Episode 127 Why We Love Utah

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Episode 127 we wanted to take some time to talk about the things we love about Utah.

Do you have anything that you really secretly love about Utah but you don’t talk about it cause it’s embarrassing?

Jeremy says his is Fry Sauce…

Here are some of ours!

Chris… with as much as he dislikes the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints involvement in politics in Utah, he secretly loves the way that they take care of community.

Bre… has an issue with the care of public education in the state of Utah. Bigger families should carry the bigger tax burden.

Jeremy… hates the lack of public transportation going east to west and the amount of time it takes to get places if you do take it.

Jessica… hates people that don’t use their blinkers.

Alright, alright. Enough with the negative. A couple of the things we LOVE about Utah:

Jeremy loves the unique architecture! Did you know that Utah has a Frank Lloyd Wright home?

Chris loves the mountains.

Bre loves the sense of community.

Jessica loves you can start on one end of the valley and drive completely north on almost any street in Salt Lake City, or you can start on 89 down south and work your way completely north to Brigham City!

We talked about the structure that you see on the way out to Wendover that looks like a huge tree with a tennis ball on it. As well as the crater up at the Homestead!

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Episode 125 Eat Chocolate Not Heroin.

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Sometimes we have the privilege to visit past guests in their own space! Episode 125 we were invited to record our show with AJ and Steve of The Chocolate Conspiracy at their shop at 774 S 300 W in Salt Lake City. **ONLY opened on Saturdays** It was just 6 months ago on episode 91 that we had them both in our studio to talk about how they got started, why chocolate, and about being part of the Utah’s Own community.

This time we got to sit down with AJ and Steve and talk about what they’ve been up to and what they have coming down the their chocolatey pipeline! The Chocolate Conspiracy’s most recent collaboration that you will see exclusive, for Uinta Brewing and Harmon’s grocery stores, is their black lager chocolate bar. What is this chocolate deliciousness you ask? Well, it is Chocolate Conspiracy’s coco soaked in Uinta Brewing’s BaBa lager! You know you want to taste it now! We loved our little sample (in the photo below) Other items on their docket include a chipotle orange bar, a coconut lime bar, and they are bringing back raspberry! The Chocolate Conspiracy is now in 70 stores across Utah and in 14 different states!

Chocolate Cherry Wine Bar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now that the summer farmers market is over, Chocolate Conspiracy has a couple of weeks to catch their breath before the holidays and the winter market at the Rio Grande starts up mid-November!

You can follow them on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter for product updates and new locations that they are selling their chocolate across America! Also visit their website for more listings.

Click HERE for the links to the Corn Maze spots we talked about from The Daily Herald.

Click HERE for the Utah Haunted Road trip we talked about from Only in Your State.

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Episode 124 Utah Mid-Term Elections

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We’ve said it the past couple years, we don’t care who you vote for… just make sure you are educated about the candidates and the issues and that you actually vote! You can still register at vote.utah.gov You have until October 30th in Utah. Whether you mail in your ballot or take to your precinct to vote to get your sticker, just vote!

This week we had past guests, Josh Cameron and Alex Castagno, sit down with us to go through their own local campaigns as well as Question 1, Prop 2,3, and 4, and Amendments A, B, and C. We led a great round table, even though our table is square, regarding why these issues may or may not be good to vote for.

Josh is currently running for school board in the Granite district. We asked him his “why” and he said, “there needs to be a way to speak to kids. To give a better hope for the future. To get rid of the “don’t do that” generation. Breaking up classrooms so there aren’t 40 kids in a class sitting on floors and to get rid of standardized testing.”

Alex is running for Senate district 9 seat which is Sandy and White City. We asked him his “why” and he said, “I want to be a deciding vote. Always thinking by the people and for the people and to be there for people who need a chance. To work towards suicide prevention, betterment in housing.”

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Episode 122 Daughter of a Farmers Daughter

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It’s time for the mid-term elections and our focus is hard on our local elections! As all focus should be. We had the opportunity to sit down with a breath of fresh air by the name of Shireen Ghorbani! Shireen is running for 2nd Congressional District in the state of Utah. This would dethrone Chris Stewart from his very gerrymandered district.

