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Our American Stories

The Man Who Was a Founder AND Mascot: KFC's Colonel Sanders

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, Colonel Sanders did something that no other restaurant founder dared to do — he became his company’s own mascot and brand ambassador! Here to share the story of KFC and a little about who Colonel Sanders was is Adam Chandler, author of Drive Thru Dreams.

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0:00.0

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0:06.1

I'll sit down with trailblazers from sports, music, fashion, entertainment, and politics

0:11.8

to explore their toughest moments and the incredible comebacks that followed. Listen to Wide

0:17.4

Open with Ashland Harris, an Iheart women's sports production on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast.

0:26.5

Presented by Elf Beauty, founding partner of IHeart Women's Sports.

0:30.6

Hey, it's Alec Baldwin. This season on my podcast, Here's the Thing. I speak with musician, photographer, and philanthropist, Julian

0:39.2

Lennon. One of the really important things that happened to me with photography was I would

0:44.5

have people right to me, people that couldn't financially afford to travel the world. And what they

0:50.3

had all said to me is that you bring these stories to us. You bring the truth,

0:55.1

you bring cultures that we would never necessarily know anything about.

0:59.0

Listen to the new season of Here's the Thing on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:07.4

I'm Mary Kay McBrayer, host of the podcast The Greatest True Crime Stories Ever Told,

1:12.1

where I dig into crimes where a woman is not just a victim.

1:15.3

She might be the detective, the lawyer, the witness, the coroner, the criminal, or some mix of those roles.

1:20.9

Because these are the stories we need to know to understand the intersection of society,

1:25.4

justice, and the workings of the human psyche.

1:28.2

Listen to the greatest true crime stories ever told, starting on February 11th, on the IHeart

1:32.9

radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:54.6

This is Lee Habib, and this is our American Stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

2:02.1

Colonel Harlan David Sanders was an American businessman known for founding the fast food corporation Kentucky Fried Chicken.

2:06.0

Colonel Sanders did something that no other restaurant founder dared to do.

2:09.6

He became his company's own mascot and brand ambassador.

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