Aug. 25, 2025

Cracker Barrel Rebrands, Trump Hates Fresh Sheets, and Ducks Defeat Detention

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Cracker Barrel ditches grandma’s kitchen vibes for a sleek new logo, and the internet unleashes its full fury. Trump reportedly freaked out over clean sheets, locked his own bedroom door against the Secret Service, and possibly hides the Epstein Files under his mattress. MSNBC accuses him of ankle concealment, and the White House hilariously plays along. Meanwhile, a federal judge shuts down Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention center… because you can’t build a prison in a swamp and pretend it’s not federal.

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Callaroga Shark media from Cracker Barrel, where the dumplings are woke.

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Now this is ballot, That's right. At least now I

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won't have to play that stupid peg game on the table.

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Let's hit this. I'm Patrick Guttfield and Cracker Barrel unveiled

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their new logo and branding as part of their All

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the More campaign, and the Internet is having what you

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might call a barrel of reactions, and not the good kind.

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The restaurant chain decided to modernize their classic yellow and

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brown logo, going for a sleeker, more contemporary look. Now

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I've seen corporate rebrands before, but this one has customers

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more fired up than a wood burning stove. In December,

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the comments on their Instagram are absolutely brutal. One customer wrote,

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I have no idea why companies feel the need to

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change their logo when the one they have had for

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decades works so well. At least leave the barrel in

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the logo. But my favorite response came from someone who

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said the new logo gives them golden corl vibes. Ouch.

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That's restaurant equivalent of saying your makeover makes you look

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like your less attractive cousin. Even country music star Jelly

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Roll weighed in, posting man the Saint it. Y'all. When

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Jelly Roll, a man who literally named himself after a pastry,

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is critiquing your food establishment's choices, you know you've struck

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a nerve over on Reddit's design for him. They're dissecting

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this rebrand with surgical precision. One user noted the barrel

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is hardly a barrel at all. I understand the desire

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for modern rebrands to scale back on the detailing, but

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this has just gone way too far. The logo change

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is part of a bigger overhaul that includes refreshed menus

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and remodeled restaurants with simpler interiors and less rustic charm.

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Their chief marketing officer, Sarah Moore says, they're honoring our

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legacy while bringing fresh energy, thoughtful craftsmanship, and heartfelt hospitality.

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Cracker Barrel built their entire identity on being the place

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that looks exactly like your grandmother's kitchen, complete with random

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antiques hanging on every wall. Now they want to go modern.

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That's like McDonald's deciding to serve their big max on

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fine china, or Trump actually releasing the Epstein Files. Michael Wolf,

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President Trump's biographer, just dropped some behind the scenes details

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about life in the Trump White House that are more

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revealing than a hotel room keycard malfunction. Wolf shared that

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Trump had a full blown confrontation with the Secret Service

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over installing a lock on his bedroom door. Now, when

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the people whose job it is to take a bullet

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for you are telling you not to lock your door,

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maybe listen to them. But Trump insisted on the lock

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until the Secret Service literally removed it themselves. Wolf also

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revealed that Trump once had a fit when White House

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domestic staff changed his sheets. His sheets. I mean, most

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people would be thrilled to have someone else do their laundry.

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Trump apparently treated fresh Linen's like a personal attack. What

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exactly was he worried about that the thread count wasn't

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high enough that they used fabric softener instead of starch.

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Does he keep the Epstein files hidden under his mattress

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that they would notice Milania has never slept in his bed.

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Trump unleashed a classic all caps truth social meltdown after

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MSNBC suggested he's been strategically hiding his swollen ankles from

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public view, as if they are the Epstein files. The

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seventy nine year old president went full keyboard warrior, writing

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MSNBC is doing so poorly in the ratings that they

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are looking to change their name in order to get

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away from the stench of their fake news product. He

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also called Comcast CEO Dopey Brian Roberts and said the

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company is hopelessly and aimlessly flailing in the wind. Nothing

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says I'm totally not bothered by ankle comments like a

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paragraph long rant in all capital letters. The controversy started

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when MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell pointed out that Trump did something

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unusual during his meeting with European leaders. He stayed seated

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behind the resolute desk instead of moving to the typical

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spot in front of the fireplace. O'Donnell suggested this was

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to prevent anyone from comparing Trump's ankles to those of

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the French President, German Chancellor or British Prime minister. But

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Trump wasn't so lucky during his meeting with Vladimir Putin

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in Alaska, where both leaders were seated in chairs out

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in the open. O'Donnell noted that Putin's seventy two year

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old ankles showed none of the mileage of Trump's swollen ones.

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The White House seems to be playing along with this

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ankle hiding strategy. They released an official photo of Trump's

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meeting with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, where, and I'm not

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making this up, a model of Air Force one is

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perfectly positioned to block Trump's ankles from view. Look, if

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you want us to stop talking about your ankles, then

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release the Epstein files to distract us. A federal judge

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just shut down Florida's immigration detention center in the Everglades,

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nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz. What the judge should have done was

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shut down the podcast Alligator Alcatraz from Calaroga Shark Media,

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whose idea was that the detention center was the nation's

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first state run facility for federal immigration detainees, which sounds

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impressive until you realize it was built in one of

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America's most sensitive ecosystems. The facility sits in the middle

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of protected Everglades's land, surrounded by wetlands that serve as

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habitat for endangered species, including the Florida panther. The legal

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battle came down to a classic case of federal versus

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state authority. The Trump administration argued they didn't need an

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environmental review because while the center houses federal detainees, it's

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run by the state. Judge Williams wasn't buying this shell game,

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writing that federal immigration enforcement was the key driver of

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the center's construction. She even quoted the old saying, if

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it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and

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looks like a duck, then it's a duck. But duck

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Alcatraz doesn't sound intimidating. Honestly, if you told me I

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could live out my day on an island surrounded by ducks,

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I might say yes. In this case, the Duck was

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a federally funded detention center that somehow thought it could

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dodge federal environmental laws through creative paperwork. The judge noted

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that both governments offered little to no evidence why building

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in the Everglades was necessary, adding that in their haste

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to construct the detention camp, the state did not consider

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alternative locations. Portions of today's show were made with the

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help of AI and Ducks. Release the Epstein files. You

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cowered