Thursday 13

Now I'm going into podcasting! My podcast will be called Freezing and Wining. I will need to find a wine lover as a partner, though. Here are some of the proposed episodes. What do you think? 

Freezing and Wining

A podcast pairing weather complaints with wine language, frozen desserts, and mild absurdity.

1. Crisis Coco - Emergency weather whining, paired with Chardonnay and a frozen hot chocolate situation that defeats the point. Includes existential angst stirred in with a whisk.

2. Storm Cellar Stories - Exaggerated storm memories, paired with Syrah and rocky road ice cream. Optional side note: includes dramatic reenactments using a hair dryer.

3. Almanac Apocalypse - The end of traditional weather forecasting after the collapse of the Farmer’s Almanac, paired with Cabernet Sauvignon and Neapolitan ice cream. Listener discretion: may include unsolicited conspiracy theories.

4. This Wind Has Notes of Hostility - Burgundy with dark chocolate gelato. With undertones of passive-aggressive sidewalk commentary.

5. Sunny but Structurally Cold - Sauvignon Blanc and lemon sorbet. Served with brief but intense eye-rolling at neighbors’ optimism.

6. The Forecast Overpromised - Rosé with strawberry sherbet. Includes a small panic about whether it will actually snow next week.

7. This Is a Full-Body Chill - Cabernet Sauvignon and espresso ice cream. Garnished with minor resentment toward your own coat.

8. The Sun Is Decorative Only - Riesling with mango sorbet. Pairs well with sighing at the audacity of a sunny day that offers no warmth.

9. Cold Enough to Make You Rethink Your Life Choices - Bordeaux and salted caramel ice cream. Also includes one regrettable decision made while shivering.

10. Snow That Refuses to Melt - Barolo with hazelnut gelato. Perfect for muttering poetic curses at the recalcitrant white stuff.

11. Wind Chill as a Personality - Syrah and dark chocolate ice cream. With subtle undertones of judging the entire street for leaving their trash bins out.

12. Why Is February So Long? - Zinfandel with cookies-and-cream ice cream. Served with a side of deep sighs and vague muttering about time dilation.

13. Spring Is Theoretical - Late Harvest Riesling and frozen chocolate cream pie. Pairs excellently with whispering sweet nothings to a calendar.

*An AI tool helped me with this list because, well, I know absolutely nothing about wine because I don't drink.*

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