December 11, 2025 • 31 mins
We're talking cool scars, and no one has a cooler scar than KFI tech director The Foosh, following his dangerous car accident last August that nearly resulted in his arm being amputated. Video game chain store GameStop had a national Trade Anything Day, in which customers could bring in anything smaller than a breadbox and trade it for $5 in store credit. There were more than 80,000 trade-ins. Remember the cola wars of the 1970s and ’80s? It was Coca Cola vs. Pepsi, and Coke nearly got trounced when the brand changed its recipe to release New Coke in the mid-’80s. Now, a 120-year-old cola is making a comeback. That sweet drink? Royal Crown Cola! Secretary of State Marco Rubio is under pressure to admit we’ve made UFO contact.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right, the coolest scar you've got? What is the
coolest scar?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I have two very impressive scars. They're tiny though, and
kind of hard to say, but they're my breast implant scars.
Those are my most impressive scars.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Hello. Hey see, I knew.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I knew that you pervy old men were going to
do that. But you don't know. She could be like
a breast cancer survivor that got in plants and that's
why the scars are impressive. Oh that's true. Or she's
an actress and those are impressive scars.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
It could go either way.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
But before we jump on perviness, we just gotta be
a little bit just to just just take a beat.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Well, she and I have something in common.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Okay, all right, Mark, will you come get the producer.
Just get it out of the way, go ahead and
just do it. And because of it, you just come
get the producer. Just get her out of here. This
is unbelievable. Go ahead, let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
What No, don't give her the floor.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I'm not saying anything.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Threw him out. Don't give her the don't give her
the floor. Don't give her the floor. I think we
know what she's talking about. I wanted to bring this
up for those that were not listening yesterday. So our
beloved Stiff Fusche was in a horrific car accident.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
But was it August? Yes, okay August.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And the story, which I'm sure you've heard before, but
if if you haven't heard, if you haven't heard this,
I'll give a quick one, is that Fush is the
tech director for Tim Conway Junior and then the evening
show as well, and Foush didn't show up for work.
And that's not like him. He's not somebody that misses
shifts and doesn't call. He's not one of those no show,
no call guys that you used to work with at Chipotle.
(01:43):
So he's a guy that's dependable, reliable, and likable too.
Everybody loves Foosh. So Fush doesn't show up and that
that sent out alarm bell. So then the people at
the station are calling around trying to figure out what's
going on. And I know they called your family, right,
and then they know he went to Did I have
the story right?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I mean that was way later, but yeah, okay, So
then it was one of those like, do we start
calling the hospitals, and yeah, that's that's what happened. Started
calling hospitals and then asking for for obviously Foush.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Nobody knew who that was.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And then they said, okay, well is it Stefan And
they were like, oh no, we have everybody that by anything.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What about like a John Doe?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And then the you know, video came out later of
his car on fire. Been a horrific car accident, car
rolled over landed on his arm, tour his arm all up.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
The hell?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Uh found out what last week? As somebody finally revealed
to you that they were considering amputating.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
It, they suared it. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh is that something that they wait for you to
wake up and then ask permission on or is that.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Something they just do? I think they probably if they
have to, they just do it. But I mean they
were They never said anything to me until literally like
two weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Gosh.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
So that was that was shocking. I even because even
my parents didn't know. They didn't tell any of us.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So yesterday Fush comes back, first day back after what
a dozen surgeries or whatever?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Right, and.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's you got a punch card. Yeah, uh, and then yeah,
just forever in the hospital. I mean it was so bad.
His ID, his phone, everything was lost. When the car
caught fire, some good Samaritans came by. They lifted the
car up, tipped it up on its side so that
they could pull him out before the car caught fire.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Had they not done that, he would have it would.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Have been pretty probably wouldn't be horrible. I mean, not
only would you not have been here, but we would
have all had nightmares about it. I mean, it would
have been horrific, which is why I asked you last
night if you ever have like PTSD nightmares yourself. But
you're you're a remarkably resilient person and and people need
to know that. I genuinely love Fush and we were
we were talking earlier today off air, and I just
(03:51):
I love this guy to death. So I was thinking,
you said something yesterday that I hadn't heard before, and
and I didn't realize that. What's that while you were
in the While you were there in the car, you
vividly remember looking on the inside of your arm like
it was so flayed open. You were looking like it.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Was a horrormle it. Basically, yeah, that's why they call
it to gloving. It completely took off the skin, so
I could see my tendons, my bones, And one of
the guys that was there is like, yeah that he
you know, confirmed it. He's like, yeah, could see inside
your arm too. It was just unbelievable, Like you couldn't
believe that that was real. And I think the adrenaline
was running so high or so, you know, so much
(04:32):
that I didn't feel any pain. I was just like
and I was just in awe at what I was
looking at.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
The The gloving injuries are the ones that those wig
me out more than anything, I mean, just just the
idea of it, which is basically it's like being skinned
alive essentially feel bad. Yeah, that's basically yeah. So I
was thinking about that, and I was thinking, what the
what's the scarring? Like now you wear a sleeve, so
so we don't see your arm right now.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Well, I mean it's yeah, I mean it's for well, yeah,
it's for vanity purposes, you know, just I don't want
to know.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I'm just kidding. I mean, that's part of it.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
But it also has to be protected from the sun,
so it's it's still exposed skin, so it really has
to be covered up all the time. So yeah, so
like even when I go to bed, I don't wear
the sleeve because it's a little bit tight. I'll put
I'll put a rap on it, or my mom will
help me with it, or my dad whoever's around, and yeah,
it still has to be completely covered.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yo, the best. I'm so lucky. It's unbelievable. What's this?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
What's the scar look like on that? I mean you
said you you got some grafts on there, and they
did some artificial stuff as well. Is it very Frankensteiny
or is it all pretty uniform?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
But if you were, Yeah, if you see the whole thing,
it does kind of look that's actually I've never heard
it that way.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
That's actually the best way to describe it.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
It is kind of Frankensteiny because when you look at
the wrist, it's a little bit puffy. Because she said
something about the the I forgot what the tendons are,
but they didn't because of what happened, it's always going
to stay like that.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
And I was like, yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
But there's like a kind of a bump from my
wrist as it goes down into my forearm to my elbow.
So if you just look at like the furt like
from my elbow to the forearm, it just looks like
a really bad scar. But then you go all the way,
then it looks like, oh, it looks like someone put
this thing together with a bunch of laying stuff, the
skin laying around, which is kind of true because he
(06:24):
used my own skin and synthetic skin. So it just
looks like a fifth grader, yeah, crazy with it kind
of does because of the way it like the way
it's it was cut and the way it came off.
It doesn't it doesn't have a perfect uniformed you know,
not that scars are uniform, but you know you.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Got to use that to pick up chicks, man, you do.
