Quarantine Cocktail Hour

The grass always seems to be greener, doesn't it? Even after you worked so hard to get your grass exactly how you wanted it. Don't be hard on yourself. It's part of human psychology. Just be aware of it, and remind yourself to enjoy the party. Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Fall is falling across the high desert and the annual changing of the season has us ruminating on time and scale and how it all relates in an impatient age. Oh, and we're also drinking wine in the basement spinning good vibes on the turntable to pass the darkening evenings. Join us. It's cozy. Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Part two of two diggin' the dusty crates the old man bequeathed. A lot of good stuff. A lot of...not as good stuff. We'll aim for the unexpected. Mix up a drink and settle in for the journey. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and distractions --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Part two of this two-part diversion where we sift through the cobwebbed archives of my father's record collection. Treasures and turds around every corner. This is going to require another drink. Pour yourself one as well and sit back as wade through the morass. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and diversion QCH S3 Spotify playlist --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The old man bequeathed the rest of his vinyl collection. Some of it may be amazing. More may be garbage. Either way, we might as well mix up a drink, dig these crates, and see what comes up. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and distractions QCH Spotify playlists for the jams a la carte

Our ol' friend Benji was rollin through the high dez like a dusty tumbleweed. We were probably going to spend the evening in the basement drinking and talking about music and life anyway, so why not hit record? Good stuff herein. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and other distractions Just the jams: QCH Spotify playlist --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

These are crazy times we live in. We know more than we've ever known before, and yet are acting more irrationally than ever before in many ways. Even the plants seems to have more wisdom than us sometimes. Let's take some notes while we sip cocktails and kick out the jams. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sometimes nature will humble and surprise you to a point where you realize how many of your wants, needs, and desires are really quite petty and fruitless. And when the rains and floods wash away your ego and hubris, you understand what is truly important. Let those guide you. And listen to killer jams along the way. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and distraction Just the jamz - QCH S3 playlist on Spotify --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Alec Olavarria is an musician, surfer, and seeker. His life has been inextricably intertwined with music since before we as humans can form memories. And he has interesting perspectives and stories by the load. Settle in and listen to us talk about going all in on the culture of music. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and other distractions --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Right about now I wish I were living in a nice, cool mountain community instead of the dry, scorched Earth of the high dez. But, life is all about trade offs. Mix yourself something nice and on ice, settle in, and let's chat trade offs. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and distraction QCH Season 3 playlist on Spotify - just the jamz. And a bit of peanut butter. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's hot as hell across the West. So, why haven't we been talking about slurping down ice cold cocktails? Well, some changes might be afoot. Settle in and join us as we attempt to navigate the myriad potential possibilities life puts in front of us, and how sometimes you just gotta go with the gut. Be Easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and other distractions. QCH S3 playlist on Spotify. All jammin. No yammerin. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We strive to reach planes of content, exasperated by every minor setback along the way. Not long after we reach blissful stability, we dream how great the exotic unknown would be in comparison. However, exoticism surrounds us. And we can find the sublime along the periphery of our plane, if we are open to look for it with the wonder of a child. Too deep? Well, there's also some jaunty, good-times tunes spinning here, so mix a stiff one, settle in, and Be Easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and other distractions QCH Season 3 Spotify playlist for tunes a la carte --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

