Drinks on Me with Ali Peikin

Blacc Cherry, drag queen/lawyer/kind person/optimist and I drink tequila martinis while chatting about dating, law school applications, and both overcoming and enjoying life in your late twenties. TEQUILA MARTINI RECIPE: 2.5oz tequila, 1oz vermouth, TONS of olive juice in a shaker. Shake until freezing, pour into martini glass with a salt rim. CHERRY'S FAVORITE PLACE TO GET A DRINK: Dive 106, 983 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY, 10025 (Cherry's there on Fridays at 8!)

Brian Peikin, fitness industry extraordinaire, mullet-sporter, and my brother and I drink dirty Tito's martinis garnished with pepper and chat having a sick parent in your twenties and thirties. I did say I would talk about the horrifying. MARTINI RECIPE: Measure out Tito's and olive juice in martini glass via sight (I'm serious!). Put in shaker with ice, put pepper to taste, shake it up and serve. BRIAN'S FAVORITE PLACE TO GET A DRINK: Sag Harbor, NYP.S. Our mother is suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's. Please consider donating to the Alzheimer's Association to find a cure for this disease.

Daniel Lerner, singer-songwriter/frontman for Hey Again/thief of innocence, and I drink G&Ts while chatting trying to make it in a creative industry, how COVID affected his music dreams, and his theft of innocence. GIN & TONIC RECIPE: 3oz gin, 1/2 lime juice in highball glass filled with ice. Top off with 4oz tonic. Garnish with lime wedge. DANIEL'S FAVORITE PLACE TO GET A DRINK: Sleepwalk Bar, 251 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206. Or by any body of water.

David Lynch, Broadway producer extraordinaire, and I drink vodka gimlets while chatting about taking care of your body and how that connects with death, decay, and destruction. VODKA GIMLET RECIPE: 2.5oz vodka, 1/2oz lime juice, 1/2oz simple syrup. Shake. Pour into frozen martini glass. DAVID'S FAVORITE PLACE TO GET A DRINK: His apartment. Can't put the address up or else David will be very unsafe!

Freddie Shanel, comic and writer and editor and podcast guest and great conversationalist, and I drink Moscow Mules while chatting about the inability to enjoy your achievements and focus on other parts of life besides career. MOSCOW MULE RECIPE: Pour 3oz vodka (Tito's) and .75oz lime juice into shaker w/ ice. Shake until cold, pour into copper mug filled with crushed ice, top off with 4.5oz ginger beer (Fever-Tree) and garnish with lime. FREDDIE'S FAVORITE PLACE TO GET A DRINK: Molasses Books, 770 Hart St, Brooklyn, NY 11237ALI'S FAVORITE PLACE TO GET A DRINK: Biddy's Pub, 301 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128

In the FIRST EPISODE of Drinks on Me, Oliver Erle, a DJ with a sultry entrepreneurial spirit, and I drink Painkillers while chatting the pitfalls of dating men in New York. PAINKILLER RECIPE: 3oz dark rum (Pussner's), 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz OJ, 1oz cream of coconut. Shake until frothy, pour over glass filled with crushed ice, grate nutmeg on the top. OLIVER'S FAVORITE PLACE TO GET A DRINK: Alonissos, Greece (ok, boujee)

Trailer for Drinks on Me, the best podcast with the least followers (for now). Over a drink with a friend (who is me), we unpack the confusing and slightly terrifying growing pains that plague people in their twenties and thirties. Season 1 starts with a TWO-EPISODE DROP on THURSDAY, MARCH 12! New episodes every Thursday. Uh-huh, yeah, cool.