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America's Greatest Contribution to the World from June 30th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: And if this is a poll or a list, it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a poll list.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody loves a good poll, a.
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  Speaker 1: Good poll list. It's a polling Americans about our greatest
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  Speaker 1: contribution over the last two hundred and fifty years.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Our great the country of America.
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  Speaker 2: Our greatest contribution to the.
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  Speaker 3: World, to the world, Yeah, right, okay.
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  Speaker 1: Americans agree the US has brought light to the world
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  Speaker 1: in a relatively short time. As a nation. Most Americans
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  Speaker 1: believe that democracy is this country's greatest gift to the world,
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  Speaker 1: according to a new poll published ahead of the nation's
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Those polls also gave a
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  Speaker 1: surprising answer for the most American food. What do you
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  Speaker 1: think the most American hot dogs?
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  Speaker 3: People would say probably apple.
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  Speaker 1: Pie, shunning hot dogs and apple pie. Oh, the humble
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  Speaker 1: Hamburger came out second guest number one. The humble Hamburger,
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  Speaker 1: even though it's named after the German city of Hamburg.
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  Speaker 2: What is a What is a humble Hamburger?
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  Speaker 1: The Library of Congress recognizes Danish immigrant Louis Lassen as
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  Speaker 1: the inventor of the Hamburger sandwich at his diner in
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  Speaker 1: New Haven Connecticut in nineteen hundred.
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  Speaker 2: I love a hamburger. I love a good hamburger.
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  Speaker 1: Second place was barbecue. Apple pie came in third with ninety.
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  Speaker 3: Even though it's more German than anything.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, you would think, well, you know, and don't.
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  Speaker 1: Aren't hot dogs really.
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  Speaker 2: More hot dogs Frankfurt? Yeah, from Frankfurt.
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  Speaker 1: The earliest surviving apple pie recipe dates back to medieval England,
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  Speaker 1: where instructions on how to make tartars and apples featured
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  Speaker 1: in a cookbook from the year thirteen eighty one.
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  Speaker 3: We're having tarts and apples.
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  Speaker 2: So far. None of these things are America's greatest contribution
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 1: No. Apple pie recipes were brought to North America by
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  Speaker 1: the English, Dutch and Swish Swedish colonists. Tube steaks, hot
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  Speaker 1: dogs worth most American food, again not from here. Pizza
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  Speaker 1: also from there.
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  Speaker 2: So this is what people say, these things and then
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  Speaker 2: then you say, yeah, but we didn't invent that.
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  Speaker 1: Now, other than food, these are things that were invented here.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Edison credited with inventing the first commercial light bulb
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  Speaker 1: in eighteen seventy nine.
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  Speaker 2: That's because he screwed over Nikolay Tesla.
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  Speaker 1: The Internet was the third with ten percent of the votes.
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  Speaker 3: It was not a great thing.
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  Speaker 1: Though the automobile.
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  Speaker 2: Al Gore invented the intervent the telephone, we didn't invent
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  Speaker 2: the automobile.
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  Speaker 1: Michigan's Henry Ford is credited with inventing the first ever
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  Speaker 1: mass produced.
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  Speaker 2: Car mass Henry Ford introduced the assembly line, except.
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  Speaker 1: Although German inventor Carl Benz is recognized as the inventor
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  Speaker 1: of the first Truemore modern an automobile.
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  Speaker 2: In eighteen So again, we did not us, not us,
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  Speaker 2: no No.
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  Speaker 1: Alexander Graham Bell completed the first ever phone call in
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  Speaker 1: Boston in eighteen seventy six.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in here. I spilled my coffee and I need
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  Speaker 2: you to wipe it up.
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  Speaker 1: The Right Brothers achieved flight in North Carolina in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: oh three. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's I think that. I think that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Kitty Hawk.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The poll also found that almost half forty seven percent
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  Speaker 1: of Americans were not too excited about the upcoming America
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth celebrations.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I blame Donald Trump exactly because I if
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  Speaker 1: you guys remember the nineteen seventy six the Bison ten.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do was a huge deal. Good deal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: everybody was very excited, and the tall ships came sailing
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  Speaker 2: into the harbor.
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  Speaker 4: But then Trump had to get his orange well shadow
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  Speaker 4: dust all over everything and.
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  Speaker 2: Had to make it a money making venture for the
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  Speaker 2: for Trump industry tainted it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no, that Billy, that was you're talking about that.
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  Speaker 1: So there's the Freedom to fifty and then there's America
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  Speaker 1: to fifty, which is an organization that the that Congress
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  Speaker 1: put together years ago in preparation for this.
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  Speaker 2: And what have they done?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's what was supposed to be this state fair thing, right,
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  Speaker 1: but that Trump had took over.
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  Speaker 2: So they got I think I saw a picture they
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  Speaker 2: had a ferris wheel or something.
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  Speaker 4: And only ten states showed up. All fifty of them
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  Speaker 4: were supposed to be representative, but only ten did. And
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  Speaker 4: there's about that many people attending it. I would say
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  Speaker 4: the greatest contribution that America has made is the blues.
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  Speaker 1: Ah that is a uniquely America America.
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  Speaker 2: And so is jazz. Really, jazz was invented in America.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't that kind of come from me?
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  Speaker 2: Nope, nope, it distinctly in America American tradition. All right,
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty I'm pretty sure I could be wrong, but
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  Speaker 2: I that's what I've always been.
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking jazz came from France or something like.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe just because of New Orleans, You're could be let's
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  Speaker 1: see jazz orige ands. Let's just see what it says here.
