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Ana Alfaro is a Corporate Citizenship Program Manager & Hispanic Media Relations at Eversource Energy. She has over 25 years of diverse experience in various aspects of public, media, and community relations, event management, and television production. In her current position she manages the company's volunteer engagement opportunities and employee giving programs. Ana Alfaro is the producer and host of El Show de Analeh, a weekly program on the Univision network and UniMas. Ana describes El Show as “a dream production turned into a successful reality.” Since 2007, the program has informed, empowered, and entertained the diverse Latino community in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts. El Show de Analeh airs Saturdays at 11:00am, Univision's local channels. The show is produced in partnership with Capital Community College. Ana is currently a board member for Trinity College Center for Caribbean Studies, Capital Community College Foundation, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford Public Library & Hartford Economic Development Corporation. Together with a small group of community leaders, she was instrumental in ensuring that the Frog Hollow community will benefit from a new library on Park Street, the heart of the Latino community. Ana has received many awards, including Junta for Progressive Action, Hispanic Health Council, Madre Latina, Boy Scouts of America, Bright Future Youth Center, Leadership Greater Hartford Polaris, Malta House Wonder Woman and CBM Mujer Imparable. Ana holds a Bachelor's degree in Communications Media Studies from Post University. A native of Honduras, Ana is the proud mother of Bobby and Bianca, both of who are half Puerto Rican. Ana's work as journalist and community activist has been in the service of the equal rights of Puerto Ricans and all Latino communities alike.

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Bruno Zacchini is best known in Orlando as the owner of Pizza Bruno, but he did not always have a love for pizza. “Pizza was always like an afterthought for me, especially in the restaurant world,” Zacchini said. “I didn't like doing it. I'll be honest, I didn't have any joy of doing it or whatever.” That started to change for Zacchini when he was working as a chef consultant for Third Wave Cafe in New Smyrna Beach. “The owners are like, ‘Hey, we want to do crepes in the morning and woodfired pizza at night,'” he said. “I was like, ‘OK, you're gonna make some good pizza. And that's the focus,' because originally, that's all they wanted to do. But as you know, New Smyrna grew and the place got well known and better known, they want to expand the menu — and we did over time — but the pizza, I really enjoyed it.” At the time, Zacchini was living in College Park, and the daily commute became a major chore. So, in 2015, Zacchini started doing pop-ups around Orlando. He almost set up a space in the Mills 50 area, but it ultimately fell through. It wasn't until February 2016 that a space would ultimately become available in the Curry Ford West neighborhood. “I had a very little amount of money — like a scary small amount, which I look back I was like, ‘What was I thinking?'” Zacchini said. “(I) financed everything to the hilt and took some crazy interest rates to get some things done, but I opened and I had no intentions other than making pizza how I wanted to.” Pizza Bruno has since become an institution in the Curry Ford West neighborhood. Zacchini recently expanded his business, opening a second location in Orlando's College Park. The new location serves a slightly different kind of pizza, more akin to a New Jersey-style pie. Zacchini also has his sights set on opening a new restaurant just a few doors down from his second location. “We're doing a donut shop right now,” he said. “I happen to be there and we're building out the College Park store which is now open but graffiti junction actually got rid of I guess this extra seating space but it used to be a restaurant.” Zacchini reached out to the landlords and they liked his idea. Zacchini is now working to open Dizzy Donuts. The idea is to sell hot cake donuts, just like the kind he finds when he visits New Jersey, which is where his wife is from and where Zacchini spent many of his summers growing up. “They have a couple places (in New Jersey) that do these hotcake donuts,” he said. “So originally, one of the first places (my wife) brought me to was Frog Hollow which is not on the boardwalk. It's like in this in the backwoods. You wouldn't even know it's there. It's like this little hobbit house but they do hotcake doughnuts. They're delicious.” In addition to doughnuts, Zacchini wants to offer chicken karaage sandwiches. Karaage is a style of Japanese fried chicken that is typically served as a bar snack. “I'm not trying to compete with the chicken battle that's happening in Orlando at all,” he said. “It was a way to extend the hours, and then potentially offer something for lunch.” On the latest episode of Florida Foodie, Zacchini talks about when he hopes to have his doughnut shop open to the public. He also shares his personal pizza preferences and how he got started working in kitchens as a teenager. Please follow our Florida Foodie hosts on social media. You can find Candace Campos on Twitter and Facebook. Lisa Bell is also on Facebook and Twitter and you can check out her children's book, “Norman the Watchful Gnome.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With two world class resorts boasting nearly 10,000 lift-served skiable acres, all nestled around an historic old mining town, Utah's ski town of Park City truly is unlike anything in North America. Deer Valley Resort and Park City Mountain will open this season with new captains at the helm. Deer Valley's Todd Bennett and Park City's Deirdra Walsh represent a new generation of resort leaders who bring fresh enthusiasm to their respective mountains, and a keen sense of the uniqueness that has made the Park City community America's Ski Town. They sat down with Last Chair at the Nelson Cottage at High West Distillery, in the heart of Park City's Old Town.As a community, Park City dates back to the late 19th century when silver mining made it a boom town. Throughout the early to mid 20th century, miners used skis to get around, often crossing the ridgeline into Big Cottonwood Canyon and back. The present-day Park City Mountain came alive in 1963 with the opening of a full resort, complete with a gondola. Known previously as Snow Park and Frog Hollow, Deer Valley sprang to life in 1981.Park City's historic Main Street, nestled between the two resorts, still boasts a 19th century mining town feel with hundreds of restaurants and shops, all within minutes to the two resorts. Deer Valley's new leader Todd Bennett grew up in Saranac Lake, N.Y. outside of Lake Placid, learning to ski at tiny Mount Pisgah. He worked a ski job in Colorado for three seasons before heading to an 18-year career with Walt Disney in southern California, looking for any opportunity he could to take ski trips with his family and friends. When the opportunity came up to move to Utah, he took advantage, settling into his new mountain home last summer.Walsh is a native of St. Louis who came to Park City 18 years ago, learned to snowboard and rose up to a senior leadership role at Park City Mountain overseeing on-mountain dining. She left to run a California resort for a few years but returned home last spring. She brings pride in her company and a great depth of experience on the mountain.Bennett and Walsh talk about the uniqueness of their resorts, and also that of the community. There are really no other similar models of two separate but adjoining resorts based around a central community core.Here's a sample of Last Chair's episode 4 of season 4 with Park City's Deirdra Walsh and Deer Valley's Todd Bennett.Todd, what was your pathway into skiing as a young boy?We had a town run hill called Mount Pisgah – one run to the left of a tee bar and one run to the right of a tee bar and 500 vertical feet. That's where I learned to ski, I think at age four. I've always loved skiing. It was just one of those things that honestly was probably a little bit cooler than I was as a kid, and I just loved being around it.Deirdra, your story is a bit different, right?Yes. I grew up in the Midwest – I'm from Saint Louis. Our family vacation time was spent camping and always outside so I grew up with this love of the outdoors. In the summers I think my mom would literally send us out the door, lock it behind us, and we couldn't come home until she rang a bell. Deirdra, what was your first introduction to skiing?My husband had grown up skiing Stevens Pass, and he said, ‘let's move to Park City together.' So I had almost no skiing experience until I came out here. He was a snowboarder, so I thought I'd be a cool girlfriend and learn to snowboard as well. My very first lesson was actually right at Park City Mountain in my mid-20s. I fell in love with the sport itself a little bit later in life. And it's been amazing to be a part of the community here and now have my kids grow up with skiing and riding as part of their every day.Todd, what motivated you to get back into the ski industry? .It was just kind of fortuitous. I saw the opening for Deer Valley come up and I immediately reached out to a number of folks that I knew in the industry. Park City had always been on our list, and I've just always been a passionate skier. So it was something that I wanted. And when that opportunity came up, I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to come work at Deer Valley.Deirdra, how important is the community's historic mining heritage?When I think about Park City and that history, the word that always comes to mind is just how authentic this community is around the history that we have, the storytelling, the feeling that when you're on Main Street that these buildings and these neighborhoods and you look up the hill and you see all of these homes, you can't miss the history of this community. And it's really something that I think makes Park City so unique and so special. Todd, how does Deer Valley Resort see its role in the community?Community is the right term and it's something that we've talked a lot about with my senior leadership team. We're all here. We're all local. We live in the greater Park City area. And I think not only the history of mining, but the history and the connection with the town and the community is very important to us. And I think that's the responsibility that we have. We are a big employer in Park City. We have a responsibility to be integrated with the community, to listen to the community, to understand the texture because it has changed. It started as a mining community. It has changed more towards travel and tourism. And even now it's continuing to evolve. So I think it's really important for myself and the team to be very in tune. And the best way to do that is to be local and to be engaged as members of the community ourselves.The community of Park City is unique, with both Vail Resorts and Alterra ski areas. What are the distinguishing characteristics of your respective parent companies?Deirdra: Being part of Vail Resorts for me has been an exceptional personal experience. It's a company that is really focused on employees first. You know, we talk about, you know, the employees don't work for Vail Resorts – they ARE Vail Resorts. And so I think having that point of view has really guided not just me, but I think all of the resort leaders to think about that in decision making, being able to make investments like $175 Million and the employee experience is pretty exceptional. What is really impressive when I think about our company is our point of view on accessibility. We have 41 resorts that make up all of the network. And by way of that, we are able to be in communities that are outside of urban areas like St Louis where I grew up, outside of Chicago, outside of Detroit, that really are creating lifelong skiers in some areas that perhaps they didn't have that accessibility and then now have accessibility into the greater network. Todd: I'm 90 days into working for Alterra and Deer Valley. But what I've noticed already is that Alterra puts a lot of emphasis on the local community and giving the site leaders, such as myself, the flexibility to change and adapt what is needed in our community. So in particular for Deer Valley, number one is very similar to Park City Mountain and Vail Resorts. It's the employee experience. We have to be great employers. We have to create a great place for people to work. Number two is the community and the engagement with the community and how we continue to be great partners and very transparent in the way that we go after that. The third priority for us at Deer Valley, in particular for me, is understanding the history and context. We talked a little bit about that from the mining history, but also the history of Deer Valley and its role within the community for the last 40 plus years. And then the last piece is how do we evolve our service thoughtfully. There's going to be