Eugene Lee has spent 10 years at LA's modest & award-winning Big Bar serving up amazing cocktails, inspired experiences, & carefully crafted playlists. Sometimes all 3 happen at the same time! Tune in for indie rock talk & Hollywood tales. (pic by Genevieve Adams). Playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/shebmo

It's our 3rd anniversary & we're celebrating with amazing women & delicious mezcal! Yola Jimenez, 2nd generation mezcal maker, owns Yola Mezcal with Gina Correl-Agliette & musician Lykke Li. These fierce females also promote their own female centric music festivals (Yola Dia) & playlists via their newsletters. Check out the girl power here: https://open.spotify.com/user/shebmo

Aaron Polsky (formerly Harvard & Stone, currently Livewire Drinks)is pure rock'n'roll: underaged drinking in swanky bars, capturing the best of bartenders in a crushable can, & playing electric guitar for his cats. Equally rockin' playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/shebmo

Nick Sinutko, bartender & wine director of Campfire in Carlsbad, CA, chats with us about modern psychedelia, the world of natural wines, & his band Drug Hunt. He also made quite the playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/shebmo

What's more tropical than rum & reggae? Allan Katz started off in his hometown of NYC bartending with some of the best during the cocktail revival of the 00s, bounced through LA, & finally opened his dream bar, Jammyland, in Las Vegas. It's delicious, and so is his playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/shebmo

On this episode, we go to Jamaica! We talk with Zan Kong, commercial manager for Worthy Park Estate, about Jamaican music, Jamaican beaches, Jamaican hospitality, & of course, Jamaican rum. Jammin' beach tunes here: https://open.spotify.com/user/shebmo

Olivia Griffin, owner of Louisville's The Limbo, is our guest on the podcast & we breeze through a lot on this one: Politics & community action, opening a tiki bar in the heart of whiskey country, & the everlasting allure of surf music. Her funtastic playlist is here: https://open.spotify.com/user/shebmo

Global Rum Ambassador Ian Burrell joins the podcast all the way from London to talk about the politics of rum, impressing Quincy Jones, his new rum, Equiano, & how you should always drink with friends. We'll hear some of his music too! Playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/shebmo

Ayme Harrison & Annie Blake, the women behind tropical bar Death or Glory in Delray Beach, Florida, talk about being a female owned business, having the most musical staff in town, and clown vomit. Really. Playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/shebmo

Rod Moore, member of surf band The Hang-Ten Hangmen & co-owner of Canada's Shameful Tiki Room, talks the Beach Boys and making the switch from selling hockey gear to creating a Polynesian pop escape (or two). Spotify playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/user/shebmo