The Museum Of Failure in Downtown Los Angeles

0:02 welcome everyone Adam the whoo here

0:02 coming to you from downtown Los Angeles

0:04 and directly in front of me is a pop-up

0:07 museum that is traveling around the

0:10 globe and it is currently here in LA for

0:15 a short time in fact about a week or so

0:17 ago they were going to close their

0:19 temporary closure date they have

0:21 extended it giving myself and the

0:26 carpetbagger the ability to check it out

0:29 so we're gonna go inside see what's

0:32 happening the hashtag and slogan you can

0:36 see it there at the bottom

0:37 come fail with us and to gain entry you

0:42 have to make your way up this this ramp

0:44 located inside the a and D Museum which

0:49 is short for architecture and design

0:53 there it is extended until February 18th

0:57 2018 so still open for a short while

1:00 starting in Sweden dr. Samuel West who

1:05 is fascinated by intervention and the

1:08 seemingly binary relationship with

1:11 failure wanted to put something together

1:13 and show that not only failures are a

1:18 negative thing but a positive thing and

1:21 that will be the premise of our

1:24 adventure the first item we come to is

1:27 the Etzel not considered a sparkling

1:31 success by cart manufacturers but by

1:34 today's standards a classic and every

1:37 time I think of the movie Peggy Sue got

1:39 married I think of this car an example

1:42 of what I was mentioning a moment ago

1:44 Henry Ford stated it's the opportunity

1:47 to begin again only this time more

1:50 wisely giving up on your goal because of

1:53 one setback is like slashing your other

1:55 three tires because you got a flat

1:58 that's words to live by and I wonder if

2:01 the person who created the plastic

2:03 bicycle

2:05 if they took that to heart seriously

2:08 that's made of plastic a section has

2:10 been designated as the confessional and

2:14 you can write what you feel was

2:19 something that was considered a failure

2:21 this person 1998 Godzilla movie

2:26 featuring Ferris Bueller it's true

2:29 Matthew Broderick was in that film

2:32 around the same time as the VHS

2:35 generation there was a comparable

2:38 cassette tape known as the Betamax and

2:41 VHS did win out over beta

2:44 until DVDs and blu-rays came along but I

2:48 remember having a few items that would

2:50 fit in a Betamax player one of them was

2:54 a movie starring this bad boy and the

2:57 DeLorean was a failed motor vehicle and

3:01 most people now remember it from the

3:05 film Back to the Future Fenton Teddy dun

3:10 dun dun dun

3:11 so not a pop-culture failure but on the

3:15 assembly line not a success of course we

3:17 all know the Oreo company those

3:19 delicious cookies that you dip in milk

3:23 but there hasn't always been one flavour

3:26 exactly in fact they dabbled around with

3:31 peanut butter cinnamon buns even red

3:35 velvet and the letter in front signifies

3:39 what happened dr. Don some people might

3:46 not realize that Jim Nabors who played

3:49 Gomer Pyle was quite an eloquent singer

3:52 he had a great voice but what is even

3:55 more fascinating is what's next to his

3:58 vinyl LP the sound Berger a portable

4:03 record player wonder how difficult it

4:06 was to replace the needles on that thing

4:08 for a few decades these candies were on

4:11 the market

4:12 ayes AIDS and of course a lot of that

4:17 changed in the 1980s when the epidemic

4:22 sweeps the nation and that name was no

4:26 longer synonymous with tasty treats what

4:29 have we here oh yes oh yes I love the

4:34 power glove it's so bad

4:37 here's a couple of interesting items

4:40 when it comes to food

4:42 Colgate made a beef lasagna I wonder if

4:48 that thought that fought tooth decay

4:52 possibly and teach your kids to eat

4:56 right

4:57 oh Jays tastes just like oranges created

5:02 to be a competition for Barbie

5:04 Little Miss no-name was put out on the

5:08 shelves

5:10 little did anyone realize how creepy was

5:13 going to be to own one of these and to

5:16 stare deeply into its eyes as you tried

5:18 to doze off no sweet dreams for you

5:21 this is skipper the peculiar thing about

5:26 this item is that you would take her arm

