Podcasts about Lapsang souchong

In this episode, Derek from One River Tea talks about how he found the Lapsang Souchong we source from the Zhang family up in the Masu Village of Tongmuguan. We start out musing a bit on craftsmanship, of products created with intentionality and soul as we wander up to the Tongmu mountain pass between Fujian and Jiangxi. While this area is restricted to non-residents (including Chinese people from other regions), we were able to meet the right person to open the gates for us and take us up to her beautiful village. If you're interested in the origin point of the world's first tea, we hope this episode delivers!As always, almost all the teas mentioned in the podcast are available on the Onerivertea.com website!

In this episode we dig into the history of the world's first Black Tea: Lapsang Souchong. In another solo episode, Derek not only gets back into the ancient history of Chinese teas, but also talks about the six different kinds of teas and the strange space occupied by puer. We share the origin myth of Lapsang Souchong, aka Zhongshan Xiaozhong, and explain its significance in the explosion of tea drinking culture in the West at large. We just released six new Lapsang Souchong teas from the Tongmuguan region and from the Masu Village, all of which are available on the onerivertea.com website !

Creating Cozy, Moody Interiors with Tea Over Interiors In this episode of Tea Over Interiors, hosts Dee and Alicja explore the concept of creating cozy, moody interiors. Alicia shares her preference for goji berry green tea, signifying a cleanse before an indulgent afternoon with friends, while Dee chooses a smoky Lapsang Souchong tea to match the day's theme. The discussion covers the importance of lighting, with emphasis on soft, warm light settings for moodiness and the role of textures like plush throws and velvet cushions in adding coziness. They delve into the influence of color, specifically dark hues associated with the water element in feng shui, for tranquility and introspection. The hosts recall a guest, Angie Cho from episode 85, who previously discussed feng shui and mindful homes. Scent and aromas in a space, such as cedarwood and sandalwood, are noted for their ability to create ambiance. The conversation also touches on the personal touches in home decor, including the mix of vintage and modern pieces, natural elements like wood and stone, and statement pieces to anchor spaces. Finally, they urge listeners to transform their homes into cozy sanctuaries and invite listeners to email hello@teaoverinteriors.com 00:00 Introduction and Welcome 00:33 Tea Talk and Randomness 01:44 Creating a Cozy, Moody Atmosphere 02:44 The Role of Lighting in Setting the Mood 03:58 Texture and Natural Elements in Interior Design 05:45 The Power of Scent in Creating Ambience 08:08 Incorporating Statement Pieces and Vintage Finds 10:13 Conclusion and Farewell --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/teaoverinteriors/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/teaoverinteriors/support

Vi är tillbaka och dricker te, denna gång är det en variant av Lapsang Souchong. Lapsang förekommer i flera olika teblandningar och är känt för sin rökiga och väldigt speciella smak. Veckans te: Tarry Lapsang SouchongTarry Lapsang Souchong| Rökigt teLeijona tjärpastiller terva lakrits - Torebrings.se194: Åsna | ProduktivitéetCaravan Breakfast - rökigt svart teTanteave (IV)

Tea specialist Katelyn Kent describes five types of tea and shares her knowledge and interest in tea with us. The teas featured are a Japanese Sencha, Oolong, Grand Yunnan, Lapsang Souchong, and a Herbal Tisane Blend.

From God of War Ragnorok & Andor news to reviews on Stranger Things, Doctor Strange 2, Halo and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, this episode has it all. Oh, and a MASSIVE review on Obi-Wan Kenobi S1! Beers reviewed this episode: Garage Project - Hazy Daze (Ekuanot, Strata, Citra, Eclipse) - Hazy Pale - 5.8% Little Bang Brewing - The Naked Objector - American IPA - 6.5% Moon Dog - Stacks On - Pastry Sour - 7.5% Hop Nation Brewing - The Damned - Pilsner - 4.8% Bracket Brewing - Midnight Dip - Black IPA - 7.0% Hop Nation Brewing - Rattenhund - Traditional Pilsner - 4.8% Hop Nation Brewing - Rasselbock - Doppelbock - 7.8% Wayward Brewing - The Darkness - Oatmeal Stout - 5.0%

Key Conversation Points: Let's take stock with some highs and lows, including dirty, dumb dogs, hypochondriacs, friends and tea. There's "not a lot not to love" about Christie's new book! If you haven't bought it yet, click here to read about reflecting God's majesty and glory as our Creator and a little bit of heaven on earth through flowers.  Lisa-Jo flew to Denver this week to interview with Focus on the Family about her book The Middle Matters which is a collection of love stories about ordinary life!  The saved stories are in Lisa-Jo's IG about her Denver trip and Kristen's cozy cabin.  Thanks to Lisa-Jo, have you ever heard of the greatest thing EVA for relaxing that Christie just discovered?    Christie always reads "Winter Solstice" with Rosamunde Pilcher every winter and the tea in the book has become one of her favorites. The tea is Lapsang Souchong. Christie's been visiting other podcasts and having a blast. Christie will be a guest on these podcasts: The Stories Between Us with Shawn and Maile Smucker and Saving You a Seat with Karen Hardwick. What are your highs and lows this week? Please tell us in the reviews. It's encouraging for all listeners to read. Tag @lisajobaker and @christiepurifoy on Instagram so they can see your highs and lows as well.  Podcast links: Click here to join the conversations we have with listeners every week around the podcast. https://www.blackbarnonline.com/ _______ Sponsor appreciation: We're so grateful to partner with show sponsors that keep making our work possible. Click here to visit Green Chef and use code ordinary10 to get 10 Free Meals including free shipping! The #1 Meal Kit for Eating Well! https://greenchef.com/ordinary10 Click here to visit Betabrand and get 30% off your order.  Find out why women are buying 5 different pairs of theses pants! https://www.betabrand.com/ordinary Click here to join over 1 million people taking charge of their mental health through the online counseling offered by BetterHelp. Get 10% off your first month. http://www.betterhelp.com/ordinary Click here to visit HoneyLove and get 20% off your second item.  Use the code ORDINARY for an extra 10% off your entire order. https://www.honeylove.com/ Click here to visit Nutrafol and use the promo code ORDINARY to save $15 off your first subscription. https://nutrafol.com/ _______ Click here to sign up for your own digital Paper&String care package curated by Christie, Lisa-Jo and friends. http://outoftheordinarypodcast.com/ps

Bai Mu Dan, Anxi Tie Guan Yin, Da Hong Pao, Bai Mao Hou, Lapsang Souchong, Perles de jasmin sont quelques-uns des thés d'exception que François-Xavier fait découvrir à Sidonie dans cet épisode. Leur point commun ? Ils viennent tous de la province du Fujian en Chine. Partons en voyage dans l'une des régions de thé les plus importantes, à la découverte de son histoire, de ses légendes et de son incroyable variété de thés ! Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out.

Midway through the Qing Dynasty trouble is brewing along with the tens of millions of pounds of tea being imported into Britain. The Qianlong Emperor rebuffs Britain's envoy and puts a major damper on the prospects of China trade. Britain finds the perfect commodity to trade for tea, Patna Opium from India. This ultimately leads to conflict culminating in the Opium Wars. Why this war is misnamed is also explained. This was the age of the China Clipper ships and imperialism at its worst. New black teas are also discussed, including Lapsang Souchong and the one black tea that local Chinese didn't turn their nose up to: Keemun. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-tea-history-podcast/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Spencer and Lee review the finale of season 1 of Ted Lasso. Lee finally discusses Lapsang Souchong tea, Spencer has a repeat dessert in Biscuits with the Boss, Spencer leads a recap, they award Trainwreck of the Episode, run through the Sportscenter Top 10 and wrap up the season with Life Lesson with Ted.

