Talkin' Tank with Ally and Abdullah
14 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsReal life couple and Shark Tank fanatics Alexandra Ruddy and Abdullah Saeed test out the products pitched on the show and find out if they're really worth a deal.
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Episodes
Banana Loca
July 11, 2022 07:35 - 42 minutes - 39.6 MBAlly and Abdullah venture to stuff their least favorite fruit with their least favorite condiment in an attempt to create a rift in their otherwise perfect relationship. Banana Loca is an apparatus used to fill bananas that is so ridiculous that it would drive even the prudest of prudes to make a dick joke. Find out how insanely long it took our hosts to clean this product.
Frozen Farmer
June 23, 2022 06:28 - 38 minutes - 35.5 MBAlly and Abdullah indulge in their second dessert of the night by reviewing three flavors of Frozen Farmer ice cream, a brand that takes hideous fruit you wouldn’t dream of eating and tricks you into eating it. Find out how our hosts discovered this product in the wild while hunting for almost expired groceries, which shark was willing to take a bet on a beauty-queen-turned-farmer, and that Frank the cat will try to eat literally fucking anything including ice cream.
Bombas
June 19, 2022 04:12 - 40 minutes - 37.8 MBAlly and Abdullah slide toe-first into the single most successful product in Shark Tank history, and we’re not talkin’ ‘bout no Squatty Potty. The creators of Bombas did for sport socks what Toms did for ugly shoes, charging you more and promising to give a pair away to someone less fortunate so you don’t feel like a jerk for spending on socks what could feed an entire village for like three months. Find out which shark bet on Bombas, how our hosts field tested the product, and the fatal flaw...
Everytable
June 09, 2022 06:21 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBAlly and Abdullah find a Shark Tank business in the wild and take an unplanned foray into a restaurant chain that offers healthy meals you won’t have to sell a kidney to afford. Find out why Mark can’t sink his teeth into this pomodoro, Barbara offers nothing but a proverbial “convertible note”, and how Rohan triumphs in the freshness of a Kevin-free episode.
Love and Pebble
June 06, 2022 05:54 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBAlly and Abdullah mash their faces into a frozen beauty product that looks like a pacifier, tastes like baby food, and delivers icy death to your pores. Find out why a tank filled with sharks can’t seem to develop a taste for something that’s mostly bananas.
Pulp Pantry
May 26, 2022 07:25 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MBThirsty for a Thrive Market sponsorship, Ally and Abdullah stoop to eating snacks made from actual agricultural waste and can’t stop raving about it thanks to one entrepreneur’s ingenious idea to gather up masses of “juicer poop” and turn them into chips that will never be as addictive as Lay’s, or to a lesser degree, heroin. Mark plays the strong silent type, Lori prints out a loan application, and Mr. Wonderful swears he’s successful with women on this episode of Talkin Tank.
Bug Bite Thing
May 19, 2022 03:10 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBAlly purposely subjects herself to the stings of southern Glendale’s notoriously ravenous mosquitoes as Abdullah looks on in horror, all in an effort to test the effectiveness of the cleverly named Bug Bite Thing, an item that looks like a penis pump that makes your penis smaller, and is only marginally good at treating bug bites. Does this “Thing” work? Where does the saliverpoison actually go? And why are untrained civilians unwittingly using this it to suck pieces or their faces off? The a...
Boost Oxygen
May 11, 2022 22:14 - 40 minutes - 37.7 MBAlly and Abdullah get a taste of the aerosol huffing lifestyle with Boost Oxygen, a product pitched by a pair of total dads/dudes/duds named Bob and Steve, or something like that, who promise to deliver you fully breathable air in can form. Sound like something only a complete moron would buy? Well, count our hosts among the hundreds of thousands of morons who ordered a four-pack of absolutely nothing off Amazon and spent a portion of their day trying to figure out if breathing through a pla...
Cat Amazing
May 05, 2022 04:30 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MBAlly and Abdullah review a delightful product designed by a cat for cats and marketed by a human being hell bent on scaring away sharks by bringing up said cat, which is dead. Cat Amazing is a poorly named but well designed piece of debris that your cat will love just slightly more than regular debris, and Ally and Abdullah learn this first hand by enlisting the expertise of their cat Frank, who found the cat amazing to be an acceptable obstacle placed between him and a small dried fish. Also...
Sheets Laundry Club
April 28, 2022 04:56 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MBAwww sheet! Ally and Abdullah are in the laundry room to test out a product that looks like a dryer sheet but is a detergent but doesn’t say so on the box, and still somehow saves the planet. Ingenious! Find out why two guys named Chris with four million dollars in sales still ain’t shit to Barbara, what Lori will and won’t get out of bed for, and a precise academic explanation of how advisory shares work.
Oat Haus Granola Butter
February 14, 2022 05:35 - 32 minutes - 30.3 MBAlly and Abdullah taste test this "soupy" alternative butter that "tastes like shit" according to resident charmlord Mr. Wonderful. A company with a universally enjoyed product, millions in sales, and a flashy pitch, but not a single shark offer on the table. Why? How? When? Where? What? Who? Find out how the granola crumbles on this episode of Serial.
Souper Cubes
December 29, 2021 05:30 - 33 minutes - 36.4 MBAlly & Abdullah are holed up for the winter season and generating lots of excess soupage, so it's the perfect time to review Souper Cubes from Season 12 episode 14 and discuss the near perfect pitch, the ensuing feeding frenzy, and the predictable winner of this classic Shark Tank product. Tangents include FakeSpot, Ally's culinary expertise with chicken, and inconceivable leggings brand names on Amazon. Watch the full pitch here https://youtu.be/gwKFZlyZ99E Follow us on Instagram! @tal...
Copper Cow Coffee
December 13, 2021 08:41 - 43 minutes - 51.8 MBOn the second episode of Talkin' Tank, real life human couple Alexandra Ruddy and Abdullah Saeed try out the portable Vietnamese coffee pour over kit from Copper Cow Coffee to see if it's up to snuff, and discuss the unusually charged pitch, the subsequent deal made on the show, and the disintegration of that deal in real life. Tangents include the couple's shame over their Keurig and the questionable obedience of central air conditioning units. Watch a partial clip of the original pitch on...
Pan's Mushroom Jerky
October 15, 2021 22:49 - 26 minutes - 27.2 MBOn the inaugural episode of Talkin' Tank, real live human couple Alexandra Ruddy and Abdullah Saeed taste test the hit alternative jerky product Pan's Mushroom Jerky, which had the Sharks chomping at the bit... of fungus, that is. They all loved it, but how good is this stuff, really? Is it convincingly meaty? Generously seasoned? Flagrantly flavorful? Ally and Abdullah get to the bottom of this bag of snacks. Watch the original pitch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsb98jeXm14...