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Fawn Weaver

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“That's what I want to see for nearest 150 years from now is for people to be talking about him in a manner that you forget he's no longer here. That's the task. That's the goal. And that means I cannot grow this company incrementally at, you know, a few thousand cases a year. I'm not going to be alive that long. I look at it and think, I am 45. I have no doubt that everything that has happened in my life, whether success or failure, investments that I made that were good, investments that I made that were poor, every single aspect of my development up until Uncle nearest, I believe 100% of it was to prepare me for what I'm doing right now. So I look at this and say, can I go pedal to the metal for the next 35 years? And if I do, where have I built this brand to by the time I transition to the next life?”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, where we are now is where I forecast it. So absolutely. But what we were very clear About doing is that We understood that we were about 160 years behind. And so we work at a different urgency than I think that others do. When I look at Jack Daniels, they were purchased by Brown Foreman in 56, if I remember correctly. And you have a brand. That is so well established that even if brown form and sold it off to Pernode Ricard, who's a French company and may not have any idea what to do with an American brand like Jack Daniel, they still can't screw it up. And that's the way that I look at my mission here as it relates to Uncle Neris is to build this brand so large and make it so, the name so ubiquitous around the world that no future generation can screw it up. Jack died in 1910. Still talking about him as if he's still alive.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This legacy, and that distillery is not cheap. So, yes, we are in the black, but at the same time everything that we earn all profitability goes into building of the distillery.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, yes, we have achieved profitability, but at the same time, we're building out a $50 million distillery that we've already put more than $25 into. And so our distillery, even though it's open to the public in phase one and phase two are open and it's sold out every weekend. And thank God for all of the people who literally pilgrimage to Nearest Green Distillery because they come and they get shirts and hats and we've got, I hired the former president of Disney Store worldwide to merchandise. But no, it's incredibly, incredibly expensive. I've raised over $60 million. That's not enough. We've had to structure debt in such a way to be able to make sure that we're continuing to build out.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Huge. So our sales, I would like to say that those things that you referred to have something to do with it, but we just celebrated our 11th quarter in a row of triple digit gains. So we've been 100% year over year for 11 quarters. That was only three quarters.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Up people that have been furloughed and laid off rock stars all over this country. And what I want for all of us to do during this period of time when we are in quarantine and we can't get out in the field is everyone write a marketing plan for your specific market. I told my team do not pay attention to what's going on in the world. We are going to hunker down and be ready for the moment markets begin to open up. So one of the ideas, for instance, was from my team member in Ohio, Ronica, and she had this idea of to-go cocktails. Now, to-go cocktails were not legal anywhere at the time she had the idea. And the thought process was, well, if Ronica is right and to go cocktails become a thing and they push it through the legislation, if we're the first company who has branded pouches already made and branded mason jars, if we Have this”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't think so. I actually don't think that either one had to do with the propelling of our company. And the reason why I can say that is because we're craft spirits. We're independent. No independence saw big years last year because the big guys want the pandemic happened. They've got to keep those shares up, right? And so they took over the shelf space. There was very little shelf space that remained for craft distillers. And I think that we did something very different during the pandemic, which is what propelled us and continued to propel us through the summer, which is we had 13 open sales positions. And once we got shut down and were quarantined, I told the team we are not changing our strategy. We are staying pedaled to the metal. Our 13 positions, we are going to pick.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so that's where we began. But we also utilize scarcity marketing last September. We were out of stock in the entire country, meaning we were selling much faster than we could bottle. Spend a million dollars in commercial ads when we were out of stock everywhere in the country. And the reason I did that is because individual consumers would then walk into a store and say, do you have Uncle Nearest? No, we're out of stock. And then the next one and the next one. So then you have these clerks who all day long are selling spirits and not thinking anything of it. But if you keep having people come in and you have to keep telling them that there's a particular one that's sold out, now they're Googling to find out why is this brand sold out. Now all of a sudden they have the story and they understand the brand you have now created ambassadors all over this country”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, there's a couple things we did. Very early on, I asked my head of sales to enter our whiskey into every spirit competition around the world. And I knew If we could begin taking double gold and best in class in every major competition, which by the way, there's been, I think, 16 major competitions this year and we've received 13 best in class. So we have swept all of the major competitions this year with the exception of a few and even in those we got gold and double gold. And so I knew that we had to have a product that ran with the big dogs. And one of the places where we were going to be able to achieve earned media is if we kept sweeping all the awards.