Yeah, I think so. I think you're right. Although I do have some clients that have indoor lifts in their garage.

That's pretty awesome.

Yeah, it is awesome.

Yeah, but like, but for those people, the things that they're using these tools for, I mean, they're, they're gearheads, right? They're people that are, they're mechanics in their own home. And for a long time, I mean, these tools are pretty expensive to purchase. And to replace, right? And at this point, the tools, the tools, $50 or $60, it's the battery that costs most of the money here.

Yeah, I think, I think the difficult sell, what you're talking about is like, the appeal is to the gearhead.

They are.

And I think it's going to be difficult to convince a gearhead to buy Ryobi.

Oh, there's no doubt. I mean, we— how often have we had this conversation? Is it Ryobi? Is it Milwaukee? Is it DeWalt? Is it Black Decker? Is it Craftsman? Is it— Or like Ryan says, Snap-on or Snap-on or whatever it is, because because at the end of the day, like, we, we talked about electricians before. Like, electricians are only gonna buy Kleins. It's just what they buy.

Yeah.

The electrician is not gonna buy Craftsman. They're, they're not gonna go buy the Stanley.

No. See, this is, this is just right here. Sorry. He was showing how the, how the head can extend.

Right.

Which is super— Telescopic head.

Yes.

Yeah.

That's very cool. Um, like, if you've ever worked in like a tight space on a car, like, you know how valuable that is.

Especially on today's cars, you have to remove parts just to get to the tiniest thing.

That's right. And so it's, it's a, it's a specialty tool that makes a lot of sense.

Yes.

But you bring up a good point. Are those people buying Ryobi?

Sure.

Are they?

Well, I mean, I think, I think that's why like programs like ours are important, right? Because like, it's going to expose people that may not otherwise be looking for that in this brand.

Right.

go like, oh, maybe that's something I should check out. Because like, for the price of what I get from like one—

look at how big that thing is, man. Oh yeah, it's huge.

Either this guy's tiny, or that tool right there, that impact is huge.

No, it's huge.

Well, you know, size matters.

It does. But I will tell you, this is the— what they're talking about right now is it's the impact ratchet for lugs.

Right?

And, um, the, the, the torque half-inch high torque impact wrench. And I'll tell you, this is a tool that I want to keep in my vehicle. And Ryan, you've, you've got a 3/4-ton truck as well.

Yeah.

And so taking the lugs off of one of those things after you've already spent all your, you know, muscle just trying to get it jacked up or whatever, and there's how many, 8 of them instead of 6 on the— or 5 on a normal vehicle? Like going through one of those with a crossbar, if I could just keep one of these in my vehicle at all times, it changes my ability to get off the road in a safer position. And for you as an insurance guy, me being on the side of the road changing out a tire, probably not. Yeah, that's not my— that's not your favorite place for me to be, is it?

No. I mean, you either need one of these tools, especially with a, you know, big equipment. You either need one of these tools or like a teenager that can get it done fast.

That's right.

You know, and, and these tools, I think the biggest thing when it comes to these type of tools is your battery life.

Yeah.

You know, when you have somebody who's doing this much work, especially if you're polishing, you're moving around a lot, you're going to want a big battery. So if you've got somebody that's already using, you know, this setup in their home for all their other tools, the more you can use that one tool for, the more you're going to go for it.

Yeah.

So, you know, I can, I can see the appeal for the at-home garage enthusiast.

So I will tell you one of the reasons, uh, like we, we almost exclusively use Dodge trucks in our business. Part of the reason is, is for like the last 8 years or so, they've included a 110 plug in the front seat.

Right.

And we use Ryobi tools in pretty much everything that we do now. Like they, they make our backpack sprayers. I mean, and then we have like an inflator that we keep on all of our vehicles and different things like that. So that as we're going down the road, we can be recharging batteries, right? You know, for exactly the reason that you're talking about. So like, we're not ever running out of— so we'll keep like 3 to 4 different batteries on the truck at one time.

So yeah, so right now they're getting into my realm, which is woodworking.

Okay.

