WEBVTT - Bonus: 9 Super Facts Hiding in your Supermarket

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<v Speaker 1>Hey there, podcast listeners, Welcome to Part Time Genius. Now.

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<v Speaker 1>As many of you may remember from a bonus episode

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<v Speaker 1>a few weeks ago, our lead researcher, Gabeluisier was in

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<v Speaker 1>studio with us here in Atlanta, and he was here

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<v Speaker 1>a few days and something weird happened during that visit,

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<v Speaker 1>and I felt like you should all know about this.

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<v Speaker 1>So we just left the office. We were all headed

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<v Speaker 1>to dinner, and Mango throws out this fact about Little Debbie.

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<v Speaker 1>And then you can't just throw that out there and

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<v Speaker 1>not share the facts, all right, so let me just

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<v Speaker 1>share it with the audience. So basically, unlike Aunt Jemima

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<v Speaker 1>or joe Is Suzu, who were pure marketing inventions and

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<v Speaker 1>like the ideas of copywriters, Little Debbie was actually a

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<v Speaker 1>real person. And she was the granddaughter of the company's founder.

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<v Speaker 1>And what's strange is that her granddad used her image

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<v Speaker 1>without her parents permission, and her parents were pissed about.

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<v Speaker 1>I bet they were, yeah, And of course years later

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<v Speaker 1>she became an exact at their company and then so

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<v Speaker 1>it all worked out. That's all you have to do

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<v Speaker 1>to make somebody happy, all right. So that was the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that Mango shared with us. I thought it was

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<v Speaker 1>a good fact, and and and so Gabe then made

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<v Speaker 1>a comment about how many interesting facts are just sitting

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<v Speaker 1>on the shelves of the grocery store. And we just

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<v Speaker 1>happened to be passing a Kroger on our way to dinner.

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<v Speaker 1>So that gives Mango an idea. And now I should

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<v Speaker 1>preface this by saying, we're talking about the same Mango

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<v Speaker 1>that so many listeners have described as always sounding happy,

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<v Speaker 1>and many of them have said I feel like I

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<v Speaker 1>can hear him smiling. But what they don't know is

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<v Speaker 1>just how competitive Mango can be. So Mango just says

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<v Speaker 1>pull over. I didn't say that. I think I said

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<v Speaker 1>something like, I've got an idea. You can't get me

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<v Speaker 1>pull into this parking lot. Well, I don't know if

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<v Speaker 1>that's how he said it. And in fact, we have

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<v Speaker 1>Gabe with us here on the line. So so, so, Gabe,

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<v Speaker 1>can you back me up a little on this one.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, I think he might have said I've got

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<v Speaker 1>an idea, But yeah, the way he said it sounded

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<v Speaker 1>urgent and earn enough, we should probably pull over. True,

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<v Speaker 1>that's true. Any anyway, Mango then explains his idea. So

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<v Speaker 1>so we'd each walk to the middle of the grocery store,

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<v Speaker 1>and he said this with such a serious face. We

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<v Speaker 1>knew this something very real. And so then after saying

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<v Speaker 1>one to three go, we'd all have sixty seconds to

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<v Speaker 1>run two different parts of the store take pictures of

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<v Speaker 1>three items that we then wanted to share facts about.

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<v Speaker 1>But we'd have to be back in the center aisle

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<v Speaker 1>before the sixty seconds was up, and if we were late,

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<v Speaker 1>he said we'd be disqualified. And he didn't even want

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<v Speaker 1>to hear our fact. Again, I didn't say any of

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<v Speaker 1>that day. Packed me up here. We're getting kind of confrontational.

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<v Speaker 1>Don't put me in the middle of this, guys. I

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<v Speaker 1>really I don't remember what he said exactly, but let's

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<v Speaker 1>just say this was definitely a side of Mango I

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<v Speaker 1>hadn't seen before. The man was ready to compete, all right.

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<v Speaker 1>So so before I could even ask questions or confirm

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<v Speaker 1>whether it was one to three and then we could

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<v Speaker 1>go on three or whether it was one to three, go,

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like Mango just screamed go, and then I

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<v Speaker 1>found myself running like a madman all around the store.

