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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from John Amanchukwu (Encore)
"Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. We'll get you from point A to point B. But if you're looking for point C, well, buddy, you're on your own. But if you wait right here, in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by. And now, here's your Ralph Kramden of the Airways, Eric Metaxas. Hey there, folks. Welcome to the show. We have a guest on who, man, I don't even know how to start. First of all, I'll try to pronounce his name correctly. John Amanchukwu. I got John correct. I think I got Amanchukwu correct. John Amanchukwu is someone I've come to admire tremendously. He's in North Carolina. He is he's been a pastor for years. He is a brave voice in the midst of the madness, one of the bravest voices. And it's my privilege to have him as my guest for this hour. John, welcome. Hey, thank you so much, Dr. Eric, for having me on your show. You can't call me Dr. Eric because I'm not a doctor, but you can call me whatever you want. Could you call me the Commodore or Admiral? I'd prefer I really prefer that. But no, seriously, you you have been such a brave voice and people have seen you, you know, probably on Instagram reels or whatever. Tell my audience, because this is it's always better when my guest tells the story. But you've been a brave voice speaking out against the. What would be a nice term for it, satanic lunacy of. Profoundly sexual material being given to children in our schools, very tough for most of us to believe that this is happening, but it has been happening. You've been exposing it and you've been bravely speaking against it. So let's just start, John, with how did you get involved in this? At what point did you say I'm going to step up and start confronting these crazy abusers? Because that's what they are, abusers of our children. How did that start for you? Well, I've been involved in this kind of work for the past 20 years. I joined a church in college called Upper Room Church for God in Christ. I joined at the age of 19. And the senior pastor is Bishop Patrick Langwood and senior. And he says that our church is a cause driven church. You know, we believe that there is a cause in Christ. There's a cause in the marketplace for us to bring our biblical world view to it, to engage the culture and to fight against evil and wickedness. Isaiah 520 says, woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. And so we've just been on the front lines on the abortion clinic issue, fighting against fatherlessness and the black community. And now even with this indoctrination in the public school system, now, some people call it indoctrination and some people call it grooming. But I like to call it mental rape. That's the best way for me to define what has taken place in the public school system. I call it mental rape because it assaults the soul. It stains the brain and it robs children of their innocence. When you put pornographic material in a library and make it accessible for kids, K through 12, a child is going to pick that book up. And I went out to Asheville and spoke about a book entitled It's Perfectly Normal. That book is for kids 10 and up. It's hardcore porn. It's not soft porn. It's hardcore porn. That book gives Hugh Hefner a run for his money. When you open the book, it depicts images of heterosexual sex and homosexual sex. Why do 10 year olds need to see and learn how you should have lesbian sex at the age of 10? That's disgusting. That's evil. It's mental rape. There's an assault taking place upon children, and there's a critical point that's being left out of the equation. And that's the church. The church is not engaging. We need some modern day Karl Barth. We need some modern day Martin Niemol. We need some people who are willing to engage the culture and tell the church, listen, we are not supposed to be co -opted by the state. The state is not supposed to run the church. And when we go into a public school, we have this thing called parental choice. Some call it rights, but I call it parental choice. I call it parental choice because our rights come from God as parents. But choice parents have had the choice and the knowledge of being able to assess and know what's going on in the public school system and to have the freedom and the liberty to push back when there is an assault upon their children. Well, listen, everything you say, I mean, I agree with it violently. I am in churches effectively preaching what you just said in a little different way. But what basically this is called, what you are advocating for is called the technical term is Christianity. This is called Christian faith. If you do not do what what you're describing, if you're not pushing back, if you're not being salt and light in the culture, if you're not being a warrior for truth and speaking against evil, then you are not living out your Christian faith. But there are many, many churches and you and I know about that that do not do this. They don't get involved in this. They say we don't want to be divisive. These are the same people that would say, you know, we don't care if there's slavery happening, as long as it's not happening in my church. That's right. It's complete hypocrisy. And as Christians, we are called to step up. And I keep saying that the Lord has allowed it to get this bad to wake up those who are still sleeping, because what you just described is very tough for me and most people, even to hear that children would be exposed to this absolutely evil stuff. What do you call it if you don't call it evil? This is evil for children to be exposed to these kinds of things. And it's shameful that they're just a handful of brave souls like you speaking against it.
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from John Amanchukwu
"Welcome to the Eric Metaxas Show. We'll get you from point A to point B. But if you're looking for point C, well buddy, you're on your own. But if you wait right here, in just about two minutes, the bus to point C will be coming right by. And now, here's your Ralph Kramden of the Airways, Eric Metaxas. Hey there folks, welcome to the show. We have a guest on who, man, I don't even know how to start. First of all, I'll try to pronounce his name correctly. John Amanchukwu. I got John correct. I think I got Amanchukwu correct. John Amanchukwu is someone I've come to admire tremendously. He's in North Carolina. He's been a pastor for years. He is a brave voice in the midst of the madness, one of the bravest voices. And it's my privilege to have him as my guest for this hour. John, welcome. Hey, thank you so much, Dr. Eric, for having me on your show. You can't call me Dr. Eric because I'm not a doctor, but you can call me whatever you want. Could you call me the Commodore or Admiral? I'd prefer, I really prefer that. But no, seriously, you have been such a brave voice and people have seen you, you know, probably on Instagram reels or whatever. Tell my audience, because this is, it's always better when my guest tells the story, but you've been a brave voice speaking out against the, what would be a nice term for it, of satanic lunacy profoundly sexual material being given to children in our schools. Very tough for most of us to believe that this is happening, but it has been happening. You've been exposing it and you've been bravely speaking against it. So let's just start, John, with how did you get involved in this? At what point did you say, I'm going to step up and start confronting crazy these abusers. Cause that's what they are abusers of our children. How did that start for you? Well, I've been involved in this kind of work for the past 20 years. I joined a church in college called upper room church regarding Christ. I joined at the age of 19 and the senior pastor is a Bishop Patrick Langwood and senior. And he says that our church is a cause driven church. You know, we believe that there is a cause in Christ. There's a cause in the marketplace for us to bring our biblical worldview to it, to engage the culture and to fight against evil and wickedness. Isaiah five 20 says, well, to those who call evil, good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness. And so we've just been on the front lines on the abortion clinic issue, fighting against fatherlessness and the black community. And now even with this indoctrination in the public school system, now, some people call it indoctrination. Some people call it grooming, but I like to call it mental rape. That's the best way for me to define what has taken place in the public school system. I call it mental rape because it assaults the soul. It stains the brain and it robs children of their innocence. When you accessible for kids, K through 12, a child is going to pick that book up. And I went out to Asheville and spoke about a book entitled it's perfectly normal. That book is for kids 10 and up it's hardcore porn. It's not soft born it's hardcore porn. That book gives Hugh Hefner a run for his money. When you open the book, it depicts images of heterosexual sex and homosexual sex. Why do 10 year olds need to see and learn how you should have lesbian sex at the age of 10? That's disgusting. That's evil. It's mental rape. There's an assault taking place upon children. And there's a critical point that's being left out of the equation. And that's the church. The church is not engaging. We need some modern day, Carl Bartz. We need some Martin modern day, Martin Nemo is we need some people who are willing to engage the culture and tell the church, listen, we are not supposed to be co -opted by the state. The state is not supposed to run the church. And when we go into a public school, we have this thing called parental choice. Some call it rights, but I call it parental choice. I call it a parental parental choice because our rights come from God as parents, but choice parents have a have the choice and the knowledge of being able to assess and know what's going on in the public school system and to have the freedom and the liberty to push back when there is an assault upon their children.
AP News Radio
UCLA rolls past UNC Asheville 86-53 in March Madness
"Princeton may be a 15th seed, but it was the superior breed of cat in a shocking south region 59 55 win over number two Arizona. Then again, the victory got a shrug of the shoulders from Tiger guard, Matt. I can't say I'm surprised, you know, this team has been so good all year, so Gritty. For the wildcats players, coach Tommy Lloyd didn't like the view. These players need to take a look in the mirror. Saturday, Princeton will face Missouri, which defeated Utah state 76 65. In the west region, northwestern eliminated Boise state 75 67, and it was UCLA 86 North Carolina Asheville 53. I'm Bruce mort
The Bible Recap
"asheville" Discussed on The Bible Recap
"I bet you're happy we're back in some narrative sections. We still have some bits of loss sprinkled throughout the rest of numbers, but today marks the place where we start to round the corner into some of my favorite spots in the book. God has been dealing with the cleanliness of the people of Israel for the past few days. We started with the external purity, then he moved to the internal purity, then yesterday felt like a bit of a deviation, but it fits into the storyline because internal purity and righteousness will result in expressing it externally. Today in God's conversation with Moses, he gives orders to purify the levites. He's already addressed the people in general and here he addressed the levite specifically. As you would imagine, their position of leadership required them to undergo an even more thorough cleansing process. God reiterates his plan for the levites and their position as his firstborn among Israel, who is also his firstborn, so I guess they're kind of like the first born of the first born, which is maybe like winning the Super Bowl and also being named MVP or something. I don't know. The people put their hands on them, which is usually what was done to an animal before it was sacrificed. The people were symbolically offering the levites up as something they were giving back to God. This symbol is repeated again but in a different way when the levites are given as a wave offering. Whatever item was waived in a wave offering, always belong to God afterward. I think of the levites every time I see people doing the wave in a stadium, I don't know if that's what it looked like for them to be offered as a way of offering, probably not. But that's the only thing I can picture. And that concludes today's sports references. As a reminder, we're still a little more than a year past Egyptian slavery, which means it's time to celebrate Passover for the second time ever. God gives instructions about this requiring everyone to participate, but also requiring everyone to be clean in order to participate. If you guys were bummed because they weren't clean and they were frustrated with God that they couldn't celebrate the anniversary of his rescue. They talked to Moses about it, Moses talked to God about it and God says, you can celebrate it, you just have to wait a month. It's maybe like if you have the flu on your spouse's birthday, you don't get a pass at celebrating them, you just have to take a rain check. And in fact, there were big consequences, possibly death or excommunication, if you opted out of the celebration altogether, because you can imagine what that might reveal about your heart toward God. I also love that God opened up this celebration to the outsiders living among them, including the Egyptians who had fled with them. God is so welcoming and hospitable. I was once traveling through Asheville North Carolina on the day my Jewish friend Esther had gone to visit her family there for Passover. It's a big family event, but they still invited me in and gave me a seat at the table. Just like God commanded approximately 3500 years ago. So they celebrated their second Passover in the wilderness of Sinai, then they begin a new season in their lives as God's people. Moving to the wilderness. They're on their way to Canaan, the promised land. By most estimates, it's roughly an 11 day journey from Egypt to Canaan. So why have they already been out here a year and they still aren't there yet? This is like when people say they crammed four years of college into 6 years, right? Except this is much worse. Have you ever heard someone say the Israelites were lost in the wilderness? We've talked about this before, but it bears repeating, especially given today's reading. They weren't lost at all. They were following God, guided by his pillar of fire and cloud. They camped where God camped, state as long as God stayed, and followed God wherever he led them next. This was an act of submission and trust and honestly, sometimes probably even desperation. To not break free and just escape to the hills when times get tough, you really have to know how absolutely dependent you are on him for everything. As they're preparing to leave, one of the things God sets up is two trumpeters with a series of different ringtones to communicate specific things to the people. Some ring tones were to get people's attention or to celebrate and some were used as a cry for help to God. Then, once all this was in place, they set out. After nearly a year in the wilderness of Sinai, they pack up the brand new, recently assembled and consecrated tabernacle. And you may remember their marching formation was intentionally designed by God. Even the order that the clans of levites arrived was executed with efficiency in mind. The marai levites with the structural stuff and the levites with the coverings, then finally the co hath eye levites with the holy vessels. God put the cohorts in the middle of the procession, so there was as much protection as possible surrounding the vessels on each side. It appears that the one exception to this is that the art is at the head of the whole procession as God led the way with the cloud. What was your God shot today? Where did you see something about his character or his heart? Mine was in this section where he was talking about consecrating the levites for himself. Because that section gives us a fraction of visibility into the mind of God. He says he consecrated the levites on the day he struck down all the first born of Egypt. Do you know what the levites had done to catch his attention so that hi bestow this great honor on them? And remember, this was before the golden calf moment where they slayed $3009 within their camp, so it wasn't that. According to exodus 32, that was the day he ordained them, but not the day he consecrated them for ordination. When God struck down the first born of Egypt, the only thing the levites or any of the israelite slaves had done, as far as we know. Was doubt God and his servants Moses and Aaron. So when I ask, what did they do to deserve this? It seems like the answer is exactly nothing. Or at least not anything scripture tells us about. This was just God's plan and he's working it out all along. He says he consecrated them. He made them wholly for himself. He takes a bunch of doubters and turns them into the people who live and serve in closest proximity to himself. If you're a doubter, if you're wrestling with some of this stuff, I believe God has great plans to bless you with more of his nearness. Stay in this. Bring your doubts to his word. Let your doubt see firsthand that he's where the joy is. Quick, what's the most confusing part about Christianity? Okay, besides revelation. If you answered the Trinity, a ding ding ding, or we're on the same page. The Trinity is critical to the core of our faith, but it's so easy to misunderstand. Are they three? Are they one? Well, yes. God the father God the son and God the spirit are completely unified, yet unique. They each have specific roles in their relationship with us. We've built out a PDF that talks more about the roles of the persons of the Trinity, and it includes lots of examples and, of course, scripture references. We would love to share that with you. 