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What's up, guys, DGS on Camellax. Happy Thursday. Few minutes past 2 p.m.

Our buddy Martin Coco is here. Senior Marketing Director for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Always good to see you. It's always, it's always a good time when I see you.

Hey, glad to be with you guys and glad we're thinking about baseball.

I told you it's March. So the brain shifts and it's like,

hey, opening day is coming. Yeah. Get ready. Three weeks from today, man.

Three weeks. Three weeks. That's crazy. Yep.

So, um, introduce yourself to the Camellax audience who don't know you.

Just give, tell us about you. Tell us about how you got into all this.

Yeah. Well, I'm Cardinals Marketing Director.

Been there. This will be my 27th season. So been around for a lot of fun,

crazy, two ball parks, all-star game, multiple world series,

a lot of Hall of Fame players and just having a great time.

There can't be many people with more seniority than you.

You know what? There actually is. That's one of the really cool things about our front

offices. There's so much senior tenure there. Yeah.

There's just a whole lot of folks who, who get in the door and don't want to leave.

So your first season, who are some of the names we would know?

Players, broadcasters, managers, when you first got in there.

Yeah. So 2000 was my first year.

And that was the first year of, it wasn't the first year of the LaRusa era,

but it was the first year of the playoff runs of the LaRusa era.

So a couple, well, actually one year later was Albert Poole's game.

So, and the rest was history after that.

But yeah, started in 2000 and that was a few years into the LaRusa era,

but really the beginning of that long stretch of just continual success.

So when you look back at the way you guys did marketing in 2000,

does it just seem so quaint or were you guys pretty, you know,

cutting edge the whole time you've been there?

There was some similarities, but obviously with the whole

advent of the internet and then after that social media,

it's certainly a lot more involved and so many different layers than it used to be.

But in the end, the end goal is the same. Let's get people to the ballpark.

Yeah. You started your career the same way started here.

That's cool. Yeah, I started in 2000. So that means we're all guys.

I just did a career day at Lidoo High School and you know, I'm talking to freshmen and I just,

I've never felt so old and all three of the groups I had in the middle of them went,

okay, I know who you are. I know your voice because they're mom and dad's listening to my show.

Yeah. So we're going to talk about everything marketing for the Cardinals,

but you guys got this $29 deal. We'll send us the link the other night and I didn't believe

it was real and I clicked on it and it took me somewhere and I bought a game and it went through

and I bought three more games. So I'd love this. Well, thanks for buying. You're welcome.

Yeah. Coca-Cola unlimited. It's a new option ticket thing that we're rolling out this year.

It's basically unlimited concessions in a particular seating area. So the tickets are in

Big Macland. You pay one price. You get a wristband that gives you access to the unlimited

concession stand just a few steps away on the second level. If you're familiar with Big Macland,

I know you are Dave. Sure. I'm a really cool section in left field on the second level,

but basically you pay the one price and you can come to the concession stand as often as you want.

There's a whole long list of kind of ballpark favorite type items and have your fill.

We figured it's a fun way to try something new, give people another reason to come to the ballpark

and of course when you come to the ballpark, one of the true parts of the experience is all the

great food. Absolutely. So partner with our good friends at Coca-Cola and decided to try something

new. What really created the buzz, I think, it kind of blew up nationally on social media and got

a lot of coverage. What really created the buzz is that price point. Tickets start at $29. So

some folks have been confused though. You add $29 onto your ticket. No, the ticket is $29. And that

gets you both the seat for the game, but also this access to the concession stand. And we had people

arguing with us yesterday. No, you can only get three things and I'm like, no, it's three things

per time you visit. Right. And I know my boys, I have some, I have some high school and college

boys. They may spend more time in the, in the circular, circular of the line than they spend in

the actual game seat. But we'll see. Can you imagine if you were 22 years old. Yeah. It's just a

thing right. You just have a wristband and you just walk through and get it and walk out, right?

It's not there's no checkout. Right. Like at a normal concession stand. So it's basically come

pick your items and go back to your seat and move fast. Yeah. You know one thing like I was

telling Martin, I went to 44 games last year. I, I've yet to try what I call the fancy food

at bush because it's physically impossible for me to watch a game without a dog and not just.

