The Nuka-Cola Corporation: The Most Ruthless Prewar Company

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  • @dominator1914
    @dominator1914 Рік тому +6516

    On the one hand I’m surprised that a soda company could be this cruel and evil. But then I look at the real world history of Banana companies. Pretty bad.

    • @ComfortsSpecter
      @ComfortsSpecter Рік тому +1

      Meth
      Cocaine
      Very organized
      Very Systemic
      Very much Still Here

    • @alejandroredpine
      @alejandroredpine Рік тому +715

      Coca Cola's colombian death squad

    • @communismisadisease4498
      @communismisadisease4498 Рік тому +369

      Coca cola is no Saint lol

    • @supahgaming8249
      @supahgaming8249 Рік тому +188

      or nestle

    • @JunkMan13013
      @JunkMan13013 Рік тому +90

      @@humanoblivion2968 *Largest, it wasn't anywhere near powerful at all. It was scrap metal in the shape of ships.

  • @MatthewChenault
    @MatthewChenault Рік тому +2112

    John Bradburton’s name is a mix of John Pemberton and Caleb Beadburn; the founders of Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Co respectively.

    • @MatthewChenault
      @MatthewChenault Рік тому +215

      On a side note: Coca-Cola was invented as a means for Pemberton to overcome his addiction to Morphine. Pemberton - a Confederate Veteran who reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel - was wounded at the Battle of Columbia, which saw him become addicted to morphine; a common painkiller during the war. He developed Coca-Cola as a means of overcoming that addiction by providing a healthier alternative to morphine.

    • @SILOPshuvambanerjee
      @SILOPshuvambanerjee Рік тому +40

      @@MatthewChenault That's an interesting fact. Never knew it during my 2 years in the company.

    • @Dr-Weird
      @Dr-Weird Рік тому +26

      ​@@MatthewChenault Wow, barring research myself for verification. It makes so much sense why coca cola had 'cocaine' in it

    • @aSipOfHemlocktea
      @aSipOfHemlocktea 7 місяців тому +11

      ​@@Dr-Weirdat the time they thought it was healthier

    • @al_my_pal
      @al_my_pal 7 місяців тому +5

      John Pemberton is also the name of the actor who plays Thaddeus in the show lol

  • @brotherhoodpaladin2403
    @brotherhoodpaladin2403 Рік тому +1467

    In Fallout 4, nuka World Dlc, the player can find and read a note on a terminal that says due to the lawsuit they lost regarding a rival soda company they can no longer use the regular glass bottles that's why they started changing the bottles into rockets

    • @changsiah2
      @changsiah2 Рік тому +195

      Basically the universe explanation redesigning bottle

    • @skknireeker9073
      @skknireeker9073 Рік тому +48

      Thanks for the in-game-fact. You provided content which most people never heard of about the game 😊

    • @BrianHopson
      @BrianHopson 7 місяців тому +18

      Was it sunset sasparilla?

    • @brotherhoodpaladin2403
      @brotherhoodpaladin2403 7 місяців тому +40

      Nope, I think they was referring to coke Cola Company

    • @Kspice9000
      @Kspice9000 7 місяців тому +10

      ​@brotherhoodpaladin2403 no they were referring to vim! Or sunset sasparilla

  • @snakes3425
    @snakes3425 Рік тому +1784

    I always love learning about the Pre-War World, and the more I learn about it the more I see it as not simply corrupt but evil

    • @markedgecliff7412
      @markedgecliff7412 Рік тому +97

      Like another poster said too; have a look at the history of the US Banana companies (United Fruit Company I think?) and coca-cola amatil doing things like using death squads against union organisers in developing countries too. “…not simply corrupt, but evil” I think is a very helpful and insightful framework for viewing real life owners of companies such as these

    • @want2killu
      @want2killu Рік тому +30

      aka an american history lol

    • @Oozaru85
      @Oozaru85 Рік тому +21

      I need a Fallout game that takes place in the pre-war world. With Fallout 4's Atompunk design. I love it.

    • @Noahloveless1
      @Noahloveless1 Рік тому

      ​@@want2killuAlways at least one brainwashed leftie. I pity lot.

    • @buckrodgers1162
      @buckrodgers1162 Рік тому +49

      @@markedgecliff7412,
      Exactly. You look at the pre-war world of Fallout and say "man those corps where evil". But the same could be said about the real world corps. The only real difference being in Fallout, all their 'dirty deeds' are out in the open for public finding. But in the real world, the corps spend vast amounts of money to keep their 'dirty deeds' buried, and away from public eyes. But the same kind of evil, if not more so, deeds are still done.
      Corpos, corpos never change.

  • @krimzon2676
    @krimzon2676 7 місяців тому +761

    Knowing that Nuka Cola Quantum is literally radioactive, I feel like this could have easily been marketed to the public as building a resistance to radiation in case of atomic war.

    • @striberx
      @striberx 6 місяців тому +43

      It make my stummy tingle.

    • @bluntweaponenjoyer
      @bluntweaponenjoyer 5 місяців тому +8

      ⁠@@striberxtummy stingle?

    • @striberx
      @striberx 5 місяців тому +12

      @@bluntweaponenjoyer "stummy" tingle

    • @SurvivingAnotherDay
      @SurvivingAnotherDay 5 місяців тому +6

      That’s like saying people should eat micro-plastics to prepare for global warming

    • @striberx
      @striberx 5 місяців тому +20

      @@SurvivingAnotherDay Wait... eating microplastics doesn't stop it? *noms*

  • @joshadams5602
    @joshadams5602 Рік тому +396

    I was under the impression that the subtext around the report of Sunset Sarsaparilla's supposed health issues was little more than a Nuka Cola corporation backed hit piece.

