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- 0:00Speaker 1: Brought to you by the all new Toyota Corolla. Welcome
- 0:04Speaker 1: to Stuff you Should Know from House stuff Works dot com. Hey,
- 0:14Speaker 1: and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark and I'm
- 0:16Speaker 1: with Charles de w Chuck Bryant. He's with me right
- 0:19Speaker 1: now drinking the quaw. That's right, and Jerry's over there,
- 0:23Speaker 1: fresh back from San Francisco. Like, yeah, everything's coming up
- 0:26Speaker 1: aces in this room right now, just because we're here. Yeah,
- 0:29Speaker 1: just because it's stuff you should that's right. Welcome to
- 0:33Speaker 1: the show. Welcome to the show. Hey, I'd like to
- 0:36Speaker 1: shout out a little Bit Sweets for for no reason
- 0:41Speaker 1: other than they make awesome candy. Well send it to
- 0:44Speaker 1: us from time time in a little while. Well, we're
- 0:47Speaker 1: doing chocolate today and little Bit Sweets in Brooklyn, New
- 0:51Speaker 1: York now has a retail space. Oh yeah, congratulate at
- 0:55Speaker 1: Chelsea Market. You ever been there? That's awesome? I have not.
- 0:58Speaker 1: Oh wait, is that the one like the it's relatively
- 1:01Speaker 1: new and awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I wonder if they're
- 1:04Speaker 1: Rubanelbos with like Mario Batali and all that. Doesn't he
- 1:07Speaker 1: have a place there? I don't know. I think he does.
- 1:09Speaker 1: I've been through there though. It's it's a cool place,
- 1:11Speaker 1: that's neat. So congratulations to Liz and gen of little
- 1:13Speaker 1: bit Sweet sound seem at Chelsea Market they make great chocolate.
- 1:17Speaker 1: And I'm gonna ask Liz after this is released if
- 1:21Speaker 1: we screwed it up really bad or if we got
- 1:23Speaker 1: it pretty pretty good? Oh the chocolate thing, because she'll know, well, sure,
- 1:29Speaker 1: she's a chocolate tour. That's right. Um, okay, that was
- 1:33Speaker 1: nice to be chucked, um chuck. Yes, well you just
- 1:40Speaker 1: kind of screwed up my intro question. Oh really, what
- 1:44Speaker 1: was it? I have ever had chocolate? Do you know
- 1:46Speaker 1: about chocolate? Yeah? I know a little bit about chocolate.
- 1:49Speaker 1: I do too now. Um. And I was surprised at
- 1:52Speaker 1: reading this article how closely this episode will probably resemble
- 1:55Speaker 1: our coffee episode. And you're gonna say that it's just
- 1:58Speaker 1: like they're almost like to beans in the same pod. Yeah,
- 2:01Speaker 1: and some of the processes are similar, and uh yeah,
- 2:04Speaker 1: I totally thought the same thing. Yeah, people are exploited
- 2:07Speaker 1: in much the same way. There's child slavery involved, fair
- 2:10Speaker 1: trade swoops in tries to like correct back. There's beans,
- 2:13Speaker 1: there's roasting, they're drying. Yeah, all sorts of similar processes.
- 2:17Speaker 1: And there's a ficionados who I imagine can tell the
- 2:20Speaker 1: difference between a bean grown one place and being grown
- 2:23Speaker 1: another place, because it makes a difference, as we'll find true.
- 2:26Speaker 1: I think we should finish out. Maybe we could make
- 2:28Speaker 1: a sweet and do wine and then most kind of
- 2:31Speaker 1: three similar Well, no, we we gotta put it in
- 2:34Speaker 1: with our like beer and cheese. We'll call it the
- 2:37Speaker 1: good Life sweet. Let's add yachts at the end, just
- 2:42Speaker 1: to cap it off. Beer, wine, cheese, chocolate, yachts. I
- 2:48Speaker 1: never realized how ugly that word is until just now. Yachts.
- 2:52Speaker 1: That's the way I said it. Even if you say
- 2:54Speaker 1: it like it's spelled as you come up with yachts.
- 2:59Speaker 1: Stupid word, So chuck. Yes, chocolate. It turns out um
- 3:04Speaker 1: is actually a pretty ancient thing, like eating chocolate. It
- 3:08Speaker 1: grows from the cacao tree. Well consuming chocolate, right, okay, yes,
- 3:13Speaker 1: nice cat Um. They found a bowl from somewhere in
- 3:17Speaker 1: Mesoamerica that dates back to I think BC UM and
- 3:25Speaker 1: it has residue chocolate residue in it still, yeah, traces
- 3:30Speaker 1: of it um, So we know that people have been
- 3:33Speaker 1: consuming chocolate since at least BC it's highly unlikely that
- 3:39Speaker 1: we just happened to find the first bowl that was
- 3:42Speaker 1: ever used to consume chocolate for the first time. Um,
- 3:47Speaker 1: and we know that the first first record of somebody
- 3:52Speaker 1: mentioning chocolate came about three d the Maya. We're drinking
- 3:56Speaker 1: it back then, that's right. Yeah, they offered it to
- 3:59Speaker 1: the odds. Yes, it was highly cherished, it was, but
- 4:05Speaker 1: it was a beverage and for chocolate's life it has
- 4:08Speaker 1: been a beverage. Uh, gritty, frothy, kind of a bitter beverage.
- 4:15Speaker 1: And then sometimes they would add cinnamon, hot pepper, um,
- 4:21Speaker 1: hot pepper, and chocolate. By the way, yeah, I do too,
- 4:23Speaker 1: like the chili chocolates A nice sipping chocolate. Well no,
- 4:28Speaker 1: I mean that the hard variety. It's good in like
- 4:31Speaker 1: a sipping chocolate too. Really you can come across that, okay, yeah. Um.
- 4:36Speaker 1: So the Maya were the ones who like really kind
- 4:39Speaker 1: of founded chocolate consumption as we understand it, and then
- 4:45Speaker 1: it was adopted by the Aztecs, who had a pretty
- 4:48Speaker 1: um short memory span apparently because the Aztecs the Triple
- 4:52Speaker 1: Alliance conquered the Maya at some point and said, hey,
- 4:57Speaker 1: we like this chocolate. But we're gonna forget that we
- 5:00Speaker 1: at it from the Maya. We're gonna say we got
- 5:01Speaker 1: it from the god catzel Kotal, right, and he was
- 5:05Speaker 1: the a god who was kicked out of the dominion
- 5:08Speaker 1: of God's forgiving chocolate to the Aztecs, as the Aztecs
- 5:11Speaker 1: tell it, which is not nice. What getting kicked out? Yeah,
- 5:15Speaker 1: for sharing your chocolate, you know, yeah, because you're out
- 5:20Speaker 1: chocolate and you got kicked out of the pantheon. That's right.
