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*taps mic* Testing, testing—is this thing on? Just kidding. Hello Fingers Fam! Yesterday, and exclusively for paying Friends of Fingers, I published this podcast episode with Benjamin Anderson, a scholar who has studied labor organizing in craft brewing, coffee shops, and other “artisanal” industries.

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• Low Culture Boil's Rax King, author of 'Tacky'

• Hugging the Bar's Courtney Iseman about ancient drinking games

• Dan Ozzi, music journalist and author of 'Sellout'

• Joe Keohane, author of 'The Power of Strangers'

• Hanna Raskin, James Beard award-winning publisher of The Food Section

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