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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Saber production of iHeartRadio. I'm Annie Reach.

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Speaker 2: And I'm lone Vocal bamb and today we have an

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Speaker 2: episode for you about popcorn buckets. And it is joyous.

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Speaker 2: It is a joyous fun. It is so weird and

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Speaker 2: so fun. I am so excited that you suggested this

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Speaker 2: for the important national holiday of May fourth, as in

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Speaker 2: May the fourth be with you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Star Wars Day, we're a little late, but in fairness,

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Speaker 1: and I know this annoy is some of my friends.

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Speaker 1: But there's Star Wars Day, then there's Revenge of the fifth,

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Speaker 1: and then there's Revenge of the sixth, and then now

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Speaker 1: there's just this is the May, and then obviously May

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Speaker 1: twenty fifth is a big Star Wars Day, being when

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Speaker 1: a new Hope came out in nineteen seventy seven. So

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Speaker 1: I feel like we have some wiggle room. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: have someom Like with.

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Speaker 2: Any birthday, I think it can be extended from a

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Speaker 2: week to a month, depending on exactly how excited you

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Speaker 2: are about celebrating. And you are always excited about celebrating. Certainly, yes,

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Speaker 2: I am, yes.

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Speaker 1: I am.

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Speaker 2: I am like on a scale from one to Annie

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Speaker 2: slightly less excited, but still psyched, you know, like I'm

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Speaker 2: into it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's funny because I have a friend of mine

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Speaker 1: who's like, like into Star Wars but not really, and

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Speaker 1: she just sent me a message and she was like,

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Speaker 1: I just am curious because you make it sound as

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Speaker 1: though you don't do Star Wars stuff all of the

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Speaker 1: rest of the year. So what you know, your acting

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Speaker 1: is though this is a very special occasion. I was like,

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Speaker 1: it is because it's made the fourth and I can

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Speaker 1: make funds, and I have friends who might not normally

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Speaker 1: be into it all of a sudden wanting to hang

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Speaker 1: out and watch Star Wars with me. But fair point,

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Speaker 1: fair point. I mean that's.

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Speaker 2: That's the whole that's the whole thing. Like Star Wars,

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Speaker 2: it's always Star Wars Day in your heart, and that's

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Speaker 2: that's fine. Yeah, this is true. Thank you Lauren here,

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Speaker 2: thank you of course, thank you. Uh yeah, we should

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Speaker 2: stay not a sponsor.

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Speaker 1: No no, no, nothing we mentioned in here is going

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Speaker 1: to be a current sponsor. If we would, we would

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Speaker 1: say it is.

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Speaker 2: M h.

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Speaker 1: If you want to hear a whole podcast about ads,

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Speaker 1: I've actually done one. Now cool, but we have a

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Speaker 1: dynamic ads so sometimes it changes, but not currently. Nope, nope,

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Speaker 1: we're just talking about it because we're excited about it

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Speaker 1: and thought it was strange and funny. Yes, yeah, yes,

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Speaker 1: you can see our past episodes, our past episode on

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Speaker 1: popcorn and on a why array of Star Wars topics. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is one of the yearly holidays that I

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Speaker 2: think we really rally around UNA, So.

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Speaker 1: This is true. This is true. Also, one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons I suggested this, which I Lauren, I apologize. I

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Speaker 1: sent a million ideas. I sent a lot of ideas

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Speaker 1: for this.

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Speaker 2: I appreciated it, you know.

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Speaker 1: But one of the reasons I sent this one is

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Speaker 1: both we are going to talk about some very Star

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Speaker 1: Wars specific popcorn buckets, but Star Wars is widely regarded

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Speaker 1: as like one one of the first examples of a

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Speaker 1: summer blockbuster tradition. You can listen to my movie Crush

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Speaker 1: I did with Chuck about Empire Strikes Back, and he

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Speaker 1: said Jaws, But I don't think Jaws is the same

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Speaker 1: because you didn't come back the next three years. For

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Speaker 1: Jaws two, it was New Hope, Empire strike Back, return

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Speaker 1: the Jedda. It was like a tradition, and it was

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Speaker 1: the in May you knew these were coming. Jaws was

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Speaker 1: definitely a blockbuster, but I don't think it was like

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Speaker 1: the blockbuster tradition of that. You can disagree with me

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Speaker 2: I would, I would say I would say it was

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Speaker 2: probably like the first blockbuster, but right, it wasn't a

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Speaker 2: thing that people were that's about for a number of

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Speaker 2: years every year, yes, or was it every year?

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Speaker 1: Sure? It was every three years. Yeah. I like cracking

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Speaker 1: my neck like I'm getting into my getting into my zone. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So I did have I know we've talked about this before.

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Speaker 1: I was nine years old when Phantom Menace came out.

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Speaker 1: I was the right age. This is the twenty fifth

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Speaker 1: Oh that's a weird thought. But I did have a

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Speaker 1: lot of the cups and collectibles from that, including a

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Speaker 1: popcorn bucket. There is a new popcorn bucket, which we'll

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Speaker 1: another thing we'll also discuss. But Star Wars has a

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Speaker 1: lot of gets a lot of credit and blame depending

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Speaker 1: on merchandising for movies. But I was big into this.

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Speaker 1: I had a Shrek popcorn bucket, in which I captured

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Speaker 1: a very big spider. And I say this because it

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Speaker 1: was a terrifyingly big spider. Its legs touched thee my heck, okay,

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Speaker 1: well cool, So that's the Shrek popcorn bucket. Will always

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Speaker 1: do that spider bucket. I had an Austin powered plopcorn

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Speaker 1: bucket okay, that I use for all kinds of things.

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Speaker 1: I would say I have more cups, though I generally

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Speaker 2: I do not to my per I cannot remember ever

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Speaker 1: For popcorn.

