1 00:00:00,020 --> 00:00:04,940 The comedy4cast Network. Let's dog-ear that for now. 2 00:00:06,460 --> 00:00:14,100 Oh, hi! Clinton here. Welcome to the Dog Days of Pumpkin Spice Season. 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:21,260 Yes, August got away from me because life. So this is my unofficial extension of Dog Days. 4 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:26,100 For more information on that, go to dogdaysofpodcasting.com. 5 00:00:26,100 --> 00:00:30,860 I always use Dog Days to give you 31 episodes full of some interesting, 6 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:33,620 yet totally useless, odd news. 7 00:00:33,940 --> 00:00:37,920 And this year, to celebrate the platinum anniversary of comedy4cast, 8 00:00:38,100 --> 00:00:44,840 or PAC for short, I'll end each Dog Days episode with part of a classic comedy4cast episode. 9 00:00:44,900 --> 00:00:49,560 So let's get started with Odd News PAC! 10 00:00:50,340 --> 00:00:55,160 The price of a cup of coffee. It's a pretty common way for marketers to talk 11 00:00:55,160 --> 00:00:57,620 about the price of something they want you to buy. 12 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:00,720 They have you equate it with something you buy all the time. 13 00:01:00,900 --> 00:01:05,300 You probably pay that much for a cup of coffee. But you have to be careful. 14 00:01:05,660 --> 00:01:10,480 What cup of coffee are they talking about? One from your local coffee shop? A diner? 15 00:01:10,660 --> 00:01:15,020 Because if not, if what they're talking about is a cup of coffee from Dubai's 16 00:01:15,020 --> 00:01:19,500 Roasters Gourmet Coffee Shop, you might want to hold onto that wallet of yours. 17 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,340 Or your purse. Okay, fine, your tap-to-pay app. 18 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:28,140 Because recently, at Roaster's flagship location on Boulevard Downtown Dubai, 19 00:01:28,500 --> 00:01:33,120 a staff member had the nerve-wracking responsibility of preparing and pouring 20 00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:38,240 a rather costly cup of java made from Panamanian geisha beans. 21 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,980 You've never heard of those? I'm not surprised. 22 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:47,160 They're from the world-renowned Hacienda La Esmeralda in Panama and are some 23 00:01:47,160 --> 00:01:50,380 of the world's finest and rarest coffee beans— 24 00:01:50,750 --> 00:01:54,390 But there simply isn't that much of it grown each year. And if you want some 25 00:01:54,390 --> 00:01:59,130 of the freshest Panamanian geisha beans, well, pack your bags. 26 00:01:59,390 --> 00:02:04,610 Because Dubai Roasters purchased the entire 20-kilogram lot during the Best 27 00:02:04,610 --> 00:02:11,930 of Panama 2025 auction held earlier this fall, at the cost equivalent of $604,000. 28 00:02:13,610 --> 00:02:16,730 I hope that included free shipping. But I digress. 29 00:02:16,949 --> 00:02:20,850 Back to the price of a cup of coffee. For this particular cup of coffee, 30 00:02:21,050 --> 00:02:25,250 the Panamanian geisha beans were brewed using the V60 method, 31 00:02:25,470 --> 00:02:29,770 which, I know, sounds like they put it into a hot rod engine, but no. 32 00:02:29,970 --> 00:02:34,870 It means the barista slowly poured heated hot water over the beans that had 33 00:02:34,870 --> 00:02:37,570 been ground and placed inside a cone-shaped filter. 34 00:02:37,750 --> 00:02:43,270 The barista varied the pour speed to regulate the release of bean flavor, as one tends to do. 35 00:02:43,470 --> 00:02:47,330 Of course, that's after they had run steaming hot water through the paper filter 36 00:02:47,330 --> 00:02:50,790 to remove any residue that could have affected the flavor of the coffee. 37 00:02:50,990 --> 00:02:55,030 And who out there isn't tired of doing that exact same thing every morning with 38 00:02:55,030 --> 00:02:56,590 a good old home coffee maker? 39 00:02:56,790 --> 00:03:03,449 Am I right? The coffee was then poured into a handcrafted Ido Kiriko crystal glass from Japan. 40 00:03:03,790 --> 00:03:07,810 There were some kanji symbols on the cup, which probably translated as, 41 00:03:07,990 --> 00:03:10,570 I hate Mondays. But I digress. 42 00:03:10,930 --> 00:03:16,830 Again. I probably need some coffee. But what was the price of this cup of coffee. 43 00:03:17,030 --> 00:03:20,570 Was it more than a cocoa mocha ice signature latte from Dunkin'? 44 00:03:20,570 --> 00:03:23,890 A Starbucks Vente pistachio latte with a shot of espresso? 