1 00:00:01,120 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from House Stuff Works 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:13,280 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, 3 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:16,599 Speaker 1: Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and Jerry So it's Stuff you 4 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: should Know the never ending year. Man, I am sleepy today. 5 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:27,880 Speaker 1: I do a little whiskey last night. Oh that will 6 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 1: make you sleepy. Really nice bourbon. Ok I can't remember 7 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:34,400 Speaker 1: the name of it, but you know, one of those 8 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,040 Speaker 1: small batches. It's I wish I could because the bourbon 9 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:39,600 Speaker 1: and not right. I'd love to plug it. And it 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,200 Speaker 1: was bourbon. It was delicious, Okay, cool, so very smooth. 11 00:00:42,280 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: Let me let you in on a little, little little 12 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:48,360 Speaker 1: known fact you've told me, but tell everyone else about. Yeah, 13 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:50,000 Speaker 1: it's a big deal, man. I think we need to 14 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,680 Speaker 1: spread the word. So you know, all those little small 15 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:56,800 Speaker 1: batch distilleries that make rye, and they all have these 16 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:01,840 Speaker 1: crazy back stories and all that stuff all almost across 17 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: the board lies most of the small batch rye and 18 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:11,000 Speaker 1: sold in the United States by craft distilleries is made 19 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 1: in a single factory in Indiana. Josh is using a 20 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,640 Speaker 1: lot of air quotes then, including on Indiana, which I 21 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: didn't quite get. And then they sell it to these 22 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: people who like put a new label on it, mark 23 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,039 Speaker 1: the price whatever they want, even though it's the same 24 00:01:25,080 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: thing you're drinking, whether it's this craft distillery, that Crestility, 25 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:32,960 Speaker 1: it's literally the same rye. Put a folksy backstory on 26 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,920 Speaker 1: and then you're a chump for buying it. That's that's 27 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 1: not truth, bourbon, it's just this rye. But a good 28 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 1: giveaway is is the ry you're drinking five year old 29 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:47,319 Speaker 1: rye and the distillery has only been around since last year. 30 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: Probably a pretty good bet that they bought and rebottled it. 31 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,920 Speaker 1: And that is a true Josh fact. Not like the 32 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: cigars are supposed to be inhaled when that's yes, that's 33 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 1: it's tobacco. What do you think you do with tobacco? 34 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: Cigar writers right in? Yeah, man, I will forever stand 35 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:11,440 Speaker 1: behind You're supposed to inhale cigars. All right, all right? 36 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: I mean you're just puffing your mouthful of smoke for 37 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,640 Speaker 1: no reason. Why Why would you do that? What's the 38 00:02:18,680 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: point of that? I don't know? Man. Well, okay, so 39 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: not only can you do you have to write in 40 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: and say yes, you're you're just supposed to puff on 41 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 1: a cigar, not inhale. You have to explain them what 42 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 1: the point of a cigar is. You know, you can 43 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:34,639 Speaker 1: read up on this. It's pretty easy. That's fine. Okay. 44 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,200 Speaker 1: I don't need to breathe them. I know that. I'm right. Okay, okay, 45 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: So you sit in your flooded yard and inhale cigars 46 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: all day long. It's right. We should just have an 47 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: episode where we do this and just shoot the breeze. 48 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: I think this is called arguing, not shooting the breeze. 49 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: Shooting the breeze is talking about football scores and the 50 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,880 Speaker 1: weather and all that stuff. We could argue about football scores. 51 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,840 Speaker 1: There is a did the Falcon win or did they lose? Dude? 52 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:04,799 Speaker 1: They lost to the Browns. Yeah, they played the Browns, 53 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 1: but it was a close gaming for a while, right. 54 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,519 Speaker 1: It was a heartbreaker. The terrible, terrible, terrible team. I 55 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: hate them. See, that's shooting the breeze. Right, So you 56 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: mentioned cigars, which actually provides a segway. So let's walk 57 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,799 Speaker 1: it back to it. Okay, there's actually if you think 58 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:23,160 Speaker 1: of cinnamon, which is what we're talking about today. Yeah, 59 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 1: one of our commodity podcasts. Yeah, which is the original 60 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: name for the house stuff works TV show. Yeah, little known, 61 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 1: little known fact. Um. But if you think cinnamon, you 62 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: think of like, you know, you go up to the 63 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:38,560 Speaker 1: grocery store and you pick up like that metal cannam 64 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: ac cormicks and you shake it and it makes that 65 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 1: nice hollow tinny sounds. Yeah, okay or yeah. I guess 66 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 1: you can think of ground cinnamon too. I forgot about 67 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 1: that stuff. But when you think cinnamon sticks, that's what 68 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,120 Speaker 1: you think of, right, And you pop the top open 69 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: and you shake a couple out and you look at 70 00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: them and it's like a it looks like a little stick, 71 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: and if you look really closely, like curled, right, and 72 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,080 Speaker 1: then like you um, put it back in the can 73 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: and put it back on the store shelves and wipe 74 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: your hands and go walk away. But what you would 75 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,680 Speaker 1: probably be surprised, I find, would be if you dumped 76 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: one of those out into your hand and it looked 77 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: kind of like a cigar, like rather than hollow and curled. 78 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: When you're looking down the barrel, it looks stuffed like 79 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:23,120 Speaker 1: a cigar. But if you did see that, what you 80 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:26,720 Speaker 1: would have just come across is clon cinnamon, also and 81 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:32,000 Speaker 1: appropriately known as true cinnamon. Yeah, also known as tree 82 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:36,360 Speaker 1: bark yeah, which to me is the fact of the podcast. 