Nearest Green, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Nearest Green comes up
Advice Line: Growing Beyond Your Niche
Advice Line with Fawn Weaver of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey
- ▶ 1:24 Guy Raz It's actually a story of a guy named Nearest Green. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:36 Fawn Weaver So for instance, when you hear me talking about the story of nearest green and the press all the time, I'm usually talking about a particular section of
Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021)
- ▶ 2:49 Guy Raz A young apprentice who worked in a whiskey distillery named Jack Daniel met a master distiller named Nearest Green. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:27 Guy Raz But, but actually, the, the narrative that, that you had learned was very different, that, that Jack Daniel did not own slaves, that, uh, Nearest was a mentor to him. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:54 Guy Raz So it's 2016, and Fawn Weaver and her husband Keith have made a huge decision to buy and restore the 300 acre farm where nearest green taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:23 Guy Raz Meantime, you're learning all these new things through your research about Uncle Nearest and about his legacy, and it's clear you are, you're not quite sure how, but you are going to help to preserve his legacy somehow and celebrate it. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:48 Guy Raz So it's 2017, and Fawn Weaver is getting ready to launch a new whiskey brand in the name of Uncle Nearest Green, the man who helped Jack Daniel learn to make whiskey. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:05 Fawn Weaver So we obviously have the process that nearest taught to Jack and to other distillers that, and that process that was passed down to him from a 3 times in the scene
Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver
- ▶ 23:54 Guy Raz Jack Daniels, the whiskey brand, that they discovered or found out or, or, or disclosed that actually Jack Daniel, the person who was the distiller, learned how to make whiskey from a black man named Nearest Green, or, or Uncle Nearest as… 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:47 Guy Raz But, but actually, the, the narrative that, that you had learned was very different, that, that Jack Daniel did not own slaves, that, uh, Nearest was a mentor to him. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:15 Guy Raz So it's 2016, and Fawn Weaver and her husband Keith have made a huge decision to buy and restore the 300 acre farm where nearest green taught Jack Daniel how to make whiskey. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:46 Guy Raz New things through your research about Uncle Nearest and about his legacy, and it's clear you are, you're not quite sure how, but you are going to help to preserve his legacy somehow and celebrate it.
- ▶ 45:30 Fawn Weaver But I even told her I have no interest, but then I, as a part of doing my interviews with Nearest's family, I interviewed one 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:55 Guy Raz So it's 2017, and Fawn Weaver is getting ready to launch a new whiskey brand in the name of Uncle Nearest Green, the man who helped Jack Daniel learn to make whiskey. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:30 Fawn Weaver And I truly, truly, and still believe that I had both nearest and Jack in my sales. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:21 Fawn Weaver So we have, for us, I can't speak for all of the whiskey companies, ours, we use triple filtration, so we obviously have the process that Nearest taught to Jack and to other distillers, and that process that was passed down to him from…
- ▶ 1:02:57 Fawn Weaver We need for the first African-American master distiller his name to be forever known and honored the same way that Jack Daniel and Johnny Walker and Jim Beam have been known and honored for 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:32 Fawn Weaver That's what I want to see for nearest a 150 years from now is for people to be talking about him in, in a manner that you forget he's no longer