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Soy sauce, vinegar, chili sauce, sesame oil, and peanut butter. so you've got a kind of a sweet, savory, acidy, salty, spicy, umami thing going on with every bite. you want this, believe me, you want this bad. in fact, you need it. what do your students want to do when they enter the professional field? what's the dream? >> bill: i think this generation, they are -- a lot of them are lost. they don't know what to do. if you ask, like, a university student what is their dream -- >> anthony: right. >> bill: "my dream is to buy an apartment in shanghai, buy a car," you know, that kinds of things....

So you've got a kind of a sweet, savory, acidy, salty, spicy, umami thing going on with every bite. you want this, believe me, you want this bad. in fact, you need it. what do your students want to do when they enter the professional field? what's the dream? >> bill: i think this generation, they are -- a lot of them are lost. they don't know what to do. if you ask, like, a university student what is their dream -- >> anthony: right. >> bill: "my dream is to buy an apartment in shanghai, buy a car," you know, that kinds of things. >> anthony: are there enough jobs for everybody? >> bill: it's ...

This summer, the rachel maddow's staff was introduced to something called lakrisal, a swedish licorice delicacy. she introduced it to us as if it was candy. ha. we tried it, and it tasted flipping awful. bitter in an extremely salty way, like a gag antorium in the office when everybody tried it. so then naturally we wanted to know why it's like that. we went to the chemist who we keep on retainer around here to investigate the three main greens in lakrisol. lish rish, ammonium chloride and sugar. we asked him to tell us why it was so freaking bitter. we tested its acidy in a not very scientifi...