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Speaker 2: I'm old enough that some of the like McDonald's Happy

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Speaker 2: Meal like Halloween buckets were a thing that I think

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Speaker 2: I had at least one of. I'm not saying that

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Speaker 2: I'm bucket adverse, I mean, you know, sure, I'm just

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Speaker 2: I think I was just sort of out of the

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Speaker 1: Yes, I had in my favor. I loved popcorn, but

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Speaker 1: my dad also really loved popcorn, and a lot of those,

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Speaker 1: like those collectible popcorn buckets, you could get the like

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Speaker 1: free refills or like maybe one dollar refills, so he

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Speaker 1: like another before the trailers are over. That was our thing.

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Speaker 1: You eat the whole popcorn bucket. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, to be to be fair, my dad was not

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Speaker 2: a theater goer. He did not enjoy to be in

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Speaker 2: That was his preferred experience. And so yeah, so I

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Speaker 2: so I write like like I didn't have like a

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, certainly one popcorn bucket, which we will talk about,

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Speaker 1: has made a lot of waves, and that is the

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Speaker 1: Doom two popcorn buckets. Yeppers had a whole skit on

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Speaker 1: SNL about it, and in that skit, which is a

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Speaker 1: music video, they say, this is a real thing. You

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I knew I had. I had

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Speaker 1: Honestly, this episode could have just been quotes from people

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Speaker 1: trying to understand that popcorn bucket.

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Speaker 2: I love it, I love everything surrounding it.

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Speaker 1: It's really good. We've got some at least. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: guess that does bring us to our question popcorn buckets.

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Speaker 1: What are they?

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Speaker 2: Well, popcorn bucket is a type of container meant to

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Speaker 2: hold popped corn so that it can be carried and consumed. However,

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Speaker 2: the fact that, like we humans, get up to a

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Speaker 2: lot of stuff means that bucket is a truly insufficient

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Speaker 2: term for the range of vessels which we use in

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Speaker 2: this way. They can be made from anything from coded

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Speaker 2: paperboard to flexible plastics, to hard plastics to metals to

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Speaker 2: I don't know, basket materials lined with fabric. And yes,

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Speaker 2: they can simply hold popcorn, but these days they are

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Speaker 2: a serious marketing tool and a licensing opportunity for film

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Speaker 2: studios and other entertainment companies. They can range from like

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Speaker 2: a simple box with an open top to a plastic

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Speaker 2: canister with a handle to basically a big, old hollow

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Speaker 2: action figure and beyond. So a popcorn bucket is anywhere

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Speaker 2: from like a serviceable one time use object to a

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Speaker 2: collectible to a fashion accessory or like piece of home

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Speaker 2: decor what on earth are we doing on this planet, y'all?

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 2: A popcorn bucket is an item of, as it turns out,

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Speaker 2: infinite imagination and possibility, and you can hypothetically eat.

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Speaker 1: Popcorn out of it hypothetically hypothetically.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, We're gonna get into a lot of examples

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Speaker 2: of different types in the history section. That's that's pretty much.

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Speaker 2: That's my summary.

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Speaker 1: That's that's what it is. I do love the discourse

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Speaker 1: around like bucket doesn't encompass anymore what we're talking.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the I think the terminology preferred in the industry

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Speaker 2: is in fact popcorn vessel or popcorn container.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, okay, well what about the nutrition.

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Speaker 2: Don't eat the popcorn bucket. I've literally never even for

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Speaker 2: like Wonka, they didn't have an edible one. Don't donate

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Speaker 2: the popcorn bucket. I had a kind of depressing fact

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Speaker 2: And if you are going to a heck and movie

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Speaker 2: and you want to enjoy more popcorn than is perhaps

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Speaker 2: physically advisable, I want you to have that nice time.

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Speaker 2: I want you to feel dehydrated and ruin your dinner.

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Speaker 2: If that is what you're into, that is frequently what

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Speaker 2: I'm into. And so if you also vaguely enjoy that

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Speaker 2: negative sensation that I want you to enjoy, just know.

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Speaker 1: What you're getting into.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, self awareness always.

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Speaker 1: Definitely oh wow. A lot of things about self awareness

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Speaker 1: in here. So we do have some numbers for you.

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Speaker 1: According to a twenty twenty three report from Theater Chain AMC,

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Speaker 1: that same year, food and beverage revenues amounted to one

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Speaker 1: point sixty seven billion dollars and other revenue came out

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Speaker 1: to four hundred and fifty two million dollars. Movie themed products,

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Speaker 1: including popcorn buckets, made up fifty four million dollars of

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Speaker 1: that other category, and it highlighted something interesting this report

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Speaker 1: did because while movie theater admissions revenue was still down

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Speaker 1: from pre pandemic club by almost twenty percent, the food

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Speaker 1: and beverage revenue was about the same, suggesting that less

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Speaker 1: people are going to the theater, but they are spending

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Speaker 1: more on stuff while they are there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's it's super interesting because like, yes, movie

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Speaker 2: theaters make a good profit margin on stuff like soda

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Speaker 2: and popcorn, which you know have very low materials costs,

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Speaker 2: really only like a couple bucks profit per items sold.

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Speaker 2: But the fancier versions of buckets on the market that

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Speaker 2: are that are really more like giant hollow action figures

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Speaker 2: retail for like upwards of thirty bucks a pop, which

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Speaker 2: is a solid five to ten dollars markup. So if

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Speaker 2: you're a movie theater, all you need is like storage

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Speaker 2: chains like AMC, it is big. Fifty four million dollars

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Speaker 1: part of the celebration for the sixtieth anniversary of Disneyland Resort,

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Speaker 1: popcorn buckets, available in multiple colors and in the shape

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Speaker 1: of Disney balloons, were released in twenty fifteen, and they

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Speaker 1: are hugely popular to this day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Disney balloons. If you haven't been, they have kind

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Speaker 2: of all over the parks. These like brightly colored, usually

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Speaker 2: translucent balloons shaped sort of like Mickey's head, like an

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Speaker 2: elongated version of Mickey's head if you've never seen him.

