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Happy Hour #156: Zero Proof · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anna. I'm welcome to Steffan Never Told
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  Speaker 1: You production of iHeartRadio, and welcome to a very special
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  Speaker 1: happy hour. Oh it's so special. It's special for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of reasons. One, we are in the studio which
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  Speaker 1: we made in years. This is the first time in
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  Speaker 1: our new studio, so wish us lucky. It is very fancy.
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  Speaker 1: We have Christina here with us, but we are joined.
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  Speaker 1: We are so thrilled to be joined by our executive producer, Maya.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for taking the time and coming in.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you. Well I was already here today. Well
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  Speaker 2: we're going to pretend you came in just this episode specifically,
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  Speaker 2: and I could have taken all these meetings at home.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I really I am here for you than
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  Speaker 2: what I feel. We really appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: We do appreciate it, and we love seeing you face
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  Speaker 3: to face in real life. Because it's been has it been.
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  Speaker 2: Over a couple of year? Years? How many? How many
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  Speaker 2: years has it been, y'all, it's been years, been years.
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  Speaker 2: We'll just say that. We'll just keep it at because we.
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  Speaker 1: Did have an in person, spent tea meeting a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago, but.
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  Speaker 3: It was years yes it was over wings, which it
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  Speaker 3: was that, but yes, glad to be in the studio
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  Speaker 3: for the first time also in years. This is this
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  Speaker 3: is odd, just like I'm going back and forth to
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  Speaker 3: look at your faces. It is such an odd like
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  Speaker 3: sensation not seeing my own face, which I don't hate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're actually here in real life.
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  Speaker 1: It's very strange. And this episode kind of came about
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  Speaker 1: through some real life conversations collaborations, because Christina was talking
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  Speaker 1: with you Maya about something that an episode we had
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  Speaker 1: done on a spirit list alcohol calls spiritless non alcohol
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  Speaker 1: and you are like, wait, I can I have some
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  Speaker 1: things to say about this, right I do?
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  Speaker 2: I do. I'm a huge purchaser, you know, consumer of
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  Speaker 2: non alcoholic spirits at you know bars, I'm always looking
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  Speaker 2: at what they have, and in the like last several years,
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  Speaker 2: you know, most places you go will have at least
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  Speaker 2: a small menu of mocktails. But now, you know, people
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  Speaker 2: are calling it spiritless or zero proof, which just makes
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  Speaker 2: me feel a little bit more chic and fancy than
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  Speaker 2: mocktail because I'm like, I don't want a Shirley Temple.
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  Speaker 2: I want something grown up and that feels complex without
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  Speaker 2: having to consume alcohol, so for so many reasons. I
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  Speaker 2: feel like there's just so many reasons why, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you may not want to or maybe you never even
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  Speaker 2: heard of spirit free alcohol or you know options. And
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  Speaker 2: I think it's like a really fun way to get into,
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  Speaker 2: you know, socializing if you're not like a huge alcohol drinking.
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  Speaker 3: All right, And I know that's that's been a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people who have stopped drinking alcohol or have gotten
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  Speaker 3: sober and feeling like they've lost a part of their
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  Speaker 3: selves because they don't have that social aspect to it.
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  Speaker 3: And so having spiritless or zero proof mocktails is a
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  Speaker 3: fantastic way to go. And then also because you seem
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  Speaker 3: like an expert when you're talking about it to us,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, bring it in. We need to know more.
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  Speaker 3: And then that way we can spread because there's so
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  Speaker 3: many people, like even in my circle who are a
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  Speaker 3: sober or have decided to not drink alcohol anymore at
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  Speaker 3: least less, so being able to be inventive and creative
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  Speaker 3: with these cocktails mocktails slash zero proof.
