Welcome to Good Mythical More. We know so much about Pepsi. You know? We know more about Pepsi than Coke knows about Pepsi. So, are we gonna be fooled by any of these unbelievable Pepsi facts? Some of which are gonna be fake? I doubt it. I think we’re gonna get them all right. Not at all. Can’t fool these Carolina boys. But first, let’s give a hundred dollars to spend at the Mythical Store. To? Naimi? Naimi? N-A-I-M-I. Naimi. Naimi. Naimi. Naimi. You wore the merch out in the wild. You used hashtag Merchicality. We found you. We’re gonna reward you. Keep the circle of Mythicalness, Mythicality going. Congratulations. Stevie, let’s have a little role reversal here for starters. Since, we know so much about Pepsi, let’s see what you know. True or false? Oh. Pepsi Cola is actually Coke that’s been just re-bottled. And left out for a little bit. Well, they leave it out, they pour it into new bottles, and that’s why it’s not quite as fizzy as Coke. Yep. True or false? You know, I’ve been to New Bern, North Carolina, as a North Carolinian myself. Yep. – So. – Used to be the capital. That’s false! That’s right. That’s right. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the number one visited attraction in North Carolina. It’s not really an attraction. Can we just be clear? Like, if you can’t just be looking fully. He said, he was in the Outer Banks. Yeah, he lied. So, it’s the same category. Well, he didn’t lie. Kitty Hawk, maybe. – Stevie. – You gotta get specific. Sure, yes. What did the board of judges say? Yeah, what’s the most visited attraction? Part of the board has left, and the other part’s laughing. I wonder what is the single most visited one thing that you can go and see in North Carolina. Like roadside attraction? Look that up. It might, it can’t be, I mean, I haven’t even been to Kitty Hawk. I feel like, I like, have you been to Kitty Hawk? I’ve been to, yeah, I went to. You’ve been to the place the Wright Brothers did their thing? Yeah. I mean, I’ve been to the Outer Banks. It was hot. Hundreds of times, but not that specific Outer Bank. That’s. It was so hot I didn’t, I didn’t get out of the car for like a minute or two. But you know, you drive up the Outer Banks, you look at the, you look at the light houses. It’s kind of a fun little trek to go up the Outer Banks or come down the Outer Banks and go from lighthouse to lighthouse. You can go either way, really. It’s up to you. And, but it takes some time and there’s Kitty Hawk there in the middle. Okay. – True. – True, true. True. Yes. Correct. Some of these, I mean, these are, it’s, we start out maybe a little easy for North Carolina boys, but then we’re escalate here, so I just don’t know, what you’re gonna, what you’re gonna say. When Pepsi was first invented, it was called Greg’s Drink. That is fake. Man, I hope that’s true. Gosh. But it can’t be. How can it be true that it’d be called Greg’s Drink? I know the name of the guy who invented Pepsi, and it ain’t Greg. Well, maybe he made it for Greg. Okay, what was the name of the guy who invented Pepsi? I think J.C. Bradham? Have you been to the tour? I’ve been to the tour. Okay, Bradham is his last name. But, okay, so it is fake, but it’s not far from the truth. R.C.? It was called Brad’s Drink. Brad’s Drink. The drugstore owner in North Carolina that, made it or, you know, sold it. Was Caleb Bradham. Caleb? Caleb Bradham. He’s a pharmacist, probably. And he, yeah, it was called Brad’s Drink, not Greg’s Drink. So maybe this is a little bit difficult. Brad’s drink. Good ol’ Brad. Yeah, but we got it right. But his name was Bradham, so it’s like, I guess they called him Brad for short. So, you went on the tour and you retained that specific information. That’s impressive. I actually think I, well, I didn’t have his first name right. But Bradham, I don’t know. I think I had to write a paper about it. Whoa, in what class? Hold on, because, but, your in-laws, like, live near Newburn, or are down there all the time. Do you see what’s happening here? I know something. And he’s like, well, how, how is it possible that you could know this? How can you know something? No, I thought that, I thought you went on the tour, and you remembered it from the tour, and I’m like, that’s impressive because nobody remembers things from tours. No, I don’t. I think I wrote a paper about it. In high school? I think so, yeah. Could’ve been middle school. You wrote a Pepsi paper? I remember, like, your, like, state studies being in, like, fourth grade? Okay, it was fourth grade then. No, I don’t know. To, like memorize all the counties. Yeah. We had to do all 100 counties. Yeah. And I, that’s the most useful thing I’ve ever learned. Anytime I’m in North Carolina, I’m like, yep, I know exactly where I’m at. Yeah. We had a blank. I’m in Currituck County. We had a blank sheet of paper and we had to literally just write out the county names on the sheet of paper. And there was a hundred of them, and there’s probably still are. I’m in Chowan County right now. I’m in Pamlico. Is that one? Yeah. Pamlico County. Cumberland, that’s a big one. Pepsi once developed a version of their soda to be consumed in space. Yeah. PR. Well, we’re technically all in space, aren’t we? