Podcasts about art hotel

What happens when a love for art, culture and community transforms into a thriving boutique hospitality business in the hills above Rio de Janeiro? In this soulful episode of The Business of Glamping and Unique Holiday Rentals, I sit down with Dacia Young, a passionate Bed and Breakfast owner who left behind the familiar and followed a dream to Brazil's bohemian heart... Santa Teresa. We explore how her unique 13-room heritage property, expertly decorated with elegant art pieces, became more than just a guest stay… it became a reset space and a sanctuary for rest, reflection, and realignment. In this episode, we dive into: Why she chose a boutique, cultural model over the traditional tourist trail How her family-run Bed and Breakfast delivers that wow factor with local art, garden views and homemade breakfasts What inspired her to launch "Reset Retreats", and how they're helping guests slow down, reflect, and restore The power of hosting transformational experiences (and what guests really want from a retreat) What it's like to move abroad and start a business around a different pace of life If you've ever dreamt of running your business in a vibrant new country… or building a retreat that offers more than just a pretty view, this episode will leave you inspired, grounded and full of ideas. Because sometimes, the best way to grow your business… is to slow down. If you want to visit Dacia in Casa Jomo, attend one of her retreats or learn from her if you are thinking of relocating, visit: https://www.casajomo.art/ __________   Sarah Riley - The Glamping Academy Learn what it takes to launch a glamping business: https://www.inspiredcoursesvip.com Join the Glamping Start Up And Grow Club: https://www.inspiredcoursesvip.com/club Take part in the Masterclasses: https://www.inspiredcoursesvip.com/masterclasses Contact Sarah through LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahrileyuk/ All show notes can be found with each podcast episode and in this archive: https://www.inspiredcamping.com/category/podcast/

A Castel d'Azzano, alle porte di Verona, sorge un hotel decisamente fuori dal comune: il Muraless Art Hotel. Nato nel 2023, questo 4 stelle si distingue per la sua vocazione all'arte urbana, con murales che decorano gran parte della struttura, dalla facciata alle camere e parte degli spazi comuni. Una galleria d'arte in progress che nei prossimi anni continuerà ad arricchirsi di nuove opere; un luogo quindi dove andare e dove tornare per vivere ogni volta un'esperienza immersiva diversa. Che non si tratta del solito hotel lo si capisce subito all'arrivo: la facciata, infatti, è impreziosita da un'opera di Mr. Brainwash, l'unica opera muraria in Europa di questo importante artista di fama internazionale che ripropone al Muraless i suoi soggetti tipici: dai classici della Disney alle icone alla Andy Warhol uniti nel messaggio “Love is the answer”. Quale frase più giusta nella città dell'amore di Romeo e Giulietta! All'interno l'arte è addirittura sotto i nostri piedi nel coloratissimo pavimento dipinto da Agron Hoti, artista visuale contemporaneo, protetto da resina trasparente.

Presenter Joy Jackson ART The Last Guest at the Hotel Darjeeling   part 1 It's a game of hide and seek. Where does someone hide when he physically cannot move? Written by Stephen Poole Starring Beth Schlansky, Dan Schindler and Ken Liesse ORIGINAL  2015 SUSPENSE    54:45

Presenter: Joy Jackson ART The Last Guest at the Hotel Darjeeling part 2 It's a game of hide and seek. Where does someone hide when he physically cannot move? Written by Stephen Poole Starring Beth Schlansky, Dan Schindler and Ken Liesse ORIGINAL 2015 SUSPENSE 54:45

In this episode Monica is talking to Renato Carrain, Venetian hotelier from Angelo Art Hotel in Venice. All' Angelo Art hotel is an hotel with a difference: art is at the forefront. For countless years, art has been the undisputed star of the Angelo Art Hotel: since 1924, in fact, it has been an art archive and home to important artists such as Matisse, Braque, Picasso, Pizzinato, Vedova, Guttuso, Santomaso (winner of the Biennale del 1954) and many others. The Hotel, which was later renovated over time, still retains many of their works and prints which can still be admired in the common areas and in the rooms where they are exhibited.With Renato we also talked about how Venice has changed and what steps whould be taken to help the city with over tourism.Step into the enchanting world of art and history with our latest podcast episode! Join us as we explore the mesmerizing charm of Venice, the city that has inspired countless legendary artists. Get ready to be captivated by the stories of renowned artistic geniuses who found solace and inspiration in this extraordinary place. And that's not all! We'll also dive into the fascinating life of Peggy Guggenheim, whose passion for art led her to create one of the most iconic museums in the world. Don't miss out on this incredible journey! Tune in now and let your imagination soar!

Wir haben für euch wieder ein Hotel mit Sauna getestet. Dieses Mal waren in Eindhoven in den Niederlanden im Inntel Hotel Art Eindhoven.  Tolle stylische Zimmer, eine schöne Saunalandschaft und mit Eindhoven eine sehr tolle Stadt, in der man immer wieder schöne Restaurants und Ecken entdeckt. In diesem Sinne: Immer schön entspannt bleiben! Pauline und Ingvar

Natalie talks with Paul Endelman whose father Ken started the world's largest manufacturer of pilates equipment and education. Paul is head of sales strategy at Balanced Body and he tells the story of how his father went from building custom water beds to building custom exercise equipment for a famous Hollywood trainer. Paul tells Natalie how his grandfather instilled in him a love of art that led him to seek out art all over the world and eventually come back to Sacramento and help put together large public art projects like the Art Hotel. That type of civic involvement inspired Paul to take his innovative business skills to help solve problems in the community in Sacramento during the pandemic.Lastly, Paul talks about how Balanced Body pivoted their business model during the pandemic and how they are still striving to overcome supply chain and manufacturing issues.Visit the Balanced Body website  Visit the Capital Region Family Business Center websiteSponsor: River City Bank

I recently visited Southern California to visit three hotel clients of mine.Most work was done before I left. For example, I already wrote three blog posts before leaving South Florida. That work included:1. SEO keyword research for each place I was visiting using RankIQ. Try it out here: https://www.rankiq.com/?fpr=christina332. Write the blog post with hotel client inclusion, but not promotionYou can check out the three blog posts here:What to Pack for a Trip to Palm Springs:https://christinaallday.com/what-to-pack-for-a-trip-to-palm-springs/5 Best Things to Do in Laguna Beach, California:https://christinaallday.com/things-to-do-in-laguna-beach-california/12 Best Things to Do in La Jolla, California:https://christinaallday.com/things-to-do-in-la-jolla-california/3. Kept in mind everything in the blog post during my trip/making a list4. What I didn't experience, I embedded images from Instagram 5. Took pictures and video with reels in mind6. Uploaded everything to a Google Drive folder to share with the client AND to work from when posting to social media7. Updated my team with feedback on conversations with the client and my takeaways as a guest  Some other resources mentioned include:RankIQ: https://www.rankiq.com/?fpr=christina33My Lifestyle Blog: ChristinaAllDay.comMy Instagram: Instagram.com/ChristinaAllDayOnsen Hotel & Spa: https://onsenhotelspa.com/Art Hotel: https://arthotellagunabeach.com/Cormorant: https://cormorantlajolla.com/Join Christina's 3-day bootcamp Pitch Publicity Profit: MediaMavenAndMore.com/Publicity If you liked this episode, please subscribe to this podcast to hear more like it. Tell your colleagues, friends, and family… and don't forget to tap that subscribe button. For more, visit MediaMavenAndMore.com/podcast.Follow Christina on social media at: Website: MediaMavenAndMore.com Facebook: https://Facebook.com/MediaMavenAndMore Twitter: https://Twitter.com/ChristinaAllDay Instagram: https://Instagram.com/ChristinaAllDay LinkedIn: https://LinkedIn.com/in/ChristinaAllDay YouTube: https://Youtube.com/c/MediaMavenAndMore TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@christinaallday

Byblos Art Hotel Villa Amistà inaugura “Garden Restaurant”, il nuovo bistrot con cucina outdoor che offrirà agli ospiti dell'hotel e agli esterni la possibilità di pranzare o cenare immersi nella natura rigogliosa che circonda l'elegante villa cinquecentesca dell'art hotel più affascinante d'Europa.

Hello, everyone and welcome back to Crypto Sapiens. Today we're chatting with Jesse Johnson, summoner of Aavegotchi. This episode was recorded during ETHDenver 2022 at a cafe outside the Art Hotel. We discuss Aavegotchi, being an accessibility onramp for crypto curious people, creating a rich user experience including building the Gotchiverse. We talk about the Aavegotchi DAO and building with the primitives of the Aavegotchi NFTs with products being built around them. Jesse also hints at several updates coming to the ecosystem in the future. If you'd like to learn more about Aavegotchi, go to aavegotchi.com and on Twitter @Aavegotchi Thank you for listening to Crypto Sapiens. Please give us a follow, like, and a 5-star review wherever you enjoy your podcasts. And stay tuned for our next discussion! --- Crypto Sapiens is produced in partnership with Bankless DAO.  https://bankless.community   --- Crypto Sapiens hosts lively discussions with innovative Web3 builders to help everyone learn about decentralized money systems including Ethereum, Bitcoin and DeFi. https://twitter.com/CryptoSapiens https://www.instagram.com/cryptosapiensofficial/ https://www.facebook.com/CryptoSapiens-Podcast-107678875061018 --- Resource links: Learn more about Aavegotchi https://www.aavegotchi.com/ https://twitter.com/aavegotchi   Connect with Jesse https://twitter.com/gldnXross   --- Not financial or tax advice. This channel is strictly educational and is not investment advice or a solicitation to buy or sell any assets or to make any financial decisions. Talk to your accountant. Do your own research.   

