A lot of those mattress joints just _have_ to be money laundering operations. No way any area goes through enough beds a year to justify 5 being in the same half-mile radius
I think its likely that they just build wherever meets their price range for storage. They tend to take a lot of space for displays and product, so they get compacted wherever meets their economic advantage resulting in many of the same stores being placed in the same area.
I thought this, then I went to buy one and realized they have one dude and all the mattresses were 1200+. If they average 1 or 2 a day, they're doing okay. Since they advertise so much, many people are probably just coming by the store to pickup what they've already chosen.
Mattress Firm is owned by a South African. They pretty much proved that they were a shell company albeit a large 1 just to laundry US dollars. Not kidding
@@JeffreyAllanBackowski I wish! Unfortunately being a meth cook isn't as lucrative as one would expect. Though I was pissed off to learn that the man she cooked for had $75k in cash just thrown under his driver side car seat when he was finally arrested, like you or I might do to get rid of some pennies. This was after his cheap ass only gave me $20 as a graduation gift. This was in 2001. In 2022 dollars that's $125,469.79 just right there under his fat ass soaking up farts.
You know, that’s ironically why I miss Trump so much. The man stayed snitching on himself, and did so consistently, faithfully, that it took all the guess work out of it. You could trust that if any fucked up shit happened on Capital Hill, within an hour the man was all over Twitter telling on himself and everyone involved.
This is so true. Just telling people something is discounted is enough to make them buy it. At a convenience store I worked at, we had a surplus of ice scrapers to get rid of, but didn't have the authority to actually mark them down. So we put up sign saying they were 2 for $3, which was true, but we left out the part where they were $1.50 each. Yes, we sold out.
Should have made a sign that said "Ice Scrapers 4$" then put an X through it, then write "On sale 1.50" No one in their right mind would buy two ice scrapers, that would be like having a second anus.
Awhile back, I produced some ads for an up and coming mattress retailer. They even had a jingle. You might be not at all surprised to learn that the "we'll beat any competitors prices" thing is utter bullshit. The manufacturer that sends a Dreamwave 10.2 Pillowtop mattress to one retailer will send a Dreamwave 10.3 Pillowtop to their "competitor." Same bed. Same everything. "Oh I'm sorry, but we can't match the price because that's a different model. Now give us your two thousand dollars."
I'm waiting for the meta moment where they have "If Roger Was Really Honest" -- I have no idea what closets full of skeletons would appear but maybe it'd make for a series finale?
@@xredgambit yup basically 22 minutes of them telling us how they chose the sanest people on their side of the argument versus the craziest on the other side but funny enough they were still right in every subject.
@@southcoastinventors6583 The same way it is with governments. Tv certainly likes to sell that one side is any different than the other. They're both in on giving us less freedom and more power for them.
I resent that comment! At BigCo we are ethical, honest, and filing bankruptcy next Tuesday, because nobody bought our wonderful products without lying to them!
are you a rich retired old man that convinces himself he wants to travel a lot, then come on over and over spend for a RV by 300% the price you should be paying
@@mmoarchives2542 Oh yeah, if you really want an RV, buy used from a private party. Easy to pick up a $200,000 RV for $75,000. I had a hippy friend in IT who became fed up with the nonsense "American Dream" BS, sold everything, and bought one of the sweetest 4x4 travel vans used for $25,000 with 11,000mi. He loved the shit outta that baby! OG cost for this van was $110,000 btw.
I bought a generic memory foam mattress from Walmart's website 3 years ago and it feels exactly the same as the expensive name brand memory foam mattress in the furniture store. And I paid less than 400 dollars for it as opposed to over a grand.
There are so many mattress stores where I live and none of them are ever busy, they're actually devoid of customers most of the time. I just thought they were money laundering operations.
yeah we have a ton of mattress stores too, it makes no sense. Definitely money laundering. Now there's like a million car washes that opened in the past year or so. Some right across the street from each other its insane.
I bought a memory foam mattress at Big Lots called Zeopedic. We paid $250.00 for it, had it for five years & it's still the most comfortable mattress we've ever owned. And I'll buy another one if we have to ever get a new one in the future.
I got a Purple. The purple stuff itself was pretty comfortable, but the foam under it was almost as hard as the floor, so I was always sore and tired by morning. Took it back and returned to a cheap inflatable mattress with a cheap foam topper... much better, and like a tenth the price. Kept the purple sample square though, because it makes a good fidget toy.
@Will, I am a night manager at a Hotel and I can tell you honestly at my hotel which I have been working 20 years, we have only changed mattresses twice and only because we remodeled.
As always check our sources in the description, our online store (the-cracked-dispensary.creator-spring.com/listing/new-roger-horton-tennis-chihua?product=46) and if you shoot Jordan your email he might send you some behind the scenes stuff we can’t publish on RUclips. forms.gle/A7JZTU5UR7fr7DxSA.