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<v Speaker 1>It took me a few seconds to remember what we

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<v Speaker 1>were actually trying to do. But so here's what you

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<v Speaker 1>need to know the facts from this episode of there

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<v Speaker 1>was volts of that sixty second dash. So now that

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<v Speaker 1>you know who to thank or blame for this one,

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<v Speaker 1>let's get started. Hey there, podcast listeners, welcome back to

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<v Speaker 1>Part time Genius. Okay, So we talked about this ridiculous

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<v Speaker 1>game that Mango put us up to, and for some reason,

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<v Speaker 1>Gabe and I agreed to. So we each pulled three

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<v Speaker 1>facts from the grocery store, and Gabe as our lead researcher,

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<v Speaker 1>We're gonna let you start off first. I can't even

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<v Speaker 1>actually remember which direction you ran. I was so focused

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<v Speaker 1>on my first stop. So so, so what did you

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<v Speaker 1>find first? Right? So I made a bee line for

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<v Speaker 1>the candy aisle and came away with a big bag

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<v Speaker 1>of jelly belly jelly bean. And I did that because

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<v Speaker 1>I knew they would give me a chance to share

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<v Speaker 1>some ridiculous facts that one of the most notorious jelly

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<v Speaker 1>beans fans, none other than our forties president Mr Ronald

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<v Speaker 1>Reagan's right, And yeah, it's it's no secret at this

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<v Speaker 1>point that Reagan loved jelly beans, but I don't think

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<v Speaker 1>most people know that he was particularly passionate about jelly bellies,

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<v Speaker 1>and I mean for this arrangement he had with the company,

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<v Speaker 1>he actually began receiving twenty four pounds shipments every month

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<v Speaker 1>during his time as governor of California, which, if you

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<v Speaker 1>do the math, because about ten thousand, two hundred beans

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<v Speaker 1>every thirty days, that is insane. I Yet, I've heard

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<v Speaker 1>that Reagan was a big fan of jelly beans. Mango said,

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<v Speaker 1>you'd heard that as well, But I didn't know that

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<v Speaker 1>it was especially jelly bellies. And I didn't realize the

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<v Speaker 1>quantities of these. But so why did he like them

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<v Speaker 1>so much? Anyway? Well, yeah, he first started eating him

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<v Speaker 1>when he quit smoking in the early sixties, so they

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<v Speaker 1>served a practical purpose, you know, beyond simple snacking. But

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<v Speaker 1>Reagan also seemed to appreciate jelly beans is some kind

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<v Speaker 1>of litmus test for the people he mad. So this

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<v Speaker 1>one time he said, quote, you can tell a lot

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<v Speaker 1>about a fella's character by whether he picks out all

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<v Speaker 1>of one color or just grabs a handful. But anyway,

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<v Speaker 1>that's great. Yeah. So, as weird as all this sounds,

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<v Speaker 1>the kipper's jellybelly love of there wouldn't have each peak

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<v Speaker 1>insanity until he made it to the Oval Office. So,

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<v Speaker 1>for instance, the company created a new blueberry flavor jelly

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<v Speaker 1>bean for his inauguration back in one and they distributed

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<v Speaker 1>more than three tons of them to the attendees, and

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<v Speaker 1>it only got crazier from there. So Reagan upped his

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<v Speaker 1>standing order to a staggering seven hundred and twenty bags

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<v Speaker 1>per month, over three hundred and six thousand jelly beans,

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<v Speaker 1>and he has those distributed among the White House, Capitol Hill,

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<v Speaker 1>and a few other federal buildings every month. And he

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<v Speaker 1>even stocked the beans on Air Force One, where he

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<v Speaker 1>kept them in a specially designed jelly bean holder that

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<v Speaker 1>wouldn't spill their in turbulace. Yeah. So, you know, plenty

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<v Speaker 1>of Americans continue to honor President Reagan and all kinds

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<v Speaker 1>of ways, but I think the most fitting one is

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<v Speaker 1>this portrait of him made from ten thousand Jellybelly jelly

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<v Speaker 1>beans that hangs in his Presidential library. And Simmy Valley, California,

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<v Speaker 1>that's pretty incredible. Well, you got us off to a

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<v Speaker 1>good start with your first fact, Mango, you wanna you

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<v Speaker 1>want to take the next one? Yeah, So I just

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<v Speaker 1>went to the High Museum exhibit of Warhol in Atlanta

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<v Speaker 1>from from Aisle seven come all the time, okay, And honestly,

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<v Speaker 1>if you haven't gone, it is amazing. And I'm not

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<v Speaker 1>even that big a Warhol fan, but seeing like all

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<v Speaker 1>these giant mouths together on the purple wallpaper that Warhol

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<v Speaker 1>had designed for the Paris exhibition, I mean, it is incredible.

