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The Gaming Historian is back, by popular demand! Norman agreed to do another episode with us on one condition: that we talk about food. We agreed. (Let\u2019s face it\u2026 we\u2019re in no position to be turning down internet celebrities.)

Brandi starts us off with a finger-lickin\u2019-good story about Burger King\u2019s chicken fries campaign. Everyone loved the commercials. They featured an aggressive, masked band called \u201cCoq Roq.\u201d There was just one issue. \xa0Coq Roq bore a striking resemblance to the actual band Slipknot. Slipknot was not amused, and neither were their fans.

Then Norm tells us about his favorite legal battle of all time. It all started when the Kansas City Royals\u2019 terrifying mascot, Sluggerrr, accidentally hit a fan in the eye with a foil-wrapped hot dog. Hold on tight, folks. This one goes all the way to the Missouri Supreme Court.

Kristin wraps things up with a tale about a group of cattlemen who sued Oprah Winfrey. Initially, it looked like Oprah would lose. The trial would take place in the heart of cattle country. And her jury was all-white. All over town, people proudly displayed bumper stickers that read, \u201cThe only mad cow in Amarillo is Oprah.\u201d But if there\u2019s one universal truth in this world, it\u2019s that no one and we mean NO ONE is immune to Oprah Winfrey\u2019s charm.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.

In this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\n\u201cThe time Oprah battled with the Texas beef industry,\u201d The Texas Tribune
\n\n\u201cHow the west was won over,\u201d Texas Monthly

In this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\n\u201cSlipknot\u2019s Burger King Beef\u201d thesmokinggun.com
\n\n\u201cThe 7 Most Bizarre Fast Food Industry Lawsuits\u201d by Ian Fortey, cracked.com

In this episode, Norman pulled from:
\n\n\u201cJury clears Royals once again in Sluggerrr hot dog toss that ended badly,\u201c The Kansas City Star
\n\n\u201cMan alleging Sluggerrr hurt his eye with a hot dog gets another chance with Royals lawsuit\u201c The Kansas City Star
\n\n\u201cTestimony is heard a second time in lawsuit involving a Sluggerrr hot dog toss\u201d The Kansas City Star

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