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Happy Hour #53: Ode to Babel Gin · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stephane
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  Speaker 1: Never told your protection of I Heart Radio, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to another episode of Happy Hour. Yea, and we're coming
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  Speaker 1: back as we originated. We were talking about the different
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  Speaker 1: cocktails and liquors and drinks that are created by women
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  Speaker 1: or managed by women, and so we're coming back to that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we took a little break because we had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff we need to talk about with
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  Speaker 1: sex in the City, your happis, there's so many things
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  Speaker 1: that we had to talk about. Um, but before we
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  Speaker 1: do start, just a this is not sponsored content, well
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  Speaker 1: it is, but not by the people we're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: So let's world be If you are drinking, please drink
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  Speaker 1: responsibly whatever it is that you're drinking. Don't get too
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  Speaker 1: much caffeine either, because you know that causes a lot
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  Speaker 1: of anxiety. Huh. You have to stop drinking coffee by
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  Speaker 1: like four or oh god, I start by noon. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know it has affected me after the fact,
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  Speaker 1: So I will say that since today we are talking
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  Speaker 1: specifically about a beautiful gin that is out of New
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  Speaker 1: York and the company is called Owed to Babel, and
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, if I said that wrong. Please please
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  Speaker 1: correct me, because I want to give you all of
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  Speaker 1: the accolades for this amazing badge of gin. It was
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  Speaker 1: created by twin sisters, Marva and Miriam Babel and it
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  Speaker 1: is a delight in annie. H Did you make a
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  Speaker 1: cocktail with this? I did? Um? I feel like through
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  Speaker 1: this segment it is becoming clear that I never have
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  Speaker 1: anything around um. So I made it the same drink
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  Speaker 1: I've made plenty of times on here, which is essentially
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  Speaker 1: a gin and on it, but it's you know, shot
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  Speaker 1: agen some lime and then fill the glass with sparkling water.
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  Speaker 1: You put wine in it? Is that what you just said? No?
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  Speaker 1: Did I say wine? Oh? You said lime, but I
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  Speaker 1: heard her wine. I was like, wait, what what does
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  Speaker 1: this drink? I have been mixing wine into things lately,
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  Speaker 1: but I have not ventured into that. What frankly sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a very dark that seems that seems like a hardcore. Um. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know what. You and I both went down the
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  Speaker 1: same route, except I do have ingredients here. I will
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  Speaker 1: say that's true. And I made a gin and tonic
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  Speaker 1: with the actual tonic and some lime. And then I
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  Speaker 1: decided I want to question blackberries because we have some leftover,
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  Speaker 1: you see. Yeah, so I was like, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a little differentiation in there. But before
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  Speaker 1: we start, Annie, did you taste test the gen? What
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  Speaker 1: did you think of a flavor profile? Yes, so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: few caveats, as I always say, I'm terrible at describing things,
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  Speaker 1: but also I do always like to take a taste
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  Speaker 1: by itself so I can appreciate the flavor. And I
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  Speaker 1: think you and I have talked about this, Samantha. We
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  Speaker 1: both love Gin's and I think that there are some
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  Speaker 1: really bad gens out there, and I think people have
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  Speaker 1: had some really bad experiences with GIN. So I hesitate
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  Speaker 1: to say this, but to me, it tastes like a
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  Speaker 1: very much like an evergreen forest kind of sweeter flavor profile.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean that in a good way. Like I
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of people hate that kind of piney taste,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what they complain about when they describe GIN.
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  Speaker 1: But in my experience, what people are really complaining about
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  Speaker 1: a sort of a dry, like punch you in the
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  Speaker 1: face pine taste, whereas this feels much more like complex
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  Speaker 1: and has much more depth than than that. Like I know,
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  Speaker 1: everybody always has it tastes like those like car air fresheners.
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  Speaker 1: That's they're bad experience of tin um. This is like
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  Speaker 1: the good version of that. Yeah, um, you know what
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  Speaker 1: for me, I actually is a little sweeter than the
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  Speaker 1: typical gender I drink. I will say that tastes a
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  Speaker 1: lot like it has a little bit of sugarcane in it.
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  Speaker 1: Um a lot more than any other typical dry gens.