evolution. There's going to be changes to how we deliver service. We just need to make sure that fits with the Deer Valley brand.Deidra, you've lived here for close to 20 years, guests and locals have a lot of options here, don't they?Wow, aren't we lucky that so many of us that live in this community on any given day have that kind of choice and options to go out and have an outstanding skiing and riding experience? For Park City Mountain, we have Town Lift and and then we have two other base portals. So the way to be able to access the mountain is incredible. To be able to ski up on Park City Mountain, take a run down, have an experience on Main Street and then hop back on Town Lift. I mean, it's unlike any other place. I just feel personally so full of gratitude that this is a community that I get to live in, that our employees get to work in and that our visitors get to come.Todd, since 1981 Deer Valley has built a really special brand here in Park City. What's behind that?What Deer Valley is known for, and what fits with what I felt here as a resident of Park City, is that level of service. That's what (Deer Valley founders) Polly and Edgar Stern really started with and had that vision for. That is something that seamlessly blends with Park City. The locals that I've met have been incredibly open and welcoming to myself and my family. So that's been really, really wonderful. And I think that just fits seamlessly into what Deer Valley is known for, which is welcoming and providing great service.Finally, what is it about skiing and snowboarding that really fuels your passion?Todd: I've always loved skiing. It's just, you know, the sense of freedom, the sense of the speed that you can get and kind of gravity pulling you downhill is unlike anything that I know of. It's the one consistent hobby activity that I've had my entire life. I've done a lot of different things, but skiing's that one consistent piece. And so when I get this season on top of Stein's and get to make those first turns down … I'm really looking forward to that.Deirdra: It is really hard in this world to turn things off. And when I think about those moments that we get to have on the mountain, even when you're with a group or on your own, I think of the solace that it can bring me and the pure joy in those moments. I've probably laughed harder than I ever have with friends on just the chairlift alone, looking at my kids, being goofballs out there and also getting a little nervous as they point and go. But, you know, just to turn off your phone and all the other parts of our lives that seem like they're always turned on, I feel like I get to turn off when I'm on the mountain.Favorite RunsTodd Bennett: Stein's Way (off Sultan Express in Mayflower area)Deidra Walsh: Silver Queen (on the Crescent ridgeline above Park City base)By the NumbersStretching along a 12-mile ridgeline with an historic vintage mining Main Street tucked in the middle, Deer Valley Resort and Park City Mountain offer a unique resort experience unmatched in North America.Skiable acres: 9,326Lifts: 64Runs: 433Climate and Sustainability: Community Working TogetherIf you're an outdoor enthusiast, climate and sustainability are likely foremost on your mind. The same is true of the Park City community, including Park City Mountain and Deer Valley Resort. The city itself has set ambitious climate goals to have the community net-zero carbon and zero waste by 2030, with a target to have city operations 100% renewable electricity this year. Park City Mountain shares the net-zero goals by 2030 – no waste to landfills and zero net emissions. A solar farm project will provide 100% renewable energy by 2023. Deer Valley Resort is also moving towards a 100% renewable electricity goal by 2030 and presently is using 37% solar. It has also just concluded a full greenhouse gas inventory and is looking at 10% reductions in the next year. The Park City Chamber of Commerce has also taken a proactive approach, developing a Sustainable Tourism Plan to look at how the community as a whole can continue to welcome guests but in a sustainable way.High WestOne of the most popular spots on Main Street, the historic setting of High West distillery is yet another unique offering in the community. During the podcast recording at Nelson Cottage, we sampled two of High West's unique whiskeys with whiskey ambassador Adrianne King.BourbonHigh West's Bourbon is one of its sweeter whiskeys featuring 85% corn mash and 15% malted barley, which softens and sweetens the finish. It features hints of baking spices of cinnamon, clove and nutmeg and pairs well with citrus in cocktails to brighten it up. It's a perfect choice for whiskey sours like a Whiskey Collins.Double RyeThis is the one that put High West on the map in the 2008 rye revival and is becoming a staple for classic cocktails and cocktail bars as they come back onto the market. It features 95% rye and has been deemed the spiciest whiskey in the world by Whiskey Advocate. It features an interesting eucalyptus mint finish and is ideal for classic cocktails like Manhattans with its high rye content balancing well with citrus or bitters.

With two world class resorts boasting nearly 10,000 lift-served skiable acres, all nestled around an historic old mining town, Utah's ski town of Park City truly is unlike anything in North America. Deer Valley Resort and Park City Mountain will open this season with new captains at the helm. Deer Valley's Todd Bennett and Park City's Deirdra Walsh represent a new generation of resort leaders who bring fresh enthusiasm to their respective mountains, and a keen sense of the uniqueness that has made the Park City community America's Ski Town. They sat down with Last Chair at the Nelson Cottage at High West Distillery, in the heart of Park City's Old Town.As a community, Park City dates back to the late 19th century when silver mining made it a boom town. Throughout the early to mid 20th century, miners used skis to get around, often crossing the ridgeline into Big Cottonwood Canyon and back. The present-day Park City Mountain came alive in 1963 with the opening of a full resort, complete with a gondola. Known previously as Snow Park and Frog Hollow, Deer Valley sprang to life in 1981.Park City's historic Main Street, nestled between the two resorts, still boasts a 19th century mining town feel with hundreds of restaurants and shops, all within minutes to the two resorts. Deer Valley's new leader Todd Bennett grew up in Saranac Lake, N.Y. outside of Lake Placid, learning to ski at tiny Mount Pisgah. He worked a ski job in Colorado for three seasons before heading to an 18-year career with Walt Disney in southern California, looking for any opportunity he could to take ski trips with his family and friends. When the opportunity came up to move to Utah, he took advantage, settling into his new mountain home last summer.Walsh is a native of St. Louis who came to Park City 18 years ago, learned to snowboard and rose up to a senior leadership role at Park City Mountain overseeing on-mountain dining. She left to run a California resort for a few years but returned home last spring. She brings pride in her company and a great depth of experience on the mountain.Bennett and Walsh talk about the uniqueness of their resorts, and also that of the community. There are really no other similar models of two separate but adjoining resorts based around a central community core.Here's a sample of Last Chair's episode 4 of season 4 with Park City's Deirdra Walsh and Deer Valley's Todd Bennett.Todd, what was your pathway into skiing as a young boy?We had a town run hill called Mount Pisgah – one run to the left of a tee bar and one run to the right of a tee bar and 500 vertical feet. That's where I learned to ski, I think at age four. I've always loved skiing. It was just one of those things that honestly was probably a little bit cooler than I was as a kid, and I just loved being around it.Deirdra, your story is a bit different, right?Yes. I grew up in the Midwest – I'm from Saint Louis. Our family vacation time was spent camping and always outside so I grew up with this love of the outdoors. In the summers I think my mom would literally send us out the door, lock it behind us, and we couldn't come home until she rang a bell. Deirdra, what was your first introduction to skiing?My husband had grown up skiing Stevens Pass, and he said, ‘let's move to Park City together.' So I had almost no skiing experience until I came out here. He was a snowboarder, so I thought I'd be a cool girlfriend and learn to snowboard as well. My very first lesson was actually right at Park City Mountain in my mid-20s. I fell in love with the sport itself a little bit later in life. And it's been amazing to be a part of the community here and now have my kids grow up with skiing and riding as part of their every day.Todd, what motivated you to get back into the ski industry? .It was just kind of fortuitous. I saw the opening for Deer Valley come up and I immediately reached out to a number of folks that I knew in the industry. Park City had always been on our list, and I've just always been a passionate skier. So it was something that I wanted. And when that opportunity came up, I was lucky enough to be given the opportunity to come work at Deer Valley.Deirdra, how important is the community's historic mining heritage?When I think about Park City and that history, the word that always comes to mind is just how authentic this community is around the history that we have, the storytelling, the feeling that when you're on Main Street that these buildings and these neighborhoods and you look up the hill and you see all of these homes, you can't miss the history of this community. And it's really something that I think makes Park City so unique and so special. Todd, how does Deer Valley Resort see its role in the community?Community is the right term and it's something that we've talked a lot about with my senior leadership team. We're all here. We're all local. We live in the greater Park City area. And I think not only the history of mining, but the history and the connection with the town and the community is very important to us. And I think that's the responsibility that we have. We are a big employer in Park City. We have a responsibility to be integrated with the community, to listen to the community, to understand the texture because it has changed. It started as a mining community. It has changed more towards travel and tourism. And even now it's continuing to evolve. So I think it's really important for myself and the team to be very in tune. And the best way to do that is to be local and to be engaged as members of the community ourselves.The community of Park City is unique, with both Vail Resorts and Alterra ski areas. What are the distinguishing characteristics of your respective parent companies?Deirdra: Being part of Vail Resorts for me has been an exceptional personal experience. It's a company that is really focused on employees first. You know, we talk about, you know, the employees don't work for Vail Resorts – they ARE Vail Resorts. And so I think having that point of view has really guided not just me, but I think all of the resort leaders to think about that in decision making, being able to make investments like $175 Million and the employee experience is pretty exceptional. What is really impressive when I think about our company is our point of view on accessibility. We have 41 resorts that make up all of the network. And by way of that, we are able to be in communities that are outside of urban areas like St Louis where I grew up, outside of Chicago, outside of Detroit, that really are creating lifelong skiers in some areas that perhaps they didn't have that accessibility and then now have accessibility into the greater network. Todd: I'm 90 days into working for Alterra and Deer Valley. But what I've noticed already is that Alterra puts a lot of emphasis on the local community and giving the site leaders, such as myself, the flexibility to change and adapt what is needed in our community. So in particular for Deer Valley, number one is very similar to Park City Mountain and Vail Resorts. It's the employee experience. We have to be great employers. We have to create a great place for people to work. Number two is the community and the engagement with the community and how we continue to be great partners and very transparent in the way that we go after that. The third priority for us at Deer Valley, in particular for me, is understanding the history and context. We talked a little bit about that from the mining history, but also the history of Deer Valley and its role within the community for the last 40 plus years. And then the last piece is how do we evolve our service thoughtfully. There's going to be evolution. There's going to be changes to how we deliver service. We just need to make sure that fits with the Deer Valley brand.Deidra, you've lived here for close to 20 years, guests and locals have a lot of options here, don't they?Wow, aren't we lucky that so many of us that live in this community on any given day have that kind of choice and options to go out and have an outstanding skiing