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Todd Alba our friend and colleague will be joining us at 1033 to kick around the news of
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This shouldn't be a thing things. Okay. Wonderful world of weddings is going to be happening
in Milwaukee this weekend. It's a big event. It's still a big event. It's been going on
for decades. Yeah. So if you have someone in your life who recently got engaged over
the holidays, you want to join us tomorrow for the wonderful world of weddings. We'll find
out all about it tomorrow at 1133 right now, though, it is 1153. That means it is time
for this shouldn't be a thing. Again, if you ever have a thing, you think should not
be sent it into Greg and me at Jane says at civic media dot us J a N E S a Y S. Jane
says at civic media dot us, you found this one. I did from the New York Post. Of course,
that bastion of journalistic excellence. That's right up there with the Washington Post
at this point. I think Tracy Swartz, the author headline reads, can you eat your leftover
Christmas tree? These are the health benefits of pine needle tea. Okay. Between 25 million
and 30 million Christmas trees get sold in the US each year, according to the National
Christmas Tree Association, many homeowners draft their a drag rather the trees to the
curb after Christmas is over. So I can get recycled. However, you can harvest your Christmas
tree needles and transform them not only into tea, but shortbread cookies. Okay. Baker
and cook Juliet, George Alice, author of how to eat your Christmas tree. Oh, I hate
this says the way that I generally cook with Christmas trees is to use the needles like
an herb in the same way you might use rosemary. You use the rosemary to flavor a dish, but
you don't necessarily eat the rosemary itself. Her cookbook, how to eat your Christmas
tree has more than 30 recipes, everything from Christmas cured fish to Christmas tree
vinegar and Christmas tree and ginger ice cream. In Asia, it is very popular for people to
use pine needles to turn it into tea. Pine needle tea, Greg Bach, rich in antioxidants, vitamin
A and vitamin C, which can boost immunity and sooth colds. I guess as tea, I could see
it. I bet I bet you there's a lot of other. How many teas do you think exist on earth
flavors and styles hundreds? Do you think somewhere out there there's a tea that exists that
doesn't require me throwing pine needles on it? That gives me the same. The same effects.
Yeah. The same antioxidants and all those things. Those vitamins A's and C's and antioxidants
that will I don't need to pick down my Christmas tree to get by the way ours is fake. So I
would just be dead. Don't try that. Don't do that. Web and D reporting that certain molecules
in pine needles, particularly anti inflammatory flavonoids. That's that's a made up work.
That's a word that bind to a specific receptor in the body that plays an important role in
regulating metabolism. Hey, next time you the Web MD, what is a doctor ever said? Oh, thank
God you went to Web MD. Right. And yes, you go to your real doctor and you say, well, Web
MD told me to make tea out of my Christmas tree. Yeah. That's why don't go to Web MD. I just
I think that as we're as the like the universe expands the breath of information gets bigger
and bigger. Someone's got to carve out a tiny little niche for themselves. Sure. And so this lady
said, how about Christmas trees? Why not? What can I do? I can make I can write a book. I can write
a book. Registered dietitian nutritionist Kate Spurgeon says to make pine needle tees flavor more
a mild, enjoy it iced for it more familiar taste. Try it blended with your favorite herbal teas.
This is this feels insulting like like I mean, told something that's a given like
I think we should get a copy of how to eat your Christmas tree for next year.
I think the company credit card should pay for a copy of that book. I agree with you.
Uh, Calvin, that wraps up today's episode of this shouldn't be a thing.
As we said, coming up on tomorrow's show, Todd, all the will be here from 1030 to 11. We can
talk about yet his latest victory. We don't have to show. We just pretend it never happened. Yeah.
We'll just pretend it never happened. Uh, Todd is coming up right after us after the 12 o'clock
news, Todd from noon to two, Maggie Don from two to four p.m. Dom Salvia, four to six,
Peach Schwabba, night light from six to eight and then kicking everything off tomorrow morning.
Bok in the dock. Bok in the docks six AM. The dock in four pack right low. And then of course,
Earl Ingram here coming to you live from our studio here at Radio Park. Thank you, Greg and
Calvin and all of our engineers without you, nothing works. And thank you most of all for calling
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