**Update as of this post being live** The bees did not arrive this past weekend. Weather delayed them.
Episode 153 we had bee chat. Getting new bees. Birds and the bees. Honey. All the things. It was also our monthly segment of an infamous Utah criminal. This month we decided to pick Gary Gilmore. Stay tuned for our recap!
We brought it up quite a while ago, but the Kennecott Visitor Center is now re-opened after a landslide in the mine several years ago.
Speaking of awesome Utah events, there is plenty to do this coming up weekend (10-12th of May) with the 150th celebration of the Transcontinental Railroad. Salt Lake Magazine has a great issue “New West-Old West” on stands. Editor Mary Malouf wrote a beautiful, heart-felt letter from the editor on our strong connection to our past here in Utah. Salt Lake Tribune has a listing of all the places you can enjoy the celebrations this week!
Test Run of the Big Boy in Cheyenne May 2, 2019 @RioGrandeFan
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Episode 152 recap is as short as this year’s spring FanX! We recapped Chris, Bre, and Jessica’s experience at spring FanX Convention. This years event was quite a bit smaller. You could feel it in the crowds, in the way the vendor floor was set up, and by the selection *or lack of* panels, and by the same old people on every panel. Panels are something that Chris, Bre, and Jessica really enjoy and we know that Utah has some amazing and knowledgeable geeks! We REALLY want the powers that be at FanX to utilize them! Take suggestions for panelists. Interview them! Vett them! We really hope some day we get to see a greater variety of the passionate people in our community sharing their knowledge up on those stages.
Photo: Jessica Richardson(FanX April 2019)
Also, don’t be a dick. If you are going to drink and drive *which we most definitely say, please just don’t* please stay far away from Chris and Bre’s fence and don’t do it with your kid in the car!
Here is the link to information about Utah Dark Sky parks that we talk about all the time! Summer is almost here, we hope you get some time to get out and enjoy them.
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Episode 149 we were joined by founder of the Utah Cheese awards and the upcoming Salt Lake Cheese Festival, Steve Jerman. We wanted to find out how in the world Steve came up with the idea of starting the cheese awards and what way they are going in the future!
Steve started at a very young age as an artist. Exploring all kinds of mediums, he eventually found himself touring the country with the Grateful Dead, creating “fan art” that made it’s way around the country with Dead-head’s, to spending a brief moment in the art world in NYC, creating a briefly successful clothing line, to being an apprentice at Utah’s very own, Rockhill Creamery.
Steve has such a passion for Rockhill Creamery. He let us know that he was drawn to their facility because they were doing things that other creameries were not doing. Fast forward to the end of Steve’s time at Rockhill, he decided that Utah needed something it was missing… Cheese Awards! Steve has taken the last two and a half years to build relationships with local creameries and hold the first two award ceremonies. Utah has such a delicious group of creameries creating cheese such as The Creamery/Cache Valley Cheese (aka Beaver cheese), Caputo’s Cheese Cave, Gossner Cheese, Rockhill Creamery, Heber Valley Cheese, Beehive Cheese, Finney Farm, and Park City Creamery just to name a very small handful of cheese makers! If you know a local creamery you love, make sure they know about the Utah Cheese Awards! We want this to keep growing! We mean, come on, last years winner of multiple categories is a delicious creamery, Finney Farm, in Hildale!
The last two years have been successful with the cheese awards that Steve found out that Salt Lake offers grants, he applied, and this summer Salt Lake City will experience a cheese festival! Steve is taking entries for the Utah Cheese Awards until May 1st for both cheese and items that would be served on a cheese plate (think nuts, sauce, bread, honey, etc.) Then join Steve and Salt Lake City, on June 8th, at the Garten at Mountain West Cider to celebrate local cheese makers at the first annual Salt Lake Cheese Fest! You can also like the pages and follow what is happening with both events on the Utah Cheese Award Facebook page and the Salt Lake Cheese Fest Facebook page.
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Episode 148 we had the opportunity to join Master Brewer, Brian as well as cohorts, Marketing director Kelly and Will on-site at Bohemian Brewery! After a tour through their production and a history lesson of lager vs ale, we got to sit down and talk about how Bohemian started and where they plan to be headed in the near future!