So, so here's what's interesting. Like, there, there's a ton of really, really cool woodworking tools that are Battery specific, and, and some really, really amazing things that are coming on, on the market, like plunge, uh, plunge cutters for, uh, you know, cross-cutting wood, different things like that.

Okay, so what they're talking about right now is a flooring saw.

Yeah, exactly. And okay, and so they're coming into these, and it's a plunge saw as well in many ways. And they're— Ryobi is trying to come in and try to try to give you some practical things to use. But here's the thing, that's a flooring saw. How many people are going to go buy that thing for their home? I mean, you're installing your own flooring. You, you bought that at Home Depot, right? You're not doing a very large amount. And you're probably buying way more than you should because you're, you're cutting it wrong. Like you're screwing this up.

No, that's a rental tool all day long. That you just go and you rent it from Sunbelt, something like that, right? You know, and you're, you're good for a week, a week or two, and then you're taking it back.

Well, so, but here's, here's the big thing though, is these are all battery operated.

That's the difference, is they're super portable, right?

Right.

I mean, that's, that's a big, big deal if you're going from job site to job site. Yep. But for the normal homeowner, this is interesting to me that they're, that they're selling These types of products. Now, right now they're getting into nailing.

Yeah.

Framing nailing.

They haven't come out with a framing nailer.

They have— they do not have a framing nailer.

Right.

That's just the big nailer.

Trim nails.

That's a trim nailer. Um, in fact, it's funny because everybody's waiting for that framing nailer.

They are. They keep calling for it. Yes, they do. It's only a matter of time.

Yeah, but that's a beast when it comes to the compression on a framing nailer.

It is.

Yeah.

Yeah. Have you, have you used one of these battery operated ones though?

I haven't, no. I've only used the hydraulic ones.

So I've got one out there in the shop. I'll let you take a round with it.

All right.

It's super cool. Yeah.

They're really good. I mean, they do the job really well. But what's interesting is I've got one of the old blue ones that is a stapler and just a brad nailer all in one. And they took it off the market for a while because it was so bad. They brought it back in the same format and it was better. And I happened to get one of the better ones. It works really well. But these Airstrikes, they're not even close, man. They're so much better than the one that I've got.

Well, I think a huge component to especially woodworking, and for someone who's not a professional, is the safety of a battery. Because I can't tell you how many times I've knocked over a tool because I tripped over the cord. Yeah, you know, or almost—

or the hose or whatever.

Yeah, or whatever. You know, there's a big safety component to having battery-operated tools.

Sure there is.

No. Yeah.

And I think, I think that's a big move that they're making right now is like, if we can get away from the compressor, we can save people a bunch of money.

Yeah.

So, and real quick, I mean, just Ryobi, if you're listening, like Kevin mentioned something that I was like, that's a really good idea is if they had a battery operated hydraulic lift for like roadside assistance.

Yeah, man. That would be sick.

That would be great.

I mean, like, not just because like it would be like, I don't want to be lazy and say like, I don't want to jack the car up, but like if you have someone that's like, not strong enough, right? Or, you know, just incapable. Maybe they have like, you know, arthritis in their hands or something like that, you know? Like, they need to change tires too, right?

Or put some sort of a, uh, like a remote on it so that you could do it from the other side of the vehicle where it's—

so that you're—

where it's safer, right?

All right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna back this up a little bit, see if I can.

Let's see. Yeah, I mean, I can imagine, you know, how many times my wife takes the F-250 because it's the, you know, easiest car to get out of the driveway. And if she has to— if she can even get the tire off. Oh, you know, because it's huge. It's so heavy. You're talking about an 80-pound tire.

Yeah. All right.

So we're talking about— they've moved on now until they've got a rotary tool, a compact glue gun.

Yes.

So this is like the crafting market that they're now moving into, which I think is smart.

Oh, I agree. But they're moving into the weekend crafter.

Yes.

Right. I mean, this is legitimately a glue gun.

Like scrapbooking with Ryobi.

That's right. Yeah. And it's battery operated.

Yeah.

That's crazy. Okay.

