Conversations Over Whiskey

Have you ever considered turning your passion into a career?  This COW podcast will give you the kick in the ass you need if you are struggling with that very question.   Amber, who our cohost Juliet met while volunteering, has turned her passion of animals and the Earth into a career.  Whether it is free diving with humpback whales to quitting her job and selling all her possessions to move to Africa for a year to volunteer, Amber...

The year is 1997 and our guest is Kathryn (a.k.a. Kat), a comedian, metal worker and jack of all trades.  We open the pod with a traumatic experience Kat had when she discovered a camera in her mom's closet and well...we'll let Kat fill you in on the rest.  Next Kat shares how she discovered her love of foundry and her start as a comedian.   If it weren't for art and her mom, Kat shares how her life could have gone d...

On this episode of COW, we meet Bill, another co worker, friend and all around interesting guy who has brought us our oldest pic to date.  The year is 1952 and while Bill wasn't even born yet, his grandfather was.  We learn all about Bill's granddad who was briefly in the military but that short enrollment paid off in spades.  Who had a shitty grandparent?  We did!  We also talk about great ways to die, coffins and volunt...

Grab your favorite glass of whiskey (it better be after 5 pm) and join us for another episode of COW with Justine.  Justine is the sweetest girl in the world and is also our coworker.  She and her sister/partner in crime share her picture taken in 2017 of food.  But the story behind the food and where it was taken leads us down some tangents of waitresses and how to handle bad food brought to the table, eating food that should be b...

COW welcomes Nadia, aka Nawds, who is our friend and coworker.  She shares her pic and tells us how she fell in love with hiking and the outdoors.  Nadia regales us with a story of how girls taking off their tops while hiking is NOT cool and Juliet chimes in with a story naked of her own.  We discuss how we pick up hobbies and passions based on others exposing us to relatively simple things we never experienced when we were growing...

Sam opens up COW by telling us the story about the first time he ever got drunk and then we get to his picture from 2006.   Sam was enlisted in the Navy when he is approached to be an extra in a Star Trek spin off.  What does he do when he finds out they really need a non speaking extra?  Take a listen to the whole COW pod which is our favorite episode to date.  Sam is funny and a great storyteller to boot.  Find Sam's picture...

Nicks cousin, Justin, joins us and shares a picture from 1992 when he competed with the Table Mountain Volunteer Firefighters in Musters.  Who knew such a thing existed! Justin explains how he competed with his parents and even his mom was part of the team.  We discuss why Musters wouldn't fly today and the Pussification Of America.  Then we take a tangent and discuss road trips when our parents used to let us travel all over ...

Finally Karla and Juliet get our one listener to join us as our first guest!  Nick brings in a picture of himself with a friend at his cousin's wedding which starts us down a rabbit hole about why it's important to have grit and the optimism we feel at weddings.  We share stories about wedding toasts and Juliet and Nick discover the first time they ever got drunk was at a wedding (not the same one though).  We then finish...

The year is 2012 as Juliet shares a picture of one of her favorite places to mountain bike, why she should never ignore her husband (who is almost a weatherman) and why saying sorry is so hard for us.  We kibitz for a while about how Juliet met her husband, how women shouldn't rule out eloping and how crazy wedding costs are getting.  Join us with a glass of whiskey cuz we are as we talk about meaningless and not so meaningles...