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City Weekly Best of Utah Editor favorite 2018/2019.

02/07/2025

Episode 475 - Gun Violence, Su***de and LGBTQ
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This week we are joined by the lovely Neca Allgood. We brought her on the show to talk about the Gun Violence Prevention Center of Utah, but got so much more. As the proud mom of a transgender son, and founder of Mama Dragons, an organization dedicated to supporting parents who want to support their LGBTQ+ children, she has a lot to talk about.

Oh and did we mention, she has a long history of working in the su***de prevention space? She is a wealth of information and we were so happy to chat with her.

She even introduced us to a program where families with children, can potentially get a free biometric gun safe via gunsafefamilies.org

25/06/2025

Episode 474 - Where are my Rotors?
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For June's adventure, we decide to go back to the Hill Aerospace Museum and see the new wing that opened this year. We talk all about the new space, the fun we had, and how amazed we still are that this exists in Utah for everyone.

18/06/2025

Episode 473 - Chicken Math
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This week we sit down with a long time friend of our show, and current Interim President of The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah, Shireen Ghorbani. We get to catch up with her life over the last 8ish years and what she's doing for the community in the healthcare space now.

We talk all about Planned Parenthood services, their current challenges, and why they are so important for the community.

We also go deep into some politics, because we have a guest not afraid to discuss real issues with us. We hope you enjoy the show, because we sure enjoyed talking with Shireen.

11/06/2025

Episode 472 - Hot Dog Tattoos
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This week, we talk with Megan Rae of Raen Ink Studios. She's a local tattoo artist, who took 2 years of apprenticeship before even wanting to do her first tattoo and by that time had people lining up for her work.

We dive deep on tattoos, the community in Utah, and her style. Of course as is our style, we have a ball along the way.

04/06/2025

Episode 471 - 9 Years Old!
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This week we celebrate 9+ years of weekly episodes about the wonderful people, places, and things that Utah has to offer. We talk about so many of our favorite things over the years.

We also peel back the curtain and talk in depth about some of the show evolution over the years and why we have made the choices we have made.

We hope you celebrate with us and enjoy the show!

28/05/2025

Episode 470 - Summer Is Here
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It's Utah Adventure Week and this month we decided to hit up several local events to kick off the nice weather and fun outdoor season of Salt Lake.

First we talk about the Paws & Plates fundraiser which raised over $14,000 for CAWS animal rescue. We had such a great time and Channing put on an amazing event.

Then we hit up the The Great Beer Mashup put on by the Utah Brewers Guild where we were able to sample some joint beer creations from nearly every brewery in the state.

It's a good time to live in Utah.

21/05/2025

Episode 469 - TP and Painting!
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This week we talk with Trish Austin, the owner of myprettypalette.com a relatively new paint night service. Trish hosts paint night parties from family groups of 10 to more than 50 at a time, and everything in between. She fell in love with the activity and decided to share that love with others.

Don't worry if you can't do a class, she makes take home kits as well and has a library of 100+ designs and growing.

Plus you know us, we dig into her history and turns out she has a ton of flight attendant experience, and we can't help but talk about all that sort of stuff too.

14/05/2025

Episode 468 - Herbal Apothecary!
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This episode marks 9 full years of doing shows once a week, every single week since we started. We will spend more time on our anniversary later in the month. This week we sit down with Candiss West, owner of Demeter's Garden Apothecary to chat about all sorts of herbal goodness.

Candiss is a house wife, turned GC, turned herbal apothecary mastermind! We talk all about herbs, their healing properties and how she came into starting this business. She's a giant Ren Fair nerd and we get to talk all about how awesome her shop is.

07/05/2025

Episode 467 - Grandma Wow Wow!
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We have a surprise guest this week. One of our duo of guests had to cancel due to illness, but Carolyn Richardson, originally scheduled with her son Alex, decided to bring a mutual friend Hraefn Wulfson with her.

So we get to hear all about Carolyn's life as a Utah grown artist, specializing in caricatures these days. We talk about the art of drawing someone while talking to them in brief stints, and discover that our past Guest and friend of the show Oscar from Oscar and Julia is her son!

And we get to catch up with Hraefn, long time friend of the show, and see what he is up to these days. To our surprise, it has nothing to do with film!

30/04/2025

Episode 466 - Cake Decorating!
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For our adventure this month, we take a cake decorating class from our friends at Cakes By Edith! We talk all about the experience and gush over how much we absolutely love this local bakery and all the things they do.

23/04/2025

Episode 465 - Zombie Pope
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This week, we recap Easter for you, but also get to sit down with Elham Glam herself and her hair stylist husband Tony. These are two incredibly talented individuals that have created a life for themselves in Utah.

Elham has created a successful brand of production make up and hair, with a love for helping with commercials. Tony is a well traveled world hair stylist with a new gig in Salt Lake, styling some pretty serious hair.

Both of them have extreme passions for what they do and it comes out in our chat. We hope you enjoy

16/04/2025

Episode 464 - Nothing to Fear!
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This week we sit down to talk with the folks behind Beehive Skeptics. A local group that encourages healthy questioning and critical thinking. They have done experiments to help people find the truth regarding potential UFOs, Flat Earth Theory, and much more.

They also have a podcast, about to be restarted after a several month hiatus, now called Nothing to Fear. It's a video podcast, so you can find it on YouTube as well as all your favorite podcast platforms. Past episodes are under Beehive Skeptics.

Its a really fun chat about a ton of topics, and we hope you enjoy, we know we will be visiting a Skeptics in the Pub event hosted by them in the future.

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