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Speaker 2: It's cuter than it sounds very like mid century aesthetic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, and it's one of those things. When I

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Speaker 1: read about it, I was like, oh, I have seen

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Speaker 1: that before. I don't think I ever put together it

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Speaker 1: was a popcorn bucket, but yeah, I've seen it. A

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Speaker 1: few other popular examples include the Cinderella carriage bucket, and

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Speaker 1: by the way, I recommend looking up all of these,

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Speaker 1: every single one.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, just go yourself on a little little dive

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Speaker 2: into popcorn bucket madness.

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Speaker 1: Reach in Reachi. Uh, the Centrarel carriage bucket, the Alien

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Speaker 1: from Toy Story Bucket and Figment from Figmant's Imagination Bucket.

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Speaker 1: When that one was released in twenty two at Epcot,

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Speaker 1: it drew lines of four to five hours, longer than

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Speaker 1: the most popular rides.

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Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, I read up to seven hours of waiting

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Speaker 2: occurred for that bucket. It's a if you're unfamiliar with Figment,

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Speaker 2: he's this kind of purple sort of like winged dinosaur,

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Speaker 2: uh dragon buddy. That was like the main like like

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Speaker 2: like mascot of Epcot for a long time, and then

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Speaker 2: he got like removed from the park for a minute.

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Speaker 2: And so when he started filtering back in, as these

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Speaker 2: ideas tend to do, people like went really in on

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Speaker 2: the nostalgia factor, which I which I get, Like, that's

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Speaker 2: that's a thing that I all and a motion that

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Speaker 2: I also experienced, so I understand it. But yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's this like large hollow plastic figurine with lanyard attachments

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Speaker 2: at its cheeks and the back panel that opens up

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Speaker 2: to hold the popcorn. It looks like it might have

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Speaker 2: come with rainbow candy. Corn Purchases were limited to t

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Speaker 2: per customer, and there were some up on eBay the

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Speaker 2: day of release. There's also now a post market for

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Speaker 2: bedazzled figment buckets and other Disney buckets. There are like

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Speaker 2: artists who make, from what I understand, a fairly solid

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Speaker 2: living bedazzling Disney buckets and selling them.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that's sort of an accessory. Yeah, often a purse

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Speaker 1: or something. Yeah. A lot of the really popular ones

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Speaker 1: are from outside the US, especially from Japan. There's a

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Speaker 1: lantern one from Tangled, it is very beautiful, a color

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Speaker 1: changing one from Frozen, a really cool monster's ink one.

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Speaker 2: With all of these little doors that open and little

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Speaker 2: monsters behind them. Yeah, super cute.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and often these collectibles are only available at the parks,

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Speaker 1: adding exclusivity and incentive to obtain them, which is obviously

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Speaker 1: they want to get you in the park. There are

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Speaker 1: also exclusive seasonal and themed popcorn flavors only available in

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Speaker 1: the park, many of them colorful. I had a great

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Speaker 1: time reading about some of those two.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that's a I think that's

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Speaker 2: a different episode or like maybe like a little mini

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Speaker 2: episode for the future. But Disney popcorn flavors go hard. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Some of the designs are only available to like certain

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Speaker 2: tiers of ticket holders stuff like that. All right, So

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Speaker 2: when When popcorn debuted at Disneyland, it was served in

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Speaker 2: these paperboard boxes patterned in white and teal stripes that

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Speaker 2: like match the colorway of Sleeping Beauty's Castle. And in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty Disney re released those original box They have

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Speaker 2: like a like a foldable or closable top, which is

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Speaker 2: kind of nice. In twenty twenty one, they released a

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Speaker 2: plastic bucket made in the same design with a little

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Speaker 2: snap lid, and y'all again, like, I'm not surprised, but

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Speaker 2: I'm just like a little blown away by the eBay

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Speaker 2: ability of all of this. Like I saw prices up

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Speaker 2: to and including eighty bucks for the plastic one, twenty

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Speaker 2: five bucks for one of the used paperboard ones. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I will say though, for all of my like mild concerns, questions, questions,

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Speaker 2: sure about all of this. As a result, you can

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Speaker 2: now eat popcorn out of a battle damaged stormtrooper helmet,

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Speaker 2: as the e walk gods intended. So indeed, I think

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Speaker 2: it's over all a good thing.

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Speaker 1: Never forget you walks eat people.

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Speaker 2: They definitely eat stormtroopers.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, well, quick pivot. I just want to put this

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Speaker 1: in here because it kept coming up and I do

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Speaker 1: think it's interesting. Uh. Brief note, this isn't really what

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Speaker 1: we're focusing on today at all, but in the nineties,

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Speaker 1: this is when we see their eyes of holiday popcorn

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Speaker 1: tins as gifts. So like the you know, the big

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Speaker 1: old like gallon size tub, Yeah, with usually like four

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Speaker 1: flavors in there. Yeah. Yes, that's also when this's happened.

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Speaker 1: But okay, okay. For decades, studios like Disney, wanting to

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Speaker 1: promote a family friendly film would partner with a third

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Speaker 1: party to produce collectibles to sell it the theater. But

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Speaker 1: collectible popcorn buckets are certainly no longer just targeting kids

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Speaker 1: or younger folk in general, and Disney is actually part

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Speaker 1: of that shift to starting in twenty nineteen when they

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Speaker 1: partnered with AMC for a Star Wars Rise of Skywalker

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Speaker 1: bucket in the shape of R two D two, which

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Speaker 1: you can also get now with Phantom Ministry release four

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Speaker 1: forty nine ninety nine. The head is like a beverage holder.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so you can like sip out of R two's

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Speaker 2: head and then there's a little hatch in his back

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Speaker 2: that opens up for the popcorn to come out of.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yes, And it sold out and theater owners and

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Speaker 1: companies took notice.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I don't know, like i'd argue that

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Speaker 2: R two is still like fifty percent kid focused, but yeah,

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Speaker 2: it just it makes so much sense that that Disney,

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Speaker 2: in this like full cultural three sixty pulled popcorn into

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Speaker 2: their parks because reminds people of movie theaters, then orchestrated

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Speaker 2: these fancy hecking buckets in their parks, and then brought

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Speaker 2: those buckets around to movie theaters because why wouldn't they,

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Speaker 2: Why wouldn't they.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fifty bucks, come on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really R two is adorable and I love him.

