シャドーイング練習: AI Food Slop is Here - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Wonder is the ghost kitchen tech startup taking the humanity out of food.
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The CEO and the company itself are all in on AI, and the whole premise here is that you can order up to 500 meal options from a single restaurant.
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But the catch is, they all suck.
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The sheer amount of advertising and paid content
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that this company has been putting out into the world should be your first red flag here.
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But it doesn't take too much digging to understand just how truly terrible of an idea this really is, and why I'm begging for its downfall.
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The food almost always looks terrible in these videos that people are being paid to promote, and even the most favorable reviews are pretty bad.
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And on top of all this, you would have to pay a premium to get this bad service.
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It is genuinely kind of a bummer for me to know that not only does this thing exist,
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but some people are actually going out of their way to try it and consume it on like a somewhat regular basis.
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So I wanted to make this video as sort of a PSA to all people on earth to not f*ing eat here.
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Because I promise, once you understand how it is possible for this atrocity to even exist, you'll be plotting its demise with me.
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Today's video is sponsored by Climatize.
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So wonder is a flashpoint that's going on in the world of And a lot of creators have talked about this already.
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We may be kind of late to the game in that sense, but not enough people are mad about this.
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And not enough people have seen this moment from the Wonder CEO.
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The thing I'm most excited about is Wonder Create, because anyone in the world will be able to plug into this automation
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and create their own restaurant and scale it across all Wonder locations for 10 bucks a month.
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We're going to plug, anyone can plug into this automation
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and you can create your own website and distribute it across all these platforms for 10 bucks a month.
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Great.
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That's so great.
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But wait, here's my favorite part coming up here.
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So think about Shopify and steroids.
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You don't have to do anything.
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You basically- Who is the person that wants to do this and why does the end consumer want this?
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Okay.
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So who wants to do this?
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First of all, Wonder Create is just an AI prompt.
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You just type, build me a fast casual Mexican restaurant for Gen Z for people
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that love AI will build the entire restaurant using our automation and ingredient library.
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Brand it, name it, you own the restaurant, you own the name, all the descriptions, pictures, pricing, nutrition information.
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You could do it in two minutes.
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If you like what you see, you could ask AI to change it.
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But if you like it, you could publish it.
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It now goes live.
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You could push it out on DoorDash, Uber, and Grubhub as well.
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That is genuinely like one of the most disassociated, completely out of touch pieces of commentary I've ever watched.
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I mean, that is crazy.
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At one point, like he just, he asks him, who wants this?
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And the guy is just like, this is an AI prompt that allows you to make an AI restaurant.
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And you can just spam the whole world with your shitty restaurant idea.
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He is unironically talking about making AI slop food like it's a good thing.
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Like somehow we live in a world where someone making a bought ghost kitchen for cyclists who like Mexican food
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with the same generic ingredients from every other restaurant on the stupid platform, mindlessly being pushed out to unknown customers through delivery apps,
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is going to get you a good taco.
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Like, I think he forgets that people don't order food because they just need food and there's, like, no other option.
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They do it because they like eating food.
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You f*ing robot.
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The great thing about drone is you can deliver it to a boat.
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You can deliver it to a field, campsite.
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You could be camping and just have your, you know, burger dropped in for lunch, you know, your cookies and burgers.
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Shouldn't you be grilling the burger?
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Is that the point of camping?
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He's maybe one of my least favorite CEOs now.
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He's moved up the rank of least favorite CEOs in my mind.
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Now, as disturbing as the concept of AI food slop is,
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it's really only one more layer of stupid on top of the whole industrialized food system that has made this moment possible.
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To understand this whole weird thing, you have to understand how we got here, starting with the ingredients of the food itself.
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More Perfect Union made a really great video about the Cisco food monopoly
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that is currently responsible for the majority of the food that you eat from restaurants.
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It's a great watch if you haven't seen it.
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But to loosely summarize what they talk about in that video, Cisco is a food distributor who now effectively manages the ingredients
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for the vast majority of restaurants in the United States and Canada.
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They leverage their massive scale
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and logistics operation to give restaurants basically a one-stop shop for all the ingredients
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that they might need to make a positively mid chicken strips and fries.
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But because food and costs for restaurants are generally getting higher every day, most restaurants can't help but buy from them.
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Going to a local option is just not really feasible for a lot of restaurants.
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But then, at the same time, this weird thing is happening because the food is getting worse because of the centralized industrial food system that is supporting it,
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But the prices of the food is also going up.
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Like normally when something gets commodified and scaled to this level, there's a corresponding drop in price, but that's not happening.
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And there's a whole other side of this conversation that we could talk about where like, you know, fast food is no longer cheap, that whole thing.
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But that's not this video.
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These ingredients are all designed and prepared in a way that works for an AI slop kitchen to prepare them.
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If you look at the Cisco catalog on their website, you can see this in its building blocks.
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You can order pretty much all of your ingredients pre-sliced or diced by a robot.
