A Podcast with Receipts
Every slogan has an origin story and every jingle has a motive. Lies We Bought pulls apart the marketing myths and cultural conditioning behind what we eat, wear, buy, and believe, asking who actually benefited from all of it.
Hosted by marketer-turned-investigator Emily Rask, this is the show for everyone who grew up trusting the ads and is ready to finally read the fine print.
episode twenty-four:
Good to the Last DropI didn't taste coffee until I was nearly an adult, so this episode comes with some personal history attached.
"Good to the Last Drop" is older than Maxwell House wants you to think, tied to a Theodore Roosevelt line he almost certainly never said, and built on five words the company borrowed rather than invented. This episode traces where the slogan actually came from and how a myth turned into a century of marketing.I was told as a kid I was allergic to chocolate. I wasn't. That's the story underneath this whole episode, and it's the one I come back to at the end.
Watch on YouTube to the very end for Patreon shoutouts and some extra behind-the-scenes chaos.
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