PETER SAGAL, HOST:
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GABE LIEDMAN: Pepsi?
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SAGAL: Pepsi? What happens to you - what happens when you drink Pepsi, Gabe?
LIEDMAN: I get really excited. I can't sleep.
SAGAL: They're particularly concerned about the second season of "Orange Is The New Black."
LIEDMAN: Ooh, Netflix?
SAGAL: Yes, Netflix.
LIEDMAN: Netflix.
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LIEDMAN: OK. See, I got my first right.
SAGAL: There you are.
LIEDMAN: Unbelievable.
SAGAL: Mind control through Netflix.
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SAGAL: Vladimir Medinsky, who is Russia's culture minister, says the U.S. is using Netflix to, quote, "enter every home to creep into every television and into the heads of every person on Earth."
AMY DICKINSON: Oh my god, that just made sense to me.
SAGAL: Yeah.
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LIEDMAN: I mean, those algorithms are in my head.
SAGAL: They really know.
LIEDMAN: Yeah.
SAGAL: They know who you are.
LIEDMAN: They're suggestions are spooky.
SAGAL: Well, it's like...
DICKINSON: Like, if you liked "Crystal Cove" (ph)...
LIEDMAN: Yeah.
DICKINSON: ...You would like...
LIEDMAN: "Teletubbies," and it's like...
DICKINSON: Yeah.
LIEDMAN: ...Kind of right.
ADAM BURKE: Yeah.
DICKINSON: Yeah.
SAGAL: Does it have you watching "Teletubbies?"
LIEDMAN: I share an account with my nephew.
SAGAL: I understand.
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DICKINSON: It keeps suggesting...
SAGAL: That's...
LIEDMAN: You're all over the road.
SAGAL: Plausible deniability, congratulations.
LIEDMAN: (Laughter) Yeah.
BURKE: I love the notion that they're going we've noticed that you've watched five Kate Winslet movies in a row. Are you interested in overthrowing the government?
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SAGAL: Gabe, the hottest new restaurant in New York is offering a high-end menu of inventive cuisine, but it's all based on what ingredient?
LIEDMAN: Salt?
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DICKINSON: Ooh...
BURKE: Is it called...
SAGAL: I like it.
BURKE: Is it called Lot's Place?
SAGAL: Yeah. I like it but no, not salt.
LIEDMAN: Yeah, I would like a thousand hints.
SAGAL: Silly rabbit, Trix are for hipsters with expense accounts.
LIEDMAN: Oh cereal.
SAGAL: Breakfast cereal.
LIEDMAN: Breakfast cereal.
SAGAL: Yes.
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LIEDMAN: I would eat there in a second.
SAGAL: Well, let me tell you...
LIEDMAN: I'm going there.
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SAGAL: It's called Kellogg's NYC. And it will be - when it opens, diners - once it opens - will be able to enjoy a variety of upscale cereal creations developed by famous chefs, like Special K with lemon and pistachio. And for the kid cereal lovers, Count foie graschula (ph).
DICKINSON: Oh my.
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LIEDMAN: Now, do they let you turn off all the lights in the restaurant and eat the cereal out of the box with your hands?
DICKINSON: Just out of the box with your hands?
LIEDMAN: Because that's how I think cereal tastes best to me. That's how I like to enjoy it.
SAGAL: According to Andrew Shripka - that is the restaurant's director of marketing - quote, "this is story doing vs. storytelling."
DICKINSON: Oh my...
SAGAL: "It's powerful," unquote.
DICKINSON: Ugh.
SAGAL: Don't you hate it when...
LIEDMAN: Are we still talking about the cereal?
SAGAL: Yeah.
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SAGAL: Don't you hate it when your $15 bowl of story doing gets all soggy from the milk?
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