Yeah. And so by that time, I'm like, I don't know if I'm going to, but now I know about

Stewie's kosher dog. Oh, yes. Stewie's is great. I have to try that. Yeah. Speaking of my

boys, that's one of the favorites. Yeah. That's what it is. Yeah. The pastrami dog is super good.

I, I am an unheralded ambassador for St. Louis and the Cardinals because last year, I think it was

six different times. And I'm not bragging. I'm just saying St. Louis pride. Six different times,

I was seated next to people who are from the opposing team. And they were just traveling to see

their team. And I was welcoming and I bought them dogs and beers the whole night because it was

important to me. I want to say by you. Yeah, you do. You do. And just say it from Iowa and you're

in. But I really truly like being on camo X and everything. I feel like I owe something. And

I just wanted these people to go home and go. They're the nicest people in St. Louis. And

every single person, every single person I set next to was blown away by the stadium. Just the

view. I think I saw somewhere last year's the second best view. It's one of the best backgrounds

of baseball. It's fantastic. Yeah. It's fantastic. Yeah. Not many ball parks. Can you sit in the stands

and have a view of a national monument? Right. So right. And I look and I'm trying to be too weird

here. But like the ballpark village behind there, the way it looks looks cool. Yes. Right. I mean,

it's just a cool look to have that. The skyline, the arch and the whole deal. I mean, like again,

most places don't have that. Right. You either can't see out of it because it's too tall or it's

like just facing nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Any other innovations you can talk about this season or

things that we might have coming up later on? Yeah. We're working on quite a few new things.

I, you know, because we're on the radio, I'm comfortable breaking some news.

Right. I'm not allowed to break news. As long as your bosses are cool, that we're cool with that.

Now, you can't find out about this anywhere online yet because we haven't posted it yet. But

the other thing that's kind of a cousin of this unlimited is we're unveiling a new value menu

at the ballpark, too. So there'll be four different concession stands where we'll have five or

six items that are five bucks. Nice. So that's one of the narratives that's out there is, hey,

you can come to a game, but concessions are too expensive. So that's one of the things we're trying

to counter one with this unlimited. But then also, even if you're not seated in the unlimited,

we're going to have a number of concession stands around the ballpark with a value menu,

all game long, every game. That's not public info yet. But I figured it'd be fun to break some

news. I love it. That's awesome. Let's go. That's so smart. It's so smart. Not only is it great

for the fans, but I love when a false narrative is nipped in the bud. You can go to the ball game and

you can spend hundreds of dollars. But my son, who's 31 now, but loves a bargain, he either goes

with me or he'll get like those six dollar tickets you guys would have, you know, I think maybe

there's a cable X deal, even. And you don't have to spend a bunch of money to go to the ball game.

Well, that's right. And that's something that's been important to us for a long time is just the

affordability piece, making sure that anybody who wants to come to a game has the ability to,

I mean, you mentioned the six dollar tickets. We'll just talk about the value menu. A lot of other

ways that you can experience a game and not have to go too much out of pocket. Yeah. So tell me

about your team. Like I love trying to picture how other people do their jobs. Like can you

personally pretty much go 29 bucks ticket? That's what we're going to do. It's a collaborative effort.

We can't make a unilateral decision like that. It involves our partners with Delaware North

Sports Service. Great long time concessionaire at the ballpark. So they have input. It's a marketing

thing. It's a ticket sales team thing. So it's definitely a collaborative thing. But we think we

landed on something that'll be popular. Yeah. And you're a ball player. I know you and Kevin

have been to fantasy camp together. That's a really stretch. That's a grit. A generous turn ball

player. We put the uniform on at fantasy camp and ran around out there. So I'm one of those guys

that I'm legitimately not a settle for this. I'm legitimately excited about the team this year

because there are a lot of a lot of guys still left. You know, a lot of guys who I love who

are still on the team. A lot of new guys I'm fascinated by. And in three years, I'll be able to

say, Oh, I've been in on these guys since 2026. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely a it's different.

You know, if you've if you've I've been with the Cardinals 27 years, fans have been fans. I've

been a whole life. So what we were what we've been used to for a quarter of a century, this looks

and feels a little different. There's not a long, long, tenured players on the team, those type of

things. But you're right. What we're excited about is to turn that page. One of the things that

got some publicity during the off season is the ratings of minor league systems and the Cardinals

by some accounts are in the top two or three. So to your point, we're building towards something

that hopefully is is going to turn the team around and and be an exciting and fun team to watch.