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Founded in 2001 by immigrants from the Czech Republic, Joe and Helen came over to America and to Utah, with a dream and immediately got to work. Helen and Joe had many other odd and ends jobs once they got to Utah, and even opened another restaurant before creating Bohemian Brewery. Which came first? The restaurant or the brewery? Well, they actually came together! Fast forward to today, the beer is still being brewed how the old world would care for their beer. We asked Kelly and Brian how they would describe the Bohemian, and they said “central European soul food.” One thing that sets Bohemian Brewery apart from other craft brewers is they have always had pride in their brewery by not chasing new trends and not trying to rewrite recipes that are tried and true. Something else that sets Bohemian apart from many craft brewers is the relationships and partnerships they have built with local Utah businesses by creating events and brews, such as their Brewski for Ski Utah.
One of the events that they pride themselves on is the Tour De Brewtah! This year celebrates the 10th anniversary of Bohemian Brewery’s, Tour De Brewtah. What is a Tour De Brewtah you ask? You thought right, it involves bikes and beers! Think of it as a massive pub crawl that you are biking to each location. This years theme is out of this world and with 20+ brewers/distillers/and cider-meisters, they promise a cosmic experience. With 10 unique brew-tour routes throughout the city, the event will launch from & return to The Gateway Plaza in downtown SLC on Saturday, May the 4th from 10:30am–7pm. Click on the photo below to visit each location on the registration page. It will guide you through each tour route and which bar/beverage is on that stop! The event at the Gateway is also family friendly, aka all ages welcome!
If you can’t make it to the Tour De Brewtah, but you have a love for home brewing save the date of May 5th for Lagerpalooza! Put on by Bohemian Brewery and Salt City Brew Supply, it is a local competition for home brewers to earn a chance to brew at Bohemian! It is also a great space for networking.
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We love to listen to each other talk about things we are passionate about. We hope you do too. Episode 144 Chris gave us an update on a very important Magic the Gathering tournament that happened over that weekend. Jessica was contacted by the casting department for Food Network for an opportunity to audition for the Halloween Baking Champion show!
We promised you that we would be doing a monthly segment on a famous Utah, or is that infamous, criminal. For February we decided to jump on the bandwagon and feature Ted Bundy. Really more or less just to get him out of the way. Ted Bundy wasn’t born in Utah, but his ties to Utah are great. From joining the LDS church, to his killings of 7 Utah women (or maybe more), to the Utah Highway Patrol and West Valley being the organizations that finally started to bring Ted down.
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Episode 142 guest, Cory Clawson, had us floored from the moment he told us that his gateway into art was oil painting at the ripe age of 7! We are glad that he found a passion in figure sculpting though so we could experience his creativity in Utah and beyond!
Cory told us that Mary Ann Judd, former art teacher at American Fork High School, changed his life. As soon as he had a block of sculpting clay in his hand his life path was set and nothing else mattered going forward. From a bronze foundry learning figurative sculpting to working for an architectural firm making massive sculptures that would be shipped out of state, to now creating as a free agent. There are plenty of opportunities to see Cory’s sculptures in the western states.
Cory’s first massive project was a recreation of the giant elephant that stands 34 feet tall that sat on the corner of Hollywood and Highland in Hollywood for years as an homage to the silent film, Intolerance. The new recreation can be found at the Kodak Theatre. Driving through Las Vegas? Cory, and a team’s, work sits up and down the strip. The Trevi fountain replica outside Caesars Palace and a slew of sculptures at Mandalay Bay and the Luxor.
Fast forward a few more years. You may have made a trip to the new immersive experience in Pleasant Grove, Utah known as Evermore. There you will find Cory’s latest masterpiece, Michael and Lucifer. As one of the first people to join the Evermore Park creative team, Cory said that this project is one of his coolest! He spent a couple years building this sculpture. Check out this video from Evermore.
Cory has something up his sleeve that he couldn’t talk about with us, we are excited to see what is next! He also takes commissions and is working on busts of the LDS Prophets that are for purchase. You can find Cory on Facebook, Instagram, and on his website.
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When you put auto racing, entrepreneurship, good ideas, a good company mission statement, and good people together you get Salt Flats Brewery!
Episode 141 we were invited to the beer garden, now to be known as the beer church, to record our show with JC Straub the marketing director/ manager of Garage Grill and the brewery, Denver Brady sales director, and Scott Parker master brewer.