"Utiliser des produits qui me rappellent quelque chose et qui me parlent, me fait sentir que ce sont mes desserts et que c'est mon identité." Après 4 ans passés au Relais Bernard Loiseau, et l'obtention du  « trophée Duval-Leroy du meilleur dessert » en 2010, Lucile Darosey a relevé le défi de participer à l'ouverture de Loiseau des Ducs à Dijon en 2013. Le défi est réussi puisqu'un an plus tard le restaurant est étoilé. Et en 2019, elle est distinguée dans la promotion Passion Dessert. Son secret ? Penser ses desserts pour les inscrire dans l'univers de la ville dans laquelle elle travaille. À Dijon elle a notamment découvert le cassis et la moutarde qu'elle a mis à l'honneur dans ses différents desserts pour rendre hommage à cet univers. Originaire de Franche-Comté et habituée des produits fermiers frais, Lucile s'attache aussi à retranscrire tout son patrimoine gustatif dans ses différents desserts. Produits de son enfance et inspirations locales, voici donc le parfait mélange de desserts délicieux. Au menu de cet épisode :

Introducing the smoky wonder that is Lapsang Souchong! Emma and Jack have their first ever taste of this pinewood smoked leaf in episode 41 and discuss a a few fun facts; including a story about a plucky bandit defying farmer who may well have invented this fine brew! This tea ticked all the boxes for us, why not brew up a cup of your own and join the chats. Credits: Created and recorded by Emma Ewins  Music by Apples I'm Home Featuring guest Jack Ewins (and a silent secret guest...) Tea Lapsang Souchong from Batch Special thanks to Instagram's Loose Leaf Lemon for sending us this tea a part of a competition box!

Vår trio är komplett igen! David suger på något rökigt medan vi går igenom historien bakom blended-boomen. Veckans ord är (tvärtemot vad Jeroen säger) Mystery malt och veckans destilleribesök förläggs till det lilla stora skjulet Kininvie. Vad var det i glaset? David pimplade Lapsang souchong minsann. Mathias körde Royal Lochnagar 12 YO som han smuttat på vid tidigare tillfälle. Jeroen hade Box Archipelago 2016: https://www.whiskybase.com/whiskies/whisky/77458/box-the-archipelago-baltic-sea-2016 Danskjävlar! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlTukY9fV9Y Whiskyhistoria och vikten av blended Lättast att läsa är Charles MacLeans Whisky: A liquid history. Sjukt bra bok men avsevärt mer akademisk stil: Michael S. Moss & John R. Hume, The making of Scotch whisky: a history of the Scotch whisky distilling industry (Edinburgh: James & James, 1981). Lite om Aeneas Coffey och skapandet av grainwhisky: https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/whisky-heroes/20740/aeneas-coffey/ Lite om de juridiska striderna om vad whisky är under 1900-talets första decennium: https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/features/16639/what-is-whisky-the-legal-fight/ Det där med den första blended (som bara var blandning av fat, inte en blended i modern mening): https://scotchwhisky.com/magazine/whisky-heroes/14768/andrew-and-john-usher/ Vi får be att återkomma till excisemen men David hade rätt i att de var kvar länge; till 1982, faktiskt. Mystery malt Ni får helt enkelt lita på David här. Tydligen råder viss förvirring kring vad mystery malt är, för det som sägs här nedan är faktiskt helt enkelt fel fel fel: https://scotchaddict.com/mystery-malt.html SMWS-koder, förresten: här en av många sidor som går igenom vad siffrorna står för: https://www.whiskysaga.com/smws-codes Kininvie Hemsida: https://www.kininvie.com/ David glömde alldeles att berätta om alla experiment som de numera gör på Kininvie, men det kan ni ju läsa om på deras hemsida ovan. Monkey shoulder: https://www.monkeyshoulder.com/ The knights who say Kininvie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIV4poUZAQo Här når du oss: En trea whisky på Facebook (https://ww.facebook.com/entreawhisky) Maila till oss på hej@entreawhisky.se Davids blogg tjederswhisky.se (https://www.tjederswhisky.se)

Click here to buy: https://adbl.co/2LSiAso 'It has absolutely stolen my heart' - Elizabeth Gilbert 'Clever, warm and funny' - Adam Kay 'Beautifully rendered, thoughtful and original' - Pandora Sykes 'A marvellous read' - Ruth Hogan Ada is a widowed writer, navigating loneliness in Oxford after the death of her husband. She has no children. No grandchildren. She fears she is becoming peripheral, another invisible woman. Eliza is a student at the university. She finds it difficult to form meaningful relationships after the estrangement of her mother and breakup with her girlfriend. After meeting through Ada's new venture, 'Rent-a-Gran', and bonding over Lapsang Souchong tea and Primo Levi, they begin to find what they're looking for in each other. But can they cast off their isolation for good? An exquisite story of connection and loss, and how a person can change another person's life. Full of heartache yet joyful and life-affirming, this is for fans of Normal People, Expectation and Sarah Winman's Tin Man. 'Leaf's writing is warm and lyrically funny - she has an eye for details both sublime and ridiculous.Looking for Eliza is an intelligent and big-hearted read with the human condition at its core.' - Harriet Walker, The Times

In this week's episode, we dig deep into our darker sides. Hear how we all scored on a 'Dark Core' test. Sneak peek, we are all petty. Sip some piping hot Lapsang Souchong with Stacey, Poonam and Mia. Follow us on @honestea.pod STACEY: @staceyharris27 MIA: @mi.weston POONAM: www.mvnoop.com

Lapsang Souchong is the origin of all black teas the whole world, here we learned the story behind the name.

Anette och Niklas pratar om tv-serien, Nedsläckt land. Martin tipsar om Lapsang Souchong, ett rökt svart te. Hur skulle du reagera om du var med i ett "socialt experiment" och en solstorm inträffade? Skulle du ta dig tid för att koka upp vatten och brygga te?   Shownotes: Nedsläckt land - SVT Play Nedsläckt land - Ny TV-serie - Par i Prepp Upplyst land - Urvaken    

What is lapsang souchong? Why does it have such a smoky taste? Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lapsang_souchong&oldid=874580993 https://sevencups.com/2013/11/the-demise-of-tongmu-lapsang-souchong-black-tea/ https://www.therighttea.com/lapsang-souchong-tea.html “The Tea Drinker’s Handbook”, p. 159 http://nicky_smith.tripod.com/neon.html “The Tea Enthusiast’s Handbook: A Guide to the World’s Best Teas” p. 133 (Loc. 2192) https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Russian_Caravan&oldid=872883877 http://www.flavorandfortune.com/dataaccess/article.php?ID=617 http://sensibiliteas.blogspot.com/2009/01/sherlock-holmes-and-his-cup-of-tea.html https://www.thekitchn.com/cooking-with-tea-smoky-lapsang-52170 https://www.teaformeplease.com/blog//2017/08/the-real-lapsang-souchong-and-dangers.html http://theteastylist.com/2012/01/23/pillars-of-smoke-churchill-cigars-and-lapsang-souchong-tea/ https://theteaspot.com/steep-it-loose/loose-black-tea/where-does-lapsang-souchong-tea-come-from/ https://verdanttea.com/the-legend-of-lapsang-souchong/ (yet another origin myth: bandits burning down sheds)

