 extemporaneously. Put in some questions and we're here to answer your questions. Shalva's here cooking. Hello, hello. Hi guys. Lenny, your life is no joke. We're here just kind of open office hours answering questions for Black Friday, if you shop in Vitamix. I'm here. I have some green juice. Shalva's making some lasagna for our second Thanksgiving tonight. You can ask her questions if you want. Say hello. We're here to answer your questions about the Vitamix. If you're shopping today for Black Friday, we'll have some fun. We'll pop in some words. If you guys, I wrote out some note cards, Vitamix office hours. That's fun. And then this is the link to go to add this apron. If you're like, yeah, today I'm getting a Vitamix. It's Black Friday. You get a direct and you add this apron and then you pop in code apron, A-P-R-O-N. You get the apron for free. Wait, what? Yeah, A-P-R-O-N. English might not be their first language. I was planning to wear the apron, but I brought them all back down to my office and my office is closed right now. My office is closed because the baby's sleeping in it. She's been sleeping in my office. So we're hanging out here. I'm looking for people to say hello. I can say hello to some people that are in here. Maria, William, Francis. Yeah, that's a good idea. Thanks, Shalva. So here are the things that are on sale for Black Friday. The best one is, well, there's one for every level, every budget. At the very beginning, $299, you can get a reconditioned V1200. It comes with a 20-ounce kit. You can also get another one for $299 in the Explorian. It comes with a personal cup adapter, 20-ounce. And then all the way up, if you want the full all bells and whistles, A-3500, you can get it with the stainless steel container. That one's on sale, $125 off as well, the entertaining bundle, A-3500 with the food processor attachment. It might be in the picture here or maybe over my shoulder here. Looks like it's like right there, depending on where you're looking from. Food processor attachment. If you want nothing digital and just kind of like basic old-school legacy, the Pro 750, $399, that's an awesome deal. What else can we tell them, Shalva? I would go into detail about who those are for. So why would you want a 20-ounce container? Why is that helpful as well? You're still commuting to work and you want to make this to be right in the thing. I would say most people we recommend getting the best one you can get or the best value. The best one you can get is the A-3500. It comes with all the bells and whistles, 10-year warranty. But most importantly, it's got the best user experience. It's the quietest. It's the least loud. It's the one we use every day. It lives on our counter. The A-3500, that's the best you can get. If you're not looking to drop $600, which is like most people, then there's one for $300. That's the reconditioned B-1200. It basically has all the same features as the A-3500. It comes with a 20-ounce kit. If you're still commuting to work, we like to use the 20-ounce container to make dressings and very small smoothies, spice rubs, banana ice cream. For a while we were making 20-ounce smoothies for our little guy, kind of as a bribe to kind of keep him to stay in his room for a nap time. We use the 20-ounce a lot. But yeah, you can see this is an A-3500 over my shoulder here. That's the one we use every day. What's nice about the A-3500 is that you can add food processor attachment. You can add an 8-ounce container. Both of those things are exclusive to the Ascent Series smart system line. There's a lot of good options today if you're looking to get one. What's really cool is that you can get this denim apron. I don't want to say premier. I also don't want to say fancy schmancy, but a really high quality, nice apron. It's like a mixologist. It's a heavily embedded brand. I can maybe pop down and go get it, but it's like denim. It's like wearing jeans. Really fashionable. I'm wearing it in a video recently. But it's, I think, $84. But if you add it to your cart using this link here and then pop in code apron, it'll just take it off the price. It's free. It rocks. It's a good apron. I'm going to say hello in the chat. Hello. Welcome. And then I'm going to look through the chat here. There's some interesting stuff happening in this chat over here. Yeah. Hi there. Hi guys. What's nice is that whatever vitamins you get, it can do all the things. Some of these hot soups, ice cream, homeless nut butter, flowers, batters to make pancakes, our queso. You don't need to get the best one to make all the things that you want to make, the things that we make. I have a sip of my green juice. Stay hydrated and energized. It's on brand. It's not a prop. It's real. Welcome. Welcome to people who are just joining us. Here to answer your questions, if you're, if you've seen all these people making these yummy creations in the Vitamix, who do we know that does it? Twin Coast? They love to make these yummy smoothies. If you're like, oh, I want to get one. I can't get one, but today is the best day to do it. It's the best day of all year to get them. And we can answer your questions about what's on sale today, what