1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you missed in History Class, A production 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio, Hello and Happy Friday. I'm Holly 3 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:17,760 Speaker 1: Fry and I'm Tracy B. Wilson. Uh. We talked about 4 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: Charles Colchester this week. Yep, ye, what what a hoot? 5 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: That whole thing is really interesting. I like I said 6 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:29,440 Speaker 1: at the top of that, he's somebody that has come 7 00:00:29,520 --> 00:00:32,479 Speaker 1: up periodically when I'm looking at other stuff, and I 8 00:00:32,560 --> 00:00:34,599 Speaker 1: keep going, I gotta look into that. But then when 9 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: I did, like one, it's a it offered insight that 10 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,520 Speaker 1: I had not explored before. It's certainly been discussed before 11 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:45,839 Speaker 1: by many other people into the way that the Lincoln 12 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:51,680 Speaker 1: marriage functioned in regards to Mary Todd Lincoln's interest in 13 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:56,560 Speaker 1: spiritualism and the beyond um, because you will see people 14 00:00:56,600 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: that will assert that that President Lincoln was into it 15 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: as well. But most of the historians that I ran 16 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:06,840 Speaker 1: across while research and kind of indicate what we talked 17 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:09,280 Speaker 1: about in the episode that he was kind of more like, 18 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 1: I just want to make sure like nothing truly terrible 19 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: is happening to my wife at these things, that nobody 20 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:17,560 Speaker 1: is taking advantage of her in a in a way 21 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: that could be detrimental um, which is just fascinating, and 22 00:01:21,040 --> 00:01:24,960 Speaker 1: we should say that Colchester, particularly during that trial, he 23 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: was often called the medium of the Lincoln's or the 24 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,480 Speaker 1: first Ladies spiritualist, but he was one of many, and 25 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: not even necessarily like her favorite by any means. So 26 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,039 Speaker 1: I don't don't want to misrepresent him as like the 27 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 1: one in the midst of all of that. Yeah. Well, 28 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:49,400 Speaker 1: and the questions about whether Abraham Lincoln himself was spiritualists, like, 29 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: that's not just the new topic, No, not at all. Yeah. 30 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: One of the as I was trying to see if 31 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 1: I could find a picture of Colchester anywhere. One of 32 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:02,440 Speaker 1: the things I found was this book from called was 33 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln a Spiritualist? Huh? Yeah, it is interesting, Uh, 34 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: that work of Henry figuring out the whole thing and 35 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,239 Speaker 1: relaying like, oh here it is. It's this crazy device 36 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: on a that they put on a bicep and Lincoln 37 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 1: be like, I get it. That's cool. Um. I sort 38 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: of love that idea that he was just like interesting. Interesting. 39 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,919 Speaker 1: I feel like I want to make fake business cards 40 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:33,760 Speaker 1: that say I practice jugglery. Yeah. I don't juggle, nor 41 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,959 Speaker 1: do I have the skill for close up magic or 42 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:39,040 Speaker 1: sleight of hand. Even though I love that stuff, I 43 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: don't I don't have the power. I learned how to 44 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: juggle a little many years ago when I was in 45 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: high school and doing musical theater. We did the musical 46 00:02:50,440 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: Barnum because there was an there was already a home 47 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: musical about P. T. Barnum even before that movie happened 48 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:00,080 Speaker 1: more recently. Uh. And like a lot of those of 49 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: us who were sort of in the background, we were 50 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: always doing some circus stuff, and a bunch of us 51 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 1: learned how to juggle, and so I could. Um, I 52 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: could juggle three balls for a short amount of time. 53 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: But scarves, because they're twist they're like floaty. You have 54 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: a lot more leeway. And so I I could juggle 55 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: scarves pretty well also, though only three of them. See, 56 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,440 Speaker 1: I could only get as far as the two ball circle. 57 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,560 Speaker 1: I could never do the three. I just like it 58 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:33,120 Speaker 1: didn't matter how much like dance or movement training I 59 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,320 Speaker 1: had had. When it came to that, I may as 60 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:37,680 Speaker 1: well have just smacked them out of the air like 61 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: a cat. I didn't know. I could not grasp it, 62 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: not in my skill set at all. I have no 63 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,160 Speaker 1: no future in the circus alas well. And musical theater 64 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 1: wasn't in my skill set either because I was not 65 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,160 Speaker 1: a good singer or a good dancer. But boy did 66 00:03:56,200 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: I love musical theater so much. See, I was, like 67 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:02,800 Speaker 1: I said, I had dance training. I'm not a good singer, 68 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,600 Speaker 1: but I was that snooty kid who was like musical theater. 