WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUY A MATTRESS? | PRETTY GOOD, EPISODE 19

When I bought a mattress in 2018, the company that sold it to me sent me a few emails. "Thank you for your purchase." "Your order is on the way." "We'd love your feedback." You know, that sort of thing. The nature of our email correspondence was completely one-sided, since I never answered any of them, but it was about what you'd expect, and it didn't bother me in the least. Then one day, this correspondence began to take a turn. From then on, my life would ... well, it would remain exactly the same. But let's examine an alternate history in which it did not.

Video by Jon Bois

[SecretBaseSBN]

hey don't tell anyone but just for you we made a promo code. 50% off first month of the secret base patreon. promo code is MATTRESS. i think it's case sensitive. so if you want to binge all the stuff we've made in year one, there's the code, head to www.patreon.com/secretbase and poke around a bit.

[everythingbanana]

Sometimes I click on these videos thinking it’s a metaphor for sports or it’ll eventually become a sports video but it’s just about mattresses

[bungalo]

"Heads up!" on sept. 11 is CRAAZY

[Qusic]

Food $200
Data $150
Mattresses $744, 000
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

[dragonfluf]

Glad to see Jon Bois enter the "I saw an ad 1 too many times so now I have to make a video thoroughly dissecting how monumentally stupid it is" genre pioneered by Dan Olson.

[ChaseGallagher-jhoy]

Jon owning a water bed at any point explains a lot

[pepperedwithgunfire]

was anyone else kinda scared that at some point during the video it was gonna cut to footage of jon in a room full of mattresses

[JonPITBZN]

"How do you have $3 million to throw away on this?"

Jon invented the *luxury hostel*. Sleep on a California King mattress, in a Brooklyn brownstone. Share a room with 6 other people.

[redm]

So Jon is the reason no one can get an apartment for a reasonable price anymore

[socalminstrel]

I kept waiting to hear Alex smoothly take over the narrative of Jon's alternative history personal life.

[fregi]

i love the idea of specifically going to any one of these apartments and going
"hmm i will Enjoy my 45th mattress tonight"

[carnotaurus]

$1488 for a bed? Was it designed by Hugo Boss?

[WaffleCat]

This might be Jon's most manic video yet. Single-handedly starting a housing crisis in order to be a decent consumer of mattresses.

[steelerfaninperu]

What's crazy is that someone like Jeff Bezos could do this until they die with no negative impact on their personal life whatsoever.

[adumbusername]

Noo.... they did NOT send an email on 9/11 with "Heads Up!" in the subject

[Apotheosis]

I bought a helix mattress a couple months ago and this is a wonderful reminder to unsubscribe from their marketing emails. I'll do that right away thank you.

[baconlettucepotato]

"So anyways... Wanna buy a mattress?" after apologizing for getting hacked and trying to take people's money is so on-brand for mattress companies

[samm]

I love that when Jon started out with PRETTY GOOD, it focused on stories ostensibly within SB's purview; sports, media, things of that ilk.

Now it's about slipping on banana peels, and hypothetical mattress-purchasing scenarios.

[mistakesweremade]

Oh boy, we finally get to experience the origin of the inexplicable bed from the Reform video!

[ronh]

When I moved to NYC there was a secret, unmarked mattress factory a block from my apartment. I handed them a wad of cash and they even delivered it. Probably the most convenient thing that ever happened to me.