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Speaker 1: I do too, I wanted to get That's also how

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Speaker 1: they get you too, though, because I have tried to

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Speaker 1: get a couple of popcorn buckets and they're sold out

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Speaker 1: by the time I get there. Oh yeah, people get

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Speaker 1: there so fast they do. And funnily enough, I've had

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Speaker 1: more than one friend offered to buy me the home

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Speaker 1: popcorn popper that shape like our there's one of those.

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Speaker 1: That's great. However, you'll notice this popcorn bucket happened right

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Speaker 1: before the pandemic, and actually that movie was one of

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Speaker 1: the last movies I saw in theaters over the pandit

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Speaker 1: rise of Skywalker. Yeah, yes, Rise of Skywalker. Okay. So

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Speaker 1: during the pandemic and even before then, due to things

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Speaker 1: like streaming and changing media landscapes and preferences, movie theater

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Speaker 1: chains like AMC were really struggling. As mentioned, historically, popcorn

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Speaker 1: has been a big money maker for theaters, so as

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Speaker 1: more and more theaters started reopening in more pre pandemic

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Speaker 1: style of operation after the pandemic, these chains were looking

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Speaker 1: to increase revenue and get people back in the seats.

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Speaker 1: In the past few years, that has led to an

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Speaker 1: increase in collectible style popcorn buckets. And some of them

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Speaker 1: are truly spectacular. They are, And we're going to go

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Speaker 1: over some of them right now because and please look

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Speaker 1: at a kid. Look up.

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Speaker 2: This is not all of them by any means. These

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Speaker 2: are just ones that we were personally tickled by for

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Speaker 2: one reason or another.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I had to whittle down this list. One was

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Speaker 1: and this one is the one that most people are like.

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Speaker 2: Eh.

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Speaker 1: But the film Walka had a hat like his hat

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Speaker 1: it looks like it was made of chocolate. His top hat. Yeah, yeah, yes,

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Speaker 1: that was a popcorn bucket. It had the title of

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Speaker 1: the film across it. The screen Ghost Face popcorn bucket

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Speaker 1: in the shape of ghost Face. It's comical looking. The

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Speaker 1: Mean Girl's burn Book bucket. This was a non traditional

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Speaker 1: book shaped bucket in the style of the burn Book,

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Speaker 1: and this one was very popular. According to the Hollywood Reporter,

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Speaker 1: fifteen percent of Mean Girl attendees on opening weekend surveyed

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Speaker 1: cited merchandise as the reason they purchased a ticket to

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Speaker 1: the movie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was a it's like a nice metal tin.

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Speaker 2: I mean you look at it, you go, that's reusable.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, which we're going to talk about that a

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Speaker 1: bit at the end. But a lot of people were like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I can I want popcorn in this? I can use

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Speaker 1: this for the things don't put popcorn in there. Actually

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Speaker 1: there was a Doms Charger car shaped popcorn bucket tied

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Speaker 1: to Fast X.

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Speaker 2: Yeah Fast at Fast I don't share ex which everyone

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Speaker 2: that is I run into this problem final fantasy anyway. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is a nineteen seventy Dodge Charger action figure essentially,

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Speaker 2: but like you probably the top half open, like it's

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Speaker 2: a like it's a crab shell and then you put

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Speaker 2: popcorn in it. It doesn't look convenient to me, But

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Speaker 2: if you're if you're into fast and Furious, then heck, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well there were several funny articles that we're talking about

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Speaker 1: how much popcorn you can actually get into those buckets

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Speaker 1: and rating them on that. Yeah, a lot of the

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Speaker 1: car ones are not so much. There was the Ghostbusters

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Speaker 1: ecdo one container.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that one was for After Life Frozen Empire, which

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Speaker 2: just has come out, has one in the shape of

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Speaker 2: the ghost Trap and there's this little like detachable, like

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Speaker 2: pink translucent beam that that you put on the top

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Speaker 2: and that's where you hold all your popcorn.

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Speaker 1: Okay. There was also the Blue Beetle Bug Ship container

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Speaker 1: complete with lanyard, that I heard was a hit with

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Speaker 1: the kids. It looked cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Then within the Marvel Verse, Miles Morales and Gwen Stacy's

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Speaker 2: spiderheads were available as buckets for across the Spider Verse.

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Speaker 1: And then there was saw X saltan of Jigsaw Jigsaw's

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Speaker 1: head and it was complete with LEDs and the red

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Speaker 1: eyes lit up. Yes, Dungeons and Dragons, Honor among Thieves

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Speaker 1: had a twenty side did die bucket. That one looked

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Speaker 1: really cool, right right.

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Speaker 2: Disney did release another theater only popcorn bucket for the

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Speaker 2: Hunted Mansion movie of twenty thirteen at cinema theaters. Specifically,

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Speaker 2: a lot of these A number of these buckets have

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Speaker 2: specific deals with specific theater chains, but anyway, Yeah, this

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Speaker 2: one was shaped like Madam Leota's crystal ball, like a

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Speaker 2: ghostly image of her face on one side and the

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Speaker 2: film logo on the other. There's also been a drink

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Speaker 2: container at Disney World. I understand we're at the theme

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Speaker 2: parks in similar sort of vibe.

