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- susan: Welcome back. How you doing, babe? I'm doing good. Ready to be here? That's good. That's good. How was your week? pretty chill. just kinda hung around the house after work. we had a roommate here for a couple of days, so we kinda just hung around. Yeah. We didn't really didn't really do much. Yeah, we played pickleball on f Saturday and we kinda just hung out around the house on Saturday. And we had activity night at church on Wednesday, but that was kinda that was kinda it. Yeah. For our week. Yeah. So go ahead and give us that Braves update. it was a poor showing for the national league and the all star game. First shutout and all star game in thirteen years. they struck out fifteen times and lost four to zero. So It wasn't much of a game to watch. And I keep saying that the Phillies sold it for us 'cause Christopher Ch Sanchez was on the mound for the first inning and let up three runs off the b the bat, so but yeah, after that We had our first series back on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. And on s Friday night we absolutely put the smack down on the Rangers. We won fifteen to one. and it feels like we're b hitting bombs again. Like crazy. still seeing signs of We need pitching desperately. on Saturday we had Owen Murphy pitch and he let up No, he didn't let up seven. He only let up three runs and he did alright. offense could only do so much, but Tyler Kinley had another blow up outing. he let up four runs and we just couldn't bounce back. We ended up losing the game by one. but then yesterday It was Austin Riley and Drake Baldwin's day. Grant Holmes had another pretty solid outing. he got ran into the trouble and Walt pulled him. But he pushed he Shut out them for four innings, no five innings, and then got into some trouble in the fifth. and then brought in Dylan Dodd to finish out that inning. But we ended up winning with the offense from Riley hitting two home runs which is looking great. He seems like he's getting his confidence back. I thought he hit three. He had three in the series. he had one against the position player on on Friday night. And then he actually hit two bombs on a actual pitcher yesterday. so we'll see if he keeps his confidence. I mean, it's just one series. So we've seen him do good in series this year and then just kind of look lost out there still. But hopefully the four day rest got him back on track. Drake Baldwin went five for five yesterday, which was fun to see. He had two bombs as well. and Brewer Hicklin is in a good pick up for us that we put well, we didn't pick him up. He just brought him up from triple A when Yaz went down. Jim Jarvis still looks solid on defense. He had an error yesterday, but it was just took a weird hop on him. But yeah. I mean we're staying a couple games ahead of the Phillies, so if we can just continue to win when we got Acunia most likely won't be back for this homestand, but there's a good chance that he can come back. We have a four game series starting with the Padres tonight. AJ Smith Strother continues to make progress, so I think he has a few more starts in the in triple A and they'll probably get him into rotation. Martin Perez is starting to throw again, so I hope we'll see if what he has In store we have Elder on the Mountain tonight. and then tomorrow I can't remember who's going tomorrow. And then Thursday still to be determined and then Friday we have Elder on the mound. So No. Thursday's the last game in the series 'cause yeah, four days. I'm getting my days mixed up. I'm usually used to us doing this on Tuesday night. So tomorrow it's Tuesday. Yeah, and we're not usually we kinda film on Tuesdays. We're we're going to see Here's the thing, we When we originally planned on moving the pod to Wednesday, it was to record like on Sunday or Monday and we just have not done that and it's kind of been set to Tuesday. 'Cause we'll go to the cat room and then we'll come back home and, you know, have a quick dinner and then do the podcast and then go to bed. but we do need to get better about doing it like On the nights that we actually don't have to like crush to do. Yeah, yeah. So But yeah, tomorrow night we had to reschedule because tomorrow we're gonna go see We're gonna go see Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. The Odyssey. So I'm a very Christopher Nolan movie fan. I don't really I don't know if she's seen what have I seen. Have you seen any of the you haven't seen any of the Batman movies, have you? I watched one. Batman Begins. Okay, that's the third one. That that's one of his movies. Yeah. I watched I watched like half of it. I didn't even watch it fully. And then Interstellar I you're not much of a space sci fi person. But I did watch one movie that was very similar to Project Hell Mary that had Matthew McConaughey and No. It had Amy Adams in it. that's the the the arrival. That that's not an Olin movie. okay. Yeah. That's they're That's that's Amy Adams and Jen Jeremy Renner, right? Yeah, but that's the one where it's basically like Project Hail Mary. There's aliens. They go in and then try to communicate with the aliens. Like Yeah. No, Interstellar is all about trying to find another planet haven't for Earth to live on 'cause Earth is dying and we're trying to figure out how to get the billions of people off the earth. to save them. Or there's I think there's a lot less people on there s 'cause it's in the future. but you said Oppenheimer the Oppenheimer. Never seen that. He didn't do the Superman movie that we went and watched, did he? No. Okay, good. I would've I think that was I can't remember that was. 