and riding experience? For Park City Mountain, we have Town Lift and and then we have two other base portals. So the way to be able to access the mountain is incredible. To be able to ski up on Park City Mountain, take a run down, have an experience on Main Street and then hop back on Town Lift. I mean, it's unlike any other place. I just feel personally so full of gratitude that this is a community that I get to live in, that our employees get to work in and that our visitors get to come.Todd, since 1981 Deer Valley has built a really special brand here in Park City. What's behind that?What Deer Valley is known for, and what fits with what I felt here as a resident of Park City, is that level of service. That's what (Deer Valley founders) Polly and Edgar Stern really started with and had that vision for. That is something that seamlessly blends with Park City. The locals that I've met have been incredibly open and welcoming to myself and my family. So that's been really, really wonderful. And I think that just fits seamlessly into what Deer Valley is known for, which is welcoming and providing great service.Finally, what is it about skiing and snowboarding that really fuels your passion?Todd: I've always loved skiing. It's just, you know, the sense of freedom, the sense of the speed that you can get and kind of gravity pulling you downhill is unlike anything that I know of. It's the one consistent hobby activity that I've had my entire life. I've done a lot of different things, but skiing's that one consistent piece. And so when I get this season on top of Stein's and get to make those first turns down … I'm really looking forward to that.Deirdra: It is really hard in this world to turn things off. And when I think about those moments that we get to have on the mountain, even when you're with a group or on your own, I think of the solace that it can bring me and the pure joy in those moments. I've probably laughed harder than I ever have with friends on just the chairlift alone, looking at my kids, being goofballs out there and also getting a little nervous as they point and go. But, you know, just to turn off your phone and all the other parts of our lives that seem like they're always turned on, I feel like I get to turn off when I'm on the mountain.Favorite RunsTodd Bennett: Stein's Way (off Sultan Express in Mayflower area)Deidra Walsh: Silver Queen (on the Crescent ridgeline above Park City base)By the NumbersStretching along a 12-mile ridgeline with an historic vintage mining Main Street tucked in the middle, Deer Valley Resort and Park City Mountain offer a unique resort experience unmatched in North America.Skiable acres: 9,326Lifts: 64Runs: 433Climate and Sustainability: Community Working TogetherIf you're an outdoor enthusiast, climate and sustainability are likely foremost on your mind. The same is true of the Park City community, including Park City Mountain and Deer Valley Resort. The city itself has set ambitious climate goals to have the community net-zero carbon and zero waste by 2030, with a target to have city operations 100% renewable electricity this year. Park City Mountain shares the net-zero goals by 2030 – no waste to landfills and zero net emissions. A solar farm project will provide 100% renewable energy by 2023. Deer Valley Resort is also moving towards a 100% renewable electricity goal by 2030 and presently is using 37% solar. It has also just concluded a full greenhouse gas inventory and is looking at 10% reductions in the next year. The Park City Chamber of Commerce has also taken a proactive approach, developing a Sustainable Tourism Plan to look at how the community as a whole can continue to welcome guests but in a sustainable way.High WestOne of the most popular spots on Main Street, the historic setting of High West distillery is yet another unique offering in the community. During the podcast recording at Nelson Cottage, we sampled two of High West's unique whiskeys with whiskey ambassador Adrianne King.BourbonHigh West's Bourbon is one of its sweeter whiskeys featuring 85% corn mash and 15% malted barley, which softens and sweetens the finish. It features hints of baking spices of cinnamon, clove and nutmeg and pairs well with citrus in cocktails to brighten it up. It's a perfect choice for whiskey sours like a Whiskey Collins.Double RyeThis is the one that put High West on the map in the 2008 rye revival and is becoming a staple for classic cocktails and cocktail bars as they come back onto the market. It features 95% rye and has been deemed the spiciest whiskey in the world by Whiskey Advocate. It features an interesting eucalyptus mint finish and is ideal for classic cocktails like Manhattans with its high rye content balancing well with citrus or bitters.

Gary Arnold stars in one of the boys favorite found footage films, but that's not the main reason why he is on the show. Gary talks about his new documentaries that explain his newly found phenomenon.   Read more about Gary's works here: https://wearenotalone-81923.medium.com/?p=3f262e782db7   Rent his documentaries here: https://ghostwax.gumroad.com/?_ga=2.10207089.553733759.1639347152-1478220953.1639347152   Films: Fraud (2016), Best Worst Movie (2009), Her (2013), The Blackwell Ghost (2017), Subterranean Séance: The Evidence Speaks, Frog Hollow Rd: The Evidence Speaks...   Hey, we're on YouTube!  Listening on an iPhone? Don't forget to rate us on iTunes!   Fill our fe-mailbag by emailing us at Podcast@TheOverlookTheatre.com    Intro Music by Engineer Randy Reach us on Instagram (@theoverlooktheatre) Facebook (@theoverlookhour) Twitter (@OverlookHour)

In this episode, Tyson Schuetze & Ryan Widener from Auben Realty tell us what we should know about investing in the Augusta GA market. Learn about the particularities of the market, from both the real estate agent and property management perspective. Learn about the return metrics, who you are competing with and what makes this market special. Augusta Presentation Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kLKtIshCvtPXbDgKKC7neH5zsmU72tT8/view?usp=sharing --- Before we jump into the episode, here's a quick disclaimer about our content. The remote real estate investor podcast is for informational purposes only and is not intended as investment advice. The views, opinions and strategies of both the hosts and the guests are their own and should not be considered as guidance from Roofstock. Make sure to always run your own numbers, make your own independent decisions and seek investment advice from licensed professionals. Pierre: Hey Everyone, welcome to the remote real estate investor podcast. Today we have host Tom Schneider and Mark woodling, covering the real estate markets of Augusta, Georgia and South Carolina. Today we brought in two experts Auben Realty's, Ryan Weidner and company founder Tyson Schuetzy. And they're going to be speaking to us about the markets from a real estate agent and property management perspective. So let's jump into the episode.   Tom: Tyson and Ryan, welcome to the remote real estate investor. Great to have you guys on.   Tyson: Thank you for having us. We appreciate it.   Tom: Yeah, so we got a lot of great stuff to cover today, talking about the market. But let's go ahead and begin let's talk about a little bit about your experience, experience as an investor, as a property manager, as an agent, all that good stuff and how you guys got into it? Sure.   Tyson: Well, I started off in in 2009, originally got into real estate around 2006, I was living in New York City and trying to get into investing there working as an agent. And one of the things I realized was the the market was going to be a tough nut to crack, you know, the minimum sort of cost of entry to get into any rental property was a million dollars. And so I was really struggling trying to figure out how I could become an investor and start investing in real estate.   And started actually investing in Syracuse, New York, it was one of the closest markets that I could find where I could find the the yields that I want the cap rates, good cash flow. But it was also a five hour drive further north. And I didn't feel like Syracuse had the best market dynamics in terms of future growth, job growth. It wasn't number one on the radar for where people were moving, you know, when everything I was hearing was about sort of Southeast and southwest migration.   So long story short, I had a friend who was a successful apartment complex owner investor in Augusta, Georgia, and offered me the opportunity to come down here and learn underneath him for a couple years. And so I moved down here, didn't know if I was going to be here, you know, a couple months, couple years, and ultimately really sort of fell in love with the market and the potential. And so that was in 2006. And so I was kind of practicing my craft primarily flipping houses initially, because this was the glory days when everybody was a genius. And you could slap a coat of paint on the house and sell for $10,000 more 2008 rolled around, and there was a kind of rude awakening of what we were going to do next. And what I was going to do next.   I was fortunate enough that most of my flips, were an entry level price points. And so I was able to transition them into rental properties.   Tom: Did you have that in mind? I'm curious in doing your flips, you know, I've heard that story from a couple of people where you know, the roof falls out from pricing. Did you have that in mind going into like your flip business like that this could transition? Or was it just sort of organic as the the price to sell wasn't there? Okay, I'll hang on to this, I'd love to hear your kind of thought process in, in doing that flip businesses and transitioning.   Tyson: I think ultimately, the mid and long term goal to flip business was always to buy, you know, rental properties, right? That was always kind of the objective was I wanted to create a scenario with passive income streams, right. But starting out, you know, when I didn't have a lot of capital, a lot of the flips, were just going into creating the business doing the next flip. And so it was something that was kind of always on the distant horizon, the market changes kind of forced my hand really, you know, because I had houses that I couldn't sell, or didn't want to sell at, at whatever sort of the market would dictate, you know, the sales price, so ended up holding on to them.   And what happened was I tried to use other property management companies in town, and I really was just frustrated with the results. It's It's funny, I've talked to other contemporaries and friends in other markets that add some of this sort of similar experience, but I felt like a lot of it was just kind of placing a sign in the yard and and waiting and so I decided to try managing a couple properties for Have myself really not knowing that much about the process, but just trying to figure it out on my own properties and sort of using my properties is a test case.   And we started to have some success. And what happened was, because we were trying to operate with a sort of investors mindset, limiting days on market, a lot of the people that I knew sort of in the community that had been flipping houses, or had been private money, and some of my deals or other deals started gravitating towards us, as more investor friendly property management company. And we just really started growing faster than we could keep up with in the early days, I mean, every year, we were sort of doubling in size. And we went from a property management company into adding in other divisions to ultimately help and get our investors profitable.   We had a basic sort of philosophy was, the more money our investors make, the more houses they'll buy, and it just is in everybody's best interest. So whenever we were kind of looking at fees, or ancillary sort of businesses, we were looking at and saying, Okay, how did how can we create a scenario where it's a good revenue stream and profit center for us at Auben, but it's also in the investors best interest. And I think I was very fortunate to be in a position that a lot of owners aren't generally with their companies is that I was both running the company, but also a client simultaneously. And so I could kind of shift the perspective around. I think the other good thing is there weren't a ton of sort of rules as to this is how you have to run a single family property management company, you know, it was that there are a lot of people out there, figuring it out. And there were a lot of places you could go to, for good conversations and dialogue. But the area was also ripe for innovation. You know, there was, there was not like industry standards.   And so, you know, as somebody that's sort of imagines himself to always sort of be internally, you know, and externally, and you are always curious, um, you know, I think it was a perfect kind of scenario for us to kind of say, Well, what if we could do this? What if we pivot over here and kind of try this would this be in our owners best interest. And so we did that for a number of years. And then ultimately, where we had our biggest breakthrough was working with some other clients from other markets that were well capitalized that saw the opportunity in Augusta, specifically, that some of the local investors didn't, right. And so we had some people that were from Chattanooga, from Florida, from California from other markets that really came in.   