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hey what's up everyone welcome to the 44 show on this Wednesday November fifth I'm Jeff Bakalar joined once again by the lovely and talented Bridget Carey how are you I'm doing good it's good to be back it's good having you back Arielle Nunez over on the board howdy are today is that uh v for vendetta movie day right oh the date in the mood in the beware what is it something something the 5th have no remember remember the fifth of November I could not remember you remember wasn't a memorable guess not a line from the movie I guess arm so what we wanted so what I wanted to do real quick is we the contest for the xbox one sunset overdrive bundle that's over so if you didn't win I'm sorry you're just gonna have to go ahead and I and I'm like some talking a legal department like hey the contest is over can I announce the winner and they're like ah I know you can't like why barely we got they have to contact the person because it's like a third party thing legal stuff legal who needs lawyers right right chaos rules series anarchy arm so if you didn't win I'm sorry from the bottom of my 404 heart I'm sorry but you still have time to enter the back to the future USB flux capacitor you see these things we have I seen them oh yeah they're they're in my shopping cart had a pry one out of your hand I know that's for some lucky viewer so you have chance a chance to win one of four and all right this xbox one bundle did really well so i guess i can give away a call of duty advanced warfare xbox one that sounds pretty good with a terabyte hard drive inside that's pretty big right that's pretty big okay so we're gonna do that uh rules and regulations soon to follow but uh we'll be able to do that in the next couple of weeks as well how awesome is that it's just it's just a pleasure normally to listen to the show and you add more rewards on to it see it's like it's just like the gift that never keeps never stops giving that's the thing right a gift that keeps on giving holiday season it is and I'm very jolly jolly ji that's how I would describe you yeah jolly ji Jeffy's one Jolly jus that's his title here it seen it officially got a changed yesterday uh arm so we going to short kind of show today lot of stuff going on the new studio looks amazing we got would we get you that we couldn't have freaking out about recording light Sam's great we got a light that says we're recording yeah in a blink and it blew off you see that our imma see it it's pretty stay they are top of the line stops okay so it's time to start getting don't go in there cuz we're on air right yeah this is a warning and it's not like it's hidden 10 it's where you can see it it is the point right it's great this place is really starting to come together and do you hear that listen carefully do you hear that no you don't there's no more construction all right there's no more buzz saws there's no Tony telling me about his date last night going to see gone girl there's many customers yeah it's a good pollution food oh oh god there is one that had me laughing it's like you gotta watch breaking bad like it's like it's like The Godfather but on TV we should have keep no spoilers I won't spoil it for you but you gotta watch it I'm sitting ahaha we should have kept a diary of all the best quotes these guys yeah oh my god I didn't realize you could say mother effer that many times when just talking about your dinner he didn't didn't know that could be a thing yeah some people of different accents I guess so that's how we're different pepper um so yeah we're really excited things are finally getting moving and we'll be in there before you know it um so I as a sick he'll be back when he can be back we gonna catch something nope because uh he he like moat unlike most people said or am I gonna come into the office I'm sick I'm not gonna come to you how I feel about that as people should that's the whole point of the sick day to not cause an outbreak man especially with this new setup in here arm okay so this is kind of funny in our subreddit someone wrote i guess jeff spoke too soon because we're talking about christian bale playing steve jobs in the biopic any drop that sack so now he he bailed uh see what she did there that's excellent that's a he did christian bale bailed on playing steve jobs other than films coming out from sony sounds like danny boyle's gonna direct it you know who Danny Boyle is you know you ever see those 28 days later you ever see that he did that oh sure that fed that is a good one did you see it you know like scary movies okay all right we forgot III did i do see clips of these movies when they're being played and i run in and out and i hear the moaning and all the facts right I like do one of these that you want wean the yeah I can't like you're in your fingers I get it I get it arm so now you just have like Seth Rogen attached to play Wozniak a little bit I guess and uh you know no Christian Bale but there's whatever yeah what's this rumor perhaps