WEBVTT - SYSK Selects: How Tea Works 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:04.160 Hello friends, it's Chuck here on a Saturday. I just 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:07.000 had my bowl of cereal, I just watched my morning cartoons, 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:11.200 and now I'm slogging into the studio to intro my 0:00:11.320 --> 0:00:15.160 pick for the Saturday select from March twelve, two fifteen. 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.960 How Tea Works? It was a really good one. Who 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:25.320 didn't like tea? Right? Give it a listen. Welcome to 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.000 Stuff you should know, a production of My Heart Radios 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:36.239 How Stuff Works. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:40.600 Josh Clark with Charles W. Chuck Bryant Jerry in Studio one. A. 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:44.959 You just pointed us out to each other as if 0:00:44.960 --> 0:00:46.880 I was going to be like, who it was Jerry? 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:50.479 And who was Jerry? So I'm Chuck here Chuck, Okay, 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:53.440 that's Jerry, all right. I was a little confused, right there, 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:57.960 I got you. Here's a lady. I'm a dude. All right. 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:02.520 Now that we have that sort of let's talk tea. Uh, 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:04.320 or we could change the name of the podcast to 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.039 two dudes and a lady. Yeah, we could. Maybe that'll 0:01:07.080 --> 0:01:10.400 be our side cast where we talk about this podcast. 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.640 Sidecast that's right Coined by Josh Clark, Circond two thous 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.400 so now you own that. I just put it on wax. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:23.480 Pretty pretty sweet, pretty slick. Yeah, so chuck. Yeah. Have 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.080 you ever drank tea? I just stuff finished up some 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.560 green tea. Are you still a green tea drinker? Yeah? 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.160 I mean I like all kinds of tea, but I 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:33.840 uh drank some green because I was studying for this 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:35.680 and it just was like, yeah, sure, you used to 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.319 drink it by like the mini picture full. Yeah. I 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:41.440 used to drink it cold. Yeah, Um, you don't need that. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:47.200 I had this hot. Well it is wintertime. Yeah. Do 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:49.400 you like tea? I like green tea. Yeah, I like 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:53.360 green tea the most. Um. I like chilled green tea. 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:59.240 I don't like woolong, which until I guess today or yesterday, 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.960 I thought woo long did you know it was woolong? 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:06.000 I had no idea and I've never had it I have. 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:10.119 It's very woody. It's almost like roots, like you put 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:14.680 some roots in some water, um, warm water, seep for 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:18.120 a while, or steep steep. I don't know why I 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:21.920 always have trouble with that. It's clearly steep seep is different. Yeah, 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:25.680 it's a different word. But I from my whole life 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:29.079 of confused steep and seep when it comes really yeah. Interesting. 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.200 Uh anyway, Wolong not the biggest fan. I like green 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:35.560 tea and I like it chilled black teeth. I'm not 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.359 really big on. Yeah. I like a good English breakfast tea. 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.040 Love it? Do you or Earl Gray? You like those two? 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:44.120 Sure man? Little little cream, little sugar. Yeah. And then 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:47.440 of course you've got your herbal teas like I don't 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:51.360 like this. Are you don't know? I've been drinking celestial 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:56.919 seasonings tension tamer. So that's actually right. Well no, well 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.280 that was the big reveal that I was working up too. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:03.600 That's just plodding along. But now that you've rushed me, 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.680 I will agree with you. No, not all those are 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.919 t right, that those aren't. Here's the really big reveal, 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:17.320 which okay, English breakfast tea, green tea, woo loong uh, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.720 white tea. Remember that snap a lad where that old 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:25.200 man shows the backpacker dude, Oh, it's like a snap 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:27.120 of white tea and he goes, goes, we pretty up 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.359 to the top, and it's like that's it and he goes, 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:33.520 that's it. That's white ta Okay. All of those are 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.880 the same thing. They're all the same. They come from 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.560 the same plant. One plant. Did you know that? Um? 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.320 I did not know that until I've researched. It's a 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.480 Chamelia sentensis. Is the tea plant, the tea bushes. Uh. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:49.520 And now we have to say there are different varieties 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.440 of Chamelea sentensus sea sentensus is what those in the 0:03:53.440 --> 0:04:00.400 no call it. Uh, well, horticulturists, um. But the plant itself, 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.640 there's one species of tea plant. And that's what it's 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:06.000 That's what it all comes from. It's how the tea 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:12.320 is made. That that UM explains, explains the differences. And 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:14.320 then you know, you add some stuff like apparently earl 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:18.400 gray has the essential oil of the bergamot orange mixed in, 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.040 which is nice, but that's still t It is t yes, 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.920 it's just got something added to it. Now, if you 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.360 just took bergamot orange, dried it out, put it in 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.840 a tea bag and sold it as herbal tea as 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.320 like orange dream, we wouldn't have tea. The tension tamer. 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:35.240 It's not tea, it's a It's a dried herb that 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.880 you steep or steep depending on your preference in warm water. Yeah, 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:44.400 it's a steeped hot beverage. Beverage. That's a good way 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:47.479 of saying it, because it's exactly what it is. So 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.080 the cats out of the bag, which means, now that 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.320 we've done that, we have to explain everything there is 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.640 to know about tea That is right, Uh, And I 0:04:54.640 --> 0:05:00.080 guess there's no better place to start then the in 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.200 b C. Of course, and the Emperor of China UM. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.159 No one knows if this story is true. Of course, 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.240 it's a pretty good story though. But it's a good 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.680 story because we don't know the exact origin of tea UM. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.440 It's been around for a long time. But some people 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:17.960 say Chinese Emperor Shin nung Um, who ruled about five 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.760 thousand years ago, was traveling through China and he was 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:26.640 big into sanitation. Yeah, like boil your water kind of sanitation. 