- 5:25Speaker 1: In the Aztecs, um called chocolate. I'm pronounced that huacatl.
- 5:32Speaker 1: I think that's probably right. Um. And this thought to
- 5:34Speaker 1: meant I mean bitter water, and like you said, they
- 5:37Speaker 1: would add certain spices to it to make it more palatable.
- 5:41Speaker 1: But the gods and the kings and everyone thought it.
- 5:44Speaker 1: You know, it was like, uh, like a super drink,
- 5:47Speaker 1: so they would drink like tons of it. Well yeah,
- 5:49Speaker 1: months a Zuma was apparently, um fond enough of it
- 5:53Speaker 1: that he drank like fifty cups of it a day.
- 5:55Speaker 1: That's crazy. I think we said that in another one
- 5:57Speaker 1: that sounded familiar it did to me, Yeah, or maybe
- 6:00Speaker 1: he drank lots of coffee. I wonder what it was.
- 6:03Speaker 1: I don't know. Um, it was a currency. Yeah, there was.
- 6:07Speaker 1: Actually it was an actually a sixteenth century az Tech
- 6:10Speaker 1: document that is basically a currency exchange for cocao. You no,
- 6:16Speaker 1: the being for chocolate beans. Yeah. It's like a hundred
- 6:19Speaker 1: of them buys a turkey. Ye. And it's a one
- 6:22Speaker 1: for one exchange for a good tamalia. That's a pretty
- 6:25Speaker 1: good deal. I take that. Yeah. Um, But the point
- 6:28Speaker 1: is this chocolate, like the it was sacred to the Mesoamericans.
- 6:34Speaker 1: It was currency. It was a big deal. Uh. And
- 6:37Speaker 1: then the Spaniards came along and they said, what are
- 6:40Speaker 1: you guys drinking? And they took a sip and they
- 6:44Speaker 1: spit it out, and then they tried it again, like
- 6:46Speaker 1: maybe it's okay. And there's some pretty good quotes about
- 6:49Speaker 1: what the Spaniards thought of chocolate and how it tasted. Yeah.
- 6:53Speaker 1: One of them, uh, comes from a Jesuit missionary and
- 6:58Speaker 1: he said it is is loathsome to such as they're
- 7:01Speaker 1: not acquainted with it, having a scum or froth. That
- 7:04Speaker 1: is very unpleasant taste. Yeah. I also saw another quote
- 7:07Speaker 1: that said, um, it was a Spaniard who referred to
- 7:10Speaker 1: chocolate as a bitter drink for pigs. Yeah, I get,
- 7:14Speaker 1: I mean really bitter chocolate I can't stomach no, and
- 7:17Speaker 1: that's what they were drinking. I mean like the concept
- 7:19Speaker 1: of sweet chocolate came thanks to Europe, and it came
- 7:23Speaker 1: about this time. So, um, who was it that conquered
- 7:26Speaker 1: the Aztecs? Cortez the killer Um. Cortez basically said all right,
- 7:34Speaker 1: I'm gonna take this chocolate and we're gonna see what
- 7:36Speaker 1: Europe does to it. And Europe went crazy for it.
- 7:40Speaker 1: Of course they sweetened it, right, that was the That
- 7:43Speaker 1: was Europe's big addition to chocolate, adding sugarcane or honey
- 7:48Speaker 1: or molasses or something to the chocolate to sweeten. And
- 7:51Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Europe is like, we like this,
- 7:53Speaker 1: let's enslave the people. Cortez comes back and says, good news.
- 7:57Speaker 1: They love the chocolate, and monte Zuma and the rest
- 8:01Speaker 1: of the Triple Allianes for like, that's great, we don't care.
- 8:03Speaker 1: It's like, don't know, this does pertain to you. There's
- 8:06Speaker 1: good news and bad news. Bad news is you have
- 8:08Speaker 1: a new great father, meet my thunderstick, the boomstick. Uh
- 8:13Speaker 1: so what the Europeans did? They enslaved them for a while,
- 8:16Speaker 1: and then the demand rose, so they said, hey, why
- 8:19Speaker 1: don't we just start growing this stuff in territories that
- 8:22Speaker 1: we um have conquered, which is you can only grow
- 8:26Speaker 1: the cacou tree within about twenty degrees north or south
- 8:30Speaker 1: of the equator the tropics. Yeah yeah, um, and it
- 8:32Speaker 1: likes very wet conditions. And it's also apparently the cacou
- 8:37Speaker 1: tree is really um finicky, which we'll talk about but um.
- 8:42Speaker 1: When they did figure out that they could plan it
- 8:44Speaker 1: along the tropics, the cost of chocolate dropped tremendously in Europe,
- 8:49Speaker 1: which was necessary to make it, you know, something that
- 8:52Speaker 1: wasn't just for royalty, right. And then still at this
- 8:55Speaker 1: time people were consuming it as a drink even in
- 8:57Speaker 1: Europe as well, but they were sweetening it um. And
- 9:00Speaker 1: then so you would have a person who got ahold
- 9:03Speaker 1: of the beans, roasted them, uh, and then made their
- 9:06Speaker 1: own chocolate and then sold it all in one place.
- 9:09Speaker 1: Then the industrial revolution happened and everybody applied the principles
- 9:12Speaker 1: of industry to everything. It basically, smash everything right exactly,
- 9:17Speaker 1: and see what happens to using machine and smash it
- 9:19Speaker 1: unless you're a luddy. And then you smash the machine itself. Right. Um.
- 9:24Speaker 1: There was a Dutch entrepreneur name Conrad Johannes van Houten.
- 9:29Speaker 1: Do you think in the millhouse? How can you not know? Um?
