 Thought I'd take up the opportunity today to Watch the original Vitamix infomercial with you. I've seen parts of it They play it on a loop like the first two and a half minutes at Vitamix headquarters It's infamous. It's legendary and it's It's aged. I mean it's from 1950 It was the first like like they say it was the first infomercial ever a TV was so rare It was cheap to get TV time So Papa Bernard went on TV to sell the Vitamix machine. He had been pitching products at fairs and festivals and on the streets for years and he This was the first time he had used this medium. I thought it'd be fun to watch together the whole thing We're gonna press play I'm not gonna stop it pressing play now. This music reminds me of ladies and gentlemen in presenting home maricots for 150 the Wizard of Oz Give you a demonstration of one of the most wonderful machines that was ever invented the Vitamix machine And I'm going to talk to you on the most vital subject that concerns you and your family And that is health with health We have wealth We're the richest person on earth without health You're a miserable failure You'll lose your wealth You'll lose your job. You'll lose your income and you'll lose your life Now ladies and gentlemen right away. I know the first thing that you're going to say is what is doing that wonderful work What is performing that miracle? I'm going to call your attention to the machine here the mechanical part of it The Vitamix remember the name Vitamix we have a motor that travels at the rate of 8,000 revolutions a minute on a low 14,000 revolutions a minute on high You get a one-year guarantee on this motor if anything goes wrong with it in one whole year The company will repair or replace it free of charge Now I'm going to Now it's seven for ten and that is this stainless steel bowl Everyone loves the stainless steel The finest material in the world for the preparation of food the same material is used by the United States government on all the battleships and in the hospitals for the preparation of food stainless steel on the inside of a container of four little blades That are made of stainless steel they travel at the rating thousand revolutions a minute now ladies and gentlemen there I'm going to first before I put in this carrot There's a notch here and a notch over here you set that too so they match Before I put in this carrot easier. I'm going to show you some of the incidental things that you can do with this machine One of the first things that I'm going to show you is how you can make your bread crumbs I love this you want to make stuffings you want to make breadcrumbs for breading and Dressings and so forth so you take even your soft bread or your dry bread or your toast your buns and You put them in and you can turn on the machine. I'm going to use I'm going to use the glass bowl here so that you people can see what is going on Remember your machine will have the stainless steel bowl and you look over the top and see what is going on He leaves with the most fun. We're going to use the glass bowl And you will look at every operation. Now I turn on the machine to low and then to high and there's your breadcrumbs already made By electricity Now I'm going to show you how you can grind your wheat many of you would like to make your own whole wheat and for cereal possibly or for muffins or for Bread and do your own baking at home. It's hard to buy a whole wheat in on the market So you can get your whole the grain the whole wheat grain and put it in this machine Turn on the machine to low and then to high and you'll grind your wheat into a cereal in about one minute time It takes two minutes to make whole wheat flour If you want corn meal you can put the grain the whole grain of corn in that and you'll have your corn meal in one minute time and you'll have the flour corn flour in two minutes time you people who are on a diet Maybe you can't tolerate You can put in the soy bean and make your soy bean flour barley flour rice flour now. We have our cereal here you put this in a double boiler and It will cook in about 20 minutes and you get all the brand the middling the germ and the laxative of the whole box it is now ladies and gentlemen Before I put in this carrot, I'm going to put in just a little liquid our recipe book of 500 recipes tells you What liquid to use and how much to use in every one of the recipes? We tell you how to make pie fillers omelets cake batters how to whip your cream turn your butter how to make Your soups your waffle batters your potato pancake batters, you know, I saw a fellow the other day He said he had had a machine rather that he had been married for 30 years And he'd never had a potato pancake in 30 years now think of that like 30 long cold winters and no potato pancake Say we give you a recipe here that tells you how to make the finest potato pancake But was ever made by any woman that has given me by a good German cook up in Milwaukee And I'm going to pass it on to you now ladies and gentlemen Before I put in the carrot, I'm going to