69 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,160 Speaker 1: I want to do Ibsen Like I was that kid, 70 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:13,480 Speaker 1: that irritating child, um that you know, poopooed musical theater. 71 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,520 Speaker 1: It's still not my thing, but it's fine, and I 72 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,600 Speaker 1: know people that love it and get joy from it. Great. Um, 73 00:04:19,760 --> 00:04:21,280 Speaker 1: I still have that thing where I like to watch 74 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: people sings, so that's part of it. But I would 75 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,679 Speaker 1: love for someone to do a play, be it musical 76 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 1: or no. About Charles Colchester. I feel like his life story, 77 00:04:33,839 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: what we know of it, is very very interesting. I 78 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: did stumble across a blog of a person who years 79 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: ago did some pretty intensive searching to try to triangulate 80 00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: who he might have actually been, which is interesting. It's not, 81 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: you know, easy to substantiate beyond kind of that work, 82 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 1: which he did a lot of legwork. But the other 83 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 1: thing that we didn't mention in the episode because it's 84 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:02,920 Speaker 1: again not provable. I did stumble across one news article 85 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: at his death that claimed that he was only twenty seven, 86 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:09,479 Speaker 1: and most do claim that he was still pretty young 87 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,560 Speaker 1: when all of this was going on. But because we 88 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: don't know his date of birth or anything about him, 89 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,839 Speaker 1: we're like, all, y is make the quizzle puppy face 90 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: Because I don't know for sure. It is a mystery, 91 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:29,720 Speaker 1: a mystery. I really suspect, uh that he and John 92 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 1: Wilkes Booth probably shared some information after a few drinks, 93 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 1: and that is probably how he got wind of what 94 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:42,880 Speaker 1: was being plotted writing the president, whether that was the 95 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: original plan of kidnapping or when Booth had transitioned to 96 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:50,279 Speaker 1: the idea of shooting the president. One of those I 97 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:55,560 Speaker 1: think probably got blabbed after some cocktails. Yeah, probably not cocktails. 98 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,400 Speaker 1: They were probably just swells from a bottle. But but 99 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:04,559 Speaker 1: in any case, Uh, Yeah, Charles Colchester, fascinating creature, still 100 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: shrouded in mystery, even though there were trials and news 101 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:13,400 Speaker 1: reports and connections to the president. And yet that's like 102 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:26,240 Speaker 1: the stone that sits only partly turned. Yeah. This week 103 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:31,839 Speaker 1: on the show, we talked about gin, which, uh is 104 00:06:31,880 --> 00:06:34,359 Speaker 1: the thing that I've thought about doing on show for 105 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,640 Speaker 1: a while off and on, and then getting an email 106 00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: directly asking for it made me go, Okay, sure, this 107 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 1: will not just feel like my personal interest that I 108 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,440 Speaker 1: am doing as an episode for no one's benefit but 109 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,800 Speaker 1: my own. I'm I have no hesitation to do. I'm 110 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: interested in this, so I'm doing. When it comes to uh, 111 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,280 Speaker 1: two spirits, gin is the thing that I think that 112 00:07:02,400 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: I have the most often, and so this was a 113 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:10,760 Speaker 1: fun one to research for me. I have never had 114 00:07:10,960 --> 00:07:15,840 Speaker 1: your neighbor, which, as we alluded to in the episode, 115 00:07:15,880 --> 00:07:18,680 Speaker 1: if you um, if you read and speak English as 116 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: your first language and are not from Holland or that vicinity, 117 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: it looks like it's Geneva or Jennifer, which threw me 118 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 1: for a loop when I heard somebody say it for 119 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,000 Speaker 1: the very first time, and I was like, oh, I 120 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,000 Speaker 1: thought about trying to to get some of that so 121 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,800 Speaker 1: I could taste it for myself, and in my limited 122 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: time and effort to look into that possibility, did not 123 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,600 Speaker 1: find anywhere local that carried it, so I did not 124 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:52,160 Speaker 1: then worry about that. I did discover, however, the airline 125 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:59,160 Speaker 1: KLM makes these little blue these like Delft Blue houses 126 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:04,560 Speaker 1: that are um made to look like real buildings, usually 127 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: real historic buildings. Uh. They give them to people who 128 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:14,120 Speaker 1: are flying world business class and they're filled with your neighbor. 