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, Link, I don’t know if you know, I don’t believe in space. Well then why are you saying it’s real? Because I go along with the ideas. So as not to upset the judges. Pepsi made a drink for astronauts is really what you’re trying to say here. Yeah, of course they did. It was a, it was a, it was a power, it was a power PR move. I think you’re thinking about Tang. Well, Tang, Tang was made for space. But this one time Pepsi did just a one time space thing. But then they discovered Tang is good anywhere. Yeah, it is. I’m saying this is false. It’s true, it’s true. Oh! Dubbed Pepsi Space Can, it was designed to be enjoyed by astronauts in a microgravity environment. This innovation was part of the 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission. Whoops. Making Pepsi one of the first soft drinks to be adapted for space. Okay. Not to, judges, I just feel like. Yeah, it’s tough. This is tough. Feel like maybe we didn’t need to know about that. This is a tough moment. That’s one that we could have kept in the vault. This is a low point for Good Mythical More. I mean, I watched. We were sitting in class as kids, as children, and we saw the space shuttle explode live on television. It went up in the air. They were like, here we go. Space shuttle launch. We’re gonna watch it like we always do. They wheeled in the cart with the television. We were sitting there and then it happened. Everybody was like looking at each other like. Who’s the person who’s going to say what they think just happened? Yeah, what did the teacher say? She died, Stevie. She was on the shuttle. Yeah, yeah. Our teacher was on the shuttle. Krista, Krista McCullough. Krista McCullough. She was a teacher. Honestly, I don’t remember. I blocked it out. Until now. I think they were like I haven’t thought about it until now. Lunch is early today and somebody starts pushing the cart out. It was traumatic. And now all that Pepsi went with it. I didn’t even, now the tragedy’s even worse. Double, double tragedy. There’s like all, there’s like all of this amazing. There were space cans in there. Like develop, like, futuristic Pepsi. Someone probably just shook the can too much in there. Right. Somebody opened the space can too early. We’ve done an investigation It’s too soon, it’s too soon, really. The Pepsi that was developed specifically for the mission was shaken too hard. Damn. Shortly after it’s invention, Pepsi was advertised as a calming ailment for sick babies with doctors recommending it be given to them in their bottles when they were experiencing colds. I don’t think so. I think it sounds like it could, they would give anything to babies back then. I’ve been on the tour. There’s a point, you go through, you know, it’s like, you turn a corner. I don’t feel like you should access tour knowledge for this game. It’s nothing but, like, it’s, it’s like paper mache babies drinking Pepsi. What is the tour like? Have you been on a Coke tour? It’s self guided. Self guided? It’s self guided, yeah. Is it a river of Pepsi? No, it’s like a soda shop. And then, you go into another room and there’s paper mache babies. And then you, you go into another room and then you realize, oh, this is the room I was in before. – And it’s just. – It’s very small. It’s kind of small. Disappointing. I went on a historic tour recently where they had these little, like, audio things that you put up to your ear. Yes. It’s self guided and my whole family was doing it. And you could, so it just became this awkward thing where you would go into a room and then each pick a corner and like try and look away and like, you know, cause you don’t wanna hear the other people’s audio. It wasn’t like coming out of earbuds. So, if you ever see people in corners in a historic house, that’s it. What tour was it? What was it? What tour? I was in Charleston. Oh. Well, well, what