“A Martian scientist with no understanding of visual perception could understand the rainbow, or lightning, or clouds as physical phenomena,  though he would never be able to understand the human concepts of rainbow, lighting, or cloud, or the place these things occupy in our phenomenal world.” In this episode of Made You Think, Neil and Nat critically discuss the article What Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel. This is the most famous piece on the mind-body problem. In it Nagel explores the mind-body issue, freedom, knowledge, meaning and value of human life. This article was penned down at an era where physicalism and materialism were prevalent, the idea that you can reduce all aspects of the mind to simply firings in the brain. However, Nagel was unpersuaded that physicalism of materialism gives an all-encompassing account of human experience. “Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting with consciousness it seems hopeless.” We cover a wide range of topics, including The mind-body consciousness problem Creating an objective interpretations of reality. Learning skills to overcome reporters biases Consciousness in animals Artificial intelligence (AI) and hacking of consciousness And much more. Please enjoy, and be sure to grab a copy of What Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel! If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out our book episodes on consciousness like Godel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, Sapiens by Yuval Harari, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett, and The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch. Be sure to join our mailing list to find out about what books are coming up, giveaways we're running, special events, and more. Links from the Episode Mentioned in the show The Beginning of Infinity on Wikipedia [04:52] (book episode) Pod Save America Podcast [19:20] HARO Help A Reporter Out [22:14] Fox News [23:30] CNBC [23:30] Turing Test [30:53] Chinese Room [31:13] Chess [32:00] Go game [32:40] Watson AI [39:53] Joe Rogan interviews Elon Musk [47:34] The Man in the High Castle Television TV series [54:08] Hardcore History ep 62 – Supernova in the East I [54:42] Books mentioned What it is to be like a bat? By Thomas Nagel Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. 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Dick [54:08] Plato's Republic [20:10] People mentioned David Deutsch [05:25] (Infinity episode) Daniel Dennett [08:25] (Darwin’s episode) Bobby McMullen – Blind Bike Rider [09:44] Donald Trump [12:23] Charles Darwin [30:15] Pepper the Poochon [33:40] Sam Harris [37:19] (Guns episode) Yuval Noah Harari [37:19] Douglas Hofstadter [43:36] Nick Bostrom [43:53] Karl Marx [46:02] Elon Musk [47:34] (on this podcast) Hiroo Onoda [55:17] Show Topics 01:00 – Consciousness. The article is about the theory of mind and consciousness, looking into the mind-body problem. Aspects of the mind can be linked to how the brain responds. 01:58 – Challenge to physicalism rather than refute reductionism. Reductionism and physicalism cannot be fully understood; thus, making these two theories flawed. “Every reductionist has his favorite analogy for modern science. It is most unlikely that any of these unrelated examples of successful reduction will shed light on the relation of mind to brain”. Nagel seems not to refute reductionism but rather exposing a big whole in it and saying you can't take reductionism seriously until you fill this hole. 03:43 – Mind-body consciousness problem. Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting with consciousness it seems hopeless. “It seems unlikely that any physical theory of mind can be contemplated until more thought has been given to the general problem of subjective and objective”. 05:27 – All problems are soluble given enough intelligence in time. 06:08 – Subjective filter for any information. Physicalism and reductionism create an objective interpretation of reality. Physicalism and reductionism in some ways rely on creating an objective interpretation of reality. All the thoughts human beings have are grounded from the subjective view of the world. 08:00 – Humans cannot understand a “what it is like aspect” because they are not in that very situation. A bat was used to demonstrate this concept. Human beings cannot comprehend how a bat moves and survives by echo-location thus this highlights human cannot understand subjective experience from human data. 09:04 – Humans can learn to echo-locate. An excellent example is Bobby McMullen, who is a blind mountain biker; he uses echolocation and his senses to mountain bike. 10:14 – However, according to Nagel, even if a human could echo-locate, that is still not equivalent to how bats echo-locate. 10:35 – Subjective interpretation of reality cannot be stepped out. This means something outside of one’s understanding cannot be fully grasped or comprehended. This concept applies to understand to someone who is totally different from you. You can never know exactly what they went through or understand what they do why they do some things; it is easy to judge someone thinking they are making irrational actions without viewing their actions from the subjective experience. 12:12 – How would look post-Trump era discussions. Urban Democrats have different interests and value systems than rural Republicans. Where to draw the line for life? Understanding pro-life people. Pro-gunners point of view. Having a gun in Texas is a must. 18:28 – Divided political sphere. Humans choose a side that will agree with their preconceived opinions. 19:58 – Decentralization makes it really hard to create a cohesive story and narrative for a population. 20:20 – Gell-Mann amnesia effect. Phenomenon where one will believe about something they know not about because it has been reported. Journalists are almost never trained to actually understand what they are reporting on, not confirming the authenticity of their sources and misunderstanding statistics. 24:00 – Learning how to read research articles is an important skill these days as we can't rely on media anymore. Famous bad reporters interpretations. Bacon is bad for you as smoking. Coconut oil is bad because saturated fats. 26:26 – Hanlon's Razor. Applying that to even news reporters, they are not doing it necessarily maliciously, they are doing it for one of two reasons- it works, people click on it and read it; the second thing is a lot of these sites are effectively content firms. This circles up to what Nagel is saying about subjective character of experience which we cannot step outside of and not understanding what it is like to be someone else. 28:20 – Test for consciousness. Mirror test for animal self awareness. 30:38 – AI discussion. What means a computer is conscious? Turing test is not enough. Reaching intelligence by brute force. Computers that don't want to play chess. 33:33 – Consciousness in animals. Every animal has a level of consciousness and awareness in the same fundamental way a human does. Dogs dreaming. 35:30 – The self is not necessarily an actual thing. Nagel is trying to keep the sense of self and the potential challenge to him is this thing you are trying to hold on to the mind, the sense of self is an illusion; there is not really anything special for what we think about this consciousness. 37:47 – Challenging reductionism. Nagel is challenging reductionism by pushing for a more helpful theory of mind that says it’s all mental- making it hard to comprehend any one’s mind. 38:43 – Subjective phenomena cannot be explained. Questions that arise with a conscious AI: can you unplug it? Can you reset it? Is it a slave? Riding horses and animals that work for humans. 40:26 – Artificial intelligence (AI) and consciousness. That will just reach a point where it is so competent that it is indistinguishable from interacting with another human. 43:05 – AI scare. An AI is sufficiently intelligent to be a threat to us all, it is sufficiently intelligent to know it shouldn't let us know it exists. AI that optimizes for paperclips can destroy the world. 43:38 – Use of the term is. E = mc2. Knowing that something is true without necessarily understanding why it is true. Consciousness and intelligence exist within its closed system. 50:10 – Knowledge is a justified true belief, based on theoretical understanding. “You can know that something is something without understanding what it means for it to be that thing.” 53:41 – Tangent. Japanese soldiers fighting after the war was over. 57:47 – Subscribe to Patreon to get our book notes, highlights, bonus material and support us without the need of ads. Sign up before october to participate to the next live hangout! Also, recommend us books (even via Instagram), and participate of our private community. Find us on Twitter @Neil Soni (@TheRealNeilS) and @Nat Eliason (@nateliason). Leave us a review on iTunes to get possible guests on the show. You can just write “Love this podcast! Neil and Nat are super fun.”. 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“It is inevitable that we face problems but no particular problem is inevitable we survive and thrive by solving each problem as it comes up, and since the human ability to transform nature is limited only by the laws of physics none of the endless stream of problems will ever constitute an impassable barrier” In this episode of Made You Think, Neil and Nat discuss The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch. It’s a playful, meandering book on explanations that transform the world, covering evolution, physics, philosophy, politics, ecology, money, memetics, epistemology, history. It ties everything to the central idea that with enough knowledge anything possible, is achievable. “Every putative physical transformation to be performed in a given time with given resources or under any other conditions is either impossible because it is forbidden by the laws of nature or achievable given the right knowledge.” We cover a wide range of topics, including: Wrapping our brains around the concepts of advanced topics like infinity Thinking of problems as a gap in our knowledge that can be solved The repeating cycle of problem > solution > new problem Tangents on Aquatic Apes, Egyptology and Sphinxes Universality of systems Optimistic vs Pessimistic view points And so much more! Please enjoy, and be sure to grab a copy of The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out our episode on Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter for a similar kind of book covering a wide range of topics. Also our episode on Leverage Points by Donella Meadows for how we should approach complex systems. Be sure to join our mailing list to find out about what books are coming up, giveaways we’re running, special events, and more. 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Hofstadter [1:22] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) The Jungle by Upton Sinclair [3:36] (Nat’s notes) Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand [3:39] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Darwin’s Dangerous Idea by Daniel Dennett [3:56] (book episode) The Denial of Death [8:55] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley [9:44] I Am A Strange Loop - Douglas Hofstadter [17:20] (Podcast Episode) Rare Earth by Donald Brownlee [20:25] Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari [24:23] (Nat’s notes) (book episode part 1 & part 2) The Secret by Rhonda Byrne [25:56] The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle [39:40] Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb [41:55] (Nat’s notes) (Neil’s notes) (book episode) Homo Deus by Yuval Harari [43:45] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson [43:50] The Jungle by Upton Sinclair [1:08:41] (Nat’s notes) Leverage Points by Donella Meadows [1:29:20] (article episode) Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault [1:30:10] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway [1:33:05] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins [1:45:40] People mentioned David Deutsch Daniel Dennett [1:45] (Darwin’s episode) Flatgeologist [3:00] Nassim Nicholas Taleb [2:50] (Antifragile episode) (Skin in the Game episode) Seneca [8:40] Matt Ridley [9:33] Nicolas Cage [13:43] Socrates [16:55] [1:09:00] Hermes [16:56] Jordan Peterson [21:29] Richard Dawkins [23:35] John Haldane [23:36] Freud [40:55] Plato [1:10:00] Dan Carlin [1:43:30] Show Topics 2:47 – In this book the author, David Deutsch, calls out some of the other authors that we have covered on the podcast before. He calls out Nassim Taleb on some of his ideas, which is something we almost hold sacred on this podcast. This book made us change the way we think about some of these things. 5:03 – Diving into advanced concepts like multiverse, quantum entanglement, relativity and infinity. You have to take your time to wrap your head around this. Our minds are not used to grasping these concepts. Explaining what’s the highest number to a kid. 7:00 – In the introduction the author says “all progress both theoretical and practical has resulted from a single human activity, the quest for what I call good explanations”. Everything is possible if it is not prohibited by the laws of physics. 8:10 – Deutsch uses the example of disease and cholera. People dying of diarrhea when they were right next to a fire and could have boiled their water. The problem was actually a problem of knowledge. A lot of problems we have today are the same and given the right amount of knowledge, can be solved. 8:55 – All other books that we have looked at, Seneca, Taleb and even the book Denial of Death. They all are predicated on the idea that we all will die. Deutsch says most likely yes we will die, but it doesn’t mean it’s not possible to solve. He isn’t saying there is one solution but there maybe solutions to each of the discrete problems - accidents, cancer etc, they are all problems waiting for the right knowledge to be able to solve them. 10:40 – Wealth as a society was another thing he called out in this book, as a species having the resources as well as the knowledge. Even if you had given cavemen the knowledge of how to build a plane, they don’t yet have the resources to get the metals out of the ground and shape the parts needed. Progress is a factor of both knowledge and wealth. 11:25 – He starts the book off in the intro with his refutation of empiricism, where we gain knowledge by experiencing things then learning from them. He makes this good distinction: “Experience is indeed essential to science but its role is different from that supposed by empiricism, it is not the source from which theories are derived its main use is to choose between theories that have already been guessed”. You really can’t learn from experience unless you have some guess about what should happen. You need to have conjecture or a hypothesis before you can actually test something. You’re trying to figure out what the truth might be. Startups “finding” insights in Big Data without an hypothesis to test. 15:00 – “Fallabilsts expect even their best and even most fundamental explanations to contain misconceptions in addition to truth and so they are predisposed to try to change them for the better.” This is like a life philosophy - anything you assume is true you should also assume part of it is wrong. Always look for ways to improve your understanding. 17:46 – Deutsch rounds out the first chapter by saying that “every problem is a signal that our knowledge is flawed or inaccurate.” Our goal as humans is to come up with better explanations which then inevitably leads to a new set of problems. That is this beginning of infinity, each problem leads to infinitely many more problems and the solutions that come with them. We are stuck with this continual loop of solve problem > discover new one > solve problem etc. The Principle of Mediocrity idea and Anti-Anthropocentrism. 23:20 – Deutsch says that humans can understand anything with enough time and knowledge. He is referencing John Haldane who said “The universe not only queerer than we suppose it is queerer than we can suppose”. Deutsch says that nothing is beyond our potential comprehension. 30:43 – Tangent. Aquatic Apes fringe theory. Go listen to Darwin’s dangerous idea episode. We don’t want the aquatic apes theory to be refuted, plus it would make a really good band name. 31:42 – Chapter 4. Form of infinities in the Universe: the process of biological evolution and knowledge growth. Ideas can be replicators same as genes can. 33:22 – Chapter 6. Universality. Some ideas are useful and functional in a contained, local sense and some make the jump to actually being universal and infinite. Roman Numerals were never really universal. It would always require more numerals to count higher and higher. Where as our Arabic system 0-9 they are just 10 symbols plus 1 rule, gives us an infinite number. Same as using an alphabet vs hieroglyphics, having a character represent a word, you will always need more characters. Asian scripts. 40:10 – Reductionism and the concept of the brain as a computer, the way we think about our brain is influenced by the technology of the day. Scaling problems. Knowledge creation for AI. Knowledge ownership. “First the brain was supposed to be like an immensely complicated set of gears and levers, then it was hydraulic pipes, then steam engines, then telephone exchanges, and now that computers are the most impressive technology brains are said to be computers. This is still no more than a metaphor and there is no more reason to expect a brain to be a computer than a steam engine” 47:55 – Tangent. Hofstadter and the DARPA Turing Test, AI joke creation and changing nature of humor through generations. Consciousness Test. 54:44 – Hotel Chapter. Understanding Infinity. Being at the beginning of infinite progress. Time subjective to our mental processing power. 1:00:11 – Optimism Chapter. All problems and evils in the world are caused by insufficient knowledge. All can be solved with enough knowledge. Evils are just situations where we haven’t solved the problem yet. There is never going to be a Garden of Eden state as you always unlock new problems. Deutsch says “We do not yet know what we have not yet discovered.” Sounds similar to the idea of blind faith, that we will just figure it out. We can be optimistic because if there is a necessity to solve something the market really impacts it, it’s a powerful corrective force. Investment and money gets put towards solving the problem. Ebola example. 1:08:33 – Multiverse Chapter. Funny dialogue between Socrates and Plato. 1:10:20 – Tangent. Sphinx theories, Egyptology and the Semmelweis reflex. Respecting and disproving Fringe Theories. Politics vs science in Medicine. 1:17:05 – Tangent. Anthropomorphising food. Now low cholesterol is tied to mortality causes. Where as previously high cholesterol was considered a huge health issue. Eating fat doesn’t make you fat, like Taleb says eating a cow doesn’t make you bovine. The cause for bull penis powder. 1:20:07 – Bad philosophies. Philosophies that prevents you from developing other philosophies. Religions, top-down theories, bad company traits. Crony beliefs. if you feel personally attacked when someone questions your belief, that shows it’s not a well reasoned idea and a bad philosophy for you – that may show you what you are believing because you want to. You often only believe things that are socially beneficial. Vegans, palm sugar, plastic activism, foreign orphanages and stupid activism. 1:29:40 – Postmodernism as bad philosophy. Problems in different types of Sciences. Explanational science. Tossing old knowledge requires an explanation. Chemical imbalance for depression. Second and third effects of drugs use. 1:39:41 – Politics Chapter. Separate essay. Beauty Chapter. There is objective universal beauty. Beauty in flowers and music. 1:45:33 – Evolution of Culture. Rational and anti-rational beliefs. Memes as a way of spreading ideas “Consider how you would be judged by other people if you went shopping in your pajamas or painted your house with blue and brown stripes - that gives a hint of the narrowness of convention that govern these objectively trivial inconsequential choices about style and the social cost of violating them. Is the same thing true of the more momentous patterns in our lives, careers, relationships, education, morality, political outlook and national identity. Consider what we expect to happen when a static society is gradually switching from anti-rational to rational memes”. Liberalism-conservatism conflict. Turning child into political statements. 1:58:15 – The Unsustainable Chapter. Easter Island culture diminished as they didn’t solve their problems. We often think things are finite when they can be solved in other ways. Pessimistic and Optimistic conceptions. “Pessimistic conception is that humans are wasters - they take precious resources and madly convert them into useless coloured pictures. This is true of static societies those statues were what my colleagues were what color televisions which is why comparing our culture with the old society of Easter Island is wrong - we are not a static society. The optimistic conception is that people are problem solvers, creators of the unsustainable solution and hence also of the next problem. In the pessimistic conception that distinctive ability of people is a disease for which sustainability is the cure - sustainability is the disease and people are the cure.” Trying to get people to work against their selfish desires isn’t going to work, so find a way to make what you want to work out for the greater good. For example with hotels and reducing washing. It’s a win-win for both the hotel and the environment. They will then encourage environmental acts like that. If it cost them money then they would not encourage that. "What lies ahead of us in any case, is in any case infinity - all we can choose is if it is an infinity of ignorance or of knowledge, wrong or right, death or life." 2:03:48 – Subscribe to Patreon to get our book notes, highlights, bonus material and more for the price of a book. 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"Now happiness, more than anything else, seems complete without qualification. For we always choose it because of itself, never because of something else." In this episode of Made You Think, Neil and Nat discuss The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle. Aristotle "wrote" this book for his son, Nicomachea, in which philosophizes about the pursuit of happiness and how to find the point of flourishing of our lives. “We become builders building, we become harpists by playing the harp. Therefore we become just by doing just actions, temperate by doing temperate actions, brave by doing brave actions.” We cover a wide range of topics, including: How to find the perfect middle point to flourish in our activities Why happiness is a path that requires action, and not a destination Why sons may vote for the opposite of their parents Stones, horses and slaves that find their purposes in life Harvard admission problems with Asian-Americans Blaming the 2a.m. pizza And much more. Please enjoy, and be sure to grab a copy of The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle! If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out our episode on Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, a book that approach happiness from another perspective, as well as our episode on Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, whose author proclaimed to be strongly influenced by Aristotle. Be sure to join our mailing list to find out about what books are coming up, giveaways we're running, special events, and more. Links from the Episode Mentioned in the show Nihilism [2:55] Postmodernism [2:55] The Donald on Reddit [22:39] Eugenics [23:21] The Office “Business School” – 4 types of business [26:33] 23andme [31:29] Asian-Americans Suing Harvard Say Admissions Files Show Discrimination – NYTimes [35:05] Chinese Room Experiment [55:38] Turing Test [55:46] Kantian Deontology [1:26:35] Lindy Effect [1:27:54] Books mentioned The Nicomachean Ethics Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand [10:03] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Blank Slate by Steven Pinker [20:40] Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari [30:06] (Nat’s notes) (book episode part 1 & part 2) Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb [42:38] (Nat’s notes) (Neil’s notes) (book episode) The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg [50:16] (Nat’s notes) Homo Deus by Yuval Harari [55:05] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Letters from a Stoic by Seneca [1:14:27] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) People mentioned Aristotle Socrates [0:59] Plato [0:59] Alexander the Great [0:59] Saint Thomas Aquinas [2:23] Ayn Rand [10:03] (Atlas Shrugged episode) Steven Pinker [19:57] John Searle [55:46] Scott Adams [1:05:18] Lucius Annaeus Seneca [1:14:27] (Letters from a Stoic episode) Zeno [1:14:45] Marcus Aurelius [1:15:02] Epictetus [1:15:02] Nassim Nicholas Taleb [1:26:59] (Antifragile episode) (Skin in the Game episode) Show Topics 0:00 – Were these philosophers famous at their time or they became famous later? Plato's and Aristotle legacy and influence up to our days. Christianity and Virtue Ethics. Aristotle’s argumentation as a lawyer and dichotomy in opening speeches. 5:19 – Human flourishing as a better translation for happiness from Ancient Greek. 8:07 – Book 1. A book of ethics, how we should behave. Being able to judge what is happiness. Happiness Hierarchy. City Happiness before the Individual Happiness. Who decides what happiness is? How the Christian Church decided it was the source of morality. 11:51 – Aristotle and Buddhism. Appropriate level of moderation in all things. Difficulty to know what the a good middle is, but extremes are always bad. Alcohol during pregnancy. Using edge cases to find a good mean is not always possible. 16:46 – Extremism in politics. Family and switching to the opposite extreme view. 20:40 – Personalities traits pre-influenced by genes. Questions not allowed to be asked. "Nepotism" in professional basketball. Where to draw the line from extreme left or right. 25:56 – Hierarchies of a good life. Pleasure, political activity, philosophy. 28:06 – The perfect version of anything is what is most meant by nature. What sets human nature apart. Neanderthal and Sapiens stats. 32:02 – Hairy tangents. Why Indian people are hairy. Shaving dogs by mistake. Harvard discriminating Asians and Jews. Why colleges can ask for your race. 41:42 – Being virtuous requires action. One can't say its virtuous and become automatically it. Going to church doesn't make you a good person. Fasting before a feast. 44:20 – Learning the boundaries by experiencing and living. How to find the middle point by shooting to extremes first. Dating, relationships, meditation, etc. 47:24 – Book 2. Virtues of character. Virtue of thought arises and grows from teaching. Pulling from the observable to apply to the unobservable. The power of habits. Blaming the pizza for feeling bad after staying wake up past 2am. Post hangover foods. 52:48 – Being virtuous while being asleep doesn't count. Avoiding sin while sleeping. Concept of mind. The Chinese room experiment. Religion not being true, however still being useful to control people's behavior. One just can't just hope to do the right thing. One should know why it is a good thing, it is our duty as citizens to learn the why. 59:40 – Criticisms to religion based more on faith than reason. Christianity, Muslim, Pagans. Book as instruments to spread a Church's mission. Realism of a perfect God or person. Paganism vs monotheistic religions. 1:02:54 – Virtue ethics does not try to perfect ethical laws, it's a find-what's-good-by-yourself approach. Natural tendencies. Looking down on other people's tendencies while not recognizing our owns. Vices. 1:07:28 – Skimming through books 3, 4, 5. Common idea at the time: everyone knows everything, one just have to draw out of them (by using the Socratic method). Learning as a mutual discovery between teacher and student. 1:10:40 – Aristotle's Physics. Stones and horses flourishing, chemical stable states. Slaves feeling fulfilled. 1:13:11 – Book 7. Incontinence. People who know the right thing but then they don't do it. Putting down Stoicism. 1:15:21 – Book 8. Friendship. Land owning as a proxy for a good person throughout history. Proxies for intelligence or wealth: job, city where you're living, table manners,etc. 1:18:10 – Book 10. Pleasure. Main dichotomy: happiness of a base nature vs happiness of a higher nature. What pleasure is and why it is not sufficient for happiness. Pleasures relative to context. The problem of pleasure as a metric. 1:21:35 – The problem of happiness as a destination. The importance to know what shit one is able to put up with. Why entrepreneurship porn is popular. Acting in such a way it can become a universal rule for people in the same situation. Taleb's Platinum Rule (compared to the Golden Rule). 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"When I reached thirty I looked back on my past. The previous victories were not due to my having mastered strategy. Perhaps it was natural ability, or the order of heaven, or that other schools’ strategy was inferior. After that I studied morning and evening searching for the principle, and came to realise the Way of strategy when I was fifty." In this episode of Made You Think, Neil and Nat discuss The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi. Musashi was the greatest Samurai ever, famous for winning over 60 samurai duels. In this book he uses the art of sword fighting to develop a set of principles that can guide you through your personal and professional life. Study strategy over the years and achieve the spirit of the warrior. Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is your victory over lesser men. We cover a wide range of topics, including: Strategy in business and in life Lots of Japanese aphorisms Giving excuses when failing The importance of mastering different skills How it’ll look like when we reach 100 podcasts And much more. Please enjoy, and be sure to grab a copy of The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi! The teacher cannot force learning on the student, and the student cannot learn in isolation: "The teacher is as a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly."   If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to check out our episode on Way of Zen by Alan Watts, a book that about Buddhism and mastering skills, as well as our episode on Inner Game of Tennis by Timothy Gallwey, another book starts with a specific activity to infer global principles. Be sure to join our mailing list to find out about what books are coming up, giveaways we're running, special events, and more. Links from the Episode Mentioned in the show Kindle [0:49] Quip Toothbrush [11:58] ButcherBox [11:58] Kettle & Fire [11:58] Perfect Keto [11:58] Four Sigmatic Mushroom Coffee [11:58] Cup & Leaf [11:58] Uber [14:42] Black Mirror [15:16] Jocko Podcast [17:46] Virtue Signalling [42:59] Joe Rogan’s Podcast [47:08] Haidong Kumdo [49:10] Tailored Fit [53:48] ModCloth [53:48] Chess [57:11] Go [57:11] StarCraft [58:13] DOTA [58:13] Lyft [59:19] Tesla [1:00:31] Books mentioned The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi (Nat’s notes) Musashi the Novel by Eiji Yoshikawa [1:25] Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand [2:51] Homo Deus by Yuval Harari [2:51] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari [2:51] (Nat’s notes) (book episode part 1 & part 2) Striking Thoughts by Bruce Lee [3:56] (Nat’s notes) Levels of the Game by John McPhee [7:11] The Inner Game of Tennis [7:33] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Principles [7:52] (Nat’s Notes) (book episode) Mastery by Robert Greene [8:00] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas R. Hofstadter [8:08] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Letters from a Stoic by Seneca [19:03] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Way of Zen by Alan Watts [19:39] (Nat’s notes) (Neil’s notes) (book episode) Lanterns on the Levee by William Percy [25:23] Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb [26:19] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) The Secret by Rhonda Byrne [34:35] Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James [34:57] 12 Rules for Life by Dr. Jordan B. Peterson [35:33] (Nat’s notes) (Neil’s notes) (book episode) The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene [35:38] (Nat’s notes) Tao Te Ching by Laozi [45:27] (Nat’s notes) Finite and Infinite Games [1:08:54] (Nat’s notes) (book episode) Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance [1:12:23] People mentioned Miyamoto Musashi Rumi, Persian Poet [2:21] Bruce Lee [3:56] Lucius Annaeus Seneca [19:03] Robert Greene [36:40] Jocko Podcast [37:42] Nathan Latka [38:58] Elon Musk [1:00:06] (on this podcast) Sebastian Marshall [1:11:15] (on Nat Chat) Jocko’s book on the Tim Ferriss’ blog [1:11:28] Adil Majid [1:15:14] Show Topics 3:14 – Musashi's background and how he became the most famous samurai. In this book he writes about strategy and philosophy through the lens of sword fighting. His writing style starts with examples at micro level and unfolds them into general principles. Development of the Niten Ichi-ryū school, the style of fighting with one short and one long sword. Books that use sports or physical activities as a canvas to explain strategy, psychology, and philosophy. 9:45 – Sponsor time! Scentbird. Online subscription plan to receive at home all perfumes you want to try. Go to Scentbird, build your queue, and get 50% OFF with the coupon mentioned in the episode. They don't take much space in or bag, so very convenient to travel with. Very helpful if you want to go into subscription mode for everything in your life like Nat. 12:40 – Time period where guns were spreading but swords were still popular. 15:26 – Ground. Foundation for the other books and the most applicable to real world problems beyond sword fighting. Four personas: the gentlemen, the farmers, the artisans and the merchants. The teacher can be guidance but one has to move through the process. Symbiotic relationship between teacher and student. 19:16 – “The way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death”. Does acceptance of death make you a better warrior? "The Dojo" example applied to Marketing. There are so many marketing gurus pushing for their school as it is the only true alternative, while they are truly looking for profit. 23:12 – “This is a truth: when you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry”. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon yet undrawn. You can't allow yourself to fail without trying everything you have at your disposal. Romanticizing failures and not learning from them. The fine line of failure and ego protection. Not going all in gives you an excuse if you fail. 26:23 – “It will seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first”. Everything is hard when you start. Having a diversity of abilities. In sports, a winning strategy is to water the opponents favorite strategy. Having a favorite weapon or skill is a weakness. Bruce Lee's fighting against his own Martial Arts school, by following his philosophy of non-philosophy. Coping other does not make sense because what works for others may not work for you. 31:39 – Water. “With water as the basis, the spirit becomes like water. Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea”. Being able to break over the rocks and not being stopped by them. Being able to work around an obstacle and being fluid. The difference of learning indoor techniques with learning into the wild. Book summaries visitor stats. 36:56 – Our private behavior and public behavior should be the same at all times. Instagram and social media push us to build a fake personality, and pretend we are a different person from what we really are. Me too stuff. White people trying to win points between minorities. 43:45 – “In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things”. Japanese aphorisms. Detaching from personal feelings to get the big picture. How Rogan can make so many podcasts. 48:15 – Fire. Here Masashi starts to get very technical on fighting. Training to the point it becomes an innate knowledge. You know when something is natural to you when you have a hard time explaining it. The best mentor is not someone far along and super successful but most of the times, just a few steps ahead from you. 55:12 – Methods to slow down enemies' attacks. Attacking first, counter attacking, and attacking at the same time. Maintain control of your position. It is bad to be led about by the enemy. Taking the initiative may have psychological advantages by not being responsive to the enemy but making him responsive to you. Acting vs reacting. Having the enemy to respond to your moves so they don't have time to develop their strategies. Staying relevant and on the news in order to push the competition to show their cards. 1:01:46 – Wind. “Crossing at a ford”. Knowing when to enter in a negotiation, in a position of strength. Having the discipline to delay to act when it's the right time. Being able to put oneself in the enemy's shoes. Criticizing other schools. 1:08:00 – Void. Conventional and unspoken knowledge. True mastery is something you cannot put into a book, it has no end. Anti dogma. 1:14:08 – Sponsors. If you want to smell lovely and have an easy solution for all your perfumes and colognes needs checkout Scentbird. Use our code to get 50% off your first month subscription. Get your mushroom coffee from Four Sigmatic. They have a new Think blend! Try also the Cordyceps blend, their Reishi blend for sleep. Nat is drinking Lapsang Souchong black tea from Cup & Leaf. It tastes like a brandy, whisky, smokey dark liquor flavor scotch. Try the Earl Grey cream one too! Kettle & Fire has mushroom-chicken bone broth available on their site now! Great flavoring. You may get up to 28% off your first ordering using our code. 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It’s our first live show! At the democracy center, live in front of 50 strangers, we talk about the weird, smelly origins of Lapsang Souchong and about how the North American European Starling were imported to the states and immediately got out of hand. A million thanks to Improv History and the Democracry Center for … Continue reading "LIVE! Tea Bandits and Imported Starlings"

