Cereal Wars - Cereal Offenders | 4
It’s the late 1950s and General Mills is playing catch-up. While Kellogg’s and Post are thriving on the back of animated characters and sugary cereals, General Mills’ cereals are looking stale. So now...
24 Jul 201926min
Cereal Wars - Sugar Rush | 3
World War II is in the rearview mirror, and breakfast cereal is on the brink of a new calorific era. Post Cereals decides to break from its healthful past and start sugar coating its cereals. It’s a m...
22 Jul 201924min
Cereal Wars - Breakfast of Champions | 2
It’s 1904 and Quaker Oats is about to make an, ahem, explosive entry into the cold cereal business. With the Kellogg brothers at risk of being left behind, Will Kellogg finally decides it’s time to st...
17 Jul 201925min
Cereal Wars - A Divine Mission | 1
It’s the late 1800s and America is in the grip of a bellyache epidemic. But, thanks to a divine revelation, help is on the way in the form of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and his sanitarium in Battle Creek...
15 Jul 201924min
Gibson vs Fender - The Future of the Electric Guitar | 7
Ian S. Port, author of The Birth of Loud: Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped Rock 'n' Roll joins us to talk about the future of the electric guitar as music creation b...
10 Jul 201926min
Gibson vs Fender - Attack of the Robot Guitars | 6
In the '90s and 2000s, new ownership has revitalized both Fender and Gibson and rekindled their rivalry. Through acquisitions, artist endorsements and their rapidly expanding custom shops, both brands...
8 Jul 201924min
Gibson vs Fender - Back From the Brink | 5
It's the early 1980s, and for the first time in 30 years, the U.S. guitar market has gone cold. Bands are switching to synthesizers and kids are ditching their garage bands for computers and video gam...
3 Jul 201923min
Gibson vs Fender - Les Pauls Unleashed | 4
In the 1960s, rock'n roll's popularity continues to grow. But one of the genre's most popular guitars, the Les Paul, is no longer being made. Now the guitar's namesake must convince an out-of-touch Gi...
1 Jul 201921min