Please make one if School was honest. I know you made one that said if student loans were honest, but I think it'll be more better if you expose or give more detail into how the US education system sucks
As a furniture dealer I know almost everything about this satire is true. Most decent NEW beds aren't toxic anymore (past five years or so). That's just not the case here in America. But all of this otherwise is really spot on. Oh except that unless you spent like $5000 on a mattress it likely didn't cost $500 to manufacture it.
Why would I part with my mite-riddled, sweat-soaked mattress full of toxic off-gassing foam? The discoloration and immutable stink adds value. Plus, it's been conveniently reshaped over time to now perfectly match the unnatural curvature of my corkscrew spine. What sort of maniac would part with a beloved household item like that?
My 20-year-old mattress is just fine. Comfy, and only stinks occasionally when I rotate it. The existing mites and I are old buddies. And probably the foam gasses have long since dissipated, so why buy a grossly-overpriced item with new gasses? I can produce my own gasses just fine.
@@cracked At least you have that excuse. I got caught having bought glowsticks and a confetti cannon. The best I could come up with is "These are things I need."
Went to mattress store announcing sale, salesman was so disengaged he just waved his hand toward the area I requested and walked away, amazingly the sale is now extended into Sept. Glad there is an actual mattress factory near me, the one I bought in my youth lasted 25 yrs of true comfort.
@@DavidLLambertmobile vacuum mattress,use mattress pad that is washed often,flip the double sided mattress,keep it in solid house... that is not a problem
Nothing like waking up to a delightfully reality crushing dose of Rodger. I could listen to him dash my general misconceptions about common things all day.
It's also funny how every once in a while they advertise new mattress as "ergonomic" and suggest that past models got it wrong, even tough they barely change anything.
Mattress prices have always seemed ludicrous to me. Two years into having my own place I got a memory foam mattress-in-a-box for a little under $300 that was super comfy and lasted four years before I gave it away. I got a similar mattress when I moved into a studio apartment in NYC, and three years in people still comment on how comfy it is when they sit on the bed
I enjoy sleeping on a hard surface like wood, or straight on the floor on a fitness carpet. Tho you need to have a muscle volume as a number of poses to sleep is limited. Otherwise the muscles will get traumatized by the lack of weigth distribution. It is much more satisfying once you get used to it than any mattress.
Splendid video, chaps! I am surprised you didn't mention the bed-in-a-box fad that dominates online shopping. Or the fact that the same mattress will have a different name at another store so that you can't shop comparatively without inside information.
Indeed, there seemed quite a bit of unmined potential left on the floor. Bed in a box, mostly air, slight variations between retailers making advertised price matching impossible, just sold our last inexpensive model.
To be fair, that's true in most industries. Drug companies falsify testing data to get a drug approved, then just see what happens to the poor suckers that get it. Oh, some died? Oh well, we'll pull that product and issue a new one with a much different name next year.
@@d.e.b.b5788 When a politician cries about "government regulation," what they're really trying to do is stop all of his oversight of unethical companies. There are only two ways to keep a company honest: government regulation, or civil lawsuits by customers. Unfortunately, the same politician trying to take away all of that regulation is also big on "tort reform" which steals your right to sue when a big company hurts people with a dangerous product. If we ever had pure unregulated free market capitalism, we'd all be dead from arsenic in breakfast cereal.
Well, not lying to customers might be a way to correct that, but I'm not holding my breath. See also real estate agents and car dealers conning people that their vehicles and dwellings are 'investments', when they aren't. Only if you MAKE money with a vehicle or building, it's an investment. If you can't make money until you sell it or rent it, it's an EXPENSE.
Did anyone ever open up one of those pillows and do a comparison to other ones? Material can't be any different and big pillows aren't good for your neck and circulation.
Same material though, at a cheaper price. Plus you have amortize the cost of a bed over how long you sleep on it. Typically it averages out to be about 100 dollars a year so it really isn't that terrible.
I worked at mattress company years ago and I can tell you that the price match is impossible to use. Here's why. When ordering a mattress from the manufacturer, we used Serta, Simmons and Spring Air, you first pick the inside you want. That would be which coils or foam it gets. That's the important part of the mattress. They don't have that many options. Then you pick the ticking pattern, that's the fabric coving it. Then you pick from a selection of names to put on it. You could literally have the same mattress at two different stores and they would have a different name on them. So stores can't price match because "it's a different mattress". The important thing to know is the coil count and the coil type. There is such a thing as to many coils also. Everything else is just fluff.
What’s a good coil count or rather what’s too many coil count. I did that research before buying my mattress over 10 years ago but I didn’t know about too many coils. I think back then I went with a mattress with 750 or 850 coil count. It’s been a while.
