Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Happy Hour #17: Anteel Tequila
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stephan
- 0:07Speaker 1: Never Told You production of I Heart Radio and Happy Thursday. Everybody,
- 0:21Speaker 1: Happy Thursday or whatever day you're listening to this, Yes,
- 0:25Speaker 1: and for Annie Night specifically Happy Wednesday, Happy Wednesday. However,
- 0:30Speaker 1: it is five pm, so we're not drinking during the
- 0:34Speaker 1: early days like we've done before. Everybody for work for work,
- 0:38Speaker 1: for work for work. But as per usual, this is
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- 0:45Speaker 1: about most of the times. So if they listen and
- 0:47Speaker 1: they want to send us three things, we would love
- 0:50Speaker 1: that and we will talk about it and we will
- 0:52Speaker 1: tell you that they sent us stuff. Will be very
- 0:54Speaker 1: open for sure for sure. Secondly, if you are drinking,
- 0:58Speaker 1: please drink responsibly. Hm. And you know again we're doing
- 1:03Speaker 1: this for work, all for work's sake. Uh, just kidding,
- 1:07Speaker 1: but also know that you don't have to drink to
- 1:11Speaker 1: enjoy our episodes. We're not just talking about alcohol, we're
- 1:14Speaker 1: not just talking about happy our things, but we're talking
- 1:17Speaker 1: about events that's going on throughout the world as well
- 1:21Speaker 1: as some things that's just been on our minds and
- 1:24Speaker 1: just having an easy conversation. Right. So, today though we
- 1:30Speaker 1: are featuring tequila. I just wanted to say that, and
- 1:35Speaker 1: it is until Tequila from out of Chicago. And the
- 1:40Speaker 1: reason we have focused on this tequila is because of
- 1:44Speaker 1: the co founder, the CEO, Nyana Ferguson, who happens to
- 1:47Speaker 1: be the first black woman to operate a tequila company.
- 1:53Speaker 1: So I don't know things have changed, and hopefully it
- 1:55Speaker 1: has been, but she has become one of the first
- 1:57Speaker 1: to do so. And I can't believe that there's not
- 2:02Speaker 1: more people who are part of this industry. But kudos
- 2:05Speaker 1: to Nyana Ferguson and her amazing creation. Yes, so Annie,
- 2:11Speaker 1: what are you drinking today? Because as we like to do,
- 2:15Speaker 1: we like to get see the types of cocktails that
- 2:17Speaker 1: they recommend to us and then kind of put our
- 2:20Speaker 1: own spin. So, any what have you got for us today? Well,
- 2:24Speaker 1: first of all, I want to say I love a
- 2:26Speaker 1: good tequila. And it spent a minute since I've had
- 2:29Speaker 1: a good tequila. And I usually try to try a
- 2:31Speaker 1: sip of whatever we're sipping on if we're going to
- 2:34Speaker 1: mix it into a cocktail by itself. Before I put
- 2:36Speaker 1: in a cocktail and it was delightful. I really enjoyed it.
- 2:40Speaker 1: But I made the repo sour because like miracle above,
- 2:45Speaker 1: there was a drink that had ingredients that I happened
- 2:49Speaker 1: to have on hand, which is pretty hard to do.
- 2:52Speaker 1: So that involves tequila, cranberry juice, lemon juice, and agave,
- 2:59Speaker 1: and I actually had all of those things. You actually
- 3:02Speaker 1: had lemons. Well, I have lemon juice. Okay, hey that
- 3:11Speaker 1: is yeah, you actually have all of the ingredients. So
- 3:13Speaker 1: for the first time, you made exactly what was there.
- 3:16Speaker 1: I did, and it is delightful. I'm really enjoying it. Yeah, yeah, sorry,
- 3:27Speaker 1: we were pausing for her reaction and that was it. Yeah. Yeah,
- 3:31Speaker 1: it's really refreshing and it it's nice for it's it's
- 3:34Speaker 1: hot here in Atlanta now everyone in my studio closet
- 3:37Speaker 1: apartment with the light sod, it's quite warm. So this
- 3:40Speaker 1: is very refreshing. It kind of taste like, um, yes,
- 3:45Speaker 1: subtly sweeter and more sour somehow both sweeter had more
- 3:48Speaker 1: sour version of a margharita because the tequila really shines through.
- 3:51Speaker 1: And I just so strongly associate tequila with margaritas because
- 3:54Speaker 1: I love a good margarita, right, But yes, this is
- 3:57Speaker 1: very very delightful nice. Yeah. So I the Mexican Mule,
- 4:01Speaker 1: which is essentially Moscow Mule except with tequila. It has
- 4:06Speaker 1: the tequila lime and then with some ginger beer. And
- 4:09Speaker 1: I love good ginger beer. And because I've been doing
- 4:12Speaker 1: this with all of my mules, I have been adding halpinios.