Yeah. So, so it's interesting right now it says up there dual temperature settings. So if you're trying to, you know, do something that's really—

yeah, look, there you go. That she's, she's doing hot glue gun With the— that's crazy.

Yeah.

Yeah. So it depends on the, the type of project you're doing. If you're doing something that's going to take longer before you actually stick it down, uh, you can put it at a hotter setting so it'll, it'll stay melted a little bit longer.

Oh, okay.

Or if you're doing something you need to kind of apply quickly, then you can do it at a lower setting. And oh, by the way, it's got a drip tray on it. It's got a drip tray.

So you don't burn your fingies.

Yeah, well, that's what I was gonna say. So you can decide if you want to just You know, kind of burn your fingers, or if you want to melt the skin off full on with that hot glue.

Yeah, get that old Brazilian.

Yes, just burn all the way through the finger.

I'll be honest with you, this is one of the reasons that I'm going this is a dud.

Oh yeah?

Like, you could have given me a framing nailer, but you give me a hot glue gun?

Really?

Yeah, like, I'm with you, but like, that rotary tool is pretty cool.

What is— no, no, no.

And I'm not saying that these aren't cool.

Well, and oh, there's the one that everybody's been going nuts for online. That fan, dude.

That 4-inch clip-on fan. Okay, people online have gone nuts over this thing, and they're, they're like, what, like $15, $20 apiece?

Something like that. Yeah, see, there you go. Yeah, that's the thing.

But you can clip it to any place.

I think it's like 2-speed. Yeah, but I got— apparently it works.

Apparently.

I, I would hope so. To me, it looks like they're just trying to figure out anything they can stick their battery in.

There's no doubt about it.

You know, well, yeah, that's just all it is, is sell batteries.

Yep. No, 100%. Yeah, so what we're looking at right now is you see a couple— you— so you got the fan.

Yeah, they put it in.

It's all the uses for the fan.

Yeah, the, the beachside chair, all these sorts of things. But you know, they got their flashlights, they've got their hot glue gun now. That rotary tool is, is pretty cool. But it's like, you're, you're right. I mean, honestly, the reality of my wife going outside to get one of the batteries to plug into a hot glue gun, that's probably not gonna happen.

Yeah, it's very low.

And I'm not using a hot glue gun because I use this stuff called wood glue.

Way better. Well, it is interesting who they're showing using the different products too.

So a male or a female?

Yes, sexism is alive and well at Ryobi for their commercials.

That's right. So because it's clearly a 50/50 split.

It is.

Yes.

But they don't show the men using the craft tools.

They really don't.

They show the ladies like—

Yeah, they did. They took them all off the table. Yes.

Yeah, they moved them all so he could get his lights Yeah, because there are lights there now.

Yes.

Well, and, and lighting was a huge release in this line. They haven't really gotten into it yet, but you can see some of them on the table there where, like, and they're just basically like table lamps.

Yep. Or, or a lantern for like a camping trip or something. Exactly.

Yeah. And there you go.

That's what—

as a camper, I can really see that because you, you do have to take a drill with you to get your jacks down and things like that. Sure. So If I can take that battery off that I'm charging in my camper anyways and stick that on a fan or a light or something, that's, that's actually pretty useful.

Yeah.

And if it's an LED, because it is, I mean, that honestly, that thing is gonna last a long time. Yeah, for sure.

Well, and that's cool. It's so— the, the, the, the light has a lock on the trigger and an adjustable head. So you can, you can stand up, but you can adjust the light where it's shining.

Yeah, so my old blue one that's a flashlight, like, the, the head on it rotates.

Okay.

And so you kind of gotta position that thing in just the right, right way, whereas this one just tilts back and forth. It's way smarter.

Now, if they could get a headband light with that 40— yeah, that 40 battery on there, that would be pretty awesome. Yeah, I would be impressed. I'm with you. It might be kind of heavy.

It's probably going to be like a sling that like hangs on your side somewhere, but then a lamp on your head.

Okay, here we go. We're moving into some yard equipment, looks like.

All right.

Um, oh, it looks like we've got a— is that a— oh, it's a pressure washer. Yeah, like a handheld pressure washer.

