The Great Copy-Paste Crisis

The Really Very Crunchy Podcast

Emily & Jason Morrow

Kids & Family, Parenting

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Why does every town in America feel exactly the same? You pull off the highway and it’s the same Applebee’s, the same Walmart, the same McDonald’s, the same beige strip malls with the same parking lots. In this episode, Jason and Emily wonder out loud: is this what it was supposed to be? We talk about how copy-and-paste towns strip away character and community, what we miss about places that actually feel unique, and whether it’s possible to find (or build) something different in a world of sameness. 00:00 The Cracker of Cracker Barrel 02:38 America has become copy & paste. 04:52 Cracker Barrel’s maple syrup problem. 06:31 Modernism in America. 09:05 Capitalism? 11:02 Regulations can be really bad… 12:56 We’re too far gone. 15:01 It’s not supposed to be this way. 17:37 Emily’s theory. 21:27 The future looks bleak. 24:01 Emily knows whose fault it is. 29:05 sigh… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the really very crunchy podcast.
0:07.2	Bonus episode today.
0:09.7	Emily, I'm curious.
0:12.0	Have you seen the new Cracker Barrel logo?
0:16.5	The soulless, lifeless, characterless.
0:20.9	Lacking the Crer on the front.
0:23.7	Cracker?
0:24.6	Oh, it's just the white guy.
0:26.3	I don't know.
0:27.1	Can you say that?
0:28.7	Can I not?
0:31.0	Wait, is that what they mean by that?
0:32.7	I have no idea.
0:33.9	It is a white guy leaning on a barrel.
0:36.2	Cracker barrel.
0:37.0	Well, he's actually kind of orange. See, I always just assumed that the barrels were full of crackers. That's why it was called a cracker barrel. I thought he was just a cracker. Can I say that? I don't think you can say that. I don't know. Should we look this up? Are we going to get in trouble? Podcast listener.
0:55.2	Look it up. Are we allowed to say Cracker? It's a white person allowed to say the Cracker in reference to another person.
1:02.6	Is a white person? In short, a white person can say it about another white person. And it's unlikely to cause fallout.
1:10.9	Cool. It's good enough fallout. Oh, cool.
1:12.2	It's good enough for me.
1:13.7	Anyway, there's no character.
1:15.1	It's stripping our society of all character.
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