The Math of You

Comic book writer, critic and podcaster Juliet Kahn is here to talk about Teen Titans. Along the way, we discuss being smitten with the goddess of death at age 8, when to pull out your limit break to protect your friends, and how Robin and Starfire are the ship that launched a thousand fics.

Signature Cocktail: The Starbolt

This is a drink for the good times. There will be music, and the iced creams, and the strange game involving the pins and the behind of a donkey. It’s gonna be glorious.

1 1/2oz white rum
1oz dark rum
1 1/2 oz pineapple juice
3/4oz lemon juice
1/2oz triple sec
1/4oz lime juice
1/4oz grenadine
pineapple, for garnish
Combine ingredients with ice in a blender and pulse to combine. Pour into a tiki mug and garnish with a pineapple stick.

Follow Juliet on Twitter at @prynette, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to [email protected].  

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Comic book writer, artist, actor and stuntman Randall Trang is here to talk about the films of Jackie Chan, especially Drunken Master. Along the way, we discuss growing up in Boston’s shrinking Chinatown, the importance of Chirrut Imwe, and what it means to idolise a pacifist martial arts hero.

Signature Cocktail: The Aspirational Drunk

Some fighters are like musical glasses: to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

3/4oz vodka
3/4oz botanical gin
1 1/2 oz junmai sake
1/4oz extra dry vermouth
2 drops/2.5mL aged Yamazaki whiskey
2 drops/2.5mL maraschino liqueur
cucumber, for garnish
Combine ingredients with ice in a beaker and stir to combine. Strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with thin cucumber slice.

Follow Randall on Twitter at @randalltrang, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to [email protected]. 

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Podcaster and indigenous media critic James Leask returns to the Math of You. Along the course of this conversation, we discuss the smell of a Canadian Tire store, how authenticity in food culture is both important and a fool’s game, and Emmylou Harris, who is  always ready to be back, because she never really left.

Signature Cocktail: The Night Flyer

Fly away with your troubles and drop them somewhere/And if you're only dreaming I don't really care

1.5oz gin
1.5oz cold drip coffee liqueur (Mr Black or Illy, NOT Kahlua) OR 3oz cold drip coffee
3oz tonic water
1 thick lemon wedge
Combine gin and coffee or coffee liqueur with ice in a beaker and stir to combine. Strain over new ice in an old fashioned glass, and top up with tonic water. Squeeze lemon wedge into glass and drop in.

Follow James on Twitter at @leask, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to [email protected]. 

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Writer and podcaster Ginger Turner returns to the Math of You. Along the course of this conversation, we take a deep dive into Ginger’s relationship with the Mountain Goats, we consider how not to be that person recommending a podcast, and how old is too old to have stickers on your laptop.

Signature Cocktail: Lovecraft in Brooklyn

I’ll hand you a drink of the lovely little thing upon which our survival depends. Everything's gonna be okay soon. Maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day.

2oz gin
1oz lime juice
10 mint leaves, slightly bruised
1oz ginger apple lemon tea syrup*
Soda or sparkling water
Combine all ingredients except soda in a shaker with ice and shake vigourously. Strain into an old fashioned glass with one or two large ice cubes, and top up with soda. For a sweeter drink, replace the sparkling water with lemon-lime soda.

*Combine equal parts water and sugar with a lemon’s worth of peel and a supermarket ginger apple herbal tea bag. Bring to a boil, allow to cool, then strain into a bottle. Keeps for 2 weeks.

Follow Ginger on Twitter at @gingerbfg, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to [email protected]. 

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Cohost of the Unfriendly Black Hotties podcast Kamille Washington returns to the Math of You. Along the course of this conversation, we discuss how Sailor Moon’s secret superpower is friendship, we briefly discuss the Super Saiyan goodness of the New Day, we dip into Xena Warrior Princess, we talk about Bloodsport and Kickboxer and how they’re sorta the same movie but kinda not, we go deep into how the flat is the best part of a chicken wing and how to eat it, and we talk about the comic Monsters, which ends up becoming an excuse to talk about just how cool Marjorie Liu is.

Signature Cocktail: NY to Montenegro

Uptown classy or downtown badass… get you a drink that can do both..

1 1/2 oz bourbon
1/2oz Amaro Montenegro
3/4oz simple syrup (adjust to taste)
3/4oz lemon juice
1 egg white
2-3oz fruit-forward red wine, such as Shiraz or Malbec
Combine bourbon, amaro, lemon juice and simple syrup in a shaker, add egg white and shake vigourously without ice until emulsified. Add ice and shake again. Strain into an old fashioned glass with one or two large ice cubes, and top up with red wine, pouring over the back of a spoon.

