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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha.

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Speaker 2: I'm welcome to Steff. I never told you a production

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Speaker 2: of iHeartRadio, and I wanted to bring back a classic

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Speaker 2: we did. This was one of our third happy hour

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Speaker 2: we ever did, Samantha. Oh, uncle nearest whiskey. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 2: I mentioned this. I cannot remember for the life of

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Speaker 2: me in what episode, but I mentioned it recently in

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Speaker 2: an episode I believe we were talking about how after

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Speaker 2: the audiobook experience, we had such a great team and

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Speaker 2: we gifted the audio engineer with some uncle nearest whiskey,

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Speaker 2: and I mentioned that they are now the largest Grand

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Speaker 2: Champagne vineyard owner in Cognac, France.

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Speaker 1: Ool.

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Speaker 2: So yes, that's a bit of an update, very exciting.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what comes of it. We'll

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Speaker 1: We need to get a bottle obviously.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we need to get a bottle. But there were

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Speaker 3: a lot of news stories about it.

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Speaker 2: And it was really cool because I was like, oh,

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Speaker 2: So that's always fun. But yes, I wanted to bring

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Speaker 2: back this classic episode in spirit of that, no pun intended,

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Speaker 2: so please enjoy it.

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Speaker 4: Cool.

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sandy and Samantha.

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Speaker 3: I'm welcome to Stefan Never told You Production ByHeart Radio.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Happy Thursday, Happy wind down. To everyone who is

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Speaker 4: joining us for our Happy Hour segment. Yes, and to you,

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Speaker 3: And to you, we're happy to have you.

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Speaker 1: I can't help it.

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Speaker 4: Every time I do this, I had that like I

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Speaker 4: have to ease my voice and get really calm. For

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Speaker 4: some reason, I guess that's what I associate with happy Hour.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if this is your first time joining us,

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Speaker 4: Go grab your favorite beverage, whether it's a cocktail, a

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Speaker 4: sparkling water, or coffee, and let's cheers to the almost

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Speaker 4: end of the week. And I know a lot of

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Speaker 4: people's work schedule does not operate like that. And if

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Speaker 4: your job is never ending, like parenting, we know this

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Speaker 4: might be a small break to the continued hard work

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Speaker 1: But hopefully you can take a break with us.

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Speaker 4: Or perhaps you're like me and don't even freaking realize

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Speaker 4: what day of the week it is, So there's that.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: Also, we're not necessarily recording this on Thursday.

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Speaker 4: Don't tell people we're pretending. Obviously, you already know. We've

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Speaker 4: talked many times how we do record ahead of time

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Speaker 4: just for all intent and purposes. But a quick reminder,

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Speaker 4: these are not sponsored and I picked them because it

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Speaker 4: some amazing things. So I just wanted to highlight their

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Speaker 3: Out of my Last of Us two cup that I

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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, it's true, you gave me a nice little

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Speaker 4: and history making of a delightful distillery from Lynchburg, Texas,

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Speaker 4: Uncle Nearest whiskey, And yes, I am right now currently

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Speaker 4: But we are sipping on Uncle Nearest at eighteen eighty

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Speaker 4: I'm lying just the easy burning caramel goodness with a

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Speaker 2: Von Weaver is the CEO and founder of the Uncle

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Speaker 1: And that's who I ended up with. And I love that.

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Speaker 2: And Weaver is going beyond just one history making distillery,

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Speaker 2: to create a three pronged initiative to increase diversity within

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Speaker 2: they will be creating the Nearest Screen School of Distilling

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Speaker 4: it's a big thing that the conversation was what happened?

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Speaker 1: And it's beautiful. It is so beautiful.

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Speaker 3: I love that it was just sort of a history

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Speaker 1: And their website is really cool.

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Speaker 4: They have some pictures of Nearest Green and there as

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Speaker 4: Of course, hopefully we're not romanticizing it, but it is

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Speaker 1: Man, this is a really good whiskey.

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Speaker 4: all of that. The appearance of it is light amber

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Speaker 4: They write ads ripe with toasted wood and honey, and

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Speaker 3: That's a great review.

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Speaker 1: It's so like refreshing.

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Speaker 4: The burn is refreshing because it ends with that like sweet,

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Speaker 4: almost toasted vanilla almond taste to me, I think, and

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Speaker 1: Reaching for more. Drink responsibly.

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Speaker 2: At the top, we should add a note.

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Speaker 4: I'm hopefully well, who knows how far they get into it,

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Speaker 1: So, yeah, what do you taste? How do you about this?

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Speaker 3: I agree with pretty much everything you said.

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Speaker 2: I think I really taste the vanilla, and something about

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Speaker 2: it reminds me of honeysuckle, which I've actually just been

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, wellkee.

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Speaker 2: They used to go on with my mom and we

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Speaker 3: So that's what it's making me think of.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, So they have three different whiskeys on their website,

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Speaker 4: which is the eighteen twenty single Barrel Edition, eighteen fifty

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Speaker 4: eighty four small Badge, And yeah, they've won many awards

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Speaker 1: Just her story alone.

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Speaker 4: I love that weave were brought in his family and

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Speaker 1: And I think that's.

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Speaker 1: You're amazing, you know. Like So I love all of that, and.

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Speaker 4: I love that the story as getting bigger, and yeah,

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Speaker 1: Cheers to that, Cheers to the brand as well.

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Speaker 4: As weaver for all of the good things that they

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