@@tomlee5116 I didn't order the mattress, the owner did. What I know is what he talked to us about the ordering process and what to do about are price match guarantee. If memory serves me correctly I do believe are most expensive mattresses came in at around 800, but that was about 20 years ago. He said if you get to many coils the wire starts to get to thin. I quit just as we started to stock no flips. So by know I have no idea.
Big fan of the guy who blew up his recycled foam pillow business to support some politician that immediately threw him under the bus. Great time, looking forward to the next episode here in a couple years.
Essentially, no matter what you do, you'll end up getting ripped off one way or another. Oh and being homeless or poor is bad too, in fact it's worse because as he said before, it costs considerably more to be poor, they do everything in their power to ensure that.
my local dump charges $75 to dump a mattress, they aren't by weight like other trash. A new feral cat destroyed mine. Anyway. I cut off the fabric, and brought it to a textile recycling center, cut off the thin foam and recycled that. Now I was left with a big metal spring, and took that to metal recycling where they paid me $5. All 3 places are on the same road with-in yards of each other. I was surprised at how little comprises a mattress. New mattress has multiple water proof protection layers, forget how expensive they are, I don't like to move them.
Every matress review..."best sleep I've ever had, zero negatives, you need this in your life to INVEST in your sleep, just click the link below where I get a comission". Check a dozen other reviews from the same person and every one is the best they've ever had.
Yeah but nearly everyone has one and loads of people have spare beds too so that’s a tenth or so of say a city buying a mattress each year. If a city has a million people that’s 100 thousand mattresses a year even if there’s 100 mattress stores that’s a thousand a year or like 3 a day per store and a city that size probably has way less than 100 mattress stores. Considering how much they charge it seems pretty sustainable
I'm honestly thinking about switching my matrass for a linnen bag filled with straw. I've slept on straw a couple of times during living history events, and they are great.
I didn't know mattresses were that big of a commercial deal in the US that it would warrant a video about how their adds trick you. But considering the work and general living culture in the US, it makes sense that mattresses would be marketed with such importance, now that i think about it
I had a full-size folding Futon mattress for years. With the right pillows, it was great. It was a fraction of the price for a "real" twin-size bed. Plus, you could fold it and keep it out of the way. I couldn't take it when I moved recently. My current twin is old and sagging, and due for replacement... by another Futon!
I heard a company’s mattress ads on the radio. One of the ads said they sell 600 mattresses a day. That’s a lot. Then another of their ads said they have 400 locations. Someone is going hungry.
Just about everything he said is true. It does have to be made from new material, however. You can’t comparison shop because just about every model number mattress is a “store exclusive” brand. It’s easier to shop for a casket.
Okay this was absolutely amazing especially considering my wife and I have been using the same mattress for at least a year now. We don't plan on replacing the mattress anytime soon but actually we do need to get a bed frame. Yes the mattress is on the floor which works but you know that's not ideal
I was in my 20s when I first found out how expensive mattresses were...I ended up only being able to afford the mattress itself, and had to lay it on the floor. It really makes you realize how much we take for granted. I had several beds over the course of my childhood, and I'm sure they all cost a small fortune. Hell, I even broke one being a dumb ass, and just expected a new one, which no got.
Totally reminds me of the Infomercials Adult Swim played at 2-3 am from 2014-2019. Specifically that one with the dude trying to get you go this "Indian Casino" where everyone dies in the in. Frank Pierres Indian Hotel and Casino!
I'm happy for all the folks here who happily bed down on $100 mattresses and say they're perfectly fine. Good for you! I wish that worked for everyone. I have chronic health issues, and every mattress I slept on for the last 15 years caused me pain. Then randomly at an AirBnb I found a mattress that erased all my nighttime pain. It was like a miracle. So I went straight home and bought the exact same mattress. Did it cost $2k...unfortunaly yes. Worth it? Definitely!
Please, Please, please, for the love of all that is holy, share with at least myself what matress this was? I am suffering with new pain that is not getting any better despite a growing pile of pillows!
So true...there is a furniture store bout a mile from my "4 walls with another wall on top" that had the same "Going out of Business Sale, Everything must go, 75% off" window sign for 12 years!!!
Damn, hit the nail on the head with the substances used. Good work team, as always! The bloopers are awesome! PS: you forgot to mention how most of them (mattresses) end up on some rubbish field somewhere in a place like Bangladesh, where men women and children "sort" them out scraping for "recycling" and food.
I looked at a mattress online about a year ago, I receive a text from them once every 2 weeks telling me the new sale that is the same as the last one.
First of all: Oh my god you weren't lying on the Modern Rogue about bringing back the channel! Second: out of all the "honest" ads you guys did I would actually buy these mattresses, because despite not really giving the promise Roger DID lay on the bed! And in pretty much all previous adverts he showed visible disgust at his own products technically being disgusting (and only marketed "clean, fresh and good") So for me that's a HUGE vote of confidence right there!
