Burgers in Russia, Juul vaporized, THE trademarked

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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This Friday, we're looking at fast-food companies who are still hanging on in Russia. Juul getting banned. And as a cherry on top, THE Ohio State University deciding to patent you guessed it, "the."

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:12.0	This is the indicator from Planet Money.
0:13.6	I'm Whalen Wong here with Adrian Ma and Darian Woods.
0:17.0	What's up?
0:18.0	Hey.
0:19.0	And we're all here for Indicators of the Week.
0:20.6	Today we have Berga's in Russia.
0:23.7	There's vaping in the US.
0:25.7	Plus a newly trademarked word that we've already used several times in this intro.
0:29.9	I've got the lawyers on the line.
0:31.5	We'll see if they can help us out of this pickle after the break.
0:38.7	My indicator of the week starts with American hamburgers in Russia.
0:43.3	McDonald's hamburgers are no since they've pulled out.
0:46.2	Yeah, so McDonald's the company has pulled out of Russia after Russia's evasion of Ukraine.
0:51.6	But I learned this week that if you are in Russia, you can still get American hamburgers
0:56.6	without a problem.
0:57.6	Mmm.
0:58.6	A hamburger or a loophole.
0:59.8	This is a bunch of American restaurants that just never left.
1:04.0	So Carl's Jr. the hard rock cafe and TGI Fridays all have bars or restaurants operating
1:10.6	in Russia right now with their brand on it.
1:12.8	Wow.
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