Instant Noodles Changed The World, Part Two: Going Global

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As Momofuku Ando's instant noodles take Japan by storm, he sets his sights on the global horizon. In part two of this two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max explore the expansion of instant noodles into the United States, the rest of the planet -- and, eventually, space.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ophira Eisenberg.
0:03.4	I'm a comedian and a parent.
0:06.1	Uh, the absurdity of telling jokes late at night and then waking up early with a small
0:12.3	child in the morning.
0:13.9	I have a new podcast called Parenting Is a Joke.
0:17.0	I'll talk to other funny people who are also parents.
0:20.5	Will we be laughing?
0:21.9	Will we be crying?
0:23.6	Find out by listening to Parenting Is a Joke.
0:26.2	Find the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.2	I'm Danish Forth's host of Stealing Superman, a new iHeart original podcast about the most
0:38.4	unlikely art heist of all time.
0:41.4	It was Nick Cage's own personal national treasure.
0:45.6	At a 1999 New Year's Eve party, someone snatched Cage's priceless comics.
0:53.3	Listen to Stealing Superman on the iHeart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you find
0:59.9	your favorite shows.
1:01.3	The world of chocolate has been turned upside down.
1:03.5	A very unusual situation.
1:04.9	You saw this tax of cash in our office.
1:07.4	Chocolate comes from the cacao tree and recently Variety's cacao fought to have been lost
1:11.1	centuries ago where we discovered in the Amazon.
1:13.3	There is no chocolate on earth like this.
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