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From 2015 to 2018, Steve Gadlin and Justin Kaufmann played a prank on WGN Radio listeners. Steve, a real life Shark Tank winner, would pitch flawed and terrible inventions with the hope of w...
Steve pitches Uber-Ella, an inventive business that combines the convenience of Uber with the desire to stay dry. This episode originally ai...
Steve pitches Car-Tris, a fun Tetris-style game that you can play while driving. Listeners love it. This episode originally aired on January...
Steve pitches Gun Shy, a device that makes you think twice about pulling that trigger. It's all for gun safety! Listeners eat it up. Th...
Steve pitches Nickels Pickles, a single-pickle receptacle that save fridge real estate, with the bonus feature of a sidecar nickel chiller....
Steve pitches Corn Milk, a sports drink that combines corn and milk. Listeners hate it. This episode originally aired on WGN Radio on April...
Steve pitches Chew Patrol, a surgically embedded wearable that screams in your ear when you eat too much. Listeners hate it. This episode or...
Steve pitches Me First, a selfish technology tool that lets diners bypass restaurants' stingy structure. Listeners hate it. This episod...
Steve pitches The Cobbie, a delicious and perfectly safe adhesive that turns any food into a cobbed treat! This episode was produced by Pete...
Steve pitches Stink Alert, a noxious warning system for stinky clothing. Listeners love it and can find no fault with Steve's latest in...
Steve pitches the Inspire Hydrant, a terrible and illegal invention that raises the ire of listeners all over the city - including a real li...
On this, the very FIRST episode of The Frying Pan, Steve pitches Mail Mail, a company that helps you mail things to people. Listeners rejoic...
It's a banana! It's a steak! It's neither! WGN listeners lose their gort-dang minds. This episode originally aired on WGN Rad...
Musical tattoos that only require some minor invasive surgery - what could go wrong? This episode originally aired on June 6th, 2015, and wa...
Entitled brats kicking old ladies out of their seats on public transportation? Sign me up! Seat Yay, the app that lets you reserve seats on...
Want to convert cans of your favorite beverage into lip-mutilating messy drink receptacles? The Handy Dandy Can Helper is for you. This epis...
Steve pitches a cap that solves the problem of having to buy new hats for every lid orientation. It's the Snap Cap! Buy four! This epis...
Steve pitches The Star Wars Banana Peeler, a dangerous and unnecessary fruit peeler with a frivolous Star Wars tie-in. WGN listeners bust ar...
Steve pitches S'Greats, a new boot / skate hybrid... or something? It's unclear. Anyway, it's an absolutely terrible inventio...
Steve pitches the Wonderpants Drawer, a super easy way to replace your full underpants drawer on a monthly basis. This episode originally ai...
Steve pitches special underpants that mask flatulence with a loud thunder clap noise. This episode originally aired on August 14th, 2015, an...
Steve pitches a long brimmed cap with a digital time readout so you always know what time it is. WGN listeners think it's perfect, and...
Steve pitches No Melt Ice Cream, a mashed potato-based dessert that no one will love. This episode originally aired on June 4th, 2016, and w...
Steve pitches an app that helps you figure out if there's something in your teeth without having to ask your date. WGN listeners call i...
Steve pitches the Lip Clip, a terrible invention for shushing your significant other when tensions are high. Spoiler: nobody wants one. This...
Steve invents an incredible shirt with three arm holes. It has infinite fashion potential! He also argues with listeners about the existence...
Steve pitches the super safe Cheat Belt, a pseudo seat belt used to fool police officers on those days you forget to buckle up. It's an...
Ever wish you could put those nasty car alarms on vibrate? Steve pitches Safety Car to the WGN Radio audience - a car alarm that shakes your...
Steve pitches "Photo Bomb," creating bomb scares in pursuit of the perfect selfie. Explosions, bright lights, panic - all the fun stuff. Thi...
Steve pitches "Whisper Phones," a product to help the elderly (40+) deal with today's loud and rough noises, with only 5-8 seconds of l...
Steve pitches "The Better Handshake," a terrible device that screws into your bones, designed to improve your handshake's PSI. This epi...
Steve pitches Hot Dog Scarf, a scarf that hides a hot dog so that even YOU can eat at fancy restaurants in spite of your brutish palate. Hot...
Steve pitches "New Sports Camp," a camp where kids can play ALL the sports - but without the sometimes disappointing and triggering presence...
Steve pitches Ranch Flavored Sorbet, which is exactly what it sounds like. But it comes with a jingle. Warning - it's a super catchy ea...
Steve pitches Clownlergies, a big red clown nose that clamps over your shnoz and helps prevent those yucky seasonal allergies. C'mon, g...
Steve pitches the ultimate in life hacks - "Phone a Friend!" Have a question that one of your friends can answer? For just a monthly and per...
Steve pitches "Best of the Net," a service for the elderly (50+) to help them digest and understand The Internet. A friendly calm voice will...
Steve pitches "Clap-At-Ease," special gloves loaded with gun powder that help you clap loudly at outdoor performances and events while weari...
Steve pitches "Shpilke Powder," a chemical that turns your wet sloppy coffee into delicious chewable chunks. No more hot coffee spills! This...
Steve pitches his business idea The My-Brary - an offsite building that stores your personal books and lets you check them out for a small f...
Steve pitches Green Wipe (or Wipe Green), an environmentally friendly bodily waste evacuation system that the whole family can enjoy! In add...
Steve pitches Piñata Bomb - a device that's "about the size of two m-80's and a rubber band" - to help liven up children's bi...
Steve pitches The Quack Pack to WGN Radio listeners - a fanny-pack style egg carrier to help you transport eggs from store to fridge the way...