Crystal Pepsi

And I say shit because it isn't just sports wagers anymore.

Prediction markets kinda let you bet on anything: what a politician says on TV, the color of the Gatorade dumped on the winning football coach, if they're gonna bring back Crystal Pepsi.

Prediction markets have supercharged gambling in recent years, but it's a vice as old as the hills themselves.

That's where today's story, Hail Mary, comes in.

I put money on the outcome of that story.

No, I didn't put my money on the young narrator turning out just like his old man.

I bet that at the end of the story, they'd bring back Crystal Pepsi.

Oh, Crystal Pepsi, where did you go? Why have you stayed away? And why do you haunt me so? Well, Hot Heads, that's our show.

Everyone gets to show off their drinks.

Crystal Pepsi.

You've got your caffeine.

I've got a Zima in the cooler.

No one liked Coke, too.

Crystal Pepsi, maybe we can talk Coke, too.

Get out of here.

We don't do that new Coke around here.

I'm an idiot.

Crystal Pepsi is coming back next year.

In May of next year, coming back in full sugar and zero sugar.

That is a must.

There's a theory now.

Did, did Eddie do that, like, New Coke so that everybody would embrace Classic Coke? Do you believe that New Coke was a conspiracy so that people would surge to buy Classic Coke 'cause Pepsi was gaining on them?

I was too young when that went down.

Well, there was a theory that, you know, 'cause they said New Coke.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And nobody liked New Coke, and then they announced, "We're bringing back Coke Classic." Everybody's like, "Ah." And, and it surged past Pepsi.

And somebody was like, "Oh, was that a plan all along?"

Uh, this is true.

It, it is a test market state, so, like, that, that's a spot where they had, like, Crystal Pepsi, for instance.

Hmm.

Yeah.