Ben and Lexi are dorking out about all things food! What gross food combinations bring you the most comfort? If you had one last meal before the great beyond - what would you eat? What does a latch key eat when they are too afraid to use the stove? Listen in as they dork out with their forks out. SHOW NOTES:We are talking food BUT safety first - here is a helpful video on how to save yourself from choking on food if you are alone!Lexi's Last Meal:Yam fries and miso gravy from the Coup Caesar salad from Lexi's mom "Pseudo"  Lasagna , again from Lexi's mom Mocha Cake from Glamorgan Bakery Ben's Last Meal: Fancy pants Shepard's pie NOT cottage pie  (maybe some gravy or ketchup) Disgusting Food We Love:Spoonfuls of ice tea mix, straight up Saltine crackers  with peanut butter and chocolate chips (sad snacks) Saltines with pb & j Saltines with  margarine Christmas Crack (saltine recipe): https://www.littlesweetbaker.com/christmas-crack-saltine-cracker-toffee/Marble cheese, pasta sauce and crackers (saltines, Breton crackers, Ritz crackers or Stone Wheat Thins)White pasta, Zesty Italian salad dressing and A LOT of parmesan (sprinkle)   cheese...like a lot The Dylan special, the Pregnant woman wrap - whole wheat pita, sauerkraut, nut butter (not a sweet one) and  lacinato kale Imitation crab and melted butter OR wasabi OR a sriracha mayo Just melted cheese out of a bowl Maybe not gross food? Brie covered in butter, brown sugar and maple syrup and then wrapped in puff pastry Brie covered in Kahlua and then melt and eat with crackersBrie and raspberry jamCottage cheese and raspberry jam  Door Dash or Skip the Dishes Go To Order: Vietnamese  food is the winner! Subs or anything with noodles (Jess agrees!)Strangest Food  We Have TriedLexi will eat pineapple but only on pizza but will NEVER eat pineapple on its own. Pineapple is gross.  Ben ate a kangaroo , frog and crocodile We talked about:Jordan Witzel's beloved Glamorgan Cheese bun Halloween costume from 2020. Can't make this stuff up folks Luke's Drug MartBlack Foot Crossing Historical Park Calvin and Hobbes If you have gross food for our dork cook book, send those recipes in! Especially SALTINE CRACKER recipesTayce and Heniz beansCommunity Natural FoodsByblos Bakery and Lake View Bakery Wheat Crunch Lexi can only eat cheese pizza pops when she is sick  Let's get going with that lab grown meat!People who are allergic to shellfish might also be allergic to bugs Lexi alluded to the Queasy Bake oven Would you eat lab grown extinct animals? What about human lab grown meat? Lexi ate at Yamazato Restaurant in Amsterdam and it was amazing The Lucca Comics and Games festival Scoma's Restaurant  Ben would travel back to France for the food  and wants to visit Japan for a good noodle house Lexi would travel to Korea for the food  and wants to go back to the Netherlands  for foodRed Fish Blue Fish Mango Rash - it is real Grizzly House in Banff Man  has leg amputated and friends eat it Wendigo  BONUS CONTENT:Amazing producer Jess says:Jess' last meal:  avocado rolls. They are the perfect food and absolutely the last thing I would want to taste before the grand exitJess' disgusting food :  cheddar cheese on tortilla chips, you can't put anything else on them it needs to be just grated cheese (slices if you're feeling really lazy) on plain ass tortilla chipsFun fact: engineered meat grows better in space so we could potentially have like satellite labs sometime in the future when commercial space flight becomes more viableSOCIALS:Here's where you can find us!Lexi's website and twitter and instagramBen's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade ArtsDork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagramIf you're enjoying Dork Matters, we'd really appreciate a nice rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods. It would very much help us get this show to the other dorks out there"I was that I was skinnier, but I love sandwiches"-  Hobo Johnson TranscriptLexi  I knew someone once, who grabbed a bag of chips and was eating the chips and, like, absent-mindedly just snacking away, as one does with chips,  and he said that he was eating the flavoring at the bottom when he finally looked into the bag and realized it was just filled with, like, maggots at the bottom. Like, something had obviously gotten in and he was like, "I don't actually know how many maggots I ate."Ben  I'm literally gonna throw up. That's... I can't handle maggots. Lexi  I can't remember what type of chip it was.Ben  Apparently something that looked and felt like maggots because think about it. A chip and a maggot are not in the same realm of--Lexi  Yeah.Ben  --you know, feel or texture when chewed. [chuckles]Lexi  But, doesn't it also tell you like the state of mind of a person sometimes, when they're eating where they're just like absolutely snacking? Like, they never actually think to themselves.Ben  I mean, I think that's just how I eat. [both laugh] That's just my way of eating.Lexi  You just come to you when the food's gone.Ben  Oh, unless it was Cheezies. Then, maybe. Like, a Hawkins Cheezie, but even still, you're eating a maggot. They squirm and they're squishy.Lexi  Look what I found today. I hope you're excited about it. It is...Ben  Oh, Wheat Crunch!Lexi  Yeah.Ben  Shit. Is that an Alberta-centric thing?Lexi  I don't even know if it's like popular outside of Calgary. Ben  I forgot that those even existed. Lexi  Well, I was in line at Canadian Tire, and I was like, "What the shit?!" and I bought, like, five, and then there's a big thing on the packaging saying, "You can order online," and I was like, "I will."Ben  Holy shit. I'm gonna order some too. Every kid had those in their lunchboxes here. Lexi  Yes. And then, just one day they were gone. Like, and no one said anything. They were just gone, and we just carried on with our lives like nothing happened. Ben  They were just gone, like Hickory Sticks which also exist, still.Lexi  That's-- that's shocking to me, but I really feel like Hickory Sticks are a good bang for your buck. Like, the bag is never ending. Ben  It does feel like it was more full than other chips. Lexi  Oh, yeah.Ben  It was a good choice from the vending machine, and it was also usually like a quarter less.Lexi  Mm-hmm, 75 cents or something. Ben  Yeah, yeah, exactly. Let's see. Food stores. What do I got? I've got when I almost killed myself by breaking the tab off of a pop can that I was drinking, dropping it into the can.Lexi  Oh, and then did you choke?Ben  And then, forgetting I put it in there. I drank it. I didn't choke. It went into my esophagus, perforated my esophagus. [Lexi gasps] I didn't think much of it. I was just like, "Oh crap. I'm gonna have to deal with that." Worked the rest of the day [Lexi chuckles] at this warehouse job I was working. Lexi  [laughs] My god.Ben  I finally got home and was like, "Crap. I think I need to go to the hospital," so I called my dad. He took me, and yeah, I'd perforated my esophagus. It was like, letting air into [Lexi gasps] and I'm just giving you what I remember. I was pretty drugged at the time, but the explanation I remember was that it had perforated my esophagus and was letting air into the areas around my heart so every time I was breathing, more air was getting in and crushing my heart, so I was just in immense pain. Lexi  Holy shit. Ben  Yeah, sort of like, out of it at one point, and going through surgeries and stuff, and they're asking me like, "On 1 to 10, what's your pain?" and I'm like, "I don't know. 13." [Lexi laughs] And then I got, like, morphine to high hell, and I was more or less out of it for nearly two weeks, like, just recovering--Lexi  Wow.Ben  --drugged out so that I wasn't awake on an IV drip. So I wasn't eating or drinking.Lexi  Holy.Ben  I was 18. It was a real fucked-up situation. Lexi  Wow. I think yours is better than maggots. Ben  What else do I got? Wait. I got two more. I'll do 'em quick, rapid fire. We were in Bermuda - Fiona and I, for like my first ever real vacation - and at one point, I bit a "tor-till-a" chip the wrong way or "tor-tee-ya" chip the wrong way and sliced my gum in the front here. Lexi  Yep, that'll happen.Ben  Had to get a gum graft.Lexi  That... Didn't know that was a thing. That's gross. Ben  It was so bad. Yeah, so you can get gum from what they call the tissue bank or the donor bank, so what I ended up having put into my mouth [Lexi laughs heartily] is a slight piece of somebody else's, like, jawbone. So they cut it open, they fold over the flaps, they drill into my jaw a little bit and then place this tiny piece of, like, bone with, like, gum tissue on it in there, and then let it grow up and stitch it into where it should be. And then, it just becomes part of me, and my personality changed after that.Lexi  Well, I was gonna say, "Did your taste change?" Were you like, "All of a sudden, I like mango"?Ben  Everything about me changed and I remembered dark crimes that I don't remember committing.Lexi  Well, obviously, my next question is, "Was this from a dead person or a living person?"Ben  Oh, it's definitely from a dead person. Lexi  Eugh! Ben  From what I understand, the donor bank is not from living people, so they just have a bank filled of tissue that's been donated. I could be wrong, but that's what the dentist told me. [laughs]Lexi  Well, I'm not sleeping tonight. That's... Wow.Ben  Last story is I used to have a huge gap in the front of my teeth. It was before you knew me, before I got braces, and my party trick was eating mashed potatoes and shooting them out like a playdough machine. Lexi  Oh, god.Ben  Just a long stream of mashed potatoes coming from between my teeth.Lexi  Speaking of food party tricks, I'm gonna send you a video and we'll see if we can put it on Instagram or Twitter or something, of me shotgunning a cupcake at a party once, because I had just come from work and I was all fancy, and they had mini cupcakes and I remember saying to Tim Belliveau, "I could eat this in one bite," and he was like, "Nah." And so the video is me just like deepthroating this cupcake and everyone cheering for me. Just, you know--Ben  College.Lexi  --like a person without food issues.Ben  Yeah, and if you haven't guessed, we're talking about food tonight. Welcome to Dork Matters. [theme music "Dance" by YABRA plays] Voiceover  [echoing] Dork Matters.Ben  Hello and welcome to Dork Matters, the show that is created by some dorks for all of you dorks out there, with dork content, ready to roll, and you might be wondering, "What's dork content?" and it's everything that matters to dorks.Lexi  It's whatever we say it is. Ben  [laughs] Whatever. We're dorks, and so if we wanna talk about it, it's a dork matter. [mystical electronic tone] You get it? You get it, right?Lexi  Yep.Ben  That's the name.Lexi  They get it. Ben  Yeah. I am your Doofus Dork, Ben Rankel, and with me, as per always, is...Lexi  Your Thrown-Off Dork. You always introduce yourself as Dad Dork. Now I'm like, "Well, am I the Dad Dork now?"Ben  I know. I've been thinking it and I thought, "If Lexi can change what kind of dork she is, I wanna be a different dork sometimes." [Lexi laughs]Lexi  Um, I am your Gourmand, Gourmet Dork. I had to look up the difference between those.Ben  Okay, record scratch. [scratching record, DJ-style] Gourmand and gourmet?Lexi  Yeah. Ben  Oh, and what is the difference?Lexi  A gourmet-- oh, that's what I was gonna tell you. Okay. There's a whole story. So, a gourmet is someone who likes you know, like the quality of food, so it's a quality over quantity, and a gourmand is quantity over quality, so they like to eat a lot.Ben  Wow, I just assumed they're completely different words that had, you know, like, maybe gourmet refer to the food, and a gourmand was the person who made it, but that's cool. I didn't realize they were kind of diametrically opposed.Lexi  They're polar opposites. I read this collection of, like, mixed-up fairy tales written for adults, and there was a story of a gourmet and a gourmand who lived together and basically, their obsession with food killed them because the gourmet eventually starves to death because no food is good enough, and the gourmand eats himself to death. Ben  So, kind of an opposite of the Jack Spratt situation. Lexi  Yes. Yeah. Ben  So you were a gourmand or a gourmet?Lexi  A little bit of both. I like to eat a little bit of a lot.Ben  Yeah, I feel the same.Lexi  Or a lot of a little bit. I don't know.Ben  A lot of a little.Lexi  I like high quality, but I like small bits of it. Like, I'm the type of person that I'll go to a restaurant and wanna have, like, just appetizers for dinner instead of like a full meal. Ben  So you could do a charcuterie dinner or a...Lexi  Oh, I love charcuterie. That's like my go-to meal.Ben  A "crud-ite" dinner.Lexi  Love it. Crudité.Ben  "Croo-deh-tah". Lexi  That's-- I've always wanted to go to Spain because of an Anthony Bourdain--Ben  RIP.Lexi  --episode where they're in Spain and they basically just, like, go from restaurant to restaurant, like, because, if you order booze, they just keep bringing you tapas--Ben  Mmm.Lexi  --and it's like, yeah. So, as long as you're buying a drink, you get free food, and so the type of drink that you get tells you the type of food that you're gonna get, so if you're gonna get a glass of wine, it might be, like, cheese and olives, or if you get a beer, it might be... I don't know, like bread and something or other. So that's-- that's the life for me right there.Ben  So just get hammered and keep eating. That sounds lovely.Lexi  Well, just like little-- little snacks. Little snacks throughout the evening. That's my go-to.Ben  That's your go-to. Skip dinner. Just eat snacks all night.Lexi  I'm a snack person.Ben  I mean, I'm a snack person too, but I still eat dinner, and that is the problem. [both laugh]Lexi  Oh, this isn't my dinner. This is just my pre-dinner snack. [chuckles]Ben  Okay, well, like, this brings us to a good place to chat which is, you know, exactly that, what kind of snacker you are, and I think I am both a bored snacker, and also a, what is it called? Like, grazer? I just wanna put things in my mouth if I'm trying to keep my mind occupied on something else. I guess what I'm saying is, I have every possible reason to continue eating and I think it shows. [Lexi laughs]Lexi  I've been trying to eat, like, just at my meals instead of grazing all day because that's a slippery slope. Ben  Mm-hmm.Lexi  But, man, there are... Low-calorie food is garbage, except for BOOMCHICKAPOP. That stuff is amazing.Ben  Yeah. Popcorn's great as a snack. You can just eat as much as you want of it. I think we should probably lay down some ground rules since we are talking about food. We are not looking to shame anybody's body types. We have our own body types. I have previously described mine as being pancake batter in a Ziploc bag. [Lexi laughs] And that's not what we're gonna do, so if we're talking a little bit, and we're hitting some stuff like talking about body type, or the way we eat and stuff, we're just discussing food for the love of food and--Lexi  YeahBen  --and our own issues with how we approach it, and we are not looking to give anybody a vibe or, you know, make anyone feel bad about their approach to food. You love to eat? Eat as much as you want. Do what you gotta do. Lexi  Yeah, this is a celebration. Ben  Do what makes you happy. A celebration of food. Lexi  We're celebrating food, and I'd like to also say, a celebration of local food, because I think, sometimes, people have this image of Alberta being like, "Ah, you all like beef out there." I'm like, "Yeah, but there's also lots of really amazing other food here," so this is a celebration of all things food, today.Ben  I love it. I love food. Where do we go from here? What is your favorite food? Let's talk about it.Lexi  Ooh. Okay, so I have two different favorite foods, and there's like, my favorite meal. Like, if I