All That and a Bag of Chips - 27 June 2022
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🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Carl's Jr.'s new big-char chili burger is big on char-broll flavor, big on spice, with |
| 0:06.8 | melted pepper jack cheese and spicy scented face sauce, big on smoky sweet heat with |
| 0:12.3 | the whole fire roasted charred and iron chili, and big on savings with the big-char chili |
| 0:17.6 | combo. Get the big, bold, smoky flavor for new Carl's Jr.'s big-char chili burger |
| 0:22.8 | with small fries and drink for just $7.99. Tax not included for limited time parts |
| 0:28.1 | in participation, maybe. |
| 0:58.1 | He says he does that in an attempt to stop the collar's brain if only for a nanosecond |
| 1:06.4 | and adds it often works. We heard from Ann Lynn in Ithaca, New York, who wrote that her |
| 1:12.6 | grandfather, who was born in the late 1800s and lived in Ontario, Canada, used to pick |
| 1:18.9 | up the phone and say, commands. |
| 1:21.9 | Just commands. |
| 1:23.9 | And then for Marlene Dryden, this question brought back memories of her great aunt Yule |
| 1:29.0 | McQuage of Salisbury, North Carolina. She says, Ms. Yule would hear her phone ring from |
| 1:34.8 | a little alcove in the wall of her foyer, and she'd slowly walk over there, pick it up |
| 1:39.8 | calmly and holler. All right? All right. |
| 1:44.5 | That's fantastic. Isn't that great? She says that beautiful |
| 1:50.5 | nearly-tied water accent and the smell of cornbread are the most vivid memories I have |
| 1:55.0 | of her. And I mean, I wonder if that's a vestige of, you know, when you had operators |
| 1:59.9 | plugging in the cords. Right. Right. When you did need to make sure |
| 2:03.2 | that the line was okay before you began your conversation. We would love to hear more |
| 2:08.4 | about how you answer the phone. What do you say? Is it funny? Is it old-fashioned? Is |
| 2:12.7 | it something cool or weird? 877-929-677-3. Eat male words at waywardorator.org. And |
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