Michael Fassbender of up almost at Star Trek blasphemy yeah of x-men fame yeah Megiddo young magneto right so I could see it what he's he's a talented guy yeah he's good he's good-looking he's an official not officials just that it's just a rumor time has a story why he is the perfect choice to play Steve Jobs but does neither confirm or deny that he is attached in any capacity you can do it you can do a new actor with this I'm sure I think it could be a breakout role for a whole new star because he's such an iconic face Steve Jobs you right I not have someone totally new to I think so or maybe we should just give I don't know Ashton Kutcher second try never should not do that cuz that was not good the first I don't even bother I didn't bother seeing it so um we're gonna talk a little bit about fast food today because there's a story in the news about McDonald's and I want everyone to listen to Bridget because Bridget makes no uh I'm you you really are kind of vocal about this right it's not a secret now you love us best food yeah do you right yeah well it's just more about I have no shame so if I'm hungry I've I'm little one time I will get a bucket of nuggets a bucket of know you can buy a bucket or not how many come in a bucket no I actually haven't bought a knife myself but I will I don't have any shame you know I'll walk in do whatever I gotta do to just feed the hunger right the hangry then just fine and what's that but that what's his face's tell me about hangers angry angry is hungry and angry right that hangry happens and when hangry happens you get fast food right but this had a low moment this weekend i went to mcdonalds right next to my my apartment and they didn't have milkshakes or ice cream so I walked through the burger king next to my apartment oh my god you weren't yet another might realize it's a very dark moment when in one lunchy you go to both McDonnell's and hurting just to get your sunday oh my god I do live in walking like like it's two blocks from both so yeah it's sad it was a sad moment so I also live next to wendys where do you live over in my green queen middle America yeah that's wacky um so you go up to mcdonalds you say hey let me get a buck a nug bucket I'm like yeah all right I could beat this is laid back I got a nug but you get a nut bucket you're like I'll take one nug bucket no I'm gonna do that we work right an extra mcdonalds idea everybody gets really dark we're gonna we're gonna get a nut but i think most Americans probably work next to a McDonald's yeah if they're if they positioned it the right way um they're in the news because they've had this really kind of strange campaign going on for a few weeks now where they take um Grant Imahara who was from uh Mythbusters my saying his name right I don't know but I know him he's he's like Hanukkah everyone knows him he's a he's a well-known dude he was great on that show and they hired him to sort of become like the quote unquote McDonald's myth bus there's and obviously it's all a campaign to promote and improve the brand and mcdonald has where it's like is this real meat this is not grade Z meet you kind of trust him because he wouldn't put his his his image on the line you know for all I think you would think he was yeah I think that it should be on the line I mean he's not a report is a Mythbusters I cannot yeah was he care a man if the paychecks right and i'm sure it's bright if McDowell's is is right in the check uh i mean when you watch these things though then they're clearly not it's like all angle the specific way out and have you seen no I have their terrible that you know they're they're just like they're just sitting there like you know what this is good and it's just like get addy you did you know script it's it's scripted it feels super unnatural and they're releasing these um week I don't their weekly but whatever they are the frequency uh they're sort of like debunking these McDonald's myths when sighs like when your company has to debunk a myth that there's pink slime in your meat yeah that that's my name is fighting for a while think things aren't it probably the greatest thing I mean I think it's just like your food is edible and cheap and that's really what you should stick it yeah it has been like one of those things but going to mcdonald's now compared to five years ago everyone does give you a couple looks like you still do this those look like yeah I mean I'm just saying from friends and like or you know whatever like oh wait a minute dig a little deeper into like how much you have McDonough how fast food in general yeah some well i have just terrible habits I mean I'm gonna die early problem oh really bad as it's gonna catch up with me I'm gonna pay a hefty price so you honestly think I had two donuts for breakfast my god and if it's not Dunkin Donuts like go to Starbucks and get the little um banana nut bread what and so like I like a Brady item in the morning yes sweet if you will okay um and then lunch is fast so once in a while I treat myself to