was gonna have, like, one last meal, what I would cook, and then there's like my secret gross foods that I think people, like if they hear me, they're like, "That's disgusting. I'm gonna go home and try it just to make sure."Ben  Okay, I think we have to do this through different categories here. Lexi  Yeah.Ben  I want, first, last meal. What would you eat? What would be the last thing? You have finally done it. You have-- you've committed that crime that you've been considering for so long. [Lexi laughs] You finally decided it was time, and you got caught. You were sloppy. You weren't good at the crime. You thought about it a lot, but not how to execute it. Poor choice. So you're caught now. You're on death row, in the US, I guess, 'cause we don't fuck with that here.Lexi  Yeah, we don't execute people in Canada.Ben  So yeah, [chuckling] you've moved to the US at some point to commit this crime. [Lexi laughs] This crime of passion, I assume, and yeah, you're on death row. Last meal, what is it?Lexi  Okay, I thought about this a lot. First of all, I was actually going through my cookbooks to decide [chuckling] which my meal would be.Ben  Oh, that's great. Lexi  And I think my appetizer for my last meal would be the yam fries and miso gravy from The Coup, which is a local vegetarian restaurant here in Calgary, and they released this cookbook of their vegetarian food, like years ago - they probably have a newer one - but I bought it specifically to get their miso gravy recipe, and it's the one fucking thing they don't have the whole book, so that pissed me off. But, I have cooked almost every single thing in here, and I would say, that would be my appetizer of my last meal. Ben  Okay.Lexi  It's delicious. Yam wedges with delicious warm miso gravy. So good. Then, I would have my mom's Caesar salad 'cause she makes it just so delicious.Ben  What does your mom do that's different?Lexi  Um, she makes a dressing from scratch, and she gets, like, these really high-quality anchovies, and like mushes them into a paste with a mortar and pestle.Ben  Oh, my god. I want your mom's Caesar now. Lexi  Oh, I'll bring it for you. It's so good. Like, she makes a vat of it.Ben  I love anchovies.Lexi  Oh my god. It's my favorite. And she just puts like a shit-ton of lemon juice in it. It's just so, so refreshing and delicious. So, I would have my mom's Caesar salad, and then, in the old Lexi household, my mom is an amazing cook. She, like, she was a Home Ec teacher a million years ago. I mean, 10 years ago, 'cause she's so young and vibrant.Ben  [laughs] Does your mom listen to this?Lexi  No, but you know, I wanna be respectful. She's, you know...Ben  Sure yeah.Lexi  She's a young babe. But she just-- she's such an incredible cook. But, I love lasagna, but lasagna takes 8 million years to make, so she makes something called "pseudo-lasagna", which is just what we called it, where it's like a ziti, like a stovetop-- you just put noodles and sauce and cheese and meat and shit in a pot. Ben  Yeah, yeah.Lexi  And that's my favorite 'cause she lets the sauce sit for just hours. It's so, so delicious, so I'd have that, and then, as my final dessert, I would have a really nice coffee 'cause I like a good coffee, and then I would have mocha cake from the Glamorgan Bakery.Ben  Wow, you're just pulling out all the locals here. Lexi  'Cause they're so good! Okay, if no one knows about Glamorgan Bakery, I almost don't wanna tell you because it's so popular.Ben  This is a good time to let you know that most of our listeners aren't in our city or even our country. Lexi  That's why I have to explain it to them. Okay, so American listeners, because apparently that's where a lot of you are, and Western Australia--Ben  And the UK and Sweden. Welcome. Lexi  Yeah, welcome foreign--Ben  Dignitaries.Lexi  --outside people. We love you. [both laugh]Lexi  Four of the best--Ben  Yeah.Lexi  There's this bakery and it is-- like, it hasn't changed from, like, I'm gonna say 1965. Like, it is dingy inside, but my god, they make the best food, and they're known for a cheese bun to the point that, like, a local weatherman, as his Halloween costume, dressed up as a cheese bun one year for Halloween.Ben  We have a sort of, hip... It's a drug mart/grocery/record store/...Lexi  Ice cream dispensary?Ben  Post office/ice cream place/coffee shop called Luke's in our city, and their big announcement recently was that they're carrying now Glamorgan Bakery cheese buns for those in the know.Lexi  That shit, like it sells out.Ben  So you have to get there early and pick those up.Lexi  That's what I ask for, for my birthday every year, is cheese buns. My mom just goes and buys me like a couple of bags of cheese buns 'cause they freeze well.Ben  That's pretty cool. I have now decided I'm gonna take my son to a bakery tomorrow morning. [chuckling]Lexi  You know what the great thing is? You can try some mocha cake because they have-- they're not even pieces of cake that you can buy individually. They just have, like-- they're like bite-size, brownie-sized pieces of cake so you just a little bit.Ben  Nice. Just cake bites. Lovely. And that rounds out the meal.Lexi  Yeah, that's my meal. That's my meal of, "I'm about to die."Ben  And now you're dead. Lexi  Yep, now I'm dead, probably from all the cholesterol.Ben  Oh, who do you have come in to redo your last rites? What-- what religion?Lexi  I was raised Protestant. I couldn't tell you which kind. Um, the sarcastic Protestants? Which one is that? I don't know.Ben  I mean, sure. Yeah. No, I am familiar with them, myself. My dad was Protestant, my mom was Baptist, and I am nothin'.Lexi  Yeah, I'm nothin'. I think I'd probably have like-- I'd say goodbye to John. Ben  Will Shortz. Lexi  Maybe-- you know what I would do is I would have Ashley Shaw come read to me from the book of "The Flying Spaghetti Monster". Ben  Oh, nice.Lexi  Just because I'd wanna say goodbye to her because I think she'd be like, "Nah, you're fine. You got this." Ben  Yeah, yeah.Lexi  "You'll be okay."Ben  Hey, get back to us. Let us know what's on the other side. And now you're dead. Sorry about that.Lexi  Yeah. Get out of there. What about you?Ben  [chuckles] I'll keep it simple. I would have shepherd's pie. I don't know from where exactly or exactly whose, but it would be some form of shepherd's pie, maybe the most expensive one I could find, like Wagyu beef or something. So, like, yeah. I just want a nice comforting--Lexi  I was gonna ask, like, "Are you a lamb person?"Ben  Yeah, ah, right. So we should get into, just very briefly, the difference between shepherd's pie and cottage pie, which is the meat that you use, and not everyone knows that, and it also, I don't think matters anymore. Just call it all shepherd's pie. Who cares? It's all shepherd's pie. But yeah, I'm into lamb. I'm into turkey ones. I'm into beef. I think the layering of the meat and the vegetables, and the mashed potatoes is just the most magical combination. You get one slice of that and it's a full, proper meal all on its own. It's so fucking comforting. That would be a way I could say goodbye to the world is with a big piece of well-made shepherd's pie. Little bits of gravy. Lexi  Do you put ketchup on it?Ben  I have been known to put ketchup on it. I'm not-- I'm not above that. I generally think a good shepherd's pie can, you know, stand on its own with just gravy, but if you wanna throw ketchup on there, do it. If you want some of that sugary tomato jam, go for it.Lexi  My grandma used to make a shepherd's pie, but instead of mashed potatoes, she would make dumplings and put them on top. Ben  Mmm. Like, biscuit dumplings?Lexi  Yeah, but like not... I don't even know how to describe it because they were more doughy than bready.Ben  Yeah, yeah, just like a proper, actual, like the soup dumpling or something, your sort of Pan-Euro, North American food. I get you.Lexi  So, my mom's side of the family is Scottish, and there're all these like, kind of, nuanced, like, little bits of like Scottish history in the food that has been, like, bastardized by Canadian... As like-- probably all of Canada's just like a bastardization of where we've all come from, unless you're indigenous, and then you're the true people of Canada.Ben  That's not sarcastic. We both actually firmly believe that. Lexi  [chuckling] Yeah, we firmly believe that.Ben  We are colonial settlers that are doing our best to figure that shit out, and, yeah. Yeah, that's an interesting thing that I don't think we're maybe prepared to talk about, but it's interesting to at least bring up is sort of the idea of North American indigenous foods from different tribes and stuff like that, and different nations, and, sort of, also how it was informed by the way they were treated by European colonialists, and, like, making certain foods and dishes that became sort of synonymous with different nations, based on the food products they had available from a government that was basically trying to kill them, in Canada, specifically, starve them out. So that's interesting, and it'd be cool to talk about that someday, but today is not that day. But, god, there is such a great history of food with the different nations in this territory.Lexi  So there's this place called Blackfoot Crossing, which is this historical museum in southern Alberta, which is just south of Cluny, and it is this amazing, beautiful cultural center, and I highly recommend everybody go there, especially because the cafeteria, the last time I was there, they had-- I think it was bison burgers on fry bread, and it-- I can still taste it. It was so amazing. Just the fry bread was absolutely incredible, so if ever you are in southern Alberta... People come from all over the world to go to Banff, which is awesome, but if you're in Alberta, do yourself a favor, and head out to Blackfoot Crossing and see the amazing center there, and eat the food.Ben  Yeah. Good tip. Good travel tip. Next. I love it. Let's keep going. What are we talking about next? We're both dead now from eating delicious food. Okay, what's the thing that you eat that you think is absolutely disgusting and vile that nobody else would like?Lexi  Your gross food.Ben  It doesn't have to be elaborate. It could just be a snack or something weird. Like, maybe you scoop, powdered iced tea by the teaspoon and just shove in your mouth. Lexi  Is that? Is that what you do?Ben  I'm not saying I've done that. I don't do that. I may have done that in the past. I don't currently do that. I am an adult, and I don't have to tell you.Lexi  [laughs] "Look, and I don't wanna talk about it anymore." [laughs]Ben  It might have been something I did as a younger person. [chuckles]Lexi  I think that I have like four, and two of them are just like, "Oh, are you an adult or are you eight?" and then the other two, I think, are like more legitimately gross, but I'm like, "This is my comfort food."Ben  Okay. I came with one, but I'm really curious to see if I get inspired by any of yours, so let's hit 'em.Lexi  Okay.Ben  Rapid fire. Lexi  We'll start with the not-so-gross one. I love a good saltine cracker. Actually, growing up, I would go-- No, no, no. I'm not done yet. You put shit on the saltine. It's not just the cracker.Ben  Okay. For the listeners, I made a bit of a motion and facial expression that suggested that there was nothing weird about eating a saltine cracker. Lexi  No.Ben  Except that it's basic and boring. [chuckles] There's nothing wrong with it.Lexi  My grandma used to put margarine on the saltine crackers for me. She'd be like, "Ah, here you go." Okay, but not that.Ben  All right.Lexi  So, a saltine cracker with just tons of peanut butter and then chocolate chips. That's like my, "I'm sad, and I wanna eat something."Ben  I like that. Lexi  It's so good.Ben  I don't think that's gross. I'm with you. I used to make little sandwiches out of peanut butter and jam on saltine crackers, and I'd make a whole plate of them, just a little tray when I was a kid, still living at home, and it was just like my beautiful little snack, and I was gonna munch those while I watched a cartoon or something. Lexi  Those are my Calvin and Hobbes snacks. Like, while I was reading the comics, I would eat my chocolate peanut butter saltines. Num-num-num-num. So delicious.Ben  I love it. I think it's beautiful, and I don't think it's gross. I'm passing judgment on your choices.Lexi  We should make the food and then do, like, a little photoshoot for everybody. Mm-hmm.Ben  We should. We can make a shitty cookbook. Lexi  So, number two, and this is my sister. I'm calling out Megan because she and I used to do this together. 'Cause my parents both worked, like, serious-people, adult jobs when we were growing up, and so, we would have to, like, cook food for ourselves all the time, but we were like gross teenagers.Ben  Were you a proverbial latchkey kid?Lexi  Yes. 100% So we would be like, "I don't know. What are we gonna eat?" So here's what you eat, is you grate some marble cheese, okay? Just the Co-op-brand marble cheese into a giant pile, put it in a little bowl, and then pour pasta sauce right out of the jar, right on top of it. Ben  Whoa.Lexi  Now you're gonna microwave that bad boy.Ben  Wow. I was-- I thought I knew where this was going, and it was to the microwave.Lexi  It's to the microwave because that's how latchkey kids cook.Ben  I did not ever put pizza sauce on my-- or tomato sauce, or pasta sauce on my cheese though. I would microwave it and just eat it and it was always that big block from Co-op.Lexi  Oh yeah, the big block from Co-op but then-- so then you have like a cheesy tomato-ey mess, and then you eat it, again with the saltines or Ritz crackers, Breton crackers or Stoned Wheat Thins. Any type of cracker will do.Ben  Ooh! Somebody was fancy with their four types of crackers.Lexi  I like a charcuterie. I don't know.Ben  We should try to get a saltine sponsorship from Nabisco or whoever, or Mr. Christie, whoever the fuck--Lexi  Oh, my god. Yes.Ben  Yeah. Let's do a photoshoot of...Lexi  [laughing] Of our saltine crackers. Ben  Yeah, I'm not joking.Lexi  Ooh, all the different ways you can use a saltine.Ben  And also, if you're listening to this and you have a great saltine cracker recipe, I want you to 100% message us on social media or email us. We want those recipes. I will, at the very least, talk about them or make a list that we share in show notes or something, someday, But yeah, I, 100%, mean it. We're gonna make ourselves a mini little saltine cracker cookbook.Lexi  We're doing it. There was this drag queen that was on RuPaul's Drag Race UK, and all she did the entire season was talk about how much she loves Heinz beans on toast, and sure enough, Heinz decides to sponsor her, and she gets a lifetime supply of canned beans. And she made a comment of like, "This was the plan all along," and so... saltine crackers, nothing can be better than a saltine. Hey, Ben...Ben  We need to be very clear about which brand of saltine cracker we want. [Lexi laughs] The one in the red box. Ben  Yeah, yeah. I think that's Mr. Christie.Lexi  Is that it?Ben  I'm gonna double check.Lexi  We want this delicious, small saltines. They're delicious in a soup. You can have them as a dessert.Ben  You get four giant pillars of them in one red box, and if you're having chicken noodle soup, you crush up half of the package, [Lexi laughs] dump it in till it's just-- it's just a fucking swamp in your bowl and then eat that shit.Lexi  So, more like a stew by the time...Ben  Yeah, a saltine and chicken stew. Yeah, it's Christie's.Lexi  I like to put it in Campbell's-- like, probably their chowders. Delicious. Where it's less soup than it is sludge by the time you have, like, 10 crackers in there.Ben  Yeah. I want some more. Hit me with your next gross one.Lexi  Okay. This is maybe not as gross, but it makes me feel like a toddler every time I eat it, but this is my go-to. I'm having a bad