Welcome into the Oxford Exxon podcast, a little different type of show for you today as Chase Parham is at St. Leo talking with St. Leo beverage director, Marissa Wyant.

Marissa has extensive bartending experience in multiple cities, including Tampa, where she routinely served professional sports players and coaches.

She also has a PhD from Ole Miss

in political science and spent years as a media advertising executive. She's a great guest as

they talk cocktails, her background, How St. Leo puts together a James Beardworthy cocktail program,

and much more. Before we get to that, let me tell you about the Oxford Exxon. We're still

trying to give away 10 bucks. Just take a picture of the QR code at the pump and you get

a thousand points, which equals 10 bucks with the Exxon mobile app. Any Blue Sky location

in Mississippi will work for that and lunch specials for 569 nights here in Oxford.

The podcast comes to you daily from the Clark Ford Studio.

Clark Ford is in Amory, Mississippi.

Corey wants to be your truck guy, your car guy.

Let him help you at 662-257, 1900, or stop by on Highway 25 South and Amory.

I think I'm supposed to say something about there being no haggling.

I've listened enough to these podcasts, but you know the drill at this point.

Also, all guests appear on the Rafters music and food hotline with March Madness here.

Stop in off the square and watch all the games while getting great drinks and quality food menu.

So with that, here's Chase Barham and Marissa Wyant. Welcome to this edition of the show and one where my job does not suck instead

of in the studio. Studio we are at St. Leo today and my guest, Marissa Wyant, beverage director for

St. Leo, PhD graduate, a lot of stuff. We'll get into all that, of course, as we get into today's show. We have cocktails in front of us as well. We'll have a little bit of a bourbon southfield for you guys who were around for our bourbon podcast there a couple years ago. But we're on location. Good to talk some cocktails, some life history, some newspaper marketing at some point today as we

going as well. But Marissa, thanks for the time. I know it's your day off for coming in. So let's start with just tell me what I have in front of me because you got me excited. You asked me what my favorite cocktail was. I said it was a size rack. So we are spinning off that a little bit. I've got bacon in a glass. I've got bourbon in a glass. You guys have a new cocktail menu. So what are we

doing today? That's right. Yeah. So this is our sort of early spring

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