Tiki Bar TV is a new weekly video cast that features barflies, lounge lizards and swingers that meet in a Tiki Bar. Each episode is themed around a new beverage, qualifying the show as edutainment.

Characters include Lala, the cocktail babe; Johnny Johnny, mixer of ‘forbidden drinks’; and Doctor Tiki, who is a PhD and MD in Tiki.

The video podcast is part bartending show with loosely ad libbed sketches, but mostly just a party. As Johnny Johnny puts it in the first episode, “It turns out we’re all raging alcoholics, and this is a justified excuse for drinking.”

“While he’s tossing the ice in, why don’t we watch a monkey smoke?”

Tiki Bar TV is a great example of what can be done with today’s technology, completely outside the world of traditional broadcast television.

According to Tiki Bar TV’s Reginald Hornstein, “When we came across video podcasting, we found much of it strange, some funny, some inspiring and a good deal total crap. We said to ourselves, ‘We certainly fit one of these categories’.”

Tiki Bar TV is set in a faux 1950’s-1960’s Tiki lounge, is largely improvised and centers around drinking. “Tiki” refers to the Polynesian pop culture of yesteryear that’s recently been embraced for its cheesiness. Each show features bartender Johnny Johnny mixing up something wild and wonderful.

“Within hours of having seen a video podcast we were planning a show of our own,” notes Hornstein.

“We would have died for this technology as kids. In those days we spliced into my building’s cablevision to feed our own channel of us reading the news from my bedroom studio,” adds Hornstein. “We later tried to boost the power of a short-range TV transmitter we acquired in an attempt to broadcast our station through the neighbourhood. It was blatantly illegal idea but we figured they wouldn’t do much to underage kids.”

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