day. I just wanna feel nostalgia. I will boil up a bunch of pasta and then it has to be zesty Italian salad dressing.Ben  Oh, that is weird. I've never heard that one. Lexi  And then I just pour it all over the pasta and then just absolute boatloads of Parmesan cheese.Ben   I'm not even sure I think any of these are gross yet. I think they're all very college.Lexi  I think they're disgusting.Ben  I think they're absolutely like,  "I'm 18 and living on my own for the first time," but... [Lexi laughs]Lexi  I shame-eat the pasta thing. Like, John hates cheese, and so, first of all, he thinks that parmesan, or as I like to call it, sprinkle cheese--Ben  Jesus.Lexi  He thinks it's disgusting.Ben  The stuff that comes out of the can from Kraft? Lexi  Yes. Ben  Yeah, that's not cheese.Lexi  The stuff that... No, it's powdered foot?Ben  I don't know. Probably-- no, it's yes. Powdered, like, you know the stuff you scrape off your feet? The bunions or the whatever, the hard part?Lexi  Yes.Ben  Just put it into a jar. They collect it, and then you shake.Lexi  Then, I eat it.Ben  Smells about the same. [Lexi chuckles] Lexi  That is my go-to.Ben  Now we made it gross.Lexi  Okay, okay, and so--Ben  I love it. It's delicious. Lexi  This is my ultimate gross one, and I have to say, so a good friend of mine is-- he's a produce person at Community Natural Foods, here in Calgary, which is kind of like our version of Whole Foods, I guess you could say.Ben  It's the closest we get. Whole Foods has never really executed on opening a store in our city for some reason. Lexi  I thought they did have one here. Ben  They have had a couple that were supposed to open, and it never ended up happening. Maybe they saw what happened to Krispy Kreme and Target here.Lexi  Or Target, yeah.Ben  Decided they couldn't take that risk.Lexi  I would like to say that I tried my best to keep Target open. I feel like I single-handedly kept a store open here but I mean, there's only so many socks you can buy.Ben  Bright pink. The women's section was where I liked to buy all my socks for a long time, and I do miss it.Ben  Let's keep it local and alienate all our listeners. Go to Byblos Bakery here in Calgary to get your pitas.Lexi  Yeah, I liked the socks there, and pajamas. Oh, I miss Target. Anyway, so my friend Dylan, he is an incredible cook, and so, anytime he's like, "This is a great food combination," I just trust him because everything he's ever made has been absolutely delicious. So one day, he's like, "Just stay with me. It's gonna sound disgusting, but it's so good." So you get a pita, like a whole wheat pita that's like maybe the size of your face. Like, a large one.Lexi  [laughs] Or Lakeview.Ben  Eh, I feel like Byblos is a little more Calgary.Lexi  The gluten-free option. Okay, now we're just arguing about neighborhoods. Anyway. Ben  Good, good podcast. [Lexi laughs]Lexi  It's so accessible to people.Ben  [chuckling] Listen to Lexi and Ben argue about Calgary communities. That's what you came here for, folks. Okay. You get your pita.Lexi  Yeah. Your whole wheat pita and then some type of nut butter, and it can't be sweet. It can't be like a sweet peanut butter. It has to--Ben  Can we stop for just a quick second and appreciate the term "nut butter"?Lexi  Yeah. It's-- it could be an almond.Ben  Let's just sit there for a second.Lexi  [not pausing] It could be cashew.Ben  It's funny. You can't-- you can't say nut butter in a conversation and not just stop to appreciate how funny it sounds. Lexi  You've never worked in an organic food store before because that sentence comes up a lot. [chuckles]Ben  And you don't snicker every single time? Lexi  No, I'm like, "What type of nut butter do you use the most?" [Ben laughs]Ben  Nut butter. [laughs] Maybe you just need somebody more immature around to help you appreciate how silly it sounds.Lexi  Well, it's like truffle butter or whatever that thing. You know what? Okay, so you take a nut butter and a not-sweet one. [Ben laughs] Ben  I can't stop.Lexi  While Ben can't stop giggling, I'm just gonna go on with the recipe 'cause it is delicious. So I, personally, like an almond nut butter, [Ben continues laughing] but, I mean, like you do you. You can use a peanut or cashew.Ben  [stifling laughter] Yeah.Lexi  It just can't be sweet.Ben  [laughing] So, you don't want a sweet nut butter. Is it salty? [still laughing] Lexi  Apparently, in some parts of the world, you can get a spicy nut butter. [Ben laughs heartily] [Lexi, unlaughing] Like, a savory or like a spicy. Ben  [laughing] I'm sorry. I'm gonna actually die. Lexi  [unlaughing] Yeah, Ben's having a cry right now.Ben  Oh, Jesus.Lexi  We're adults here, folks. We like to keep it above board.Ben  [laughing] Okay, you've got your peanut or your nut butter, spicy, apparently.Lexi  [unlaughing] Well, I like just a plain one, like almonds.Ben  [stifling laughter] Okay, okay, okay. I'm good. I've got this.Lexi  So, you got your whole wheat pita, the almond butter, we'll just say, so Ben doesn't peel off into more laughter.Ben  I appreciate it. Thank you. [laughs]Lexi  And then you need kale, like, a dark leafy green like "laciento", "lacento"?Ben  You lost me.Lexi  A dark kale, like dinosaur kale, like a really dark green, and then sauerkraut, like, from the jar.Ben  This is... This is a crime. You just committed a crime.Lexi  It's so good, and then you wrap that bitch up. Ben  This is what you went to death row for. Canada brought it back and put you on it for this crime against culinary...Lexi  Dylan would not steer me wrong. And so, one day he said it and I was like, "That's disgusting," and another guy that I worked with was like, "Nah, I'm doing it," 'cause Dylan has never made a bad meal, and he made it, and was like, "This is legit delicious," and so every so often I make it and I call it, like, my "pregnant woman wrap", and it is so delicious. Sauerkraut, kale, pita, nut butter. Delicious.Ben  Okay, what we're gonna do at some point, along with our saltine cracker recipe, mini recipe book PDF that we're gonna put out for you all, complete with photos, is we're gonna make some sort of small video where Lexi makes me this god-awful, disgusting-sounding thing, and I will put it in my mouth, and we'll see what happens. We will film that reaction.Lexi  And then, when he loves it, I will accept his praise and his apology for giggling like a wee child.Ben  Wait. Why do I have to apologize? That was about nut butter. [laughs] Just said it sounded gross, and you brought it here to me.Lexi  No, you said that I was gonna die because the food was so gross. Ben  Yeah, I did say you committed a crime.Lexi  You just said I deserve death. What's your gross food now?Ben  I don't even know if I have anything anywhere near as bad as yours. Now all of my snacks seem pretty normal. I guess the grossest one is I'll get imitation crab. Lexi  Okay.Ben  Alaskan Pollock, and I'll break it up into a bowl and put like a pat of butter on it. Lexi  Oh.Ben  And melt it and just eat that. Lexi  [pauses] Okay.Ben  It's like eating butter crab, right. Like, I can't eat that. I'm allergic to shellfish, but it's still sort of gross when you think about the idea of just like taking a chunk of butter out of the fridge and putting it on top of imitation crab and microwaving it.Lexi  When we were in college, when we would have, like, late nights out at the old Art Hotel, which was the pub.Ben  You mean the Fart Hotel? [laughs]Lexi  The Fart Hotel 'cause it was the pub called The Art Hole.Ben  The Fart Hole.Lexi  Anyway, you know, you can see how a couple, you know, beautifully-drawn letters...Ben  Graffitied letters.Lexi  Yeah, I would go home, and I was like, "I need something in my stomach to help me you know, not be inebriated."Ben  Yeah, yeah. Lexi  And all-- my mom would just buy me packages of imitation crab at Costco. I lived at home during college, and I would just stand there with the fridge door open and just eat like half a package of imitation crab after a night out.Ben  It's so good. Lexi  It's so good.Ben  Did you ever melt butter on it?Lexi  No. I would dip it in wasabi. Ben  Oh, that's even better. Shit. I'm putting imitation crab on my grocery list. This episode's making me hungry. Lexi  Oh, you know what you get, is a spicy Sriracha mayo.Ben  Ohh, that sounds good. It's like an aioli. Lexi  Yeah. Ben  [laughs] Please write us to let us know what you think of our food choices. [Lexi laughs]Lexi  We are not high right now, also.Ben  [laughing] Oh, my god. I wish. What did I choose? I think that's the grossest thing I got. I can't think of anything else.Lexi  That's weak. I'm ashamed.Ben  I'm sorry. I'm trying, but when I was a kid, I would take, as I mentioned, on occasion, spoonfuls of iced tea powder mix. That's pretty disgusting. Lexi  No, whaaat? That was you?!Ben  [chuckles] This is my dark secret coming out. And I was with you on that melting marble cheese 'cause I used to do the same thing, but I would just eat the melted cheese from a bowl, like some sort of monster. Lexi  Yeah, you need some tomatoes in there to cut that shit.Ben  I don't know. So that's what I got. Nowadays, I just eat like beef jerky if I want a snack. Lexi  Boo. Where's the gross?Ben  Some sort of sort of meat. I know. I feel so disappointed in myself. What's gross? I bet Fiona could come up with something gross that I do. Or eat, I mean. [laughs] She can definitely come up with gross shit that I do, but...Lexi  Some gross shit that you eat. It has to be specific to that.Ben  We should have asked our partners what the most disgusting thing they've seen us eat is.Lexi  Well, John would definitely say the cheese because he thinks all cheese is disgusting, and I love a good blue cheese. Ben  Oh.Lexi  And he's like, "Oh, so you eat mold?" Like, "Yeah, I do. It's delicious."Ben  Yeah, why not? It's not the first time.Lexi  Oh, I went to a cheese party once.Ben  That sounds like it would be delicious, but also trouble for my stomach, long term.Lexi  Well, none of us smelled good for a few days. I'll just put that out there. Ben  That's okay. Lexi  Oh.Ben  Well, this way you don't roll in the cheese.Lexi  One of the girls there, she made-- so she bought Pillsbury, just pastry dough, and a wheel of brie, and then she covered the brie with butter and maple syrup and brown sugar and then wrapped it in the pastry dough and then baked it.Ben  I've made that. It's good. Lexi  Oh, it's so good. Ben  You could also do it where you take a wheel of brie and just dump, like, Kahlúa on it, and then you light it up and then dip crackers in it after the flame goes out.Lexi  I like to put raspberry jam on top of my brie.Ben  I don't know if this is disgusting or not, but I like to put jam in cottage cheese and eat that. Is that weird?Lexi  Eh, that's-- no, 'cause you can - I don't know if you still can - but you used to be able to buy individual cottage cheese things that came with jam.Ben  Right. At the bottom and you're supposed to like mix them up, right?Ben  Yeah, okay. Not weird. I'm sorry. I guess I eat more normal than I thought I did. That brings us to the halfway mark of our show, and, as always, we've got... [both, along with "Who's That Pokémon" theme music] Who's that Pokémon? [only Ben] What do you got for me this week?Lexi  Yeah.Lexi  When last we met, I talked about a wet bag of sand. This time, I'm gonna use a cheese analogy. So imagine... [laughs]Ben  Okay.Lexi  There was a guy at art school who made a bust of Jesus out of Velveeta cheese, and it was called "Cheesus".Ben  "Cheesus", yeah.Lexi  Okay, this individual is-- it's a dark silhouette, but filled with piss and vinegar, and it's like a blue cheese silhouette of a man.Ben  It's like we've never seen Pokémon. Lexi  No. [both laugh]Lexi  And I'm just describing flavors and, I think, shadows. [Ben laughs]Ben  Okay, so we have a dark shadow that tastes like piss and vinegar.Lexi  And blue cheese. [Ben laughs heartily]Ben  And blue cheese. Lovely. Boy, this sounds like something I'll be able to guess.Lexi  Mmm. The silhouette is tall, and it's got a big square for a head and then bunched up shoulders like they're around its neck. Rrr. So grouchy, like this. And then, two little sticks, and that's all I got for you. Who is it, Ben?Ben  I have no fucking clue. Chester the Cheetah?Lexi  I'm disappointed. It's Gordon Ramsay. Come on.Ben  Gordon. [laughing] Oh, Gordon Ramsay. You're right. I should have gotten that silhouette. Gordon Ramsay, as everyone knows, has a very well-designed character silhouette. Lexi  Yeah, it's like a block of cheese. Ben  Known as average white male. [laughs]Lexi  Square head.Ben  Okay, someday I'm gonna take a shot at this and see if I can do any better. I love it. Gordon Ramsay.Lexi  I was really impressed that you got Margaret Atwood last time.Ben  Yeah. Did I? I don't remember.Lexi  I think, eventually, after I kept yelling "bag of sand" at you, and then you were like, "Margaret Atwood?" I'm like, "Yeah!"Ben  All right. Now we have to do the end part of it. [Pokémon theme music] [shouts] It's Gordon Ramsay! [at usual volume] 'Cause they always yell it. I'm gonna send you the clip so you know what "Who's That Pokémon?" is all about. [chuckles]Lexi  I know what--Ben  Oh, I really, actually thought you didn't-- you'd never seen it.Lexi  No, remember, I drew Nurse Joy as one of my characters for Inkto, Ben. [Ben laughs] I have had people message me and be like, "I think you mean October." I'm like, "No, I mean--"Ben  Inktober? Actually, glasses up, like actually, I don't.Lexi  I know what I'm doing.Ben  Check out this cool new hashtag. Only one of the words on the list was misspelled.Lexi  Which is impressive. I mean, that's good. Ben  Welcome back. We are here again after that wonderful break. I got sick a year and a half ago. Lexi  Oh, good from food. Ben  No, I don't know why I got sick. And no doctor that I went to see over the course of however many months was able to help me, and then eventually it stopped. But the point is, during that, I could only eat-- like, basically, chicken noodle soup and saltine crackers were the only-- and Pedialyte, and that was all I ate for like, two and a half, three months, and I lost like 40 pounds, and people kept asking me if I was dying. That's a good anecdote, right?Lexi  Oh, I've got a good one. Like, one time, it was Christmas Eve, and I think John and I had been dating for like, I don't know, a couple of years, still fairly new in the relationship.Ben  Yeah, Fiona and I are 11, and, you know, we got married after seven, so I feel like two is still relatively fresh.Lexi  Yes. Like, who are you, again? John? Yeah, so it was Christmas Eve, and I remember I was at my sister's house, and I was like, "I'm not feeling well," and she was like, "You're fine," and then, I was staying at my parents' house and John was gonna come meet us on Christmas Day, and halfway through the night I just got super, super sick, and this is when I knew he was a keeper because I text him and I was like, "I'm sick. I can't go to Christmas Day anything." Like, it was bad news, and he was like, "Can I bring you anything? Like, I'll come pick you up from your parents' house and I'll take you home," 'cause I was too sick to drive, and he said, "Well, you know, it's Christmas. Like, what's open on Christmas Day?" and especially, like 10 years ago. And I was like, "When I get super, super sick, all I can eat are pizza pops."Ben  Wow.Lexi  Like, cheese, pizza pops. That's like, that's all I can stomach.Ben  I bought some of those recently to see if they're as good as I thought they were as a kid and they're not.Lexi  No, they're sick food for me, so I only eat them when I'm sick. So if I eat them are healthy, I feel like I'm gonna be s-- Like, it's a whole thing.Ben  Wow. That could be a self-perpetuating cycle.Lexi  Oh, yeah, probably. I mean, they're not food. They're just chemicals, but anyw-- well, all food is chemicals.Ben  You eat them. It