Editor’s note, we pulled these dictations off of the Notecorder DP-311. While the sound quality is good, Rick’s was apparently inebriated when he dictated these. As noted by brackets like these [ ], we have cleaned up the English a bit, and removed several profanities. These were pulled at short notice. We, the staff would like encourage a general boycott of both Frito Lay products and also Froneri products. While we are happy with the quality products that Frito Lay produces, we urge the company to work with all of their employee unions to encourage employee stake positions with the company, leading toward 51% employee-ownership of the company by the year 2040. As for Froneri (which includes Dryer’s Ice Cream) we believe that recent decision to rebrand “Eskimo Pie” ice cream bars as “Edy’s Pie” is a slap in the face to Native North Americans and First Nations tribal members. The originators of Eskimo Pie and its current eventual owners Froneri have made upwards of $3.6 billion revenue (adjusted for inflation) on the Eskimo-brand of products. This is wealth that they acquired not just because of the deliciousness of the ice cream, but also because of the exploitation of First Nations Tribes. We believe that this unlicensed branding of First Nations people is worth one-third of the profit on the $3.6 billion, which to our calcuations using industry-standard profit-cost models, comes to $400 million for the life of the product until it was now rebranded to Edy’s Pie, and which can be paid to First Nations tribal programs and business development. Previous endorsements of Eskimo Pie brand products by First Nations actors were neither authorized nor ratified. Our calculations followed the thirds, thus one third of U.S.A. sales since Russel Stover’s original branding of the product to 2021, and one-third of the “whiskey-drinking money” to the First Nations tribes that own the likeness and license of the “Eskimo-brand.”
[Tuesday is Prince Spaghetti Day.]
[I lose my Glass one day a week for the sabbath. It’s kind of like my tithe, it makes me feel good to lose it, as broke as I am, I feel like my faith takes a tiny bit of precedence, once per week, over my poverty and depression.]
[Did I ever tell you about the company I started with a proctologist from Los Angeles?]
[I just ordered my third used engine computer for my truck. The first one didn’t work, I sent it back. The second one didn’t work, going to send that back, now the third. If this doesn’t work, I have to buy the new one from the auto parts store, it’s $400. The used ones are less than half as much, but apparently I have to go through a bunch of them before I find one that works.]
[It’s strange, because even though my truck has a Ford Engine, it still seems to have some unique engine control strategies that are unique to the Mazda. Really odd, these U.S.-Japanese and U.S.-Italy partnerships. It’s almost as if the partnerships are specifically designed to exploit taxation loopholes. And I’m fine with that. I think that from an engineering perspective, mutli-nation efforts can set the bar for high levels of expertise.]
Editor’s note: The best laid plans of mice and men … there was so much profanity, racism, sexism, agism, antisemitism, and anti-Catholicism that we unfortunately needed to edit everything. We hope we have maintained the gist of Yukon’s words, if not the inebriated recitation of them.