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Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of Fat Trendsday.

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Speaker 1: I guess that makes it sound like it's Fat Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: but it's Fat Tuesday. It's a play on Fat Tuesday. People,

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Speaker 1: Happy Fat Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: Hey you imagination.

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Speaker 1: My name is Jack O'Brien. That is Brian the editor.

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Speaker 2: It's me.

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Speaker 1: Your vocals sound nice. Your mic sounds nice.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and and your mic unto you as well,

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Speaker 3: sounds nice.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's my vocal warm up for the week.

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Speaker 1: Because I didn't feel like I got to hear enough

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Speaker 1: of it during the Super Bowl. I wish he had.

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Speaker 3: Gone it works with once was not enough?

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Speaker 1: Once not enough? All right? Should we tell the people

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Speaker 1: what is trending?

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Speaker 2: Let's do it.

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Speaker 1: KFC is transmogrifying chicken into jewelry for Valentine's Day. It

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Speaker 1: is Valentine's Day tomorrow, so fast food companies understand one thing,

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Speaker 1: and that is the search for content. Brian, what were

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Speaker 1: we doing right before we hit record? We were googling

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day content, give me Valentine's Day and finding, uh,

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Speaker 1: not much. There's not a lot of Valentine's Day content.

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Speaker 1: KFC knows that shit. They're smart. They step in step

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Speaker 1: into that void. KFC Thailand, yes, of course, is KFC

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Speaker 1: is a holiday treat for Christmas. I think in some country.

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Speaker 1: I think in Japan maybe. I think Miles told us

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Speaker 1: that at one point. But they're trying to get in

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Speaker 1: on some other holidays because, uh they have created one

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Speaker 1: of the weirder Valentine's Day promotions. Pizza Hut of course,

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Speaker 1: as we were talked about, recently created the breakup pie,

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Speaker 1: which is where you can order someone else a pea

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Speaker 1: that tells them that you are breaking up with them.

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Speaker 2: And it's spelled out in pepperoni, but it's not.

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Speaker 1: Your name goes on the box and it's and then

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Speaker 1: it like leaves a mean like a not a mean,

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Speaker 1: like a silly message like I've chosen to go explore

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Speaker 1: the forests or something like that.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right.

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Speaker 1: And Kentucky Fried Chicken or KFC, I guess they're not

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Speaker 1: called Kentucky Fried Chicken anymore. They believe in love, they're not.

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Speaker 1: They're not this cynical Pizza Hut company. Uh wait, they're

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Speaker 1: owned by the same company, nevermind, but they are the

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Speaker 1: young brands imprint with whom Hope Springs Eternal and Love

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Speaker 1: Springs Eternal. They're giving away fried chicken rings in Thailand.

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Speaker 1: These are not, unfortunately, edible rings made of chicken. They

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Speaker 1: actually have real gems because the fried chicken was transformed

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Speaker 1: into a ring by a quote an organic matter conversion specialist.

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Speaker 1: All Right, it's like kind of like the fly with

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Speaker 1: chicken and jewelry.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why.

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Speaker 3: And plus, hey it'll be uh, you know, it'll be

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Speaker 3: easy to get that ring on and off with your

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Speaker 3: greasy chicken greasy fingies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean go together with yeah, and then yeah,

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Speaker 1: right right off your finger. If you're not a fan

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Speaker 1: of having a fried chicken diamond, so shout out to

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Speaker 1: our Thailand listeners, go out get your fried chicken diamond ring.

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Speaker 1: Or I think it's actually like part of a giveaway.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, it's one of eleven lucky fried chicken covered couples.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's hot, greasy fried chicken greasy bodies, you know,

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Speaker 1: just coming to.

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Speaker 2: Get covered in gravy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh man, the bowl. Did you ever fuck with

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Speaker 1: the KFC Bulls?

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Speaker 3: I did, actually, and I have to say I was

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Speaker 3: I was a fan.

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Speaker 2: I was a fan of the bulls. I always liked KFC.