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:30.280 This is thousands of years before germ theory. Yeah, totally, 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.880 which is a couple years old. I wonder what led 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.560 him to that conclusion which was spot on, you know, 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:39.400 I don't know, I don't know. We're getting the way 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:41.880 back for you and ask him. Yeah, that's right. Okay, 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.359 it's a lot of fuel for that one question, but 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.880 it's a pretty good question, because yeah, you're you're right, 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.880 it's spot on. How how do you know that boiling 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:52.039 water kills germs if you don't know what germs are exactly? 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.960 Uh So he was traveling through China and reportedly stopped 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.760 to rest and was preparing some boiled water, some delicious 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:04.080 boil water, and a gust of wind blew some leaves 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.920 from a bush into the water, changing the color, and 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.800 he was like, hey, this is a different color. Now 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.240 let me try it. Well, and it's delicious. He was 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.520 renowned as a scientist. Yeah, sure, he was definitely at 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.880 the very least securiut fella um, and yeah, he decided 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.920 to try it. He's like, different colored boiled water. Of course, 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.359 I'm going to try that and see what it's like. 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.320 I bet he had his right hand try it first, 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:28.880 and then five minutes later was like okay, yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.120 He didn't die. I think that's what all the fat 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.160 cats did back then. Sure. Um, So it turns out 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:42.320 that that was debris detritus from the Camelia sinensis. He 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:45.680 was born. He was born in China. No one knows 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:49.120 that that story is true. I think, like you said, um, 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.440 but it's a pretty great story. And since we don't 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.279 know the true origin, ty, why not. Yeah, I'll go 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:57.400 with that. It's not that far fetched. When the Western 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:01.160 Zo dynasty was around, the tea was a religious offering 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.560 and during the Han dynasty it was pretty limited, so 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:08.360 it was safe for royalty. Um. By the time the 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.560 Tang dynasty came around, which was six six eighteen to 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.560 nine oh seven, they found a bunch, uh, they found 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.960 discovered a lot of more tea plants. And that ironic 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:21.440 that tea became established during the Tang dynasty. Yeah, that's 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:26.560 pretty funny, um, because tang is the opposite of tea, right, Yeah, 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.200 I guess some ways. I mean, they're both water based, 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:33.520 so probably not the opposite. I don't know, it would 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:37.680 be the opposite of tea. Um. So, like I said, 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.640 they found a bunch more plants in the Tang dynasty, 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.840 and the Chinese government actually said, you know what, everyone 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.720 should drink tea because it's good for you and so, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.440 and we can make money off of it of course. Uh. 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.760 And then from the Tang dynasty it spread to Japan 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.160 by priests who were studying in China. They also brought 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.040 Buddhism at the same time. Both of them took root. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.960 The Japanese said we like this, let's try making some 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:04.120 other stuff out of it, and that they actually created 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:08.080 the tea ceremony, which is a big deal in Japan 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.240 still to this day. Have you taken part in one 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.600 of those? I have not. You mean took um some 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.280 classes when she taught in Japan yours back, Um. But 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.600 apparently it's just one of these things where you you're 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.160 just constantly learning. It's it's never You're never like I'm 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:27.640 a I'm a master at t You're you're always learning more. 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.480 You're always trying to be perfect. And the thing that's 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:34.920 so elusive about it is it's supposed to be utterly simple. Yeah, 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.440 it's it's a it's elaborate, but the steps are meant 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.439 to be simple, like it's a very simple plane form 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:45.800 thing like the sushi rice. It's like, uh, right, why 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:49.760 are the Japanese obsessed with doing things really well? They 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.720 really are that they don't phone it in right, um. 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.640 But the the whole thing behind the tea ceremony and 0:08:55.679 --> 0:08:58.480 the Japanese adoption of it is that there's this idea 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:03.560 that t share sitting down and sharing ceremonially and in 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.240 a ritually, a ritual manner. A cup of tea can 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:12.400 bring peace between people. Yeah, what's the the tea ceremony? 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:19.840 Cho you there's a there's a saying, there's another saying. Yeah, 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:24.400 it's a cup of tea with me ichi go ichi 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.480 go ichi e one time, one meeting, which is the 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:31.199 idea that every encounter is unique and can't be duplicated. 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:35.360 Very nice, That is nice. Um. So in Europe, you know, 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.280 I think a lot of people associate with tea. Of 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.200 course with England and Europe, the UK and Britain took 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:45.760 a little while though all those places there was a lag. Yeah, 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:49.200 there was. We're in like the seventeenth century now, and 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:53.720 the Portuguese were the first people to uh not imports tea, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.600 but drink tea in England. Yeah, they were. They were 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:00.680 trading in the East Indies specifically Java, yes, and the Dutch. 0:10:00.760 --> 0:10:02.880 If you'll remember from did we ever do a full 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.959 nutmeg episode? I think we did right cinnamon too, that 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.240 this all this showed up back then in the seventeenth 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:13.960 century in the East Indies around Indonesia, Java. Um, the 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:16.920 Portuguese just had the place on lockdown until the Dutch 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.720 came in and we're like, we're taken over. One of 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:21.840 the things that came out of that was the import 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.960 or the introduction of tea to Europe through the Dutch. Yeah, 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.360 they pretty much horned in on their trading routes and 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.680 brought tea to Holland from China, and then from Holland, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.280 of course it spread throughout Europe. Uh. And I think 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.560 the King of England at one point married a Portuguese 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.920 uh woman and a princess, Yeah, princess that had a 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:43.240 lot to do with it too. Of course, Charles the 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:48.240 second did married Catherine of Braganza, who was, it says 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.520 in this article, a t addict and she was like, 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.840 let's drink some tea, man, And uh, all of Great 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.920 Britain kind of followed