And I think we're able to see that there were just some really good dynamics in the Augusta market, there will be good short term midterm and long term. And so that was really the big catalyst to it was investors that were, you know, savvy investors that invested in multiple markets in different countries, different cities, different states. But, you know, they weren't really used to the single family model. Augusta wasn't really on their radar until we had sort of built up a good relationship, rapport, and trust by showing them and exposing them the market dynamics right.   And I think that once they saw how favorable the Augusta market is, and was it really you know, most of the time that the market kind of sold itself right you know, the the opportunities to get the yields that they were getting the opportunities to buy replace below replacement costs that you know previously existed and still do i think is always what you know, has has drawn people to Augusta. It's it's not the most glamorous sexy market, people know it for the masters and really not more than that. But I think that the fact that it's been off the radar a little bit has served itself well to being extremely stable and strong market that still has a tremendous upside. So we've really enjoyed, you know, watching our investors returns over the past 10 or 15 years, and still are extremely bullish that the next 10 or 15 years will look like the previous so…   Tom: Definitely a lot to unpack there. And I love the story, the the founder story where you're basically solving your own problem and realizing Wow, a lot of other people have this problem. And the other thing I like about it is You know, very specific to the remote investor. You know, you're on that super early in New York not seeing the type of yields that you want testing out in Syracuse, realizing just all the tail winds down for the southeast. There's a book we talked about an economist, John Burns, he wrote a book called Big shifts ahead, and it just talks about all the tail winds for the southeast. And the Augusta is a really great market that encapsulates a lot of those benefits of lower cost of living, and all of that good stuff.   We'll get into more details about the Augusta market in a minute. But let's hear a little bit. Let's hear a bit a little bit from Ryan.   Ryan: Well, I'm born and raised here in Augusta, Georgia, and my father has been in real estate forever. And I, I was in Las Vegas in 2002. My father got real busy in the REI business. And I remember getting that call of son, can you leave Las Vegas and come help me in real estate? If it wasn't my first happiest moment in real estate.   Tom: Was that always a family business? Well, previously, we had a hunting and fishing store growing up and then my father got into real estate. When I was maybe 15 years old. Like I said, he started a big Rei business, bank foreclosures. And, you know, they entail a lot of paperwork with a lot of detail. And that's when he when he called me and asked me to come back and help out in real estate.   Tyson: The Windeners are well known for if you're looking for investment property, you went to Ryan's dad, and then now Ryan. So you know, it's one of those things, I think that the knowledge was there, through, you know, helping helping dads. Right. We got   Mark: So how was the transition from the aureo market in Las Vegas to the aureo market in Augusta back then?   Ryan: A lot more. That's for sure. That and that was that was one reason, just looking at the numbers and knowing the numbers back home and what I was looking at in the Las Vegas market, which at that time was the fastest growing city in the United States. And, you know, just really got to where if you didn't get in early there, then you weren't getting in. And I think again, back to what Tyson said earlier that Augusta not being the big glamorous city has made our market attainable, especially for out of state buyers. But I'm even here locally, with investors as well.   Mark: So Tom, real quick. So the reason why we reached out to Tyson and Ryan to join the certified agent network was because Tyson had a name in the industry that Matt Thomas who works on the certified agent team. He knew he had heard of Tyson, he said, Hey, if there's somebody you need to talk to in Augusta that's growing their business significantly, and really an emerging company. He's a guy you need to talk to. So I talked to Tyson, he said, Listen, we have a growing business, but we're willing to grow more.   So not only did he bring on Ryan as the certified agent, but they became one of our preferred property managers. So I mean, they're doing a lot of business with us right now because as we've always seen in Augusta, it's just it's got that great price point. You know, there's there's a nice variety of homes because there are some beautiful homes near the Masters or Augusta National, all the way to, you know, C class areas that still have amazing returns for the right price point.   So it was great because Roofstock had done a lot of business and in Augusta already, but we were doing it was a different price point. So it's nice to bring in these properties are coming from MLS because it gives buyers a variety of different property types that they can really, you know, pick and choose and see the different return types. So anyways, that's a little backstory, from our perspective of how Tyson and Ryan came on board in so far. I think Ryan's closed well over 10 properties just in the last few months, and probably is on averaging about five closings a month at this point.   Tyson: We got six under contract over the weekend. So those numbers are going up.   Mark: I'd like to hear it   Tom: For sure. The last question that I have about your guys's background before we start jumping into the market specifically is how did you guys get in touch to partner up?   Tyson: So you know, I guess as a smaller community in terms of, you know, the especially the investors and and Ryan and I had known each other for a while we actually had some institutional experience working with a hedge fund based out of Charleston, in different capacities there. But I think ultimately when when Mark approached me with the opportunity, I wanted to make sure we had the right agent for this. And so I went and approached Ryan about specifically working on this book of business because I knew Ryan, you know, being an investor himself being an Augusta native, having worked with clients from other remote markets previously, you know, it would just be a sort of natural fit.   So I think ultimately, you know, that was a really good sort of connection or reconnection and we're able to make is, Ryan happened to be in a position where he was looking to make a change. And this opportunity came along at the right time, where we were able to put that together. And then ultimately, my goal, you know, with Ryan and the Roofstock buyers is then to ensure that the rest of our team is there to support the asset just so we can continue our philosophy of ensuring that the assets perform well, which lead the clients to purchase more so you know, but Ryan and I had some mutual friends, we've worked together on different deals, you know, we've worked together in different capacities, I did done deals with his father, so there was a there trust in history there too, you know, as far as knowing that he would be a good fit for this role. And I think he's really come in and excelled from day one, you know, and I think is the fact that he is an investor and he's seen the different market cycles and Augusta, I think the most exciting thing is right now, Augusta seems like it's really turning the corner.   You know, it's always kind of been slow and steady. But there's there's been a lot of sort of momentum with, with jobs, with investments with the revitalization of downtown, etc. That, I think, you know, causes us to be even more optimistic about the future.   Tom: Perfect transition. And you know, I love that business model. You know, you make customers happy, they're going to come back and bring more business, perfect transition on the economy. So you know, as you said, everybody knows, in April, Jim Nance and all the golfers come in to Augusta. And what's happening economy wise, outside of those those few weekends in April, who are the big players? What's the big industry, let's learn about that.   Ryan: Well, just recently with Amazon has come into our market, they just opened up a second building 270,000 square foot building in Appling, Georgia, which is close to Augusta, we've got five major hospitals here in Augusta. We have the medical and the dental school of Georgia here. So we have a lot of college kids, we we have the Savannah River site, and a Fort Gordon is here. And they just their Cyber Command Center that they're opening is bringing in roughly 30,000 people to Augusta over the next couple of years. So we really have a revolving market here, we've got a lot of people coming and going. And that's always good for real estate.   Tyson: One of the, you know, for Gordon's always, I think been the kind of anchor here is as being the military base. And I think one of the concerns in the past was, what if the base would ever close what kind of impact that would have on a gust what we've seen over the past five or 10 years is Fort Gordon's really become the center of sort of cyber security, right. And in addition to the military presence there, there's been a large presence with the NSA, the National Security Agency has moved a bunch of their jobs and positions down here from Maryland and other parts of the country. And then also, we're seeing what happens sometimes, you know, when a automotive plant comes and puts their sort of flag down, you get all of these other satellite businesses around to support it.   We're seeing as Augusta becomes more and more of a Cyber Intelligence, you know, community and area with for Gordon, in the NSA, we're seeing a bunch of cyber startups, and we're seeing other tech companies that are coming in that are totally private sector organizations, but are coming here because there's a high quality of living, there's a good workforce, and there's a good sort of knowledge base and understanding about cutting edge technologies that are relevant there. So we're seeing more and more of that.   There's a new college downtown that's focused on, you know, educating the future of sort of cyber school, you know, so I think that, to me, also bodes really well for the future. You know, it's not just a military base that's likely to ramp up or scale down, in times a conflict, you know, intelligence, security, all those things are pretty much permanent things, regardless of the administration regardless is kind of what's going on globally, that will always be sort of a presence in need there. And I think that sort of a, you know, understanding is given people even more confidence in the market.   Tom: That's great. Diversity is is really such a special thing that you know, when picking a market and going through military specifically, kind of future related military and cyber healthcare manufacturing with Amazon and distribution, education college. Amazing.   Next question just kind of market related. And this is something that probably is a little bit easier to look at home looking on Google Maps is how would you designate the different kind of pockets? If you were to look at a high level map? I see. You have 520, sort of the freeway circling around the city. If you had to kind of identify four or five kind of major pockets within the city, and what type of returns kind of at a very high level, would you mind kind of walking through some just general pockets within the city as someone's looking at investing?   Tyson: I'll let our expert take this here. The route is roofstock, certified as speak to this better than anybody? Yeah.   Ryan: Well, what I found recently, we were developing some new pockets in Augusta, as well as our traditional pockets. Columbia County for instances is growing drastically. A lot of the military people coming in and out are focused on Columbia County, I believe due to the good school rating systems and and Roofstock points that out it steering them a little more towards Columbia County with the newer homes and in those sentences. So we've Columbia County has been been kind of the top Roofstock market we we also have in Richmond County. We have what we call the Somerville, the hill area, some of the older more prestigious homes. And we're finding that with the market being a little limited lately, as far as listings, we're finding the prices have gone up, but the rents have gone up as well. So we're kind of balanced there.   And then we have some of our you know, I would say lower price range homes in South Augusta. We've just seen a tremendous growth in in the rest coming in. said we've really had a balanced market everywhere right now.   