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Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes

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Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants

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Speaker 2: of the old republic, a sol fashion of fairness. He

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Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto cutter the same as the

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Speaker 2: rich pill poppers.

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Speaker 3: In the penthouse.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: The Clearinghouse of hot takes break free for something special.

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Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, Welcome in. It is the Fifth Hour

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Speaker 1: with Ben Mallor and Danny g as we slide into

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Speaker 1: the second day of the month of December. And Danny

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Speaker 1: who knew that the guy that I have mocked his

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Speaker 1: entire career would give me something that I use now

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Speaker 1: on the air. Dak Prescott, who played the other night

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Speaker 1: on Thursday against Seattle. It is I laughed my ass

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Speaker 1: off when I watched the Cowboys play, and I think

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Speaker 1: this is amazing. It's a professional football quarterback and his

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Speaker 1: cadence as he's calling the play at the line of

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Speaker 1: scrimmage in the audible is here we go. And then

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Speaker 1: they snapped the ball. It's not a fake. Here you go.

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Speaker 1: They're announcing to the defense. Here is what we are about.

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Speaker 3: To do.

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Speaker 1: It blows me away. It's the funniest thing. I can't

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Speaker 1: get over. It's like high school or Pop Warner football,

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Speaker 1: and it's a Dallas Cowboys, the Dallas f and Cowboys nanny.

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Speaker 3: How about that interception from Bland? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: another great And he had been picked on the first

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Speaker 1: The first game first, the first play, I believe right

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Speaker 1: it was yeah, earned by Metcalf seventy three yards. Thank

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Speaker 1: you everybody. Touchdowns later, goodbye, out of here.

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Speaker 3: Do you know Deron Bland is from Modesto, California?

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Speaker 1: I did not know that. Where do you go to college?

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Speaker 3: Sacramento? And then he transferred to Fresno State?

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Speaker 1: Okay, wow, he's pretty good? Now? Is he really really good?

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Speaker 3: He used to be a wide receiver. Part of it

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Speaker 1: pretty pretty good? All right, So here I can run

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Speaker 1: Jason Kelcey, a quarterback that's got tree trunks for legs

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Speaker 3: You'd go to the super Bowl.

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Speaker 1: I'm in good shape. So on this the Saturday pot

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Speaker 1: We've got billable Hours, arts and crafts, the word of

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Speaker 1: so we'll get right into it. And whatever else pops up,

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Speaker 1: why not, so we will start with this. It is

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Speaker 1: the time of the year. Tis the time of the

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Speaker 1: year where the people over at Spotify like send out

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Speaker 3: Listened to so and so, but yeah, your yearly wrap up.

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Speaker 1: The yearly wrap up is absolutely correct. And so I'm

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Speaker 1: Some people post this stuff on social media, but there's

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Speaker 1: And a couple of the ones that stood out. Can't

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Speaker 1: close the deal, Neil, a show legend. Can't close the deal, Neil,

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Speaker 1: and he sent me a MESHI. According to Spotify, he

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Speaker 1: That means that, Neil, seventeen full days of twenty four hours.

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Speaker 1: I would say, so, this guy listened to thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: That means this gentleman bastlayer really only had eleven months

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Speaker 3: Your producers don't even listen to you that closely.

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Speaker 1: No, No, I actually had a funny moment this week

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Speaker 3: As I remember, there was a southern California rock station

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Speaker 1: foody fun. Donald's has overhauled the iconic Big Mac. This

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Speaker 3: Shriveled up little Burger. Now it sucks.

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Speaker 1: Yes, So you've had the new Big Mac.

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Speaker 3: I don't know how they're changing it, but I had

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So McDonald's made a big announcement. They announced they

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Speaker 1: They claim McDonald's, I know in Chicago they have like

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Speaker 1: cooked all beef patties, more special sauce, fresher lettuce, cheese pickles,

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Speaker 3: That's already the way their Big Mac looks right now.

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Speaker 1: This is going to be so good. But really it's

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Speaker 3: What a bunch of clowns.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. McDonald's ranked only thirteenth.

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Speaker 1: No, in McDonald's is what you eat when you're looking

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, well this actually ties into that seat.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like you were reading my mind, Danny, and

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Speaker 1: you were looking ahead on foody fund because Red Lobster.

