Zen Tiki Lounge
494 Charlie The Unicorn, A Brief History of Exotca and Pumpkin Can't Be Naughty on Demand
Aug 23, 2026—
ZTL 494 - 8:22:26, 12.57 PM
leisure
Zen Tiki Lounge
Hosted by Sunshine · leisure · EN
About this Podcast:
Conversations about mixology, creative cocktails, tiki and mid century culture with four inebriated hosts.
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Selective
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Who hosts Zen Tiki Lounge?
Zen Tiki Lounge is hosted by Sunshine. The show has published 100 episodes to date.
What has Zen Tiki Lounge covered recently?
Recent episodes include "494 Charlie The Unicorn, A Brief History of Exotca and Pumpkin Can't Be Naughty on Demand" (23 August 2026), "493 The Best Canned Mai Tai And A Trip To Liquid Diet Las Vegas" (2 August 2026), and "ZTL 492 A Pack of Coyotes And Piña Coladas Make For a Fun Time At The Charity Event, And Don't Flush Butt Wipes" (19 April 2026).
How often does Zen Tiki Lounge publish?
Zen Tiki Lounge publishes roughly monthly across 100 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Zen Tiki Lounge?
Booking probability for Zen Tiki Lounge is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Zen Tiki Lounge requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Zen Tiki Lounge's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Zen Tiki Lounge?
The strongest fits for Zen Tiki Lounge are Bars & Pubs. Zen Tiki Lounge has a leisure audience.
About the host
Sunshine hosts Zen Tiki Lounge, a leisure podcast with 100 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Aug 2, 2026—In this episode of Zen Tiki Lounge, Sunshine and Kalani settle into the lounge for an evening of cocktails, conversation, and travel stories. The duo samples a pair of canned mai tais, one from Crafthouse and another...
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ZTL 492 A Pack of Coyotes And Piña Coladas Make For a Fun Time At The Charity Event, And Don't Flush Butt Wipes
Apr 19, 2026—A Pack Of Coyotes And Piña Coladas Make A Fun Time At The Charity Event, And Don't Flush Butt Wipes Dawn Marie commands you to win up Sunshines version of a Piña Colada, the Sunshine Colada. After that you are free to...
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ZTL 491 A Canned Mai Tai That is Really Good? And a trip to Tiki Kai and Old Tony’s on the Pier
Apr 9, 2026—Road Trip! Kalani, Starshine, Sunshine and friends visit Old Tony’s on the pier in Redondo Beach, then off to Tiki Kai, one of LA’s newest tiki bars. Plus we try a canned mai tai from Post Meridiem. Followed up by...
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ZTL 490 The AI Tiki Bar Of The Future: Will It Kills Us?
Mar 23, 2026—ZTL 490 The AI Tiki Bar Of The Future: Will It Kill Us? AI Cocktail Recipes? Sure, why not? AI Overlords We try making a cocktail in a food processor. Mostly a fail. We learn that your drink has to be 66% alcohol to...
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Feb 11, 2026—Sunshine, Kalani and Neighbor Nicole in the lounge for a cocktail followed by an extra long listener mail segment. Plus we taste three spirits from Calwise Spirits, friends of the podcast.
Feb 1, 2026—On this episode of ZTL podcast: The Polynesian Threesome is the newest tantalizing cocktail in our library. Sunshine tries a new brand of coffee, Makenna Coffee Company and an interview with Mark Riddle ahead of his...
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46 Flashback "The First ZTL Holiday Podcast"
Nov 18, 2025—Go back to December of 2006 when Sunshine and Pumpkin recorded our first Holiday episode of ZTL. The audio wasn’t as good back then, and Sunshine did some rough editing back in the day. For those of you who ask for...
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126 Flashback "Beam Me Up Tiki"
Sep 1, 2025—An apology for all the unnecessary sound effects, but Pumpkin learned how to use the sound buttons. Listening to this episode all these years later makes it clear how far we have come. References to our myspace fans and...
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485 Neighbor Nicole Gets A Tiki Makeover
Jul 15, 2025—Hena Moon and The Isis of Tiki journeyed to ZTL to help Nicole add some color to her usual all black attire. But first…ZTL Mai Tais and some lovely snacks.
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484 The Human Poo Poo Platter
Jun 2, 2025—This podcast is a hot mess thanks for neighbor Julio and Kalani. Sunshine did all he could to edit out the worst of it.
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483 Was It A Breast Tumor Or An Ankle Injury?
Mar 8, 2025—Sunshine and Kalani are in the lounge to catch up on the last few weeks of worldwide drama and shenanigans. We review the Hula Hula room in Torrance, sip on a ZTL Mai Tai, share our upcoming Tiki Caliente room party...
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482 You Say Coquito, I Hear Cocaine, Happy Holidays
Nov 28, 2024—Each year all of the ZTL hosts gather in the lounge for the annual holiday spectacular. Sunshine, Pumpkin, Starshine and Kalani are all here for some festive mirth and shenanigans. Sunshine mixes up the Coquito and a...
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481 Sunshine and Lava Crotch on the Sun Princess
Nov 20, 2024—On a recent voyage around the Caribbean, Sunshine, The Husband and a few friends put a few minutes aside to record a podcast at sea. Sunshine is joined by Emmy award winning news personality (he really is a personality)...
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480 Circa Caliente and 9north, The Party is about to start
Oct 10, 2024—ZTL 480 Circa Caliente and 9north 9north drinks and rum Circa Caliente Full details and pictures will be added shortly
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479 The Russian Mafia and The Ice Machine
Jul 21, 2024—The Russian Mafia and the Ice Machine Let’s start with the cocktail. On this episode we are drinking ABBAstract , a concoction we developed using 9north Rum. We highly recommend you mix this up at home. 9north is become...
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478 Most High Exalted Candle Lady and the Rusty Anchor
Jun 30, 2024—Sunshine and Pumpkin discuss candle tips part 2, why mojitos aren’t so great, the demise of The Mirage Las Vegas, Rhumbar says good bye, Aloha to the volcano, and other shenanigans.
Jun 23, 2024—It Doesn't Feel Natural For Pumpkin, Cranking Their Knobs On this episode we are drinking The Diane. Click on this AI generated image to get the recipe and the story. It’s a perfect summer libation with actual...
Apr 10, 2024—Sunshine, Kalani and Starshine here for this episode of ZTL podcast. Tiki Caliente room party details, 9 North rum, THC Mai This?, things to stick up your &%$#. And much more on this episode.
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475 To Be Or Not To Be
Apr 2, 2024—Why haven’t we been podcast as much lately? Why haven’t we been posting on social? Listen to this episode for some understanding of what’s going on behind the microphone. :(
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Susan Nelson
Associate Professor of Bassoon and Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Bowling Green State University
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Bryan Azorsky
Tiki Bar T-Shirt Club
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Noah
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