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it's thursday february ninth twenty twenty three i'm jackson bird today It's Thursday, February 9th, 2023.

I'm Jackson Bird today.

An extra long episode for you featuring the history of the M&M's spokesc candies and why we care about them so much.

Plus, codebreakers have just decrypted over 50 lost letters from Mary Queen of Scots.

And another Valentine's Day campaign to help you enact revenge on your ex, this time with a

surprise scorpion. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

According to a recent morning consult survey, Gen Z adults' top five favorite brands in order

are YouTube, Google, Netflix, Amazon, and M&Ms. That's right, M&Ms cracked the top five as the only food brand. The next

food brands on the list aren't until number eight when you get Doritos, followed by Kit Kat,

Oreo, and Gatorade. But M&Ms is up there in the top five with Netflix and Google. That's pretty impressive,

especially for a brand that frequently causes such a stir with changes to their anthropomorphic

mascots. And ahead of the Super Bowl this weekend, Eminem's is taking full advantage of the

battles they've spurred in the culture wars over the

past couple of years. So I wanted to take some time to dive into the history of the Eminem's

mascots and why some people have such strong feelings about them. So Eminem's entered production in

1941, a rip-off of an existing British candy and an

ultimately soured collaboration between the sons of two of the biggest candy makers of the

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