83 00:04:36,440 --> 00:04:41,200 Speaker 1: I had no idea that cinnamon was tree bark. Yeah, 84 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:43,279 Speaker 1: But think about it now that you know that, When 85 00:04:43,320 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: you think about what cinnamon sticks look like, it makes sense. 86 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: It looks like curl up tree bark, which is exactly 87 00:04:48,800 --> 00:04:51,640 Speaker 1: what it is. Man. We could quit now and people 88 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:54,800 Speaker 1: have gotten their zero dollars worth. I know, I know, 89 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:59,719 Speaker 1: it's like lightning in their headphones. But we won't because 90 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna tell you more than you ever needed to 91 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: know about cinnamon. Obviously. The stick form is how you 92 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,560 Speaker 1: can buy it. Also, buy the powdered form and sprinkle 93 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 1: it on some bread with some butter and sugar. Yes, 94 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,360 Speaker 1: salmon toast delicious. If you have an orchid that you've 95 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,359 Speaker 1: ever over watered um, you want to take some scissors 96 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: and trim off any rotted roots and then dab them 97 00:05:24,040 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 1: in cinnamon and it staves off any infection. I just 98 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:30,640 Speaker 1: recently brought an orchid back using cinnamon as an anti 99 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: microbial or fungal. I guess Emily has made an all 100 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:41,520 Speaker 1: natural flea uh preventative, preventive, preventative preventative for our dogs. 101 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,560 Speaker 1: It's Uh, it's got cinnamon oil, essential oil, and some 102 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: other I think eucalyptus and maybe camp for And then 103 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,320 Speaker 1: you know something that's all distilled or not distill but 104 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: mixed with olive oil and water and uh it's like 105 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,120 Speaker 1: all natural. We splayed on a spread on a little 106 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: bandana and tying around next. Nice. Um. It's also a 107 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 1: proven mosquito repelling and killer of mosquito larva and natural pesticide. Right. 108 00:06:09,800 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: Plus it's a dynamite name for a pet. Cinnamon, it's 109 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 1: pretty much got at all. That's pretty good. Again, we 110 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 1: could stop here, but we won't. Uh. So cinnamon the 111 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 1: commodity spice. It has a pretty long history actually, Um, 112 00:06:28,160 --> 00:06:32,599 Speaker 1: I read that it first pops up in writing in 113 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: b C C b C b C. Yeah, that's a 114 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 1: long time ago, in a Chinese text about botanical medicines. Yeah, 115 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: that makes sense because of all the things we just 116 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 1: mentioned you can do with it. Yeah, and then Moses 117 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: was messing around with it in the Old Testament. Yeah, 118 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: he used it in his anointing oil, his uh Moses 119 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:56,920 Speaker 1: brand anointing oil right that he got rich off of. 120 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: And uh, Egyptians supposedly used it for embalming. For so, 121 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 1: I looked that up because it stica was kind of 122 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:08,960 Speaker 1: like in the weird and um, I think they used 123 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 1: it to mask the smell of embalming during embalmment. It 124 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,320 Speaker 1: makes a little more sense. Well, that's used in embalming, 125 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,640 Speaker 1: I guess just as but not as the agent embalming agent, right, 126 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: but it may have been part of the embalming agent. Okay, Well, 127 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: they definitely used it to when they would burn, uh 128 00:07:26,040 --> 00:07:28,080 Speaker 1: with funeral pires when they had burned bodies, they would 129 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: use cinnamon because it's so aromatic and pungent and dead 130 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,520 Speaker 1: burning bodies are stinky, right, But it was also extraordinarily expensive. 131 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:42,520 Speaker 1: Apparently Pliny mentioned that, um at is there any other uh? 132 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:46,120 Speaker 1: He mentioned that at some point the cost of cinnamon 133 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: a pound, the equivalent of a pound of cinnamon would 134 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: have been ten months wages for the average Roman. Um 135 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 1: So they I mean they used it, but they used 136 00:07:55,600 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 1: it fairly sparingly, which is to say, um Nero burn 137 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: Euro who didn't fiddle while Rome burned? By the way, No, no, uh, 138 00:08:05,400 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: he burned apparently like a year's supply worth when on 139 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: his wife's funeral. Higher just basically basically show off, I 140 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: would guess. Yeah, I was thinking that while I was 141 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:16,600 Speaker 1: reading this about how I thought it was kind of 142 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: funny how spices used to be so like the trade 143 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,679 Speaker 1: and so expensive, and then when I go to the store, 144 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:25,560 Speaker 1: it was like, spices are still kind of expensive some 145 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, ten months wages worth it. No, but 146 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: it's not a lot of slavery associated with it. No. 147 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 1: But if you're paying like I guess it's because of 148 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:35,599 Speaker 1: the size of the thing you're paying, like sometimes like 149 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: six dollars for a little no, I know what you mean, 150 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: a little tiny jar of it, or what's the like 151 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: compared to affron Man super expensive it is, although Trader 152 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: Joe's has some for a reasonable price. Yeah, they have 153 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,120 Speaker 1: a little uh a little mini fistful, a baby's fistful. 154 00:08:52,200 --> 00:08:54,839 Speaker 1: I think it's the the unit of measurement on the 155 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:59,199 Speaker 1: bottle for like six bucks, that's super cheaper. And I 156 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:02,000 Speaker 1: think one of the since spices are still kind of pricey, 157 00:09:02,080 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: as many of them, including cinnamon, are still uh not mechanized, 158 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,199 Speaker 1: are still very labor intensive the harvest. Well, the reason 159 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,320 Speaker 1: cinnamon came down in price because even even still even 160 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 1: I think there was one of the Roman emperors decreed 161 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: he set maximum prices for the whole Roman Empire, and 162 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:24,360 Speaker 1: at the time that basically meant for the whole world, right, um. 163 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,439 Speaker 1: And he set the price at about half or a 164 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:31,679 Speaker 1: third of what playing he said was the peak basic 165 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: right for well, yes, um and uh. Even still it 166 