Steve Covino
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And...
As kids.
With a Run DMC cassette.
Yeah, if you all remember, yeah, you were raised in hell.
And if you remember, a lot of us were kids, maybe some of you older, that's fine.
It was such a big deal because Coca-Cola, it's one of the oldest products that we have here in America.
Everybody loves Coca-Cola.
There's a new recipe for Coca-Cola.
Everyone's excited to try it with a different can and everything.
And it was a major, major letdown.
As Danny G said earlier...
It lasted three months.
And when you think of all the campaigning, all the advertising, all the money they put into that, it lasted three months, grand opening, grand closing.
So that got us thinking about the biggest flops in history.
I don't want to take the answers, but you shouldn't call it with an obvious answer.
Give us a good one, because if you're going to say New Coke, what do you immediately also think?
Crystal Pepsi.
Crystal Pepsi.
And I wonder, there are people that say that Saturday Night Live, making fun of it by doing crystal gravy and doing all these funny bits, sort of didn't help it.
And when you realize that cola is just a darker color, did we need crystal Pepsi?