Round four in Patrick and Andrea's festive tournament features cynics and grinches finding the holiday spirit in some unlikely places. The films up this time are: The Nine Lives of Christmas (2014, Hallmark) Holiday in the Wild (2019, Netflix) Holidate (2020, Netflix) Operation Christmas Drop (2020, Netflix)…

Round three in Patrick and Andrea's festive tournament features a holiday visit to the small towns of St. Martinville, Snow Falls, Idyllwild and Nelson Creek: Christmas on the Bayou (2013, Lifetime) The Christmas Inheritance (2017, Netflix) Naughty & Nice (2014, Hallmark) The Christmas Calendar (2017, Hallmark) Our theme music: Christmas Rap by Kev…

Round two in Patrick and Andrea's festive tournament to pick a winner among 16 straight-to-TV holiday romance movies. The theme this time: time travel: 12 Dates of Christmas (2011, ABC Family) The Spirit of Christmas (2015, Lifetime) Correcting Christmas (2014, ION/MarVista) The Knight Before Christmas (2019, Netflix) Strongly recommended: Kevin St…

Patrick and Andrea are pitting 16 holiday romance films against each other in a festive tournament to determine which straight-to-TV release reigns supreme. First up, four films about royalty: "A Christmas Prince," "The Princess Switch," "Christmas With A Prince" and "A Christmas in Royal Fashion." Our theme music: Christmas Rap by Kevin MacLeod Li…

Season Two of Tomato Pickup officially kicks off the Bloody Mary Index, wherein host Andrea Grimes and listeners test store-shelf Bloodies in search of a winner. This time, we talk to scholar and abortion funder Amanda Reyes, who crafts a porch-swing-perfect Bloody Mary out of a mediocre mix.By Andrea Grimes

Yep, this is 100000% a real and true episode about making Bloody Mary Mimosas, a real thing that is definitely happening! YOOOOLLOOOOOOOOO.By Andrea Grimes

Some said it couldn't be done. Some said it shouldn't be done. We said: Nah, we are definitely gonna make some pumpkin spice Bloody Marys. Tune in for three pumpkin spice drinks, plus a minor dressing-down about the five things you're (probably) doing wrong when it comes to mixing Bloodies at home.By Andrea Grimes

Join host Andrea Grimes as she conjures up two delightfully spicy, smoky and spooky barbecue Bloodies before delving into the deep misogyny of the Bloody Mary mirror legend.By Andrea Grimes

With help from our listeners, and with questionable success, we try to answer the most bedeviling question in country music: What makes an artist real country? Artists discussed in this episode include: Kenny Chesney, Dolly Parton, Keith Urban, Eric Church, Hank Williams, plus a brief reference — "mamas, trains, trucks and prison" — to David Allan …

Mix up an easy and portable Bloody Mary for your fall tailgating and trick-or-treating needs before heading to San Francisco's Alembic for a conversation with co-owner Mikha and bar manager Kat about how they developed their no-substitutions-please mole mezcal Bloody Mary, and also an extended holler about how build-your-own Bloody menus are the da…

We rank 20 Nashville stars according to their country-ness, and with help from a listener survey, we introduce some metrics to the age-old question of who is real country.By Patrick Michels and Andrea Grimes

[content note: there is non-specific discussion of gendered violence at the beginning of this show, it starts 52 seconds in and stops at about 2:40] Join host Andrea Grimes for a quick primer on aeration as she takes a listener question on livening up lackluster Bloody bases, taking on a popular grocery-shelf mix and a canned catastrophe from Cutwa…

Host Andrea Grimes takes a reader question about garish garnishes, and dips her toe in to the world of micheladas, that spicy and icy beer cocktail perfect for a weekend by the water.By Andrea Grimes

After enduring the 1980 film "Urban Cowboy," Andrea and Patrick try to understand the strange power it had over the nation upon its release, how it made country cool and remade Nashville in ways that endure today. Also, why you should skip the movie and watch a Midland music video instead.By Patrick Michels and Andrea Grimes

Midwestern gastronomic aficionados and food-and-bev journos Emma Janzen (of Imbibe mag) and Paula Forbes (GQ, author of The Austin Cookbook) join host Andrea Grimes to talk about the unique majesty of Midwestern Bloody Marys. On the second half of the show, we test Emma's recipes for two bitter-accented Bloodies.…

Andrea and Patrick discuss a recent Dwight Yoakam show and Don McLeese's biography, "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere," on the way to discussing Dwight's signature brand of weirdness; his country sexpot persona; and why you had better run if you see him hatless (at least if you are Jodie Foster).By Patrick Michels and Andrea Grimes

You know the Bloody Mary, but do you know the Red Snapper? What about the Morning Glory or -- the Tomato Pick-Up? On this episode of the world's only Bloody Mary podcast, host Andrea Grimes takes listeners on a historical jaunt through cocktail history to find out how the Bloody Mary got its name.

One Bloody Mary ... two Bloodies Mary? Nope. Nopenopenope. Host Andrea Grimes makes her argument for the proper pluralization of Bloody Marys before taking to the skies to find out whether the drink tastes better on airplanes.By Andrea Grimes

Listen to the first-ever episode of Tomato Pickup, the only podcast about the best drink on earth: the Bloody Mary! On the show: host Andrea Grimes takes you through an abbreviated history of the Bloody Mary and tests two recipes, including a popular supermarket-shelf Bloody Mary mix that is widely beloved and absolutely awful (but can be improved …

Andrea and Patrick take a quick tour through the hot country charts; we talk Sam Hunt, Kane Brown and the future of country; and we ask, in the wake of Charlottesville, who in Nashville is speaking up about racism?By Patrick Michels and Andrea Grimes

Most of Nashville is treading lightly around politics in the Trump era, but it wasn't always this way. We discuss how country first embraced the GOP, riffing on J. Lester Feder's work on Nixon and Nashville. Then we consider political messaging from Brad Paisley and the Brothers Osborne. Also: "celebrity cornhole challenge."…