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Coffee Growers Finally Got a Day
Season 1 Episode 26274
Coffee is one of the most valuable traded commodities on earth, and for most of its modern history, almost none of that value made it back to the peo…
8 hours ago
Eighty Years to the Last Booth
Season 1 Episode 26273
A sheet metal shop that started out making window frames in Oakland, California ended up building more than 600,000 of the phone booths that once lin…
1 day, 8 hours ago
The Bottle That Changed Every Bottle
Season 1 Episode 26272
(Content note: this episode discusses a historical event involving the death of a child and other family members.)
A 12-year-old girl took one Tylenol…
2 days, 8 hours ago
A Mess That Became Medicine
Season 1 Episode 26271
Alexander Fleming almost threw the dish away. On September 28, 1928, the London bacteriologist returned from a two week vacation to find a stray mold…
3 days, 8 hours ago
Business Blooper: The Machine That Was Supposed to Replace the Car
Season 1 Episode 26268
Some inventions fail loudly. This one just quietly disappeared into tour groups and mall cops.
On December 3, 2001, inventor Dean Kamen unveiled the S…
6 days, 8 hours ago
Eighteen Thousand Dollars in a Hotel Room
Season 1 Episode 26267
Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler had already turned down a bond salesman's strange proposals more than once by the time the man show…
1 week ago
The Speech That Rewrote Political Crisis Management
Season 1 Episode 26266
Minutes before he walked on set, his own party's staff told him it wouldn't matter how well he did. He went on television anyway.
On September 23, 195…
1 week, 1 day ago
The Coffee Shop That Built the American Business Women's Association
Season 1 Episode 26265
Some of the most lasting institutions start with the smallest possible meeting.
On September 22, 1949, Kansas City businessman Hilary Bufton Jr. sat d…
1 week, 2 days ago
The Gamble That Learned to Fly
Season 1 Episode 26264
A financial gamble that nearly cost a company its independence ended up producing one of the most enduring aircraft in aviation history. On September…
1 week, 3 days ago
Business Blooper: Buried by a Bonding Rule
Season 1 Episode 26261
Some empires don't collapse from a bad product. They collapse from a rule nobody read closely enough.
Through the late 1980s and early 1990s, Ray Loew…
1 week, 6 days ago