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:39,679 Speaker 1: was extraordinarily high, like you had to be one of 167 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 1: the well the aristocracy basically to afford sentiment. But then 168 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,559 Speaker 1: it came down in the late I believe the late 169 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 1: eighteenth century, by the time the English got into the game. Um. 170 00:09:50,880 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: And we'll talk a little more about this right after this. 171 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: And this is not a message price, so everybody chill out. 172 00:09:57,120 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: But um, it came down in price because original there's 173 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:04,040 Speaker 1: just the true clon cinnamon. And then people said, well, 174 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 1: there's this other cinnamon in Indonesia and Vietnam. Vietnam hasn't 175 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,480 Speaker 1: been established as a country yet, but there's still people 176 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: living here and have been for thousands of years, and 177 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,600 Speaker 1: they got their own kind of sentiment. Uh. And then 178 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: there's another kind of sentiment in China. And all these 179 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: are types of cashia, but it's so close to cinnamon 180 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: and even more pungent that everybody in Europe saying, well, 181 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: accept this as a substitute. So all prices came down 182 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 1: because the supply became more widespread. Gotcha. So that brings 183 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:34,559 Speaker 1: us to a very good point. There are two types 184 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:37,200 Speaker 1: of cinnamon. The clon what you mentioned in the casha, 185 00:10:37,440 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: which you mentioned. The salon is Southeast Asian native, but 186 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,079 Speaker 1: it is not the kind that you're going to find 187 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:50,559 Speaker 1: in the grocery store. Correct. Uh. The ceylon, and I'm 188 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: really high in grocery store you'd find it, but mostly 189 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:55,280 Speaker 1: you I haven't found it because I don't shop at 190 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:57,960 Speaker 1: those places. Well you, I mean, you could probably find 191 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,480 Speaker 1: it at whole Foods. But if you're gonna spend the 192 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,839 Speaker 1: money for ceylon cinnamon, you're probably gonna want to buy 193 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:05,480 Speaker 1: it in stick for him because there's a lot of 194 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: unscrupulous spice dealers out there, and like they could powder 195 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 Speaker 1: anything and just tell you it is, but you wouldn't 196 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: know the difference. This the street corner spice dealers, their 197 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:20,319 Speaker 1: knockoff nutmegs, the ones who like opened the side of 198 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: their trench, like what do you want? What do you want? 199 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: I got baby spitsch to saffron right here, I've got 200 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: salon cinnamon. I can take care of you. Um, the 201 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:32,400 Speaker 1: cashia is cheaper and it's stronger an odor and flavor. 202 00:11:33,160 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 1: And uh, those aren't the only types of cina. Apparently 203 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: there are more than a hundred wild types of cinnamon 204 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: trees all over the world. Yeah, and there's not all 205 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 1: over the world, but in many parts of the world. 206 00:11:42,960 --> 00:11:46,080 Speaker 1: So there's and there's true cinnamon, which is in Sri Lanka, 207 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 1: and there's Indonesian casha. Then there's also Vietnamese casha, in 208 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 1: Chinese casha, um, and all of those are commercially available. 209 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:57,640 Speaker 1: If you're here in the United States or in Canada, 210 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: you're probably eating um cash right. And when you say 211 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:04,800 Speaker 1: true cinnamon, that's just not you being snooty. It's called 212 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: true cinnamon. No, no, no, thank you for pointing that. 213 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:12,839 Speaker 1: And then if you're in Mexico and Europe you're probably 214 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: eating clon. Those are the most popular varieties. Oh yeah, nice. 215 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:21,040 Speaker 1: So I mentioned earlier on one of what I think 216 00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 1: is the fact of the podcast is that it's tree 217 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,599 Speaker 1: bark and how you cultivate it. It's pretty interesting and 218 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: we will detail that right after this message break. So 219 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: if you want to get edible cinnamon, it's pretty neat 220 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,960 Speaker 1: you basically cut the tree back to a stump, cover 221 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 1: it with dirt, and wait a year, and that makes 222 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:46,680 Speaker 1: it grow like a bush and these shoots are gonna 223 00:12:46,679 --> 00:12:50,080 Speaker 1: pop out and it's gonna if if you've ever seen 224 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,040 Speaker 1: these things online, it looks like it starts to curl already, 225 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:57,079 Speaker 1: like off the branch. I mean, it looks like cinnamon 226 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 1: just waiting to happen, because it is. And they strip 227 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:03,160 Speaker 1: off that bark and set it out to dry in 228 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: the sun, and then that's what it curls up like, um, 229 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: what's the white tree with the real paper like birch. Yeah, 230 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 1: it sort of looks like that, not like pine bark. 231 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,439 Speaker 1: Is it a birch? I know exactly what you're talking about. 232 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:24,280 Speaker 1: I think it is a birch. Birch tree, Yeah, very pretty. Uh. 233 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: And then once you have it dried out, you're gonna 234 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: cut it up into your sticks and from there you're 235 00:13:30,520 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: gonna package it according to what kind it is and 236 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,439 Speaker 1: like how good it is, basically how strong it is 237 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:41,120 Speaker 1: and um, so that's casha for um ceylon true cinnamon. 