Brad Sutton

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1,533 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 30 Jul

Brad Sutton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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But then A&W drops it in and boom, you've got the rip your float like that.

And they've got the, and by the way, why it became so popular is A&W has got the rip your stance.

Yes, they're so good.

They're so good.

I mean, so Frank J. Weisner, August 1893, he brought us the Rip Your Float.

And that was in Cripple Creek, Colorado.

I think I said 1860s.

So it was 1893.

A&W, whose founder was Frank Wright-

He started serving that combination in 1922 and turned it into an iconic staple, right, of American fast food.

And it's widely known as their like signature dessert, right, the NW Burger Float.

So they took it and just said, yeah, this is a good thing and we're going to throw this thing everywhere.

Marketing, yeah.

Marketing.

It's always marketing.

Now, here's something that most people never hear, right?

One of the original anchors of root beer's flavor was the sassafras root.

Then in the 20th century, science shows up and kind of ruins the party.

Researchers find that saffrol, a compound in sassafras oil, is linked to cancer in lab studies.

Now, fun fact, you'd have to consume an incredibly unreasonable amount of it to actually get cancer.

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