It was incredibly humbling to be given a tour to see and learn the beginnings of a new flourishing brewery. From a small keg brewing kit to now almost a dozen vats! Owner and investor Steve Pruitt, former Utah auto racer, has taken his enthusiasm of racing and injected Salt Flats Brewery with that same energy and given the reigns to passionate people to run his vision! At any given time you will see a collection of his race cars at the brewery or at the Garage Grill. Master brewer Scott, brought his brewing knowledge from California and he is constantly working on creating new brews for Salt Flats. With 40 flavors under his belt, and 20 beers on tap at any given time, their top two and most favorite are the Hefeweizen German style and their high point double IPA. Salt Flats Brewery mission statement; to create a drinkable, approachable beer without trying to create crazy brews; while offering a basic “Bud drinker” something local. We think that they are achieving this to the highest standard even 2 years into their conception.
There are several ways to enjoy Salt Flats Brews. You can go to the industrial park and visit the beer garden *aka the beer church*, you can enjoy their brews at the Garage Grill in Draper, Toscano’s in Sandy, and in your local grocery/liquor store. With two new store franchise releases in March; Smiths Marketplace and Maverick Gas Stations there will be no shortage of enjoyment! Upcoming events for Salt Flats Brewing include; 16th of February Beard Competition at the Ice Haus in Murray, on 21st Brews and Bites, in partnership with the SL Culinary center are pairing tasty food with Salt Flats beer! March 23rd is the Utah Brewers Guild collaboration with other local brewers! You can find all of these events by following Salt Flats Brewing on their Facebook, Instagram, and of course their website.
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Chris apologizes in advance for his nasty cold and snot filled everything during the show. Sadly our interview had to reschedule last notice, but we had plenty of Utah related things to discuss.
Sundance Film Festival is right now! Jess accidentally became an Indie Supporter of the festival in her fervor to buy tickets this year. Not a terrible mistake at all. If you are here for the festival and want to get away from the crowds in Park City, we discuss the many winter activities Utah has to offer. Thanks to the Provo Daily Herald for giving us an amazing list. The number of snow shoe trails and ice skating rings in Utah County is truly impressive.
We discuss the upcoming legislative session with our first dive into potential bills already set to be discussed in the session. Don’t worry, many many more will be coming. Representative Ben McAdams holds the first open town hall for the 4th district in years. He is met with a lot of questions about the shut down.
Utah has quite the colored history it turns out too. It turns out that in recent history our government has made huge boneheaded mistakes, like installing pumps in the Great Salt Lake. Jeremy asks the question “are the whales responsible for the floods of the 80’s?” We discuss some of the biggest blemishes in Utah’s history including the Japanese internment camp and Topaz Mountain and not one but two different massacres. There is more, but you have to listen to find out.
We wrap up the show with something amazing, that needs more attention that it gets. The Utah Cheese Awards, no that isn’t a mistake, there is actually an award competition for cheese made in Utah. We are on a mission to make sure more of the amazing cheese makers in Utah are included and participate. It turns out the FLDS folks in Southern Utah make some of the best cheeses (and the only of some types).
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Since we started our show in 2016, we have been asking our guests at the end of every New Utah interview, “What is the one thing that you would tell someone visiting Utah they had to do before leaving?”
Dr. Sunnie Giles told us during episode 114 that the one thing she would tell someone visiting Utah that they had to do would be to visit Mirror Lake. Dr. Giles said that when she went she had an “almost spiritual experience.” She said that being in …. with nature is awe-inspiring.
Catherine Armstrong at Only in Your State gives a perfect day trip to Mirror Lake!
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Since we started our show in 2016, we have been asking our guests at the end of every New Utah interview, “What is the one thing that you would tell someone visiting Utah they had to do before leaving?”
Nina Vought, the founder of the Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival, joined us on episode 112. Nina said that her one thing to do while visiting Utah would be to swim in her backyard! Joking aside, she said that there are near by hikes within 15-20 minutes of downtown, think Millcreek Canyon area. She said there are “phenomenal places” that are nothing like any other part of the world that she’s been.
Hikes and Lakes.com have some great hikes up Millcreek Canyon for anyone to try!
Map by: UtahMountainbiking.com
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