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Speaker 1: Here's the one that I love. I had not heard

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Speaker 1: about this one. There is a popcorn bucket of Thor's Hammer,

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Speaker 1: and when I saw the image of it, I immediately

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Speaker 1: had questions.

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Speaker 2: Because it doesn't look like a convenient A lot of

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Speaker 2: these don't look like convenient things to eat popcorn.

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Speaker 1: Out of, but this one was one of the ones.

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Speaker 1: I was like, wow, I really can't envision this, so

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Speaker 1: I found a quote from Slash Film about it. There's

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Speaker 1: also a glorious impracticality to the design that makes it hilarious.

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Speaker 1: As I'm beginning to think every good novelty popcorn container

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Speaker 1: should be. It's tough to imagine anyone actually trying to

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Speaker 1: eat the popcorn out of the hammer, which is designed

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Speaker 1: to sit handle up, meaning more than half of its length,

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Speaker 1: functions as a lid in a crowded theater lest they

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Speaker 1: poke out their seat mate's eye. This vessel completely abandons

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Speaker 1: any attempt to be recognized as something like a bowl,

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Speaker 1: and that's kind of incredible. It also makes it a

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Speaker 1: delightfully surprising bit of merch for collectors, as the popcorn compartment,

651
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 1: which could really hold anything, isn't visible until you bust

652
00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 1: me on near in half by pulling aside the handle

653
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: and part of the hammer. This item is more like

654
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:58,600
Speaker 1: a secret treasure chest in geek friendly packaging than an

655
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:02,680
Speaker 1: actual popcorn bucket. Is this a stupid design for a

656
00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:07,959
Speaker 1: food holding device? Certainly, but it's awe inspiring and both

657
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,760
Speaker 1: it's lack of functionality and it's ambition. And I'm pretty

658
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 1: sure eating popcorn out of it would feel like touching ball. Hell,

659
00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 1: it's really it's good. Let's put it up. Yeah it up? Then,

660
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 1: As mentioned, the limited edition Barbie bucket in the shape

661
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 1: of the pink convertible that she drives sold out of

662
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: the twenty five thousand produced.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, from the New York Times, it doesn't do a

664
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Speaker 2: great job of holding popcorn. Which spills out of the sides,

665
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 2: but it does uncannily resemble a sleek Barbie car.

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Speaker 1: There you go. As mentioned a Star Wars The Phantom

667
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: Menace re release, they do have one that's a traditional

668
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:58,359
Speaker 1: bucket with just like a wrap around, but they did

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Speaker 1: bring back the art two bucket that they offered for

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Speaker 1: Rise of Skywalker. Yes, but of course notorious and infamous

671
00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: Dune two bucket. Oh my, it's designed to look like

672
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:21,399
Speaker 1: the sad worms of Aracus, where the consumer you're meant

673
00:43:21,440 --> 00:43:24,080
Speaker 1: to reach into the mouth of the worm, which is

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Speaker 1: complete with kind of flexible teeth to get to your popcorn.

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00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: So sort of a I've heard you got to like

676
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 1: make a fist. It looks extremely a lot of anatomical

677
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:43,839
Speaker 1: references perhaps ideas John to mind and yeah, to eat

678
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 1: the popcorn. A lot of people reported basically having to

679
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: make that fist, get the popcorn, and lose a lot

680
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 1: of the popcorn all the way out.

681
00:43:51,960 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, because those teeth, although flexible, right, are really gonna

682
00:43:57,280 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 2: impede your actual popcorn rabing ability. So in addition to

683
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 2: looking like a sex toy, it's not even particularly practical,

684
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:18,880
Speaker 2: uh regarding it's in fact viral resemblance to a sex toy,

685
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 2: an insider told Hollywood Reporter and I quote that was

686
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:30,400
Speaker 2: not something that was pitched as a moment for the movie. Indeed,

687
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 2: in fact, the director of the film told The Times

688
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:37,279
Speaker 2: that his reaction upon seeing.

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Speaker 1: It was holy smokes. There's a lot of good videos

690
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 1: of the cast reacting to it. Yes, the chief content

691
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:54,800
Speaker 1: officer of AMC Theaters issued an apology over the bucket,

692
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Speaker 1: and it's one of the most beautiful, like vague apologies

693
00:44:58,239 --> 00:45:02,080
Speaker 1: I've ever heard. But then a bunch of people were like,

694
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: don't apologize, I love it. Yep to that end. Soon

695
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,799
Speaker 1: after the release of the trailer for Deadpool and Wolverine,

696
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 1: star of that movie, Ryan Reynolds posted on social media,

697
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: just wait till you see the Deadpool popcorn bucket, and

698
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 1: I'm a little afraid. Mmmm.

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Speaker 2: The Deadpool films is just a fascinating cultural phenomenon. It's

700
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:35,799
Speaker 2: for this is for a different show. But I'm I'm

701
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 2: so I'm so fascinated that, like we live in a

702
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 2: time like what a time to be alive, Like we

703
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 2: live in a time where we've had not only successful

704
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 2: but also like relatively faithful adaptations of such media as

705
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:54,720
Speaker 2: Deadpool and like Rocket Raccoon on the big screen.

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Speaker 1: That's wild to me. M yep, yep, it is. It is. Well,

707
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:04,239
Speaker 1: we'll have to wait and see. As far as I

708
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: know that design hasn't been released.

709
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 2: I feel like I was mostly a joke. But I

710
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,080
Speaker 2: also would not put it past that team to do

711
00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:11,960
Speaker 2: something about.

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00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:16,839
Speaker 1: It, I'm afraid, but yes, either way, as possible, either way.

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Speaker 1: As you mentioned earlier, Lauren, this brings us to the end.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately of our examples. Cannot stress enough go look them up.

