Episode 66

Episode 66 Transcript courtesy of Laurie Foster
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Data Caps 3932
Shit 904
McDonald's 617
See All the Problems...

Shit. You don’t want it in you and you don’t want it on you. It’s a big problem. Plus, the fast food version of shit, and data caps. All kinds of shit this episode.

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Here’s the video McDonald’s put out to assuage consumers’ fears about their fries having “17 ingredients” that turned out to actually be 19. Which is definitely not a Franken-fry, according to McDonalds’ PR campaign:

And here’s the McRib video that ends up looking exactly like the frozen McRib they show at the start of the video:

Thumbnail credit: Eliazar Tatar
big mac – https://www.flickr.com/photos/zigazou76/16478209807/sizes/l/
cake 1 – https://www.flickr.com/photos/yashima/1458392811/sizes/l/
cake 2a – https://www.flickr.com/photos/nagarjun/4310796460/sizes/l/
cake 2b – https://www.flickr.com/photos/nagarjun/4310796022/sizes/l/

Thanks to James Gàrlánd for the intro problems.

Sources:
CDC – Global wash statistics
WHO – Water sanitation figures
Washington Post – McDonalds’ market share is shrinking
Gizmodo –
FierceWireless.com –
Data Fees as a percentage of revenue
Fool.com – Average Data Usage
NewNetworks.com – National Infrastructure Initiative Scandal
ArsTechnica – Business Decision
HuffingtonPost – 97% Profit of cable companies

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