356: The Bizarre “Cult” That Created Your Favorite Sleepytime Tea

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

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1:17.2	Thank you. Hey, what is up, everybody? And welcome back to Mile Higher podcast, episode 355.
1:22.2	And boy, do we have a weird one for you today.
1:24.7	You could say that we are here to spill the tea.
1:28.5	Ooh.
1:30.0	That was good a good.
1:30.8	That was actually good.
1:34.6	That one wasn't as strong.
1:36.3	And why are we spilling the tea?
1:38.4	The celestial seasonings.
1:40.2	Tea.
1:41.2	Did you know that there was, there's very strange, bizarre, scary, quite racist, to be honest, origins behind this tea.
1:52.9	But no more, no longer.
1:55.3	So don't sue us.
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