Whiskey N Whine

Halloween is almost here, the kids are growing up, the fantasy football teams are falling apart, and apparently we're one bad bourbon away from drinking straight gasoline. Welcome back to Whiskey n Whine , where two dads attempt to discuss whiskey and somehow spend an hour yelling at football players who have absolutely no idea who we are. This week, Alex and Big Mike kick things off with an exper...

Alex and Big Mike are back with another episode of Whiskey n Whine, and this week, we're barely holding it together. Literally. After a marathon Oregon Ducks tailgate, a late-night football game, and enough traffic bitching to qualify for AARP, the boys settle in to drink Pilot House Distilling's Barrel & Tide American Single Malt Whiskey. But between Mike's fantasy football roster full of guys no...

Football is back, our teams are absolute dog shit, and somehow we're still drinking like we're celebrating a championship. Alex and Big Mike settle in for an NFL Sunday full of overtime drama, fantasy football heartbreak, and the Washington Commanders discovering that even a tie can feel like a loss. Meanwhile, Mike relives the special kind of Cleveland Browns trauma that involves flying beer bott...

Buckle up - Episode 121 (yeah, we know we missed a couple of weeks) does not ease you in to it.  We kick off with Alex's tour of the south with McKenna.  Kentucky, Tennessee and Northcarolina in 4 days, too many flights and a plane that could not pressurize.  Mike takes his annual trip to Cleveland - a reunion with McCurdy and finds more meat than he can handle (you do the math).  It's loud, it's...

Jackson's 20 now, which means he's "pushing 30" and fair game for every dad joke we've got. The birthday boy joins us fresh off a summer that got him banned from a ballpark, nearly fist-fought in Vancouver, and permanently allergic to patchouli oil. First, he gets kicked out of Petco Park inside 24 hours of move-in — thank a buddy who couldn't stop chucking Michelob Ultras over the railing. Then i...

🔞 Season 5 opens with a bang, a blowout, and absolutely zero seduction. An Oklahoma superfan smuggles us "Oil Fire" — self-proclaimed America's first seductive spirit — across four state lines in a paper bag, riding shotgun in a VW RV that blew two tires and dropped its exhaust twice getting here. We go in neat, we go in blind, and by the second sip we can confirm: nobody's getting lucky tonight....

Episode 118 — Graduation Heat, Robot Cars & Furry Trauma This week Mike and Alex are joined by recurring fan favorite Madi for her FOURTH appearance and podcast rookie Cooper, who somehow survives his debut despite carrying the worst travel karma in modern aviation history. Madi just graduated from Arizona State University , Cooper is headed to University of Oregon , and Mike is celebrating the fi...

Mike somehow survived the busiest week of his adult life and immediately rewarded himself with one of the worst whiskeys we've ever tasted. This week the boys return to the studio after Mother's Day weekend to try Chicken Cock Southern Spice , gifted to us by Booze Brian, which tastes like someone soaked Christmas pinecones in regret and poured it into an aluminum bottle with a screw top. Truly ho...

Episode 116 of Whiskey n Whine is less bourbon, more brunch—and significantly more accountability. Mike bravely (and perhaps foolishly) invites both his mom and mother-in-law on the show for an early Mother's Day special, immediately regretting every life decision that led to this moment. Armed with mimosas instead of whiskey (for liability reasons), the moms waste no time exposing decades of Mike...

Episode 115 comes to you live-ish from a hotel balcony at the Vancouver Hilton, where the audio is questionable, the decisions are worse, and the drinks are doing all the heavy lifting. Mike and Alex are several beverages deep at the Celebrity Dance Competition, staring down the second-to-last comp of the season and feeling every bit of it in their souls (and livers). With one final showdown loomi...

Episode 114 kicks off with the kind of pain you can only earn—two dozen deviled eggs deep and questioning every life decision that led you there. Let's just say Mike and Alex weren't the only ones suffering…shoutout to the spouses who survived the fallout. From there, things get philosophical. If a decades-old fast food "happy meal" can sit in a glass case looking fresh as ever…what's stopping us...

It's Masters Sunday and the boys are doing it the only way they know how—stuffing their faces with egg salad, pimento cheese, BBQ pork, and an irresponsible number of deviled eggs while washing it all down with beer and a generous pour of EH Taylor Barrel Proof. Andy joins Mike and Alex as they attempt to watch golf but instead spiral into what might be their most dangerous idea yet: opening a gen...