    • @stephen1r2
      @stephen1r2 Рік тому

      US made Sarsaparilla soda used Sassafras until 1960 when it was banned as Safrole (active chem in it) was found to cause cancer
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarsaparilla_(soft_drink)

    • @kieranadamson3224
      @kieranadamson3224 7 місяців тому +44

      That's the best part about stories like these. We don't really need to know because either gives us a good answer. Either it really was simply that SS was equally as unhealthy as NC and didn't care. Or it was NK giving another example of how scummy they were.

    • @ShinDangaioh
      @ShinDangaioh 7 місяців тому +8

      That seemed more like the real life reason why root beers are no longer made with sassafras root.

    • @michaellarocca4879
      @michaellarocca4879 5 місяців тому +3

      Its based on a real life interview with R.J. Reynolds (founder of Nabisco), Philip Morris' biggest competitor. When asked if Philip Morris products caused lung cancer, Reynolds replied "of course Philip Morris products cause cancer". He badmouthed the competition while knowing full well his company does the exact same thing.

  • @akw94926
    @akw94926 7 місяців тому +189

    love that during that "legal disclaimer" I got a mid roll ad for Coca Cola

    • @yaboiii6562
      @yaboiii6562  7 місяців тому +32

      They hear everything

    • @Sorain1
      @Sorain1 6 місяців тому +6

      The algorithm only sees proximity, it can't understand context.

    • @vietnamabc2290
      @vietnamabc2290 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@Sorain1Are you willing to take a statement before Big C for that?

    • @tarotreadingsbysteven8545
      @tarotreadingsbysteven8545 5 місяців тому

      ​@@vietnamabc2290of course they are they are after all an industry plant 🤣

    • @kombxo
      @kombxo 5 місяців тому

      ​@@Sorain1 they use ai they detect it

  • @ricks5756
    @ricks5756 Рік тому +422

    Some brewing company actually bought the rights to Nuka Cola Dark IRL, turning it into what many Rum experts say has "a cheap and awful flavor" .

    • @TERMINATOR101-b8j
      @TERMINATOR101-b8j Рік тому +44

      That reminds me when a local brewery kicked off the hard soda trend. Their hard root beer tasted nothing like their soft root beer.

    • @SwedishEmpire1700
      @SwedishEmpire1700 10 місяців тому +13

      Then again its a fictional drink which nobody actually knows how it really tastes

    • @cactusgamingyt9960
      @cactusgamingyt9960 7 місяців тому +18

      The flavour is canon

    • @GabagoolGang
      @GabagoolGang 6 місяців тому +12

      Ahh I think I remember that, it was advertised as coming in the nuka cola rocket glass bottle but it was actually a plastic shell with a bum hooch bottle inside lol.

    • @twistedyogert
      @twistedyogert 6 місяців тому +1

      ​@@TERMINATOR101-b8j What did it taste like?

  • @walterrequiem6467
    @walterrequiem6467 11 місяців тому +152

    I always liked the worldbuilding aspect of Sunset Sarsaparilla and Vim in that no matter how aggressively promoted a drink is, the regionally popular thing has cult like status that people will just prefer over coke. If we ever get a Fallout Texas they really gotta have a Big Red and Dr. Pepper knockoff in it, those are really big here.

    • @rogerloger1935
      @rogerloger1935 11 місяців тому +3

      It ball insteand.

    • @seanvitarelli9705
      @seanvitarelli9705 7 місяців тому +19

      Vim has to be an alternative version of Moxie. Moxie is only sold in the Northeast, and in Maine it's considered the unofficial soda of the state. Both names are synonymous with energy or vigor

    • @junilog
      @junilog 6 місяців тому +1

      @@seanvitarelli9705 it is, Vim is an actual parody of Moxie

    • @jaderabbit898
      @jaderabbit898 6 місяців тому +1

      We gotta start naming it first though. I'm thinking of Mr. Spice. Any takers?

    • @NegativeDumpster
      @NegativeDumpster 6 місяців тому +1

      @@seanvitarelli9705 Seconded; I mean, the phrase "Vim and Vigor" doesn't exist for nothing.

  • @chickencurry420
    @chickencurry420 Рік тому +1590

    I tend to forget just how horrifying the Fallout universe really is, even before the War

    • @therealivydawg
      @therealivydawg 6 місяців тому +94

      Just how horrifying our capitalism is? Fallout's is just a take on ours.

    • @gabesteinberg6244
      @gabesteinberg6244 6 місяців тому +40

      @@therealivydawg Not nearly as evil as our communism though.

    • @lothean2099
      @lothean2099 6 місяців тому +4

      What was the purpose of the vaults? I thought the umbrella corporation was bad.