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Revision Path
"asheville" Discussed on Revision Path
"And they're still, they're still thriving. But yeah, it's like getting kicked out of the nest, but then giving a nice little mattress to land on, you know? Yeah. It was great. And I really love St. Louis, but I definitely knew that at some point I was going to want to leave St. Louis. So what brought you to North Carolina? So at the time, the woman that I was dating was also in that same headspace that she was ready to leave St. Louis. I was still teaching and watching university and then actually just been encouraged by the design chair, the art and design faculty chair to apply for this tenure track position that was opening up in the art and design department. And so I was at this sort of crossroads where in my heart, I knew I really didn't want to stay in St. Louis that much longer things. I had envisioned leaving St. Louis almost as soon as I graduated, but things sort of kept falling into place career wise, which was great because there was things were setting me up. But at one point, my partner and I, ex partner and I were having these frequent conversations about where we would ever relocate to, and at one point, I mentioned that a good body of mine had in passing talked about moving to North Carolina. And so I asked her, what do you know about North Carolina? And she said, oh my God, Asheville. Asheville is absolutely amazing. You would love it. Check it out. And of course, since we had the web, then I looked it up and I mean, I think within 20 minutes, I knew it's where I wanted to be. It wasn't landlocked. There's a four hour drive to the ocean, mountains, waterfalls, streams, everywhere, hiking trails, mountain bike trails, you name it, that's the kind of guy that I was. I mean, thankfully I had a father who raised me in my time I spent with him, we would go camping and hiking and so early on I garnered a love or appreciation of the outdoors. And so you had the job that kind of allowed you to do this sort of work from anywhere. So why not go to a place you really want to go? Absolutely. I actually finished my I had to finish that first semester at Washington University and then I had the whole spring semester. So this was in 2023, love that semester, love my students, finish that semester turned in my grades in May and the following weekend was Memorial Day weekend. I literally moved a week after I turned in my grades and I've never looked back. Wow, and you've been there ever since. I've been here ever since. Yeah, you've been a part of the Asheville design community now for such a long time. You know, you mentioned your community work earlier and you're the founding president of AIGA Asheville, a new chapter. What was kind of behind bringing an AIGA chapter to Asheville? That's a great question. So for me, one of the things I did mention that I was on the board for the St. Louis chapter in the mix there. I think I joined the chapter while I was might have been while I was still at Leighton PRC, but I know I did like two or three years on the board as their web chair for the St. Louis chapter. And I really love that sort of community of design, the camaraderie, the people that you surround yourself with, understand your day to day trials and tribulations. They get it. So that was, you know, I really appreciated that as it pertained to the design community in St. Louis and I got to Asheville and we didn't have that. As a matter of fact, I was trying to find designers just to connect with just a network with and they just weren't around. I think that maybe I think I had like maybe three or four design Friends at the time. But we knew there were more designers in and around the area that just wasn't anything in place to help bring them out. So we had a lot of early conversations about, you know, I would reach out to these other designers that I knew in the area and tell them how much I wanted to have a chapter in Asheville because the closest chapters were in Knoxville and Charlotte. There's a couple hour drive each way in either direction. And so for me, it just kind of selfishly I'm like, God, I want that here, you know? Two hours to have community. You know, it took a while, originally you had to have 40 sustaining members just to even be considered to have a chapter. And I think given the fact that we were having a hard time finding 20 designers and in Asheville at the time, that was a tall order. So we ended up creating this thing called design salon, which ended up being just sort of kind of like a hang for designers in the area and the more people gathered, the more the work got spread out and the more designers you realize were here, you know, the more you understood that there were some really talented people that were in Nashville, and because Asheville was such a draw for people all over the world, somebody that's here now probably wasn't here two weeks ago. That's just how it works. There was a woman named Jenny flair who's also a really good friend of mine that took design salon and started adding programming to it. And that made it even better. And so the more program she added, the better, the more it had an actual format, instead of just being a creative hangout, the more I saw that we were there, you know? And so 2019 was when I had sort of a feasibility like meaning I just called a bunch of people that I knew and they invited other people and I said, hey, I think it's time to finally start a chapter. I didn't actually know the requirements had changed. In my mind, I was still thinking 40s sustaining members. So half the way through, we learned that it was only 20 sustaining members, but we actually turned in our petition to become a chapter with 43 sustaining members. I think so nice. Just because we are a little bit of a smaller city and I wanted to show how much batter we really wanted to be a chapter. And from that first meeting, I was able to build our first board of really awesome and engaged founding board members, so yeah, we started literally the year before the pandemic and have thrived through the pandemic and we're still kicking it. That is amazing. That's amazing to hear that. And now when you say sustaining members, is that like members at a particular membership to you? 'cause I feel like they had that at one, I feel like sustaining was one of the, if not the top, but one of the top like tears you have to have. Yeah, I think design leader was the one after that. I think the sustaining member was at the $250. And then it went to design leader, which doubled to 500. And so that is kind of especially for a professional association. That is, that was kind of a lot to ask, but I was just elated that that many people wanted it to and believed in us having a chapter that much that they signed up. We still have a tremendous amount of sustaining members. We probably have more sustaining members than we have in any other given level. And they have changed the price structure in the names of the giving levels a bit. And so I think easier now than ever to join the AIGA and I feel like that was part of the reason behind just sort of making it a little simpler, especially after the pandemic. Yeah. But yeah, it's quite wonderful to be in a city that now has a chapter. We have great programming. We're putting on our first design weekend, which is kind of like a mini design week that's
History That Doesn't Suck
"asheville" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"To their deaths. Spectators filled the streets below. They stare up in poor at the Asheville. At the hot glow and thick smoke spewing from its windows. At the sight of women and girls, filled with despair, dangling from the 8th stories windows. The people scream up to them. Don't jump. Health is coming. But the heat is so intense. Some gear. It crashed lifelessly onto the sidewalk below. Only minutes later, firefighters arrive. Maneuvering around bodies on the ground, they crank their ladders into the sky. But they're too short. These labs were made for normal 6 story buildings, not these new steel beamed skyscrapers. The firefighters find the same problem with their hoses, which can't spray past the 7th floor. Damn it. Undaunted, our rescuers turned to their nets. They've never caught someone from such heights. But they've got to try. A woman jumps to them. She strikes with such force the net rips right through the fireman's hands. Giving no thought to their now lacerated bloodied palms. The firefighters take up their nets to keep trying. But it won't work. With no hope of survival. Women and girls fall like rain from the top floors. Some tumble head over feet. Some flame like human torches. All splatter on the street. And some take one last measure of human comfort and friendship. They hold their sister, their mother, a friend. And jump together. To their united in certain end. The blaze is soon under control, but it's too late. Some 80 bodies lie broken in the streets, a score filled the elevator shafts, and 50 more are charred, unrecognizably inside. Hardened policemen weep like children at the site. 146 workers 23 men and boys and 123
History That Doesn't Suck
"asheville" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"To their deaths. Spectators filled the streets below. They stare up in poor at the Asheville. At the hot glow and thick smoke spewing from its windows. At the sight of women and girls, filled with despair, dangling from the 8th stories windows. The people scream up to them. Don't jump. Health is coming. But the heat is so intense. Some gear. It crashed lifelessly onto the sidewalk below. Only minutes later, firefighters arrive. Maneuvering around bodies on the ground, they crank their ladders into the sky. But they're too short. These labs were made for normal 6 story buildings, not these new steel beamed skyscrapers. The firefighters find the same problem with their hoses, which can't spray past the 7th floor. Damn it. Undaunted, our rescuers turned to their nets. They've never caught someone from such heights. But they've got to try. A woman jumps to them. She strikes with such force the net rips right through the fireman's hands. Giving no thought to their now lacerated bloodied palms. The firefighters take up their nets to keep trying. But it won't work. With no hope of survival. Women and girls fall like rain from the top floors. Some tumble head over feet. Some flame like human torches. All splatter on the street. And some take one last measure of human comfort and friendship. They hold their sister, their mother, a friend. And jump together. To their united in certain end. The blaze is soon under control, but it's too late. Some 80 bodies lie broken in the streets, a score filled the elevator shafts, and 50 more are charred, unrecognizably inside. Hardened policemen weep like children at the site. 146 workers 23 men and boys and 123
Beyond Retirement
"asheville" Discussed on Beyond Retirement
"You really need to be very careful because these planning platforms as they compound these numbers over twenty five and thirty five years can get very crazy. It's always makes interesting conversation. I think when you're planning your retirement with your partner and you throw your your financial adviser into the mix and just discuss what it is. You're gonna do. I know ours. Kind of raises eyebrows. A couple of times. Gee that's what you wanna do. Well that's a great. I do a lot of speaking on financial wellness around the country. And one of the things i do with people as i say i give the. Whoever is attending a worksheet. And i say do me a favor. Copy this worksheet. Bring it home to your spouse the two of you fill this out separately and then come together and then. I want to hear the fireworks. 'cause you're gonna find that you're not necessarily on the same page and okay. That's okay you don't need to be on the same page but you need to be on the same page in terms of what your goals and your direction is and you know the in the weeds. It may be a little bit different but you you have to have the conversations together in order to have that fulfilling and rewarding retirement in the next chapter of life. I think that's true. I think that's a really important for everybody to remember that. But you don't have to be agreeing on everything but you got to know each other is planning and that you're moving towards the same goal or it's just not gonna work out right right so we've got the you mentioned the Retire now quiz. And you've got A website Fifty five retire dot com. Is that correct. That is correct. I'll tell you a little story behind that when i got into this business. I was in my early thirties. I thought i would retire at fifty five. So so i ate my. You are l. Fifty five retire well. Now that i've passed blown through fifty five and my friends tell me. Hey you lied. You said you were going to retire at fifty five you know the reality is and it's funny i was i was in I think it was in asheville a number of months ago when i was talking to somebody. Both of our wives were in the stores and we were outside waiting for them to to finish their shopping. He said to me he said well. So what do you do. I said i have a financial planning firm. We specialize in retirement. He says it must not be going so well i said why do you say that he says well. 'cause you're not retired. I said you're confused. I said i am doing what i choose to do. I am doing what i am passionate about. I am doing what i love and oh by the way could retire..