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Speaker 1: This is a hilarious story. Now I'm not I like

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Speaker 1: So this is hilarious. So the people at Red Lobster

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Speaker 1: the reason they lost money is because they offered the

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Speaker 1: twenty dollars ultimate endless shrimp deal at Red Lobster, not

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Speaker 1: anticipating the volume of Americans that wanted a cheap all

431
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Speaker 1: you can eat meal and ate so much freaking lobster

432
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Speaker 1: shrimp rather shrimp. They ate so much shrimp.

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Speaker 3: Remember Coop's famous story he and his friend tried to

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Speaker 3: out shrimp each other.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, not alone. This twenty dollars all you can

436
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Speaker 1: eat shrimp thing promotion. They did it to increase restaurant visits,

437
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Speaker 1: thinking people would go in and some people would order

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Speaker 1: the shrimp and they'd eat reasonable amounts of food, and

439
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Speaker 1: they'd order other foods which cost more. And it's been

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Speaker 1: a promotion for a long time at Red Lobster, from

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Speaker 1: when I was reading, and they just they totally backfired.

442
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 1: Were coming in there with moon moves on to get

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Speaker 1: the shrimp. It's like they were.

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Speaker 3: In smoking bulls in the parking lot.

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Speaker 1: It was like Bubba Gump shrimp. They were in there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and say I think he ate like sixty seven shrimp,

447
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,720
Speaker 3: Oh my god, something like that, and his buddy ate

448
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Speaker 3: like sixty two or something. That's just two people. An

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Speaker 3: entire restaurant filled with people stuffing their face like that.

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Speaker 1: So the company Red Lobster announced they anticipated did all

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Speaker 1: the marketing and they said, okay, so we believe this

452
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Speaker 1: promotion will increase traffic to our restaurants by twenty percent.

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Speaker 1: That'll be twenty twenty percent more people come to Red Lobster. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's great, that's wonderful. Twenty you know, toyette, they ended

455
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Speaker 1: up getting forty percent. Business went up by forty percent,

456
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Speaker 1: but they lost money because they were giving the the

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Speaker 1: shrip away. They were giving it away basically. And but

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Speaker 1: the lesson is rather obvious, right that people are desperately

459
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Speaker 1: trying to find affordable, re fast food type stuff that's cheap. Yeah,

460
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Speaker 1: so it's you gotta you gotta figure out what you

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Speaker 1: want to do, how you want to get people in.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. The average American right now is like I don't

463
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Speaker 3: know whether I should go to the grocery store or

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Speaker 3: go to quote unquote fast food because it all costs

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Speaker 3: the same, right, now and it's all inflated and it's

466
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Speaker 3: all a ripoff right now, that's.

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Speaker 1: Some bullshoy right there. So Red Lobster we can follow

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Speaker 1: up on this because instead of getting rid of the promotion,

469
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Speaker 1: what they did is they just decided, Okay, we're getting

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Speaker 1: killed here, we're getting smoked, right, We're just getting cooked.

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Speaker 1: So they started slightly raising the price to like twenty

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Speaker 1: two dollars. Now it's at twenty five dollars. And so

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Speaker 1: they is keeping raising up the price, trying to not

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Speaker 1: drown in endless shrimp.

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Speaker 3: But that is and they seek coop at his local

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Speaker 3: Red Lobster and they make Kim pay for two all

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Speaker 3: you can eat.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, for sure. What else we have on foody fun? Well? Costco?

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Speaker 1: I love my Costco. They are launching another they've already

480
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Speaker 1: launched another perfect Christmas dessert item just in time for

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Speaker 1: the Christmas holiday. They Kirkland signature chocolate moose. Isn't that great? No,

482
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Speaker 1: that's I'm looking. It looks pretty good.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

484
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Speaker 1: But it's a refrigerated treat. Three sweet chocolate layers. A.

485
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Speaker 1: He's got the crumble, the cookie chocolate chip cookie crumble base.

486
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Speaker 1: There's a glossy chocolate coating. What else do we have?

487
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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. I can't do a show without mentioning Taylor Swift.

488
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: And here we are in the fifth hour.

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Speaker 3: I need a dollar from you for the punished jar.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Taylor Swift drinking an affordable rose. And

491
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Speaker 1: so what do you think happens if Taylor drink Taylor

492
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Speaker 1: Swift drinks something. Oh my god, she's drinking it.