But that doesn't mean wait until 2028. I mean, that's the thing you've constantly heard from

from management from from Ali and others is we're planning on being competitive this year too.

This is a bunch of athletes who are who are hard driving guys. They're not planning on going

out there to lose. They went out there to a big league or something. Yeah, I mean, everybody

prefers like, okay, we're going for the World Series. You're like, everybody does. I guarantee you

the do it's like everybody wants that. But when you're talking about the entertainment value and

the and the effort level and all of that, it's because I've been around teams that have rebuilt

before and that have done this kind of thing. And the fun of it is those guys are all auditioning.

They're all trying to make their way. They're all they play with fire. They play hard. They go after it

because their careers are on the line. And it's not to say the veterans don't. It's just a different

vibe. It's a different energy when the whole team is like that. And every guy is like listen,

I'm trying to I'm trying to make sure that I get contract one day that I stay here for the next

10 years, whatever. It's fun. The term that popped up last year and had some shelf life that was kind

of cool was younger. Yeah. I don't know if you guys remember that. That's probably from a marketing

level has has played its part. And we can look back on it. But I think that's a good description.

It's just a young and hungry vibe, which leads to a lot of exciting things on the field.

If you guys are just joining us, Martin Coco, senior marketing director for the Cardinals is here.

We're talking about the $29. Basically, all you can eat to what I've been calling it,

ticket in Big Mac land. I bought four games. I'm really excited about it. You can check that out.

Martin just broke the news that there's going to be four places in the in the stadium where you can

get a value menu five dollars for what I guess everything or five dollars. There will be a variety

of items there. They're still working out the exact details. But you can get it for as little as five

bucks. Yes. No, assume that it's a hot dog brought worse coke. Okay.

Why is this kind of next? Yeah. Before you leave, you have such a history of the Cardinals,

any players, managers, broadcasters who if you were tired today, you would say these guys

were special to me. Well, one of the cool things growing up a Cardinals fan, which I did,

is then being around these guys as we talked about wheels and I being at fantasy camp years ago,

getting to know these guys as at fantasy camp, it's sometimes teammates or managers, but as peers,

instead of just guys, you watch normal people, right? As normal people. Absolutely. So, yeah,

I mean, you can just run through the list of all those guys from the 70s and 80s and 90s.

My personal favorite, which anytime I'm with him, I kind of have to pinch myself and say,

I can't believe I can just walk up to Aussie Smith and shake his hand. And he says, hey, Martin.

That's never gets old. The coolest part, the coolest part of opening day last year for me,

is I ended up across the street and live at Lowe's having dinner with Michael Kelly, my friend Vanessa,

and I'm leaving and seven p.m. somebody, I don't know. And someone goes, hey, glove, and I look up to

greet a listener and it's Aussie. Oh, nice. And I'm like, hey, I walked away and I'm just like,

I'm playing cool, right? Yeah, I'm playing cool. I'm playing cool. This is normal for me. This

happens all the time. That was pretty cool. That was pretty sweet. Anything else you want to tell

the folks for let you go? No, I told you guys when we before we came in or before I came in and we

were talking, I drove past the billboard that said 21 days until opening day. So that's my only

message is baseball is coming. Plan on getting your tickets cardinals.com three weeks till opening day

and we'll be ready to rock and roll. I'll see you there. Thank you, brother. Good to be with you, guys.

We're coming back to you, G S on K mox. Hey, Rach, can we the McDonald's CEO's back? We're

making great fun of him for his Squidward bite and just have terrible that video was although if he

did it on purpose, he's a genius because we've been talking about it nonstop. But he put out a new

video and it just prepares self. There's nothing huge about it. He's just such a mago. And he is.

So it's cut for question. Recently came in on my Instagram. How often do I eat at McDonald's?

I would tell you it's a lot probably three or four times a week. Sometimes it might be a breakfast.

