The one and only Chockie Tom - Indigenous activist and bartender extraordinaire - sits down with Greg and Damon to talk about bartending in a post-colonial age. In other words, being respectful of where the ingredients you use come from, how they’re grown, the heritage behind them ,and the reality...

Live from Durham, NC, Greg and Sother sit down with Sean Umstead and Michelle Vanderwalker of Kingfisher, QueenBurger, and Queeny’s to talk about building a bar, a cocktail program, and a brand outside of a major market city, designing a hand-crafted tile bartop, and of course, the great burger pivot...

Greg and Sother catch up with Dan Watson and Tommy Shaffner of Never Say Dive in Cleveland to chat about building out that most beloved and elusive of concepts: the upscale dive. Plus, a whiskey fungus that’s enveloping an entire Tennessee town and the art and science of naming cocktails...

Ninth generation brandy professional and company president/global ambassador/living legend Lisa Laird Dunn joins the band to talk about all things apple brandy. What goes into making it, how it’s waxed and waned in popularity, and what it’s like working with your father and your kids in the same company. Plus...

USBG Presents World Class Sponsored by Diageo 2022 US Bartender of the Year (say that three times fast) Jessi Pollak sits down with Greg and Sother to talk about low and no-ABV drinks, building jargon-free menus, and how great the Twin Cities are (shhh, don’t tell anybody). Plus, a fifteen-month...

On a surprisingly serious (and seriously good) episode of The Speakeasy, the band sits down with Chris Elford of Navy Strength and Here Today in Seattle to talk about what it means to really achieve balance - in your life and in your work. How do we make sure we’ve...

Lauren Paylor O’Brien of Netflix’s Drink Masters gives the inside scoop on shooting the show.

Are you tired of glassware that doesn’t fit your ice cubes? Sick of coupes that dump cocktail all over your bartop? Don’t want your rocks glasses to break in weird ways for seemingly no reason? Do you wish there was a better way??? Well Zane Harris is here this week...

Ektoras Binikos, co-founder of Sugar Monk, jumps into the studio with Damon and Greg to talk about the joint he runs up in Harlem and a new line of bitter experiments he’s been working on since the pandemic. Inspired by the flavorful food and drinks of his native Greece, there...

Renowned cocktail writer Robert Simonson returns to claim his five-timer red velvet, beef jerky-stained jacket and chat about his new book “Modern Classic Cocktails.” What makes something a modern classic? Whose drinks made it into the book? And what does this have to do with hot dogs?? Tune in to...