Welcome to BrainSteep.  A podcast about tea and contemplative conversation.  Join me, your host, Cory Schmidt and my co-host Mark Stoddard as we sip our steep and ponder the world around us.

In this episode we discuss whether your reluctance to use a car's backup camera says something about your personality and the interesting tasting notes I pulled from a certain Japanese green tea.  We also give some tips on how to start getting into tea for the noobies out there and the endless interest we have in online communities.

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In our first ever special episode Mark and I get together to debrief and recap our harrowing efforts to win Don Mei's Christmas cake.

This episode is frugal in that it's actually just the second half to our first recording.  We discuss the horrible job of filtering content uploaded to platforms like Facebook, the ethics of lying to children about a fictional man named Santa Claus, and whether or not anyone is actually listening to this podcast at all.  More, hopefully better, episodes to come. Enjoy.

Welcome to the first episode of BrainSteep.  Frankly, this episode is more of a test than anything else.  We do however enjoy some good tea and heavily discuss the implications of Section 230 and YouTube taking down certain videos, what that means for freedom of speech, if anything, and our differing views on censorship.