Episode 133: Good Morning Baltimore & Hairspray

Tracy Turnblad  is a girl with a passion for dance, a boatload of self-confidence, and a desire for everyone to live their happiest life. When the time comes for the Miss Teen Hairspray is Tracy going to be able to overcome the challenges of integrating the Corny Collins Show.

This week we sing, we dance, we make some espresso, and we take a journey with Tracy and her crazy family through the changing landscape of 1962 Baltimore.

Join us for Edna, for seduction, lots of hair product, marches, and a chat about 2007's Hairspray!

Cocktail comes from Baltimore Style!

• 1.25oz Coffee/Espresso Vodka
• .25oz Crème de Cacao
• .75oz Cream Liquor. (Chila Cinnamon Cream)
• 1.5oz espresso/coffee

Add ingredients to shaker tin with ice. Shake and strain into martini/coupe glass. Top with whipped cream and gold glitter!

Miles has the weight of the world on his shoulders. Being a teenager, missing his friends, and being Spider-Man. Things however are about to take a mutli-verse spin when Gwen shows back up in his life.

This week we go animated with a beautifully layered New York Sour and a beautifully layered Spidey tale.

Join us for T-Rex Spider-Dino's, family dynamics, dealing with loss, trying your best, strawberry syrup, and a chat about Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse!

• 2oz Bourbon/Rye Whiskey
• 1oz Lemon Juice
• 1oz Simple Syrup
• .5oz Red Wine

 Add ingredients to shaker tin with ice, shake and strain into ice filled rocks glass. Float red wine on top. 

When Ariel comes across a prince, what is she willing to trade at an attempt to become a part of this new world?

This week we head Under the Sea to pay a visit to Flounder, Sebastian, and to see what sorts of trouble we can get into with Ursula and the Poor Unfortunate Soul cocktail!

Join us for mermaids, live action remakes, singing, underwater adventures, family, love, and a chat about The Little Mermaid!

• 2oz White Rum
• 1oz Lemon Juice
• 1/4oz Simple Syrup
• 4-5 Dashes Butterfly Pea Bitters

Combine Rum, Lemon, Simple Syrup in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into cocktail glass. Add Butterfly Pea Bitters to transform drink!  

Lawrence is on a mission to unite the Arabic tribes and make inroads during the first world war, but will the combination of leadership, the heat, and the choices he makes be what ultimately sends him home, or binds him forever to the desert.

This week we saddle up the camel and make our way into the desert with a classic film and a classic cocktail to go with it.

Join us for the sun, fights, wide angle lenses, Peter O'Toole, and a chat about Lawrence of Arabia!

• .75 Blended Scotch
• .75oz Blood Orange Juice
• .75oz Sweet Vermouth
• .75oz Cherry Heering

 Combine in shaker with ice, shake and strain into coupe glass or rocks glass with ice cube. 

A newcomer to town, a wedding, a beauty salon, and the love, support, and friendship of  this group of women will help us understand the power of support during times of our highest joys, and our lowest tragedies.

This week, we are heading to Louisiana to get our hair done, crack open some strawberry vodka, and thinking about the support we'd need throughout the ups and downs of life.

Join us for wedding bells, southern hospitality, hairspray, Dolly Parton, an incredible summer strawberry punch, and a chat about Steel Magnolias!

Cocktail comes from The Shabby Creek Cottage!

• 5oz strawberry vodka
• Juice of three limes
• 1/2 cup simple syrup 
• 2 oz grenadine
• 10 oz mineral water
• Crushed ice
• Strawberries for garnish

Combine ingredients in a pitcher. Serve over crushed ice and enjoy!

Makes 2-3 cocktails

The Galactic Empire is building another Death Star, and our Rebel Alliance led by Luke, Leia, Han, and Lando are going to have to pull out all the stops to take out  the new superweapon, to redeem Darth Vader, and to save the Galaxy!

This week we head to the Forest Moon of Endor to mix up a tiki drink from Oga's Cantina and chat about the EPIC conclusion of the original Star Wars trilogy!

Join us for speeder bike chases, Jabba the Hutt, space battles, redemption, family, and a chat about Return of the Jedi!

This week's cocktail comes from Wishes and Wayfinding!

• 1.5oz Pineapple Rum
• 1.5oz Spiced Rum
• 1 Tbsp Passion Fruit Syrup
• .5 Cup Orange Pineapple Juice
• 1 Tbsp Lime Juice

 Add ingredients to shaker tin with ice, shake and strain into ice filled tiki glass! 

The March sisters each have their own talents, their own outlooks on life, and a deep loving sisterhood.

This week we talk about a new telling of a classic tale, and trying our hand at making our very own "shrub" for this week's cocktail!

Join us for writing, music, acting, painting, love triangles, family dynamics, Greta Gerwig, costumes, pickled limes, and a chat about 2019's Little Women!