    • @chickencurry420
      @chickencurry420 6 місяців тому +3

      @@lothean2099 For the longest time, the community's working theory has been that the Vaults were meant to simulate different scenarios that might happen on a generation ship. Just in case the planet's surface became uninhabitable and they needed to bail on earth entirely to find a new planet to colonize.
      Example: Vault 101's experiment was to see what happens when a single person is given absolute authority over a population that is completely isolated. (Keep in mind, 101's door was never meant to open) The general population will never know the outside world so perhaps the experiment was really to study how a population will react to that being common knowledge. Turns out it goes pretty well until a dictator starts dictatoring.
      When a generation of people are born on a giant space ship their parents boarded, they should know they will likely die before their offspring depart. It's good to have some research on how to handle that before it happens. "We were all born in the Vault. We will all die in the vault." That phrase makes a lot more sense when you consider the middle generations of colony ships that haven't found a new planet yet.
      There's a whole video that analyzes every canon Vault we know of through the lens of what could happen on a generation ship and it all works so well. It just works™

    • @teddieprox2307
      @teddieprox2307 6 місяців тому +32

      ​@gabesteinberg6244 The propaganda has melted your brain bro

  • @CollideFan1
    @CollideFan1 Рік тому +377

    As a collector of Coke Cola merchandise and paraphernalia, Nuka-Cola holds a special place in my heart. My favorite DLC is Nuka World, for obvious reasons. Fallout's prewar companies are just as ruthless and at times evil just like our real ones.

    • @comradeurod9805
      @comradeurod9805 Рік тому +14

      Im a huge fan of what they did with Bradurton, i love the disney spin hahaha

    • @ameliayt3943
      @ameliayt3943 7 місяців тому +7

      So you're a real life Sierra, basically lol?

  • @dylanrivera2244
    @dylanrivera2244 Рік тому +1171

    It’s actually pretty infuriating how evil Pre War America was…. and then that anger disappears and is replaced with satisfaction when you remember you’re having fun filled adventures on the countries long dead corpse.

    • @jakeing0ff
      @jakeing0ff Рік тому +100

      wait til you hear about Coca Cola…

    • @cgvt13
      @cgvt13 7 місяців тому +115

      Wait till you hear about the real world America

    • @leninswalrus
      @leninswalrus 7 місяців тому

      This is an edge lord take. It's not america or Americans that are the issue. It's the par*sitic corporations owned by their parasitic ruling cl**s which causes misery for the population at large.
      The US isn't even a democracy anymore so Americans can't be held responsible for it leadership or global actions. We've had a rogue state for 50 years

    • @Saltasaur
      @Saltasaur 7 місяців тому +27

      Yet billions of innocents had to perish for it.

    • @dylanrivera2244
      @dylanrivera2244 7 місяців тому +38

      @@Saltasaur innocent is a bit of a strong word. It wasn’t just the government and the corporations that were evil, the regular citizens were pretty rotten, self centered, and jingoistic themselves.

  • @AnnPMadera
    @AnnPMadera Рік тому +507

    Nuka-Quantum terrifies me. The bright blue glow would imply it possibly contains cesium (which glows a similar colour). And that when your character consumes it, there's a crunching sound, which would imply there are literally solid chunks of highly radioactive material.
    Could also note, in the real world, soda products were, like Nuka-Cola, actually marketed as health tonics. Sarsparilla (and later root beer) were originally mixed with alcohol and a medicine powder of some sort. The medicines of the time were really foul tasting, so a sugary tonic water with a shot of liquor was figured to take away the pain of consuming it. As time went on though, people just wanted the tonic water itself. During America's Prohibition period, if you wanted alcohol, the easiest way, and most legal, was to go to the chemist and get a 'tonic'. Pharmacies had legal licenses to produce and provide alcohol (the other easy way was to go to a church that had a license to produce alcohol for mass; Catholics, Orthodox, high church Anglicans/Lutherans/Episcopalians; a lot actually sold it for funding).

    • @twbillionare9568
      @twbillionare9568 Рік тому +71

      Actually in Nuka World they reveal what the added thing in Nuka Cola is and it is I believe Strontium-42. And I think the crunching is game specific since if I remember correct in 4 it sounds like a swig. The crunch could also be you popping off the cap or breaking the glass

    • @AmalekIsComing
      @AmalekIsComing Рік тому

      there is no crunching sound jackass, it's just opening the bottle

    • @Dr-Weird
      @Dr-Weird Рік тому +9

      Me being incredibly dumb: Hehe soda glows! why is my hair and teeth falling out?

    • @AnnPMadera
      @AnnPMadera Рік тому +38

      @@twbillionare9568 You're right, dimwit me. Strontium-42 is an actual nuclear component. And it does give off a blue glow. And I think you're right, the crunching, on replaying, seems to only be in Fallout 3 and New Vegas (presumably due to reused assets in the latter).

    • @AnnPMadera
      @AnnPMadera Рік тому +12

      @@Dr-Weird Clearly your body is not ready for the deliciousness.

  • @korbyynbear5592
    @korbyynbear5592 Рік тому +251

    Ruthless, no doubt. But compared to West-Tek, Vault-Tec, Hallucigen.... List goes on, I'd say MOST is at best contentious and for many hyperbolic. Good stuff as always, can't wait for the next one!

    • @ZiddersRooFurry
      @ZiddersRooFurry Рік тому +21

      The Fallout universe is similar to the Borderlands universe in that within both corporations are treated as being evil no matter who they are. It's ironic given just who is publishing these games.

    • @Dyingwood.
      @Dyingwood. 7 місяців тому +8

      @@ZiddersRooFurry wow its almost like a company is made up out of individuals with beliefs outside of their mega-corp

    • @ZiddersRooFurry
      @ZiddersRooFurry 7 місяців тому

      @@Dyingwood. Corporations are evil, period.