they do, gobble, gobble, gobble. I hope everyone's had a nice Thanksgiving. Bon appetit. I see. Thank you. Ravi. Let's double check to make sure that the link, the link is good. The link that I said that was working. Yeah. Yeah. So any specific questions that you have? I'm trying to think of one that I got recently. Talking about reconditioned is a question we get a lot. Certified reconditioned. These are machines that only have left the warehouse. That's all it really means, people. Well, we recommend certified reconditioned machines to friends and family. They're great. They're such a good value. They're kind of like an insider secret. They're basically new. Pretty much anything that you would see is new. The container, the top, excuse me, a tamper cookbook. Yeah, we gift them to friends and family. It's like we know how great they are, how reliable and quality, and it's the same performance that you would give with a brand new machine. And so we gift those to friends and family. If that's something you were considering the certified reconditioned V 1200 today. And then I think the rest are new. We can talk about some special configurations. And again, this is also nice too, because you can shop on Black Friday, but you don't have to get something through Amazon. We help people buy Vitamix through Vitamix. We're Vitamix affiliate partners. We help people get the best deal and the best value where the mom and pop Vitamix shops. So right now, you can get the best deal on a Vitamix because it's Black Friday and you can get the Headly and Bennett Denim apron. I should go get it. It might be one still up here. This really quality denim premium denim apron. It's free. You just pop in this link, right here. Bitly slash apron apron. It'll take you to the right apron and then you enter code apron in the promo code area and it'll take out knock out the cost of that $84 apron. And this is this is office hours kind of doing this on a whim thought it'd be kind of fun. Let's see if people want to hang out. Thank you, Sean. My name is Lenny Gale. I've been doing this for 10 years. Vitamix affiliate partner, full-time Vitamix affiliate partner. So we're like the guys that you see at Costco or whole foods they used to do roadshow state fairs that do demonstrations and sell Vitamix. We get help poke people up with good deals. We do it all online. So instead of doing live demonstrations, we do it from our kitchen right here. Sometimes we have our kids help out and then we put stuff live on or put it onto YouTube so it lives forever. And this is what we do. We've been doing it for 10 years. Which which means we know a lot about Vitamix. So ask us some specific questions. We got a couple of people here watching. If you're here and if you can see the chat thing, pop in a message to say hello. It's fun to interact. Say hi as our firstborn Ezra's here. We have a few people joining us today. Vitamix Black Friday. This is like the biggest day of the year. Kind of a some trivia. This guy Ezra just turned five yesterday and he was born on Black Friday five years ago. So five years ago, this technology didn't really exist. I wasn't able to do these live things as easily. And from the hospital while my wife was in labor. So he right. So he's kind of the Black Friday baby. And we are here answering questions about the Vitamix. You've seen it in those videos. You've seen the the vortex. You've seen all the things that can do smoothies, hot soups, ice cream, green juice. What else do we like to make detox salad? Okay. So and we make a living doing this. We are full-time Vitamix affiliate partners. And we make green juice. I have some green juice right here. Cheers. Happy Thanksgiving. We if you're just tuning in, we actually made a video in partnership with Vitamix on their YouTube channel. It's kind of fun. Some surprise visitors show up in the video to say hello. Visitors, you got to just see it. It's very silly. And here we are. We're answering questions. We have a little bit of time before our second Thanksgiving dinner. And I was like, oh, why don't we just pop on and say hello, do a live. Hi, Arlene. Arlene Breedlove. Hello. Hello. How are you? Welcome Arlene. So Arlene, funny. You should be named Arlene. My mother's named Robin. And she, you know, her nicknames kind of go through various iterations. Well, people in our family now call her R for Robin and Arlene. We just call her Arlene. It's spelled R dash lean. And then if you're, if you're a grandchild, you call her memes. That's a good question. So this note says Vitamix shopping office hours. So we're here, we're here to answer questions. My name is Lenny Gale. And that's a good question too. So this says go here. This says when you're shopping today and you're shopping for Vitamix, if you're doing that. And if you're like, all right, I'd like that $84 apron for free. You can go to this link here during the United States and then just type in apron in the sort of promo code area. So add this, add this thing and then type in apron. And yeah, like you'll get, you'll get the free apron. And we're, it's exciting because like it's a nice, it's a nice opportunity. It's a nice excuse to not