So it's battery-operated pressure washer.

Yeah. And I'll tell you this right now, people say this thing sucks. Well, yeah, I mean, this pressure washer, they're like, look, if you actually want to pressure wash anything don't buy this. Yeah, that's what I've heard.

Let's see what we got here.

Now, that being said, it's pretty awesome that they tried.

Yeah, we're following Brian's theory here. It's, it's now a lady.

Yes, so she's the marketing manager.

All right, I'm sure she— okay, uh, so this, this was actually a really cool one.

Yeah, I agree. Yeah, so, so they were, they were showing, um, a power inverter Basically.

And this— I, I remember this segment from when I watched it earlier. They have like 3 or 4 different power inverters that they're coming out with, um, and I didn't really understand the utility of the really tiny one.

No, because this one—

this one that has the 2 USB and the 110, uh, made sense to me.

Yeah, except it's so big—

or 120, sorry—

it's so big to like Where are you gonna put that thing? Because it plugs into your, you, to your cigarette lighter adapter in your vehicle. It's so large. Like, where are you gonna put that?

Well, I think the reason it does that is to recharge the battery.

Yeah, it does. Yeah, but to me, I'm just like, okay, where in my vehicle am I gonna put that?

Just on the floorboard? Yeah.

Okay. Why not?

I guess. Center console.

Your wife doesn't want to ride with you, just put it in the passenger seat.

No, that's true.

So yeah, this is, this is, this is what's cool about you. You can charge your, your phone, you can charge your iPad, you can—

But they showed something here that I don't think they've talked about yet.

They have not, no. Yeah.

And to me, this is where they really went off the rails in a good way.

So here, okay, this is the little one that I was talking about.

Yeah, yeah, this one actually makes more sense to me.

Well, but like, it's the same thing, it's just smaller.

So this is just a smaller power bank.

But to me— but see, then it has to wrap around and go to the—

so you still have to have the battery.

You're right, but it's on a cord.

So yeah, and that's more annoying to me. Like, I just want the one thing, right?

Yeah, one unit.

So, so what they're about to talk about here is the solar panels. The solar panels, they went off the rails and they have a solar panel That you can backpack with.

Yes.

Like, you can take this wherever you want to, totally portable, and it'll charge their batteries. Recharge the battery. Yeah, it's unbelievable.

Well, that's amazing because most of the time when you, when you look at solar panels, they don't talk about the power storage.

Yeah, right.

People are like, oh yeah, the solar panel. Well, you have to store the power somewhere.

Somewhere.

So they're, they're making it more user-friendly where you can just say, look, this is the whole system in one pack.

Right.

So that's a pretty good option.

Well, I don't know if you guys just saw that, but it said dual USB-A, which means it has 2 USB-A ports coming out of it, which means that like, if it has full sun, that thing is generating enough power to have 2 USB-A outputs. Yeah, that's crazy.

Now why they went with the USB-A at this point in 2021, I'm not real sure, but it is what they chose.

I don't, I don't, I don't know the power difference between USB-A, USB-C. I know that the more power goes through the USB-C.

It does.

My USB-C stuff recharges way quicker than anything else.

Yeah, it does.

But I don't know what the actual technical, you know, specifications are on that.

Sure.

So now they're getting into lawn equipment, and I found this one to be interesting. Here's why I found it to be interesting, because they're showing you something that I would love to have, but I would hate to store it.

Okay.

That's the aerator.

Oh, the aerator.

The aerator is amazing. It's a dethatcher as well.

Yeah.

That thing is sweet.

Well, it's cool. But like, have you ever seen like a, like a commercial aerator, like dethatcher?

Yeah, they weigh like a million pounds.

Yeah. And like, they cover a lot bigger of an area.

They do.

Like, to do even like, like your lawn, that aerator and dethatcher is going to take a long time.

And a lot of battery power.

Yes.

And I'm telling you, man, I don't want to store that thing.

No, you need like one of these for 5 neighbors.

That's—

Yes.

This is the neighborhood aerator dethatcher. Everybody has a battery and you're donating it to the person that's using it, right?