    • @slumgummy
      @slumgummy 5 місяців тому

      ​@ZiddersRooFurry wow i can't believe two different dystopian sci-fi franchises would both have an uncharitable portrayal of corporations and government

    • @tedragus3351
      @tedragus3351 4 місяці тому +1

      There's many companies in the Fallout universe that are evil but Nuka Cola takes the cake for most petty

  • @canis2020
    @canis2020 Рік тому +835

    I agree that Nuka Cola is a terrible company but the worst is still VaultTec in my humble opinion.

    • @kieranadamson3224
      @kieranadamson3224 7 місяців тому +1

      I'd say Nuka Cola has a genuine claim at least. Vault Tech was designed to be an evil, mad scientist corp. Nuka Cola was supposed to be a soft drink company that CHOSE to do all that shit.

    • @frankshcleuterbomb2538
      @frankshcleuterbomb2538 7 місяців тому +26

      Oh my god yeah totally they are so evil

    • @peacauve
      @peacauve 7 місяців тому +16

      find out who ran vault tec. its not "vault tec" that did it. vault tec people didnt even know the full scale setup

    • @kieranadamson3224
      @kieranadamson3224 7 місяців тому +59

      @@peacauve yeah, it's a large part of why I support THAT revelation in the show. It just makes sense considering who was really pulling the strings.
      SPOILERS
      That scene with the Vault Tech folks focusing on profits and investors if anything just proves that not even all of the leadership at Vault Tech knew what was really going on.

    • @peacauve
      @peacauve 7 місяців тому

      @@kieranadamson3224 if you keep looking into. High chances mothership zeta was working with enclave or enclave already knew about the UFOs hence them wanting to go off world and to study how humans work at every angle

  • @iainballas
    @iainballas Рік тому +121

    I still think it's hilarious that Coca-Cola could have had all this free branding. Fallout could have been a world built around advertising for the Coca-Cola company, if Coke had acquiesced to letting the devs put their brand in for the bottle cap currency.
    But they didn't and we instead got games meant to test how far they can torture the Creation Engine.

    • @je8277
      @je8277 Рік тому +40

      To close to home for Coca Cola when they’re just as evil in reality

    • @kelavia2112
      @kelavia2112 7 місяців тому +10

      Coke could benefit greatly from producing officially licenced nuka cola

    • @vikingdrengenspiders7875
      @vikingdrengenspiders7875 5 місяців тому +1

      @@je8277how?

    • @je8277
      @je8277 5 місяців тому

      @@vikingdrengenspiders7875 look into coke mexico or any other famous story. All mega corporations have done evil in some way. Look at nestle and water in the USA. Any company involved with palm oil. Corona in Mexico / USA too.

    • @parajerry
      @parajerry 2 місяці тому

      Bethesda already makes and sells rocket shaped Nuke Cola bottles. I would love to see someone license it and make actual 6-packs of Nuke Cola that could be used at Fallout promo events, like the one at Goodsprings, NV. It could cost 2-3x what a 6-pack of Coke costs and people would buy it. Bottle is collectable. Maybe an idea for RC Cola or one of the smaller bottlers? It would be a novelty item so production runs would be small, but there are a lot of Fallout fans, especially with the TV series out now. Someone could make some caps (coin).

  • @Seventh_Bean
    @Seventh_Bean Рік тому +503

    "For legal reasons, these are completely separate products. Any reference to Nuka-Cola is separate from the other product"
    I can hear the complete lack of empathy and I respect it.

    • @Temperius
      @Temperius 11 місяців тому +6

      Its sad that he can't critique their products freely.

    • @Seventh_Bean
      @Seventh_Bean 11 місяців тому +40

      @@Temperius Consumer Law is weird. He can critique Coca-Cola to hell and back, but the moment he implies fictional information to be real, CC would jump down his throat.

    • @Redman_real
      @Redman_real 7 місяців тому +7

      ​@Seventh_Bean I mean that's fair enough I wouldn't want people thinking that I put nuclear material in my drink either

    • @Vladimir66616
      @Vladimir66616 7 місяців тому

      🤓☝️

    • @andys189
      @andys189 4 місяці тому

      The subtle comparison to Coca-Cola at 8:41 is amazing. Everyone knows Coca-Cola was invented in Atlanta but was only served as a fountain beverage. It wasn't available to the masses until it was bottled in bulk in Chattanooga, TN, a city about an hour north of Atlanta.
      The bridge at the timestamp is in downtown Chattanooga.

  • @topcat59
    @topcat59 Рік тому +252

    Honestly I would say the Nuke-Cola company was more bloodthirsty then ruthless with how they were willing to get employees from different soda companies nearly killed by mercenary’s.🐱

    • @redenginner
      @redenginner Рік тому

      Coca Cola actually hired death squads to assassinate union heads in Colombia.
      The only thing Nuka Cola is missing is a random formula change to “New Nuke” tbh.

    • @magmapixel8627
      @magmapixel8627 6 місяців тому +5

      “Only YOU can prevent corporate espionage!”

    • @parajerry
      @parajerry 2 місяці тому

      Funny, in real life the unions did this. Sabotage equipment, beat people that cross strike lines, destroy equipment and infrastructure. Then they took the member's pension fund and used it for their own purposes, often leaving it underfunded. In the end, the low level workers are always the victim, no mater who claims to be on their side.