Sometimes it might be a lunch. But hey, one of the perks of the job you get to eat at McDonald's

a lot. That just pissed me off. I know you I know what meals you serve. I understand what meals

humans eat. It just made me mad. Yeah. It wouldn't have made me mad. Had he not done the Squidward

bite first. So he gets free food, I would guess, right? I'm guessing. Well, all the CEOs are

reing in, you know, BK made a video. Wendy's. Wendy's. Now that CEO of A and W made like a pretty

funny parody video. I like that. It was funny. Yeah, they they did like a taste test of their teen

burger. And it was like a direct kind of word for word making fun of the McDonald's video. It

was it was really good. I was I was impressed. Let's play cut three here. I forget the general's name.

He's the general that does Fox News all the time. I've always really liked him. Had him on the show

a couple of times. And one of their winners is interviewing him. And here's how it went.

How much respect I have for your service. And I think it goes about saying to anybody watching

how much respect I have for the men making's decision. You don't have to patronize me. Just ask the question.

Isn't that great? Oh my god. Do one more time. You know how much respect I have for your service.

And I think it goes about saying to anybody watching how much respect I have for the men making's

decision. You don't have to patronize me. Just ask the question.

Is it who is is it Jack Keen? Yes. Is that who it is? Yes. Oh god. That's funny as hell, man.

But that great. Just ask the question you weener. I can't think of a phrase of a way of doing that

that more seems like a general who just wants to get to the point. Yeah. Just get to business guys.

Don't have to dance around. That's great.

Sad news. An 82 year old man who fought to get a traffic light installed at the intersection

where his wife was killed two years ago died on Monday in a car crash in the same intersection.

The light was never added. That's tragic. I hope the elected officials in that area

feel bad because if he was petitioning to do something about that and he is being ignored and

then he lost his life. Like come on. Yep. This is why local government is supposed to exist

is to help with stuff like that. Our buddy Paul Charzley points out that it's opening day for

Formula One and in more Formula One news where it will be of interest to all of you to mark the

start of Kit Katz new partnership with Formula One. Nestle unveiled a life-sized handcrafted Formula

One car at the racetrack this week made of chocolate. Yeah. It's a lot chocolate. Yeah.

Is it a cat or is it just chocolate? I mean, part of it's got to be Kit Kat, right? It's

had to be better if it was. If you said you can only have one candy bar the rest of your life,

I might pick Kit Kat. No. It's not my go-to favorite every time, but consistently.

I like the way I eat it. I skin it and I eat it wafer by wafer. Can't take a bite of it.

Reese's big cup. Oh, plain or potato chips? No, the plain one the olds can find a big one and be

the original. Rich. I like the big cup as well. The cup is too big. I'll take a regular cup.

Are you okay? You're just wrong. I think it's just a it's just a big cup. It's too much. It's

huge. All right, giant cup. It's more Reese's. What's wrong with that?

Well, my favorite ZZTAP songs. It's nice. Did you ever watch that documentary about them?

Never did. Oh, you should. If you like ZZTAP, it's really good. It's not that long either,

but they're all in it and a pretty cool story from when they were young. It's weird seeing

them in the documentary when they don't have the beards. You're like, who are these guys?

They look like dorks and then you see them with the beards later. They're like, all right,

there we go. You're like, you do that well. I found a new scam on TikTok and I am 90% sure it's

AI, but I'm not completely sure. And to get clicks, I don't know if you guys have seen this,

it will be featuring a dog or a cat who's like 20 years old and they look awful,

like their colons on the outside and their heads turned inside out. And the person's like,

I'm just trying to give a bucky one more year and they get hundreds of not thousands of people

to be like, you're a monster. You need to do the right thing and put it out of its misery.

And I see these over and over again. And it's just like, what a nasty world we live in, where people

are just poking each other and pulling on each other's heartstrings, but it's not even real just

to get interaction so they can make money. It's just such a weird time. What is the scale?

They're trying to get people to engage to try to convince the person to put their pet down.

Oh, because the pet is so very sick. And they will, the engagement is how you make money.

Right. Right. So if you do things that freak people out, piss people off,

whatever, then you tend to end up being able to make some cash on it. Yes.

Same thing happens on Twitter. It's the exact same thing. Yeah. It's just, I don't know.

Kind of disgusting. I made an offhand comment about if I had one candy bar to eat the rest of my

life, I'd make it a kit cat. And online has jumped in to con snickers. I've never even heard of it.

Take five. Yeah, that's good. Take five. Yeah, those are good, man. And the E-Mart, I'm glad we have

the E-Mart because it works in a pinch. But I was looking at it today. I'm like, we can't get

some dang snickers bars in here. Sometimes we just don't have very good candy to choose.