238 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:43,680 Speaker 1: It's actually the inner bark. So you peel the outer 239 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: bark off and just like throw it away or light 240 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:47,599 Speaker 1: a fire with it or something like that. Then you 241 00:13:47,679 --> 00:13:51,439 Speaker 1: go after the inner bark. And for um millennia there 242 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 1: was actually one cast in Sri Lanka whose job it 243 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: was was to harvest cinnamon. No one else could do 244 00:13:57,880 --> 00:13:59,800 Speaker 1: it either you were too low on the total polar 245 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: too high on the totem pole. And when the Portuguese 246 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:04,520 Speaker 1: came along, because the spice trade had been cut off 247 00:14:04,559 --> 00:14:08,640 Speaker 1: by the Turks, and about the Portuguese came along, found 248 00:14:09,040 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: the source of cinnamon, which is a huge thing chuck 249 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:16,000 Speaker 1: before everybody just basically thought they fished it out of 250 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,080 Speaker 1: the nile. People thought there were cinnamon birds that made 251 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:23,920 Speaker 1: cinnamon sticks, but it was because the traders along the 252 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,840 Speaker 1: silk route of Silk Road where um, they'd make up 253 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,760 Speaker 1: these stories and people would believe it. So finally the 254 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:34,840 Speaker 1: Portuguese find out to keep them from finding out, yes, yes, 255 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:39,720 Speaker 1: and to justify the ridiculously high prices of cinnamon, like that, 256 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:42,760 Speaker 1: well we have to go harvest these sticks from a 257 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: cinnamon bird's nest and we can get killed, right. So um, 258 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: the Portuguese come along and they're like, well, we can 259 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: point to at least one inefficiency. How about we enslave 260 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:55,080 Speaker 1: all of you and put you all the work rather 261 00:14:55,160 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 1: than just this one cast of your society to harvest 262 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:01,200 Speaker 1: cinnamon and that up cinnamon product. And but what's funny 263 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:03,920 Speaker 1: is it took the Dutch to come along in and 264 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 1: out the Portuguese and then they themselves can continue to 265 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:13,080 Speaker 1: enslave the Sri lankans um. They they thought maybe we 266 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: could cultivate these trees elsewhere, like nobody had thought told 267 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: to take these trees and plant them elsewhere and then 268 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:24,280 Speaker 1: expand the supply like that. They just figured, all, we'll 269 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: just let mother nature do it. They're like Suparu drivers. 270 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: They're just leaving it up to mother nature rather than 271 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 1: cultivating the stuff. It took hundreds of hundreds of years. Now. 272 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 1: I remember there was that stupid commercial where the guy 273 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 1: just let his super get dirty when he was like 274 00:15:40,520 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: mudding and going camping and hiking and all that stuff. 275 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 1: And then he's like, and I don't wash my car. 276 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:47,360 Speaker 1: I just leave it up to the universe. And then 277 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:49,680 Speaker 1: it starts raining and like gets all the dirt and 278 00:15:49,760 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: dust off of his car. That's that's great. Yes, you know, 279 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,800 Speaker 1: Elvis used to shoot the TV when Robert Goolay came on, 280 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:02,200 Speaker 1: when he was really mad. He'd shoot like a toaster, 281 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 1: oven or the dishwasher or whatever. But if he was 282 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 1: watching TV and Robert Gooley came on, he would shoot 283 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: his TV. Did you see that thing I posted on 284 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: her Facebook page of the day about his drug intake 285 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: at the end. He was prescribed almost nine thousand pills 286 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 1: or injectables in the last three months before he died. 287 00:16:19,520 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: That's a lot like that would just take up most 288 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: of your time in jesting all of those. Yeah. I 289 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 1: think I calculated it was something like a thirty thirty 290 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:29,080 Speaker 1: five pills a day or something or injectables. It's a lot. 291 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:33,440 Speaker 1: But my grandmother still says, God rest her soul. You know, 292 00:16:33,560 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: Elvis's doctors killed him. Yeah, And I didn't have the 293 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,000 Speaker 1: heart to tell her that Elvis was a big fat junkie. 294 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,000 Speaker 1: You know. She was from Memphis, and they like still 295 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:44,960 Speaker 1: were like, oh no, his doctors they just had him 296 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: going every which way. Oh yeah, yeah, No, I was 297 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:51,320 Speaker 1: really love taking those pills. Yeah, I think you're right. Yeah, 298 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: it's sort of like the Michael Jackson thing. Yeah, he 299 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:59,120 Speaker 1: liked his milk. Alright, So back to cinnamon. Oh yeah. 300 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,240 Speaker 1: They have a grading system called the Freelankan grading system, 301 00:17:03,320 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: and that divides it into these quills into sizes, the Alba, 302 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,480 Speaker 1: which is point two inches or less in diameter, the Continental, 303 00:17:11,119 --> 00:17:16,720 Speaker 1: which is point six Mexican almost point eight inches, and 304 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:22,400 Speaker 1: then Zahambug, which is one point three inches around. That's 305 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 1: that's some serious quill. It's like a cigar. Yeah, and 306 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,920 Speaker 1: some of these things they use like circular sauce to 307 00:17:28,960 --> 00:17:34,280 Speaker 1: cut these in production sometimes. Really Yeah, that's pretty impressive. 308 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: That's super impressive. Um, the the clon is sold and 309 00:17:38,800 --> 00:17:41,600 Speaker 1: quill form and it's uh gonna have that crumbling texture. 310 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:45,000 Speaker 1: It's really easy to grind up in the Cashia is 311 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:47,439 Speaker 1: the ground cinnamon that you're going to find in your 312 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: grocery store, but it's too hard to grind your Yeah, 313 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,440 Speaker 1: it's the entirely true. I ground them up the other day, 314 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: Jean Recipe. I tried probably not powdery though, was it 315 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,600 Speaker 1: still pretty chunky? It was? Yeah, I mean got it, 316 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,920 Speaker 1: broke it down pretty well. After reading this, I was like, well, 317 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 1: I explains why I didn't get at all. But I'm 318 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: glad I didn't mess up my coffee grinder. Oh yeah, 319 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 1: you know, you really can't believe me. What what'd you make? Uh, 320 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:16,280 Speaker 1: all of them preserved lemon ten It was pretty good. 321 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:19,600 Speaker 1: It was hotter than I expected. Um, and I think 322 00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 1: they should have mentioned that in the rusty, like this 323 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: is very hot because the preserved lemons I used were 324 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,719 Speaker 1: hot in and of themselves, and so the whole thing 325 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,120 Speaker 1: was really hot. So you mean and I are eating 326 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 1: and our noses are running. Is so good? But I 327 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: can't feel my face anymore? Yeah, but it was. It 328 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,760 Speaker 1: was good. That