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Speaker 3: I gotta drink it.

494
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Speaker 1: Yes, it is created a frenzy. People dying desperately trying

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Speaker 1: to buy this rose. And so we don't need to

496
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Speaker 1: give them a plug and all that, you know, there

497
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Speaker 1: does no need to do it, but there you go.

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Speaker 3: So she's Taylor Swift jumped off of half dome inside

499
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Speaker 3: Yosemite Park. How many how many Swifties would follow her?

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, she jumped off the mountain. I'm gonna

501
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Speaker 3: do it too, oh I know.

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Speaker 1: So there was a there was a photo which actually

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Speaker 1: popped up on the iHeart social media pages of Taylor Swift.

504
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: She was eating raisins off a wooden kitchen counter and

505
00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: fans the Idea is a place in Brooklyn, and right

506
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Speaker 1: behind her was a bottle of this rose, and so

507
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 1: of course people are, oh, I got a Taylor Swift,

508
00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:33,880
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god. And so it has

509
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,000
Speaker 1: been selling like you can't.

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Speaker 3: Believe a cheap brand? Or do you know?

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Speaker 1: It's a gas lighter? Is the company? And yeah, it's

512
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Speaker 1: like twenty three dollars or seventeen dollars.

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Speaker 3: So okay, so it's like not the cheapest but not

514
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Speaker 3: the most expensive.

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Speaker 1: But here's the catch. They say the minimum order because

516
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Speaker 1: they realize they want to take advantage of the Swifty's.

517
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Speaker 1: The minimum order is at least three bops.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, I have three bobs of.

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00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: The rose Taylor Swift's Rose. Well, Martha Stewart is back

520
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: in the foody fun the people over at what I

521
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: used to call Dunkin Donuts, but now it's just Duncan.

522
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: They got rid of the donuts part, but they still

523
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: sell donuts, but they want to focus in on the coffee.

524
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: That's what they want to focus in on. But Duncan

525
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:26,800
Speaker 1: has hired Martha Stewart again to sell merchandise. They decid

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Speaker 1: how old is Martha Stewart. It's got to be one

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty seven exactly. Yeah, So among the items

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Speaker 1: that she will be pimping herself out for the initial

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Speaker 1: product was a Duncan teenye and a Martini shaker twenty

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Speaker 1: five dollars. To have a Martini shaker with the Duncan

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Speaker 1: logo and glasses are twenty dollars apiece. There's a let's

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Speaker 1: see here page. I mean, there's a bunch of other

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Speaker 1: crap here. I think I'm good on my I have

534
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 1: nothing against Dunkin Donuts, but I don't know that I

535
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Speaker 1: need to have something with the Dunkin logo on it.

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Speaker 1: But if you want something Danny, I'm sure somebody can

537
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Speaker 1: get it for you if you're interested in that. Probably

538
00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: not Jack in the Box. This is actually going on.

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00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: It has been going on for a while. They're having

540
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: their Jack Miss Deals promotion food item free food. But

541
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: it's one of these things, all these free food deals.

542
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:26,160
Speaker 1: You have to be on the app so they can

543
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,840
Speaker 1: track you. You are the customer, you are the power.

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Speaker 1: So remember that. I don't think many people care though,

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Speaker 1: right that they're the product.

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Speaker 3: You think. Now, we're used to it, and we're used

547
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Speaker 3: to being tracked. We know with our iPhones nowadays, whatever

548
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:46,760
Speaker 3: we say or search or scroll on that's going to

549
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:50,680
Speaker 3: pop up continuously on your phone right afterwards, because they're

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Speaker 3: spying on us.

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00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:57,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're not paying for something, you are what

552
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: You're the back, you're the currents. So it's like social media,

553
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: these apps that say, oh, I'll give you free maps,

554
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: and I will keep track of everywhere you go, and

555
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: then I will sell that data about what restaurants you

556
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: went to and what stores you went to. I will

557
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,280
Speaker 1: then sell that to somebody and I'll make money, and

558
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: then they'll use that to direct market to you and

559
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,239
Speaker 1: all that stuff. See what else do we have? Page down? Oh,

560
00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: here's this is a sugary food deal, so cover your ears.

