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Episode 245 – Culinary Evangelism

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Episode 245 is all about food. No seriously, we didn’t really spend any time on other things. We started with Food Tucks of Salt Lake City, but quickly moved on to former Chow Truck worker and owner, Chef J Looney. He is a self proclaim culinary evangelist and has the business and website to prove it.

Chef J Looney (https://theculinaryevangelist.com/)

We talk about his love of food and how it all started with his father doing institutional food work as the food services director for LDS Hospital when he was younger. No joke, Chef Looney fell in love with hospital cafeteria food and is now a self taught private chef.

From his church sponsored vacation to Argentina as a young lad, Chef Looney really wanted people to understand the cultural aspects of food. We really dive into ethnic cuisine and the fusions that those things create. We talk about the diverse food culture in the state of Utah as well.

(Kathy Stephenson, Salt Lake Tribune)

We talk about Ethiopian food in big detail. Chef tells us that Utah has a number of great Ethiopian places to eat and things people should try that spicy food. But we also have a large Vietnamese population and the diversity doesn’t stop there. In fact, Salt Lake may have a more diverse food scene than most major cities in the United States.

It is interesting that America is one of the few countries in the world that don’t eat clean naturally. That is part of what has inspired the chef to go private and do meal planning and private meal prep for a select number of VIP clients through his new business. Eating local and eating clean is the responsible thing to do.

If you don’t leave the episode hungry and wanting to try something new, then I’m not sure you were listening to the correct show.

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Episode 231 Candy Cannons are not the Answer.

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 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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Music By: Folk Hogan. Bootleggers Dance.

Episode 215 Dr. Lewis is NOT Kaiser or WebMd.

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We know, we know… you’re tired of being told to wear your mask. Sorry not sorry, we’re going to tell you again. Well, we’re going to let our episode 215 guest tell you. And then we will tell you again.

We brought on Dr. Mark Lewis, a Utah GI Oncologist, who has been very vocal on Twitter about the importance of wearing masks. In June he went viral for a tweet (posted below) from the physiology of why mask wearing won’t cause you issues with your C02.

Dr. Mark Lewis hails from the beautiful land of Scotland. His family immigrated to America when he was the wee age of 8. Sadly the family arrival to Texas would be where his family would find out that his father had lung cancer. This started his journey and passion into medicine. After 10 years of studying and practicing medicine in Texas, he and his wife moved up to Utah and have been taking care of the health of Utahn’s for 4 years. *His wife is a pediatrician* Not only is Mark a doctor, he has also been a patient. In 2017 he allowed for his own cancer surgery to be recorded where he also live tweeted. Dr. Lewis has written extensively about that journey on the Journal of Clinical Oncology titled, Gain of Function: Empathy for the Uncertain Patient with Cancer.

Dr. Lewis uses his medical knowledge, and common sense, to show to the anti-maskers and mask slackers, that you cannot have it both ways. He reminded us that physics says the body will do it’s best to keep us alive and thank heavens for 1847 germ theory. Fortunately in his battle to get the word out, his employers at IHC have been incredibly supportive.

In addition to talking about the importance of mask wearing, his journey to Utah, and his passion for hereditary cancer research, we talked about what is happening to the medical community *you know those people you are calling heroes right now* during COVID. We talked about the mental health issues they are facing and how Twitter has become a community for them.

If you want to follow more of what Dr. Mark has to say, @MarkLewisMD is his Twitter handle.

We ask our guests what their one thing they couldn’t part with in Utah would be. Dr. Lewis said that he is amazed and the variation of landscape in Utah from the coral sand dunes to the mountains.

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Music By: Folk Hogan. Bootleggers Dance.

Episode 183 Hallmark Christmas Movies v. Lifetime Christmas Movies

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You thought last week was a great debate… This week we discuss Hallmark Christmas Movies vs. Lifetime Christmas movies… vs. Law and Order SVU. Don’t worry, it’s relevant!

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The end of the month marks another episode of Utah’s Infamous Criminal’s! We decided to delve into Wanda Barzee and Brian David Mitchell. There are no redeeming qualities between these two monsters. The best thing that came out of this terrible situation was Elizabeth Smart’s strength. She is a shining light!

We mentioned local community gem, Princess Kennedy, was in a bad accident over the weekend. She smashed her face pretty bad, and they had to do facial reconstruction after they waited for the brain bleed/leakage to subside. Surgery was extensive and on Tuesday. It seems to have gone well with an update that hopefully she’ll get moved out of ICU soon. Kennedy is known for her Salon at Library Square and her attention to the homeless community in Salt Lake City, most recently offering her skills to Project Homeless Connect. PK is very active in the LGBTQ+ community, always making appearances at local events and offering support. She also provides her own events through SLC’s Pride festival in the summer. There will be upcoming events and there are two Go Fund Me accounts, one by Justin Strange and one by Jordan Moore, for Kennedy, as she does not have health insurance and will need assistance. If you don’t want to deal with Go Fund me, her Venmo is @PK-Kennedy. PK’s heart is huge, she’s an important part of SLC, and we send our love and healing juju to her!

