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🗓️ 20 April 2023
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Some beverages are more powerful than others, because they compel humans to do some very curious things.
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm |
0:08.7 | and Mild. |
0:13.0 | Our world is full of the unexplainable. |
0:16.3 | And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display, |
0:22.2 | just waiting for us to explore. |
0:25.4 | Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's. |
0:30.0 | There are four words that no person wants to hear. |
0:39.5 | They strike fear in the hearts of caffeine addicts and morning muters everywhere. |
0:44.3 | Those words, we're out of coffee. |
0:47.4 | To some, it's a fate worse than death. |
0:49.5 | Whether you drink it black or loaded with cream and sugar, many of us can't get through |
0:53.3 | our day without our morning brew. |
0:55.5 | And if that describes you, I need you to know that I am in the same club as you. |
0:59.8 | Coffee is an industry ranking in tens of billions of dollars all over the world each year, |
1:04.6 | from global chains to independent roasters. |
1:07.7 | Our lattes and macchiatos are serious business. |
1:10.6 | But America's love of coffee isn't new. |
1:13.1 | We've been drinking it since before we were even a country. |
1:16.6 | Yet during the American Revolutionary War, the colonies faced major food shortages. |
1:21.4 | The farms that cultivated the livestock and crops that people consumed were left to |
1:26.0 | the wives while their husbands went off to fight. |
1:28.7 | That meant that women weren't just responsible for taking care of the children and the home, |
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