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Today's pod is a catch-up on some of the things that happened over the weekend. It includes a McJob for a Presidential candidate and an interesting speech by Elon Musk that referenced a cure for cancer? Also discussed: New lawsuits filed against Diddy, A chocolate shortage has caused higher prices this Halloween, the Ontario Legislature begins their Fall session today, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chipotle founder Steve Ells dishes on his new project, Kernel, a new plant-based fast casual restaurant that's remaking the "McJob"--with ROBOTS!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Les membres de la génération X sont nés à la fin des années1960 et durant les années1970. Coincés entre les boomers et les millénariaux, ils ont connu le chômage et les « McJob ». En 1991, l'auteur canadien Douglas Coupland leur a consacré un roman, Génération X. Le sociologue Jacques Hamel nous parle de ce livre culte et de la génération qu'il décrit.
A new meaning to McJob, the fellas discuss Damar Hamlin, and the real hero of Frozen.
The "slacker barista". The "McJob". The Liberal Arts "Basket weaving" degree. These terms are routinely used to make fun of people who work hard in the food service industry, or who pursue education that does not seem to have a direct path to a set career. In all cases, these people are thought of as unmotivated and unsuccessful. But despite the fact they are working hard to make a living, there is great career potential that can come from the experiences gained in the food service, and through broad education.
Immerse yourself with The World’s First Quantimino™ Powered Podcast and take an audio journey through the unique minds of the scholar-gentlemen from Slam City. Bring a change of clothes. Double X Quantimino. Steakhouse Dining. Chuck roast versus Gemini Jackson. Mexican butcher shops. Post Nut Clarity. Drew Barrymore movies. McFly’s McJob. McFly’s Date Night. This Is The Newz. Woman Caught Spraying Her Breast Milk Around At South California Festival. A Florida McDonald's is paying people $50 just to show up for a job interview, and it's still struggling to find applicants. McDonald’s partners with BTS on a new celebrity meal — with spicy Korean dipping sauce. Strip club says Usher did not use fake money to tip dancers in Las Vegas. Two women busted for trying to use a $1M bill — at a Dollar General store. Cat in Japan alerts people to elderly man who fell into a ditch, made the police chief for a day. Burrito’s Nippon Newz. Japanese police search for a man who stole 1.1 million yen in tiny fish. Japanese man was arrested for stealing women's shoes and replacing them with new ones. Man arrested in Kobe after stuffing fried chicken into woman’s mailbox. Wife takes revenge on her cheating husband by auctioning his Yu-Gi-Oh! collection for millions of yen. More Newz. Video shows driver jumping rising drawbridge in Daytona Beach. Peloton Tread+ Treadmill Safety Incident. N.C. man throws rabid bobcat after it attacks wife. Garden gnome shortage strikes due to pandemic and Suez Canal blockage. Red Lobster Releases Massive "Codzilla" Fish Burger. Costco Just Made This Big Change To Its Samples. Drug Cartel Now Assassinates Its Enemies With Bomb-Toting Drones. TSA finds a lump of crystal meth inside a traveler's breakfast burrito. This Robot 'Urinates' Beer on Command. Teenager Arrested For DUI While Operating Amish Buggy In Lawrence County. SEGA Urged To Pick A Different Font After Promo Picture Looks Like Anal Battle. Burglar Pleads Guilty After Downloading Porn During Break-in, Leaving Semen on Laptop. A man bitten while using barbecue tongs to remove rattlesnake. A man kicked so hard by an attacker his testicle had to be removed. What I Had For Lunch. Boomchi Bucks. Eric America’s Learning Corner. Frogs use their eyeballs to swallow their food by pushing them down to their throats to compact their food into their digestive system. The Monkey and the Frog. The Chicken Ranch was the Oldest Continually Operating Whorehouse in the United States when it closed in 1973. - During the Great Depression the "house of ill repute" offered time with a "lady of the evening" in exchange for a chicken. The brothel was listed on the tax rolls as a poultry farm. When a male octopus finds a mate, he rips off his penis and throws it at the female so she can inseminate herself. Then the male grows a new penis. If that isn’t the most epic way to tell someone “Go fck yourself” I don’t know what is. Deepfake Sponsors: Julio Tejas, Booba Gettz The Crazy One, Daddy Juice Energy, Blo-N-Go Hair Dryers.
In this episode we discuss our old, crappy cars, mistakes we made, and things we learned from our McJobs. We also give you a preview of the first two scenes of Four Empty Graves!This episode brought to you by Smok'd Creations. https://app.impact.com/secure/mediapartner/home/pview.ihtml**Intro and Outro Music**Song: Pulled awayArtist: RagnoRokAlbum: The Beat Iz Nigh
McDonald’s is mind-boggling. According to Adam Chandler, author of the recent book, Drive-Thru Dreams, it sells roughly 75 burgers every second and serves 68 million people every day—equivalent to 1 percent of the entire world’s population. “The golden arches are thought to be, according to an independent survey, more recognizable as a symbol than the Christian cross is around the world,” Chandler told us. This episode, we tell the story of McDonald’s—but more importantly, we explore what it has to say about who we are. To do that, we’re also joined by historian Marcia Chatelain, author of the new book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, who helps us unpack the troubled but fascinating relationship between McDonald’s and African Americans. Why did taxpayers end up funding the spread of McDonald’s into the inner city “food deserts” it now dominates? Who invented the hamburger and how did it become America’s national cuisine? From a bustling barbecue stand in San Bernardino to Ray Kroc’s location-scouting airplane rides, and from the McNugget to the McJob, this episode we figure out how McDonald’s became so ubiquitous, and what that means for America.