I mean, if you need a ring man on that,
I will. I will go out and I'll wing man
for you and I'll just be like, hey, check out
my buddy's scar.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
This is the coolest thing you're ever gonna see. Yeah,
I'm telling you.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
You're like, you're like some point that's gonna get you
some You're like Barney from Heiman Mother, Have you met.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Exactly what that's my goal? That is exactly what my
goal is. Uh yeah, just wow, it's so great. And
I was thinking about that after we got off the
air last night. I was like, oh, man, I bet
he's got like the coolest car. Although I think we
found the winner of the coolest scar. So somebody called
and they said they had the open heart surgery.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So they had the zipper. Right. A woman called him.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
She said she's got two small scars from her breast implants,
which could be because she was like a breast cancer
survivor for all of you perverts out there.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Then you've got Nikki who's like, I've got those scars too,
but I never had breast cancer.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Right, So but I think I think we've got the winner.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Chris. My circumcision scar.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
My circumcision scar is the most impressive scar that I've got.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Bred Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
So sorry, George, that's a voice we have dueling O
minds my circumcision scar.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Actually, he kind of sounded almost like, who was it
last night that we found orson Wells's.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Orson Wells drinking? Yeah, that's like almost long.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
A photo of the circumcision scar that's between me and
my evening.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Hey, it's time for some news. I think. Just look
at the time. Listen random dudes, Please don't send me
d picts.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I don't need it. I'm good, I'm good, I'm very
much all right. Stop I walked into that one, all right.
You know how you stash random junk in your closet
and you swear you're gonna deal with that someday. So
the day has come, and then the day is gone
and you're gonna have to wait until the next time
it comes wrong. But for the people that did take
advantage of the trade, anything day, absolute chaos was unleashed.
(08:52):
Something you're gonna be glad that you missed. What they
traded is next. I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Remember when you're on that app, you can hit that
talkback button.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Quessians, comments, quips, quotes, criticisms, compliments, anything you like. Feel
free fired in there. I take a look at every
single one of those talkbacks that comes through. Not all
of them make it under the air, but I do
read or listen to every single one of those. We
have transcribed transcriptions so I can read some of what's
in there. Kind of like your iPhone when you leave
a voicemail. Uh, so we were talking about the coolest
scars because Fush has got like Franken arm and I'm
(09:25):
telling you that's that is gonna get him some That's
that's gonna get you some action at some point, my friend. Okay,
at some point, somebody's gonna be like, what is this?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Because that scar is a story. Yeah, it is. It
is a story.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Well, it's kind of funny because I can reference them
to the KTLA story.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I can actually see what happened.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Oh, you should just carry little like, just carry a video,
keep that video on your phone.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
What happened to be like.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
We turned out to a beloved radio personality at KFI. Yep, exactly,
that's it from the talkbacks.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Heyw it's Vernon Redondo. I'm stalking you.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Oh okay, no, I'm not.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Anyways, I have a scar I got from surgery I
had when I was young. I was twenty four. My
abdomen was opened from my sternum down to my belly button.
And that was a a young surgeon and he did
a horrible job with the cittures. Wow, so it's not
as bad, but it took a long time to get over.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
If it's a straight line, though, that makes a difference
because I've got a I got a belly scar, I
had had a bad infection, I'd have parts of my
guts taken out. And it is it is not straight.
It is all over the place. It's disgusting, it's vile.
I'm hideous. But uh but if you got a straight line,
then the people are like, oh, that's cool, what happened?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
And then chicks will trace it with their finger, like
what happened?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Ye?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
I can't wait till iHeart has a shirts and skins
basketball day.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I'll send you pictures if you want any.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Pretty please don't not good not not those, not the
the other one though.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
No, I had my I had my intestines hanging out
for a few months there. That's not a good look.
I got a footo of that if you want me
to send it to jeez. Yeah, that's pretty sexy.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Can we know?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No, I'm not a cancer survivor. It was absolute fanity.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Okay, by all right, then we're then all right, boys
have at it?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Hello, hello, all right?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Oh god, good for her, though, I mean the fact
that she was, you know, listening enough to be like.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I did it for a reason, like I'd try to
be respectful because I don't know the reason. Yeah right,
and she's like, oh no, I have had it. Boy, yeah,
it's so great. That's why I have him. Good for her?
That is excellent. Uh So you know the game Stop.
Are you familiar with GameStop? Game stops to video game
(12:00):
store basically?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Right? They became a bit of a meme stock a
few years back.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So game Stop was trying to drum up some business,
so they put together what they called Trade Anything Day,
and there were certain parameters, but they were pretty loose,
like you can't trade human organs, for instance, right, but
generally anything you've got they'll take. And then they were
giving people a five dollar store credit. So I mean, really,
(12:26):
all they're doing is that given a five dollars off coupon,
and they're creating buds. And boy did it work because
people brought in some weird stuff. And where do you
suppose the weirdest stuff is gonna come from the failed
Republic of Texas?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
From CBS nineteen in Texas. Well, now we have.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
An update on game stops Trade Anything Day event to
game Stops first ever Trade Anything Day was over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
It was a huge hit with.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Over eighty thousand trade it's and some pretty unusual ilse
customers get this could trade anything for only a five
dollars store credit as long as it fit by twenty
in cube that wasn't on a banned list.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Strange things included a.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Tax so basically smaller than a bread box and not
alive or never was alive.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Okay, taxidermy Bob Cat.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Oh y, yeah, what was it?
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Strange things included a taxidermy Bob cat.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Fun fact, I have a taxidermy Bobcat.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Do you really?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I do, well, it's a bit of a stretch. I
don't want to go full Brian Williams on here. My
father has it. Oh okay, yeah, my grandfather shot it.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
But it exists.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It exists, okay, it's in the family right and it
has been specifically set aside in the will for me,
much to the chagrin of my wife. It is probably
on display in my parents' living room. It will never
be traded for a five dollars gift card to game stop.
I can tell you that, okay, cat saw that?
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Yeah, A tiny Jesus figurine Air Jordans.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Somebody's traded air Jordan's for a five dollars card. Those
must have been some beat up Jordan's photo.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
They weren't that bad. I would have thought any air
Jordans would have some value.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Well, depending on the vent, on the year. But I
mean if in general I thinking for thousands, they like
they looked like pre worn, like nineties Jordan's. I mean,
they're certainly not mint, but they.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Well see that's what say.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
They're probably not worth five bucks, so you know, might
as well get rid of them and then you get
five bucks.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I can't believe somebody got rid of the Bobcat, a.
Speaker 9 (14:25):
Speed limit sign, and even a full creepy doll collection.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I love that they're trading in a creepy doll collection,
but where do you get Somebody stole the speed limit signed,
they took it the game stop and then.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Traded it in. That doesn't sound legal. Is that called?
