Mr. Charlie's Told Me So with Jackie Johnson

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Jackie Johnson (@jackiemichelejohnson, How to Get a Second Husband) joins the 'boys to talk celebrity dog walking, The Sims, and being vegan before a review of Mr. Charlie's. Plus, another edition of Slop Quiz.

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Sources for this week's intro:

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-05-vw-153-story.html

https://www.designrush.com/best-designs/logo/mcdonalds-logo

https://blog.logomyway.com/mcdonalds-logo-history/

https://www.hatchwise.com/resources/the-history-of-the-mcdonalds-logo-and-the-company

https://www.zenger.news/2023/05/05/psychologist-explains-reason-behind-mcdonalds-famous-red-and-yellow-logo/

https://thedieline.com/blog/2023/4/24/mr-charlies-the-vegan-fast-food-joint-that-looks-familiar-but-is-unlike-anything-youve-seen-before

https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2022-03-16/vegan-mcdonalds-los-angeles-tiktok

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast.
0:06.0	Want to watch this episode?
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0:10.0	Com slash DoB's media. One of the brothers knew more about potatoes than anyone in the world.
0:18.0	I don't think French fries will ever be that good again.
0:22.0	This was architect Stanley Clark Meston describing one of the eponymous McDonald brothers as quoted
0:26.8	in a 1989 LA Times profile by Dirk Suitro.
0:31.2	Meston had a lengthy esteemed career in his field, but is remembered for creating the architectural
0:35.7	feature that evolved into the most famous logo and fast food, the Golden Arches.
0:41.0	Opting to take a flat fee as payment as opposed to a revenue share,
0:44.3	Mestin's stroke of branding genius ultimately only knitted him fractions of a penny on the dollar,
0:49.2	a financial fate paralleled by the McDonnell brothers themselves,
0:52.4	who were purged from their own company by Craven
0:54.5	Philanderer Ray Crock, much like how Eduardo Savarin got blocked from Facebook by Mark Zuckerberg.
1:01.2	As important as the Arch's logo itself is the company's color way,
1:04.3	red and yellow a stop-slow combo that ironically,
1:07.2	according to one psychologist, evokes speed and quickness.
1:10.8	By 1968, the Arches design and its red-yellow palette were effectively set in
1:16.2	stone, and so over the subsequent decades the logo embedded its way into children's brains like
1:20.8	a mind-flayer parasite, creating lifelong associations with the brand
1:24.6	as a kind of nourishment absolute.
1:28.1	So naturally, when a plant-based McDonald's Simulacrum opened in Los Angeles on Valentine's
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