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The Counsel of Trent

#850 – FFAF: The Rise and Fall of “30 Minutes or Less” Pizza Delivery

The Counsel of Trent

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In this free-for-all-Friday Trent reveals the origin and ultimate demise of the old 90’s pizza delivery promise of “30 minutes or less”.

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0:00.0

It is free for all Friday here on the Council of Trent Podcast. I'm your host

0:03.6

Cathay against his apologist and speaker Trent Horn. Monday and Wednesday we talk

0:06.9

apologetics and theology. Friday we talk about Domino's Pizza 30 minute

0:12.2

delivery or it's free guaranteed or is it $3 off or that's

0:17.4

really just more of a slogan we're not going to promise anything because

0:20.8

we'd rather not kill anybody while delivering your pizza.

0:24.1

Yeah, it's a free-for-all Friday I talk about whatever I feel I talking about it's a fun

0:28.1

way to end the week and today I was getting nostalgic for the 90s as I'm often want to do.

0:34.0

It was a simpler time my kids were asking me,

0:38.0

you know, daddy, what did you do when you were our age?

0:40.0

I said, when I was your age, I remember playing pogs. I remember drinking

0:44.9

capri sons. I remember watching Garfield and whatever Saturday morning cartoons

0:50.2

happen to pop on the television. Maybe you could throw in a VHS tape with your VCR and record a favorite

0:56.5

episode to keep for posterity. But none of this automatic streaming stuff that would have seemed

1:02.3

like magic to my little seven-year-old brain in

1:05.9

1992. I do remember seeing the movie Batman though the 1989 Batman that came out

1:11.6

when I was about four I finally got to see it at a friend's house I think when I was like six or seven

1:16.3

But that's not we're talking about today. I want to talk about an ad campaign really big in the 80s and the early 90s and that's the Domino's pizza ad.

1:26.0

Do you remember that?

1:27.3

30 minutes or less.

1:29.6

If you call Domino's and it doesn't get to your house in 30 minutes, then you get the pizza for free.

1:35.8

It's shown up in all different kinds of television shows and movies.

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