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  Speaker 1: And it's very it's very easy, it's very smooth. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't get as much burn as you do in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of other ligers, maybe because it is a small
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  Speaker 1: batch um highly specific type of gin. I believe they
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  Speaker 1: have several of those types as well, but we got
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  Speaker 1: the original um. I had to do the special shipping
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  Speaker 1: and all of that because I'm like, yeah, this is awesome.
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  Speaker 1: And from their own description and you can find this
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  Speaker 1: on their site at O to babbel dot com. O
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  Speaker 1: to babble gin is a small batch New York distilled gin.
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  Speaker 1: Our house blend is sitrus forward with nose of macro
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  Speaker 1: lime and I don't know what that is And if
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  Speaker 1: I said it wrong, I'm sorry. Yelling yellang jasmine and
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful blanche of botanicals ending with a touch of juniper.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, it's refreshing gin that mixes well for you
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  Speaker 1: at home. And oh to Babbel Gin is actually a
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  Speaker 1: bar cocktail bar as well, so they are very like
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  Speaker 1: posh and nettle area to go to to get this
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  Speaker 1: type of cocktails. But it looks like they said, have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of other different things, have ven us and such,
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  Speaker 1: which is probably why I've not seen it anywhere because
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  Speaker 1: if they are that small. Um and I love it. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: created by two sisters who decided they want a safe
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  Speaker 1: space with good cocktails in New York based in the
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood. Uh and as I say it,
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  Speaker 1: it's an ode to black women and their tenacity. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it seems like they've absolutely held onto that creating this
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  Speaker 1: open space not only to bring an environment of hospitality
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  Speaker 1: but safety, especially for black and Indigenous people of color
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  Speaker 1: as well as the l g PTQ community. Really bringing
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  Speaker 1: in the fact that this is an area in a
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  Speaker 1: place in their neighborhood that allows for openness and lot
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  Speaker 1: of community, just diverse community. And I love, love love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that this company is thriving. They've made it
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  Speaker 1: through the COVID pandemic, thus far Um with all of
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  Speaker 1: the restrictions of New York. And yeah, they're Gin's kind
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  Speaker 1: of on the top of my list right now, Andy,
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  Speaker 1: Like that is a nice gin. I need you all
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  Speaker 1: to try this if you can. If you're in New York,
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  Speaker 1: you definitely should go um and support their business. Go
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  Speaker 1: buy a bottle. Absolutely worth it. And I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: because I've got several other variations with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: like twists and turns and flavoring, and I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna need all that. I'm gonna need all that. Annie,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as I'm didn't here thinking about how much
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  Speaker 1: I really do love this gin, I'm thinking about all
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  Speaker 1: of the episodes that we've had, especially when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to all the different types of drinks and cocktails that
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about. What are some of your highlights from
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  Speaker 1: our segments. Oh, that's a good question, because there's been
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  Speaker 1: so many. I think I have really enjoyed finding brands
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  Speaker 1: that I wouldn't necessarily know and then seeing them in
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  Speaker 1: the store and being like, oh, I've tried that. I
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  Speaker 1: like the people behind that, and so I feel good
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  Speaker 1: about buying it, and I know, it tastes good, like
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  Speaker 1: there's just a piece of me, especially after all of
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  Speaker 1: this me too stuff in the in the brewery industry
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  Speaker 1: and alcohol industry at large. It's just nice to know
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not supporting something terrible and supporting something that
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  Speaker 1: I believe in and I'm I'm happy to see and
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  Speaker 1: that tastes good, and I think that's important to both
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  Speaker 1: of us. So I've really enjoyed. For instance, like the
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  Speaker 1: other day, I was at the grocery store and I
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  Speaker 1: saw a Black Girl Magic Wine. I was like, oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: like grocery store, this is I'm so fore this and
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  Speaker 1: I feel good about buying it, right, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: absolutely agree. I think one of the joys of doing
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  Speaker 1: this is talking about it and then seeing spread wide
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  Speaker 1: far from like, oh, look it went from the small
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  Speaker 1: wineries that it's exclusively has been selling it to is
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  Speaker 1: that Kroger That's amazing? Yeah, get your money, get all
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  Speaker 1: of that money. You know, I think I've discovered my
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  Speaker 1: favorite whiskey at this point in time with Uncle Nears
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorites, still one of my favorites, even
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  Speaker 1: with all the different brands that we've gone through that
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  Speaker 1: I have it's top tier, and seeing those businesses grow
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  Speaker 1: and become standards for the industry has been a delight.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, also the fact that we're being able to
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  Speaker 1: see the problematic things. Literally sitting with my good friends
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  Speaker 1: and being like, you should not drink this because so
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  Speaker 1: and so and so and so. We're talked about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we were going to have at work function
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  Speaker 1: and our person was trying to set it up. I
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  Speaker 1: don't use them, and she was like, oh they are.
