Olive trees, Fig Newtons, and the multi-fruit tree
Closing banter spirals from Goodwill motivational posters and a brother's ironic wine-bottle art into a rant about a store tree grafted to grow three kinds of fruit at once, a wish for an olive tree that survives Iowa, and an investigation of the Fig Newton: created in 1891 by the Kennedy Biscuit Works, named for Newton, Massachusetts, with an alternate origin story crediting Charles Roser. It ends with a Sir Isaac Newton knock-knock joke.
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