- 9:33Speaker 1: And he was the first one to press the cacao
- 9:35Speaker 1: bean um, which separates and we'll get into all this later,
- 9:38Speaker 1: but essentially separated the cacao into the butter and the powder,
- 9:44Speaker 1: the dry part, right. And he figured out if you
- 9:46Speaker 1: add a little more butter back into it, which is strange, Um,
- 9:51Speaker 1: you can make a bar. Yeah. Or if you ad
- 9:54Speaker 1: a little alkali, be a little less bitter, a little
- 9:57Speaker 1: more palatable. And then Joseph Fry and englishman said, hey,
- 10:02Speaker 1: why don't we have a little sugar, maybe a little
- 10:04Speaker 1: more cocoa butter, And now we have the first chocolate bar. Okay,
- 10:07Speaker 1: so I have it wrong. Joseph Fry invented the cocoa,
- 10:10Speaker 1: the chocolate bar. Van Houten invented Dutch cocoa, which is
- 10:14Speaker 1: a sweeter cocoa powder. And Rodolph Lynt, if you you
- 10:17Speaker 1: might recognize that, still, how do you not like lint?
- 10:20Speaker 1: He invented conking in seventy nine and we'll get into
- 10:24Speaker 1: what that is later, but it's a pretty important process.
- 10:27Speaker 1: But it's conk like the shell. Yeah, because the first
- 10:30Speaker 1: like a shell. Um. But we'll get into what that means.
- 10:33Speaker 1: But it basically makes it smoother and more affordable. You
- 10:37Speaker 1: can mass produce it as like the chocolate bars we
- 10:40Speaker 1: know and love. And then uh, in the early nine hundreds,
- 10:44Speaker 1: all this is going on within a few decades. There's
- 10:47Speaker 1: like all these sudden quick advances in chocolate that that
- 10:50Speaker 1: takes chocolate from this frothy, gritty, bitter drink to chocolate
- 10:57Speaker 1: as we understand it today, starting in the ninety century.
- 11:01Speaker 1: And then I think in the nineteen o four early
- 11:05Speaker 1: d a guy with the last name of Nestley about
- 11:08Speaker 1: to add milk powder, and then we had milk chocolate
- 11:11Speaker 1: and the humanity achieved its pinnacle. That's right, Uh, Henry
- 11:16Speaker 1: or Henry Nestlee and Milton Hersheet very important dudes. Um,
- 11:23Speaker 1: And that was that was for milk chocolate. But you know,
- 11:25Speaker 1: you can also make dark chocolate less bitter by some
- 11:28Speaker 1: of the same processes, because you know, when you buy
- 11:31Speaker 1: the dark chocolate has a percentage of and the higher
- 11:34Speaker 1: the percentage, the more bitter it is. I can't go
- 11:38Speaker 1: above like seventies. My max is it? Do your your
- 11:43Speaker 1: mouth just start catching on fire, your teeth fall out
- 11:46Speaker 1: or what happened? Like that bitter chocolate taste some people
- 11:48Speaker 1: love super super bittery. I'm a super taster with bitter. Um.
- 11:53Speaker 1: Do you remember in our taste episode we talked about
- 11:55Speaker 1: super tasters. Like, since that episode, I've noticed that with bitter,
- 11:59Speaker 1: like I taste it way more than most people. Yeah,
- 12:03Speaker 1: and um, how do you like your chocolate? Like I
- 12:05Speaker 1: can handle dark chocolate, but like it tastes really bitter
- 12:09Speaker 1: to me. But like I can barely handle grapefruit. I
- 12:12Speaker 1: had to train myself to enjoy grapefruit, and I don't
- 12:14Speaker 1: like grapefruit. Yeah. Maybe you're a bitter super taste too, maybe,
- 12:18Speaker 1: but if you I can tell you that just practice
- 12:21Speaker 1: makes perfect with drinking grapefruit to Oh well for me
- 12:24Speaker 1: eating chocolate, right, um? And I like I sprinkle a
- 12:27Speaker 1: little sea salt on it now too, which is really
- 12:29Speaker 1: like that? Oh yeah yeah that's pretty good. Yeah. Um,
- 12:32Speaker 1: all right, So let's get into the seed or the
- 12:34Speaker 1: bean a little bit. Uh. They growing pods on a tree,
- 12:38Speaker 1: and the tree itself is they grow taller than ft.
- 12:43Speaker 1: But for um cultivation, they trim them so they don't
- 12:46Speaker 1: grow above ten or twelve is the height that they
- 12:50Speaker 1: try to keep them at. Yeah, because people I climb
- 12:53Speaker 1: up and pick them. Yeah, this is this is something
- 12:56Speaker 1: I find very interesting about climb I think they use
- 12:58Speaker 1: a long along tool like a telescopic um knife. Yeah. Um,
- 13:04Speaker 1: but this is it's the cocao trees are so fickle
- 13:09Speaker 1: that they actually have kept chocolate production as like a
- 13:15Speaker 1: family business. Yeah. You can't mass produce these things. You
- 13:20Speaker 1: can't mass harvest these things. It's still got to be
- 13:23Speaker 1: done by hand because the pods and the seeds don't
- 13:26Speaker 1: all ripen at the same time, so you can't just
- 13:28Speaker 1: drive a machine in there and be like get all
- 13:30Speaker 1: those pods out, and so you have to do them
- 13:32Speaker 1: like individually, one by one when they're ready to come
- 13:35Speaker 1: off the tree. Plus. Um. The harvesting a seed pod,
- 13:39Speaker 1: which is about the shape of a long orange football
- 13:42Speaker 1: about twelve inches long. Um. The way you harvest it
- 13:46Speaker 1: is really important because if you break off the bloom
- 13:51Speaker 1: that it's growing out of, you will damage it so
- 13:53Speaker 1: that no other pods grow out of that. So it's
- 13:56Speaker 1: a really really finicky tree. It is, you know, um
- 14:01Speaker 1: of the world's cocao is grown by just two and
- 14:04Speaker 1: a half million farmers, all of them working five to
- 14:07Speaker 1: ten acre plots, family plots, like a family farming business
- 14:12Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, we like we said earlier it was
- 14:14Speaker 1: earlier it was meso America, but now most of the
- 14:17Speaker 1: farms are in Africa and West Africa. Codvoir is like
- 14:21Speaker 1: the chocolate coco producing that ivory coast. Yeah, okay, but
- 14:25Speaker 1: they prefer copdvoir, I think so. Uh yeah, they produce
- 14:29Speaker 1: more than a million metric tons just on the cope
- 14:32Speaker 1: davoir excuse me per year. Um. There are only three
- 14:37Speaker 1: types of three varieties of bean, and the they are
- 14:41Speaker 1: the for for astero, and it's the most common because
- 14:45Speaker 1: it yields the most beans, has the most chuckolated taste too, yeah,
- 14:48Speaker 1: and it's the hardiest, so they do better. Um. And
- 14:52Speaker 1: then on the other side of the coin you have
- 14:54Speaker 1: the creolo, which is very complex but very difficult to grow,
- 14:59Speaker 1: very delicate, and the small percentage of all the cacao
- 15:02Speaker 1: beans that are harvested, right. And then there's the trinitario,
- 15:06Speaker 1: which is a hybrid of the creoleo. So how we're
- 15:10Speaker 1: saying it in the forest stero that somebody took a
- 15:13Speaker 1: forest stero to Trinidad where they were growing creolo and
- 15:18Speaker 1: they hybridized. So you have like basically this full spectrum
- 15:22Speaker 1: of finicky and then different tastes of chocolate. Yeah, and
- 15:27Speaker 1: they and like we said earlier, like with coffee and
- 15:29Speaker 1: like with grapes for wine. If you're in aficionado, you
- 15:32Speaker 1: know what what geographical location will produce different flavors and tastes.
