The Scapegoat in Chinatown
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Peach Fish Productions
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:30.0 | I don't know if you've listened to my podcast before, but sometimes there's a bit of explicit language and this is one of those times. |
| 0:42.0 | Tuesday, March 6th, 2018 from sleep. It's the Giestai Mike Pesca. |
| 0:47.1 | Lego admits it made too many bricks. |
| 0:50.8 | The company, according to the BBC and other side said sales and profits have fallen for the first time in 13 years, |
| 0:56.7 | blaming the weak performance on having to sell off excess brick supply. |
| 1:02.4 | What is the market for that? I'll call up the guys at Duplo and then yeah, I'm out of luck. |
| 1:06.9 | Also, they're not the same size bricks. |
| 1:09.1 | So here's the stat that I thought was interesting. |
| 1:11.7 | Lego, and I'm going to try not to say Legos. |
| 1:14.8 | Lego sells $75 billion bricks annually. |
| 1:18.6 | And I was wondering, are there more Lego bricks sold annually in the world or bricks bricks? |
| 1:24.7 | Or what we might call solid bricks? Clay bricks. |
| 1:29.7 | So I wanted to investigate. I went to Reddit. |
| 1:32.8 | They had an estimate. I saw the math the guy was doing, but it seemed a little bit wild. |
| 1:36.8 | And I'm really going to credit a site that gave us the comment ping pong pizza conspiracy. |
| 1:41.6 | When you talk bricks, you want solidity. |
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