- so red bull has beenin the news lately. have you heard about this,what's going on? isn't this crazy?some people have heard of it. i just heardabout this today. there was this-- this is a class-action lawsuit, and now they owe$13 million to everyonewho's ever had a red bull, so... [laughter]
your money troublesare over, all of youwho have had-- [cheers and applause] but when you divide itbetween all the customers, it works outto about $10 apiece, so... ah, 10 big onesare coming to you. here's why red bullwas sued. their sloganis "red bull gives you wings," so someone sued themfor false advertising,
because it doesn'tactually give you wings. come on, america.this is why china is winning. what is wrongwith people? someone took that phrase "red bull gives you wings"literally, so-- and this is true.i'm not making this up. so i wanted to talk to oneof the people behind the lawsuit. here he is,hank horrman.
please come on out, hank. hello--hello--hello, hank. how are you?- nice to meet you, ellen. - that seems likea weird way-- that your armswere broken like that. tell every--what happened to you? - well, i heardthat red bull gives you wings, so i drank a red bull,and i tried to fly. - yeah.
you thought-- you thoughtit would give you wings. - i did,but it didn't, so i felland broke my finger. - well, that--that doesn't-- that's a lot going onfor breaking a finger. - well, yeah,but since it didn't work, i drank another red bulland tried again. - why wouldyou try it again?
- you know, i was just wearinga pair of nikes, and i said,"just do it." - so you havethis problem with a lotof advertising slogans, do you? - oh, yeah.oh, yeah. i'm suing m&ms becausethey melted in my hand. i'm suing exxonbecause i tried to put an actual tigerin my tank. - oh, no.
- and i'm suinglens crafters 'cause their slogan is"glasses in about an hour," and guess how long it took themto make mine. - i don't know.- 46 minutes! - oh.anything else? - yeah, i'm also suingthe apple company. - really?did your iphone bend? - oh, no, no, no, no,not apple computers. the companythat makes apples.
turns out an apple a daydoes not keep the doctor away. [applause] - that's not reallya company. they grow on trees. you can't take those slogansliterally. i thought everybody knew that advertisersexaggerate, right? - oh, you would say that, ellen. i'm suing you too.- oh, what did i do?
- well, at the beginningof all your shows, it says, "let's havea little fun today." - right. - and when i watch,i have a lot of fun. - well... i'm glad. you have fun,so i'm glad about that. - yeah, well, you'll be hearingfrom my lawyer. - okay.
are you leaving?- yeah, i'm getting out of here. - all right,maybe somebody should come-- - a little help,please. - somebody should help himout of here. thank you.all right.
Just got my check for $500
Sometimes people don't believe me when I tell them about how much you can make taking paid surveys online...
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