- 15:38Speaker 1: And companies when they make chocolate are very picky about
- 15:41Speaker 1: and secretive about exactly where they get their beans. Some
- 15:45Speaker 1: it's all one farm, uh something I like to do
- 15:48Speaker 1: a nice blend, but that's a trade secret. But um,
- 15:50Speaker 1: just because you have a forest stero bean and one
- 15:54Speaker 1: part of the country doesn't mean old tastes the same
- 15:56Speaker 1: as in the other part. So so not only do
- 15:59Speaker 1: these different varieties produce different tastes, like depending on where
- 16:02Speaker 1: you grew a specific variety, it'll tastes different from that
- 16:06Speaker 1: same variety grown elsewhere. That's right, um. And those trees
- 16:10Speaker 1: we should say are called the theod roma cocao. They
- 16:13Speaker 1: were named by linneus Um and it translates to cacao,
- 16:18Speaker 1: food of the gods. And those those three varieties aren't
- 16:21Speaker 1: the only three, but they're the three dominant varieties growing worldwide.
- 16:26Speaker 1: Oh they're more than that. Okay, Um, so I guess
- 16:30Speaker 1: we should get into a little bit about the process. Yeah,
- 16:35Speaker 1: because what interested me is the all those European additions
- 16:39Speaker 1: to the process of producing chocolate are still based on
- 16:43Speaker 1: the original ancient means of growing and producing chocolate. So
- 16:48Speaker 1: it's like, go through the process of producing chocolate, then
- 16:52Speaker 1: you just take it through these additional steps to make
- 16:54Speaker 1: chocolate as well. You understand it, which is pretty cool
- 16:56Speaker 1: because they're still they're doing this ancient method. Yeah. Like
- 17:00Speaker 1: still you've heard there's more than one way to skinn
- 17:03Speaker 1: of cat, there's only one way to make chocolate. You know.
- 17:07Speaker 1: Machinery he has improved, but you're right, it's still the same,
- 17:09Speaker 1: which is really neat. Uh. So you have these ripen
- 17:13Speaker 1: pods like we talked about, they change color from green
- 17:15Speaker 1: to orange. Uh. And then it's time to cut them down. Uh.
- 17:18Speaker 1: And then the beans and pulpa removed and left to ferment,
- 17:22Speaker 1: which is exactly what you think. They cover it up
- 17:24Speaker 1: with banana leaves and stuff and let the moisture seep
- 17:27Speaker 1: out of it slowly. Um. Yeah, and this is one
- 17:30Speaker 1: of the few things where alcohol is just a byproduct
- 17:34Speaker 1: of the fermentation process rather than the goal, right, because
- 17:37Speaker 1: they I'm sure some people drink this chocolate alcohol, but
- 17:41Speaker 1: the part is discarded, is it. Yeah, as far as
- 17:44Speaker 1: I know, I don't think Nestleie's bottling it or anything. Yeah,
- 17:47Speaker 1: but I bet the farm workers might have a wonder
- 17:50Speaker 1: what that tastes like. I'll bet it's awful. I'm sure
- 17:53Speaker 1: it is. Uh So, in the in the cacao bean
- 17:56Speaker 1: um there's things like bacteria and yeas that produce acids
- 17:58Speaker 1: and gases, and they break down some of those sugars
- 18:03Speaker 1: over the course of this the this uh fermentation process,
- 18:07Speaker 1: and they're gonna end up dark brown in the end,
- 18:09Speaker 1: right after about a week of fermenting ye and then
- 18:12Speaker 1: they pack them in the jute bags, take them to
- 18:14Speaker 1: the buyers. They grade the beans because you know, they
- 18:17Speaker 1: it's very specific, like the quality of the bean. You'll
- 18:19Speaker 1: get a certain price, you know, depending on how good
- 18:22Speaker 1: they are. And then it goes on to the next step,
- 18:26Speaker 1: which is where the companies who produced chocolate by the
- 18:29Speaker 1: seeds from the buyers. That's right, and that those sugars
- 18:33Speaker 1: being broken down in the fermentation process become very very
- 18:36Speaker 1: important at this step because the first thing you do
- 18:39Speaker 1: is you take all of your cocao beans and roast them.
- 18:45Speaker 1: And when you're roasting and I in this article it
- 18:48Speaker 1: says that sometimes you you just roast the nibs first.
- 18:53Speaker 1: I've found that pretty much everybody roasts the bean and
- 18:56Speaker 1: then roast the nibs separately later on. Yeah, the nib
- 18:59Speaker 1: is actually the meat. Yeah, what's actually what becomes chocolate, right.
- 19:03Speaker 1: A cacao bean has a shell that you take off
- 19:07Speaker 1: in the meat inside is a cocoa nib um. So
- 19:10Speaker 1: you roast the bean first, and then later on you
- 19:13Speaker 1: roast the nib itself. And as you're roasting it, what
- 19:17Speaker 1: you're doing is creating something called the Mayard reaction, which
- 19:21Speaker 1: is basically the sugars that were broken down and exposed
- 19:26Speaker 1: during fermentation are combined with amino acids that are also
- 19:30Speaker 1: present in the cocao, and when placed together in the
- 19:35Speaker 1: presence of heat, you have something called flavor compounds that
- 19:38Speaker 1: are produced. And depending on the amino acid present, whether
- 19:42Speaker 1: it's cheese or whether it's beer or whether whatever it
- 19:45Speaker 1: is bread um, the the sugars and the amino acids
- 19:50Speaker 1: are going to react differently to create different flavors, and
- 19:52Speaker 1: with chocolate specifically, these different amino acids produced chocolate flavor. Yeah,
- 19:57Speaker 1: it's uh, non intematic browning. And if it's not just chocolate,
- 20:01Speaker 1: I mean if you like pretzels, or if you like
- 20:04Speaker 1: if you like the flavor of anything, well, no, that's
- 20:06Speaker 1: not true. It's only certain things to have this reaction. Yeah,
- 20:10Speaker 1: like um, bread when it's toasted or baked. Um, a
- 20:14Speaker 1: steak when it's browned, anything important, French fries. Uh. And
- 20:20Speaker 1: so the roasting process it's anywhere from thirty minutes to
- 20:22Speaker 1: a couple of hours at about two fifty degrees fahrenheit
- 20:26Speaker 1: or higher. And every company has their own methods for this.
