Pratique du Shadowing: "Coffee" is just Dessert Now - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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Sugar is in everything nowadays, but the world of beverages has just hit another extreme.
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The phrase diabetes in a cup has become a meme,
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which started after fast food workers posted some of these absolutely diabolical drinks that people have been ordering.
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And when you are watching these videos of the people making these drinks, you have this sort of visceral reaction to it.
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And then also at the same time, maybe a part of you is like, hold on, Is this all being done for the views?
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Like maybe this is some sort of joke or fake concoction to make people riled up, right?
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But if you start looking around at the other slightly less crazy versions of these drinks,
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people have generally started to conflate the word coffee with dessert in a lot of cases.
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The nutritional information on the website that you can find for Starbucks and Dunkin' and stuff, do not paint a nice picture.
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These drinks, even on the menu, are not healthy and should not be drank in a habitual way.
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A lot of people have taken things into their own hands,
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I suppose, by creating their own versions and finding and copying other recipes that they see on TikTok, and the results are terrifying.
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And look, I understand that it's easy to see something like this
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and totally dismiss it as just another crazy American consumerist doom spiral into obesity, because that's definitely what it is.
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But there is also this weird side of this story where parallel to this super sugary trend,
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we have the zero sugar trend, right?
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We have all of these weird, supposedly healthy pops and sodas that people are now drinking more and more.
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Wow, we have dirty sodas gaining in popularity.
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So what is going on?
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Great question.
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Let's talk about it.
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Today's video, like all of our videos, is made possible by our Patreon community.
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If you want to support what we do, we have a very low-priced tier on there, specifically to give you the opportunity to support what we do for a very small fee,
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like less than half of the price of one of these gigantic drinks that we're talking about in this video.
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So check that out down below.
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So let's first clarify that super sugary drinks
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that come in a plastic cup
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that you can probably objectively tell is just not good for you is not a new idea.
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But there is a lot more of them now, and they're getting more and more common because of the internet.
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And so here we are talking about it
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because humans have an inability to do nothing when they see something that is bad for them.
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Like they see something bad and they just have to do it.
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It seems to be baked into our wiring.
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Like I recently saw some videos of people in the squirrel suits jumping off cliffs.
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That's the thing you can do.
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And people do that willingly.
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And they die all the time.
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It's like not an uncommon stat for wingsuit people to die.
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They're sponsored by Red Bull.
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And weirdly, there's actually Red Bull in Crumble Cookie's first ever dirty soda release, which got an insane amount of backlash.
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Mainly because on top of the energy drink, the energy drink wasn't even the concern here,
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it had 186 grams of sugar and 840 calories for a single drink.
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But there are a lot more people drinking these insane beverages than there are people hurling themselves off of cliffs
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and leotards with webbing in between.
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So let's try to understand why with a little road trip because secretly I'm kind of curious.
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So we are going to go to Starbucks.
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I have not been to Starbucks in memory, but we are going to go there and we are going to get a Twix Frappuccino.
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It's a secret menu item that Lou found for me to try.
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It should be fun.
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So according to this Harvard Health article, apparently eating a lot of sugar is not good for you for a variety of health reasons.
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But humans and mostly Americans are eating way too much sugar.
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And a lot of the added sugar that is being added to their diet is coming from sugary drinks.
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And then just sort of like a bonus on top of this,
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I found an article that said that there's research that proves that hotter weather leads to more sugary drink consumption.
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And that is also great because climate change is making hotter weather more consistent and common for most people, including myself.
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This is frickin' 32 degrees inside my car right now.
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So basically what we're saying is
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that the crazy drinks of today are just made less crazy
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because there is already an absurdly high bar of sugary drink established as the norm, right?
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Anyway, we're here so let's go order this thing.
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I'm gonna get a caramel frappuccino.
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Yeah, what size?
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The, uh, not like quite the biggest one?
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Yeah, let's go with that um
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and we're gonna get two pumps of hazelnut syrup uh java
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chips extra caramel plus a mocha drizzle on top of the whipped cream perfect
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and do you know if the extra caramel is extra of the drizzle on top
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or extra caramel syrup blended in uh i don't know um maybe it goes on the inside of the cup
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or something on the inside of the cup we can do that yeah yeah that's how that goes sure okay
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thank you there it is now this and all these other beverages
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that are viral right now are extreme but they're only kind of possible
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because the standard is so crazy already like a standard caramel macchiato
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that this is based on has way too much sugar in it
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and way too many calories for any person to indulge in on a regular basis.
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This now because of the internet just makes it even crazier.
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Let's taste that.
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Oh my god that was mostly caramel.
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Oh god it's all settled down at the bottom.
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See how it's all just pooling down there.
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I gotta get some mid stuff here.