Welcome To Reinvention
"asheville" Discussed on Welcome To Reinvention
"Hello they're so excited to have you with us for a really great episode today. I'm excited to have our guest, Sarah stender Delaney with us. She is incredible if you don't know who she is, you are missing out, but we're glad you're here 'cause you're gonna find all about this incredible powerhouse with us today. So Sarah, welcome to the cast, how are you? Hi, welcome. It's awesome to be here. Thanks for having me. Ah, you're so welcome. I'm really excited to dive into this interview with you. But before we do please, in our tradition, please introduce yourself to our global community and tell them who you are. Sure, well, thanks again. So happy to be here. Our main Asheville North Carolina today, which is my primary home. I'm the founder of Africa healing exchange, which is a 5 O one C three nonprofit and also the founder of three mountains, which is a social enterprise and we make two consumer package good products, surrealist sparkling tea and Tama tea, which is a loosely tea that I source from Rwanda. I've been working with people in Rwanda since 2007. That is amazing. Give us more your shine. Most recently I've been focused on really building the business, three mountains and really focusing on expanding our primary product right now, which is cirilla. This is a sparkling tea made with real tea leaves that I source from Rwanda. And the reason this is so important to me is that I believe part of the full circle healing process includes financial healing and economic empowerment. I'm really passionate about creating a business model that other entrepreneurs can look at and see that it's possible to make a profit while we're also doing what we love and also making a positive difference in the world. It's taken me many years to get to that point, but I would say that the greatest achievement in my life is probably when I decided to commit myself to ravine an alcohol free lifestyle in my late 20s. So I stopped drinking 15 years ago and that's when probably the biggest shift in my life happened. So yes, I have like awards and certifications along the way. I'm also a mother, which is like a great great honor and married to an amazing maren..
Theocast - Reformed Theology
"asheville" Discussed on Theocast - Reformed Theology
"Welcome to theo cast encouraging weary. Pilgrims to rest in bryce conversations about the christian life from the reformed perspective our hosts. Today are john muffin. Pastor of grace reformed church spring hill tennessee and myself justin purdue pastor of covenant church in asheville north carolina. We've met again this week on podcast the grind of a weekly podcast my friend. Yes here. We are another wednesday morning. Yes yeah I've i've mentioned this before. But this is like my sixth year podcasting so we do about fifty episodes a year and You don't.
Charlotte Readers Podcast
Amy Burle Captures the Complexities of Love and Family in The Year of Thorns and Honey
"In today's up so visit amy willoughby burly author of the year of thorns and honey a standalone companionship. Debut the lemonade year. The second chance romance falls photographer nina as she navigates the messy and imperfect intricacies of the relationships in her life her rebellious teenage daughter. Her ex husband fiance or complicated family. Ammann's she wants loved and most important of all herself. The reemerges for rex love or sort of reflect on our past and ask some hard questions about our future with debut flawed characters and david pros the year of thornton. Hunt is an exploration of the universal desire to find your true path. Bell adams author of the good luxton had this to say about the book. The year of thornton honey. Amy willoughby burly s crafted a warm heartfelt story of second chances exploring how we move forward in grace stunning emotional psychological depth the novels engaging characters wrestle with decisions large and small and discover starting over can be the most meaningful gift of all. You'll be drawn in by nina's charming voice ended up falling in love with her honest vulnerability and earnest desire to choose the best path. Any welcome to the show. Thank you thank you for having me. Yeah so a s- could have you on the show. Congratulations on the book. Thank you now a little bit about you before we get started here with the book You grew up in a small coastal town thing. It's cure north carolina and jerry. All the that always things with the that you say security hurly-burly you started writing it East carolina university and you now writer and teacher living in asheville With your husband for children. And so how does how does Being raised in a small town And the life that you're leading inform your writing and and particularly the book book of thorns. Yeah i loved growing up in in kerry beach. It was ideally in. Every way. And i think i do still have that small town Sensibility of family and neighborhood and community and that definitely informs my writing the year thornton. Honey is sort of unofficially set in asheville. I i don't name it as as asheville but Locals and folks who've been would certainly recognize some of the places and i think that just the sense of of community and family It really informs how i ride as as opposed to you know. I don't tend to set things in in big cities. Ashville is actually a pretty small town A really cool town but a pretty small one and so i. Yeah i definitely think that you know when. I'm when i'm crafting a story. I'm really thinking about the the characters and And how they how they function within their whole community are saw Emmy right Sort of about the mystery and wonder of life as you say and it's Contemporary fiction that focuses on these themes of second chances redemption and finding the beauty and the world around us. And i'm curious to what draws you to these things i think that on drawn to those particular themes of of second chances and redemption and learning how to see the the beauty in the around us because it's such a universal set of of themes. I think everyone is going through. You know that kind of thing. We're all making mistakes and hoping that we're given second chances. We're looking for forgiveness and very often in situations where we're called to forgive others And the the beauty in the world around us. I think sometimes we get so wrapped up in things that aren't going well or especially two thousand twenty the way we wish things were that we very often don't stop to take stock of of the things that that are wonderful and the the small beauties especially i think is is really what draws me is is the the small things that that make our live special. So what kind of teaching a year engaged in. Oh gosh i have. I think i have the best teaching job ever. I teach mostly creative writing and some literature to middle school and high school. Kids through a program called elevate life and art which is a home school enrichment program. So i have very small classes but I'm lucky enough to have classes filled with students who really want to learn to write and students really love to read. So it's the it's the best of all worlds. As far as a teacher is concerned really engage students. And who really love the subject. And and i feel really lucky. I've got some kids in my writing classes. That are just amazing. I feel like i'm i'm seeing. The you know the the the little middle school faces of people that will be on the shelves and in the future. Some some really wonderful talent and and i'm i'm happy to be part of their journey when when i started writing i was in that same age but You know typically in school. You don't really get that opportunity to to to write creatively in your classroom. So i'm i'm happy that they have that in and hoping that that it will keep those fires lit for them
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Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"asheville" Discussed on Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"Easy right so you know what we read that you're also involved with charity or you found founded a cherry called helping hands. What's the mission behind this. So that's an internal project for us and it's something we all kinda hold close. You know that the beer industry almost every baru out. There is big on community involvement helping outs why we participated in the black beautiful program. This is a really sad story. We actually had a bartender server. That worked with us in the past that committed suicide last year. And gosh that was. Probably i think the fourth person personally knew that had done that and i just decided it's time to do something about it. So we got together with a pizzeria has doing the food in our pizzas are amazing by the way and we created what we're calling the grotto upcountry helping hand and basically we're just taking a portion of sales on a lot of different items and doing different things to fundraise and every month working with different charity this month. We're actually working with pandemic of love. It's called an asheville at sounds deadly intentionally. That's a. I was pondering the name there. I'm like i think i see what they're infectious law cover. Everybody can't be stopped. yes okay. we're behind it. Yeah there where your masks the love. we'll get you anyway. yes weird. i think i apologize. It got weird it was on me. It stays a little weird brian but it gets. It's fine there. I will get really weird with get safe to stay here. Keep drinking to that. So now john also we wanted to talk to. You can art man. We want to talk to you somebody here. What's your inspiration there. Wow which wants so. I see kind of a theme. A common look sort of like. I'm looking right now. You're sipping on ginger. Juice dill pickle goza. When i see those i think conjunction junction. What's your function. Or this is how you take a bill that video when i was a kid round made like are they related to that so we actually worked with a couple different people. We were working for a while with good beer hunting. If you guys familiar with them at sure your they have. A graphic design are that they work with got hope. It's okay for me dementia competitor. They help crowded out. It's okay so anyway. They helped us with law design in the creation for logos of the scamper and the goes as they did and then with Ginger juice we started working with macro graphics. Who have a history with a terrapin. He has done a lot of grateful. Dead and a lot of rock art type stuff. That's kind of what i felt was some rock. Art vintage rock art kind of stuff. Yeah yeah the little throwback to the the grateful dead or something. A little throwback john thank you so much for joining this folks want to find out what is going on at upcountry brune. What's the best way for them to do that. That would be while the website. I guess the facebook page actually face way to go spoke tweeden anagram although follow you on tiktok for great one wheel video since personal tiktok you gotta check it out by most say one last thing before we go we did. Try the scamper ip. It's collaboration with scamper. Van down in atlanta the great friends of mine. They run a van rental service. If you need you know you're not fly. You want vacation this year. Call scam prevent. We'll check it out. You're looking forward to the beer. That's for sure john. Thanks so much. We appreciate you joining us. God thank you absolutely well that about wraps it up for this episode of the beer guy's radio show join us next week as we talked to peter kylie of monday night brewing. We are bir guys ready on facebook twitter and instagram. Thanks for tuning in. Have a great week. And don't forget to drink local cheers..