• 2oz Rum
• 1oz Lime Shrub
• Ginger Ale/Beer

*Shrub* 1 Cup Sugar, 1 Cup Water - Bring to a boil and add juice/zest from 6-8 Limes. Boil 10 minutes, add 2 Cups White Wine Vinegar. Cool and refrigerate*

Add ingredients to a glass with ice.

Evelyn has been drifting through life unfulfilled, but a chance encounter with Ninny and her tale of love and friendship is going to change Evelyn’s outlook on life and empower her to find her own happiness.

This week we take a trip down memory lane with a classic southern dish….and movie, plus an amazing little lemonade riff to get us ready for summer.

Join us for moonshine, Tawandaa!, jazzercise, railroad diners, best friends, a mystery, and Fried Green Tomatoes!

This week’s cocktail comes from TwoCrumbsUp.co

• 2oz Ole Smokey Blue Flame
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 2 lemons juiced
• 1cup water
• 10ish blackberries
• Mint garnish

Muddle blackberries then add ingredients to shaker tin with ice. Shake and strain into ice filled mason jar. Garnish with mint. 

The Super Mario Bros. are bright eyed Brooklyn plumbers, but when a fateful trip through a warp pipe sends them to the Mushroom Kingdom, they'll find themselves in the middle of a war over the kingdom....and Princess Peaches heart!

This week we fire up the Nintendo, mix up a peachy cocktail/mocktail, and take a trip down the Rainbow Road of nostalgia!

Join us for mushrooms, pasta, castles, amazing soundtracks, the Tanooki suit, and a chat about Super Mario Bros.

This week's cocktail comes from Wine Enthusiast!

• 1/3 cup Peach Juice
• 1/3-1/2 cup 7up/Sprite
• 1.5 tbsp Grenadine

Add to ice then float grenadine 

• .5tsp pink peppercorns
• 3 peach slices & 1 strawberry
• 1.5oz Gin
• .25oz Agave nectar
• pinch pink salt
• 4oz Ginger Lemon Kombucha
• 1 Strawberry Garnish

Muddle pepper/peaches/ strawberries. add gin, agave, salt, ice. Strain over ice, top with kombucha.  

Don Lockwood is a movie star. Not just any movie star, THE movie star. Times though are changing, and can Don, Cosmo and Monumental Pictures adapt from the silent film era to the new talking pictures?  Or will Lita throw a wrench in their plans?

This week we go dancing and singing with a fantastic variation on the old fashioned and see if we can get our diction right for an episode 71 years in the making.

Join us for good mornings, chocolate bitters, cavaliers, Debbie Reynolds, movie magic, 3 billion gallons of water, and a chat about Singin' in the Rain!

This week's cocktail comes from Food Republic!

• 1oz Bourbon
• 1oz Islay Scotch
• 2 dashes Aromatic Bitters
• 2 dashes Chocolate Bitters
• .5oz Maple Syrup 

  Add ingredients to ice filled rocks glass.    

John Wick is trying to grieve his late wife, trying to move on, trying to find some comfort and friendship in his new puppy Daisy, but his chance at peace is broken by some mobsters who want to steal his car.

This week we are taking our cues from Mr. Wick and mixing up a bourbon cocktail that is a perfect pairing for this tale of grief, loss, and revenge.

Join us for pencils, cool cars, bad decisions, gold coins, and a chat about John Wick!

This week's cocktail comes from FancyAF Cocktails!

• 2oz Bourbon
• 2 Dashes Angostura/Aromatic Bitters
• 1 Dash Peychauds Bitters
• Bar Spoon Amarena Cherry Juice

Garnish with Amarena Cherry

 Add ingredients to rocks glass with ice. Garnish with Cherry   

This week we celebrate the 2023 Best Picture Academy Award Winner, Everything Everywhere All At Once!

To get us started we mix up the Oscar night cocktail we found at Fanny's Oscar Party and settle in to try to make sense of this complex and satisfying tale of making peace with the pressures, shortcomings, and successes of your life.

Join us for lemon liqueur, everything bagels, tons of amazing costumes, 7 Oscars, and a chat about Everything Everywhere All At Once!

This week's cocktail comes from Fanny's at the Academy Museum!

• 1oz Gin
• .75oz Campari
• .5oz Acqua di Cedro Lemon Liqueur
• .75oz Grand Marnier
• Few Drops Lemon Oil

Everything Bagel Cracker/Chip/Parmesan Crisp

Add cocktail ingredients to rocks glass with large ice cube. Garnish with everything bagel crisp 

 The Oscars have arrived! We made our picks last week, and this week we see how our choices did, made up some cocktails, talk about the ceremony, gush over Everything Everywhere All At Once, and chat about the 95th Oscars!

Cocktails come from Vegas Magazine!