What's that? What's that? Is that fleecing?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Theft? I think is the word. It's just stealing.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Fencing fencing when you fence it, right, Yeah, that's right,
the fencing operation.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I don't know if you to trade all that in
for just five dollars.
Speaker 9 (14:54):
Some customers also donated canned food to local food banks
and pet shelters game stops as the promotion was find
a clear way to clear all that clutter and give
back while wedding shoppers and excellent store goodies.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
It's only five bucks and they just I guess they
want to get rid.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Of some things.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yes, you got five bucks out of it.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
Can you buy much with five bucks?
Speaker 8 (15:14):
No?
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Really?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Don't you think it would have cost game stop more
to pay for the dumpsters to be emptied than what
they were. Yeah, that's really like, we're giving away five
dollars in store profit and we have to pay to
empty dumpsters of other people's crap.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Yeah, they're just riding that meme stock wave because that's ridiculous.
Like that's totally true. Five bucks, you know, but it
gets people talking like we are.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, it worked, it worked. Hey, you thought the rock
and Roller Cola Wars ended years ago, but you were wrong.
What are the old contenders just crawled out of the
vault like another swing at coke and pepsi which soda
from your childhood that you never actually wanted?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Is staging a comeback next?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Chris Merrill, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Tonight's broadcast is going to be found the featured podcast
A portion of KFI AM six forty dot com. Wow,
that said, I was just a young and when the
Cola Wars, the rock and roll of Cola Wars were
really lighting up.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Mark, You're you're only a little bit older than me. Yeah,
not much. But it got violent. Let me tell you,
wait a minute. When you say it got violent, how
violent did it get? I'm not willing to commit to
that bit. So let's just move on.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, all right, because here's what I here's what I
remember about the brand battles in the eighties. There's two
that I really recall pretty vivid. Well, I grew up
in Michigan, so Ford and Chevy was a big thing too.
But you had the Cola Wars. But then you had
the Miller and Budweiser back and forth at each other,
oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And well that was the other thing that Miller did
that I thought was so brilliant is that they basically
created their own brand war within the brand, which I
thought the way that played out where they.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Were just yelling at each like, why do you like it?
Because it tastes great? No, it's because it's less filling
and as long as you drink beer, everyone wins.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I mean that what they did though, they they created
a beef within their own brand, and they it was
I thought that was just a stroke of genius.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Really, what they did. That was pretty brilliant. Yeah, that
was that was so good.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So Coke and PEPSI started fighting back and forth and
then they started going after, you know, who wants this
market share, who's going to be the who's going to
be the king of it?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
And then Coke made what was an.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Absolute disaster of a move when they changed their their recipe,
they changed their formula and they introduced that new Coke
in what eighty four to eighty five, and it was
such an absolute flop.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
In fact, it was such a flop. It was so
bad that people.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Were speculating that they did it on purpose in order
to have a sales boost when they brought back the
original Coke Classic.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, they were Coke hoards.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Imagine if eBay had been around back then, I mean
I know that that the people were were you they
were selling coke, the old Coke, I guess on like
the black market. Imagine if we had the Dark Web
or eBay or that kind of stuff back in the day.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Just imagine what people would pay.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
People pay ridiculous, stupid amounts for things right now, Imagine
how much people would pay for a can of soda.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Oh my god, I can't even fathom.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
It would not surprise me to see, of course, there'd
be a news story that would take off on it.
There'd be like an eBay listing and some moron would
be one hundred thousand dollars or something, and then it
would go, I can't have Coca Coola. It was selling
on eBay for a one hundred thousand dollars right yeah,
and they're like, nobody ever pays that. Whenever you see
one of those stupid those auctions outrageous. That's just somebody
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who goes through the auction. And then what's the penalty,
eBay bans them for life. Well, they created a fake
account anyway to go on there in the first place,
so it doesn't even matter. But anyway, it wouldn't surprise
me though, to see people paying forty fifty bucks for
a can of soda, I mean today's money for a
can of soda back then, which they again, they didn't
have eBay, so it didn't happen, but it wouldn't have
surprised me. But you would be forgiven if you thought
(19:04):
that there were only two real brands of cola back then,
Coke and Pepsi, because they basically that showed about that
that the Cola War shut everybody else out, and there
were other brands out there at the time, and now
one of them is trying to make a comeback. They
(19:25):
don't have Nancy Sinatra to sing their theme song that.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
Escape to Royal.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Mad Mad with the.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Mad mad taste of Arci Cola. According to the street,
arc Cola is trying to make a comeback. I thought
arc Cola was d D so who even owns r C. Well,
being a nerdy kid, I actually knew that our C
was part of the Doctor Pepper. In fact, Doctor Pepper
was under our C's crown, if you want to call
(20:09):
it that way, royal crown. And so you had Coke products,
you had Pepsi products, and then you had r C products.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
But then they would.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Hey, nobody likes our RC, so basically said we're going
to be doctor Pepper now. And so you had you
had these products that were it was doctor Pepper. I'm
trying to think of a. I know that ourc was
under there, and there were a few other like, uh,
mellow Yellow I think was under there.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I think Mello Yellow was under their brand as well,
because everybody had They had their Citrus soda, PEPSI had
Mountain Dew h H, Coca Hat Sprite, and then I
think these guys came up with Mellow Yellow.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
So you know everybody was trying to do that.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Well.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Evidently, Royal Crown Company Uh, never as renowned as its rival,
Coca Cola, used the software Anastry's first taste test to
prove that it was a superior soda forever link to
a popular arshmallow filled snack treat throughout the country, song
Arc Cola and Moonpie. The company never shook its strictly
southern small town image, and even though it unveiled a
(21:08):
series of industry first including the first aluminum cans, the
first diet cola, the first caffeine free diet cola, they
just never took off. So now Doctor Pepper, which is
Curig doctor Pepper. I didn't realize that the green Mountain
Kig was had merged with Doctor Pepper, but they did,
so now they're trying to revitalize this thing.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
I can see it. I can see a new ad campaign.
Royal Crown, I'm crowning. No, hello, come on.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
There we go. That's the reasoning. On Yeah, is this
is this thing?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
On?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Wow? Where do I even go with that? Tough crowd? Tonight,
tough crowd? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I guess arc Colea is actually the first cola came
out in nineteen oh five, and they started bottling, and
by nineteen twenty five they had significantly grown under the
brand that would evolve into.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Or See Cola.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
They started out as Royal Crown Ginger Rail and then
turned into Colon. Other soft drinks. Number one Colon, Number
one soda in the US. Is you know this one?
You're gonna guess this one right? Number one soda in
the US.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I would guess Coke? You are correct? Number two? See
if you've been paying attention to the news. Number two
soda Spride good guess wrong?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Santa?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Okay, somebody deport I don't drink soda? Tab right? Ta
oh tab yeah great? What a good idea. Fresca, Oh
my god, is it Fanta? Right? Fresca is actually getting
pretty cool now.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
I mean, yeah, it has. Yeah, my son likes that.
