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Donut Critic - Popsicles From August 12th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Time where they doughnut critic Ben Lee is here. Good
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  Speaker 1: morning morning.
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  Speaker 2: Now you've been sampling already itself.
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  Speaker 1: Frozen treats here. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: These are sort of popsicles. They're called paletas, Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: So I brought you in ice cream for breakfast.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I am not a responsible adult today, but
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  Speaker 5: enjoy because I love ice cream for breakfast, especially when
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  Speaker 5: it is high quality, like fruit dance like these politas.
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  Speaker 1: Now this they're both good, but let me start with
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  Speaker 1: the fruit one. What is this? Do you know?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so that polata is a raspberry mint limeade.
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  Speaker 3: It's really delicious and it's an icy pop.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, So I brought in Joy popsicles or Joy pops.
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  Speaker 4: She's a sandy location.
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  Speaker 5: And truthfully, the first time I her pops, I thought,
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  Speaker 5: oh yeah, I've had those like grocery store, Costco whatever,
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  Speaker 5: and you get them at the end of barbecues and
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  Speaker 5: you're like, sure, whatever, I'll have a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: a sugar pop.
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  Speaker 4: I ate that and I was blown away.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, these are amazing. I got the best one
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  Speaker 1: I've ever had. So what makes them different from those?
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  Speaker 5: So you know, Pauletta's in general are different just because
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  Speaker 5: they are really dense in fruit and super creamy. Where
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  Speaker 5: is it, you know, like the usual American pop, super sugary,
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  Speaker 5: super icy. And that's what makes it different is the
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  Speaker 5: fruit content. It really tastes like you're just eating a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of dense fruit, which is so delicious.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a strawberry mango and it's it's like
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  Speaker 2: biting a piece of fruit. Now, it's just delicious.
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  Speaker 5: This one that was the berry cheesecake.
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  Speaker 1: This is an ice cream bar.
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  Speaker 4: These are creamy area yep.
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  Speaker 1: Ice cream bar, and then the other ones are like
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  Speaker 1: it's like a popsicle pop yep.
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  Speaker 4: So she does two different varieties. One is the creamy,
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  Speaker 4: so you're holding the cookies and cream.
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  Speaker 2: O there right in the middle.
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  Speaker 4: I've almost completely finished.
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  Speaker 5: They had so dense too. Yeah you can see how
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  Speaker 5: much cookie is in there. But yes, So there's the
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  Speaker 5: cream based and that's the cookies and cream that's the cheesecake.
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  Speaker 5: They have a creamy strawberry, which is my favorite. It's
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  Speaker 5: like strawberry ice cream. And then then they have the
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  Speaker 5: fruity ones, which, like you said, the strawberry mango, raspberry
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  Speaker 5: mint I made. So people have already tuned in on
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  Speaker 5: my Instagram. I posted this morning on my stories and
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  Speaker 5: I've had several people already say they love them and
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  Speaker 5: they can't wait to get them again to you know,
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  Speaker 5: it's it's summertime, it's still hot.
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  Speaker 4: You got to go out and get them now.
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  Speaker 1: They also have soft rice cream.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so they have saus serve ice cream, and then
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  Speaker 5: they actually have a make your own poletta bar, so
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  Speaker 5: you can do a base and then they have toppings
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  Speaker 5: you can dip them in chocolate.
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  Speaker 4: It truly is an experience.
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  Speaker 5: Again, I've seen these, you know, these shops and I
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  Speaker 5: just passed by them because I think.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's just a pop sicle shop.
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  Speaker 5: But the first time I ate Joy popsicles, it was intense.
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  Speaker 2: And they also have one of my favorite beverages, hort
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  Speaker 2: Chatta yep.
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  Speaker 5: So, so she started it about six years years ago.
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  Speaker 5: It's Latina owned and so you know, she knows Pauletta's
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  Speaker 5: and she knows Orchata. She's been doing it for about
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  Speaker 5: six years and she was her name is Callie LeBaron
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  Speaker 5: and she actually was at my Sugar High show. That's
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  Speaker 5: how I first found out about her. And it really
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  Speaker 5: was that first taste that I thought, Oh, we have
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  Speaker 5: to get you in and we have to get the
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  Speaker 5: state tasting this, and that is a reaction Almost every
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  Speaker 5: time I have somebody try these is wow, like I
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  Speaker 5: need another one, And.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the hor chatta I've had around town is.
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  Speaker 1: Like some mix that. Yeah, you know, does this tastes fresh?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, it's totally fresh.