suit because back then, once a 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:02.000 princess did something, you know, everybody wanted to do that. Yeah, 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.640 even if she was a fiend of some sort, like 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:08.800 a caffeine fiend. Um. So the end of the East 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:12.400 India Company's monopoly on trade in China, which happened in 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.119 eighteen thirty four, was a really big deal because basically 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.760 they you know, everything was coming from China until then, 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:22.800 and then at that point the East India Company said Hey, 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.120 we could grow our own tea in India and we're 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.000 gonna start doing it. Uh. And they did and by 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:32.360 eighteen thirty nine they had enough cultivation going on, um 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:35.320 that they had the first auction of a psamte in Britain, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.679 which is a big deal. That's the variety that they 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:42.360 used to make Darjeeling tea. Oh is it? And I 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.800 think their number two in production today right? Yeah? India, China, 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.040 Kenya and Sri lank are the big four tea producers 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.720 that Indonesia. I think it's fifth and they're like, can't 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:55.040 you just say top five? Right? We don't produce well, 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.120 they do produce a lot, but not nearly as much U. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.400 The other thing too that happened during that the monopoly 0:12:01.600 --> 0:12:06.920 was um the t Clipper was born, which is pretty neat. 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:11.360 When the company had the monopoly, there was basically no 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.880 rush to get it there because they had the monopoly, Like, 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:16.679 you'll get the tea when you will sail over there 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.440 and I'll be good. Have you ever heard of slow 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.800 boat to China? Is that where it came from? I 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:24.520 could have what about high Road to China with your 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:29.040 boy Tom Selleck well, oh yeah, remember that movie. I 0:12:29.080 --> 0:12:32.160 never saw it. Yeah, it wasn't very good. That was 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:35.840 his brief foray into a major motion pictures. Didn't he 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.640 play like the King of Spain in one of the 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:41.400 Columbus pictures back in the early nineties? I think I 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:47.560 remember that. What was that either or Columbus? Yeah, I 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.360 can't remember. So the t clipper, yes, uh, there was 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.400 no rush, but until when that monopoly ended, it was 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:56.880 basically like the fastest boat to get there, the fastest 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:59.360 ship will be the one that gets the sail. So 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.200 they started making these uh these new ships that were 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.920 had huge sails and tall masts could go a lot faster, 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:12.079 and it started the era of the tea clipper races. Um. Basically, 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:15.200 you would leave the Canton River in China, go down 0:13:15.240 --> 0:13:18.760 the China Sea, across the Indian Ocean, slink around the 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.400 Cape of Good Hope, up the Atlantic past the his 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.839 Oars and into the English Channel. Then you were towed 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.120 up the River Thames by a tug boat and the 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.720 first boat to throw their their load up on the 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:33.360 docks would be the winner, which is pretty neat until 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.240 they built the Sues Canal and then it was like 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.400 the well, and it took all the fun out of that. 0:13:37.559 --> 0:13:41.440 It sounds like a pretty great race though, Yeah it was. Yeah, 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.040 I wonder how long that took. I think they were 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.600 just holl And but the whole time too. Yeah, but 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:48.320 even still had to take weeks, you know. I would 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.480 think so, um and this we should say, this is 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:55.000 the that was the mid nineteenth century. Um, the we 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.200 would be remissed to do an episode on tea and 0:13:57.240 --> 0:14:00.840 not mention the Boston Tea Party, which was thing everybody 0:14:00.880 --> 0:14:03.520 knows about the Boston Tea Party. What I didn't realize 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:08.920 is that the British Royalty, the British Crown, still, even 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:14.640 after losing the colonies in part over t taxes, UH, 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:19.239 still continue to just tax the heck out of tea 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.720 for for at least a decade afterward before they finally 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:27.200 relented and started to like drastically reduce it in the 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.320 face of tons and tons of piracy and smuggling. Apparently, 0:14:30.600 --> 0:14:34.440 in the late eighteenth century, UH seven million pounds of 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:40.040 tea were smuggled into Britain and five million pounds were 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:44.560 legally imported, so the smuggling there was more smuggled tea 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.840 than legal tea in Great Britain in the late eighteenth century. Right, 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:52.680 But apparently despite all this, it wasn't until nineteen sixty 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:56.000 four that the Brits, the British government finally said, you 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:58.480 know what, We're gonna stop fiddling with the t tax 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.800 and just not tax tea any When was this nineteen sixties? Yeah, 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:06.000 nine sixty Yeah, tea. It's huge in Britain. Yeah. And 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.920 at this point in the late nineteenth century is when 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:13.880 I think the average Britton was consuming about six pounds 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:17.800 a year per person. It's a lot of tea. Yeah, 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:19.440 I wonder what that would be today. I meant to 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.120 look that up. Is that what harvest or dry harvest 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:26.160 or man? Is that a seeped tea bag? It's not seeped. 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:28.760 That's a lot of tea. Yeah, that is a lot 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.880 of man. So, Chuck, we got the history under our belt. 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:56.000 We'll move into how tea is actually made after this. Okay, buddy, 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.360 we were talking about the history, and then before that 0:15:58.400 --> 0:16:02.800 we mentioned that there were four main types of tea, green, black, woolong, 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.320 wu tang and white tea. I just don't understand how 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:11.800 O O l O n g is woolong. It's oolong 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:17.120 I guess the w is both. It's invisible but not silent, 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.000 you know. And like we said, all those teas come 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:24.080 from Camelia senensis. Uh, And there's different varieties of them, 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:29.600 like the assam makes star jealing. Um. But the way 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:34.800 that you process the leaves is where the differences come about. Right, 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.640 that's right. What's interesting to me is all t almost 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:43.840 all tea in the whole wide world is harvested by hand. Yeah, 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:46.440 like uh, I think, Um, what was the spice we 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:50.720 were talking about? Saffron? Saffron? Yeah, I think nut make too. 0:16:50.800 --> 0:16:53.080 When did