  • @neves5083
    @neves5083 Рік тому +13

    Its so cool to learn about the pre war world, also this art in the thumbnail is so nice, it passes the vibe of an living world that i don't get when learning about pre war events in-game

  • @theadoremarquis6749
    @theadoremarquis6749 Рік тому +57

    Yaboii strikes again, with quality Fallout content.

  • @cacokid1489
    @cacokid1489 Рік тому +81

    I think Nuka-Cola as the liquid itself is more like Dr. Pepper as they both have similar advertising featuring a double digit number of fruit essences. The branding itself is more like Coca-Cola.

    • @Noahloveless1
      @Noahloveless1 Рік тому

      I don't know. Vault tec, while doing some shady shite, are always doing what they do to learn things and better humanity. Similar to how the Nazis advanced medical science by many decades in a very short span. Gotta crack a few eggs for a delicious omelet.

  • @primhaddok1024
    @primhaddok1024 Рік тому +205

    I would never drink coke after what they did... #BringBackTheCocaine

    • @HeyCalebFucio
      @HeyCalebFucio Рік тому +21

      extra flavouring tasty
      #BringBackTheCocaine #BBC

    • @Pedro-kd4sm
      @Pedro-kd4sm Рік тому +13

      #BringBackTheCocaine

    • @PainRack
      @PainRack Рік тому +1

      Note they may have took out the Cocaine because there was a Coke Fuelled Blacks would rape our White Women scare.
      The Drug fuelled panic was real. Whether coca cola did that is.... Well, it's most likely true

    • @TurtleShroom3
      @TurtleShroom3 Рік тому +8

      It actually might please you to know that Coca-Cola technically still has the "coca".
      Rather than having refined cocaine, Coca-Cola is boiled with coca leaves- yes, the leaves of the actual cocaine plant -in a manner akin to tea, and then steeped. Before the actual cocaine was removed, it was made this way anyway, but the refined cocaine was added as part of the mix.
      Coca-Cola is unique in its formula being truly perpetual: if you leave out New Coke because that was reversed, it was changed once, and only once, by Prohibition.

    • @sirfanatical8763
      @sirfanatical8763 Рік тому +1

      yeeeeeeeeeeeeee booooooiiiiiii

  • @k-9741
    @k-9741 7 місяців тому +18

    My favorite Nuka cola stuff is still the computer entries on the “rogue” employee who make real good cola and everyone was freaking out.

  • @NobodyssGirl
    @NobodyssGirl 5 місяців тому +9

    I cant believe the horrible things these fictional corporations will do. Good thing this is fictional and real corporations arent this evil

  • @TheVenomousBeetle
    @TheVenomousBeetle 7 місяців тому +43

    The symptoms of Nuka withdrawal sound like regular caffeine/soda withdrawals to me.

    • @UnholyWrath3277
      @UnholyWrath3277 7 місяців тому +10

      Nobody gets head splitting head aches akin to drug withdrawal from just soda.
      The symptom itself is the same but the degree to which they occur isnt

    • @chshrkt
      @chshrkt 7 місяців тому

      @@UnholyWrath3277 Try quitting Sugar cold turkey and get back to me. ;)

    • @razorbackroar
      @razorbackroar 6 місяців тому +6

      Coffee withdraws are like this

  • @e-mud1939
    @e-mud1939 5 місяців тому +5

    i love how in depth and interesting this video is, but it’s so funny to me in how it doesn’t feel like a lore video, and more just a history lesson 💀💀

  • @BluganoStudio
    @BluganoStudio Рік тому +13

    Vim has got a lot of Moxie to stand up to Nuka-Cola like that. Wicked cool of them!

  • @stratusfractus111
    @stratusfractus111 Рік тому +15

    I think a tv series around the corporate shenanigans of these beverage companies would be interesting.

    • @parajerry
      @parajerry 2 місяці тому

      Spin off, one-off documentary style shows based on the TV series. Could even be web-content to accompany the show. Fill the gaps between seasons.

  • @reyagu4607
    @reyagu4607 7 місяців тому +19

    After watching the show and seeing how each corporation picked and chose the experiment for the vault it really makes videos like this less surprising

  • @garmtpug
    @garmtpug 7 місяців тому +9

    Although I knew nearly all of this from reading terminals and talking to characters in the games, your compilation was very entertaining and interesting! Thank you!

  • @Frankminimia
    @Frankminimia 11 місяців тому +3

    I got a coke ad right as the disclaimer started…

  • @stephenriggs8177
    @stephenriggs8177 Рік тому +34

    No one's more ruthless than Vault-Tec.

    • @randyschwaggins
      @randyschwaggins 7 місяців тому +3

      Vought International?

    • @saltysalad2437
      @saltysalad2437 7 місяців тому

      Yeah i was thinking about it all along the video, how does all of this compare to social experiment that says unthruthfully that one habitant of vault have to be killed from time to time even tho they dont have to, how mind fucking it has to be to live in such conditions your entire life under pressure that someone have to be killed

    • @Sorain1
      @Sorain1 6 місяців тому

      @@randyschwaggins That or Omnitech (From Anarchy Online) it takes a special level of 'do whatever works' to "turn off falling damage" on an entire planet because you refuse to acknowledge problems with Newland grid. (This is akin to altering the effective laws of physics world wide to cover up a lack of traffic barriers on one highway.)

  • @brothers_of_nod
    @brothers_of_nod Рік тому +16

    In Fallout 4: FROST, Nuka Cola is my anchor to sanity.