129 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,080 Speaker 1: And I was just like, this is a fascinating little 130 00:08:18,400 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: airline thing to me. What a little house, A little 131 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,840 Speaker 1: house that has liquor in it that looks like a 132 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,200 Speaker 1: real house. Uh, this is exactly the sort of thing 133 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: that if I wanted to start a new collection of something, 134 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:36,120 Speaker 1: I would start collecting. You just have to book a 135 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:40,679 Speaker 1: lot of international business class travel. Yeah, they put out 136 00:08:40,720 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: a new one each year, and apparently there's an app 137 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:50,240 Speaker 1: that you can My goodness, goodness, people are apparently very 138 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,160 Speaker 1: into these things. I had never heard of them until 139 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:58,559 Speaker 1: researching this episode. I also made mention in the episode 140 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: of some of the very old text that I read 141 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,600 Speaker 1: for this that were full of the long ses that 142 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: look like f's. And I always enjoy reading them because 143 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,160 Speaker 1: it just delights me when the s s look like f. 144 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,920 Speaker 1: Most of the time for me, the words that are 145 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: written this way um printed this way are easy for 146 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,160 Speaker 1: me to figure out. But there was one word in particular, 147 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 1: um that really threw me for a loop. And what 148 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:31,000 Speaker 1: it looks like on the page with the long s 149 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 1: is it looks like f E N F E L 150 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:38,280 Speaker 1: E F S. And I just stared at it for 151 00:09:38,280 --> 00:09:40,520 Speaker 1: a while and was like, what is this word supposed 152 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: to be? And I finally copied it out of the 153 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: you know, the scan that I was working with. I 154 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: paced it into a word document and replaced all of 155 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:57,240 Speaker 1: the f's individually and then went, oh, senseless. Obviously. You 156 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 1: also mentioned in the episode that you did not bring 157 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:02,320 Speaker 1: up your favorite gin beverage, so now I'm curious what 158 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 1: it is. I do really like a bee's knees. Oh 159 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:07,959 Speaker 1: that's right. We have had those together on occasion. Yeah, 160 00:10:08,760 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: they are very sweet, So if you're not into sweet things, 161 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: then it would probably not be for you. There's some 162 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: money in there, there's honey in there. The first time 163 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:18,960 Speaker 1: that I ever had one was at a place called 164 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: float Away Cafe when I was still living in Atlanta, 165 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:24,800 Speaker 1: UM and I had the first ciff of it and 166 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 1: then I was like, okay, two of these is the 167 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: number that has allowed for me to have and then 168 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 1: no more of this Because it also was mixed that 169 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: I could tell it was like pretty potent in addition 170 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:46,080 Speaker 1: to being very sweet, So Yeah, that's a favorite of mine. Fascinating. Yeah, 171 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,680 Speaker 1: my my spouse likes a French seventy five. I love 172 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: a French Days thinks he doesn't like gin at all. 173 00:10:54,679 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 1: I hated gin for a long time, or said that 174 00:10:57,679 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: I hated gin and then, Um, I don't know if 175 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 1: I've mentioned this on the show before, but during Pandemic, 176 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 1: one of the things I decided to do was take 177 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:10,760 Speaker 1: online bartending classes, which forced me to kind of look 178 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:12,880 Speaker 1: at at gin and new ways and to have to 179 00:11:12,920 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: practice some gin beverages, and I realized that there are 180 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 1: some gins that I actually like. I do not like 181 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 1: a dry gin, and I don't think I ever will. 182 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:24,439 Speaker 1: That's just that's just what it is. And I think 183 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:27,200 Speaker 1: that's why I thought that I disliked it so much. Sure, 184 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 1: I don't also love juniper either, Like I don't love 185 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 1: that kind of piney you know, some people have like 186 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,640 Speaker 1: it's a very piney taste on their taste buds, and 187 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:38,800 Speaker 1: I don't love that. But there I found some gins 188 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:41,440 Speaker 1: that I like, and I discovered that I really like 189 00:11:41,679 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: a French seventy. Yeah. I also like a Tom Collins 190 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: if it's made of the gin that I like. Yeah, 191 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: most of the gin's that I tend to have on 192 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,679 Speaker 1: hand at home tends to be on the more like 193 00:11:55,760 --> 00:12:00,440 Speaker 1: the more floral or herbal and of the spectrum and 194 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 1: not just like primarily alcohol plus and juniper end of 195 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:10,440 Speaker 1: the spectrum. There is a local ish to me, uh 196 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:13,839 