we talk about saffron? I think I mentioned 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:56.480 it in the Cinnamon podcast. It's expensive because it can 0:16:56.560 --> 0:17:00.800 only begin harvested and anytime you're involving p bowl, it's 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.880 gonna cost more than some big, stupid machine that can 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:05.840 do tons of it at once. And that is certainly 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.320 the case with tea because there are only a couple 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:10.879 of harvest a year, the first flush in the early spring, 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:16.200 the second flush in the summer. And they they really 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.320 care for the tea plant, they pick and prune at 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.560 them year round, but they only choose what a couple 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.040 of leaves from each plant. When they're actually harvesting. Yeah, 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.720 so they they're the top two leaves and the bud 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:32.040 in between that's your tea. Everything else is just basically 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.440 the home for the tea that's harvested, like the rest 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.120 of the plant. Yeah, this huge, enormous like plant bullush 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.480 shrub is just there to like sprout out these little 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.639 bits and the little sprouts or the tea that we drink. 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.120 It's amazing. And that's all the tea. That's the oolong, 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.119 that's the black tea, that's the white tea, that's the 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.800 green tea. That's all of them. It's from these shrubs, 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.560 just the top two little white leaves in the bud, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:01.440 that's right. And from there, once they're picked by and uh, 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.720 they are taken to the factory which is on the 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.399 plantation because uh, something starts happening as soon as you 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:12.320 pick it, and that's called oxidation. And oxidation needs to 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.400 be very controlled because it's not necessarily a bad thing, 0:18:15.440 --> 0:18:18.600 because it actually is partially why you get certain varieties 0:18:18.600 --> 0:18:21.000 of T. Right. Yeah, depending on the kind of T 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.000 you want, you either want oxidation or you want to 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:27.119 prevent oxidation. And we should probably say oxidation basically is 0:18:27.640 --> 0:18:33.000 when um any kind of molecule, but specifically an oxygen 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:39.240 molecule UM or O two uh interacts with something like 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:42.600 um the metal in a car, or the inside of 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:46.600 an apple, the leaf off of a T shrub. Um. 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:49.520 Once the oxygen interacts with it, it starts a chain 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:54.680 reaction inside where these oxygen molecules that have two pair 0:18:55.440 --> 0:19:01.679 or two unstable or unpaired electrons. Once the oxygen interacts 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:05.119 with some other atoms in the cells of these things, 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:09.920 it robs those atoms of their electrons right because it 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.200 wants to pair up. And when it does this, it 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.440 starts the process of oxidation. Yeah, which is actually John 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:18.399 Fuller or old Buddy wrote this one UH and he 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:22.320 was a big T guy. Big imagine he still is. UM. 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.320 He's characterized it is actually burning it. So like when 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.160 you eat your apple bite and you go to your 0:19:29.200 --> 0:19:31.000 desk and you leave it there, and then you go 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:33.480 to the bathroom for an hour or so, you come back. 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:37.760 The reason your apple is brown now is because you've 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.080 exposed that inside to the to the O two and 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.119 it's burning it. Yeah. Because normally the apple, the inside 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:46.960 of the apple is protected from the oxygen in the 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:50.000 air we breathe in the atmosphere by the skin. Once 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.080 you puncture the skin, when you break the skin, it's 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.359 exposed to oxygen and that process of oxidation takes place. 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:58.320 The same thing happens with a leaf from a t shrub. 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:01.960 When it's attached to the shrub, it's protected from the 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.600 outside air. Once you pluck it from there, and especially 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.200 once you like break it or tear it apart or 0:20:08.240 --> 0:20:10.359 do something with it, it's exposed to that air and 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:13.560 oxidation takes place and it withers in very much the 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:16.359 same way that UM, a leaf on a tree, a 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.920 dead leaf in the fall withers and changes color. That's 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.399 oxidation as well. Yeah, the same, like you said to 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:24.480 the same thing like that can happen to your car 0:20:24.680 --> 0:20:27.320 if you don't get that true code. Yeah, that's why 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:30.720 you pay thousands and thousands of dollars more the dealership 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:35.240 for that true that's right. Uh. Black tea is the 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:41.120 leader of all te s accounts for about production and uh, 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:43.440 like you said, the Earl Gray or the English breakfast tea, 0:20:43.440 --> 0:20:47.359 that's black tea. Um, and it's not always I mean 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:49.680 doesn't necessarily look black. It's kind of a reddish brown 0:20:49.960 --> 0:20:55.120 when when you seep it. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, I'm 0:20:55.119 --> 0:20:58.000 not gonna help out your problem, am I. And then no, 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:00.640 I'm just gonna confuse you. I thought I might knock 0:21:00.680 --> 0:21:03.760 it out today, but now it's gotten worse. I think. 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:07.120 Actually you've also said too long a couple of times. Yeah, 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.800 that's kind of by choice. Okay. Um, So with black 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:15.760 tea in particular, that's like the um, the oxidation master. 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.160 That's right, that's the one you want oxidation for. Uh 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:23.119 So with the actual process of making tea, of processing 0:21:23.160 --> 0:21:27.359 tea leaves into black tea, you're actually inviting oxidation. Um, 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:29.480 and you're doing that. Well, you want to talk about 0:21:29.480 --> 0:21:33.280 how you how you make black tea? Yeah, it's a 0:21:33.520 --> 0:21:35.680 it's a five step process. I mean, there's a couple 0:21:35.680 --> 0:21:39.919 of methods, but they both include generally these five steps. 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:42.960 Yet one is by robot and the other is by yeah, 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:46.240 human hand pretty much the Orthodox method and the CTC 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:49.240 or the cut, tear, curl method, which sounds cool, but 0:21:49.280 --> 0:21:53.560 it's not, um because Orthodox is you know, by hand, sure, 0:21:53.600 --> 0:21:57.360 which means it's better. And all of this again is 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:00.680 it takes place in the factory, on the plant and grounds, 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:04.399 after the human hands have harvested the tea leaves and 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:09.120 brought them to the factory a couple of fields over. Okay, 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:11.600 the first step is withering, and that's when you're going 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:13.679 to spread it out and let them witherr Like we 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:16.439 were talking about with the leaf that falls, it's just 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:20.760 basically losing moisture. Yes, After that, you've got rolling where 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:24.159 if you're using the orthodox method, the human hand method, 0:22:24.480 --> 0:22:27.439 you're actually rolling out and pressing the leaves so that 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:30.080 you're kind of pressing the moisture out, but you're also 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:34.919 simultaneously pressing some of the oils, those beneficial oils inside 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:37.600 the tea leaf out so that they stick to the 0:22:37.600 --> 0:22:42.440 outside of the leaf so they're kind of retained and dehydrated. Yeah, 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:44.320 and if if you're doing the hand method, you it's 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:46.720 a gentle process. You're trying not to break the leaf. 