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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!

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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 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 109 Urban Farm Wars

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What do you do after you’ve Wikipedia’d and You-Tubed how to sail, buy a boat, travel the Pacific ocean, and come back home? Well, you start a non-profit of course!

This week we were honored to have the founder of Green Urban Lunch Box, Shawn Peterson, join us. No, he is not related to Farmer Luke Petersen. Shawn sat down with us to talk about the journey that lead up to the creation of GULB. Once we got there, he told us about the amazing programs that are being offered through the Green Urban Lunch Box. Apprenticeships, senior gardening programs, garden and fruit share’s, and the local businesses that they have partnered with to make sure that a “community growing for community” is happening here in the Wasatch Front!

Some of their partnerships include Waterpocket Distillery, Mountain West Cider, the Pago group, and The Rose Establishment. We guarantee that this list will continue to grow! Each fall you can taste a cider that MWC makes from apples from all around the valley! It is truly unique to Utah!

You may also know the Green Urban Lunch Box for the school bus greenhouse that they drive around Salt Lake City on occasion. Shawn gave us the story behind finding that bus and how it has evolved over the past few years. He also shared with us how they help seniors farm their own land.  Green Urban Lunchbox also has property that they are cultivating in South Salt Lake.

Shawn has an amazing heart, a problem solving mind, he wants to give the community real food that helps them connect, and most importantly he wants to make sure that he gives seniors street cred.

If you are interested in volunteering some of your time or participating in the fruit or garden share program, sign up for their newsletters and visit them at their website GULB. Also if you want to just make a financial contribution you can do that on their website.

You can find them on Instagram and on Facebook!

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Episode 108 Humans Of Salt Lake City

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One day you might be in the Salt Lake Valley and a gentleman with a camera and a cheery disposition will approach you while you are having lunch, a smoke break, texting on your phone, or just enjoying the day. He’s going to ask your story. Maybe not in those words, but Mike Angelieri will come up with a question that will make you think about your life and you’ll want to share it with him. Mike will take your portrait and hen he will share with the rest of us at Humans of Salt Lake City.

We feel like we should call Mike “the collector.” Mike has been a collector of people’s stories and memories in Salt Lake City since 2013 when he realized no one had created a HOSL yet. He estimates that is about 1400+ people he’s had the opportunity to meet. Sounds like a huge responsibility, right? After speaking with him on this week’s episode, we couldn’t think of a better person to carefully record and document these stories. Mike’s memory of conversations is also very impressive, which just goes to show how much of an impact people are on the mind.

If you’re not familiar, Humans of Salt Lake City is a spin-off of the greatly popular; Humans of New York City.  They are labors of love by the creators and have sprouted up around different cities around the world. There is no discrimination in the interviewee process. Children, homeless, pets, black, white, gay, veterans, straight, and so on. The magic of this project is that everyone has a story and something to teach, even the creator himself!

What happens when a story is too good to be true? What happens when Mike takes footsteps back to a familiar neighborhood, meets up with someone he interviewed prior, and they flag him down to show him that their life has completely shifted for good since their choice meeting? Mike told us absolutely heart wrenching stories as well as incredibly inspiring ones of people that he’s met along this journey. We don’t want to give away too much, but you may need a tissue for this one!

You can follow Humans of Salt Lake on Facebook and on Instagram.

**disclaimer** If you feel the urge to message Humans of Salt Lake City to tell him he shouldn’t be interviewing particular ethnic, religious, or otherwise types of people… how about you just don’t.

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Episode 92. Damn the man, Save the Empire!

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With only 1 week left on the legislative session, we can’t help but celebrate that at bill was passed to get rid of the condescending, “this is a bar, not a restaurant” signs that have been plaguing our cities in Utah. However, Jeremy did come up with the best bar name ever and if anyone decides to utilize, “This is a bar, not a Restaurant” we just ask to get a little bit of credit.

With only 1 week left in the session, there will be over 500+ bills passed. Each week we’ve kept you up to date with a recap of some of what is important on the Utah hill. From more ecological ways for cremation, allowing breast-feeding in public, and cyclists being able to run through red lights if it is safe, we make sure to give you our opinions on what is happening!

This week we also celebrated, at the dismay of Chris, the 50th anniversary of Purple Turtle!

 

Jessica’s favorite Italian restaurant in Utah is moving across town. Per Noi Trattoria has taken over the old Michelangelo’s location at 3005 Highland Drive. Going from their quaint little space in Sugarhouse, they will now be able to accommodate twice as much, if not more, business! If you want some of the best Italian food you can find in Utah, this is the place! Click HERE for their menu.

Photo: Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune

Photo : Jessica Richardson

Do you know if the city you live in is in Utah’s top safest cities? Lucky for you, we went through the list of Utah’s safest cities this week, so know you can know! Did you also know that Utah/Salt Lake City is one of the top best places for LGBT seniors? Q Salt Lake Magazine broke down the cities and Salt Lake is in the top 15 best!