'Cause he d he has done some Superman movies. Did he do Batman versus Superman and then Man of Steel. He did Man of Steel, I can't remember that he did Man of Steel. Yeah. and then he did the Prestige, which is a really cool movie. Prestige each what is It's got Christian Bale and Hugh Jackw it and Snarjo. Never seen that either. It's like two magicians that are well let's just say I've never fully seen And Inception. Inception's a big one. Yeah. I've I've never seen fully seen a Christopher Nolan movie that I remember. Well now you're about to. Yeah we'll see how it goes. see if I can handle it. It's supposed to have like a few scenes that are a little rough. And I'm someone who like not a very violent like doesn't like really like watching violent things. Like I can handle some violent things. I can't handle violent things consistently depending on what those things are. Like if someone got shot, okay, cool. And then two minutes later someone got stabbed. Okay, cool. Like we're we're twoing two different things, but they're also very like minimal. Now if someone was being assaulted and then two minutes later that same person is also like getting re-assa like that's a little bit much for me when it's more psychological and can be more personal because it could happen, you know, it's a bit different. But like because this is based off a legend Am I is that correct? It is a legend, right? Or is it is it It's a it's a historical fiction, I think, is what Norse mythol or that's not Norse. I Greek mythology. Okay. Well, so because of that that it's like slightly made up, for me I will be able to Decompartmentali minimali whatever the word is. Where you can kinda split and know the difference between real and fake type of thing. Hello. we have a visitor. Yes. Ivy Ivy is is in the room with us. yeah, so I mean like I know Chris Renolan has his own takes on things, so I'm not going into this thinking he's gonna be but word for word the book 'cause like he has his own takes on adaptations on all the spider or Batman stuff. 'Cause that's not how Bain is and and also stuff like that. Also the most movies are adaptations. The director has you know they're not exactly and also depending on how long you wanna make a movie compared to a book, it's it's gonna be a significant difference. Yeah. you're you're gonna have to pick and choose what things you wanna really hone in on and what you want your audience to get from it. Yeah. well I've heard good things about how these are some of the best performances they've seen out of some of these actors and actors. Yeah. So No, I'm I'm interested to go see it, but as soon as Epic the Musical comes out, I'm there. Without a doubt, no hesitation kind of an Easter egg to in the movie that we're gonna be looking out for to one of the epic songs. I've heard I've heard someone say that part of the like part of one of the epic songs can basically four notes. Yeah, hear instrumentals. Yeah, four four notes. that apparently you can hear and I I'm I'm gonna have to keep my eye out on it because people are saying that they hear it but I'm wondering if they just hear it because they've heard the song of the Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Hundred percent. So no, Epic Epic the musical is gonna be n without a doubt I need them to do the whole thing though and it's gonna be like almost three hours long. Just like this movie. Yeah. But I wonder Like all the songs from his from all that from his soundtrack. Yeah, from all the soundtracks. My question is though, is because his stories like the story is the soundtrack, do you think there's gonna be any talking in Epic the Musical? If it comes out as a movie? I don't know. It might be like an operetta. Hawara wara? Like like Laymez? Lane Mess is pretty much singing the entire time. And Hamilton? Hamilton's all singing, yeah. Yeah. I think I think it's gonna be like that because the story is told. Yeah. In the song. Told through the song. Yeah. Like the whole story though. Yeah, yeah. There's not really you have different people who sing different parts. So I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. I I've just heard rumors that that's coming. that it's it's in the works. that'd be pretty cool to see on the screen. I do know the person who wrote the musical, he is working on the prelude like or the prequel, I guess. Of the Warner and Troy. Yeah. Mm-hmm. I Ilium Ilikum I don't know. It's I L ICM or something. What the the creator? No, no, no. Anyways, we kinda got into that. It's it's the first part of the like before the