The interview with Colin Cray, a.k.a the Podcast Host, was recorded (length: 59 minutes) on June 5, with the Ringr app. At the beginning of our conversation we talk about Colin's interest in mountain biking and I mention Jerry Nilson's site Cycloclimbing.com ("Road cycling on mountain roads"). As a fellow podcaster, I experienced plenty of aha-moments during the episode. I got several new ideas for the podcasts that I am involved in, and potential features for new podcasts in the pipeline... I am tinkering on how I could apply "content stacking" on my social media activities in the near future. Show notes: 02 Colin Gray on Twitter: @thepodcasthost 02 PodcastGuests.com 03 The Numbers (Numb3rs) Game 10 New Media Europe 10 Youpreneur Summit 12 Fizzle 12 Courage & Clarity 22 Lyceum - Peripatetic school 23 Audible 24 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike 25 The Lies of Locke Lamora: The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book One (Gentleman Bastards 1) 27 Trader Principle - Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead 27 Ayn Rand Included on A-Level Curriculum in UK - The Objective Standard 28 TANSTAAFL - The Library of Economics and Liberty 29 Parenting: How To Raise a Life-Loving Child (The Objective Standard), Can one be a true Objectivist and be a good parent, or isn’t good parenting really altruistic? (Leonard Peikoff podcast), Leonard Peikoff’s final podcast. 32 SaaS 35 Shawn Smith a.k.a the Mobile Pro 36 Aston microphones 37 iRig Mic Lav. 38 72 hours...  39 Podcasting in Seasons: Revitalise Your Content & Help Your Listeners - The Podcast Host 45 "iPod, podcast, netcast..." Listen between time stamp, 11 - 14 min., of the episode, Back to the Future Just In Time (EGO NetCast). 45 Produktivitéet podcast (in Swedish) 46 MenyPodden - street food guide (in Swedish) 47 UK Startup podcast 49 BizSugar.com (moderators) 50 My First Book on Tea with Illustrations by John Cox - GoGetFunding.com 52 Bruce Gray - Left Handed Giant Brewing Co. and Small Bar. 54 Frappuccino 54 Lapsang Souchong black tea. 54 White tea by the Wee Tea Company. 54 J. Allan Braithwaite Ltd, Tea Blenders & Coffee Roasters, Dundee 56 Yerba mate 57 Rooibos 58 The Podcast Host on Instagram 59 Support EGO NetCast