A lot of those mattress joints just _have_ to be money laundering operations. No way any area goes through enough beds a year to justify 5 being in the same half-mile radius
Adam Ruins Everything did an episode on exactly that
I think its likely that they just build wherever meets their price range for storage. They tend to take a lot of space for displays and product, so they get compacted wherever meets their economic advantage resulting in many of the same stores being placed in the same area.
All you have to do is sell like ten a month to meet rent and utilities.
I thought this, then I went to buy one and realized they have one dude and all the mattresses were 1200+. If they average 1 or 2 a day, they're doing okay. Since they advertise so much, many people are probably just coming by the store to pickup what they've already chosen.
Mattress Firm is owned by a South African. They pretty much proved that they were a shell company albeit a large 1 just to laundry US dollars. Not kidding
Honestly, I only shop at Horton's because while evil, they're consistently evil. I don't like surprises when I'm spending my imaginary money.
You mean spending your mom's imaginary money?
@@JeffreyAllanBackowski I wish! Unfortunately being a meth cook isn't as lucrative as one would expect. Though I was pissed off to learn that the man she cooked for had $75k in cash just thrown under his driver side car seat when he was finally arrested, like you or I might do to get rid of some pennies. This was after his cheap ass only gave me $20 as a graduation gift. This was in 2001. In 2022 dollars that's $125,469.79 just right there under his fat ass soaking up farts.
And they are honestly evil
You know, that’s ironically why I miss Trump so much. The man stayed snitching on himself, and did so consistently, faithfully, that it took all the guess work out of it. You could trust that if any fucked up shit happened on Capital Hill, within an hour the man was all over Twitter telling on himself and everyone involved.
ME EITHER I WORKED IMAGINARILY HARD FOR MY IMAGINARY MONEY 💰💸
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is so true. Just telling people something is discounted is enough to make them buy it. At a convenience store I worked at, we had a surplus of ice scrapers to get rid of, but didn't have the authority to actually mark them down. So we put up sign saying they were 2 for $3, which was true, but we left out the part where they were $1.50 each. Yes, we sold out.
Should have made a sign that said "Ice Scrapers 4$" then put an X through it, then write "On sale 1.50"
No one in their right mind would buy two ice scrapers, that would be like having a second anus.
@@JeffreyAllanBackowski Yet they sold out-
Ye, i noticed Amazon prices going up and discounted at the same time. Manipulative strategy.
@@Azarilh sure they did lol,
@@JeffreyAllanBackowski
They might if their household has two cars, or if they're prone to losing things in them. Those ice scrapers aren't very big.
Jordan is killing it. Can I confess my husband fell for that wine stays steady on mattress trick.😂
Ha that's amazing (and also thank you, I really appreciate that!)
Should have bought from Horton
"Still here? Go to bed. Monopoly's a game" lol best line
Awhile back, I produced some ads for an up and coming mattress retailer. They even had a jingle. You might be not at all surprised to learn that the "we'll beat any competitors prices" thing is utter bullshit. The manufacturer that sends a Dreamwave 10.2 Pillowtop mattress to one retailer will send a Dreamwave 10.3 Pillowtop to their "competitor." Same bed. Same everything. "Oh I'm sorry, but we can't match the price because that's a different model. Now give us your two thousand dollars."
That is common in retail. Walmart, Best Buy, Home Depot, etc. do that with appliances, electronics, etc. all the time.
I will watch any video Roger is in.
Same
100%
Ditto
Was he in Terminator? He reminds me of someone in Terminator.
For the algorithm! Roger deserves to be watched by all of youtube.
I'm waiting for the meta moment where they have "If Roger Was Really Honest" -- I have no idea what closets full of skeletons would appear but maybe it'd make for a series finale?
I'm actually writing a series finale right now, just in case (it's not that subject, though).
That was going to be Penn and Teller's bullshit tv show finale if they got to make one.
@@xredgambit yup basically 22 minutes of them telling us how they chose the sanest people on their side of the argument versus the craziest on the other side but funny enough they were still right in every subject.
@@cracked I hope there's going to be a series 2! I've been waiting impatiently for this!
@@y_fam_goeglyd What would you want from a second series?
Every company is shadier than we think it is.
I don't even trust paper companies anymore.
It's true.
Yeah because people are shady, this channel is really just poking fun of human behavior and also as passive aggressive revenge.
@@southcoastinventors6583 The same way it is with governments. Tv certainly likes to sell that one side is any different than the other. They're both in on giving us less freedom and more power for them.
I resent that comment! At BigCo we are ethical, honest, and filing bankruptcy next Tuesday, because nobody bought our wonderful products without lying to them!
This is quality content. You should also make "If RV dealers were honest"
are you a rich retired old man that convinces himself he wants to travel a lot, then come on over and over spend for a RV by 300% the price you should be paying
I agree Roger is life
One of the biggest dealers in the midwest is called raper, as in what brock turner is.
