Episode 401 – The Family Friendly Episode

It’s Utah Adventure Week, and for this month we decided to take a trip to the Desert Star Playhouse to see a show. Jeremy couldn’t make it, so we are joined by his wife and daughter (Heather and Hannah) to discuss our experience.

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The New Utah Podcast · 401- The Family Friendly Episode

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Episode 374 – Salt Lake Bees

It’s Utah Adventure Week and we take ourselves out to the ballpark. It’s summer so why not see a Salt Lake Bees baseball game at Smith’s Ball Park. New rules in baseball made for a great experience and we go through all the crazy Utah baseball history to boot. Take us out to the ballgame!!!!

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370 – Molly’s Nipple

It’s Utah Adventure Week! This month we take a trip out to Antelope Island State Park and explore what it has to offer. With a history as old as any in the US, no seriously, the oldest rocks in the country are here, it has a lot to offer. We discuss it’s history and the really cool things from nature and the past that you can see on the island. We also give you a quick run down on activities for the 4th of July.

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The New Utah Podcast · 370 – Molly's Nipple

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Episode 352 – The Utah State Capitol

Jeremy has obtained chicks, in the hardest way possible, chicken raffle! and we’ll be giving chick status updates for the next few months! We are also sad to report that while the chicks are alive and well, the bees are not. They were tricked by an early spring and frozen by the cold weather snap. On the other hand, you should see the beautiful, dark honey!

It’s Utah Adventure Week! This week we go to the Utah State Capitol! We have a wonderful tour guide take us around. But we spend well over an hour telling you about the history, our favorite places and art. With that said, please enjoy the pictures above that Alexis sent us and some of the great pictures we took. I just couldn‘t decide what to post, so you get them all!!!

As always thank you to Folk Hogan for our intro music.

The New Utah Podcast · 352 – The Utah State Capitol

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Episode 348 – Titties In A Jar

Jeremy is getting his chick nursery ready and tells us about how that happens. We also want to make sure you take advantage of the Hill Aerospace Museum ‘Hill Flight Experience”. Appointments are available now through March 18^th!

It’s Utah Adventure Week and we are off to Midway, to visit the Utah Ice Castles. We absolutely loved the time we spent there and at the Heber Valley Creamery. We give you some history and tips, along with all our opinions of course.

We also talk about the school voucher program in the Utah Legislature. It’s not what it seems on the surface.

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Episode 344 – Dog Farts

It’s our last show of the year and we review all our favorite (and not so favorite) things. From best shows to best adventures, we talk about it all, and the weather.

Keep up with the snow reports snow reports and stay safe out there!

Plus, it’s our Last Utah Adventure Week of the year, and we visit Tracy Aviary for Lightwalk. It turned out to be the most picturesque trip we’ve had.

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Episode 340 – Dutch Oven

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The US Men’s National Soccer Team advance at the World Cup. Fairly appropriate since hockey is like soccer on the ice!

^{via NHL.com}

It’s Utah Adventure week and this month we go to a Utah Grizzlies Game. After talking about Julia’s Vegas adventures, we dive into the history of the Maverick Center and hockey in the state of Utah. We will tell you all about our experience and if we think you should go see a game or not. (Which you should so get someone tickets for Christmas!)

The night we went it was Pups on the Pond, where everyone voted for the little dogs instead of the smart dogs!

Thank you to Folk Hogan for our intro music.

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Episode 335 – Hari Krishna’s in Utah

It’s Utah Adventure Week! We pay a special visit to a very unique place in Utah and even in America, basically outside of India. The Radha Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah.

We get to meet the head of that temple, Caru Das and spend a couple hours with him talking about the history of the temple, all the wonderful things they do there and about the faith. We visited their sanctuary, their shop, and the grounds with their fantastic koi pond that fertilizes their gardens, their birds and llamas. The views are amazing and everyone living there is so lucky. The temple grounds are home to the largest color festival outside India.

It was really an amazing experience and we hope you all enjoy hearing about it. Chris has worked in some recordings that include some chanting and even a little rap! Thank you to Folk Hogan for our intro music. Follow us @tnupodcast on our social media.

I need y’all to know that I’m wearing two inch platforms in this picture and am still a good six inches shorter than the next shortest person!

Thank you to Folk Hogan for our intro and outtro music.

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Episode 313 – 6 years

Hey kids, we here at The New Utah Podcast just had our 6year anniversary and we are as surprised as you that we have lasted this long! To celebrate the momentous occasion, we started the evening with Ruby Snap Cookies.

We trued some new cookies that none of us had before:

Patsy Jane: Fresh blackberry cream drizzled in blackberry glaze and topped with, you got it!… fresh blackberries.

Darby: Chocolate oatmeal with a peanut butter cream cheese frosting and callebaut crips pearls.

Lola: A festival of lemon! Made with panela curd and topped with fresh squeezed lemon glaze and glacéed lemons.

We also enjoyed the tried and true favorites, Lola, Penelope, Vivian, and of course the always popular PB WOW.

Check these flavors out and so many more at Rubysnap’s

So, not only is it our 6-year anniversary it’s also Utah Adventure Week! This week was a ‘2-for’… Gilgal Gardens and the International Peace Gardens.