makes you sick, and then you eat them because that's all you can eat while you're sick, and then you get better so then, you keep eating them. Yeah.Lexi  But I told him, "Like, all I want right now is a pizza pop and ginger ale," and so, god bless that man, he drove around the city looking for an open 7/11 or gas station or whatever, and he came, and he picked me up, and he took me home and he made me pizza pops and ginger ale and for, like, four days, I was sick as a dog. But he fed me pizza pops, and I will love him forever for that 'cause it was so nice of him.Ben  Was it swine flu?Lexi  I think I actually had was it Norwalk or norovirus? I was teaching kindergarten at that time, and I've never been so sick in my life as when I taught kindergarten. Ben  Probably--Lexi  Like, god bless the kindergarten teachers. Oh.Ben  Yeah, it's disgusting. Lexi  Okay, I have to tell you a story and it's not mine, and I hope she'll forgive me for telling this, but it is my favorite food poisoning story.Ben  Is it somebody I know that we should put on blast, or should we bleep their name? Lexi  No. We should bleep their name. Ben  Okay, say it really loud so Jess can bleep it. [simultaneously] Bleep. [bleep] [laughs]  Beeeeep.Lexi  My beloved friend, we used to go for Indian food all the time, and she loves, loves, loves butter chicken. And one time, she went to this place, and she was like, "Yeah, the food was like, it tasted off," and she ate the butter chicken. She was living at home with her parents, and she got wicked, wicked food poisoning, just sick as a dog, and she was throwing up so badly that she couldn't catch her breath. And so, because she couldn't get enough oxygen into her system, like, she was starting to cramp up, so like she was-- like, she couldn't move. She was literally, like, passed out next to the toilet [chuckling] and her mom had to call an ambulance. It's not funny. Ben  Jesus.Lexi  But, her mom had to call an ambulance 'cause it was--Ben  You're laughing a lot for something that's not funny. Lexi  Just stay with me. Ben  Okay, I'm here. [Lexi laughs]Lexi  She's so sick. She's like, "I lit-- it, like, it was awful." The paramedics show up at her parents' house and come into the bathroom and they're like, [in stern voice] "What drugs are you on?" She's like, "Butter chicken." [Ben laughs] [Lexi laughs]Ben  I mean if you haven't ground up and snorted some butter chicken, are you really living?Lexi  Oh. I still, like, that's my fav... Every time I eat butter chicken, I think of her and I'm like, "God, I loved her." [laughs] She was so awesome.Ben  I love it. It's perfect. Lexi  Oh.Ben  We're movin' on. We are talking about your go-to DoorDash order now. Lexi  Ooh.Ben  if you don't want to leave the house and you want someone to bring you food and, in the past, that meant calling a specific place and finding somebody that did delivery. Now, it's as easy as a click of a button, I think is what old people say when they talk about the internet. What do you get? What's your go-to order for DoorDash? What is the thing that is simple, easy, and if you can't think of anything else, you want that?Lexi  Oh, Vietnamese, easily.Ben  Okay, then we get we get a Daily Double. [Jeopardy's Daily Double electronic zapping]. Lexi  Oh, do you also?Ben  Yeah,  Banh Mi. Lexi  Yes. Ben  Yeah, I want a Vietnamese sub if we can't figure out what else we want, don't wanna go super unhealthy. I can convince myself that a Vietnamese sub is pretty good for me.Lexi  I love a good, like, noodle bowl. Delicious. I like noodles at the best of times, so any type of noodle soup, delicious, charbroiled meats--Ben  Sure. Lexi  I like the salad rolls.Ben  You can get three or four meats in one vermicelli bowl. Lexi  Yes. Ben  Why would you not?Lexi  So good. Ben  You get the ball, you get the spring roll, you get the intestines? Lexi  Yep. Ben  And sometimes you get that like charred version of whatever meat it is, as well. I love it. I'll eat it all.Lexi  Hey, speaking of intestine meats, do you hotpot?Ben  I have hotpotted. It isn't something I'd call a regular, but it's good because--Lexi  Okay.Ben  --you just reminded me of something I tried not long ago that I love, and I will continue eating, which is a version of pig intestines that are cooked, sort of deep fried, sort of battered. Lexi  Okay. Ben  They come from a local restaurant. It's a Chinese dish and it is the best. Lexi  I'll try anything. Ben  I have no problem. [Lexi chuckles] Yeah. If you're not allergic to it, why not? Lexi  Well, I mean, again, like I said, my family is Scottish, and so, I don't get the big deal, like when people are like, "Ew, haggis!" I'm like, "Are you eating a hotdog right now? Same thing."Ben  Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I've got no problems with haggis. I've made haggis. Nothing. Nothing wrong with intestine meat, folks. If you're gonna eat an animal, you might as well eat as much of that animal as you can. Lexi  Yeah, make it worth it's... You know, it honors the animal. Ben  Don't be disrespectful to its death. Okay, wait. We never go on tangents, as everyone knows. It's never happened. It will never happen again. Since we're talking food, one of the things that I'm super interested in is lab-grown meat protein. Lexi  Ooh, interesting. Ben  Are you down with that? Lexi  Oh, yeah. Ben  Does it gross you out? Lexi  No. Ben  Right?Lexi  Fuck it. Just do it.Ben  I feel like, if we have a way of making meat protein that we don't have to kill something, why would we not do that?Lexi  I'm all about sustainable agricultural practices and meat pr... Like, if there's a way that we can be cruelty free, and have access to your protein source, do it up. If there's a way that we can sustainably produce food for our massive population?Ben  Mm-hmm.Lexi  Do it. I don't care if it's bugs. I don't care if it's lab-grown.Ben  Vertical farming, yo.Lexi  Yeah. I wish that people would do that more. Ben  I'm probably allergic to bugs, unfortunately. Lexi  How do you know? Ben  I don't know for sure, but I'm too scared to try. I was reading an article about, you know, this sort of advent of bug food and all that, and there was sort of a caveat, at one point, about how people who are allergic to shellfish are--Lexi  Oh!Ben  --more often allergic to bugs, as well, due to a shared protein. Lexi  Okay, I can see that.Ben  And, I am allergic to shellfish so I will die when we all transition to bug food. I will starve.Lexi  Well, my hope is that the people who can eat the bug food, do eat the bug food, so that you can have...Ben  No. All the beef and pork and chicken--Lexi  But, lab grown, right? That seems fine. Like, I don't see what the big deal is. Just eat it.Ben  I've definitely run into folks that I talked about it, and they're like, "I don't trust science, and I'm not gonna eat lab-grown stuff," and I'm like, "Okay."Lexi  Do you remember back in like, the late '80s, early '90s, there was like, an Easy-Bake oven, but it was for gummies.Ben  Yeah, my sisters had one. Lexi  We ate that shit. What's the difference between eating crap like that, or, like, all of the different snack foods?Ben  Oh, we're gonna go on a tangenty tangent, a tangent from our tangent, which is now we're getting into, "Just take the fucking vaccine."Ben  "You don't know what's in it? You don't know what's in that package of Oreos you ate either, but you ate it all. [Lexi laughs] Take the fucking vaccine."Lexi  [frustratedly] Oh.Lexi  Like, "You just pounded a Monster energy drink, You're fine."Ben  Yeah. "You know what all those ingredients are? I don't think you do."Lexi  No.Ben  "So stop coming up with 'scuses. 'Scuses is what I call excuses when I feel angry. [Lexi laughs] Call 'em 'scuses. [Lexi laughs] You know I'm mad when I say 'scuses. Stop coming up with 'scuses and just take the jab. I've done it. Lexi did it. We're fine."Lexi  Yep.Ben  "Everyone's fine."Lexi  We're fine. Ben  "Stop it."Lexi  If anything, I feel stronger. Ben  I feel better, and my Wi-Fi has never been better.Lexi  I just like being able to eat in a restaurant. Ben  Yeah.Lexi  Like, go do things. Like, be a part of society again.Ben  I'm still holding back a bit because I've got a two year old who cannot get vaccinated at this point and a soon-to-be infant, and I have to be ultra-cautious, and...Lexi  Yeah.Ben  I would be lying to myself if I said my lifestyle had really changed at all since before I had kids or was... I've always been a shut-in misanthrope, so...Lexi  I will say, like, we're homebodies at the best of time, so, like, I've gone to friends' houses less, and we've eaten out maybe five times in the past year?Ben  Yeah, seeing less friends means, instead of two to three times a year, it's been once, from a distance.Lexi  Yeah. You're just waving across the parking lot at somebody.Ben  Okay, the lab-grown meat brings us to an ethical quandary, which is, would you eat extinct animals if they could grow that meat in a lab?Lexi  Mmm, that's a great question.Ben  So they found some genetic data and they're able to, you know, bring us a dodo. Just, they can't make the dodo live again, but they can bring us dodo protein. We can find out what that dodo tasted like. Would you do it?Lexi  Okay, so here's the thing about me. I feel like fancy foods are wasted on me. As we have heard, I garbage trash, so someone coming to me and being like, "Oh, this very fancy, like Wagyu beef," I'm like, "Arg, I can't tell." Like, one time, my uncle gave John and I like a sip of whiskey from this, like, it was like a super fancy, really old, like, $1,000 bot-- like, I don't know. I was like, "It tastes like burning. I don't know."Ben  Yeah. Lexi  Like, fancy things are wasted on me.Ben  I'm the same with coffee.Lexi  Yeah, coffee is coffee is coffee.Ben  I love coffee. I used to be a huge coffee snob. You have a kid and see how long that lasts. You know what I drink now? No Name brand instant coffee and I fucking love it. It's fine.Lexi  I know. I've had it. [laughs] Every time I go out, and I find instant coffee. I think of you guys. I'm like, "Oh, I should buy this for Ben and Fiona."Ben  No, see, when you were by, you had fancy Nescafe, and then I found out all the ethical issues with that company.Lexi  Yes. Then you stopped wanting to buy it.Ben  Yeah, and now we get No Name brand, which is an actual name of a brand from Superstore chain here where we live, and it's about as cheap and unassuming as you can get, and that's what I drink now, and it's fine. I have no problems with it. I've lost... [Lexi laughs] I've lost any sort of foodie snobbery that I used to have. It's gone.Lexi  Years and years ago, we went to Amsterdam for Christmas-- or, no, for New Year's Eve, and it was awesome. Best New Year's Eve ever, but a friend of ours who booked the trip, he asked his credit card company, for some reason, to-- he was on the phone like, "Hey, just so you know, my credit card hasn't been stolen. I'm going to Amsterdam. By the way, do you have any recommendations?" And the person was like, "Yeah, there's this really awesome Japanese restaurant. If you want, I'll book it for you," and he was like, "Yeah, for sure." And so, we wound up going to this restaurant. I couldn't tell you the name of it. Later on, we found out it was like this three-star Michelin Japanese restaurant, and I don't know. I just went and I was like, "This. Bring me this food. I don't know."Ben  That's a great, like, chunk of this story is the fanciest place you've ever eaten, and it sounds like that was it.Lexi  Oh, it was so fancy. Ben  The three-star Japanese place that you can't remember the name of.Lexi  I'll find it. It was, to this day, the best food I've ever had in my life. There was, like, wine pairings with everything. It was, like, six courses or something. Everything was like the size of a loony.Ben  Yeah.Lexi  Just absolutely tiny. I had to have-- a person came and explained to you how to eat the food, and it was unbelievable. What's the fanciest food you've ever had?Ben  So we went to Italy--Lexi  Ooh.Ben  --for a book festival. I got to tag along with Fiona, and we were there for, it's called Luca. That's the name of a town and the name of the festival. It's a comic book festival. Huge deal there. But we flew into Milan and we're jet lagged as F. I don't know what time it is. The lighting's all weird. We crossed like the famous, like, Milan Canal and it's drained and full of garbage 'cause apparently, they were doing some sort of construction work somewhere along the line. I'm like, "What the fuck is happening? Where am I? What's going on?" And then, our hosts take us into this beautiful tiny, little hole-in-the-wall restaurant, and it's like one of those, what are they called now? The arch where they start, like, doing funny food with, like, the intent of it being more like scientific. Why can't I remember this word?Lexi  Gastro?Ben  Gastro... something. Yeah, I got the gastro. I don't know what the other part is.Lexi  The fancy food. The sciency.Ben  Yeah.Lexi  The science people make the food.Ben  Yeah, they were doing that sort of thing. Yeah, we have these beautiful meals. They're just fantastic. I have no idea where we are. I'm just like this, like, boorish, slovenly-looking north American person who's just like dazed and confused, and yeah. It turns out, he's like, "Did you enjoy the food?" our host, and I'm like, "Yeah. It's great. It's lovely." And he's like, "This is a Michelin-starred restaurant. It's like one of the best in Milan," and I was like, "Oh, okay."Lexi  Cool. Ben  And I feel like I wasn't adequately appreciative enough, and then they brought out this strawberry-- or no, wait, wait, wait, wait. They brought out what looked like a strawberry or tomato. I can't-- you can tell how jetlagged I was.Lexi  Oh, it was a red thing. Ben  Yeah, and I tried to eat it, and then it all, sort of like, evaporated in on itself and melted down, and it was like a dessert cream or something. It was insane. And it was also like a fever dream. And then we went to this weird old church that was converted into a hotel and slept in a room, and I didn't know where I was or what was happening so I just played on my DS, [chuckles] and couldn't fall asleep.Lexi  Like a true Canadian. [chuckles] There was one restaurant we went to, 'cause we drove to San Francisco, maybe like 10 years ago, eleven, whatever. We drove to San Francisco, and we went to this place 'cause John went down there 'cause, when he was working for Apple, he was at Cupertino for a bit, and he took me to this restaurant called Scoma's, and it was a place where like, there's pictures of JFK eating there, you know, like, and Marilyn Monroe, one of those types of places where the waiters are like 70.Ben  Legacy.Lexi  And it is probably the best seafood I've ever had in my life. Like, I had ravioli with like a big lobster tail and, like, the place where they the boats come and drop off the fish is like 10 feet away from the restaurant. Ben  Mm-hmm. Lexi  Oh.Ben  All the best meals I've had are at restaurants I can't remember the names of.Lexi  This is the only one where I'll remember it. Scoma's. So good. Ben  Yeah, getting to tag along on book tours and that sort of thing, I've been to just a wild variety of restaurants in places that I just can't remember.Lexi  Ooh, I've got a question.Ben  Hit me.Lexi   If you were going to travel to any country for cuisine, where would you go?Ben  I think it's France, for me. I think that's been... Well, hold up. You asked if I could travel somewhere to try the cuisine, not where I'd go back to if-- Like, what my favorite cuisine I think is, generally speaking, French cooking.Lexi  Interesting.Ben  My favorite experiences, generally speaking, have been in France. It's been just lovely going there. Lexi  Oh.Ben  The food is fantastic. The people are lovely. I think they get a bad rap overall. [both laugh] They're all dressed lovely, though, and I always feel like

