Podcast appearances and mentions of tim wenger

As the title suggests, today is an all weather all day type of show as Western New York is in the midst of dealing with lake effect snow across a large stretch, coupled with extreme cold. We hear from meteorologist Andy Parker as well as WBEN's Tim Wenger during his afternoon commute, and we hear from you as well on many weather related topics. What's the weather like where you're at? Is there anything your fellow drivers do while driving in weather like this that gets you pissed off? Are kids not as tough now than they were a couple decades ago, have we become soft when it comes to dealing with the weather? And when referring to temperature, is is 'five below' or 'negative five'?

WBEN's own Tim Wenger joins the show and details what he experienced in his neck of the woods, Orchard Park, and what the journey was like trying to escape the belly of the lake effect beast

Western New York, particularly the south towns, are in the throes of another lake effect snow event. For our south towns listeners, what are the conditions like where you're at? Also, we hear from meteorologist Andy Parker and Elizabeth Carey of AAA who keep you filled in on everything you need to know about this round of lake effect snow, and we hear from WBEN's Tim Wenger who experienced everything the lake effect band threw at Orchard Park last night and this morning.

The WBEN family is mourning the loss of traffic reporter and news anchor Allan Harris, who passed away this weekend after battling an illness. Tim Wenger reflects on his time working with Allan and the impact he had on those around him.

Spurred by an X post from our own Tim Wenger comparing Buffalo's waterfront to that of Erie, PA and saying Buffalo could learn a lot from Erie in that regard, Bauerle wants to know what your ideas are in regard to sprucing up Buffalo's waterfront.

Former AP correspondent Terry Anderson, who was taken hostage in 1985 in Lebanon, has passed away at 76. Tim Wenger recalls the media frenzy when Anderson was released.

