Savor Puts a Cork in It
Savor
iHeartPodcasts
4.3 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Cork is a component of tree bark that insulates the tree from the outside world – and those same properties make cork a near-perfect closure for containers holding liquids like wine. Anney and Lauren pop open the science and history behind corks.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa once promised to break both of Bobby Kennedy's arms. |
| 0:09.8 | Bobby, JFK's attorney general, wanted to take down the mob, starting with Hoffa. |
| 0:14.0 | Like, no one gives a shit about Bobby, right? |
| 0:16.2 | So this is Bobby trying to get the world to care about him, which I think explains all this passion and anger going into this, even though it's all kind of ineptly handled. |
| 0:27.2 | On United States of Kennedy, we dive into the hidden stories fueling our cultural fascination with the Kennedy dynasty. |
| 0:33.6 | Listen on the Iheart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:46.5 | Music Listen on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Hello and welcome to Savor production of IHeartRadio. |
| 0:48.8 | I'm Annie Reef. |
| 0:49.5 | And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum. |
| 0:50.8 | And today we have an episode for you about cork closures, cork stoppers, |
| 0:56.0 | like for wine bottles and stuff. |
| 0:58.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.1 | And it turns out, what a whopper of an episode. |
| 1:05.6 | Ooh, yeah. |
| 1:06.7 | This was one that I suggested knowing it was going to be kind of huge, but I really underestimated how huge it was going to be. |
| 1:14.2 | Also, I didn't mention to you that I knew that it was going to be huge, so that's my bad. |
| 1:19.2 | Well, I should have looked into it more before I agreed readily. |
| 1:22.9 | So that's on me. |
| 1:25.1 | But while we were discussing right before we started recording all of the other |
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