The Bounce Rate Podcast

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Guys, I’m in a pickle.

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Ah, I got it. I see. That’s what this whole thing’s about, right?

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Making a pun? Yes, making a pun.

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What’s the dealio here? That’s pretty good. No, I got to come up with one.

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This is going to be hard. You can wait to the end of the episode if you want.

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Folks, that wasn’t just a pun. That’s what we’re talking about.

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It was a pregnant pun. It was a pregnant pun. And it had desires.

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And if I could be pregnant with a pickle, I would be. I don’t know where y’all

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stand on the concept of the pickle.

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I am definitely, I’ve been a pro pickle boy since I was a small child.

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It was the first thing that I was like, I love this snack. I have eaten thousands

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and thousands over my life. And I’m always that person.

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If someone gets a sandwich and it comes to the pickle, I’m going to eat that bad boy.

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All right. Well, you brought in a special treat for us all. I think we should

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dive in, start the whole episode off with our taste test. We’re going to kick it off with a taste test?

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Sure, why not? Let’s do it. So what I have brought today… Because everybody’s

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wondering, why in the hell are they talking about pickles?

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One of our local grocery store heroes here is the HEB.

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I think they’re great, as well as many of my other favorite grocery stores.

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They have a new limited edition bread and butter pickle flavored sweet and spicy potato chip.

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And it goes along with what we’re going to be talking about today as far as

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the grocery store, as far as pickle flavors.

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I picked this up because I was like, I want to see, number one, if it’s good.

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Number two, if it tastes like pickles, if it’s true to form.

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I thought you picked it up because you lost a bet.

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And I had to get it. Yeah. Because there’s no good reason to buy this product. Well, here’s the deal.

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That is, pickles are a polarizing flavor.

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A lot of people don’t even want to touch it. You know, this goes along with

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things like olives or banana peppers and such where it, onions,

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where there can really be a lot of polarizing opinions and people fall on either side.

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What is y’all’s opinion? Do you like pickles?

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I will say this. They say that every couple is made up of one person that likes

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pickles and one person that doesn’t.

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I am the do not like pickles.

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My wife is the lover of pickles.

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Oh, we got napkins. This is nice. I know. This is tray nice.

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I will eat pickles. I like pickles on my hamburgers.

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I’ll have a pickle with my sandwich. I’ll eat some of it. But as an add-on flavor,

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not probably a fan. Y’all can keep talking to me.

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You’re distributing the pickles. Well, they look delicious.

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Dill-licious? Yeah, he did dill. Oh, okay. Oh, you did dill?

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Oh, yeah, dillio. From a aroma standpoint, I’m a fan so far of the smell.

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Not much pickle flavor. No, it’s not strong. It’s the aftertaste.

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It’s a little bit of the aftertaste.

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Yeah. By the time I put enough French onion dip on it, it wouldn’t matter.

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Pretty good, actually. i’d eat them i like it

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these are of course bread and butter pickles you’re bread and butter sweet and

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sour right correct yeah you can have bread and butter a lot of flavors lots

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of different flavors all right so on a scale one out of ten ten being the your

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favorite snack one being,

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can’t touch it i’ll say this falls on

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a solid seven solid seven i’m gonna

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agree with you actually i actually think it’s pretty good yeah i was i’m

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kind of surprised yeah i don’t

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know i don’t know it’s it’s not high up for me but it’s it’s kind of bland it’s

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kind of man yeah it almost yeah it’s kind of man depends on how much you like

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potato chips really three a meh or is a five a meh do you want more pickle flavor

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no no no no but wait do you like potato chips yeah i do okay i do,

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I like, it doesn’t matter.

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So I, on a scale of one to 10, where is our audience?

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If one is they’ve already turned off this podcast and 10 is they are reaching

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for the dial to turn off this podcast because they have no idea why we’re talking about pickles.

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Where are they? Well, we’ve already kind of set it up. They’re at, I don’t know, 150.

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This is a very polarizing chip flavor.

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Pickles are a very polarizing flavor in general, but is that a good thing? And…

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Have y’all noticed the rise in pickle flavor thing? So just some statistics.

