Approachable Luxury for Father's Day

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2:08Chris Rausers, Bloomberg Pursuits editor at large. He joins us from New York. Chris, I, before we start with the gift guide, which is great. I, I, I gotta say, I love the way that you start this story because you write about your own tradition that you had with your brother and your dad, uh, because you guys would get him something each year that he'd actually use each day. It's really sweet. Talk Talk about what you remember from your childhood. Well, I don't know if it's really sweet or just cheap. It's really, no, it's totally sweet. When we were little, my brother and I would try to figure out what to get our dad with like our allowance money for Father's Day.

2:43And we tried to think of like what his most precious item was, like what he reached for the most. And when we watched him, that was his handkerchief. I don't know about your dad's, but my dad always had and still has a handkerchief in his back pocket. So we decided that's what we would get him for Father's Day. And every year we got him different bandanas. So, you know, he'd think of us every time he sneezed, we'd be with him when we weren't around. Yeah, so it just became a tradition. And actually, recently, I started getting him handkerchiefs again.

3:13Carol Massar:Chris, oh, man, same for my family. My dad, both my mom and dad had cloth handkerchiefs. And it was like, I remember as a kid, right, like something happened and you would get their handkerchief. Like it was just great. It was good for wounds. It was good for colds. It was good for making a sock puppet in the case of an emergency. Like what else is like that? Ah, so sweet. Well, so what kind of a dad are you in terms of like this list that you guys have? Because you broke it up into categories. that's good yeah we broke it up into like culture dad and kitchen dad and uh adventure dad i think that i'm a mix of geek dad and culture dad i wish i was kitchen dad but i am not uh and maybe maybe a little bit of adventure dad although i feel like tim is maybe more of an adventure dad definitely adventure dad although the kids aren't quite old enough yet to go on the adventures that i you know we, we, I'd need to like get one of these vests that carries everything.

4:10Um, go ahead. That's like, that's for my dad. Who's like a hunter, you know? I mean, Hey, come on. We have hunting in Brooklyn, uh, you know, prospect park. Uh, okay. Talk a little bit about, uh, some of the other sort of gifts that stand out on the list here and the way, and why you chose to arrange it this way. Yeah. So we were taught all the dads on the pursuits. We're talking and we were thinking like, all right, a lot of these father's day gift guides end up being quite expensive things like fancy watches, which as you know, I love and like whiskey rocks and like what dad needs more whiskey rocks?

4:44Like the correct number of whiskey rocks to have is zero. So we were like, all right, what are little things like my dad's hankies that actually like dads would use and be like, oh, this is maybe not expensive, but like a part of my daily life. And immediately James on my team said tennis ball subscription. And I said, what is that? And he said, when you play tennis, you use a new can every time you play, which as a non-tennis player, I didn't even realize. And like, maybe you play tennis a lot, but a lot of dads aren't good at keeping track of stuff like that. So if your kids get you a subscription, just literally a subscription on Amazon, so it comes once a month, you know,$36, 12 cans.

5:22That's like an amazing gift that dad will love and constantly use. So it was a lot of stuff like that. I love that. I just need the tennis court time to actually go and play right now. But anyway, for sports dad, there was also these bike glasses. So like I, I used to be a biker. I once biked across the country and I biked with these like crappy plastic sunglasses. I got the station and another dad on the team was like, no, no, you can get a really good glasses that have, they're a single frame. They go from day to night. They don't get dark. And it's, you know, they're$200, which is a lot for a kid, but it's something that will make your dad happy and you get to choose the color.

6:00So because you're the one that's going to have to look at them as the kids. So that was also a good sports dad item that I didn't think of. You can you can be a cyclist again, Chris. Yeah. OK, that is pretty cool. I live in Brooklyn.

6:17Carol Massar:Hey, listen, my my husband is definitely a kitchen dad and my daughter has definitely bought him different cooking items. What what's kind of cool this year? OK, well, there are two things on this list that I am very excited about. One I already own, which is the Mon Kitchen Pepper Cannon, which is not a pepper grinder. It is a pepper cannon because it has this spinny top that's weighted. So it just blasts out so much pepper, so much more than you use with any other grinder. It's$200, but it is the most popular thing in our kitchen. I gave it to my husband a few years ago for his birthday. And then I also love the pizza axe, which is if dad is like into his uni pizza oven out in the backyard and like loves to cook pizzas for the family.