As one of Idaho's official State Apologists, it is incumbent upon me to give you a lay of the land, from the top. As someone who thinks too much, it is in my nature to make something simple and beautiful into a something existentially complex. And as someone who loves music, it is your duty to groove to the good vibes supplied along the way. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and other distractions QCH S3 Spotify playlist for the jams a la carte. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's a crazy world we were dumped into, only to learn we have to figure out how to navigate it on our own. Sometimes it feels like our brains might explode just considering all the pieces to put together. Well, when your top is about to pop, find yourself some Flow to ease the pressure. If even for a few minutes. Lets put on some tunes and talk about it for a spell. Be easy. mtnhighindustires.com for merch and other distractions. QCH S3 Spotify playlist for the jams a la carte --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Glenn Thornton is a father, a musician, and lifelong resident in the world of music and entertainment. We sat down on the anniversary of a family tragedy in Glenn's life to talk about how music has helped him through the hardest times in life, and continues to give him spiritual fulfilment. Settle in and learn a couple lessons on perspective from a man who has seen it all. Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's feeling like summer in the high dez. Has us thinking about all the things we love about this time of year. So much to love. How do you squeeze it all in? Well, have you tried the 83% method? You haven't?! Well, pour yourself a drink and settle in. I'll put on some summer jams and tell you all about it. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and other distractions Season 3 Spotify playlist --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Took the family camping out along the ol' pioneer trail. Got me thinking about all the brave, dreamers who were bold enough to venture into uncharted territory, even if no one followed. Are you bold enough to pioneer, if only for yourself? Oh yeah, we also kick out some groovy jams along the way. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and other distractions QCH S3 Spotify Playlist --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What do you do when you find yourself in the eye of the poop storm of potty training? Same thing you do when you're caught in controversial conversation with a vaccine denier - mix yourself a stiff drink, put on some good vibes vinyl, and most of all...stay cool. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and other distractions Full playlist on Spotify --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Sometimes you get lost out on the trail. It happens. The question is, how and where do you navigate from there? Keep you eye on the goal. And be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and other distractions --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Martin Campbell is a man of many talents and possibly the most DIY dude I've ever known. He is also one of my oldest friends. Music was the seed of our relationship and our obsession with music and culture, as well as our search to find our place in the world, has bonded us together over the years. Today we talk about how punk rock allowed two slightly oddball dudes to carved out their own little niche in this crazy world. Settle in for the ride. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and other distractions QCH Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ZueoR1zC0Z3Xd84g6Rn2d?si=6d6e45476cdd4e55

QCH is on the road again. From the desert southwest to the soggy northeast, we're jammin' jaunty jingles with messages for the people. Mix up something to sip on and listen to our lessons from the road. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for mercy and other distractions QCH Season 3: Spotify playlist for just the jams --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We got a little deep the first couple episodes of Season 3. But life seeks balance, so this week we're just having a grooving party in the van. Good times tunes and funny bones all around. Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and other distractions. Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ZueoR1zC0Z3Xd84g6Rn2d?si=zpZSUqpNRgiCfuq90huInw --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Did you know there used to be sharks in southeast Idaho? Some things are hard to believe, but at least we used to have people we trusted to educate us and give us direction. That has eroded over the years. Have we been hoodwinked? Have we gotten starter? Maybe it's all just a matter of communication. Let's mix up a drink and talk about it? Be easy. mtnhighindustries.com for merch and other distractions. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

QCH is back with Season 3. Well, it's been about a year since we started this thing, and here we jump back in with musings on the changes brought on by the disruption of the past year. What an odd, and often tragic, gift...to be given a pause on the blurred, racing, sameness of our day-to-day year-to-year. To be forced to face aspects of our world that had previously been washed together and obscured within the monotony of just living. Oh, and a bunch of rad, good times tunes to get your weekend off right. We try to strike a balance. Be easy. Limited edition QCH Tees available at mtnhighindustries.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Season Hamilton is an artist residing in Boise. She is also one of the coolest people alive and can bullshit about music like nobody's business. In the QCH Season 2 Finale, we cover kid's music, why the 90's is our generation's Dazed and Confused, and how a show moving into adulthood changed her whole perspective on life. Head's up, we cuss and talk about illegal activities. Earmuffs. Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's wild how wilderness can make you feel so small. Can make you reflect and ponder your time and impact while on this Earthly plane. An Earthly plane that seems harder and harder to navigate, with louder and louder voices at the poles telling you how you should navigate. Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't mind finding my way out in the grey space of the open water as much as I used to. How about you? Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

From the Desert Southwest to the Northern Rockies, it's a vast and lonesome life out here in the inland West. A life and landscape that attracts a certain type of person. For all its faults (geologic puns intended), it's a place well worth settling and an ideal well worth fighting for. Because there's just something rare about the air in a place where eagles dare. Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week the weight of the world felt just a little bit lighter, didn't it? Specifically around Wednesday? Still, the last five years have done a lot to sow cynicism in our country. So, take time to feel good, to celebrate livin, and to stop and smell the les fleurs. You deserve it. Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