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Number one, searches for the term pickle flavor in the U.S.

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Hit an all-time high in February 2025. They went to 12.

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Maybe. From six. Maybe, but. Six of them for this podcast.

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But Eric, but Eric, it was enough for Sonic to invest in their new real dill meal.

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Right. And so this, I don’t know if anyone’s had, I’m confident y’all have not had this.

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It’s a partnership between Sonic and a brand called Grillo’s Pickles,

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which I’ve seen in my local grocery stores lately.

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And it’s a their regular

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burger a cheeseburger with the grillo

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pickle chips and it also comes with

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a pickle slush which i

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think i’m not sure if the slush itself is like a slushy yeah yeah that does

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not sound good well and it’s got so base i i think that the base probably is

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sweet But it looks like there are little boba dill-flavored bubbles in there.

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Like it’s… Like it’s an ultra-processed food.

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Well, I don’t know how they… Because it’s not natural dill pickle in there.

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They’re not just pouring dill and vinegar into a slush. But…

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They’ve been promoting it a while. And another stat for you is that it looks,

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I mean, what they’re saying is that there was a research, there was a report

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done by a company called Rubik’s Foods.

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And they said that 30% of Gen Z claim to love pickles and 20% describe them

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as to be obsessed, like literally obsessed with eating pickles.

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Now that’s Gen Z. Wait, sorry. Give me this. 20% are obsessed?

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What they said was that 30% love them and 20% describe themselves as obsessed with pickles.

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This is Jen’s ears? This is what the report said about Jen’s ears.

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Is it 20% of the 30% or 20% total?

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I believe it’s 20% of the total. Yeah, I would think so too because otherwise

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it’s not a very interesting stat, right?

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6% of the 30% that like it. So, so that’s,

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that kind of tells, I mean, I feel like if there’s only 10% difference between

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the, the advocates and the devotees and just the everyday I like pickles guy,

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if there’s like, if there, if it’s that close, I feel like it’s like you either

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love it or hate it. I agree.

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Yeah, it’s true. I mean, that’s a pretty small bell curve. Well,

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and the thing here, I mean, it sounds like Sonic is paying attention to what’s

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going on in trends and saying, hey,

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this is an opportunity to capitalize on potentially a strategic partnership

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and pickle lovers, right? Yeah.

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And I think that’s the interesting. I think that’s really the heart of everything

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is how did they choose to capitalize on this trend? Yeah.

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They found a brand. And it’s absolutely true.

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They found, you know, Grillo’s, I’ve heard about them and seen them increase

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their market share, you know, over the past five years. And so then seeing them

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paired with Sonic is going to make me, you know, even more intrigued.

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But the thing I think is most interesting is that.

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Their, Sonic’s investment in this as a marketing tool seems relatively low.

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They already have the stuff for burgers. They already have the stuff for slushes.

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All they need is this shelf-stable dill pickle boba and Grillo’s brand pickles.

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And pickles famously have a high shelf life.

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So when you look at it and you go, oh, this is actually an excellent opportunity

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for spicing up, I don’t even call it spice,

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pickling up an existing menu item to make a little bit more engaging to,

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what, three, four, five, half the population of Gen Z.

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Let’s say you’re looking at your Gen Z population.

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30% said that they love pickles.

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20% says that they’re obsessed. That means that half of Gen Z is going to be interested in it.

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Yeah, but here’s the question. Does half of Gen Z have a car to go to a Sonic? Gen Z? Yeah.

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No, you’re thinking of Gen Alpha. Gen Alpha is the one in high school now,

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right? I was just thinking that Gen Zers were going to complain because they

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don’t have enough money for a car.

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No, but they do have enough money for a combo meal at Sonic.

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Yeah. What are you talking about? They’re going to door dash it.

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Right. There you go. That’s what’s going to happen. So I love this topic.

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I do think strategic partnerships can be really effective and important.

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And so many businesses overlook these opportunities.

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Yeah. When I had the agency, we won…

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Client. Client that comes to mind is we worked with this local coffee company called Java Pura.