Tyson: Yeah. And we're in the process of also turning on there's a there's a nother pocket in the gussto market the if you go beyond just the city of Augusta, the MSA of North Augusta, Aiken, just on the other side of the river in South Carolina, that we manage and interactive with, there's some great pockets over there as well. And then there's been some new industries that are are already there in the process there there's a couple more sort of manufacturing and facilities over on that side of the river. And it's literally Augusta is is divided from the Georgia and South Carolina side by the Savannah River. And so it's a, you know, five minute drive from downtown Augusta. So you'll have a lot of people that live in the South Carolina side but work in Augusta or vice versa.   And Generac, which is a a home generator company is opening a large facility over there. Firestone has a large facility over there. So there's, there's a lot of industry there and continues to come there a part of that is, is South Carolina is very business friendly, and is offering some some very attractive tax incentives to some of these larger corporations to bring them down. And then the employers like it, because, you know, they their employees gonna have a high quality of life with the wages that they're they're able to earn here, based on the lower cost of living.   You know, this whole area, compared to cities of its size nationally has a much lower cost of living, which is also driving a lot of the growth as well. And and retirees, we're getting people that you know, are are bypassing Florida or not making it all the way down to Florida and stopping in markets like Augusta because their money can go a lot further.   Tom: It's cool being a border state city where you can kind of, you know, the best, most more business friendly, more, you know, living friendly, it's and just to kind of give some context people that are listening Columbia County that is in the West kind of North area. And I say I'm looking at my Google Maps just making sure that's right. When you were talking about that area, and Richmond County is a little bit further south of kind of central.   A question about the property management size. Where do you where which areas you guys manage the most amount of properties is it up on the south carolina side to the north or to the south? I'd love to hear where the majority of the inventory that you guys manage as rental properties.   Tyson: So historically, I think that most of the investment opportunities were in Richmond. County, Richmond County, which includes South Augusta west Augusta, downtown central Augusta, you know, had some higher yields there, and homes that were more in need of repair and renovation. Larger you know renovations for people that were looking to sort of build in some sweat equity. What we're seeing more and more are is what Ryan alluded to earlier. Columbia County has a lot newer builds, right. And we're seeing people that want to come in and have an asset that's producing a return from day one goes straight to Columbia County and not look at Richmond County.   Also, Columbia County, there's a couple areas there that have some of the best and highest rated schools in the entire state of Georgia. And so, you know, there are a lot of people are migrating straight to that area.   Also, what we alluded to earlier with the military, with the medical communities, a lot of these jobs can be somewhat transient, and people will be here, they may be here for a couple years, but they don't necessarily want to buy, but they want a really nice home in a nice area. We want their kids to go to a good school, that's just continuing to drive the rental demand and Ryan was referencing earlier, the prices are rising in those areas. But the rents are rising in tandem with that.   And then when we talk about the prices rising, it's still at a responsible rate, that we're not concerned that there's going to be any major sort of crash at any point, even when, you know, we had the 2008. crash. Augusta, you know, had always been steady state. And so when the correction occurred, it wasn't like falling off a cliff, like some of these other markets, because it just been much more moderate growth. Right. And, and so I think that, you know, if an investor's coming in here with a long term perspective, I think that adds to sort of the confidence of the market dynamics.   Tom: That's great.   Mark: Hey, Tom, and let me sneak in real quick. So we are just about to open up in Aiken, South Carolina, or, you know, the town of as I always get confused, North Augusta but South Carolina, right. So that'll help you remember it, but we're getting the data feed there. So soon enough, Ryan will be underwriting properties and posting them to roof stock for the roof stock select properties. So get ready. So by the time the podcast comes out, we should be live with new properties in that market.   Ryan: We're really looking forward to the Aiken county market, North Augusta, Aiken, Greenville. These are a lot of kind of, I don't want to say untouched pockets, but I think there's going to be a really big boom over there.   Tyson: Yeah, and, and Tom, you'd referenced it earlier, but 520 got expanded in further over on the south carolina side that is allowed, you know, transit to be easier for people to commute to work on all parts of Georgia. So we're getting people that may work in a most western part of the Augusta market out in Columbia County, but live in Aiken. And I think that's a lot more feasible with some of the expansion that's gone on at 520. So and to Ryan's point, I think there's there's some areas a little bit off the radar over there where there's tremendous value in returns for our, for our Roofstock, clients.   Tom: I love that in areas that haven't been as invested in is heavily it's, you know, there's just that much more opportunity. And that's, that's great to hear of that opening up.   I'd love to hear you know, kind of splitting on the the two different markets there in North Augusta which is on the south carolina versus the Georgia side. As an investor you know, what are your considerations between investing in Augusta on the south carolina side versus the Georgia size be property taxes is actually an interesting one, you know, between the two.   Ryan: A little higher over on the south carolina side you'll find South Carolina and in putting a lot of money into their downtown, mid north and guest they've got the new baseball field there the green jackets baseball field a lot of new restaurants.   Tom: Is that a triple A team or a double A team? The green jackets sure AAA changes a couple of it.   Tyson: At one point I think it was single a for the San Francisco Giants now it's with the Atlanta Braves and I think it's single a and I believe it I think it's single A.   Tom: I was just traveling with some friends and went to a minor league ballgame and man those things are just so fun. You know just right on top of the guys it's the best sorry Go ahead. Go ahead. I interrupted   Tyson: The park is right on the river and it's it's it's beautiful setting to watch a game you're right on the field. Linux right in downtown. And as Ryan was saying, There's bars and restaurants around it. So it's been a big boost to North Augusta. One of the things about the South Carolina taxes is, there's different areas over there where if you're in the city limits, there can be a city tax, in addition to the you county tax, where if you go outside of the city limits, you can benefit that, you know, you won't have to pay that city tax.   But generally, you know, we look at all that within relation to the rents, there can be some pockets over there where there's some higher rent rates, because of just desirability to live over there. And there being less houses in general, on that side of the river.   From a property management perspective, Georgia has a little bit more friendly landlord, legislation. Georgia is one of the most landlord friendly states in the country, maybe the only state that's more friendly than Texas. You know, that's not surprising, because it's Texas. But South Carolina has friendly landlord legislation, but Georgia's really very favorable.   But you know, I think what I would tell you one of the cool things about Augusta is you have the ability to get some diversification even within the Augusta market. And I know quite a few people, myself included, that will have investments in each of these little markets with slightly different nuances. You may get a more, you know, a higher yield in Richmond County, more appreciation in Columbia County, and a balance of sort of the two in in Aiken. You know, it's kind of how I…   Ryan: Yeah, I agree with that. Something like that.   Mark: Yeah. And I think that's really useful, because our buyers are going to come in and look at the market and that level of detail right there where they get a choice between two different states, whether it's taxes, landlord, friendliness, the school, yeah, schools, I think that's so important in the unincorporated part, I think that's an interesting strategy where people do like a little more land these days. So, you know, as long as it's in a good school district, it's a little bit on the outskirts. I always think that's a great play. But my question for you guys, is we could talk about the rosy picture. But what are some of the common issues that you fall into that, you know, you see from the property management side, especially, you know, what do our buyers need to know about, you know, whether you see foundation issues, or there's just, you know, there's maybe, you know, unstable grounds, like the soil types are just interesting. Yeah, give us a little update on, you know, what you're seeing out there that are common for investing?   Ryan: What's been easy with, with Roofstock is the, the inspections are very thorough, and it really outlines you know, during the purchase process, we're doing, you know, a lot of amendments to address concerns, we're putting some of these issues back on the cellar, due to the extensive inspections we're getting, which kind of heads off a lot of the problems.   Also, with property management here, and you take that, but it's really easy. And I've directed all my buyers to, you know, a lot of a lot of investors will want to, you know, try to find a contractor that may not, you know, maybe a little less expensive, but kind of cut the corners as to where we have a Roofstock inspection, and we have our own property management team. That is a very thorough inspection from the start. That kind of heads off a lot of the problems that can happen down the road. You know, roof leaks, busted pipes, things like that. Are the buyers are aware of everything from the start.   Tyson: Yeah. And I think as far as the Augusta market, you know, you do have an older housing stock here. Right. So you just need to be aware in some of these neighborhoods, you know, especially some of these in Central West Augusta. You know, the Somerville area that Ryan alluded to earlier, you have houses that are 100 years old, right. And so making sure that the mechanical systems are good and strong.   We have some pockets where we can have some foundation issues, but yeah, Augusta most of the ground running, it's a it's a hard red clay. So assuming it was put in correctly, generally, there's not as many issues there. You know, we have the typical sort of southeastern market issues with high humidity, you know, ability for moisture content, if not managed appropriately. The HVAC units are going to run constantly from April to October so they better be functioning or, you know, it'll it'll definitely affect the tenant satisfaction, but I think in general, you know, Augusta has A lot of brick houses here that are well built, you know, a lot of houses on slab, the crawl spaces, you know, you do have to be mindful of the fact that, you know, it's very common to see houses that had previous termite infestation. I'm not sure I've ever bought a house that didn't have previous termite infestation, but you just want to make sure it doesn't have active infestation.   And so, you know, I think there's some some things there. The market continues to be extremely strong on the rental side. And one thing is because Augusta has always been off the radar. You know, we didn't have the major builders coming back in after the last collapse, you know, there, there weren't the major national builders, you know, we're bypassing Augusta and going to some of the markets that were close by Atlanta, Charlotte, you know, Greenville, Charleston, you know.   Augusta is within a couple of hours of a bunch of major markets that I think have always sort of overshadowed it. It's good for, you know, people that want to travel and go these other markets. But I think it's also kept the housing inventory from being a little bit always behind no matter sort of where the market cycle is. And so, yeah, the houses that Ryan's clients are buying through Roofstock, we're pushing rental rates, you know, we are pushing really top of the market. And we're still seeing extreme demand multiple, you know, approved application short days on market, and think that that will continue.   