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It convinced him to carry the brand, and then it was our job to make sure that people understood that what they were doing when they bought a glass or a bottle of Uncle Nearest was not simply to sip on the whiskey. We need them to tell the story. We need for the first African-American master distiller his name to be forever known and honored the same way. Jack Daniel and Johnny Walker and Jim Beam have been known and honored for over 150 years. We're just now starting to praise nearest 150, 160 years after those guys.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And they would go home to whatever home they had covered and smut and just black from top to bottom because of all of the hard work and not one bottle on any shelf represented someone who was not white male.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Absolutely, because we had to understand that white males represent 30% of this country and a hundred percent of the whiskies up until Uncle Narest. 100%. And so I would ask the question and then I'd go, I'll wait. And it was always amazing to see the enlightened of those who look at their and they just one by one would look at every bottle and go, holy cow, this entire time a country that was built with blacks and whites. And this is our native spirit and we know without question that African Americans, specifically the enslaved African Americans, were involved in every bit of the process, from manufacturing to barrel, making and barrel rolling and charring.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Their charge was to go in and make sure that people knew the significance of this bottle that was coming into the marketplace. And the way that I would say it is if you walk into any type of liquor store, if you walk into any restaurant, any back bar and you ask them a very simple question, tell me what whiskier bourbon is on your back bar that represents someone who is not a white male and just wait.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“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 other enslaved people, this filtration that happens before it goes into the barrel. But then we do two additional filtrations when it comes out of the barrel, but it's already been filtered once before it goes into the barrel. So it's already starting off ahead”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It just depends because keep in mind there's so many elements. That goes into it, how much you char the barrels. Is going to determine more than that initial filtration, but also how you filter on the other side of it after it's aged is also going to have a lot to do with it. And so you can have two different Tennessee whiskey makers using the exact same mash bill and process before it goes into the barrel and it can taste completely different coming out. Based on where they age it in the warehouse top floor”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so if you use it just to filter, it attaches itself to the conjuner's fuselage. Fusel oils is essentially what gives you headaches, gives you hangovers and things of that nature.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, it's distilled from grain. It has to be cereal grained and it has to be at least 51% corn. Really, truly bourbon can be made anywhere in America. It's not like champagne where it has to be made in a region or tequila that has to be made in Jalisco. Can be made anywhere in America, although I think 90 something percent of it comes out of Kentucky. However, Tennessee whiskey can only be made in Tennessee. And the only difference other than geography, the only significant difference is the process that came in with the enslaved people. And that is taking a traditional bourbon distillate and filtering it through sugar maple charcoal. It pulls out congeners, it pulls out fusel oils. It's basically natural carbon that is in the wood.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The thing I love about Tennessee whiskey is it is the one spirit that we can look at and say it was a process that came in with the enslaved people that made the difference. So Tennessee whiskey is a straight bourbon whiskey. So that's where we should start. A lot of people get confused about this. Tennessee whiskey is a bourbon at its core.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It wasn't just I wasn't getting callbacks. My entire team, my entire leadership team are women. And we were having a call one day and I realized that every single one of us had the same problem, which is whatever it was we needed. This was before the brand came out. We were trying to get things in place. The distributor that bottles, corks, things that we have to have, things that you were talking about earlier, all of these different things that we had to have to put this label out, no one was calling us back. Bottling partners, no one. And so I told Kate and Sherry, I said, let me test out a theory here. And then I called Keith and I said, babe, can you call all of these people? And Keith called every single person on our collective list. And he got through either immediately. when calling or they called him back by the end of the day he didn't have to wait 24 hours”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Break into that without question, there was a lot of blockage coming into it. But the way that I look at it is you just keep turning over every stone until you get it done. And so for me, it's not that I didn't have just a ton of hurdles and I am, you know, positive some traps set, but I was absolutely determined and I truly, truly and still believe that I had both Niers and Jack in my sales. And so I would walk into situations with absolute abandon believing without question that Neerson Jack both wanted this story to be told and they wanted Nereus' legacy to be cemented. And for whatever reason, I have the great honor of being the one who was chosen. To do that”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Correct. But I mean, for me, and I said it to them from day one, that my job in cementing Nereus' legacy was about building up the legacy of