war, like More on the Greek God portion before the war. Like I don't I don't know, but it's called Ilium is is what people refer it to. And that's what his album's gonna be called. I saw him working on it on TikTok. So I'm curious to see. But Yeah. Kind of Braves update slash what we're doing this week or one of the things we're doing this week. Yep. And things that are give an update on our opinions on it. Yeah. Yeah, we'll we'll definitely have to do that because I don't know. I might have I already know I'm going in because I know he takes out a lot of the gods. Yeah. A people some people have a lot of issues with that part. But they just don't understand that this is Nolan's adaptation of it, so Well they understand that. They just don't understand why he would take out like I does Calypso even make an appearance to my knowledge. Calypso's in it. It's pay it's played by the what's her name? Okay. he took out Hermes. Yeah, Hermes is And Hermes is a big part because he's who gets him off Calypso's Island. So how does he get off Calypso's Island in the movie without Hermes? that's why that's why some people are like, He took out Hermes. How is he supposed to defeat Cersei or whatever her name is with the pigs? Yeah. Because Hermes gives him the plant. to help defeat her. So if Hermes isn't in it, like he wouldn't be able to defeat her. So I don't know. We'll see. already know we're going to see it in in something. In extreme. Okay. That wasn't so bad when we compared to IMAX when we watched Michael it wasn't that bad. So maybe Well we're closer I mean Extreme's not quite not quite as like loud. Boomy as the IMAX. I Max was but we're also closer up but it's it it is supposed to be loud so I'm bringing some headphones just to kinda help with cattail. Yes, ma'am. my goodness. To help with my hearing so that I don't completely go deaf. 'Cause my ears are semi sensitive. So Alright, what we got planned for today? It said we got some fun fun stuff. We've got some history today. some more history. I thought it'd be fun. But it's okay. If you're not into it, that's fine. I'm just kidding. Always here to Okay. Imagine creating a drink in your backyard. that would eventually be sold in more than two hundred countries around the world. Are we talking about coke today? A drink recognized almost everywhere on earth. A drink worth billions of dollars. Now imagine that after inventing it, you sold the rights just for a couple thousand dollars. That's exactly what happened in Atlanta, Georgia. And you would be right. It is. So Coke or Pepsi? Coke. Glass bottle, can or fountain? Glass bottle. Really? I've never seen you have a glass bottle Coke. Because we don't really have whole I mean like We could go to a place that has got I'm sure I think Walmart sells glass bottles, but they're just not as much. Yeah. what's your weirdest Coke combination? Weirdest Coke combination? Mm-hmm. Like adding stuff to Coke? Yes. Coke and original Red Bull. Okay. Have you ever tried Coke from another country? Yes. 'cause I've been to the Coke factory in in Atlanta. I've also been to Disney where they have different drinks. But I don't know if we when we went to Disney World, did we really try drinks? Yes. We tried we tried a few. Yeah. 'Cause you told me We didn't do Beverly, did we? Beverly yeah, you told me Beverly tasted terrible. Yeah, it tastes like cough medicine. Okay. Yeah, Beverly from Italy is the worst one. Do you know where Coca Cola was invented? Where it was invented? Mm-hmm. You just said in someone's backyard. Like what region of Georgia? No, just where in the world. Where in the world it was invented? Yeah. Was it here in Georgia? Yeah, I said Atlanta, Georgia. Yeah. Okay. So let's go back. Back to eighteen eighty six. Eighteen eighty six. Atlanta was still rebuilding after the Civil War. Businesses were opening everywhere and pharmacists often created medicines right in their stores. One pharmacist was doctor John Sith Pemberton, sorry, Pemberton. He wasn't trying to invent a soda, he was trying to invent a medicine. At the time, many patent medicines claimed to cure headaches, fatigue, stomach problems, and nervousness. Pemberton wanted to create something people would enjoy drinking while also believing it had health benefits. He mixed sugar syrup flavorings, extract from cocoa leaves, Koala nuts, which contain caffeine. Originally the drink was meant to be mixed with water, but one day someone accidentally mixed it with carbonated water instead. Everyone liked it better. A legend was born. Pemberton's bookkeeper, Frank Robinson, believed the drink needed a memorable name. He combined Coca from the Coca Leaves and Cola from the cola nuts. Now cola nuts is spelled with a K, not a C. So that is how it got its name. Is from the Coca-Cola nut. Like Coca-Cola leaves and the cola nut. So Coca-Cola. He also hand wrote the famous flowing script logo. That same logo created in the eighteen eighties is still used today with only minor updates. That's crazy. But they haven't like completely like rebranded it. So when it comes to a product, do you think branding matters more than