something that is kind of classy like a like a soup and sandwich from a deli that's that that's a classic that's a classy act that's a classy ass lunch right okay Oh mines Dargo must be like why are you not obese yeah like how are you in you I mean you have such a guess the high metabolism also it just kind of forms in ways that look like muscles it's really all just a bunch of jiggle you you get in this area man I need that I need that in my life what lime in those jeans you just got those good genes yeah like I think my jeans mean it all goes into my jeans actually it's all on the thigh that's wacky if I man I don't know I just maybe I just want to talk to you about you eating McDonald's for the rest issue you do if you ever have to do like like your health-care things they have surveys to like hey take this survey at work to see if you need to improve your health lifestyle sure and like like how often do you eat cheese and that's like way out every meal of the day oh I eat a lot of cheating and went and asked how often do you have cell addressing it was zero because I don't eat sound okay that should be that should be like the D answer instead of half of the above is like I just so nice out yeah I did potato chips and salad dressing so those are moments when you Wow maintain your your your sort of like that's amazing it's it's magic that's oh my god I knew you were this like dark sorcerer Wow okay so um are we getting it really will get to the whole mcrib controversy in a second I want to find out more about like the dirty looks you get cuz I didn't know that was a thing well from people you know from people you know yeah they're like you know it's just kind of like the me and it's no hiding it if you walk into the office with McDonald's fries Thanks oh yeah it's just it you can smell your coming off the elevator I mean I mean I'm at an age where I should know better and sometimes I just embrace it yeah yeah if the sad part is I can't even go full-on embrace it with a hike like go full happy meal this is boys aren't even good anymore no they don't know I used to do that used to just go full happy meal come into work my toy on my desk whatever what else those things stay good for a while you put them in the drawer nothin later at five o'clock for afternoon snack same goes for the fries you can throw those exact for years wow how all how many times a week do you have McDonald's McDonald's or Burger King yeah I'd say there or it doesn't matter and say two or three dams two or three times so maybe four so up to four times a week so you could have it 200 times a year yeah like I had in college how to watch super size me as part of an assignment for a health class and the whole time I ate McDonald's watching it in protest because I kept thinking you don't have to supersize it like I smell right I really just have the plain hamburger you just eat it and and and a small fry and right and that's probably that's probably like a thousand cats just just I eat small amounts sure about the day a little snack look I'm look I'm not gonna lie bruh John I'm like I'm learning a lot I'm a little blown away well if I can only actually use my gym membership maybe then I'll actually balance it out and I feel winded after going up the flight of stairs well you're young you got time for to catch up to you moisturize daddy food that's it that's the only rule you need to follow anyway this whole entire McDonald's conversation is about Grant Imahara and how he sort of dough a little deeper about what exactly is in the mcrib okay the mcrib is like McDonald's sort of cult classic sandwich if you will it turns out that all the mcribs not ribs it's not like ribs right figured you gotta figure that but it's funny that they press them into rib shapes which is cute well they press chicken nuggets into like it's like four separate shooters you know to me doing that is like there's no difference between like cutting out peeps like marshmallow peeps and then also cutting out little rib shapes right just cookie cutter sort of stuff that's fine but it you know it is pork so it turns out the mcrib is pork water salt and dextrose which is uh sugar mm-hmm and then they put in preservatives which they're not even ashamed about like servers are bad everyone to know their bed they are bad it I know why I feel like McDonald's is thinking like well if we just say we put it in there it will make it sound as bad as they never puts preservative well everything well not like organic stuff well there's no preservatives in that ah okay well anyway I suddenly hit like a error message I bring my whole thing is like uuu maybe start to tap the brakes when you read a list of ingredients and some of the ingredients is you never heard of you know i will say i do go shopping and buy you know some more healthy choices right like organic oh I'm not worried about you at all okay cuz you're yeah you've you that you are not affected by the normal things that you are effective worry about me but in terms of organic yeah leaving you