This forum gives me a chance to thank Malcolm for his podcasts. Such wonderful content, on long road trips throughout the Great Basin in my hot hatchback during this era, seemingly so long ago. Thank you sir, and an Happy Rebel Day to you! 🦅

Spilling the tea ... on tea. 'Colonial Tony' would have taken a case home, tea bro.. Marvelous, as always.

Lapsang is a 'bro' thing? Stuff and nonsense! I'm old and British and I like it and have done for decades. I also really like Russian Caravan (preferably with lemon). They are 'special occasion' teas for me, eg sitting down to read a letter from a friend. I mostly drink ordinary black tea with milk (tea to drink when reading emails). I prefer loose leaf tea in a proper china pot to teabags. If someone wants a mug of tea with the teabag left in, with milk and three sugars, I will not raise an eyebrow, people are free to drink tea just how they like it.

My mother Bless her soul went thru this stage in the 80s of microwaving her teabag and water till it was scorching. Tell Tony that one

Awesome 😎🎉😂

but of course they taxed tea after independence. after all, they finally had representation

@bubstacrini8851

11 ай бұрын

Acceptance of Taxation is widespread but representation is a will o wisp

O Canada!

@bubstacrini8851

11 ай бұрын

Oh Canada, where our first PM had to resign in drunken disgrace for taking bribes from the American railroaders! The moral high ground may not be nearly as high as primary school history led us to believe.

Malcolm, you seem to be missing the whole "Taxation without Representation" angle, which IMHO is totally defensible, regardless of whatever else is at stake.

@SelfReflective

Жыл бұрын

He is always that way. He locks onto some ludicrous detail and goes off on a tangent. His podcasts are interesting and amusing, but don't take them too seriously.

@noturdaddyblameyomomma8354

Жыл бұрын

The "Patriots" where protecting their hustle. That's why they tossed the British's now cheaply sold tea into the harbor; to quell competition.

@bubstacrini8851

11 ай бұрын

No, W, u seem to have missed the timing economics that Mr. G presented; only after the redcoats had reduced their tax, so taxed British tea was competitive with untaxed smuggled tea...did the tea party occur in Boston harbor. Clearly the Boston traders benefited from a high British tea tax, and were pissed when it was reduced to create competition. Where Malc does go quite astray is his characterization of free trade and free traders as intrinsically criminal in nature. It is hard to uncouple from ones social conditioning, the economic history seems rigorous, even if his moral conclusion is dubious.

Isn’t this story embarrassingly early😮

@drakunauger3324

Жыл бұрын

In the description, it states it was from a past season in 2019

Buh-rill-iant!!! 🎉

Roasted carrot? Yes he is a tea snob

I’m not an expert in anything but like he always in gen z business and yet like where is the gen z content creator. It’s like call her daddy’s uncle podcasts. And not to say it wasn’t interesting as starting a company in the podcast world but for how many resources he had (he literally occupies the book industry, like gosh make room for other writers) and how many boards he’s on and how many people he knew for….and it’s like beck and chamberlain literally hold gen z and the weird way they buy internet consumerism parasocial. MKBHD also knocks it out the park, like he broke language and people want to feel involved on so many levels with different technology. Gladwell mostly used psychology for marketing, like I’m not saying it wasn’t difficult but who’s still invested. Like c’mon Sam Sanders, Traci Thomas, The Read like all did something to break language with less resources. Yeah not quite gen z but like breaks language. And there is the elephant in the room, yeah East Asians are not cutting it. Like somebody has to tell them like they can’t rely on blaccenting their way into parasocial. Like it’s everyone rising but like where are the East Asians breaking between tides. Who talks to their people. Like write it down. Make a list. Please somebody let me know.

@L33PL4Y

6 ай бұрын

What the hell are you talking about?

Hey, how do you know they were drinking lots of green tea? I don’t believe it😂

@hatjodelka

Жыл бұрын

Green tea is tea from China, black tea is tea from India. The leaf is just prepared differently but they're from the same plant.

Point 1: American Colonist drank far more coffee than tea. The EIC wasn't transporting coffee and trying to force tea onto the American market. Point 2: ith the Navigation Ats, American products couldn't be sold outside of a colony unless it hit British shoere. This drained money fromthe colonies to the point the colonists had to barter. Smuggling is much easier under a barter system. These are not excuses, but are in the mode of info this show seems to love.

Husband called lapsang su Chong tarry pigtail which maybe sounds right for the Boston smugglers. Do you think corrupt newly independent country governments are just going thro their gangsta phase? I hope so as I'm in one of those gangster states.

The Sons of Liberty remind me a bit of MAGA Republicans!

@L33PL4Y

6 ай бұрын

How so?

Less agreeable Malcom