45 00:03:24,270 --> 00:03:32,270 Well, just a bit. The cup of Panamanian geisha coffee came in at 2,500 dirhmas, or in U.S. 46 00:03:32,710 --> 00:03:36,370 Dollars, a paltry $680. 47 00:03:37,970 --> 00:03:41,910 So, if that's what the marketer thinks you pay for a cup of coffee, 48 00:03:42,130 --> 00:03:44,290 you can't afford whatever it is they're selling. 49 00:03:44,510 --> 00:03:47,130 But hang on, we're not quite done. 50 00:03:47,390 --> 00:03:53,610 Because, oddly enough, another Dubai cafe was at the same Best of Panama 2025 auction. 51 00:03:53,890 --> 00:03:57,330 Now, sure, they couldn't snap up those Panamanian geisha beans. 52 00:03:57,510 --> 00:04:02,690 That upstart Roaster's cafe took them all. So, they did the next best thing. 53 00:04:02,850 --> 00:04:08,430 They bought the entire lot of Nido 7 geisha coffee beans. a washed varietal 54 00:04:08,430 --> 00:04:15,550 bean that just so happened to have scored the highest judged rating ever, 98 points out of 100. 55 00:04:15,950 --> 00:04:21,910 And now, Jullith, the Dubai cafe that purchased the beans, has put Nido 7 Geisha 56 00:04:21,910 --> 00:04:28,810 on their menu. And you can have a cup for the low, low price of $980. 57 00:04:29,970 --> 00:04:35,110 But that's okay. No, really, it is. Because after all, it's no more than just 58 00:04:35,110 --> 00:04:36,490 the price of a cup of coffee. 59 00:04:37,430 --> 00:04:43,410 And now, let's celebrate 20 years of comedy forecast with this classic clip. 60 00:04:43,649 --> 00:04:47,290 This clip is from an episode released in June of 2013. 61 00:04:47,730 --> 00:04:50,450 It's an advertisement for products. 62 00:04:52,100 --> 00:04:58,200 Attention. Men over 40, women over 50, and men over 60. Be honest and answer 63 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:59,740 this one simple question. 64 00:04:59,980 --> 00:05:02,820 Have you lost that? Are you finding it harder to? 65 00:05:03,060 --> 00:05:06,100 Does it seem like you can't, even though you used to? 66 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:11,360 It's a known fact that as men get older, women lose more than 90% of their reserves. 67 00:05:11,660 --> 00:05:16,200 But now, you don't have to. Thanks to a revolutionary new breakthrough in time-tested 68 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,660 homeopathic remedies, you can have it again. 69 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:21,060 That's right. Never again be saddled with. 70 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:23,320 Go to bed or wake up feeling. 71 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:27,200 These all natural products are. And the FDA. 72 00:05:27,580 --> 00:05:32,140 And as part of a special promotion, we're giving away free 90-day supplies. 73 00:05:32,399 --> 00:05:36,220 You just pay. Sound too good to be true? Don't wait another minute. 74 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:43,600 One simple call is all you need. Operators are standing by to take. Call 1-800-555-6789. 75 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:50,200 That's 1-800-555-6789. And if you call, we'll double your order. 76 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,660 That's like getting twice as much. You just pay separate. 77 00:05:53,940 --> 00:05:59,360 Call 1-800-555-6789. That's 1-800-555-6789. 78 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:05,140 Once again, 1-800-555-6789. Stop feeling. Call today. 79 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:10,940 That about wraps it up for today's Odd News PAC. 80 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,820 But first, a shout out to the comedy4cast Patreon patrons, 81 00:06:15,140 --> 00:06:19,920 including our producer-level patrons, Paul Barrie from the A Window to the Magic 82 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:25,060 podcast and Kirby Bartlett-Sloan from the 20-megabyte Doctor Who podcast. 83 00:06:25,580 --> 00:06:27,200 You too can support comedy4cast 84 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:32,360 and get episodes before everyone else for as little as $2 a month. 85 00:06:32,580 --> 00:06:38,820 Just search for comedy4cast, all one word with the number 4, on Patreon.com. 86 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:46,460 Script, voices, and original music by me, Clinton Alvord, copyright 2025, all rights reserved. 87 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,040 Talk to you again next time. But for now, that's it. We're done, 88 00:06:51,100 --> 00:06:52,800 done, done, done, done. Bye-bye.