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"asheville" Discussed on Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"Follow the beer guys on facebook twitter and instagram here. We go again now. Back to the beer guy's radio show welcome back the beer guy's radio show. If you enjoyed the show. Please consider supporting us on patriot. Go to patriotdepot dot com slash. Beer guys patriots. Get cool perks. Like beer guy. Swag and commercial free episodes now. Let's get back to upcountry brewing company. John regard got into your dill pickle. Goes that we had to get that into a brian as excited. We've been having ideas here. So i'm i'm a fan of nikolas berry you know i'll do it up. I'll hook it up. I think this would be great. Bloody mary mix this dill pickle goza. Not if you done any crazy crock tells with a beer have not yet. But you're giving me some ideas not gonna lie law right. This is great. this is not one dimensional. Like i like it. They'll pickle beer might be. This is great. It needs to be Garnished with a slice of cucumber. May be here. Here's the trick to this one right because like i said we made it a couple of times and it was a huge hit. I had people come into the taproom and said you know what we drove from fifty miles away just because we heard about this pickle beer and we had to try it. We actually did a limited release in cans and it sold out immediately so we're bringing out full-time in march but people who love pickles love this beer and people who don't think they'll like pickle beers love this beer and the reason is it's actually not pickle. We use cucumber. We use dill pickles spices to give it that flavor and it does have the cucumber flavor. Not so much like a a strong garlic dill type of pickle but it has the cucumber flavor. Which is really yet drop some water a little cucumber absolutely. But you're right you do get the layers you get the cucumber. You get the the deal. You get the spices. And i dig it. I dig it. John i do. I'll yeah absolutely now. Do you distribute outside of north carolina. Right now do you go to some of the neighbouring far south carolina. Okay all right. You not come in. Come to georgia here. Know at some point. I hope to. We had actually were supposed to watch in georgia in april twenty twenty but obviously something got in the way of that. so that kind of all by the wayside. We're hoping to pick it back up. Maybe this year hasn't really started this conversations back yet. But currently we're in western north carolina and then kind of upstate south carolina colombian. That's it okay. Yeah it's still a little early to make big plans of what you wanna do. Let's see everything shakes out right absolutely now. Speaking of distribution something you do i notice. It's a little bit different. North carolina does allow self distribution correct. Yes but you choose to do most or distributor with limited self distribution. I haven't heard a lot of people that have gone that route. What made you go. That was so. I think it was the timing and opening so late compared to all the other burris went when i first started is excited like i mentioned earlier. I put some beer in my car driven over to an accountant i was just blown away. The world kept going our first year business. We did a lot of self distribution especially in our local neighborhood west asheville and as the brand got more popular. You know. it's a decision to make you spend money on drivers trucks and sales people to hit all the rest of western north carolina and we actually talked to a distributor with our local distributor in asheville. I believe carries fourteen other breweries. Think that's right okay. So obviously they're doing something right if there's that may work in there so we talked to them and actually worked out deal where we gave them the other counties but we kept we're going to do self distribution in our area right it within i'd say two or three weeks a couple of the accounts delivered to said oh i heard that the the budweiser distributor has your beer. Can sort through them when i get other stuff. It's a lot easier for us not construct my head like okay. Okay yeah so you know at the request. i mean. think of it this way. If you're a bar that has one hundred taps right and you have to deal with single brewery coming in as a self distributed beer and right one hundred different checks every week all these things. It's that's hanging already. Yeah that is one complaint. That i've heard you know the brewers are like. Hey we like to do this. But i've heard from bar and bottle shop owners and managers are like look man. I don't want to be doing this all week. I don't wanna have to do that like you said john. I don't wanna do this one hundred times right. so here's the real secret to self distribution. This is what we do. We're allowed to do this. If a bar runs out. And they can't get from distributor immediately. We can run down the street and get a beer to legally see. That'd be good or it's a you know a one off small item that there's three kegs like up. There was a bar. The street from us called auditory. There is more across the street. Determine it's an awesome place you guys get up. Get check it out. And i heard on previous show. You were talking about glitter beer. We actually made a glitter beer but it was only for that bar and no one else and we just took it over there. Brian glitter beers man. Are you ready ready for the ride to know. More about this glitter glittered. Beer was so twenty nineteen. Let's be honest. it's not something we've done recently. And i hate to admit this but i actually did not drink it because our salesperson took a big swig of it looked over at me and smile and he had a big mustache was covered in glitters. Like now not doing that. That is fantastic. I think twenty twenty one. You can keep the glitter but you have to add lactose that makes. I'm lynn toews. Good toe spirits are. That sounds dirty. That's an idea. i got that one. What do that john do you have. Do you have like a style or mission. I i know it's not a style because of what we tried here. But what your goal with your beers. What do you want to accomplish with your brewing. That's a great question. Honestly we're just trying to do a variety of things at having a pub. We have twenty taps on so twenty different beers at anytime and it's the great opportunity to be able to experiment and play around when you're doing. Production is just making the same thing day in and day out and while you get good at it does get a little boring kia. Yup you know. I know some guys that have went to work for larger breweries. Who wanted to get into bruin. And they kind of expressed disappointment there like chime cranking out make every single day so just to give you an idea. Here's what's coming up or what. We've brew last week in this coming week and we have by the way are moore james. Bertram great guy. He is awesome twenty. Does we did a four year anniversary beer. So of course. We did a belgian quadruple. And i invited back. A couple of brewers used to work for so brewer at the wedge in leuven brougham both came in and we got together to dispel belgian quiet. We're actually got h half of a whiskey barrel half of durham barrel and then bottled up. Were doing a strawberry milkshake. Ip silver low behind a chai amber amber anything's with glitter. Because as you're behind the time litter in toast this summer. I got it. That's.
Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"asheville" Discussed on Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"A year and you'll see some really cool stuff coming out. That is we do. See it here you know. We've got several breweries. Here that have got their distilleries lies. Yes and you know. They are starting to talk about wine or in that. But you know when you're fighting to get people into your taproom. You wanna have as i understand that you want as many options as possible. You get the most people in his boss. Yeah like with seltzer. There's a ton of people that are gluten intolerant and it's hard to find things for them and that's a great thing that a lot of them can drink and the difference is a lot of burris really are trying to put the craft spin on it when you look at our sipping on ginger juice. It's not just sugar water with fruit extract at right. It's like real ginger real fruit everything and you can taste the difference. It's interesting though. Because i know guys who've been hardcore get seltzer in there. There's a brand untitled art. Say man. I don't like sensors that like those untitled art. Let's say that's true. But i i'll give you one more example. This is kind of a shame but beer is a lot What's the word a lot less stable than see it. Seltzer buddy. To go with my family we went to one. Those acts throwing places they sold cans of beer and cider and seltzer and everything. I got to say the name i got. Twenty first amendment beer was looking for a midwife picked up a natty light. Seltzer i kind of laughed at her but the beer was oxidized. It was past. Its prime and that seltzer. Good between the two of them. I sat there. And i told her i'd rather drink that seltzer than this beer. It's unfortunate Sure i get it. Yeah you don't wanna oxidized ip. Yeah that's and that's the thing we were talking about earlier. I was looking at the seltzer. Like the seltzer has been around for months. Like if this were an ip. No chassis up. Not in this like it tastes fine if it was an ip. I wouldn't have sent that to your that all right. Hold the power of self. that's right. Listen beer guy's radio show. We do need to take another break. But we'll be back very.
Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"asheville" Discussed on Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"All of the beer guys on facebook twitter and instagram. M okay now back to the beer guy's radio show welcome back to beer renisha a quick shout out to one of our great radio. Affiliates w e r. L nine fifty. Am in eagle river. Wisconsin gets guy's radio and w e r l every saturday at eight am. I'll skip back to up country brewing company john. We are currently sipping on ginger juice over here and could you tell us a little bit about this. It's pretty interesting stuff absolutely. This is one of my favorites right now so this is a collaboration. We do with a company called a beverage of asheville north carolina. they're a non alcoholic. Ginger beer company actually one of the founders used to work for us as a bartender at the top room. He came in one day. He's like yeah. I'm going to start up a soda company. My good luck man. But they are killed. They're doing a great job so we wanted to do a hard alcohol version of one of their beverages and that's what the sipping on ginger juice is so it actually has honest to god kuku amounts of real ginger and real linemen this. Let's tasty so we've tried the basic version. Which is the ginger line. You gotta cherry version here. And i think brian we both agreed that we really like there was a big ginger punch. Oh yes in the base. One that we both. I really like just the boldness of ginger in a beverage me as well. Yeah yeah it's a good but the the other one scott's a just a bit of cherry to is. He's not a huge match area. It's it's very pleasant as well. So was that a collaboration with yet another company was so there is a brewery close to where i live actually live in south carolina in seneca south carolina's a place called kiwi brewing company. And alex is a really good guy was watching him as he got ready to open up last year. We wanted to do a collaboration together and we decided to do the the seltzer ginger beer and we had not done at cherry version yet. So what's your tasting is actually our first test batch of cherry version. So what are your plans for the next batch. More terry marceca jerry jerry. I think that'll be approved by all people who've sample at this evening so good stuff man. Good stuff so upcountry dive back into the brewery there. You mentioned you've got your two locations your original location you actually bought. I believe it was awesome. It ruin that correct is located in west asheville road. We call k. west asheville because it's very fashionable ashes. Not that big. Though d need west and south slope west asheville. It what four town of what one hundred thousand people that has thirty something breweries in it. Yeah you have to divide it like that. Okay gotta know. You're just the thirty breweries into manageable. Chunks get everything. They are kind of works in neighborhood. So obviously you guys know the south slope. You know where everyone's located right so west asheville tends to be more of the local area so when when everyone's trying to get away from the tourist they're hanging out with us. Okay all right. Cool stuff buying another brewery. That was an existing burri in that. What are the pros and cons to go on that route john. So the pro is that it's their right. It's set up youth ready to go. You can look at it at a time. Takeover start brewing well with licensing of course Cons are the makes it. you know. there's there's something already there so it takes time. It's hard to transition when you try to come in with a different idea. That different brand. Did it work out for you. I mean was there anything like oh man you know because i know a brewer. You like to have the brew house setup for your flow right. Sure but i i. The reason i went there is because i really liked the place right. I wouldn't have gone otherwise so sure. There's some minor things here and there but overall we've been there for years now and i'm still having fun. That's still in love with All right we're doing. A research is looking around at your second location. The reverse location. So you've got no food there and you have to operate as a private club because of the laws there. I'm about how that works. I've heard of things operating as a private club. But i don't know what happens there with that. So that's north carolina loyal and to sell liquor. If you don't have food you have to be a private club. In order to sell liquor as a restaurant you have to have a thirty percent food sales which is actually very generous compared to larger places but we set up as a private membership club. And if you go into actual you go to a lot of bars. Their private clubs. That's just kind of the way it's done so you come in you. Pay a small membership fee in. Enjoy yourself so is it every time you come in or do you get a special key card or something like that dollar per year to be a member. Yeah when i lived in arkansas. They did that. Certain places like a lot of places would have to close it like twelve a m but private clubs quote unquote itself into like three. So you go in and you'd pay like five dollars for year membership and you go to these private clubs and we had other towns that were totally dry. With exception of private clubs. So they're like oh really really. This applebee's is a private for really so dollar membership at the door. But it worked out have bounced at the front of the applebee's because that would be amazing. Most of your local asheville citizens tend to be members of you know. Twenty plus private clubs. Sure yep just make sure that they can go get a drink when they want to right right. Yeah so now. I saw in another interview. John we're talking about so much talk especially with covid. You know what's happening to brewing. And they've been talking about the bubble for years now and that's something we actually had bart watson Chief economist at the birds association on kind of talk about the bubble a couple years ago and i had read in an interview that you said you basically thank for smaller breweries. There really isn't going to be a bubble correct. Yes tonight i apologize. I don't recall that. But i will tell you what i say about the bubble now and how you can tell. It's cova changed everything. And unfortunately i really do believe. They'll be some barista. Don't make it through this. I i hate to say that. But it's it's really tough out there right now especially if you're taproom only and you don't have distribution. You're relying on draft. It's i mean it's bad. It's jer brata but i think not so much a bubble but how you can tell. The industry really changed years ago. You know domestic would come out with something. New michelob. ultra came out in craft. Brewers would look at it and kind of laugh right. I mean obviously we try and see how they did it but you'd laugh at it seltzer. Came out in every craft. brewer says. oh we're going to make one. That's the difference between then and efforts. Yeah well that's something. I'd said i kinda. We've kind of thrown salt. Around about cranberries doing south is. We're like come on guys. You know we heard ya two years ago talking to the bay you know about. Hey this craft brewed heart. Ingredients is that now. You're alcoholism sugar water with fruit. Yeah it's like come on come on work with us. But it is something in i hearken back to the wine cooler boom of the nineties. There was no craft brewery. They're put out wine course. I think it has a lot to do with eight thousand plus burris being in the country. Now yeah a lot of people are changing into beverage companies. That's what we're doing. I mean you see that with. Abc that with miller. Molson everybody right and we're taking the same tax that's why we're doing this sipping ginger juice. We're actually in the process of getting a winery in a distillery license so that we can be an alcoholic beverage company. I've got some cool things lined up you know. Let's let's wait.
Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"asheville" Discussed on Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"Out by supplying hops to people see. That's that's great to see. It's always nice to see that you're you know working together. We see it here on the local level of course but when you go up beyond that that you know basically i've heard people say hey. If it wasn't for him his hops. I couldn't have just. I just couldn't made beer. You know. I wouldn't have been able to keep going there so it's craziness. Yeah bruce struggling because of a hop shortage or global pandemic either on the other. We're we're i guess he can't help us out with that so he doesn't have shots he just it was right. Yes you got in with the with the pandemic shots so tear up and sold in two thousand sixteen in you left to start up Up country brewing. Yeah in uptown upcountry ads right. So we have a top roman ashville. We also have another location in bravado north carolina so it was a tough leaving georgia to go build a nashville or i mean what happened there. That kind of make you make that joe. Yes and no. I mean truthfully i had always been in love with asheville at always gone and visited and seeing the burris when i had the opportunity to get involved. In the business in nashville. It was an awesome thing and the town made me feel welcome. it was. it was really nice now. I could be mistaken here. You know how beer rumors go. John so correct me if i'm wrong but before terrapin sold there was actually some talk of a different location in like north or south carolina for terrapin. Is that correct. They were looking at some different stuff. Basically terrapin rented their building and they were getting ready to buy it and just to do due diligence before they bought that they looked around at some other places to see what was available but staying in athens. Sweat made sense. Gotcha yeah because i mean up until two thousand seventeen beer. Laws were pretty restrictive. They were very restrictive. When i moved to asheville and i loaded some kegs of beer in my car and i drive them over to a retail count and unloaded them and i was actually looking over. My shoulder heard the world. Did everything normal. Were you out there. Looking for the revenuers. I think habit. Yeah so that you know. We've heard terrapin abreu lab. Read his at. I think it's truest park park. Yeah and they partner there with the fox brothers of course and because they opened just before. The laws changed here. Those are actually separate locations. Because a brewery at that time couldn't serve food and also couldn't do direct sales so there actually several locations because of that and because the distribution laws even though the beer there's literally only a wall separate in the class walk through. They can't take a cab and carried over that restaurant. It has to go through a distributor. I go into town and come back out. I've always said if you look at the georgia beer laws and the burris that were open. Let's say prior to two or three years ago when things really started to change. They all became larger breweries right. You look at terrapins. Watergate conference everybody. The reason for that was they had no choice. You had to go big go home. You had to get through distribution to be successful. That's the way georgia was set up. Yeah that's how that actually brings up a good point we're going to get into the next segment. We're going to talk about the.
Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"asheville" Discussed on Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"Radio show welcome back to the bureau gas ratio remember. All episodes are available on demand. So if you missed the broadcast get the podcast bear guys. Radio is available on all popular and unpopular podcasting apps. Let's get back to upcountry brewing company. John if you don't mind. I got a little nostalgic prepared for this. Show looking at some history and specifically your history. Can we talk about your background here. Oh absolutely yeah. It's the same story you've heard from everyone else home-brewed and college in an to get in the industry. I actually moved out to seattle when i graduated college. That's why i really fell in love with time called microbrews. I moved back to georgia. Nine hundred ninety five right win it was legalized in the spurs. Were starting to open up. And i actually worked two part time jobs. I was a server at a red robin and fry. Cook it and appleby. So that could work for free at the local brewery. There you go see gotta do dedication right there. Yeah were you gotta start in some georgia arena. Three was martha's vineyard. need first brewery. Here are a couple of others right technically. Yes i know. There was always a little bit of whether it was atlanta brewing. That was first or martha zil. I had the first license but martha zil did the first beer by about a week. Okay gotcha wow neck and neck and that's going back to ninety four. Yeah right in there. Yeah and i know you look at the articles that were huge plans for all. that prepped. Up ramped up for the olympics and everything but unfortunately martha zil closed in ninety seven. They get is that right. So i mean that was the great shakeout period. If you call that i do. Yeah absolutely. I got here the tail of that. I moved to atlanta weird story. But i moved here in ninety eight ones here too late ninety nine and then moved away for about a year and came back so had just a little break there. But you know. When i moved here we had there was a chain of group john. Harvard's down in buckhead went down there and Hops i think that was a national brew pub. Chain right alfa reta percy's fish house. I think was one yup. So personally i you know. I don't think i got here. Maybe after them or just a name on the name it was weird. At that time there were talking. Seemed like of brewpubs opening in buckhead. Yeah it was the cool spot then. Buckhead was great at that time for those in atlanta. That are old enough to remember. That was a really cool spot to hang out before all the stabbings by nfl stars in the l. That's right yeah. that's shortly. Before i moved there. I moved there africa at lame so i came with a wave of lameness that over todd area brought it with i feel bad because i used to come down and hang out at the all the various places the coyote ugly makers and whatnot and back. It was great. I ever seen anything quite like it before john from there you work summit atlanta bruin. I think I did most notably you founded terrapin beer company here in jordan when i was working atlanta brewing. That's when i met spike. Actually john roberts had just left to go start his group up and spike was the cellarman atlanta brewing right so he took over the brewer in the hired me on to take his places the cellarman. And that's where we met each other. We start talking about opening our own brewery someday short four and a half years later. We finally managed to make it happen there. You go and see. I would love to do. I've said this before. I really wanna do a like a georgia bruin family tree and i'm sure it would be the same in many other states but just to see who started wearing where they went from there and branched out. I know. I think i mentioned this before. But one of the guys that was one of the first employees at sweetwater actually has a burrito. Met again columbia. Now there was there was a guy. One of the one of the guys i know is married to a lady from columbia and he went down there and he's like of all places i'm in many in can also there's crappier and apparently lots of cocaine so you're pretty well sets the rumor. Yeah or what you need there but terrapin you know John i think a lot of people look at you. Guys as part of that group of of some of the brewers year with the atlanta bruins the john robertson in his pro max bloggers even martha's villain terrapin really broke a lot of barriers for georgia. Beer right oh absolutely. There weren't many of us back then and we were fighting really hard to teach people what craft beer really was. Yeah and that's so the laws. I know it was two thousand six before we can even do. What was it. Six percents cap. think so. Yeah it was. Yes and that was a big. It's winter when i came out with that monster beer tour which the obvious custer pass those monster beer tours. Oh the those beers. When i when i. That's around the time i came here. That was the thing i look for that. There was so for such a long period of time the monster beer tours and the What was a side project. yeah the side projects. Oh love the side projects to those went back quite a ways to right. Wow two thousand. Seven two thousand eight. Maybe the first one. I believe was hop shortage that you know with that whole thing that went down with nobody can get any ups. Yes the big hop shortage. Those were a tough time for beer. Oh it was very trying times a week. That's when everyone had to sign multi year contracts if you didn't have them before they would not give you any hops at all so that the funny thing about the hop shortage attitude was crap. We're gonna run out of hops. Let's just put them all in this spear just loaded up there. Put them in there right. And that's you know we were We were talking. I think that that's a sam adams. Our jim cook actually helped a lot of small breweries out to to keep brewin- beer by helping them get hops right. He absolutely did. I say he's a very solid dude. Yeah he had excess hops and he put it out to rumors all across the country. The helped.
Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"asheville" Discussed on Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"One. thank you. well tim. I think it's time we ended the week now. It's time for our fears of the week brought to you by the nets craft beer and barbecue and downtown. Kennesaw georgia the neft. Kennesaw dot com o'brien as always. We've got a fantastic list to get into. We want thank the nest in kennesaw georgia for sponsor. The segment craft beer barbecue brian. They're filling growlers now. Did you know that. Oh wow yeah now you know now. I know you're growler go up there. They said they have a few hours. There have a shortage when their supplier. So you know what grab yo take you clean. Growler up there get some barbecue. Fill it up to go have a good time but for this week we have a great selection of upcountry beers as we miss more into their black is beautiful swartz bay right now. A little change up from the typical black is beautiful beers that we've had we also have their scamper. Ipa we have a black currant goes that we have. The dill pickle goes talked about their We have a sip on ginger juice and john. My correct is that a seltzer. It's a ginger beer slice seltzer. I wasn't really sure how you call it but it's it's ginger beer. It's like an alcoholic. Ginger ale sounds good to me. Okay so we've got the regular and the cherry version is that so we've got some good stuff to get into and brian what we rambled a good bit. This segment see you. Don't get a charity news. Oh now. I can't tell. People but hill farmstead being shut down for two months they say they called hibernation hibernation nation. They're referring to like sabbatical. I i think it's covert related. But who knows yeah. that's just. Pure speculative speculation. Yes all right. Well sometimes you got to speculate. But that's.
Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"asheville" Discussed on Beer Guys Radio Craft Beer Podcast
"Beer. Guy's radio show. We are broadcasting from the bear guys radio studios in marietta georgia and this week. We're talking to up country brewing. I'm tom dennison with me as always is my good friend. Co host brian hewitt. Hey tim joining us today. We have john cochran the owner of upcountry brewing company. We're gonna talk about john's extensive history and craft beer glorious history and cry one of those words world man. It's fine the old old man the old man of a beer and we're going to get into their recent releases and we'll probably talk about gauzes that are made with dough pickles. Tim you're kind of excited about the. I am ask sean. Thanks for joining us. Absolutely appreciate you guys. Having me sure enough yet. We saw that dill pickle. Goes that come in actually. We saw it online before and brian. Got a little excited so when we see we had that one it was a it was a good defender pickles. Yeah we're beers and beer right so yeah definitely. We are really excited for that one too. We did it as a one off. A couple of times in the response was absolutely amazing so it is going fulltime year round starting in march. See that our a full time year. Round dill pickle goes. That's pretty crazy. We had one was at southbound. I think it was so so. The only guides john right eye. So that one. I think it may have been called that. I think it was pickled. Did they have that was time with rick. Mobile was going eight kind of weird. And i know yeah one. That was kind of high profile Martin house out of texas did run with made right pickles a little pickle collaboration so yeah there's a few of them going around absolutely quite the pickle list so big week brian. We have a new president of these united states of america. That's right. I've been so busy. I i didn't actually realize until after it happened like we have a new president at right. Yeah and yet fairly uneventful which is a good. Yeah yes oh yeah. Absolutely based on the rumors. I heard a very good thing. All quiet. There and asheville inauguration. Week john as far as i've seen yes. Yeah so so yeah big day you know no matter your political opinions of big day in history. He didn't president coming in and I think we're going to hope for the absolute best here coming up there so we can do with it but things don't go. There's always beer brian. And did you have anything Great this week you know. I didn't i didn't get out and do too awful much. Yeah i really didn't. But i got into my cellar. So that's the most. The highlight of the week was getting the seller. Having a bell saturn the bringer of old age from the planet series of believe that's a barley wine or old male. Now don't recall. I think it was a barley wine. Actually okay we'll still even with all the age on. It's a smoke to find cigar with an elbow. Thanh enjoyed the heck out of that. That was delightful. That's an og cigar. There it is. Yeah yeah it's a recently purchased but it's one that's been around for a while. I had a terrapin dose coco's chocolate thousand thirteen ish okay. S vintage there and Is this going back a bit on pulling from a little bit from the previous week. But i wanted to mention it. The put shala the the p. May px the sherry barrel aged thirteen point. Nine percent. i since i drank it. I want to brag about does very enjoyed that so the seller get hit pretty good. I didn't do a lot a lot of what about what about you test. So i had something kind of cool last week. I got to set down in a virtual tasting With blake tires. Who is the. I think his title is would and in and barrel aging manager or wouldn beer would and seller manager from go with that. Yeah looking at me for combination going to say yes but they did virtual taste of a new stout they released they did Life influx what is called the head three variants. The the base was a whiskey. Barrel agent found out that a until recently us willett barrels Exclusively there was so they had the base beer and then they had to coffee and vanilla version in a cocoa coconut cacao coconut person and we got to go through those and kind of hear the process. And that's fun. You know because we were just talking weekend brian. It's kind of a bomber that we don't have beer events. Yes seriously distinct so it was nice even if it was virtual over zoom. It was cold. Do that tasting and i actually i could not drink all of those So i kept him up. And i brought him in tonight to share. You know i'm trick. Day-old stats offside isn't it. You know i was gonna ask you john. Have you ever saved a beer for later. Do you think that's acceptable to do. It depends on the beer but absolutely later. Do you know what the one that we've done. We recently did it with black tuesday which was like a twenty point. Two percent style. Yeah and almost no carbon leslie to start off with thank. That one sat for week and of course we flame the top and then we put the cap on and then put aluminum foil over that. I honestly did not taste a lot of difference a week later and these are right at. They are thirteen point. Nine six percent who am blake said. Not georgia wink wink. Thirteen point nine but legitimately thirteen fault just absolutely nailed it right and so i think i think we should be. I think we should be safe there. So those sound like ones that should keep for a couple of days right. Johnny should be fine. Yes yeah yeah so in. Brian checked out a new brewery brewery slash brew pub here in the atlanta area iron hill. Which is a corporate brewery but actually pretty good ratings. You know a lot of these breweries. Don't get high marks for their beer. They'll be three to five or whatever if you're looking at something like on tap but they do fairly well and i enjoyed the beers there. They had a nice a nice pills. Her on the lighter was relight lager and then they had the red vienna larger that the call that was pretty good and actually had that not my style but that classic dipa that they had kind of. oh yes. He uber hipster. I've been there. And i am a fan of the. That's what i typically drink when i go. But they disappointed me with the food. Brian that gave me a poor crab cake and try to pass off tartar. Sauces remillod just ought it was odd. Would you not agree. Yeah i i actually was there. I sampled it's Yeah it's that was. Weird was not ideal. But i liked the beer john. I have a question for you. Were into one of your beers right now. We just got into your black is beautiful. And i know anybody that just heard me say that is thanking stout but you win a little different here you said you actually approached him about doing something different. So tell us about. Your black is beautiful. Yeah everyone was doing stout for this. So we actually reached out to the brewery and ask them about doing a short spear which is black lager so we kept with the theme and obviously did the fundraising portion of it. But it's just. This is the beer. That when i'm at the brewery is right now i'm loving. This is just an easy drinking. little bit rustiness darkness. And it's a it's a great easy drinking beer. think see. that's what i was saying. And i didn't think about it schwarzer like you said. It's it's a lighter you got that rose to it because out of the beers we've got we asked you which one to start with and you'd never think a dark hair would be the dark bearded. Yes yeah it roast. Without all the haft alike that it's yeah to me. This is the coffee of the beer world in.
WTVN
"asheville" Discussed on WTVN
"Columbus W. O D. C H D to Asheville, My fellow Americans, We have to be different than this. America has to be better than this. And I believe America is so much better than this. Just look around here we stand in the shadow of the Capitol Dome. As was mentioned earlier completed amid the civil war, when the union itself was literally hanging in the balance. That we endured way prevailed here We stand looking out of the great mall. Dr King spoke of his dream. Here We stand where? 108 years ago. At another inaugural, thousands of protesters tried to block brave women. Marching for the right to vote today, Way marked us worried into the first woman in American history, elected to National office Vice president Comma Harris. Don't tell me things can't change. Can we stand across the Potomac from Arlington Cemetery? We're heroes who gave the last full measure of devotion rest in eternal peace. And here we stand. Just days after a ride. His mom thought they could use violence to silence the will of the people to stop. The work of our democracy to drive is from this sacred ground. It did not happen. It will never happen. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever. Not ever. All those who supported our campaign. I'm humbled by the faith. You placing us Toe. All those who did not support us. Let me say this hair me out as we move forward, Take your measure Me and my heart. If you still disagree, so be it. That's democracy. That's America. The right to dissent peaceably when.
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
Pandemic wage gains were just a fluke
"Come friday. We're going to get the latest stab shot on average hourly earnings in this economy and it is expected to show continued strong winds gains but our guy on economic statistics mitchell hartman. He says best to ignore that and focus instead on the trouble yet to come so a crazy thing happened on the way to the pandemic recession. After the economy shut down and twenty million people lost their jobs. Workers average hourly earnings went up skyrocketed. Actually up eight percent year over year but what got was was not signal. Joseph bruce willis is chief economist at rsm consulting. He'll be our guide through this thicket of wage data and when he says noise not signal he means fast. Rising wages have been a statistical anomaly of the pandemic economy high paid professionals kept working from home and mostly held onto their paychecks but millions of mostly low paid service workers lost their jobs. When you've got forty percent of households making forty thousand or less seen a job loss or loss in wages. That explains that head. Fake if you will on wages forty year old cinnamon deutsche is. An example of what bruce willis is talking about. She was teaching at a childcare center in asheville beulah ohio when it closed and she got laid off in march her three hundred and fifty dollars a week. Paycheck disappeared from the average earnings calculation. But she got unemployment which included six hundred dollars a week in extra federal pandemic pay until she was hired back three months later. I made twice as much on unemployment with the extra six hundred dollars. As i do now but i am glad to be back to work. I mean i like going to work so like many americans do inches. Income actually went up for a while because of additional unemployment benefits and relief checks but those temporary effects are fading. And just says we're in for a rude awakening. What i think we're going to see is a very bifurcated. Wage market this idea that k shaped economy separation between the hadgem. The have notch bruce willis says the haves those who work in what he calls. These zoom economy will have made goes at the upper end. Those who are already thriving. There's going to be competition for those workers. you know. Premium place their wages but for lower wage says workers even as the economy reopened and employers. Start staffing up again. Those in the middle to the lower end of the market where the damage occurred. They're not going to see a lot of wage growth. That's due in part to supply and demand. Lots of unemployed workers looking for jobs not enough job openings to give them leverage to demand higher pay. then there's something. Economists call downward nominal wage rigidity firms during hard times ten not reduce. The wages of the employee said they keep on the books but when the times get better wage gains core restrained. That is pretty much what cinnamon joy is seeing in her job. She's back at work fulltime at her previous salary of three hundred and fifty dollars a week. The extra unemployment income she banked back in the spring has run out. My credit card is back up to you. Know almost max out trying to pay five or ten bucks extra so that i can pay that down. I make enough money to pay my bills and have mcdonald's once in a while but you know if my car breaks down or have an emergency am just outta luck i i have to borrow from. Somebody doesn't expect chill get a raise until she hits ten years of service in twenty twenty
Business Wars Daily
Because of Vaccines, Ultra-Cold Freezers Are the New Hot Buy
"In a sea of stress. Inducing headlines there is one seemingly perennial bright spot these days vaccine news the scientists researchers and doctors that have been working on a covid nineteen vaccine seemed to have made great strides toward finding effective inoculations to help protect us from the virus. Pfizer was the first to announce its vaccine in early november. The company said it showed more than ninety percent effectiveness but the vaccine also has an inconvenient distribution issue it has to be stored at minus seventy degrees celsius. That's colder than antarctica in winter. Maderna's vaccine announced later in the month had similar efficacy rate and similar storage needs. Both vaccines must be sold in special ultra cold freezers throughout their journey from manufacturing plant to where the vaccine will be administered. Those super cold freezers cheap. Their price tags may be as high as thirty thousand dollars but those frigid freezers are selling like hotcakes. Hospitals in government entities have been snapping them up to help distribute the vaccine to the masses even employers are getting on board. Automaker ford bought twelve ultra-cold freezers last month. In an effort to ensure its employees can get the vaccine tra- cold freezers. Aren't your garden variety ice cream and frozen pizzas storage units. They're typically the domain of university labs in hospitals that need to store cell extracts dna or other specialized materials at extremely low temperatures. Both a ba leading vaccine's use a relatively new technology called synthetic messenger are in a or emaar in a which attaches to the virus helping the immune system recognize attack it. The challenge is that ima- a needs to be kept super cold. Keep enzymes from breaking down according to smithsonian magazine when the team at so low environmental equipment manufacturer of these units got wind of the pfizer. Vaccines storage requirements. The company started ramping up production so low vice president dan hesler toll cnbc quote. It's been crazy. The company stockpiles been depleted in orders or taking six to eight weeks to fulfil one of solos biggest. Competitors thermo fisher. Scientific was ramping up production at the fastest rate in its history according to a company spokesperson talking wwl a local abc television affiliate in asheville north carolina. The company expects fourth-quarter earnings to grow about sixty percent over the same period last year driven by covid nineteen response but even with ultra low freezer manufacturers. Hard at work to meet demand. These vaccines have unveiled another weakness in the supply chain the cold chain. Most vaccines need to be kept at a specific temperature until they're administered. That's typically around thirty five to forty five degrees wired reports but the super low temperatures that the most promising covid nineteen vaccines require. Make it tough to distribute the vaccines widely in the highly developed north american economies. Let alone in places where equipment capacity isn't close to sufficient like parts of africa. Asia and south america wired estimates that upward of twenty five percent of all vaccines are lost because of a lack of reliable coal chains in some countries. Just one ten. Health centers have a proper vaccine refrigerator according to that report and that includes rural hospitals in the us. Allen morgan chief. Executive of the national rural health association told stat news that poorer hospitals can't afford the pricey ultra-cold freezers nearly half of us. Rural hospitals were operating at a loss as of april of this year and the pandemic has only made things worse that means that workers and residents in these areas may not have access to the vaccine. It's possible that the manufacturers may update their cold-storage guidelines or that new vaccines. That don't require such ultra-low temps may come along. But for now lack of a stable co chain to distribute the vaccine to some people who need it most is a situation with legitimate chilling concert
On Being with Krista Tippett
Marilyn Nelson Communal Pondering in a Noisy World
"Maryland Nelson is a storytelling poet. She gives winsome voice forgotten people from history and from her own family. She shines a light on the complicated ancestry. We have in common and can help us in the work we have to together. Now she's written for both adults and children. She's taught poetry and contemporary practice to West, point cadets, and alongside the gentle, but mighty steam. Maryland Nelson Commands in the communion of modern poets. She's a voice for all of us in the work in the privilege of what she calls communal pondering to sit with her is to gain a newly spacious perspective on what that might mean and on why people young and old are turning to poetry with urgency. Poetry consists of. Words and phrases and sentences that emerge like something coming out of water. They emerge before us and they call up something in us, but then they turn. US back into our own silence, and that's why reading poetry reading it. Alone silently. Takes us some place where we can't get ordinarily poetry. Opens us to this otherness that exists within us. Don't. You think we read a poem and you say. And you listen to what it brings out inside of you, and what it is, is not words, it's silence. I'm Krista Tippett, and this is on being. Maryland Nelson is professor emeritus of English at the University of Connecticut and a former Chancellor of the Academy of American poets. I interviewed her at the University of North Carolina Asheville in two, thousand sixteen. So, here we are and I'm just delighted to be here with Marilyn. Nelson. It's been such a treat to be reading your poetry these last few days. missed. You were born in Cleveland of a teacher mother. And a father who was a member of the last graduating class of the tyskie airman. I wonder any, we're moving around a lot a lot. Yeah. You and your sisters always imagined that when you left each place. Disappeared cease to exist. And you did. This book how I discovered poetry. It's a memoir in poems a and I just wondered. So I WANNA say I said to Maryland I have a few books here and I have some. We'll read some poetry throughout I'm going to ask her to read some things. We'll read some at the end, but I also said to her that if she just feels called to grab one of these books and read she can. But I wondered if you would just read the last poem in this in this collection how I discovered poetry. Yes. Okay. This one is called thirteen year old American Negro girl. On each of these poems has a little byline of choir. We were at the time. This we were on an air force base in Oklahoma in nineteen, fifty, nine, thirteen year, old American Negro girl. My face as foreign to me as a mask allows people to believe they know me. Thirteen year old American. Negro girl headlines would read if I was newsworthy. But that's just the top of the iceberg me. I could spend hours searching the mirror for clues to my truer identity. If someone didn't pound the bathroom door. You can't see what the mirror doesn't show. For instance, that after I closed my book and turn off my lamp, I, say to the dark, give me a message. I can give the world. Afraid. There's a poet behind my face. I beg until I've cried myself to sleep. Thank you. That's my sister banging on the bathroom. And I don't know what me to talk about it. I for me. The. The. Crux of this poem is the fact that I really did pray. Give me a message that I can give the world. If you give me a message that I can give the world I promise, I'll be true to it. I'll be honest to it. That was. That was my thirteen year old. Prayer. Let me be a poet. Give me something to share. So.