Today I'm joined by travel journalist, author, and snowboarder Tim Wenger. After finishing a BA in Communications from Fort Lewis College, Tim jumped into the back of a Ford Econoline and spent a few years playing guitar in dark bars while falling in love with adventure travel. He's been unable to rest his pen (or his feet) ever since. Facebook Twitter Instagram The Outdoor Biz Podcast Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! Sign up for my Newsletter HERE.  I'd love to hear your feedback about the show! You can contact me here: email: rick@theoutdoorbizpodcast.com or leave me a message on Speakpipe! Show Notes I gotta hear about those years in a Ford Ecoline playing guitar in the dark bars while falling in love with adventure travel. Where, first of all, where'd that idea come from? So basically I played guitar in a punk band for about a decade. A couple of them over that time, but primarily one that was more serious and, we toured around the Southwest, playing bars and now and then when we'd open for a bigger band and we'd get to play in a theater. But usually, it was bar-level gigs and sleeping on people's couches and, trying to imitate our heroes. We never quite became the next Blink 182, but, we certainly tried. I always tell people, playing in a rock band is a great thing to do when you're in your twenties, right? Because you're staying out till 2:00 AM all the time, which you'd probably be doing anyway. You're hanging out at rock clubs, you're getting in a van, driving around. It's fun, but it's not something I'd wanna do now. So is there a particular story or event from that experience that was maybe uniquely fun or maybe not fun? I would say that my favorite thing about it, traveling as a musician, was the camaraderie among the other bands. You know, when you are a working band showing up at a rock club in some random place, you have an instant connection with the other people that are there with the other bands that are going through the same things that you're doing. You know, everybody's got a crappy day job back home and, you're trying to be like your heroes. How did you become a writer? I went to school for communications. Journalism was kinda my thing. I was on the high school newspaper staff, yada, yada, yada. And after the band, you know, I started getting a little older, mid-twenties, starting to get into my upper twenties. I didn't know what I was gonna do. Obviously, this isn't paying the bills, so I started looking for writing gigs and ended up getting a weekly gig for a website that paid $50 a week to do a column about the local music scene in Denver. So that was, that was my first actual paid byline that I ever had, was writing for these guys. And that sort of gave me some clips that I could send out to other publications. It allowed me to be out on the town saying, Hey, I'm writing a story about this. Do you wanna talk to me? And then that leads to more connections. So it's a very self-starting thing, very much like being in a band. So I was kind of able to borrow some of those skills and move them over to keep networking my way into better and better writing gigs. Your Matador bio says that you're the transactional content at Matador. What is the transactional content editor? Basically, it's a fancy name for affiliate marketing. So I run all of our affiliate marketing content, be that Airbnb roundups or product reviews, or hotel features. I oversee that stuff and I also do a lot of outdoors content. I'm more of the outdoors content, whereas I'm editing the affiliate stuff most of the time. You write for a number of other folks also other than Matador, right? Right now I have three active contracts of which Matador is the largest. I also write edited a company called Static Media also, and I'm currently working on the Fodors travel guidebook for Colorado that will publish, I believe, next July. So I'm doing four. I'm updating and fact-checking four chapters of that guidebook. How'd you get involved with Matador? It kind of came about through social media. Originally I was working at a music magazine in Denver, that I kind of parlayed myself into through my other gig. I worked at a magazine called Music Buzz for four years, and they folded in 2020. Shortly thereafter, it literally couldn't have been two weeks, I was scrolling through Facebook and an old friend from high school shared an article from Matador on their feed, I clicked on it and started reading that article and then a few others. And that was the first time that I ever heard the term digital nomad, or ever realized that there were all of these people working on laptops, you know, basing their lives living in a van or traveling around Southeast Asia or basically doing all these things. There's a lot of ski bums, there's a lot of people doing the same things I've always been doing, but there was a formal name for it and there's like a community and I knew instantly that I had to be a part of it. So  I signed up for this writing course that they had, and one of their editors reached out to me and was like, hey, you look like you've got some experience. Why don't you try writing this article? And it just kind of progressed from there, that was in 2015. I wrote for them consistently, about Colorado and Denver primarily for two years, and got on staff in 2017. So tell us a little bit about Matador. What, do they do? How do they do it? It's, a daily digital travel magazine based in San Francisco, but the team is remote. I believe the only person now actually in San Francisco is the founder, Ross Borden, who says, and he's not wrong. This is the best description I've ever heard of Matador, but he says that Matador is if Nat Geo and Buzzfeed had a baby. You got the adventure travel, the outdoors, the kind of conservation, you know, the sustainability angle to it, but it's aimed at millennials. So the bulk of our readership is millennials, so it's, it's shorter articles, not 5,000-word features like you're gonna see in Nat Geo. And did they do anything with podcasting? Well, they didn't until myself and my now co-host, Eban Diskin started a podcast independently and, ran it for a year, and then we ended up selling the rights of it to Matador. Which was under the table. You know, we knew that this was always our goal when we started was to merge with Matador or someone similar, But they did not know that at the time. We started independently and then wrote them a pitch after we had a year's worth of episodes to show.  And that's the No Blackout Dates Podcast.  The Unfiltered Travel Podcast. So you, Rachelle, and Adam gave a great presentation on pitching at the Outdoor media summit, just pitching editors and whatnot. Do you have three tips for listeners when they're pitching editors on a gear review or an idea for an article? Is there anything that you always try to incorporate or do? Yeah, absolutely, I'll give you, I'll give you two tips and one way to optimize those tips. The first thing that anybody that works in media will want to know is, why is this piece of gear relevant right now? It could be seasonally appropriate, or maybe it's an upgrade of an existing product that you've made better. Why am I writing about this right now? That's the first thing that needs to be at the top of any pitch. The second would be what specific problem is this piece of gear solving, which I think is overlooked by a lot of gear companies because it's very common nowadays for an outdoorsy person to be out on the trail using a piece of gear, and be like, okay, I wish this piece of gear did this. I'm gonna go make that and then I'm gonna sell it. That's awesome. But you need to hone down your pitch when you are on the trail having a problem. Because that's what makes something newsworthy and, that's what makes something different. Why is yours different? Why is yours solving a problem that split boarders have or that the park snowboarder has? What problem are you solving? And then to kind of tie those two together, I think it's really cool when a PR person or a brand or a writer, whoever it might be, includes in their pitch some sort of a creative use case. You know, like this could be a trip planning angle, like this is the first helmet that was ever taken on this crazy ascent of this peak in Antarctica or something. Whatever it is that might be like, oh, damn, no one else is doing that. I, I need this piece of gear right now. You know, if the editor is thinking that, you know, the readers thinking that. If you have a good use case for your product that wasn't just, Hey, like I created this new product because I love to go hiking in the backcountry. What is the use? That is demonstrating the problem that you're solving. Let's talk about the No Blackout Dates podcast. How'd that get started? It was a pandemic project. So one of the Matador staff writers, Eban Diskin, approached me, I guess it was the summer of 2020, and asked if I wanted to start a podcast with them. And, you know, I hadn't been on the road in a few months and we were both longing for travel, so we figured we might as well start talking about it at least. So that was the launch of it and, we started interviewing people that summer and launched in October of 2020, the first four episodes. Now we're about to hit a hundred. I think by the end of January or February we should be there. Tell us a little bit about it It's travel related, our pitch is that it's the Unfiltered Travel podcast that talks about the stuff that the other travel podcast won't talk about. So, rather than giving somebody a PR spiel about why they need to visit a place, we'll talk to the foreign correspondent that lives there about what the scene is actually like in that city. For example, we just interviewed a correspondent that lives in Taiwan about how the China-Taiwan conflict, will impact travel. We interviewed, Kevin Kelly, the founder of Wired Magazine about his new project Vanishing Asia, where he traveled around Asia for 30 years and took photos. So we're trying to tell untold stories, through a lens that is not something that has to pass into print publication, not filtered. Do you have any suggestions or advice for folks that want to get into the outdoor biz? The best thing that's helped me more than anything, no matter what I've been doing in my career is going to places and just networking. Like Outdoor Media Summit, you're going to the happy hour and everybody that's there has both a skill that they can offer and a problem that they need to solve, just like you do. And the more people you can connect with, the more you're gonna realize that you can solve their problems or they can solve yours. And that's the fastest way to catapult your career. What are a couple of your favorite Books? I would start by encouraging everyone to read, Let My People Go Surfing by Yvonne Chouinard. I know he's super trending right now, with his recent announcement about Patagonia, but he breaks down the best mantra on not only running a business, but on living your life based on your priorities. Probably my favorite book I've ever read is Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, which, it's a little, it's a little abstract, in the sense this being an outdoors podcast, but I really like the way that Vonnegut breaks down his characters and their struggles and how they overcome those struggles in a very self-conscious manner I also run a substack called Mountain Remote that I would love to have people check out. It's a free weekly newsletter I do as a resource for remote workers who build their lives around outdoor adventures. So if you wanna sign out or sign up, you can just go timwenger.dot net Follow up with Tim Instagram Linkedin