Exactly. Well, and it's just another case of Barbies, right? So they've got the head, they've got the long arm on it, they're already manufacturing all that stuff. Let's just slap one more piece on here and charge them for it.

Exactly.

Because a thatcher aerator, that's something you go rent every 4 or 5 years for your lawn.

Yeah.

So, you know, it's cool. But again, I think they're just selling batteries. You look at the mower, it's got 2 bad— 2 giant batteries in that thing. Yep.

So, so this, this, this piece right here is actually kind of cool.

I agree. The tiller. Yeah, I agree.

And it's, it's for doing like row gardens in your backyard.

Sure.

Which, I mean, that, that'll do the job.

Yeah, 3 or 4 times a year. That's great.

But the other thing is it's not huge, right? You're not storing— I mean, you can store that in a space that you would store a weed eater, right? Right.

Not too busy. There you go, up to 40 minutes of runtime.

Oh, thank you.

Like, that's, that's actually not that much runtime.

It's not. I mean, that's probably on their, like, 6 amp-hour battery. Yeah, it's, you know, weighs 5 tons, right?

Oh, and it's selling more batteries. Yeah.

And so this one's hilarious to me. It's a patio cleaner.

That's because the pressure washer doesn't work.

That's exactly right. That's exactly right.

No, and, and it's more of a pressure rinser after you use the scrubber. It's like you can use this on the dog or to kind of—

You can really rub the dirt in with this. That's right.

Yeah, like, forget your broom, check out what we have.

Yes, it's a power broom.

Power broom with the wire brush.

And yet again, another battery.

Yes.

And I bet you that thing's $129.

I'll guarantee it, man. And this is where it gets to the point where it's like, this is the one that was like, what the heck?

You've got to be kidding me. It's for cleaning out the grooves between your brick. Right.

And either that is a guy with tight pants and weird boots on, or that was another lady using a power tool to show us the ease of use.

I think it was the former.

I'm glad it's not just me that is irritated by guys that don't buy pants that fit over their boots.

Yes. Yeah. No thanks. Not for me.

This is the man's homeowner show.

That guy's clearly got like a fake mustache.

Well, you know, really, for guys with monster calves like us, we don't want to intimidate the other men. So we leave the pants a little loose.

It's true.

Because yeah, I agree with that.

Leave some things for the imagination.

Yes.

Well, you know, all the ladies are calf ladies. That's right.

Hey, here we are with the— what they're calling a power cleaner.

But that we know— Not a power washer. A power rinser.

This is a power rinser. And they're literally showing you rinsing off a chair.

Yes.

When that—

if it was a power washer, it should be taking the paint off that chair.

That's exactly right.

But it's not.

No, not even close.

But the head of marketing is going to convince us.

Yeah.

And so here's the other thing. How many people would actually use a power washer to clean their vehicle?

What?

Like, I mean, it's—

what is that?

Well, but, but again, it's a power rinser, so it's working.

They hooked it up to a Coke bottle.

Yeah, they literally say, look, it's so portable you can hook it up to a Coke bottle, like a, like a 2-liter bottle, and it's gonna provide enough pressure and enough water to actually take—

How does that even work? Do you have to like turn it upside down?

I don't know, man.

To get the water in there?

Well, it's got a battery.

Well, I know, but like, is it providing like suction?

There must be a tube that goes down in there.

There is a tube. Yeah. All I'm saying is that if you actually want to get any work done, don't buy this product. This, this power cleaner is—

Look at it.

Look at all these things that it says that it does.

Yeah, it does none of those. I don't believe that for a moment.

That is— somebody must have spent a bunch of money like researching this thing and now they're like, now we have to sell it.

Yeah, it's one more way to sell batteries.

We can't not produce this thing. Yeah, it's the theme of the show. Just, just buy batteries.

And so, and so they end it— I mean, we're pretty much at the end here. They end it going, oh, by the way, we have accessories.

Accessories.

Yeah, these are, these are little things, just bits and, and heads and drill, drill bits.

And well, so we've got, we've got 2 drills, a saw, And then a multi-tool, which I do have to say, I'm very happy that they finally came out with the brushless multi-tool.