It's like cool again to have fresca.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
It is h yeah it is. Yeah, it's all over
your social media now, Fresca and six seven. There you go.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Number two is doctor Pepper. Yeah, there's a weird cult
around doctor Pepper. You're right, you are right about that.
My son is in that weird cult. He loves doctor Pepper.
Although now he's onto the Coke Zero's he likes that.
And then he was doing Fresco for a long time too.
It's very trendy gen z.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
But isn't there something to doctor Pepper, like a like
a rumor that I don't know. Is it a laxative
or something. There's something going on with doctor Pepper. I mean,
I watched Forrest Gump, but I know it makes you
have to pay That's all I know about it. So
you cannot reveal the secret of doctor Pepper's popular now he's.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
A real doctor though. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Number three is Sprite number four ist PEPs You know
PEPSI was number two for forty years, almost forty years,
and then uh, doctor Pepper passed them last year and
then Sprite pasted them this year.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Isn't that crazy surprise. Sprite is even there. Sprite's got
a revi. I mean they're rolling out a bunch of das.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Is there any qualitative difference between Sprite and seven Up?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yes, seven Up. I think it's an RC product or
a Doctor Pepper product too. I would say, yes, there's
a difference.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
In my time of recovery, I had to fill some
time and I actually had that question and I got
seven up in Sprite, and there is a It's negligible,
but you can definitely tell that there's a difference.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Oh man, When I was drinking a lot of sodam
when I was a kid, I can definitely tell the difference.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Well, what is it? I would say one tastes different
than the other one, thank you, thank you for that.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I would say seven up is more like the citrusy
one and sprites like sweeter.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Oh yes, there's notes of a mine and oh yes, indeed, yeah,
notes of oak. I'm tasting it was the vanilla I
believe in there. Yeah, p D is it p D very?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
When I was a kid, my dad used to make
us drink whenever we weren't we weren't feeling well.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
We give us a squirt. Yeah, remember that was good. God,
I love squirt. That's a Mexican thing too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It's it like grapefruit flavor. Yeah yeah, yeah. And the
funny thing is I hate grapefruit, but I love squirt.
Maybe it keeps you from scurvy. Okay, okay, Nikki, come
get your news man. This is it's pretty bad. I'm
gonna rely on Nikki to strain things up.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Have you ever had an Italian col okay, no, no,
never mind for something Italian color.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
It's called chinoto.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It's discussed to look that up an urban dictionary.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
It's not a computer. Okay, it's the real thing. It's
just it's undrinkable. You haven't had disgusting until I bring
you fago.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
The next time I go back to Michigan, I'll bring
you a Michigan born soda fago.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
You love it all. I think it was icp icph.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Hey, don't worry about the nausea that you feel when
you realize that the government is not telling you everything.
They must have it under control, after all, they are
the US government. And when if they ever steered you wrong.
Now a senator is hinting that the secrets might be
so significant they could unleash absolute panic. The pressure to
open the files is growing fast and it's next Chris Maryland.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
You're listening to KFI A six on demand.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I love you, guys, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
George NORRIEA Coast to Coast coming up here at ten o'clock.
I happen to see that Marco Rubio is now facing pressure.
You know that documentary came out on Netflix about the
the UFOs and whatnot, and so Marco Rubio is like, oh, yeah, no,
it's happening. There's definitely UFOs out there, and then he
was actually adding onto the conspiracy theories. Rubio believes that
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elements within the US government have recovered technology from a
non human intelligence, reverse engineered it, and then let private
military contractors take control of it in ways that could
be undermining national security and result in a Pearl Harbor
like event. The real risk is transferring technology that is
not useful to US today to a corporate entity over decades.
Is the corporate entity comes to basically possess and control
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access to it for their own purposes, not for the
purposes of national security. Okay, cheepers, If only there were
some sort of I don't know, higher up government official
that could stop those technologies from being sold. If only
there were so good news, we're in Marco Rubio's hands.
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That's excellent. We had some thoughts, by the way, gang on.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
The Cola wars.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Some people had thoughts on our conversation regarding URC Cola
trying to make a comeback.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
I thought KFVI was fu the people.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
But every time I turn around, you guys are promoting poison.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
We're setting this out.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
I mean, why are you talking about them sodas and
everything that they could I ain't ever poison delicious, but so,
but if the companies pay so you got to talk
about them, might Yeah, you can't say nothing bad about them, right,
so they just pay you to keep him They just
pay you to keep.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Them talking bad about them. Wow wow, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
It's the only thing PEPSI and Coke and UH and
doctor Pepper could agree on is let's give the evening
fill in host on KFI Boku Bucks to talk about
the poisons and then we'll just go back to trying
to tear tear each other's up markets apart.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
But yeah, no, you're right, they got together on that
one thing. Very good.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
All right here, I knew you got to protect your
clients and everything. Yeah, but let me go ahead and
see it. Okay, all sos, all sodas are bad for you.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Okay, sugar is bad for you, and sugar is pretty natural.
In fact, I think if you don't have it, you die.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
They're selling you poison.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yeah, now do you agree?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Can't ye?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Do you not agree? I agree that if you don't
eat sugar, you will die.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
I know you can't even answer that question on I
just did my bad baby.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
If you want to say that high fuctose corn syrup
is bad, I think we actually already addressed that earlier tonight.
But I appreciate that you've gone full conspiracy theory, and
you're not wrong.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
You're not entirely wrong.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
There are certain products that you know, we get paid
to talk about even though we know that they might
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Speaker 4 (30:00):
Thank you, so so he was right.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I mean, look, I mean, if I'm gonna sell out
for poisons, I might as well go all in on
the good stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Right, tasty and refreshing. It is delicious, the best.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Tony's behind the scenes, Tony, I love working with you, you
know I do. And and then what Tony doesn't know?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
I mean, Tony knows it, but you don't know this.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
But I kind of invited all of us to go
over to Tony's house and hang out and have some
beers with Foosh now that he's back on his feet, foush,
I could not be a happier camper that you are
back on your feet.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Thanks for talking about your scars tonight. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
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Speaker 4 (30:42):
It's your local.
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Pharmacy, S bestest cream. And then Nikki, you definitely keep
us on our toes. You're welcome yep, that's what I
was thinking.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
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You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right, the coolest scar you've got? What is the
coolest scar?
Speaker 3 (00:09):
I have two very impressive scars. They're tiny though, and
kind of hard to say, but they're my breast implant scars.