715
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:30,720
Speaker 1: But as you mentioned earlier, Lauren, many smaller theaters don't

716
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Speaker 1: have the funds to sell these buckets, or they do,

717
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:38,400
Speaker 1: but their clientele perhaps just isn't as interested in purchasing

718
00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:41,400
Speaker 1: them and once it is for their kid, So a

719
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:45,759
Speaker 1: lot of the theaters I go to never have them. Yeah. Yeah, yes,

720
00:46:46,640 --> 00:46:49,799
Speaker 1: also something I mentioned earlier, But yeah, movies like Star

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00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: Wars were pioneers for better or worse in terms of

722
00:46:53,520 --> 00:46:55,879
Speaker 1: merchandising and things like this. I have some friends who

723
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: have a lot of strong opinions about that. But a

724
00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 1: lot of these big blockbuster movies that have steep budgets

725
00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 1: make a good chunk of their money from merchandising even

726
00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 1: more than the movie themselves in some cases, and a

727
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: part of this is now things like popcorn buckets. Yep. Yes,

728
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: Also influencer culture has helped arise in popularity of these

729
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: popcorn buckets, particularly as accessories as you mentioned learned with

730
00:47:25,080 --> 00:47:29,920
Speaker 1: the bedazzling or things like that. And there are rightfully

731
00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: concerns about waste. From what I read, most people like

732
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: these things because you can use them for a wide

733
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:39,239
Speaker 1: variety of purposes, but still concern.

734
00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I'm not sure what the tipping point is

735
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 2: on how many people have to keep and reuse or

736
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:49,560
Speaker 2: you know, possibly resell or recycle a bucket to make

737
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 2: it a more sustainable product than paperboard. But definitely, you know,

738
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 2: when we reduce one and done packaging in our lives,

739
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:02,040
Speaker 2: that's generally a positive impact. I haven't heard of American

740
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:05,240
Speaker 2: theaters doing this, but the Cinemak brand's arm in Chile

741
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,719
Speaker 2: debuted a plastic bucket back in twenty seventeen that the

742
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 2: moviegoers can bring back and refill during future visits, and

743
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 2: which in fact had like removable coupons printed on the

744
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:18,439
Speaker 2: side to encourage that, and the company reported that during

745
00:48:18,440 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 2: some months, customers were buying more refills than they were buckets,

746
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:23,080
Speaker 2: so it was working.

747
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Also, I will say that through all of this, you know,

749
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 2: bucket technology has continued to evolve, certainly printing processes you know,

750
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 2: like like lenticular wrap around stuff like that have. I

751
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 2: feel like that was heavy into the nineties, but then

752
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 2: you started getting the plastic ones that that same decade.

753
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's continuing to evolve to this day. I

754
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 2: read an article about this inventor in Arizona who recently

755
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 2: started producing a hands free popcorn bucket. The bottom of

756
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 2: the bucket will fit into a standard cup holder, so

757
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 2: moviegoers who find it difficult to like to like grab

758
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 2: and hold a bucket in their lap have a better option.

759
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:16,400
Speaker 1: Oh I love this. Yeah, popcorn bucket in container innovation continues.

760
00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:21,160
Speaker 2: Yes, always, I am terrified about what the future could hold,

761
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 2: not only in terms of Deadpool that's just across the board.

762
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:28,360
Speaker 1: That's yes, But I can't wait to see in listeners,

763
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: Please if you have a bucket, yes or one we

764
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: didn't mention. Oh my gosh, there.

765
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:41,600
Speaker 2: Are literally hundreds, hundreds upon hundreds of Disney buckets from

766
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 2: the last couple decades that have come out and write

767
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:50,200
Speaker 2: like people are fierce about them, and yes, and yeah,

768
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 2: I mean or even just like if there's if if

769
00:49:53,600 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 2: you have saved like a relatively normal popcorn bucket because

770
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 2: you just had like a really wonderful I memory of

771
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 2: seeing the film, or like it had like a really

772
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:05,759
Speaker 2: cool print on it, or I don't know, something like that.

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00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is going to be the instance where I

774
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:15,040
Speaker 1: send Savor a message. Okay, all right, look at my

775
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: popcorn buckets that I have. I got some more than

776
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: the ones I mentioned. Oh okay, all right, including a

777
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: like I have a cardboard one that I said because

778
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:29,080
Speaker 1: it was such a fun day. Yeah, I totally get it.

779
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 1: And if this was a different podcast, I read a

780
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: lot about the nostalgia and collector culture and why why

781
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 1: this is a thing, and it was really fascinating. So

782
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:45,799
Speaker 1: I recommend if you're interested look that up as well. Yeah, yeah, yes,

783
00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 1: but this was a delight. Hopefully we'll get some some

784
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: updates from you all listeners. But I think that's what

785
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: we have to say about popcorn buckets for now.

786
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 2: I think it is. We do already have some listener

787
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Speaker 2: mail for you, though, and we are to get into

788
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:01,960
Speaker 2: that as soon as we get back from one more

789
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 2: quick break for a word from our sponsors, and we're back.

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00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 1: Thank you sponsor, Yes, thank you, and we're back with listener.

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Speaker 1: I was going to do a Darth Vader. It's hard

792
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 1: to communicate via visual yeah yeah. And then I was

793
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: going to do a scroll also difficult.

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00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I was. I was prepared ish for the

795
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 2: scroll music mm hmm. But it's also but it's also

796
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 2: difficult to I agree, that's difficult to just perform, let

797
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 2: alone communicate. So yeah, yeah, yeah, but I.

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Speaker 1: Mean one of the reasons I was thinking about this

799
00:51:55,719 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 1: is that I was wondering about Darth Vader, what have

800
00:52:00,800 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 1: he How would he feel as a real he really existed,

801
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 1: and he somehow came to our universe, okay, and he

802
00:52:09,760 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: saw this popcorn bucket or this waffle iron.

