Fascinating Tales from the Businesses That Shape Our World
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 Published On Mar 16, 2024

A little something different today. A compilation video with all the sponsors, intros, and outros cut out, with the idea of better facilitating you working or sleeping with us in an interesting way. :-)

In the video today, we're looking at all manner of things starting with the interesting founding of Duncan Donuts, that time a guy bought all hand soap pumps in the world so he could dominate the market, that time Colonel Sanders of KFC tried to kill the competition by literally trying to kill someone, all manner of zany interesting things related to coca cola, Pepsi, and McDonalds, how Dr. Pepper got started, and countless more stories surrounding the businesses that shape our world.

0:00 Rags to Riches: The Junior High School Dropout Who Created a Tasty, Billion Dollar Empire
9:52 That Time a Guy Cornered the Liquid Soap Market By Sneakily Buying Every Hand Soap Pump in the World
22:30 What Ever Happened to Ronald McDonald (and the Bizarre Rules for Those Playing the Character)
39:31 The McDonald's Monopoly Scam
44:47 That Time Colonel Sanders Tried to Kill the Competition by Trying to Literally Murder Its Manager
56:31 That Time Coca Cola Released a New Product Just to Spite Pepsi
1:05:05 That Time Pepsi Accidentally Promised Hundreds of Thousands of People $40,000 Each
1:12:20 The Billion Dollar Babies
1:23:02 The One Guy Behind a Huge Number of Staple Fast Food Items Everyone Loves
1:36:45 How Hollywood Studios Manage to Lose Money On Movie That Make a Billion Dollars
1:51:46 That Time a Soviet General Invented Clear Coke and Pepsi Had One of the World's Largest Navies
2:00:20 The Story of the Troll Doll
2:05:48 Why is the McRib Only Offered Occasionally and Why So Randomly?
2:21:11 Two Major Companies Who Settled Their Differences the Old Fashioned Way
2:28:30 That Time Coca Cola Spent $100 Million Intentionally Filling Its Soda Cans With Fart Water
2:34:34 The Real Reason Coke Got Rid of Coke and Replaced It With New Coke
2:41:43 When and Why Did McDonald's Start Supersizing Things?
2:53:48 A Lesson in Failure: The Rise of the Mars Candy Company
3:02:10 The Twisting, Turning Tale of the Invention of Dr. Pepper
3:27:39 Why are Kinder Eggs Illegal in the USA?
3:43:28 The Surprisingly Interesting Story Behind the Filet-o-Fish Sandwich
3:52:04 Is the Recipe for Coca Cola Really Only Known by Two People?
4:03:17 Unsung Heroes: The Man Who Invented the Chicken Nugget
4:10:28 What Does Bill Gates Do on His Day Off and the Story of Microsoft
4:31:27 What's so Special About McDonald's Fries?
5:07:07 That Time Coca Cola Tried to Introduce Vending Machines That Charged More on Hot Days
5:15:55 That Time Sony Secretly Installed Rootkit Software On Hundreds of Thousands of Computers
5:23:33 That Time Pepsi Promised to Give Away a Harrier Jet and the Hilarity That Ensued
5:31:26 The Truth About the Infamous McDonald's Hot Coffee Incident
5:40:51 Does McDonald's Or Burger King Really Hand Out Cards Granting You Free Food for Life
5:49:24 Visions of Rat Infested Pizza - Atari's Chuck E Cheese's
5:53:40 That Time Coca Cola Tried to Sell Bottled Tap Water in the UK Marketing It as Filled with Semen
6:02:36 How the Nazis Teamed Up with IBM for Mass Murder (And How the First Ethical Hacker Fought Back)
6:18:52 A Restaurant for a Beetle and $100 and a Bike- The Fascinating Stories Behind Four Famous Businesses
7:05:52 How a Nazi Feud Gave Us Adidas and Puma And Allowed Nike to Become King

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