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Okay once your body gets used to the sugar it's not
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it's not quite such an assault it's actually kind of almost
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good now like once you get over the amount of sugar that's in it it becomes more palatable
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which is maybe the problem now the craziest thing
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that we're going to talk about later in this video is
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that like there's this trend going on with these crazy sugary beverages
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but at the same time you've probably also seen those new zero sugar hops
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and energy drinks
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and everything right like this has come up at the same time as so-called functional sodas have
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which are supposed to be like healthy
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pop basically also this thing was eight dollars with a tip i felt genuinely bad
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that she had to make this thing for me she was
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not even remotely phased by this order she was like yeah
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and like caramel is that like an extra caramel shot
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or do you want that like in the cup itself
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and i was like i don't know i guess it goes around the cup itself
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and she was like yeah that sounds good like Like, at no point are they like, that's a questionable choice, sir.
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Oh my gosh!
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You guys!
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That was crazy!
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Let's get you up off your knees.
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What?
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I'm not that desperate for it.
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Oh my god!
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Jesus Lord.
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Oh, what?
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Okay, so this is a caramel macchiato, but modified to be a Twix caramel macchiato.
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Okay, we're gonna go hide.
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Let's go.
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We'll run downstairs and we'll go hide and you start counting.
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One, two, three.
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Wait till we're at the bottom.
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Oh my god, he's so fast.
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Oh my god, that's one of the sweetest things I've ever had.
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Yeah, you probably got the bottom.
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You gotta stir it up.
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Stir it up a bit.
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Oh, that was worse.
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Dirty sodas are a new drink category pioneered by the Mormons of Utah.
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That basically involves mixing various pops and drinks with cream and sugar, and basically anything sweet that you could possibly imagine.
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We actually could make a whole video about this phenomenon, because the whole Mormon aspect of it is very, very interesting to me.
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Anyways, these are the carbonated super sweet drinks.
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And then there is the uncarbonated super sweet drinks, which are the ones that we're talking about off the top the coffee,
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supposedly coffee-based beverages from Starbucks and Dunkin' and other fast food places that look weirdly AI-generated, like they all sort of look the same.
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These two different types of drinks are booming in popularity and share one very interesting quality, which is the ability to build it yourself.
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This ability to customize the drink orders at dirty soda shops like Swig, and the sort of wild west of secret menus
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that you see at Starbucks and Dunkin' has created the beast that we are talking about today.
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Now, I personally cannot say
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that soda culture in Utah directly influenced the secret menus at Starbucks
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because that's a thing that was going on before dirty sodas became popular,
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but Starbucks has now released an official secret menu on their app store just as of last year.
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So that means pretty much that I'm right.
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So that's why you're subscribed, remember, because your boy, your boy's on the money.
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He's on the pulse.
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Actually, to be fair, Lou, Lou wrote that section of the script.
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She figured all that out.
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So actually Lou is right.
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Lou is right.
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That is, if we can write it down, can we get it somewhere in stone?
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Lou is right.
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So I actually got to try some of these dirty sodas when I was in Utah a couple of years ago, and it was actually not as gross as I expected it to be.
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First of all, this is the lineup that's getting into the soda shop, which is in the back of this barber shop, apparently.
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With your soda beverage, you can also buy cookies, which is really interesting.
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And then while you're at it, you can do your missionary donation, I guess.
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What?
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Look at that.
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That looks kind of crazy.
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Wow, that actually, I hate to admit how good that tastes.
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But since my visit, the industry has exploded.
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The success of Swig has birthed a whole slew of other brands and companies selling these dirty beverages.
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Starbucks has launched their customizable refreshers that allow you to not only pick your flavor combinations,
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but also add shots of caffeine and vitamins.
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But I would say that this is actually the less crazy end of the spectrum.
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Because while these drinks are sweet, like nobody's going to say that a dirty soda is not sweet,
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what we need to talk about is the drink phenomenon known as diabetes in a cup.
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So this phrase, diabetes in a cup, is like a colloquialism online.
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It's like a meme at this point.
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If you want to know more about this specifically, Kiana Docherty, I think is her name.
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She's a fellow Canadian content creator that we've followed for a little while.
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She explains this phenomenon very well, and you should check her out.
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Support Canadian creators, because we're the best ones, usually, in my experience.
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Very basically, these are just drinks with an absurd amount of additional sugars and syrups added to a standard order.
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And it got the name because workers at Dunkin' Donuts
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and Starbucks would post the craziest drinks that they would see on their shift to social media with the caption, diabetes in a cup.
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So I've seen a lot of these videos now in the research process for making the script, but I found this video
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because I didn't want to show you just one of the more viral ones because it may or may not be staged.
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This is like kind of more on the normal end of the spectrum, and it is still baffling to watch.
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So it begins with him putting the sugar in the bottom of the cup, like they do when they're trying to show you how much sugar is actually in a drink.
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Like as a warning, like remember they would do this with Coca-Cola, they'd be like, this is how much sugar is in a Coca-Cola, it's like a warning.
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And this is just literally how they make the drinks.
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So he makes this whole drink, which is so gross on his own.
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Like he has to like really work to mix it all up.
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And then at the end, he literally puts in a splash of coffee.
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Like these are drinks technically under like a coffee label.
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Like this is technically what they're about.
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A lot of them don't even have coffee in them at all.
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They have like a coffee syrup instead of real coffee.