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  Speaker 2: Do we call it spiritless, it's weirdless, it's mocktail if
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  Speaker 2: you want to call it that. That's the classic verbiage,
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  Speaker 2: but I think I like zero proof. Okay, we'll go
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  Speaker 2: to zero that's what I like. But yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: I'm kind of like an evangelist for the for zero proof,
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  Speaker 2: you know, spirits. Anytime somebody comes over to my house,
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  Speaker 2: we have game nights, we have events at our house,
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  Speaker 2: and we always have options for non alcoholic drinks. And
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  Speaker 2: recently my favorite has been Nowadays that initially I saw
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  Speaker 2: it on Instagram and it just looked really cool. Because
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  Speaker 2: I'm into a lot of these products, I get fed
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  Speaker 2: new brands all the time, like look at this one,
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  Speaker 2: look at that one, And this one was some one
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  Speaker 2: that I found really intriguing because it is cannabis infused.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe you're not a drinker, but you're more of
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  Speaker 2: the herbal variety. This is for you, Like it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of revolutionary, honestly, Like it's a really unique product.
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  Speaker 2: And I've had made drinks for a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: who've come over to my house and they just absolutely
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  Speaker 2: love it because you still get some sort of feeling
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  Speaker 2: and effect, but you have, of course none of the alcohol, hangover, dehydration,
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  Speaker 2: all of that stuff. So I'm a huge fan of
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  Speaker 2: that one. I'm also a big fan of just drinks
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  Speaker 2: that have sometimes they're already pre mixed. There's a brand
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  Speaker 2: called kin that I really love. They make also zyrup
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  Speaker 2: of spirits, but they also make pre mixed cocktails that
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  Speaker 2: have like other types of herbs, not the cannabis variety,
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  Speaker 2: but more like oshonda or rodiola or passion flower, and
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  Speaker 2: they give different effects of like passion flowers very calming.
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  Speaker 2: Rodiola is like a stress reliever, as ganda is an adaptogenics,
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  Speaker 2: so it helps and stress, both modulating up or modulating down,
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  Speaker 2: depending on how your body reacts with it. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: big herbal person who I love herbs, so it kind
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  Speaker 2: of all goes into the same vein of like being
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  Speaker 2: your own little mixologists. You know, mixing this tea with that,
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  Speaker 2: and you know mixing it with the with you know,
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  Speaker 2: green tea with a little bit of peppermint covermin is
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  Speaker 2: great for relaxation, and like, you know, I could just
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  Speaker 2: go on forever. So when it came to you know,
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  Speaker 2: non alcoholic spirits and like, oh my gosh, this is
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  Speaker 2: this new realm that I can kind of be really
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  Speaker 2: creative with and make something fun.
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  Speaker 3: Which is amazing because you and I need to talk
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  Speaker 3: about I've gotten into magnesium Glasswanda and.
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  Speaker 2: To l one, what is it healthy name? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know how to say that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to give up my own name, but yes,
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  Speaker 3: and I've been doing that at night and I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like it made It's made a difference in
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  Speaker 3: my sleep. Yes, but this is not necessarily like anything
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  Speaker 3: that I have researched, So take that with a grain
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  Speaker 3: of salt. Yeah, obviously, and when we talk about this,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, just as a note, we are not currently
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  Speaker 3: sponsored by any of the things that we are talking
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  Speaker 3: about right now.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe one day, who knows. Give us a call if
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  Speaker 2: you're a cool brand. Call is that the thing we knew. Email,
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  Speaker 2: I don't answer calls. Send us an email.
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  Speaker 3: You know those electronic things, electronic mail, you get one
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  Speaker 3: of those. But yes, we are not currently sponsored. And
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  Speaker 3: if you are part taking up anything, do so responsibly.
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  Speaker 3: You know how we tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, over the age of twenty one, even though these
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  Speaker 2: are not alcoholic, especially the cannabis and viewsed over twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: Surprisingly and amazingly, there are some really great zero proof
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  Speaker 2: stores that just specify in non alcoholic drinks. And in Atlanta,
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  Speaker 2: there's one called the zero Co and this is where
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  Speaker 2: I purchased the nowadays, I purchased the ritual from Total Wine,
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  Speaker 2: which surprisingly has like a whole section of non alcoholic
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  Speaker 2: and they're just continuing to expand even in like Fear
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  Speaker 2: and Champaigne and like kind of literally anything you want.