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:51.240 With the CTC method, they're just chopping it up, and 0:22:51.440 --> 0:22:54.000 you know, because it's a big dumb machine, right and 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:56.880 with with say other types of tea, you wouldn't use 0:22:57.040 --> 0:22:59.800 that method because when you do chop it up, you're 0:23:00.040 --> 0:23:03.240 posing it to oxidation even more, right, you're right, which 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:05.479 is part of the part of the process that's Actually 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:07.920 the third step is oxidation. So after the leads are 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:11.160 either pressed by the orthodox method or cut by robots, 0:23:11.560 --> 0:23:14.720 it's left out in a kind of a damp, cool 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:20.160 space to basically oxidize even further to turn copper, turn 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:23.560 brown whither and then lose the rest of their moisture. 0:23:23.800 --> 0:23:26.600 That's right, which is a good thing in the case 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:29.280 of black tea. Yes, from here, you're gonna dry it 0:23:29.280 --> 0:23:31.679 out with some hot air, and the color is going 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:35.200 to change even more, uh, from that copper that came 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:37.280 from the green. And now you've got your brown and 0:23:37.320 --> 0:23:39.840 your black color and going on. And then you put 0:23:39.920 --> 0:23:44.400 the leaves by size and by quality, or if it's 0:23:44.440 --> 0:23:46.879 going to become say bag tea or something, it's chopped 0:23:46.960 --> 0:23:50.399 up almost into like a powder ye kind of just 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:53.720 little tiny bits and then bagged and all that stuff. 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:56.080 But if it's just loose leaf, then it's sorted by 0:23:56.119 --> 0:23:58.880 by size and quality. That's right. Then you're gonna pay 0:23:58.880 --> 0:24:02.320 more for it. Yeah, And that's black tea, And that's 0:24:02.440 --> 0:24:05.080 the tea produced in the world goes through that process, 0:24:05.080 --> 0:24:09.440 either by human hand or by robot hand. Green tea 0:24:09.520 --> 0:24:11.879 is next, and that, like we said a million times, 0:24:11.920 --> 0:24:15.000 is from the same plant. So cool. It is very cool. 0:24:15.040 --> 0:24:17.679 But basically what happens here is it's pretty much the 0:24:17.680 --> 0:24:21.160 same process, but you're just not oxidizing it as long 0:24:21.240 --> 0:24:25.479 because you're going to steam it. Or I didn't know this. 0:24:25.560 --> 0:24:28.119 You could pan fright, I guess if you're just growing 0:24:28.119 --> 0:24:32.240 your own tea and doing it in your house. Uh, 0:24:32.280 --> 0:24:34.440 you just saw Chef, right man. That was a good movie. 0:24:34.480 --> 0:24:37.120 He's very good movie, way better than Birdman. The only 0:24:37.119 --> 0:24:40.719 thing I didn't like a spoiler yeah about Chef was 0:24:41.840 --> 0:24:46.120 the whole the whole social media. I thought, oh, yeah, 0:24:46.119 --> 0:24:49.159 that was like Almo, a little weird underwritten by Twitter. 0:24:49.440 --> 0:24:53.840 Yeah it didn't. It was a little weird. I thought 0:24:53.880 --> 0:24:56.520 it was just strange that they're like willing to date 0:24:56.560 --> 0:24:59.199 the movie totally that much. Exactly what did you go 0:24:59.240 --> 0:25:01.560 see it in tang years You're gonna be like, this 0:25:01.600 --> 0:25:03.879 is so two thousand and fourteen. Yeah. I thought it 0:25:03.880 --> 0:25:07.040 was not necessary either. But anyway, good movie. It was 0:25:07.080 --> 0:25:09.720 a great movie, and I thought it's still fit. It's 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:12.200 just thinking ten years down the road, it's going to 0:25:12.280 --> 0:25:16.960 be odd like the movies that talk about my Space. Yeah, 0:25:17.000 --> 0:25:21.560 you sad sad movies. Um, but where were we we 0:25:21.560 --> 0:25:24.080 were drying out, we were well, you were steaming, you 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:26.520 were saying, and this is the point of steaming. Is 0:25:26.600 --> 0:25:30.000 it stops oxidation? Yeah, and keeps it green, hence the 0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:32.359 name green tea. And it's not just the um the 0:25:32.440 --> 0:25:36.000 tea leaves themselves are green or greenish they're supposed to be, 0:25:36.160 --> 0:25:38.639 but also it imparts a greenish hue to the actual 0:25:38.680 --> 0:25:42.080 brood tea as well. Um. And the way that the 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:45.160 green from the original green color of the leaves is 0:25:45.320 --> 0:25:50.280 is kept as from preventing oxidation. And that's that's done 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:54.960 by steaming. And I looked everywhere to see how steaming 0:25:55.280 --> 0:25:58.600 prevented oxidation. I couldn't find it. I think it's one 0:25:58.600 --> 0:26:00.399 of those things where people are just like, yep, it 0:26:00.440 --> 0:26:03.280 does it. Everyone's content to basically stop right there. And 0:26:03.320 --> 0:26:05.720 I'm like, no, how And I tried to reword at 0:26:05.640 --> 0:26:07.440 a couple of different ways, and I'm like, okay, how 0:26:07.440 --> 0:26:12.200 does heat prevent oxidation? Couldn't find that either, But apparently 0:26:12.240 --> 0:26:13.560 that's what it does. So I don't know if it 0:26:13.720 --> 0:26:17.679 seals the cells off, maybe poterizes them somehow, and it 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:21.040 prevents the oxygen from getting to it. We'll hear from someone. Yeah, 0:26:21.080 --> 0:26:24.159 if you know how steam prevents oxidation, please let us know. 0:26:24.680 --> 0:26:27.800 But as far as as far as we can tell, 0:26:28.040 --> 0:26:30.560 it actually does, that's right. And uh, we should point 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:34.400 out here that it's there can be a range in hugh. Um, 0:26:34.440 --> 0:26:37.480 there can be a yellowishue sometimes. And there's actually something 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:40.440 I didn't know about that you told me about yellow tea. Yeah, 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:44.399 so supposedly, um, the steaming process can go a little awry, 0:26:44.520 --> 0:26:48.440 or it used to back in the day more frequently. Yeah, 0:26:48.480 --> 0:26:53.360 and it produces another um type of te Uh it's 0:26:53.400 --> 0:26:55.440 called yellow tea. And that's like sold. You can get 0:26:55.480 --> 0:26:58.159 it now. I don't know. I'm sure there's some specialty 0:26:58.240 --> 0:27:03.240 store that sells yellow tea. Yeah, yeah, um, alright, So 0:27:03.359 --> 0:27:07.040 basically at this point, green tea is um. After it's 0:27:07.240 --> 0:27:11.159 frozen in time and staying green. The processes about ever 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:14.000 young it is, and it's the process from there is 0:27:14.000 --> 0:27:16.320 the same as with black tea pretty much. Yeah, you're 0:27:16.320 --> 0:27:18.120 gonna sort it, you're gonna cool it, you can dry 0:27:18.119 --> 0:27:21.920 it out, you're gonna sort it again and then sort 0:27:21.920 --> 0:27:25.640 it one more time. A lot of redundancy in creating 0:27:26.000 --> 0:27:29.440 green tea. And now we're at Woolong or oolong, which 0:27:29.480 --> 0:27:33.080 is basically like it's kind of like yellow tea. I 0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:34.800 I don't think they're one and the same, but it's 0:27:34.920 --> 0:27:38.920 a it's steamed, but it's steamed after the oxidation process 0:27:38.960 --> 0:27:41.640 has taken place to it to an extent, so it's 0:27:41.680 --> 0:27:44.600 oxidized but not as much as black tea. And it's 0:27:44.600 --> 0:27:47.520 steamed but not as early as green tea. So long 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:50.240 is between the two. What's crazy is it doesn't taste 0:27:50.240 --> 0:27:52.960 like black tea or green tea at all. It's definitely 0:27:52.960 --> 0:27:56.119 its own thing. Still, it's from the same plant. I 0:27:56.119 --> 0:27:58.879 don't think I've ever had it at all. Yeah, I 0:27:58.920 --> 0:28:01.000 need to just try something. What all the fuss is about? 0:28:01.080 --> 0:28:03.480 If you go to like a like a Lawson's, which 0:28:03.560 --> 0:28:06.960 is a chain of um convenience stores in Japan, Uh, 0:28:07.200 --> 0:28:10.040 strangely enough, Okay, you go in that's a little weird 0:28:10.200 --> 0:28:12.840 um and pretty much anywhere you can buy like water, 0:28:13.680 --> 0:28:17.520 green tea and Oolong tea like in a cooler, like 0:28:17.560 --> 0:28:20.720 you can get it everywhere those three things. Uh, and 0:28:20.760 --> 0:28:22.360 you should try all of them. You have to try 0:28:22.560 --> 0:28:26.800 long at least once. Yeah, I'll try some tomorrow. Okay. 0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:30.560 That's my that's my dedication. To you, sir. Uh, then 0:28:30.600 --> 0:28:33.240 you have your white tea and that is very much 0:28:33.240 --> 0:28:36.800 a specialty tea and somewhat rare, and it is only 0:28:36.840 --> 0:28:39.400 picked two days out of the year when the buds 0:28:39.400 --> 0:28:42.920 aren't open yet, and it's um, it's less grassy, it's 0:28:42.920 --> 0:28:45.360 a little smoother, but it is similar to green tea. 0:28:45.560 --> 0:28:50.200 And it is only been available outside of China for um, 0:28:50.320 --> 0:28:52.640 not that long, just a few years, right, Snapple has 0:28:52.640 --> 0:28:54.600 only been making it for a couple of years. Well, 0:28:54.600 --> 0:28:58.520 the well that should date it immediately, um like Twitter 0:28:58.600 --> 0:29:03.040 dates chef uh. And it was reserved for Chinese nobility 0:29:03.080 --> 0:29:06.680 because of you know how rare it is. But um, 0:29:06.720 --> 0:29:08.880 now you can get it. And we talked about um 0:29:08.920 --> 0:29:11.920 other kinds of tea too, like herbal tea again is 0:29:12.000 --> 0:29:15.760 just basically dried herbs that you steep, just like regular tea. 0:29:15.960 --> 0:29:20.720 Like chai chi is actually tea, that's right, because it's 0:29:20.800 --> 0:29:24.200 tea black tea mixed with spices like cinnamon and pepper 0:29:24.240 --> 0:29:28.600 and stuff. So that's still constitutes tea. But like camrameal 0:29:29.200 --> 0:29:33.360 t it's not really tea. It's a tossane right um. 0:29:33.400 --> 0:29:37.280 And it's just again it's just some dehydrated camerameal flowers 0:29:37.360 --> 0:29:40.560 that you steep in hot water. Um. Same goes for 0:29:40.960 --> 0:29:44.720 ruy bus, which is a mouthful, but it means red 0:29:44.720 --> 0:29:49.800 bush and Afrikaans. That's right. Same with mate, which is 0:29:49.800 --> 0:29:53.720 not to be confused with macha. No, but we'll talk 0:29:53.720 --> 0:29:57.120 about macha, right, Yes, let's talk about macha, chuck, because 0:29:57.200 --> 0:30:00.920 I love the stuff. I had not been Uh, maybe 0:30:00.920 --> 0:30:03.560 you can call me a macha poser or jumping on 0:30:03.600 --> 0:30:06.760 the macha bandwagon. Yeah, I in that article you sent 0:30:06.840 --> 0:30:11.640 it said that like it's the darling of the tea set. Now. Yeah, 0:30:11.680 --> 0:30:14.480 and um, my friend in California p J and l 0:30:14.520 --> 0:30:18.240 A you've met p J J. He uh he is 0:30:18.880 --> 0:30:20.800 or was? He may have bailed on it, but he 0:30:20.840 --> 0:30:24.760 was trying to make his own special Macha green tea 0:30:25.080 --> 0:30:27.400 and bottle it and sell it. I get what you mean, 0:30:27.600 --> 0:30:29.400 but I don't think he got past the making it 0:30:29.440 --> 0:30:33.320 at home stage. Well, there's a lot. There's not a 0:30:33.360 --> 0:30:36.440 lot to it, but there's Again, I think the Japanese 0:30:36.520 --> 0:30:40.120 taste ceremony is surrounded or surrounds macha. That's what you're 0:30:40.120 --> 0:30:43.640 preparing is macha and almacha is It's like really really 0:30:43.720 --> 0:30:47.040 good green tea that's been ground down to a fine 0:30:47.080 --> 0:30:50.800 powder by hand, which automatically makes it more expensive than 0:30:50.880 --> 0:30:53.920 any other teas or most other teas. Um. And what 0:30:54.040 --> 0:30:58.960 you have is this really fine, beautiful green powder and 0:30:59.000 --> 0:31:01.120 you put like a tea spoon eno it in a 0:31:01.200 --> 0:31:04.880 bowl or a cup or something like that. Uh, and 0:31:04.920 --> 0:31:07.280 you're supposed to sift it I think through like a sifter. 0:31:07.640 --> 0:31:11.560 Oh yeah, yeah, um, just to open it back up again. Sure, 0:31:11.680 --> 0:31:14.600 make it pop. Uh, And then you add some hot 0:31:14.640 --> 0:31:18.120 water and then you use a whisk to stir it. Yeah, 0:31:18.120 --> 0:31:20.480 and there's UM. I don't think we mentioned that. The 0:31:20.480 --> 0:31:23.600 other big difference with macha is is that bushes, Uh. 0:31:23.720 --> 0:31:27.640 The bushes are covered twenty days prior to harvests from sunlight. 0:31:28.600 --> 0:31:30.960 And that's the big distinction. And that means it's gonna 0:31:31.000 --> 0:31:35.000 have a lot more chlorophyll and something called l ponine. Oh, 0:31:35.040 --> 0:31:38.280 that stuff is good. This is the amino acid that um. 0:31:38.320 --> 0:31:42.560 Apparently that's what allows you to feel both um, invigorated 0:31:42.600 --> 0:31:46.840 and calmed. Yeah. It works in conjunction with caffeine. UM. 0:31:46.880 --> 0:31:49.840 And it's actually capable. It's an amino acid, like you said, 0:31:49.840 --> 0:31:52.440 that is capable of crossing the blood brain barrier, so 0:31:52.480 --> 0:31:54.920 like when you drink it, it goes right to your brain. 0:31:55.160 --> 0:31:58.400 It doesn't have to be um converted and metabolized, right, 0:31:59.000 --> 0:32:02.240 and it's supposed usually has all sorts of cool benefits 0:32:02.320 --> 0:32:06.400 like um, cognitive enhancement. Um, you're just kind of clear. 0:32:07.080 --> 0:32:09.959 It's just neat stuff. Well, and that's what the macha 0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:13.600 proponents will tell you, like, have some of this stuff. Man, 0:32:14.040 --> 0:32:16.240 it's like go juice, you'll be clear headed. Take a 0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:19.880 hint of this um. But macha's there's a couple of forms. 0:32:19.880 --> 0:32:24.760 There's the yasucha and the koicha. There's that the coicha 0:32:25.320 --> 0:32:30.520 probably kicha koi cha yeah, coicha. Uh, yasucha is thin 0:32:30.600 --> 0:32:34.480 tea and kicha is thick ty. And the coicha, man, 0:32:34.520 --> 0:32:36.240 that is something else that is made with half the 0:32:36.280 --> 0:32:39.560 water twice the macha. Oh that sounds like my kind 0:32:39.560 --> 0:32:41.440 of macha. Well, they say by the end, by the 0:32:41.480 --> 0:32:44.320 time you're you're done whisking it, it's gonna be like 0:32:44.360 --> 0:32:49.760 the texture of paint. So serious macha. Yeah, because mata 0:32:49.800 --> 0:32:52.640 has like a distinct taste. Oh yeah, I love it. 0:32:52.680 --> 0:32:55.720 I mean I'll make like uh I get it at 0:32:55.760 --> 0:32:57.600 the Asian market near my house and I will just 0:32:57.640 --> 0:33:00.560 add it to my regular green tea, like I'll whisk 0:33:00.600 --> 0:33:03.000 it up and then just add it there. But it's 0:33:03.000 --> 0:33:07.680 a suspension. It's not a you're not actually uh, you're 0:33:07.760 --> 0:33:10.840 drinking the tea leaf. Like if you mix up your 0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:12.600 match and then leave it there a few hours later, 0:33:12.640 --> 0:33:16.960 it's gonna be separated. Yeah, So it's a colloid. Is 0:33:16.960 --> 0:33:20.440 that what that's called? I think so. So I'm not 0:33:20.480 --> 0:33:22.520 going to repeat that because I'm not positive what the 0:33:22.560 --> 0:33:26.520 colloid thing is. I believe so like quicksand a colloid 0:33:26.600 --> 0:33:30.520 is something, yeah, something that's like it's not actually dissolved, 0:33:30.520 --> 0:33:33.160 it's just mixed together. I think you are right. So 0:33:33.240 --> 0:33:37.880 it's it's a colloid. And um, people proponents will say 0:33:37.880 --> 0:33:42.200 that it's better for you because when you seep te 0:33:42.640 --> 0:33:46.520 ice cream, you up. When you sip steep to tea, Um, 0:33:47.040 --> 0:33:51.160 you're only getting h you know, I don't know the percentage, 0:33:51.200 --> 0:33:53.440 but you're only getting some of the benefits of the 0:33:53.480 --> 0:33:55.480 tea because the tea leaf is still in there with 0:33:55.480 --> 0:33:58.000 the macha. You're actually ingesting the tea leaves, I see, 0:33:58.040 --> 0:34:00.600 you know what I mean? Yeah, and that am goes 0:34:00.680 --> 0:34:03.680 right past the blood brain barrier and it does. And 0:34:03.720 --> 0:34:06.240 it's pretty trendy too, because you can now get a 0:34:06.320 --> 0:34:11.680 restaurants and they'll be like macha sprinkled on a food dish. 0:34:11.880 --> 0:34:15.400 Or have you been to Umi Sushi yet? No? I 0:34:15.440 --> 0:34:18.839 went to Kraft Azikaya the other night though, So where 0:34:19.160 --> 0:34:21.440 was is that in Krugs? Yeah? Is it good? It 0:34:21.520 --> 0:34:23.319 was really good and I actually had a cocktail. I 0:34:23.320 --> 0:34:25.359 thought about you, because you know I don't oh yeah, 0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:27.480 you don't drink cocktails that much. It was. It was good. 0:34:27.520 --> 0:34:32.560 It was bourbon and like lemon and ginger and it's 0:34:32.600 --> 0:34:35.920 thaie spice like one other thing maybe honey. It was 0:34:35.960 --> 0:34:39.360 pretty tasty bad. It was good. It sounds good, and 0:34:39.360 --> 0:34:41.439 the food was excellence. It's a little pricey, but it's 0:34:41.480 --> 0:34:44.480 you know, like when you eat the sushi, it's you 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:47.600 can so tell the difference. It just melts in your 0:34:47.640 --> 0:34:50.560 mouth very very much the same with Umi sushi as well. 0:34:50.600 --> 0:34:53.680 It's just just the quality between that and just about 0:34:53.680 --> 0:34:57.080 every other sushi you've had, is it's just light years beyond. Yeah, 0:34:57.160 --> 0:34:59.239 it is really evident. When you tasted I had some 0:34:59.280 --> 0:35:01.960 of the albu coore and it was just like it 0:35:02.040 --> 0:35:05.759 was literally like melted butter done. I'll bet it so good. Well, 0:35:06.680 --> 0:35:09.800 the point is Umi Sushi makes a green tea Macha 0:35:09.920 --> 0:35:13.640 souffle with Cremont glaze that actually you me replicated once 0:35:13.640 --> 0:35:17.960 it was it's amazing. It's amazing. So Macha really goes 0:35:18.000 --> 0:35:20.319 with a lot of really good stuff. Even though it 0:35:20.400 --> 0:35:23.759 is trendy, it's still good. It is good, and it's 0:35:23.760 --> 0:35:25.800 like you said, it's super earthy. It's just I recommend 0:35:25.800 --> 0:35:27.440 you try it. I like it a lot. So I 0:35:27.480 --> 0:35:28.920 don't know if I'm getting the good stuff from that 0:35:28.960 --> 0:35:33.080 Asian market. It's probably the cheap stuff, but it's still tasty. 