- 20:30Speaker 1: You know, everyone's gonna have their own specific like roasting process,
- 20:34Speaker 1: but that's a general thing, right. Uh So the next
- 20:38Speaker 1: thing that happened is you need to to get that
- 20:40Speaker 1: nib extracted, and so they quickly cool the beans and
- 20:45Speaker 1: send them through what's called a cracker and a fanner
- 20:48Speaker 1: that splits the shell and blows off the shell and
- 20:51Speaker 1: you're left with a nib. And then at that point
- 20:54Speaker 1: the nib is ready to go to the mill to
- 20:57Speaker 1: be ground well, or it's roasted and then ground into
- 21:01Speaker 1: chocolate liquor. So it's it's roasted again before its ground. Yes, okay, yeah,
- 21:07Speaker 1: yeah for sure. Like if anything, the nibs the thing
- 21:09Speaker 1: you want to roast. For sure. This article insinuates that, um,
- 21:14Speaker 1: you might not roast the bean, You're just gonna roast
- 21:19Speaker 1: the nib. You definitely roast the nib first because that's
- 21:23Speaker 1: where the flavor compounds come from. But you can roast
- 21:26Speaker 1: the nib inside the bean too, right yeah, okay, like
- 21:29Speaker 1: as a two step process. So now it goes to
- 21:32Speaker 1: the grinder a melingingur, which is French, and there are
- 21:36Speaker 1: these big granite rollers that basically basically mash up those
- 21:39Speaker 1: nibs into a paste they called the mass. Then that
- 21:42Speaker 1: goes into a press at about six thousand pounds per
- 21:45Speaker 1: square inch a man, it's a whole lot. Uh so
- 21:50Speaker 1: much that it actually melts the cocoa butter into a
- 21:53Speaker 1: liquid called chocolate liquor. Pressure from pressure, just from pressure
- 21:58Speaker 1: in friction. Oh okay, well that produces he So that's
- 22:02Speaker 1: your chocolate liquor, even though it's not alcoholic at all.
- 22:05Speaker 1: And that was Van Houten that came up with the
- 22:07Speaker 1: process you just described, right, He's the one who figured
- 22:09Speaker 1: out how to separate powder from buttery. Yeah, Millpool, Millhouse
- 22:16Speaker 1: van Mountain. Uh. So then you've got your two components.
- 22:19Speaker 1: It basically separates, and you've got your liquid cocoa butter
- 22:22Speaker 1: at this point and your powder. Um, it's called a
- 22:25Speaker 1: press cake, your dried powder is or cocoa cake cococake.
- 22:30Speaker 1: I like that better actually do too. Um. So depending
- 22:33Speaker 1: on what where, what what your purpose is from here,
- 22:35Speaker 1: you might go in some different directions. If you're just
- 22:37Speaker 1: gonna make like Nestley Quick, you know, chocolate milk mix,
- 22:42Speaker 1: you're going to pulverize that powder into a finer powder.
- 22:45Speaker 1: So that's another thing I saw on the Gara Deli
- 22:48Speaker 1: site when they were describing how they make chocolate. It
- 22:50Speaker 1: sounds like you would pulverize that that um cocoa cake
- 22:55Speaker 1: no matter what. And then the harder or the more
- 22:59Speaker 1: you pulverize it, um, the the smaller the micron of
- 23:03Speaker 1: the the chocolate cocoa powder UM. And so the the
- 23:09Speaker 1: finer that is, the less grainy your end result chocolate
- 23:13Speaker 1: will be. So, like Garrett Delli says, that they grind
- 23:15Speaker 1: there's down to nineteen microns because they want a very
- 23:19Speaker 1: smooth product exactly because circura delli. And then the butter
- 23:24Speaker 1: or whatever you introduced back into, whether it's cocoa butter
- 23:28Speaker 1: or say like um, canola oil or something, you can
- 23:31Speaker 1: also have an impact on the quality of the chocolate made. Yeah,
- 23:34Speaker 1: and if you're reintroducing cocoa butter, it's a better quality
- 23:37Speaker 1: obviously than vegetable oil. Um. All right. This is also
- 23:42Speaker 1: where you add in sugar some other flavorings. Let the
- 23:45Speaker 1: thin what is that I was hoping you don't. It's
- 23:48Speaker 1: an emulsifier, so you know, makes it a fluffier, lighter
- 23:53Speaker 1: all right. That to me is like the fact of
- 23:56Speaker 1: the podcast. Like how many times have you looked at
- 23:58Speaker 1: an ingredients list? Have been it's left up in Yeah,
- 24:02Speaker 1: it's an emotive fire friends, that's the fact of the podcast. Yeah,
- 24:06Speaker 1: strangely all right, I haven't picked mine yet. Maybe cococake good.
- 24:13Speaker 1: Uh So, next up we have the process that Lint
- 24:16Speaker 1: figured out early on that we talked about conking. And
- 24:18Speaker 1: some people say this was an accident because he forgotten
- 24:22Speaker 1: left it in a monoge're too long, right, which may
- 24:25Speaker 1: be true, who knows. But basically what you get is
- 24:28Speaker 1: a smooth liquid, which makes it easier to mold into
- 24:32Speaker 1: chocolate bars. So I looked again on the Gara Deli site.
- 24:35Speaker 1: They had UM. Basically the conquer or, the conking machine
- 24:39Speaker 1: is just like a huge vat with two paddles, like
- 24:42Speaker 1: constantly going around. Yeah. I've seen other ones too. Uh.
- 24:46Speaker 1: It was just bizarre how this article reads like like
- 24:48Speaker 1: they almost I think they literally call it a magic
- 24:51Speaker 1: process that people don't fully understand. And basically to me,
- 24:54Speaker 1: it was like, no, you're just kind of mixing these
- 24:56Speaker 1: ingredients together for a very long time and such that
- 25:01Speaker 1: the cocoa powder, every grain, every micron of cocoa powder
- 25:05Speaker 1: becomes coated with cocoa butter. It's just really intense mixing exactly.
