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Five years after the iconic show’s final season, Kristina and Elias mix some *ostensibly* on-theme drinks, recap the episodes, and do their best to explain why Mad Men remains the greatest show of all time.

Mad Men & Tonic: Recapping Mad Men, one (workday) cocktail at a time.


https://www.instagram.com/madmenandtonic/

Mad Men & Tonic Kristina & Elias

    • TV & Film
    • 5.0 • 12 Ratings

Five years after the iconic show’s final season, Kristina and Elias mix some *ostensibly* on-theme drinks, recap the episodes, and do their best to explain why Mad Men remains the greatest show of all time.

Mad Men & Tonic: Recapping Mad Men, one (workday) cocktail at a time.


https://www.instagram.com/madmenandtonic/

    S4E1: Public Relations

    S4E1: Public Relations

    Mad Men & Tonic is back for Season 4! It’s S4E1, “Public Relations,” and there’s a noticeable lack of holiday spirit on Thanksgiving 1964. K&E mix New York Sours, put on their chicken Kiev ponchos, and battle through rude barking podcast guests to take stock of SCDP and a post-Draper marriage world. Plus, Kristina finds a way to save humanity from aliens AND poltergeists. (Note: Background noise settles after 15ish minutes when the “guest stars” calmed down.) 

    https://www.instagram.com/madmenandtonic/

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615656/ Episode IMDB

    https://madmen.fandom.com/wiki/Public_Relations

    Wiki: Public Relations (Mad Men), John and Marsha, Virginia Mayo, The School for Scandal, Wide World of Sports (American TV program), The Picture of Dorian Gray, Jantzen, S.C. Johnson, Andrew Goodman (activist), Poltergeist (1982 film), Sign-on and sign-off, Barbizon 63, Supernumerary actor

    https://www.smartblend.co.uk/blog/new-york-sour-cocktail-recipe-amp-history 

    https://www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/recipe/3398/new-york-sour-cocktail

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-06ki92PyVY Why doesn’t ross eat the other friends

    https://serialpodcast.org/season-two Serial Season 2 

    https://bewitched.fandom.com/wiki/Louise_Tate

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2KnzcoqYSI One quick pop Louise (bewitched)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIwLeASnkw Grandma got run over by a reindeer

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw I’m MyOwn Grandpa

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5Z-HpHH9g The chaunukuh song 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RjuC9YeXg Disco duck

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss Convoy song

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEnRePOf708 John & Marsha song

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8414uArsBOs ESPN the ocho (clip)

    https://www.portlanddesignhistory.com/post/jantzen 

    https://griswoldinn.com/food-wine/historic-dining/ 

    https://andrewgoodman.org/

    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-murder/ 

    https://www.tunefind.com/show/mad-men/season-4 

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/08/when-the-barbizon-gave-women-rooms-of-their-own


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    • 2 hr 18 min
    Bonus Episode: Mad Men Exaltations, Season 3

    Bonus Episode: Mad Men Exaltations, Season 3

    It’s awards season at Mad Men & Tonic! Mix a French 75 (or two, or three…) and send off Season 3 in style as K&E select the best and worst of Sterling Cooper’s 1963. Season 4 coming next week!!

    https://www.instagram.com/madmenandtonic/

    https://www.liquor.com/recipes/french-75-2/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%27s_New_York_Bar Harrys NY bar

    https://www.harrysbar.fr/language/en/ Harry’s official site

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_MacElhone Whoever harry is

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stork_Club The stork club

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV-IbKB5dlo Jon & January bye bye birdie dance

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1826805/ Imdb - pan am

    https://www.flydenver.com/about/art_culture/fashion_flight

    https://www.heremagazine.com/articles/flight-attendant-fashion-history

    https://www.southernliving.com/fashion-beauty/vintage-flight-attendant-uniform

    https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/business/media/22adco.html

    https://madmen-tv.livejournal.com/471388.html

    https://bananarepublic.gap.com/shop/mad-men-collection

    https://elitetraveler.com/travel/travel-news/brooks-brothers-and-tvs-mad-men-team-up-for-limited-edition-suit

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daxiMb0rITA

    https://www.allmusic.com/album/now-then-original-soundtrack--mw0000177158 Now and Then Soundtrack 

    https://www.reddit.com/r/blogsnark/comments/1182psg/the_2022_snarky_awards_winners/ Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Failure










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    • 1 hr 17 min
    Bonus Episode: Listener Letters, Season 3

    Bonus Episode: Listener Letters, Season 3

    Welcome back to Mad Men & Tonic! In the second (and final) bonus episode before the 3rd (Annual? Biannual? Occasional?) MME’s , we delve into listener comments and insights from the internets! Including about K & E’s zodiac signs … when K tells us that while “nature is fine and all,” she’s not your usual earthy Virgo, she’d prefer to go to an art museum, look at a watercolor of a plant, and then go out to dinner. Thanks to all our listeners and fellow Mad Men obsessives for making this one possible.

    https://www.instagram.com/madmenandtonic/



    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(astrology)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_(astrology)

    https://www.instagram.com/notallgeminis/

    https://www.instagram.com/subparparks/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/peopledyinginside/

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/twilight-sleep-childbirth-1910s-feminists

    https://www.quinlanco.com/

    https://www.instagram.com/attorney.memes/


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    • 28 min
    Bonus Episode: The Women Who Love (and Hate) Don Draper, Seasons 1 - 3

    Bonus Episode: The Women Who Love (and Hate) Don Draper, Seasons 1 - 3

    Welcome to Mad Men & Tonic! Season 3 is in the books, and it’s time for everyone’s favorite flawed bonus episode. Kristina and Elias sit down with a bit of wine to discuss Betty and Suzanne’s relationships with Don over the course of Season 3, and look back on how they stack up against the other women in Don’s life.