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  Speaker 2: You can really you can really have any any of
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  Speaker 2: drinks that you were drinking before or that you want to,
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  Speaker 2: you know, share with your friends. They kind of have
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  Speaker 2: a everything. But zero Co is really cool because it's
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  Speaker 2: just more of like a bespoke, more curated place where
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  Speaker 2: you can They do tastings once a week, maybe once
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  Speaker 2: or twice a week, which is really cool, so you
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  Speaker 2: can try the different drinks. And we'll segue into the
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  Speaker 2: drink that we're doing today.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, and prepared something for us a little bit
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  Speaker 4: of ASMR.
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  Speaker 2: So we're starting with the ritual. Tequila, just a regular
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  Speaker 2: about a shot size of that. And this one is
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  Speaker 2: really interesting because it has botanicals that kind of mimic
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  Speaker 2: the taste of a tequila. So it has smoked mesquite
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  Speaker 2: eat to give it that like smoky flavor, black peppercorn, capsicum, fruit,
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  Speaker 2: prickly ash, and green bell pepper. So it's that really
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  Speaker 2: like savory kind of flavor, really like vegetable almost, but
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  Speaker 2: also like really deep and smoky too, yeah, exactly. And
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  Speaker 2: then we have the Nowadays, which has a really interesting flavor.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like a fruity It's hard to describe.
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  Speaker 2: I would say, smell, smell the Nowadays and like, tell
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  Speaker 2: me what you think about what that I can I
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  Speaker 2: can't tamp down, Like what that smells like? It reminds
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  Speaker 2: me of a candy. Yeah, I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 3: Put my nose in it that, try to think of it.
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  Speaker 2: Not exactly, but it's like a fruit. Yeah, it's like
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  Speaker 2: a fruity candy, like almost like a skittle gummy candy, like, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you know what kind of sweetest fish okaya for
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  Speaker 3: some reason that's not quite liquorice, but kind of like
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  Speaker 3: and then locking the red dynamic but delicious.
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  Speaker 2: Somehow I don't know, like like a clear like it's
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  Speaker 2: like a milky that's the wrong cap. It's like a
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  Speaker 2: milky color. So I'm not really sure how they got
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  Speaker 2: that flavor. But and then we're gonna end with a
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  Speaker 2: lemon honeysuckle montane on top with a little squeeze of
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  Speaker 2: lime and that's our drink and it's delicious, kind of
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  Speaker 2: reminiscent of a mule type drink. Not quite because we
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  Speaker 2: don't have ginger, but that was sort of my inspiration.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have you gotta name it? Just cause we
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  Speaker 3: put it in our eventual.
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  Speaker 1: Her ventual book, Cocktail Book, I would call this.
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  Speaker 2: Georgia Hayes.
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  Speaker 1: I like that.
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  Speaker 3: I like that, yes, because we joked about the fact
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  Speaker 3: that previously in office we had Montane all the time.
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  Speaker 3: So coming back to have Montanne in the office is
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  Speaker 3: like a welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: Very very reminiscent of eld office. So I kind of
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  Speaker 2: which is local? Last time? I was, yes, it is local.
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  Speaker 2: Last time I was here in the office, we ran
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  Speaker 2: out and I was like, we have to get more,
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  Speaker 2: because we have to have more.
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  Speaker 1: It's those perks, those like tiny little things. Were like,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm covering the office, then I'm going to get
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  Speaker 1: one of these, going to get there.
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  Speaker 3: Immediately came to the office, figured out that was Montane,
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  Speaker 3: went and got one and I was like, oh, they
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  Speaker 3: have chips.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't good snack here? Well, I need my fancy
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  Speaker 2: water and my snacks.
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  Speaker 3: Why do I come into the point of being in
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  Speaker 3: the office other than seeing our very best people, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: who we get to work with. But this is delightful.
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  Speaker 3: So you took this as a kind of a spin
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  Speaker 3: off on the meal without the ginger.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, and using the lemon honeysuckle, I feel like
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  Speaker 2: gives that a similar type of flavor profile. And then
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  Speaker 2: the smokiness in the ritual, I think all just like
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  Speaker 2: brands it together.