add just a little Water with a little orange juice in it the recipe on page nine Calls us they help the Vitamix health cocktail now before I put in the carrot I have a patriotic duty to perform I happen to be the president the natural food gentitude as you know and we are trying to teach some others of America Exactly what the Red Cross and the parent teachers Association are trying to put over drinking games Must mother one shot two no no of your family a sip Is going blind? Do you know right now in America that one half of us children at all are looking through a pane of glass? Do you know right now in America that half of America 27 year of age and Over hasn't got a tooth in their mouth Call up your dentist you say yes, you can come over seven weeks from next Friday There's so many ahead of you. Do you know that one-third of the American children claw weird of age? Haven't got a tonsil in their throat and We had a million boys go before the draft board in our last World War and 460,000 of them were rejected think of it Bring it here General Louis B. Hershey says it's a national disgrace that 90% of those boys Because of malnutrition in other words at the dining room table drink drink drink I'll show you why those conditions exist You know, there's almost one half the American women who can't nurse their baby They have to ask a doctor if they can nurse their baby There isn't another living animal that has to ask such a question But the mother is not feeding herself right in order to make the right of the milk and the quality He's got a good point there So the doctor says give it orange juice cod liver oil purees of edgables and she does Preaches the kid gets old enough to come to the table then when the doctor isn't looking she says to that little child You don't need minerals and vitamins anymore So she throws the whole works out the winter and the first meal she gives that child is one of the most Dmineralized Devitalized food she can possibly give him which is mashed potatoes think of it half of America living on mashed potatoes today You come to my house mashed potatoes. I go to your house mashed potatoes. We go over to the restaurant The hotel the cafeteria mashed potatoes one lady. So what's wrong with mashed potatoes you old fanatic I'll show you what's wrong with mashed potatoes why the mothers are even teaching their little children the coming cooks of America to do this thing The God of heaven when he made that potato He placed eight minerals and five vitamins in the skin of the potato and next to the skin He placed the starch the carbohydrate here and a small amount of protein That's the part they take away from me to get diabetes There's only one way to eat that potato if you want your family to have eyes the whole thing and teeth and Consoles and that's to put it in the oven and bake it and eat the skin and all but no mama said daddy doesn't have any teeth He can't eat the skin and she doesn't have any teeth She can't eat the skin and the reason they don't have any teeth because it didn't eat the skin So she takes a knife and she peels off those eight minerals and four vitamins as if they're poison And she throws them in the garbage can they're with her eyes and their teeth Then she notices the little brown specks the eye go hurt eyes and her teeth the vitamin that reproduces a potato That's the vitamin that she and papa must have if they reproduce they reproductive vitamin vitamin E She doesn't want it. She dodges it out and throws it in the garbage can and then she takes a prayer It takes the knife and she cuts the potato half and two put it in a pot of water and for 25 minutes Now she does give it the work. She boils out every mineral And after she gets them all boiled out what does she do with them why she trots right over to the kitchen sink Oh my god and grains the whole works down the sewer. She gets out her potato masher and she mashes the starch She puts on butter salt and pepper feeds the baby in the high chair mice potatoes Little Mary gets mashed potatoes Billy gets mashed potatoes old Tom eats a big gob of mashed potatoes He has to he hadn't got a teeth and the reason he hadn't got a teeth mama threw him down the sewer Now ladies and gentlemen mama threw the teeth down the sewer. I'm going to show you I'm going to put in this wonderful carrot before I put in the carrot I'm going to show you tell you that it's the most wonderful vegetable that God gave to man The rabbit loves them a guinea pig loves them a horse loves them raw the minute you cook them They won't touch them. Did you ever try to feed a horse cook carrots? That's an amazing point But mama has a cookbook and on page 262 it says buttered carrots. It says slice and dice So she takes that blessed carrot and she slices and she dices it says to 35 minutes She turns up the gas. She boils out the iodine calcium phosphorus iron silicon sulfur potassium and magnesium A lot of blaming mama here and then she trot to the kitchen sink and drains them down the sewer Down the drain goes the vitamin a that