0:35:33.719 --> 0:35:36.040 I honestly don't know if it's one of those things 0:35:36.040 --> 0:35:38.640 where like you get what you pay for, if a 0:35:38.680 --> 0:35:40.799 lot of it is just jacked up price because it 0:35:40.880 --> 0:35:43.399 is much or what. I don't know. Now this stuff 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:48.120 is pretty inexpensive that I get actually for what for 0:35:48.160 --> 0:35:50.319 the amount you're getting, it's really not that cheap now 0:35:50.360 --> 0:35:52.200 that I think about it. Yeah, okay, Yeah, it's a 0:35:52.239 --> 0:35:55.240 little canister of it. Yeah, it's pretty small. You're probably 0:35:55.280 --> 0:35:58.120 paying what you should be, right. Uh. We talked a 0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:01.200 little bit about the blood brain bear. You're well, we'll 0:36:01.239 --> 0:36:24.799 talk more about the health benefits a t right after this. So, Chuck, 0:36:24.800 --> 0:36:27.960 we're going to talk about the health benefits, as I 0:36:28.000 --> 0:36:31.400 said before the break, but first let's talk about how 0:36:31.400 --> 0:36:34.360 to prepare tea. Well, yeah, there's a couple of ways, 0:36:34.400 --> 0:36:36.680 depending on what you're you're dealing with. You can either 0:36:36.719 --> 0:36:40.280 be a loose leaf person or a bagged tea person. 0:36:40.400 --> 0:36:42.319 And I got the impression from this, Like you said, 0:36:42.400 --> 0:36:46.640 Fuller was a t guy, and he he did a 0:36:46.719 --> 0:36:51.359 very good job of trying to reserve judgment. But if 0:36:51.400 --> 0:36:54.279 I remember correctly, he was a loose leaf guy, and 0:36:54.360 --> 0:36:57.439 it comes through in this um this article. The loose 0:36:57.520 --> 0:37:00.680 leaf is better. Yeah, he had a special little unit 0:37:00.719 --> 0:37:03.359 there where you pour the water in and it kept 0:37:03.400 --> 0:37:06.160 the loose leaf separate. But it was all contained in 0:37:06.320 --> 0:37:09.520 one like cup that you screw it lit on or something. Yeah, 0:37:09.560 --> 0:37:12.000 you can get those or you can just do There's 0:37:12.000 --> 0:37:15.920 all sorts of equipment you can have to make your tea, 0:37:16.160 --> 0:37:20.600 you know. So the if you're preparing tea in a bag, 0:37:21.200 --> 0:37:24.080 you just pop it in some hot water. Well no, 0:37:24.280 --> 0:37:28.000 not necessarily depends on the kind of tea for what 0:37:28.080 --> 0:37:30.719 temperature you want your water to be. And I didn't 0:37:30.760 --> 0:37:33.120 know this Black tea is the only one where you 0:37:33.160 --> 0:37:37.279 want it boiling at two hundred degrees. Wou Long you're 0:37:37.280 --> 0:37:39.960 gonna um is the next and that's about one nine, 0:37:40.160 --> 0:37:43.120 which is close to boiling. Yeah, or you know you 0:37:43.239 --> 0:37:49.120 just use your finger to determine whether it's degrees. Uh, 0:37:49.239 --> 0:37:51.839 Green and white tea, Um, it's just steaming water. It's 0:37:51.880 --> 0:37:55.160 only about a hundred and seventy degrees. And um, you're 0:37:55.160 --> 0:37:58.480 black tea. I'm sorry. Black and White take the longest 0:37:58.520 --> 0:38:02.440 to seep and steep four and a half to five minutes. Um, 0:38:02.440 --> 0:38:04.400 Woo Long is about three to four. And green tea, Man, 0:38:04.480 --> 0:38:06.920 you can get that stuff going in thirty seconds. Boom, 0:38:06.960 --> 0:38:10.000 and you're drinking it. My tension tamer takes seven minutes 0:38:10.080 --> 0:38:13.239 to steep. It says on the box what it does 0:38:13.239 --> 0:38:15.799 it Can you tell the difference to tame your tension? Yeah, 0:38:15.960 --> 0:38:19.160 I actually can. That's good. It's pretty neat. I can't 0:38:19.160 --> 0:38:21.360 remember what's in it, but it talks about the active 0:38:21.600 --> 0:38:25.680 ingredient whatever the dried herb is. But um, with with 0:38:25.880 --> 0:38:30.080 the difference between bag tea and loose leaf tea has 0:38:30.160 --> 0:38:32.520 a lot to do with the benefits from it, right, 0:38:33.320 --> 0:38:37.520 So with the CTC method, which again of the world's 0:38:37.560 --> 0:38:40.920 te um A lot of that undergoes the C t 0:38:41.120 --> 0:38:44.600 C method because it's black tea, right, But you get 0:38:44.640 --> 0:38:47.359 like this powdery, chopped up, little bitty substance and it's 0:38:47.360 --> 0:38:49.640 put into a bag and it forms a little clump 0:38:50.200 --> 0:38:54.040 and water doesn't circulate as well. The benefit of um 0:38:54.239 --> 0:38:59.319 loose leaf tea is that um, the water steeps through 0:38:59.719 --> 0:39:04.040 or yeah, steeps through uh and circulates amongst the tea 0:39:04.120 --> 0:39:08.439 leaves more like it seeps through man. I think you're right, 0:39:09.040 --> 0:39:11.560 But it circulates among the tea leaves, and the tea 0:39:11.600 --> 0:39:14.520 leaves remember, especially depending on the type of tea, may 0:39:14.520 --> 0:39:19.000 have been pressed so that the oils are trapped dehydrated 0:39:19.000 --> 0:39:21.520 on the surface of the tea leaf. You chop those 0:39:21.520 --> 0:39:23.440 things up and turn them into dust, you're gonna lose 0:39:23.480 --> 0:39:25.640 a lot of that stuff. But if you have just 0:39:25.719 --> 0:39:29.120 a dried tea leaf that is dehydrated and has the 0:39:29.200 --> 0:39:32.319 moisture on the outside, and some water rehydrates that and 0:39:32.360 --> 0:39:34.959 it just kind of stirs it up and gets into 0:39:35.000 --> 0:39:39.319 the into the colloid and you drink that, Bam, you're 0:39:39.320 --> 0:39:42.040 gonna get. If there are health benefits which will explore 0:39:42.320 --> 0:39:44.480 you're gonna get them. You're more likely to get them 0:39:44.520 --> 0:39:48.520 from that loose leaf tea than a bag tea, agreed. Uh. 0:39:48.520 --> 0:39:50.239 And then of course you also have your iced tea 0:39:50.280 --> 0:39:54.160 here in the South, sweet sweet iced tea. Yeah, which 0:39:54.200 --> 0:39:56.560 is delicious to me. Um, because I grew up here. 0:39:56.560 --> 0:39:58.960 A lot of people think it's weird. Uh. They had 0:39:59.000 --> 0:40:01.440 been drinking iced tea before nineteen u but nineteen o 0:40:01.560 --> 0:40:04.960 four the St. Louis World's Fair was where it really 0:40:04.960 --> 0:40:07.160 took off because the guy was selling hot tea named 0:40:07.239 --> 0:40:11.000 Richard block Blockenden. I know what a name I know, 0:40:11.320 --> 0:40:14.000 and he was even if you pronounced it the other 0:40:14.040 --> 0:40:16.680 way like bletchened in, it doesn't matter. He sounds like 0:40:16.680 --> 0:40:21.120 a made up mad magazine staff, right or something. Uh. 0:40:21.160 --> 0:40:23.200 He was serving free tea, but it was hot and 0:40:23.680 --> 0:40:26.320 it was really hot, and so people were like, no thanks, 0:40:26.840 --> 0:40:29.600 So he made it cold and they said, this is delicious. Well, 0:40:29.600 --> 0:40:31.839 it was hot out in St. Louis that year, of course, 0:40:31.920 --> 0:40:35.880 that's summer. That was where I think hot dogs, hamburgers 0:40:35.920 --> 0:40:39.160 and ice cream cones came from, and apparently iced tea. Man. 0:40:39.200 --> 0:40:43.400 Could you imagine like the world changing after that? In St. Louis. 0:40:44.239 --> 0:40:47.239 Uh so that's where they credit iced tea being born. 0:40:47.280 --> 0:40:48.839 And of course here in the South. Like I said, 0:40:49.160 --> 0:40:50.920 you dump a cup of sugar in there while you're 0:40:51.000 --> 0:40:54.360 brewing it and it makes it delicious and syrupy sweet. 0:40:54.440 --> 0:40:56.799 Did you read the Slate article that was linked to 0:40:56.840 --> 0:41:01.600 in here? I started to Umscott Peacock features in it. 0:41:01.920 --> 0:41:05.680 Who's that? Oh? He used to cook at Watershed. I 0:41:05.680 --> 0:41:08.919 don't know. He's good, yeah, good cook. And I got 0:41:08.920 --> 0:41:13.080 as far as page two when they compared the hospitality 0:41:13.120 --> 0:41:16.160 of offering sweet tea to passing a dub at a 0:41:16.200 --> 0:41:18.120 fish show, and I was like, no, I'm done at 0:41:18.160 --> 0:41:22.319 this Slate article forever. What Yeah, what a weird thing 0:41:22.400 --> 0:41:26.239 to link together. It was that kind of article that's 0:41:26.239 --> 0:41:28.920 so strange because there's like a thousand hospitable things you 0:41:28.920 --> 0:41:35.480 can mention, you know, out of nowhere. It's very strange. Um, 0:41:35.480 --> 0:41:41.680 all right, So finally, Josh, health benefits of tea true 0:41:41.760 --> 0:41:47.000 or not true? Jury's out, man. So it's possible. If 0:41:47.239 --> 0:41:51.560 the free radical theory of aging is correct, then it's 0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:55.359 it's got health benefits and ages. People hear these things 0:41:55.360 --> 0:41:58.239 a lot, like antioxidants, free radicals, and I don't think 0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:00.000 a lot of people have an understanding what it is. 0:42:00.160 --> 0:42:03.799 And it's not super complicated. No, it's not. And I 0:42:03.880 --> 0:42:08.600 will explain it on the um on the basis of 0:42:08.680 --> 0:42:16.080 you agreeing to doing free radicals episode whole episode. Sure, okay, cool, 0:42:17.680 --> 0:42:19.440 why would why would you say it like that? I'm 0:42:19.480 --> 0:42:23.880 just teasing, so chuck with free radicals. Right. We already 0:42:23.880 --> 0:42:28.319 mentioned oxidation. That's what the free radicals are based on. 0:42:28.760 --> 0:42:32.959 So you breathe oxygen, and that O two molecule has 0:42:33.360 --> 0:42:36.840 two unpaired electrons, while those electrons want to be paired, 0:42:37.480 --> 0:42:39.960 So they go into your body and mess with your 0:42:39.960 --> 0:42:43.520 cells by searching around for other molecules or atoms that 0:42:43.600 --> 0:42:49.440 they can steal an electron from and repair. Repair, get it, 0:42:50.280 --> 0:42:53.000 But it's actually the opposite of repairing. It's damaging the 0:42:53.120 --> 0:42:57.160 cells because those atoms that just got their molecules stripped 0:42:57.440 --> 0:43:02.000 are now looking for their own electron to pair with, right, 0:43:02.120 --> 0:43:04.919 and it causes this chain reaction. Well, the whole free 0:43:05.000 --> 0:43:07.920 radical theory of aging is that this is why we age, 0:43:08.200 --> 0:43:10.799 This is where disease comes from. This is how our 0:43:11.080 --> 0:43:15.680 system wears down and breaks down. Cellular destruction. Yeah, and 0:43:15.719 --> 0:43:18.399 we know that this is a real thing. Sure, Like 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:21.799 that really happens the same thing as being exposed to radiation. 