I understand this is like the world's stupidest first world problem. I don't have a good enough

candy variety. I would just like to put it out there. We can be doing better. That seems like

one you would have. Honey, you look miserable. I don't feel right. I know my girl. She needs

a snickers. Yeah, that would have fixed everything. Just like the ad. Yeah. Hershey's cookies and cream.

Haven't had most of this. Man, I think it cookies and cream in a long time.

It's national cheese doodle day. And I don't know what a cheese doodle is. It's like a cheese it.

Really? Yeah. Is it a cheese it or is that like the poofy ones? Like an off brand. It's the

poofy. Well, it's just the generic like the cheetos are a kind of cheesy poof. Okay.

Or cheesy doodles. Sorry. I was straight cartman there. Kentucky fried chicken is bringing back

a fan favorite of the 90s. The twister. What the what's the twister? I was hoping rage or Andrew

would remember. I don't remember. We talked about this in fast food news on Friday. Yeah, but I don't

totally recall. So it's it's basically two chicken tenders, chicken strips. We got like some

ranch going. You can get it with bacon and it's wrapped in a tortilla. I don't think I ever got

this in the 90s. But I would maybe next time we go to KFC, I would maybe like to try it.

Just for then the style jet angle. Check out with their with their putting out there. Andrew,

did they ever come across with your handheld pot pies? Handheld pot pies. Did I dream this? Was I

super high one night? I swear you did a story where KFC was going to downsize the pot pie where

you could hold it in your hand. Nummy. We talked about this on the show. It might not have been

Andrew because we said a handheld pot pie is not a pot pie. Right. That is a hand pie at that

point. Yes. So don't call it a pot pie. But it's even the pot pie is not made in a pot.

Is it? Yeah, it's made in like a pan. Okay. A pot pan is a pan pie. Yeah, they they're doing a

new handheld pot pie. They're just testing it. You know, in fast food news generally, I don't like

to bring up the the testing things because there's so many things that get tested across the country.

And the last thing I want is a concept car. Yeah. I want people to get excited if it's never

coming. You can't get it right. Most of the time, we're not in a big test market. We are in

a slight test market, but we're not in one of the main test markets. So a lot of the limited time

testing stuff just doesn't come here. Okay. Male goats pee on their own faces to attract females.

Have a cousin who did that. That seems very I'll show you on the break. It seems like something

like a like a mean girl would say to like a naive young lad like go pee in your face. Yeah, I don't

know. Again, I don't feel right. So don't listen to me. No, you need to talk a lot. I feel very

disconnected from reality. You're these this real life girl. Kind of like the lady on the

play. That is not real. You guys heard the term seat divorce. No, it's when you and your partner

fly together, but you don't sit together. I have had a total family divorce because no one in

my family will sit next to me on a plane because I'm like William Shatner in the twilight zone.

I get nervous. Then I make it your problem. Well, like on Southwest dearlines, I just know

wherever I set the Glovers are going to be like five rows back. Do you fare to Mr. Shatner?

It was a great one. There was a Gremlin on the wing in twilight zone. And you're saying that

there's not when I'm flying. Not that well, I can't speak for your planes, but I ain't never seen one.

I just don't see how sitting next to a stranger is going to be better than sitting next to your

partner for the seat divorce. You haven't flown next to me. So. Well, I don't know. I don't know.

I just can't anticipate like especially a long flight where it's like I'm in the middle seat.

I would rather sit next to two people. I don't know. Yeah. Then someone I do know like. Yeah.

Chick-fil-A has reversed course and removed pea starch from their waffle fries. Oh, thank

goodness. Wait, what? Did you know about this? No, I'm just being silly. So they added

PEA. Yeah, yeah, pea starch. Right. To make their fries crispier, but I guess people hated it.

Really? So now they've taken it away. All right. I don't notice the minutia in the fast food industry.

Yeah. I also don't know when they did it. So I mean, it could have been in a window where I didn't

have it. Mm-hmm. I didn't notice any difference the last time I had the Chick-fil-A.

You know that story you did yesterday about the golfer did. Yeah. The alligator.

Tap the alligator. It's a little butt tap and got him to go back in the water. I saw the video.