The interview with Colin Cray, a.k.a the Podcast Host, was recorded (length: 59 minutes) on June 5, with the Ringr app. At the beginning of our conversation we talk about Colin's interest in mountain biking and I mention Jerry Nilson's site Cycloclimbing.com ("Road cycling on mountain roads"). As a fellow podcaster, I experienced plenty of aha-moments during the episode. I got several new ideas for the podcasts that I am involved in, and potential features for new podcasts in the pipeline... I am tinkering on how I could apply "content stacking" on my social media activities in the near future. Show notes: 02 Colin Gray on Twitter: @thepodcasthost 02 PodcastGuests.com 03 The Numbers (Numb3rs) Game 10 New Media Europe 10 Youpreneur Summit 12 Fizzle 12 Courage & Clarity 22 Lyceum - Peripatetic school 23 Audible 24 Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike 25 The Lies of Locke Lamora: The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book One (Gentleman Bastards 1) 27 Trader Principle - Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead 27 Ayn Rand Included on A-Level Curriculum in UK - The Objective Standard 28 TANSTAAFL - The Library of Economics and Liberty 29 Parenting: How To Raise a Life-Loving Child (The Objective Standard), Can one be a true Objectivist and be a good parent, or isn’t good parenting really altruistic? (Leonard Peikoff podcast), Leonard Peikoff’s final podcast. 32 SaaS 35 Shawn Smith a.k.a the Mobile Pro 36 Aston microphones 37 iRig Mic Lav. 38 72 hours...  39 Podcasting in Seasons: Revitalise Your Content & Help Your Listeners - The Podcast Host 45 "iPod, podcast, netcast..." Listen between time stamp, 11 - 14 min., of the episode, Back to the Future Just In Time (EGO NetCast). 45 Produktivitéet podcast (in Swedish) 46 MenyPodden - street food guide (in Swedish) 47 UK Startup podcast 49 BizSugar.com (moderators) 50 My First Book on Tea with Illustrations by John Cox - GoGetFunding.com 52 Bruce Gray - Left Handed Giant Brewing Co. and Small Bar. 54 Frappuccino 54 Lapsang Souchong black tea. 54 White tea by the Wee Tea Company. 54 J. Allan Braithwaite Ltd, Tea Blenders & Coffee Roasters, Dundee 56 Yerba mate 57 Rooibos 58 The Podcast Host on Instagram 59 Support EGO NetCast

