Drink talk with bits in the foam.
Poppin' Bottles is a beverage-centered comedy hang where Josh Segovia and Rob Grabowski turn each pour into bits, stories, and sideways questions. Beer, ginger ale, Irish coffee, cookies, Costco, and hot dogs all become excuses for guest banter, mock-serious rituals, and unexpectedly sincere turns.
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Poppin' Bottles is beverage comedy with a restless engine. The premise is simple: bring a drink, talk about it, and let the room get weird. Josh Segovia and Rob Grabowski use that setup as permission to wander through taste, memory, pop culture, family, travel, and dumb little rituals that somehow become important by repetition. A beer episode can become a story about first alcohol, marching band friends, and high-school awkwardness. A ginger ale conversation can detour through Agatha Christie, park dogs, famous people, Ronan Farrow, and the problem of choosing someone interesting enough to share a Schweppes with. The show likes a segment. It also likes breaking the segment while pretending the segment is sacred. Recurring refrains, refill introductions, fake sponsor scenes, end-of-episode toasts, and themed mini-runs give the chaos just enough scaffolding. That structure matters because the hosts move fast. They interrupt, rename themselves, question the bit, revive the bit, and then steer back toward the glass before the whole thing falls off the table. Guests are not treated like formal interview subjects. They are folded into the game. Jackie Wiles talks Bell's Two Hearted and early drinking stories; Andreas Tsironis rides along for Bulk Boys retail absurdity; Brian Hooli helps turn cookies into a full Baked Boys universe; Simon Tessmer brings ginger ale into a talk that keeps slipping into bigger questions; Madelyn Murphy's Irish coffee episode swerves from campus-party disaster to sweet and sour drinks. There is real warmth under the clutter. The summer-break conversation about parents, grief, church, therapy, and feeling suddenly adult shows the show can slow down without becoming stiff. Its comedy stays blunt and playful rather than polished. Its drink criticism is sincere enough to count, but never so precious that it kills the joke. Poppin' Bottles works best as a hang: two comfortable co-hosts, a guest, a beverage, and a pile of callbacks waiting to spill.
Made for: Best for comedy listeners who enjoy loose host chemistry, guest stories, running bits, and beverage talk that refuses to stay neat. It also fits fans of barroom banter, food-and-drink tangents, and casual conversations that can suddenly turn earnest.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by treating every drink as both a real subject and a comedy prop. Its recurring toasts, fake-serious segments, themed refill runs, and sponsor-style riffs give the loose chatter a recognizable shape.
A comedic podcast about your favorite beverages!Each week a new guest chats about their beverage of choice with recovering bartender Josh Segovia and barback Rob Grabowski. Bottle Icon Art by Alex Vaughn
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Poppin' Bottles uses drinks as comic prompts for guest stories, recurring games and Josh Segovia and Rob Grabowski's rapidly expanding riffs.
Poppin' Bottles turns a featured drink into the starting point for quick riffs, personal stories and playful questions. Josh Segovia and Rob Grabowski keep the conversation moving through easy host chemistry, giving guests room to talk while readily chasing an unexpected joke.
Ginger ale leads to Ronan Farrow; your tolerance for tangents gets a workout.
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Beverage-fueled nonsense gives way to candid talk about grief, aging, and the strange return to ordinary life.
Grief and aging arrive in the middle of beverage-fueled nonsense. The pair speak plainly about feeling suddenly older after their parents died, the odd return to ordinary life after saying goodbye, and a mother's death at 16 that took years to process.
A Bell's Two Hearted refill turns into first-drink stories, bangs jokes, and a rowdy drinking toast.
Josh Govia and co-host Rob treat this Bell's Two Hearted refill as an easygoing comedy hang, using favorite beverages as the way into Jackie Wilds' story about a camping trip with older marching-band friends before her senior year of high school.
A loose Costco review where Maryland liquor rules, tall clothing, and a Borat swimsuit detour do the heavy lifting.
Costco serves as the launchpad for a loose, funny single-episode review built around Maryland liquor rules, tall clothing, and the odd satisfaction of buying in bulk.
A loose cannabis-cookie fantasy turns into a Celtics detour and a baked-cookie chant with real staying power.
Poppin' Bottles' refill turns hard-to-schedule recording into a cannabis-cookie riff built around chocolate, toasted coconut, and a celebrity guest idea that steadily morphs into a sponsorship pitch.
A loose Dog Dudes finale where Chicago detours and hot-dog wordplay meet at the Wiener Circle.
Dog Dudes closes with a hot-dog premise stretched into a relaxed Chicago hangout, as Captain Kerr, Josh Segovia, and Rob Grabowski test wiener-flavored aliases before drifting into lemonade, a Blackhawks game, neighborhood walks, record shopping, and family visits.
A four-dollar college party turns into a comic reckoning with stolen shots, Early Times, and one very incriminating Solo cup.
Maddie's college-party memory turns cheap alcohol into the episode's main comic engine. Four dollars cover two shots, a third gets swept into a stolen-shot scramble, and Early Times picks up the kind of plastic-bottle mythology that only survives because someone was embarrassed…
Ginger ale, Agatha Christie and a debate about good company lead to a toast and a song.
Schweppes Ginger Ale gives this conversation with guest Simon its starting point, though warm weather, Agatha Christie and happy dogs soon take their turns. The best detour comes when Ronan Farrow is suggested as good company.
A stranger calls. Chris Gethard listens. Anything can surface.
Recovering bartender Josh Segovia and barback Rob Grabowski host comedian Madelyn Murphy on Poppin' Bottles to discuss her favorite beverages.
Josh Segovia and Rob Grabowski host guest Simon Tessmer to discuss Schweppes ginger ale on 'Poppin' Bottles'.
The hosts celebrate St.
Hosts Josh and Rob banter with a guest about their beverage of choice in a comedic interview format.
The hosts introduce a special 300th episode featuring a guest interview with humorous banter about beverages.
Two hosts and a guest engage in comedic banter about beverages, with jokes and casual conversation.
Josh and Rob spend most of the episode on Rob's Minneapolis trip, including the Mall of America, the Guthrie Theater, and a Polish-Russian deli.
Poppin' Bottles revisits Bell's Two-Hearted with Jackie Wiles, alongside Bell's Hearted IPA Variety Pack entries like Change of Heart, Cold-Hearted, and Hazy-Hearted.
Josh Segoria, Rob Grafowski, and guest Andreas Saronis turn a May Bulk Boys return into a Costco.com tour that starts with Pabst Light and ends with luxury listings.
Josh Segovia, Rob Grabowski, and Brian Houlihan spend the refill episode on Juneshine POG hard kombucha, Waken Bakery THC-9 treats, and cookie history that reaches from Persia to New Amsterdam.
["Dog Dudes' finale centers on the Wiener Circle, the Clark Street hot dog stand that opened in 1983 and built its reputation on late-night insults and Vienna Beef dogs.", "Josh Segovia, Rob Grabowski, and returning guest Kate Coney compare Chicago routines, from the lakefront and Lincoln Square to Portillo's, Wrigleyville Dogs, and the Bean.", "Kate says she avoids Ed Debevics and Dick's Last Resort because staff-mockery restaurants are not appealing, while Josh tells a Portillo's story from his first COVID vaccine run.", "The back half turns into a Costco Kirkland beef hot dog tasting, a BrainFall.com Chicago quiz, and a running joke about being 'bigger than bubble gum.'"]