A lot of talk is going on in our country about gun control after the Florida shooting two weeks ago. We decided because it is relevant and could happen in Utah at anytime that we need to have a discussion about it. Where do you stand?

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Music: Bootleggers Dance by local Utah Band Folk Hogan

Episode 59 Red Rover, Red Rover Send Dylan right over

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Episode 59 we were visited by local podcaster and creator, Dylan Mazziotti. Dylan is the creative director (aka the owner) at Lennon Design and the host and producer of Your Cre8tivity podcast. We switched it up a little this time, we had New Utah Podcast alumn, Stephen Hatch, send us the questions! We learned about apartment living, why he wanted to start his own graphic design company (which is very successful and you probably know more of their logo’s than you thought), and how a blog evolved into a podcast!  We even got to be asked a question this time!

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Here is the link to the new Japanese Interment Camp museum in Topaz. If you get a chance to go hours are 11-5pm daily Monday-Saturday. There is no admission but please, we implore you to leave a donation. It took a long time to get this museum constructed.

Kids… firework damage is real. What do you think about cities enforcing a firework ban for the 24th of July? Jeremy had a home just blocks from his go up in flames because of fireworks.

Events this week include:

Our very own Chris has his birthday on the 19th!!!

Manchester United VS. Real Salt Lake on Monday 17th. Tickets ARE still available.

Fire on the Water is the 15th at Jordanelle.

Halloween in Summer on Main Street in Magna is happening on Saturday.

And if you know someone in need, New Utah alumn Aaron Bryant and Inspiro Recovery will be starting intake officially next week and having their grand opening!

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Music by local Utah Band: Bootleggers Dance by Folk Hogan

Utah’s One Thing: New Utah Host, Bre

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At the end of every New Utah interview we like to ask our guests, “What is the one thing that you would tell someone visiting Utah they had to do before leaving?”

The New Utah Podcast celebrated our 1 year anniversary recently. In Episode 52 ,we each thought we should do our “one thing” someone visiting Utah should do before leaving!

Bre had a hard time coming up with her one thing. After a little poking and prodding, she came up with the perfect one thing! While someone is visiting Utah, Bre said they must make it to a Real Salt Lake game! This is perfect because Bre and Chris spend their soccer season cheering and supporting Utah’s own MLS team, win or lose.

So if you believe, just stand up on your feet… we’re here for RSL!

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Episode 54: And now, for a little Chocolate and Dating with Stephen Hatch

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Once upon a time there was a boy who picked up a lost tradition of hand-dipping chocolates from his hard working grandmother. . .

Episode 54 we were graced with the awesome presence of Hatch Family Chocolates owner, Stephen Hatch! A Utah food institution, and not located anywhere else in the valley but in the Avenues, they continue to offer some of the best and most original hand- dipped chocolates in Utah, even after 14 years of business! Hatch Family Chocolates goal of bringing a community together through memories and chocolate is a unique and special one and it is working! Hatch Family Chocolates will be starting up their annual outdoor movie series on June 16th. Check their Facebook and Instagram pages for up to date information and new treats! Especially their ice cream bars! **They do NOT ship in the summer**

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Stephen is a co-host on the Your Cre8tivity podcast with Dylan bringing tons of the creative Utah community together to show they each have a story and a place in Utah. Oh, and Stephen is also looking for a date. So if you want to read his list of 40, we can connect you!

Events this week include the start up on the Salt Lake Downtown Farmers Market at Pioneer park! Visit some of our awesome friends like Olio Beard and Skin Co. Artist Kat Martin, and RubySnap each Saturday!

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Music by local Utah Band: Bootleggers Dance by Folk Hogan

Episode 49 K-Pop Fries in your Belly!

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Dear Utah,

There is, dare we say, BETTER Korean fusion food than only Cupbop and it is goes by the name: BumbleBee KBBQ.

Your friends, The New Utah podcast.

This week we were excited to be joined by one of the owners of Bumblebee Korean BBQ, Victor. His brother, who shall not be named, was on a cruise! Bumblebee is getting ready for the opening of their new store in West Valley and we wanted to hear more! We loved that it is a family operation from top to bottom. Did you know that Bumblebee KBBQ is the only Korean-American Fusion in Utah? Now you do! Check them out on Facebook, Instagram and make sure to stop into one of their stores for some K-Pop Fries!

OH! We forgot on the show to talk about how they just made Delish.com list of best wings in every state!

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Event list break down for you:

Travis Tate is TONIGHT at Wiseguys… tickets are STILL $5. A TRUE PG rating.

Miss Harry-it Winston will be hosting a Tupperware party at ClubX on Sunday.

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Go get licorice from C&C Candies at the Tulip festival, this is the last weekend of the festival at Thanksgiving point.

Lots of cool stuff coming up!!

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