5:29 and as you rotated it she would grow her

5:34 body her upper torso would mature it

5:37 would mature rapidly and then you would

5:39 twist the arm back and she would go back

5:42 to being a younger female while we're on

5:45 the subject of technology to play movies

5:48 the laserdisc came out around the same

5:51 time as the VHS they were supposed to

5:53 take over how VHS were so popular the

5:57 laserdisc were going to be the wave of

5:58 the future I recently watched one of

6:02 these items and the quality on a

6:05 laserdisc isn't much better than a VHS

6:08 definitely not DVD or blu-ray quality

6:11 but it was cool it was like a record but

6:14 it played movies at this point in time

6:17 we all have heard of IKEA they sell some

6:20 very hip furniture but there was an era

6:24 where they sold recliners loveseat

6:28 couches made out of air this is air this

6:33 is basically just like an air mattress

6:35 but when you look at it from a distance

6:38 it looks like a regular piece of

6:40 furniture until you sit inside and you

6:43 think what the heck just happened I

6:46 think video stores in general

6:50 into any display in this museum but they

6:53 have chosen blockbuster which pretty

6:55 much was one of the biggest ones it is

6:58 nearly impossible to find an open

7:00 franchise blockbuster currently there

7:04 might be one or two but most of them

7:06 have been converted the storefronts and

7:08 facades into other businesses this next

7:11 one's a a real weird one this bite you

7:14 see in this fat free chocolate cake was

7:17 not from a human but from imaginary

7:19 character hostess had this brainstormed

7:23 idea to sell fat free tiny chocolate

7:27 cakes and they thought the only selling

7:30 point would to make it as if they were

7:32 so popular that people were already

7:34 eating them so that's how it looked when

7:38 you opened the box this did not this did

7:44 not go over too well and quickly was

7:46 discontinued this taught us that when

7:48 you eat ketchup you want it to be the

7:50 traditional red color if you try to do

7:52 purple or blue or green they will not

7:55 sell this was fairly recent enough for

7:59 me to even remember it vividly thinking

8:01 I don't know if I want to dip my fries

8:03 in purple ketchup I've always had an

8:07 infatuation with new coke the backstory

8:10 on this is coca-cola classic that we

8:12 know and love today didn't always have

8:15 the word classic at the end because in

8:18 1985 they created this concoction and

8:23 slated it New Coke immediately the

8:28 public rejected it rebuked it they

8:31 wanted it as far away from their mouths

8:33 as possible and it took the company the

8:36 Coke Company

8:37 a couple years to rejuvenate the general

8:41 consensus that coca-cola was a beautiful

8:45 and tasty thing and new coke is now a

8:47 thing of the past I wish they still made

8:49 this just so I could do a taste ask us I

8:51 want to remember how bad it really was

8:54 back in 2011 the big company which is

8:57 best known for raisers cigarette

8:59 lighters and ballpoint pens

9:00 designed one specifically for females

9:04 the BIC for her and this states that

9:08 some of the reviews on Amazon are

9:10 funnier than anything they can come up

9:12 with one reviewer wrote these pens make

9:17 me feel so feminine and desirable I can

9:19 barely keep the men away my husband has

9:21 started to take fencing lessons just to

9:24 keep just to keep the minnow I remember

9:27 these lifesavers holes you could eat the

9:31 insides like doughnut holes but the

9:33 lifesaver version it makes sense but it

9:37 just really didn't take take off

9:39 unofficially they were pretty much there

9:43 are pretty much tic tacs there it is

9:46 Trump the game which was basically just

9:50 a version of Monopoly came out and the

9:53 late 80s didn't do well and then he

9:55 released it in 2004 when The Apprentice

9:58 became a hit the game however was not a

10:03 hit

10:09 do not pass go do not collect $200

10:09 I'll just leave this one here it's

10:12 called a shared girlfriend created by

10:15 someone in the adult industry and you

10:20 rinse

10:25 I'll just like I'll just let you read it