- 4:17Speaker 1: I need that kick m hm. So I have halapenos
- 4:21Speaker 1: in mine as well, and it is very delightful. I
- 4:24Speaker 1: love ginger beer, good ginger beer, that is. I'm very
- 4:27Speaker 1: picky about those because I like a little spas and
- 4:30Speaker 1: I think this is perfect and I enjoy it so much. Yes, yes,
- 4:38Speaker 1: I also love a good halpeno and drinks and are
- 4:41Speaker 1: are off in Stormy for Star Wars. Drink has halpino
- 4:44Speaker 1: in it. But I don't know if I told you this,
- 4:45Speaker 1: Mantha tragedy occurred to me, a very silly tragedy. Okay,
- 4:49Speaker 1: so I lost my phone. Oh no, I was trying
- 4:51Speaker 1: to make myself feel better with this. Did I save
- 4:54Speaker 1: the how pino specifically for it? I lost the alpino.
- 4:57Speaker 1: I don't know where it is. I turned up the
- 5:00Speaker 1: whole refrigerator looking for it, and then I went looking
- 5:03Speaker 1: at like anywhere it could have been. I was so
- 5:05Speaker 1: upset about this last alpino and then I opened a
- 5:07Speaker 1: bottle of saracha to you know, hopefully make up for it.
- 5:11Speaker 1: And it's prayed to be right. I'm telling you what.
- 5:15Speaker 1: Someone's really upset my home. Yeah, like they are coming
- 5:22Speaker 1: after you. I'll come from my phone and then my
- 5:24Speaker 1: hajal openio. That's cruel. That's cruel. That's cruel. But yeah,
- 5:29Speaker 1: so we are highlighting this tequila. It's a little harder
- 5:32Speaker 1: to get because they don't distribute everywhere, but I was
- 5:36Speaker 1: able to order some, Thank you very much, and there.
- 5:39Speaker 1: Tequila has won so many awards. But before we get
- 5:43Speaker 1: into that, let's let's talk about what it is and
- 5:45Speaker 1: what it tastes like. Right, So here's a description from
- 5:49Speaker 1: their website. Our Repstato tequila is rested eight months and
- 5:53Speaker 1: whiskey barrels. This is a unique departure from the usual
- 5:56Speaker 1: white American oak barrels. This choice that barrel provides our
- 5:59Speaker 1: Repistato to uila with wonderful soft tones of caramel, vanilla
- 6:02Speaker 1: and a whisper of hazel nut. The finish is extremely
- 6:06Speaker 1: light with a dash of pepper that finishes fast with
- 6:09Speaker 1: its rich amber hue antil. Repissado is a tequila in
- 6:12Speaker 1: the truest form of the spirit, the tequila that's also
- 6:15Speaker 1: enjoyed by the sophisticated whiskey, bourbon or scotch drinker. Right,
- 6:19Speaker 1: and then they also have the blanco, which is their classic,
- 6:22Speaker 1: which has sweet agade, septual floral notes and of course
- 6:25Speaker 1: the smoothness of the blanco tequila. So it's really really good.
- 6:29Speaker 1: And yeah. So they've also won different awards, including the
- 6:33Speaker 1: San Francisco World Spirits Competition bronze for their blanco. They
- 6:38Speaker 1: also won a silver medal for their until coconut lime blanco,
- 6:42Speaker 1: which is very unique to their brand. By the way,
- 6:45Speaker 1: they also won a double gold medal award from SIP.
- 6:48Speaker 1: They won the Taste Like a ninety two point rating
- 6:50Speaker 1: from the Taste Panel magazine. They won Cosmopolitans Top ten tequilas.
- 6:55Speaker 1: They also for this Repissato tequila. They won also silver
- 6:59Speaker 1: medal awards as well as double gold awards, so they
- 7:02Speaker 1: are winners, to say the least. And this co founder
- 7:06Speaker 1: and CEO O, Nyana Ferguson actually said about why tequila.