Curtis Sliwa
In historic vote, North Carolina city backs reparations
"Is being made. Could you please think this was part of our When I work down in South Carolina? I worked for a Fox station down there in Asheville. It's in North Carolina. But it was part of the area that we covered. And the Asheville City Council has apologized now for the North Carolina City's historic role and slavery. And to make up for their historic role in slavery. They now want to provide reparations to African Americans. And they're just an old, you know, all African Americans there because they're descendants of slaves. Okay? Ah, not a big shitting, You know, It's a very hippy type of area. Yeah, and it's the local taxpayers will pay the reparations. They said they're not going to mandate direct payments, but they will be making investments in areas where black residents face disparity. Checkoff box. No problem. Um, hey, if you want your local community to pay reparations, good. I have a feeling that a lot of people who may not be an agreement will move. So you're against that because they're saying it's not simply enough to remove statues that black people in this country mean what? Me more money, Basically, no, no. If they want to impose another tax on people who already overtaxed settle down south a lot less than we are here. Crying. If you want to live in that city, you pay reparations. If you're not happy with that, you move out so that I think this will happen here. I think this is going to be a way. This is the first city that's doing this. It's in use a today It's in CNN all over and the vote was unanimous among with their city council, so it'll probably happen right here in New York City Council. I can imagine them all being like, Yeah, let's do it with a remember they already can't get congestion pricing because it's not a left traffic after the pandemic show. We'll figure out other ways to pick our pockets and then more people will
Democracy Now! Audio
North Carolina city votes to approve reparations resolution for Black residents
"Asheville North Carolina has formally apologized to black residents for the city's role in slavery. A resolution approved unanimously by Asheville. City. Council Wednesday calls for investments and black businesses and homeownership is a form of reparations
Noon Report with Rick Van Cise
Town in North Carolina approves reparations for Black residents
"A historic vote in Asheville, North Carolina, the City Council unanimously approving reparations for black residents. A resolution apologizing for Asheville, North Carolina, is role in slavery and segregation and to provide reparations to the city's black residents past in City Council. Unanimously Tuesday. It does not include direct payments, but calls for recommendations that specifically address generational wealth and boost opportunities for the black
IRG Health Talk
Tennessee Gov. Lee says Nashville autonomous zone won't ‘be tolerated’
"Across the country to move for police reform intensifying in places like Tennessee and North Carolina with some autonomous zones like the Capitol Hill autonomous zone in Seattle now emerging in a number of cities A. B. C.'s Acree quiche with more protesters in several cities are taking over certain areas claiming them as autonomous zones free of police control in Nashville Tennessee demonstrators seizing the steps of the state capitol the group camping out the governor threatening action in Asheville North Carolina protesters attempted to block a freeway before officers moved in tearing down
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
Travel to Asheville, North Carolina
"I'd like to welcome the show music journalist. Bill Kopp who come to talk to us about Asheville North Carolina Bill. Welcome to show. Thanks for having me on to treat. I've learned a lot listening to previous episodes well and I was telling bill before we started recording that I about a week ago had a trip plan to Ashville. That's gotten trumped by some other opportunities. That have come up. But why should someone plan a trip to Asheville? Ashville is really ECLECTIC and Funky. It's it has food. Music Arts Performing Arts something for everyone in Asheville in one of the things that it's really remarkable about it. Is that not a big city? It's got very humid scale. Outside of the day trip. Everything here is either walkable or a few minutes drive. And it's a lot more artistic and cosmopolitan than one might expect of a city nestled in the on the Blue Ridge. Mountains excellent. Well what are you gonNA recommend for us to do? When we come to Asheville North Carolina a one week itinerary for example. I would suggest three days downtown two days on the outskirts and then potentially two or three days worth of day trips because in an hour of here by car. Of course there's a quite a bit of things to see and do that are different from the experience of being in Asheville proper. We started as downtown. What are we going to do downtown? When you're downtown Nashville. My suggestion would be to take as much local color as possible. Try to do and see and do the things that make Ashfield. You need that means skipping stuff that you could do elsewhere like golf and chain restaurant Golfing. We obtain restaurants those great but experiencing those doesn't really play into the things that make Ashville different from any other place will and when you say downtown. I assume we're downtown there amidst the skyscrapers. Not Not really okay. I haven't actually counted but I would say the number of buildings we have their over ten stories. Kp More than a dozen skyscrapers definitely not. It's Not New York City when you're walking down the street and you're in a canyon with giant tall buildings on either side. You could actually walk from one end of downtown to the other assuming you don't stop and there's plenty of reasons to stop in about twenty minutes about a mile across at the most. And what are we doing? Big thing to do here is to park your car and get out and walk around. People Watch dig into our local history which includes figures like Oh henry quote unquote favorite son. Thomas Wolfe Robert moog pretty much the inventor of the Synthesizer Buckminster Fuller Scott Zelda Fitzgerald. All those people have significant parts of their history. Spent living working and creating Nashville. So there's all kinds of things connected with them. Asheville has more art deco architecture per capita than any American city except Miami which is a little unusual the reason it does is because the city was in such dire financial straits after the depression that for many many many years the city was mired in debt and couldn't afford to knock down the old buildings so when things improved. Those buildings were renovated and fix back up. Now we have all these beautiful old buildings that we otherwise have and that you are likely to find in another city our size opinion down to be a little more specific here so if I want to see some of the best of our DECA. Let's say where am I going to start walking? In what direction. GonNa head start at City Hall. Which looks like a wedding cake okay. It's an unusual looking building there. A couple of their buildings right around but it started there and that's pretty much on the east end of downtown and so from there block West towards the mountain manager in every direction Ashville. Is it about twenty two hundred feet above sea level but if you go in any direction where South East or west. You're going to get to mountains in a little bull. If you go west about forty five minutes you drop out of the mountains down into the the Piedmont you drop a good thousand feet elevation. So we're right on the edge of the out range but we are in a valley so we're surrounded by aunts and you say go and People Watch best place in Ashville for people watching a place called Pritchard Park. Which when I moved here twenty years ago was a bus terminal and now it's a city park a triangular park probably nowhere near acres quite small. But it's a great place to people watch. There are permanent. Chess sets set up for people to play on and on Friday nights. One of the most quintessential Ashville things of all the drum circle. I saw pictures of this. Okay good people from every walk of life. Young old doesn't matter what show up. Some of them are serious poly rhythmic percussionist. Others of the May have never hit a drum in their life before. And they all come together and beat the heck drums and it's a communal experience. And it's not one of these sort of things. Where if you walk up with tambourine or a drum that you've just bought or borrowed or something you're not gonna get dirty looks from the local saying who are you. It's a very open welcoming thing and it's like nothing else and it's loud but in a good way and when you say drum circle I. Emily think there's a little bit of a hippy. Culture left Nashville. Am I way off base here? There's more than a little bit. Yes ashville is unique in that. I've been here twenty years and I moved here from Atlanta Bailey because I really wanted to make a lifestyle change. I wanted to get out of the rat race. A little bit and my story is far from unique almost everyone. I know who is a transplant here? Maybe not most of the people but it's quite a few of the people they've moved here because of quality of life issues. They didn't move here because they for some corporation that transfer the here. There's not a lot of work here. It's not that kind of the city so it's very very laid back. It's very Bohemian. And there are a lot a lot a lot of seventy year old hippies. Okay well and you mentioned some of well known people who have lived in Nashville including I think he's mentioned Moga and Henry and Fitzgerald there. Zelda actually died in a fire here in Nashville isn't it? It's not a lovely story. Scott and Zelda spent a good bit of time here and Thomas Wolfe who look homeward angel in fact. His novels are about Ashville. They're classified is fiction but they're really nonfiction. You've changed the names and he pretty much got almost got run out of town because there was a little too much truth in them. Perhaps so yes. We're talking quite a number of years ago. Celebrated novelist and his greatest work is from here. Enough time has gone by all is forgiven. Thomas Wolf House downtown is a popular tourist attraction. I can relate. I grew up in John Steinbeck's hometown who is much more popular. Now that he's dead kept writing about all the wrong people the struggling and up and coming and not the right people so wasn't as popular as my impression in his time.