Speaker 1: it's not that far away um called Short Path Distillery, 197 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,559 Speaker 1: and they make seasonal gin's um. So they have a spring, summer, 198 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,240 Speaker 1: and winter and fall, and their summer one has a 199 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:23,640 Speaker 1: lot of like Barry notes in it um, which makes 200 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:26,960 Speaker 1: for all kinds of interesting things. So yeah, I also 201 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: I have kind of a complicated relationship with these kinds 202 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: of episodes because I do know several people personally who 203 00:12:38,120 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: have um really struggled with alcoholic abuse and a few 204 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,079 Speaker 1: people who ultimately lost their lives to it. And so 205 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:48,640 Speaker 1: whenever I am thinking about this kind of thing, I'm 206 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:53,839 Speaker 1: always like, please drink responsibly and you can help seek help, 207 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: which there is help. Yes. One thing that's been interesting, 208 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: So on the other show that I do, Criminalia, we 209 00:13:02,480 --> 00:13:05,440 Speaker 1: do a cocktail usually that's them to each episode, and 210 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: we did our Impostor season we did mock tails for 211 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: that and then I really we just had such a 212 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: nice response and It really made me think about that 213 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 1: in a way that now I try to always do 214 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: both an alcohol beverage and a mocktail version of it, 215 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: which has been quite fun. That's awesome. Yeah, and it's 216 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,680 Speaker 1: been it's been interesting to try to I feel like 217 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: you can never really replicate an alcoholic beverage with a 218 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:35,959 Speaker 1: nonalcoholic substitute unless you're doing one of those beverages which 219 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 1: have become quite popular in the last couple of years 220 00:13:38,280 --> 00:13:43,320 Speaker 1: that are essentially made to be just like alcohol, but 221 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,439 Speaker 1: they're not, do you know what I'm talking about, Like, 222 00:13:46,440 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: like they're like faux vodkas and phoegens that are made. 223 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:52,000 Speaker 1: But it is fun to try to experiment and find 224 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:54,920 Speaker 1: what can kind of give you a similar flavor in 225 00:13:54,960 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: some cases depending on the profile that you're going for. 226 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: And that's been quite fun. Yeah, it's tricky because I 227 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,000 Speaker 1: I love a good cocktail and I love too, but 228 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: I like, I mean, there's certainly loads of alcoholism in 229 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,319 Speaker 1: my family, so so it is something that I think 230 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 1: about as well. And like I said, I hope everyone 231 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: drinks responsibly. Yeah, yeah, there used to be. Um. I 232 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: think they still have an online store, but I think 233 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,280 Speaker 1: their brick and mortar location closed, but it was a 234 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:31,080 Speaker 1: store in Portland, Maine that specialized just in bidders um 235 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,400 Speaker 1: and also had a mocktail bar, and that was where 236 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:35,440 Speaker 1: they sort of showcased all of the bidders that they 237 00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: had available. And So another thing that I've had in 238 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 1: my head as at something to maybe do a show 239 00:14:41,240 --> 00:14:46,040 Speaker 1: on at some point is bitters, which simultaneously feels maybe 240 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:50,520 Speaker 1: way too broad and maybe also kind of fun because 241 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: I love a good bidder. I mean, they're they absolutely 242 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 1: scientifically fascinate me, right because you can make a drink 243 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,840 Speaker 1: and you literally put in two to four drops of 244 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,160 Speaker 1: a thing and it changes the whole thing, which is 245 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: so fascinating. And I feel like I still don't I 246 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:10,320 Speaker 1: mess around with bidders, and I'm still learning really more 247 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:13,120 Speaker 1: how to be deft with them. But there are also 248 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: so many that it's like, I feel like you can 249 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:17,840 Speaker 1: learn how to use one bitter really well and then 250 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: you have to move to the next one in a 251 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: cumulative knowledge gaining process. This may just be me, but yeah, 252 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: I'll also just sparkling waters bitters and then really yeah, fascinating. 253 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,800 Speaker 1: So anyway, that's some of our personal drink thoughts. Slash 254 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:41,720 Speaker 1: future episode topics. So thanks to everybody for joining us 255 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 1: on this Friday. We'll be back into your feed tomorrow 256 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: with a Saturday Classic brand new episode on Monday. Send 257 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,480 Speaker 1: us a note if you would like. We're History podcast 258 00:15:53,680 --> 00:16:01,720 Speaker 1: at iHeart radio dot com. Stuff you Missed in History 259 00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: Class is a production of I heart Radio. 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