As temperatures begin to drop outdoors and autumn settles into early winter, the scent of smoke rising from chimneys fills the evening air in just about every place we visit in the cooler climates. But the unmistakable aroma and taste of smoke is not something many of us actively seek out in our teas, and the famously smokey Lapsang Souchong is often overlooked by serious tea drinkers. So it's been quite a pleasant surprise discovering that high quality Lapsang Souchongs can have great levels of complexity and depth of flavor. Joining us today to chat about Lapsang Souchong are Zhen Lu and Phil Rushworth of Zhen Tea, an online tea company specializing in Chinese tea. We chat over two interesting varieties of Lapsang Souchong carried by Zhen Tea: we first sample a non-smokey version of Lapsang Souchong, which allows us to explore the base of the tea without the influence of the smoke, and then a top-grade Lapsang Souchong (pictured here), made by the same family that invented the Lapsang Souchong process several centuries ago. Zhen and Phil talk with us about the origins of Lapsang Souchong and what distinguishes it from other teas, and especially from other smokey-tasting teas, in terms of its cultivar and processing. We discuss components of aroma and taste in both the non-smokey and top-grade versions. And Zhen and Phil also share some of their own tea journey with us and tell us a bit of how Zhen Tea came into being. ADDED VIDEO COMPONENT: Phil and Zhen wanted everyone to be able to see as well as hear about brewing techniques for Lapsang Souchong, so after we finished our audio chat Phil switched on his camera and added a video component to this podcast. You can hear (and see) us talking about brewing this tea on Zhen Tea's YouTube channel by clicking here. More info about Zhen Tea, including their online shop, is at the Zhen Tea website, zhentea.ca. You can also follow Zhen Tea on Facebook and Instagram at Zhentea, and on Twitter at @zhentea2014.   For more information on Talking Tea and updates on new episodes, visit our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/talkingtea. To inquire about being a guest or having your organization featured, please email us at talkingteapodcasts@gmail.com. Have something in mind you'd like to hear discussed on Talking Tea? Leave us a comment on Facebook or on our Libsyn episode page, or email us. Talking Tea is produced and hosted by Ken Cohen. You can follow Ken on Twitter @Kensvoiceken.    This podcast features music from "Japanese Flowers" (https://soundcloud.com/mpgiii/japanese-flowers) by mpgiiiBEATS (https://soundcloud.com/mpgiii) available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). Adapted from original.   Photo courtesy of Zhen Tea.            

