Libations for Everyone

Libations for Everyone

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Libations for Everyone episodes

  • Cleared for Plift Off with Todd Harris

    It's going downnnnnn. SURPRISE: LFE's newest sponsor is the mighty Plift. Now Quam can discuss his business, passion and career without a character cap! Co-founder Todd Harris flew in from KC to join the boys to harken this new relationship on the airwaves.

    Get to know Plift a little better, and get to know Todd-- the super cool, accomplished, well-traveled human being-- via these topics of conversation:

    🚲 Your perfect Saturday morning as a kid

    🗯️ The thing you wish everyone knew about you without explanation

    ⚾️ Your favorite sports memory from your playing days

    🍖 Build your perfect BBQ plate

    🛩️ Where, outside of the US, would you bring your business if you could

    🧖‍♂️ Your optimal "blow off some steam" evening after a hectic work week

    Plifting off in 3...2...1.

    This ep of LFE is proudly presented by Plift. High on taste. Low on calories. Plift is a delicious hemp-infused beverage for any occasion — social, solo, and anywhere in between.

    Beverages of Choice

    The hosts and their guest drank:

    • Weller Antique 107

    • Tequila Póstumo

    • Del Maguey Single Village Las Milpas

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    2 hr 35 min
  • Bigger Meatier Tastier with MJ Matheson
    The last time Libations for Everyone was graced with standup comic MJ Matheson's presence, a portion of the ep was sadly lost to a power outage. It stands as one of LFE's funniest episodes to date, though portions of it lack context. To make up for that unfortunate faux pas, MJ returned to the scene of the crime, and sat down for a sprawling, rollicking, ridiculous 3.5 hour party with Ben & Charles. There's no great place to start with explaining this conversation, so check these topics for starters: 🤬 Name some stuff you hate that everyone else likes. 🥪 "Big Sandwich Day' is hot right now. What's YOUR Big Sandwich? 🤤 Describe a unique thing you do when you’re really enjoying something you’re eating. 🎙️ What comic did you miss seeing live before they passed or retired, that you regret the most?🏙️ What city actually kinda sucks and needs to get called out?🍉 What drink or dish are you looking forward to eating and/or drinking the most this summer? Are you ready for this? This ep of LFE is proudly presented by BLNCD Naturals & Foundry Nation. Use code Libations20 for 20% OFF your order of premium hemp products at foundrynation.com!Beverages of ChoiceThe hosts and their guest drank:
    • Dashfire Rhubarbo
    • Casa Dragones Blanco
    • Souvenir 10 Year Whisky Canadien
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    3 hr 34 min
  • DAIQ ATTAQ with Megan Luedtke

    Megan Luedtke, bar director for Daniel Del Prado's empire of restaurants and bars in the Twin Cities (deep breath-- Martina, Colita, Rosalia, Cardamom, Café Cerés, Sanjusan, Bar Rufus, Miaou Miaou, Blondette WHEW), and all around super talented human, wanted DAIQUIRIS for her debut on LFE. She, Ben and Charles each made their own riff on a Daiq, and went in on the following: 📓 When they realized they can, in fact, make their very own cocktail recipes from scratch💭 Dream food & beverage vacay destinations for the coming years🍷 HOT TIPs on properly tasting or enjoying libations😹 The thing that'll cheer you up and make you laugh, even on the worst day🚐 Where Ben and Charles should go in Europe after finishing up their adventures in Copenhagen...in addition to another topic and lots of other great conversation. Daiq yourself if you're feeling froggy, and let's get to the good stuff! This ep of LFE is proudly presented by BLNCD Naturals & Foundry Nation. Use code Libations20 for 20% OFF your order of premium hemp products at foundrynation.com!Beverage of ChoiceThe hosts and their guest drank:

    • ALL THE DAIQUIRIS: three different daiquiris made by the Ben, Charles and Megan