- 25:10Speaker 1: It's not magic, right, Yeah, I just thought that was
- 25:13Speaker 1: really strange. Yeah, that article agreed, it was really insane.
- 25:17Speaker 1: Clown posse is conking is magic? Yeah, that's funny. Uh,
- 25:23Speaker 1: So it's not magic, it's just really really thorough thorough mixing.
- 25:27Speaker 1: UM evenly distributes that cocoa butter that polishes the particles,
- 25:31Speaker 1: makes everything super smooth and delicious, generates a little bit
- 25:36Speaker 1: of heat, yeah, which helps create more flavor compounds because um,
- 25:41Speaker 1: in this time, it's with the sugars and the amino
- 25:43Speaker 1: acids in the milk, mining with those things in the
- 25:47Speaker 1: chocolate too, which takes you to flavor country. And it's
- 25:51Speaker 1: where the that Malliard Malliard, that's what I'm talking about
- 25:54Speaker 1: reaction happens. Yeah, because it happens again because it's producing heat,
- 25:58Speaker 1: and then finally it introduces air, which removes even more bitterness.
- 26:04Speaker 1: So that that's the purpose of the magic of conking.
- 26:09Speaker 1: Then we have to temper it. Tempering. They don't even
- 26:11Speaker 1: really say what it is either, So you know how
- 26:13Speaker 1: like if you make candy, you have to have a
- 26:15Speaker 1: candy thermometer or else it's gonna just be completely screwed up.
- 26:19Speaker 1: And like a candy recipe will be like, do not
- 26:21Speaker 1: go past this temperature. So they figured out that there's
- 26:25Speaker 1: six stages of crystal formation. Well, we gotta say what
- 26:28Speaker 1: tempering is. First I thought, I was, well, it's stirring. Oh,
- 26:33Speaker 1: it's magic stirring. It's stirring, heating and cooling and reheating
- 26:36Speaker 1: while you're stirring. Yeah, that's what tempering is exactly. But
- 26:39Speaker 1: what you're doing on a chemical level, uh, is that
- 26:44Speaker 1: you're you're forming cocoa crystals, and there's six types of
- 26:49Speaker 1: cocoa crystals that can possibly form in chocolate, and they've
- 26:53Speaker 1: figured out that type five crystals are the ones that
- 26:56Speaker 1: make the best chocolate. So you want to heat your
- 27:00Speaker 1: chocolate up to the point where all these Type one
- 27:03Speaker 1: through four crystals turn into type five crystals, but not
- 27:08Speaker 1: so much that your type five crystals turn into type
- 27:10Speaker 1: six crystals, because at that point, um, you're fired. If
- 27:15Speaker 1: you're work in a chocolate factory. Man, you make type
- 27:17Speaker 1: six crystals, you're in big trouble. Well, they have machines
- 27:19Speaker 1: that do this now, right, but before sure fire you
- 27:23Speaker 1: on the spot for making type six crystals, or if
- 27:26Speaker 1: you set the machine wrong, they can find you. Right,
- 27:28Speaker 1: you're gonna get fired. One where you're another that someone's
- 27:30Speaker 1: getting fired. But you also don't want it. So you
- 27:32Speaker 1: don't want the temperature to go to stop before it
- 27:35Speaker 1: hits nine degrees fahrenheit, which is apparently the magic temperature
- 27:38Speaker 1: for type five crystal. Spirrel fields just have type four crystals,
- 27:41Speaker 1: which apparently aren't any good. So think about this process
- 27:44Speaker 1: that's been undergone that started with picking seed pods by
- 27:48Speaker 1: hand fermending them under bananalys. How they figured that out though,
- 27:52Speaker 1: Like who first looked at these disgusting looking things and said, hey,
- 27:55Speaker 1: I bet that would be good? Like haven't you wondered
- 27:58Speaker 1: how many people had to die to figure out like
- 28:02Speaker 1: what we can and can't eat it? Like along the
- 28:05Speaker 1: way there there had to be a lot of like, well,
- 28:08Speaker 1: so we stay away from that. Uh, let's try this
- 28:11Speaker 1: weird looking thing next. Who's up the first people to
- 28:14Speaker 1: eat anything? I'm sure the first person that looked at
- 28:16Speaker 1: the cow and said, you know that in that furry
- 28:19Speaker 1: creature inside that lies some pretty nice meat. Uh yeah,
- 28:26Speaker 1: I agree. I like that Stuff's like going back to
- 28:28Speaker 1: the beginnings. But this process is just mind boggling just
- 28:31Speaker 1: to make chocolate. And I'm really glad that all these
- 28:33Speaker 1: people came together to contribute to chocolate, to the creation
- 28:38Speaker 1: of chocolate as we understand it and love it today.
- 28:40Speaker 1: Greed sir, Yeah, I love chocolate. So the tempering process,
- 28:43Speaker 1: in the end, besides the chemical gobbygook, is gonna define
- 28:47Speaker 1: how hard and shiny and glossy that chocolate is gonna
- 28:52Speaker 1: end up being. So have we made the chocolate. Yes,
- 28:56Speaker 1: we have. I think you just cool it and then
- 28:58Speaker 1: you press it into bars or whatever. Uh and chuck.
- 29:01Speaker 1: That seems like a fantastic place to put a message. Break,
- 29:04Speaker 1: what do you think? Okay, so we're back to chocolate. Yeah,
- 29:14Speaker 1: so back to chocolate. Uh. We should talk about a
- 29:17Speaker 1: guy named Milton Hershey who was a great guy because
- 29:21Speaker 1: he made chocolate inexpensive and able to get it into
- 29:24Speaker 1: the hands of children for just a few pennies a
- 29:26Speaker 1: bar back in the day. And now people love it worldwide.
