David Rosenthal
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40,888 appearances
64 recordings
4 series
first heard Aug 2022
last heard 14 Sep
David Rosenthal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And because, Ben, like you're saying, they're trying to be so cheap, they could buy circus tent material like canvas for orange circus tents online.
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And use it as their signage and save money on that.
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And that's how orange became the Home Depot color.
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Perfect.
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Which is totally brilliant.
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I mean, it's distinctive.
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Orange apron stands out.
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It's distinctive.
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It's great.
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Yeah.
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So that leads right into the opening of the first two Home Depots in Atlanta on June 22nd, 1979.
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They open two stores same day.
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And this all happened like pretty fast.
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This is just over one year from when Bernie and Arthur and Ron get fired from Handy Dan.
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Yep, yep, yep.
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There's some pretty fun legends around all this, around the first store openings.
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The first of which is that they decide they're going to go big, blow a lot of the budget on a huge newspaper ad in the weekend paper.
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That week to really drive how you want to drive homeowners to your store.
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Well, weekend newspaper delivery highly correlated with homeownership.
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Yep.
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