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  Speaker 3: I love that because yeah, that smoking finish, which an
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  Speaker 3: he knows we just did a whole episode on mezcal
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  Speaker 3: not a fan. I think I said that repeatedly to
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  Speaker 3: the point that it may have ruined that actual episode.
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  Speaker 3: But because the smokiness can be so overwhelming. But with this,
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  Speaker 3: it's nice and balanced and I'm enjoying this.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: This is my first time drinking an infused alcohol a
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  Speaker 3: tech seed view, so I'll let y'all know how this goes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, yes, it's a very calm and like irrespectable
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  Speaker 2: level of influence. I would say, you know, you could
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  Speaker 2: still have a nice night out a drink or two
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  Speaker 2: of this, Like it's not going to take you down.
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  Speaker 2: It's really meant to just have a light, calming kind
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  Speaker 2: of joyous effect is what I would say. And everyone
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  Speaker 2: who I've shared it with has just been like rave
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  Speaker 2: fans and now stock it in their house. So I
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  Speaker 2: love that.
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  Speaker 3: I know this has an uplifting experience for any occasion.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, including coming back.
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  Speaker 2: That is absolutely true before you walk in. And this
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  Speaker 2: was one hundred percent legally procured. Yes, a licensed location
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  Speaker 2: of don get us. Yeah, please, yes, my did it please? Job?
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  Speaker 2: This is so good.
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  Speaker 3: And y'all we've got little wine glass is that Christina
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  Speaker 3: found for us? So we are so fancy. We are
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  Speaker 3: very chair around the mics.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that was good, but this is amazing. I
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  Speaker 2: love this. So what made you turn to doing zero
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  Speaker 2: proof drinks?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I think definitely during the pandemic. I even before, so
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  Speaker 2: it was something that I was kind of like interested
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  Speaker 2: in dabbling in and kind of like dipping my toes into.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a yoga professional and you know, just being in
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  Speaker 2: the wellness industry, I think you're kind of at the
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  Speaker 2: cusp of these types of products, and when they were
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  Speaker 2: first coming out, I was like, oh, this is interesting
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  Speaker 2: and kind of thinking about the idea of what it
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  Speaker 2: would be like to not drink when I go out
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  Speaker 2: and kind of exploring that as like a personal challenge
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  Speaker 2: and exploration and wanting to overcome some social anxiety, not
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  Speaker 2: wanting to use alcohol as a crutch for outings, because
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  Speaker 2: it was definitely something that I did, especially like throughout
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  Speaker 2: my twenties, and you know, I was a big drinker
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  Speaker 2: in college, and honestly, I probably drank enough throughout college
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  Speaker 2: and like for the rest of my life. So it
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  Speaker 2: was it was a thing of wanting to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: explore what socializing would be without that influence, specifically by alcohol.