There are a lot of facets in the base. They only seem to be becoming less bonded and more polarized as weeks go by. Whether this is because of the weather, or just conspiracy theory, tread lightly out there. Things are complex right now. Also, Creedence! Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Streeter Johnson is a creative force of nature. The pioneer of legendary ghetto tech band Mormon Livers Are Expensive, the founder of cultural megalith The COT, and now the driving force of relaxtronica band Fresh Prints. But on his journey Streeter had to find his own way through the culturally fallow fields of South West Idaho, cultivating a grab bag of cultural seeds along the way to sow the garden that would reap his musical blossoming. Poetic, huh? Well, you think that's good, you should listen to the interview. 90's music revisited, putting kids to bed, and grabbing a beer with Neil Young. And the fizzling of white supremacy, maybe. Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This is not a New Years episode. Kind of. QCH welcomes you to 2021 with a set of jams that were selected over a month ago apropos of nothing New Years. Then whist rambling buzzed and adrift, we accidentally make somewhat New Years themed episode. Guess it's just in the air. Roadrunners, the Great Basin, West Central Idaho, gratitude, and stacking the cheese. Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Well, after a nice long stint in sunny California, it's time for the QCH road show to get back to God's country. And not a moment too soon. COVID is blowing up like a Cali mega-fire and recent rains brought out my least favorite vermin en masse. But, before we pack the van, I gotta go check in on one my favorite haunts, a Berkeley record shop. Catharsis achieved. Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The need for control is a spectrum. Some have none, some have enough feel good goin' with the flow, others need to be masters of their domain. COVID has disrupted the continuum. Where do you sit? How will you adjust? How will you help your COVID companions deal? Let have a drink, listen to some tunes, and talk it out. And why California is such a massive fire hazard. Be easy. (This is take 2 for those in the know). Follow "QCH Season 2" playlist on Spotify for all the tunes updated weekly. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Road trippin' across the lonely expanse of the northern Great Basin really gets one thinking about how small we are. Taking your usual podcast routine on the road really forces you to engage with your process in new ways. Do these things connect? Who cares! Tune in, pour over ice, and vibe out to this weeks heady ep. Be easy. For all the tunes, updated weekly, check out QCH Season 2 playlist on Spotify. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The second installment of the QCH spinoff interviews real, interesting humans about the song, album, or musical experience that broke their aural levee. In this episode, we talk with Ross Big Dog Parsons about growing up in mountain towns, finding community in punk rock, and the day he lost his mind virginity to The Refused. Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Is QCH going on the road? Hard telling. My head is about to explode thinking of the logistics. So, I'm going to take a minute, have a drink, listen to some tunes, and reminisce about late night drives across the desert. Join me, won't you? Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The election is over (thank God) and COVID is back with a vengeance (damnit...). But so is QCH! So tell your friends (via text) then stay in, make yourself a drink, and listen to some sunny, escapist music for cold weather quarantining. New: Follow the QCH Season 2 playlist on Spotify to keep the tunes in rotation. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's election week. I vote a while back, so I'm tuning out the stress-inducing media blitz, drinking in my van, and listening to tunes. Come along on my semi-ignorant week of semi-bliss. And remember, no matter when you hear this, no matter the outcome, life goes on. Hit the ground running. Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome back. At the request of...very few, QCH is back with centering ramblings on the upcoming (recently passed?) election. Then, we have one too many and listen to Halloween jams from deep in the crate. Because we need balance. Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In the final addendum to the acclaimed series, Quarantine Cocktail Hour takes a twist. Breaking the usual format of lost-airwaves, pirate-radio dj, QCH instead hosts a one-on-one conversation about the song that changed your life, or broke the levee. This episode Beaver and Benji drink and talk about Green Day...and drinking. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

It's too much. And it's bubbled over, as it should. Some words and songs to navigate and invigorate. Raise you glass and your fist. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In QCH Addendum 1 we take a minute- 60 minutes actually- to listen to and tell mildly embarrassing stories about the fiendish friends who have become family over the years. Pour yourself a spirit and let these fiends lift your spirits. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The sun is setting on quarantine, and on QCH. Leave your burrows with trepidation, and spin this one last batch of libation vibes to help you navigate the new normal. The sun will rise again, but for now...Be easy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Week's done. Kick back, have yourself a drink, and yourself a think about the good times. Then, and those to come. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Where are you? What are doing? Diggin through records and keepin spirits high and on ice? We are. Join us. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Top notch tunes and sub-par navel gazing. On ice! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Music and thinking made for drinking. Be easy. Be Well. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Mix yourself up something nice, kick off the shoes, and settle in. This week we talk about gratitude, Ween, and dancing. A lot of dancing --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Quarantine finally made it to the Mountain West, and I bought too much booze. The only sensible thing to do is mix up a drink, dig through the records, and spin some good vibe's tunes to get lifted. Please, feel free to join. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app