Cold War Conspiracies in Your Kitchen: Lizzie No Tells All About Yoo-Hoo

01/16/22 • 18 min

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Being denied sodas and sugary drinks as a child gave Sloane a particular affinity for unusual beverages, so a backstage conversation with Lizzie No inspired this conversation about 90s beverages from around the world. From New York to France, to somewhere in Eastern Europe, this week’s podcast is a trip down memory lane and the globe.

A few highlights include a debate on if Yoo-Hoo was ever fizzy, and a conspiracy theory about Yoo-Hoo and the Cold War — it’s not what you’d think! Plus, what is the perfect shade of chocolate milk, and what makes the better real chocolate milk: Nestle Quik powder or Hershey’s syrup?

Beyond the milk, Lizzie No and Sloane travel in their memories to England, France, and Queens, NY before returning to chat about Lizzie No’s recent musical projects including a release of her EP Holidays, the Basic Folk podcast, and her upcoming work on the Black Opry Revue at the legendary Exit/In in Nashville, Tennessee in December.

List of links

Beverage mentions

Four Loko
Yoo-Hoo
Orangina
Free Rain
Eastern European cherry soda in Astoria, Queens
Strawberry Nesquik (previously named Nestle Quik, not a carbonated beverage)

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AI Transcript

Lizzie No 0:09 This topic is hilarious and great to me.

Sloane Spencer 0:12 I’m obsessed with weird stuff and I didn’t even know about your Instagram when I asked you this question.

Lizzie No 0:18 Oh my god yeah, I was just thinking of you a moment ago because I made carat and collagen smoothie for drinks that I chose to actually talk about when you asked me is like the actual opposite of what like in a beverage and that’s the you know, the space between that’s interesting. It’s a hot mess Express

Sloane Spencer 0:40 Well, hey y’all Aslan Spencer here and you found us it is a bubble bottles and one of our fun new podcast where I asked music people what’s your favorite carbonated beverage now a little loose on it here and favorite can sometimes have some serious air quotes around it. Today I’m talking with someone who I just recently saw at an amazing music festival if you can imagine an entire music festival full of well partied folks silently listening to every word a musician saying that’s what happened when Lizzie no took the stage. So as you know, has a great EP that came out in 2020 called holidays. You should definitely check it out Lizzy no.com, also the co host of a great podcast called Basic folk. Welcome.

Lizzie No 1:22 Thank you so much for having me Sloane. I’m just pumped to kind of continue our backstage conversation from albinos gunk.

Sloane Spencer 1:29 Totally. So for those of y’all who don’t know, I am obsessed with weird beverages. I like regional beverages, ones that like maybe aren’t made anymore international beverages all kinds of someone’s like, really, you drank that? But I see out when I travel. And I’ve discovered I’m not the only one.

Lizzie No 1:47 Oh no, I consider myself a bed clean. But I tend to like focus on the smoothie, kombucha health side of things. But I can also be known to dabble in like a weird, awful corn syrup concoction.

Sloane Spencer 2:02 So if you want to see some of the range of this you should definitely check out Lizzy knows Instagram. There’s a whole segment dedicated to beverages.

Lizzie No 2:...

List of links

Beverage mentions

Four Loko
Yoo-Hoo
Orangina
Free Rain
Eastern European cherry soda in Astoria, Queens
Strawberry Nesquik (previously named Nestle Quik, not a carbonated beverage)

Don’t forget to give Bubble Bottles a five star rating!

Sneak peeks, outtakes, and bonus episodes available on Patreon.com/BubbleBottles.

DISCLAIMER: These comedy episodes are for fun and are based solely on personal opinions of the host and/or guest, and do not claim to be fully factual or anything other than a belching good time.

AI Transcript

Lizzie No 0:09 This topic is hilarious and great to me.

Sloane Spencer 0:12 I’m obsessed with weird stuff and I didn’t even know about your Instagram when I asked you this question.

Lizzie No 1:22 Thank you so much for having me Sloane. I’m just pumped to kind of continue our backstage conversation from albinos gunk.

Sloane Spencer 2:02 So if you want to see some of the range of this you should definitely check out Lizzy knows Instagram. There’s a whole segment dedicated to beverages.

Lizzie No 2:...

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What’s your favorite carbonated beverage?

We ask music people that very question in each episode of Bubble Bottles podcast. From electric harp players pondering Cold War conspiracy theories behind Yoo-Hoo to jam bands with eleven different favorite flavors of LaCroix crammed in the van on tour, Bubble Bottles explores the fun, flavorful, and foul in our favorite — or “favorite” — carbonated beverages. Whether you love the drink or can’t even look at the bottle because of broken hearts and bad decisions, we hope you find some new music to check out and have a good time.

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TRANSCRIPT:

Sloane Spencer:

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I love the connection like that, something that seems so simple as a flavored bubble water, is part of that whole experience.

List of links

BettySoo.com
Nobody’s Girl (feat. BettySoo, Rebecca Loebe, and Grace Pettis)
BettySoo on Tour in 2022
Mexican Tamarindo Candy versus Indian Tamarind Candy
Khatti meethi imli candy
Phenomenon of Topo Chico freezing in bottle after opening
Satisfaction of a large burp
Bubble Bottles TikTok of Topo Chico bubble
The BettySoo episode playlist
The Bubble Bottles podcast playlist
Sneak peeks, outtakes, and bonus episodes

Beverage mentions

Don’t forget to give Bubble Bottles a five star rating!

DISCLAIMER: These comedy episodes are for fun and are based solely on personal opinions of the host and/or guest, and do not claim to be fully factual or anything other than a belching good time.

AI Transcript, Good for a Few Laughs

Sloane Spencer: [00:00:08] Hey, y’all, this is Sloane Spencer, and you found us here at Bubble Bottles, one of our two new podcasts. This is where we chat with music folks about their favorite carbonated beverages. I’ve got a special guest with me today, somebody who I have been following — literally following — at shows around the country for several years now and have actually gotten to catch several times. And I guess the plus and the minus of the pandemic is that BettySoo has done a pretty cool online event that bubbled up during all of this experience as well. But it is a Texas songwriter involved in a lot of different projects, not only her solo career but also her trio Nobody’s Girl who has a new album coming, by the way. I’m sure we’ll talk about some of that and happens to be a designer of planners, so I am obsessed with planners and full disclosure: I purchased the planner and I use it regularly, so I know that’s not really what we were planning to talk about, but I felt like I should put that out there. So BettySoo, welcome to Bubble Bottles. [00:01:07][59.1]

BettySoo: [00:01:08] Thank you so much. It’s great to be here. [00:01:10][1.8]

Sloane Spencer: [00:01:11] Oh my pleasure. So give us a rundown on what you’ve been doing musically. [00:01:15][3.9]

BettySoo: [00:01:15] Well, you know, Nobody’s Girl. We released our record a year after we t...