Louis, Can of Cola
Everything is Alive
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🗓️ 19 April 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Welcome, new listeners. We're glad you're here. We always tell people to start at the beginning, so here's our very first episode. If you like it, we recommend going back to the start of the feed and continuing from there. But it's up to you.
Louis is a can of cola. He's been on the shelf a long time, so he's had some time to think. Featuring Louis Kornfeld.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, let's just start, settle in, have you introduce yourself for us. My name is Lewis, and I am a can of go-to-cola. That's a store brand. Go-2, G-O-2, COA. So it's similar to Coca-Cola. Similar. People call it a knockoff. I've been called the best of the worst. You know, if you wanted to get my honest opinion opinion, I believe in a blind taste test, your average person wouldn't be able to tell the difference between me and a can of regular Coca-Cola, but, yeah, uh, bottom shelf. We can describe it comfortably as bottom shelf. I'm at peace with that. Literally on the, most of the time, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Well, um, I, There's a lot I want to talk to you about today. Do you need most of the time yeah okay well um i there's there's a lot i want to |
| 0:39.8 | talk to you about today do you need any do you need water or anything no no i'm i'm completely |
| 0:44.1 | self-contained i want to ask you about your time before you ended up in the fridge you're in now |
| 0:50.8 | so you um you i take it were you were in a supermarket. Yep. And where were you? |
| 0:57.2 | I was in a safe way. I was bought at a case. So there were 24 of us. We were all purchased together. |
| 1:04.1 | And actually, our next residence was a bowling alley for a 12-year-old birthday party. I saw most of the rest of my case |
| 1:15.8 | drunk at that party. I was not drunk. I was saved for later and brought home and put into |
| 1:21.6 | a refrigerator and then forgotten about for a few months, placed in the back of the fridge. |
| 1:25.9 | Sure. I froze in the fridge. |
| 1:29.9 | I was in the very back, and the temperature got very cold. |
| 1:33.1 | I didn't freeze all the way through, but I had a frozen couple of weeks. |
| 1:37.9 | Pretty chilling. |
| 1:38.4 | You were slushy inside? |
| 1:39.5 | I was slushy inside. |
| 1:40.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:41.5 | And I had a brief adventure when they realized I was still in the fridge and they took |
| 1:46.9 | me out for a road trip. I got to sit in the front seat cup holder, you know. Yeah. And I took a little |
| 1:52.8 | fun road trip down to Florida and then back again. And they never got around to drinking me on that |
| 1:58.7 | trip. And they put me back in the fridge, and that's where I've been ever since. |
| 2:02.5 | It sounds like you were almost chosen so many times. |
| 2:05.5 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 2:06.6 | What does it feel like when you're, say, at this birthday party |
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