Let’s focus on that first. Shireen has been running a very grass roots campaign knocking door to door. This has been important to her so that she can get out and ask people what they are unhappy with, what they want to see, and meet the community who may not even know who they representative is. To give some perspective about how gerrymandered this district is… Shireen’s campaign has knocked on over 40,000 doors and this is from St. George to Farmington! That is how large the 2nd Congressional District in Utah is. See Map Below.

Shireen isn’t a lawyer, she hasn’t had her foot in government before. What she is, is the daughter of a farmers daughter, she has experienced the benefits of health care and medicaid, she is a mother, and a concerned citizen that saw that change needs to start happening and she acted on it by running for the 2nd Congressional District.

Shireen told us a fantastic quote that her campaign has circled around from Paul Wellstone, “We all do better, when we all do better.” She is very much about stopping the fanning of the flames of division that are dividing communities, families, and friends. Shireen gave us a list of the top 8 things that are important to her:

  • Health care. This is something that most doors she has knocked on talk about.
  • Mental health access.
  • Air quality and holding polluters accountable.
  • Opiod crisis that is ripping people apart.
  • High suicide rates. Both teen and adult.
  • Affordable housing in real communities.
  • Land management.
  • Poverty. Addressing homelessness and knowing that 1 in 5 children goes hungry every day.

We found a great question online from Ben and Jerry’s for Congressional candidates. They are asking, What would your “take back Congress” ice cream flavor be? Shireen said hers would be goat cheese honey and on the packaging it would have a beehive on the front with an eagle and the American Flag.

Want to know how Shireen stands on Question 1 and Prop 2, 3, and 4? Take a listen to this weeks episode. We wouldn’t want to tell you to vote for Shireen because we feel every voter should make an informed decision. However, we think her smile and ideas would be a breath of fresh air in politics.

Also, if you are not registered to vote yet, please click HERE.

Please take time to download the Our Voice App. It will help you through the election season to get to know your candidates.

You can follow Shireen’s campaign, volunteer, and donate on her website. You can also find her on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.


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Episode 121 Utah’s Most Haunted: Asylum 49

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The largest amount of historical information we’ve been able to find on the Old Tooele Hospital, is from History Goes Bump. Most of the information that you will find when you Google, is just about Asylum 49 being one of the nations top haunted houses and the past/on-going paranormal activity that happens throughout the building.

Our visit to Asylum 49 on opening night was not to do a paranormal investigation, although Jeremy has done several out there with his paranormal group. Our visit to Tooele to record our show was to highlight the haunt and what they are doing with their brand new community center. Okay, we may have gotten into the paranormal a little, because how can you not when you are in one of the most haunted locations in the state of Utah?

Cami and Kimm Andersen, and their family, have been running the Asylum 49 haunted attraction for the past 13 years on the hospital side of the building. It has earned it’s place in “best of” and “scariest” lists across America. They have even been visited by Ghost Adventures twice, in 2011 and 2017. A year and a half ago the nursing home, on the other side of the building, closed and they took ownership of that side as well. Instead of expanding the haunted house, they decided to open a community/wellness center for the people they’ve worked with in the haunt over the years and for the Tooele community. Here is the documentary that they presented at the 2018 FanX Convention, at the beginning of September, which talks a little bit about the relationships they’ve built, some behind the scenes, and the good that Asylum 49 is doing in the community.

During our time at Asylum 49 we had an opportunity to speak with Bryce, the director of operations and creator of the documentary. Dusty, who is Kimm and Cami’s business partner and part owner *and family*, as well as Sherry from Sherry’s Sweets which has opened shop in the kitchen on the community center side. Not only is Sherry’s Sweets opened for business in the community center, they have taken some of the old rooms and created little shops featuring local vendors and artisans. Of course during our visit we got some time with Cami and Kimm as well. We found out how they came into the Asylum in the first place, a bit about the haunt, and some of their own personal paranormal experiences in the building over the years.

