meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

330: The Coca-Cola Conspiracy

Ghost Town: Strange History, True Crime, & the Paranormal

Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib

True Crime, Paranormal, Weird History, Social Sciences, History, Science

3.7928 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A secret-selling scandal unfolds in 2006.


More Ghost Town: https://www.ghosttownpod.com

Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/ghosttownpod (7 Day Free Trial!)

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ghosttownpod



Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Ever wondered why people go on killing sprees?

0:05.0

Are you interested in exploring the paranormal?

0:07.0

Faffled by stories of previous lives.

0:10.0

Well so are we.

0:11.0

In each episode we'll be discussing the weird and wonderful stories of some truly confusing phenomena

0:17.0

and some horrific true crime cases.

0:19.0

Find us on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok

0:22.5

and join us every Tuesday,

0:24.6

wherever you listen to your podcasts.

0:26.9

And be prepared to be totally and utterly,

0:29.7

perplexed. A Cola War. I'm Jason Horton.

0:50.5

I'm Rebecca Lebe.

0:51.6

And this is Ghost Town.

1:08.0

The Horton. I'm Rebecca Leeb. And this is Ghost Town. We love an underdog story here on Ghost Town, especially one that involves a corporation firmly entrenched in the American zeitgeist.

1:16.0

Unfortunately, some of the most ambitious plans don't always pan out.

1:20.9

Such is the story of the attempt by one Coca-Cola employee to steal and sell company secrets.

1:27.4

Secrets that, as you probably know,

1:29.6

are historically extremely closely guarded by the Coca-Cola Company. Today on Ghost Town,

1:35.5

the case of Joya Williams and the Coca-Cola conspiracy. But before we get into Williams,

1:40.9

it's important to note her motivation, namely how deep the Coca-Cola and

1:44.7

Pepsi rivalry actually goes. In 1886, John Steth Pemberton, a pharmacist from Columbus, Georgia,

1:52.1

developed the original recipe for Coca-Cola. Soon the Coca-Cola Company was founded. In 1898,

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Jason Horton & Rebecca Leib and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.