Friday Night Wine Fight

Friday Night Wine Fight

We are three Melbourne girls who had nothing better to do than start a podcast while we were all Living La Vida Lockdown - and we have been in and out of lockdown ever since! So we take aim at one topic each week with a bottle or three of wine and try to make some sense of it.

  1. A&B Edition: Gin Fest Recap

    05/07/2022

    A&B Edition: Gin Fest Recap

    This week the girls take aim at... Gin Fest In the sixth instalment of the FNWF A&B edition, Bianca and Amy discuss their recent adventure to Gin Fest held in Melbourne on a sunny weekend in March. Bianca discussed the evolution of this festival in Melbourne Australia and what the festival looks like today. In 2022 the festival comprised 55 Australian and New Zealand Gin Distillers whose staff played host to gin enthusiasts like our girls. Tickets ranged from $73.72 - $182.65 AUD per person and the event was held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, colloquially known as Jeff's shed. The girls then discussed the lead-up to the event including the universe throwing everything at Amy to stop her from going. Little did the universe know that the hurdles Amy faced along the way just made her more determined to get there and drink copious amounts of gin! Bianca also had her dramas on the day which involved losing her sunglasses, forgetting her mask, making the uber driver wait so she could get her mask, disowning her sunglasses as they had betrayed her by going missing on an important drinking day, then reaffirming her love for her sunglasses when she found them in her jacket pocket. Amy then discussed the moment the girls entered the venue and the reality of 55 distillers in one place hitting her like a ton of bricks. Amy genuinely feared for their lives contemplating just how they were going to visit as many distillers as possible and still manage to be able to walk back to the train station when the event finished. Amy discussed the drinking strategies adopted,  then quickly abandoned and general shenanigans that ensued as well as highlighted some of her favourite distillers the girls came across. Bianca also discussed her favourite distillers and named all 55 distillers that were in attendance that day. If your favourite gin was at the festival let us know! For those interested, you will be able to find a list of the exhibiting distillers on our blog : https://fridaynightwinefight.blogspot.com/ . We say it every week however, if you have a topic you would like us to discuss, hit us up on our socials: Facebook Twitter Instagram Tumblr Or email us at - fridaynightwinefight@gmail.com Episode edited by Amy Theme music by Joseph McDade https://josephmcdade.com/music Support the show

    1h 5m
  2. A&B Edition: Adulting, pros and cons

    04/30/2022

    A&B Edition: Adulting, pros and cons

    This week the girls take aim at... Adulting In the fifth installment of the FNWF A &B edition, Danni_hell joins Amy and Bianca in their discussion about the pros and cons of Adulting. Amy introduced tonight's topic and reminisced about all the time she spent as a child wishing she was an adult so then she could do whatever she wanted. Oh, how wrong she was! Amy then discussed how working as an adult is both a pro and a con. On one side you can work. In many countries, you have to be in your mid to late teens to earn money working so the ability to earn money is a pro. However, on the flip side, as an adult, it is expected that you pay your own living expenses and therefore you must work making it a con because you have no choice. Dani then discussed the access to adult money being both a pro and a con. Earning money as an adult is way better than getting given money as a kid because you get so much more right? What if you use your adult money to purchase unnecessary things? No one will stop you! Which is both a pro and a con. Bianca finished us up by explaining how the old you get the fewer "f**ks" you have to give. When we are children we have the propensity to care more about things. However, as we age our ability to care about things gets smaller and smaller. This is definitely a pro of adulting. Bianca also discussed a con of adulting being the random medical issue of the day. Why does my back hurt? Where did that bruise come from? Was that mole there yesterday? These are the things we face as adults because our bodies are slowly giving up on us. A massive thanks to Dani aka Danni_hell for being a fantastic guest! Head on over to the blog: https://fridaynightwinefight.blogspot.com/ for accompanying content. You can find FNWF in all the following places - Facebook Twitter Instagram Tumblr Or email us at - fridaynightwinefight@gmail.com Episode edited by Amy Theme music by Joseph McDade https://josephmcdade.com/music Support the show

    44 min
  3. A&B Edition: Easter

    04/09/2022

    A&B Edition: Easter

    This week the girls take aim at... Easter In the third installment of the FNWF A &B edition, Bianca and Amy take a closer look at the widely celebrated holiday of Easter! Amy kicked us off by explaining the origins of Easter and how her family celebrated the holiday when she was growing up. Bianca stumbled across an interesting Easter holiday tradition whilst researching this topic. An initial scan of an article Bianca unearthed thanks to Google, made her think that the humble country of Norway had a deep-rooted real crime tradition over the Easter period. Purge, anyone? On closer inspection, our Norwegian friends have a deep-rooted crime fiction tradition over the Easter holiday which involves holidays in log cabins and evenings watching or reading crime fiction. Sounds like bliss! Amy then finished us off by discussing the origins of both the Easter Bunny and the chocolate Easter egg. Amy also discussed how, as children, we never questioned the origin of either tradition even though it is quite absurd that a giant rabbit would appear in the night and leave you chocolate on a date that was ever-changing each year. Weird right?! Don't forget to check out our socials! Facebook Twitter Instagram Tumblr Or email us at - fridaynightwinefight@gmail.com Head on over to the blog: https://fridaynightwinefight.blogspot.com/ for accompanying content. Episode edited by Amy Theme music by Joseph McDade https://josephmcdade.com/music Support the show

    29 min
  4. A&B Edition: Current Events

    03/26/2022

    A&B Edition: Current Events

    This week the girls take aim at...Current Events! In case you missed it, Sarah is taking a break so Amy and Bianca are continuing the tangent train and took aim at current events in the first episode of Friday Night Wine Fight - the A & B edition. Bianca was going to discuss the floods in Queensland and New South Wales, however since the situation is still ongoing she decided to leave it for another time. Instead, she discussed the recent tale of a Catholic Priest who mixed up his words and potentially left hundreds of churchgoers unblessed. Amy discussed the war unfolding in Ukraine giving a brief history into Ukraine's relationship with its invader, Russia. Amy went on to lighten the mood by discussing the upcoming Eurovision song contest which will take place in May. Australia recently held auditions for the contestant who will represent Australia and in true Aussie style, we made a bit of a spectacle of it. Lastly, Bianca and Amy discussed things that they had missed (or dismissed) in recent times and had a brief chat about how Kanye is not ok. We say it every week, however, we really want to hear from our listeners. If you have a topic you want us to take aim at, please hit us up at the links below: Facebook Twitter Instagram Tumblr Or email us at - fridaynightwinefight@gmail.com Head on over to the blog: https://fridaynightwinefight.blogspot.com/ for accompanying content. Episode edited by Amy Theme music by Joseph McDade https://josephmcdade.com/music Support the show

    1h 8m
5
out of 5
13 Ratings

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We are three Melbourne girls who had nothing better to do than start a podcast while we were all Living La Vida Lockdown - and we have been in and out of lockdown ever since! So we take aim at one topic each week with a bottle or three of wine and try to make some sense of it.