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Episode 84: Boots Made for Shade

Tune in to hear the latest hot topics, current events, tv time and I'll have a Bite of That!

Drink of the Week

Parental Advisory

• 1 ounce bourbon whiskey
• 1 ounce cherry liqueur
• 1 ounce cream or milk
• Dash of triple sec

Pour ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake well, then strain into a chilled old fashioned glass.

Episode 83: F*ck Love

In this episode, we talk about the newest black cast member on Saturday Night Live, why Tyga thinks Drake is fake, and we hate that the cool kids are doing podcasts now. 

Drink of the week:

Netflix Night
1 oz. Pumpkin Purée
1 tsp. Honey
1 oz. Fresh Lemon Juice
2 oz. Four Roses Bourbon
3 oz. Crabbies Ginger Beer
1/8 tsp. Grated Fresh Ginger
1/8 tsp. Ground Cinnamon

Preparation: Place all of the ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake vigorously. Strain ingredients over ice in a rocks glass. Garnish with a cinnamon stick.

Episode 82: Freak Hoes and Freak Shows!

On this week's episode we dish on the latest celebrity gossip, lawsuits, #AHSFreakshow and more!

Twisted Sisters

• To make simple syrup:
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• To make cocktail:
• 3 centimeter-thick lime slices (round)
• 1/2 ounce simple syrup
• 1/2 ounce Meyer lemon juice
• 1 ounce unsweetened coconut milk
• 1 1/2 ounces vodka
• 1 to 2 ounces ginger beer
• Garnish: additional lime slices, if desired

Directions

1. To make the simple syrup: Dissolve sugar in water over medium heat. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer for 10 minutes, stirring frequently. Let cool.
2. To make cocktail, muddle limes and simple syrup in cocktail shaker until the limes are juiced.
3. Fill the cocktail shaker with ice, then add Meyer lemon juice, coconut milk, and vodka. Shake for 10 seconds.
4. Strain cocktail into a Collins glass filled with ice. Top with ginger beer and add lime slices to garnish if desired. Serve with a straw.

Episode 81: Party Boobs

In today's episode we get into Love and Hip Hop drama, a girl who's been missing for over a decade who was found, and our new favorite TV show, Survivor's Remorse. It's also Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Get into it!

The Red Cup Party
3 bottles of Blue Moon Harvest Pumpkin Ale
1/2 bottle Martinelli’s Sparkling Cider
4 cinnamon sticks
4 lemon wedges
a sprinkle of cinnamon
Start with a cinnamon stick. Place one in each glass or, in our case, each mismatched mason jar. Next, pour Blue Moon Pumpkin Ale until the glass is about three quarters full. Next, add your cider. You want a little bit of foam so don’t worry about extra bubbles.

Squeeze a little bit of lemon on top and place wedges on each glass for garnish.

Episode 80: Rumors, Sex and Bourbon

Did you miss us? Well we're back with rumors, nudes and liquor! What more could you ask for?

Drink of the Week

Stripped

• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 5 1/2 cups Lambrusco or other sparkling red wine
• 24 ounces sparkling orange beverage, such as Orangina
• 4 ounces Bourbon or other American whiskey
• Orange wedge and slices
• Ice

STEP 1

Mix together sugar and cinnamon and spread on a small plate. In a large pitcher, combine red wine, orange beverage, and Bourbon. Rub an orange wedge around rims of eight rocks glasses, then dip glasses in cinnamon-sugar mixture to coat. Fill with ice, add cocktail mixture, and serve with orange slices.

Episode 79: Isn't It Not Ironic?

In this episode, we talk about Joan Rivers (she was still alive at the time of the recording), the meninist movement and why we hate it, and the awesomeness of honey, and what words we've been misusing for years.

Drink of the week: 

Busy Bee

• 1-2 parts Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey Whiskey

• 2 parts Sierra Mist soda

• Juice from lemon wedge

• 3-4 fresh mint leaves

In a glass with ice add all ingredients, stir and gently mash the mint a bit.

Episode 78: This Kitty Isn't a Cat

Hello Kitty is a cat, right? Wrong! Tune in to find out what she is and hear us chat about other things such as Floyd Mayweather's non reading self, new show on Netflix Bojack Horseman and how the maximum occupancy of a space is calculated.

Drink of The Week

The Boardwalk
2 parts Bourbon
1 part simple syrup
1/2 part lemon juice
Cherry
Lemon slice

Shake Maker’s Mark Bourbon, lemon juice and simple syrup with ice and strain into a rocks glass. Garnish with a cherry and slice of lemon and serve.

Episode 77: Burgers and Obama

On this episode, we chat about the awesomeness that is Mo'Ne Davis and her Little League World Series record, when chicken nuggets were invented, and Lisa Kudrow and "Web Therapy." Oh, and Obama and Ferguson.

Drink of the week:

Cyber Treatment

• 8 strawberries, hulled & halved

• 5 big fresh basil leaves

• 1/8 fresh lime, wedged

• 1-1/2 cups tonic water

• 2 oz. gin

• 1 tablespoon simple syrup, agave, raw sugar or stevia (add more if needed)

• ice

Directions

In a mixing glass, add the strawberries, basil and lime. Muddle them thoroughly to release the juices and oils. In a small bowl, mix the honey or raw sugar with a little amount of tonic water (just enough to dilute it). When it has diluted, add to the mixing glass. Add the gin and tonic water. Strain everything in 2 drinking glasses full of ice.

Garnish with more strawberries, basil & lime if using.

Episode 76: Dear Summer...

On this week's episode we discuss current events, share some fun facts, discuss season 3 or RoomieLoverFriends and talk about what Grinds Our Gears with an email from @DSTBlaze

Drink of the Week

Back In Session

1 part(s) Pinnacle® Peach Vodka
2 part(s) Lemon Lime Soda
Mix ingredients and serve over ice in a highball/Collins glass
Garnish with peach slices.

Episode 75: Snoop Yawns

In today's episode we talk expensive hospital bills, the Kardashian game, and why we yawn. 

Drink of the week

Lip Service

1 cup brewed iced tea
1.5 oz tequila
1 oz triple sec
1.5 oz fresh squeezed lime juice
1.5 oz fresh squeezed lemon juice
1/4 cup simple syrup (to make simple syrup, boil 1 cup water with 1 cup sugar until dissolved)
fresh fruit (such as blueberries, raspberries, peaches)
granulated white sugar (for coating rim of glass)

Moisten rim of glass with lime wedge, then dip in sugar until rim is coated in sugar. Mix tea, tequila, triple sec, lime juice, lemon juice and simple syrup into glass. Add ice and fresh fruit. Garnish with lime wedge before serving.