You know, I think that also we'll see how it plays out. But if there is more willingness for people to work remotely, Augusta has the ability to sort of siphon off people from a lot of the markets where people were having to go to Atlanta to get a good job, right, or having to live and work in Atlanta. And Augusta can provide a much better quality life, lower commute time, lower traffic time, to a lot of those neighboring markets that I think could could help as well. We'll just have to see how that sort of plays out.   Mark: What about competition? I think that's what buyers want to know, who am I competing against? Are their ibuyers at a national level, like the Zillow is a red fins open door offer pad in your market? Or do you think there's a good number of institutional appetite out there? What do you see from that level?   Ryan: We deal with it a little bit. I mean, we, you know, the hedge funds are coming in everywhere, but my Roofstock clients wanting the better schools and you know, the properties that are under $5,000 in repairs, so we're at a little higher price point than in a lot of the competition. So we are competing with some home buyers, you know, our offers are anywhere from, you know, three to 6% over list price. We're using some escalation clauses things like that to help protect, you know, my buyers but I think with the kind of turnkey homes that we're looking for, we do bypass a lot of that a lot of the new institutional buyers coming in.   Tyson: I think also Mark here we benefited from a gust always you know, being off the radar a little bit that a lot of those funds went to Charlotte, Atlanta but didn't come to Augusta and and Alban's footprint, we're in other markets beyond Augusta, we're in Chattanooga, we're in Columbia, we're in the process of opening up Charleston, is we've always focused on secondary and tertiary markets, where we feel there's the best mix of existing cash flow and potential future appreciation, right. And we still feel all of these markets in the southeast, particularly the secondary and tertiary markets have those sort of dynamics of both a solid return right now, it's not speculative, but a good upside given, you know, future growth potential. And so I think that some of the funds are recognizing that and there are some here but I think there's funds in every market. From my understanding, talking to people in other markets, our institutional presence isn't nearly as large as some of our neighboring cities.   Mark: And I echo that strategy is that that's something we're really trying to do is open it up in more secondary tertiary markets because we do notice the Atlanta's the Charlotte's, those major markets have so much competition. So you know, you may have a multiple offer scenario that has two or three offers versus a market like Atlanta where there are 10 20 30 plus property or offers coming in. So I do like that we give our buyers is a better chance in these markets for just as quality of inventory, maybe not as huge of an economy but still a very, a very stable economy where people typically stay for a long period of time, maybe not with the, you know, the the military base, but I think they're just more stable areas where they're truly communities for families. And, you know, people are going to stay there for a long time.   Tyson: It's worth noting to mark that we're getting a lot of military, you know, people that come here and like the market so much that they're buying here, knowing that they're going to travel more, and then come you renting an out for a while and coming back and living here. So we've seen that quite a bit. We have quite a few clients that that's been the case, you know, they, they liked the market, they liked the investment, they know they're gonna leave, they'll run it out for a couple years, and then come back and live in.   Tom: It's a great transition. We've got just got a few more minutes on today, but I feel like this episode could keep going for a long time on people, you know, coming back to the market, like what, as what's the draw in living here? You know, we talked about the green jackets, the AA game, you sit on the river, what's the other kind of like, you know, fun things to do in town, if I was to come come into Augusta and check it out.   Ryan: I think I think the main draws the low cost of living, draws people back. You don't have I think our crime rates are a lot lower than a lot of the big cities. And we just we have a lot of new growth. You know, Top golf just showed up. Dave and Busters, you know, we just have a lot of a lot of new growth and a lot of new companies coming here.   Tyson: I think also there's a you know, in addition to low cost of living, it's a high quality of life and what it mean more specifically by that, you know, we're on the Savannah River, there's a lot of activities there from boating, kayaking, canoeing, you know, there's, there's several lakes close by that people spend a lot of time at going out to lakes on the weekend, there's a good trail and park system with some greenways good running past biking trails, there's some good mountain biking trails here. You know, given its proximity to some of the larger markets, we're also able to draw off that in some positive ways, we'll see we'll get you know, musical artists that prior to real estate, I was in the music business and we get artists that are stopping by on a Wednesday or Thursday on a way to playing a Friday or Saturday show in Charlotte or Atlanta.   So, you know, there's a good arts community scene here as well. The downtown is experiencing a good bit of revitalization. You're seeing a lot of people coming down there and starting new businesses and really building in some community there. And I think that it's a it's an exciting time to be here. You know, I think that the biggest part I think is also you get some of the benefits of living in a larger city without some of the hassles or headaches.   You know, there's there's not major commute times traffic at its worst is very moderate and very manageable. Yeah, I moved away from Augusta in 2014 to Charleston and I think it It took… I love Charleston but it also made me appreciate a lot of things even more about a gusta you know and i think that there's a lot of new people here and new energy with people that are growing up in Augusta and electing not to leave and and shaping Augusta into what they would sort of like it to be you know, there's several theaters that have opened downtown new music venues. You know, lots of really exciting things I think going on.   Tom: Love it. So my last question for today and I'll let Mark close if he has any any final ones is okay, so you have to and I want you guys both answer this questions that both answers question so there's two restaurants you're going to you're only in town for two days. One of the restaurants is oh man I need something you know kind of greasy I want something you know I want to get whatever my fingers dirty whatever. And the other one is fancy date night so two places to go eat at and Augusta putting putting you on the spot here.   Ryan: Well, I would for the for the fancy fun dining. I would probably be downtown I'm Frog Hollow. Yeah, just fine dining great food. Little on the higher price point but you get what you pay for definitely.  And the Downham gritty meal would probably be the Waffle House. I know me at Waffle House.   Tom: I know me a waffle house. Ilived in North Alabama for you know, eight months or so. So yeah, I love it.   Ryan: That's right open any hour so…   Tyson: Uh, yeah, I think I could I could name several here cuz I definitely liked dining out and whenever I come to town I Dine Out consistently Frog Hollow is phenomenal place. There's a there's an area of town called Suri center that has a variety of kind of, you know, different places, there's a place Italian place there is great called Olivia's. There's a, it's far as the down and dirty or budget friendly, I'm going to go off script and give three different spots because I can't can't limited to one.   Tom: Sure.   Tyson: But there's a phenomenal Korean place called Happy house that's got excellent Korean food. And then there's a famous or infamous burger center called sports center that is, is not to be missed. I mean, it's one of those places where they've been using the probably same burger grease for 50 60 years. And when you leave there, you'll smell like what you ate for the rest of the day. But it's well worth it.   And then my all time favorite is a little German deli place called Hilderbrands, it's been around for 100 years, that's probably it's a, it's an older woman that's been running the place forever. And it's you know, it sandwiches, but it's just, it's a it's a time warp, it's going back in history and seeing a sort of 100 year old deli. But you know, I could also name a couple more, but I already went well over my allotted, you know, requests.   Mark: We'll have to add some more to the show notes. But just to make sure if anybody does come in town, they have the full map. But just on that note, you know, you guys did put a great presentation together. And we'll make that available for all the listeners in the show notes. So thanks. Thanks for doing that. But also my my last bit of advice, One question is buyers should make sure to go to the Augusta, Georgia Chamber of Commerce, learn about what's new, what's changing in the area, there's always good information there. So these gentlemen have provided us with some excellent information. So use them as the the local news and knowledge, you know, whenever it comes to real estate investing, but yeah, thank you guys for doing this.   My question is, if there's one thing that Ryan could tell buyers, that is just the most important one little nugget of information before investing in your market, what would that be Ryan?   Ryan: I would say right now the most important thing is list price really isn't getting your offer. Just know that just like everywhere else right now where we are fighting for our contracts. And I would say probably being 3 to 5% above offer price. And, again, I've been using the escalation clause to help protect not overpaying. But you know, if you're doing all your homework and going through and clicking that button, that's the most important piece I could do right now.   Tyson: And I would just add that, you know, as far as investing or being willing to sort of go over list price, I think we've had the benefit of being in market for you know, 15-20 years, we've seen what the Augusta market has done historically, I think and how it's written out recessions, corrections downturns, which you know, I think long term if you're an investor long term, the market is so fundamentally sort of sound and stable that it's it's just an excellent market. You know.   I invest in multiple markets that Auben is in and as a presence but the Augusta market is by far my favorite right and last piece of advice would be if you are coming to town and choose to try to come to town or on masters week, plan ahead. Whether you're going to those restaurants or trying to book a hotel, it's it's a different animal that time of year to be sure. all bets are off as far as getting in anywhere at any reasonable price. But there's plenty of other times that are good to come to a guest as well.   Tom: for another episode, the vacation rental.   Ryan: And to piggyback on that I just like to add if you're gonna spend say, a million dollars here in Augusta then $350 on a plane ticket. Yeah, come come look at the market. Let me let me show you what, what we're doing here and how things are just to give you a little better peace of mind of where you're putting your money.   Tyson: We'd be happy to host anybody here we enjoy. meeting our owners face to face is definitely not a requirement. But you know, I feel it can be really good for continuing to build trust and relationships. So we're always open to doing that and we've got some furnished rental properties we keep open for our clients to come stay in too.   Tom: That will lead to good good final final question is what's the best way to get in touch with you guys wanted to take you up on that offer?   Ryan: I can be reached 702239 4900 email is RWeidner@Aubenrealty.com.   Tyson: Emails the best for me and I can be reached at Tyson@Aubenrealty.com. I'm less involved in the day to day operation to this stuff. We've got a big team that helps that, but I'm very passionate about helping investors with, you know, their investing journey. And if there's anything that you know, would be helpful with that and be happy to discuss at any point,   Tom: Awesome. I feel I think there's definitely another episode with you guys on this wonderful investor journey presentation that you guys shared a little bit earlier that we'll add in the show notes, but I think it will result in another episode that we'll put out so Tyson and Ryan, thank you so much for coming on.   Tyson: Thank you guys.   Pierre Well, that's our episode. Thanks so much for tuning in. Thanks to Ryan and Tyson for joining us today. Thanks so much for tuning in. Happy investing.