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kumail-nanjianis-the-x-files-files/id885275285

    https://www.alabseries.com/

    https://time.com/3850265/don-draper-women-chart/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binders_full_of_women

    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0817844/ (Abigail Spencer)


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    • 20 min
    S3E13: Shut the Door. Have a Seat.

    S3E13: Shut the Door. Have a Seat.

    Welcome back to Mad Men & Tonic! We finally made it to the episode that has it all! In S3E13, “Shut the Door. Have a Seat,” K&E mix the Grounds for Divorce cocktail and talk through the questions raised by Don’s slow motion corporate conspiracy and formation of a new family, Bobby losing Don’s cufflinks, and the shocking conclusion of Don’s childhood flashback plot line. Plus we wave bon voyage to Betty, Henry, and (only!) baby Gene as they depart for their glamorous Reno vacation!

    [Name we couldn’t recall of who at McCann previously courted Don: Jim Hobart]

    Wiki: Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933; Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936; Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938; Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942); Commerce Clause; Self-help (law); “The Grapes of Wrath,” by John Steinbeck.

    https://mrbostondrinks.com/recipes/grounds-for-divorce

    https://www.theringer.com/2017/5/3/16039118/best-movie-montage-getting-the-gang-together-3e712a538bd

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE You Get What You Give - New Radicals

    http://burnthismedia.blogspot.com/2015/04/mad-men-season-3-episode-13-shut-door.html

    https://madmen.fandom.com/wiki/Long_Weekend

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvUgnfFReII Grinch

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZRYhLDLeU Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash

    https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/4c47b824-1a62-4f93-875d-b590fab1ebaf The Office I never really processed 9/11

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6l9lUPILgg Royal Tenenbaums - divorce

    https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/199phj/dear_zookeepers_of_reddit_what_isare_some_of_the/ (Caution: Contain some sad animal stories!)

    https://www.reddit.com/r/PlanetZoo/comments/u5242f/i_made_a_tier_list_of_how_dangerous_every_animal/

    http://www.pbs.org/gunsgermssteel/variables/zebra.html

    https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2022/08/10/the-interplay-between-claims-of-good-faith-and-fair-dealing-and-breach-of-contract/?slreturn=20230018101402

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-rNxnf55a0 Enzo the Baker

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfzN8xY4bXs Oceans 11 fountain

    https://www.thepierreny.com/ Pierre hotel

    https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/333407178635726706/ Audrey Hepburn hat look


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    • 1 hr 59 min
    S3E12: The Grown-Ups

    S3E12: The Grown-Ups

    Welcome back to Mad Men & Tonic! It’s S3E12, “The Grown-Ups,” and the whole country’s been drinking! K & E dress up and mix Wedding Cake Cocktails to “celebrate” more Duck and Peggy, the long-awaited unraveling of a dream 1950s marriage, AND a nightmare 1960s wedding! Oh yeah they also briefly touch on the assassination of the president…But it’s not all bad! They talk a lot about Air Bud!

    Wiki: Ellery Queen; JFK Assassination; Oath of Office of the President of the U.S.; Walter Cronkite; Chet Huntley; Sarah T. Hughes; Lee Harvey Oswald; Assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald; Zapruder Film; First Inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson; Arlington National Cemetery; Singin’ in the Rain, Hotel Elysée, Van Cleef & Arpels, Force majeure; Madeline (book), broadcast delay, Will Smith–Chris Rock slapping incident, Assassination of Shinzo Abe, Occam's razor, Air Bud

    https://www.thespruceeats.com/wedding-cake-cocktail-recipe-759847

    https://www.lastpodcastontheleft.com/

    mediaFile:Lyndon_B._Johnson_taking_the_oath_of_office,_November_1963.jpg

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyAv1IlkiHQ Coverage of JFK assassination

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o4heKCLeTs Cool Girl monologue

    https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=park+avenue+princess

    https://www.vancleefarpels.com/

    https://www.theknot.com/content/wedding-traditions-the-meaning-of-something-old

    https://www.etsy.com/market/tea_service_set

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqZ_Cb2slBw Duck Tales

    https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/Explore/Monuments-and-Memorials/President-John-F-Kennedy-Gravesite

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80HmuM48Cb8 Air Bud 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CTKRc5XHaQ Did you fall asleep or did you pass out?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NJDMV9hJxc Bo Burnham, Welcome to the Internet

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y6smkh6c-0 Don’t You Worry Child, Swedish House Mafia

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjyZKfdwlng Cherry Pie, Warrant

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik1NKkN0ysI American Pie pie scene

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75iv3RKQUAM Arrested Development - George

    https://reductress.com/post/how-to-wear-a-turtleneck-without-being-constantly-aroused-by-the-light-choking/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z784syMuEqA Arrested Development - Lucille


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    • 2 hr 7 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
12 Ratings

12 Ratings

nickcirca1933 ,

Pretty cool pod

Lively, likeable hosts. If you’re not into people recapping pretty much every scene then you won’t like this, but I’ve seen MM 30 times and like to replay the ep in my head while doing chores so it works for me. Ditto what the other review said about married couples usually being annoying. These two are really fun to listen to and are effortlessly charming together. The kind of relationship I hope to have someday haha. Wish the eps came out more often! Also what is the intro song called?? Jess

Charlene in San Fran ,

Maddicts Unite

I usually find married couples doing podcasts together extremely annoying. Mad Men & Tonic is the rare exception. Christina and Elias are smart and funny. I recommend this podcast to both first-time as well was re-watchers of the show.

Rwinters88 ,

Great podcast

Have enjoyed the pod since season one and it keeps getting better going forward! A great listen.

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