THE PHILIPPINES PEPSI NUMBER FEVER: WHO IS TO BLAME?
The Alarmist
The Alarmist
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🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Who’s to blame for The Philippines Pepsi Number Fever?
This week, it’s an all in-house affair! The Alarmist (Rebecca Delgado Smith) speaks with Producer Clayton Early, Fact Checker Chris Smith and Associate Producer Alex Paul about who’s to blame for The Philippines Pepsi Number Fever. With all its oversight, how could a major corporation like Pepsi mistakenly manufacture over 800,000 of the same winning crowns? Could a software glitch take the blame? Or was there a much bigger agenda at play?
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| 0:00.0 | An Iriot original. |
| 0:04.0 | I was born with a special gift. |
| 0:07.0 | The ability to mentally transform any situation into the worst case scenario. |
| 0:13.0 | In my own brain. |
| 0:18.0 | My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing. |
| 0:21.0 | And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest disasters. |
| 0:28.0 | And find out who's to blame. |
| 0:33.0 | They say history repeats itself. |
| 0:35.0 | Not on my watch. |
| 0:37.0 | My name is Rebecca Delgado-Smith and I am the alarmist. |
| 0:48.0 | Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into the alarmist. |
| 0:51.0 | A comedy podcast where we talk about history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. |
| 0:57.0 | Recommended by a larmy member, Caitlin Bose. |
| 1:01.0 | Today we're discussing the Philippines Pepsi number fever. |
| 1:05.0 | Here's what you need to know. |
| 1:19.0 | On the evening of May 25th, 1992, a young married couple Isagani and Marley Liu |
| 1:25.0 | watched the channel two news in Manila, the capital of the Philippines, |
| 1:29.0 | hoping their prayers would be answered. |
| 1:31.0 | Earlier that year, Pepsi Cola had rolled out the advertising campaign number fever. |
| 1:37.0 | Filipinos across the 7,641 islands could collect Pepsi bottle caps known as crowns |
| 1:45.0 | with three digit numbers printed inside in hopes of winning cash prizes. |
| 1:51.0 | That evening, the news station announced the winning number was 349 |
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