Toront-dough: Boston Pizza with Samoa Joe

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Fast Food, Healthfitness, Mike Mitchell, Snacks, Chains, Restaurants, Comedy, Ucb, Arts, Spoonman, Doughboys, Fastfood, Nick Wiger, Food

4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Samoa Joe (@samoajoe, Twisted Metal) joins the 'boys to talk Toronto restaurants, Twisted Metal, and experiences on set before a review of Boston Pizza. Plus, another edition of Snack or Wack.

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https://www.platinummediagroup.co.uk/platinum-business-magazine/2024/02/the-story-of-the-den/

https://www.cbc.ca/m/dragonsden/rich/jim.html

https://nationalpost.com/news/jim-treliving-quit-high-school-now-hes-worth-700-million

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/curious-story-restaurant-chain-called-120001963.html

https://bostonpizza.com/en/about-us.html

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0:00.0	This is a HeadGum Podcast.
0:06.0	Want to watch this episode?
0:08.0	Check it out on our YouTube channel at YouTube.
0:10.0	Com slash DoB's Media. In 2001, Nippon TV premiered Mane Notora on Japanese television.
0:20.0	The high concept format, roughly translated as Money Tigers, involved a slate of
0:26.0	wealthy investors interrogating aspiring entrepreneurs to decide if their
0:29.8	business plans were worthy of venture capital.
0:33.0	Audiences connected with the Rags to Riches narratives paired with a reality show meanness
0:37.9	afforded tycoons and the brand competition show itself became a brand worldwide. In Slovakia the format was
0:45.5	renamed the Lion Pit in France as who wants to be my business partner in the
0:50.8	US as Shark Tank and in the UK and Canada as Dragon's Den.
0:55.0	And one of the Dragons on Dragons Den, not Kevin O'Leary or Robert Hercovic,
1:01.0	who are panelists on both the American and Canadian formats is Jim Treleving,
1:06.0	the owner of a pizza chain founded in 1964 in Edmonton, Alberta by Gus Agiortis.
1:12.0	When the Greek Canadian Agiortis's first and second choices for a trademark,
1:17.0	Acropolis Pizza and Parthenon Pizza, were both unavailable,
1:21.0	he defaulted to a third choice choice naming his pizzeria for an American
1:24.8	city he never resided in in a brazen act of mass-hole stolen valor.
1:29.7	Trilliving, a former Royal Canadian Police Officer, or Mountie, became an early franchise
1:35.8	owner of the Foe Bowtown Slice Shop, and in 1983, having left the R. C.M.P. to focus on a different P.
1:42.4	Pizza. He in C. M. P. P.
1:44.2	He and a business partner purchased the concept wholesale.
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