Yeah, I agree.

I'm, I'm probably going to be getting that. That is a great tool.

It is.

If you've never had a multi-tool, look into it. I mean, they're fantastic. Ryobi hasn't come out with one in years now, right? I'm interested to see how this one actually performs.

Well, I hope it performs well. It is brushless. It's I hope it does well because again, one of the things— there's a lot of people that slam on Ryobi. I get it. I know why they do. But at the end of the day, like, they're a pretty good option. And I've got a ton of their tools and their batteries have held up really, really well for me. And so if they continue to produce good quality products for a consumer that uses them on occasion like I do, And it's hard not to go with them. And Home Depot's everywhere. You, you can find them everywhere, you know. Yeah, it's not a bad product in my opinion.

I think it's great. I mean, the biggest thing for me as a user is that battery life on, on any tool. So I have a battery-operated blower, which is great to use around the pool because I don't have to worry about the electric. I don't have to maintain the gas and, and the motor on it. Um, but that battery life, I can make it down my driveway. Yeah. And that's about it.

And it's done.

So if you give me a better battery life, you know, I'm like waiting for Elon Musk to like pop out and be like, Ryobi to the moon, you know?

And then I'm gonna be like, yes, give me the product, right?

You know, I'll jump on board. Um, but I think one of the coolest things is that solar panel setup. Yes, it really gets my attention.

Was it— was that your favorite one from the whole—

from the whole reel? It was just the combination because I think everybody has the heads You know, they have all the Barbie parts, right? You can buy the Barbie, you can put all the parts on there, but when it comes down to like what is really going to be your competitive edge is going to be the battery life and maintaining those batteries and what I can do with it, right?

Yeah.

So you don't see DeWalt and these other companies coming out with as many applications for their power source. So I think that's a pretty, pretty big step. on at least their marketing plan.

Sure.

So for this year.

I agree. I think that one of the things that they're doing that a lot of tools are doing to your point is these brushless tools are changing the world whenever it comes to battery power.

Right.

'Cause if you don't know what brushless means, it's a big word that basically means—

Smart motor.

It's a smart motor that delivers the amount of power that you need for the job that you're doing. That's all it means. And so your battery, if you're just screwing in, you know, a screw that, that's pre-drilled, it doesn't take very much power to do that. But an older model that isn't brushless, it's going to use the same amount of power to power through, you know, a drill versus just screwing that screw in. Whereas a brushless, it's going to use only the amount of power it needs. Your battery is going to last longer in those moments. So if you had a blower like you were talking about, they had like a trigger on it, right, that you could apply more pressure to if you need a little bit more or less pressure to a little

bit less. At that point, your battery lasts longer. And all of a sudden, the efficiency of what you're doing goes way up, you know?

Right.

All right. So, so Ryan's favorite was the solar panel. What was your favorite, Kev?

Mine was definitely the glue gun.

Joker.

No, no, no, no, my favorite was the fact that they finally came out with a half-inch impact gun that can do the job. Yeah, yeah. This is the 3rd iteration of it that they've had.

Oh, really?

Yes. Okay, this is the 3rd iteration that they've had, and this one is by far the most powerful, um, the best one that they've put out.

And it's got that torque that you need.

Exactly.

Um, so torque is huge, especially if you're working on something that's been out in the weather. You know, you really got to be able to— yeah, you got to be able to unlock that thing.

Exactly.

So that's probably my favorite one. What about you, man?

I think my favorite is, is the multi-tool.

Yeah.

I mean, I'm just— I'm— that's such a— like, it covers so many, you know, options and projects and things that you can accomplish with it. It's just nice to have one with actually a brushless motor.

Sure.

Which, if you've ever used a multi-tool, it's usually like on/off. variable speed 1, 2, right? You know, and like, but like, if you have a trigger where you can engage a little bit more intensity depending on what you're doing, it's going to make it so much more useful. Yeah, so no doubt you'll be able to get a lot more done.

And, uh, I— the last time that they did one of these that we saw, I thought that their product line was a little bit better.