Follow Kamille on Twitter at @thatblasiangirl, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to [email protected]. 

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Author and cohost of the Jam Jam and I Will Fight You Kit Walker returns to the Math of You. Along the course of this conversation, we discuss the secret to always winning Rock-Paper-Scissors, how to write 40,000 words of M-rated Teen Wolf fanfic with no fucking in it, and how to brute-force the Tomb of Horrors (Spoiler: it involves expendable bards).

Signature Cocktail: The Stiles

When you're 147 pounds of pale skin and fragile bones, acidic wit is your only defense.

For the pineapple:

2 tbsp honey
1 tbsp fresh lime juice
1 tsp ground cinnamon
5-6 pineapple rounds

Combine in a bowl and marinate. Grill on each side for 4-5 minutes, and set aside to cool.

2 rounds grilled pineapple
1oz lime juice
1 tsp honey
1oz orange juice
sparkling water
Combine pineapple, lime and honey in a heavy-based glass and muddle. Add orange juice and ice and stir. Top up with sparkling water.

Follow Kit on Twitter at @inferiorwit, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to [email protected]. 

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Elle Collins returns to the Math of You. Along the course of this conversation, we discuss how the B-52’s overcame the macho trappings of rock’n’roll to become the greatest band in the universe, how Mr Rogers took a stand against copyright trolls, and we go real deep on Peewee’s Playhouse and queer readings of same.

Signature Cocktail: Miss Yvonne

Truly a concoction worth of the Most Beautiful Woman In Puppetland.

1oz botanical gin
1/2oz lemon juice
1/2oz simple syrup
1 egg white
amber ale
2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
Combine gin, lemon juice and simple syrup in a shaker, add egg white and shake vigourously without ice until emulsified. Add ice and shake again. Strain into a cocktail glass, and top up with amber ale, and finish with 2 dashes of Peychaud’s bitters.

Follow Elle on Twitter at @AnotherElle, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to [email protected]. 

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Melissa Bright returns to the Math of You. Along the course of this conversation, we talk controversial food opinions, childhood food aversions, and ye gods, even Yuri On Ice.

Signature Cocktail: the Templeton

Spend your time eating, gnawing, spying and hiding, but be a merrymaker, not a glutton.

1 lemon wedge
2 tsp maple syrup
2 dashes Peychaud's bitters
2oz bourbon
10 fresh blueberries, plus more for garnish
lemon and mint, for garnish
2-3oz ginger beer (optional, for highball)
Combine lemon, maple syrup and bitters in a glass and muddle, then add blueberries and muddle further. Add ice and bourbon, and stir. Either strain into a cocktail glass, or pour into a highball glass and add 2-3 ounces of ginger beer. Garnish with more blueberries, lemon and mint.

Follow Melissa on Twitter at @clutternkindle, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to [email protected]. 

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Cohost of the Jem Jam and I Will Fight You Annie Craton returns to the Math of You, as does yelling about gay robots in space. Along the course of this conversation, we talk about the correct name for a nitro-burning funny car made from a sarcophagus, unforgivable bullshit in baby clothes, and the pressures of being The Girl One.

Signature Cocktail: the Firestar

Sophisticated, strong and independent, this drink is no one’s sidekick. 

1.5oz Cognac VSOP
3/4oz lemon juice
1/2oz honey syrup
1/3oz extra dry vermouth
1/4oz creme du banane
1 dash Angostura bitters
cinnamon stick, for garnish
Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice, and shake vigourously. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with cinnamon stick. 

Follow Annie on Twitter at @anniezard, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to [email protected]. 

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Actor and co-host of the Smash Fiction podcast Dan Mulkerin is here to talk about 80s cartoons and progressive rock. Along the way we discuss how to really get to Carnegie Hall, the lost art of VHS cases, and the secret star quality of the humble pencil sharpener.

Signature Cocktail: the Majesty

Sorry you must excuse me/I've painted my own Mona Lisa/She's fixed everything/Now I'm spoiled beyond my wildest dreams.

2oz Calvados
1/2oz sweet vermouth
1/2oz dry vermouth
1/4oz maple syrup
3 dashes Angostura bitters
3 dashes Peychaud’s bitters

Combine all ingredients in a shaker with ice, and shake vigourously for 30 seconds. Strain into an cocktail glass.

Follow Dan on Twitter at @DanMulkerin, follow the show at @TheMathOfYou, and my wacky adventures at @lokified. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, send an email to [email protected].

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