was used to shoot his cook when 329 00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: she made things too hot. Right, that's not true. He'd 330 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:46,119 Speaker 1: also inject preserved lemons. He probably did. I know he 331 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: injected peanut butter and banana fluff. Yeah. Um, so well 332 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:53,040 Speaker 1: that brings just cooking with slemons what you were just 333 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:56,480 Speaker 1: talking about. Um, it's a lot a lot of time. 334 00:18:56,560 --> 00:18:59,840 Speaker 1: It's used in baking here in the States or the 335 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:04,760 Speaker 1: quote West unquote right, like as a baking like sugary 336 00:19:04,840 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 1: desserts and stuff like that, or maybe in a drink 337 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 1: like a toddy but like anything at Starbucks. Yeah, that's true. 338 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: They've got that shaker cinnamon out for a reason. Use it. 339 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:18,680 Speaker 1: But like you were saying, uh, in the East, like 340 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: an Eastern dish, like that. It's used a lot to 341 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:23,360 Speaker 1: like flavor meat and and curries and stuff. Yeah, which 342 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:25,880 Speaker 1: is kind of a in the idea that the West 343 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 1: only uses it to sweeten or for desserts or that 344 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:32,159 Speaker 1: kind of thing is um relatively new because during the 345 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: Middle Ages in Europe, uh, the the elite again, we 346 00:19:36,720 --> 00:19:42,240 Speaker 1: use cinnamon especially to um cover up preserved meat, and 347 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: it maybe even to preserve meat. But they used it 348 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: on like meat and savory dishes back back when. Then 349 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: at some point it made the transition to dessert. I 350 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,440 Speaker 1: get it. It's nice on an apple pie. Yeah. And 351 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:57,040 Speaker 1: uh sportast like I mentioned, and horg chatta that's good 352 00:19:57,119 --> 00:20:04,640 Speaker 1: stuff with cinnamon horche out of regular right, Jerry thumbs up. Uh. 353 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:06,439 Speaker 1: If you buy centiment in the store and you want 354 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:09,199 Speaker 1: to preserve it, you store it in a glass air 355 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: tight container would be the best deal. It's gonna keep 356 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: it nice and fresh and flavorful. Uh. And it can 357 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,399 Speaker 1: stay fresh those sticks for about a year if you 358 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:20,560 Speaker 1: store it right, which is awesome. If it's ground, it's 359 00:20:20,920 --> 00:20:24,120 Speaker 1: uh last about half of that that long. Yeah, it's 360 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: I've had centiment in my cupboard for a long time. 361 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,440 Speaker 1: Ancient sticks. It's like that in the bay leaves. You know. 362 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,879 Speaker 1: The thing is is the difference I think between like 363 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,720 Speaker 1: fresh bay leaves and and dry bay leaves or is significant. 364 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,160 Speaker 1: I know. But why did they sell you thirty bay 365 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,600 Speaker 1: leaves when you need to for any given dish? I know, 366 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:44,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. I always want to like post on 367 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,760 Speaker 1: social media like I'm cooking with bay leaves, so please 368 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,119 Speaker 1: come by and get some bay leaves because they're just 369 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 1: gonna end up in the trash right now. I know, 370 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,400 Speaker 1: anytime I've ever gone to your house, you've always given 371 00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:58,120 Speaker 1: me bai leaves. Stay all Bailey kind of what you're 372 00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: now for. Um. I put a little cinnamon in the 373 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:04,840 Speaker 1: in our chili recipe too. Yeah. I think the Cincinnati 374 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: chili is famous for that. Oh yeahs and curries. It's 375 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:14,560 Speaker 1: really good in curries too, uh and um, just basically 376 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,480 Speaker 1: any Indian dish or Bangladeshi dish. Yeah, A little goes 377 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 1: a long way though, by the way, like just a 378 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 1: pinch or so in some of these dishes, you can 379 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:25,440 Speaker 1: really taste the flavor. If you overdo it, you're you're 380 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:29,600 Speaker 1: gonna be tasting nothing but cinnamon, right if you use casha. 381 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: That's another big distinction. I think you already said it, 382 00:21:32,320 --> 00:21:35,160 Speaker 1: but it's worth touching upon again. Salon cinnamon is known 383 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:40,280 Speaker 1: to be much subtler and less pungent than cautious cinnamon. Um, 384 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,720 Speaker 1: and it's it's kind of more it has. It offers 385 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:47,800 Speaker 1: a more subtle flavor. So um, you actually might want 386 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 1: to use casha for a dish where it's gonna it 387 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: could fade into the background and then you just ceylon 388 00:21:53,520 --> 00:21:56,600 Speaker 1: for like a t Yeah, you know, because it'll melt 389 00:21:56,680 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 1: right into your your teacup there on it. Plus, it 390 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 1: may or may not aid in digestion, which is a 391 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 1: pretty great segue to this next part, the health benefits 392 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,040 Speaker 1: the cinnamon, which we'll talk about all right after this. 393 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 1: All right, Josh, health benefits. Um. Now, a lot of 394 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:25,119 Speaker 1: this in the article says some believe may or may not. 395 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: But didn't you find some pretty good hard evidence of 396 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,240 Speaker 1: some of the stuff. There's been a lot of peer 397 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,480 Speaker 1: reviewed studies done on cinnamon that have turned up some 398 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,200 Speaker 1: pretty awesome things about it. Yeah, so let's talk about them. 399 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 1: Antioxidants for one, fighting free radicals that damage cells. Yeah, 400 00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:43,240 Speaker 1: we should do an episode on that. There's a whole 401 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,360 Speaker 1: so the whole idea that why we age and why 402 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: we die eventually is because we we get bombarded with 403 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: like ions and free radicals like adams that are unstable 404 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 1: and are bouncing around our bodies and just wearing down cells. 405 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: That's why we age and that's why we die. Apparently 406 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:05,359 Speaker 1: that's been coming under attack lately. So yeah, so I 407 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 1: think we should we should do an episode on on 408 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 1: free radicals and the free I think it's called the 409 00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:13,600 Speaker 1: free radical theory of aging. Yeah, that's great because, um, people, 410 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,399 Speaker 1: everyone says antioxidants, but nobody knows what that means. Well, 411 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:25,200 Speaker 1: supposedly those stabilized unstable atoms, and so they therefore go 412 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,800 Speaker 1: after the free radicals and clump onto them or stabilize them, 413 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:32,560 Speaker 1: and then your cell is saved, you know. But whether 414 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: or not that's actually does anything or is real, the 415 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:41,280 Speaker 1: jury is still out apparently to look for that. And right, yeah, um, 416 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:46,320 Speaker 1: it is definitely known as an anti microbial and antifungal. Yeah, 417 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:50,480 Speaker 1: antiseptic as well, antibiotic, a stringent. It's got lots of 418 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,960 Speaker 1: neat properties. But you don't want to like take pure 419 00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: cinnamon essential oil and put it on your skin because 420 00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:59,199 Speaker 1: you want to elude it. Some Yeah, it also can 421 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 1: like blister. I mean it's pretty severe Emily has in 422 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:03,840 Speaker 1: her shop. And just the smell of it, it doesn't 423 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,120 Speaker 1: It's one of those things that it's like it didn't 424 00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:10,879 Speaker 1: even smell like cinnamon and concentrated. Yeah. Um, it doesn't 425 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:16,199 Speaker 1: take much essential oil actually, uh to have an antiseptic effect. 426 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: Apparently the one study found a ten percent concentration of 427 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,320 Speaker 1: cinnamon oil and the active ingredient. Know if we said 428 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:28,000 Speaker 1: is cinamalde hyde. Yeah we did not. Um, so it's 429 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 1: not the only the only ingredient in there, but cinamalde 430 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:35,320 Speaker 1: hydes the big boss active ingredient and cinnamon's antiseptic properties 431 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: and I think what gives it its taste. Um. But 432 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: the cinamalde hyde or the ten percent cinnamon oil uh 433 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:50,040 Speaker 1: concentration has been shown to kill staff E Coli mersa strep. 434 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:54,160 Speaker 1: Those are some big time players and making you sick mersa. 435 00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: It's apparently been found a ten percent dilution can kill 436 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:03,080 Speaker 1: um other kinds of abiotic resistant bacteria. It's like the 437 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 1: real deal. And apparently did you see that thing on 438 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:09,480 Speaker 1: thieves oil that I sent you from the New York Times? Uh? 439 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:12,040 Speaker 1: I did not read that one. It was pretty cool. Um. 440 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,760 Speaker 1: There's this thing called thieves oil from the Middle Ages. 441 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:18,119 Speaker 1: Apparently people used to steal jewelry off of dead bodies. 442 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 1: Keeps themselves from getting sick from having to stick their 443 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:27,000 Speaker 1: hands literally neck deep into a corpse to get a 444 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,680 Speaker 1: necklace off. Um, they would use this stuff called thieves 445 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,480 Speaker 1: oil was like basically a hand sanitizer that consisted of 446 00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,040 Speaker 1: a cinnamon, lemon oil, and eucalyptus and it really worked 447 00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,520 Speaker 1: and they would not get sick after they looted bodies. Yes, 448 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: because they'd have a glove of that stuff on. We 449 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:48,440 Speaker 1: should have saved that for our Christmas episode does the season? Um. 450 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: It Also, cinnamon has something called calmera cameron c O 451 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,360 Speaker 1: U M A r I N which is toxic. Though. 452 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: So while cinnamon has a lot of great helpful properties, 453 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: you can overdo it and it can cause liver damage, 454 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,919 Speaker 1: kidney damage. In dust form, you can cause asthma. Um. 455 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 1: There was a study done by workers, not by workers 456 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:20,159 Speaker 1: on cinnamon workers, and I think they studied forty workers 457 00:26:20,240 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: with an average of four year service, and eighty seven 458 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: point five percent had some sort of negative symptom like 459 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:34,000 Speaker 1: liver kidney. No. Nine of them uh, had asthma, irritation 460 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,119 Speaker 1: to skin, thirty seven percent loss of hair, um, smarting 461 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: of the eyes, and loss of weight. That was the 462 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,600 Speaker 1: most common finding. So that's the jury is still out 463 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:46,920 Speaker 1: on that and whether or not cinnamon can help you 464 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: actually lose weight. It help them, um, but I don't 465 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: think in a good way, right Yeah. Well, I mean 466 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: some people like I believe you should take tape worms, um, 467 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,400 Speaker 1: but they're not. Cinnamon actually helps is kind of Um, 468 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,040 Speaker 1: I don't know. The science is still out on it, 469 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,880 Speaker 1: but there's a little more science too. Cinnamon being helpful 470 00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:13,520 Speaker 1: for type two diabetes because apparently taking I think a 471 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,920 Speaker 1: gram or something of or six grams of cinnamon, which 472 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 1: is a decent amount with a meal, um, prevents your 473 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:26,120 Speaker 1: food from being digested quickly, so you'll still feel full, 474 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 1: but your food doesn't enter it doesn't hit your bloodstream 475 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,080 Speaker 1: in a big spike, which means that your blood sugar 476 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: levels don't spike either. It's just kind of like it all. 477 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,920 Speaker 1: It turns your food into like slow release nutrition. Interesting. Yeah, 478 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:42,400 Speaker 1: so that's it could actually be very helpful for people 479 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,760 Speaker 1: with type two diabetes because it basically arrests the spike 480 00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:48,719 Speaker 1: in the glycemic index that comes from eating foods. Are 481 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,920 Speaker 1: they recommending that at this point or is it like 482 00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,879 Speaker 1: they look into it. They're looking into it still. I mean, 483 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: depending on the website you go to, it recommends it 484 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,879 Speaker 1: or else. I don't. It doesn't seem like anybody's not 485 00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,560 Speaker 1: recommending it. I think if anything, they're they're including a warning, like, 486 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,920 Speaker 1: if you're gonna do this, use true cinnamon, because cash 487 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: is the stuff that has the more kumaran in it, 488 