253: Halloween Trivia: Marketing Fails
10/8/20251 hr 9 min
It's time for some seasonal trivia about misguided Halloween promotional campaigns! Gentle content warning for this one- they're 2000s/2010s style corporate misfires, and they go exactly as well as you'd expect.
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