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Speaker 1: That was a period of my life, like when I

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Speaker 1: was just you know, in my early twenties, and I

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Speaker 1: get per dollar, And that was I think one of

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Speaker 1: the best bangs for Buck that I ever came across

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Speaker 1: was the ball. The density of the bull was absolutely

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Speaker 1: no joke. You know, fried chicken, great mashed potates, corn

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do it all. We're going to do the

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Speaker 1: it's a we're hitting for the Young Brands cycle. On

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Speaker 1: this episode, we talked about the Pizza Hut, talked about

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Speaker 1: the KFC. Well, guess what, Taco Bell is out here

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Speaker 1: creating a new type of content, ushering in a new

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Speaker 1: era wherein you don't have to be Apple to have

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Speaker 1: like a keynote where you reveal a new thing. You

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Speaker 1: fan be Taco Bell. And so they debuted new menu

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Speaker 1: items at a keynote that was seemingly designed. It was

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Speaker 2: You know, yeah, where they won the franchise Wars.

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Speaker 1: They won the Franchise Awards and defeated Apple, and this

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Speaker 1: We just.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, did they win?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, they won and we all won two. So

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Speaker 1: the first half hour was like, you know, the CEO

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Speaker 1: of Taco Bell coming out being like, as this tweet says,

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Speaker 1: Taco Bell is one of the last great melting that

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Speaker 1: transcends class in the United States that somebody had tweeted

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Speaker 1: as a joke, and the CEO took it seriously. There

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Speaker 1: were some guys playing acoustic guitar love songs to Taco

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Speaker 1: Bell got off to uh not promising start, and then

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Speaker 1: they started to reveal products and it went from underwhelming

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Speaker 1: choosed swhelming, like definitely some people were whelmed in the audience.

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Speaker 1: So Taco Bell wants to and plans on making its

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Speaker 1: popular nacho fries permanent menu items.

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Speaker 2: Whoo.

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Speaker 1: But they're still trying to figure out how.

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Speaker 2: It's hard. It's hard out here.

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Speaker 1: It's just like, I don't know, man, Like it's hard.

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Speaker 1: We have to like worry about supply chain shit.

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Speaker 3: As a massive fan of sloppy, sloppy fries of any kind,

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Speaker 3: this is this is to my.

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Speaker 1: Ears, it's good news for sure. Like on the broad

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Speaker 1: scope of history humanity, this is good news. The fact

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Speaker 1: that they haven't figured it out yet doesn't mean they're

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Speaker 1: not going to figure it out yet, especially given that

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Speaker 1: Taco Bell Keynotes appear to be here to stay. Because

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Speaker 1: this was a, you know, huge success. I feel like

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Speaker 1: be like, we almost got it this time, guys. So

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Speaker 1: I feel like we're we're gonna get these permanent fries.

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Speaker 1: But maybe that's not the one I would have opened

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Speaker 1: with because they're still trying to figure that one out. However,

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Speaker 1: they announced a new cheesy chicken Crispada Crispanda.

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Speaker 3: I feel like the article that's a typo in the

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Speaker 3: article because I feel like it should be cris Banada.

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Speaker 1: Maybe chris Banada.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, maybe it's I think that's just the type.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, people don't have what do you think

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Speaker 1: they have time for that money for a fucking.

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Speaker 3: It's genuine hard to like, we don't give a fuck.

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Speaker 3: How it's spells Crisponda whatever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Chris over here. It's a shredded cheese filled chicken

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Speaker 1: stuffed and Panada. Yeah, so it's got to be Chris Binanda.

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Speaker 2: It's got to be right.

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Speaker 1: People were gasping in the audience, which that just helps

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Speaker 1: me know that I'm not alone out here.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure those are just farts.

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Speaker 1: Just loose assholes. Yeah, a collection of the loosest assholes

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Speaker 1: in America at Yeah, you would think so. They're also

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Speaker 1: redesigning the sauce packets, which I personally am going to

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Speaker 1: they are a piece of nineties design that I don't

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Speaker 1: want to I don't want to say goodbye to quite yet.

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Speaker 3: The new design for an exorbitant price.

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Speaker 1: Exactly the new design is, you know, exactly what I

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Speaker 1: would expect the design to look like. It looks like it.

