Episode 252: 60 Years of Doritos, Live Aid Concert Event, Family Feud, Rebranded Sports Teams(7-15-2026)

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The tasty history of Doritos. The historic Live Aid concert event. Sports teams that were rebranded as others.

Episode 252 is chock full of GenX nostalgia to try to keep you cool in the July heat.

It starts with one of the most historic music events ever. Live Aid was a one-day event featuring many legends of the day. Taking place in 1985 and on two separate continents, it raised money for famine relief while also creating some enduring musical memories.

Six decades of snacking. We celebrate Doritos, which burst onto the scene in 1966. From simple toasted corn tortilla chips to more than 100 flavors worldwide, Doritos have been a staple of after school, sporting event gatherings, teenage parties, and more for most of many of our lives.

Countless sports franchises have been in the same city for decades. Some have left their original cities but kept their name. For this Top 5, we are looking at teams that not only left their original city but also were rebranded. Growing up in New England, the Hartford Whalers hockey team was front and center on this list. Do you have any favorite rebranded sports teams?

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Hello world, and welcome to the In My Footsteps podcast.

I am Christopher Setterlund, coming to you from the vacation destination known as Cape Cod, MA.

And this is episode 252, Smack dab in the middle of summer, I've got a fresh batch of Gen.

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X nostalgia in your basket to take on a picnic.

Music, game shows, food, sports, all here.

We're going to kick it off with a look back at one of the most beloved musical festivals of the 1980s and perhaps of all time, Live Aid.

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We're going to go back and see if I can contain my giddy happiness as we look back at 60 years of Doritos.

I think I've eaten about that much in my lifetime.

There's going to be a brand new top five as we look back at the top five rebranded sports teams.

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These are teams that existed in one form and then move to another place but still exist to this day.

And there's going to be a brand new This week in history and Time capsule looking back at the Super popular game show and staple of sick days of all 80s and 90s kids, Family Feud.

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All of that is coming up right now on episode 252 of the In My Footsteps podcast.

So what are we going to talk about this week?

It's hot again.

It's still summer.

It's humid and soupy on Cape Cod, New England, most of the United States.

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I'm here to keep you cool with the memories of your past.

I really hype it up.

I hope it does that for you.

Either way, thank you so much for tuning into my show, the In My Footsteps podcast, a weekly dose of Gen.

X nostalgia that I supply.

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Wherever you are listening from, I hope you enjoy.

If you don't, there's no receipt.

You can't come back to customer service and return this podcast.

This is a loaded show filled with loads of topics that I couldn't wait to talk about.

The big question is, will I be eating Doritos during the Doritos segment?

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I'm going to say no because listening to other people eat is kind of gross.

With this being a loaded show, I'm going to dive into it very quickly.

But first, you know, I can't start off the podcast proper without thanking my Patreon subscribers.

Thank you so much to Laurie, Mary Lou, Ashley, Kevin, Leo, Marguerite, Neglectoid, Crystal, Matt, Doctor, Shrimp, Porto, Chico.

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Thank you all so much for being my biggest supporters, my biggest backers, the people that literally put their money where their mouth is to support me, my content, my never ending quest to be a full time self-employed content creator.

Books, blogs, videos, podcasts.

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Now a burgeoning film career for those of you long time listeners.

You hear that and you're like, yeah, we know you mention it every week, but I always treat the podcast like there's somebody listening for the first time.

That's a big reason why I never phone it in.

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I never just go through the motions when it comes to research, recording, editing, marketing, the podcast, because it's like, if you don't care enough about your work to put you know the effort into it, why should other people care to listen or share or donate?

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Speaking of donate, there are still a few weeks left to donate to the fundraiser.

For my feature film debut, The Cabin, I will be producing a film, an indie horror film based on a short story I wrote many years ago.

It's going to be directed by Mark Polonia.

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I'll be going on site at the end of August to be there to film.

The link to the GoFundMe is at the top of the podcast notes.

Please donate if you can, share if you can't.

We are, as of this recording, 60% of the way to the budget.

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I'm so excited that we've gotten that much traction.

Even after the fundraiser is done and the filming is going on, I'm going to do my best to have a lot of content that I film either behind the scenes or special podcast interviews with members of the cast and crew.

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This is going to be a huge project and a huge part of my life for at least the next year, year and a half.

But enough of the approach.

Let's get this podcast started.

Like, we're riding our BMX bike up to a jump over a bunch of debris that we found in the yard.

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That's a very 80s and 90s reference.

Speaking of 80s, we're going to kick this show off with a look back at one of the most beloved music festivals of the 80s, and perhaps of all time, fittingly, this week in history.

So let's look back 41 years at the Live Aid musical event.

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Everyone has those Seminole moments in their life, in the world around them.

Important things that happen that you're there for, that you don't really appreciate when they happen.

Only when you get older do you realize how lucky you were to be a part of or experience something.

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That's kind of how I feel about the Live Aid concerts.

On July 13th, 198541 years ago this week, one of the most ambitious and influential musical events ever was attempted.

I didn't know what at the time, I was seven years old.

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Only when I got older did I realize that Live Aid was much more than a concert, that it was a global cultural phenomenon that united some of the biggest stars in music.

This event, which spanned across continents, wasn't just thrown together just for the hell of it.