Only if they include a comment or two about the sleazy creeps who litter RV camp sites who ogle your granddaughter like a side of beef.
@@mmoarchives2542 Oh yeah, if you really want an RV, buy used from a private party. Easy to pick up a $200,000 RV for $75,000. I had a hippy friend in IT who became fed up with the nonsense "American Dream" BS, sold everything, and bought one of the sweetest 4x4 travel vans used for $25,000 with 11,000mi. He loved the shit outta that baby! OG cost for this van was $110,000 btw.
Maybe the Japanese are onto something with sleeping on the floor.
I absolutely love my Japanese futon (floor bed).
I do it it's the best my back has felt in years
Japanese beds are $450 and FAR more comfy.
Only con is you have to work to keep it clean and air it out regularly.
I bought a generic memory foam mattress from Walmart's website 3 years ago and it feels exactly the same as the expensive name brand memory foam mattress in the furniture store. And I paid less than 400 dollars for it as opposed to over a grand.
Memory foam is inexpensive because it was designed by nasa and cant be an exclusive right. Hell, theres memory foam in those $12 shoes at walmart.
I watch the whole thing. After the video ended, RUclips played an ad for mattresses!
What makes me sleep better is not the mattress, it's the knowledge that Roger is making these again.
This is why i only buy organic, free-range, local mattresses instead of the generic, money laundering, GMO laden mattresses at box stores
Roger’s got the drip
Cant wait for the Austin McConnell ^ Cracked collab
It’s bizarre how this random industry in particular is so shady
Every industry is shady as fuck
Snatch Magic is now my garage band's name.
As long as I can keep Magic Snatch.
Roger always gets an instant like. Keep healthy bro we need you
There are so many mattress stores where I live and none of them are ever busy, they're actually devoid of customers most of the time. I just thought they were money laundering operations.
They are
How many mattresses do you buy in a lifetime?
@@Kyle-km7eg It is recommended to replace mattresses every 7-10 years. Memory foam and latex mattress can last up to 15 years.
yeah we have a ton of mattress stores too, it makes no sense. Definitely money laundering. Now there's like a million car washes that opened in the past year or so. Some right across the street from each other its insane.
@@Kyle-km7eg I replace mine about every five years.
I shudder to think of what a guy named “Breeding” wants with a mattress.
Baby making playmat
From now on i will forever call them "Drunk friends rectangle storage units"
I love it!😂
I kind of liked "fart collector."
You should do a video on all those life insurance commercials on classic tv show channels.
They already did one on insurance companies.
That and the injury lawyer sharks: "If you died from using this product, call us NOW to see if you can collect money!"
I bought a memory foam mattress at Big Lots called Zeopedic. We paid $250.00 for it, had it for five years & it's still the most comfortable mattress we've ever owned. And I'll buy another one if we have to ever get a new one in the future.
“All the quirky ads on your favorite podcasts”🤣
So damn accurate
I got a Purple. The purple stuff itself was pretty comfortable, but the foam under it was almost as hard as the floor, so I was always sore and tired by morning. Took it back and returned to a cheap inflatable mattress with a cheap foam topper... much better, and like a tenth the price. Kept the purple sample square though, because it makes a good fidget toy.
We bought Avocado mattresses for the kids. The kids like them fine, but I find them incredibly hard and uncomfortable.
I love my Purple hybrid BUT wouldn't buy it again.
Imagine being a hotel owner who goes to a mattress store every 5 years. "Yeah, I'll take 300 of those."
@Will, I am a night manager at a Hotel and I can tell you honestly at my hotel which I have been working 20 years, we have only changed mattresses twice and only because we remodeled.
20 seconds in and I'm sold. I want a mattress. Cannot wait to find out why I will regret it
Your phrase epitomizes and parodies the modern purchasing experience. "Cannot wait to find out why I will regret it."
I love Roger! This guy is a legend.
I love a good Rogering to start the weekend
As always check our sources in the description, our online store (the-cracked-dispensary.creator-spring.com/listing/new-roger-horton-tennis-chihua?product=46) and if you shoot Jordan your email he might send you some behind the scenes stuff we can’t publish on RUclips. forms.gle/A7JZTU5UR7fr7DxSA.
Please make one if School was honest. I know you made one that said if student loans were honest, but I think it'll be more better if you expose or give more detail into how the US education system sucks
Do a video about scam callers
They even use ai voice recognition
You should the ultimate honest ads parody: if the US president were honest. Roger for president, Biden parody.
Do a video about eye glasses.
As a furniture dealer I know almost everything about this satire is true. Most decent NEW beds aren't toxic anymore (past five years or so). That's just not the case here in America. But all of this otherwise is really spot on. Oh except that unless you spent like $5000 on a mattress it likely didn't cost $500 to manufacture it.
