How Many IHOP Locations Can Someone Visit and Eat Pancakes at During One National Free Pancake Day?

10/25/21 • 36 min

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IHOP's National Free Pancake Day is perfect. However, no one has ever had the perfect National Free Pancake Day. Until now, as Mike Schubert the Modern Muckraker team lay the groundwork for how you can maximize pancake consumption on America's greatest annual tradition.

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Sal’s GitHub project to calculate IHOP density

— Credits —

• Created, Hosted, and Produced by Mike Schubert

• Written by Salvatore Testa and Mike Schubert

• Editing, Scoring, and Sound Design by Brandon Grugle

• Senior Project Management by Fredia Lucas

• Research by Alyssa Esteban

• Theme by Evan Cunningham

• Art by Jessica E. Boyd

• Executive Production by Multitude

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Modern Muckraker is an investigative journalism podcast about pop culture questions no one has dared to ask. With the help of actual, highly-qualified experts, host Mike Schubert will apply excruciatingly thorough research methods and intense scrutiny to get to the bottom of these seemingly unanswerable questions. Season 1 releases new episodes on Mondays from Oct. 11 to Nov. 1 2021. Learn more at https://www.modernmuck.com

Thanks to our experts:

Discussed in this episode:

Sal’s GitHub project to calculate IHOP density

— Credits —

• Created, Hosted, and Produced by Mike Schubert

• Written by Salvatore Testa and Mike Schubert

• Editing, Scoring, and Sound Design by Brandon Grugle

• Senior Project Management by Fredia Lucas

• Research by Alyssa Esteban

• Theme by Evan Cunningham

• Art by Jessica E. Boyd

• Executive Production by Multitude

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