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The roots of Live Aid are traced to the devastating Ethiopian famine from 1983 to 85.

This is when the country of Ethiopia was suffering from a combination of drought, civil war, political instability, and economic hardship.

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Another event that was centered around this famine was the We Are the World song and album.

Back in episode 237, I did a full segment about the creation of that song and everything that came from it if you're interested in learning more about that.

The scenes of starvation and suffering shocked television audiences in North America and Europe.

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One of the people that was deeply affected by these reports was Irish musician Bob Geldof.

He was the front man of a band called The Boomtown Rats.

Their most well known song was I Don't Like Mondays from 1979.

It was about a school shooting at an elementary school in San Diego.

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So kind of depressing.

But by late 1984, Geldof had become determined to help the famine in Ethiopia.

He joined forces with others to create the charity single Do They Know It's Christmas under the name Band-Aid.

Inspired by the success of Band-Aid and We Are the World, Bob Geldof and Mid Jury of Ultravox conceived an even larger idea, a worldwide concert connected by satellite.

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The idea behind Live Aid was unprecedented.

Instead of it being a traditional benefit concert, Geldof envisioned what he called the Global Jukebox, a continuous live broadcast featuring the world's biggest musicians performing from multiple locations.

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These multiple locations would be Wembley Stadium in London, England and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia, PA.

Saturday night, ABC presents the concert event of the century, the climax of the greatest day in the history of music live, Plus the best of 17 hours of nonstop performances.

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An All Star concert for African Relief Saturday at 87 Central.

The event would be carried via satellite to television audiences around the globe.

Organizing such a production in 1985 was an enormous technical challenge.

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Just think about it.

Back then, there were no smartphones, no Internet, no social media.

You had cable that was gaining a foothold, but we're talking about having to do all of the hard research and contacting people the hard way.

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The organizers of the concert only had weeks to arrange performers, television agreements, satellite links, security, ticketing, logistics.

Later on, Bob Geldof admitted that there was no Plan B if any technology failed.

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Just think of an alternative timeline where the same line UPS in both places start to play and the feed goes out.

Or if you had acts that at the last minute decided they were not going to play.

There were really so many things that could have gone wrong to sabotage Live Aid.

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It's amazing that it went off as it did.

Live Aid took place on Saturday, July 15th, 1985.

You had at Wembley Stadium in London about 72,000 people and then at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia another roughly 89,000 people.

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That's just live.

But besides the roughly 160,000 people that saw the concerts live and in person, television audiences were staggering.

You're looking at anywhere from 1.5 to 2 billion viewers in more than 100 countries.

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This was one of the largest television broadcasts ever produced at the time.

In total, Live Aid lasted about 16 hours and featured more than 70 performers.

The lineups were a who's who of famous musicians from the mid 1980s.

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The Wembley Stadium show, which started the day off, included Elvis Costello, U2, Dire Straits, David Bowie, The Who, Elton John, Paul McCartney and Queen.

Like I said a minute ago, I was seven years old.

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We had Live Aid on MTV, on the TV, so it was kind of background noise.

I would be there and I would watch, but I don't think I appreciated what I was seeing.

It's amazing to see the mythical status that Queen's performance has taken on with the 2018 film Bohemian Rhapsody.

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And just through the passage of time, because I was watching that, I was watching Freddie Mercury on stage conduct 70 + 1000 people at the wave of his hand.

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I'm sure it was mesmerizing for me, but I think also at the time I didn't really know who Queen was.

But I do have vivid memories of our little TVI don't know if it's a 19 inch and this one man in that kind of white tank top just conducting the crowd and just saying that's pretty cool.

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I don't know who he is, but he's got a lot of people that like him.

Queen only performed for 20 minutes, performing Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Gaga, Hammer to Fall, Crazy little thing Called Love, We Will Rock You and We are the Champions.

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It has to be one of the most well known and beloved musical performances ever.

Not only did Freddie Mercury demonstrate his complete command of the audience at Wembley Stadium, that call and response, vocal improvisation which you've probably heard.

And if you haven't, go find it on YouTube.

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It's just magic, and the performance revitalized Queen's commercial fortunes, at least in the United States.

By 1985, Queen hadn't had a hit song in several years since Under Pressure in 1981, Which I would only learn about that song in 1990 when Vanilla Ice stole the bass line from it.

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Then I was wised up like, no, that's from Queen.

And I'm like, no, it's Vanilla Ice.

He's going to be a legend.

Shows how much I knew.

The competition between venues was pretty evident with the London performers that I mentioned.

So in Philadelphia, here in the US, we had Madonna, Tom Petty, The Beach Boys, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton.

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I would say the answer to Queen's performance would be Led Zeppelin reuniting for the first time, and it was probably five years.

You can't talk about the reunion of Led Zeppelin without talking about who was their drummer.

John Bonham, who had been the original drummer for Led Zeppelin, had died in 1980.

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So you couldn't really have a reunion of Zeppelin and have no drummer.

That leads to the other legendary performance of that day, and that belonged to Phil Collins.

Phil Collins performed at Wembley Stadium, boarded the supersonic Concorde aircraft, crossed the Atlantic in time to perform again in Philadelphia as drummer for Led Zeppelin.