Tim Wenger from WBEN in Buffalo discusses Bills Safety Damar Hamlin, and the scene in Orchard Park yesterday when the Bills played the Patriots.  GO BILLS!

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown joins Tim Wenger to tell residents to stay off the streets in the City of Buffalo and Erie County. 

We're trying something new this week on No Blackout Dates. To complement our interview episodes, every other week we will feature a read-aloud of a crazy travel story from Matador Network. This week's adventure is from writer Nicholas Mancall-Bitel, entitled "My Car Broke Down in the Sahara, and It Taught Me About Trust." The story is read aloud by our own Tim Wenger. We chose this particular narrative because it demonstrates many of the values that we hold true at Matador: Travel is the best way to learn not only about other places and cultures but about yourself. People are generally good and want to help each other. When you're far from home and in a pinch, help tends to come from the unlikeliest of sources. We hope you enjoy this travel tale.Relevant links: My Car Broke Down in the Sahara, and It Taught Me About Trust. Nicolas Mantell-Bitel author bio at Matador Network

Tim Wenger is the Brand Manager at WBEN in Buffalo.  He joins us to discuss the crazy amount of snow that Buffalo got this past week, and how they are digging out. 

WBEN's Tim Wenger takes you aboard the American Mariner with Captain Dave Miller

Tim Wenger joins Larry Kreider in the studio to share his leadership knowledge and explain the Moses model behind his house church network, The Hive Communities. Together, he and Larry explore how the decisions of our youth have leverage when we're older and why managing and dealing with the fundamentals of our lives early on is necessary. Tim Wenger and his wife, Angie, oversee The Hive Communities house church network based in Corvallis, Oregon. The Wengers were also the directors of The Mandate Discipleship School for 15 years until it closed in 2017. Additionally, Tim serves as the director of a 28-week post-high school program for young adults, known as The Riza Experience. Highlights: Listen to the Holy Spirit amid following rules and guidelines. It is okay to fail. Wise men are willing to receive counsel and be corrected. Quotable Quotes: "If you're a leader, people will follow." "The Lord isn't trying to just take away the things that we want." "I've never been lacking in spiritual fathers." "You really need to know who you are." Mentioned in Today's Podcast: Elim Bible Institute and College House to House by Larry Kreider The Cry for Spiritual Mothers and Fathers by Larry Kreider Email The Hive Communities Related Resources: Micro Church Networks by Larry Kreider For more information about Larry Kreider, his books, daily devotionals, small group resources, or other teachings, visit dcfi.org/larry-kreider.