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  Speaker 1: Jazz originated in the late nineteenth early twenty centuries in
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  Speaker 1: the African American communities of New Orleans. Oh okay, all right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's an expole too of what is what is
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  Speaker 1: distinctly American? What is America's biggest contribution to mankind, to
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  Speaker 1: the world?
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  Speaker 2: Democracy?
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  Speaker 1: Baby, Yeah, but we're screwing that up now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, that's true. It is the concept of the
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  Speaker 2: concept of people being self governing and being created equal.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty unheard of. And that was that was very original,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Declaration of Independence. Even though they didn't
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  Speaker 2: the founders didn't live what they said, yeah, it was
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  Speaker 2: still it was still a remarkable thing to do. And
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  Speaker 2: they they knew, I mean, they saw that that that
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  Speaker 2: they were speaking out of both sides of their mouths,
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  Speaker 2: and they I think that they're there. They felt that
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  Speaker 2: that would that would be rectified as time went on.
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  Speaker 1: But somebody texted, and I really wish I could be
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  Speaker 1: excited about the two hundred and fiftieth, but I'm just not.
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  Speaker 1: I agree that Trump is making it all about himself
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  Speaker 1: and has made it impossible to.
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  Speaker 2: Really I went to all the trouble to learn how
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  Speaker 2: to say CES was and now semi Sesquinennial, right, semi Sesquininnial.
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  Speaker 3: National parks.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, that's yeah. I mean that's a pretty
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  Speaker 2: remarkable thing too. That's pretty uniquely American, right yeah. First
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  Speaker 2: national park was Yosemite.
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  Speaker 1: I believe somebody says, apparently our greatest contribution is ranch dressing. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: If you if you ask the people who are here
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  Speaker 4: for World Cup, they would say.
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  Speaker 2: That I don't understand why anybody likes ranch dressing.
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  Speaker 1: I love ranch.
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  Speaker 2: Why it's tasty? No so so here?
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  Speaker 1: Just bad ranch dressing?
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  Speaker 2: No, no so here, here's ranch dressing. Okay, I said
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  Speaker 2: I hate ranch dressing, and I did a little research.
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  Speaker 2: You are definitely not alone in this. The anti ranch
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  Speaker 2: sentiment is practically a subculture at this point. Why is uh,
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  Speaker 2: why do people dislike ranch dressing? And this sums up
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  Speaker 2: exactly why I don't like it? The masking effect. Because
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  Speaker 2: ranch is heavy on buttermilk, mayo, garlic, onion patters, it
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  Speaker 2: has a very dominant flavor profile. It doesn't complement the food.
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  Speaker 2: It just makes everything taste like Ranch. The texture, thick,
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  Speaker 2: creamy consistency can oh easily overwhelmed the crisp greens of
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  Speaker 2: a salad, turning a fresh salad into heavy, soggy messes.
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  Speaker 1: But Bill, if you don't like salad, it's a way
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  Speaker 1: that it.
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  Speaker 2: Has moved way beyond. It has moved over ubiquity. It
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  Speaker 2: has moved way beyond salad. It's on pizza, wings, fries, chips,
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  Speaker 2: even on pop tart or soda as a gimmick exact tractors,
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  Speaker 2: This omnipresence feels like versatility, less like versatility, and more
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  Speaker 2: like a lack of culinary imagination.
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  Speaker 1: Dipping an onion ring and Ranch street, it.
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  Speaker 2: Makes the onion ring taste ranch.
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  Speaker 1: It's delicious. I love an onion ring and ranch.
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  Speaker 2: Awful. It's an awful, awful I overrated product.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, let's let's do this.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get on your ring.
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  Speaker 3: I'll meet you down at the Market Street and the
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  Speaker 3: old mill.
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  Speaker 1: Not this one, not this one?
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  Speaker 2: Is this one? Still open today.
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  Speaker 1: Which one today down the Market Street downtown. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know the one hasn't closed already yet.
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  Speaker 4: Think today's is the one at the Old Mill has
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  Speaker 4: onion rings that are the biggest onion rings that you've
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  Speaker 4: ever seen.
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  Speaker 3: They're so big.
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  Speaker 4: When you order a side of onion rings, they come
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  Speaker 4: in two containers.
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  Speaker 3: How big they are?
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  Speaker 2: You know what? I what I always liked was the
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  Speaker 2: uh tony roma. They had this big like a like
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  Speaker 2: a big onion tower. Thing was really good.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you need you need the bloomin onion?
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  Speaker 1: Then?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like the bloomin onion. I've had that and
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  Speaker 2: I would never sully it with Ranch dressing? Yeah, would
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  Speaker 2: you dip it in anything? Uh? You know, sauce? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm okay with a little fry sauce. A little, maybe
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  Speaker 2: a little. I don't mind a little ketchup.
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  Speaker 1: We've got conflicted. If somebody's like, I'm with you, Bill,
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  Speaker 1: Ranch's gross, But then somebody else's Jesus, what did Ranch
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  Speaker 1: ever do to Bill?
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  Speaker 2: You want to know? Ranch killed my brother?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Ranger Cake. First official national park was yellowst Own.
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  Speaker 1: You so many, the first protected piece of land, but
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  Speaker 1: California controlled it, not the federal.
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  Speaker 4: Government and someone else texting in Yellowstone was the first
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  Speaker 4: National park, and they used to have excellent ranch dressing
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  Speaker 4: in their cafeteria.
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  Speaker 2: Which is why I stopped going to Yellowstone.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see yeah anyway, all right, America Marca A
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah,