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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Saber Prediction of iHeart Radio. I'm

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Speaker 1: Anny Rees and I'm Lauren Bogle Bam, and today we

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Speaker 1: have an episode for you about hot Toddies. Yes to

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Speaker 1: say it's a good word. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah. As

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Speaker 1: always at these drink responsibly. Yes, yes, um, so I have.

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Speaker 1: I've had a fair amount of experience with hot Toddies

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Speaker 1: doing this research. I've got like three recipes. I I

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Speaker 1: have to try this good Apparently, like red wine hot

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Speaker 1: chocolate was really popular a couple of years ago. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I missed that too, and I'd like, I'm like, okay,

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Speaker 1: well it's sure, let's just go let me try that.

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Speaker 1: Embark on a number of hot beverage adventures. Totally. Yes. Yes.

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Speaker 1: And there was like an interesting chicken soup one with

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Speaker 1: I was like, I could get in on this on this.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes when I get really cold, I just drink chicken bras.

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Speaker 1: Oh same same yeah yeah um. And one of my

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Speaker 1: first memories like of the hot toddy. The first time

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Speaker 1: And then she told me what that meant um, which

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Speaker 1: for her I think was like cider and whiskey. It

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Speaker 1: was definitely whiskey. And I was scandaloused, so scandalouzed drinking

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Speaker 1: as a youth. I love, I love how heck and

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Speaker 1: sweet like middle schoolish age Annie was about drinking. She

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Speaker 1: was like, no, that's bad, that's don't do that. That

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Speaker 1: is for grown ups only. You're gonna get in trouble.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get in trouble by proxy. Yes, yes, And

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Speaker 1: my mom was I think she was asking, Yeah, she

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Speaker 1: even more scarcinized. Mom again, Yeah, to this day, she'll

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Speaker 1: still offer me if I don't feel well, she'll offer

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Speaker 1: me a hot toddy, Okay, very very sweet. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think I had experience with

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Speaker 1: hot toddies growing up at all. To be fair, I

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Speaker 1: not need very many hot toddies. Um. But but yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think I had one until maybe like ten

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Speaker 1: years ago or so something something ten ten fifteen years ago,

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Speaker 1: sometime after I had moved to Atlanta, and I mean

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Speaker 1: I like them. Yeah, they're fine. It can be very nice, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it can be. It can be very comforting. Um. I

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Speaker 1: like the taste of whiskey and the um the forwardness

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Speaker 1: of whiskey and a hot toddy can be a little

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Speaker 1: bit much for even me. Yeah, yeah, that's true. I

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Speaker 1: feel like every time I've made a hot toddy myself,

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Speaker 1: it's very light on the alcohol part. Yeah. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: a little touch, but I like but like a hot drink. Um. Uh.

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Speaker 1: January eleven is National Hot Toddy Day, so kind of timely.

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Speaker 1: I guess. I always wonder. I always wonder, like which

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Speaker 1: marketing corporation lobbied home to get that kind of thing

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Speaker 1: on the books, or if someone just said it one

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Speaker 1: day and now all of the websites that the this

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Speaker 1: this day in history just report it. Anyway, Well, coming up,

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Speaker 1: getting ready to celebrate. Yeah, and you can see our

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Speaker 1: past episodes on butter beer and eggnog and I'm whiskey.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, a lot of our alcohol episodes could be

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Speaker 1: uh part of this conversation, I guess oh yeah, yeah, absolutely, yes,

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Speaker 1: which I guess brings us to our question. I guess

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Speaker 1: so the hot toddy. What is it? Well, hot toddy

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Speaker 1: is a beverage made from some kind of distilled alcohol,

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Speaker 1: diluted with water, flavored with stuff, and served hot. And

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Speaker 1: I'm being vague here. I know I'm being vague because

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Speaker 1: there are a lot of variations. Um, So in a

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Speaker 1: very vague general way, it's like deluded hot alcohol. Mm

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Speaker 1: hmm yep, sounds delicious. It is. It is physically and

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Speaker 1: chemically warm, all right. The alcohol here is traditionally whiskey um.

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Speaker 1: And some of the more traditional flavorings include a tea,

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Speaker 1: and warm spices like cinnamon, cloves, star anie, nutmeg, ginger,

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Speaker 1: something along those lines. Um. But you can do it

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Speaker 1: however you want to um rum or brandy instead of

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Speaker 1: that whiskey. UM, add cider or juices like cranberry or grapefruit. UM,

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Speaker 1: most straightforward, which is just alcohol, lemon sweetener and hot water. Um. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: a hot toddy will taste pretty powerfully of whatever booze

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like a like a hot unbubbly collins.

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Speaker 1: and uh. Note here about why alcohol is warming, and

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Speaker 1: I mentioned it previously in our Moscow Mule episode. Yeah

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Speaker 1: yeah yeah, but okay. Um. So alcohol even served at

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Speaker 1: of heat receptors in your mouth from that their natural

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Speaker 1: standpoint of somewhere around a hundred and seven fahrenheit or

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Speaker 1: body temperature. So like for a few seconds, while that

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Speaker 1: alcohol is messing with those heat receptors, your mouth is

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Speaker 1: M mmmm, so that's what's going on there. Um. It

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Speaker 1: feels warm in your throat and stomach because it's dilating

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Speaker 1: um the blood vessels there. Uh. Alcohol does not bodily

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Speaker 1: loss of heat through blood vessel dilation near the skin. Um.

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Speaker 1: But it might make you care less that you feel cold. Ah, yes,

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Speaker 1: with infra red heat. They put Jamie and Adam like

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Speaker 1: which we're going to get into in the in the

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Speaker 1: in the history section, because alcohol was back in the

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Speaker 1: day considered medicinal. UM. But all right, Laurence Killjoy Corner

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Speaker 1: research proving that they help prevent illnesses like colds and flues,

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Speaker 1: there is no evidence that taken together, a hot toddy

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Speaker 1: disinfect your mouth a tiny bit. Um. Alcohol's potential anti

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Speaker 1: inflammatory properties, when consumed moderately over time, will not help

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Speaker 1: Though again, alcohol might make you care less. I think

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