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Dec 2022
33m 26s

Factory Lector: “Read The Room” | 5

Wondery
About this episode

How did factory workers in the 1920s pass the time while rolling cigars?  Chris is on a mission to prove his creative genius as he interviews a man from 1925 Florida who proves that the key to making the perfect Cuban cigar isn’t in the tobacco, it’s in the art of storytelling.

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