- 29:30Speaker 1: They do, and now they can love it in all
- 29:32Speaker 1: sorts of weird ways to like. You know, I love
- 29:34Speaker 1: the chocolate cover potato chips. Yeah, those are good. Chocolate
- 29:38Speaker 1: cover bacon. I can't I don't know if I've ever
- 29:41Speaker 1: had it or not. It's good. Um. Yeah, pretty much
- 29:45Speaker 1: chocolate and anything's fine. Yeah. I like the salt, like
- 29:48Speaker 1: the heat. Um. Along with chocolate. You can get chocolate
- 29:52Speaker 1: facials these days. I don't know about that though. Why not? Yeah,
- 29:58Speaker 1: I don't know. Give me a mud mask, but made
- 30:01Speaker 1: of chocolate, made of mud. Um. We should probably say
- 30:06Speaker 1: who eats the most chocolate in the world. The Americans
- 30:10Speaker 1: probably know. The Americans eat about half as much chocolate
- 30:15Speaker 1: as the Brits, the Germans and the Swiss. The Swiss,
- 30:21Speaker 1: they each eat about twenty four pounds a year. The
- 30:25Speaker 1: average Swiss person eats twenty four pounds of chocolate. Oh man,
- 30:32Speaker 1: I'm sure they're like toblarone. See. I don't like chocolate
- 30:35Speaker 1: snobs because I like a variety of chocolate. People that
- 30:39Speaker 1: turn their nose up at like a milk chocolate bar,
- 30:42Speaker 1: It still tastes good. I like milk chocolate, but also
- 30:44Speaker 1: like the nice dark chocolate. You're equal opportunity chocolate. Dad, chocolate, dude,
- 30:48Speaker 1: it's so good. But Americans eat about twelve pounds a year,
- 30:51Speaker 1: by the way, tended twelve. Uh, there's still a lot
- 30:55Speaker 1: of chocolate. It is chocolate. Um, so we talked earlier. Well,
- 31:01Speaker 1: I guess let's talk a little bit about the health
- 31:02Speaker 1: properties of chocolate. Yes, because that's a big deal. Um.
- 31:07Speaker 1: They have things called flavonoids and finelics, antioxidants that help
- 31:13Speaker 1: protect your heart, same stuff that's found in wine. If
- 31:16Speaker 1: you're eating the dark chocolate, milk chocolate is not good
- 31:19Speaker 1: for you, no, but but it is in some ways,
- 31:23Speaker 1: which I will mention in a second. Okay, Um, but
- 31:26Speaker 1: it can help prevent bad cholesterol or your risk of
- 31:28Speaker 1: heart disease. That's if you're eating dark chocolate and not
- 31:32Speaker 1: a ton of it, like an ounce and a half
- 31:33Speaker 1: or so, right, And I think the pure the chocolate,
- 31:36Speaker 1: the better it is for you, the more flavoroids present. Um.
- 31:40Speaker 1: There's also long it's also been long suspected that chocolate
- 31:44Speaker 1: has an effect on your mood and that it improves
- 31:47Speaker 1: your mood. And I saw a study from two thousand
- 31:51Speaker 1: seven that finally it was like, okay, I think we
- 31:53Speaker 1: all agree that chocolate improves the mood. How how long
- 31:56Speaker 1: does it last? And they figured out that like, if
- 31:59Speaker 1: you're in a bad mood or in any kind of mood,
- 32:02Speaker 1: chocolate will improve your mood. It has a noticeable effect,
- 32:06Speaker 1: but it only lasts for three minutes. Really yeah, and
- 32:10Speaker 1: it's almost instantaneous too. So the researchers were like, well,
- 32:14Speaker 1: it's not possible that it's all of these Like there's
- 32:16Speaker 1: cannabinoids which are also found in pot um, there's uh,
- 32:22Speaker 1: there's other compounds that have an effect on our neurow transmitters.
- 32:27Speaker 1: But it's not possible to eat chocolate and have your
- 32:30Speaker 1: mood improved via that because it takes about an hour
- 32:32Speaker 1: for those compounds to get to our brain and then
- 32:35Speaker 1: allows for three minutes. Yes, and it's immediate, okay, So
- 32:39Speaker 1: it's not those, it's not those. I think that it's
- 32:41Speaker 1: the flavor and the taste and the pleasure that comes
- 32:46Speaker 1: from chocolate hitting the tongue. Well, that's like a good
- 32:49Speaker 1: pan fried steak is good for my mood too, exactly,
- 32:51Speaker 1: you know, right, So you should eat steak and chocolate
- 32:54Speaker 1: a lot because it's good free mood every three minutes
- 32:56Speaker 1: at least. I won't know how long steak class though,
- 33:00Speaker 1: I don't know. But the other, the other exceptional thing
- 33:02Speaker 1: about chocolate hitting your tongue and having probably an effect
- 33:06Speaker 1: on your mood is that remember that um that point
- 33:10Speaker 1: that they bake chocolate crystals too degrees. Well, your tongue
- 33:16Speaker 1: is ninety something and change. It's usually more than that,
- 33:20Speaker 1: so you're the chocolate melts and those flavor crystals melt
- 33:24Speaker 1: just perfectly just touching your tongue too. Yeah, just because
- 33:27Speaker 1: it's a close to our own body temperature, that would
- 33:29Speaker 1: have some sort of effect on your That would explain
- 33:32Speaker 1: why it happens immediately with good chocolate too. Uh. We
- 33:37Speaker 1: should talk about theo bromine for a second. It's a
- 33:40Speaker 1: chemical compound. It's an alkaloid that's in chocolate and some
- 33:44Speaker 1: other foods, plant based foods, and it has a similar
- 33:47Speaker 1: effect is caffeine. And they do use it just like
- 33:51Speaker 1: caffeine to help treat heart conditions, some heart conditions like
- 33:55Speaker 1: narrowing of the blood vessels or stimulating the heart. And
- 33:59Speaker 1: that's also the thing in it that is bad for
- 34:01Speaker 1: your dogs. Oh yeah, theobromine, which is why you don't
- 34:04Speaker 1: want to feed your dog chocolate. No, you don't think
- 34:07Speaker 1: most everyone knows it's by now. A little bit will
- 34:09Speaker 1: make them just kind of sick. But if they eat
- 34:11Speaker 1: too much, they can kill them. It'll make them dead. Yeah,
- 34:13Speaker 1: which is the worst kind of sick. And we mentioned
- 34:17Speaker 1: earlier the child labor uh, sort of like with coffee,
- 34:23Speaker 1: exploiting kids to mine these coffee beans and um, as
- 34:30Speaker 1: many as two hundred thousand children work in the cacao
- 34:32Speaker 1: fields alone, I think. Yeah, and that's just an ivory coast.
- 34:36Speaker 1: So um, and some of them are child slaves. So um.