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    2 hr 13 min
  • Pizza Cake with Wrecktangle's Jeff & Breezy
    Jeff & Breezy, from the spectacular (and growing!) Detroit style pizza monster Wrecktangle, brought Grape Apes and pickle roll ups to the classy confines of Club Carraway, for an agave fueled conversation with Ben n' Charles. You already know pizza talk was on deck, including and in addition to: 🥣 Your desert island breakfast cereal -and- death row breakfast/brunch🔊 What music you're blasting out of open windows in these early days of spring🥃 What agave flavor characteristics you chase and love most in mezcal, tequila, raicilla, sotol, etc🍕 What style of pizza do you like LEAST...and a whole lot more. Roll up like a pickle with ham and cream cheese, and let's do this thang!! (📸 cr: Good Morning America)This ep of LFE is proudly presented by BLNCD Naturals & Foundry Nation. Use code Libations20 for 20% OFF your order of premium hemp products at foundrynation.com!Beverages of ChoiceThe hosts and their guests drank:
    • Del Maguey Las Milpas
    • Lokita Puro Artesanal Blanco Tequila
    • Coyote Sotol
    • Mezcal Apaluz
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    3 hr 23 min
  • Frog Money with Billy McCarthy
    You may know him from multiple award winning biopic Rise: The Story Of Augustines, the titular band Augustines, Pela, his modern solo stylings, or perhaps even from his podcast Onward with William McCarthy, but LFE knows him simply as "Billy". Join Ben & Charles as they welcome their very first overseas, drunk-dial, phone-in episode with Billy, as he makes himself at home in his new headquarters of Geneva, Switzerland. They twist phone cords in their fingers and gossip about: 🫖 Daily beverage routines🧳 Preferring blending in -or- sticking out whilst traveling🥮 The country you find yourself enjoying sweets and confections in the most🥨 The ultimate "treat" when you were a child🏰 Which bar, restaurant or venue is your "Winchester"...and a whole lot more. Pick up the phone! This ep of LFE is proudly presented by BLNCD Naturals & Foundry Nation. Use code Libations20 for 20% OFF your order of premium hemp products at foundrynation.com!Beverages of ChoiceThe hosts drank:
    • Suntory World Whiskey Ao
    • Fernet Branca
    • Montucky Cold Snacks
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    3 hr 19 min
  • Soju Boy Tell 'Em with Roy Son
    Madly talented photographer and world gallivanter Roy Son sits in LFE's third chair this week! He speaks with Ben & Charles about what it was like flying Tomoiki Sekine to the US from Kyoto's mind-bending Nokishita for a series of exclusive cocktail events, traveling around the world to shoot rad stuff like olive oil docs, and a variety of topics like: 🐶 Your pets' favorite human food🕹️ Ridiculous hobbies that you are way too invested in🍢 Street food you'd like to see chef'd up, or vice versa🍶 A traditional way that a libation is served in your cultural background🧆 Food scenes that don't get enough praise...and then some. SOJU BOY TELL 'EM! This ep of LFE is proudly presented by BLNCD Naturals & Foundry Nation. Use code Libations20 for 20% OFF your order of premium hemp products at foundrynation.com!Beverages of ChoiceThe hosts and their guest drank:
    • Cardamaro
    • J. Rieger Caffè Amaro
    • West 32 Soju Reserve
    • Hite Jinro Soju
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    3 hr
  • Dropkick Dino with Nur-D
    👏🏻 Nur-D rocks! Nur-D rocks! 👏🏽 Libators, put your hands together for the one and only Nur-D, as he joins Quam & Charles for their first-ever non-alcoholic episode. In this serendipitously timed Wrestlemania szn ep, the fellas instead elect to imbibe upon BLNCD Naturals THC sparkling water & Foundry Nation THC soda, while pondering these mind-opening topics of inquiry: 🦖 The first time being asked since you were six years old what your favorite dinosaur is💪🏽 Fantasizing about your pro wrestling persona, entrance theme music and finishing move🍔 WTF is up Denny's!! What fast food or hole in the wall restaurant you'd love to host or attend a concert at🎮 A classic video game from your childhood you'd love to see recreated🏆 Booking the territory: name a wrestling dream match that could have happened but didn't, could still happen but hasn't, or could've never happened...then some. Let's put the podcast game in a chokehold!This ep of LFE is proudly presented by BLNCD Naturals & Foundry Nation. Use code Libations20 for 20% OFF your order of premium hemp products at foundrynation.com!Beverages of ChoiceThe hosts and their guest drank:
    • BLNCD Naturals THC Sparkling Waters
    • Foundry Nation THC Sodas
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    2 hr 7 min
  • Wranglers & Crocs with Stephen Agyei

