MWUTT 16: Is Diversity our National Strength?

Welcome to this episode of Men Who Understood the Times. I am Michael with Andy and Josh. Uh, so Josh, what are you drinking tonight? Are you, are you drinking a bottle of, uh, cough medicine?

No. I sound like Barry Manilow because I'm recovering from laryngitis, and so this, this looks like a beer. Um, will my camera pick up on this? Okay.

Yeah.

Or like pond water if you go close. This... I, I picked this up when I was living in Beijing. Um, and so this actually does help. Uh, the Chinese for this was flu bomb, which could be a weapon I suppose as well. And it's, um... Let me think here. So, like, a teaspoon of grated garlic, a teaspoon of grated ginger, uh, honey, um, cayenne pepper, and then a drop of eucalyptus oil, um, boiled in a cup of water, and then a half of a, a lemon squeezed on top. And so this smells like turpentine.

It, it-

Like, it's straight up awful. However-

And that's why you're making a face every time you take a-

It does help

... you take a sip, right? Yeah.

Yes. It, it's not dramatic. It's, it's... Or like, um, imagine chugging Pine-Sol. That's, that's... So there's no alcohol in this at all today 'cause yeah.

Yeah, so just for our listeners- ... we are not using a voice modulator just to make-

No

... Josh's voice sound sexier.

No, no.

And Andy, what are you drinking tonight?

Well, first I want to point out that those sound very similar to all the toppings I put on my food at the Mongolian Grill as well.

Yes.

Yeah, they're great on beef.

But Josh, I am disappointed since you're the only Wisconsin, Wisconsin representative here-

Mm

... on this pod that you didn't just go down to the corner and buy, like, a handful of Hot Toddies.

Yeah, no, I've deci- I've just not... Never got into that.

Fair enough. Uh, on that note though, because it is vacation, we're burning the midnight oil, get- uh, staying up late and doing all the lazy, unhealthy things, and I don't wanna end up with laryngitis. I've got a similar color profile drink-

Oh

... but Gatorade Zero tonight.

So I'm the only one drinking tonight, and I've got, I've got some, uh, salted caramel whiskey.

That sounds delightful.