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00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: Danny Subway offering next week A I guess this coming week.

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00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: Here a new foot long chocolate chip cookie. They say

563
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 1: it's for free on National Cookie Day. That's the national

564
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: beautiful National Cookie Day. And let's see here from one

565
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: to six. Now, I don't see it available here in LA.

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Speaker 1: I see it in Chicago, Dallas, and Miami in New York.

567
00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: But December, December fourth is National Cookie Day. How are

568
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: you celebrating National Cookie.

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Speaker 3: Day by finding a sugar free cookie?

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00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: That's right, em, that's right here you go. So that's

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Speaker 1: coming up in a couple of days. So on Monday, cookies,

572
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: big big day there for Subway. Sure, but I always

573
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: think cookies.

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Speaker 3: I think Subway, well, their cookies are better than their sandwiches. Hey,

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00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 3: oh it's true, it's true. Have you had a Subway

576
00:32:25,600 --> 00:32:26,560
Speaker 3: sandwich recently?

577
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: I have not?

578
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 3: Oh Man, talk about shriveled up products. Yeah, it's just

579
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 3: big giant sandwiches on their commercial. Yeah right, those are

580
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 3: some smashed, little, skinny, crappy sandwiches if I've ever seen

581
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Speaker 3: or tasted one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. And the other thing, too, is I always get

583
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: annoyed when I go to a restaurant and the people

584
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 1: working there are so paranoid they're going to lose their job.

585
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: They have to weigh all of the condiments that they

586
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 1: give you, like all this. I don't need that, Okay,

587
00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: just go by, go by the feel when it looks

588
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: good and all that stuff. But anyway, that's that is

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00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: that I think we'll get out on that. We've gone

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00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 1: a little long here, Danny. It is Saturday. We've got

591
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: more collegiate football as we wind out before we wind

592
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: up for the playoffs in college football.

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Speaker 3: And you made us all hungry to go get a Sandward.

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00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 3: So I want some Jersey mics right now.

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00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: You're not going to get a big mac. You're not.

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00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 3: I'll eat their breakfast, but I ain't eating their burgers.

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00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 3: Forget that.

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00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:30,280
Speaker 1: You're good on that. The McDonald's like the cone the

599
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: apple pie, although it's not the same. The fried apple

600
00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 1: pie is the way to go, but only one location.

601
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: I think that the original McDonald's that's left.

602
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,640
Speaker 3: The original, only one that burns your tongue so good.

603
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: I have so many memories of the burning my tongue

604
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: and then taking a little bite. It's like the opposite

605
00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: of getting brain freeze. Tongue burn and yeah, your tongue

606
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: cools off, you take another bite, so it burns it more. Anyway, Danny,

607
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,720
Speaker 1: anything in particular, just kind of take it easier.

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Speaker 3: Family. No, no, Actually, we're traveling today after post production

609
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Speaker 3: of this fine podcast. We are going to drive to

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Speaker 3: the north Woods because my cousin, Jordan, his son is

611
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 3: a one of the best basketball players in the country

612
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 3: right now in his age group. He was sought after

613
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 3: by a different high school who transferred him to their

614
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:22,560
Speaker 3: school because they wanted him so badly to play basketball

615
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 3: for their school. He is balling today around noon, so

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Speaker 3: We're going to go there to watch his game.

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Speaker 1: Nice awesome, well, very cool. Sounds like a good time anyway. Listen,

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Speaker 1: we have another podcast tomorrow. Tomorrow, we've got the mail bag.

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Speaker 1: I think if we have time tomorrow we will be

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00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:45,839
Speaker 1: able to get to pop the culture. I will do

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Speaker 1: all that, but I have a wonderful rest of your Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for downloading this, and don't forget Benny Versus.

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Speaker 1: The Penny still airing. Check your local TV listings. It's

624
00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: distributed by NBC and watch Benny Versus depending on Keep

625
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,439
Speaker 1: in mind, I promote the channels. I know for sure

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00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,960
Speaker 1: it's on, but I've had people in Florida, people in Michigan,

627
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: people in random states. I don't promote those channels. So

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Speaker 1: you do have to look at your local cable listings

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Speaker 1: and have a wonderful day.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk to you next time later. Skater population