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They also sell a lot of pre-made meals and desserts,
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which in this case, you're literally getting the exact same meal from anyone who is serving Cisco products.
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This could, of course, be a couple of different videos, maybe, but this is only the first part of this video, because now we have to talk about ghost kitchens.
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Now, as dystopian as this sounds,
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we're actually fully already in this nightmare because we've been unknowingly most likely buying from ghost kitchens for a long time now.
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Eddie Burback made a very viral video about this a little while ago.
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How many views does that freaking thing have?
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Thing has 14 million views.
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I don't think anyone is really surprised by ghost kitchens anymore.
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Like this isn't new information, but that's kind of the problem.
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If you don't know what I'm talking about, a ghost kitchen is basically just a kitchen somewhere that prepares food.
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You can't dine in, you can't pick it up from that location.
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The whole point is that they sell online through these apps.
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There has been a lot of YouTubers who have started their own restaurants on these apps as a bit, and it sort of shows how sketchy this industry can be if you don't really care.
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Once these delivery apps took off, the game was kind of over.
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Suddenly, people got brainwashed into thinking that overpaying for cold pad thai in a cardboard box
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that's delivered to your house is great.
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Okay, this was $33.
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Honestly, this is a lot of food, but $33 is insane.
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People got so removed from the food that they ate
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and the money that they spent on it
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that it just perfectly paved the way for some weird bald CEO to invent AI slop kitchens and get it funded.
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And this is the fascinating but depressing reality of this whole situation.
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These apps have gotten so good at removing us from the food buying experience.
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They make spending the money feel almost invisible.
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You just do a few taps and the food shows up at your door.
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You don't have any time to think about where your money went, what business you supported, how much packaging came with it, or whether or not it's even healthy.
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But the money still goes somewhere.
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sponsoring today's video Now let's get back into the horrible and depressing world of Wonder.
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So unlike a ghost kitchen and the many apps and companies that sort of rely on that business model,
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Wonder is very different, but also exactly the same.
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Instead of having ghost kitchens that make food and then drivers who deliver it, Wonder has a central prep kitchen where all the meals are prepped.
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And then it's sent to various Wonder locations in like meal kits.
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These meal kits are then finished on site and then they're delivered.
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So those sites can then provide 500 different menu options out of one location.
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It's sort of an illusion because they have the one central prep kitchen
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that distributes the variety to all the rest of the locations, giving them the ability to do the 500 things on the menu.
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That's the whole bit.
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That's literally the whole thing.
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I hate it because, like, why would you want one restaurant that makes 500 things When in any decent-sized city,
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there's a dozen restaurants, all of which could cover the range of options
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that you would like to try and cook them all better, too.
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That's the whole concept of living in a city, is that there's a ton of restaurants, and those restaurants can make food,
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and it can be delivered to your house easily because you live near the restaurants.
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That's it.
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We already have that.
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And they're like, wait, what if the food was worse, and it was all in one place, and it costs more?
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Trade offer?
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How about that?
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You get worse food, we get more money.
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How about that?
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Of course this is the idea from a CEO
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that had AI decide what he ate for a year based on his blood tests.
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Like, of course he did.
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Their initial plan was to operate a fleet of food trucks with microwaves
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and air fryers in them that make your food while they're delivering it, I guess.
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And the idea here, from what I can tell, was just to make an Uber driver's life even worse by
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making them also cook the food in the same vehicle that they're delivering it in.
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I found this great subreddit post.
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They were like, how does Wonder Food Hall even work?
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Like, I don't understand this, which, like, valid.
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The top comment, it does so by making absolute dog food.
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They nail it.
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This person actually also seems to know what they're talking about.
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It's slightly more serious.
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It's probably a central commissary kitchen that preps, pre-cooks, seals, and or freezes the meals, then on-site slaps them in the Turbo Chef plates and garnishes.
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It is literally that.
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This Redditor is absolutely correct.
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I've tried their pineapple fried rice and it tasted how it looked.
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Some ricin seasoned in yellow, color only with zero flavor, random shrimps that were equally under seasoned, and some chopped up canned pineapple.
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Probably will never try wondering ever again.
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There's so many jokes here that I feel like I haven't exploited.
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Like, I wonder if I could get airplane food without getting on a flight.
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So at some point along the journey, the van idea didn't work out, I guess.
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So now they've pivoted to these storefronts, which is, they seem to be basically just pickup locations.
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So they were innovating by getting rid of the restaurants and the drivers.
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But now they've actually just added a step by having the storefronts.
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So they have the giant prep kitchen, the storefronts, and then the food also needs to be delivered.
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So they've actually just added extra steps to get back to what we had in the first place, now with worse food.
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Look at the order that this guy gets in this YouTube video.
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It's crazy.
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This is a $20 pizza this guy is eating right now.
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It looks bad.
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He's being so generous with it.
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Like, he's like, oh yeah, like, it looks pretty good.
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I mean, it doesn't taste like the Defara pizza that I remember, but it's, you know, it's pretty good.