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Amazing coffee. These guys were like super into like amazing coffee, right?

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Well, they did a partnership with a local brewery. I believe it was St.

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Arnold’s here in Houston.

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Yeah. Where they did, they supplied them the coffee for a limited time.

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They had like a coffee beer, right? and so

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they got and the brewery was a much bigger brand than

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they are they got their name plastered all over everything so

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it was good for them you know i mean and the brewery worked

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out because they got really good coffee probably at no cost right so and i think

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that’s also a great call out because in my experience and this is one of the

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one of the smart moves from saint arnold’s is that they’re very much they’ve

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always been very supportive of like partnerships with the arts and stuff.

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So if you look at a festival, you’re always going to see that St.

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Arnold’s logo here around Houston, and you can see it in restaurants.

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And that can be a huge pull for local people, where if I go to brunch and they’re

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like, hey, this features strawberries from this.

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Farm in whatever Texas, that’s going to be more engaging to me.

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And in an advertisement, It’s going to capture my attention,

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even if that’s not the item that I’m going to order when I get there.

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Yeah, I totally agree. I think it also shows, I think it just reflects innovation for that place.

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So even if you don’t like pickles or coffee or beer, it shows that these brands

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are out there trying to do stuff.

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And it gives them a touch point with their customers. that’s not just,

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oh, God, for the love of all that’s holy, please buy something again,

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which is kind of the common plea when you’re hitting somebody over and over,

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especially like on social media, right?

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How often can you post, hey, we still have that dinner you liked. We still do nails.

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Now you can have something to actually talk about.

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So I don’t talk about this often. I talked about it a little bit when we first

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started off, but I am, over the pandemic, I really got into K-pop.

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And I think they do it better than we do here in the United States.

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And I love this group called BTS.

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And when they were at kind of the height of their popularity,

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they had a McDonald’s BTS meal. What’s going on right now?

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That’s the McDonaldland meal. I’ve been instructed by my mother-in-law to go

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to McDonald’s and order five Happy Meals today to get the BTS toy because she’s

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collecting them because she loves them.

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All right we may need to do a separate episode of this because wait so she’s saying that there’s,

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bts toys with happy meals right now yep this woman goes to i know we’re all

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you cut this out but this woman goes to all the bts concerts in the u.s she

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will not miss one this is your mother in law mother-in-law she’s 70 some years

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old and like she’ll go by herself she has she’s army,

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yes she has all these friends that she’s met doing this and they all travel together and hang out.

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It’s so crazy. BTS stands for something, I think, doesn’t it?

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Bangtanseondan. It means in Korean it means the bulletproof boys.

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Okay. But in the US we kind of… Didn’t we back anagram that to something else?

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Behind the scenes. Behind the scenes. Yeah, and they said that it’s not that.

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Hold on, because I have to…

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You’re right. They… Oh, they just launched today.

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Okay. So now I don’t feel as bad, because I have a job. I don’t have time to

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keep up with this stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah. She has a job too.

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All right. Full time. Fine. Yeah. Yeah. I’m a bad fan. And your job does take

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you away from McDonald’s advertising.

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Yeah. It should plunge me into it. So that’s good to know. But they have these things.

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So like that’s the Happy Meal toys. But McDonald’s has been doing customized

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meals that are like a partnership with BTS. Yeah.

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So like the BTS meal was like chicken nuggets with two different types of flavors.

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And, you know, there’ll be one. There was a there’s a rapper named Saw Weedy and she had one.

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And, you know, there’s been a couple. And it’s that thing where I recognize

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this other thing or this is not this is a visual element that I don’t always see with this brand.

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Even though I did not order the Saw Weedy meal, it did intrigue me.

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And it did capture my attention. So I think that’s always been the benefit of

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even short-term offers where,

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yeah, you only ordered so many of this special candy that you’ll put on top

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of your ice cream sundae.

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But that means for a certain period of time, you’re going to get eyeballs that

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you wouldn’t have gotten otherwise.

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So that’s one way is to mix your actual product or service with another brand’s product and service.