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  Speaker 2: And then it just became something that I did more
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  Speaker 2: and more when I would go out and people just knew, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Mike doesn't really drink, and it was became easier for
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  Speaker 2: me to just you know, have my own drink or
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  Speaker 2: when I went out, they didn't have anything to do,
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  Speaker 2: like a sparkling water and lime and you know, make
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  Speaker 2: it seem like I had something so that people don't
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  Speaker 2: ask questions. Right, But even with you know, not being
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  Speaker 2: somebody who was in recovery or anything like that, just
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  Speaker 2: saying oh, I'm not drinking tonight, the pressure of people
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  Speaker 2: around you wanting to drink was just so intense and
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  Speaker 2: very heavy, to the point of like, I can fully
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  Speaker 2: see how someone who is in recovery and really struggling
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  Speaker 2: with alcoholism and that could It's just so hard. It's
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  Speaker 2: so hard to say no when you're out, you know,
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  Speaker 2: and it for me, it was just a personal choice,
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  Speaker 2: and it was it was still really really hard just
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  Speaker 2: to be like no, no, no, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's so many questions, Oh, why why aren't you drinking
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  Speaker 2: and what's wrong with you? Or you know, are you pregnant,
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  Speaker 2: which is the worst. Which is the worst question is
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  Speaker 2: one like you know, maybe you're not ready if you
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  Speaker 2: are pregnant to tell people you know, you could have
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  Speaker 2: had a loss, like so many things, and people are
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  Speaker 2: just so nonchalant about being like, oh, if you're not drinking,
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  Speaker 2: you must be pregnant, which is just absolutely ridiculous and insane.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that just kind of pushed me more into
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  Speaker 2: wanting to not drink as much. And last year I
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  Speaker 2: actually got diagnosed with an audioimmune disease, so it's even
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  Speaker 2: more so kind of like an important thing for me
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  Speaker 2: just to keep inflammation down for that condition. And alcohol,
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  Speaker 2: of course is like a huge inflammatory drink that you
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  Speaker 2: can consume, so you know, every now and then I'll
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  Speaker 2: have like at my wedding, I had the toast to
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  Speaker 2: champagne things like that. But other than that, I really
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  Speaker 2: just I'm very comfortable and secure in the fact that
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, I don't really drink anymore, and it's
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  Speaker 2: becoming more common now, so it's really cool to find
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  Speaker 2: other people that are like, yeah, me too. But at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning it was really challenging, and now just for
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  Speaker 2: my health, it's even more of like a precedent for
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: me just to keep it out of my right. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I apologize.
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  Speaker 3: I just asked the question when I think about it,
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  Speaker 3: because in my head it's like it's so normalized.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's just kind of like, Okay, cool,
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  Speaker 2: what are you drinking? What do you have?
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  Speaker 3: Having the options of seeing more and more like restaurants
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  Speaker 3: having the zoo improved alcohols and types of drinks and
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  Speaker 3: having them as available. Although recently I've been watching TikTok
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  Speaker 3: where people have been given alcohol when they've requested WHOA,
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  Speaker 3: so people were like, what's happening, But that people have
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  Speaker 3: been outraged for that because now people are understanding, hey,
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  Speaker 3: this is absolutely should be a choice. This absolutely should
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  Speaker 3: just go forward without questions. Yeah, and there should have
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  Speaker 3: been this kind of option to begin with.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I wouldn't we And it's like the validity
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  Speaker 2: of the choice without being an alcoholic, I think for
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  Speaker 2: such a long time was not there. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not an alcoholic, then like, why wouldn't you drink? Right,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: you know, here's a drink or drink in your face.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Put it just add alcohol to somebody's drink, right. But
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  Speaker 2: like you said, now I think it's more acceptable to say, like,
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  Speaker 2: it's just a personal choice and that's it. It makes sense. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've started drinking less and less, mainly because I
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  Speaker 3: get very sleepy, and I'm like I don't want to
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: sit here and be sleepy with everybody because for some reason,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: I'm like I can almost sleep anywhere. So I'm like, yeah,
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go take a nap in my car
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  Speaker 3: right back, which is what my what my like stress responses.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, so I love having these options as well.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes it's just nice to have something like fizzy and fruity,
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: which is oftentimes those kind of zero proof are end
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: up being that way and you like, yeah, it's just nice.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: And I really love like the ones that are a
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: little bit more interesting and complex. Like that's what I
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: really am like, Oh, this is so cool. And they
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: add bitters, you know, do like at create the same
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: level of like fun and interest to the non alcoholic
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: drinks as mixologists or bartenders as they do with the
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: alcoholic drinks. You know. That's I always enjoy seeing that.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: We have that company that does their own bitters eating
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: any one. And they had an Earl Gray bitters that
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: my partner loves.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: That sounds so good, yeah, so nice to have.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: And we had bought the Spiritless, which was our whiskey
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: U zero proof whiskey that we had gotten from the
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: all female owned company, and he had mixed it with that.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Okay, I'm gonna have to try that.