Those are my most impressive scars.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
Hello. Hey see, I knew.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I knew that you pervy old men were going to
do that. But you don't know. She could be like
a breast cancer survivor that got in plants and that's
why the scars are impressive. Oh that's true. Or she's
an actress and those are impressive scars.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
It could go either way.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
But before we jump on perviness, we just gotta be
a little bit just to just just take a beat.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Well, she and I have something in common.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Okay, all right, Mark, will you come get the producer.
Just get it out of the way, go ahead and
just do it. And because of it, you just come
get the producer. Just get her out of here. This
is unbelievable. Go ahead, let's hear it.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
What No, don't give her the floor.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
I'm not saying anything.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Threw him out. Don't give her the don't give her
the floor. Don't give her the floor. I think we
know what she's talking about. I wanted to bring this
up for those that were not listening yesterday. So our
beloved Stiff Fusche was in a horrific car accident.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
But was it August? Yes, okay August.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
And the story, which I'm sure you've heard before, but
if if you haven't heard, if you haven't heard this,
I'll give a quick one, is that Fush is the
tech director for Tim Conway Junior and then the evening
show as well, and Foush didn't show up for work.
And that's not like him. He's not somebody that misses
shifts and doesn't call. He's not one of those no show,
no call guys that you used to work with at Chipotle.
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So he's a guy that's dependable, reliable, and likable too.
Everybody loves Foosh. So Fush doesn't show up and that
that sent out alarm bell. So then the people at
the station are calling around trying to figure out what's
going on. And I know they called your family, right,
and then they know he went to Did I have
the story right?
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I mean that was way later, but yeah, okay, So
then it was one of those like, do we start
calling the hospitals, and yeah, that's that's what happened. Started
calling hospitals and then asking for for obviously Foush.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Nobody knew who that was.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
And then they said, okay, well is it Stefan And
they were like, oh no, we have everybody that by anything.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
What about like a John Doe?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
And then the you know, video came out later of
his car on fire. Been a horrific car accident, car
rolled over landed on his arm, tour his arm all up.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
The hell?
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Uh found out what last week? As somebody finally revealed
to you that they were considering amputating.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
It, they suared it. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Oh is that something that they wait for you to
wake up and then ask permission on or is that.
Speaker 5 (02:45):
Something they just do? I think they probably if they
have to, they just do it. But I mean they
were They never said anything to me until literally like
two weeks ago.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Gosh.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
So that was that was shocking. I even because even
my parents didn't know. They didn't tell any of us.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
So yesterday Fush comes back, first day back after what
a dozen surgeries or whatever?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Right, and.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's you got a punch card. Yeah, uh, and then yeah,
just forever in the hospital. I mean it was so bad.
His ID, his phone, everything was lost. When the car
caught fire, some good Samaritans came by. They lifted the
car up, tipped it up on its side so that
they could pull him out before the car caught fire.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Had they not done that, he would have it would.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Have been pretty probably wouldn't be horrible. I mean, not
only would you not have been here, but we would
have all had nightmares about it. I mean, it would
have been horrific, which is why I asked you last
night if you ever have like PTSD nightmares yourself. But
you're you're a remarkably resilient person and and people need
to know that. I genuinely love Fush and we were
we were talking earlier today off air, and I just
(03:51):
I love this guy to death. So I was thinking,
you said something yesterday that I hadn't heard before, and
and I didn't realize that. What's that while you were
in the While you were there in the car, you
vividly remember looking on the inside of your arm like
it was so flayed open. You were looking like it.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Was a horrormle it. Basically, yeah, that's why they call
it to gloving. It completely took off the skin, so
I could see my tendons, my bones, And one of
the guys that was there is like, yeah that he
you know, confirmed it. He's like, yeah, could see inside
your arm too. It was just unbelievable, Like you couldn't
believe that that was real. And I think the adrenaline
was running so high or so, you know, so much
(04:32):
that I didn't feel any pain. I was just like
and I was just in awe at what I was
looking at.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
The The gloving injuries are the ones that those wig
me out more than anything, I mean, just just the
idea of it, which is basically it's like being skinned
alive essentially feel bad. Yeah, that's basically yeah. So I
was thinking about that, and I was thinking, what the
what's the scarring? Like now you wear a sleeve, so
so we don't see your arm right now.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Well, I mean it's yeah, I mean it's for well, yeah,
it's for vanity purposes, you know, just I don't want
to know.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I'm just kidding. I mean, that's part of it.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
But it also has to be protected from the sun,
so it's it's still exposed skin, so it really has
to be covered up all the time. So yeah, so
like even when I go to bed, I don't wear
the sleeve because it's a little bit tight. I'll put
I'll put a rap on it, or my mom will
help me with it, or my dad whoever's around, and yeah,
it still has to be completely covered.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yo, the best. I'm so lucky. It's unbelievable. What's this?
Speaker 2 (05:31):
What's the scar look like on that? I mean you
said you you got some grafts on there, and they
did some artificial stuff as well. Is it very Frankensteiny
or is it all pretty uniform?
Speaker 5 (05:41):
But if you were, Yeah, if you see the whole thing,
it does kind of look that's actually I've never heard
it that way.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
That's actually the best way to describe it.
Speaker 5 (05:49):
It is kind of Frankensteiny because when you look at
the wrist, it's a little bit puffy. Because she said
something about the the I forgot what the tendons are,
but they didn't because of what happened, it's always going
to stay like that.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
And I was like, yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
But there's like a kind of a bump from my
wrist as it goes down into my forearm to my elbow.
So if you just look at like the furt like
from my elbow to the forearm, it just looks like
a really bad scar. But then you go all the way,
then it looks like, oh, it looks like someone put
this thing together with a bunch of laying stuff, the
skin laying around, which is kind of true because he
(06:24):
used my own skin and synthetic skin. So it just
looks like a fifth grader, yeah, crazy with it kind
of does because of the way it like the way
it's it was cut and the way it came off.
It doesn't it doesn't have a perfect uniformed you know,
not that scars are uniform, but you know you.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Got to use that to pick up chicks, man, you do.
I mean, if you need a ring man on that,
I will. I will go out and I'll wing man
for you and I'll just be like, hey, check out
my buddy's scar.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
This is the coolest thing you're ever gonna see. Yeah,
I'm telling you.
