Episode Four - All Quiet on the Western Tea

05/01/21 • 71 min

Thank you for listening to the fourth episode of While There is Tea There is Hope. We hope you enjoyed it.

This episode featured hosts Mike Nye, Tarran Merlo, and Alex C. Telander.

It was edited and produced by Tarran Merlo.

A transcript will be coming soon!

In the tea we're drinking in this episode, Tarran mentions he's drinking tea from the Tealeaves company, which can be found here: https://www.tealeaves.com/. Alex is drinking the Shan Valley green tea which can be found here: https://www.shanvalley.com/products/valley-green-tea.

Books referenced and quoted from the episode include:

For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose: https://www.amazon.com/All-Tea-China-England-Favorite/dp/0143118749/

A Thirst for Empire by Erika Rappaport: https://www.amazon.com/Thirst-Empire-Shaped-Modern-World/dp/0691192707

Tarran's mentions Origin Tea in the episode which can be found here: https://origintea.com.au/. As well as a place in Margaret River called Seven Seas Tea: https://www.sevenseastea.com.au/

For now, thanks again for listening and the next episode will drop on the first of next month.

Previous Episode

Episode Three - While There is COFFEE There is Hope

Thank you for listening to our special April Fool's episode of While There is Tea There is Hope, we hope you enjoyed it. We will be returning to our regularly scheduled two episodes on the 1st of May.

This episode featured hosts Mike Nye, Tarran Merlo, and Alex C. Telander.

It was edited and produced by Tarran Merlo.

Music featured in this episode is "Bach Brandenburg Concerto #3 - 1st Movement" licensed via Audioblocks.

A transcript of these episode can be found on our transcripts page: http://hailandwellmetpodcast.com/tea-cast/transcripts/.

Mike mentions a local coffee shop Pony Expresso: https://www.facebook.com/Pony-Express-O-100693183331006/

Tarran recommends Yahava Coffee - https://www.yahava.com.au/,

Mike mentions another local coffee place he recommends Gordon Street Coffee - https://gsgarage.com.au/,

Tarran mentions a place for single origin coffees which can be found here: https://www.perthcoffeeexchange.com.au/,

Mike mentions the coast and impressiveness of the Slayer espresso machines: https://slayerespresso.com/

Tarran recommends the specialty estate coffee from Yahava: https://www.yahava.com.au/product/specialty-estate-coffee/,

Another place that gets recommended is Hunt and Brew: http://huntandbrew.com.au/

Alex mentions a place where he got some coffee called Native Riders - https://www.sonomacounty.com/shopping/native-riders

Another site for getting good single origin coffee Mike mentions: https://coffeesnobs.com.au/, https://aeropress.com/,

And for that divine sound hot chocolate: Epic Espresso - https://www.facebook.com/EpicEspresso/,

While talking about Cascara, Tarran mentions the interesting way of getting a unique coffee bean with Kopi Luwak: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopi_luwak

And for a breakdown on what exactly Cascara is: https://www.freshcup.com/what-is-cascara/,

And where you can get it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=cascara&ref=nb_sb_noss_2

You can find out more about this show at our website: www.tea-cast.com.

And please join us for our next episode on the 1st of May.

Next Episode

Writing Walks 20 - How I Work & Chapter Lengths

In today's Writing Walks, Alex talks first about how he works: his writing process, schedule, writing spaces, his approach to writing; he then talks a bit about chapter lengths and how they are important. He ends the episode with a recommendation for the book Flash Forward by Rose Evereth based of the hit podcast of the same name.

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The next episode will be released July 1st.