AP 24 Hour News
'World’s worst cat' up for adoption
"The world's worst cat is available for adoption just ask the Mitchell county animal rescue organization in North Carolina the shelter about fifty five miles northeast of Asheville is waving adoption fees in the hope that someone will take the cat named per deed up off their hands the group says on its Facebook page we thought she was sick turns out she was just a jerk a tongue in cheek profile of the file tempered feline says her dislikes include dogs children the Dixie chicks Disney movies Christmas and last but not least hugs is that she likes working pretending to be sick and staring into your soul into you feel as if you may never be cheerful again yeah that she's single and ready to be socially awkward with us socially awkward human who understands personal space shelter director amber Lowry says four year old party that came to the facility on Christmas Eve since then the shelters had to warn visitors that produces attempt to drop passers by do R. K. H. are actually a ruse that will not end well her Facebook post is drawn thousands of likes and follow up post does more than fifty applications to adopter of been
Throughline
Earthquake swarm raises concerns for big eruption in Iceland
"If you've watched game of thrones than you probably of a sense of what Iceland looks like s an incredible place so you've got mountains scarfs and rolling landscapes and every once in a while you've got a little bit of grass or Moss on top of. Thanks thanks very. Game of thrones right so a lot of game of thrones was film there forbidding desolate and gorgeous all at the same time It's barren it's black. It's volcanic I mean. This entire island has been built up by volcanic eruptions year after year for the last last twenty to twenty five million years so the whole landscape everything you're looking at what has been built by black rock that came out from the heart of the earth Iceland sits in the North Atlantic right on top of the fault line on the ocean floor that divide the North American and Eurasian plates and as the two plates drift opposite directions. Iceland is in effect slowly being split apart making the country a geothermal hot spot where earthquakes and volcanoes are just just a fact of life. So icelanders were really used to volcanoes going off on average. There's an eruption on the island at once. Every five years you grew walk with his and I by eight fifteen had seen three volcanic eruptions. This volcanologist Thor Thordarson I. I didn't even know that that profession existed when us all these options. Now it might sound alarming depth. Aquino's are going off so frequent but both of these eruptions aren't too big or destructive no absolutely most ruptures and actually fairly small and sort of what we call tourist friendly All this volcanic activity has earned Iceland. The nickname the land of fire and ice thought has spent the last thirty six years studying one volcano. Oh Qena Lock. It's taught in elementary school history classes as greatest disaster that Icelanders face but but it turns out there wasn't much actual scientific research on lot so door had a lot of work to do. And you can map these things out. You can look at the architecture. Architecture of these like the love of flow he collected ash and lava samples analyzed their chemical makeup reconstructed the route of the lava flow. And how far the Asheville. So it's a bit of a detective work and he began his investigation at ground. Zero the site of the eruption that typical volcano you might have in mind is probably a towering cone shaped mountain with a big bowl full of bubbling lava in the middle long steep slopes on either side losing with flowing molten rock. Imagine like you're baking soda and Vinegar Volcano in like middle school or whatever but Lachie doesn't look like like that absolutely not lackey doesn't look anything like that. If you climb Mount Lucky like we did you look in both directions you see these. ooh volcanic vents going off to the horizon. Both directions lucky is really just a twenty-seven kilometer-long crack Damn mm-hmm a sixteen mile cracking. The ground might not seem that imposing. But don't let that fool you into thinking it's less powerful. Some ways might contain more more coat see the reason for cone shape. All KAYLA's is because you have magma coming up through one conduct over and over the lucky on the other hand does it have just one conduit one release point for the lava and ash it. It has many over the twenty seven kilometers. We have about one hundred and forty five combs which line the longest crack all those offense run deep into the earth connecting to a chamber of Magma Molten rock that like a pressure cooker is waiting to blow. This this is the hidden life force of Laki which couldn't stay hidden forever.
WBZ Afternoon News
Fourth person dead from North Carolina Legionnaires’ outbreak linked to hot tubs at state fair
"There's been another death associated with legionnaire's disease outbreak in the mountains of western North Carolina North Carolina health officials say a fourth person has died in a legionnaire's disease outbreak that has sickened one hundred forty one people from several states most of them went to a regional fair last month near Asheville Larry Phillips is attending a weekend show at the same location anytime that there is an outbreak of some it's always call have a thing in the back of your mind that says I don't know if I want to do this or not investigators say the legionnaires disease victims bay of walked by hot tub displays during the mountain
BrainStuff
How Do Food Forests Help Fight Hunger?
"Today's episode is brought to you by the capital one venture card the capital one venture card you earn unlimited double miles every purchase every day and you can use those miles toward travel expenses like flights hotels rental cars and more just book and pay for your travel using your venture card and redeem your miles toward the cost capital one. What's in your wallet? Credit approval required capital one bank U._S._A.. An a welcome to brainstorm production of iheartradio Hey rain stuff Lauren Vogel bomb here eleven point eight percent of American households. That's about forty million people experienced food insecurity which is the lack of financial resources to buy sufficient food at least some of the time in two thousand seventeen according to the United States Department of Agriculture one way of fighting. This could be community food forests food forests are far cry from community gardens as they're not rows and rows of standard plant beds instead they're designed to mimic natural forests using food bearing trees roots Greens vines and other the plants while making the most of the space available as a result food forests are picturesque and calming gathering areas for community members looking to enjoy a piece of nature while picking whatever produce they need for free. We spoke with Giuseppe Tele Rico an agronomist. Specializing in permaculture food security and environmental management systems who is also the founder and manager of the world permaculture association. He said the concept behind food forests is that natural forests are highly productive in their own right and totally self-sustainable renewable over extremely long timeframes so by following the functional patterns that exist in the natural forest and adapting them to the conditions of light and space that each species need in order to be productive. We can create very low maintenance production zones that are essentially harvest systems by mimicking natural patterns in nature as much as possible. The hope is that every species needs humans animals and plants will be met in a sustainable way. Although there's some wiggle room for layout based on the local environment a typical food enforced is designed with the canopy of large nut and fruit trees followed by a lower tree layer of dwarf fruit trees nixed is a shrub layer composed of shrubs that produce berries followed by a layer of herbs and then by root crops such as potatoes and carrots the soil surface is planted with ground cover specific crops and finally layer vertical climbers vines like grapes or Kiwis is incorporated. Most of these spaces aren't even all that huge in fact when it opens Atlanta's urban food forest Brown's. Sounds mill will be the city's first in the largest in the U._S.. At seven point one acres that's about two point eight hector's even better food forests are often planned to make use of previously wasted space the Dr George Washington Carver at will park in Asheville North Carolina Carolina took over an area once occupied by a trash heap and the Glendale Community Garden in West Akron Ohio was created a vacant lot and all too common eyesore in cities across the country. It's not unusual for community churches schools and governments to who established food forests of whatever size they can manage with the help of civic organizations in volunteers but one food forest in a given city isn't going to totally eradicate the issue of hunger of course Atlanta urban food forest is one prong of a citywide effort to make healthy food accessible possible to eighty five percent of city residents by the year two thousand twenty two. We spoke by email with Mike Accord a forest ranger with trees Atlanta. He said the area is a U._S._D._A.. Classified Food Desert so benefiting the immediate neighborhood is the primary goal a group of neighbors manages the Community Garden and herb area while trees Atlanta and other partners manage the orchard and forced at sections of the land although food forces are free and open to the public they may ask visitors to only harvest food when forced managers are. Are Present to prevent people from accidentally damaging the plants or taking produce. That isn't ready yet. The movement is now gaining steam but food forced took awhile to get off the ground. The ASHVILLE food force was the first of its kind in the modern United States although Tele Rico. I'm not that human agroecology systems have been used for ages many communities such as those in Java Bali New Guinea and parts of central and South America a couple more popped up here and there after ashes launch nineteen ninety-seven but it wasn't until after Seattle's Beacon Hill food forest forest garnered much publicity in two thousand twelve these projects really started to gain traction as of two thousand eighteen there are more than seventy food forests established across the United States and thousands more around the world. Today's episode was written by Elliott White and produced by Tyler Clang. Breen stuff is a production of iheartradio's has stuff works for more on this and lots of other eco-friendly topics that are home planet has networks dot com and for more podcasts from iheartradio visit the iheartradio radio APP apple podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows tomorrow television network decades pioneering television broadcast once and never seen again. 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Howie Carr
Mother arrested after baby found at bottom of ravine
"Missing a distraught. Mother calls police in Asheville North Carolina to report her baby kidnapped two hours later police. Get another nine one one call from a man in Henderson county. Chair Griffin says the seven week old baby had been thrown down a seventy foot ravine and somehow survived. The baby's mother thirty five Madden is now behind bars accused of trying to kill her own baby asked for the child. Little shayla is in very good
Climate Cast
Measuring the costs of climate change
"Support for climate cast comes from Bank of America as one of the largest global financial institutions Bank of America is in a unique position to help society. Transition to a low-carbon economy Bank of America NA member FDIC. Cost of climate change. I'm NPR chief meteorologist, Paul Kutner. This is climate cats. There are many ways to measure how much climate change is costing us. One method is by tracking billion dollar extreme weather events that have clear climate change. Links Dc aren't is chief of the monitoring section at Noah's national centers for environmental information in Asheville, North Carolina. We had fourteen billion dollar weather in climate disasters in the US in two thousand eighteen so that's the fourth most number of billion dollar disasters that we've seen in a given calendar year since we've been keeping tracks in nineteen eighty it's a little complicated on the drivers of of what's driving them up. But we are seeing about twice as many in a given year now than we were earlier during that forty year period, nor reports and NASA for that matter the twenty eighteen was the fourth hottest year in the global surface temperature record. That means the past five years are the five warmest years on record globally. Is there any precedent for that in the historical? Climate record. There is precedent. But only in recent years, it's kind of been a repeating cycle that we jumped to a new neighborhood as far as global temperatures concerned pretty much every time we've had a recent significant El Nino, which kinda goose in bumps to global temperature upward for that year. The one thing that has changed is we are leaving nineteen ninety eight which at the time, I know is kind of astronaut Michael, you know, off the charts. And now it's about the fall out of the top ten, and so that's a pretty good indicator that we've left the climate of the twentieth century the behind it's in the rear view mirror. It's not coming back. Dugard chief of the monitoring section at Noah's national centers for environmental information. Thanks for sharing your nalysts today. Thanks a lot Paul. My name is Molly record designer an artist and an educator based in Minneapolis Minnesota. And on John Kim by teach at Macalester, college media studies and art, and we're part of futures north which consists of me, Molly Daniel, dean, Inada, Marcus, and we created face change. And now phase two which is the data spatial ization of the effects of climate change overtime. What does the two degree number actually? And what is the four degree number actually mean that's associated with more dire predictions of climate change. How can you make use of those numbers as a way of creating an embodied experience of them through this installation? Phase change was originally commissioned by Northern Lights for the northern spark festival in two thousand sixteen we harvested twelve thousand pounds of ice from day, Marcus ga and then stored at passively in an ice house and then in June. We took that ice out and constructed three walls giant walls, the Todo view their trophy bunk by eight feet tall. Yeah. And so they're very impressive. In terms of the scale of them and facing those walls of ice were infrared heat lamps that were pulsing on enough in relationship to different climate scenarios. So one wall melted in relationship to a pre industrial climate scenario the second while melted in relationship to our current scenario, which is about a degree and a half hotter. And then the final while was projected future. If we continue businesses usual to the experience of it really was a collaborative experience with visitors to the to the peace where they were providing us with insights about what what it felt like and the way. They were arranged people could really inhabit the space. So they were surrounded by the information. And really, I mean, it registered in this very dramatic. And and tragic way what our practices about is trying to utilize visualization specialization techniques artistic techniques as a way of representing data in a way, that's more accessible intuitive. It also creates an emotional experience. And I think that's something that's not necessarily associated with data. And a lot of people said that when they visited the piece that it was very emotional. You can see John and molly's phase to art piece this Saturday at Silverwood park in Saint Anthony, it's part of a conversation focusing on art and climate change in partnership with climate generation and the three rivers park district. More at climate. Jen dot org that's climate cast. I'm NPR chief meteorologist, Paul hunter.