Mike and Alex are back during the least productive time of the year—where brackets are busted, work is optional, and the only real priority is not finishing last and having to cook dinner for everyone else. March Madness is wrapping up, The Masters is here, playoffs are looming, baseball is back… and absolutely nothing is getting done. Mike is locked in on the real headline of The Masters (the egg...

After a 4–5 week break, the dads return to the dance competition scene… and immediately realize they are wildly out of shape. Alex is feeling his pulse in places no man should ever feel a pulse, and Mike shows up fueled by questionable amounts of smoked meat—which leads to what may or may not have been a ballroom-wide gas incident . We're not saying Mike caused a gas leak… but we're also not not s...

Alex and Mike kick things off by raising a glass of Rogue Dead Guy American Light Whiskey to a couple legends—one being Rogue Ales & Spirits, the other being Chuck freakin' Norris. Naturally, this turns into a full-blown spiral of Chuck Norris jokes that should've stayed in 2006… but somehow still slap harder than a roundhouse to the face. Just when you think things couldn't get dumber, the guys p...

Alex and Mike squeeze in a midweek recording during the only free 90 minutes they could find, and the result is a rapid-fire episode full of dad-life chaos and questionable future business plans. Mike is headed to a dance competition in Renton — the same one where Joanna still insists he got her way too drunk years ago — while Alex is adjusting to life with a new job that has him driving more than...

Episode 108 brings in one of Mike's oldest friends, Sulf , who apparently has been "invited before"… according to Mike. The rest of us are hearing about it for the first time. Welcome to the show, Sulf. The guys crack open Booker's 2025-03 "Jerry's Batch" , while realizing that only ONE listener caught last week's sneaky Easter egg celebrating the anniversary of the Bottled in Bond Act. Either we'...

This week on the Whiskey n Whine Podcast , Mike and Alex are joined by six-time guest (and poor decision enabler) Brian to recap their absolutely unhinged night at the Micro Mania Midget Wrestling event at the legendary Jubitz Truck Stop — specifically the equally iconic Ponderosa Lounge & Grill . Four grown men. One Chevy Bolt. Zero dignity. The boys caravaned from Tapphoria looking like a clown...

Episode 106 of Whiskey n Whine is just Mike and Alex this week, which means zero maturity and maximum dad logic. Mike discovers the ultimate "Do Not Solicit" strategy — graduation signs in the front yard that silently scream we have no money left . Meanwhile, teenage boys continue eating like competitive athletes, destroying kitchens at midnight while using every pot, pan, and bowl known to mankin...

This week on Whiskey n Whine , Mike and Alex make a bold (and possibly irresponsible) parenting decision: invite Gen Z onto the podcast and test their knowledge of 1990s pop culture . Alex's daughter McKenna and her friend Emery step into the danger zone as they face a full-blown 90s trivia quiz covering everything from The X-Files and Knight Rider to iconic movies, music, and the technological da...

Episode 104: The Annual Crab Feed and an Emergency Dump It's our favorite holiday of the year: the Annual Crab Feed , where preparation is key, butter flows like water, and consequences are ignored entirely. We record before the feast with big plans and empty stomachs, mentally training all week to eat, drink, and make poor decisions. There's a silent auction looming, and Alex becomes emotionally...

In Episode 103 of Whiskey n Whine , Mike and Alex taste Pilot House Distilling's "Come Hell or High Water" , an A-O American Light Whiskey aged in barrels that spent time on a fishing vessel off the Oregon coast — because aging whiskey on land just isn't adventurous enough anymore. The guys debate an ill-advised plan to take a same-day train trip to Seattle for the NFC Championship , quickly reali...

Episode 102 proves that civilization peaked when you could buy a salad bar day pass at Round Table Pizza and it's been downhill ever since. We're drinking A-O American Light Whiskey from Astoria, Oregon, and somehow this episode still earns a Gold rating despite the absolute nonsense that follows. Oliver joins the podcast while in town testing to become a firefighter/EMS, and instead of easing him...

It's Episode 101 and Mike is officially on his dance competition retirement tour . With Jackson away at college, Alex is "stuck" at home watching the dogs while Mike racks up five straight weeks of dance comps —and yes, he's thrilled about it. To survive hours of waiting around, Mike and Alex invent the only thing that makes sense: Dance Comp Bingo . Squares include classics like a dancer crying ,...

Episode 100. We honestly can't believe we made it. To celebrate the milestone, we're joined by Brian — friend of the pod, walking booze encyclopedia, and now official five-time guest , which means he's earned something special. A jacket? A trophy? A thong? We haven't decided yet, but he's definitely asking for a rider clause going forward. Brian gifts the podcast a bottle of Stagg , which is harde...