Well, I think the last time it was when they first dropped brushless stuff. Yeah.

And so I think it was a little more impactful, no pun intended. It was a little bit more, um, it was more wowing.

Yeah.

Than this one was. But, uh, you know, here, here's the thing. They're, they're staying competitive. They're bringing out new tools. They're bringing out new options. They're making it more widely available. I mean, no longer are they just catering to men who are trying to do big hard projects, right?

Right.

They're catering to every person because honestly, a lot of the tools that they, that they showed today, my teenager can use, right? My young teenager, my preteen can even get out there and use safely, efficiently, those sorts of things. And so I love the innovation that's happening. I think they're right on target as far as that stuff goes. So And I'm just a fan of their, their product line. A lot of people bash them. And I'm just sitting here going, man, but, but they've got so many options.

Here's the one that I know that Ryan's gonna dig.

Okay.

So, and I don't know how long ago they made it, but you can still find them. It is a Bluetooth speaker floating light show for your pool.

Oh, nice.

Yes, battery powered.

That'd be pretty awesome.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, The only thing it doesn't do is like have a keg on it.

Oh yeah, right. Add that in there, you're good to go.

That's right.

So like, and like, I thought it was a joke the first time I saw it. Yeah. And I was like, nope, it's real. It's a real tool.

See, that would be great. You know, put the kids to bed, you don't want to wake up the neighbors, you just want something small, you know, you don't want all the lights on.

That's right. Right.

So when you and the wife are in the pool at night, you just want a little bit of a show.

Turn on a little Barry Manilow and get a light show going. Yeah.

That's right.

I mean, let's get it on.

And you could even use that—

it's Marvin Gaye.

You could use that power rinser with the Coke bottle attachment. Just put your bottle of wine on there, just shoot it right in the wife's mouth from across the pool. It's not gonna hurt because it's not high pressure.

There's no high pressure in that thing.

Then it's like a wine rinser, you know, you just rinse away your cares with the pressurized wine. So I mean, all your worries— maybe there's a redeeming quality to that one tool.

They just need the Ryobi cheese knife.

Hot cheese cutter.

That's right. Oh man, they'll come up with it now.

Yeah, this is true.

If they are listening, I would like— and Kevin and I have talked about this before— I would like to see the garage door opener come back.

Please make a comeback. That thing is amazing. It's cool. So here's the thing, I know the reason that you take things off of the market is because it sucked.

Yeah, make it better.

There was something about that thing, and someone told me, like, I found one online the other day. Actually, you found it, sent it to me. It was $100 for the whole system.

Yeah.

Um, the person that was selling it said that the sensors were so sensitive that if the sun shone in on it, the garage door wouldn't close.

Wow.

Okay, so you got some issues Fix them. Yeah, please bring that thing back. Yeah, it was amazing. Don't let your great ideas go to the wayside just because they stopped working. Fix it, bring it back, just like you did the nailers. Give us, give us what we want. We're supporting you. We're behind you. We will buy it.

We'll blast that thing across the interwebs.

That's exactly right.

You know, and if they won't fix it, there must not be enough return on the investment to fix it. But a lot of times you just have to switch, you know, who you're marketing to. If you go to the home builder market, right, and you make the right moves in that home builder market, then you're putting those new, you know, garage door openers in every new house in a neighborhood, right? Then, then you've got the right market and you've got the right money to make those adjustments.

What the problem was that I think it was Eric G that pointed this out to us is like there's, there's too many other companies making really good garage door openers. But what was cool about the one that they had is I think it had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. I think it had 6 ports on the exterior of it where you could either jack in your battery to recharge your battery.

Nice.

Or if the power was out, you could jack in a battery to power the garage door opener. But it also had all these attachments to it. Like it had like an air compressor attachment with a pull-down hose. You could air up your tires.

Nice.

It had a light, it had a fan, it had all these different things that you could plug into it.

Right.

Um, so it was like a— like you were talking about the Barbie car, you know, it had all the fun accessories that you could add on to it and really just go nuts.

Just Barbies for men.

Yeah, that's exactly what it is.

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