Speaker 5 (06:56):
You're like, you're like some point that's gonna get you
some You're like Barney from Heiman Mother, Have you met.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Exactly what that's my goal? That is exactly what my
goal is. Uh yeah, just wow, it's so great. And
I was thinking about that after we got off the
air last night. I was like, oh, man, I bet
he's got like the coolest car. Although I think we
found the winner of the coolest scar. So somebody called
and they said they had the open heart surgery.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
So they had the zipper. Right. A woman called him.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
She said she's got two small scars from her breast implants,
which could be because she was like a breast cancer
survivor for all of you perverts out there.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Then you've got Nikki who's like, I've got those scars too,
but I never had breast cancer.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Right, So but I think I think we've got the winner.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
Chris. My circumcision scar.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
My circumcision scar is the most impressive scar that I've got.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Bred Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
So sorry, George, that's a voice we have dueling O
minds my circumcision scar.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Actually, he kind of sounded almost like, who was it
last night that we found orson Wells's.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Orson Wells drinking? Yeah, that's like almost long.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
A photo of the circumcision scar that's between me and
my evening.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Hey, it's time for some news. I think. Just look
at the time. Listen random dudes, Please don't send me
d picts.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
I don't need it. I'm good, I'm good, I'm very
much all right. Stop I walked into that one, all right.
You know how you stash random junk in your closet
and you swear you're gonna deal with that someday. So
the day has come, and then the day is gone
and you're gonna have to wait until the next time
it comes wrong. But for the people that did take
advantage of the trade, anything day, absolute chaos was unleashed.
(08:52):
Something you're gonna be glad that you missed. What they
traded is next. I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Remember when you're on that app, you can hit that
talkback button.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Quessians, comments, quips, quotes, criticisms, compliments, anything you like. Feel
free fired in there. I take a look at every
single one of those talkbacks that comes through. Not all
of them make it under the air, but I do
read or listen to every single one of those. We
have transcribed transcriptions so I can read some of what's
in there. Kind of like your iPhone when you leave
a voicemail. Uh, so we were talking about the coolest
scars because Fush has got like Franken arm and I'm
(09:25):
telling you that's that is gonna get him some That's
that's gonna get you some action at some point, my friend. Okay,
at some point, somebody's gonna be like, what is this?
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Because that scar is a story. Yeah, it is. It
is a story.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Well, it's kind of funny because I can reference them
to the KTLA story.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
I can actually see what happened.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Oh, you should just carry little like, just carry a video,
keep that video on your phone.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
What happened to be like.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
We turned out to a beloved radio personality at KFI. Yep, exactly,
that's it from the talkbacks.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Heyw it's Vernon Redondo. I'm stalking you.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
Oh okay, no, I'm not.
Speaker 8 (10:06):
Anyways, I have a scar I got from surgery I
had when I was young. I was twenty four. My
abdomen was opened from my sternum down to my belly button.
And that was a a young surgeon and he did
a horrible job with the cittures. Wow, so it's not
as bad, but it took a long time to get over.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
If it's a straight line, though, that makes a difference
because I've got a I got a belly scar, I
had had a bad infection, I'd have parts of my
guts taken out. And it is it is not straight.
It is all over the place. It's disgusting, it's vile.
I'm hideous. But uh but if you got a straight line,
then the people are like, oh, that's cool, what happened?
Speaker 4 (10:49):
And then chicks will trace it with their finger, like
what happened?
Speaker 8 (10:51):
Ye?
Speaker 4 (10:53):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
I can't wait till iHeart has a shirts and skins
basketball day.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
I'll send you pictures if you want any.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Pretty please don't not good not not those, not the
the other one though.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
No, I had my I had my intestines hanging out
for a few months there. That's not a good look.
I got a footo of that if you want me
to send it to jeez. Yeah, that's pretty sexy.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Can we know?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
No, I'm not a cancer survivor. It was absolute fanity.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
Okay, by all right, then we're then all right, boys
have at it?
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Hello, hello, all right?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Oh god, good for her, though, I mean the fact
that she was, you know, listening enough to be like.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I did it for a reason, like I'd try to
be respectful because I don't know the reason. Yeah right,
and she's like, oh no, I have had it. Boy, yeah,
it's so great. That's why I have him. Good for her?
That is excellent. Uh So you know the game Stop.
Are you familiar with GameStop? Game stops to video game
(12:00):
store basically?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Right? They became a bit of a meme stock a
few years back.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
So game Stop was trying to drum up some business,
so they put together what they called Trade Anything Day,
and there were certain parameters, but they were pretty loose,
like you can't trade human organs, for instance, right, but
generally anything you've got they'll take. And then they were
giving people a five dollar store credit. So I mean, really,
(12:26):
all they're doing is that given a five dollars off coupon,
and they're creating buds. And boy did it work because
people brought in some weird stuff. And where do you
suppose the weirdest stuff is gonna come from the failed
Republic of Texas?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
From CBS nineteen in Texas. Well, now we have.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
An update on game stops Trade Anything Day event to
game Stops first ever Trade Anything Day was over the weekend.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
It was a huge hit with.
Speaker 9 (12:49):
Over eighty thousand trade it's and some pretty unusual ilse
customers get this could trade anything for only a five
dollars store credit as long as it fit by twenty
in cube that wasn't on a banned list.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Strange things included a.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Tax so basically smaller than a bread box and not
alive or never was alive.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Okay, taxidermy Bob Cat.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Oh y, yeah, what was it?
Speaker 9 (13:13):
Strange things included a taxidermy Bob cat.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Fun fact, I have a taxidermy Bobcat.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Do you really?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
I do, well, it's a bit of a stretch. I
don't want to go full Brian Williams on here. My
father has it. Oh okay, yeah, my grandfather shot it.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
But it exists.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It exists, okay, it's in the family right and it
has been specifically set aside in the will for me,
much to the chagrin of my wife. It is probably
on display in my parents' living room. It will never
be traded for a five dollars gift card to game stop.
I can tell you that, okay, cat saw that?
Speaker 9 (13:48):
Yeah, A tiny Jesus figurine Air Jordans.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Somebody's traded air Jordan's for a five dollars card. Those
must have been some beat up Jordan's photo.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
They weren't that bad. I would have thought any air
Jordans would have some value.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
Well, depending on the vent, on the year. But I
mean if in general I thinking for thousands, they like
they looked like pre worn, like nineties Jordan's. I mean,
they're certainly not mint, but they.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Well see that's what say.
Speaker 5 (14:17):
They're probably not worth five bucks, so you know, might
as well get rid of them and then you get
five bucks.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
I can't believe somebody got rid of the Bobcat, a.
Speaker 9 (14:25):
Speed limit sign, and even a full creepy doll collection.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I love that they're trading in a creepy doll collection,
but where do you get Somebody stole the speed limit signed,
they took it the game stop and then.
Speaker 4 (14:37):
Traded it in. That doesn't sound legal. Is that called?
What's that? What's that? Is that fleecing?
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Mark?
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Theft? I think is the word. It's just stealing.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Fencing fencing when you fence it, right, Yeah, that's right,
the fencing operation.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
I don't know if you to trade all that in
for just five dollars.
Speaker 9 (14:54):
Some customers also donated canned food to local food banks
and pet shelters game stops as the promotion was find
a clear way to clear all that clutter and give
back while wedding shoppers and excellent store goodies.
