Podcasts for Coffee Lovers

Podcasts for Coffee Lovers ☕

May 09, 2021

Featuring five episodes on a theme, each week curated by a different person

Podcasts For Coffee Lovers

Curator: 

James Harper of Filter Stories

Why did you choose this theme? 

If you're like me and drink two cups of coffee a day, you're actually consuming 24 pounds of the drug every year. The coffee world is vast: millions of farmers produce it on almost every continent. Each sip we take directly influences the world they, and we, live in. The best coffee podcasts can transport us across the world to surprise and delight us, and help us choose our coffees more wisely.

Podcast Picks:

ThroughlineResistance Is Futile

We take coffee for granted today, but just 500 years ago hardly anybody drank it. This is a gripping story of how people in the past were as afraid of coffee as we are today about self-driving cars and AI.

Filter Stories - Coffee DocumentariesA Girl on a Coffee Farm

Our curator, James, hosts this podcast! He writes: On my podcast, Filter Stories, I investigate the greenwashing that's pervasive within the coffee industry. I explore the real story of Sofía, a teenager living on a coffee farm in Nicaragua, and how her aspirations of going to school are being falsely marketed to us coffee drinkers in the USA.

The Kitchen Sisters PresentWar and Peace and Coffee

Some people believe that the reason the Union defeated the Confederacy comes down to the 10 cups of coffee each soldier drank per day. This excellent story by the Kitchen Sisters explores the biggest conflicts in the world through the prism of a morning cup of coffee on the battlefield.

Adventures In CoffeeIs reaaallly expensive coffee a rip off?

Would you ever pay $75 for 3oz of coffee? This show travels to Panama and Bali to discover whether different types of coffee are legitimately expensive, or whether it's just one big marketing scam?

ContainersThe Hidden Side of Coffee

Thousands of containers of coffee are shipped across the oceans, but how do these piles of unroasted coffee beans end up in our cups? The fourth episode in this series on containers unpacks the mechanics of the coffee supply chain.

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Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier Take a trip to Alaska for Murder and Mystery in the Last Frontier. Listen to stories of actual murder and mysterious disappearances and remember, in a land full of peril and vicious animals, humans are the most dangerous predators of all.Learn more & listen here

OUR PODCAST:

This Week on Feedback...

Since's Arielle's still out with an elbow injury, we got her dad, Jon Nissenblatt, to host the show! And it's a treat because he's a public address announcer. He's also one half of the reason Arielle exists! AKA one half of the reason EarBuds exists. Listen here

CLASSIFIEDS:

☕How much coffee did Michelangelo drink while chiseling his statue of David? Probably none, because coffee wasn't widespread yet. Listen to A History of Coffee to discover how humans discovered coffee and how white Europeans enslaved black Africans and cut rainforests as they raced this drug across the world.

PODCAST SPOTLIGHT:

"If you love a good book, this podcast might make you love them even more. The Stacks not only delves into the best books, but it's graced with some of your favorite authors' favorite authors. Go listen now and thank me later."

- Jay Connor of our EarBuds Advisory Board

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