Slightly Above Average Podcast

This week, we taste-test and rank 10 levels of sour candy, scaling from mild gas station treats to mouth-puckering, eye-watering disasters. We put our confidence scores on record before Level 1, built out the ultimate sour tier board, and found out who breaks first when the candy gets ridiculously extreme. Happy Halloween from all of us at Slightly Above Average —drop a comment and let us know what level you’d tap out at! 
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Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? We put ourselves through a blue-collar knowledge test covering tools, measurements, and things people confidently assume they know. Watch to play along—the real fun is seeing who gives the completely wrong answer with 100% confidence, and the argument that immediately follows.

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We each brought three secret tools to the shop—ranging from cheap budget hacks to 20-year-old garage staples—without telling the other guys what was coming. We revealed all nine tools, tested whether they actually work, and fought over what’s actually worth owning. By the end, only one tool will take home the crown.
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Everybody remembers "Move That Bus," but we’re looking at what actually happened after the cameras stopped rolling. In this episode, we break down the wildest room designs from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the chaos of building a house on a TV deadline, and the massive hidden costs that forced some families out.
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Every garage has a tool that seemed like a great idea at the store and has done absolutely nothing since. Today, we brought in our own regret purchases, added up what we actually spent, and picked the ten tools that are the biggest wastes of money for the average garage owner. Some are cheap gimmicks. Some are genuinely good tools that make no sense to buy for one project. And at least one of us is about to find out his favorite tool made the list.

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We all have a dream truck build sitting in our head, but almost no one takes the time to run the real numbers. So we did. $100K each, real configurators, real part numbers, and exact totals—no fantasy budgets and no guesswork.

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Eleven sauces, a stack of brutal questions, and no easy way out. We’re taking turns answering questions nobody at this company would answer sober or on the record. By the time we hit the final sauce, every single one of us is taking the hit.

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Home inspectors have quietly become the best content creators on the internet, mostly because their entire job is finding whatever terrible secret a seller tried to hide. Today, we’re going through the worst footage we could find. The whole episode comes down to one question: if this shows up on your report three days before closing, do you write the check or do you walk?

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Is Harbor Freight Scamming You?
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We break down whether Harbor Freight is actually saving you money or just pulling off smart retail tricks. From ranking every house brand to exposing their pricing tactics, here is the truth behind cheap tools.

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Every guy thinks he could build the perfect garage if someone handed him an empty room and a stack of cash. Then he spends ten grand on a toolbox, forgets outlets, and parks his truck in the driveway. Today we each get the same empty 24x24 shell and the same $25,000 — and we're drafting the whole build, one pick at a time, until somebody runs out of money. Once a pick is gone, it's gone. One of us is building a shop, one of us is building a man cave, and one of us is going to forget the floor.

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