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  Speaker 1: They're racist, their sexist. We're not going to get them
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  Speaker 1: our business. But just holding true to that and making
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  Speaker 1: sure that even though oftentimes there's not really accountability, there's
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  Speaker 1: a moment of like, oh no, they got bad press,
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  Speaker 1: and then everybody moves on and forgets, we can still
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  Speaker 1: have that moment of like, you know what, we can
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  Speaker 1: still stand our ground and hold to our values after
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  Speaker 1: knowing how bad business practices they have or whatnot. As
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  Speaker 1: in fact, one of the breweries that we're hit in
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta for bad press for their treatment of their employees,
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  Speaker 1: for their mistreatment of the LGBTQ community, supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: female run shoot. The whole staff just walked out and
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  Speaker 1: they had promised change when the initial me too stuff
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  Speaker 1: happened in the beer industry, and they obviously haven't changed.
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  Speaker 1: And we can add that to the Great Resignation in
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  Speaker 1: that it's a time that we called together and say
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  Speaker 1: we expect better treatment as your employees. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that is a commendable and it feels like it's a
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  Speaker 1: big uprising. I don't know any Does it feel like
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  Speaker 1: that to you or is it just because words we're
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  Speaker 1: actually paying attention? Uh, it does feel like that to me.
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  Speaker 1: But occasionally, especially like I talked to somebody who we
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  Speaker 1: work with who hadn't spoken to in a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and it was just weird of this moment of like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so isolated and insulated, and so he was saying
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  Speaker 1: things and my brain was like what. So. I recently
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  Speaker 1: saw some statistics on the Great Resignation and people how
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  Speaker 1: many people have left and start their own thing, And
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  Speaker 1: to me, it seems really high. And it's not that
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe it's happening. It's just sort of I'm
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  Speaker 1: so isolated from things. But I do think the people
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  Speaker 1: in my orbit are trying to be more um conscious
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  Speaker 1: of where what they're buying comes from, and that that
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  Speaker 1: also comes with a certain amount of privilege in terms
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  Speaker 1: of price and time to get that information. As we said,
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  Speaker 1: that's that's a commodity as well. But that does make
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  Speaker 1: me and I do think it's a thought like at
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  Speaker 1: least people are thinking it now of like I would
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  Speaker 1: like to support businesses that I align with their values
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  Speaker 1: and I know that they're doing things that I approve
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  Speaker 1: of or that I'm like on board with. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: with that, Annie, I think this segment has been quite
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  Speaker 1: a delight just to be able to openly discuss things
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  Speaker 1: that have personally affected us. I mean, you've just opened
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  Speaker 1: up so much. You're pretty much an open book. Let's
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  Speaker 1: just be goal honest. However, Uh, in this past year
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  Speaker 1: with this segment, you've really been able to face and
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  Speaker 1: just call out some things. And I know it has
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  Speaker 1: reached a lot of our listeners, majority of our emails,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like our thank you so much for sharing
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  Speaker 1: this is how I dealt with this as well, or
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  Speaker 1: I've been through this as well, and it's been exciting
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  Speaker 1: to see that we can connect with our listeners so
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  Speaker 1: so much. And I really have been excited by this
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  Speaker 1: segment in itself that not only do we get to
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  Speaker 1: highlight amazing practices and amazing women of this business, um
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  Speaker 1: and amazing people who are making changes. But we get
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  Speaker 1: to kind of confront our demons as well, because I
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  Speaker 1: feel like you've brought some things to me. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, yeah that's me too. That I feel
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  Speaker 1: like it's really really important in our conversations as we
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: enter this world of social media that has just I
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: don't know, maybe because I too am isolated and so
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: I feel my void with social media as well. And
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: then we just constantly do this because this is our
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  Speaker 1: job that it is. It is really interesting to see
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: how important it is that we are honest and communicate
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  Speaker 1: as best we can when we're trying to be also