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It was a huge achievement to perform at both concerts, although the story has it that because Phil Collins did this, he had almost no time to rehearse with Zeppelin, so the drumming wasn't as good and they didn't match up as well.

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I mentioned some of the legendary acts, the legendary moments of Live Aid, but like I said, there were more than 70 acts, so there had to be some that were lesser known.

You had bands like The Hooters who were a Philadelphia based folk act that had just broken out.

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They played in Philadelphia at Live Aid, Other lesser known acts like Ultravox, Nick Kershaw, the Style Council, and New Age or new Wave star Howard Jones.

There were also many big names at the time who did not perform at Live Aid.

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One of the most interesting ones is George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

Because Paul McCartney performed, Ringo and Harrison were worried about being tricked into a Beatles reunion, with Julian Lennon replacing John.

Other major names who did not perform at Live Aid for various reasons included Michael Jackson, Prince, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Diana Ross, Rod Stewart, Culture Club, Tears For Fears, The Eurythmics.

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The Live Aid show concluded with symbolic performances tied directly to the charitable cause.

Kind of bringing it back to why they were there.

In London, musicians joined together to perform.

Do they know it's Christmas in the middle of July?

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But the thought is there.

And in Philadelphia, artists gathered to perform We Are the World.

Which again is interesting because half the people that performed in that song weren't at Live Aid.

Overall, Live Aid was a huge success.

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The financial impact was enormous, with estimates at the time indicating that Live Aid raised more than $100 million for famine relief efforts in Africa.

Some more contemporary estimates recently have the long term total above 125 million.

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If we go to that $100 million total, when adjusted for inflation, that's equal to about $311 million raised for the famine in Africa.

More importantly than the money up front, the event focused worldwide attention on the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia, helping to generate additional government and charitable responses.

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The legacy of Live Aid extends far beyond July 13th, 1985.

It established the template for future mega benefit concerts, including Farm Aid Live 8 America, Tribute to Heroes, a concert for New York City.

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It demonstrated the power of global satellite broadcasting.

It showed that popular musicians could become influential advocates for humanitarian causes.

For many Gen.

X listeners, including me, Live Aid was a defining cultural moment.

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Like I said, I might not have appreciated it at the time, but I was watching.

I saw Queen and Freddie Mercury.

I saw Bono and U2, I saw Tom Petty.

I saw Led Zeppelin, who I didn't appreciate at the time.

I saw Phil Collins.

Impressive feat of playing on 2 continents in the same day.

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I don't know if I thought that that was commonplace, to have all these famous musicians in the same place at the same time 41 years later, though.

This week in history, the images of Freddie Mercury commanding Wembley Stadium, images of Phil Collins playing both places in the same day, and so many other magical moments from famous musicians at the time make Live Aid among the most enduring moments in rock'n'roll history.

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This week in history we are going back 50 years to July 12th, 1976 and the premiere of the beloved game show staple Family Feud.

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Game show staple and staple of sick days for kids in the Seventies, 80s and 90s.

There are a few game shows in television history that have achieved the staying power, cultural impact and some meme worthy moments of Family Feud.

It began as a daytime quiz style competition and since then it's evolved into a multi era television institution.

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Family Feud was created by legendary producer Mark Goodson, known for his classics like The Price is Right and The Match Game.

The concept of the game was simple but addictive. 2 families of five compete to guess the most popular answers to survey questions.

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For example, survey asked 100 people name something you associate with the beach.

If you say ocean or sand, you would get a higher number and you'd be able to start answering first.

If you guessed pork fried rice, you would probably be thrown off the show.

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I don't know why that was the first thing I came up with.

Maybe I'm hungry.

The structure of Family Feud has remained mostly consistent for 50 years.

There's the face off round.

One player from each team buzzing in the winning family chooses to play or pass.

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The teams try to guess the top survey answers.

Wrong answers earn the strikes.

Three Strikes gives the opposing family a chance to steal, and the winning family earns points based on revealed answers.

The format's genius is in that it rewards thinking like the average person and not academic knowledge.

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Like you feel like in Jeopardy, you needed to have a master's degree and something to know some of the answers, whereas Family Feud, you just said to guess something in your fridge.

It's like, if you can't do that, I, I don't know what to tell you.

The first host of Family Feud was Richard Dawson.

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He hosted from 1976 to 85.

He's known for being the one that would kiss all of the female contestants.

I mean, there's nothing weird, although a few would be more seductive than others.

Under Richard Dawson, Family Feud became a top rated daytime hit.

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It was one of the most recognizable game shows in America.

It was a cultural phenomenon.

What's interesting though, is when Richard Dawson left the show in 1985, the show ended.

It came back for its first revival in 1988.

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This is where I first remember Family Feud, hosted by Ray Combs.

It was popular again during this run from 1988 to 95, but it struggled to match that same cultural dominance of the Richard Dawson era.

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So it went off the air again, coming back for a third time in 1999.

Since then, it's been on the air consistently, so you're looking at 27 years.

We had Louis Anderson returning to host the show from 1999 to 2002.

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Then we had Richard Carne, John O'hurley and from 2010 to now, Steve Harvey.

I think a lot of us of a certain age, my age, around my age, think of Family Feud as Richard Dawson's show, but Steve Harvey has hosted it longer.

