HN 156 – Depression soup – (805)725-5085
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Sleeping during earthquakes, blood tests, low blood sugar, depression soup, weekend plans, food reviews, more about “Star Trek,” missile attack, Pizza Hut, wacky news, more.
Links:
- “Pizza Hut makes a name change”
- “Ohio mayor breaks up fight, calls teen ‘fatso’”
- “The Mayor Of Toledo Ohio bad mouths a kid.”
- “KFC chicken giveaway beef headed toward court”
- “Espresso Book Machine hits the UK for instant in-store printing”
- “Van Halen sue Nike for copyright infringement”
- Music heard in this episode: Wallpaper
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June 20th, 2009 at 1:54 am
Ok, I heard you talking about “The Hut” and had to go check out if that was true. Yeah I know, I didn’t go research Kim Jong Il and his Fourth of July fireworks display. Guess that shows how worried I am of him….
Well anyway, I went to Pizza Hut’s twitter account, since you mentioned it and they deny everything. They say they aren’t changing their name to the Hut. They use “The Hut” on some of their marketing materials for some bizarre reason, but aren’t changing the name. Here’s the twitter message: http://twitter.com/pizzahut/status/2245802935
Have to say that they either should be clear and on point on their marketing materials or they should respond faster to reporters because I can’t imagine that many people would want to eat food from “The Hut.” Unless of course they have a Star Wars theme and had Princess Leia there in costume. A young version, not the one from the movies about 30 years older, of course. Then they would probably be swarming with a certain segment of society, which it just so happens likes pizza quite a bit as well…
In that case, it might be a good move, after all.
June 20th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Cool contextual tunes! I’m at the Pizza Inn! I’m at the Taco Bueno!I’m at the White Castle!
Funny that you mention listening to podcasts while undergoing medical tests, as I took my mp3 player to the imaging center yesterday, intending to lose myself in the soothing sounds of HN153 while enshrouded in the death tube known as the MRI machine (taking pictures of my sore right shoulder).
Unfortunately, the MRI tech lacked complementary studio engineer skills and took away my mp3 player. She never heard of an Aux In jack. My options were reduced to FM radio.
In retaliation, over the horrible noises of the machine, I kept demanding that she change the station, because I found her choices only aggravated the already stressful environment. “If you keep making me change the station, you’re going to make the test last longer,” she told me. Finally, we settled on ESPN.
Just want to let you know that I made it and I’m here to say, that was the most horrifying 90 seconds of my life!
@kturet
Mood: hyper
June 20th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Damn, all this talk about food made me hungry. Have you guys seen the movie Demolition Man? In that movie it’s 2042 and after the “franchise war” all restaurants are called Taco Bell. Well, they all are in the U.S. version. In the European version they’re all called Pizza Hut, all the Taco Bell signs are digitally replaced and also some of the dialog, although they screwed up some scenes. I have no idea why they did this, but it’s pretty weird.
June 20th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Jen, we’re here for you. We know that you have an unbearable urge to add alcohol to any opened soft drink, but it may be time to realise you have a problem
One thing you need to realise about North Korea is that Kim Jong-Il is a complete nutter. Of course any dictator throughout history is not going to be the model of mental health. North Korea is also basically a monarchy. Kim Jong-Il followed his father Kim Il-Sung and it is rumoured that Kim Jong-Il’s youngest son Kim Jong-Un is going to follow him. I seriously would not put it past him to launch missiles at the US and tell people he was going to do it. I think it’s been pretty well established that North Korea does have nuclear weapons too.
I really couldn’t care less if Pizza Hut changes it’s name. In all the ones I’ve been in here in the UK they still have waiter service and serve alcohol. However as far as I’m aware there are no Taco Bell’s in the UK (which explains the Demolition Man thing above). Taco Bell was one of the things I wanted to experience when I went to the US, but I couldn’t find one. Pizza Hut is by far my favourite chain pizza restaurant. I always hated Domino’s even before I found out what a right-wing arsehole the founder of Domino’s was.
For once Charing Cross is pronounced exactly as you would expect. It’s one of the biggest Rail stations in London. Blackwell’s is indeed a large bookstore chain here. It’s probably the 2nd or 3rd biggest. The print-on-demand thing could be a really good thing, but it obviously needs some investigating. Unfortunately there’s not a Blackwell’s anywhere near me.
The closest parallel to Oprah here is a program called Richard & Judy hosted by a horrible married couple. They have a book club and the Top 10 best sellers are regularly taken up with books they recommend. In most of the book shops you go into they have specific displays for the books that Richard & Judy have mentioned.
June 21st, 2009 at 10:01 am
I believe there is still a Taco Bell here in the UK on a USAF base or two, and the only versions of the prescient movie Demolition Man had Taco Bell in them.
/just waiting for the 61st Amendment…
June 21st, 2009 at 10:04 am
that should be “the only versions of the prescient movie Demolition Man I’ve seen had Taco Bell in them”
June 21st, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Dave,
I do remember the movie Demolition Man! One of my favorites. Cheezy, and has lots of stuff exploding. Awesome!
Colin,
I don’t have a problem! I can quit anytime I want! I just don’t happen to want to. So there!
June 22nd, 2009 at 2:04 am
I hear ya regarding medicals, Shawno. On Friday I had to have blood out and today (Monday) was the actual medical. And yes, I passed!
ROFLcopter at Shawno’s version of the UK pound sign. I wonder why Americans call # the pound key when we Aussies would call it the hash key. After all, they don’t call a #hashtag a poundtag on Twitter, do they?
As for the bloodtests, my brain told me that the last time Shawno mentioned blood work, he said blow job instead. Lucky Shawno!
June 22nd, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Okay, i’ve listened now…
what colin fails to point out is that Shawno pronounced it wrong it’s pronounced like chair not share.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charing_Cross
As for the pound sign, i’ll quote wikipidia…
“The mainstream use in the U.S. is this: when it precedes a number, it is read as “number”, as in “a #2 pencil” (spoken as “a number two pencil”); when it follows a number, it is read as “pounds”, as in “5# of sugar” (spoken as “five pounds of sugar”). The first form is more widely used by the general population while the second form is more specifically used in the food service and grocery/produce industries, or other fields where units of pounds (as weight) need to be hand-written frequently or repetitively.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:33 am
I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned that when I was in senior high, I worked at KFC for a couple of years (91/92). When I joined the company, it was still Kentucky Fried Chicken. While I was there, all the stores, uniforms etc got changed to KFC.
I was surprised to see some outlets in the US still called by their full name. Then again, I was surprised by a lot of things in the US……
June 24th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
I don’t know. He didn’t say aything worse than what those kids were calling each other, I’m sure. I think the Mayer is pretty cool. He broke up a fight that could have ended in hospital time. Good man.
June 25th, 2009 at 2:54 am
If you accept the dude’s from a different generation I think he handled things well.