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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and Whipper with Kate Richie podcast. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: George Foreman passed away over the weekend, a famous boxer,

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Speaker 1: part of one of the greatest sporting documentaries of all time.

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Speaker 1: It's called When We Were Kings. It's the story of

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Speaker 1: the rumble in the jungle between Muhammad Ali and George Former.

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Speaker 2: It isn't greatreat soundtracked.

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Speaker 1: Oh, it is amazing. It is crazy where they fought

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Speaker 1: in Africa, and it's a beautiful documentary. He passed away

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Speaker 1: the age of seventy six. He was quite young, George,

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Speaker 1: So I didn't know this, but we all know the

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Speaker 1: George Foreman grill.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely we do.

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Speaker 1: He dies with three hundred and twenty million dollars in

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Speaker 1: his bank account Chrissy, and he will pass that down

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Speaker 1: onto his twelve children. George called George Junior, George, the Third, George,

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Speaker 1: the Fourth, George, the fifth, George, the sixth. Then there's

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Speaker 1: George Jet, George Jetta. Then there's Freda George, then there's

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Speaker 1: Natalie George George, and then just the grill that they

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Speaker 1: all get a slice.

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Speaker 2: Of it like a lot. The great thing about the

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Speaker 2: George Foreman grill was when it first came out and

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, what is this? Why is this

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Speaker 2: grill so great? It was on an angle in the straight.

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Speaker 3: Off got a drip tray? Did you have one?

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Speaker 2: I did have one, and yeah, and the whole point

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Speaker 2: of it, I mean, you know it was lost on

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Speaker 2: me because I would collect up the fat and put

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Speaker 2: it back.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to recook it. Please you chop up the

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Speaker 3: top with books exact, stay in the tray, keep it slack.

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Speaker 1: The reason why I do bring it up is because

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Speaker 1: Hulk Hogan tried to bring out a grill after George

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Speaker 1: Foreman with the success of George Foreman's and unfortunately Hulks

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Speaker 1: had a few problems. A couple of them called on

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Speaker 1: fire and Hulk got suit a couple of times. And

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Speaker 1: I want to focus on today. George Foreman had such

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Speaker 1: success with the grill, the George Foreman Grill, that I

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Speaker 1: want to focus on five of the the worst to

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Speaker 1: celebrity endorsement campaigns of all time.

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Speaker 3: Love this already, just quickly before you rip into that.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't the story go that the grill people rang Hulk

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Speaker 3: Hogan and he didn't answer his phone and he didn't

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Speaker 3: get back to them, so That's when they went, okay,

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Speaker 3: we move on. So they called George Foreman. He went, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'd love to do the grill. That's why Hulk Hogan

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Speaker 3: brought out the grill because he was furious when he

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Speaker 3: saw the success, and he never called the people back.

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Speaker 1: But see then I think George Foreman, George Foreman was

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Speaker 1: quite smart as well. That said, I want to cut

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Speaker 1: off the takings because usually with an endorsement you just

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Speaker 1: keep the money up front. You get paid to do

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Speaker 1: an ad and that's it. But George said, well, I

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Speaker 1: can see that this is doing well. I want a

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Speaker 1: ten percent cut in this, and he's made an absolute fortune.

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Speaker 1: All right, Okay, here we go, coming in at number five.

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Speaker 1: Britney Spears when she had pepsi. The only thing is

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Speaker 1: with this celebrity endorsement campaign was that Brittany kept getting

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Speaker 1: packed drinking coked. She was then asked in an interview

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Speaker 1: about pepsi candidly, just tenuine me, how much PEPs do

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Speaker 1: you think you drink on an average day.

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Speaker 3: I really do like PEPSI really do. My favorite kind

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Speaker 3: of pepsi pepsis pepsi. We don't drink day pepsi or

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Speaker 3: no just regular pepsy.

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Speaker 1: Not drinking pepsi. Mate has never heard Jackie. Jackie Chan

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Speaker 1: promoted a shampoo in Japan called ba Wang Shampoo, which

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Speaker 1: he got paid a lot of money for. The thing is,

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Speaker 1: though they found out that the shampoo later on was carcinogenic,

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Speaker 1: which means it had chemicals in it which would lead

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Speaker 1: to cancer.

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Speaker 3: That's a shame, as when you've just bought you, when

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Speaker 3: you've just stopped up on bar wag, you find out

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Speaker 3: it's no good for you.

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Speaker 1: Actually, if we got if you got, sorry Leonard, but

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Speaker 1: if you've got some, Nellie, it's getting hot in here.

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Speaker 1: What did you do? Well? Actually, Nellie's about to do

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Speaker 1: a tour in Australia as well, but now it was

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Speaker 1: getting hot in here. When he was pulled aside for

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Speaker 1: promoting his new energy drink, Pimp Juice, Nellie said, no, no,

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Speaker 1: you guys don't understand that PIMP stands for positive intellectually

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Speaker 1: motivated persons. Yeah, yeah, I've got another one for you,

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Speaker 1: which was really, really weird. But this was in the nineties,

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Speaker 1: victorious secret. We know it was the Lingerie and what's

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Speaker 1: her name? Adriana Lima, And Adriana Lima was a supermodel,

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Speaker 1: a gorgeous lady. They paid her to be in a

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Speaker 1: Victorious Secret ad. The thing is she did it with

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Speaker 1: Bob Dylan, who was really old at the time, and

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Speaker 1: asked Bob to write a song about a relationship that

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Speaker 1: he was having with Adrianna Lima. This was the Victorious

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Speaker 1: Secrets ad.

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Speaker 2: With him.

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Speaker 1: So it was like Bob Dylan in his seventies with

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Speaker 1: Adriana Lima in her twenties. She's a supermodel and he's

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Speaker 1: promoting Victorious Secrets.

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Speaker 3: He is always I think g string and suspenders.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And it depends what the outcome was they were desiring.

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Speaker 2: Did they want people to buy a bra or did

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Speaker 2: they want people to seek an intervention order?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? And the last one

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Speaker 1: I've got for you Hot Pockets. Every does anyone remember

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Speaker 1: hot Pocket?

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Speaker 3: They were like a little they were meat inside a

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Speaker 3: little pouch of pastry or something like.

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Speaker 2: They were like a savory pop tast pop it in

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Speaker 2: your pocket.

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Speaker 1: Hot The brothers Paul Mirage and he's David Mirage. They

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Speaker 1: started Hot Pockets and sold it to Nesle in the

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Speaker 1: early naughties for two point six billion dollars.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: In two thousand and two. It was ten years later

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Speaker 1: Nestle thought, we got to get hot pockets. No one's

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Speaker 1: buying hot pockets. We paid all this money for them.

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Speaker 1: We've got to get Snoop Dogg to promote it. So

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Speaker 1: what do you get Snooped to do?

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Speaker 3: You do?

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Speaker 1: Pocket like it's hot. We kids in the crib ma

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Speaker 1: pucket like it, hard pucket like it hard pockets. Got

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Speaker 1: a hold of you. Pocket like is hard pucket like

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Speaker 1: your card pucket and much get an attitude, but it's

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Speaker 1: hard pucket like it's hard. Pocket like, it's hard the

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Speaker 1: buckets in my arms, setting off smock of arms and

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Speaker 1: eat them smoking hat.

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Speaker 3: Because I can't go, Oh, are they still around?

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Speaker 1: The hot pocket? The reason why they're not around after

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Speaker 1: Snoop sat, they just went down there. Hot pockets are done.

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