Big Soda

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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🗓️ 7 February 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever get the feeling that this is Big Soda's world and we're just living in it? Even though soda sales have declined in recent years, Big Soda looms large in our popular culture. In this hour, we explore "Coca-Cola Capitalism" and soda politics. Soda Politics; The Vestibules -- Laurence Olivier for Diet Coke; The Secret History of Soft Drinks; Coca-Cola Capitalism; Coke and Cocaine; Why Football Matters.

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0:00.0	Support for WPR comes from the Franciscan Spirituality Center in LaCross,
0:04.8	offering the weekend retreat deepening engagement,
0:07.8	essential habits for listening with Diane Mills, February 2nd and 3rd, FSCenter.org.
0:15.0	Hi, I'm Anne Strange, Champs.
0:17.2	Do you ever get the feeling that the world belongs to big soda,
0:20.7	and we're just living in it?
0:22.8	It's summer swinging with the Everly Brothers.
0:25.2	Sitting in my lifeguard seat out here in the sun and heat, watching that the little girls don't drown.
0:34.5	I mean, even when you want to, you can't get their jingles out of your head.
0:38.1	Coke and Pepsi sponsor everything from Super Bowl halftime to American Idol to polar bears.
0:44.0	They're everywhere.
0:49.3	Today, on to the best of our knowledge, the nutritional, political, environmental, and economic consequences of big soda.
0:56.7	It's a real thing.
0:58.9	Coke is the way it should be.
1:01.8	Coca-Cola.
1:03.4	One of the world wants to see.
1:05.5	Oh, yeah.
1:06.9	A real thing.
1:08.3	Coca-Cola!
1:09.4	For instance, Coke and Pepsi sponsor a lot of sports.
1:13.6	I guess that's where people get thirsty.
1:15.6	Coke's name is all over the Olympics and FIFA soccer.
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