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Sep 11, 2026
Ken BerryHOST
So any, you, you m- if you've never bought a, a stock before, basically you buy shares or stocks in a company, and then you hope and pray that the company does really well, and you do everything in your power to help the company do well and profit.
Ken BerryHOST
So the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics literally owns stock in Pepsi and Coke and Kellogg's.
Ken BerryHOST
Yeah, not joking.
Ken BerryHOST
You can look all this stuff up.
Ken BerryHOST
Did you know that every single one of those organizations, every single, every hospital, every school, every prison, ev- uh, every w- arm of the military has to feed everyone under their care according to the MyPlate USDA guidelines? So the USDA and the FDA, who are literally owned by 20 or 30 different billion-dollar multinational corporations, forces every school, even the smallest school in your community, they have to follow the FDA guidelines, the USDA guidelines, or they will lose their federal funding, and the average small school can't afford to lose their federal funding.
Ken BerryHOST
They'll have to close their doors.
Ken BerryHOST
So every, every child [clears throat] in a public school, and many in private school, has to eat a diet based on ground-up grains, wheat, rice, oats, and corn, high-fructose corn syrup, fruit juice, skim milk, and Coke and Pepsi.
Ken BerryHOST
That's, that's, that's what they have to feed them, or they will get in trouble with the federal government.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Like those old subliminal messaging claims? Exactly.
speaker_0NARRATOR
They revisit that old story about flashing drink Coca-Cola and eat popcorn in movies, then connect it to modern ways retail spaces use music and temperature to shape spending.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Wild.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And didn't they also cover that bizarre pheromone-maxing trend? Yes.
Joe RexrodeHOST
He is him.
Joe RexrodeHOST
This is a Coke bottle.
Joe RexrodeHOST
It's not a crystal ball.
Joe RexrodeHOST
When I woke up this morning, I was feeling
dragonmereHOST
hey is this the manager uh do you know do you know does your manager do they drive do they drive to work in their own car oh man hello hello how can i help you hey is this the manager All right, dude, I just came through the drive-thru.
dragonmereHOST
I got a famous bull combo with the Coke, Pepsi Zero.
dragonmereHOST
Okay.
dragonmereHOST
Fuck, man.
Trent BrownGUEST
But that was not the case here.
Trent BrownGUEST
So, you know, An- Andrews, Tina Andrews was, like I said, 12 years old in the summer of 1969, and this was the kind of town in which, you know, people, uh, kids, young people would walk the streets downtown to movie theaters, to little, um, restaurants where you could get a, a burger and a Coke, downtown to movie theaters and, um, other places of amusement.
Trent BrownGUEST
And so to say that Tina got out in the evening and walked is, is, is, is not to say anything other than that's what kids in that era did, okay? So she and the...
Trent BrownGUEST
To, to, to move to, you know, kind of the meat of the story, one August evening in 1969, she and a friend were out, uh, for at least part of the evening in downtown McComb, and she didn't come home.
16 MINS LATER
Trent BrownGUEST
So the Tiger's Den was a, was a teen hangout.
Trent BrownGUEST
I mean, frankly, Andrews and Lambert were a little young to be there, but it wasn't a bar.
Trent BrownGUEST
It was a kind of place where you would go and drink a Coke and listen to music on, uh, the jukebox and, and, you know, hang out with your friends.
Trent BrownGUEST
And so they, they were, they were down there, downtown there at night.
Orion TarabanHOST
Now, every advertising company understands this intimately.
Orion TarabanHOST
It's like Coca-Cola.
Orion TarabanHOST
Coca-Cola doesn't just sell a high fructose carbonated beverage.
Orion TarabanHOST
Why? Because no one fucking needs that.
Orion TarabanHOST
This is not an organic need that has ever arisen in the heart or mind of any person on the planet.
Tim HaywardGUEST
That has got a 100% recognizable flavor and has done for 150 years.
Tim HaywardGUEST
Your vermouth is pretty much like an alcoholic version of your Coca-Cola, where you don't mess with the recipe no matter what.
Tim HaywardGUEST
But then once people can recognize that brand and they can order it, I think that's a very strong argument that, for example, once again, something like the Manhattan, where you would be going into a bar, and even the very, very best bars, the whiskey wasn't necessarily branded in any particular way, particularly during and after prohibition.
Tim HaywardGUEST
And it would have been very variable.
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Tim HaywardGUEST
My favorite cocktail used to be a gimlet, but you simply, apart from about two weeks of a year, you simply can't get decent limes.
Tim HaywardGUEST
And the lime juice that they produce is just awful.
Tim HaywardGUEST
Rose's orange cordial, which used to be made of Mexican limes and Mexican sugar, is now being taken up by the Coca-Cola company and it's being manufactured to different recipes in different countries.
Tim HaywardGUEST
It doesn't have sweetener in it here as it does in the US, but it still doesn't taste anything like the stuff that Raymond Chandler used to make his 50-50 roses and gin gimlet, which is an amazing thing if you can manage to fake a decent version of roses.
speaker_0HOST
Give me a mechanical example of this gap destroying a product.
speaker_1HOST
Let's look at the beverage industry, specifically the launch of Coca-Cola Life.
speaker_1HOST
Coke is not a naive company.
speaker_1HOST
They have some of the most sophisticated market research on the planet.
speaker_1HOST
They spent fortunes polling consumers asking, hey, do you want a lower-calorie cola sweetened naturally with stevia packaged in a highly sustainable plant-based green bottle?
speaker_1HOST
Maybe they didn't like the slight aftertaste of Stevia.
speaker_1HOST
Maybe it cost 10 cents more.
speaker_1HOST
Regardless of the micro-friction, the consumer who demanded a sustainable, healthy product in a survey happily walked into the store and bought the classic sugar-filled, plastic-wrapped Coke.
John BagwellGUEST
There was a steeple.
John BagwellGUEST
And I hadn't had a lot of food and he, it was interesting, he brought me this little, this Coke, Coke to drink and a little bowl of rice.
John BagwellGUEST
And the rice had little black things that were crawling around in it, but I ate it anyway.
John BagwellGUEST
And my wife will tell you, it took me many, many years to even want to eat rice again, even Mexican rice at a restaurant.
Yasmin GagneHOST
You talked a little bit about, and in your piece you wrote about the fact that so many sort of upstart brands are taking on classic or legacy CPG brands.
Yasmin GagneHOST
Um, you know, Poppi carving into Coke, Magic Spoon carving into Kellogg's.
Yasmin GagneHOST
Tell us a little bit about that and what these sort of bigger incumbent brands can do.
Clint RaineyGUEST
Yeah, that's, I mean, that's, that is the bigger picture that's going on here, right? Um, I, I think the, our collective shift towards wellness, um, specifically in food, has put a target on the backs of, um, you know, outdated in the current kind of trend sense, um, food products and, you know, there's all those that you just listed off, and like, you know, the, uh, coincidence of Goodles was, you know, just, just acquired, um, in the pre- past couple of days.
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