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Ep. 88: Jes Ward – Executive Director of cityWILD

Jes Ward is Executive Director of cityWILD, whose mission is to engage youth in experiential learning opportunities that boldly address issues of inequity in education, economic opportunity, and access to the outdoors. cityWILD motivates participants to reach their potential at school, at home and in their communities – and they succeed! On this week’s show, Jes…

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Vote for Jon of All Trades in the Westword’s Best of Denver Readers’ Choice Awards

Dear Jon of All Trades Listener, Well, holy shit! The Jon of All Trades Podcast is a finalist in the Westword’s Best of Denver 2016 Readers’ Choice Awards, and it’s because of you. Thank you to everyone who took a moment to nominate this show a couple of weeks ago when the nomination period opened….

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Ep. 87: Tim Wigley – President of the Western Energy Alliance

Tim Wigley is the President of the Western Energy Alliance, an oil and natural gas trade association focusing on federal legislative, regulatory, environmental, public lands and other policy issues. WEA represents the voice of the Western oil and natural gas industry in a variety of ways. On this week’s show, Tim shares with us his…

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Ep. 86: Taylor Gonda and Kevin O’Brien – Hosts of These Things Matter Podcast

Taylor Gonda and Kevin O’Brien are the hosts and co-creators of the These Things Matter Podcast, which has been melting people’s faces in the Denver podcast scene and beyond for nearly four years now. Full disclosure, I was a guest on their show last June and talked about The Karate Kid. I have an intense…

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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Characters, Ranked

It’s a cliché at this point to describe your noble parental intentions not to allow your child to watch television and succeed where the millions of parents before you failed, only to succumb to the relentless unhappiness and subsequent shrill shrieking of a teething/sick/overtired child and plop them in front of the idiot box and…

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Ep. 85: Goldie Solodar – The Knower at City Sessions Denver

Goldie Solodar refers to herself as “The Knower” at City Sessions Denver. She’s a six-year resident of Denver, and says Denver “has been my playground and home for the past 6 years and is where I have had my most amazing experiences.” City Sessions Denver offers a full range of custom cannabis-friendly packages that include:…

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Ep. 84: Thomas Harding – Beat Writer for the Colorado Rockies and MLB.com

Thomas Harding is the Colorado Rockies beat writer for MLB.com. On this week’s episode, Thomas shares the journey of his 30+ year career writing about baseball, divulges what a “gameday in the life” of Thomas Harding is like, how he approaches an article that might make someone in the organization unhappy, and a whole lot…

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Super

It’s hard to classify winning the Super Bowl as an underrated experience with a straight face. It’s only the largest secular holiday in America, one of the last universally shared annual experiences we have as a culture, and is largely regarded as the pinnacle of sports achievement. I grant all this. Yet, from a fan’s…

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Trolling the Troll

The two-week layoff between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl is a cosmic wasteland of NFL news, which leaves the drones and shills who cover the NFL precious little to discuss. As a general practice, I avoid most sportswriting during this time because your reading choices are pretty much limited to gauzy “hey,…

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Jon of All Trades Returns February 17 with Thomas Harding

It’s been far too long… so hello again! As I post this, it’s approximately 15 degrees outside in Denver, there’s a wind that stings your face like an assault of needles, and my feet are so cold, I wish I didn’t have feet anymore. In short, it’s winter, and I hate it. One coping mechanism…

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