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We move from ranting about serious subjects, to discussing zombie kill plans, We hit on Accents, and make fun of everyone, even ourselves. From Geek to Groan, this episode has some great puns, some good information and some hearty laughs.

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Summer has been here for a while in the Northern hemisphere. Now it’s August days are stinking hot, and by stinking I do mean that there is a reek. And in the world of coffee that Reek is iced coffee, and the state of coffee news in general. You see I’ve been doing this show for some 5 years now, 5 summers of the same stories, the same complaints.

No one in their right mind wants to talk about Coffee the tasty hot beverage in the summer. I am not in my right mind so I’m excused.

If you’d like to find out how to make iced coffee the summer stinks of articles all saying they have the magic secret to giving you iced coffee. You want the secret break apart the term and ad those ingredients together you put ice in coffee, drop the mic and call it a day. No contest for recipes, no convoluted systems for making good iced coffee. Make good coffee and add Ice to it. To simplify my recipe, Here you go

I have reviewed some products which make cold brewed coffee, this isn’t the same, but often gets confused. And While I like Cold brewed coffee it doesn’t change my tune. Every year in august I get irritated by the same stories getting rehashed and retold, the same commercials about how refreshing a milk and sugared up cup of fat floating in a beverage, which doesn’t remember it was supposed to be coffee. Those drinks are not refreshing, they might be sweet, and cold. But not refreshing. A real cup of old fashioned Iced tea with a bit of lemon is refreshing it leaves the palette clean.

So I long for the days when days are short and news of coffee and tasty hot beverages once again dominate the charts. So what about you? Have you had it up to here with coffee news for the summer, or have you found something to refresh your own palette?

Tags: iced coffee, iced coffee recipe, rant, simple iced coffee

Red Bull and Vodka, the drink of doom. Sure it is. Apparently ABC news got a hold of some shady science and some suspect statistics to point to in their ever present quest to horrify casual observers. Can you hear the sheep bleating as they run towards the cliffs? Lemming style. I’m more than a little irritated by the sensationalist tract of news that pervades even the most inane subjects. Within this article they make blanket statements, and throw in tid-bits to excite the mind over nothing. Red Bull and Vodka impairs your judgment… Yeah you’re drunk. Then there is this little gem of a sentence.

“A Brazilian study found that college students didn’t perceive themselves to be as intoxicated as they really were.“

Lets break this down a bit. Your expecting College kids to know just how wasted they are? What are you basing this judgment on? Johnny Football Guy didn’t say “I am so wasted” quick enough that night? Your blaming the fact that they didn’t feel drunk on the caffeine? How about the increased tolerance that comes with increased alcohol consumption? I understand what they are getting at here but be serious. Stimulants and alcohol have been mixed for a lot longer than Red Bull has been around. Irish Coffee Anyone?

Couple all of this with the news being a little late to the party. This drink has been making its way around the Bars in the US for 2 or 3 years. great reporting.

And as for the three unfortunate souls who died as a result of drinking Red Bull, not even Red Bull and Vodka, I calmly direct you to the ultimate guide to Caffeine induced death, as we have pointed you there before. There are people on this planet who can not handle caffeine Red Bull has less caffeine in it than a strong cup of coffee does. 80 mg per 8oz, whereas a strong cup of coffee can have 100 mg, per 6 oz. news agencies would do better by stories by reporting the facts without going to the lengths that they do to scare us. Yes Red Bull and Vodka makes you an alert drunk, Caffeine can affect people with weak hearts

Thats about it. I’m done here.

Expect more hard hitting news from this outlet in the future. Check back often, or you could DIE

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