The New Purple Shake at McDonald's: The Origin Story of Grimace

McDonald's has introduced a new grimace shake. In 1972, it was a dark time in America and the Watergate era Nixon was evil grimace. And I'm all in on the rehabilitation of grimace. That brings us to our obsessions of the week.

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Strap in, Wretches. We’re going deep into the firing of CNN Chief, Chris Licht. We also breakdown Chuck Todd’s exit, Tucker’s full Twitter debut and the origins of McDonald’s Grimace.

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2:00 Front Page

56:37 Obsessions

1:00:50 Reader Mail

1:03:56 Favorite Item

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Show Notes:

The Atlantic: Inside the Meltdown at CNN

NYT: Could Jeff Zucker Fix CNN? He Seems to Think So.

Semafor: CNN lost trust over COVID coverage, internal report found

Politico: The Real Reason Chris Licht Got Fired From CNN