Uncle Nearest: The Former Slave Who Taught Jack Daniels How to Make Whiskey
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Fawn Weaver happened upon the story of Uncle Nathan "Nearest" Green, the former slave who taught Jack Daniels how to make whiskey. Here she is to tell it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Adventure should never come with a pause button. |
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| 0:11.1 | I'm Bridget Todd, host of There Are No Girls on the Internet. |
| 0:13.9 | And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told. |
| 0:17.4 | Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company |
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| 0:22.8 | Everybody's trying to knock you down and it's not going to work and no one's going to like it. |
| 0:27.3 | And then boom, it's everywhere. |
| 0:29.3 | And that was that moment. |
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| 0:48.6 | This is Lee Habib, and this is our American stories, |
| 0:51.3 | and we tell stories about everything here on this show, |
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| 1:00.9 | They're some of our favorites. |
| 1:04.2 | And we've heard from Fawn Weaver on our show before. |
| 1:07.9 | She told us her story of growing up the daughter of Motown royalty, |
| 1:12.8 | realizing that she didn't fit in wherever she was and then realizing that wasn't such a bad thing. |
| 1:15.0 | You've also heard the story of Uncle Nearest Whiskey, the Tennessee Whiskey brand Fawn |
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