the product? Like marketing? The br like the branding. So like, you know how you've got Walmart's version of bread and then you've got the brand names? Do you think branding matters more more than product? Yeah, for soda, definitely. For soda? Just for soda or for no, I mean like bread. Just for me. I mean like what are the what are the things that you have to buy the brand? You cannot buy off brand. Doritos, Lay's, any soft drink. Trying to think of some other things. Pop Tarts. You don't get the off brand Pop Tarts? No. Not even if you like were desperate. ramen? my gosh. Ramen, yes. Well, I mean, I don't get the ramen no, we have cup noodles, don't we? No, we have top ramen. Top ramen, yeah. We don't have cup of noodles. What's the what's the company that I like then? You like mm It starts with an Yeah, my family always got that. I don't really like top ramen as much, but I'll still eat it. Can you s can you say that? I cannot say that. A R U C H A N. So that's that's what we're gonna call it. It's a brand of my family. Top ramen is it's cheaper counterparts sometimes. But bread not s necessarily I have to get like branded ones. I can eat like great value stuff. Okay. Alright. do you think that any company today could keep the same logo for a hundred and forty years? There's a few. Yeah. What what companies do you think could keep the same logo for a hundred and forty years? Like 'cause that's how long Coca Cola has had theirs. Yeah. grocery stores. Like I feel like Walmart could have kept the same logo. You think so? Target. Target's basically had same logo since one of those Target made like I don't know. I know th I know they've been around for a long time. Okay. So I won't even make a guess how long they've been around. what about let's see. And I don't feel like sports teams have had to change their logo as much as they do. You don't think Nike's ever changed its logo? I don't I don't think Nike's really changed. I know some stuff has the s the Nike and the Swish. And some stuff just has the s swish on it. Mm. Okay. So for Coca-Cola, most people assumed that the Coca-Cola exploded overnight. It didn't. I'm sure it flopped a few times. The first year about nine servings a day were sold. Pemberton actually lost money. He was sick and struggling financially. Sadly, he died just two years after inventing Coca-Cola. He never saw it become famous. Because he only sold he sold it for a couple thousand dollars, right? So enter Asa Chandler and Four years ago, so he purchased he slowly purchased the rights to Coca-Cola. Then he completely transformed it. Instead of selling medicine, he sold an experience. His marketing included coupons for free drinks, calendars, clocks, signs, store displays, massive advertising, his philosophy. And it worked. Wow. What are the chances I'm wearing this shirt right now? You didn't even tell me No, I didn't. I didn't tell you. Did not tell me what if for those listening he's wearing his Coca-Cola shirt that he got at Disney. At Disney the Coca-Cola. I got no you didn't get that. I got this at Epcot, I thought. No, you didn't. You got it at the the one we Yeah. The character warehouse? Yes. Remember it was the first thing that you got because you also got the like you put it on immediately when we got home and you well I mean I was playing with the infinity stones. Yes, correct. There we go. Yeah. You were playing with something that you had gotten. Yeah. So okay. Would Coke have survived without great marketing? Yes or no? Back then? I don't think anything would have survived without great marketing. So you don't think the drink itself is enough? Like you don't think Coke is just good by itself that eventually it would just take off? I back then I just feel like a bit hard to We didn't they didn't have any all they had was letters. And I I guess the railroad. But Okay. So Okay. They also they did have movies. A hundred and forty years ago? my gosh, yes. They had film. They had films. In the eighteen hundreds? I'm just we're gonna move on. Okay. Originally Coca Cola was only available at soda fountains. Then two businessmen approached Assaw Chandler. They wanted permission to bottle it. The person who got it after the person who created it, he reportedly thought bottling wasn't that important and sold them the bottling rights for a surprisingly small amount. Wow. That decision helped spread Coca-Cola across the country and eventually the world. Now we're getting into World War II. One reason Coca-Cola became so iconic was World War II. Company President Robert Woodruff reportedly wanted every American service member to be able to buy a Coke for five cents wherever they were stationed. The company built bottling plants near military bases around the world. When the war ended, those bottling operations remained. The results? Millions of people around the world had developed a taste for Coca-Cola. So I'm gonna ask you some true or false. These are more like to see if you were listening I guess. I don't know. Okay, Coca-Cola was originally sold in pharmacies. Mm. say true. Yes. It was first created as a medicine. Yeah. The