Princess Kennedy
Photo: Princess Kennedy FaceBook

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Music By: Folk Hogan. Bootleggers Dance.

Infamous Utahn(s) Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Barzee

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As we get ready to wrap up our year of Infamous Utahn’s, there are still plenty of people that we could cover… probably another complete year. We couldn’t allow the year to go out without talking about Brian David Mitchell and his accomplice, Wanda Barzee.

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These people are hard to write about because it is so current, and not that the other people we have talked about aren’t horrendous, they truly are monsters. Mitchell was born in 1953 in Salt Lake City to parents who were staunch Mormons. He became known in the community as a street Jesus because of his looks and proselytizing. Barzee, born in 1945 also in Salt Lake City. Both experienced many marriages, many kids *who might we add weren’t keen on their own parents,* extreme religious beliefs, and all of this lead up to the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart in 2002. After being taken from her own bedroom, for 9 months Elizabeth was tortured, raped, fed alcohol and lies, and was within inches of safety but couldn’t reach out. Elizabeth was finally saved in the spring of 2003 while in Sandy, Utah. Barzee was sentenced to 15 years and Mitchell to life. Elizabeth has since served and LDS mission, watched both Barzee and Mitchell be put away, gotten married, started a family, and now she advocates and does speaking events. She is truly a light after so much darkness.

Some of the resources we used for our discussion: ThoughtCo.com/ Real Life Villans/ DreShare/ Heavy.com/ Making of a Monster, and as promised, the psych evaluation panel that we mentioned. These people were not mentally ill, they had full on personality disorders that we only imagine stemmed from their upbringing. As of September 2018, Wanda Barzee was released after serving her time and Brian David Mitchell is serving in a federal prison in Arizona.

Music By: Folk Hogan; Bootleggers Dance

Episode 182 Growing Separate Ways

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Episode 109 we had the pleasure of speaking with Shawn Peterson, the founder and director of Green Urban Lunch Box. It is a local project that works to help seniors with their gardens, harvest crops from gardens/orchards that can’t do their owns, and provide spaces in SLC for community gardening. Shawn wanted to sit down with us again to talk about what has been going on the last couple years and where the organization is headed.

Shawn and the board for Green Urban Lunch Box have been actively interviewing candidates to take over for Shawn as the executive director. When he started GULB his plan was 5 years and he is now 9 years into the project. GULB projects include; gardens in low income areas, assisting seniors with gardens they want to have at their homes and deliveries to senior centers. They have gardens to assist in teaching the next generation of farmers. They deliver to the cancer center, and they assist people in picking their fruit trees! An end in mind is to make sure there is as little as possible farm food waste in our community.

What is up next for Shawn? Shawn received funding in the last month to start a national gleaning project! You heard it here! Shawn is going to help educate gleaning organizations in how much farm food waste there actually is and how to reduce that. Did you know that 20% of produce never leaves the farm? Did you know that 80% of cucumbers are never used? Shawn’s goal is to make sure that farmers and communities are utilizing the farm food that is being grown.

We are super excited to see what will become of Green Urban Lunch Box and to see the growth of Shawn’s new venture. Oh! And on a side note, GULB and Mountain West Cider will release their annual collaboration cider on November 23rd!

Photo: Mountain West Hard Cider

You can follow and get involved with Green Urban Lunch Box on their website as a volunteer or part of their CSA program and on Facebook.

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Music By: Folk Hogan. Bootleggers Dance.

Episode 170 (Let’s NOT) Party with the Lafferty Brothers

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Episode 170 brings us to the end of another month and the return of our monthly segment of Infamous Utahn’s. We spent some time talking about the Lafferty Brother’s, Dan & Ron. They believed they were prophets of God (and even killed in the name of God) like you do. They wrote some scriptures and created an exclusive club just for prophets.

Jessica was stranded in paradise so Holly stepped in to lend a hand with the show. Chris and Bre adopted a new puppy, and the studio was nearly destroyed (or at least ruffled a bit). It’s HONEY time in the great state of Riverton. Jeremy was able to harvest 6.5 quarts of honey from his beehive this last weekend…and there was much rejoicing.

We try our hands at a little Utah Trivia, and we talk local Pizza.

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Music By: Folk Hogan. Bootleggers Dance.