7:03It's a it's a pizza slicer, but it doesn't roll. It chops. It's an axe and it's curved. And it's just like a little a little bit of fun. You know, you can be a little adventure dad while you're a kitchen dad. What's so great about this pepper shaker? I am. I want this. It just like if you love pepper, it just blasts pepper. The volume. okay i mean it's so crazy and it doesn't get caught you know if you buy like at the grocery store the ones that come with the pepper in it it just they get caught they get sticky you run out it's super easy to reload and it's almost like you're not grinding anything like the burrs are so smooth that it just spins and spins and spins and it has a cap where it can collect a ton so you can just spin a bunch and then you just have this like bucket of pepper all right i'm lost someone needs to cut off carol's internet access i've of course had a google search and it's like

7:53Carol Massar:is this the world's best pipe uh pepper grinder i mean all these people showing like how it shoots off its pepper basically right oh yeah and we tested a bunch like this is this i really believe i mean i haven't tried all the pepper grinders in the world but this i this is certainly the best i've ever tried this is a great gift all right the um the geek dads what What do Geek Dads want? So Geek Dads for us is kind of a broad category. It's like maybe gadget guys. Maybe it's someone who plays Dungeons and Dragons. Maybe it's someone who's just like tech. And one of the things that I always recommend to people is if you're at a loss for gifts, go to the MoMA Design Store.

8:29It has gifts for everyone. Go in person, go online at all price points. And there's this HOTO laser measurement tool, which is very simple. But if you want to measure a room to redo a room, you can just take the measurements really quickly with the laser tool. You can upload it. You can read it. It'll map out the room for you. Then you can redesign using AI. It's just a very cool like sparking sparker for invention. And there's also these smarter image stereo surround sound surround sound stereo items that you can stick in your shower, which I certainly am a person who I like lean my iPhone on the sink counter and like blast the podcast that I listen to.

9:08during the shower in the morning. And I could just have a much richer experience. And I feel like Sharper Image is, we forget about Sharper Image, but they have a lot of stuff like that. I think it's the Bloomberg Business Week daily podcast that he listens to every day.

9:21Carol Massar:Who? Chris. Oh, do you? Answer carefully. It is you guys, of course. Of course, yeah. Of course. In the bathroom. So everyone in my family has to listen. You know, I'm so glad you brought up Sharper Image because remember, like there was a time where like it's so true for dad for even like christmas or like father's day like you'd go there because they always had just like these kind of kind of fun gifts and you knew that he'd get a kick out of it it was hit or miss that's the thing you need you need a good recommendation from the sharper image catalog but there are a lot of cool things and it's another one of those places to go that gives you a lot of inspiration because there's just so many different ideas that you're like oh yeah i could get that you're a watch guy chris but there's a there there's a travel alarm clock on here that is a$500 travel alarm clock.

10:09Oh, I have it here. You have it here. Okay. What's so special about this alarm clock? Chris is holding up a, he's holding up a palm sized, less than palm sized analog clock. It looks very nice. Balmuda is this Japanese company. They make homewares. They make this like incredible toaster that everyone's obsessed with. And they just came out with a travel alarm, which is chargeable and it is, I've been using it. It is the most gentle alarm. Not only does it sound really gentle and then, and sort of slowly light up and slowly dim when you need it to, but also the way it tells time it, the numerals light up and the minutes light up.

10:48Um, so you're not like, it's not a big rude digital display. And it's also not a clock that you can't read, uh, the hands at night. It's just like so soft and it's really nice. And if dad is traveling a lot, you know, he could use his iPhone as an alarm clock, but why not use something that reminds him of you?

11:05Carol Massar:Does it wake you up? Does it work? Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. I'm always wondering about like these subtle like clocks that kind of, you know, wake you up at the sunrise. Like, does it really work? It does. Yeah. It doesn't, it doesn't like shine so bright in the room that it's like daylight, but it does have like a really gentle sort of slowly accelerating sound where sometimes you're like in your dream you're like oh i hear something and then you realize it's the outside world and you wake up um yeah it's just not the iphone ring that everybody has which like what do i want from this list what do you want from this i think i actually want the clock but it's 500 but really what i want is a nice um drawing yeah i was gonna say like art project that was made at school that uh and to be woken up by the kids on sunday morning That's what I want.

11:56Chris, what do you want? I mean, breakfast in bed is pretty nice. Breakfast in bed followed by being left alone. You got to be careful. You got to be a little careful with that request on Father's Day. It's very delightful. I'm in a two-dad household, so Father's Day is just like a day.

12:14Carol Massar:I bet. We're working on that. We're picking on stuff. So it's extra special for you guys. It's always extra special when Chris Rauser joins us here on Bloomberg Business Week Daily. He's the editor-at-large over at Bloomberg Pursuits. Check out his story, his gift guide, and everything that he has written on the Bloomberg Terminal and at Bloomberg.com.

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