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Twist Happy Hour Podcast
Welcome to Twist Happy Hour — where cocktails and conversations collide in the best way possible.
Hosted by two gals who love a well-shaken drink and an even better story, Twist Happy Hour is your invite to sit back, sip something delicious, and eavesdrop on the kind of chat you'd have with your funniest, most unfiltered friends. Each episode is 15 to 20 minutes—perfect for your coffee break, school pickup line, or post-work wind-down.
This isn’t a how-to bartending show. It’s happy hour with your besties—where no topic is too weird, too deep, or too random. Grab your drink (boozy or not) and join us as we sip and chat our way through five recurring categories:
🍸 1. Booze Culture
We nerd out over spirits, bar trends, and everything in between. From “why are cocktails $22 now?” to “is this canned cocktail actually drinkable?”—we’re here for the highs, lows, and hilarious moments of drinking culture. No gatekeeping. Just good drinks, fun facts, and maybe a little gossip.
Episodes might include:
- What bartenders really think of your go-to order
- The rise of the mocktail movement
- Rating celebrity liquor brands (yes, we have opinions)
🌍 2. Travel
Most of our best stories start with “so I was on a trip...” From dreamy destinations to total travel fails, we’re sharing the good, the bad, and the jet-lagged.
Episodes might include:
- Our favorite underrated travel gems
- Airplane etiquette debates (to recline or not to recline?)
- Travel horror stories (and the cocktails that helped us recover)
🌟 3. Celebrity Lore
Not gossip. Not news. Just vibes. This is a pop culture rabbit hole with a cocktail chaser. We explore the weird, wild corners of celebrity culture that make us laugh, raise eyebrows, or wonder what’s really going on.
Episodes might include:
- PR relationships: stunt or soulmates?
- If celebrities were cocktails...
- Weirdest celebrity urban legends (and why we hope they’re true)
📰 4. Current Events
From viral TikToks to “Wait, WHAT?” news headlines, we’re sipping through the stories lighting up the internet. No serious debates—just curious questions and chaotic commentary.
Episodes might include:
- Trend or Trash: what’s hot this week
- Girl Math vs. Boy Math
- Florida Man and other wild headlines
🎲 5. Never Have I Ever / But Did You Die? / What’s Up With That?
This is our storytime and confession zone. We unpack travel regrets, ask each other wild questions, and deep-dive into whatever random topic we can't stop thinking about.
Episodes might include:
- Never Have I Ever: Travel Edition
- What’s up with bachelorette trips lately?
- “Wait, THIS happened in the news?!”
Why listen to Twist Happy Hour?
→ Because you want fun, smart, and slightly unhinged.
→ You love travel but don’t pack capsule wardrobes.
→ You have big opinions on celebrity breakups and Girl Math.
→ And honestly, you’d rather laugh through the chaos of the world with two ridiculous women than hear another monotone news podcast.
We’re here for the group chat energy. The deep dives and the dumb stuff. The cocktails and the chaos.
New episodes drop every Thursday.
Follow, subscribe, and bring a drink—it’s always happy hour here.
Twist Happy Hour Podcast
How to Get Banned from TikTok | Twist Happy Hour | Episode 19
This week on Twist Happy Hour, we’re shaking up a Pear Winter Cooler and talking about the one thing no creator wants to experience: getting banned from TikTok. Keryn walks through a simple ginger-and-cinnamon pear drink you can make boozy or zero-proof, while Kate explains how she went from steady growth to opening the app and finding her account suddenly deactivated with no way to appeal. From unclear community guidelines to shifting algorithms and the stress of creating in 2025, it’s part cocktail chat, part social media reality check.
Cocktail of the Day: Pear Winter Cooler (pear juice or nectar, ginger syrup, cinnamon syrup, soda water, optional gin/whiskey/bourbon, dehydrated pear garnish)
Watch the Vodcast on YouTube or listen to the Podcast on your favorite app — same episode, two ways to hang with us.
Episode Highlights
• Cocktail of the Day: A winter pear drink that works hot, cold, boozy, or zero-proof
• Kitchen Reality: Extra-spicy ginger syrup, cinnamon comfort, and the value of a “tiny splash”
• Storytime: Kate’s TikTok ban, from house fire update to instant account removal
• Community Guidelines: What actually gets flagged and why some clips trigger violations
• Content vs. Censorship: Asking questions online and how intent still gets misread
• Algorithm Talk: TikTok going “dark,” CapCut panic, and why the platform feels different now
• Social Media Strategy: How your viewing habits shape where your content gets pushed
Chapters
• 00:00 Cocktail of the Day: Pear Winter Cooler
• 02:56 Kate's TikTok Ban: A Social Media Dilemma
• 06:00 Navigating Content Guidelines and Censorship
• 12:04 The Changing Landscape of Social Media Algorithms
• 17:05 Final Thoughts and Future Plans
What You’ll Hear
• How Keryn builds the Pear Winter Cooler and how she’d spike it with gin, whiskey, or bourbon
• The origin of the overpowered ginger syrup and the lesson learned
• Kate’s overview of her TikTok history, minimal violations, and sudden deactivation
• A breakdown of what platforms consider “political content” and why that label is inconsistent
• Why some creators get flagged for questions while others post freely
• The CapCut scare during TikTok’s outage and what it meant for client projects
• A quick algorithm masterclass: why niche-viewing matters for business accounts
• The tension between what your brain wants to consume and what your brand needs from you
Sound Bites
“Tariffs is a word, not a plan.”
“I opened the app and it just said, ‘You’re banned.’ No appeal, no nothing.”
“If you make cupcakes, your account should be obsessed with cupcakes.”
“My CapCut files vanishing was my Rachel-leaving-a-voicemail moment.”
“Your brain has an algorithm too — it doesn’t always match your business needs.”
Want More Like This?
Drop a comment and tell us: have you ever been shadowbanned, suspended, or mysteriously throttled online? And if you run a business, how much time do you actually spend engaging like your ideal customer?
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New episodes release every Thursday morning — see you at happy hour.
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