🔥Hot Ice Cream, Cool Podcasts and Much More

Fried ice cream seems impossible even as you’re eating it – but it’s easy enough to make at home if you have a little time. The ice cream balls in this churro-ice cream mashup go through four freezing cycles as you layer on the coatings, but the frying only takes seconds and you don’t need any fancy equipment. Be sure to serve immediately after frying (maybe even in a root beer float!).

Unexpected, yes. And delightful, especially when blended with coconut, cucumber and lime as in this pleasingly bright-green vegan concoction. You can use an ice cream maker — or just mix and pop in the freezer, then whisk to keep it light.

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, this ice cream recipe calls for cinnamon-red candy. The gist? Dissolve a cup of Red Hots into a rich ice cream base.

This podcast takes a historian’s look at folklore, superstition and creepy legends. Get ready to dive into our collective subconscious (you won’t regret it – but you already knew that, didn’t you?).

This collaboration of four guys who love philosophy is ancient by podcast standards, with episodes that date all the way back to 2009. But their schtick — breaking down philosophical texts in an entertaining, and above all understandable, way — is still gold.

From Caitlyn Jenner to Lenny Kravitz to Susan Rice, the guests on The Carlos Watson Show offer diverse and enriching conversation. If you’ve already binged every episode, you can get more of each interview from the podcast version.

Ever curious about wetlands or sneezing, porcupines or why carrots are good for your eyes? The Stuff You Should Know podcast has you covered. Akin to the Discovery show “How It’s Made,” this is for your ears on the go. And because each episode tackles a new subject, there’s no catching up or feeling left out. Just follow your curiosity, and indulge.

on The Carlos Watson Show, season 4!

This teen mystery drama manages to be both gripping and light, with its tale of a Cape Town private school girl on the hunt for her missing sister. Clocking in at two seasons, it’s one of those shows you’ll start on a whim on a Tuesday night – and you won’t notice the sun rising on Wednesday morning.

Rapper Saweetie went platinum with her single “Icy Girl” in 2018, but her YouTube reality series “The Icy Life,” smacks of those quick-hit MTV reality shows circa the mid-2000s. Saweetie has a lot of famous connections — she’s Gabrielle Union’s cousin — and her life is dramatic enough to tell in rapid-fire episodes across three seasons … so far.

Based on former FBI director James Comey’s bestselling book A Higher Loyalty, this two-part Showtime series stars Jeff Daniels as Comey and Brendan Gleeson doing an extraordinary job hiding his Irish accent to play President Donald Trump.

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