grocery shopping sure support the ones that hug the cows it's a verse another one yeah I mean look they got a chap it's freakin head off anyway I mean like we know what's happening we can't I get I don't want them to be treated awfully but me I'm that's all either I watched food inc I but yeah I by the ones over they hug the cows they hug the Catholics re yeah on the carton it's always like someone like we're like sorry you're gonna be a delicious filet for somebody yes I'm still gonna have to chop your effin head off alright uh and then they get into the preservatives bha which I'm sure stands for something terrible mmm propyl gallate gel 80 know that is citric acid and then they're like we use that to lock in the flavor which just I don't know it just sounds slimy tonight i'm getting greatness it was made in a laboratory 40 years ago used to lock in the flavor it's gonna get worse you're gonna wish you had the mcrib in a couple of years when we have processed meat that was never even meet to begin with and the whole thing was made in a chemical lab I don't know about that you think so it's gonna happen you hear about people making meet at another engineered yeah it that's the kind of world we're gonna do I like this doc I like dark Bridget a lot savor that mcrib you savor it now dark bridges my favorite Bridget like bizarro Bridget um so yeah so that's the controversy hitting the mcrib right now and it will not change anything people love McDonald's and they'll continue to some my whole thing is like I just don't like this whole sort of campaign that they're doing isn't feel doesn't feel natural it doesn't feel natural it feels like they're just trying to be more transparent but pissing people off in the process and it's not going to change anything you know what changed things when their menu change they don't offer supersize anymore and they offer salad right now for more parfaits and things like that that's people recognize that as having more options apple slices and whatnot you know you get a happy meal they ask you Oh what like oh you have to have an apple slice in milk and you're like I don't I just want more fries the fries they give you okay you you're probably an adult man so you don't do this but I like we're not probably clear again I just I said I don't want apple slices I just want fries like I had when I was growing up you right hamburger and fries who are you to deny me that fries now I mean like a little baby toy thing and you get six someone has to physically put six pieces of fries into this tiny little shell and you get apple slices there's no either or so I'm like thanks for the six fries right that's weird little factoid there yeah I wouldn't know I last time I had mcdonalds was probably within the last year but it was the breakfast I do like the breakfast mm-hmm oh I had that too long yeah this is something about that breakfast right mm-hmm what's going on with delicious why is it so if I think bridget actually picked up breakfast for me when we shot that Apple thing yeah yeah those a nice treat yeah we were there early for that for the iphone got a little mcdonald's i'm thinking i'm slowly corrupted yeah you did bring you did bring in like twenty eight doughnuts the other day yeah you did it was halloween ein yeah and it wasn't and it was a really awful kind that of orange frosting and some mysterious center mysterious goo in the middle yeah you're I didn't realize you were pushing your uh your sugar on us huh I'm so soon we were testing Apple pay I wanted Sharon to go across the street and guess like McDonald's for the office but no Whole Foods it was right Donnelly I tried I tried I tried to get her to get the bucket and ugh but she's not that kind of girl me McDonald's uh for the office would have been like thirty dollars great you could have sent us home with happy meals each too yeah only boy toys the girl toys aren't good anymore really oh don't get me started on the boy I think we need I think it's time to open up a new beat at seeing it and have you run the fast-food door yeah Oh a mobile payment app at a fast food joint I'm on it um so we're gonna finish things up with this really disturbing PR social media stunt apparently this whole Alex who works at target that whole thing about why do I know Alex from Target I think you got to break the news to Arielle Bert ok so it's it wasn't as natural of a viral movement as natural as but socially a phenomenon as we'd like to believe it was when when when this photo blew up around like you know Sunday night all the way until Monday and Tuesday everyone was going crazy why is this one photo of a kid from a Texas target you know why is it won't talking about him turns out the splitter was originally taken I do believe I'm going to back up for a second I do believe the original photo was taken with with innocent intention it was not a route some people have different points of view on this but I really do believe that the original photo which was taken October 26th by 2 by a girl talking to her