Andy Verboom discusses his new poetry collection, DBL. Andrew talks about Andy's early influence on him as an aspiring writer. It's a joyous occasion! ----- Listen to more episodes of Page Fright here. ----- Andy Verboom is from subrural Nova Scotia and lives in K'jipuktuk (Halifax). He is the publisher of Insomniac Press and Collusion Books and the co-founder of long con magazine. His poetry has won Frog Hollow’s Chapbook Contest and Descant’s Winston Collins Prize, been shortlisted for CV2's Young Buck Prize and Arc's Poem of the Year, and appeared in Prism, The Puritan, Vallum, and elsewhere. DBL is his sixth chapbook. ----- Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. Andrew holds a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University, and is pursuing an MA in English at UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

In this SPECIAL episode you'll meet Rebecca Kohunui. She's a Wife to Warren, Mother to Harlow & Teacher living in Sydney, Australia. It's been my absolute honour to have known Bec for around 13 years now and I can honestly say she has the BIGGEST heart for people! It shows in every aspect of her life including her teaching. A couple of years ago she moved over to WA and lived in a small community called Frog Hollow teaching Indigenous Youth. As we discuss her incredible time in Frog Hollow learning about the beautiful Indigenous culture, language and practices we also touch on our brutal Australian history, stereotypes/preconceptions and intergenerational trauma. Our hope is that this brings to light our individual responsibility to read, listen & learn so that we can be the change.

The parkrun adventurers leap along to Frog Hollow parkrun and delight in downhills at Ipswich Qld as Melissa Ellis returns to guest co-host. And the Channel 5 News Crew head out to support fire-affected communities visiting the teams at Braidwood Showground parkrun and Bright parkrun.

Daniel Cowper has advice for the people who don't like poetry. Andrew brings in a journal we've seen before. Everybody is happy. ----- Daniel Cowper's poetry has appeared in Arc, Vallum, CV2, Prairie Fire, and various other literary publications in Canada, the US, and Ireland. In 2017 he was long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize, and a chapbook of his poetry, The God of Doors, was published by Frog Hollow Press, was published as co-winner of Frog Hollow's chapbook contest. His first full length collection of poetry, Grotesque Tenderness, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in summer 2019. He lives on Bowen Island, BC, with his wife, Emily Osborne, and their baby. ----- Listen to more episodes at: www.theandrewfrench.com/pagefright

In her new book, author Susan Campbell transports readers through time, telling the story of Hartford's once industry-rich neighborhood, Frog Hollow. This hour, we sit down with Campbell. We ask about her research for the book and learn about the realities of life in Frog Hollow today. Do you have a personal connection to the neighborhood? We want to hear from you, too.Support the show: http://wnpr.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Home Cookingwith Kate McDermott Intro: Welcome to the Cookery by the Book podcast with Suzy Chase. She's just a home cook in New York City, sitting at her dining room table talking to cookbook authors.Kate McDermott: Hi, Suzy, and your listeners. I'm Kate McDermott, and I'm here at Pie Cottage today in Port Angeles, Washington on the beautiful peninsula. I'm here to talk about my new book "Home Cooking with Kate McDermott" that just came out.Suzy Chase: The very first line in the cookbook is, "You can do this." I love it. What compelled you to make that the very first line of this cookbook?Kate McDermott: I have taught so many people in pie-making in my Art of the Pie pie camp classes, and people come in feeling nervous that they can't make a pie. I learned the first thing you let them know is, "This is really easy. There is nothing to it," and by the time they leave the workshops, they're feeling like, "Well what was the big fear about this? It's so easy?" I felt that it's the same thing when you go into, my kitchen at least, when I'm cooking. This stuff is easy and delicious I feel, at least people tell me that it is, and that anybody can make these dishes. There's nothing hard about it, there's no exotic ingredients, it requires no special equipment, and pretty much anybody can make them.Suzy Chase: Speaking of pies, talk a little bit about what is enough, how pie recipes are being tweaked to fill larger pans these days.Kate McDermott: I had a very interesting conversation a few years back with an editor for one of the larger food magazines. She mentioned to me something that corroborated my experience over the years when I have been making recipes, older recipes from the '40s, '50s, sometimes even the '60s and early '70s, in cookbooks, pie recipes. The ingredients, following the recipes never filled the pie pan correctly; there was not enough dough, there was not enough filling. My solution to that, of course, was just to size the recipes up to fit the pie pans. Now, what she told me was that our recipes in older cookbooks, in decades prior to this, were sized for the size of vessels that we had at that time, which were substantially smaller than what we have now. A full-sized pie, the pie pan is very different. The size of a piece of pie that is cut now is probably one-and-a-half to two times the size-Suzy Chase: Oh my gosh.Kate McDermott: Of a piece of pie that we ate in, say, 1950. I think this is also true with many of the dishes that we make now, the serving sizes. It is not necessarily that, "Oh, we should be cleaning our plate" as our mothers told us to do. When our plate is so overfilled that really I look sometimes at plates of food that come to me at a table in a restaurant and I say, "This could feed four people."Suzy Chase: Well, come to New York City because it's the exact opposite. It's like a tiny nugget.Kate McDermott: Well there's probably a balance there somewhere-Suzy Chase: Yes.Kate McDermott: More than a tiny nugget but more than the whole casserole on your plate. "Less" than the whole casserole on your plate, sorry.Suzy Chase: It's so hard to get your mom out of your head, though, saying, "Clean your plate."Kate McDermott: Oh yeah, yeah. I know for me, there were things that she really worked hard to get me to eat. I was not fond of vegetables when I was young, so I spent many an hour at the table. I couldn't leave the table until my plate was clean, and I know she was just trying to get me to eat my vegetables.Suzy Chase: For you, every morning is a different painting. Tell me about Duncan and his breakfast hash.Kate McDermott: Well, my son Duncan has been in the kitchen with me since always. He loves to be in the kitchen. He does many other things also, but he's really competent over these years of being in there with me of now taking on kitchen responsibilities in his own house and when he comes over here. He loves to cook for lots of people. I remember at the home of one of his girlfriends one time, her dad says, "Oh we love it when Duncan comes over because he immediately goes in the kitchen and starts cooking," and many times what he's making is his breakfast hash, which started by just going in and chopping up pretty much whatever was in the fridge or [inaudible 00:05:52]. There always were potatoes. He loves bacon. Who doesn't love bacon? He likes to season things highly, actually. He would just chop and chop and cook and cook, and started making this hash. Usually when people would get up in the morning, if I had a house full of people, the house was already smelling like breakfast and Duncan was in the kitchen cooking. When you get up and you smell something great like my son's cooking, or if I may be so bold, some of my cooking, it's just a wonderful way to start the day.Suzy Chase: One photo in the book that I love is on page 28; it's a few of your cookbooks. You read cookbooks like novels. What was your first cookbook, and what's your favorite cookbook?Kate McDermott: Okay, well my first cookbook as it is shown in there is "Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls." I still do have my original copy and that is the copy that you see. All those cookbooks that are on page 28, those are my cookbooks. That was my first one, and I loved looking through the pages and picking out what I was going to make. I think that's translated now into continuing to read cookbooks as if they were novels, and picturing me in the kitchen, my hands chopping the vegetables, my hands making whatever it is. You kind of can read the recipe and imagine the smells and the textures. My favorite cookbook, oh my goodness. I probably would say, well I love Marion Cunningham's "The Fannie Farmer Cookbook." It's just like a good, old friend to me, but also one of my favorites is "The Tassajara Bread Book." Not so much that I bake out of it anymore, but just because it's like a talisman to me. It's how many of us in the generation that grew up in the '60s and the '70s, it's how we learned to make bread.Suzy Chase: What year was that cookbook put out?Kate McDermott: That cookbook was put out, I believe, in 1970-something. It was at least out by the mid-seventies I believe.Suzy Chase: Okay. Speaking of old friends, you also have various story time sections, and one was when you met Marion Cunningham-Kate McDermott: Mm-hmm (affirmative).Suzy Chase: The woman who revised "The Fanny Farmer Cookbook." Reading that piece made me feel like you hit it off immediately. Describe that.Kate McDermott: We did. I was on the farm in California, at Frog Hollow. Great stone fruit orchard, wonderful fruit there, and I was there for a wonderful celebration of Alice Waters' edible food yard, her project. It felt like everybody in the world was there, including Marion, and of course I was just agog at like, "Oh my God, here's this person and here's that person," and there was Marion. It was a very, very hot summer day. There was going to be a tour of the orchard, and it was too hot for Marion to go out. I absolutely said to her, "Well I'll stay behind" because being now a north-westerner, although I was transplanted; I was originally from Santa Barbara, as a north-westerner now, anything above 60 degrees was hot to me and I was delighted to stay behind. We went up to the farm office, which was air conditioned, and sat together and had a wonderful, one-hour conversation one-on-one about things that we both felt were important: family, family at the table, the table, putting meals on the table, gathering friends and family. It was absolutely one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I got to hear very interesting things about her too, that really what she had wanted to do in life was to have a garage and be a mechanic.Suzy Chase: Oh wow. Really?Kate McDermott: Yeah, absolutely. Anyway, after everybody came back, then we went out into the orchard where the big table was set in-between the rows of peach trees. She just motioned and said, "You sit right over there." It was just such a magical evening. I saw her after that when she came up to Washington to speak. She greeted me like I was her long lost best friend. It was so amazing.Suzy Chase: Oh wow. You'll always remember that.Kate McDermott: Oh totally, and I have a picture of that day. Actually, I have a picture of myself at the farm on that day, but the one that I love the most is when she was in Washington and I have a picture of her signing my very