Right now bananas are so ubiquitous in our lives that we can't imagine life without them.

But I don't think there was anything magical about the banana in and of itself that made

it such an entrepreneurial success.

I think it was a lot of luck, changing culture, brutality, people willing to practice that,

and all these little pieces come together to create this market that probably never

should have existed.

I'm Ron David Fattah.

I'm Ramteen Adublui.

And on this episode, how one entrepreneur made bananas big business and changed the world

for better and for worse.

On most days, I spend at least part of the morning preparing my four-year-old son's favorite

breakfast, a banana.

And there are a few things more fun than cutting it up, putting it on a plate and watching

him enjoy everybody.

So a few months ago, when I heard about a disease that's been tearing through banana

plantations in Asia, Africa, and now South America, obviously I got concerned.

I thought, is this it?

Game over?

No more bananas from my son.

No more chances for me to watch him eat them.

But then, run then I started asking some questions.

Like, why do we even eat bananas?

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