• 1.5oz Reposado Tequila
• .5oz Beet/Orange Juice
• .25oz grapefruit
• .5oz lime juice
• .5oz rosemary simple syrup
• 1oz sparkling water
• Dash salt water

Build cocktail in ice filled collins glass

• 1oz Limoncello
• .5oz Maple Syrup
• 5oz Prosecco

Combine ingredients in Champagne flute

The 2023 Oscars are upon us, so it's time for the third annual Drink the Movies Oscar Preview and Pick 'em episode! We get things started with our red carpet cocktails and make our way through all 23 categories!

This week's cocktails come from The Spruce Eats & Simply Recipes!

• .25oz Vanilla Liqueur
• 1.5oz Passion Fruit Juice
• 4oz Sparkling Wine
• Combine liqueur and juice into a coupe glass. Top with sparkling wine. Garnish with mint if desired

• 1.5oz Pineapple Juice
• .5oz Mango Juice
• 3oz Cava

Combine juices in champagne flute and top with cava

Scott Lang, Hope, and the rest of the gang are back, but unfortunately a portal to the Quantum Realm gets opened and our team...plus a bunch of ants....get sucked into the Quantum Realm to do battle with Kang the Conqueror!

This week we shrink down our drink to a shot that represents the Quantum Realm, plus we tackle the newest addition to the MCU.

Join us for ant army, peach schnapps, CGI, the Wasp saving the day, snail horses, MODOK, and a chat about Antman & The Wasp: Quantumania!

• .75oz Peach Schnapps
• .25oz Irish Cream
• Few Drops Grenadine
• Few Drops Blue Curacao

Layer shot in the order listed for Quantum Realm effect!

 Hilary is the shift manager at a theater in a small sea-side town, but doesn't feel like she has any real connection to anyone, until Stephen comes to work at Empire Cinema, and they form a connection that will help both of them heal each other.

This week we are chatting a film that had us hyped up, but fell short of the stacked lineup that assembled this film...plus we are making up maybe the strangest yet oddly pretty good tasting cocktail in DTM history, the Popcorn Old Fashioned!

Join us for cinematic beauty, the power of relationships, pigeons, sparking light, running away, and a chat about Empire of Light.

This week's recipe comes from Epicurious!

• 2oz Popcorn Infused Aged Rum*
• Dash Aromatic Bitters
• Dash Orange Bitters 
• .5oz Demerara Syrup

 Add ingredients to rocks glass with ice. Garnish with orange peel

*Add 1 cup Aged Rum to 1/3 bag of microwave butter popcorn and let sit overnight. Strain out Popcorn solids, then put rum into freezer for a few hours. Strain through fine strainer (we used a coffee filter)

On the fateful voyage of the Titanic, we get re-told an intimate story of love and companionship. A memory lost at sea just like so many that tragic night

This week we are celebrating a 25th anniversary with Jack and Rose, in a story as epic in love, as it is in visual mastery. The sort of heartbreaking yet hopeful lovestory that could only take place on the finest ship ever made.

Join us for champagne, 3rd class parties, giant diamonds, sacrificing for love, and a chat about Titanic.

• 1oz Rum
• 1oz Orange Juice
• .5oz Simple Syrup
• .5oz Lemon Juice
• Egg White
• Top with Champagne

Combine rum, orange, simple, lemon, and egg white is shaker tin. Shake, then add ice and shake again. Strain into a coupe glass filled with crushed ice. Top with champagne

When Geppetto creates a wooden boy to fill the hole left in his heart, it will take an adventure (and a lot of hot chocolate) to help Pinocchio learn the importance of time and Geppetto to learn the importance of accepting his creation for who he is.

This week we are digging into the stunning animated work from the mind of Guillermo del Toro and the creative effort of countless animators, plus mixing up one of our favorite cocktails in the history of DTM!

Join us for crickets, paintball fights, sea monsters, wood sprites, a bonus mocktail/cocktail, and a chat about Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio!

This week's cocktail comes from WineDharma!

• 1.5oz Gin
• .5oz Lemon Juice
• Lavender
• 1/8tsp Pink Peppercorn
• 1/4tsp Tumeric
• .5oz Mango Syrup
• .5oz Honey Syrup

 Add ingredients to shaker with ice, shake and strain into ice filled rocks glass.

*Boil and reduce mango juice by 1/2. Add simple syrup until desired sweetness is reached (1-2tbsp)

When Dr. Kimble's wife is found to be murdered, was Kimble himself to be blamed? Or was it the one-armed man? To prove his innocence, he'll have to go on the run and stay ahead of  Samuel Gerard and the U.S. Marshalls.

This week we are going back to a classic tale. A crime thriller that pits the tenacity of Gerard against the brains of Kimble, in a tale of solving your wifes murder while the whole world is against you.

Join us for green rivers, prosthetics, an unlikely fall from a storm drain, best supporting actor awards, Harrison Ford with a beard! and a chat about The Fugitive!

This week's cocktail comes from CinemaSips!

• 2oz Irish Whiskey
• 1tsp sugar
• Squeeze of Lemon
• Splash of Club Soda

 Add ingredients to shaker with ice. Shake and dump into rocks glass. Garnish with cherry.