  • @Dan-ss3ix
    @Dan-ss3ix Рік тому +11

    You make the lore feel SOOO REAL!! I love it 👍

  • @djhuntingdown5565
    @djhuntingdown5565 Рік тому +19

    I love these fallout universe documentaries dude

  • @JOSyKo
    @JOSyKo 7 місяців тому +5

    As a massive sarsaparilla fan, it should be noted that it is not a root beer soda.
    Sarsaparilla is made from sarsaparilla Vine, while root beer was originally made with sassafras tree roots.

  • @Voucher765
    @Voucher765 Рік тому +21

    My Uncle grew up in the atomic era, Similar to nuka cola in the game coke bottles were all but glass and he like many other kids drank out of them.

    • @SwedishEmpire1700
      @SwedishEmpire1700 10 місяців тому +12

      How young must you be to be amazed by glass bottles? ive drank from glassbottles aswell, coca cola, pepsi etcetc

    • @randyschwaggins
      @randyschwaggins 7 місяців тому +4

      Lol...Next you will be telling us your uncle didn't have streaming TV...😂😂😂

    • @Voucher765
      @Voucher765 7 місяців тому +2

      @SwedishEmpire1700 He was born November 1950 and is the son of a WWII vet, I have a somehow an interest in this era

    • @stevewalker9870
      @stevewalker9870 4 місяці тому +1

      You know you can still get soda in glass bottles, right? Coca-Cola still sells many of their products in glass, and pretty much all Mexican sodas are sold in glass too, it's not like they're a thing of the past

    • @Voucher765
      @Voucher765 4 місяці тому

      @stevewalker9870 I know and I had them, Best Coke by far as it uses different ingredients

  • @321Jarn
    @321Jarn Рік тому +6

    3:09 natural flavoring being a question mark is so accurate

  • @CSXBoys
    @CSXBoys 11 місяців тому +8

    As someone who witnessed the purchase of the real world version of Vim get purchased by the real world version of Nuka Cola, this video is quite accurate

    • @western_son
      @western_son 10 місяців тому

      Explain

    • @CSXBoys
      @CSXBoys 10 місяців тому

      @@western_son up north, in Maine, theres a brand of soda called Moxie. it was just recently pressured and bought out by Coca Cola, i think 2019? im not sure honestly. look it up, its interesting

  • @joseybryant7577
    @joseybryant7577 Рік тому +15

    1:05 "Also, Coca-Cola is very healthy and good for you"

    • @TurtleShroom3
      @TurtleShroom3 Рік тому

      Coca-Cola does not pretend to be healthy. Their advertisement has been the same since Prohibition made them remove the booze: Coke is "delicious and refreshing".
      When Coca-Cola was invented, it was actually sold by a pharmacist as medicine. The "coca" in Coca-Cola was cocaine and the "cola" was the cola nut. The entire concoction was mixed in with wine and sold as a brain tonic.

  • @BearCavalryWasTaken
    @BearCavalryWasTaken Рік тому +6

    Vim is a cool concept, I really wish it comes back in the future if there's another game in the North East

  • @amyoakAnimation
    @amyoakAnimation 7 місяців тому +6

    11:33 nuka cola quantum was released the same day the bombs dropped so most consumers never had it. we don't know how popular it may have been. nuka cola was advertising it weeks before the release though so people were probably hyped up for it

  • @gerald1495
    @gerald1495 Рік тому +212

    basically how coca-cola operates in Latin America

    • @이이-n4z8y
      @이이-n4z8y Рік тому

      People like you shouldn't post

    • @trickytroll2990
      @trickytroll2990 7 місяців тому +14

      I watched a documentary about a year ago on that topic. It's crazy that people drink more Coke than water there.

    • @bryanp5843
      @bryanp5843 7 місяців тому +9

      Some ppl are already living in the apocalypse

    • @Spiders_Gaming
      @Spiders_Gaming 7 місяців тому +9

      ​@@trickytroll2990there was a remote village that praised Coke as a gift from God, this was because their own water wasn't safe for consumption for many years, now they have coke instead of clean drinking water.

    • @widodoakrom3938
      @widodoakrom3938 6 місяців тому +3

      Lol true

  • @mischievousjr.9299
    @mischievousjr.9299 Рік тому +29

    Someone mentioned the Bananas Company, I'm sick and appalled by their actions, its completely sick. The way bananas company got money is disgusting, but it does give credibility to Nuka Cola....
    Like how Nuka Cola being a Sketchy company isnt farfetched since it kinda mirrors real world companies

    • @jakeing0ff
      @jakeing0ff Рік тому +13

      that’s kinda the main thesis of the fallout lore. unchecked capitalism will enable corporations to do horrific things. how do we know? because it’s happened before, and it happens to this day

    • @99baking
      @99baking 7 місяців тому

      Coca cola itself hired death squads to kill striking workers in Latin America

  • @supertna9154
    @supertna9154 Рік тому +9

    Nuka cola addiction was present in both Fallout 1 and 2 as well as tactics.

    • @rogerloger1935
      @rogerloger1935 11 місяців тому +1

      It more than in Games joke than anything.

