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Sundays with Shep

"Shep vs. Coke Machine" (June 5, 2022)

By Ryan Priest
Published June 5, 2022 at 1:21 PM CDT
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Young Jean gets more than a dime's worth of Coke from the company vending machine.

Delivering mail to the Inland Steel home office in Chicago was thirsty work for young Shep. In this program from June 5, 1971; he recalls how "The Pause that Refreshes" turned into a flood of cola in the executive office.

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