Old Tooele Hospital

We were able to take a tour of the haunt prior to it opening.This year they’ve moved it to the opposite side of the building while they work on some stuff on the hospital side, then they will move it back so the community center will have it’s own space. Just a reminder, it is FULL CONTACT! After we recorded our show Cami and Dr. Fear gave us a tour through the old hospital side. Check out some of the pictures we took. None of the photos have been edited, only watermarked.

Asylum 49 Exterior

Entrance to Green Mile @ Asylum 49

The Green Mile @ Asylum 49

Original Operating Room Doors @ Asylum 49

Conference Room @ Asylum 49

One of the surgery rooms @ Asylum 49

Entry to Labor and Delivery @ Asylum 49

Original tub @ Asylum 49

Asylum 49 Rules!

We don’t want to give away too much of our interview or our experiences in the recap. Take a listen and let us know if you would experience the full contact at Asylum 49 and if you’ve had any experiences in these walls! We can’t wait to go back!

You can follow Asylum 49 on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

If you want more of Cami’s paranormal experiences, you can order her and Richard Estep’s book, “The Haunting of Asylum 49” on Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

Here is the list from Haunted rooms that we talked about; Top 10 Haunted Places in Utah.

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Episode 120 Are you a Dude or a Dad?

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This weeks guest on the New Utah Podcast is what happens when you find what you love, fight for it, fight through it, have the discipline to fix the small things, then find a way to give all of that back to the community all while eating fig newtons while you do it! Derek Parra, Olympic medalist and sports director at the Olympic Oval, sat down with us for episode 120.

Once upon a time before the gold and silver Olympic medals, Derek was a kid who found a love for roller skating and in-line skates! He honed his talent and became an 18 time world champion and at one time was the fastest in the world! Yes, you read that correctly! Roller skating champion! He traded in his rubber and pavement for steel and took to the ice. Derek took us through his career, from almost quitting to his very inspiring come back story. Derek shared with us his thoughts when he arrived to the Salt Lake Valley, he said that “it feels like home.” After living and training all around the country, Salt Lake Valley is now his home.

Our show happened to fall on 9/11 this year, and it was very serendipitous because Derek was one of 8 athletes to carry in the WTC flag for the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics opening ceremony. Derek has made his home in Utah and continues to give back to the community. Through coaching, public speaking, and being involved in programs and the Utah Olympic Legacy Foundation at the Olympic Oval. At the Oval you can take up curling, hockey, they offer specialty training, world cup events, free skate events, and if you need to be on steady ground you can run around the track that circles the ice on the outside.

We don’t want to give away too much in the recap, so take a listen below!

This video is in another language and the only one we could find, but we wanted to remind you how beautiful Derek’s record-breaking performance was in the 2002 Winter Olympics.

 

Eight U.S. athletes and New York police and firefighters carry the tattered American flag from the World Trade Center into the stadium during the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City Friday, Feb. 8, 2002. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

2002 Winter Olympic Games : Salt Lake City, 02/8/2002, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States — Flanked By Members Of The New York Fire Department And New York Port Authority, One 8 Athlete From Each Of The Winter Sports At The 2002 Olympic Winter Games Holds The World Trade Center Flag As It Is Presented During Opening Ceremonies For The Games. (Photo by Tim De Waele/Getty Images)

 

We promise you might need tissues for this episode. We certainly did.

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Episode 119 Portraits of Mental Health with Cara Jean Means

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Your face is flushed. Your palms feel sweaty. You can’t really catch your breath. You have tunnel vision. You want to cry but you aren’t really sure why. Your mind is rushing. You feel like someone is sitting on your chest.

Those are just a few descriptors of what anxiety feels like. This weeks guest, artist Cara Jean Means, walked us through being sympathetic to her husband and his anxiety to experiencing her own and developing empathy for what he was going through. Why is this relevant? Cara Jean currently has an art installation at the Salt Lake Community College South Campus in the George S and Delores Eccles Art Gallery.

Cara Jean met with 11 different people experiencing different types of metal illness and created an art narrative through her painting and to continue the conversation that people are generally afraid to have. Her installation at Salt Lake Community College South Campus is available until September 26th.  You can also find Cara Jeans work at the new Granary Row Mural project on 800 S and 300 W in downtown Salt Lake City.