We go on-site at the Sagamore Hotel with our first podcast after the beginning of the Covid Pandemic last March. It's good to be back (with safety measures in place) speaking face to face with the curators and select artists showing work up at the historic Art Hotel during the 2020 Miami Art Week and into 2021. Listen to Grela Orihuela, Maggy Cuesta, and Gabrielle Neuman along with artists Gavin Perry, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, Beatriz Monteavaro, and Miami newcomer Joyce Billet.

Jason Thiel chats with Haydee Thompson, owner of the Wherehouse Art Hotel, to learn her story, the history of the building and what makes the hotel such a special part of downtown See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We meander the Wharves of Brisbane, under the story bridge we discover an Art Hotel, Brewery, Cocktail Bar & Eateries.

We discuss how everyday people power significant social movements, Art Hotel, race & space, No Permission Fund, Beats, Rhymes & Cities, and why we should invest in hope.

This weeks episode was spent with Burtney at the beautiful and unique FOUND:RE Hotel Phoenix. You may think that you need to go to LA or New York to experience a true ‘art hotel’ but you’d be wrong. This boutique hotel is located in downtown Phoenix just off the Central and Roosevelt light rail station. It holds a uniquely Arizona feel that draws its inspiration from the Roosevelt art district it resides in. We had the pleasure of spending time with catering sales manager Julie Whyman and art curator Michael Oleskow. Both have been with the hotel since its inception and took time with us to tell the story and vision of the FOUND:RE hotel. The hotels desire is for its guests to ‘find yourself’ while on property. You can be found through the delicious food and drink at MATCH, the modern and inviting rooms, and of course the beautiful art throughout the entire property. The attention to detail throughout the resort is evident and you’ll notice that even the bathrooms, conference space, and storage rooms all have names uniquely FOUND:RE. Even the room numbers are custom designed and unique to each room. Mike has done a marvelous job of accumulating and displaying art with each piece being sourced from an Arizona artist. This supports not only the beauty of the hotel but also the local art scene and economy. Plus, if you happen to find an art piece that you ‘find yourself’ in Mike will arrange a personal meeting with the artist and accommodate a purchase of the art so you can display it at home. Whether you’re looking for the next spot for a night out, staycation, or vacation in Phoenix you would be remiss if you did not ‘find yourself’ at the FOUND:RE Hotel. Special Guests: Julie Whyman and Michael Oleskow.

