Go With Your Palate

🎙️ Go With Your Palate: Elijah & Gilbert Smith | Legacy, Grit & the Fight Beyond the Cage

This week, we’re joined by one of the rarest and most compelling duos in the UFC: Elijah Smith and his father, Gilbert Smith—former UFC fighter turned coach, mentor, and cornerstone of his son’s rise. It’s a raw, honest conversation about legacy, pressure, and what it really takes to build a career in the fight game from the inside out...

🎙️ Go With Your Palate: Maxxine Dupri | Grit, Gold & Owning the Spotlight

This week, we’re joined by the electric Maxxine Dupri, aka Sydney Zmrzel Luke—WWE superstar, elite performer, and one of the most inspiring rise stories in sports entertainment today. At the time of recording, Sydney was riding the momentum of her run as WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion, and while titles come and go, her confidence, work ethic, and p...

🎙️ Go With Your Palate: Maxxine Dupri | Grit, Gold & Owning the Spotlight

This week, we’re joined by the electric Maxxine Dupri, aka Sydney Zmrzel Luke—WWE superstar, elite performer, and one of the most inspiring rise stories in sports entertainment today. At the time of recording, Sydney was riding the momentum of her run as WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion, and while titles come and go, her confidence, work ethic, and p...

🎙️ Go With Your Palate: Zaylan Jacobsen | From Early Hustle to Building NiteCapp

This week, we sit down with Zaylan Jacobsen, Co-Founder & CEO of NiteCapp—a rising platform changing how hospitality and food & beverage teams connect and learn. Long before tech, Zaylan was already wired for entrepreneurship, selling duct tape wallets and kendamas as a kid—early signs of a builder mindset that would later push him to teach him...

🎙️ Go With Your Palate: Zaylan Jacobsen | From Early Hustle to Building NiteCapp

This week, we sit down with Zaylan Jacobsen, Co-Founder & CEO of NiteCapp—a rising platform changing how hospitality and food & beverage teams connect and learn. Long before tech, Zaylan was already wired for entrepreneurship, selling duct tape wallets and kendamas as a kid—early signs of a builder mindset that would later push him to teach him...

🎙️ Go With Your Palate: Sarina & Elias | Brewing Love, Culture & Community with Buunni Coffee

This week, we brew up something special with Sarina Prabasi and Elias Gurmu, the husband-and-wife duo behind Buunni Coffee—a brand rooted in Ethiopian coffee culture and built into one of Manhattan’s most beloved community-driven cafés.

Sarina and Elias share their inspiring journey of bringing their love story—and their love for co...

🎙️ Go With Your Palate: Sarina & Elias | Brewing Love, Culture & Community with Buunni Coffee

This week, we brew up something special with Sarina Prabasi and Elias Gurmu, the husband-and-wife duo behind Buunni Coffee—a brand rooted in Ethiopian coffee culture and built into one of Manhattan’s most beloved community-driven cafés.

Sarina and Elias share their inspiring journey of bringing their love story—and their love for co...

🎙️ Go With Your Palate: Harvest Update 2025 | Inside the Crush With JLO & Nick Reinell

It’s that time of year, folks—Harvest Update 2025—and we brought in the heavy hitters. This week, Joe sits down with Copper Cane’s own winemaking rockstars: John “JLO” Lopez, Director of Winemaking, and Nick Reinell, Winemaker, resident crusher of grapes and egos (mostly Fat Mario’s).

If you’re a cork dork, buckle up. We dig into everything fr...

🎙️ Go With Your Palate: Harvest Update 2025 | Inside the Crush With JLO & Nick Reinell

It’s that time of year, folks—Harvest Update 2025—and we brought in the heavy hitters. This week, Joe sits down with Copper Cane’s own winemaking rockstars: John “JLO” Lopez, Director of Winemaking, and Nick Reinell, Winemaker, resident crusher of grapes and egos (mostly Fat Mario’s).

If you’re a cork dork, buckle up. We dig into everything fr...

