Dude's Must See Products for January 2021

Hey. Dude. Never before has there existed a more Dudeworthy shoe than the Hey Dude Wally Stretch Loafer. Piece by piece, I am going to break down this footwear, and tell you why.

First, there's, "Hey." The shoe's greeting to me. It's perhaps not the most polite way to obtain my attention, but that's cool, I'm no princess.

Then we have "Dude." Mine own name in the brand's title. No further explanation required.

"Wally" is next, and while that may not seem so obvious to many of you, the name "Wally" holds a special place in my heart. It is the name I would bestow upon the son I neither have nor ever want.

"Stretch." These shoes stretch! Like all my favorite clothing, particularly the waistbands of my pants since the holidays. And it's key here, because while clothing manufacturers seem to truly appreciate the importance of an expandable wardrobe, shoe manufacturers often neglect it. But you sit down and eat a dozen Crunchy Tacos Supreme from the Bell, and then try to stand back up a half hour later, and see if your feet haven't salt-swollen up over the edges of your shoes. Hell yeah, I want a pair with stretch!

And finally, there's "Loafer." Both the type of shoe the Hey Dude Wally Stretch Loafer is, and the type of man I, who will soon be wearing a pair of Hey Dude Wally Stretch Loafers, am too.

Alchemy 365 is the first small business to be featured in Small Business Shoutout, a new series I'm trying out that spotlights products and services offered by local, little, and/or independent operations. Plenty of past Dude posts have featured small businesses - e.g., pretty much every Etsy shop out there - but Small Business Shoutout largely aims to cover those with their own website / online marketplace, along with product or service availability to a large audience.

Alchemy 365 and the company's streaming service, Alchemy Anywhere, consist primarily of HIIT-style fitness classes that combine intervals of strength building moves with bursts of cardio, and bookend them with a yoga flow warmup and cool down. Alchemy Anywhere also offers sessions that are more cardio- or more strength-based, as well as full yoga classes.

I might also call the Hariana Tech Smart Ultimate Bed a bed-shaped living room. A living bed. A New York studio apartment. Like the HiCan, Hariana Tech Smart Ultimate Bed is the kind of connected piece of futuristic furniture that will make you never want to leave your bed.

I mean even more than you didn't want to already.

And with the all-in-one bed's built-in massage chair, bookshelf, lamp, Bluetooth speakers, desk, significant under-bed storage, and air cleaning system (because boooo to lingering takeout smells, COVID droplets, and stale farts) WFH could start to mean Work From Hariana real quick.

Will you get a load of the legs on ChopFit's Chopper demo dude? Holy functional training axe, Batman, forget ripped, chiseled, and cut! If using the Chopper means I have any hope of building a fortress of muscle like that dude, I'm ready to get Chopped. 2021's gonna be the year of Paul Bunyan quads and hammies, baby!

Items backed with keyhole slots can be a huge P in the A to hang due to the precision required in measuring and marking their tiny holes' location on the item. Even if you're a pro, all workin' on home remodels and art gallery installations as your job, the Keyhole Companion can save you a lot of time, as it marks accurate keyhole slot locations on your wall for fastener installation, without the need for rulers, measuring tapes, and pencils or other separate marking tools.

It all started with T-Rex Hates Pushups. Or was it T-Rex Hates High-Fives? Or maybe it goes all the way back to Jurassic Park. However it began, T-Rex has stormed onto the pop culture and related product scene like, well, a ravenous carnivorous dinosaur on a rampage.

And he's left a slew of T-Rex-themed products in his wake. Here are 13 of the best.

Dudes, a LEGO Flower Bouquet. It's flowers - check. It's handmade - check. It's customizable to be OOAK from you to her - check. And it's byoooooteeeeful - check. All the makings for the perfect Valentine's day gift, be it a gift for your girlfriend or a gift for your mom, packed into a lap-sized box of 756 LEGO bricks.

Oh yeah, and the LEGO Flower Bouquet is a LEGO set. Number 10280, to be official. So there's something in this whole lovers / awkward kinda-sorta dating / oh-I-was-really-hoping-for-a-ring-or-at-least-some-piece-of-jewelry day of gift-giving for you too.

My compilation of 17 of the best gifts for dog lovers includes both doggone good dog goods, and doggone good goods spotlighting dogs that will make dog lovers go, Hot diggity dog! Enjoy.