If you’re midflight and the movie is terrible and the airline magazine crossword puzzle has already been done by someone else, the SkyMall catalog is the time-killer of last resort for the bored, boxed-in passenger.
SkyMall sells items that, under normal circumstances, you might never consider — like say, adult-size, unisex, one-piece Superman pajamas. But somehow, midflight, you find yourself wondering: Do I need a dog bed designed to look like an NCAA stadium?

Eight years ago, the San Francisco-based comedy group Kasper Hauser published Sky Maul: Happy Crap You Can Buy From The Plane, a catalog full of products like the “Pepper Self Spray” and the “Da Vinci Code Decoder Ring.” And now comes Sky Maul 2: Where America Buys His Stuff. Kasper Hauser members Rob Baedeker and James and John Reichmuth join NPR’s Robert Siegel to discuss some products that you can almost certainly live without.
Interview Highlights
On their home improvement products, like the Cave Repainting Set and the Condo Pony
James Reichmuth: You may know what a terrible graffiti problem they had in the Pleistocene Era. And many of Europe’s best caves have been defaced by stick figures. … We have come up with a cave repainting set which just allows you, very handily and easily, to paint over these old caves and get them baby, room, or man-cave-ready. Folks, those horses are just doodles — lighten up.