other girl but how cute this guy is at the neighborhood target I think that was honest because this guy also has said he has nothing to do with with anything he had no idea what was happening so the guy is in part of it that's what he has said out loud he has nothing to do with it he didn't he was surprised when this blew up a marketing agency came out late on Tuesday and said hey we're that were the reason is viral because we have this this team this army of teenagers that are just popular on social media and we took that photo and told some of them to tweet about so that's all it is because that's my question because what it is and we don't have the picture up here but it's basically a Justin Bieber looking kind of kid he's got a great head of hair got a great head of blond hair boy band he looks maybe 15 16 uh and he's just like working at target just bagging some groceries and it's a real employee from darkness and and if you look at the original tweets what you're looking at it is one of those tweets that were not original the original tweet was like hey you know to her girlfriend to check this out oh LOL i gotta go we should get his number you know so it's them talking back and forth and then suddenly a couple days later other people in London started tweeting this picture without explanation that's when I go the bread trail the breadcrumb trail doesn't really make sense and this company goes well we have a bunch of influencers online right teens who have a lot of who a lot of weight and we you know kind of we don't pay anyone but we kind of nudge that this person to do it and we nudge another person to read a YouTube video for it and then that's how we fueled the fire we fan the flames right of and and it naturally happened after that but it got out of hand what I think this comes down to is that teenagers have a lot of sway and these marketers are just drooling over over getting their attention to make something hot or not and this marketing group it was really just bragging it go hey give us some clients right right this is a commercial for that yeah yeah like I look like what we can do but people online are going wait a second did you really do everything or did you just come for the hashtag and tell one person to tweet it does that it by itself is that enough to create the domino effect right and what scares me though is that it's like okay is anything organically viral anymore that's what I want it like that's to me the scariest thing I will tell you a couple things that you have to realize know in terms of every marketing group now does go after teenagers teenagers from on one angle they grew up in a time of the selfie and they've seen their peers right get popular on YouTube how they can make money off of it so you look at vine so there I stand that mentality is in green right so the they already are gathering lots of followers on networks so marketers look at that they see the values very living in on one of these tweets last night there is some more mystery to this I was trying to see well where did the original tweak come from who's really saying it that they claimed it this an account called Goldilocks was saying I'm the reason that this thing's popular this morning the whole account is the lead what the hell is going i know i wish i took a screenshot but even others are quoting this this account yeah and i think that marketers do have a few fake accounts in this totally i have come across fake teenager accounts on facebook right that are from advertising agencies as approach slimey I've approached them and go wait everyone in my company's friending you who are you and they go oh we're actually a marketing company right people will front people thinking that they're human they're not completely acting like a robot but yes out there you can't trust some counts they are just posing as teens to influence other teens to buy stuff what slimy or this whole conspiracy or mcdonalds going out and hiring that Mythbusters do to talk about the fact that there's you know that there's actually food there you know what I'm gonna say because of the kid not have a knee to do with it good for him i hope he gets a little fun out of the face i hope so yeah hope it gets a date out of the whole thing better I'll get more than I hope anyway Eddie got some marriage proposals really so that's perfect that's the savages yeah Texas isn't all that was terrible um alright Bridget Carey thank you so much for being here thanks for having always a pleasure everyone go follow Bridget on twitter at brigitte carry and then watch seen it update every single freaking day of your life there you go we'll be back tomorrow with a brand new show uh and you can still enter the Back to the Future USB flux capacitor contest i think you have until the seventh to do that so make sure you participate in that we're back here with brand new show tomorrow until then I'm Jeff Bakalar I'm Bridget Carey I'm Arielle ninya this has been the 404 show high tech lowbrow back here tomorrow we'll see you then