was the tour? Very historic. There’s a bunch of different homes. I don’t remember which, which one. Oh, okay. It was, it was, it was a tour of homes. I love a good historic tour. This is fake. Oh no, what? Well, I think maybe you were confused because Pepsi suggested it, that it be a digestion aid for adults. Yeah. But, I don’t know what the paper mache babies were that you’re remembering. These lies are too rooted in truth. You might have gone to the wrong, the fake Pepsi museum. You know how sometimes they’ll set it up? Right. They’ll hear somebody in New Bern is trying to make a quick buck. Phepsi. It’s, Phepsi, they set up shop, it’s a pop up. And it’s, and that’s why it’s so small, cause they’re like, we can’t make this thing too big. We’re gonna get shut down next week. And then they move the paper mache. The whole thing is actually made of paper mache, even the walls. But you probably didn’t know that cause you didn’t touch the walls. Yeah. The Phepsi museum, a Pepsi, find the numbers sweepstakes gone wrong, resulted in the death of five people. – What? – How? Okay. So, how could this have happened? – I can imagine a person. – Find the number. So, where would you have to look for a number that it would kill you? I guess there’s places. Like in the mouth of a poisonous snake. Like over a ravine. Find the number. I think it’s a number inside the can. Under a mobile home that’s being moved. And I think people were sticking their fingers in there and there was some real bad cuts that didn’t heal up real well. It was really a statistics game. Right, right. Enough people cut their finger. Picked their nose shortly thereafter, maybe wipe their butt. You never know what they’re going to do. Oh, so we’re talking a bacterial infection? Sepsis. Pepsis is what they call it. Okay. It was the great Pepsis ecademic. Pepsis. Ecademic. Epidemic. What? I think he’s got Pepsis. Pepsis. What? What is Pepsis? Well, there’s sepsis and there’s Pepsi. I just combined the two, to make a joke. Does Pepcid have Pepsi in it? I don’t know. Have you ever drank so much Pepsi that you needed Pepcid? No. Have you ever looked for a number and died? Nope. Okay. So I hope this is true. Yeah. I wanna hear the story. How did this happen? It’s true. Good, good. People died! I hope. In the Philippines in the 90s, Pepsi ran a sweepstakes where the winner who found the corresponding bottle number under their bottle caps would win a grand prize equivalent to $40,000. But a printing mishap meant 800,000 bottles had accidentally been printed with the winning number. When it was announced that they would not be honored, riots and protests broke out, homemade bombs and grenades were launched, actually leading to the death of five people. Oh my goodness, I could have never predicted that. Wow. That sequence of events. No, that’s horrible. 800,000, man! If they had to try to fulfill that, they would have gone broke. Pepsi would not exist. Yeah, couldn’t do it. Some people gotta die, I guess. Yeah, right. You gotta keep the dream alive. Pepsi has got to stay in business. The Pepsi’s gotta keep flowing, y’all. Oh my gosh, that’s horrible. We’ve reached a new low here on Good Mythical More. This is the saddest, this is the most tragic Good Mythical More I’ve ever been a part of. Yeah, right. Which one’s worse, the Challenger or that? You can’t put a price on, on lives. Yeah. Let me tell you about another historic tour I went on. Okay. I’m just kidding. I, because that was also a low of. – Yeah, that was. – Oh, okay. In any other episode, that would have been quite a trough. I was ready to listen. There was once a game show centered around the Pepsi Wild Cherry flavor. Yeah. There was once a game show. In someone’s mind? Does that count? It was a collab with Wild ‘n Out. Nick Cannon was definitely involved. He was definitely involved. I know that 7UP. He was a player host. Had a video game. And it was great. You were the spot. It was good. It was a good video game. It was one of the best video games. For a moment. For its time. The graphics were great because It was the spot, and it had the little stringy legs that came out of the spot, and the way it walked, the animation was so great. Yeah, the graphics were so cool. I don’t remember what the objective was. It was on the TurboGrafx-16. I had it on Sega, I think. I’m joking. You remember the TurboGrafx-16? Nobody had it. Never had it. Carney, did you have that? Which one was it? The TurboGrafx-16. No, I had a Sega Genesis. Yeah, it was. I’m sorry, the judging board was not listening