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I love Earl Gray. Oh I'm a huge Earl Gray fan.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I'm like thinking about how to make some sort of
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Spiritless London Fogg type situation. They go, that sounds so good.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: If you do like the Spiritless brand that we had
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: that had because they had bourbon, they had scotch.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: I think this is several different as.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Well, but like they had a really good uh that
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: bourbon was really nice and it was very like it
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: tasted exactly like whiskey to me. It was a little
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: the sweeter, but I was like, yeah, like this, and
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I don't drink a lot of whiskey on its own typically,
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: especially now, but that was a nice like with that
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: bitters was a nice little top All like.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds great. Yeah, I'm definitely gonna have to
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: try that.
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: So is this your favorite dopproof drink or do you
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: have one that like your go to that you.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Might really like. I think fever Tree makes a grapefruit
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: kind of mixer, sparkling mixer. I'm all, I love a
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: sparkling dress. Yeah, I always want a little bit of sparkle.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: So I do the grapefruit sparkling drink from fever Tree
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: and then they have an elder flower. Yes, yes, yes,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: that's so good, and those with the nowadays is like
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: my favorite.
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: I love grapefruit if you put some type of citrus, grapefruit, pineapple,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: and then me too, me too every time, yea, and
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: sometimes I like, I love having basil. Basil grapefruit is
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: my favorite. Like combo, I've never done that combo.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: There you go, experiment grapefruit.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Wow, that sounds incredible. That's one of my favorite.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: And then I do BlackBerry and rosemary.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that sounds really good in the summer. I haven't
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: done this with a spiritless drink, but I've done it
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: with coffee because I like to do a little bit
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: of coffee experimentation and I feel like coffee mixing goes
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: really well with like cocktail mixing. And I got this
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: inspiration from a coffee shop called Perk. They have location
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: in Atlanta and they do or they used to do
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: a drink that was rosemary simple syrup with lemon and
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: espresso with sparkling water on ice. It sounds so weird,
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: but it was amazing, like it kind of like an
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Arnold Palmer but with coffee and just the best summer drink.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: And I could see that being really good with adding
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: a little bit of a spiritless something there. All right,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: summer Morkdill Summer Coffee zero pro. Yes, we'll make that one.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: We'll do it in June. We'll have to make that
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: one for sure. It has to be early in the
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: day because I'm old and I'll be up all night.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Oh same, No need to no shame in that. If
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I drink, if I have caffeine after like one thirty
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: two o'clock. I'm not the coffee.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, theyd like coffee and espresso anything after about two,
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: like you said, I'll be thinking about things.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, same all night, all night. Yeah, and not not
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the good thing. Wow, there you go at the beginning
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: of my nightmare. And then like, why did I drink
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: that I knew better? I'm over forty well. Also, like
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: the drink that I mentioned Ken, they have like a
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: a nightcap kind of like sleepy time cocktail with some
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: herbs and some bitters. That's really nice. I think I
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: can't remember the name of it, but it's in their
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: purple can okay, And that's like their nighttime night type
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: of drink.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: I've been since I've been doing the Magnasium thing. I've
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: been telling you, I've been getting ads for Recess and
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: they have apparently get not a sponsor drink, but they
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: had like the USA in it. But like I've been
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: doing the poppy promiotic with the tart chair.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Cherry yeah yeah.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: Okay, And I was like, I'll try Sleepy Girl mocktail.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I need to be sleepy. I according to
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: my my Samsung watch again, not a sponsor UH is
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: telling me I'm getting good sleep.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I have an or ring. So I also like, oh
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: my god, yeah, we have so many things. I know,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: so many brands, Like this episode is just like we
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: don't have k drama, the podcast. You know that. I'm
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: just saying. My sleeve data has also been pretty good recently. Yeah,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: so I don't.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, you know what, because previously, when I
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: was not doing that, I was getting so the average
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: I guess it goes up to one hundred, was in
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: like sixty fifty five sixty, which is not great. And
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: as after doing that, I've been getting seventy five and eighties.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: And I was like, look at you. So either my
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: watch is lying and it's in conspiracy with no magtisium
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: is like fully it it works. And also they say
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: I don't have the studies to back it the way
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: it all just this is all conjector. At the point,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: we don't don't take our But.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: They say that most Americans or most people modern day
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: people are very deficient in magnesium. It's one of the
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: nutrients that that's lacking in the soil. So a supplement
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: in magnesium, I don't I don't think it's ever a
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: bad thing unless it's like contraindicated right for you.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Again, like I would never medical advice. We're not telling
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: you to do this. We're not telling you. We just
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: I just tried this out from like the TikTok videos, Like, well,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: it looks good, so let me try it anyway. If
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: it does something, great, If it doesn't, it doesn't, Like
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: I know through different people like melatone, is that same
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: conversation where uh, my partner can't take it because it
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: doesn't help him half the time, and sometimes that's the
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: opposite for me. If I take it, it actually makes
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: me really drowsy and groggy the next day, So like
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: it can and can't. And there's no scientific proof about
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: the the melotone and stuff as well, So like there's
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: no level level of conversations that we would say this is.