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<v Speaker 1>But of course, so when I passed the Campbell soup cans,

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<v Speaker 1>I I knew I had to snap a shot. And

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<v Speaker 1>and there are a couple of things I love about

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<v Speaker 1>the Campbell Soup series, Like the first is that Warhol

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<v Speaker 1>loved the soup and how consistent every flavor was, Like

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<v Speaker 1>he actually appreciated that tomato soup always tastes like the

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<v Speaker 1>same tomato soup, which kind of plays a role in

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<v Speaker 1>the arts philosophy. And I also love that he hated

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<v Speaker 1>that Campbell's discontinued some of the soups, Like he made

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<v Speaker 1>a portrait of all the thirty two soups he could

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<v Speaker 1>find at the time, but he actually wished that they

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<v Speaker 1>still made his favorite soup, which was called mock Turtle.

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<v Speaker 1>What is that? I know, It's apparently a Campbell soup

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<v Speaker 1>that was supposed to taste like turtle soup. But uh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's popular in London, but not not a mock turtleneck. No, no,

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<v Speaker 1>But here's my actual fact about the series. So in

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<v Speaker 1>a book called I'll Be Your Mirror, which is a

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<v Speaker 1>collection of Andy Warhol interviews, Warhol gripes that despite everything

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<v Speaker 1>he did for Campbell's, they never sent him a single

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<v Speaker 1>can of free soup, and he genuinely loved the product.

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<v Speaker 1>It was kind of weird that they didn't send himself.

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<v Speaker 1>That's pretty great. Actually, I had another fact that I

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<v Speaker 1>was going to start with, But I do have a

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<v Speaker 1>Warhole connection in one of my facts, all right, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'll get to that connection in just a second. But

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<v Speaker 1>you know, I had to run as quickly as I

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<v Speaker 1>could to the pop tart section. I know this wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>surprise you, Mango. So so Mango knows this about our family.

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<v Speaker 1>But every year we go on a beach trip in

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<v Speaker 1>the summer, and that's the one week of the year

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<v Speaker 1>that my wife, Georgia, allows the kids and me to

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<v Speaker 1>eat as many pop tarts as we want. Otherwise we're

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<v Speaker 1>never allowed to have pop tarts in the house, and

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<v Speaker 1>so we'll buy like ten or fifteen boxes of these

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<v Speaker 1>things to try, all the different flavors, all the nasty

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<v Speaker 1>new ones, just for the sake of trying them. But

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<v Speaker 1>here's the weird thing. I learned about pop tarts recently.

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<v Speaker 1>So Kellogg actually wasn't really planning to make them, But

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<v Speaker 1>in nineteen sixty four, their biggest competitor, Post announced it

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<v Speaker 1>was planning to release this new fruity pastry. It didn't

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<v Speaker 1>have to be refrigerated, it could keep for months or

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<v Speaker 1>even for years. But after the announcement, Post made two

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<v Speaker 1>huge mistakes before they released it. So there's this fun

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<v Speaker 1>article on Thrillist about this, which you should definitely check out.

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<v Speaker 1>But the two big mistakes were one, they took way

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<v Speaker 1>too long to get the recipe down and actually get

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<v Speaker 1>the product out to market, and so it gave Kellogg

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<v Speaker 1>time to figure out a very similar product. Then the

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<v Speaker 1>other big mistake, and this one is just baffling to me,

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<v Speaker 1>is they decided to call the pastries. Are you ready

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<v Speaker 1>for this name? It's called country squares. How great? We're

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<v Speaker 1>talking about the nineteen sixties when the words square would

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<v Speaker 1>have definitely meant something negative. No one had wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>buy something like this, and so they tried to recover

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<v Speaker 1>and rename them Toast Thems, but the damage had definitely

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<v Speaker 1>been done and pop Tarts were born. And now, as

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<v Speaker 1>for the connection to war Haul, they definitely wanted to

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<v Speaker 1>come up with something that was, uh, you know that

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<v Speaker 1>that felt more hip than what than what Post had done,

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<v Speaker 1>and Warhol was big at the time, and so they

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<v Speaker 1>decided to call these things pop tarts. So pretty interesting.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, Well, Gabe, let's go back to you. Actually,

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<v Speaker 1>I think I ran into you on this aisle because

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<v Speaker 1>I was also planning to try to get to a

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<v Speaker 1>serial Fact. But I'm pretty sure you were doing something

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<v Speaker 1>at the same time. Did you end up getting a

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<v Speaker 1>serial Fact? Yep? I did. Um. So, you know, like

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<v Speaker 1>most people who grew up with Saturday morning cartoons, Breakfast

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<v Speaker 1>Cereal holds a special place in my heart, hand in

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<v Speaker 1>my pantry. Be tough sometimes, thank you, But it can

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<v Speaker 1>be tough sometimes trying to choose which cereal to buy.

