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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Episode 356 – The List Show

A set of multiple circumstances happening all at once means we are calling an audible this week. We are talking about where Utah Ranks nationally and some fun stuff to do in various parts of the state. We hope you enjoy because it was actually a lot of fun talking this week.

USA News Rankings
Schoolaroo Rankings
Education Spending
Bucket List items for Utah
Retirement
Unemployment
30 Things to do in SLC
15 Things for Utah Valley

The New Utah Podcast · 356 – The List Show

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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!!!

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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 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 300 – Fire Crotch

Hey, Folks! I can’t believe it. We hit 300 continuous episodes this week and it’s our Utah Adventure Week. Y’all hit the jackpot with this episode!

Starting out with our rambling intro, we talk about recording on Two’s Day (2/22/22). Yes, I’m a dork because I think it’s cool and used it all day in my email signature. Jeremy and Julia talk about heading out for the annual boar hunt. This year Julia is hoping to bag a boar because someone has requested one through her shop (listen to last week’s episode to hear more details about her business, The Pleiadian Altar.

Chris and I are back from our short little cruise to Ensenada, Mexico, where we stayed on the cruise ship and just had a relaxing little vacation. Cruising is one of our preferred means of travelling. Also, my colonoscopy was not February 25^th but March 25^th, so I promise to provide riveting information next month for those of you who are getting old like me.

Last item as we transition into our adventure is Jeremy’s new chicken. It’s either Puff Daddy or One-Eyed Willy. We talk about what jerks chickens are and where the term ‘hen-pecked’ came from.

Onto the exciting adventure. This month we went to Clark Planetarium in The Gateway. Utah’s planetarium goes back to 1964 when Gail Plummer, a professor at the University of Utah expressed interest in converting our old library (we’d outgrown our second Salt Lake City library space at 500 South 200 East). At that time Plummer convinced Beatrice Hansen to donate $400,000 to fund the new Hansen Planetarium, in memory of her late husband. When Mrs. Hansen passed away, the building was renamed the Mr. and Mrs. George T Hansen Planetarium, Space Science Library and Museum. During its operation it had the highest per capita attendance of any planetarium in the nation. It soon outgrew the space and when it moved to The Gateway in April of 2003. A $1 million donation was made through the Clark Foundation on behalf of Sheila M Clark, and it was renamed the Clark Planetarium.

Bryton Bluth (Jeremy, Julia, Bre & Chris, left to right)

During its time as the Hansen Planetarium, it created the first “pitless” digital dome in the United States. The dome was innovative and created an amazing opportunity to view education and entertaining information in a 3-D manner without the aid of glasses. When the planetarium oved to The Gateway, they created a new dome theater. Two super-high-resolution projectors work together to blend a seamless video stream over the entire dome. The shows in the dome theater cover a variety of space-related themes and are live-narrated.

The Clark Planetarium is about 10,000 square feet of free exhibits that are interactive, entertaining, and educational. Listen to hear about our favorite exhibits and experience with them. One of my favorite exhibits is an infrared camera where we discover my core is literally white hot. Apparently, I’m always cold because my interior heat does not escape!

Byrton Bluth (Julia & Bre, left to right)

We hope you are enjoying our Utah Aventures as much as we are. As the weather warms up, you’ll hear us doing more things outside. If you have any ideas for us, let us know on the socials!!!

Bryton Bluth, (Jeremy & Chris, left to right)

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Episode 296 – A Raft of Otters

Utah Adventure Week – Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

This week Julia announces that she’s added an event calendar to her website for The Pleiadian Altar. Take a few minutes and find out where she’ll be hocking her wares! Black Rabbit Studios sends us our promised gifts. We’re going to spread the love by putting some on our travelling suitcase and sharing the wealth between the four of us.

This week we are starting a new monthly spotlight. After some on-episode discussion, it will be called the Utah Weekly Adventure. We start off our tourn at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium

You know where it is, just on the west side of I15 at 120the South. Do you know why you know? Because instead of allowing U2 to scrap their stage from their 360 Tour, they are now using it as part of the Aquarium’s educational area.

The Loveland Living Planet Aquarium was started in 1997 by Brent Anderson, a marine biologist and Utah native. He started with a mobile educational marine exhibit in 199 and opened the 10,000 square foot location at the Gateway Mall in 2004. This enabled Anderson to raise funds and to garner interest in the endeavor. They had over 300,000 visitors in the first two years and quickly outgrew their space. In June of 2006, the moved to their space in Sandy, which was over 43,000 square feet and soon had over 460,000 visitors each year. Finally in 2010, they purchased 17 acres of land and raised $27 million to build the Aquarium in its permeant home, Draper. Currently the Aquarium is 136,000 square feet and was opened in March of 2014 and saw over one million visitors in the first year.

There are five areas to visit at the Aquarium so I’m going to give a little overview of the order we saw each of them:

Journey to South America. Our first impression was of the climate control. It was humid and warm inside to mimic weather for the animals and plants living inside. We saw the electric eel, a sloth, porcupine, toucan, poisonous frogs, and empty butterfly exhibit. It was really cool to see the indigenous plants that were included with identification signs. Julia confessed that she used to be afraid of the river monster fish and was terrified that she might fall into the tank.

Penguin Research Station. When we arrived, they were feeding the penguins and talking about how they take care of them. Each penguin is labeled so they can monitor their food intake and the lights and temperature in the enclosure are controlled to imitate their natural environment (Sub-Antarctic islands). The lights go up and down according to what would be happening in the wild. Many of the penguins at the Aquarium were actually born there and you can read a little bit about each of them.

Expedition: Asia. There are two clouded leopards in this exhibit; however, we were only able to see one for a short time. What a treat that was though! There were a lot of giant and colorful fish!

Discover Utah. We have determined that Utah has boring fish, but you can see the brine shrimp in this exhibit. This is also where we saw the otters come out to have a little food stimulated learning and an active beehive. Utah is a beautiful place and watching the otters play was one of the highlights of our day.

Ocean Explorer: This exhibit has a place where you can touch sea urchins, star fish, sea cucumbers, and anemones. They also have a stingray pond where you can reach out and pet them! This is where we saw the seahorses and dragons, the giant octopus, giant clam, and the giant lobster, along with bioluminescent fish. There is a really cool shark tank with a tunnel you can walk through so you are surrounded by the beautiful creatures. Just outside the tunnel is a show area where you can see the same tank from the side.

You can buy a membership, eat there and when it opens again, they have a 4D theater. They offer shark yoga, nature storytime and youth camps. You can rent the Aquarium for private events like weddings, proposals, and family parties. Both indoor and outdoor spaces are available and there are times when you can rent out the entire Aquarium. Additionally, the Aquarium is in the process of adding on hands on learning as well as science labs. (Chris may have a recording of this information)

We loved this episode and our first adventure. Join us next month as we continue to explore Utah for ourselves!

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