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Episode 117 You Don’t Know Shit

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It’s always amazing how things circle back in life. It might seem simple, but to us having Kerry Jackson as our 17th episode, and now 100 episodes later for 117, is pretty magical!

PS. He STILL hates chickens!

This week we had the opportunity to head back to DINK studios in Kerry’s basement where the Geek Show Podcast records their show. Kerry was most excellent enough to be our guest co-host for this episode! We had a great chat about podcasting in the second half of the show. Kerry has been podcasting for 10 years with Utah’s award winning Geek Show Podcast, and we wanted to pick his brain on things like equipment, managing and producing a show, analytics, format changes, and the like!

One of the questions we get asked here and there is, “how many listeners do you have?” We never know what to say because the analytics and tracking for podcasting is still in its infancy. It was comforting hearing a seasoned podcaster say that there is still no real tracking data for podcasts. Is it improving? Yes, but slowly. The analytics just aren’t out there, and Kerry said that any ratings for entertainment broadcasting  (radio, podcasting, etc.) is horrible. One of the many great things about Kerry is that he is always furthering his education and researching what he does, both in radio and in podcasting.

We had to ask, is a good podcast the same as a successful podcast and vice versa? That is a big fat no. So, what makes a good podcast? We decided that relate-ability is the verdict, not the numbers. What makes a good podcast to you?

Some of the advice that Kerry gave regarding recording/starting a podcast includes; making changes should always be discussed and not done on a knee-jerk reaction, evaluate your length and content throughout your show, and evaluate topicality such as news and events. Also, don’t let anyone fool you, people ARE still listening to radio! The numbers say at least 90% of people are still listening.

Kerry shared with us some of his favorite podcasts in no particular order:

This week we also got to chat a bit with Kerry about what is coming up for FanX (formerly known as Salt Lake Comic Con) this September. We wanted to know what the new committee that Kerry, Jay Whittaker, Val Cameron, and other local notables are part of will be doing to make sure that up coming FanX events are successful and safe going forward. We definitely look forward to seeing the changes and betterment!

You can follow Kerry on Twitter (RFH/Geek Show Podcast) and Facebook (Radio from Hell/Geek Show Podcast).

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Episode 115 Field trip to the Farmers Market

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We feel fortunate that we get to venture out in to our community and meet awesome people! This weeks episode is extra special. We always talk about how amazing the downtown Salt Lake farmers market is and a few of us have been, but this week we were all able to take a field trip to the market together! We touched base and interviewed some of the vendors on how this season is going! We also had some time again with Alison, the market director, to talk about the Tuesday Harvest market that started on the 7th! And of course we ate some great food and had some coffee from some of our favorites!

You can now visit the market two times a week; Tuesdays at Pioneer Park 4-dusk as a smaller more intimate food only market (until September) and Saturdays is the regular the full market Pioneer park from 8-2pm.

 

Also, it’s that time of year again. We would love to see a vote for the BEST PODCAST on the City Weekly Best of 2018 list!! We know we are up against the giant Geek Show Podcast (which we love and support) but your votes mean the world! Also there are tons of awesome guests we’ve had that you can write in like our friends at WaterPocket Distillery for best spirit, Sugar House Distillery for best Distiller, Mountain West Cider for best hard cider, and Talisman Brewery for best brewery!! Click on the photo for the survey!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SC2LNLB


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Episode 113 Pioneer Day and Manly Beards unite!

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First and foremost we must share with you the awesomeness that is The Beards. No they aren’t local, but they have beards and they make us laugh with their songs!!

I feel like we should end it there…

But, we can’t. You know what is fun? All of Utah’s state symbols! We decided since it was Pioneer day, although Utah becoming an ACTUAL state is a different date, that it would be fun to run through the list and talk about why Utah celebrates Pioneer Day.

Here are the lists from KSL of the best waterfall hikes and some of Utah’s Drive-In Theaters that are left that we talked about. Do you have a favorite?

Alright, we hope you learned something and had a laugh.

Don’t forget to throw out the gray bacon and get your chores done!

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