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<v Speaker 1>But I found the picking which cereal to share fun

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<v Speaker 1>facts about it is even harder. And that's because there's

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<v Speaker 1>just so many good ones out there. I am a kid,

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<v Speaker 1>it hard, so you know, I had to go with

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<v Speaker 1>one of my childhood's favorite Lucky Charms. Lucky Chimes has

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<v Speaker 1>been around since the early sixties, and this was back

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<v Speaker 1>when a product developer named John Hollohan first hit upon

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<v Speaker 1>the idea of combining cheerios with bits of circus peanuts.

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<v Speaker 1>You know those squshy orange marshmallows made to look like peanuts,

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<v Speaker 1>do I that's like one of my top ten favorite candy.

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<v Speaker 1>Most people find nasty, which is just even better for me. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>the design is the Lucky Charms marshmallows have actually changed

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<v Speaker 1>a good deal along the way, so the pink heart

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<v Speaker 1>is actually the only original marshmallow shape still and used today. Um.

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<v Speaker 1>But here's the really crazy part. According to a press

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<v Speaker 1>release from two thousand eight, each of the marshmallow bits

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<v Speaker 1>or market company those are actually meant to represent one

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<v Speaker 1>of Lucky the leprecons magic powers. So the heart marshmallows

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<v Speaker 1>granted the power to bring things to life, and the

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<v Speaker 1>rainbows allow him to travel instantaneously from place to place. Wow.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know about you, Mango, but I feel like

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<v Speaker 1>I have those kinds of powers of Lucky Charms. All right.

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<v Speaker 1>Another good fact. Wow, Gabe, I'd say you're probably on

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<v Speaker 1>the lead so far, So Mango what do you what

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<v Speaker 1>do you have next? So, because I can't get away

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<v Speaker 1>from canned foods, I also had to snap a pick

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<v Speaker 1>of Chef boyar D and and just like little Debbie,

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<v Speaker 1>what's amazing to me is that the chef was a

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<v Speaker 1>real person and actually an amazing chef, like Hector. Boyer

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<v Speaker 1>D came to States as a kid and started working

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<v Speaker 1>in kitchens at age eleven and by age seventeen he

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<v Speaker 1>was a fixture at the Plaza Hotel. And and here's

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<v Speaker 1>the most amazing part. He actually catered Woodrow Wilson's wedding.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, that is crazy, that's pretty great. Well, somebody

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<v Speaker 1>that did not cater Woodrow Wilson's wedding, and I was

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<v Speaker 1>disappoint it to learn was not a real person. And

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<v Speaker 1>that's Betty Crocker. Unfortunately, this is really disappointing to me.

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<v Speaker 1>But she was actually created by General Mills and the

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<v Speaker 1>twenties because of all these questions that were coming in

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<v Speaker 1>from customers. So there was an employee there named Agnes White,

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<v Speaker 1>and she was one of the test recipe creators and

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<v Speaker 1>cookbook writers, and she ended up portraying Betty and these

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<v Speaker 1>radio ads anonymously. And she ended up even starting a

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<v Speaker 1>show where they had this kind of test kitchen and

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<v Speaker 1>advice column that they gave to their listeners, and she

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<v Speaker 1>was the host of that as Betty Crocker. But my

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<v Speaker 1>favorite fact is that despite not being a real person,

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<v Speaker 1>there was a survey from Fortune magazine that found Betty

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<v Speaker 1>to be the second most admired woman in America after

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<v Speaker 1>Eleanor Roosevelt. Of course, who was the first, lady. That's

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<v Speaker 1>so crazy? Yeah, it's pretty good. All right, gavee. It's

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<v Speaker 1>time for your last fact. Don't disappoint us. You've been

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<v Speaker 1>great so far. What you got next? All right? So,

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<v Speaker 1>as a self professed French, frive them. I have to

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<v Speaker 1>go with a personal favorite this last time and talk

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<v Speaker 1>about hind catch up. Okay, so have to do with

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<v Speaker 1>the iconic fifty seven varieties logo you find on their

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<v Speaker 1>catch up bottles. So the number itself was the idea

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<v Speaker 1>of the company's founder, Henry Heinz. In two he was

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<v Speaker 1>riding a train through New York City when he spotted

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<v Speaker 1>a sign advertising twenty one styles of shoes. So he

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<v Speaker 1>just really lapsed onto this idea of advertising an oddly

