Episode 353 – Poop Hole Loop Hole

After talking about the massive snow storm last week, and getting a quick chicken update from Jeremy; We talk with the hosts of Beer Nerd Radio.

Steph and Mikey have been in Utah their whole lives, and love beer more than most people. Mikey has been doing the Utah Beer Blog for over 15 years. So of course we spend the entire episode talking about all the amazing beer in the state of Utah.

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

The New Utah Podcast · 353 – Poop Hole Loop Hole

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Episode 342 – 2022 Best of Utah – Non Food

If you do not want to cook for the holidays this year and would instead prefer to go out to dine, this list might help you: Where to eat on Christmas Eve and Christ in Salt Lake City. Please be sure to contact them for reservations!

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Also, if you’re looking to donate somewhere to feed the need to give, please think of Ruff Patch Rescue. We had them on the show before and know they can do a lot of good!

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It’s that time of year, time for us to go through City Weekly’s Best of Utah 2022 issue. This week it’s all the nonfood categories. Of course we interject our commentary on poor or biased readers choices and snarky staff picks. It’s one of our favorite shows of the year.

Thank you to Folk Hogan for our intro music.

The New Utah Podcast · 342 – Best of Utah 2022 – Non Food

Episode 338 – Eat Better

Jeremy retells his bee story from last week but with better audio and we find out how deep conspiracy Chris really goes.

^{Elcio and Mirian Zanatta – The Salt Lake Tribune}

We also get to talk to our guest, the owner and creator of Aubergine Kitchen, Elcio Zanatta. A Brazillian turned Utahn, Elcio decided to share his love for a better life with those around him and eventually that meant opening a restaurant.

We talk all about his life, philosophy and how amazing he is as a business owner and boss in Utah. Their eighth location recently opened in St. George! Their menu focuses on eating healthy but keeping it healthy!

Elcio tells us that the three best things about Utah are the kindness and beauty of the community, the good business environment, and all four seasons (even if his favorite, Autumn, is the shortest). As always, thank you to Folk Hogan for our intro and outtro music.

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Episode 336 – Working for Yourself

This week we sit down with Max Born, the President and owner of Chili Beak. Chili Beak is a local chili oil company, but also so much more.

^{Max Born recording at Ugly Baboon Studios (Jeremy)}

Aside from just making amazing oil, sauce and caramels, Max is a firm believer in helping grow the local business community. With a history of successful branding and distribution, he has grown chili beak into quite the brand, and launched a successful hot sauce festival in Salt Lake. Sauce Lake City was held in June of 2022 so watch for it in the spring of 2023!

After purchasing Chili Beak from Giselle and Jason McClure about three years ago, he not only grew the brand they started but Max has also started a couple of other business Chili Beak adjacent, one of them being Chill Beak. Chill Beak produces cannabis chews with Chili Beak’s trademark habanero punch!

Max says the most interesting and unique thing about Utah is our community and our tribe. Pockets of people who jump in to help and support! As always, thank you to Folk Hogan for our intro and outtro music.

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Episode 334 – Social Axe Throwing

You know how we get off on tangents, well, this week we talk about Craig’s List killers, The Hu (Chris’ headliners), and the fact that all y’all need to stop watering your lawns!

This week we sit down with Brayden Floyd, owner of Social Axe Throwing here in Utah. A Utah native, Brayden explains to us how he decided to start Social Axe Throwing with his dad, and the trials and tribulations of opening additional locations, including their newest in Gilbert. Arizona.

We get to go deep on the various leagues, tournaments, and organizations behind axe throwing with him. We also talk about his new business, Bad Caddy Golf (which is way more than golf), and the additional fun night life he is bringing to Salt Lake City. Brayden tells us that Utah is a hidden gem and he’s happy to have made it his home.

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.

The New Utah Podcast · 313 – 6 Years

Episode 308 – Airplane Bathrooms

Our guest was unable to come but is already rescheduled! So, this week we’re going to wrap up our review of City Weekly’s Best of 2021 (part II) this week.

Jeremy does math to figure out Chris and I have been doing the podcast for almost as long as we’ve been a couple. Then we do some personal planning that is quite thrilling and talk about the lifting of the Federal travel mask mandate, there’s a lot of pee talk and we discuss the reclassified COVID endemic. Chris talks about his new lunchtime getaway and the loot he’s gotten and shared.

BEE UPDATE: As promised, Jeremy gives us an update on the bees after last week’s snowstorm. He checked on them all week and the bees were protecting the queen and on the 16^th Jeremy discovered the queen is out and after that the bees have been out and about looking for food sources.

If you felt something that was like an earthquake and are in the Salt Lake and Tooele valley area, the Tooele Army Depot was ‘blowing shit up!” Bre is disappointed that she didn’t get to see the small helicopter crash at Airport II.

We start with Media & Politics and are reminded that many of the 2021 picks are COVID related and/or influenced. We move along to Arts & Entertainment and finish up with Goods & Services. For Restaurants, Food & Drink and Nightlife, go listen to episode 295, Floppy Fries.

I was excited to learn that Dave Cawley with Cold put out another investigative, unsolved murder podcast about Joyce Yost. Senator Mike Lee wind both Best Political Scandal and Worst Utahn and we feel both were greatly earned. I also learned that Traeger is a local company, who knew?! (Don’t tell me if you did). Please listen to hear about our thoughts and opinions along with our personal alternatives to some of the places listed.

Prior TNUP guests/topics who won awards, Demolished Salt Lake, Cat Palmer (Best Visual Artist), Gia Bianca Stephens (Best Drag Entertainer), Spiral Jetty (Best Public Art), The Monarch (Best Ogden Cultural Pollinator), Olio Skin & Beard Co (Best Tattoo Oil), Fillings & Emulsions (Best Minority-Owned Business), and the Alpine Loop (Best Scenic Drive).