- 7:10Speaker 1: She said, tequila has become very personal to me as
- 7:14Speaker 1: a pancreatic cancer and breast cancer survivor. I need to
- 7:16Speaker 1: watch what I'm putting into my body. For me, tequila
- 7:19Speaker 1: is a spirit that I can drink without too many
- 7:20Speaker 1: after effects as long as I don't add anything else. Okay,
- 7:24Speaker 1: Tequila is a spirit that is made from the gove plant,
- 7:27Speaker 1: so it's naturally gluten free and is low in carbs
- 7:30Speaker 1: and sugars and calories. I want to educate people on
- 7:32Speaker 1: the benefits of tequila and change the stereotypical thought of
- 7:35Speaker 1: what tequila is. And yeah, you and I kind of
- 7:37Speaker 1: talked about how in our other episode about rum that
- 7:41Speaker 1: the chief stuff really really really gives you a really
- 7:44Speaker 1: bad idea on how great something can be, and trying
- 7:48Speaker 1: to re educate ourselves and something like, oh, this is
- 7:51Speaker 1: actually nice and smooth, and this is delicious and won't
- 7:55Speaker 1: make you go vomit immediately into a trash can. Yeah,
- 8:00Speaker 1: as always drink responsibly, But I think that's part of
- 8:02Speaker 1: the problem too, is because not only are you drinking
- 8:03Speaker 1: the cheap stuff, which not to like put any shade
- 8:07Speaker 1: if that's what you can afford, but you're also usually
- 8:10Speaker 1: in college you're not drinking well either, like making a
- 8:15Speaker 1: lot of mistakes for a variety of reasons, and tequila
- 8:19Speaker 1: along with gen are two spirits that are now my
- 8:23Speaker 1: favorites that I hated for a long time because of
- 8:26Speaker 1: the very thing, because I was like drinking stuff that
- 8:29Speaker 1: was cheap and it made me feel terrible. And also
- 8:30Speaker 1: I was making bad decisions when I was drinking it.
- 8:32Speaker 1: So it's a couple of things, right, But to have
- 8:35Speaker 1: to go through that period of like, no, this can
- 8:37Speaker 1: be really wonderful and it's a light and not feel
- 8:40Speaker 1: miserable the next morning or whatever. It's like, oh wow,
- 8:44Speaker 1: what is this? Yeah, And specifically to Niana when she
- 8:47Speaker 1: was talking about being a black woman in this industry
- 8:50Speaker 1: and again we talked about the fact that she has
- 8:51Speaker 1: become one of the first to operate a tequila company.
- 8:55Speaker 1: She talked about how she's had to overcome being accepted
- 8:58Speaker 1: in this industry, but talking about how she's been able
- 9:01Speaker 1: to bring down walls just by talking about her passion
- 9:03Speaker 1: for tequila and why she loves it, and just being
- 9:06Speaker 1: educated and being able to educate others and unfortunately having
- 9:10Speaker 1: to prove herself as knowledgeable but getting to that point,
- 9:14Speaker 1: and of course when talking about wanting to see more
- 9:17Speaker 1: women of color in the industry of course, she talks
- 9:20Speaker 1: about how it is refreshing when she does see amazing
- 9:23Speaker 1: products that women of color have created and being able
- 9:26Speaker 1: to give global attention to it, and for her she
- 9:28Speaker 1: talks about how she wants to witness and be able
- 9:31Speaker 1: to highlight others as well, especially as she's learning on
- 9:35Speaker 1: her own and through her company, how valuable it is
- 9:39Speaker 1: and how big of a money market it is for
- 9:42Speaker 1: companies like this, and how we should be opening up
- 9:45Speaker 1: and allowing for different types of people coming in and
- 9:49Speaker 1: sharing their passion and love. So kudos, kudos, kudos, and
- 9:53Speaker 1: a delightful tequila. Thank you so much, Thank you so much.
- 9:57Speaker 1: But yeah, we want to talk about a little more
- 9:59Speaker 1: about how women of color, specifically black women, continue to
- 10:02Speaker 1: have to prove themselves repeatedly, but then when they do,
- 10:06Speaker 1: they're still barriers. And I wanted to specifically to talk
- 10:10Speaker 1: about Simone Biles. I am so upset about some of
- 10:15Speaker 1: the results that I've seen, especially with her record breaking
- 10:19Speaker 1: performance in the last Olympics. So she was able to
- 10:23Speaker 1: do the your Chinko double pike, which apparently no one
- 10:27Speaker 1: has ever done before, or no one has ever attempted before,
- 10:30Speaker 1: and yeah, people lost their minds as they should, So
- 10:34Speaker 1: if you haven't seen the video, you really need to
- 10:36Speaker 1: look this up because she is fuhenomenal and kind. It
- 10:40Speaker 1: was everybody was like, well, she is the standard end
- 10:43Speaker 1: of conversations. As Mary Sue article rights, your chinko double
- 10:47Speaker 1: pike is considered so perilous and challenging that no other
- 10:50Speaker 1: woman has attempted it in competition, and it's unlikely that
- 10:54Speaker 1: any woman in the world is even training to give
- 10:56Speaker 1: it a try. To execute it, a gymnast first must
- 11:00Speaker 1: launched herself into a round off back hand spring onto
- 11:03Speaker 1: the vaulting table and then propel herself high enough to
- 11:06Speaker 1: give herself time to flip twice in a pipe position,
- 11:09Speaker 1: which is body folded, legs straight before landing on her feet.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Again phenomenal. If you were able to go see this,
- 11:16Speaker 1: you need to go. But rather than celebrate biles incredible performance,
- 11:21Speaker 1: the judges gave her an undervalued score. They gave her
- 11:25Speaker 1: a provisional score of six point six because they didn't
- 11:29Speaker 1: want to add boost for this incredibly difficult move. So
- 11:32Speaker 1: the Women's Technical Committee who did the scoring defended their
- 11:35Speaker 1: decision to underscore hard because of the risk the safety
- 11:39Speaker 1: of the gymnast and the technical direction of the discipline,
- 11:42Speaker 1: so literally, because they wanted to discourage anybody else from
- 11:44Speaker 1: doing it and saying it's too difficult, they wanted to
- 11:48Speaker 1: make sure to discourage her as well, so they undervalued.