Why would I part with my mite-riddled, sweat-soaked mattress full of toxic off-gassing foam? The discoloration and immutable stink adds value. Plus, it's been conveniently reshaped over time to now perfectly match the unnatural curvature of my corkscrew spine. What sort of maniac would part with a beloved household item like that?
To be fair though we are already mite and bacteria riddled.
Air mattress or water mattresses seam more sanitary.
My 20-year-old mattress is just fine. Comfy, and only stinks occasionally when I rotate it. The existing mites and I are old buddies. And probably the foam gasses have long since dissipated, so why buy a grossly-overpriced item with new gasses? I can produce my own gasses just fine.
You should work for Horton Industries.
I just imagine Jordan coming through the door with the puffy suit. Mrs. Doctor Breeding asking about it. Him just yelling back "IT'S FOR WORK!"
That happens pretty much all the time.
@@cracked At least you have that excuse. I got caught having bought glowsticks and a confetti cannon. The best I could come up with is "These are things I need."
The guy dancing and the "Isn't that a monopolyyyyyyyyyyyy?" got me good 😂
Roger doesn't need snatch magic. He IS snatch magic 😘
That's actually his stripper name.
@@prosserdaqwerty i figured Roger would have an awesome stripper name
That took a turn! Didn’t see egg man coming!
And now he can't stop.
Roger for President!!
Went to mattress store announcing sale, salesman was so disengaged he just waved his hand toward the area I requested and walked away, amazingly the sale is now extended into Sept. Glad there is an actual mattress factory near me, the one I bought in my youth lasted 25 yrs of true comfort.
I bet he was aribic.
I read 🛏 last about 5-7 years then due to dust mites, sweat, mildew.
@@DavidLLambertmobile how long would good hygiene and quality mattress cover extend the life of a mattress?
@@DavidLLambertmobile vacuum mattress,use mattress pad that is washed often,flip the double sided mattress,keep it in solid house... that is not a problem
This reminds me I need to flip my mattress.
Nothing like waking up to a delightfully reality crushing dose of Rodger.
I could listen to him dash my general misconceptions about common things all day.
We'll just go to another store! Which as it turns out Roger also owns...
It's also funny how every once in a while they advertise new mattress as "ergonomic" and suggest that past models got it wrong, even tough they barely change anything.
Mattress prices have always seemed ludicrous to me. Two years into having my own place I got a memory foam mattress-in-a-box for a little under $300 that was super comfy and lasted four years before I gave it away. I got a similar mattress when I moved into a studio apartment in NYC, and three years in people still comment on how comfy it is when they sit on the bed
Yeah i don't get why anyone would pay 2 grand for a spring mattress when you can get a memory foam for cheap as hell
I enjoy sleeping on a hard surface like wood, or straight on the floor on a fitness carpet. Tho you need to have a muscle volume as a number of poses to sleep is limited. Otherwise the muscles will get traumatized by the lack of weigth distribution. It is much more satisfying once you get used to it than any mattress.
@@thebomber7641 hmm yes, a limited amount of poses and a certain amount of muscle mass required for it to be bearable. Sounds really great.
I wonder if every company in America a hard core capitalist that eat the middle class and poor.
@@FrazzaJ2000 don't knock it till you try it.
It's Friday, I have a cold beer to drink, and Roger Horton appears with an important message. Can life get better?
Well, let me add in a fantasy woman of your choosing; see if that helps. 😁
Splendid video, chaps!
I am surprised you didn't mention the bed-in-a-box fad that dominates online shopping.
Or the fact that the same mattress will have a different name at another store so that you can't shop comparatively without inside information.
Indeed, there seemed quite a bit of unmined potential left on the floor. Bed in a box, mostly air, slight variations between retailers making advertised price matching impossible, just sold our last inexpensive model.
The box is more comfortable, than their mattress.
@@Thermalionshow do you think stores get their mattresses? Pushing out the air is always going to be the cheapest shipping method.
I used to be a GM for a large mattress company and it’s funny how many of things go unseen by the consumer..
To be fair, that's true in most industries. Drug companies falsify testing data to get a drug approved, then just see what happens to the poor suckers that get it. Oh, some died? Oh well, we'll pull that product and issue a new one with a much different name next year.
@@d.e.b.b5788 When a politician cries about "government regulation," what they're really trying to do is stop all of his oversight of unethical companies. There are only two ways to keep a company honest: government regulation, or civil lawsuits by customers. Unfortunately, the same politician trying to take away all of that regulation is also big on "tort reform" which steals your right to sue when a big company hurts people with a dangerous product. If we ever had pure unregulated free market capitalism, we'd all be dead from arsenic in breakfast cereal.
Well, not lying to customers might be a way to correct that, but I'm not holding my breath. See also real estate agents and car dealers conning people that their vehicles and dwellings are 'investments', when they aren't. Only if you MAKE money with a vehicle or building, it's an investment. If you can't make money until you sell it or rent it, it's an EXPENSE.