builds resistance against all infectious diseases Down the drain goes the vitamin a that builds the eyes if I was doing this today I would make the same point with juice like juicing traditional cold press juicing Everything just goes in the garbage except for the sugar basically they get a set of clackers Papa and mama's teeth are in a water glass every night down the sewer goes the iodine in the built a thyroid gland Out with the kids tonsils before the 12 year today with the table loading down of mashed potatoes and buttered carrots and Slice and mushroom gush Papa has to sit at the head of the table and thank God for the food that mother threw down the sewer Oh Get a vitamin machine my dear people get a vitamin machine Quit kidding your family mother and see that those minerals and vitamins go where they belong into the bloodstream and Build eyes and teeth and tonsils and nerves and health so we put in a little pineapple juice a while ago And we're going to turn on the machine on the low and then the hot And we're going to cut in this carrot and we'll drink that carrot just exactly like molded milk Putting into the bloodstream Instead of the kitchen sink every mineral and every vitamin the next thing I'm putting in Ladies and gentlemen is one of the finest sources of calcium The old hand eats the wheat on the corn He takes from the grain a natural calcium and secretes it and forms the shell of that egg Okay, it has been pre-adjusted by the hand and if you can break it up sufficiently You have the finest source of calcium for expectant mothers nursing mother bone trouble to trouble There's a doctor in Iowa who's made thousands of yes hundred to thousand the pound of powdered eggshells for his Oh, no, so we're going to practice it and we'll throw in the protein. Okay, but we'll also throw in the We did it just exactly like more than now The next one I'm putting in is a finer sugar Here's your sugar that every person in America should have every day a sugar that's loaded with iron and calcium and magnesium phosphorus of blood cells Loaded with iron and calcium It's a sugar that was in the Garden of Eden made by God Almighty and when you make these cocktails for your children So that they can take them to school mother Hey, when you put them in the thermos bottle you'll be sure that they're sweetened with raisins And you'll be building red blood for their eyes and their teeth I can't knock it. Our website's life is no yoke. It all started with egg whites No table to set no dishes to watch think of that say all you need is a water glass for each member of the family So I'm going to put in a wonderful protein the monkeys beefsteak peanuts I'm going to put in ladies and gentlemen The finest fruit When he placed in our soil the almost to grow the old apple tree That old tree goes down in the soil of old Ohio up, California. There's a preacher Pastor I hope he doesn't put the whole thing in You shouldn't put the core of an apple in the seeds are arsenic just And down to the stem and the God of heaven the great chemist of the universe Stores those eight minerals and four vitamins in the skin of the apple He places the pectin in the field he places the laxative in the field the hand of God He takes the paintbrush of all mother nature and for five months He labors building the most helpful fruit the most beautiful fruit painting every apple on that tree What a wonderful artist Oh, I love that With a very nice and she says God doesn't know how to make apple And in one minute in one minute that woman deliberately destroys Unmakes what God made. Oh Mother mother mother we put it in the apple sauce She feels those eight minerals and four vitamins off and throws them in the garbage can Mother this is a mother There and sure enough there's the seed the vitamin E The vitamin little worm knows enough to get and does get in order to raise a family of baby worms She cuts it out and she throws it in the garbage can the vitamin E the anti sterility vitamin We put it in the apple sauce and after she peels up and cuts out every mineral and every vitamin Here's what God gave her here's what she has left 85% cider. She takes this 85% water put it in 100% water and For 20 minutes some cook and she puts on a lot of white granulated sugar and says have some apples Would you like some sugar with sugar Get a vitamin machine and when you want apple sauce Put in water cut the apple and two to see if there isn't any worms in it If you're a vegetarian you don't want the worms then you cut in the apple core Seeds and all doing a little honey or a little raw sugar put it on the table and serve it And if you want a laxity say Here's the way the animal gets their laxity turn your family out on the green pasture Put a little green spinach in the apple. Okay greens a finest laxity On earth a natural laxity now, ladies and gentlemen, we'll put in a wonderful Eurethic, it's the same as a watermelon looks like a watermelon grows on the same long bind It's up the same mineral has the same seeds and works on the kidneys exactly