Episode 163 Utah Death Doula

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When you hear the word “doula” the first thing that comes to mind is birth. A death doula just meets you at the other end. Doula might be defined as “woman servant” however, to clear things up, there are men that practice as well. Our first question is, how do you prepare your death plan? Not just a will saying where everything goes, but a plan that tells your family how you want to be taken care of in your last moments and after.

Our guest for episode 163 will teach us why it’s important.

Jude Higgins is Utah’s premier End of Life Doula. She owns HELD, which is based in Salt Lake City. Jude has lived many lives; as a ballet dancer, an anthropologist with a focus in museum studies, an archeologist with a focus on dead animals, and now a death doula. After going through the course to become an end of life doula, Jude decided with her background in education it was time to start her own HELD training.

Jude explained to us that there are 5 purposes of an end of life doula. The first is to hold space. You are not medically trained, you do not administer any kind of medical relief. You are present in the client and families life who is transitioning. An End of Life Doula’s responsibility is also to,

  1. Assist in legacy work. This could be assisting in writing down or recording your memories, creating something that will represent you and your family, and so on.
  2. A death doula will walk the person transitioning through releasing any type of guilt, shame, regret, and unfinished business.
  3. Creating a vigil plan. How do you want your final days to be? Do you want anyone in the room and around? Do you want them touching you? What kind of smells do you want present? Do you want religious symbols? What about music? *These are just a few things discussed.*
  4. Finally, an end of life doula can assist in creating a death plan.

Here is a great video from Caitlin Doughty, a green mortician and founder of The Good Death and Ask a Mortician. She explains a bit of what a death doula can do.

Jude offers classes to be certified that a person might be a doula for their family and community. She wanted to create smaller classes. These courses cover how to communicate and hold space. Jude teaches how to ask open ended questions, to sit and listen, and getting the clients and students to grounded clarity. Jude’s up coming courses are August 16,17,18 2019 and September 13,14,15 2019. You can find more about HELD on their Facebook page and the website.

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Music By: Folk Hogan. Bootleggers Dance.

Episode 161 The Shittiest Podcast Episode

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Episode 161 is full of some of your favorite things; lists and criminals!! It is our monthly coverage of an infamous Utah criminal. This month we spend our time on Douglas Carter who has recently had a break in his appeal process as of March 2019 and will be going back to court at a later date because of information that came to light. Visit our Infamous Criminal page for a recap on Douglas.

Alright, let’s get to our awesome lists! We love Catherine Armstrong of Only in Your State, and the research and adventures she goes on. We especially love weird things in Utah and this list by Only in Your State compiles just a few of them. We also came up with a city plan for Zaqistan. Yes, that is a real city in Utah.

Apparently this episode was about the weird…err unique. The Daily Herald compiled a list of Utah’s most unique names and where they came from. We were also surprised at some of the towns that were left off the list. Perhaps a part two is in the works? Episode 89 we took a quiz to see if we could guess where the Utah names came from.

Photo from KSL/Google Maps

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Episode 160 Rubbed Rind Cheese Movement

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Episode 160 we had an opportunity to sit down with Jackie Assaad of Beehive Cheese! She might be new to the cheese business but she is educated and loves cheese! That’s all one really needs, right?

Photo: Beehive Cheese

Located in Uintah, Utah just at the foot of Ogden Canyon, Beehive Cheese is one of the longest tenured cheese companies in Utah! Jackie joins us from Florida via Colorado. From working on yachts to moving to Utah for the best skiing on earth, she now calls Utah home. Jackie took us back to the beginning of Beehive Cheese. It all started with two men, Ford & Welsh, 14 years ago when they begged Utah State to let them into their advance cheese making course! This is where the creation of Promontory, the base for their cheeses, starts! It was a cheese originally made for Utah State. Then came the awards… or maybe then came Buzzed, a lavender coffee rubbed cheese, which started their rubbed rind movement and then came the awards… We can’t remember. But it doesn’t matter cause 14 years ago it started and they are still producing some of Utah’s most delicious and versatile cheeses! A newer cheese of mention is their hatch chili rubbed, which 3% of sales goes to Red Butte Garden. *we love a good cause*

We did have to go to a very dark cheese place… is cheese wiz and easy cheese even cheese?

Beehive Cheese now has 8 different cheeses as well as their curd line. You can find them at local grocers, the Salt Lake Farmer’s Market, the Ogden Farmer’s market and locations out of state! They are frequently teaming up with local producers such as chocolatiers and craft beer makers for pairing classes. They have also paired with Harmon’s Grocery for classes throughout the year. You can follow them on Facebook for upcoming classes. You can also find Beehive Cheese on Instagram!

And if you were wondering, YES! They do sell a whole wheel of cheese!!!

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Music By: Folk Hogan. Bootleggers Dance.