400 Podcast Celebration At The Reef Palm Springs @ Caliente Tropics

400 Podcast Celebration At The Reef Palm Springs @ Caliente Tropics

Aloooooooooooooooooooooha and Welcome to our much anticipated 400th podcast celebration recorded LIVE at The Reef Palm Springs @Caliente Tropics Palm Springs. Rory Snyder was gracious enough to allow us to host our very special celebration in his libation sanctuary The Reef. Fans, listeners and bar patrons joined us on a spicy hot Saturday to enjoy our top rated cocktail recipes along with meeting all four hosts of the ZTL podcast and a rousing game of “Whats In Kalani’s Bra?”

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399.99 Podcast Secrets For Zen Tiki Fans And Vicki The Neighbor

399.99 Podcast Secrets For Zen Tiki Fans And Vicki The Neighbor

We made it! This is our last podcast before #400. Listen to this episode for details on our podcast celebration on 9/29/18 in Palm Springs @The Reef bar inside the historic Caliente Tropics hotel. Everyone is welcome to join us between 11am-3pm. Also, neighbor Vicki joins us in the bar and she does not hold back after having a cocktail. :)

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399.898 Hopping Mai Tais On The Las Vegas Strip

399.898 Hopping Mai Tais On The Las Vegas Strip

just back from Las Vegas, Sunshine shares his experience of ordering mai tais from 6 different sin city casino bars just to see what would happen. Some bars were certainly better than others and those you may think would serve the better drink didn't necessarily do so. 

Also on this episode are some quick updates on our upcoming 400th podcast celebration which will be held at The Reef Palm Springs @ The Caliente Tropics hotel. Be there September 29 from 11am to 3pm for signature ZTL cocktails, great food, LIVE podcast recording and you may be chosen to play Whats In Kalani's Bra!

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399.57 Blended Drinks With Beachbum Berry, Golden Girls Mad Libs And Circa Caliente

399.57 Blended Drinks With Beachbum Berry, Golden Girls Mad Libs And Circa Caliente

Aloha and Welcome to the Zen Tiki Lounge. Join Sunshine and Pumpkin on this episode of the podcast. By request we are sipping a blended drink called the Headhunter. Also on this episode: a taste of Mulata de Cuba, new bar set up tips, barware suggestions for the beginner, a short list of easy to find rums that everyone should have, update on our 400th episode celebration coming 9/29/2018 in Palm Springs and lots more.  

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399.49 If The Blob Attacks, Order A Cape Cod Or Else!

399.49 If The Blob Attacks, Order A Cape Cod Or Else!

Sunshine and Starshine are happy to cozy up in the Zen Tiki Lounge and enjoy our newest cocktail creation. Also discussed on this episode: A quick shout to everyone attending   Tiki Kon not in its 16th year, the blob attacks our childhood memories, planning a birthday trip to Las Vegas in tiki style, the trouble with keeping orchids and cheap LED flame bulbs made in China.

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399.487 In The Pool Drunk With Susan Nelson And Bourbon

399.487  In The Pool Drunk With Susan Nelson And Bourbon

We like to please our listeners. A few requests rolled in recently to have another co host join us on the podcast.  Someone from the tiki community who is also fun behind the microphone.  Susan Nelson stepped up to the invite and joined Sunshine in the Zen Tiki Lounge for a fun hour of drinking and conversation.

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399.33 We Stumbled Into Last Rites, Then Fell In A Sand Trap And Ended Up At A Pearl Party

399.33 We Stumbled Into Last Rites, Then Fell In A Sand Trap And Ended Up At A Pearl Party

This episode of ZTL is very special.  Pumpkin has blessed us with her "witty" form of conversation which is usually enjoyed in small doses such as this one hour podcast.  The show begins with a perfectly appropriate summer libation, the Sand Trap. After just one Sand Trap, Pumpkin becomes mentally stuck in her usual low brow rolling thought train that includes bedroom things she does not do, memories of being a mall rat and a strange rant about Yma Sumac running into a volcano. 

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