Pickle Fees, Dorito Greed, and Family Vlogger Math | Ep. 323

In this episode:

• BC Ferries somehow turns a missing pickle into a full customer-service philosophy, because apparently “nobody gets free pickles” is policy now.
• Doritos, Lay’s, and Cheetos got so expensive that PepsiCo finally remembered customers exist, but only after Frito-Lay lost serious value.
• Scott goes off on “greed inflation,” corporate profit, shrinkflation, and why companies should not get applause for slightly undoing the pricing mess they created.
• Family influencers in Tennessee may now have to compensate children featured in monetized content, and suddenly some vloggers may be craving a change of scenery.
• Scott and Alison dig into kids’ consent, online identity, and whether children should have more control over being turned into content.
• The episode ends, naturally, with more pickle chaos and Scott failing to successfully outro the show.

Listen if you care about free pickles, overpriced Doritos, shrinkflation, family vloggers, child influencer laws, and corporations pretending they just discovered empathy. 

 

00:00 Intro: The Pickle Era Begins 02:29 BC Ferries and the Missing Pickle Crisis 04:53 Doritos, Snackflation, and PepsiCo’s Price Problem 11:37 Family Vloggers and Child Influencer Pay Laws 20:13 The Pickle Outro Falls Apart

 

Articles:

Pickles https://globalnews.ca/news/11774058/pickles-bc-ferries-white-spot-viral/

Overpriced Doritos https://fortune.com/2026/04/07/pepsico-frito-lay-chips-food-and-drink-inflation-consumer-products-doritos-cheetos-tostitos/

Family Influencer laws https://www.wsmv.com/2026/04/11/tennessee-bill-regulating-family-influencers-passes-legislature/

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/child-influencer-earnings-new-laws/3663211/