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TOM SCOTT: This is John Nese, and this is
the Soda Pop Stop.

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JOHN NESE: This is Galco's Soda Pop Stop.

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Right now we have about 700 different kinds
of sodas,

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we have 700 different kinds of beers,

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we have everything you can't find,

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and some things you'll just look at and say,

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"I didn't even know they were made!"

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This is actually a cucumber soda.

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And this one started here,

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and it became soda of the year in 2010.

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It's wonderful. This one right here...

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it's an Ouzon. And it's a licorice-flavoured
soda.

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I don't like licorice, and I tasted it, and
I went

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"oh my goodness".

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We were an Italian grocery store,

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and the neighbourhood was changing,

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and then at about that same time

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the supermarket chains bought the distribution
channels

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for the little markets and closed them down.

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We were being put out of business.

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And it wasn't nice the way they were doing
it.

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And I started thinking about it, and I said,

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"you know what? You should be happy

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"that Pepsi-Cola doesn't own your shelf space

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"and you can sell anything you want."

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So I went out and found about 25 little brands
of soda,

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put them on the shelf, and what you find out
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that other little people in business: they're
still out there.

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You're in glass bottles, you're using real
ingredients,

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you're using cane sugar, I mean: what more
can people ask for?

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TS: You said cane sugar in there...

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JN: Oh! You want to know about the United
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and our corn syrup?! Beware!

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You go to the supermarket, you can pick up
frozen foods,

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you can pick up candy, it doesn't matter what
it is.

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You can pick up a loaf of bread and it'll
have corn syrup in it.

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It didn't have it in there 25 years ago.

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Everything you do has corn syrup in it! Why?

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This was the first soda put in a bottle.

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It was actually sold as a tonic, just to calm
your stomach.

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If you try to drink it like most people drink
a soda today,

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you're going to get carbonated cough medicine.

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But if you sip it, you may get a cola, root
beer,

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cinnamon, licorice, vanilla, black cherry
flavour,

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you might get one, you might get four or five
different flavours.

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These come from the Republic of Georgia.

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This is actually made from naturally carbonated
water.

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They don't use a machine. It bubbles out of
the ground that way.

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When I graduated from college, I decided I
wanted to go into the grocery business.

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And my father said, "you going to go and work
for a big company?"

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And I said, "no, pop, I want to come in here

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"because every day is different."

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He just shook his head, he says,

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"you know, you're going to make a living,

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"that's all you're going to make, and you're
a damn fool,

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"go to work for the big company and get paid
to do it."

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And I -- "ah, I don't want to do that!"

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That was important. I mean, it's important.

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You've got to be happy with what you do.

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If you're not happy with what you do...

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we're doing it all for the wrong reason.

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TS: Thank you very much to John Nese and the
staff at the Soda Pop Stop!

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They are on York Boulevard in Highland Park,
Los Angeles,

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and a link to their site is in the description.

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And my apologies for the dodgy camerawork.

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It was just me and my GoPro.

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But there was no way I was going to pass up
a visit

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to something as wonderful and offbeat as this.
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