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How else can you be associated with another brand?

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It’s a trick question. Yeah. I think I, I mean, digitally or. Sure.

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You could do cross promotion. You could do. You guys are kind of breaking my heart.

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Well, we don’t know what you’re leading on to. I know, but you should know.

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It’s a big thing, man. Especially for you guys. For all of us.

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Yeah. So you’re stuck in the digital world. Stuck in the digital world.

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What about where your advertising actually is? I was just about to say that.

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Oh yeah, I’m sure. Because I was just thinking about like, yeah,

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you went to that H-E-B today to get the chips. Sure.

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You know, there’s ads potentially on the carts, on the back of the receipt,

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which partners you up with the hub of the community, right? Yeah, for sure.

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I mean, and then that goes with anything with like digital advertising,

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you know, YouTube and stuff.

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If your ad is showing up somewhere that isn’t spammy, that is supporting a community,

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it is automatically going to put you in more of a celeb status than you would

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have otherwise. Yeah, it’s a little different though, right?

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Because nobody thinks that the ad that’s on YouTube or Facebook or Instagram or Google or whatever,

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nobody thinks of those ads as being associated with those companies because

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those companies are content companies, right? And they are just passing through content.

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It’s just like watching TV. You don’t really think about an ad.

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When you’re watching the Super Bowl and M&Ms come on and they’re talking,

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you don’t think, oh, the NFL have endorsed this thing.

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But advertising in a grocery store is a little bit, or any kind of placement

00:17:21.857 –> 00:17:28.017
advertising like that, is a little bit more like having the Coke always facing out in a movie.

00:17:28.597 –> 00:17:32.477
Yeah. You ever notice that? Like, for some reason, you can always read the label

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of every Coke in every movie.

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And the way they hold it, somehow they just don’t cover up the brand.

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There’s an association. It’s a product placement, right? And it’s what they

00:17:42.597 –> 00:17:45.157
call that in movies. But for us, it’s an ad placement.

00:17:45.277 –> 00:17:48.917
And that placement does carry a lot of weight. Yeah. Yeah.

00:17:49.497 –> 00:17:52.397
Well, and then the last thing I’ll say about grocery stores,

00:17:52.637 –> 00:17:59.057
or the last point that I’ll make for this talking about pickles is that as a pickle fan,

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I do love going to the store and seeing what new brands that they have.

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The grocery store is still the

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place that I’m letting them do the work of finding new products for me.

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And like you said before about when you’re advertising within the store,

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there’s this element of, okay, this organization has kind of given this a go ahead.

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I’ll try this pickle. And it’s also beneficial because when you’re in that mindset

00:18:29.337 –> 00:18:34.777
of, I am trying new things, what a great time to look at an advertisement. Yeah.

00:18:35.857 –> 00:18:38.217
Just one last that just came to mind.

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Do you guys know my very favorite Rick and Morty episode?

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You guys don’t watch Rick and Morty? Oh, I’ve watched. I don’t know all the

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episodes, but I’ve watched quite a bit. Pickle Rick.

00:18:48.143 –> 00:18:51.383
Pickle Rick? Oh, sure. Oh, my God. It is so good.

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What is… I can’t go there. I’ll just let you guys… Yeah.

00:18:54.803 –> 00:18:56.503
No, I don’t want to spoil anything. All right.

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Pickle Rick. Pickle Rick. I won’t even imitose it. Has anyone ever had a pickle

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shot? The pickle back shot? Oh, no.

00:19:03.163 –> 00:19:07.023
It’s like a shot with pickle juice in it. Oh, interesting.

00:19:07.563 –> 00:19:14.243
Look, it sounds like we’re divided on pickles, but we are united on advertising.

00:19:14.503 –> 00:19:17.723
And we’re united on the appreciation of you bringing snacks today.

00:19:17.983 –> 00:19:21.043
Of course. Even, I mean, hopefully we can finish this bad boy.

00:19:21.283 –> 00:19:23.563
One more comment, though, on strategic partnerships.