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: This is the way, this isn't don't do this. Don't
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: do it because of us.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Right, And then again, we are not medical professionals. We
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: are not in the health industry at all. I was
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: just like, h this is interesting, maybe this could work.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Is it bad for me?
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Let me look it up?
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: And I did.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: I had those like what are the effects of this.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: There are side effects of this that I don't need
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: to be having, you know, sei shuts or something.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: God, magnesium is quite harmless, right, it's like one of
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: the pretty like standards.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: I think it's like most like vitamins and any you
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: probably know this, Like it doesn't really absorb into your
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: body as much as you can.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: You could be like half the things.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: And then there are things that they could be proven
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: into this, like you know, like vitamin D is just
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: as good just go outside, just as taking. But all
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: of that to sday is like, but your physician, even
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: if it's in my head, but it's helping me sleep,
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Go with it.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: But that being said, melotonin, Yeah, they were like, yeah,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: it's good for you now, and they're like, don't do that.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Don't do it.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Also yeah, because they're like, now, if you take more
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: than five milligiams, it doesn't do anything.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: And it's also like a bad dependency like it.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Right, because you already you're naturally supposed to make melotonin
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: to help you go to sleep throughout your your own
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: circadian rhythm should be ideally helping you produce enough melotone
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: in so that you get sleepy at the right times
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: because of you know, our phones and lights and staying
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: inside not getting sunlight. You know, we're not producing enough
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: to help us get sleepy. So all of these things,
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: So many things that's keep telling me to give it
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: to Peaches. And Peaches does not care. She does not care.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: If she's gonna be hyped. She's gonna be hyped, my gosh,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: even if.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: I give her the prescription meds that my vets give
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: to me, which are like, if this is a human,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: you should you would have been knocked out, But you
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: as a dog don't care.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: Have you given Peaches any CBD? I did? She did
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: not care.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Really, she she does this thing. She's already relaxed, but
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: so she's gonna be deeper relaxed. But if she's hyped,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: not gonna do a damn thing.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: What kind of dog is she? A jerk? I love her.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: I love her very much.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: She is a whole host of breeds of dogs, and
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: she is quite excitable.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: She's gotten better. She is the foil to her d
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: and d campaign.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, she's the HM of the chaos element that
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: shows up.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: It's quite funny. Thank you so much for sharing this
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: with us. Yes, absolutely. I'm so glad that we were
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: able to make this happen. This is so fun.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: We should do this again. We'll have to do the
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: coffee one in June. Yeah, but if you want to
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: come on earlier.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: As Yes, thank you so much, Maya for coming in
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: and for sharing all of the things you're into and
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: for making this drink. It was so good.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: You're welcome, You're.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: All so good. What else are you working on? Where
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: can the good listeners find you?
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: I am executive producer of several shows throughout the iHeart universe,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: them I Hate You, Yeah, a lot of really great
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: a few that have launched recently. Deep Dark Woods is
• 30:04
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• 30:08
  Speaker 2: our team and really happy about that one. So go
• 30:12
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• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, yes, absolutely well, Thank you again so much, Maya Listeners.
• 30:20
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• 30:21
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• 30:34
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