This would go well with a MyPillow. Honest businesses think alike.
Did anyone ever open up one of those pillows and do a comparison to other ones? Material can't be any different and big pillows aren't good for your neck and circulation.
“Horton’s revolution dream weaver” 🤣🤣……it sounds more like something taken out of the Cat in the Hat book series 🤷🏻♂️
And suddenly I'm ok with the fact that I slept on a couch for 2 years
Same material though, at a cheaper price. Plus you have amortize the cost of a bed over how long you sleep on it. Typically it averages out to be about 100 dollars a year so it really isn't that terrible.
Moral of the story? Only sleep on the floor or on animal pelts from the beast you hunted.
"would you just shut up you filthy egg?" Love it! lol..
These are the reason why I am subbed!
A "If the meat industry was honest" video would be great!
We've done that!
These commercials are hilarious 😁😆😆
I worked at mattress company years ago and I can tell you that the price match is impossible to use. Here's why. When ordering a mattress from the manufacturer, we used Serta, Simmons and Spring Air, you first pick the inside you want. That would be which coils or foam it gets. That's the important part of the mattress. They don't have that many options. Then you pick the ticking pattern, that's the fabric coving it. Then you pick from a selection of names to put on it. You could literally have the same mattress at two different stores and they would have a different name on them. So stores can't price match because "it's a different mattress". The important thing to know is the coil count and the coil type. There is such a thing as to many coils also. Everything else is just fluff.
What’s a good coil count or rather what’s too many coil count. I did that research before buying my mattress over 10 years ago but I didn’t know about too many coils. I think back then I went with a mattress with 750 or 850 coil count. It’s been a while.
@@tomlee5116 I didn't order the mattress, the owner did. What I know is what he talked to us about the ordering process and what to do about are price match guarantee. If memory serves me correctly I do believe are most expensive mattresses came in at around 800, but that was about 20 years ago. He said if you get to many coils the wire starts to get to thin. I quit just as we started to stock no flips. So by know I have no idea.
Big fan of the guy who blew up his recycled foam pillow business to support some politician that immediately threw him under the bus. Great time, looking forward to the next episode here in a couple years.
I love this guy, one episode says renting is a scam, then the next one tells you owning a home is a scam. I guess homelessness is the best option
Essentially, no matter what you do, you'll end up getting ripped off one way or another. Oh and being homeless or poor is bad too, in fact it's worse because as he said before, it costs considerably more to be poor, they do everything in their power to ensure that.
So many clever names used instead of mattress. Maybe this is just an Aussie one, but we say 'workbench'. Roger, you are an internet treasure mate.
“Go to bed, and monopoly is a game!” May be my favorite line ever.
I got a mattress ad at the end of the video. The irony is hilarious lol
my local dump charges $75 to dump a mattress, they aren't by weight like other trash. A new feral cat destroyed mine. Anyway. I cut off the fabric, and brought it to a textile recycling center, cut off the thin foam and recycled that. Now I was left with a big metal spring, and took that to metal recycling where they paid me $5. All 3 places are on the same road with-in yards of each other. I was surprised at how little comprises a mattress. New mattress has multiple water proof protection layers, forget how expensive they are, I don't like to move them.
Every matress review..."best sleep I've ever had, zero negatives, you need this in your life to INVEST in your sleep, just click the link below where I get a comission". Check a dozen other reviews from the same person and every one is the best they've ever had.
Please keep these coming. Comedic geniuses.
Doing my best!
Roger for president, Biden parody.
Roger almost went ASMR there and suddenly I want an Honest ASMR video.
'Puffy pricey rectangles' is my new band name
I bought the cheapest Mattress in a box from Walmart, 6 years later it is still great.
I got my mattress 6 months ago brand new from the side of the highway
@geigertec5921 I got my mattress from a dumpster, and it had a noticeable blood strain
I wash myself with a rag on a stick
Roger is getting a bid jaded in his senior years. 😅
Does anyone else think matress stores launder money. How often do you buy a matress, once every decade? Every 2?
Yeah but nearly everyone has one and loads of people have spare beds too so that’s a tenth or so of say a city buying a mattress each year. If a city has a million people that’s 100 thousand mattresses a year even if there’s 100 mattress stores that’s a thousand a year or like 3 a day per store and a city that size probably has way less than 100 mattress stores. Considering how much they charge it seems pretty sustainable
I launder MY money UNDER my mattress. In an old sock.
I'm honestly thinking about switching my matrass for a linnen bag filled with straw. I've slept on straw a couple of times during living history events, and they are great.
If straw didn't give me a rash I would probably use it, it genuinely has a decent texture for that purpose.
Straws are for drinkin not for sleepin!
@@garethbaus5471 I'm allergic just breathing near it.
@@burnyizland Fortunately I am not quite that sensitive.
Then you need a Hästens bed maybe?
I couldn't resist subscribing to your channel, thanks for the laughs.
I loved that "mental degradation" whisper.
I didn't know mattresses were that big of a commercial deal in the US that it would warrant a video about how their adds trick you.
But considering the work and general living culture in the US, it makes sense that mattresses would be marketed with such importance, now that i think about it
I had a full-size folding Futon mattress for years. With the right pillows, it was great. It was a fraction of the price for a "real" twin-size bed. Plus, you could fold it and keep it out of the way. I couldn't take it when I moved recently. My current twin is old and sagging, and due for replacement... by another Futon!
I heard a company’s mattress ads on the radio. One of the ads said they sell 600 mattresses a day. That’s a lot. Then another of their ads said they have 400 locations. Someone is going hungry.
Just about everything he said is true. It does have to be made from new material, however.
You can’t comparison shop because just about every model number mattress is a “store exclusive” brand. It’s easier to shop for a casket.
Lol. Got totally blindsided by that pillow suit-or whatever it was.
Most mattresses are crap. Sleep well kiddies!
Okay this was absolutely amazing especially considering my wife and I have been using the same mattress for at least a year now. We don't plan on replacing the mattress anytime soon but actually we do need to get a bed frame. Yes the mattress is on the floor which works but you know that's not ideal
Roger proves you can't spell mattress without A-S-M-R.
Roger is the best business man ever
Did anyone else get a mattress ad right after the video? Another win for the algorithm!
Yay they uploaded the video I picked in the poll. They must like me more than everyone else.
Love you Rodger! Never Change!
They call the same mattress by a different name in every store! So you can never really comparison shop for price!
I was in my 20s when I first found out how expensive mattresses were...I ended up only being able to afford the mattress itself, and had to lay it on the floor.
It really makes you realize how much we take for granted. I had several beds over the course of my childhood, and I'm sure they all cost a small fortune. Hell, I even broke one being a dumb ass, and just expected a new one, which no got.
Over here they’re anywhere from 20-80 bucks for cold foam mattresses, I still don’t understand why people even bother buying the other expensive ones
@@user-10021 Over where?
@@dontrend5956 germany
@@user-10021that's exaggerating, but for as little as €100-€150 you can buy a pretty decent mattress from Aldi or Lidl
Totally reminds me of the Infomercials Adult Swim played at 2-3 am from 2014-2019. Specifically that one with the dude trying to get you go this "Indian Casino" where everyone dies in the in. Frank Pierres Indian Hotel and Casino!
I thought I already saw this one, and then I remembered I just watched the script reading session.
Oh the irony that a direct to consumer mattress company advert with “bioPure” plant-based technology came on for me right after this video. 😂
I'm happy for all the folks here who happily bed down on $100 mattresses and say they're perfectly fine. Good for you! I wish that worked for everyone. I have chronic health issues, and every mattress I slept on for the last 15 years caused me pain. Then randomly at an AirBnb I found a mattress that erased all my nighttime pain. It was like a miracle. So I went straight home and bought the exact same mattress. Did it cost $2k...unfortunaly yes. Worth it? Definitely!
Please, Please, please, for the love of all that is holy, share with at least myself what matress this was? I am suffering with new pain that is not getting any better despite a growing pile of pillows!
@@SarafinaSummers We got a Tuft and Needle Hybrid.
So true...there is a furniture store bout a mile from my "4 walls with another wall on top" that had the same "Going out of Business Sale, Everything must go, 75% off" window sign for 12 years!!!
I'm glad cracked came back
thanks for the content guys 👍👍
Joke's on you. I sleep on a 20 year old mattress on the floor behind my couch.
I've been using mine for close to 15 years now
Damn, hit the nail on the head with the substances used. Good work team, as always! The bloopers are awesome!
PS: you forgot to mention how most of them (mattresses) end up on some rubbish field somewhere in a place like Bangladesh, where men women and children "sort" them out scraping for "recycling" and food.
I literally got a mattress ad before and after the video lol, it's like trying to tell me to not listen to this video
The ad that played before the video was a mattress ad lmfao
Amazing
The man, the myth, the legend is back!
L O L the ad immediately after your video was some Influencer girl advertising for a new mattress
I looked at a mattress online about a year ago, I receive a text from them once every 2 weeks telling me the new sale that is the same as the last one.
First of all:
Oh my god you weren't lying on the Modern Rogue about bringing back the channel!
Second: out of all the "honest" ads you guys did I would actually buy these mattresses, because despite not really giving the promise Roger DID lay on the bed! And in pretty much all previous adverts he showed visible disgust at his own products technically being disgusting (and only marketed "clean, fresh and good")
So for me that's a HUGE vote of confidence right there!
Ha well that's totally fair!