Inspired by a Twitter thread about things people learned surprisingly late in life, Martha relates an extremely embarrassing story of her own about her misunderstanding how beer is made. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Misunderstanding How Beer is Made”
We were talking earlier about that Twitter thread where people were confessing things that they learned a little bit later in life that everybody else knew.
And I guess I promised to tell you the thing that I…
You did?
Yeah.
All right.
It’s not languagey, but shall I anyway?
Do you need me to hold your hand on this, Martha?
Yes, please.
I thought beer came from horses.
Because why?
My non-drinking Southern Baptist mother, whenever we would see beer commercials on TV, she would say, why don’t they put it back in the horse?
And so I’m sitting there in my health class.
I am.
I’m sitting there in my health class.
I am 16 years old and the class is really dull and boring.
And I just thought, you know, I will try to help out my teacher because she was trying to engage the class in a discussion.
And she said, who can tell us where beer comes from?
And so I raised my hand.
And I said, it comes from horses, doesn’t it?
And the entire class laughed at me.
It didn’t bother me because I learned something new that day.
What your mom was doing was comparing it to horse pee, right?
Yeah, I thought that’s why it’s so manly to drink beer, because it comes from horses.
So anyway, that’s my story.
I don’t know if I can go on.
All right, tell us yours.
Martha shared now.
You have to share too.