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His impact on the show includes viral humor, personality driven hosting.

There's been a ratings resurgence under him, with clips of funny or awkward answers regularly trending on TikTok, Facebook, YouTube.

So for 50 years, this show has worked.

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I mean, almost consistently 50 years.

The biggest reasons why the survey answer hook is the biggest thing?

Unlike most trivia shows, there aren't any right answers, just popular opinions.

Which that brings me into a question I've been dying to ask.

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Maybe some of you have the answer.

So it always says, we surveyed 100 people.

Did any of you ever get called by the Family Feud people?

Did you ever hear about in the newspaper?

Maybe show up at this building?

Some rando just calls you up and says what would you find at the beach?

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It's like, who is this?

Family view was popular though because of the relatable psychology with players thinking what would most people say, leading to surprising answers, funny mistakes where the wrong answers were often more entertaining than the correct ones.

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You had family dynamics which never got super intense, like you never had fist fights between the family members.

It made this game way more relatable and kind of interactive, where you'd sit there and they'd be looking to answer the survey questions and you'd be yelling out an answer that you thought was on the board.

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And at the end of the round they would show you all the answers so you'd know if you were right.

And then they could say Family Fusion have called me to be In the survey.

Today, Family Feud is frequently ranked alongside Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, and Price is Right as one of the most iconic game shows ever made.

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From Richard Dawson's original charm and kissing fetish to Steve Harvey's modern comedic dominance, Family Feud is survived by adapting without changing its core idea.

And that very first episode of Family Feud debuted 50 years ago this week in history.

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And now survey says it's time for another time capsule.

Oh, man, you can tell I was waiting to use that line.

I'm sorry.

For this week, we're sticking to the same day, July 12th, 1976.

Fifty years ago, Family Feud has debuted.

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Maybe you were a kid, homesick from school getting to watch it.

Well, what was going on in the world of pop culture back then?

Well, let's find out.

The number one song was Afternoon Delight by Starland Vocal Band.

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Starland vocal Band, they suck.

I'm never going to get tired of sharing that clip.

I swear I didn't intentionally put that in there, it was just coincidence.

Those of you younger listeners might know this song from Anchorman where they're all singing it.

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This is the one hit of the one hit wonders, Starland Vocal Band.

It was a big hit though.

It was from their self-titled album Starland Vocal Band.

The song received 3 Grammy nominations, winning for Best Vocal Arrangement.

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In total, the song was #1 for two weeks.

The song helped to push the Starland Vocal Band album into the top 20, selling more than 500,000 copies.

The number one movie was The Omen and you could get into the theater with a ticket costing $2.13.

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This is the supernatural horror film following young Damien Thorne, who is the Antichrist.

It starred Gregory Peck and Lee Remick.

The film was a massive hit, taking in nearly $80 million on a budget of just under 3,000,000.

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The original Omen is 76% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

It did spawn several sequels of varying quality.

Damien The Omen 2 did fairly well in 1978.

The rest it's the number one TV show was the Major League Baseball All Star game.

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The National League defeated the American League 7 to 1.

The American League was led by such legends like Rod Carew, Thurman Munson, George Brett, Karl Yastremsky.

The National League was led by icons like Pete Rose, Steve Garvey, Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench, Mike Schmidt, and Tom Seaver.

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And if you were around back then, July 12th, 1976, maybe you were still caught up in that bicentennial feeling.

You wanted to spread it around to your children.

Well, if you had young daughters back then, you could get them the Bicentennial Barbie, which was just a regular Barbie.

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But the big thing was you could get the Bicentennial Barbie outfits that came with it, different dresses with the American flag motif, the Susan B Anthony Colonial woman dress.

Depending on where you went, these would cost you anywhere from $1.50 to 350.

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When adjusted for inflation, it's about $8.80 up to a little over $20.00.

I have no idea what these things are worth today.

If you have any, I'm sure you could probably fetch some good money for them on eBay, but that's going to wrap up another time capsule that's going to wrap up this week in history.

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Very fitting that the number one TV show was the MLB All Star Game because we're going to continue the sports theme as we get a brand new top five.

Looking at rebranded sports teams.

These are teams that started in one place, moved cities, changed names, but the franchise itself still exists.

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I'll explain further as we get into it.

Right now, I love sports.

Yeah, that's the end of the segment.

Now, where I grew up on Cape Cod, we had our share of sports teams and we were less than an hour and a half from Boston.

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I was lucky enough that I've lived with the glory days of the Celtics, the Red Sox, the Bruins, the Patriots, even though they're not Boston and there have been so many legendary long standing sports teams throughout the country.

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But on the other hand, there have been loads and loads of teams that have moved from where they originally were set up.

That is the story behind this week's top five rebranded sports teams.

What I was looking at were teams that originally existed somewhere and then they moved to a different location.

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But the difference is they had to actually change their name as well.

So the Minneapolis Lakers becoming the Los Angeles Lakers don't count.

The Boston Braves becoming the Milwaukee Braves, Atlanta Braves don't count, although I will admit there is one in the honorable mentions that is kind of a cheat, but it is very topical, which is why I included it.

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As with most of these top fives, they're in no particular order.

There are some honorable mentions.