Today’s Extraordinary Women Radio Guest is Barbara Brooks, the co-founder of the #SecondActBizCon, a Business+Lifestyle Event For and By Women Over 40 being held in Denver March 21-23. This conference is for women in their 40s and 50s who are wanting to start their second… third or even fourth act in life and business. There’s going to be all kinds of stories being told on women stepping into their own second acts – the conference includes high-level breakout tracks, panel and audience discussions, deep dives, hands-on workshops, and socials with like-minded GenX and boomer women. I can’t wait! In our interview we dive into a topic that we’re both passionate about – Your Next Chapter! We talk about how to take courage to step into your next career shift and embrace the fear that is there in when you're starting all over again! (and why it's so amazing when you do!) Barbara is a a 28-year company marcom aficionado turned accidental entrepreneur. She’s a powerhouse community leader, a dynamic speaker and a die-hard philanthropist living the next phase of her life with purpose and vision. Yep – my kind of woman! Her mission is to authentically inspire women to win big and boldly at work and everywhere in between. Her career spans the shopping center and broadcast industries – winning several awards for her work as a senior-level marketer and business development manager. She oversaw business growth and sponsorship sales of regional and super-regional malls and a downtown shopping and entertainment district spanning from Texas, New York and Las Vegas, Nevada to Denver’s own, Park Meadows Retail Resort. Seeking change, she took a detour into broadcast business development for I Heart Radio (formerly Clear Channel), CBS Radio and Gannett Broadcasting. Starting her ‘second act’ at 51, her new multiplatform communications agency, BloomCo Presents produces women’s business education and social programs with flair and savvy. Delivering on women’s advocacy and community, the two-pronged approach focuses on the newly coveted woman over 40 years-young and it’s all starting with her #SecondAct BizCon coming to Denver, March 21-23, 2019. If you’ve been thinking about your what’s next in life and business… and really ready to #RaiseUP how you’re living life out loud, then you’re going to want to join us next week at #SecondActBizCon on March 21-23 at the Art Hotel. Use the promotional code Kami40 and get $40 off registration! And let me know you’re coming! Let’s meet Barbara Brooks! To learn more about Barbara Brooks, the Co-Founder of #SecondActBizCon - A Business+Lifestyle Event For and By Women Over 40, visit their website or you can follow her on any of her social channels, including Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. Let’s meet… my friend… Barbara Brooks Barbara-Brooks-Show-Notes

