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This Week’s Episode (6.30.14): Simon Lomax

Happy 4th of July week! In honor of our nation’s birthday, I thought it appropriate to celebrate America somehow. And what would be better or more appropriate than covering the immigrant’s journey to America? The United States is a nation founded on immigration, so on this week’s show, we celebrate that by featuring Simon Lomax,…

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Ep. 17: Kate Schulz – Registered Dietitian and Health Professional

Kate Schulz is a registered dietitian who has worked in health care, for a multitude of individual patients and in the public sector. She brings a wealth of knowledge to the podcast as we talk extensively about how a dietitian works with dialysis patients, as a professional who enhances overall wellness, and as an advocate…

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This Week’s Episode (6.23.14): Kate Schulz

This week’s guest is Kate Schulz, registered dietitian and health professional. Kate shares her work in a multitude of environments including with dialysis patients, in the private sector, and advocating for systemic change. She and Jon also talk about the benefits of Weight Watchers, the “secret” to losing weight and improving your health, the game…

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NYC

If you’re reading this on Friday, I’m on my way to New York. Hey, we’re in New York! I got a gun, let’s go to a Broadway show! Yo, taxi! In the spirit of this trip, here’s a bunch of random funny crap I thought of in advance of leaving that I’m happy to share…

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Ep. 16: Jason Heller – Professional Freelance Journalist

This week’s guest is Jason Heller, who is a professional freelance journalist. Jason is a Senior Writer at the AV Club, a contributor to Pitchfork, a Hugo Award winner for his editing at Clarkesworld, book reviewer for NPR.org, and Denver punk. He joins Jon on this week’s episode, and the two proceed to have the…

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Ultrasound

Quite possibly the only benefit of going through months and months of infertility is that if you’re lucky enough to become pregnant, you get to have lots and lots of ultrasounds. Whereas most people only get one, maybe two, we’ve had, like, five already. For awhile there, it was basically every other week we’d get…

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This Week’s Episode (6.16.14): Jason Heller

This week’s guest is Jason Heller, professional freelance journalist. Jon has read Jason at the AV Club for a long time, and was super stoked to invite him on the pod to talk punk rock – in particular his recently concluded series Fear of a Punk Decade – his history in the Denver punk scene,…

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Unwritten

Yesterday the Rockies played the Braves and beat them 10-3. This is great on its own because Go Rockies and fuck the Braves. In the bottom of the 8th, Corey Dickerson fouled off a pitch and accidentally struck catcher Gerald Laird on the side of his head on the follow through of his swing. On…

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Ep. 15: Brett Zahrte – Assistant Brewer at Renegade Brewing

Finally, a beer episode! It only took 15 to get there, but we’re finally here! This week our chat is with Brett Zahrte, assistant brewer at Renegade Brewing, who also happens to be one of my longest friends. In addition to having the honor of providing the venue for Jon’s first beer ever, Brett also…

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This Week’s Episode (6.9.14): Brett Zahrte

This week’s guest is Brett Zahrte, assistant brewer at Renegade Brewing Company. Dedicated to “doing the don’t,” by their own admission, Renegade doesn’t “care about traditional styles, or following the trends, we care about making f’ing delicious beer that we are proud to serve.” In this week’s episode, Brett and Jon cover the day in…

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