In dieser Folge des Hackerfunks ist nach langer Zeit wieder einmal Mowgli zu Gast und hat allerlei Tees mitgebracht, damit wir nicht nur drüber reden, sondern auch probieren können. Es wird also ab und zu mal geschlürft in dieser Sendung. Trackliste Die Grünen Raben – Tee Anders Hesselbom – Hades Nebula BKSonic – Tea Spirit Auszug Lebensmittelgesetz :: Deutsches Lebensmitelgesetz zu Tee Tereré :: Wikipedia über Tereré Echter Jasmin :: Wikipedia über den echten Jasmin Lapsang Souchong :: Chinesischer Rauchtee Gemüsetee :: Gemüseteebeutel von Stick-Lembke Lhasa Boys :: Die Lhasa Boys am Albanifest Winterthur Tibetanischer Buttertee :: Tibetanischer Buttertee mit Yak-Butter Sonnentor :: Teesortiment von Sonnentor Rooibos :: Wikipedia über Rooibos Tannine (Gerbstoffe) :: Wikipedia über Tannine Matcha Tee :: Matcha (gemahlener) Tee Gyokuro Nozomi :: Gyokuro Nozomi von Tee Gschwendner Oolong :: Formosa Nantou Dong Ding Oolong von Tee Gschwendner Tai-Chi Tee :: Tai-Chi Tee vom Wudang-Shop Samowar :: Funktionsweise eines Samowars Ostfriesische Teekultur :: Ostfriesische Teekultur Asterix bei den Briten :: "Die spinnen, die Briten!" Pilztee :: Pilztee Pilztee :: Pilztee Teemaschine :: Trisa Teemaschine Special.T :: Nestlé Special.T H. Schwarzenbach :: Kolonialwarenladen im Zürcher Niederdorf Tee Gschwendner :: Tee Gschwendner mit Filialsuche Yerbamate :: Mate-Tee Laden und Versandhandel Tekoe :: Teeladen im Zürich HB etc. London Tee :: Teeladen in Basel Madame Wu :: Teesalon und Teeladen in Linz File Download (140:23 min / 142 MB)