- 11:51Speaker 1: Of course you won as she showed of it. I
- 11:53Speaker 1: think everybody would have just completely lost it. And someone
- 11:57Speaker 1: Bile's response perfect was you don't follow her Twitter? You should,
- 12:01Speaker 1: but it says ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
- 12:03Speaker 1: ha ha ha ha ha ha. Bo I agree. I
- 12:10Speaker 1: agree with that, and I can't quite get past that
- 12:17Speaker 1: fact that in a competition like the Olympics, which you
- 12:21Speaker 1: are supposed to exceed and be able to do things
- 12:25Speaker 1: beyond the norm, but be punished for it. Yeah, it
- 12:32Speaker 1: made me so angry again because they fear that Bobs
- 12:37Speaker 1: is so good that she might run away with the competition.
- 12:40Speaker 1: She answered, simply by doing a handful of moves that
- 12:43Speaker 1: her rivals cannot do. That's what one of the reasons
- 12:45Speaker 1: they're doing the lower scoring. And of course there's other
- 12:50Speaker 1: questions of like well what about Michael Phelps. You know,
- 12:52Speaker 1: that was one of the first things, because he kept
- 12:53Speaker 1: winning and winning and winning and winning, and he definitely
- 12:56Speaker 1: exceeded everybody else, and his stature helped, his length helped,
- 12:59Speaker 1: and all of those to say, no one seemed to care. Yeah, yeah,
- 13:04Speaker 1: I think it's a ridiculous thing to say that. It's
- 13:10Speaker 1: almost like they're saying, only this is dangerous, Like almost
- 13:13Speaker 1: any sport in the Olympics can be dangerous. But as
- 13:17Speaker 1: you say, people are doing them anyway, and the whole
- 13:20Speaker 1: idea is to succeed. And I mean in theory, if
- 13:24Speaker 1: you're really good, then you you're not taking on something
- 13:29Speaker 1: you can't do. Like that's not to say there isn't
- 13:32Speaker 1: a level of danger, something can't go wrong, but if
- 13:35Speaker 1: you've trained really well, then the chance of that, Like
- 13:38Speaker 1: it's not like you're entering in thinking wow, I probably
- 13:41Speaker 1: won't succeed in this one and I might get really hurt,
- 13:44Speaker 1: Like you train for it, and so it is extremely
- 13:49Speaker 1: frustrating and ridiculous to be like, well, we don't want
- 13:54Speaker 1: anyone else to do it because they might get hurt.
- 13:57Speaker 1: Competitions like that. I would really really hope that you're
- 14:01Speaker 1: not you've trained and you're not doing something that you
- 14:04Speaker 1: really have no business being doing, you know what I mean, Like, well,
- 14:10Speaker 1: I mean this kind of goes back and you have
- 14:11Speaker 1: not talked about doing an episode specifically due to the
- 14:15Speaker 1: South African runner who ended up being barred from competing
- 14:19Speaker 1: in women's sports, specifically running, because of the level of
- 14:22Speaker 1: her testosterone caused by her hyperinoganism, which just happens. We
- 14:28Speaker 1: know that all of our bodies are different, and therefore
- 14:31Speaker 1: you may produce more testosterone than others, or maybe all
- 14:35Speaker 1: of these different things, and or you may have more
- 14:37Speaker 1: estrogen than that, and everybody's body is different. And they
- 14:41Speaker 1: forced her, they told her, unless you take hormones to
- 14:45Speaker 1: lessen those, you can't compete, right, and it's absurd in itself, Like,
- 14:50Speaker 1: of course, this became a whole conversation about they wanted
- 14:53Speaker 1: her to undgo a sex verification test, which is a
- 14:56Speaker 1: whole different conversation, and she is a female, and there's
- 15:01Speaker 1: there was never really any talk until she started winning
- 15:04Speaker 1: and they were like, oh, oh, look at that testosterone.