like a watermelon So if you want a natural Eurethic, so in the cucumber cucumber, you'll drink that cucumber I did not know that that it's related to the watermelon. Here's one of the finest vegetables one of the finest vegetables on earth for the nerve so far, there's I say women egg some pineapple juice Celery spinach Cucumber in the large every time they move a joint Cry out to the high heavens with arthritis Dr. Pope a great medical doctor in the Oral Walk laboratories There's a reason women have arthritis because they were taught from the little girls But they're made out of sugar and spice and everything nice how they love their white bread their toaster biscuits are pie They're cake they're jelly they're jam and all of those carbohydrates But dr. Pope says the excessive amount of carbohydrates gets in the bloodstream Settles in the joints he'll take them all away from if you have arthritis girls and he'll make you drink one pint of celery juice a day Which is 40% sodium to dissolve the inorganic substance in your joints and while I speak of celery You can make celery soup put in some milk so in the celery a little piece of onion one minute soups ready Take it over to the stove and warm it don't cook it 40 recipes in our recipe book for making soup here Ladies and gentlemen one of the finest fruits one of the finest fruits and say Your children if you want to give them all the milks and milkshakes, let them make them themselves Let them put some milk in the machine get a bite of it when their kitty neighbors come over Let them throw in the right bananas the right peaches the right big brocats Take your frozen strawberries and your frozen fruits and make your Wonderful drinks in here. Let the kid build his own teeth Here's the way that you cool off your drinks You can for instance if you want lemonade if you want lemonade put in some water and cut in the lemon Yes, you can use skin He's still using the same Demo and to cool it to talk about longer. There's still a full egg with shell in there now ladies and gentlemen You can also you people you people who have a well if you indulge What I mean if you must use alcoholic drinks here's the way you can do it I know a lot of you have seen this machine on the swanky cocktail bars of the country They're making frozen daiquiri's West Indies gin fizzes Tom Collins Mary Collins Katie Collins the whole Collins family Yes, you can make them in this machine But don't say here's to your health when you drink them all you do is to crack up your ice cubes and throw them in And you'll have your frozen drinks in just one minute time now ladies and gentlemen. It's true frozen like margaritas whatever are So much better made in the Vitamix Oh, I know none of you can drink this I wish that I could come into your home and give you a drink of it But I can't come into your home, but I'm gonna pour this off now in just a minute That's the challenge the consistency of the video demos That's the gap we gotta try it once you try you're hooked get that we tell you how to make pipe fillers Omelettes cake batters how to whip your cream I'm going to show you in a little bit how to turn your butter And I'm going to give you show you how to make several other things now turn this machine off right now And we're going to pour this off and I want you to notice ladies and gentlemen I pour this as I pour this That there isn't any seed no pulp No eggshell It is all completely liquified. Please drink it ready to go into your bloodstream and build eyes build teeth Build top. I like that build nerves Build health nerves and when we build health We will be the richest family in this world. It's true You're building wealth You're keeping your job. You have your income and you'll live to be a ripe old age. That's right. I Wish that I could give a sample of this cocktail to every one of you people in this audience. I feel your man It's impossible So I'm going to pour a little of it out in this glass I'm going to sample it myself. He looks thrilled. I'm going to say Here's to your health delicious Perfect health to every one of them My dear people the school nurse When she comes to your school and that little girl has her thermos bottle full of a drink like this The school nurse is going to send the report back to mother and father You're feeding your little one scientifically and you people who are working in offices and factories That's the most bottle could take a Painter of quarter of it to work with you. That's right And you'll have the most perfect meal you ever had in your life knowing you're getting everything that your body needs 500 recipes in this book. Where can I get one? That's what you're thinking about. What will it cost me? I'm going to show you in just a minute tell you where to get one And I'm going to tell you how you can get one Absolutely free. It won't cost you a penny Get a pencil on a piece of paper. Will you do that, please right now? Get a pencil on a piece of paper because we're going to flash on the screen in just a minute. Do you want a Vitamix