05-19 HJS - WBEN's Tim Wenger joins the show to talk the aftermath of last Saturday's shooting and yesterday's memorial that saw most of the professional athletes show their support to the East side of Buffalo. 

Tim Wenger, Brand Manager, WBEN Buffalo (Audacy Sister Station) He has been out on location/in the community since Saturday.  Community response in Buffalo since shooting.

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Tim Wenger joins Sandy to answer your questions.  Listen to Beach and Company LIVE Monday thru Friday 9am-Noon on News Radio 930 WBEN 

Tim Wenger joins Sandy to answer your questions.  Listen to Beach and Company LIVE Monday thru Friday 9am-Noon on News Radio 930 WBEN 

Tim Wenger joins Sandy to answer your questions.  Listen to Beach and Company LIVE Monday thru Friday 9am-Noon on News Radio 930 WBEN 

In this episode I talk with Tim about his comeback story after having a major head injury. We talk about masculinity, purpose and being authentic. Follow him on Instagram @jokesofme and find him on Facebook! Find me on Instagram @kileyjosilva and send me a message! kileyjosilva.com

David Bellavia receives the Medal of Honor (1:33). One Seneca Tower leases 11 floors to M&T Bank (1:29:00). Mike and Tim Wenger discuss Washington experience and Bellavia’s future at WBEN (2:12:15)

“What does it means to be a man?” “What are the words you think of when we hear the words 'masculinity'?” These are some of the fundamental basic starting questions on your journey to this thing I like to call “exploring your own identity and gender.” Which kinda leads to critiquing societies idea of gender, which I hope leads to critiquing your ideas around gender. I am noticing more and more a lot of guys asking themselves that very basic but enlightening question. Tim Wenger is one of those guys, and he decided to start a project (The Man Effect) when he was questioning his own version of masculinity, asking people If you were to describe what it means to be a man in one word, what would it be and why? Well I wanted to find out more about his project, and what he has learned from it.

Friends since the 6th grade, Tim Wenger joins Ben to talk growing up internationally, the art of friendship, fatherhood, sports rivalries, quarantine binging, grown man hobbies, and living your dreams. Tim's Info: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tim.wenger.140 Instagram: Meigwo007 *webcast version of this interview is available at BenThere.org

Mickey Kearns' one-on-one with Tim Wenger after his victory in the clerk race

Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard's one-on-one with Tim Wenger.

A brief break in the usual Hardline politics talk to go on scene with WBEN's Tim Wenger

Does fear help you travel more? In today's Zero To Travel Podcast, you'll hear how to get cheap flights in Asia and how to get the best ski and snowboard travel deals. It's the hot and cold edition!You'll get the HOT from Louisa with wentadventuring.com- a place where her and her husband share advice and stories for nomads. They've lived around the world since 2007 in 8 different countries- exploring, writing, and photographing.And you'll get the COLD from my buddy Tim Wenger- winter sports aficionado, Location Indie member, and has spent most of his entire adult life trying to get on the mountain or as close to it as possible.Special thanks to italki.com for supporting today’s show. Learn a language from a native speaker and get a Free lesson (buy one, get one free) for Zero To Travel listeners.Listen now to Learn:How to get out of your own 'escape room'How to get cheap flights in AsiaWho the Asean pass is for (and not for)Helpful resources to check different flight routesHow to get the most out of the Asean passHow to limit out of pocket expenses at ski resortsThe best way to travel with your ski/snowboard gearWhere to get discounted ski/snowboard gear (and the best time of year)#1 rule when buying lift ticketsBest places to stay for your ski tripBenefits of living in a ski town for an entire season (do it!)Resources:italkiRam Dass PodcastWent AdventuringAir AsiaAsean PassTommy Ooi Travel GuideCouchsurfingHostelling InternationalMountain CollectiveHotels.comTim WengerAnd be sure to check out the archives for more Zero To Travel Podcasts!