- 34:40Speaker 1: If you want to not do that, you search out
- 34:43Speaker 1: fair trade or organic. Apparently organic chocolate isn't grown from
- 34:48Speaker 1: those farms supposedly but technically has nothing to do with
- 34:51Speaker 1: it being organic. No, but I think they just said
- 34:54Speaker 1: that the organic farms aren't uh slave farms. So fair
- 35:00Speaker 1: trade as always might call you a little more. What
- 35:04Speaker 1: else is there? You got anything else? I don't think
- 35:06Speaker 1: I have anything else. And the Japanese apparently have a
- 35:09Speaker 1: day two days for chocolate exchange exclusively. There's Valentine's Day
- 35:15Speaker 1: where women give men chocolate, and then there's a White
- 35:19Speaker 1: Day a month later, which is apparently invented by a
- 35:22Speaker 1: candy maker, where men give women chocolate. And even if
- 35:26Speaker 1: you don't like the woman who gave you chocolate, you're
- 35:29Speaker 1: still obligated, obligated to give her chocolate. It's um geary chucko,
- 35:35Speaker 1: which means obligation chocolate. You see. I ignore all those
- 35:38Speaker 1: like clearly corporate sponsored. Right do you call your mom
- 35:42Speaker 1: a Mother's Day and just go go to hell? I do?
- 35:46Speaker 1: Oh you don't yet, and she appreciate the call. Remember
- 35:51Speaker 1: this year now Mother's Day that's different. Mother's Day and
- 35:56Speaker 1: Father's Day. I'll endorse those. Those are completely blatantly made
- 36:00Speaker 1: up holidays. Yeah, but I don't buy them anything. It's
- 36:04Speaker 1: not like there's a well you can you figured out
- 36:06Speaker 1: a way to stick it to the man. It's not
- 36:08Speaker 1: a gift behind that that I have to get. I
- 36:10Speaker 1: believe that there's a woman UM invented Mother's Day and
- 36:15Speaker 1: by the end of her life was like actively vocally
- 36:20Speaker 1: protesting against the celebration of it because it's been hijacked
- 36:23Speaker 1: by UM the greeting card companies. Yeah, I'll I'll usually
- 36:28Speaker 1: do a like go lunch or something like that. Nice,
- 36:31Speaker 1: that's all my mom wants his time? Sure, you know, yeah? Good?
- 36:35Speaker 1: Good for you, Chuck, your good son, try to be UM. Okay,
- 36:38Speaker 1: well that's it for us talking about Chuck his relationship
- 36:42Speaker 1: with his mom, right, I think so. Well, and chocolate.
- 36:46Speaker 1: There's a whole other list of things we can get
- 36:47Speaker 1: into it that's not for this room. Chuck is a
- 36:49Speaker 1: good son. UM. If you want to learn more about chocolate, right, Yeah,
- 36:55Speaker 1: you can type that word into the search bar at
- 36:58Speaker 1: how stuff works dot com. Since I said search bar,
- 37:01Speaker 1: it's time for listener mail. I'm gonna call this one
- 37:06Speaker 1: from a teacher because you put out the call to teachers,
- 37:09Speaker 1: how can we fix the system? I feel like we
- 37:11Speaker 1: did that together and we got a lot of calls
- 37:14Speaker 1: and emails from teachers. Not calls, just emails. Call out. Uh,
- 37:20Speaker 1: so this is and there are a lot of great
- 37:22Speaker 1: emails and I can only pick one. So this is
- 37:24Speaker 1: from Colin. Hey, guys, have been a history teacher for
- 37:27Speaker 1: the past seven years. It is my profession of choice
- 37:29Speaker 1: and I look forward to being an old fossil of
- 37:31Speaker 1: a teacher one day. You're asking about problems with the
- 37:33Speaker 1: educational system and possible solutions. I come from an interesting angle.
- 37:38Speaker 1: I'm a public school teacher and spent the past six
- 37:40Speaker 1: years at an inner city middle school. There, I experienced
- 37:45Speaker 1: the following challenges one through three. One parents essentially being absent,
- 37:49Speaker 1: therefore having the teachers do the parenting. Number two, lack
- 37:54Speaker 1: of accountability for students while everything is pushed onto the teachers.
- 37:58Speaker 1: And number three unrealistic to ends by the federal government
- 38:01Speaker 1: that is not supported by sufficient funding or resources. Can
- 38:05Speaker 1: you see that list written on a chalkboard? Yeah, like
- 38:07Speaker 1: that as a teacher list. As a teacher list. Uh.
- 38:10Speaker 1: And lastly, my probably most unfortunately, a lack of respect
- 38:14Speaker 1: for my profession. My people have been called parasites and
- 38:17Speaker 1: lazy by certain politicians and are accused of doing next
- 38:20Speaker 1: to nothing and just enjoying summer vacations. In reality, we
- 38:23Speaker 1: are often underpaid and overworked. These are teachers who There
- 38:27Speaker 1: are teachers who do make a good wage. That is
- 38:30Speaker 1: often after twenty plus years in a school system. My
- 38:32Speaker 1: wife and I, due to the economy, have received just
- 38:35Speaker 1: one raise in seven years, so after three quarters of
- 38:38Speaker 1: a decade, we're still almost making the same as a
- 38:41Speaker 1: first year teacher. And uh then he went on to
- 38:46Speaker 1: um talk about charter schools sort of at length, which
- 38:49Speaker 1: I won't get into, but I think we should do
- 38:51Speaker 1: a podcast on charter schools at some point. We need
- 38:55Speaker 1: to do a podcast on like education and education system. Yeah. Sweet.
- 39:00Speaker 1: Uh So, anyways, guys, sorry for the book. I'm sure
- 39:02Speaker 1: an email this long would never be read on the
- 39:03Speaker 1: show that was Reverse Psychology. It was and it worked,
- 39:07Speaker 1: but you guys rock and thanks for taking the time
- 39:09Speaker 1: to even read it. Have a great day. Colin, thanks
- 39:12Speaker 1: Mr C. We appreciate your writing in. We appreciate everybody
- 39:16Speaker 1: writing in. I mean, like, if you put all of
- 39:18Speaker 1: them together, you start to get a clear picture. Because
- 39:21Speaker 1: you know, he named just three there, We've gotten all
- 39:24Speaker 1: sorts of different suggestions. Test standardized testing is a big
- 39:27Speaker 1: one that sure coming up. Um, yeah, there's there's a
- 39:31Speaker 1: lot wrong we found out. Like I think we're kind
- 39:34Speaker 1: of hoping to fix things, but right now I'm just
- 39:38Speaker 1: realizing what a daunting task is basing the US education system.
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