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We have some awesome news! La Cabina Telefónica has been nominated for a 2023 Webby Award in the Best Scripted Fiction category and you can help us win by voting for us! Follow this link and find La Cabina Telefónica to vote! You have until April 20th! Thank you for listening! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/wine-school-dropout. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Love Items is a rom com for the modern girl. It follows the story of Cloe, an AI researcher, and Eloc, her AI assistant. After discovering that Eloc has the power to analyze the love stories behind everyday objects, Cloe decides to steal objects from her dates for Eloc to analyse and help her find ‘ the one’. Tune in daily on Apple Podcasts. You can also subscribe to Ochenta’s premium channel on Apple podcasts to get access to ALL the episodes at once! Just search Love Items on Apple podcasts...

Before cell phones and the internet, if you wanted to call La Casa, you’d have to stroll into a cabina telefónica (calling center) and pay for some minutes with a few quarters. Set in 1995, La Cabina Telefónica is a bilingual audio novela that tells the story of Matty Cardona, a Colombian immigrant who launched Matty's Llamadas y Servicios 82 to do just that. She runs the shop in Jackson Heights, Queens with her daughter Rossy and offers calling, printing, faxing, money transfers and much...

As a black woman, whenever I step into a winery or a wine tasting or a tasting event, I scan the room to see who’s there. What’s the scene, what’s the demographic. I don’t know why, it’s just something I do when I’m in a space that I think or is known to be a predominately white space.  Back when I first started attending wine tastings is like 2006 or so in Washington DC, the makeup of the room was vastly different than it is now. And I have to say I smile a bit to myself because of this!!...

While fairly young on the world scene, South Africa has a long history with wine. Vitis vinifera was first planted in South Africa by the Dutchman Jan van Riebeeck in 1655. And in 1659 he produced the first bottle. Today exports are reaching upwards of 388 million litres, and more than 2 613 farmers cultivate some 90 512 hectares of land under vines. One cannot talk about visiting South African wine regions without talking about the grapes themselves. While there isn’t enough time in this...

I am having so much fun creating this season for you, I hope you’re enjoying it as well. This season, Semester Abroad is to give you an overview, or a highlight if you will, of the wines and wine culture of South Africa. In this episode I want you to come to know what life is like drinking, serving and teaching the wines we’ve just been talking about. Let me introduce you to Roxan Waldeck, sommelier and educator in South Africa. A theme throughout our conversation is about how all of this is...

We’re continuing with winemaking for this episode but with a twist. I met Corlea Fourie at a wine dinner and had no idea of the winemaker she was and the accolades she’s received. It’s always better this way for me as I won’t get nervous and go completely fan girl haha. The story of how she got into winemaking is heart warming and learning more about her role and how she does things at Bosman Family Vineyards is, in a word, fascinating!! I got the chance to spend a day learning about their...

I gave a little teaser at the end of last week’s episode, mentioning champagne. Any other region outside of champagne must call their sparkling wine something else, even if they use the same method. I had the pleasure of meeting Andiswa Mapheleba at a wine dinner. She mentioned that she brought some of the wine she made to the dinner, the sparkling wines she made! This young black African woman is in the wine industry, but making sparkling wines at a major producer in South Africa?! Clearly...

Do you have a bucket list? What’s on your bucket list? Is it a list of things you want to acheive before you turn 50? Or a list of places you want to visit? Mine was a list of places I wanted to visit and at the top of that list was wine country in South Africa. Well guess what ladies and gentlemen, that dream came true!! Goal achieved, I visited Stellenbosch, South Africa this year and tasted the most amazing wines and met some of the kindest people! Speaking of kind people, the hospitality...

A flight attendant, a retired pilot and a luchador must find a missing marine biologist to save the world from a “proverbial” apocalypse - that is, IF YOU CAN HELP THEM DO IT! Welcome to Adventure in Atacama, an audio game where you decide what happens to our heroes!   Play the game on our interactive page or on your favorite podcast app!   Adventure in Atacama, an audio game from the creative minds at Studio Ochenta.   For more information about the cast, and for bonus content including mad...

Well, that was fast! We’ve come to the end of the season. But what an amazing season it was!! We’ve talked about French drinking culture from aperitif all the way through to digestif and learned a lot about how they do things from the perspective of an expat. Now let’s hear from the host herself, Tanisha or Girl Meets Glass as she takes us around Paris for a ‘day in the life’. Find out more about her and some of her fav places in this episode. We hope you enjoy listening to this one as much...