And here's what's wrong with me. I immediately wished that gator would have spun and bid him on the

leg because I don't like anyone with that confidence. Because there was another golfer who saw

he's like, he would. And that would be me. Yeah. And then here comes Joe Cool, who's always been

Mr. Popular and he has taps in the button and jumps in and I'm like, I hate you. Yeah. I mean,

my guess is I don't know anything about Cody Gribble as the guy that did that. I don't know if he's

a Florida kid or not, but if you're a Florida kid, you probably grew up around him and you know what

you can do and what you can't do. I guess. Having a dog and strength are the two number one

things to do to live a long life. Oh. Having a dog and strength. Yes. And you see Mr.

Conceited over there was like, Oh, good because I have both. I don't mean conceited. I'm just

excited. I'm doing something right because you have both. I mean, you're like the guy that tap the

alligator. You could have dogs too. You could be big too. You should go lift.

Wow. I know you can. I've seen you. I saw the pictures of big Dave. I know it's there. Oh,

as opposed to little Dave. I can't call it dangerous. Dave, I can't call the alligator. I can't call

anyone little. I mean, let's be real. I look up at literally everyone. Well, I'm done for the day.

I just think about last night and I'm only a little bit kidding about this. The state of the

world and certainly the state of our country. We need something like really truly finding bigfoot

like having one in a cage. We need something. We need like a it's like when you're having an

argument with your spouse, you need like an intervening thing to just stop you both in your tracks

and go holy crap, a meteorite just came through the friggin ceiling right. If something weird like

that happened, like aliens would be much bigger than that, but like I'll settle for finding bigfoot.

I think I'll just make everyone stop and go. Wow, all this crap seems a lot less important now that I

know that these guys are on the planet with us. Do they make any sense? No, we definitely need a

smack in the face to slap us out of this weird thing that we're in. Yeah.

Ah, maybe I just don't have much hope, but I feel like if we did have bigfoot in a cage,

it would just be another excuse to fight about something. You're probably right. You know,

there'd be like the people who are like, you need to let them out of that cage right now.

And the other people are like, we need to kill bigfoot immediately. He's the enemy. He's going to

the ballroom. Yeah. Speaking of the ballroom, I read an article today where there's some place where

you can go and formally comment. And they've had 33,000 comments about the ballroom. And 97% of them

were negative. Oh, yeah. So I'll then I wonder why we're just going to make zero difference.

It's like I saw I like I see people making the argument to like what they should keep holding

these get together's intense. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Please. That'd be great. I don't care. I'm not

going to them. They can sit intense. That's great. You don't care. Yeah. I do not care. I don't

care if the other countries dignitaries are going in a fancy ass tent. Great. Suck it up. It's not

that hard. You're okay. You'd be fine. You'll be at the ritz later on that night. I'm I just don't

like the way it happened. But I would have been fine with a ballroom. Sure. I'm not I'm not

totally in on a thousand person ballroom. What are we doing? It's like, you know, 10 stories high

or something. It's like Henry the eighth's court. We got to have this big ass Garrett get together.

Yeah. Well, I mean, you guys bring up a good point. It doesn't feel like it can be a winner

for the White House because the average person is never going to be invited to that ballroom.

And isn't asking people to get behind it is like, I'm not being polyannous here. I don't think

we could do this today because we're all crazy and very shooty. But like in the 1930s as I

understand it, people used to picnic on the White House lawn and you could just walk in. I did

not because it was the people's house and you could just, you know, and then we all lost our damn

minds. Yeah. Now you can't get cloaks and let's just on a tour and then you don't get to see

everything and you're right. It isn't right that the people don't get to enjoy any of that.

Well, I think they should have a say in it. Not just that all of it. Yeah.

We should at least get an MTV crib style documentary hosted by whoever is the president

at the time. Like Donald Trump should be walking us through his quarters showing us. I'm sure we

will. This bedroom is bathroom. Sure we will. We deserve that as a people.

249 DGS on Kamileks. So I brought this up at the beginning of the show just as a tiny part of my

big government rant. But it's true. RFK is going to Starbucks and Duncan and saying that I don't

like your iced coffees. There's too much sugar and it's unhealthy for America and you need to

proactively prove to me that it's not unhealthy or we're going to pull them. How's that Hitcha?

I mean, if you're fans say it, if he's protecting people from getting fat and diabetes, so be it.

