Oh hey, alligites. It's your dry cleaner who never judges your pit stains. Alli-ward. Back for

another episode of allergies. So winter celebrations are here. Mariamant is to be had gatherings,

our gathering, and you've got some weekdays off and you're expected to spend them in your pajamas.

So I thought, why not an episode on liquid curiosities? Speaking of celebrations, really quick

up top. Happy birthday to Hannah Lipo, dear friend, admin of the Alligis Facebook group. We all love

you very much. Deal with it. Also more business before we get to the episode. Thank you to all the

patrons on patreon.com slash allergies. Thanks to anyone who gets merch at alligismerch.com. And

thank you for keeping alligis solid in the old science charts by tweeting and gramming and telling

your relatives and subscribing and rating and reviewing, which you know I creepily peruse because

your reviews are hilarious and they perk me up. And then I read you a fresh one so you know I'm not

just whistling very creepy dixie. So this week, Abokai says straight up, my therapist told me about

this podcast when I was complaining about my pervasive news addiction. Thanks for saving me from reading

way too many political articles. Straight up advice from the therapist. Okay, mixology. Let's get into it.

Okay, first, let's tackle this etymology because mixology is not a word used by mixologists a lot.

Although it seems like it was a term that was just invented like in the last decade with the

resurgence of these prohibition era classics and cocktails and the resurgence of the semi-ironic

moustaches, it is actually a throwback to an earlier time. So before we had delights like indoor

plumbing and vaccines, cocktail books and newspapers from the 1860s used phrases like mixologists

of fluid excitements to describe bartenders. And then in the 1980s in an era when

screwdrivers and segrums and diapypsi were all the rage, a New York bartender named Dail DeGroff

started bringing back old-timey recipes and he started calling himself a mixologist just to

impress the press and it worked. But maybe in the last like handful of years, some suspended

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