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  Speaker 5: And again she understands it, and you'll see in all
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  Speaker 5: of her drinks there. She does iced coffees and hot
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  Speaker 5: coffees and other a lottaese and whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: So the fruit based one she has are tropical Mohido, raspberry, strawberry, mango,
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  Speaker 2: which is the one I had, watermelon. Oh, I would
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  Speaker 2: have liked to be good at the watermelon, pineapple and
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  Speaker 2: mango Kiwi. The cream based ones Cookies and Cream, Delicious,
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  Speaker 2: berry cheesecake, Delicious, coconut, chocolate, brownie, vanilla, strawberry, banana, cookie, butter,
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  Speaker 2: fruit bites.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, there's cookie butter. It's so good. But it's so good.
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  Speaker 2: There's peanut butter, Delcha delech cinnamon toast. All these Macha
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  Speaker 2: Marzapan peeb and Jay also sold out.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the peeb and Jay is the only one I
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  Speaker 5: haven't tried that. I'm so excited to try, so I
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  Speaker 5: just had to pop in when she has that one
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  Speaker 5: made by so many flavors, so fresh, and like I said,
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  Speaker 5: you can go in and mix and match that. She
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  Speaker 5: has a bunch of toppings that you can put on it,
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  Speaker 5: cookies or the cookie butter is so legit, it's it's
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  Speaker 5: the best form.
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  Speaker 4: You can eat it all, eat cookie butter or anything.
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  Speaker 1: Now, how well would these travel?
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  Speaker 5: So I traveled up from here and I put them
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  Speaker 5: in a little cooler. I think since they are so dense,
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  Speaker 5: they do travel pretty well. I mean, obviously you're gonna
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  Speaker 5: put them on ice or you want to eat them immediately.
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  Speaker 5: But if you have a cooler with ice, you know,
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  Speaker 5: you can get them home easily and put them back
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  Speaker 5: in the freezer.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a joy pop ninety six seventy five South
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  Speaker 2: State Street.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's that's right next to that seven eleven
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  Speaker 5: that's by the Expo Center. So yeah, yeah, so it's
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  Speaker 5: kind of by Jordan High School. And you know, I
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  Speaker 5: really should appeal to her to make a beat one
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  Speaker 5: for the beat diggers are there, but I one, but no,
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  Speaker 5: it's such a good thing to cater as well, so
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  Speaker 5: she brings a little card out and you can cater
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  Speaker 5: your parties and again you have your guests try one
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  Speaker 5: of these and it's like, oh, I just thought this
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  Speaker 5: was like a normal popsicle, and no, this is gourmet Pauletta's.
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  Speaker 1: This is great.
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  Speaker 3: These are you know? Uh paces Garrienne has the astro
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  Speaker 3: yes kind of the same style, yes, but not not this.
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  Speaker 5: No, this is this is something so truly, I didn't
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  Speaker 5: bring you ice cream for breakfast. I think I brought
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  Speaker 5: you a good serving of fruit for breakfast. I'm healthy,
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  Speaker 5: I'm healthy, We're all healthy this morning. So but yeah, no,
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  Speaker 5: you need to go and visit it. She has a
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  Speaker 5: little shop and like I said, she's Latina, it's Latino
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  Speaker 5: owned and it's just an amazing place to be delicious.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely joy pops.
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  Speaker 3: They do have a website, joypops dot com.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I got a few left for you bills,
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  Speaker 5: so if you want to eat them out through the
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  Speaker 5: day that I will. But yeah, I was gonna say
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  Speaker 5: your air conditioning is working now, and that would have
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  Speaker 5: been a perfect little bumps.
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  Speaker 1: Have nice cool pops.
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  Speaker 2: If you have a nice little, local, family owned places,
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  Speaker 2: little things that you think Donut Critic might not know
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  Speaker 2: about and you will think he should check out.
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  Speaker 1: How do they get a hold of you?
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  Speaker 5: So you can go to donut Critic d O n
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  Speaker 5: U T c R I T I see on Instagram.
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  Speaker 5: I'm posting this on story so you can see what
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  Speaker 5: we're eating right now. But then yeah, DM me and
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  Speaker 5: we can start talking back and forth about recommendations. I
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  Speaker 5: love trying new things, even if you're a homebaker. I
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  Speaker 5: love trying and giving you feedback or you know, giving
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  Speaker 5: you a little bump too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, these are delicious joy pops. You can go
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  Speaker 1: to joypops dot com. They're at ninety six to seventy
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  Speaker 1: five South State Street. Thank you, Ben, Yeah, thank
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  Speaker 4: You, Thank you very much.