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And we’re talking about advertising, right? But the reality is a strategic partnership

00:19:27.943 –> 00:19:32.603
doesn’t always have to be about advertising. And, and like, for example,

00:19:33.203 –> 00:19:37.563
when we, when going back to the agency, we had a partnership with this IT company.

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And so, because a lot of people would come to us and just assume we were IT.

00:19:42.023 –> 00:19:44.663
Same thing that they would get a lot of their customers come to them,

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assuming that they did digital advertising.

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So we had an agreement with each other that, Hey, anybody, any leads we get,

00:19:50.983 –> 00:19:51.823
we’re going to send them your way.

00:19:52.003 –> 00:19:55.983
Right. I mean, it’s still a partnership, but, you know, there’s all sorts of

00:19:55.983 –> 00:20:00.143
different ways where you can really leverage other companies, their audiences.

00:20:00.583 –> 00:20:05.443
Yeah. Right. And you’ll see that with, you know, CRM or other internal tools

00:20:05.443 –> 00:20:11.023
too, where they’re like, hey, our company sells, you know, clothes,

00:20:11.203 –> 00:20:14.803
we’re apparel, but we are powered by blank, you know, whatever,

00:20:15.043 –> 00:20:18.103
if it’s Oracle, Salesforce, whatever, that’s our internal thing.

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And so there is nuances to that relationship that can end up being really beneficial.

00:20:23.523 –> 00:20:27.483
And Indoor Media in its history has actually tried to do some of those pairings.

00:20:27.563 –> 00:20:30.023
We’ve looked at like credit card merchant services,

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Game changes so much. It was hard to stick with a client, a customer.

00:20:35.539 –> 00:20:38.199
We’ve looked at other services for business and even thigh cream.

00:20:39.979 –> 00:20:43.359
I could use that. True story. I saw that one coming. Yeah. I could use some.

00:20:44.019 –> 00:20:46.839
Some thigh cream. I did. I was watching the Astros the other night and they

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had a, it’s imposed, but they had a HubSpot logo on the pitching mound.

00:20:50.779 –> 00:20:51.519
All right. I was like, what?

00:20:51.859 –> 00:20:54.979
HubSpot? That’s crazy. Was it HubSpot or Orange Theory? Because every time I

00:20:54.979 –> 00:20:57.159
drive by a- No, it was HubSpot because I did a double take.

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I was like, wait a minute, what? Because every time I drive by an Orange Theory,

00:21:00.739 –> 00:21:01.399
I’m like, oh, that’s HubSpot.

00:21:01.399 –> 00:21:04.179
Oh no that’s yeah not not to make this about

00:21:04.179 –> 00:21:07.519
hubspot but that makes sense because with the

00:21:07.519 –> 00:21:10.899
current job market and like current economy they’re really

00:21:10.899 –> 00:21:14.079
leaning into their their treat free training and

00:21:14.079 –> 00:21:18.939
like having gone recently through them it’s still pretty good training for free

00:21:18.939 –> 00:21:23.779
now do you think like that one is you’re right like if i go to espn on the website

00:21:23.779 –> 00:21:28.859
and i see an ad i don’t think that ad’s affiliated with espn but when hubspot’s

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advertising you know on a

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baseball field like where it’s

00:21:34.219 –> 00:21:37.539
right there where the pitcher is i mean i feel like that is more of an endorsement

00:21:37.539 –> 00:21:41.659
like it’s a good placement you know i mean yeah well think about how those i

00:21:41.659 –> 00:21:46.399
mean nobody thinks that just anybody can name a stadium obviously it takes a

00:21:46.399 –> 00:21:53.839
lot of money to begin with but you can’t just like we we just changed minute maid park into,

00:21:54.359 –> 00:21:58.239
to Dyken Park.

00:21:59.519 –> 00:22:05.059
Anyway, they changed names. And they’re a huge AC company, right? HVAC.

00:22:06.499 –> 00:22:11.179
It’s not going to be, even if we had the money for it, it’s not going to be

00:22:11.179 –> 00:22:16.299
Cindy’s Lingerie and Adult Toys. It’s just not, right?