Mick Danzig and Hanna Hampton discuss the fast-food giant’s utilization of Amazon technology to battle the low unemployment rate. Will Artificial Intelligence replace the human Recruiter?
McDonaldland was lost. A flame-scorched, ruinous wasteland dotted by tyrannical city-states. Lost to time. Governed by robotic opressors with names like "Atlas" and "BigDog" and "Spot". The Fry Kids were the first to go; captured and killed in an attempt to break into Boston Dynamics and disable the machines. Soon after, the McNugget Buddies were cruelly shredded in a public display of slow and agonizing torture. Mayor McCheese held his ground admirably, for a time. But it didn't matter. Boston Dynamics robot designation "Handle" made short work of him, leaving only a smear of blood, tears, and pickles where a brave man once stood. I know what you're wondering, as I tell you this. What of our savior? What of Ronald? I will tell you, but only if you can keep very still and remain very quiet. The robots are never far away. Come. Listen and learn. Discussed: The Maker's Mark Ambassador program, courtesty of the Bargain Hawk. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Two possum fables are relayed: "The Tale of Omelia, Granny and the Possum" as well as "Anastasia's Sorrow". Pretty Pretty Princess My Little Pony Dog. London chain pub piss dungeon. Being cyberpunk and deleting bad Facebook memories. "I know most words". Mac Sabbath. The legitimacy of the term "McJob". The lore and characters that exist in McDonaldland. New horrors from Boston Dynamics. Vice's piss dungeon article: http://bit.ly/2AiPD1T Mac Sabbath's website: http://bit.ly/2jwD7En Boston Dynamics' video, "What's New, Atlas?": http://bit.ly/2hvtS6x Check us out on YouTube here: http://bit.ly/2wXEvsK iTunes: http://apple.co/2euNNVw Google Play Music: http://bit.ly/2ev0QWX Follow us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/2xDisom Follow us on Twitch: http://bit.ly/2vPYdkQ
Stative verbs - McLanguage change Hi and welcome to another great grammar lesson from New English Academy. I’m your host, Giles Parker, and today we’re going to learn about stative verbs, and in particular, how that famous burger chain, McDonalds has shown that grammar rules can change. This lesson is aimed at intermediate learners but anyone can learn something new from the vocabulary or the grammar, or just practice listening and reading comprehension. As usual, you can get the full online interactive comprehension, vocabulary and grammar explanations, the games and the tests at our website NewEnglishAcademy.com. Let me know if you like this lesson or any of the others by sending me an email or rating this on iTunes or Stitcher Radio. The more I know what you guys like, the better I can make lessons for you. Here in the beautiful Green Heart of Italy, I recently saw a sign of an invasion from another culture – a large McDonalds sign with its golden arches next to a main road advertising a new McDrive restaurant. I’m surprised because fast-food isn’t very popular here. My neighbors ask – why do you want to eat fast? The next nearest McDonalds is about 50 minutes’ drive away.  McDonalds is being very brave in trying to start a restaurant here. Just my two cent’s worth, but I don’t think it will succeed here. American fast-food chains moving into other cultures isn’t really new news, but did you know that McDonalds has also had an effect on the English language too? This really means it is a successful business, just like that new verb ‘to Google’. Recently McDonalds disagreed with the Oxford English dictionary about the meaning of ‘McJob’ which still means a job that doesn’t pay well and that has little future. In the USA, you can have a large house that is not well built and costs too much and that your friends call a ‘McMansion’.  You can find this in the Oxford English Dictionary too! These new words are nouns. But McDonalds, willingly or unwillingly, has also popularised a new grammar rule. Their very successful advertising slogan says “i’m lovin’ it.†There – even my Microsoft Word underlines the slogan in red, showing there is something here with which it disagrees. Actually, there are two problems here – can you guess what they are? One problem is with the punctuation. Usually, first person singular ‘I’ is a capital letter. I know it is more fashionable with some people to use a lower-case ‘i’. Personally I don’t use it and I don’t recommend using it when writing something formal. Maybe McDonalds started using it more than 10 years ago in order to be fashionable with younger people who were also starting to use lower-case ‘i’ in texts and messages to each other. But the other problem is a grammatical problem - about the verb, ‘to love’. Usually, this is a stative verb. A stative verb is a verb that doesn’t talk about an action or something that you do. Instead, stative verbs talk about a state, or a way of being, maybe something more internal, something inside you, but not an action. Stative verbs talk about emotions, appearances, preferences, mental states, possessions, and measurements. Grammatically, you can’t usually make a stative verb like ‘to love’ into the continuous or progressive by adding ‘to be’ and ‘ing’. For most native speakers, that usually sounds very strange. Some people say it just isn’t correct.  McDonalds is showing us that grammar rules change and that in this case we can use a stative verb with ‘to be’ and ‘ing’. This doesn’t make it active, like you are really doing it, but perhaps it gives a sense of action to an emotion, or a preference, etc. This makes the internal state more immediate, more ‘now’. Perhaps McDonalds is using old words in new ways to give new meanings. The future is looking good for some stative verbs. Many people say they’re hating something rather than they hate it. Or, they’re thinking or feeling something rather than they think or feel it. McDonalds has certainly made a lot of money from showing that grammar rules can change. I wonder what other companies help change language? Maybe I should google that.
Author and Canadian icon Douglas Coupland, talks about his latest book "Generation A", the follow-up work to his ground-breaking novel "Generation X". He also relfects on his life and work.
Author and Canadian icon Douglas Coupland, talks about his latest book "Generation A", the follow-up work to his ground-breaking novel "Generation X". He also relfects on his life and work.