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Apr 2022
27m 24s

S11E15 - Surprising Origin Stories

APOSTROPHE PODCAST NETWORK
About this episode

This week on Under The Influence, we tell the surprising origin stories of some famous products and brands. Because sometimes, backstories have backstories.

We’ll tell a surprising tale about Coca Cola and the Civil War. We’ll delve into the bootlegger background of NASCAR.

And we’ll tell the story of how the Lamborghini supercar began with a tractor… and an insult.



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