Speaker 7 (15:05):
It's only five bucks and they just I guess they
want to get rid.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Of some things.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yes, you got five bucks out of it.
Speaker 9 (15:12):
Can you buy much with five bucks?
Speaker 8 (15:14):
No?
Speaker 5 (15:15):
Really?
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Don't you think it would have cost game stop more
to pay for the dumpsters to be emptied than what
they were. Yeah, that's really like, we're giving away five
dollars in store profit and we have to pay to
empty dumpsters of other people's crap.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
Yeah, they're just riding that meme stock wave because that's ridiculous.
Like that's totally true. Five bucks, you know, but it
gets people talking like we are.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
Yeah, it worked, it worked. Hey, you thought the rock
and Roller Cola Wars ended years ago, but you were wrong.
What are the old contenders just crawled out of the
vault like another swing at coke and pepsi which soda
from your childhood that you never actually wanted?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Is staging a comeback next?
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Chris Merrill, you're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
Tonight's broadcast is going to be found the featured podcast
A portion of KFI AM six forty dot com. Wow,
that said, I was just a young and when the
Cola Wars, the rock and roll of Cola Wars were
really lighting up.
Speaker 4 (16:15):
Mark, You're you're only a little bit older than me. Yeah,
not much. But it got violent. Let me tell you,
wait a minute. When you say it got violent, how
violent did it get? I'm not willing to commit to
that bit. So let's just move on.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, all right, because here's what I here's what I
remember about the brand battles in the eighties. There's two
that I really recall pretty vivid. Well, I grew up
in Michigan, so Ford and Chevy was a big thing too.
But you had the Cola Wars. But then you had
the Miller and Budweiser back and forth at each other,
oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:46):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
And well that was the other thing that Miller did
that I thought was so brilliant is that they basically
created their own brand war within the brand, which I
thought the way that played out where they.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
Were just yelling at each like, why do you like it?
Because it tastes great? No, it's because it's less filling
and as long as you drink beer, everyone wins.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
I mean that what they did though, they they created
a beef within their own brand, and they it was
I thought that was just a stroke of genius.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Really, what they did. That was pretty brilliant. Yeah, that
was that was so good.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
So Coke and PEPSI started fighting back and forth and
then they started going after, you know, who wants this
market share, who's going to be the who's going to
be the king of it?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
And then Coke made what was an.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
Absolute disaster of a move when they changed their their recipe,
they changed their formula and they introduced that new Coke
in what eighty four to eighty five, and it was
such an absolute flop.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
In fact, it was such a flop. It was so
bad that people.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Were speculating that they did it on purpose in order
to have a sales boost when they brought back the
original Coke Classic.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Yeah, they were Coke hoards.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Imagine if eBay had been around back then, I mean
I know that that the people were were you they
were selling coke, the old Coke, I guess on like
the black market. Imagine if we had the Dark Web
or eBay or that kind of stuff back in the day.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Just imagine what people would pay.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
People pay ridiculous, stupid amounts for things right now, Imagine
how much people would pay for a can of soda.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Oh my god, I can't even fathom.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
It would not surprise me to see, of course, there'd
be a news story that would take off on it.
There'd be like an eBay listing and some moron would
be one hundred thousand dollars or something, and then it
would go, I can't have Coca Coola. It was selling
on eBay for a one hundred thousand dollars right yeah,
and they're like, nobody ever pays that. Whenever you see
one of those stupid those auctions outrageous. That's just somebody
(18:41):
who goes through the auction. And then what's the penalty,
eBay bans them for life. Well, they created a fake
account anyway to go on there in the first place,
so it doesn't even matter. But anyway, it wouldn't surprise
me though, to see people paying forty fifty bucks for
a can of soda, I mean today's money for a
can of soda back then, which they again, they didn't
have eBay, so it didn't happen, but it wouldn't have
surprised me. But you would be forgiven if you thought
(19:04):
that there were only two real brands of cola back then,
Coke and Pepsi, because they basically that showed about that
that the Cola War shut everybody else out, and there
were other brands out there at the time, and now
one of them is trying to make a comeback. They
(19:25):
don't have Nancy Sinatra to sing their theme song that.
Speaker 10 (19:31):
Escape to Royal.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Mad Mad with the.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Mad mad taste of Arci Cola. According to the street,
arc Cola is trying to make a comeback. I thought
arc Cola was d D so who even owns r C. Well,
being a nerdy kid, I actually knew that our C
was part of the Doctor Pepper. In fact, Doctor Pepper
was under our C's crown, if you want to call
(20:09):
it that way, royal crown. And so you had Coke products,
you had Pepsi products, and then you had r C products.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
But then they would.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Hey, nobody likes our RC, so basically said we're going
to be doctor Pepper now. And so you had you
had these products that were it was doctor Pepper. I'm
trying to think of a. I know that ourc was
under there, and there were a few other like, uh,
mellow Yellow I think was under there.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
I think Mello Yellow was under their brand as well,
because everybody had They had their Citrus soda, PEPSI had
Mountain Dew h H, Coca Hat Sprite, and then I
think these guys came up with Mellow Yellow.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
So you know everybody was trying to do that.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Well.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Evidently, Royal Crown Company Uh, never as renowned as its rival,
Coca Cola, used the software Anastry's first taste test to
prove that it was a superior soda forever link to
a popular arshmallow filled snack treat throughout the country, song
Arc Cola and Moonpie. The company never shook its strictly
southern small town image, and even though it unveiled a
(21:08):
series of industry first including the first aluminum cans, the
first diet cola, the first caffeine free diet cola, they
just never took off. So now Doctor Pepper, which is
Curig doctor Pepper. I didn't realize that the green Mountain
Kig was had merged with Doctor Pepper, but they did,
so now they're trying to revitalize this thing.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
I can see it. I can see a new ad campaign.
Royal Crown, I'm crowning. No, hello, come on.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
There we go. That's the reasoning. On Yeah, is this
is this thing?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
On?
Speaker 4 (21:46):
Wow? Where do I even go with that? Tough crowd? Tonight,
tough crowd? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I guess arc Colea is actually the first cola came
out in nineteen oh five, and they started bottling, and
by nineteen twenty five they had significantly grown under the
brand that would evolve into.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Or See Cola.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
They started out as Royal Crown Ginger Rail and then
turned into Colon. Other soft drinks. Number one Colon, Number
one soda in the US. Is you know this one?
You're gonna guess this one right? Number one soda in
the US.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I would guess Coke? You are correct? Number two? See
if you've been paying attention to the news. Number two
soda Spride good guess wrong?
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Santa?
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Okay, somebody deport I don't drink soda? Tab right? Ta
oh tab yeah great? What a good idea. Fresca, Oh
my god, is it Fanta? Right? Fresca is actually getting
pretty cool now.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
I mean, yeah, it has. Yeah, my son likes that.