Milwaukee is getting a new creative hub called the Saint Kate Arts Hotel. The hotel will serve as a place for people to spend the night in the city while also being exposed to Milwaukee's diverse art scene.

Milwaukee is getting a new creative hub called the Saint Kate Arts Hotel. The hotel will serve as a place for people to spend the night in the city while also being exposed to Milwaukee's diverse art scene.

Dorte Eggertsen fra teatret Art Hotel fortæller om den kreative proces. Art hotel arbejder med musik og video som bærende elementer i deres forestillinger - men hvordan går man egentlig til arbejdet når man skal skabe en musikforestilling. Se Art Hotels hjemmeside: www.arthotel.dk

Discover more tech podcasts like this: Tech Podcast Asia. Produced by Pikkal & Co - Award Winning Podcast Agency. Yu "Taz" Tazawa is the co-founder of BnA (Bed n Art) - a concept hotel Japan. BnA provides guests with ability to live inside and experience installation art. Local artists who need exposure design and create the rooms around unique themes, themes which guests love. BnA has already been featured by a number of Japanese TV programs, as well as in Elle Decor magazine who rated them as one of the 3 hotel experiences you "must try" in Japan. We also discussed the challenges of entrepreneurship in Japan and also the relevance of Taz's multicultural background in giving him the confidence to thrive in unknown environments.

California Groundbreakers and Comstock's Magazine partnered up to present "Innovation City" at the CLARA auditorium on January 23, 2017. **** Before he left office, former Mayor Kevin Johnson put a plan in place to jumpstart Sacramento's innovation economy. That includes investing $1 million in local companies via the city’s RAILS grant program, which stands for Rapid Acceleration, Innovation and Leadership. So what's next? If Sacramento wants to succeed in becoming an innovation hub, what needs to happen now? Mayor Darrell Steinberg, kicked off the talk with his hopes and plans for jump-starting innovation in Sacramento. Then a moderated Q&A with some RAILS grant winners and other innovators about how they're helping to turn Sacramento into an innovation city. PANELISTS * Brian Collins, chief advisor to the accelerator program at I/O Labs, which received a $250,000 RAILS grant * Alona Jennings, co-founder of Operation Innovate, a program that gives digital badge certification in STEM careers to Sacramento's underserved youth, and just received a $50,000 RAILS grant * Vaibhav Nadgauda, managing partner at Moneta Ventures -- one of Sacramento's few venture capital firms, Moneta recently announced it would give $60,000 each to 20 startups in I/O Labs' new accelerator program. * Clay Nutting, food- and arts-focused entrepreneur -- he helped put Lowbrau, TBD Fest and Art Hotel on the map; his latest efforts include Art Street, which just got $25,000 from the Mayor's Innovation & Growth Fund * Crystal Strait, senior advisor to Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg -- she helped set up the Mayor's Innovation & Growth Fund, as well as the City of Sacramento's Creative Economy Initiative, which includes funding for local arts, food and tech initiatives. * Eric Ullrich, co-founder and chief operating officer of Hacker Lab, which offers office space, tools and training for makers and entrepreneurs in Sacramento, Rocklin, and soon in Rancho Cordova PODCAST TIMEFRAME * 0 to 5 minutes - Allison Joy of Comstock's magazine and Vanessa Richardson of California Groundbreakers do their intros * 5 minutes - Mayor Darrell Steinberg gives his vision of innovation in Sacramento * 10 minutes - Panelists introduce themselves * 23 min - What are MOFIE and RAILS? * 29:50 min - I/O Labs got a $250,000 grant form the City -- its plans for what to do with all that money * 37 min - Hacker Lab's vision for a "Fab City" * 44:30 min - Where's the venture capital funding going to in Sacramento? * 47:50 min - Getting the diversity and youth of Sacramento into STEM training and careers * 52 min - Tying together innovation in tech, food and the arts * 58 min - Besides funding, what should the City's role be in innovation? * 1 hr, 2:10 min - Can Sacramento be the capital of GovTech? * 1 hr, 10:20 min - The private sector's role in Sacramento innovation * 1 hr, 16:30 min - Silicon Valley: How should Sacramento work with it, and how should it stand on its own? * 1 hr, 19:20 min - The City's efforts to recruit companies from elsewhere * 1 hr, 22:20 min - How about funding for tech infrastructure? And tech education in the schools? * 1 hr, 27:25 min - What incentives can Sacramento provide to keep talent here and not moving away? * 1 hr, 32:20 min - The Digital Badge program: replacement for a college degree? * 1 hr, 35:45 min - How state regulations could hinder innovation * 1 hr, 41 min - How can citizens support -- and track -- RAILS grant winners' efforts? And . . .drones! * 1 hr, 44:15 min - How can state government more effectively recruit innovators? And what areas there are most ripe for innovation? * 1 hr, 49:50 min - Public and private support for funding companies that have race and gender diversity * 1 hr, 54:20 min - Where are the black people in the tech community here? * 1 hr, 58:55 min: I have a revolutionary tech idea . . . where do I go around here to get it off the ground? 2 hr - Introducing the 15 RAILS grant winners *

"We said at the time, 'this is either gonna be commercial suicide or this is our Dark Side of the Moon'." As anyone who knows me can attest...I am a huge Bauhaus and Love & Rockets fan. I have been since I was a teen. I had the fortunate occassion to interview David J last year on this very podcast and I described it best back then: "Everybody has that one band. That band that you discovered in your teens that made you realize music can mean more to a person than mere beat and melody. That band that helps you discover who you are. That band that soundtracks your adolescence and thus your entire life. For me, that band was Bauhaus." So of course, you can imagine my excitement when I learned that Daniel Ash and Kevin Haskins were slated to stop in Denver for a Lipgloss DJ set. They graciously agreed to a meeting at the Fire Lounge in the Art Hotel on Broadway for a special edition taping of Behind The Scene on COScene! We had an amazing talk about their histories in music, the incredible L&R album 'Hot Trip to Heaven' (which was an album ahead of its time), Dave Clark 5, creativity vs. technical skill, coffee table books, stripping down songs to their elements, motorcycles, upcoming projects and so so so much more. This was a fun one for sure! Check out an article where Kevin Haskins outlines his new book coming out this Fall! Also check out Daniel's wonderful album, "Stripped" where he reimagines classic Bauhaus, Love & Rockets and Tones on Tail hits. Listen above and as always, subscribe direct on iTunes and RSS. This episode was graciously sponsored by Renegade Brewing Company! Visit their taproom on 9th and Santa Fe or pick up their wonderful assortment of beer at any local liquor store.

3. Candace Duran, director of sales for the Art Hotel in Denver.

Vecka 11 / Vårkänsla! Mellan Kalmar & Växjö! Jonatan sätter sig ned med Niklas Karlsson på Kosta Boda Art Hotel och pratar öl & bourbon. Det blir mycket prat om ljus öl, cykler kring "klubb-öl" och något av en genomgång av populära ölers nutidshistoria i restaurang och bar-sammanhang. Plus att det som vanligt blir en massa övrigt bra snack. Stort tack för att ni lyssnar. Med Jonatan Östblom Smedje Klippning : David Holm Grafik : Erik Lindahl