either way? The telephone number of where you can get your machine the price of the machine With a stainless steel bowl. Oh, I know what it's gonna do. 500 recipes We're going to give you a one-year guarantee If anything goes wrong with this machine in one whole year The company is going to repair or replace it for your child. He's gonna say it's gonna pay for itself I'm going to give you one of the most valuable charts That you could have in your home What right has anyone to buy food and spend their harder and money and then boil it and drain it down the sewer and Throw away the elements that build a healthy body This little chart tells you the minerals and vitamins of every food that you eat 250 of them and it tells you the amount of minerals and vitamins in each one of those foods and even counts your calories I want to show you how it works. If you'll permit me. I'm going to bring an enlarged Wheel of Life chart. Oh, no into this picture. Oh, no around the outer edge. We have our vegetables Yes, every vegetable that you should could buy in your market Oh my god have all your cereals the wheat the rice the milk the corn we have here every fruit That is in the kingdom. We have nut meats. We have seafoods. We have all your meats I don't like the dairy products such as butter cheese eggs and so forth milk We have here miscellaneous beer chocolate coffee honey molasses seaweed tea To tell you what they mineral and vitamin content is of each of them All you have to do is to point this arrow to the food you want to analyze suppose somebody in your home needs a lot of vitamin A just turn to the vegetables here until you see the ones that are rich in vitamin A Where's the vegetable right here? This is such a clever gimmick like people love too much information And analyzing what they need what they think they need Vitamin abundance of vitamin A large amount of vitamin B. The Vitamix app is a modern-day version of this It's gonna tell you every vitamin and mineral and calories and nutrition facts and protein Sulfur and silicon that's the way you analyze every food up here your your calories It tells you how many calories in every one of the foods at Judy this ladies and gentlemen sells for one dollar It's worth fifty dollars to any home that has health As a paramount issue now ladies and gentlemen, you're gonna get that free if you order here tonight And ladies and gentlemen, I Have a special offer for you This machine with a stainless steel bowl Usually sold for five dollars more than the glass bowl I said we's gonna give you the stainless steel bowl machine for the same price As the glass bowl 34 95 that's for a Vitamix Every person who orders the machine right now Right now You're going to have flashed on the screen in just a minute Where to get it the telephone number and how to get it get your pencil and paper ready Every person who orders a machine right now offer this broadcast right now I'm going to see that you get the stainless steel bowl with our new Bakelight handle you can use it just as a pitcher you can pour off your mixtures Suppose you're making hot cranberry sauce And you'd pour the hot mixture in here and you'd have to take a hold of either the glass or the stainless steel jar I'm poor as you saw me doing a minute ago. Well, you might burn your fingers. You might even drop the jar so now This jar that I'm going to give you as the bake light handle and you use it just as you would a water pitcher pour it off Into your container your orange. It's such a good my man. Your ice lemonade your ice drinks Your soups your sauces and whatever you have in here Ladies and gentlemen, if you order 34 95 scenes cheap, that's like multiply it by 10 That's what it is with inflation today. It's almost 400 bucks It'll come to your mailbox partial post prepaid for only $34 and 95 cents and remember You can take the cream off the top of your milk and pour it in here And you'll get a quarter of a pound off the top of two quart bottles of whole milk a quarter of a pound of butter And it's 65 cents a pound you'll pay for your machine in the butter You save in just a few weeks time Is that how it's for you? You can't afford to go another day without a vitamin machine. Go get it. Get a vitamin machine right now It's going to be flashed on the screen immediately. Get your pencil and paper ready and take down this information Telling you the telephone number and Where you can get your machine? I love it. It's the same pitch It can do a million things delivered to your door Wow, I'm glad I watched that now. I want to recreate that. I want to do that. I want to do a 24-minute Demo throw a bunch of stuff in there and do a lot of pointing and say you can't afford to Spend another day and not have a vitamin mix and and do impressions of a crazy mom who doesn't know nutrition and Really use fear to sell these things Dude was good at it. I love that. He was wearing suit in the kitchen If you haven't subscribed to our channel already do that hit the bell to get notified and We'll see you the next one guys