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00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:19,319
Speaker 2: I'm just curious what he would feel about his you know, like, yeah,

804
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 2: I got completely burned up by a fire and I

805
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 2: need to wear this helmet to live. How he would

806
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 2: feel about that helmet being like a major symbol on

807
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:28,800
Speaker 2: merchandise throughout the world.

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00:52:29,440 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I've come to the conclusion I would love

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00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: if listeners were writing about this as well. I think

810
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:41,879
Speaker 1: he would mostly hate it because he's someone who has

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Speaker 1: a lot of love respect.

812
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 2: He's a little self serious.

813
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's very serious, but I think there are some

814
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:55,480
Speaker 1: he might be like, yes, you should be afraid. I

815
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: think if it, like if the merchandise was scary enough.

816
00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,760
Speaker 1: Oh okay, okay. I presented him in like the white

817
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:07,040
Speaker 1: he likes. But also he'd want the money because the

818
00:53:07,040 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 1: empire is all about that. Listeners write in with your thoughts.

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00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:18,759
Speaker 2: Cool, yeah, yeah, please do please do.

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00:53:18,960 --> 00:53:21,399
Speaker 1: As part of where this this whole episode came from

821
00:53:21,480 --> 00:53:27,160
Speaker 1: is I was like, oh, think about this, which I've

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00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 1: We got to thank this next listener for doing some

823
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Speaker 1: work for us, Amanda Rope, I must start with again

824
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Speaker 1: a thank you for being a bright spot of humor, deliciousness,

825
00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:41,600
Speaker 1: nerdiness and actual learning in my week. You both are

826
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 1: so lovely every week. Thanks, thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: everything you do. You really do bring such joy to

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00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:52,080
Speaker 1: my life with your beautiful selves. Anyhow, I'm actually emailing

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Speaker 1: as you asked if anyone had any more information regarding

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Speaker 1: sun Chip's message messages to the sun I try'd contacting

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Speaker 1: Freedo Lay and received this very nice reply. Hi, Amanda,

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Speaker 1: here's a bit more information regarding sun chips, plowing messages,

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00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: and wheat fields. These messages to the Moon will be

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Speaker 1: tilled in the wheat fields of our partner farmers located

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Speaker 1: in Missouri. These fields are located along the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four solar eclipse path and grow whole grains like those

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00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:28,080
Speaker 1: used to make delicious sunship products. The plowed wheat will

838
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Speaker 1: be mixed into the soil to improve the health of

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Speaker 1: the field. So not only is this project good for

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00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:38,759
Speaker 1: the sun, it's good for farmers too. So they did

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00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 1: not follow up with much more information than this, but

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00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 1: this fields like fairly concrete evidence that they actually did this.

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00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:50,880
Speaker 1: Pretty cool of them to reply. Also some additional notes

844
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Speaker 1: on recent episodes you asked for. I love carrot cake.

845
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,800
Speaker 1: I think carrot cake just got put on the menu

846
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:02,320
Speaker 1: this week. I also ate a ton of shrimp dumplings

847
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:06,320
Speaker 1: and chili crisp during your chili crisp episode. Here in Canada,

848
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,120
Speaker 1: mountain dew, at least in my experience, still has a

849
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:12,400
Speaker 1: similar reputation to that of in the States, but it

850
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 1: is much less of a thing here. We have only

851
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:18,240
Speaker 1: a few flavors and the caffeine amount is much less.

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00:55:18,480 --> 00:55:23,080
Speaker 1: To comply with our food laws. Lastly, I did go

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Speaker 1: on the Thousand Island tour and saw Hart Castle. I

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Speaker 1: totally remember them telling some sort of story about a

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Speaker 1: Thousand Island dressing. Unfortunately, I was a small child at

856
00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:36,480
Speaker 1: the time, thirty years ago, so other than that, my

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00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,440
Speaker 1: memory is a little hazy. I think we were on

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Speaker 1: a boat. The castle was neat. Yes, yes, well so

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Speaker 1: many things. Thank you for answering y'all everything out of

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Speaker 1: sun Chips.

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Speaker 2: That's wonderful, and it is slightly more information than I

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Speaker 2: was able to glean, or like a different facet of information,

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Speaker 2: I suppose, because basically as soon as we wrapped that episode,

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Speaker 2: I was like, hold on, though, there has to be

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Speaker 2: more information about the Sunship's message to the Moon situation

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Speaker 2: hm and and found on Sunship's Instagram page they had

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Speaker 2: They had a couple of videos or reels or whatever

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Speaker 2: the heck you call them of these these fields being tilled.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, one one of the messages definitely just reads

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Speaker 2: in like large letters, hey Moon move sun chips.

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Speaker 1: Vaguely menacing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't think the Moon can read, but

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Speaker 2: but yeah, thank you, thank you for reaching out to

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Speaker 2: a marketing team.

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Speaker 1: That's wonderful. That is amazing and I love that they

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Speaker 1: responded back.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and that's that's also like the most like

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Speaker 2: like marketing human response ever.

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Speaker 1: I adore that. Yes, uh.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I oh, I also do adore the I

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Speaker 2: hadn't considered this before. But of course other countries must

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Speaker 2: have more reasonable regulations about caffeine, being that it's a drug.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so yeah, when I read that, I was like, oh,

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Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, clearly we should. I mean, one day

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Speaker 1: we keep giving ourselves intense topics a lot of homework,

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Speaker 1: but one day we should talk about that, because I

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Speaker 1: think that's really interesting. In Canada, they're like.

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Speaker 2: They're like, no, you don't need that much caffeine. We could,

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Speaker 2: we could, we could scale it back, it'd be it'd

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Speaker 2: be fine.