  • @sebastianrussso6958
    @sebastianrussso6958 7 місяців тому +2

    It is so hilarious that i get a Coca Cola Ad exactly when you started talking about the shady practices of Nuka Cola corp

  • @ethanblair7351
    @ethanblair7351 Рік тому +7

    Vault Tec: *Allow Us To Introduce Ourselves*

  • @gagislobista2
    @gagislobista2 6 місяців тому +4

    Nuka-Cola vs Coca-Cola vs Pepsi-Cola now that is one scary battle

  • @Idkpleasejustletmechangeit
    @Idkpleasejustletmechangeit Рік тому +2

    Good history lesson. If I was a teacher, then I'd definitely show this in class.

  • @jiffypoo5029
    @jiffypoo5029 5 місяців тому +1

    Nuka-Cola Corp seems to be one of the Corps still operational post-war. Vendors and Machines are regularly restocked. Maybe it's like greygarden and a bunch of Mr. Handys are still working farms, bottling plants and distributing product around America.

  • @Faithful_Solaire
    @Faithful_Solaire 7 місяців тому +2

    A Mountain Dew commercial in the middle of this video is perfection

  • @MrAsianPie
    @MrAsianPie Рік тому +6

    Thumbnail goes hard

  • @oakbass122
    @oakbass122 7 місяців тому +20

    Sunset Sarsaparilla better

  • @CGRREDACTED
    @CGRREDACTED Рік тому +2

    BB I must say very good video thank you I enjoyed it a lot your name shall be remembered in the hall of heroes.

  • @dreckken
    @dreckken Рік тому +4

    Even though it's extremely tempting, don't drink from the Quantum river!

  • @Juanpvcool
    @Juanpvcool 7 місяців тому +7

    I haven't even played any Fallout, what am I doing here?

  • @gunargundarson1626
    @gunargundarson1626 7 місяців тому +3

    It's crazy how Nuka-Cola resorted to actual hostile takeovers when negotiating wasn't successful.

  • @HeeeyTooom
    @HeeeyTooom Рік тому +5

    bro had to throw in the 'disclaimer' 😂

  • @shrimpy_nazeem
    @shrimpy_nazeem Рік тому +6

    I kinda wish we could antagonize Bradburton. Depending on what terminal entries you’ve read, you could mock him for what he’s done.

  • @megabyte5726
    @megabyte5726 Рік тому +8

    funny. those are all the things i taste in redbull

  • @420-V.T.L-Machinist
    @420-V.T.L-Machinist Рік тому +4

    I wonder how sweet the drink would be

  • @superwario3644
    @superwario3644 Рік тому +6

    could you make a video about sugar bombs? the cereal brand

  • @michaeloconnor3600
    @michaeloconnor3600 Рік тому +3

    Babe wake up, new yaboiii video just dropped!

  • @TurtleShroom3
    @TurtleShroom3 Рік тому +15

    As for the ending, of the man preserved in a jar for two hundred years, why wasn't he able to do like House did in "New Vegas"? Why couldn't he project himself or use the machinery he was hooked into to do something? With all his money, and knowing full well the immortality project could preserve only a head, why didn't he build a body or do something to anticipate that?

    • @highinquisitorvanwiller8904
      @highinquisitorvanwiller8904 Рік тому

      He didn't know it/the Immortality program would only preserve his head, he was basically tricked by the government.
      Kinda like when you use a monkey paw for a wish, yeah you get your wish but it comes with issues.
      Though after it all went down there was enough automation and survivors for him to inact something similar to Mr. House's plan. I agree they dropped the ball when it came to choices for Bradburton.

  • @ComfortsSpecter
    @ComfortsSpecter Рік тому +8

    Great History
    Glad to Have Your Channel
    Mostly Correct Too

  • @Katfischyy
    @Katfischyy 7 місяців тому +2

    Fun fact nuka world is located basically where real life Six Flags New England is

  • @ElJorro
    @ElJorro 11 місяців тому +2

    Excellent work.

  • @blinkowarner3117
    @blinkowarner3117 6 місяців тому +2

    You have to love how Nuka-Cola is essentially Coca-Cola + Disney.

  • @ClancyWoodard-yw6tg
    @ClancyWoodard-yw6tg 4 місяці тому

    One of the scientists at Nuka-World actually called out the others for going along with the cobalt project

  • @darkspy1277
    @darkspy1277 6 місяців тому +2

    Basically coca cola in short, look how many competitors they bought out and own now, they are definately a top 10 company right now.

  • @teoteous
    @teoteous 7 місяців тому +1

    Initially misread it as the *Coca*-Cola Corporation. But then I remember stuff like the town of San Cristóbal de las Casas....

  • @sahilhossian8212
    @sahilhossian8212 Рік тому +2

    Lore of The Nuka-Cola Corporation: The Most Ruthless Prewar Company momentum 100

  • @free00to00ryhme
    @free00to00ryhme 6 місяців тому

    The fact that their soda retained their fizz after 200 some odd years is a testament to their ruthlessness.

  • @Catbattle
    @Catbattle 6 місяців тому +2

    Man, Nuka Cola sure was evil. I'm glad companies like that don't exist in the real world.
    Jokes aside, just about every aspect of Fallouts worldbuilding has such a scathing critique of America, videos like these really help me appreciate just how deep those details go.

  • @fabricio0804
    @fabricio0804 6 місяців тому

    The best part was me getting a Coca-Cola ad while watching this hahaha

  • @ZombiePumps
    @ZombiePumps 5 місяців тому

    That’s an intricate back story for a fictional product in a different universe.

