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Ronald Ball was thirsty. So he walked over to the vending machine, got himself a Mountain Dew and cracked it open. He took a swig. Right away, he became violently ill. As soon as he recovered, he turned his attention to the Mountain Dew. What the hell was wrong with it? As he poured the rest of the soda into a cup, a dead mouse plopped out. When Ronald Ball threatened Pepsico with a lawsuit, the company relied on a defense that shocked the world\u2026 and probably had their PR team looking for new jobs.\xa0
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\nThen, Brandi tells us about a string of bank robberies that occurred in the summer of 2012. Over time, law enforcement came to refer to the mysterious bank robber as the \u201cPhony Pony Bandit,\u201d because the robber wore a cheap wig, pulled back in a ponytail. The Phony Pony Bandit went on quite a spree, but it came to an end on September 25, when a sheriff\u2019s deputy caught him in the act.
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\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\n\u201cSwig of Mountain Dew included dead mouse, suit claims,\u201d by Kelly Holleran for the Madison-St. Clair Record
\n\u201cA brief history of rodents in soda containers,\u201d by Arielle Duhaime-Ross for The Verge
\n\u201cPepsi says Mountain Dew can dissolve mouse carcasses,\u201d by Eric Randall for The Wire.
\n\u201cMouse and Mountain Dew Experiment\u201d on YouTube\xa0
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\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\n\u201cBank robbery suspect shot in Stanwood\u201d by Diana Hefley and Rikki King, The Everett Herald
\n\u201c\u2018Phony Pony Bandit\u2019 admits to armed robberies\u201d by Diana Hefley, The Everett Herald
\n\u201c\u2018Phony Pony Bandit\u2019 gets 17-year sentence for robberies\u201d by Diana Hefley, The Everett Herald
\n\u201cBank robber shot in Stanwood drops lawsuit against SnoCo\u201d by Jeremiah O\u2019Hagan, Skagit Valley Herald