- 15:06Speaker 1: And she wasn't doing anything illegal. It was just her body.
- 15:11Speaker 1: And the question is kind of like, well, why are
- 15:13Speaker 1: you punishing her for who she is? Right, There's so
- 15:17Speaker 1: many conversations we can have to that, and then we
- 15:19Speaker 1: do want to talk about that later on, but it
- 15:21Speaker 1: comes to the fact that some people are damn good.
- 15:25Speaker 1: Why are we punishing them for being good at what
- 15:30Speaker 1: they're competing in because this is what they do, this
- 15:32Speaker 1: is what they've trained for. So okay, and yeah, some
- 15:36Speaker 1: people have better athleticism. I wouldn't punish someone for being
- 15:39Speaker 1: a better basketball player than me. I can't play basketball,
- 15:42Speaker 1: That's nothing I can do. It's just such a random thing.
- 15:46Speaker 1: And to come after athletes who succeed, and specifically it's
- 15:50Speaker 1: seeming like it's all black women that's being punished in
- 15:53Speaker 1: this narrative. It just blows my mind that we're letting
- 15:57Speaker 1: people get away with this. Still, yeah, yeah, and I
- 16:02Speaker 1: think there are bigger conversations to be had around, yes,
- 16:06Speaker 1: of this punishing of black women, and especially in this
- 16:09Speaker 1: case in the world of sports, because we also saw
- 16:11Speaker 1: that with like Serena Williams. But then also I do
- 16:15Speaker 1: and I could be wrong about this, but I do
- 16:16Speaker 1: think there's a layer of almost like what's that called,
- 16:21Speaker 1: like a paternal layer of wanting to protect young women
- 16:26Speaker 1: or girls, where like you said, like Michael Phelps, someone
- 16:29Speaker 1: was questioning anything or um and they're they're not you know,
- 16:32Speaker 1: one to one comparisons, but I do feel like there's
- 16:34Speaker 1: kind of a layer of we've got to protect these
- 16:38Speaker 1: women and girls don't like to hurt themselves. Um, and
- 16:42Speaker 1: that's almost like the whole history of the Olympics could
- 16:44Speaker 1: be said of something like that. I mean, women didn't
- 16:45Speaker 1: used to be allowed to compete. Women didn't used to
- 16:47Speaker 1: be allowed to run because they thought it hurt their
- 16:50Speaker 1: uterus is or what it's going to fall out exactly.
- 16:53Speaker 1: So I do feel like there's a layer of that
- 16:56Speaker 1: going on as well that's still lingering. Clearly, these women
- 17:01Speaker 1: can really kick some masks, so right. Yeah, And she
- 17:05Speaker 1: Simone Biles later on and said about the points given
- 17:09Speaker 1: to her, they're both too low and they even know it,
- 17:11Speaker 1: but they don't want the field to be too far apart,
- 17:14Speaker 1: and that's just something that's on them that's not on me.
- 17:18Speaker 1: They had an open end, a code of points, and
- 17:20Speaker 1: now they're mad that people are too far ahead and excelling.
- 17:23Speaker 1: So absolutely she's right on the money on that, and uh,
- 17:28Speaker 1: if nothing else, congrats someone Bials. You are superhuman and
- 17:34Speaker 1: your moves are amazing and we can't wait to see
- 17:38Speaker 1: how much more you're gonna do and how much further
- 17:41Speaker 1: you're going to push. Yes, yes, I think. I'm always
- 17:45Speaker 1: so excited when I see that, and I'll get like
- 17:47Speaker 1: some note like Simone Biles. I think when I saw
- 17:49Speaker 1: with Simone Biles and fis gravity and I was like, oh,
- 17:52Speaker 1: this is gonna be cool, so good. Meanwhile, I took
- 17:57Speaker 1: like ten years of gymnastics and the other I randomly
- 18:00Speaker 1: texted my friend and I was like, I wonder if
- 18:01Speaker 1: I can still do a cart wheel. So that's where
- 18:03Speaker 1: I am. I tried a while ago, was not successful.
- 18:07Speaker 1: Let's just leave it at that. No Olympics in our
- 18:11Speaker 1: features for us. Um well, cheers, everyone cheers, and as always,
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