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:14,159 Speaker 1: Like salon cinnamon has point zero one seven grams per 489 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:19,360 Speaker 1: kilogram of kumar in. But if you get the Saigon cinnamon, 490 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:23,680 Speaker 1: which is fairly um widespread, which is a type of cash, 491 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:27,320 Speaker 1: it's got seven grams per kilogram of kumaran and that's 492 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:30,080 Speaker 1: the stuff that can hurt your liver and kidneys. So 493 00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:32,399 Speaker 1: I guess if you're going to add that to your 494 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:36,720 Speaker 1: diet as a diabetic, you should probably definitely use the 495 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: cylon cinnamon. Yeah, and one thing he definitely don't want 496 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:45,920 Speaker 1: to do is the cinnamon challenge, like these morons on YouTube, 497 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:52,800 Speaker 1: including the governor of Illinois who took the challenge, Robovich 498 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: broad name, Yeah, I remember it was a few years back. 499 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: He was um he got him for corruption. Yeah, I'm 500 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:03,800 Speaker 1: not sure if that was him or not. He was 501 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,880 Speaker 1: trying to sell Barack Obama's old seat when he became president. 502 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember that guy, I don't know or not. Wow, 503 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 1: it's almost like you're vomiting the name out, Peter Badanovitch. No, 504 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 1: that's easier to say. Don't do the cinnamon challenge. That 505 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,080 Speaker 1: is a stupid thing on YouTube where I think you're 506 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: tasked with. Is it a tablespoon of swallowing a tablespoon 507 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,520 Speaker 1: of cinnamon in a minute, which is uh, not good 508 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 1: for you at all and harder than it sounds. Uh. 509 00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,320 Speaker 1: In two thousand and twelve, just the first six months, 510 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,920 Speaker 1: there were a hundred and seventy eight emergency calls UH 511 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 1: to poison control centers around because of the cinnamon challenge. 512 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,680 Speaker 1: And that is because it contains cellulose and it can 513 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:51,560 Speaker 1: lodge in your lungs. Because you're not your body is 514 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:56,200 Speaker 1: not gonna break down that cellulose and UH Dr lip Schultz, 515 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,640 Speaker 1: who was consulted in this article there read said it's 516 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: code with a caustic cinnamon oil, and it's gonna lead 517 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 1: to chronic inflammation and eventual scarring of your lungs pulmonary fibrosis, 518 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,720 Speaker 1: and he basically says it's equivalent to emphysema, and it 519 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: can trigger an asthma attack and if you have bad 520 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:17,840 Speaker 1: asthma can kill you even plus also, um, consuming cinnamon 521 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,840 Speaker 1: and excess can cause nausea, vomiting, redness of the face, 522 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,920 Speaker 1: lip swelling. Yeah, you know want that and it's tree bark. Yeah, 523 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 1: it tastes lovely in a pinch, but um, don't don't 524 00:30:29,080 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 1: do that. That's that's stupid. Don't do what the governor 525 00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:35,320 Speaker 1: of Illinois does. Yeah, if it was that same guy, 526 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 1: then we can recommend that how many levels because he 527 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 1: did a lot of dumb stuff. Cinnamon. That's it. I 528 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:45,080 Speaker 1: got nothing else. Uh. If you want to know more 529 00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,520 Speaker 1: about cinnamon, type that word into the search bar at 530 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. And since I said search bar, 531 00:30:50,160 --> 00:31:02,760 Speaker 1: it's time for d That's right. We're gonna finish up 532 00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: today saying thank you all of you who have sent 533 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,840 Speaker 1: us nice things, from postcards to books, to music to 534 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: mug rugs. We get a lot of stuff and we 535 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:18,080 Speaker 1: always appreciate it. So here we go Ketra Oba Landa 536 00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:23,040 Speaker 1: for our her original artwork. I'm assuming Ketra as a lady, 537 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: but maybe not um as part of her art of 538 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 1: generosity experiment. And she even said, like I remember that. 539 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:32,320 Speaker 1: She's like, I don't need to shout out or thanks 540 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,160 Speaker 1: or anything. I'm just doing this as part of art 541 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 1: for generosity. Yeah, I think she does. It's like one 542 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,120 Speaker 1: thing a week. Or wasn't there like some rules to it. 543 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 1: There were rules, but I didn't memorize there's something like that. 544 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: And she yeah, she specifically said not to say thank you, 545 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 1: but we're saying thank you, thank you. Did she specifically 546 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,320 Speaker 1: say not to her say she didn't need one, because 547 00:31:52,320 --> 00:31:54,520 Speaker 1: if she said not to, we really shouldn't thank her. No, 548 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 1: I don't think she said not to. She said I 549 00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:00,680 Speaker 1: really don't need it. We want to give big thanks 550 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 1: to Marty from Hawaii for sending us real Hawaiian see salt. 551 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:08,239 Speaker 1: We got red and black from Pacifica, Hawaii. That's right. 552 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:12,040 Speaker 1: I've used that on my food good stuff. Thanks to 553 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:15,920 Speaker 1: Melissa Climber for sending us the book Free Will by 554 00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:19,920 Speaker 1: Sam Harris um and we've been exercising our free will 555 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,240 Speaker 1: by not reading that yet. BAM. Peter McGraw and Joel 556 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 1: Warner sent us a copy of their book The Humor Code, 557 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,160 Speaker 1: and a whoopee cushion. Go check that out and you 558 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 1: can follow them on Twitter too. We got a whoope cushion. 