  • @jrs3739
    @jrs3739 7 місяців тому +1

    How ironic that a Coke ad is attached to this vid XD

  • @HeathenRocker
    @HeathenRocker 6 місяців тому +1

    You've got Vim! 😉👍🏻

  • @bluelionsage99
    @bluelionsage99 Рік тому +1

    Hmm. Played through Nuca World two or three times and I don't recall ever finding Bradburton's head. Or his office for that matter.

    • @charlottesavage5966
      @charlottesavage5966 Рік тому

      You have to do the "Collect every secret Cappy Sign" pain in the ass quest and Sierra's questline to get it

  • @Dienow3xw
    @Dienow3xw Рік тому +6

    I'm surprised bethesda hasn't made this a real soda yet

  • @trashynecromancer1155
    @trashynecromancer1155 7 місяців тому +2

    "Take this object, wastelander, but be warned it carries a terrible curse." [Cursed Doll was added to Inventory]
    "That's bad."
    "But you get a free meal!"
    "That's good!"
    "The meal is also cursed."
    "That's bad."
    "But you get your choice of Nuka-Cola!:
    "That's good!"
    "Nuka-Cola contains Potassium benzoate."
    [Int 2/7] "...."
    "that's bad."
    "Can I go now?"

  • @LaughingLiftingGaming
    @LaughingLiftingGaming 7 місяців тому

    See this seems so much more interesting to me than what the show did. In the show, Bradburten would have been a part of the joint company meeting to make the vaults and launch the bombs.

  • @cyandoesthings
    @cyandoesthings 6 місяців тому

    the thumbnail and title looks like something out of a fever dream

  • @admiralofficial5251
    @admiralofficial5251 6 місяців тому

    What an irony that I got Coca-Cola ads before and during the movie...

  • @Awset
    @Awset 7 місяців тому +1

    As Nuka-Cola is "inspired" by Coca-Cola, I was not surprised by any evil of Nuka-Cola at all.

  • @seanvitarelli9705
    @seanvitarelli9705 7 місяців тому

    Vim has to be an alternative version of Moxie. Moxie is only sold in the Northeast, and in Maine it's considered the unofficial soda of the state. Both names are synonymous with energy or vigor

  • @PrinceofPwnage
    @PrinceofPwnage 7 місяців тому +1

    Crazy how similar IRL is to apocalyptic/dystopian media. Corporate greed will be the end of human race.

    • @TannerLindberg
      @TannerLindberg 7 місяців тому

      what? all media is just what we have now but the traits are cranked up and exaggerated usually to explore ideas through the lens of that trait. im genuinely concerned you are stupid enough to think parallels in dystopian media mean thats where we are at/ heading. AND its not the other way around. like that shows you have absolutely zero media or literary literacy

  • @Additive51
    @Additive51 6 місяців тому +1

    9:00 Let’s be honest here: there’s not a goddamn chance in hell Nuka-Cola isn’t a slight at Disney at this point. Cappy literally sounds like Micky and Bottle sounds like Goofy, even having a similar art style. While the corporate espionage is par for the course for pre-war America, Disney is taking plenty of the same actions but is suffering for it. It really does wonders when you don’t have the Enclave (or a real life equivalent) backing you.

  • @striberx
    @striberx 6 місяців тому +1

    Damn, how savage... *proceeds to drink a can of mtn dew*

  • @emetanti
    @emetanti Рік тому +3

    I misread and clicked this thinking it said Coca Cola, probably still applies 1:1

  • @Ridingthewaves305
    @Ridingthewaves305 Рік тому +2

    Nuka Cola has more lore than the entire Starfield franchise

  • @renaigh
    @renaigh 9 місяців тому +2

    Doomed to listen to the ravings of a superfan is the least Bradberton deserves.

  • @SickVeteran99
    @SickVeteran99 3 місяці тому +1

    LOL, I GOT AN AD FOR COCA COLA BEFORE THE VIDEO STARTS 😂

  • @TheLuvMummy
    @TheLuvMummy 6 місяців тому

    Literally had to pause the video to grab a coke. Art imitates life indeed.

  • @bakedbeansonbakedbread6558
    @bakedbeansonbakedbread6558 10 місяців тому +1

    I think Vim is inspired by Moxie, which is a popular real world drink almost exclusive to Maine / the Northeast US.

  • @thomasdawson4044
    @thomasdawson4044 3 місяці тому +1

    After hearing what John-Caleb Bradberton did i believe leaving him with his biggest fan rather than letting him due is poetic justice.😂

  • @Carcerian
    @Carcerian 5 місяців тому +2

    So they are basically a less evil version of PepsiCo? 😆
    "Water is not a human right." - PepsiCo CEO, after Pepsi/Nestle deprived villagers of local water source.

  • @OmniSlayer-
    @OmniSlayer- 5 місяців тому

    I’ve been a fallout fan since I was 13 and although I started to understand the message more as I got older, with similarities to prewar america and real world America (even though it was exaggerated in order to make a point), despite this I still love real world America despite its flaws because it’s my home and gave me such a good life, yes the fallout series is critical of Americas place in the world, I think of it as more fighting for America instead of against it so we can try to make it better so it doesn’t have to be this way.

  • @ArtKing3000
    @ArtKing3000 6 місяців тому

    To me the Nuka Cola company is basically the Disney company if Walt pursued his career in beverages instead of cartoons.

  • @KaneyoriHK
    @KaneyoriHK 6 місяців тому

    Honestly that superfan could learn about robo brains and try to get the fella in a robot body, move round again