Located at 749 East 500 South in Salt Lake City, Gilgal Sculpture Garden was envisioned, designed, and created by Thomas Battersby Child, Jr. Tucked in the middle of the block and surrounded by homes, business, and apartment complexes it’s a place you would never know existed if you didn’t know where to look. Gilgal contains 12 original sculptures and over 70 stones engraved with scriptures, poems, songs, and literary text. Although Child was not a classically trained artist, he went to great lengths to obtain each stone for his garden.

The finished statues are unconventional, even eccentric: a sacrificial altar, a shrine to Child’s wife Bertha, and probably the most recognized piece is the Sphynx with Joseph Smith’s faced carved into it. Child knew that not everyone would appreciate his particular artistic vision. His primary concern, however, was that the garden would succeed in making people think: “You don’t have to agree with me,” he said. “You may think I am a nut, but I hope I have aroused your thinking and curiosity

This is one of the places talked about by so many of our guests over the years and you have to see it to believe it. One of our favorite pieces is the carving of the creator himself Mr. Child. The different stones he brought together to create the pants, the suite coat, and the head are very interesting and intricate. His pants actually have a pattern to them!

You have to do yourself a favor and visit this MOST UNIQUE Utah location!

Our second spot was the International Peace Gardens located in Jordan Park: 1160 Dalton Ave S, Salt Lake City, UT 84104. This Park is one of only two peace gardens located in the United States. It was founded in 1939 by Mrs. Otto Wiesley, Citizen Char of the Salt Lake Council of Women. Its original dedication was planned to coincide with the Centennial Celebration of 1947, but WWII ironically interrupted progress and delayed the opening until 1952.

Each of the 28 countries represented in the garden is allotted a section which they design, create and plant at their own expense. Plans are approved by the City Parks Director before they are implemented. As each garden is completed, it is dedicated and presented to the city.

As we wondered through the gardens, we noticed that some of the countries are represented very well. China, Japan, Switzerland, were some of our favorite sections to visit. Others are in need of expansion, and a little more effort from their respective countrymen. One thing to note the fountains has not been turned on yet and most of the seasonal flowers were not planted or in bloom. As the summer progresses the induvial gardens will bloom and be even more amazing.

Both of the Utah locations are free to the public, so visitors can enjoy these parks year-round and for the best price of $0.00.

We are so excited to have reached this tremendous milestone in our little podcast’s history. Thank you to all the many wonderful people we have met along the way. So many fun interviews, field trips, and we have gotten to know and become friends with people we would have never otherwise been able to meet. Thank you for 6 wonderful years, and we hope there are many more to come.

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Episode 309 – Liger Facts

Hey Kids, it’s the last week of the month and you all know that means, Utah Adventure Week!! This week we visit the lovely Utah Hogle Zoo. But first, Julia regales us with stories of her adventures in North Carolina. She visits Carowinds theme park, the North Carolina Zoo and avoids those pesky time share folks. Peobe the podcast mascot has surgery, and Chris sounds like Barry White due to spring allergies. We get caught up on bees, gardens, and the new ‘Jump’ by Limitless flight in Bluffdale… spoiler alert it sounds AMAZING! It’s a virtual base jump experience brought to you by the creative minds who helped develop the Void. They open early in May 2022 (so anytime now). Located at 4725 South Porter Rockwell Blvd, Bluffdale, Utah 84065. Follow the link to their website and read all about the upcoming experience.

This week however is dedicated to the Uthah’s Zoo, located at 2600 Sunnyside Ave S, Salt Lake City, UT 84108 (the mouth of Emigration Canyon)

The history of Hogle Zoo began in Liberty Park 1911 with a cage of monkeys and later a deer for the exhibit. This humble collection of animals actually inspired local Salt Lake residence to being a zoo, and In 1912 the zoo expanded to 16 various animals and in 1913 the zoo added over 100 rabbits. In 1916 the zoo makes its first big purchase with Princess Alice the 31-year-old Asian Elephant (named after Theadore Roosevelts daughter Alice). Although an amazing addition to the zoo Alice kept escaping and wandering around the 7^th east area. This began the search for a more permanent location for the zoo.

In 1931 Mr. and Mrs. James Hogle donate a parcel of land at the mouth of Emigration Canyon which is where todays Holge zoo is located. Please listen to the episode for the full history and lots of interested stories about the zoo in its younger days.

When the podcast crew arrived at the zoo it was snowing (YES) snowing. You have to love this crazy Utah weather.

We were all actually very surprised with all the updates the zoo has made over the past few years. The animal habitats are vastly improved, there are multiple food courts and quick dining locations throughout the facility. The animal habitats have been updated, like the seal and sealion exhibit…you could look down on the water as well as going into the building and seeing the exhibit from under water.

Being a colder day most of the large animals were sleeping but we still had a good time watching them. Bre’s favorite animals were the sand cats, seeing these wild cats really helps you get a sense for where our domestic house cats came from.

We also had a good time recreating the famous lion water fountain photo, Only Jonathan has kind of outgrown it.

Some of our other favorite animals were the Elephants, Gorillas, lions, and Sealions.

We all give Hogle Zoo an enthusiastic thumbs up. This has been one of our favorite Utah adventure sites so far. Do you and your family a favor and go support the Utah Hogle Zoo. Make an afternoon of it and you will be glad you did.

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