to what you said. I was actually looking at, I’m going to a county in North Carolina pretty soon. A county? A county. Oh. I mean, if you’re in North Carolina, you’re in a county. Can you tell me approximately where in the state it is without telling me the name of it? I think the smaller part of it is called Wesley Chapel. So, that’s like a subset of this county. Yeah, but, what, what part of the state is it? What part of the state? If you were to take a blank map of all 100 counties and point at it. I will need to get back to you on that. – Okay. – Okay I am saying that Probably Chatham. But keep going. What’s the question? Why would he go to Chatham County? There’s nothing there. Are you kidding me? Chatham County is beautiful. Oh, it is. My dad used to live there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s farmland. Why would Carney be going there? Because of some chapel. He’s going to somebody’s wedding and he’s outside. Southern Piedmont, if I had to say. Oh, oh, oh. Well, that’s where we’re from. Okay, alright. More Southern. More southern. Okay. So you’re going south of, south of Harnett County. I have not heard of this. Currituck. Have you said that? No, that’s on the coast. That’s on the coast. So, south of Harnett. Alamance. I have not heard of this. Southern Piedmont. You’re, you’re, you’re near southern tides. Towards the mountains. Oh. Oh. Okay. Ooh, that gets, that gets a little, it’s a gray area. I don’t remember any of these. I don’t remember any of these. What does it start with? So the county starts with a U. Union County. That’s the county. – Yep. – Wow. Yeah, hey listen. That’s where I’ll be. I remember. I remember. Never forget. Come out and say hi if you live nearby. Union County. I don’t remember what the question was, but I apparently thought it was fake. The game show centered around. Yeah, Nick Cannon. Oh, fake. Cherry flavor is real! It was called Cherries Wild, and it was hosted by Jason Biggs. Jason Biggs? Yeah. Jason Biggs. He’ll find himself in some different situations from time to time. Okay. Didn’t he host something interesting recently? I don’t know who he is. He’s the guy from. American Pie. American Pie. He’s the curly headed guy. Okay. And, he, he. Orange is the New Black. Oh. I remember him from that. He literally, he hosted something weird recently. You have to look it up, judges. You have to look it up because he hosted something weird. Jason Biggs hosted. Alright, ask us another one. We can do two things at once. Cash at Your Door. Oh, we can only do one thing at once. Well, how am I supposed to read what you just asked for? I thought someone else was doing it. There’s a whole panel of judges out there. It’s called Cash at Your Door, is what he hosted. Weirder than that. Most recently. And I’m gonna tell you, you know, if you go to a living museum where they’re all dressed up. Those are your favorite. That’s my favorite. And we’ll, I’ll tell you about the next time I go on one of those tours. Pepsi once spent millions of dollars on a marketing campaign to change the narrative around the soda after 50 Cent tweeted a picture of it with the caption, This ish sucks for real. Come on, 50. 50 is an incredible businessman. There’s no way that he would eliminate one of the largest consumer brands from potential sponsorship moving forward. Never in a million years. Pepsi owns so many other things. What you don’t know, Rhett, is that 50 Cent is an investor in Vitamin Water. Which is owned by Coke. There you go. So maybe he, that’s good. And then they had to spend all this money. That’s, that’s not good for him, man. Don’t hurt the Carolinas. True. It’s fake. What? I thought you got me with that Vitamin Water. I’m so confident. Yeah, I think he, he’s a, he’s an owner of Vitamin Water. The day that he crosses the judges of Vitamin Water, the judging panel. Yeah. Is the day that he’s gotta go to Pepsi. He’s not gonna burn that bridge. You gotta have an exit plan. He’s not gonna burn that bridge. Did you find out what else he hosted? No, that’s the most recent thing. He was on Dancing with the Stars, but that’s the most recent thing that he’s hosted. Yeah, it was something else. I’m just saying he does a lot of things. We should do a More, that’s all real or fake Jason Biggs I feel like his threshold for saying yes to things is pretty low. That’s all I’m saying. Maybe we shouldn’t do that More. Shots fired. Shade shaded. You know what? I think we’ve reached an all new low point. I know, it’s concerning. Yeah. Just plummeted. Yep. Emotionally. Sorry, judges.