Go With Your Palate: Warner | Snob-Free Wine, Real Talk & Confidence in Every Pour

This week, we’re joined by Warner, the fearless, funny, totally snob-free sommelier and wine educator behind @confidenceuncorked—the creator shaking up the wine world with honesty, humor, and a mission to make wine actually accessible.

From her unconventional leap from Texas advertising to California vineyards, Warner shares how a simple Manchego-a...

Go With Your Palate: Warner | Snob-Free Wine, Real Talk & Confidence in Every Pour

This week, we’re joined by Warner, the fearless, funny, totally snob-free sommelier and wine educator behind @confidenceuncorked—the creator shaking up the wine world with honesty, humor, and a mission to make wine actually accessible.

From her unconventional leap from Texas advertising to California vineyards, Warner shares how a simple Manchego-a...

Go With Your Palate: Carrot Top | Comedy, Chaos & The Legend of the Props

This week, we sit down with the one-and-only Carrot Top — the legendary king of prop comedy, Las Vegas icon, and a performer who’s been making audiences laugh for over three decades. From his early days on college stages to his long-running residency at the Luxor, Carrot Top has evolved his act into a fast-paced, high-energy blend of prop invention, storyt...

Go With Your Palate: Carrot Top | Comedy, Chaos & The Legend of the Props

This week, we sit down with the one-and-only Carrot Top — the legendary king of prop comedy, Las Vegas icon, and a performer who’s been making audiences laugh for over three decades. From his early days on college stages to his long-running residency at the Luxor, Carrot Top has evolved his act into a fast-paced, high-energy blend of prop invention, storyt...

Go With Your Palate: Jack Carr | From SEAL Team to Storytelling Titan

This week, we’re honored to sit down with Jack Carr—former Navy SEAL sniper turned #1 New York Times bestselling author and creative force behind The Terminal List and beyond. After two decades in Naval Special Warfare leading elite assault and sniper teams across Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Philippines, Jack—always a lifelong literature enthusiast—traded boots for...

Go With Your Palate: Jack Carr | From SEAL Team to Storytelling Titan

This week, we’re honored to sit down with Jack Carr—former Navy SEAL sniper turned #1 New York Times bestselling author and creative force behind The Terminal List and beyond. After two decades in Naval Special Warfare leading elite assault and sniper teams across Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Philippines, Jack—always a lifelong literature enthusiast—traded boots for...

This week, we sit down with Matthew Kaner—a storyteller, sommelier, and world traveler whose passport has more wine stamps than most have countries visited. From his early days as a singer-songwriter to running wine bars, producing for SOMM TV, and writing for Men’s Journal, Matt’s journey has always been driven by creativity and connection. Now, through his own brand—Will Travel for Wine Consulting—he’s taking that passion global,...

This week, we sit down with Matthew Kaner—a storyteller, sommelier, and world traveler whose passport has more wine stamps than most have countries visited. From his early days as a singer-songwriter to running wine bars, producing for SOMM TV, and writing for Men’s Journal, Matt’s journey has always been driven by creativity and connection. Now, through his own brand—Will Travel for Wine Consulting—he’s taking that passion global,...

This week we sit down with Danny Wirtz, Co-Chairman of Breakthru Beverage Group and Chairman & CEO of the Chicago Blackhawks. A fourth-generation leader of the Wirtz family legacy, Danny isn’t just carrying the torch—he’s redefining it. At the helm of one of North America’s largest beverage distributors and one of the NHL’s most iconic franchises, he’s steering industries that touch millions of lives.

We talk origin stories, inn...

This week we sit down with Danny Wirtz, Co-Chairman of Breakthru Beverage Group and Chairman & CEO of the Chicago Blackhawks. A fourth-generation leader of the Wirtz family legacy, Danny isn’t just carrying the torch—he’s redefining it. At the helm of one of North America’s largest beverage distributors and one of the NHL’s most iconic franchises, he’s steering industries that touch millions of lives.

We talk origin stories, inn...