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Episode 304 – Pirate O’s

This week Jeremy and Julia tells us all about Julia’s collaboration with Alexi at a Cocktail Collective event. Folks who attended made spells jars and learned how to make cocktails. This will be an ongoing thing between the two each month so check out their websites for dates, times, locations, and ways to register. Additionally, Julia will be at Pride Fest, West Fest, Herriman Town Days and Riverton Town Days, if you want to stop by and support her. When you do, mention you heard about her on the podcast, and you’ll earn a free crystal!

Chris talks about the craziness of Orlando and how strange it is there. If you want a theme park, that’s where you should go because it’s not all Disney!

Voting for Best of Salt Lake has begun and goes through April 6^th. Our friends at K9 Design, Kudos 2 Canines, Ruby Snap, Olio, etcetera, will be there to vote for, so go do the thing!

This week we’re super excited to have had Orian Collinsworth the owner and proprietor of Pirate O’s Gourmet Market on the show. To those of you who know, you know and to the rest of you, let’s learn. We start out learning that our guest was born in Yukohama, Japan while his dad was there for the military. After traveling all over and losing his mother, his family ended up on Spokane, WA where his father was decommissioned right before Vietnam and became a Baptist minister.

Orian ended up in Idaho where he attended Boise State College and was the first graduating class of Boise State University. There begins he illustrious travels to play foosball and him landing in Utah where he started working for a natural foods’ distributor. He survived several sales to larger companies until he ended up working for Walmart. That didn’t last long and after losing his job, he worked with another retailer to start a store modeled after Trader Joe’s. Evolution has created what has now become Pirate O’s. A fantastic gourmet grocer who also sells fun and exotic candies, has a special hot sauce wall and pasta room. Where else can you easily buy a $200 bottle of hot sauce?!?!

Orian said customers used to come in for ‘that one thing’ but now his customers come in for regular shopping. And don’t forget the deli. While dining in is still not an option, carry out is. The number one seller is #15, so go in and enjoy it. As a side note, the building was built in 1976 as the Fort Douglas Theater and moved to its current location where Orian plans to keep expanding and maybe even open a second location. We also learned about a POW’s first right of refusal and many other stories he had to share. Take a listen to the episode and hear about a fantastic person’s journey to create a fantastic place that can only be found in Utah!

Orian’s favorite thing is Snowbird and powder from the past. Skiing may not be what it once was, but it’s something that is still enjoyable and fantastic and uniquely Utah.

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Episode 299 – The Metaphysical

Hello loyal followers & patrons, this is Jeremy giving you the synopsis of this weeks exciting Podcast. We start out discussing this year’s super bowl, it was a close game, and the halftime show was one of the best… EVER. Julia got a new car to replace the one she destroyed. We all decided that we spent way too much time together recently AND Bre gives us the 411 on how messed up women’s health is.

This week we interviewed Julia and her shop the Pleiadian Alter. (You can see her bio at the end of this article). We have actually interviewed Julia the person, about a year ago so if you want to know more about her (when she was born, where she was raised, etc.) go check out episode 253 Cleany Wipey Things

In this interview we get the lowdown on why, how, and what the name of her shop is and means. Most people can’t say or spell Pleiadian, but it does have significant meaning. Julia has been interested in art from a young age (she gets that from her father) She was also raised in an entrepreneurial atmosphere. From mowing lawns, to planting gardens, and raising chickens, the Gates family has always had a more self-sufficient attitude towards life in general.

Julia began doing art commissions around 13 years old and arts and crafts her entire life. In June of last year (2021) she started her business which is an eclectic collection of crystals, herbs, rocks, spell jars, and her own personal sellable art.

Julia is the owner of The Pleiadian Altar, which is an ethically sourced metaphysical pop-up shop with an emphasis on community education to reduce the stigma around witchcraft. She offers a wide variety of fair trade products including crystals, handmade spell jars, organic body care, and alternatives to closed practices such as white sage. Julia first created the shop as an income-producing outlet for her artistic abilities. Now she regularly teaches spell jar classes and is gearing up to host workshops for anyone who would like to learn more about witchcraft.

You can visit her at one of her markets throughout the valley or shop her website and Etsy. (Use the code UTAHWITCH for 10% off!)

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Episode 286 – Blown with Fire

There is a bit of local catching up to do this week. Real Salt Lake made the MLS playoffs, barely and with some help from other teams, but hey, that’s what started their only MLS Championship winning run too. Of course 2009 was very different from 2021. Jeremy tells us about a new bar in Riverton, big news for a town full of Chili’s. I don’t think he will be a customer though.

Also the group talks at length about at home medical testing, it’s ties to Covid and why we can’t do more tests, like Rapid Strep at home. And then comes the discussion about the ridiculous Utah State Legislature, once again bucking what the public has voted for, and instead of using independent redistricting maps, has decided to once again Gerrymander the borders to keep Republicans in power. It’s honestly a shame, and we all feel like there isn’t much the public can do about it, mormon Jesus knows they tried.

The meat of the show is devoted to Emma Archuleta (no relation). Emma is a local industrial glass blower and all around nice person. We find out a lot about how and where she grew up, and how she got into glass blowing.

We get to dive deep into a lot of things in an industrial glass blowing shop. From the amazing lathe, to the Hydrogen/Oxygen welding and torches they use. Sorry, this isn’t your artistic glass blowing location with a glory hole. And yes glory hole is the actual name of the furnace artistic glass blowers put the glass in to heat it.

We also talk about the safety involved. With so much heat, tanks of flammable and explosive gases nearby and even super dangerous acids, the shop is a really serious environment. She has truly found her love though, so early in life. She is even helping make glass jewelry with her coworker.

This really is a run conversation, and we hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

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