Tyson Yunkaporta
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752 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2020
last heard 10 Jun
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We had...
We had a kind of a gender fluidity too, which it lasted up until the 1930s.
You ever heard of poutine?
So poutine is... Is that Japanese?
So Ireland, we invented whiskey, right?
And the way that we invented whiskey is absolutely fucking gas.
So...
When we got the ability to write, Rome is collapsing, and now Ireland is learning Latin script, and Ireland is preserving everything it can get its hands on.
So Ireland is just going to Europe, going, give me that book, give me that book.
No one in Europe can fucking read them.
We can read them because we're preserving it.
And then the Irish come across...
Greek translations of old Arabic scripts.
And the Irish find Greek and Latin translations of Arabic distillation.
Now, the Arabs had been distilling flowers for perfumes and for alchemy.
But the Irish monks who were making beer start translating this and say, I wonder, could we do this distillation thing for perfume but with beer?
And then they find whiskey.
But when the Irish monks find the whiskey and they eventually make fucking poutine, they're like, holy fuck, what is this?
This is so powerful.
But then it kind of leaks into our indigenous mythology.
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