Welcome to episode 231! This episode we talk about how Halloween will hypothetically be during COVID. Jessica joined us on Skype from Tennessee and suggested candy cannons for distribution. Chris said no. In case you ever want to build one, candy cannons were a thing even 8 years ago before we had to physically distance!
It feels like we just got done talking about Stephen Covey for our famous Utahn segment. This month we picked three famous Utahn’s to peek into their impact on Utah. Rosanne Barr, Frank Zamboni, and Nolan Bushnell all left a cultural impact on society and we can call all of them Utahn’s.
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How do you write about the people that are always doing the writing?
If you have listened to our show for any amount of time, you know we have an unbridled love for Salt Lake’s own, City Weekly publication. This episode we were able to sit down with one of the owners, Pete Saltas.
Did you know the Saltas family have been the owners of City Weekly since day one? We loved learning the history of the newspaper! In the 80’s, 1984 to be exact, Pete’s father John was working in local Utah bars and decided to start his own local entertainment guide/newsletter for members because of the archaic liquor laws. Members you ask? A little Utah history… once upon a time Utah required memberships to even go into a bar/club. It was usually about a $5 cost. Fast forward to 2020, bar memberships are gone, and City Weekly is the voice of Salt Lake!
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Quite often you see Pete, his brother Mikey, and their father John writing editorials in the paper. (There are other Saltas family members, we haven’t met them yet) Their voices, and so many other incredible writers, including their Editor in Chief, Enrique Limon, have made City Weekly a paper that is often referred to as “a voice of sanity and a huge part of change in our state.” Whether the weekly issue features local politics, what is happening on a bigger scale in the world, LGBTQ+ issues, religious issues, or is a bigger annual issue such as the city guide or the ever popular Best Of Utah edition, the writers at City Weekly are aware of everything happening in our state. It’s actually pretty incredible if you think about how on top of it they are! What about the entertainment guide that John created? Even though stories eventually had to be incorporated, City Weekly has always stayed true to it’s roots, and purpose, by offering throughout every issue a taste of local events.
Not only does City Weekly offer weekly stories and an entertainment guide, they offer their own marketplace! A space where you can purchase limited item specials for local businesses, and a space where you can purchase tickets to events that come in to town. We had an incredible chat about new ways to make money for the newspaper, and we think you should listen to what we came up with! Let us know if you think it could work.
Of course while we had Pete sitting down with us, we wanted to know why, oh why, La Caille is always winning all the awards in Best Of Utah. We hope someday we can make as many issues as dear old La Caille.
Dumb and Dumber/New Line Cinema Filmed at La Caille, Sandy Utah.
We look forward to sharing articles from City Weekly and celebrating the incredible writers that are so passionate about our state. We love doing our annual Best Of Utah recap each fall/winter and appreciate the opportunity to do so. With the current climate of the Covid-19 virus and social distancing we are practicing at this time, as well as state mandates, we hope that the Utah Cann 2020 Conference and the famous Utah Beer Festival will be making their annual appearances later this year. To stay on top of upcoming events and articles from City Weekly, you can sign up for weekly newsletters. You can also follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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We are still missing some election results cause Utah County can’t get their s*** together. More to come later.
Podcasts gotta stick together, right?
We were joined this week by Cat Umano and Kiki Furia, who when they are not teaching, dancing, cosplaying and gaming, are the voices behind The Sit Down SLCPodcast. They are fairly new to the Salt Lake City podcast scene and we welcome them with open arms. You may have seen Cat or/and Kiki on the Black Panther panel at SLC FanX this past fall, but if you didn’t, that is what sparked the idea to continue the conversation and put it into a podcast.
Cat Umano is new to Utah by just a couple-ish years. She grew up mostly on the east coast and then her dancing feet took her around the country and landed her in Utah at BYU for their ballroom program. Cat teaches dance and she is getting ready to embark on a dance tour this spring!
Kiki, also not a local, moved from California and has been cos-playing, gaming, and at her day job she is improving after school programs in Utah, one school at a time. She is always working on building her streaming gaming presence and is working on her next cosplay!
Kiki and Cat have been sitting down weekly for the last 24 weeks to talk about issues such as race, consent, being politically correct, and don’t worry, it isn’t ALL serious. They do mix in some fun! We got to talk to Cat and Kiki about how they got started, how they keep their topics focused, and why in the white state of Utah it was important to start and keep these conversations going.
On a most important side note, Cat’s dance shoes *which we might add are not cheap* were stolen out of her vehicle! If you are interested in donating to her to replace them, please message us through our contact page or through one of our social media platforms or you can contact her directly through the SLC Sitdown Facebook page.
You can listen to them on your streaming services, or directly on Spreaker by clicking HERE Follow them on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook! We look forward to listening to more of what these strong women have to say to keep this state woke!
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What is a more important milestone? 100 episodes or rolling into your third year? We have been debating this for weeks. Either way we are so grateful that we have made it this far on our journey through our amazing state of Utah. We have met so many amazing people and cannot believe how quickly it has all passed by!
Also, doesn’t everyone love the rains down in Africa???
This week we took some time to interview each other, recap our favorite interviews, and of course be our silly and inappropriate selves! You usually only get a snapshot of what happened during our week and a tiny glimpse of who we are. We thought it would be fun to write down some questions and spend some time letting you get to know each of us a little better.
What else would you like to know about us? Send us your questions here or on Facebook/Twitter!
Thank you to everyone; comedians, Senators, musicians, food and product creators, activists, distillers and brewers, drag queens, personal trainers, authors, artists, dentists, Irishmen, keeper of the plants and farms, and all those (way too many to list everyone) that have taken time to join us the past 100 weeks! We are so lucky to have you be part of our New Utah Podcast tribe. We definitely look forward to meeting more amazing Utahn’s and people who have influenced our state!
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Music: Bootleggers Dance by local Utah Band Folk Hogan
Wrapping up our visit to the Utah Halloween Expo, we share our interview with Demented Design Studios this episode! They came all the way from New Orleans to the Utah Halloween Expo and they brought some of their amazing props. From clowns, to big old slabs of meat (which were used in Constantine), and hanging flesh, to face pies!!! We loved talking to them while they were in town and we sure hope they come back because they were an amazing asset to the expo!
Episodes 75 also took us, a bunch of noobs, to the Utah Anime Banzai in Layton, Utah! This was their 13th year as Utah’s premier anime convention. We were super excited to be there and wasn’t quite sure what to expect! To give you a lay of the land, the convention center is rather small, which is nice because it makes it an intimate event. There are panels, a gaming room, an artists room, rooms where they are showing anime films and shows, and a huge cosplay contest just to name a few of the events.
We had a chance to talk to one of the head volunteers/staff to get an idea of the size and why they do what they do. Walking around the event we noticed that about 85% of the patrons were dressed up! So awesome to see a community so tight knit, even though all the anime they were there for is different. Lo and behold we also ran into our favorite cosplay-er, Victor Sine! It was fun to chat with him for a minute. Having a podcast room at the Anime Banzai made us feel super important. We tested out some Japanese treats like mochi, some custard buns, and gummie candies. Last year we met the super talented and busy movie/tv script supervision and prop designer, Crit Killen. We finally got to sit down with him for a moment and talk to him about some of his projects! With over 85 film projects under his belt, we can’t wait to have him back to go more in depth. We are so excited he is local!
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