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I'm like, bro, this is a YouTube channel where you talk about food.
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Like, this is garbage.
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I can tell from the video this is a bad pizza.
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And the sauce too.
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The sauce is a sweet, it's a little zesty, you know, the sauce tastes nice.
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I mean, I guess it's a little thick, it's a little paste-like, like almost looks kind of like ketchup or tomato paste.
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No, my favorite though.
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He goes over it, he even says, Slimey mashed potatoes almost looks like a microwavable dinner, but maybe it'll taste good.
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Maybe it's just because the container is being served in, after all.
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He literally says it.
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He literally says, he's like, that kind of looks like a microwavable meal.
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The comments are just so great.
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The air fryer fan blew the basil around.
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Private equity automated microwave slop.
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But this is the craziest part.
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This seemingly disastrous product with very little public appeal has secured.
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Do you have all your guesses in?
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$2 billion in funding!
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It's apparently valued at $9 billion!
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How?
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Or maybe why is a better question?
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Because none of this matters if you have nowhere else to go.
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So here's kind of like my theory.
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This is my prediction, because I don't really understand how else this really makes sense.
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Wonder is trying to get control over how we get our food by owning every step of the process
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that it takes to get from the distributor to you.
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This is called vertical integration.
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It's how Apple manages its ecosystem.
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It's how a lot of car companies try to optimize their system
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so that they don't rely on a whole bunch of different factors.
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And they can make all of the money from all of the different stages
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so that all of the money comes back to them and they stay rich and we continue to be poor.
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That's how the best kind of capitalism works.
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Ha ha ha.
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They've acquired Blue Apron, Tastemade, and Grubhub already, and they're preparing for a big IPO to push this whole thing even further.
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They're going to scale this business as quickly as possible, offering as many options as possible to as many people,
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giving away discounts, running ads all over the place to secure a whole bunch of users,
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grow their user base, and then they will slowly push out all the other restaurants that can't compete
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until they're the biggest name in town.
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We have seen this happen with a lot of other people.
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With Uber Eats and Grubhub and DoorDash and all these companies, they did exactly the same thing.
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Years of massive growth, tons of speculative money poured into these businesses as they fought for market share.
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The only difference here, though, that is kind of dystopian for me is that Wonder,
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if successful, would have the infrastructure to feed lots and lots and lots of people out of one single business,
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all run by AI and basically robots.
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I mean, there would be some humans involved, but they're trying to eliminate them whenever possible, right?
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And what is so annoying about this is that they're trying to replace a business model that was already way too powerful.
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Like Uber Eats wasn't enough.
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With Uber Eats, all they do is operate an app.
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The restaurant takes on all the risks and makes the food.
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The drivers work for next to nothing.
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And Uber gets to take a cut from every side of the deal.
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We made a whole video called Why Uber Eats Sucks for Everyone.
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And you should watch that one if you like this one.
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But Wonder wants to take this to a whole other level.
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If they can control enough of the marketplace, they will replace mom-and-pop shops, fast food restaurants, and simultaneously become one of the biggest buyers of food,
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which will all help them do this at a fraction of the cost.
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And if this all sounds awful and terrible, it's because it is.
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We are allowing this to happen because we are
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so divorced from the food that we eat already because of our industrialized food system.
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We rarely see the farms that grow our food, or even the kitchens that make our meals now.
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Your grandma's generation would have never stood for this because they cooked all of the meals they ate for the most part.
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And the craziest thing is that this is all in the name of convenience.
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Like the CEO of Wonder literally said that.
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He says this is all about convenience.
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And I just can't believe that convenience is that important.
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That we're willing to sacrifice money, the actual flavor of the food,
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and the independence to make decisions on where we get our food just so that it arrives at our door?
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So here's my pitch, my PSA pitch at the end.
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If you made it here, thank you for being here, for supporting us on this channel and our Patreon.
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If you do, hey, shout out.
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Please don't give in to the false promise of convenience.
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This is a lie.
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Every time that you choose to cook your own meal, to ask a friend for a ride, to go for a walk instead of scrolling,
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you are interrupting the cash flows of these insane CEOs and their greed.
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Hi, everybody.
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Lou here.
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Just popping in really quick to say that we have yet another piece of Patreon-exclusive content uploaded over there.
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Matthew shows us a video of Kevin O'Leary where he's talking about his views on nutrition and, like, his dietary philosophy.
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If that sounds interesting to you or any of the other Patreon-exclusive content that we've uploaded lately, maybe consider joining us over there and supporting what we're doing here.
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And if not, no worries.
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Thank you so much for being here and see you next time.
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Bye!
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Just can't do it.
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It really just all crumbles.
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George is the voice that we needed to go famous and what we got is Mr. Wonderful.
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Kevin fucking O'Leary is sitting there trying to spread this dumbass carb-free protein-only diet bullshit.
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Meanwhile, the old man who's lived a great life.
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He's 95.
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He's like, no, Kevin, what are you talking about?
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シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。