shop on Amazon and to support a small family business. This is sort of our whole team here. Shalva creates all the recipes. Ezra here used to kind of help us on videos every now and then. Now he just eats the food and does five year old things. He writes his name on the note cards next to me. And yeah, this is fun, you guys, you know, kind of, kind of just talking. I didn't do a whole preparation before this, you know, sit here and talk and talk and talk like a radio host. Yeah, no one can tell. Yeah. So this is, this is why a little inside information, this is why usually we have Shalva here with me because she's the one that likes to just talk, talk, you talk about whatever, whenever, however, and it kind of sounds nice. For me, I need to like think a lot about what I'm going to say and then put it on to an editing software and edit it and make it sound all nice. And so here we are, you know, like life is all about just kind of trying to figure stuff out, right? So we're hoping that people who are like, oh, I think I want to get a black Vitamix, you know, Shalva, every Black Friday, she says, do we need anything for Black Friday? Do we need anything? And for some people, the answer to that question is yeah, our ninja is dead. It's time to get a Vitamix or our NutriBullet is dead. It's time to get a Vitamix. It's like, oh, geez, this is going to be a big deal. So we're here to answer questions if you have them or just hang out. It doesn't need to be like a serious thing. We can tell you some stories. Yeah, that's good. I mean, I don't think many people are going to like rewatch this, but that's okay. We can do that. I'm just going to try and get comfortable here. So let's go through the list of all the Black Friday deals and who they might be for. So first of all, and let us know while I'm talking, if you have questions, what questions I can answer for you. I'll stop and answer them. Hi. Welcome. Welcome to everyone who is just joining us. Excuse me. We're talking about the Vitamix Black Friday Specialist today. I'm going to go down the list. First of all, the Vitamix 8 3500 with stainless steel container. So this comes with the 48 ounce stainless steel container that's really good for, it's very versatile. It can do smaller batches of those really thick blend. It doesn't hold any odors or aromas afterwards because it's stainless steel. This is a good option for people that have a home of one. So we say that people who are living by themselves, they should probably get the 48 ounce narrow bodied container. That's what this comes with, the 48 ounce stainless steel container $125 off today. Next is the 8 3500 entertaining bundle, a great option for people who like to have parties like to entertain. So this is the 8 3500 and it comes with, in addition to the 64 ounce container, you can see maybe over my shoulder, maybe right here on YouTube, standard container. In addition to that, it comes with an air disc container. The air disc container is what we eloquently call the entertainer container. This makes fun stuff like mojitos and minjulips and what we love to make for our kids, strawberry lemonade. It is like a really, really fun thing. It's probably the most fun Vitamix container you can get. Even if it's not the most used, it's like the funness. It's like such a fun thing to make batch cocktails for making batch cocktails. And if you like to play with like whips and foams, things like that, it's super good. Next is the Vitamix Pro 750, which is on sale. I think it's like $230 off today. This was the best you can get as of before, just a few years ago. Pre-program settings, kind of like a really upscale look. And it's $399 today. For someone who doesn't want like a digital screen, really kind of like an old-fashioned buttons, dial, and switches, the Pro 750 is a really good pick. If you're buying for your grandparents, it's simple. And for a lot of people, this is one that they're familiar with. They've seen their friends with the Pro 750. It's simple. That's a great pick for someone who's overwhelmed by the thought of any sort of technology on their Vitamix. There are two really good budget options. So first is the E320 with a personal cup adapter. E320 is a basic Vitamix. It's two switches and a variable speed dial. And it also, in addition to the 60-frozen container, comes with a personal cup adapter. This is a 20 ounce cup to make sauces, small smoothies, spice blends, things like that. $299. The other one that's $299 is the Recondition V1200. This is a smart system machine. So what's nice about this is that it's compatible with the food processor attachment and the 8-ounce cup. And this one comes with two containers as well, the 64 and then a 20-ounce kit. So you have two different options for to finally get the Vitamix for $300. There are two accessories, sort of. There's the food processor attachment bundle. If you already have a Vitamix, you can get one of these. And then the immersion blender bundle. So an immersion blender is super nice for making soups. But the bundle is an interesting buy, because it can kind of do almost all the things that a full-size machine can do. So you can make the smoothies, you can