one person. Without harming the legacy of another. And so I've always been very transparent with them because I want for both of our brands and companies to continue to. Jack's legacy continued to rise because the only reason we know of Neris' legacy versus all the other African Americans who did work for so many of the bourbon distilleries whose names we still don't know. Only reason that we know the name Uncle Nearest, the only reason that nearest Green Distillery exists is because Jack Daniels family made sure nearest Green. Would never be forgotten. That's the only reason”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Never has. If you're the only time that Jack's name has ever been associated with our brand is if the story is being told historically. The press. It was told historically in the short film that we did with Jeffrey Wright. And even if you watch that film, Out the credit, the film is a little more than 10 minutes. Jack's name isn't mentioned until maybe minute 10. And even then it's in passing.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was more of a they were going to protect their trademarks, not a we're going to prevent you from doing it. I think because the way that they had always seen the story is it was a part of Jack's story. And so I think it was a little challenging for them to see Nea's story standalone. And so the question that they had was, How can you even tell this story without including Jack, which means that I would then be encroaching upon their trademarks? And so I was very clear in that I knew exactly how to tell this story without ever touching their trademarks. And that's what we did.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We began working on this, I knew that they could have one of two reactions and one of those reactions could be to point every missile that they had. Their arsenal at me. And if they did that, I had to make sure that the way that I would describe it is if we're going down, we're going down with a thud so large that everybody will know it happened.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I still would have won. That I'm not concerned about, but the thing is that it would have cost me so much to win. That the question becomes is it worth it and do I want to lose all of the investors money in order to fight it?”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the person who I told at the time was the president of Jack Daniels, and I could have pushed him over with a feather. He was just, he was blown away by the fact that we had done all of this.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but it wasn't their IP. I had already, I already had the trademarks. So by the time I shared with them what I would be doing, I made sure I had the trademarks.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Bottle and you could kind of see just the nodding that there was not just an agreement, but there was conversation that it happened previously. And I left out of that time, Keith was with me. We got into the car. It's pretty late. And I called Sherry from the car and said, if you will come out of retirement, I will raise the money and we will make this happen.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. But I even told her I have no interest. But then I, as a part of doing my interviews with nearest his family, I interviewed close to a hundred of Nearest's descendants and spent time with them. And on one particular occasion, I went to interview a whole group of them, a pretty large group of them in Nashville. They got together at their local church. They shared with me what they knew. I shared what I knew. And at the end of it, I asked, what was the one thing that they thought should happen to honor their ancestor? And then one person in the room, one of the family members raised his hand and he said, you know, we think Nearest deserves to have his own bottle. His name should be on.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, the way that it came about was one was Sherry Moore, who is our director of Whiskey Operations, who was previously director of Whiskey Operations for Jack Daniel, her saying she would come out of retirement. So at least I knew.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, you have Jack Daniels owned by Brown Foreman. Beam is owned by Centauria, Japanese company. Can kind of go down the list of every major American whiskey brand, and I can tell you who owns them. So like”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's because we, up until more recently, because we produced so little extra. Scotland, the distilleries produce enough for themselves, but they also produce enough for a ton of others to be able to purchase from them. It's a part of their overall business model. That's not our business model in America. There's basically not enough to build a major brand, and this business is so expensive and so difficult that if you can't build a large brand, you're basically just kind of waiting to die. That's Truth of it.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everybody sources it's not a big deal America, we treat it a little differently. And so it was going to be so difficult and so expensive.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. I could be a winery in Napa and have a You know, a club in which I've got thousands and thousands of people. That gets wine, that's not legal for spirits. And so you have to be able to get on shelf space. And that means that we would have to show a distributor two things. One, we have enough product to keep it stock. Means that we were going to have to spend a lot of money on aged whiskey. And the second thing is that we were going to have enough money to put behind the marketing. And so, in order to source the right kind of what we call juice, but really high premium whiskey, it was going to be really difficult. So if you go to Scotland, Scotch is so easy because all the distilleries just kind of buy from each other. They blended.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but wine is very different. Their tiered system is different. So for instance, wineries can ship. To end users. Alcohol business cannot.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. Hence why I moved away from the idea altogether is because to do it is to basically set yourself up for failure.