10:25 you just you can just

10:29 you can just read what the shared

10:32 girlfriend that's just weird looking

10:37 over some of the other some of the other

10:39 things people have written down through

10:42 here oh that's that's not good but I'm

10:46 noticing this one dating Logan Paul

10:57 fixing a lamp when I was seven years old

10:57 and flipping on the switch to test it

11:00 out got got shocked breaking up with my

11:06 ex-fiance dyeing my hair at the park

11:11 spun out smashing in my helmet this was

11:16 not written by kylo Ren if you look

11:19 closely this item called the groove

11:23 stick is basically one drumstick at the

11:27 front and then it splits off into two

11:29 like a wishbone I've always wanted to be

11:32 a drummer so if I guess if I if I pick

11:35 that up and split it in to my wish might

11:37 come true and I could actually have I

11:38 could I could play the drums that's what

11:40 I need I need that I need the Guru stick

11:43 are you even comprehending what that is

11:45 because I'm I'm having a hard time

11:47 figuring that out I don't know why you

11:49 would want your drumsticks to be

11:50 connected come on man it's cool come on

11:55 it's cool it just accept it wonder how

11:58 much that caught what I watch it was

11:59 when it came out I wonder what was the

12:01 price on it you think I check on eBay

12:03 listed on Time magazine's 50 worst

12:07 inventions of all time the hula chair

12:10 while you were sitting here either at

12:13 work or watching TV this would work on

12:16 your abs you could you could have a

12:19 workout by doing nothing sitting here

12:22 you would have a six-pack in your abs in

12:25 no time

12:26 I don't know why that didn't work I'd

12:29 pay a couple bucks for that I'd sit in

12:31 that bag I can just I could use a little

12:33 toning use a little toning down there

12:35 one thing's for sure people are in here

12:38 as a business model this museum is kind

12:43 of successful nearly two years after the

12:46 Kindle e-reader came out Barnes and

12:48 Noble decided to release their own that

12:50 was slightly better it was waterproof

12:52 where the other one wasn't but after two

12:55 years of the general population

12:57 getting used to the Kindle Barnes and

13:00 Noble

13:01 took a massive loss hundreds of millions

13:05 of dollars and a lot of these just

13:07 sitting on shelves and in backrooms wham

13:10 wham wham wham all at all this is a

13:14 pretty cool place size-wise it's just

13:19 one big room not a huge huge multi level

13:24 experience but worth checking out

13:28 $15 is the admission price to check out

13:32 the museum

13:35 a failure at least for a very very

13:38 limited time as soon this place will be

13:41 erased from existence

13:45 this person's regret is they had an

13:48 internship and they weren't able to go

13:51 and have an audition that could have

13:54 gotten them a role on Breaking Bad

13:56 that's one that that's that could be a

14:00 regret as well there are a lot people

14:04 are just pulling out their heart and

14:06 soul here on this wall that's gonna do

14:08 it from downtown Los Angeles I think the

14:12 best thing we can take away from this

14:14 experience as if you do not try you will

14:18 not fail but you also might not succeed

14:22 to be successful at what your endeavors

14:26 are sometimes you fail not everyone has

14:28 a thousand percent bath hundred percent

14:31 thousand

14:33 not everyone has a perfect batting

14:35 average the museum of failure taught me

14:38 always go for your goals even if they

14:41 are not if they don't come to fruition

14:45 they've beneficial way what did you

14:46 learn trying is the first step towards

14:51 failure

14:53 you heard it here straight from the

14:56 carpetbaggers mouth do not fail to hit

15:00 the thumbs up nor go watch the

15:04 carpetbaggers channel because he will

15:05 have a very similar video let's just be

15:07 honest we feel basically the same exact

15:08 thing also do not fail to put your hand

15:11 halfway in front of the camera while I

15:14 start my stick right there the hand vlog

The Museum Of Failure in Downtown Los Angeles

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