    Stephen Agyei has had roles on shows like BoJack Horseman and Abbott Elementary, wrote and starred in the short film Swish (that is currently on the film festival circuit and an award nom), is a touring stand up comic, and so much more. He was bold enough to land in the Twin Cities from LA, and head directly to the studio to record with LFE on an empty stomach. That's a spoiler! This wild conversation touches on:

    🥘Things you grew up eating in your household that you wish more people enjoyed

    😹One of the funniest things you've ever witnessed that you had no part in

    🍸A bartender that made an impression on you in your early bar-going days

    🎤If you love being in front of a crowd, on a stage, or the center of attention and, if so, what it is you love about it

    👨‍💼Things that the younger you would clown on you for doing as a fully formed adult

    ...and then some. You ready to uncork this thing?

    This ep of LFE is proudly presented by BLNCD Naturals & Foundry Nation. Use code Libations20 for 20% OFF your order of premium hemp products at foundrynation.com!

    Beverage of Choice

    The hosts and their guest drank:

    • Cazul Añejo Tequila

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    1 hr 57 min
  • Night Train in Vietnam with Becca Schwartzbauer

    Are you an HGTV, interior design or home furnishing bobo? LFE's got you on this one. The fantastically talented Becca Schwartzbauer-- owner of Grey Duck Staging, and from the cast of HGTV's Renovation 911-- requested agave spirits AND palomas, so she came ready to play. Here are some topics that furnish this episode:

    #️⃣Modern social media pet peeves

    🪣The wildest thing on your bucket list

    👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨A unique thing you and your SO did to get to know one another better early on

    🍦Come up with a TV, movie or musical themed food, in the vein of the new Ted Lasso ice cream

    🏘️Things you didn't care about in your 20s that matter a lot to you now

    ...and MOOOOAR. Let's ride!

    This ep of LFE is proudly presented by BLNCD Naturals & Foundry Nation. Use code Libations20 for 20% OFF your order of premium hemp products at foundrynation.com!

    Beverages of Choice

    The hosts and their guest drank:

    • Tequila Póstumo Blanco

    • Apaluz Mezcal Joven

    • Sotol Coyote Chihuahua Pink Label

    • Ranch Rider Spirits Paloma

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    2 hr 29 min
  • Good Desert Music with Ben Quam & Charles Awad

    It's a two-man battle royale this week, with Ben and Charles libating without a guest, but drinking for 3-4, nonetheless. At least until a wild Pok-e-man appears later on in the episode! You'll discover who it is when you listen in. FUN RIGHT? These are your LFE topics du jour:

    💸Can money buy you happiness?

    ⛈️Wildest weather event you've ever ridden out

    🍽️The Noma effect: which restaurant, bar or concert venue do you HAVE to visit before a potential closure some day

    🍮A perfect dessert or appetizer from your journeys

    🚀Where to take the show on the road in the near future -and- the distant future

    ...and also some OTHER THINGS. Let's start the weekend early, yeah?

    This ep of LFE is proudly presented by BLNCD Naturals & Foundry Nation. Use code Libations20 for 20% OFF your order of premium hemp products at foundrynation.com!

    Beverages of Choice

    The hosts and their guest drank:

    • Gamle Ode Dill Aquavit

    • Buffalo Trace Bourbon

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    2 hr 39 min

About Libations for Everyone

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Sipping shots and sharing thoughts is the name of the game. Hosts Ben Quam and Charles Awad serve their guests one shot of booze for each of six topics of conversation, totaling six roundtable topics…