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is a very crowded field. So, distributors are not going to pick you up if you cannot show that you have an ability to get people to buy it. We're a three tier system, the alcohol business is, which means that you can't get to the shelves without a distributor. So, if no distributor will pick you up, you don't have a product to sell.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, originally, with the commemorative bottles, you know, maybe a million or so dollars because it's not just a matter of making the bottles. You'd also still have to market it.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had looked into it and had frankly concluded that it was going to cost way too much money, and so the idea of having to go out and to raise money from people, I was not excited about. I hadn't raised money in a very long time.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just the serendipitous nature of every aspect and element that has happened, you could not convince me that this is completely natural, that there's, I have been convinced from very early on that there was something supernatural at play here. And so when I would share with our friends and family the different things that had happened since we arrived in Lynchburg, no one had any question whatsoever that we were to complete this mission no one.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, because it was so remarkable the way things unfolded. The realtor who helped us, so this is, you know, Jack's lineage, as it turns out, as we continue doing the research and I'm bringing my research into the property she comes to me and she says, hey, you know, I know you are, you're focused on a book and a movie, but if you ever decide to honor nearest with a bottle, I'll come out of retirement to make sure you get it right. Well, she was in the family business for 31 years when she left Jack Daniel Distillery. She was their head of whiskey operation.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and the irony is both the church and the distillery were on his property. And his distillery and his church were on the furthest points for the most part. And so he lived a world in which these two were very separate. And then he married a woman who was a teetotaler who wanted nothing to do with him having a distillery. So she did not want him to be doing that. And so the reason why Nerest Green is credited as the first known African-American master distiller is because he fully turned over the steel to nearest. But I think that had everything to do with the fact that his church and his wife were really pushing against him having it all together.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly. And my thought process was when I walk the grounds of plantations. It's very rare for me to go on to a plantation because I walk the grounds and I can literally feel the spirit of those harmed on those plantation grounds. But when I walked across this farm, the dan call farm, I got no such feeling. It was absolute and complete peace. And so I did the research from there. The story would truly come alive because I would be among their spirits.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wish I could tell you I had that kind of foresight. I looked at that really truly purely as a real estate play. And that we could restore this property and put this on the National Historic Registry. Like there was a lot there. But maybe a couple days later is when what came to mind is that I could do my research from there.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The most important part was the second floor was an absolute time capsule. So the room where Jack stayed in, there was walls with barrel stencils that you could still very visibly read. And so it was so easy for us to go, we don't know what we're going to do with this, but this is a piece of American history and we're going to restore it and figure it out later.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you drive up to this farm and there's cows everywhere. So the current owners that had purchased it in the early 60s, they were dairy farmers. And I will say that Keith and I were not through the door for longer than five minutes before we looked at each other and said we're buying this place.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was her that told me. So we're in the library. We were not there very long. And she said, hey, you know that book that brought you here, that farm where Jack grew up and all this stuff happened in the book? It's for sale. And her cousin then calls me about an hour and a half later, maybe two hours later. And says you met my cousin at the library. She says you want to go see the Dan Call Farm. I'm a realtor I can take you. Would you like me to take you tomorrow? And so I've not spoken to anyone from Nearest's family, but have now had contact with two people from Jack's family, and I've only been there a few hours.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. And I said to her, I need you to understand I am not here to harm your family's legacy. Am here because I believe that there was a relationship here that deserves to be explored and shared. I write stories on love and that is the story I'm here to find. And she said, well, in that case, I want to help you. And she pulls out her phone and she gives me names and numbers to nearest green descendants.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Black couple author and a movie person from LA comes to Lynchburg, Tennessee to do research on the story that everybody online has already made a determination about.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Jack's eldest descendant. And if you think about it, and I understand it as well, this is a very small town. Their family has officially been drugged through the mud because people concluded that they were slave owners and hid the original recipe maker and all the rest of this stuff. And so Jack's eldest descendant, she walked through the door of the library. When I looked at her, I could visibly see concern.”
2024-03-04 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey: Fawn Weaver (2021) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT