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Everybody For first we feast on Shaun Evans coming at you from the set of Chris Guthard Show are joined by You can Do the math.

Chris Catherine Hello, You know from his HBO comedy Special Career Suicide as well shows like Broad City and Parks and Recreation.

Of course, you catch the Chris Catherine show on Tru TV and what you might not know about Chris when he isn't hosting the weirdest and often satis show on television.

He's one of the comedy world's foremost aficionados when it comes to rare soda brands.

Before we get started, Chris, can you put your passion, your love for soda in words for me?

Well, I think in my heart I am a very fizzy boy.

You know, I love fizzy drinks.

I love business.

OTA's I'm also an addict who doesn't drink alcohol, so I have to be addicted to something, right?

And for me, a soda.

What makes the perfect soda for you gonna be too sweet?

Can it be to busy?

What's the balance?

I think It can be too sweet.

It can be too fizzy.

Can't try too hard.

My favorite sodas are the ones that have, like, stayed a long time.

And Ben beloved in a certain region.

What have you got?

A Kentucky.

They love a drink called L.

A.

One, if you aren't obsessed with Saudi, probably haven't had L.

A one, but it's so good and they love it so much where it's from, like to me, it needs to also have, like, laid down roots and withstood the test of time.

I feel like a big dork, right?

I can feel the Internet judging me, right?

Well, CREss, we're here for some very important business.

We're gonna put your palate to the test my palate to the test with some of these rare, hard to find crazy soda brands from the U.

S.

And for that taste test, we have a very special guest, all right, To help lead us through today's taste test, we welcome to the table renounce Somali a Lee Campbell for a job she's entirely overqualified for then I know that today we're not gonna be swirling vintage Bordeaux, But are there any tasting techniques from the wine world that you can apply to the soda world.

So one of the things you want to look at when you're tasting anything, first of all is the color.

Also, you wanna see how transparent it is?

A little bit hard to see right now.

Um, so I'm going to just say that that's a dark, mysterious substance in our in our cup.

And it looks brownish, which you say I say brownish hair.

But, you know, I've tasted a lot of things this color.

So I think we should just jump in, Just bottoms up.

Yeah.

Oh, I love the nose on this.

The nose on this is really earthy.

And, um, herb a cious and actually reminds me of certain fortified wine.

So this is gonna I think it's gonna be really interesting.

It's unlike any soda I've ever had in my life.

It has that bitter after taste different from the nose.

Almost medicinal.

Yes, he's gonna kick.

Yeah, little robot doesn't quality.

D'oh also love the idea of things that are made from like herbs and barks that might possibly give me some health benefit.

And that's mostly why I like soda Thio as soon as I smelled it, I thought I knew what it was.

But then I tasted it.

When I smelled it.

I was like, That's moxie, that smocks.

Is it moxie?

Yeah, as soon as I was like, That's moxie.

Yeah, Moxie is nuts.

This is great.

This, Chris.

Some people say that they're the soda king.

And then some people just the walk.

The walk, the official soft drink of name moxie was originally patented as a medicine called the Moxie.

Nerve food.

Legend has it that moxie is an aide to digestion and a cure for nervousness, insomnia and exhaustion.

I can say having had a lot of moxie doesn't solve nervous this.

There's no way in which this solves her.

I'm a very nervous and anxious person.

I can say that a bottle of moxie has never put you it done.

It's no substitute for, well, putrid in the middle.

All right, so here's soda number to me.

I'm a very fast learner looking at my nose in, right off the bat.

I mean, you know, in the wine world, we can decipher so much about where the grapes are grown, but what color is I don't know what to tell you about this.

You're my opinion.

I like the bubbles.

You can tell right off the bat that it's a good soda.

But we'd like to say in the one were persistent, persistent bubbles.

Haman knows lots of lime, I would say.

And then this flavor, I'm gonna pinpoint it or I'm not.

But either way, I'm gonna be mad at myself, because I know I know I have this The smell is hitting me in a certain way.

Ever tell you I think this is almost like a perfect soda?

Really?

Yeah, I do.

I think this is what, like soda pop should be about It should just be sort of ridiculous and fun and right in your mouth and makes you smile.

It's so sweet that it feels like you're getting punched, right?

Bubbles on this one or so pronounced that when they hit the back of my throat I start coughing.

Really?

Yeah, yeah.

I think I die a little pain Ain't no game If I was gonna guess Based on the color in the flavor E think it's that one from Chicago called Green River.

Yeah, I know the history of this one to Green River.

Original used to be the number two soda brand in the U.

S.

In the 19 fifties on Lee, Coca Cola sold for to continue just basis effects.

I happened as well.

They were a beer brewery, and Prohibition hits or than they switched over soda and then kept producing this ever since.

And man is that's gorgeous.

Look at that label.

Yeah, I was gonna say last one thing that I really love about some of the small regional bottled soda brands that they do not care to employ.

Modern day graphic designers.

All right, here we are with soda number three.

Just looking at it.

Once again, we have bubble action, turned up to 11.

And then we were so excited when this hit the table.

I love the color.

I really think it's so pretty.

It actually looks a little bit like wine.

Maybe that was my initial reaction.

It actually tastes like something connected to nature.

To me.

It does.

Yeah.

This doesn't taste like a sugar thrown into a big vat full of chemicals in Chicago has its own elegance.

You would I even think this is the 1st 1 where someone could have a second.

I thought about what they were making and how to do a quick.

I like maybe how to bring kids and adults together or, you know, a nice holiday beverage that everyone would be happy to have.

I'm gonna take a big swing because I initially thought this was somebody's budget.

Is this Huckleberry Mrs Huckle?

Chris, you're so excited.

I feel like nobody's flipping out.

Snail Huckleberry.

That's okay.

So according to the company's website, huckleberries are the summer right in Vela Tibbs of raspberries and blackberries with a rich, juicy flavor.

Somewhere between two Jackson hole soda produces handcrafted old fashioned soft drinks that honor the pioneer spirit of the Old West suggests pairing this drink with Rocky Mountain rainbow trout and grilled chicken.

I could see myself walking down a nice cut of trout with again.

I just want to reiterate I said, I think this might be Huckleberry.

I didn't cheat and I nailed it.

And thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

So here we have a purple drank is definitely a grape soda.

I would go if I if I you know you If I were to be so bold without even tasting it.

I would guess this was new Grape and you dash grape.

Let's just go for it.

Great, Yeo.

Wow, that's amazing.

Well, there's no soda that smells more like great go than new.

It has that.

It's like that great.

That great play were little more than like.

Welsh is more than, well, well, this'll is one of those ones where it's like like that candy great flavor.

Why is it great?

Grapes don't taste like that when you eat that great candy, but this soda tastes like that.

So it's his new freight dates back to the early 19 twenties and now is bottled in Austin, Texas, and this is a flavor you can't forget.

That's true.

It's a small you can't forget either.

This is my least favorite.

I would imagine as a as a wine connoisseur, drinking something that so offensively calls itself great has to get under your skin.

There is at that Concorde freaky aspect, but that's not what were you really used to?

Me?

Find ones.

What about you?

Delicious.

So good, so good.

I want to drink the whole bottle.

I think it's really delicious, like the hot day as a kid running around.

Okay, I have a bottle of this afterwards.

I'm not going to sit there.

I'm not gonna order foie gras.

And a new great like this is something that you know the characters on the Wonder years wouldn't drink, you know.

All right, well, there you have it for the soda taste test.

Chris.

Such a wealth of knowledge.

I learned so much about soda just from being around you.

Lee.

Thank you so much for coming through and helping us lead through the taste test.

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