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How To Do Everything

Dinosaur Shirts, ATM Fees and The Flavor of Names

How To Do Everything

NPR

4.21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

How to dress your Dreadnaughtus; avoid ATM fees and taste somebody's name.

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0:00.0

All right, we are here at Mariano's supermarket in Chicago, and we're here to test out how to.

0:10.0

We're trying to avoid ATM fees, and we think going to the grocery store will help us do that.

0:15.8

Yeah, you can do cash back, you know, you buy your groceries, you say I want 40 bucks or whatever.

0:20.3

There's probably a lot of things in here that are cheaper than the two or three dollars that you'll pay at an ATM

0:26.8

So we're gonna set out and try and find the cheapest thing here in the grocery store

0:31.4

Jillian who's producing this week's show, is here too.

0:35.0

So now, there is a tiny withered piece of spinach over there that might actually...

0:42.0

Okay. that might actually. Mike is placing a single leaf of...

0:47.0

I think that's a little piece of a rugula right here.

0:51.0

A single tiny leaf. I mean it's the size piece of a rugler right here. A single tiny leaf.

0:52.8

I mean, it's the size of a nickel into Gillian found a tiny plastic container.

0:59.3

So you're just going to go check out with this.

1:01.8

So that's my plan. See how it works. All right, so at this

1:04.6

point we learned none of the people at the checkout wanted to talk on tape to us. So we

1:09.3

split up and now we're back together and we're going to see who found the cheapest stuff.

1:15.0

My plan didn't work. I took a half a leaf of a rugala in a salad container

1:21.0

and mine was so successful it was so small the weight was so

1:27.3

minimal that it didn't register on the scale so I went back and I got a blueberry

1:31.9

and I put that in the salad container, still too small.

1:36.7

I went through and I got two green beans.

1:41.6

When I was picking them out, I just felt like one was not enough.

1:47.0

Like one would be embarrassing.

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