In dieser Folge des Hackerfunks ist nach langer Zeit wieder einmal Mowgli zu Gast und hat allerlei Tees mitgebracht, damit wir nicht nur drüber reden, sondern auch probieren können. Es wird also ab und zu mal geschlürft in dieser Sendung. Trackliste Die Grünen Raben – Tee Anders Hesselbom – Hades Nebula BKSonic – Tea Spirit Auszug Lebensmittelgesetz :: Deutsches Lebensmitelgesetz zu Tee Tereré :: Wikipedia über Tereré Echter Jasmin :: Wikipedia über den echten Jasmin Lapsang Souchong :: Chinesischer Rauchtee Gemüsetee :: Gemüseteebeutel von Stick-Lembke Lhasa Boys :: Die Lhasa Boys am Albanifest Winterthur Tibetanischer Buttertee :: Tibetanischer Buttertee mit Yak-Butter Sonnentor :: Teesortiment von Sonnentor Rooibos :: Wikipedia über Rooibos Tannine (Gerbstoffe) :: Wikipedia über Tannine Matcha Tee :: Matcha (gemahlener) Tee Gyokuro Nozomi :: Gyokuro Nozomi von Tee Gschwendner Oolong :: Formosa Nantou Dong Ding Oolong von Tee Gschwendner Tai-Chi Tee :: Tai-Chi Tee vom Wudang-Shop Samowar :: Funktionsweise eines Samowars Ostfriesische Teekultur :: Ostfriesische Teekultur Asterix bei den Briten :: "Die spinnen, die Briten!" Pilztee :: Pilztee Pilztee :: Pilztee Teemaschine :: Trisa Teemaschine Special.T :: Nestlé Special.T H. Schwarzenbach :: Kolonialwarenladen im Zürcher Niederdorf Tee Gschwendner :: Tee Gschwendner mit Filialsuche Yerbamate :: Mate-Tee Laden und Versandhandel Tekoe :: Teeladen im Zürich HB etc. London Tee :: Teeladen in Basel Madame Wu :: Teesalon und Teeladen in Linz File Download (140:23 min / 142 MB)

On today’s episode of the D2D Pod, Greg makes himself a “Union Smoke and Maple Punch,” incorporating Wigle Smoked Whiskey (…with grains smoked on the Union Pig and Chicken smoker…), Lapsang Souchong tea and pumpkin rooibus, lemon juice, and maple syrup; while Jen enjoys a nice lemon cayenne cleanse probiotic drink. (One is fun, one is healthy.) Kate, the dog, finds the smell of cayenne immediately aversive, thus finally proving that she will not eat anything. (Though she will happily eat litter encrusted cat shit, among other mammalian fecal delicacies.) Greg apparently identifies with Norman Bates’ awkwardness and inability to understand girls, though not his predilection toward murderous fugue states. Jen mentions an Indiana pizza shop, social medial backlash, ahomophobic Kickstarter, and the fact that no self-respecting gay couple (…or straight couple for that matter…) would ever have a wedding catered by a pizza shop anyway. Greg follows up the discussion from, “Our First Inclusion Excursion” with an update on C-Man, and reminds himself to always set expectation ceilings high. We humbly present to you, “No Gays Pizza, In Stereo.”

Midway through the Qing Dynasty trouble is brewing, along with the tens of millions of pounds of tea annually exported to Britain. The Qianlong Emperor rebuffs Britain's envoy and puts a major damper on the prospects of China trade. Britain finds the perfect commodity to trade for tea, Patna Opium from India. This ultimately leads to conflict culminating in the Opium Wars. Why this war is misnamed is also explained. This was the age of the China Clipper ships and imperialism at its worst. New black teas are also discussed, including Lapsang Souchong and the one black tea that local Chinese didn't turn their nose up at: Keemun 祁门茶. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Midway through the Qing Dynasty trouble is brewing, along with the tens of millions of pounds of tea annually exported to Britain. The Qianlong Emperor rebuffs Britain's envoy and puts a major damper on the prospects of China trade. Britain finds the perfect commodity to trade for tea, Patna Opium from India. This ultimately leads to conflict culminating in the Opium Wars. Why this war is misnamed is also explained. This was the age of the China Clipper ships and imperialism at its worst. New black teas are also discussed, including Lapsang Souchong and the one black tea that local Chinese didn't turn their nose up at: Keemun 祁门茶. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Midway through the Qing Dynasty trouble is brewing, along with the tens of millions of pounds of tea annually exported to Britain. The Qianlong Emperor rebuffs Britain's envoy and puts a major damper on the prospects of China trade. Britain finds the perfect commodity to trade for tea, Patna Opium from India. This ultimately leads to conflict culminating in the Opium Wars. Why this war is misnamed is also explained. This was the age of the China Clipper ships and imperialism at its worst. New black teas are also discussed, including Lapsang Souchong and the one black tea that local Chinese didn't turn their nose up at: Keemun 祁门茶. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Midway through the Qing Dynasty trouble is brewing, along with the tens of millions of pounds of tea annually exported to Britain. The Qianlong Emperor rebuffs Britain's envoy and puts a major damper on the prospects of China trade. Britain finds the perfect commodity to trade for tea, Patna Opium from India. This ultimately leads to conflict culminating in the Opium Wars. Why this war is misnamed is also explained. This was the age of the China Clipper ships and imperialism at its worst. New black teas are also discussed, including Lapsang Souchong and the one black tea that local Chinese didn't turn their nose up at: Keemun 祁门茶. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This time on Life in Scents we sit down for a cup of tea (or five) with Henrietta Lovell, founder of The Rare Tea Company. Henrietta quit her job in packaging to find and import fine teas made by hand, and is utterly passionate about the subject and its associated smells. We hear of her memories of sitting by Lapsang Souchong smoking-huts and of swooning from the scent of jasmine flowers mingling with tea on Chinese mountain tops. Outside of tea, we hear about her love of all sorts of organic scents, of hidden bits of parks and of her grandmother prescribing her first perfume. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Roderick on the Line - Ep. 14: “Big City Apology” on Huffduffer The Problems: all things golden, antiqued, chocolatey, and considered; public radio murmuring; tales of fraud and malfeasance in Adam Ant wallet licensing; thwarted love in a 6-story wooden bookcase; tea taxonomies; The Dustin Hoffman Scenario; hats off to the Confident Delivery Guy; the scotty that nails 3-pointers; Blackie chases Blackie; still working on dialing down the ping-pong talk; getting one’s hands around The Ladder of Enlightenment; John’s Aerostar residency; taking Clydesdales to the Prom; long con involving a sailboat; shtupping the honey bear; pony keg of Axe; JFK’s struggle with Hodgman’s Disease; Busch v. Anheuser feud; the box in Geneva holding a Glock and 7 passports; disputes in international band nomenclature; the old money of Canadia; Bob’s Dad was such an asshole; the thing about the Village People; a thread on the Buckaroos (not the pipe guys); the jailer’s keychain surrogacy; anxious Bonobo regret; going Dutch—again; Lapsang Souchong is NOT the lady from Myanmar (formerly known as Burma); the inescapable dander of the compulsive onanist; some followup from Merlin’s Other Program; why John can’t go to Tonga; the thing about deer at a watering hole; and, that one time a steely-eyed yeti with twigs in its fur demanded satisfaction.

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