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  Well, we finally did it. We drank vermouth. Are you happy now??

  Cheers for Friday! Join Josh and Kate as they learn about toasts, salutations and honorific libations of all kinds, from Vikings to the British Navy.

Kate teaches Josh about scurvy and limes and pomegranates and Josh salutes punching fascists. Join us!

We’re a bit rusty at this, but we’re back like hipsters drinking from Mason jars. Cycle 2.0 begins with a discussion of the crazy variety of drinking glasses a well-stocked bar can have, but then veers off to talking about Mount Everest because Kate has a one-track mind. Join us!

Strap on your big shoes and grab the salt shaker, because Josh and Kate are exploring the cactus-fueled world of Mexican regret juice. Join us!

We’re back, and our snifters are full of that most grape-y of base liquors, brandy. Josh learns how to test booze by exploding it, and Kate learns that Winston Churchill was getting free Turkish hooch long after he was dead. Join us!

The spicy grain that makes the spicy bread turns out to make a spicy whiskey, too. Plus, Kate and Josh bag on a popular musician. Join us!

Raylan Givens says bourbon tastes like a warm summer day, and who are we to argue? Our survey of base liquors alights on the patriotic choice of all Kentuckians. Josh discovers the forgotten states of Kentinia and Virgucky. Kate has trouble with the “ch” sound. Join us!

Sorry, Scotch snobs. We talk a lot about Vicki Lawrence in this episode and only a bit about Scotch.

We drink vodka! All the hacky Russian jokes you expect, you’re gonna get in this episode. Kate discovers Russian demolition derby. Josh goes on a crusade with the Livonian Knights. Join us!

Yo-ho-ho! Rum is the by-product of sugar, but it’s the whole subject of this week’s show. Josh pitches Kate on Laurence Olivier in an eyepatch (not a hard sell). Kate laments the awkwardness of dads. Join us!

Kate and Josh begin a look at the base liquors that make up your favorite cocktails with a dive into the history and vibrant present of gin, the juniper-est sauce in the Navy. Kate explains chaps to Josh. Josh explains why he’d never be able to AirBnB. Join us!

Our shallow dive into party food reaches its briny depths with this week’s discussion of the humble shrimp cocktail. Kate teaches us about Fanny Cradock and the Major. Josh ponders the theology of the Blue Oyster Cult. Join us!

Classy fish eggs lead to a discussion of why air doesn’t have more fans, followed my memories of Exhaust Pointe, Kate’s favorite childhood amusement park. Join us, won’t you?

Lil Smokeys. Vienna sausages. Cocktail wieners. Call them what you like, tiny sausages are our entryway into the wide world of finger food. Kate and Josh explore the differences between canapés, hors dóeuvres and crudités before watching “Runaway Train,” the 1985 action movie that features enough scenery to sustain the appetites of both Eric Roberts […]

The Mudslide mixes three sweet things into something impossibly sweet and yet still pretends to be a cocktail and not a dessert. After discussing the history of phone books and the gender politics of buying the wonder drug Domicil, Kate and Josh watch “The Believers,” a forgettable thriller from 1987.

Drink too much for some reason lately? Feeling down for some reason? Some reason we won’t mention? Need to take a mental health day and stay at home and watch comfort movies? For some reason? We got ya covered in this new world we’re all living in.

Remember November? Remember back before things happened and we all were just relaxing out on the patio with a blender full of frozen margaritas and some teriyaki on the old hibachi? Travel back to this vintage, pre-election episode with Kate and Josh and enjoy 2015’s “Cop Car.”

Kate and Josh endanger their immortal souls by praising the men who flouted God’s will by creating ice from mere water. Hear the harrowing tale of America’s first battle between Frankenwater and all-natural ice. Long about the time we finish, the Hagg boys are stirring up a whole mess of trouble in 1975’s “Moonrunners,” a […]

Josh has a new hero! Kate introduces him to Frederic Tudor, the man who made icy beverages as common as they are. Join us as we salute this great American and watch “Ironclad” from 2011.