Well, I don't think it's wrong to maybe hold these places to account as far as like what is it

that we're actually putting into our bodies. So the quote that I had seen was he said we're going

to ask Duncan donuts and Starbucks. Show us the safety data that shows that it's okay for a teenage

girl to drink an iced coffee with a hundred and fifteen grams of sugar in it. I don't think

they're going to be able to do it. Well, I might agree with RFK Jr that yeah, I don't I don't think

it is best for a teenage girl to be drinking something like that every morning. What are we going

to do? We're going to start carting people at the Starbucks. Like if their parents say they can

have it and it's publicly available. If something you can buy without showing an ID like I

we're getting into like this policing of like what you're allowed to drink. There's plenty of

alcoholic beverages that are probably way worse for you than the Duncan donuts is every morning.

I don't know. Go ahead wheels. It's just stupid. So are you going to shut down all the cake makers?

The cookie makers and everybody else that's making foods that people shouldn't eat according to

you. Why are you picking two companies and saying no, your products are those? Are you going to

tell Coca-Cola? They can't sell regular Coke anymore. Are you going to tell Pepsi? They can't sell

Pepsi. I mean, what are we doing? Why would you pick two? Because people think do people actually

think sugary coffee is not sugary coffee? I think people know exactly what it is. The only

thing you should ever have to do is disclose what's in it, right? Have the nutritional information.

Why do you have to prove anything else? Nobody has to choose that. And if I could walk down the

street and get an ice cream, are you going to shut down Baskin Robbins? Because I can walk down

the street and get an ice cream and that's going to be more sugar than what I'm putting in my coffee.

There's just no logical consistency to it. And of course, he's a crazy person so there's not

going to be logical consistency. This guy walks around working around, working out in jeans and

taking his shirt off all the time as a serious person with a serious job. And yet now you're telling

me that you think this makes sense, you're just going to pick out a couple of companies and like,

you need to prove. All right, well, does Duncan Hines need to prove it to you? Does the cookie

factory need to prove it to you? Don't come from Betty Crocker. Yeah, so I'm saying like,

where does this end? Does it end with him deciding what everybody's allowed to eat?

Did you see a couple of weeks ago, we kind of missed out on this one because I'm not eating bear,

but whale head. But did you see when he said, if you're so broke, just eat liver. Oh,

God, sake. Yeah, he was talking about how if you eat a porterhouse steak, that can get

pricey, but you can eat liver and it's real cheap. That's kind of a let him eat cake moment.

Spoken like a spoiled ass rich kid, right? That's what I mean, there's a lot of things about him

that I don't like. The fact that he just ignores what most like mainstream science sees is one thing.

But the fact that if his name wasn't Kennedy, nobody would know who he is. He would be a

crack pot podcaster. Yep. But the fact that his last name is Kennedy and his dad was Robert Kennedy

makes him a serious person for some reason. He's not the offense. We've got to read those.

Yeah, Linda brings up a great point. She said, why girls? Yeah, I think what RFK

junior is trying to do is he's trying to change the culture. Like you're asking wheels, like,

why is he focused in on these two companies? There's obviously something that bothers RFK junior

about the fact that people go buy specifically these drinks and these they've become like a

bit of a status symbol. Like a teenager feels cool walking in high school with their Starbucks

cup, right? Like that's that's become part of our culture. The thing is that's capitalism. Like

I don't know what to tell you. It's not illegal to drink a bunch of sugar. Yes, it's over the

recommended amount, but there's plenty of things that exceed that. But he's micro focusing on

on these like pet peeves of his instead of trying to like educate and improve our health overall.

And it's just a really, really bad strategy. Like you might be coming from a decent place.

Or like, but it's a bad strategy. Blair's comment says it's okay to snort cocaine off a toilet

but coffee drinks no way. That's great. It's the amount of stupid. Yeah.

And this idea that everything that you think has a chemical name is poison. Every person who

studies food science. Yeah, everything's made of chemicals you guys. Everything is a chemical.

All the stuff you eat and drink. There are chemicals that comprise those things. They're the

components of these things. It's just what it's maddening. And it's all the selectivity is also

the maddening part of it. No, it's maddening to me. Your hair. Yeah, it looks pretty bad,

doesn't it? When are you going to get that cut? I'll take you.