“BLENDTEC LIES EXPOSED” EXPOSED!!!
Ever since I posted my “BlendTec
Lies Exposed!” video I’ve been getting people doubting that I correctly
distinguished the magnets in BlendTec’s video as not
being neodymium. Well, one day I got an
email from a guy who claimed to know first hand that I was wrong in making that
claim. Here was that email…
You
my friend are a lier. I live in Orem, Utah. My father
does every single peice of film footage for Blentec/Ktec. Tom Dickson is the owner of Blentec. I know him personally. Nobody lied about the
magnets, I was with my father when we went to go buy the magnets. I remember we
went to Dairy Queen and afterwards me, my dad, and my little bro went to go buy
the magnets for the next episode. I have no idea what magenets
you got, but the guy at the counter said that those were Neoderwhatever
magnets, it said it on the friggin thing we got it
in. If you wish to contact my father or Tom Dickson just reply back and you can
personally talk to my father, Kels Goodman, on the
phone.
Now, this guy seemed to be
nuts, so, I though to humor him a bit and write back politely…
Dear
George,
I would very much like to see the container
these magnets came in. Do you still have it? Or can you tell me the name of the
store where you purchased them? We might be able to track down the specific
product that was bought if we at least know the store it came from.
Thanks for writing,
Steven Jenkins
And George responded with this…
Dear
Rqbflawed
I got word from the company that we got the magnets
from, some old dude who is deaf in his left ear called us back and told us that
we got the wrong magnets. Perfect timing for us....not, we already blended
them! My father said that they already had a video or are going to make a video
with the real Redomaxyskfaj magnets I briefly spoke
with my father about it. I did not agree with you making fun or Will It Blend,
but I totally agree with you for pointing out false pretenses that such large
companies might lie about. I havent checked yet, but
I think there is a video with the real magnets being blended at
www.willitblend.com
If you wish to know the whole entire story
just contact my father at **** that is his e-mail. I'm proud of you for stickin up to the man. Unfortunantly
it makes both of us look bad for the mistake the magnet company made. Contact
me back if you have any more questions.
Hmm… some sanity peaking
through the craziness. I did some
research on this Kels Goodman guy, and he is the guy
who does the BlendTec videos, and that was definitely
his email address. So, I thought to put
myself out there and email him about the issue.
Even if this George guy was just completely crazy, at least I might get Kels to give me some good answers.
Here was my email to him:
Hello Kels,
My name is Steven Jenkins and I am
one of the millions of people making videos on YouTube.
I'm writing you because a video I
made a few months ago has generated a bit of controversy and it was recently
suggested that you might be the person to clear it up.
In my video I refute the
episode of BlendTec's "Will it Blend"
where Neodymium magnets are put to the test. My
video claims that the magnets we not really neodymium magents,
rather, weak ceramic magnets. Here's a link to that video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvIY0w4j1FA
That video came out quite a while
ago, but I have just now gotten an email by someone who claims to be your son
giving his, and your, side of the story. Those emails have been copied
below.
I wanted to write you to see if you
could simply verify this story and also if you wanted to add anything of your
own. If this is verified and the mistake seems like a harmless one I may
want to make another video to clear BlendTec's name.
Thanks a lot for your time,
Steven Jenkins
[Then I copied the emails from up
above]
And then, a day later, Kels
responded with this!...
Steven
Thanks for your e-mail and I first want to say, if
my son has been snooping around, I am sorry for that (kids these days-he's a
good kid though!). I saw your video a while ago and wasn't going to worry
about it, we always get challenged, that's life.
Here is the truth. George and I go out and
purchase tons of things to be blended, we did buy the magnets. We turned
those things over to Tom Dickson, who is an actual engineer, and we just
trusted his words. But after your video, we confronted him and he
realized he was wrong. Blendtec deals with neo-dynium in thier blenders all the
time, so it was just a natural thing for him to say that, and natural for me as
the video producer to just follow his lead.
We were kind of afraid to make a second video on
the magnets, simply because, even though everything you see on the videos are
real and they do blend, they are just funny, silly videos and we are just
having fun.
But if you do want some knowledge of what we have
done with the magnets, after that while Tom was away on a trip, we went to the
blender shop and stole (borrowed) about 10 neo-dynium
magnets and blended them, just to see. After about several blends, we
were able to crunch those magnets to a degree. We had to stop after a
while because they were sparking everywhere. I video taped George just
doing it with the lab coat on and you can see the sparks in later videos in the
opening.
Though they sparked, the top would often fly off,
and we ruined the jars after a while, they did blend. If you want to see
the video, I can see what I actually filmed on it (it's actually pretty funny,
George burned his hand).
Anyway, we weren't going to make a big deal of it
and just move on. Sorry if my son bothered you about it. He is a
big fan of the show so he's a little protective. Hope all it well and
keep up the good work.
Kels Goodman
So there you have it folks!
Official word that I was right, and they were wrong!
I love imagining how my video both caused Tom Dickson to be
“confronted” and some crazy kid to get his hand burnt! The power of the internet!!!
And how cool of Kels was it to
write back with that letter? I really
respect the guy for being so honest like that.
And I’ll even go so far now as to endorse BlendTec
for all your overpriced blending needs!
Alright, thanks again for watching and reading!
Seya around YouTube!
-Steve, aka RGBflawed