dog-eared copy of her cookbook, "The Fanny Farmer Cookbook." She looked at it and said, "I think this would take the prize for the most used."Suzy Chase: What an honor.Kate McDermott: Oh yeah.Suzy Chase: How old was she when you met her?Kate McDermott: Oh, she was I believe in her eighties at this point.Suzy Chase: In the High Noon section of "Home Cooking," you have the "Good Old Butter Sandwich," but your spin on it is that you have re-imagined it in 10 different ways. Describe the one with peppers and arugula.Kate McDermott: Oh, this is one of my favorites. So you're going to take some bread, and if you like, my mom used to spread an extra layer of butter on our nut butter sandwiches. That's optional, and then I like to put almond butter on mine. Then I place on there the arugula, a nice little bit of arugula on one side, and on the other side I place my favorite red peppers. My favorites are Mama Lil's Picked Hungarian Goathorn Peppers, and I liberally put those on. Sometimes maybe I'll put a little sprinkling of salt if I feel like it too, and then I put it together. You can either eat it like that, or some people I think grill these things too. It's just delicious, and I was inspired to do this when I realized when I go to restaurants, many times there'll be peanuts in a dish or nuts in a dish, and peppers. I thought, "Well why can't I be doing this with a peanut butter sandwich?" I just tuck this stuff in, and it's really good. Suzy Chase: I can't even imagine it in my head. That's how crazy it sounds.Kate McDermott: Give it a try. Some of the peanut sauces that we have, like with spring rolls, sometimes those will have a little bit of sweetness to it. If you like, this is not mentioned in the book; this is just for you, you could also take a little tiny pinch of sugar and put that in the sandwich also just to bring it up a little bit.Suzy Chase: Fall is hearty soup season, and I love a good bean soup. What are your three ways to cook beans?Kate McDermott: Okay.Suzy Chase: Hit it.Kate McDermott: You got it. The first way is to soak the beans overnight, the long way. Actually, you bring them to a boil and then soak them overnight, and then the next day you cook them until they're soft. The second way is to bring them to a boil for five minutes, then let them sit for a little bit, and then you cook them for another couple hours. That seems to work just fine too, so that's the medium way if you have forgotten to soak your beans overnight. The third way is to get out the can opener and open the can. That works really well too.Suzy Chase: That's my favorite.Kate McDermott: Mm-hmm (affirmative).Suzy Chase: I just got a ham hock from my butcher too. You just put it in some white beans, and-Kate McDermott: Yes.Suzy Chase: Oh my gosh, the best.Kate McDermott: I was just visiting some friends. We had a lovely meal of black-eyed peas, which they did in the same way of soaking the beans and then they did a ham hock, but even if you didn't have that, I think pork belly's always good.Suzy Chase: Oh yes, totally. So I'm not sure why, but one thing I hate to make is salad. You have the perfect answer to my disdain for salad-making-Kate McDermott: I do?Suzy Chase: The Make-Ahead Layered Salad. Describe that.Kate McDermott: Well, that salad is a very retro salad from the '50s and '60s. You really just shred lettuce, you chop pretty much whatever vegetables you want, and make sure that you have different textures in there so that there's some crunch as well. Then, you kind of seal it all in with a mayonnaise topping and let it sit in the fridge overnight or for some hours, and it's ready to go. You just sort of toss it all together if you'd like, and that's it. It's made its own dressing pretty much, and it's like salad ready to go.Suzy Chase: What do you put in the mayonnaise part of it?Kate McDermott: So, the dressing for the Make-Ahead Layered Salad is super easy. You take a couple cups of mayonnaise, which sounds like a lot but remember that this is a big salad and it's going to be spread out quite liberally. Put in some sugar for sweetening it up a little bit, some seasoning salt. One of my favorites is Spike, and some garlic powder. You can either mix it together or you can spread the mayonnaise completely over the top and then sprinkle all of those dry ingredients over the top of the mayonnaise. It'll kind of seep in there and flavor it, and then also you put some Parmigiano-Reggiano on top of that. It's quite good. Now right before you serve it then, sprinkle it with some crumbled hard-boiled eggs and bacon. It's always better with bacon, right?Suzy Chase: I'm going to make that for Thanksgiving.Kate McDermott: I think you'll like it.Suzy Chase: I can do that the night before. Kate McDermott: Yes you can.Suzy Chase: Well there you go. On page 204, you write about how to roast a chicken. I made that chicken the other night, and I always forget how easy it is to roast a chicken.Kate McDermott: That is so true. When I was a young cook, I was petrified of roasting a chicken for some reason. When I finally just took the bird by the legs and decided to do it, I found that it's very, very simple. The recipe that I have in "Home Cooking" really requires nothing more than a vessel to put the chicken in. Just salt and pepper it both on the inside and the outside. If you want to stuff it with whatever fresh herbs you have; it could be rosemary, oregano, sage, whatever you have. If you want to put some garlic on the inside, you can do that. If you don't anything other than salt and pepper, that's fine too, and you toss the bird into an oven that is at 350. 90 minutes later, it comes out and it's done. You can baste it if you want; you don't have to baste it. It comes out every time.Suzy Chase: I made little slits and I stuck roasted garlic into the slits.Kate McDermott: That's a classic. That is so yummy.Suzy Chase: It was so good, and then the next day I made ramen for my little boy, so it's great.Kate McDermott: So you had the chicken to be able to put in it.Suzy Chase: Yeah. Kate McDermott: Mm-hmm (affirmative).Suzy Chase: So good. For my segment called My Last Meal, what would you choose for your last supper?Kate McDermott: A simple piece of bread hot out of the oven slathered with butter would be right up there, and a perfect peach with juice with juice that would be dripping down my chin that we could all share and pass it around, and maybe some home-pressed cider. I would want to be sharing this with lifelong friends and of course my son, and hopefully I would have some grandchildren at that time. Hint, hint, Duncan if you're listening.Suzy Chase: No pressure.Kate McDermott: No pressure at all. I think that last meal is more who you're sharing it with and the memories. Quite frankly, I hope I go out laughing.Suzy Chase: Where can we find you on the web and social media?Kate McDermott: You can find me at artofthepie.com. I am on Instagram @KateMcDermott, and I am on Twitter @KateMcDermott. On Facebook, you can either find me at Art of the Pie and then my personal page is Kate McDermott.Suzy Chase: You and Marion Cunningham agreed that the kitchen table is one of the most central places in the home. That is so homey and comforting just like the recipes in this cookbook. Thanks so much for coming on Cookery by the Book podcast.Kate McDermott: Thank you so much, Suzy, and to your listeners, just cook. It's easy.Suzy Chase: Follow me on Instagram @CookeryByTheBook. Twitter is @IamSuzyChase, and download your Kitchen Mixtapes, music to cook by on Spotify at Cookery by the Book. As always, subscribe on Apple Podcasts.

Alex Province makes smashed cheeseburgers at home for a crowd with a clever hack, and Faith and the gang taste three phenomenal wines (all available in our region!) from the portfolio of Rosenthal Wine Merchants. Plus, neuroscientist Rachel Herz shares findings from her fascinating book, Why You Eat What You Eat. We’re also sharing our thoughts on “massaged kale” and revealing the brand of Basmati rice Cooks Illustrated magazine declares best. This week’s shout-outs: Story and Soil Coffee and Capital Ice Cream. If you haven’t been to the Frog Hollow neighborhood in Hartford to check them out yet, fix that. Support the show.

November 17, 2017 Just Riding Along Show Page ABOUT THIS EPISODE This week is brought to you by hard pedaling. Kenny does his first race in a long while, Matt and Andrea haven't done too much out of the ordinary, and the show goes just as you would expect - downhill fast. -------- SHOW DONATIONS - none this week A huge thanks to current and previous show supporters! If you would like to support the show, CLICK HERE.  We want to hear from you! If you have any questions, comments, or ideas for the next episode, contact us at jra@mountainbikeradio.com. -------- LISTENER QUESTIONS Questions answered by the crew in this episode: - Robert H shares with us what should be Kenny's e-bike - Eddie S from New York wants to know what's up with XT clutch mechanisms - Ken from New York has some GripShift questions - Andrew from Tejas is curious about Gripton? Is it GripTon or GripNone? - William C needs training advice for Whiskey 50 Offroad - Nate has some questions about Bontrager OEM rear hub. - Daniel from Path Country needs to know how often we are swapping single speed gears. - Trey is going to change the oil in his 2008 Marzocchi fork - different weight, different tune? -------- RELATED SHOW LINKS Buy the JRA Intro Music Right Here Shop via our Amazon Affiliate Link Go to the Mountain Bike Radio Store 25 Hours in Frog Hollow 9000w e-bike McNugget Loophole Chicken Nugget Calc - Australian Currency Kanawha State Forest - listener video Listener bike build - Ritchy P-29er Become a Mountain Bike Radio member Just Riding Along on Twitter Brickhouse Racing Website Brickhouse Racing Facebook Page Brickhouse Racing Instagram Mountain Bike Radio Facebook Page Andrea’s Twitter Matt’s Twitter Kenny’s Twitter

June 11, 2016 The Last Aid Station Show Page ABOUT THIS EPISODE This episode is brought to you by iSSi Pedals. Click for $15 off any iSSi Pedals Steve brings you a special episode of The Last Aid Station. He sits down with race directors, Seth Bush and Cimarron Chacon, to discuss the new N 24 National 24 Hour Mountain Bike Solo Championship. Seth is the director of Zia Rides and Cimarron is the director of GRO Races. Listen in to hear details about what racers can expect from the series and the races. It will give you good perspective of the directors and what they want to see. Plus, a bonus – they share some discounts for the races. If you are a race director or racer who would like to hear your race report on an episode of The Last Aid Station, please contact Mark atMark@Mountainbikeradio.com. If you have any questions or feedback for Steve, please email him at Steve@Mountainbikeradio.com.   ----------------   RELATED SHOW LINKS This episode is brought to you by iSSi Pedals. Click to get $15 off any pair now through August 5th. DISCOUNTS: MTBR2016 gets you $10 Off of the 25 Hours in the Frog Hollow and 24 Hours in the Enchanted Forest Shop through our Amazon Affiliate Link N24 Series Enchanted Forest Oregon 24 Frog Hollow Oregon 24 Discount The Last Aid Station is on Twitter Steve on Twitter Support The Last Aid Station The Last Aid Station The Last Aid Station Facebook Page Mountain Bike Radio Endurance Calendar Email Mark Email Steve Email Ben BECOME A MOUNTAIN BIKE RADIO MEMBER

The Billings Forge Farmers' Market, established in 2007, brings locally grown fresh foods to the Frog Hollow section of Hartford. Sarah Miner reports.