I love asking people what they're really into, what they've been thinking about right now, what they're obsessed with, one thing that recently brought them down a rabbit hole, and not because their rabbit hole will become mine, but really just for the pleasure of learning something new.

Sometimes when I say I host a culture podcast, people say what kind of culture,

because it's broad. And it's kind of beautiful how much falls under the umbrella of culture.

Like you can start reading and listening and watching and just never reach the end.

And to many people that's very stressful, but there's some relief in accepting it.

You know, I will never read Ulysses.

So if someone wants to tell me the experience of reading Ulysses with two other books simultaneously

so that they can understand Ulysses, and this is why, and this is why it's important, that's cool.

My name is Sarah Germano.

I'm the U.S. sports business correspondent for the F.T.

And my off-hours obsession recently has been the Jamiroquai Instagram account.

I don't know what's going on in like Jamiroquai headquarters,

but someone is managing this account now,

and they've been posting all of these videos of, you may remember, the virtual insanity music

video. They did it in high deaf and re-released it, but it's basically taking me down this

deep nostalgia hole of music I listened to in the 90s. A book called Punch, The Delights and Dangers of the Flowing Bowl, by David Wendrich.

And it is so droll.

That's Claire Bushy, the F.T. Chicago reporter.

It is a history of punch, which is an entire category of drinks, much like

cocktails, which I did not know. And it is just full of lovely, lovely descriptions where he describes

warm fellowship and conviviality and high-spirited gatherings afloat on oceans of witty talk. Now, who doesn't want to go to a party like that?

And there's like 80 million recipes for Punch in the back of this book.

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