How many of these sports teams do you wish were still around even though they technically they all are still around, just in different places?

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Honorable mentions for rebranded sports teams.

We will get the cheat out of the way.

That is the Athletics.

Major League Baseball team might call them that because they're supposed to start playing in Las Vegas.

The stadium is being built.

But if you look at the Major League standings, they have no city associated with them.

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They were in Oakland for decades, but now they're just Athletics, which I thought was funny that they're a franchise without a city.

They are currently playing in West Sacramento, CA, but they don't put that with them.

Another honorable mention is the Syracuse Nationals.

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They were a basketball team that played from 1946 to 1963, ultimately moving and becoming the Philadelphia 76ers.

They actually won one NBA championship in their time as a franchise as well.

Another honorable mention is the Washington Senators.

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They were a baseball team that played from 19 O 1 to 1960.

The Senators then relocated to Minneapolis, becoming the Minnesota Twins.

There was actually a second Washington Senators team that played from 1961 to 1971.

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They also moved and they became the Texas Rangers.

Another honorable mention is the Dallas Texans.

They were a football team that played in the American Football League, the AFL, from 1960 to 1962.

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Once the Dallas Cowboys were established, the team was moved to Kansas City to become the Kansas City Chiefs.

And the final honorable mention is the Quebec Nordiques.

They were a hockey team that played in both the WHA and later the NHL between 1972 and 1995 before moving to Denver, becoming the Colorado Avalanche.

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The saddest irony with the Avalanche is the first year they moved from Quebec they won the Stanley Cup.

So not only did Quebec lose their team, but the team won the championship the next year.

So those are the honorable mentions for rebranded sports teams.

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Do you remember any of those?

I would think the athletics, they're still around.

But I would figure the Quebec Noordiques would be the one that most of you would remember since they were still a team in the mid 1990s.

But now it's time for the actual top five rebranded sports teams.

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Let's get it started with #1 the Houston Oilers.

The Oilers were a football team that played in the AFL and then later the NFL from 1960 to 1996.

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They had the really cool powder blue uniforms with a little bit of red and white with the oil tower logo on the helmet.

The biggest claim to fame I would guess from the Oilers is the fact that they won the 1st 2 AFL championships in 1960 and 61.

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Their most famous players would have to be running back Earl Campbell, quarterback Warren Moon, and offensive tackle Bruce Matthews.

Their most famous game is probably in the 1992 AFC playoffs against the Buffalo Bills, where they were leading 35 to 3, eventually choking and losing the game 41 to 38 in overtime.

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In 1996, the Oilers moved to Tennessee, and they were known for a few years as the Tennessee Oilers before in 1999 changing their name to the Tennessee Titans.

Number 2 is the Seattle SuperSonics.

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They were an NBA team from 1967 to 2008.

They won the NBA championship in 1979 led by Dennis Johnson, who would later go on to become a star with the Boston Celtics in the 80s.

They're probably most well known for their 90s teams that had Gary Payton and Sean Kemp, including losing the NBA Finals in 1996 to the Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls.

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I'd say the most famous players in the history of the SuperSonics.

Dennis Johnson, Sean Kemp, Gary Payton, Ray Allen.

I'd say Xavier McDaniel, Nate McMillan, 80s fans, Jack Sikma.

After the 2008 season, the Sonics moved to Oklahoma City.

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It was under one condition that the Supersonic's name had to remain in Seattle in case there was ever a expansion team to be put there.

It was once the team moved to Oklahoma City that their recent draft pick, Kevin Durant became a *.

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In their time in Oklahoma City, the Thunder have been to the NBA Finals twice in 2012 and then winning it in 2025 #3 is the Hartford Whalers.

This one is near and dear to my heart and I had to put them in here.

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Growing up on Cape Cod, we had loads of Bruins games, but we also had Hartford Whalers games.

I love the logo the West with the whale tail coming out of the top of it.

They played in the WHA and the NHL from 1972 to 1997.

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It's incredible to think that the Whalers were playing less than 30 years ago.

They seem like such a relic of the past.

They were usually a middling team in the NHL.

They never won a championship, but they had their share of legendary players.

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Paul Coffey.

Gordy Howe.

Ron Francis, Bobby Hull, Chris Pronger, Brandon Shanahan.

After the 1997 season where season ticket sales were so low, the ownership moved the team and after trying to move it to different locations, they ended up in Raleigh, NC as the Carolina Hurricanes.

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Sadly, since moving, the Hurricanes have made three NHL Stanley Cup Finals, winning the Cup twice.

So it's sort of like the Quebec Nordiques.

It's like if the Whalers had stuck around, would they have been Stanley Cup champions twice?

Who knows #4 is the Montreal Expos.

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They were a baseball team playing in the National League from 1969 to 2004.

They were another team similar to the Hartford Whalers in that they were usually a middling team.

They were never hugely successful except for, ironically, the period in 1994 when they had one of the best teams in baseball and then the sport went on strike.

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When they went on strike they had a league best 74 and 40 record.

They may not have been the odds on favorite to win the World Series, but there was no doubt they were going to at least make the playoffs.

They had their share of legendary players like Gary Carter, Tim Raines, Andre Dawson, Vladimir Guerrero, Pedro Martinez, Larry Walker, and Randy Johnson.

