
Ep. 1191 Joy & Lyka's Other Question | Everybody Needs A Bit Of Scienza
Everybody Needs A Bit Of Scienza
Episode Summary
Content Analysis Key Themes and Main Ideas 1. The Italian Wine Podcast's reliance on public funding and listener donations. 2. Community engagement through listener questions and video testimonials. 3. Addressing environmental sustainability, specifically water usage, in viticulture. 4. The potential of ""m rootstock"" as a tool for sustainable water management in winemaking. 5. The format and popularity of the ""Everybody Needs a Bit of Scienza"" segment. Summary The Italian Wine Podcast announces a new ""YIMI fan"" donation drive, encouraging listeners to submit video testimonials and financially support the podcast, which is a publicly funded enterprise. Incentives for donations include merchandise like T-shirts and books for monthly Patreon subscribers. The episode features the popular ""Everybody Needs a Bit of Scienza"" segment, where host Stevie Kim facilitates community questions for Professor Attilio Scienza, who answers in Italian. The central question for this episode, posed by Joy and Leica, focuses on the critical issue of unsustainable water usage in agriculture, particularly in the wine industry, amidst climate change concerns. They specifically ask Professor Scienza to explain the ""m rootstock""—its current results, future prospects, and its role as a tool for sustainable water management in vineyards, citing its application in regions like Bordeaux, Burgundy, and Latin America. The podcast concludes by reiterating calls for listener support and engagement across various platforms. Takeaways * The Italian Wine Podcast actively seeks listener donations and support to sustain its operations. * Listeners can contribute via GoFundMe or Patreon, with special benefits for monthly Patreon donors. * The ""Everybody Needs a Bit of Scienza"" segment is a popular feature where Professor Attilio Scienza answers viticultural questions from the community. * A key topic addressed is the environmental challenge of water scarcity and unsustainable water usage in the wine industry. * ""M rootstock"" is presented as a significant innovation or tool for promoting more sustainable water management in vineyards. * The podcast emphasizes global relevance by mentioning the application of the rootstock in various international wine regions. Notable Quotes * ""Italian Wine Podcast is a publicly funded sponsored driven enterprise that needs you in order to continue to receive awesome pre wine edutainment."
About This Episode
The Italian wine podcast is introducing a new initiative called YMI fan, which encourages listeners to donate to the podcast network. The podcast is a publicly funded sponsored fund-led enterprise that needs individuals to sign up to receive a free IWP t-shirt and a copy of the wine democracy book. The podcast is also a fun and interesting segment that is a result of the Italian wine community's concerns about climate change and sustainable use of resources.
Transcript
The Italian wine podcast is introducing a new donation drive this month. It's called YMI fan. We are encouraging anyone who tunes on a regular basis to send us your ten second video on why you are a fan of our podcast network or a specific show. We will then share your thoughts with the world, with the goal of garnering support for our donation drive. Italian wine podcast is a publicly funded sponsored driven enterprise that needs you in order to continue to receive awesome pre wine edutainment. Seven days a week, we are asking our listeners to donate to the Italian wine podcast. By clicking either the go fund me link or the Patreon link found on Italian wine podcast dot com. Remember, if you sign up as a monthly donor on our Patreon, we will send you a free IWP t shirt. And a copy of the wine democracy book, the newest mama jumbo shrimp publication. Warning. Warning. This podcast contains information in Italian language. This podcast contains information in Italian, chinch in. Welcome to this special. Everybody needs a bit of Shenza addition of the Italian wine podcast. Here's the premise. Bin Italy International Academy community members. Send us their questions for Via chief scientist professor atillo Shenza. We record his answers, and Stevie Kim tries to keep him in line. Sometimes it works. Thank you for listening. Welcome, everybody. My name's Davie Kim, and this is Italian wine podcast. Do you know what we do of course is once in a while. We have a question from the our, Italian wine community, and we get to ask to none other than Bye bye. I'm very happy. So we get a and this segment is called, everybody needs a bit of shit. So we've been doing it for a couple of years now. And it's super popular. It's a little funky. It's a bit of English because professor. He speaks many, many languages, but not English. So I will ask him the question in English, and then he will answer in Italian. Italian. Okay. So our question today, Athena, comes from joy and like as climate changes, and we all become more aware and concerned about fair. Okay. And sustainable use of our planet's resources. One of our dirty household secrets of our industry is how unsustainable our water usage is. Unfortunately, this is true of the agriculture sector overall. Could you ask Professor Shenza to talk about the m rootstock Current results, future prospects, and what what we can hope from this new, quote, unquote, tool. Yeah. Okay. We also remained the quelacua, repray. The the, are you enjoying this podcast? There is so much more high quality wine content available for mama jumbo shrimp. Check out our new wine study maps or books on Italian wine, including Italian wine unplugged, and much much more. Just visit our website, mama jumbo shrimp dot com. Now back to the show. D'acco. In crystal, the Okay. Mhmm. The the specialist in Latin America. Contorino, for that question the the the porinetti. Or No. No. Malistema Provando, Bordeaux is a proverb in Borgonia. It's a Provando in Tanti and B and T. Okay. So, Joy, and Leika, I hope you are satisfied with the answer from And this has been another segment of everybody needs a bit of from the house. Don't forget to follow us. We do have Galbalique. Okay. Don't forget to follow us on, of course, our social media channel. And we do have a sister channel on YouTube. It is called mama jumbo shrimp. So give us a follow, subscribe to our channels. Thank you very much, and thank you for listening to our conversation. That's a wrap. Listen to the Italian wine podcast wherever you get your podcasts. We're on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, HimalIFM, and more. Don't forget to subscribe and rate the show. If you enjoy listening, please consider donating through Italian wine podcast dot com. Any amount helps cover equipment, production, and publication costs. Until next time, Cheaching.
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