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Episode 408Apr 10, 2021

The weirdest trade secrets

Plus, a 3,000-year-old lost city in Egypt and another round of our favorite game, “Half Full/Half Empty.”

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A woman takes a can of Coca-Cola from a shelf at a supermarket.
A woman takes a can of Coca-Cola from a shelf at a supermarket.
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Guest host Scott Tong brought a truly wild story to this grab-bag Friday episode. Coca-Cola is accusing a former employee of stealing trade secrets — not the formula for what goes in the can, but the can itself. We’ll talk about it, some other weird trade secrets and, oh yeah, a 3,000-year-old lost city in Egypt. Plus, another round of our favorite game, “Half Full/Half Empty.”

Here’s everything we talked about on the show today:

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