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Speaker 1: It looks like an Instagram filter of some sort.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty clean, it's it's very veratable, Yeah, for sure,

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Speaker 1: They're going to bring chicken nuggets to the menu. You know,

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Speaker 1: they can't all be winners. I personally don't go to

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Speaker 1: Taco Bell for this unless they're like, you know, you

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Speaker 1: could throw these on your grilled stuff burrito and then

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Speaker 1: you know, if there's like some pricing magic. I could

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Speaker 1: work out where if I do a grilled stuff burrito

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Speaker 1: nuggies in the grilled stuff burrito and it actually comes

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Speaker 1: out to cheaper than a grilled stuff chicken Burritoh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the menu hacks are gonna be insane this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like chicken nuggets seem specifically designed for menu hacks.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, TikTok is gonna go nuts with the menu hacks.

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Speaker 3: So I look forward to the reporting on that from

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Speaker 3: a super producer Beca and Miles and people who keep track.

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Speaker 2: Of that sort of thing.

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Speaker 1: I am not. I am a fan of Baja Blaft.

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Speaker 1: My heart does pump Baja Blast. That is the color

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Speaker 1: of my blood. That is my blood type. They announced

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Speaker 1: Baja Blast ice cream not here for it. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. Yeah, I don't care. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't want Baha. I don't take my Baja Blast

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Speaker 1: with cream unfortunately. Yeah. Superroducer Victor said, why is it

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Speaker 1: not sorbet? And That's what I would say exactly. I

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Speaker 1: take my Baha Blast black like my coffee, you know,

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Speaker 1: like just give it to me straight up. Don't give me,

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Speaker 1: don't get me cream with my Baja blast. So the

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Speaker 1: big one, the thing that like really captured all the

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Speaker 1: headlines all the attention was the crunch rap where the guy, So,

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Speaker 1: the guy opens his like looks like a regular crunch rap, right,

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Speaker 1: and there is your first clue that this guy's about

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Speaker 1: to try and trick you. Someone says, hey, this just

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Speaker 1: looks like a regular loaf of bread. That ship's got

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Speaker 1: a handgun inside it, but in this case, it has

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Speaker 1: a giant cheese it inside. Brian, you've been Brian the

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Speaker 1: editor for a long time on this show. Yes, I

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Speaker 1: have we covered this ship, didn't we? Like years ago?

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Speaker 1: I found a like news release where they were like

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Speaker 1: test kitchening this ship like a year and a half ago.

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Speaker 1: I was like, why do I have a very specific

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Speaker 1: sense memory of a giant cheese it because like a

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Speaker 3: Ray it was it was like a taco, right, it.

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Speaker 1: Was there's a costada and then there was also this

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Speaker 1: like specifically giant cheese it inside a crunch trap supreme.

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Speaker 1: But I guess that had escaped people like I don't

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Speaker 1: know what was wrong with America that they missed but

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Speaker 2: Their food science might take a while.

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Speaker 3: I feel like, if you'll remember during the the chicken

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Speaker 3: sandwich wars, I can't remember which chain had some shortages,

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Speaker 3: but they had to take a few months to nail

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Speaker 3: down their foods. Yeah, I think it was Popeyes, where

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Speaker 3: you guys had some inside baseball or somebody somebody from

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Speaker 3: Zgang was like, yo, my dad's such and such, and

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Speaker 3: it's like they're refining and tweaking and doing all this

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Speaker 3: stuff and making sure Popeye. But I think, yeah, like

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Speaker 3: you know, from idea to fruition, might take a while

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Speaker 3: to uh to get all this quite up to Taco

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Speaker 3: Bell standards. So yeah, maybe they were just you know,

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Speaker 3: doing a little pilot pilot program of uh yeah, of

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Speaker 3: cheese at products and they finally found one.

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Speaker 1: They finally found the consistency, the density. I'm I'm pretty

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Speaker 1: excited about that one. I'm excited that it's going now

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Speaker 1: in the spring. I'm excited about a lot of these.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to trying them. I'll probably even try

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us. Where can people

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Speaker 1: whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind

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Speaker 1: you out tomorrow.

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