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The decline of attendance in the early 2000s was what led the Montreal Expos to leave in the 2004 season, their last in Montreal.

They actually split their time between Montreal and San Juan, PR.

After the O Four season, the team moved to Washington DC, becoming the Washington Nationals, eventually winning their first World Championship in 2019.

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The Expos are probably the main team, maybe with the SuperSonics being the other where revivals of the franchise are often talked about.

So we'll see.

You never know, maybe this segment will be immediately obsolete in a few years if the Expos or SuperSonics come back and finally #5 on the list of top five rebranded sports teams.

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It's a little bit of a cheat, but it is the original Cleveland Browns.

The original Cleveland Browns franchise was founded in 1944.

They were a juggernaut in the NFL, winning 3 championships in the 1950s and 60s.

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They had their share of legendary players, first and foremost being Jim Brown, the running back, one of the greatest players in the history of football.

You had other legends like quarterback Otto Graham, tight end Ozzie Newsome from my youth.

They had quarterback Bernie Kosar.

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In 1995, then team owner Art Modell decided to move the team from Cleveland to Baltimore, becoming the Baltimore Ravens.

So it's a cheat because the original Cleveland Browns are the Baltimore Ravens, but the Cleveland Browns name stayed in Cleveland.

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The Browns returned in 1999 as an expansion franchise.

They have not been good since returning to the NFL.

They've usually been one of the worst teams in the league every year, but I wanted to end it on the original Cleveland Browns.

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When talking about the Montreal Expos or Seattle SuperSonics, the Browns left and became another team, but they were resurrected.

So you never know.

But there you have it, top five rebranded sports teams.

Those that were one name, then they moved and became another.

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Which of these do you wish would come back?

If I had to pick one, you know I'm going to go with the Hartford Whalers.

We go from sports to one of the most popular snack to eat while watching sports.

Let's crack open a bag of our favorites and reminisce about 60 years of Doritos.

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There are a few things in this world that give me more joy than Doritos.

Eating them is the best.

I guess talking about them will be second best for me.

It feels like Doritos have been a part of my life for as long as I've been alive.

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I wish I could go back and experience them for the first time.

I've intentionally not described what they are because I figure all of you know what Doritos are.

It's one of the most recognizable snack brands in the world today.

Triangle shaped corn chips in many different great flavors.

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Hear that Doritos?

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In my quest to find more topics for future podcasts, that's where I learned that Doritos first came out 60 years ago in 1966.

I guess because I first discovered Doritos in the 1980s, I kind of thought they were from that decade.

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But Oh no, they've got a story that goes back a lot longer.

Their origin story actually begins in the early 1960s at Disneyland in Anaheim, CA.

This was at a restaurant called Casa de Fritos.

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The restaurant was supplied by a tortilla vendor and leftover tortillas were being wasted daily.

A Frito Lay connected salesman reportedly suggested a simple idea.

Cut up these stale tortillas, fry them, and serve them as chips.

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Guests love them, and the idea was passed up the chain to Frito Lay executives who saw commercial potential.

I can remember many times at restaurants that I worked at taking quesadillas and cutting them up into triangles to fry them to make makeshift Doritos.

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Although they didn't have cheese and such to be dusted with, it was more like cinnamon sugar.

Those weren't stale though, just using up food product, wasting it.

By 1964, Doritos were being tested in the United States Southwest.

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It was in 1966 that they became the first nationally distributed tortilla chip in the United States.

And this is important because before Doritos, tortilla chip existed mainly as regional or restaurant foods, not a packaged nationwide snack category.

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That's not to say there weren't snack chips.

I mean, potato chips have been around since 1853 and back then in the 1960s, you have the heavy hitters of today, we're still around then with chips, Lays, Ruffles, OOTS or Utz Utz, if I pronounced it wrong, wise chips.

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So it had to be kind of a risk to come out with something that was like potato chip adjacent to try to breakthrough into that market.

What's the biggest news since the Big Beat?

The new beat in Things to eat Doritos.

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Thin, crisp wedges of toasted tortilla with a lightly salted, buttery taste.

The name Doritos itself is often credited to Frito Lay executive Arch West.

He combined Doradido, which is a Spanish inspired reference to Gold Fritos, the existing Frito Lay brand, and the Itos Itos ending a Spanish diminutive meaning little.

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So if you want to roughly translate it, Doritos means little golden things, which I mean, it is pretty accurate.

When Doritos first hit stores in 1966, they didn't come out with all the wacky flavors that are out today.

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It naturally started with plain, plain toasted corn chips.

A fun trivia question though, is what was the first actual flavor of Doritos?

So yeah, they had corn.

And then the next year, in 1967, they released their first actual flavored chips.

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Did you say Nacho cheese?

Well, you're wrong.

Nacho cheese was the second flavor.

In 1967, they came out with Taco flavored Doritos.

Those were the first ones, and until 1972, all you had was toasted corn and Taco flavored Doritos.

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It was then in 1972 that Nacho cheese was added.

This became and still remains the flagship flavor.

If you go into a supermarket today and you're kind of in a rush and you want some Doritos and you look at 10-12 different flavors, if you can't decide, what are you going to grab?

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Nacho cheese?