559 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,000 Speaker 1: Uh huh, I just thought that was Holly from stuff 560 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,200 Speaker 1: you miss a history class. I know you thought that. 561 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 1: Everyone knows you thought that. Emily and the Flaba for 562 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 1: the ikea postcard in the well wishes. Yes, Tyler Murphy 563 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:50,040 Speaker 1: has sent us a bunch of stuff. Ummh he's the man. Yes, 564 00:32:50,080 --> 00:32:52,360 Speaker 1: he's the man. He sent us a copy of the 565 00:32:52,440 --> 00:32:55,800 Speaker 1: DVD c s A Confederate States of America sent us 566 00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:58,200 Speaker 1: the book The Mind of Adolph Hitler, which is a 567 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:02,240 Speaker 1: very hard to find World War two analysis like psychoanalysis 568 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 1: of Hitler, and very nice letter, and a half pound 569 00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:09,560 Speaker 1: of Dark Canyon Highlander grog coffee which is bo bam. Yeah. 570 00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:12,960 Speaker 1: Tyler's awesome. He's a teacher as well, which means he's 571 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 1: super cool. Uh. And he works at a putt but 572 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,160 Speaker 1: over the summer. Oh yeah, like pirates cover something. Yeah. 573 00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:20,200 Speaker 1: I was like, what do you do? He's like, you know, 574 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 1: hand out the putters and stuff. Yeah, that sounds like 575 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: a great job. That place is great. Uh. Congratulations to Mina. Uh. 576 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:31,760 Speaker 1: When and Blake Rosendahl on their wedding and they invited 577 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:33,640 Speaker 1: us and we appreciate that and we're sorry we couldn't 578 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:38,720 Speaker 1: make it. Elliott Nice Bodziani, who is actually from Adult 579 00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:41,479 Speaker 1: Swim pr Oh. Yeah, they sent us to the Rick 580 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,360 Speaker 1: and Morty episodes and one of my prize possessions, the 581 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,600 Speaker 1: Book of Boring Science Stuff. Pretty great that you opened 582 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 1: up a couple of pages in Bam, it's carved out. 583 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,560 Speaker 1: There's a Rick and Morty flask inside's right, and I've 584 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,080 Speaker 1: got that sitting on my bar at home. Thank you 585 00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:04,240 Speaker 1: to Andrew uh goh o go golf one of the 586 00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 1: two I would say golf. Um. He sent us coffee 587 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 1: to from the Reverie Coffee coffee roasters. Yeah, then we 588 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: liked our coffee. Good stuff. Yeah, thanks Andrew Um. Joanna 589 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,439 Speaker 1: and Jared from Boogie sent us boogieboard jot eight point 590 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:23,080 Speaker 1: five inch l c D writers. All three of us 591 00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 1: got those. It was a huge present. Yeah. I've got 592 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,600 Speaker 1: that on my fridge actually, yeah, because it's magnetic. Thomas Shaw, 593 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,520 Speaker 1: thanks for the illustrations that your brother made. They were 594 00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,080 Speaker 1: really awesome and you can go to Imagine Illustrations dot 595 00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:39,719 Speaker 1: com to check those out. Uh, we got two more one. 596 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,319 Speaker 1: Bethany Jones of the Base Element from Ontario gave us 597 00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,960 Speaker 1: five types of handmade caramels. They were delicious. We got 598 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,480 Speaker 1: him a long time ago. We ate them a long 599 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:53,360 Speaker 1: time ago. There was fudge vanilla, Florida cell and ginger 600 00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 1: and then cinnamon fudge and they were awesome. I recommend him. 601 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 1: You can go to the dot based dot element at 602 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:03,200 Speaker 1: gmail dot com and by go to, I mean email 603 00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:07,960 Speaker 1: that address. And then lastly, Caleb Bowler Bowler from Roanoke, 604 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: Indiana sent us some beautiful cobalt blue ceramic mugs that 605 00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:16,600 Speaker 1: unfortunately arrived in a million, billion, trillion pieces. Yeah, he 606 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:19,520 Speaker 1: knows too. He was like, they broke, didn't They went yep? 607 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,360 Speaker 1: They old man. I think you need a new word 608 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,880 Speaker 1: to describe what happened to those things. Broke doesn't say it. 609 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,400 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, huge thanks to Brian bishop Man. Yes he is. Uh. 610 00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:34,360 Speaker 1: He actually works with Adam Corola. Yeah, fellow podcaster and 611 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:37,840 Speaker 1: went through cancer and wrote a book called Shrinkage, Manhood, 612 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,160 Speaker 1: Marriage and the Tumor that Tried to kill Me. And 613 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:42,239 Speaker 1: it's a really funny book. It's got a forward by 614 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,560 Speaker 1: Adam Carolla and Brian is just super awesome. It made 615 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 1: us feel good that he listens to our show. Yeah, 616 00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,839 Speaker 1: because he's a big shots podcasting So thank you very 617 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,960 Speaker 1: much for that, Brian. I've got another one too. Garrett 618 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 1: Nice just sent us some um homie brownies. Yes, Garrett 619 00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:00,399 Speaker 1: is uh. I think he's like eleven or twelve years old. 620 00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 1: Garret is very nice and I think he begged him himself. 621 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,480 Speaker 1: He also had some other things to offer. I can't remember, 622 00:36:05,560 --> 00:36:08,839 Speaker 1: but it was like brownies or his own pancake batter 623 00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,800 Speaker 1: or something weird like that. That is nice. Yeah, and 624 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,319 Speaker 1: my final one is thanks as always two Little Bit 625 00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 1: Sweets handmade candy in Brooklyn, New York. They've been friends 626 00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:24,520 Speaker 1: and supporters for years and they are growing and they're awesome. 627 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,319 Speaker 1: You can visit them at Chelsea Market. Yeah, I got 628 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,400 Speaker 1: to Chelsea Market, or just go to look up a 629 00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,759 Speaker 1: Little Bit Sweets on the internet and buy some of 630 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:35,799 Speaker 1: their delicious, delicious candy and candy bars. Yeah. Man, their 631 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:39,880 Speaker 1: honeycomb candy is as addictive as it kids. Yeah, and 632 00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:41,480 Speaker 1: I've said it a million times. The King Bar to 633 00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,600 Speaker 1: me is the best candy bar on the planet Earth. 634 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 1: So good all right? Uh So that's it for administrative details. 635 00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,920 Speaker 1: We're cleared out. No one send us anything unless they're 636 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,960 Speaker 1: Christmas cookies. I guess for the rest of the year, Mona. 637 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:58,800 Speaker 1: So we can start over again fresh in two thousand 638 00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,759 Speaker 1: and fifteen. Okay, anyway, if you want to get in 639 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,759 Speaker 1: touch with this, you can tweet to us at s 640 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:05,920 Speaker 1: Y s K podcast. You can join us on Facebook 641 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,120 Speaker 1: dot com, slash stuff you Should Know. You can send 642 00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:10,799 Speaker 1: us an email to Stuff Podcast at how stuff Works 643 00:37:10,840 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 1: dot com, and as always, joined us at our home 644 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:21,320 Speaker 1: on the web, Stuff you Should Know dot com. For 645 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,960 Speaker 1: more on this and thousands of other topics, visit how 646 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:24,960 Speaker 1: stuff Works dot com.