00:22:16.899 –> 00:22:21.699
Because the Astros are going to select who they want to be a partner with.

00:22:21.819 –> 00:22:26.099
So I think when HubSpot comes around, they’ve met a certain criteria and there is that association.

00:22:26.299 –> 00:22:30.159
I’m going to have to edit this out, but I have been in every Cindy’s in…

00:22:31.099 –> 00:22:36.019
In the Houston area. First of all, why would you edit that out?

00:22:36.299 –> 00:22:41.839
And secondly, why would you do that? Because I worked for a company and what

00:22:41.839 –> 00:22:45.939
they did was integrated loyalty systems at point of sale.

00:22:46.219 –> 00:22:53.339
And this was back in the day when you couldn’t do it all remotely depending on the computer system.

00:22:53.719 –> 00:22:58.379
And Cindy’s was on a computer system that I had to go in there and upload the

00:22:58.379 –> 00:23:02.779
JSON on the thing myself. Oh, I was hoping for more of an exciting answer.

00:23:02.979 –> 00:23:07.679
I thought it might have been related to like your law enforcement job and handcuffs

00:23:07.679 –> 00:23:08.859
or something. I don’t know.

00:23:09.279 –> 00:23:11.639
Yeah, I had to. My marketing law, I had to.

00:23:12.279 –> 00:23:15.919
Where you go to Cindy’s and you buy lingerie, handcuffs, and pickle juice.

00:23:16.699 –> 00:23:20.219
Well, I don’t know if you can get pickle juice at Cindy’s, but the last thing

00:23:20.219 –> 00:23:22.939
to say. Partnership in the making. Yeah.

00:23:23.919 –> 00:23:29.919
Is I kind of like burger pizzas. We talk about pizza a lot on this podcast and.

00:23:30.059 –> 00:23:31.499
Papa John’s has this burger pizza.

00:23:31.699 –> 00:23:35.099
I think it’s good. It’s got burger sauce instead of marinara sauce.

00:23:35.359 –> 00:23:39.339
Tomato sauce, it’s got pickles and onions and burger on it.

00:23:39.879 –> 00:23:43.719
I could see that. A lot of people say it’s polarizing. I think it’s polarizing

00:23:43.719 –> 00:23:47.719
in a good way in the way that Santa Claus… But have they part…

00:23:47.719 –> 00:23:49.279
Is it like the Burger King pizza?

00:23:49.419 –> 00:23:51.979
Oh, no. It’s just their burger pizza.

00:23:52.379 –> 00:23:56.219
But that just means for a limited time, they’ll have pickles at the Papa John’s.

00:23:56.339 –> 00:23:59.739
And it means that they’re missing an opportunity. because it could be the Whataburger

00:23:59.739 –> 00:24:01.639
pizza, which would rock.

00:24:01.819 –> 00:24:04.779
Yeah, I would have to go get that like right now. Yeah, I would too. Yeah.

00:24:05.439 –> 00:24:10.839
All right. Do you- I got to go. I’m hungry. Yeah. We’re going to go eat probably

00:24:10.839 –> 00:24:12.539
not pickles. Do you have any puns?

00:24:13.679 –> 00:24:18.079
Gherkin. Gherk. Has anything been fermenting in your head about this?

00:24:19.859 –> 00:24:27.919
Nope. Just blankness up there. Truly, you can come up with a few zingers. You said delicious.

00:24:28.679 –> 00:24:31.779
Delicious. Yeah, I know, but he had already used dill. What was the one you

00:24:31.779 –> 00:24:33.739
just said? It was a stretch.

00:24:34.679 –> 00:24:38.279
Edit mine to be first. Didn’t Q come up with some zingers?

00:24:38.879 –> 00:24:43.399
Cucumber? I don’t know. That was bad. We’re reaching here. That deleted the

00:24:43.399 –> 00:24:44.539
good one you did before. Oh, crap.

00:24:44.799 –> 00:24:50.379
Well, look, we’ll relish the opportunity for you to give another. Ah, yes. Pun. Pun ended.