For all intents and purposes, Doritos are a highly engineered corn snack.

According to Frito Lay, they are made by corn being cooked ground into Mesa, which is Spanish for dough.

The dough is flattened into sheets, then cut into triangle shapes.

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The chips are baked or fried, and then they are seasoned with powdered flavor coatings.

The intense seasoning of Doritos is what makes them distinct.

The flavor isn't just surface level, it's engineered to cling heavily to the chip.

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That's why you get some chips that are just soaked in these seasonings and they get all over your hands, or they come free and the dust gets on your clothes.

These are things I have dealt with for 40 years.

For the first handful of years, Doritos slowly grew in the United States.

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Nothing major in the 70s.

In the 80s there was an international roll out of Doritos chips having them go international.

Maybe this is the reason why I think of them more as an 80s snack.

From the late 60s through the early 1990s, there was not a lot of flavors of Doritos.

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Taco came and went, Nacho cheese stuck around, then you had Cool Ranch come out.

But it was in the 90s that they really started the aggressive flavor innovations.

For me as a kid in the late 1980s, which is when I really remember having Doritos, they seemed like the cooler, edgier snack, not just because they were triangle shaped with edges.

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Part of it was the commercials where they had Jay Leno in the commercials when he was just a stand up comedian.

Well, howdy.

Let me guess, you've been waiting for Cool Ranch flavored Doritos?

And I can't say I blame you.

Creamy.

Cool Ranch seasonings and those ingredients, What are we talking there?

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Maybe a tomato, an onion or two.

They had a distinct look.

They had the colorful bags with the little clear window so you could see the chips, so you could see if any were smashed and broken and avoid that bag.

In many ways, Doritos is studied as a marketing powerhouse because it shifted snack advertising into entertainment.

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There were Super Bowl commercials, humorous, often chaotic ads, branding that was geared towards the youth like me at the time.

Later on, there's been Internet and meme culture engagement, and Doritos has never sold their nutrition or the traditions of the chips.

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It's boldness, it's rebellion, it's intense flavors.

I am way more apt to go into a store and if I see a new Doritos flavor, try that than if I saw the same flavor for Lays or Ruffles Potato chips.

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These were a staple of my childhood, my teenage years.

Going to the corner store, walking there, buying Mountain Dew, a couple of candy bars, a big grab bag of Doritos.

Do you remember those back when they were like $0.99 or $1.29?

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Now an individual bag is like 269.

Thanks.

I told this story last week at the end of the podcast.

I was diagnosed with migraine headaches when I was 2 years old.

I did a full bonus episode of the podcast about my migraine headache diagnosis back in episode 74 if you want to know more information just about migraine headaches in general and what I've dealt with for the better part of 45 years.

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But one thing we found out or my mom found out is that Doritos, more specifically the MSG used in them would trigger migraine headaches.

So you would think if you were told, oh, this will give you headaches, you might give it up.

But I love Doritos so much that I like refuse to give them up.

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I dealt with getting headaches just so we could have my fix of Nacho cheese and cool ranch, and my mom agreed, or at least she didn't want to deal with me like complaining about it.

So yes, I would eat Doritos knowing they would give me headaches.

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Not all the time, because if that was true, I wouldn't still be eating them now.

All the times that I would have my friends over, we would watch WWF pay per views.

In the early 1990s, there'd be bowls full of Doritos, bottles of soda.

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I mean, you put a bottle of Mountain Dew in a bowl full of Doritos in front of me.

You could probably get me to watch C-SPAN for an hour when I was 13.

Then the sugar high, I'd dive out the window.

But, you know, Doritos is one of the few snack brands that actively positions itself as part of pop culture.

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That's why it's easy to put them in this podcast.

The chips frequently appear in films and TV shows, gaming and E sports sponsorships.

Like I said, hand in hand with Mountain Dew, the Doritos Locos Tacos cross brand collaboration with Taco Bell, which was literally a Taco shell made from Doritos.

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It's easy to be everywhere and have lots of money spent on your marketing because Frito Lay is a division of Pepsi so it gives Doritos access to massive global distribution networks, advanced food systems, cross brand marketing power.

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In the last several years there have been issues with rising snack prices.

I just mentioned the big grab Doritos that were like $1.29 when I was in high school.

They're now more than double that.

The regular sized bag of Doritos for a while were over $6.

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Now they put up signs.

Who knew?

Low price.

It's like, no, you jacked it up so high that we couldn't afford it.

There's been shrink flation concerns, competition from more store brand chips, healthier snacks, protein enhanced chips, which Doritos just rolled out.

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For me and I'm sure a lot of Gen.

Xers and millennials, Doritos is more than a snack.

It's like a part of our lives.

Honestly, I'd be shocked if there was more than 10% of you listening out there that have never tried Doritos.

But oh, get ready.

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I waited till the end because I wanted to dive a little bit into a lot of the flavors.

Obviously, I mentioned original flavor, which I don't even think they make any more.

Taco flavor came after Nacho cheese, which is probably the number one.

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You had Cool Ranch come out in 1986.

You've had some more permanent special flavors, like Spicy Nacho is one that's been around for a while now.

I mentioned earlier that after Cool Ranch came out and then through the 90s, Doritos tried a lot of interesting flavors.