make frozen desserts, and then it also comes with like a whisk attachment. And it has a really tiny footprint. So if you are in a very small apartment, this is a really good fit, the immersion blender bundle. Again, if you choose one of these that is, or if you're spending $3.99 or more, you can get the apron, the $84 apron for free. You go to this link, add this to your cart, and then in the promo line, type in apron, and it'll take off the cost of the apron. Guys, my question is we have a V1200, but I recently had an opportunity to use the E520. I like the digital capability of the V1200, but I like the preset options of a V520. I consider gifting or doing something else with the V1200 and getting the A3500. We mostly make smoothies, but would like to branch out and do more. What do you recommend? The preset options are nice, especially if you're doing a, that's a great question, Arlene. Arlene, thank you. The preset programs are nice for making soups so like, like tomato soups start to finish, or even like our queso, we use the soup setting to make queso. You push the button and then walk away after five minutes. It stops on its own. The smoothie setting is nice. The cleaning cycle is nice. And in you said, you also like the digital capability. So you like the ability to set the time of yourself, 30 seconds, start, walk away, kind of like a microwave, make your own programs. Let's see. If you had the V520, the V520, Arlene is like a Costco exclusive that's out of our territory. You wouldn't be able to do the push the button, like the setting the timer, like you set a timer with a microwave. Look, I would say if you got the V520, you would miss your V1200. If you got the A3500, you wouldn't miss your V1200. You never go back. It's, yeah, like it has the features, but it has a user experience that's tough to really articulate, other than it's just really good. Like the dial is like super easy to, to you almost can just like flick it. And Arlene setting that timer is a lot easier on the, on the A3500. It's instead of like pushing like a tactile button, you almost just like tap your finger on it. It's a lot easier. And then from a noise level perspective, the A3500 is a little quieter. So like, I think you'll be really happy with the A3500. If you, if you made the switch, especially like, we like to like undersell people and tell people to get like as little stuff as they possibly need as few items and spend the lease that they really need to. But it sounds like you're like into this lifestyle and it sounds like you'll make good use of the A3500, especially over the long haul. So yeah, like assuming you use your Vitamix now, you'll be really happy with the A3500. I think you will be disappointed with the 520. And that one's definitely a lot louder. I think even louder than the, excuse me, the V1200. Would it do hummus well? Laurie, yeah. So the Vitamix does hummus pretty well and you have sort of two options. You can use like the blender container and just use the tamper to kind of push everything down into the blade. And if you ever get to the point where you want to add on a food processor attachment, you could do it where it's like, it's a little easier in the food processor attachment, but it's definitely not necessary. We make hummus in our Vitamix every now and then. We wish we did it more. It's more of just like a, frankly, it's, it makes more sense for us to outsource hummus in the current lifestyle that we live. We have three little kids. We are have our hands so full that we wish we made hummus more because it's so much better and it's so much less expensive. We have a handful of really fun hummus recipes on our website that are worth checking out. But if, if you're thinking like, oh, should I get a Vitamix? I think it'd be worth it if you know, if it was good at making hummus, the answer is yes. It is great for making hummus. Especially if you have the right recipe. Like there's some tricks. Like there's more than just putting a can of chickpeas, a little tahini, blah, blah, blah. You want to, I think cold water is a trick. Cold water kind of makes it fluffier. Sometimes a little lemon zest is good. And that's a really good question, Laurie. Arlene, you're welcome. You're so welcome. Who's here? Who's hanging out with us today? Shalvi, how's the lasagna doing? No, okay. Thanks, Laurie. This is fun. This is really fun, guys. I feel like, I feel like we should call it because it's been a half hour and I'm kind of just doing ramble face. But here's what I will say. I will put links to the products that I mentioned. I will put links to the apron thing and feel free to send us an email, send me an email text message and be happy to help you. We're here. Look like most people take three to six weeks to figure out if a Vitamix is right for them. And hopefully you've already done that. And if you haven't, here's what I'll leave you with. You have 60 days to make this decision to figure out if it's right for you. And if it's not, you can always upgrade, downgrade, exchange or return. So with that, you guys, thank you so much for watching and hanging out. Happy Thanksgiving. Life is no yoke. We'll talk to you soon. Thanks.