UPDATE: The GFOAT, or Greatest Fruit of All Time

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🗓️ 9 July 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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In this update, we tally your votes and announce the winner of our fruit fight. What seed-bearing plant ovary will be crowned the GFOAT, or Greatest Fruit of All Time? The pepper? The coconut? The gourd? The vanilla bean? Or… none of the above? One listener challenges our candidates with a fruit of his own. Listen to his full 5 minute argument for the grape on the episode page for Fruit Fight. And we welcome you to send you own fruit pitch voicemail to outsidein@nhpr.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, so we're all in our closets.
0:05.0	So we're all in our closets.
0:07.0	And who are we?
0:09.0	Yeah, so I'm Sam Evans Brown.
0:12.0	I represent the vanilla bean. Who else are we? I am Felix Poon. I
0:17.8	represented the Gord. Justine Paradise, I represent the Coconut. And I am Taylor Quimby, the setter of the challenge representing the Pepper.
0:28.0	And I believe we are all gathered here today because Taylor has has collated and tabulated the results.
0:35.2	That's right with the help of our EP Ergagenic I have the winner of the fruit fight at hand. You guys ready?
0:43.2	Wait, wait, should we take some like guesses first about like who won?
0:47.2	Like... It was looking super even based off of the emails which everybody gets.
0:51.6	So... For like 10 minutes, for like a day, maybe.
0:54.4	Yeah.
0:55.4	Who do you think, one, Felix?
0:57.2	I feel like I saw a lot of votes for the coconut,
1:00.2	so I was like, it's a tight one. A lot of votes for the coconut, a lot of us with a gourd.
1:05.0	But that's just based on the sort of like impressionistic look at the votes as they came in like, like a real time polling.
1:12.0	Yeah, okay, all right, all right, right, so. and like a real-time polling.
1:12.6	Yeah, okay, all right, all right, right.
1:13.9	So I will start from the bottom and move up.
1:19.2	Vanilla is in fourth place, with a total of 71 votes.
1:24.0	Oh.
1:25.0	So not nothing there.
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