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Some of the more successful ones included Salsa Rio 4 cheese, sour cream, and onion, which I don't ever remember.

Pizza Cravers, Monterey Jack cheese, Jalapeno cheddar, zesty salsa which was one that I liked and wish they would bring back.

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Black pepper Jack.

In the 2000s they introduced ones like Blazing Buffalo and Ranch which is one of my favorites to this day.

Extreme cheese which everything was extreme in the early 2000s.

Spicy sweet chili cheeseburger flavored, which they're still kind of around.

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Jumpin Jack cheese, pepper Jack.

They had the jacked series in the mid twenty 10s which included ranch dipped hot wings which was a really good one if you never tried it.

If you're traveling overseas or outside of the US, they've got some interesting flavors.

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In Japan they have tuna Mayo flavor, roast chicken flavor, they've got teriyaki wasabi.

In the United Kingdom they have chili heat wave, which doesn't make sense for England.

That should be Texas flame grilled steak.

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No fish and chips flavor in the UK.

In Mexico they have flamin hot limon, which I think every now and then you can find.

In the US they have incognita, which is like a mystery flavor.

It's kind of sweet chili.

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There have been some notorious discontinued flavors, like the X13D flavor.

That was the one, that was the mystery one.

I remember having those.

It was like kind of smoky cheeseburger.

It came in this black purple bag.

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As of recording this podcast, there are more than 30 permanently available flavors of Doritos in the United States now.

They're not available everywhere, so I'm figuring wherever you live, unless it's like New York, California, like LA, maybe you've got them all.

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But places like down here on Cape Cod, we've probably got 12 to 15 flavors.

Spending this time talking about Doritos has got me wanting to go to the store and get some, and I probably will.

I'll probably have Doritos with dinner tonight.

There are few food brands, snack products that are so entwined with Gen.

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X, with millennials, with just pop culture in this country in general.

It's amazing to think that 60 years ago, Doritos went from plain tortilla chips to more than 100 different flavors worldwide.

The brand keeps on reinventing itself.

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In the 80s, it got huge.

In the 90s, it became more extreme.

I couldn't imagine how sad my childhood would have been if my migraine diagnosis had made it so I couldn't have Doritos.

But I took the pain so I could have the crunch.

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That was my willingness to take the risk, just like the willingness to take risks that Doritos has done.

There's a good segue.

So here's to 60 years of Doritos.

Here's to me having more Doritos tonight.

And please Doritos bring back the salsa flavor just for me.

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Yay.

But until next week, that is going to do it for episode 252 of the In My Footsteps podcast.

Thank you all for tuning in.

Thank you for making it to the end.

I apologize for making you hungry with spending almost 15 minutes talking about Doritos.

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The content train never stops.

Next week is episode 253 and boy, it's like I threw darts at the randomizer to find topics for this show.

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Good luck with me trying to find Segways.

We're going to look back 30 years at the breakthrough of the band Sublime.

They broke through right as I was graduating high school.

We're going to look back, way back to my childhood at a brief show that was on HBOA guess a children's educational show called Brain Games.

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I think a lot of you around my age are going to remember it when I really dig into it.

And there's going to be a brand new top five looking at the most popular prime time TV, entertainment blocks, TGIF, must see TV, all that stuff.

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Pop culture spans all these different things.

I guess that's why I can have episodes like next week that are going to be so random.

Happy birthday.

The day after this podcast goes up to my stepfather, Serpa.

That's his last name, not his first.

It's Chris, like me.

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There were many an afternoon he and I would spend watching sports or some kind of movie in the late 90s early 2000s with loads of Doritos and Mountain Dew.

I don't think he can have either of those anymore.

I'm sorry.

Hopefully you enjoy the present that I got for you.

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Still secret as of the time I'm recording this.

Thank you for being a positive role model in my life when they were so sorely lacking.

There is a reason why on Father's Day I thanked all of my second fathers.

So I hope you have a happy birthday.

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I know I will see you.

Also, happy birthday on the day that this podcast goes up to my old friend Shayna.

She grew up with me down here on Cape Cod and now lives in the wilderness of Maine.

Well, not wilderness, but close.

She's still one of my favorite people, one of the best wacky senses of humor that I know.

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And yes, I know at some point in the near future we need to have a new meet up, a new adventure up on your turf in Maine.

So I hope you have a happy birthday as well.

And I'm so happy for all of your success, family and career wise.

You deserve all the good stuff that life can give you.

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And that goes the same for all of you out there.

I hope you have the best day, the best week.

I hope lots of good things happen to you.

I hope you get to sit in front of the AC if it's super hot where you are.

And unless you're in northern Canada, it probably is.

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I record this podcast.

I have a desk.

I have an AC unit in the window to my right.

But rather than having it on and keeping me cool and just having a hum of an AC on the podcast, I decide to be professional and keep it off.

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So by the end of the podcast, like now, I'm dying.

I can't wait to turn that thing on.

So I'll just thank you again.

And I will say, as I always do, remember in this life, don't walk in anyone else's footsteps.

Create your own path and enjoy every moment you can on this journey we call life because you never know what tomorrow brings.

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This has been the In My Footsteps podcast.

I am Christopher Setterlund, You already knew that, and I'll talk to you all again.