It's like cool again to have fresca.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
It is h yeah it is. Yeah, it's all over
your social media now, Fresca and six seven. There you go.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Number two is doctor Pepper. Yeah, there's a weird cult
around doctor Pepper. You're right, you are right about that.
My son is in that weird cult. He loves doctor Pepper.
Although now he's onto the Coke Zero's he likes that.
And then he was doing Fresco for a long time too.
It's very trendy gen z.
Speaker 7 (23:14):
But isn't there something to doctor Pepper, like a like
a rumor that I don't know. Is it a laxative
or something. There's something going on with doctor Pepper. I mean,
I watched Forrest Gump, but I know it makes you
have to pay That's all I know about it. So
you cannot reveal the secret of doctor Pepper's popular now he's.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
A real doctor though. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Number three is Sprite number four ist PEPs You know
PEPSI was number two for forty years, almost forty years,
and then uh, doctor Pepper passed them last year and
then Sprite pasted them this year.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Isn't that crazy surprise. Sprite is even there. Sprite's got
a revi. I mean they're rolling out a bunch of das.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
Is there any qualitative difference between Sprite and seven Up?
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Yes, seven Up. I think it's an RC product or
a Doctor Pepper product too. I would say, yes, there's
a difference.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 5 (24:12):
In my time of recovery, I had to fill some
time and I actually had that question and I got
seven up in Sprite, and there is a It's negligible,
but you can definitely tell that there's a difference.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Oh man, When I was drinking a lot of sodam
when I was a kid, I can definitely tell the difference.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Well, what is it? I would say one tastes different
than the other one, thank you, thank you for that.
Speaker 5 (24:34):
I would say seven up is more like the citrusy
one and sprites like sweeter.
Speaker 10 (24:39):
Oh yes, there's notes of a mine and oh yes, indeed, yeah,
notes of oak. I'm tasting it was the vanilla I
believe in there. Yeah, p D is it p D very?
Speaker 2 (24:52):
When I was a kid, my dad used to make
us drink whenever we weren't we weren't feeling well.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
We give us a squirt. Yeah, remember that was good. God,
I love squirt. That's a Mexican thing too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
It's it like grapefruit flavor. Yeah yeah, yeah. And the
funny thing is I hate grapefruit, but I love squirt.
Maybe it keeps you from scurvy. Okay, okay, Nikki, come
get your news man. This is it's pretty bad. I'm
gonna rely on Nikki to strain things up.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
Have you ever had an Italian col okay, no, no,
never mind for something Italian color.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
It's called chinoto.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
It's discussed to look that up an urban dictionary.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
It's not a computer. Okay, it's the real thing. It's
just it's undrinkable. You haven't had disgusting until I bring
you fago.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
The next time I go back to Michigan, I'll bring
you a Michigan born soda fago.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
You love it all. I think it was icp icph.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Hey, don't worry about the nausea that you feel when
you realize that the government is not telling you everything.
They must have it under control, after all, they are
the US government. And when if they ever steered you wrong.
Now a senator is hinting that the secrets might be
so significant they could unleash absolute panic. The pressure to
open the files is growing fast and it's next Chris Maryland.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
You're listening to KFI A six on demand.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
I love you, guys, I love it. I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
George NORRIEA Coast to Coast coming up here at ten o'clock.
I happen to see that Marco Rubio is now facing pressure.
You know that documentary came out on Netflix about the
the UFOs and whatnot, and so Marco Rubio is like, oh, yeah, no,
it's happening. There's definitely UFOs out there, and then he
was actually adding onto the conspiracy theories. Rubio believes that
(26:41):
elements within the US government have recovered technology from a
non human intelligence, reverse engineered it, and then let private
military contractors take control of it in ways that could
be undermining national security and result in a Pearl Harbor
like event. The real risk is transferring technology that is
not useful to US today to a corporate entity over decades.
Is the corporate entity comes to basically possess and control
(27:04):
access to it for their own purposes, not for the
purposes of national security. Okay, cheepers, If only there were
some sort of I don't know, higher up government official
that could stop those technologies from being sold. If only
there were so good news, we're in Marco Rubio's hands.
(27:27):
That's excellent. We had some thoughts, by the way, gang on.
Speaker 4 (27:32):
The Cola wars.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Some people had thoughts on our conversation regarding URC Cola
trying to make a comeback.
Speaker 4 (27:40):
I thought KFVI was fu the people.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
But every time I turn around, you guys are promoting poison.
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
We're setting this out.
Speaker 6 (27:48):
I mean, why are you talking about them sodas and
everything that they could I ain't ever poison delicious, but so,
but if the companies pay so you got to talk
about them, might Yeah, you can't say nothing bad about them, right,
so they just pay you to keep him They just
pay you to keep.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
Them talking bad about them. Wow wow, yep, yep.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
It's the only thing PEPSI and Coke and UH and
doctor Pepper could agree on is let's give the evening
fill in host on KFI Boku Bucks to talk about
the poisons and then we'll just go back to trying
to tear tear each other's up markets apart.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
But yeah, no, you're right, they got together on that
one thing. Very good.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
All right here, I knew you got to protect your
clients and everything. Yeah, but let me go ahead and
see it. Okay, all sos, all sodas are bad for you.
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Okay, sugar is bad for you, and sugar is pretty natural.
In fact, I think if you don't have it, you die.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
They're selling you poison.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Yeah, now do you agree?
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Can't ye?
Speaker 4 (28:51):
Do you not agree? I agree that if you don't
eat sugar, you will die.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
I know you can't even answer that question on I
just did my bad baby.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
If you want to say that high fuctose corn syrup
is bad, I think we actually already addressed that earlier tonight.
But I appreciate that you've gone full conspiracy theory, and
you're not wrong.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
You're not entirely wrong.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
There are certain products that you know, we get paid
to talk about even though we know that they might
not be the best for you. For instance, hang on
before we go, guys, I got this live read. Here
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Speaker 4 (30:00):
Thank you, so so he was right.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
I mean, look, I mean, if I'm gonna sell out
for poisons, I might as well go all in on
the good stuff.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Right, tasty and refreshing. It is delicious, the best.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Tony's behind the scenes, Tony, I love working with you, you
know I do. And and then what Tony doesn't know?
Speaker 4 (30:23):
I mean, Tony knows it, but you don't know this.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
But I kind of invited all of us to go
over to Tony's house and hang out and have some
beers with Foosh now that he's back on his feet, foush,
I could not be a happier camper that you are
back on your feet.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Thanks for talking about your scars tonight. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, if you like, I did get some s bestest
cream that we can rub all over that now available.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
It's your local.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Pharmacy, S bestest cream. And then Nikki, you definitely keep
us on our toes. You're welcome yep, that's what I
was thinking.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
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