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end times"? You all heard that part that she definitely said that. Now here's the part you missed because it's taken out of context. Then the context switched and it switched to climate change. And then when she talked about climate change she sort of wondered out loud if earthquakes and cicadas could be — maybe there's a climate change effect. So really big. She's a big old dummy, right? Because…

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e jeans sort of they work in every situation except formal. You know, like they're easy to wash and take care of and they don't cost too much and they feel good, they make you look — they basically do everything. So I thought, well, maybe I can make a food that does that, just sort of does everything.

Now the company didn't work out for other reasons, partly because the formula in the burrito made you fart so hard that it would inflate your socks, as I once wrote. And that was sort of a negative. So we couldn't really mask all the minerals in it because in order to get a good mineral and vitamin count you had to put all these additives in there. So you couldn't get anywhere near the taste that you wanted because you had to mask all the minerals.

Now you might say to yourself, why do you have to add anything to food? Like if your burrito is full of all the things that have the vitamins and minerals — you know, your broccoli and your kale and your beans and whatever — why do you have to add anything? Well, it's because you've been lied to forever. When you were told that if you just have a balanced diet you'll get your vitamins and minerals, if you do the math you'll find out that no matter how much you eat and no matter how well you eat, you don't come anywhere near it. The food you eat doesn't

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have vitamins and minerals in anywhere near the minimum requirement that you need. So we had to supplement. There was no way around it. But it didn't work as a supplement. It just made it too hard anyway. So part of that story is we sold into 7-Eleven. Imagine being a startup company that gets a contract with 7-Eleven. Now it's a contract to test it. So they would say we're going to test it in th…

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