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00:57:55,840 --> 00:58:01,160
Speaker 1: Yeah. In America were like give me that search no,

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00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:09,919
Speaker 1: but yeah, also you gave me I really want shimp

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Speaker 1: jumplings and chili cris Now, I've even parted a craving

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Speaker 1: upon me that is certain.

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Speaker 2: I still have not purchased a jar of chili crisp

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Speaker 2: since then, and I probably need to.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I agree. Oh. Also we should just mention

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Speaker 1: in case listeners if you hadn't heard the episode. Where

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Speaker 1: we talk about some ships. That was our Eclipse marketing short. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so if you missed that one, that's where we talked

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Speaker 1: about that. If you're like, what are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, all right, Joe wrote, Churos are so delicious.

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Speaker 2: I was in Spain two years ago, but didn't realize

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Speaker 2: I'd missed out on churros until I was on the

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Speaker 2: bust of Portugal. Truly a tragedy, but that's just one

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00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:08,200
Speaker 2: of many reasons to go back. There is a restaurant

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Speaker 2: in Chicago called Taboo that has a churrolette on the menu.

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Speaker 2: Why is it a roulette? One of the churros is

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Speaker 2: least in the hob narrow. My friend and I had

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Speaker 2: an excellent time picking her way around the dish a

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Speaker 2: picture attached, debating which one had the hob narrow until

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Speaker 2: we were down to the final two. We guessed correctly.

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Speaker 2: The heat wasn't too bad, but that's probably because we

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Speaker 2: were liberal.

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Speaker 1: In our dunking.

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Speaker 2: The roulette has chocolate, dolca de la che and guava sauces,

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Speaker 2: and I highly recommend it if you're ever in the area.

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Speaker 2: Annie I agreed that carrot cake feels like more of

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Speaker 2: a fall thing. I started baking in middle school and

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00:59:43,360 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 2: since then carrot cake has become one of my specialties,

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Speaker 2: even though I absolutely hate grading the carrot It's so

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Speaker 2: tedious and I like using the fine side of a

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Speaker 2: box grader, which always makes it seem harder. Family and

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Speaker 2: friends would always request it for parties, and they were

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Speaker 2: far more likely to request it in the fall, especially

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Speaker 2: around the Thanksgiving. My recipe came from the Better Homes

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Speaker 2: and Gardens cookbook, and I flipped between the carrot cake

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Speaker 2: and cream cheese icing recipes so often that the entire

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Speaker 2: book fell apart.

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Speaker 1: Whoops.

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Speaker 2: Can confirm that carrot cake is popular in England because

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Speaker 2: I always saw it in cafes and as an option

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Speaker 2: for afternoon tea. Also that K pop group I mentioned

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Speaker 2: in the last email, they have a song on their

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Speaker 2: most recent mini album titled carrot Cake Wild. Congratulations on

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Speaker 2: your self at the anniversary. I can't believe it's been

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Speaker 2: that long, but I am so glad it has. And

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Speaker 2: here's too many more. A live show where Lourene can

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Speaker 2: swear would be such a fun time.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the requests are rolling in. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: oh heck, I love it. Oh my gosh oh oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: I love all of this.

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Speaker 2: I love the multiple dipping sauces.

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Speaker 1: I love the let of true o roulette of churros. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I love that too. That is so fun.

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Speaker 2: Sure roulette, there you go. I think that's the better pronunciation. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, although I'm not mad about any.

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Speaker 1: Of those flavors.

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Speaker 2: Uh uh oh and I and I love that that

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Speaker 2: middle school was a was a good baking time for you.

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01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:24,040
Speaker 2: That Better Homes and Gardens usually does have really really

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Speaker 2: stand up recipes.

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Speaker 1: And I love how you can tell this was a

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Speaker 1: well loved recipe based on like the words are almost.

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Speaker 2: Washed out completely, yeah, just by you flipping just yeah

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01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:41,840
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah I did. I did get I know. I've complained

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Speaker 1: about this before, but you can get drawn into where

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01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 1: everybody always wants you to make the same thing. That

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Speaker 1: can be a little like h But I hope that

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Speaker 1: it sounds like you're happy with this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, oh and yeah, that's that's what I was

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Speaker 2: going to say. If you've never tried doing graded carrot

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Speaker 2: in a food processors, it's a life changer. If you

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Speaker 2: have like a Queens and Ark kind of situation or

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Speaker 2: something like that, then it makes it so much easier.

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Speaker 2: It's those are expensive machines, so you know that's sometimes

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Speaker 2: using manpower. Human power and in a box grater is great,

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01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:27,240
Speaker 2: but no pun intended. I do tend to grate my

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Speaker 2: knuckles every time I use a box grater. I need

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Speaker 2: kitchen gloves.

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Speaker 1: Gosh, yes, my mom got me these gloves. I would

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Speaker 1: never test it, but they're supposed to be like, knife

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Speaker 1: can't gut through them, fire can't get in because I'm

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Speaker 1: very clumsy. Yeah, I would never put to the test.

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Speaker 1: Not ever.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, don't purposefully stab yourself, but I mean

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Speaker 2: like it can't hurt to wear them during instances where

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Speaker 2: you might accidentally.

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Speaker 1: Right, Yes, yeah cool. I just know that I've had

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Speaker 1: several occasions where the safety uh. I put that quotes

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Speaker 1: because it makes me feel like I don't have to

983
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Speaker 1: be as careful. And then I then you manager yourself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah don't yeah, don't do that. Definitely don't do that.

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Speaker 1: Still exercise caution. Yes you're still using sharp and or

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Speaker 1: hot things. M Yes, message received excellent time one day

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Speaker 1: get somewhere well. Thank you so much to both of

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Speaker 1: these listeners for writing in. If you would like to

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Speaker 1: write to as you can, or email us hello at

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Speaker 2: Andrew Howard. Thanks to you for listening, and we hope

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Speaker 2: that lots of more good things are coming your way.