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<v Speaker 1>specific number of products. So he adopted the fifty seven

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<v Speaker 1>Varieties slogan for his own brand. You know, even though

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<v Speaker 1>the company made something like sixty different products at the time,

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<v Speaker 1>soft seven was just a completely made up number, right exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>But there's one last thing about that number I wanted

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about. On every glass bottle of Heinz Ketchup,

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<v Speaker 1>there's an embossed number fifty seven on the neck right

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<v Speaker 1>where the bottle narrows, and only about eleven of Ketchup

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<v Speaker 1>users know this. But the fifty seven is a secret

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<v Speaker 1>weak spot that can be struck with a knife or

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<v Speaker 1>fork to help to catch up poor faster. And since

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<v Speaker 1>ketch Up typically pours from a glass bot at less

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<v Speaker 1>than point one miles per hour, it's a pretty handy trick.

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<v Speaker 1>I like that, you know, the speed that catch up

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<v Speaker 1>travels out of the bottle. That's great, just off the

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<v Speaker 1>top of my head. Yeah. But by the way, you

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<v Speaker 1>guys know the difference between Ketchup and Captive, No, I've

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<v Speaker 1>I've always wondered that. Well, they're spelled and pronounced completely differently,

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<v Speaker 1>and that's it. Yeah, Otherwise there's the exact same product. Alright,

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<v Speaker 1>good deal. I'm glad you didn't lead with that fact.

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<v Speaker 1>That's good. No good, that's three good facts from you

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<v Speaker 1>gave all right, Mango your last one? You got one

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<v Speaker 1>more for us? Yeah, definitely, So Will knows I love Ramen.

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<v Speaker 1>After college when we were waiting tables and I didn't

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<v Speaker 1>have that much money, like I I basically lived on

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<v Speaker 1>this stuff. And and so I wanted to take a

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<v Speaker 1>second to talk about Momofuku Ando, who's the inventor of

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<v Speaker 1>instant noodles and cup noodles, and the story of the

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<v Speaker 1>founding is amazing. So basically, Japan was pushing American made

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<v Speaker 1>bread on its citizens in the late fifties, kind of

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<v Speaker 1>has the source of substance. And when Ando asked why

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<v Speaker 1>not make noodles, which were more common in the cuisine,

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<v Speaker 1>basically the response was that the fresh noodle manufacturing couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>supply and feed the country. So Ando set out to

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<v Speaker 1>create noodles. And this is quote in the Japan Times

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<v Speaker 1>that he said, which I absolutely love, and it's that

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<v Speaker 1>peace will come to the world when people have enough

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<v Speaker 1>to eat, and noodles were his contribution to that. So

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<v Speaker 1>I just think that's really sweet and and there's so

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<v Speaker 1>much to say about him. But my favorite fact about

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<v Speaker 1>Ramen and Ando is that he actually established a World

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<v Speaker 1>Instant Noodle Summit that meets every two years, where noodle

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<v Speaker 1>manufacturers that high standards for instant noodles, so like one

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<v Speaker 1>of them is that the fill two lines on the

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<v Speaker 1>inside of the cups for like how much water to

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<v Speaker 1>pour in or or the produced on dates like that

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<v Speaker 1>all came from him. But today they are over a

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<v Speaker 1>hundred billion units of instant noodles sold every year. And

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<v Speaker 1>the reason you can reliably buy a bag and it

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<v Speaker 1>will taste good is thanks to Momofuku, Ando and his

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<v Speaker 1>Ramen collective. Wow, that is pretty incredible. But I feel

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<v Speaker 1>like as much as we eat at the Ramen play downstairs,

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<v Speaker 1>we've earned a seat at that summit. I feel like

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<v Speaker 1>we should attend this summit. And and in fact, that

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<v Speaker 1>is so good. The fact you've managed to talk about

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<v Speaker 1>Ramen and chef Oyerty and Warhol all in one episode.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know about you, Gay, but I feel like

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<v Speaker 1>we have to give the crown to Mango on this one. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, after what we saw on that car ride

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<v Speaker 1>to Kroger, I'm thinking society you've never seen. Well, I

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<v Speaker 1>have to admit it was a lot of fun. I'd

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<v Speaker 1>be up for doing that again sometime, although maybe we

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<v Speaker 1>we We just were very lucky that we didn't get

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<v Speaker 1>kicked out of Kroger and before we ran around and

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<v Speaker 1>got our facts. But that was a ton of fun.

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<v Speaker 1>I hope everybody has enjoyed this. We'll be back tomorrow

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