#1673 - Colin Wright

Joe Rogan (0:04)

The Joe Rogan Experience.

Jamie (0:06)

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Joe Rogan (0:14)

Hello Colin.

Well, first of all, it's going great. Thank you very much, first of all, for this bottle of, this is distilled honey.

Colin Wright (0:24)

It's distilled mead.

Joe Rogan (0:25)

Distilled mead. Yeah, so mead is like a beer made out of, well, kind of.

Colin Wright (0:30)

Yeah, it's like a honey wine. So when you make rum, that's basically just like a distilled fermented sugar cane product and beer, or whiskey is a distilled beer. And then if you want to have brandy, that's sort of a distilled fruit wine of some sort. So this is sort of a unique thing. This is distilled mead, so straight from a honey. So I think it's one of the most like crafty spirits there are because good luck replicating all the stuff that the bees did to make that honey and then the fermentation process.

And then I was putting a pot still by myself.

Joe Rogan (1:02)

Well, I had mead for the first time last weekend, actually.

Colin Wright (1:05)

Okay.

Joe Rogan (1:05)

I was at Maynard Keenan's place in Scottsdale, Arizona. I'm a merc and vineyards, you know, Maynard from Tulle.

Colin Wright (1:13)

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Joe Rogan (1:14)

You know, he's actually a wine guy. He makes wine. What would you call that?

What is a wine producer?

Colin Wright (1:21)

Viticulturist, anologist.

Joe Rogan (1:23)

Winemaker.

Well, whatever he is, he makes meat as well. It was interesting. I was like, oh, this is tasty, like a weird sort of wine-ish kind of thing.

Colin Wright (1:35)

Yeah, I'm sort of halfway interested in actual drinking meat itself.

I'm more into like distilling that product and making a spirit. And for some reason, so the first time I had Honey Shine was in Wisconsin. I was at a conference there and just something I never had before. And you can actually taste like the honey and the floral notes that come through at the very end.

Joe Rogan (1:57)

And you made this?

Colin Wright (1:58)

I did.

Joe Rogan (1:59)

How did you make it?

Colin Wright (2:02)

I have a copper pot still. And you just basically make five gallons of mead, wait till it's really dry, so all the sugars have been converted to alcohols, pour it in the pot still, and then there you go.

Joe Rogan (2:14)

How strong is it?

Colin Wright (2:15)

It's 100 proof. There you go.

Joe Rogan (2:25)

Whoa, that's intense.

Colin Wright (2:26)

But can you taste the honey and the flour?

Or no? Or is it just olive oil?

Joe Rogan (2:30)

Sort of. Now that you told me that, I would go, no, it's like a fucking strong turpentine taste.

Colin Wright (2:37)

There's a review.

Joe Rogan (2:39)

It's rough. If you want to get fucked up, try this.

Colin Wright (2:42)

It's good over ice. I'm sure it can make a good mixed drink, too, so feel free to experiment here.

Joe Rogan (2:46)

Why Reality's Last Stand.

Colin Wright (2:49)

Yeah, so that's the name of my substack, and that has to do with... I talk a lot about the whole sex and gender debate and about why there are only two sexes and why sex is not a spectrum.

Joe Rogan (3:03)

Stop! Cancel this podcast. Turn it off.

Hit stop. What are you saying? There's only two sexes?

Colin Wright (3:12)

That's the current... Well, I would say it's the current consensus, but you might not know by actually talking to a lot of academics.

In science right now, because there seems to be sort of a chilling effect that's going on for people actually saying there are only two sexes, and that it's not a spectrum. I know you've talked a lot about like the trans women in sports debate and all that stuff, but I'm not sure if you know like the roots of where that comes. It's not just people who are confused about if men are stronger than women. There's like a more fundamental ideology that's sort of denying the existence of male and female as stable biological categories.

Joe Rogan (3:51)

I've had an argument with a professor about that on this very podcast who was trying to say that we shouldn't even make the distinction between males and females, to which I was like, okay, if you go to a store to buy a puppy, you go to like a pet store and you buy a puppy and you want a boy and they give you a girl, like what was happening there?