original logo was handwritten. I mean he was poor so I would say true. We just talked about it that the logo hasn't changed in a hundred and forty years and it was handwritten by his his co worker. Yeah. His bookkeeper. my goodness. Santa Claus was invented by Coca-Cola. I would say that is false. Correct. But Coca-Cola's famous holiday advertising helped shape the modern image of Santa. Coca-Cola is sold in over two hundred countries and territories. True. Correct. Okay. What's one product today that could still be around in a hundred and forty years? That could still be around in the next hundred and forty years? Mm-hmm. soft drink still? Think something else. I'm asking you your something that could be still in production products in a hundred and forty years. Yeah. Phones. You think so? You don't think that we'll get like air bubbles or something that we can just Mm. I don't know. I mean we'll have highly technological advances probably. If the second coming doesn't happen but well I mean there'll still be years on the years after that, so me give a good answer. I'll say pizza. Pizza. That's that's a good one. That'll probably be around for forever. Yeah. Okay, that's a good product. Okay. If you invented Coca Cola, how much would someone have to pay for you to sell it? If you'd been the inventor. back then? Yeah. I would say Millions probably. Millions? You think Probably around a million because of the amount of money that that would have been back then. I think I probably would have taken half a mil. Yeah. Probably. Five hundred thousand dollars. Yeah. I would probably take five hundred thousand dollars back then. Yeah. Because I'm like, it's not gonna go anywhere. 'Cause it's just like whatever. But I still at least got a good bit out of it. But still I'm except for the rest of your Here's the thing. If people say a million, if you say a million, they're not gonna pay you a million. They'll like, Okay, we'll go to somebody else it becomes popular. Then they'll come back to you and then they'll be willing to pay you that million. Okay. What your f what's your favorite Georgia company besides Coca-Cola? Favorite GA company besides Coca Cola. Would the Braves be considered a company? yeah, Braves per familiar. Georgia Bulldogs? The reach in the bag for this one. Think of Georgia Companies Chick fil A. You think that was created in Georgia? It was. It was? First one was, yeah. First one was it was called the Truits Grill. That was the first ever Chick-fil-A. You would be right. I've worked there for six years. I know the a little bit of history on Chick-fil-A. Do you know where in Georgia? it was in Stockbridge, I think. No. No, it wasn't in Stockbridge. it was southern Hape. Yeah, it was south of Atlanta, right? Yeah. Hapeville in nineteen forty six. Yeah. It's located in College Park, Georgia. That's where the headquarters are now. Yeah. Okay. The story of Coca-Cola isn't just about a soft drink. It's about an inventor who never got to see his dream realized, a businessman who recognized its potential, and how a simple idea from an Atlanta pharmacy became one of the most recognizable brands on earth. Whether you drink it every day or never touch it, it's hard to deny that Coca-Cola changed advertising business and the pop culture forever, and it all started right here in our home, Georgia. And that was that was it. That's what I had. I just wanna do quick a little wanna do something historical for us. you know. After we went and saw a little bit of Georgia. Two weekends ago. Yep. But also I really enjoyed doing our episode of the Lake. Yeah, as well. So I wanted to do another history 'cause maybe we can do some history on Chick fil A next. Who knows? Maybe we'll see about it. She's not the biggest fan of Chick fil A. I am. It's just when you have it all the freaking time it becomes a bit of a not your favorite thing. Yeah. but yeah, I have the story of Martin Luther King Jr. yeah. There's a lot of we talked about the Savannah Ghost Stories Georgia's Most Haunted Places Ridestones Mystery Story of Stone Mountain. I could I could find that. It wasn't one of the top one top suggestions. Yeah, but I'm just saying there's there's some ideas out there. Yeah. Well, do you do you know where Martin Luther King Junior was born? In Atlanta? Yep. He was born in Atlanta. It would became the central location in the civil rights movement. Yeah. I mean there's so many MLK streets down there, so There's also the Georgia Gold Rush. Yeah. Apparently it happened in North Georgia in eighteen twenty eight, years before the California famous gold rush. Interesting, interesting. Very interesting. So That's all folks. We'll probably do either Well, okay, I'll let you pick. Do you want to do Am I the Jerk next or a murder? I'll have think about it. Okay. Think about it. We'll get back to to y'all. We'll see. We'll see what everybody else says. Maybe they wanna see if anyone leave a comment on what you wanna hear. Yeah. like, share, subscribe, all those things. thanks for listening. Thanks for watching. We appreciate it. 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