Solo Acts: McRib Locator's Alan Klein

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🗓️ 27 February 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In this next episode of our Vergecast Solo Acts mini series, Ashley Esqueda talks with Alan Klein, the creator of the McRib Locator, a website that helps people track and submit where McDonald's BBQ pork sandwich is available in stores. Alan shares what drove him to make this free tool for people back in 2009, what he does with the data he's collected, what's next for the site after the McRib's "farewell tour" this past fall, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the VergeCast, the flagship podcast of Snacks with a little MSG in them.
0:08.0	Just a little.
0:09.0	I'm your friend, Alex Cranz, and today we have a new episode of the Solo Acts mini-series,
0:14.2	which features interviews from people who are working independently to create great things
0:18.0	on the internet.
0:19.1	Every Monday on the VergeCast, our friend Ashley Esqueda is curating and hosting these interviews
0:23.3	and sharing with us everything she's learned.
0:25.2	Hello, Ashley.
0:26.2	Hi, how are you?
0:27.9	I'm doing good.
0:28.9	I'm a little hungry.
0:29.9	I'm getting around lunchtime here.
0:31.4	Oh, I have the perfect interview for you.
0:33.0	It's going to make you extra hungry.
0:34.4	Yes, because last week you talked to Reluca Pop from Hive Social.
0:37.9	Who do you have for me this week?
0:39.4	Yes, I'm very excited today to have the creator of the McRib Locator, Alan Klein.
0:46.0	Ooh.
0:47.0	This is a website where users can track how they can find a McDonald's McRib sandwich.
0:53.2	The McRib is back on the New Taze menu at McDonnell's, but only for a while.
0:57.3	So hurry in for that one of a kind super saucy pile on a home style roll taste.
1:02.4	Alan might actually be the biggest McRib fan on the planet.
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