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