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  Speaker 1: be vulnerable. It's a whole other level. Yeah, yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 1: And it's so rewarding not to beat this drum, but
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  Speaker 1: also like, let's beat this drum to hear from your listeners,
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  Speaker 1: because it is kind of a lonely experience sometimes because
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  Speaker 1: it's just me and Samantha in our own closet slash
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  Speaker 1: dining room area and in my dining room area. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and we want to connect with people and we want
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  Speaker 1: to know that you know, we're not just like shouting
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  Speaker 1: into the void. And so especially for episodes where were
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  Speaker 1: vulnerable and you feel maybe nervous after it goes out,
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  Speaker 1: it's so rewarding to hear from people afterwards, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's just a short hey, I I connect
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  Speaker 1: with that, or I see that, or here's the resource
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  Speaker 1: that helped me. But also even like the Sillier d quotes,
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  Speaker 1: things of I love that I talked about life day
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  Speaker 1: that I talked about this song from Encanto like people
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  Speaker 1: wrote in about it. Yes, oh, I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: am emotionally prepared for Rancanto. I think you could do it,
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  Speaker 1: but I hesitate. I hesitate just because like to me,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't that upsetting, but it is sad if that
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  Speaker 1: makes things, Oh yeah, it's happy, like most of all
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  Speaker 1: I would describe that movie is like a happy sweet thing,
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  Speaker 1: but it's definitely got. It's like sad beginning, sad third
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  Speaker 1: beginning of third act. But so was Paddington Bear, and
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  Speaker 1: I was very upset. I think Paddington Bear is sadder,
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  Speaker 1: but that I just don't want to lead you down
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  Speaker 1: the path and then you'll be mad. So I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to be very like objective about this I do want.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to sing that song karaoke. I'm so ready. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to if this season ever ends of NonStop chaos. However,
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  Speaker 1: you know, as I have been talking about what we
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  Speaker 1: have done for this Happy Hour, and I love coming
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  Speaker 1: upon all of these amazing brands and amazing people. And
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  Speaker 1: we also want the non alcoholic stuff as well, in
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  Speaker 1: any of the spissers. I know it's some at mocktails,
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  Speaker 1: but some people find that really offensive, so non alcoholic
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  Speaker 1: drinks and cocktails. But I would love to hear from
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  Speaker 1: you all listeners, if you know, because you are all
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  Speaker 1: out there. I am stuck in Atlanta, Georgia, and we
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  Speaker 1: have a vast amount of listeners everywhere. I would love
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  Speaker 1: to hear about any brands that you think we should highlight. Um,
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  Speaker 1: any companies that are doing some amazing things. Please please
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  Speaker 1: please let us know, because like we've actually had brands
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  Speaker 1: after we highlight them, they're like, hey, that's us, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and then it's sending and stuff and we're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get to highlight them again, because that's what
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  Speaker 1: we'd love to do. But we know those companies out there.
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  Speaker 1: It's just harder for us to find uh in Atlanta, Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: or we're just not aware of it even though we're
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  Speaker 1: researching it because you know, some people, as we know,
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  Speaker 1: don't get the credit until way too late or until
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: they're you know, some other things happen and we don't
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  Speaker 1: like that. We like to know when they need you know,
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  Speaker 1: we like to be in the middle of it, at
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of it so we can stay with the
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  Speaker 1: cool people. Just kidd but please, please, please, please please,
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  Speaker 1: If you have a favorite brewery company, drink place, any
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  Speaker 1: of them that you think should be highlighted. If you
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  Speaker 1: think of a cocktail that was created by a woman
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  Speaker 1: non binary, please send that in. We think there's some
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  Speaker 1: historical basis that we need to know about when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to crafting drinks. In any of that, please, we
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  Speaker 1: love all of that. Send that to us. Gimme, gimme, gimme.
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  Speaker 1: The more the better. Yes, I would actually like to
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: talk about the very controversial Ladies Night. Oh that's a
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  Speaker 1: whole episode, though it probably is. I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it for a while, but yes, cheers to YouTube.
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