0:43:21.840 --> 0:43:26.000 It's a chain reaction where um, molecules and atoms just 0:43:26.040 --> 0:43:30.560 go around charged looking to neutralize themselves by pairing their 0:43:30.600 --> 0:43:35.400 electrons or charge electrons. Right, So what T is lousy 0:43:35.440 --> 0:43:38.840 with is antioxidants. Yeah, and that's what people hear that 0:43:38.880 --> 0:43:40.520 word a lot and don't even know what it is. 0:43:40.560 --> 0:43:43.759 It Basically it's just going to slow down that oxidation 0:43:43.800 --> 0:43:47.080 process because they can give up their electrons and still 0:43:47.120 --> 0:43:51.719 be fine, exactly like vitamin C, catekians which is um 0:43:51.960 --> 0:43:56.839 which is found in high amounts, and tea, beta carotene, yep, 0:43:57.480 --> 0:44:01.560 vitamin E. Just basically anything that you see is an 0:44:01.560 --> 0:44:05.520 antioxidant probably is an antioxidant. Again, the jury is just 0:44:05.640 --> 0:44:08.520 out now based on some recent studies that have found 0:44:09.719 --> 0:44:11.879 we don't know if this is actually a good thing. 0:44:12.520 --> 0:44:14.960 Well yeah, and when it comes to tea, they people 0:44:15.000 --> 0:44:18.799 think basically it's a certainly not going to hurt you, 0:44:19.360 --> 0:44:23.120 right um and be it's probably helping you, but we 0:44:23.280 --> 0:44:26.839 just don't know exactly how and it's not all super confirmed. 0:44:27.400 --> 0:44:31.560 But drink tea and eat fruits and vegetables because antioxidants 0:44:31.600 --> 0:44:33.480 we think are pretty good for you, right, because it 0:44:33.600 --> 0:44:36.480 is correlated with a bunch of health benefits. It's correlated 0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:42.040 with a reduction in UM uh, diabetes. Uh, It's correlated 0:44:42.080 --> 0:44:47.520 with a reduction and I think every pressure. Yeah, lung cancer, um, 0:44:47.560 --> 0:44:50.680 the lowered risk of lung cancer, heart disease, cholesterol, Yeah, 0:44:50.920 --> 0:44:53.399 just tons of stuff. There's all these correlations out. They've 0:44:53.480 --> 0:44:57.240 never proven definitively that it's not that people who drink 0:44:57.280 --> 0:45:00.760 tea tend to also lead healthier lifestyles and that something else. 0:45:01.440 --> 0:45:05.040 But there's a lot of evidence there that drinking tea 0:45:05.160 --> 0:45:07.759 does have some sort of healthful benefits or at the 0:45:07.800 --> 0:45:10.040 very least it's not gonna hurt you. Yeah, when when 0:45:10.040 --> 0:45:13.000 they say it's they associate it with good health, then 0:45:13.280 --> 0:45:15.440 that's a pretty good sign that you're doing the right thing. 0:45:16.040 --> 0:45:18.440 They just can't say we can prove this because this 0:45:18.480 --> 0:45:21.920 does this, yeah, and we know it so. Right. So, 0:45:21.960 --> 0:45:25.440 if that free radical theory of aging is true, is 0:45:25.520 --> 0:45:30.480 correct um and antioxidants are actually good for you, then 0:45:30.719 --> 0:45:33.719 the tea you want to go for a drink is 0:45:33.800 --> 0:45:36.279 the green tea, because that's the one that has the 0:45:36.360 --> 0:45:42.760 highest concentrations of catkins, which include epic atkin, epicaate akin galleate, 0:45:43.400 --> 0:45:47.480 epic Gallo catekin, epic gallo catekin galley, which is known 0:45:47.480 --> 0:45:49.640 as E G C G and has a lot of 0:45:49.680 --> 0:45:53.880 gall I thought that was kind of funny. But Black 0:45:53.920 --> 0:45:56.840 Tea has these, but they actually convert to other stuff. 0:45:56.880 --> 0:45:59.680 They're kind of like dumbed down version. So Green Tea again, 0:46:00.120 --> 0:46:03.040 it sounds like if you really want health benefits, if 0:46:03.040 --> 0:46:07.040 there are health benefits, you want to drink loose leaf 0:46:07.280 --> 0:46:12.400 green tea with ma right with the Mata chaser. Yeah, exactly. 0:46:12.880 --> 0:46:16.839 He also does contain caffeine. UM. I don't know why 0:46:16.920 --> 0:46:20.120 people some people think it doesn't or that it contains 0:46:20.200 --> 0:46:23.759 very little. Uh. I've heard people say that before, like 0:46:23.800 --> 0:46:26.239 you know, coffee's got caffeine. Ta doesn't have caffeine. Yeah, 0:46:26.400 --> 0:46:29.400 he's got plenty of caffeine. Um, but generally not as 0:46:29.480 --> 0:46:33.200 much as as coffee. Um. Coffee contains about eighty two 0:46:33.960 --> 0:46:38.240 milligrams for a mug, and he's gonna have twenty to sixty, 0:46:38.600 --> 0:46:42.359 with Black being the strongest at about thirty to forty milligrams, 0:46:42.880 --> 0:46:46.400 and Green Tea and Woolong between ten and twenty milligrams 0:46:46.480 --> 0:46:48.880 white tea has like one per cent of a caffeine 0:46:48.880 --> 0:46:51.080 of cup of coffee. I want to give a shout 0:46:51.080 --> 0:46:52.839 out to my coffee too. By the way, you know 0:46:52.920 --> 0:46:55.200 what we're on the cusp of, don't you know? The 0:46:55.360 --> 0:47:00.480 USDA advising Americans to drink coffee, to d up to 0:47:00.680 --> 0:47:06.200 five cups. Five cups of coffee a day in America 0:47:06.280 --> 0:47:09.320 right now drinks less than two a day on average, 0:47:09.320 --> 0:47:10.920 And the USDA is about to say you need to 0:47:10.960 --> 0:47:13.759 more than double your coffee consumption because it's not only 0:47:13.880 --> 0:47:18.880 not bad for you, it's good for you. Finally, everyone 0:47:19.040 --> 0:47:23.440 is realizing, well, there's a there's a group that's I 0:47:23.800 --> 0:47:26.880 can't remember the name of it, but it's it's they 0:47:26.880 --> 0:47:30.040 come up with the guidelines for our diets, and it's 0:47:30.080 --> 0:47:36.440 this panel that's the Star us exactly. The Star Chamber says, actually, 0:47:36.600 --> 0:47:39.360 we should start drinking a lot more coffee. And the 0:47:39.480 --> 0:47:45.160 USDA rarely ignores the advice of the panels. So we're 0:47:45.160 --> 0:47:46.840 on the cusp of the u s d A saying 0:47:47.360 --> 0:47:50.160 go drink more coffee everybody, and everyone will be like, Josh, 0:47:50.160 --> 0:47:53.719 what's right, Yeah, he's only gotta drinking coffee before this announcement. 0:47:54.760 --> 0:47:57.759 Even I don't drink five cups a day on average, really, 0:47:57.840 --> 0:48:01.200 not anymore, trying to step it up. I have started 0:48:01.280 --> 0:48:03.840 drinking more coffee lately, actually because we've got get a 0:48:03.880 --> 0:48:07.200 little machine here. Now that that machine is dynamite. Yeah, 0:48:07.280 --> 0:48:09.800 what I do is I hit the regular coffee button 0:48:10.200 --> 0:48:13.120 and then add a shot of espresso, because that makes 0:48:13.120 --> 0:48:17.759 it the right um size and strength, right, because the 0:48:18.000 --> 0:48:21.560 regular cup of coffee is it's not even the three 0:48:21.600 --> 0:48:23.759 quarters of my mug, I know. And it's not even 0:48:23.760 --> 0:48:27.440 a big mug. Yeah, it's not like have some giant mug. No, 0:48:27.800 --> 0:48:31.160 that's your tea mug. That's my tea mug. You can 0:48:31.160 --> 0:48:34.120 punch through a concrete wall with that coffee with the 0:48:34.239 --> 0:48:37.520 espresso shot on top. Yeah, it's good though. Uh. If 0:48:37.520 --> 0:48:40.080 you want to know more about tea, go drink some tea. 0:48:40.239 --> 0:48:43.719 You can also type t T e A into the 0:48:43.719 --> 0:48:46.200 search bar at how stuff works dot com. Uh. And 0:48:46.239 --> 0:48:51.160 since I said search bar, it's time for listener, ma'am. 0:48:51.480 --> 0:48:55.160 I'm gonna call this left handed feedback. And boy did 0:48:55.200 --> 0:48:57.359 we get a lot of it. I don't know why. 0:48:58.000 --> 0:49:00.520 I guess sometimes when you segment a certain part of 0:49:00.520 --> 0:49:05.560 the population they're gonna respond, especially one that's been so 0:49:05.680 --> 0:49:08.800 mistreated for so many, so many years. Yeah, because we 0:49:08.880 --> 0:49:10.840 heard from a lot of twins and redheads when we 0:49:10.880 --> 0:49:12.920 covered that stuff. But boy, we heard from a lot 0:49:12.960 --> 0:49:17.960 of lefties. Um, they're a proud people as it turns out. Hey, guys, 0:49:18.000 --> 0:49:20.319 I am left handed. When I was little, my mom 0:49:20.360 --> 0:49:23.040 made me use scissors with only my right hand because 0:49:23.080 --> 0:49:26.000 of my aunt, my mother's sister, who is also left handed. 0:49:26.600 --> 0:49:29.040 She's very into sewing, and left handed sewing scissors are 0:49:29.400 --> 0:49:32.319 crazy expensive. Um, or at least they were back then. 0:49:32.680 --> 0:49:35.000 They're not as bad now. In order to avoid the 0:49:35.040 --> 0:49:36.800 same ordeal, they thought it would just be better to 0:49:36.840 --> 0:49:39.399 teach me to cut with my right hand, to never 0:49:39.440 --> 0:49:43.400 buy the expensive left handed scissors of any kind. I 0:49:43.400 --> 0:49:45.160 still have mixed feelings about this, but I don't think 0:49:45.160 --> 0:49:46.840 it harmed me. We did hear from a lot of 0:49:46.840 --> 0:49:50.759 people who were forced into right handedness from parents or 0:49:50.800 --> 0:49:53.920 teachers or whatever. Yeah, it was a thing to to. 0:49:54.440 --> 0:49:57.360 That's so bizarre. I think like there was a concerned, 0:49:58.040 --> 0:50:02.400 widespread effort to erratic hate left handed people. One thing 0:50:02.440 --> 0:50:05.000 you only mentioned briefly though, in the right hand dominances 0:50:05.000 --> 0:50:07.799 with things like scissors and spiral bound notebooks. I'd also 0:50:07.880 --> 0:50:10.879 like to point out less obvious ones, like which side 0:50:10.880 --> 0:50:14.759 the papers on in bathrooms? Never thought about that. Yeah, 0:50:14.760 --> 0:50:17.920 it's on the left though in most bathrooms, isn't it? 0:50:18.080 --> 0:50:21.000 Yes it is, but that makes sense. But I reach 0:50:21.040 --> 0:50:23.400 over with my right hand to tear the paper. I know, 0:50:23.480 --> 0:50:29.440 but you're a you're different. Yeah. Um, door knobs, computer 0:50:29.640 --> 0:50:35.400 mouse or mice, and the smeariness of pins. Um all 0:50:35.640 --> 0:50:38.640 can cause issues for lefties anyway. Love the podcast, guys, 0:50:39.800 --> 0:50:45.680 especially ones about people like me. So Sharon and Sani 0:50:45.760 --> 0:50:48.920 tennessee what else about you can we talk about on 0:50:48.960 --> 0:50:52.400 a podcast? Yeah, let us know. 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