Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-11-15
Books mentioned on Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything
Robert is joined by James Stout to discuss the Tobacco Industry. (2 part series) FOOTNOTES: https://daily.
Robert Evans discussed The Cigarette Century by Allan M. Brandt and Tobacco in History by Jordan Goodman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Cigarette Century
The Cigarette Century by Allan M.
Discussed“Now, next, I want to quote from a book called The Cigarette Century by Alan Brandt. By 1884, while his competitors were still hesitating, Duke had installed two Bonsac machines in his Durham factory.”
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Tobacco in History
Discussed“And Jordan Goodman, the author of tobacco and history, notes, to him, every cigarette was the same. All of the globalization that we are now familiar with through McDonald's and Starbucks, all of that was preceded by Duke and the cigarette.”
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Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The BFG
“He thought [music] of Willy Wonka in the BFG, but did you know he was a spy in the new [music] podcast, The Secret World of R Doll?”
Plugged A (brief) history of vice
“I made for my book A Brief History of Vice. I recreated these pipes as best I could. I wound up actually using the stock of dry like the dried stock of marijuana plants because it's hollow”
Passing The Monkey Wrench Gang
“So he inadvertently also gave us uh the monkey wrench gang. Yeah. So he has he has in the space of what we've talked about so far given us like modern patent law and all of the people that get killed”