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So that's a whole other thing.
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But this comment on the side truly got me.
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This is crazy.
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How do you know that this is exactly what you want?
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Because this is a very specific order.
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Like this is not something that was just sort of created on a whim.
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This is calculated.
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Somebody's done the work to figure out that this is what they like.
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Which means that they've been ordering it over and over and over again over the course of time.
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Because let's be honest also, I want to clarify.
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Like if you want to have one of these absolutely insane beverages every now and then, sure, like go for it.
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You live your own life, you know, but when you are drinking them consistently, like a treat is one thing,
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but if you're drinking this like every day or like multiple times per week, I think you may have a sugar addiction.
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You may, you may have a problem.
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And I know the talking about health issues is a very sensitive subject, but when it comes to the diabetes in a cup meme,
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at least it is pointing out a pretty severe issue that we have surrounding sugar consumption in North America.
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Because I said off the top, there's sugar in everything, but this is a particularly bad situation
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because apparently there's too much sugar in people's diets and a lot of it comes from drinks.
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I genuinely could not imagine being diabetic or pre-diabetic nowadays
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because there has never been more sugary drinks for you to try and avoid.
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Can you imagine the daily mental math
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that you would have to go through to figure out
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if your coffee or juice refresher is going to send your blood sugar numbers to freaking Jupiter?
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I do not wish that for myself.
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I sympathize with anybody who has to deal with that.
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Now, this is all weird, right?
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This is weird.
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But what makes it even weirder is the seemingly conflicting trend going on at exactly the same time.
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We have dirty sodas, and then we have functional sodas going viral at the same time.
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But as we were discussing on a brainstorm for this video,
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Matthew pointed out that this is kind of the ideal scenario for companies because it creates a consumerism feedback loop.
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Is there like a dialectic sort of commentary on how stratified health
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and wellness products are from these like sugary products
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and how Starbucks can at the same time sell these super sugary drinks and also sell the 32 gram protein lattes?
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I was thinking of something like that with the whole zero sugar thing that we're seeing, like the pro- like the functional sodas and the zero sugar energy drinks
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and all that like it is kind of weird
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that we're seeing like a huge boom in like functional sodas
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and all those wellness drinks
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and then also dirty sodas at the same time like it seems like those are opposite stories
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But they're being promoted by the same companies.
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I think the big question to explore would be are these two products the zero sugar products
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and the 180 grams of sugar products are these two products being sold to different people?
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or is the same person buying the zero gram sugar product and then they're also buying the 180 gram sugar product?
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They're just doing this like, oh, next month I'll see some commercial or some TikTok that convinces me
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to drop all this zero sugar bullshit and embrace my 180 gram sugar lifestyle.
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The month after that, they're saying, I've had way too much sugar.
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I'm going back to poppy and hollypop.
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No, it's the shame loop.
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It's the shame loop.
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They go, I can't keep eating this, But I'm so desperate for some sugar right now.
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I'm going to get a zero sugar pop.
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And then they drink that thinking that they're good.
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And if you can close the loop in the same drive-thru, if you can do this all at a Starbucks.
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If you overeat a whole bunch, you typically are going to try and fast the next day, right?
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Like that's the human mind going, I've done too much.
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I've done too much.
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Okay, so now I got to go over here.
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But then you fast, which means you're fucking starving.
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So then when you do finally eat again, you overeat and you binge because you're starving and then you're binged again
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And so you go back and that swing is
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so good for consumerism because it just means that
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if you own both sides of that spectrum You have people bouncing back
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and forth like a ping pong ball and they're buying into extremes on both sides Which usually means more money, which usually means higher price tags, which means more dollars for them
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There is no irony lost here on the fact
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that the whole sugary drink trend was sort of born in Mormonism that sees other stimulants as a sin, right?
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These drinks represent two very different sides of our human psyche.
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And the massive success of these drinks just proves how well this dichotomy works.
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If you feel shame about one thing, you are very likely to sort of pendulum swing to purchase on the other end of that spectrum.
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And sadly, there's a lot of people with very complicated relationships with sugar
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and food in general who feel themselves getting ping-ponged back and forth in between these extremes.
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If you want to hear about the rising popularity of dirty sodas, maybe we will make something like that.
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I'm not sure.
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We've talked about functional sodas in another episode, so you can check that out now.
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But if you subscribe and you're a part of our little community here, you'll see us every single week.
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And if we do make that video in the future, you'll be the first to know about it.
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Great deal.
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Good chat.
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Thanks for tuning in, folks.
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We'll see you in the next one.
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Platformed in all of these ways because there's so much drama around it.
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And Patagonia has nothing to gain from this.
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They are literally just trying to protect their trademark in the, like, most basic level that they possibly can.
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Like they don't want to fight her.
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They just want this to be over with.
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The idea behind it also like the whole Defending the Trademark thing is that she has sold,
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I'm pretty sure, merch that has used a very similar logo to the Patagonia logo in parody.
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Vous vous entraînez en anglais avec ""Coffee" is just Dessert Now" en utilisant la technique du Shadowing.
Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?
Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.