A flight attendant, a retired pilot and a luchado must find a missing marine biologist to save the world from a linguistic apocalypse - that is, IF YOU CAN HELP THEM DO IT! Welcome to Adventure in Atacama, an audio game where you decide what happens to the heroes! This is Adventure in Atacama, an audio game from the creative minds at Studio Ochenta.  Start playing on April 25th, 2022, wherever you listen to podcasts. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/wine-school-dropout. See...

In Paris, France, a work of art is made famous by the hands of a patriotic thief. This is Caper, an original multilingual true-crime series from award-winning podcast team at Studio Ochenta. Join us on our journey, as we delve deep into the most outstanding heist stories form all over the world. In each episode, we'll introduce you to professional criminals, robbers, and improvised thieves, and tell you the story of solved and unsolved thefts... and what they meant to the world. So subscribe...

I love a little something sweet after dinner. Like it doesn’t quite feel complete if I just eat my entree or main course and that’s it. And since this is kind of a boozy podcast, we’re gonna end our meal with a digestif. Digestif is defined in Wikipedia as - A digestive is drink,alcoholic or not, which is usually taken at the end of a meal, and which is supposed to help digestion and invigorate at the end of a long meal.  In today’s episode we’re finishing up the meal so to speak and talking...

Us Americans over here have been having a really good time talking about the nuances of learning the French language, navigating culture differences and finding love and work. But, I think it’s high time we added another layer to this season. In this episode I’m happy to introduce to you a French business owner with a very interesting concept aimed at Anglophones in Paris and an American restaurant owner with French parents and a deep passion and love for French wines. What are their views...

Ochenta Cuentos brand new season starts off with a fiery story! Lucifer and Armando Hoyos, a former porn actor, embark on an epic journey to planet Venus in order to restore the Devil's dominion on Hell. This fiction story comes to us from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Hosted by: Maru Lombardo Check out transcripts in Spanish and English over at https://ochentastudio.com/ochenta-cuentos. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/wine-school-dropout. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and...

When you first come to visit Paris, you run around the city trying to see all of the sites, take all of the photos and eat all of the croissants you possibly can. But those of us that have made France our home know that French dining culture is much more intentional. Inviting friends to your home, sitting around the table to laugh, talk, and drink a little wine perhaps. When was the last time you sat around the table, not in front of the tv or standing around grabbing snacks off a plate, ...

When I first got ‘into’ wine, I thought the only career paths were winemaker, sommelier or like, wine retailer. Kind of limiting, yeah? Luckily for me, I learned really quickly that there are plenty of careers dealing with wine besides those. I’ve been in wine over a decade now and while I have worked retail, I knew that wasn’t my life's path. Today’s guest majored in food politics thought import/export would be her career path. But as luck would have it, she found her way into the wine...

Whenever I mention that I’m in the wine industry, a follow up question is usually, ‘do you want to make your own wine?’ The answer for me is a resounding no! I totally respect what they do but that is just not my gift. But there are quite a few people that dream of being a winemaker, and then to live in France on top of that…that’s kinda like the ultimate dream right? In this episode we’ll hear from an American woman who is doing just that. She exchanged her life and comfort in the States...

When people think about France and Paris in particular, their thoughts immediately go to croissants, and then wine. Maybe cheese, but definitely wine. We think of sitting outdoors at a cafe in those Parisian bistro chairs and swirling a glass of red wine while watching the people go by. Does that make us tourists? Do the French really drink and eat like we think they do? Let’s ask the ONLY American in Paris, Comedianne Sarah Donnelly about some French drinking misconceptions, their drinking...

Apero or Aperitif hour is yes, a time to decompress after work but it’s so much more and different than that. The time to drink, what the drinks are, it’s so much more intentional and particular in French culture. For this episode of WSD I’m speaking with two Americans that live in Paris, about the drinking culture here, and apero hour means to them. Special thanks to our guests. You can find Forest Collins on instagram at @52martinis and Allison Caves at @izzysparis. Thank you for listening...

Hi! While we work on season 4 of Wine School Dropout this new year, I’d like to recommend a brand new show by Studio Ochenta, Atlas Linguae. In each episode, experts from around the world discuss a wide variety  of language related topics.  Join our very own sound editor Luis Lopez every other Monday on a deep dive into the joyful, the challenging and the joyfully challenging aspects of everyday communication. Atlas Linguae is an original production from Studio Ochenta available in English....

As a part of the trip with Radici del Sud I had the pleasure of visiting Pietroventosa Winery.  I learn so much talking to winemakers and drinking wines from other regions. Within five minutes of hearing Marianna speak about her wines, the landscape, and her region of Gioia del Colle. I knew I wanted to talk to her more! Marianna was interesting, funny, lively and her wines made from the Primitvo and Negroamaro grapes, stunning! In this talk, Marianna shares her winemaking passion and the...