Kim Roney is in it for her neighbors. Whether its advocating for public transportation, affordable housing, or better access to the process of city government, Kim Roney has been serving the city for 14+ years as an advocate and now as a member of the City Council. We devour the most recent decisions facing the city including the upcoming budget fight and the recent decision to remove the Vance monument.  Plus we hear Tom's take on recent sports fan misbehavior and Josh gives us one song in two different octaves - that's two, two, two octaves in one!  

**Please note, this episode was recorded prior to the recent appeals court decision to halt removal of the monument so this discussion does not cover that topic.

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What a thrill to devour the world with Claude Coleman Jr.! Claude is the owner and manager of Sound Space Rehearsal Studios at the historic Rabbit Motel in downtown Asheville, a mulit-instrumentalist, and probably best known  as drummer with the psychedlic punk rock country funk band Ween.  Claude joins us to devour on topics such as his new project (the aforementioned rehearsal studios), children's books, how he chose Asheville, and his "longest standing side gig" drummer for the "Karaoke from Muskogee" house band. We find out about all that and more as we devour the world with Claude Coleman Jr.!

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Heather Maloy is super busy! On top of directing the amazing Asheville-based ballet company, Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance, which brings international dancers to Asheville every summer for amazing artistic experiences, she is also producing shows outside in two brand new spaces in Asheville and Winston-Salem AND moving!  She slowed down just enough to devour a bit of the world with Tom and Josh on this weeks episode.  Topics include peanuts, sketch comedy, famous last words, and why Josh gets so emotional when he sees and dance performance.

You'll get emotional too when you hear this episode!  Find out more about Terpsicorps and get tickets to their upcoming performance "Outside" by visiting http://www.terpsicorps.org/.

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Pete Weiss is a musician and audio engineer who has mastered and mixed sound for some of the best names in showbusiness - Warren Zivon, Devo, The Jayhawks, Type O Negative and Cher!  Pete teaches us all about the the art of mixing, the difference between that and mastering, and we also devour a wide variety of topics from returning to long working days, Time Loop movies, great radio stations, Beyond Burgers, mezcal negronis and much, much more!

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Every episode of the show ends with an original song from Capt. Josh. With Fifteen Episodes under our belt, we decided to share a collection of just the songs.

It's also Mother's Day weekend, and like his cowboy heroes from the Willie Nelson tune, the Josh would rather "give you a song than diamonds or pearls." So for all the moms out there, here's fifteen songs with plenty of fun interstitial memories from our first three and a half months of podcasts.

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Liz Whalen Tallent's father called on her to help for a summer gig back in 2006 to help out around Asheville's iconic Live Music Venue, The Orange Peel. 15 years later, she's still managing the venue which has become synonymous with Asheville's Live Music scene - hosting legendary acts from the Smashing Pumpkins to the Beastie Boys and live comedy like Duncan Trussell, Tig Notaro, and Marc Maron. She's also launched downtown Asheville's newest outdoor venue - Rabbit Rabbit - a joint venture with Asheville Pizza.  

As if that wasn't enough, Liz has also been busy during the pandemic working with NIVA - the National Indepenedent Venue Association - which works with more than a thousand venues nationwide to petition Congress for help, resulting in the recent Shuttered Venues Operators Grant.  

We talk music, activism, and life during the pandemic along with Oscar binging and dirt. Tom tells us to turn it down and Josh turns up the sauce with a "Spaghetti Western" tune! 

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Dr. Yele Aluko is the Chief Medical Officer of the Americas for Ernst & Young and he is working on some of the most complicated issues of our time in one of the most complicated industries - Health Care. As devourers of the world we sit down with Dr. Aluko to talk about how consumers interact with the health care system, we discuss the root causes of health inequity, and what health consumers can do to help ensure better health outcomes when they need to interact with the system.

We also talk peach flavoring, this week's seitan offering (mmm...."Lamb"), bone-in ribeyes, quality listening and Q-tubers.

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It's a "baker's dozen" of episodes for Josh and Tom, and joining us for this episode is one of Asheville's own, the amazing Jessica Tomasin!  Jessica is the General Manager of Echo Mountain Studios and the brain trust behind the Connect Beyond Festival. We connect with Jessica about the festival, the studio and beyond with topics like Tom's dream/Jessica's nightmare meal of seafood salad, the Connect Beyond book club, the many changes in the music industry, Saturday Night Live and Jessica's musical project with Ben Hovey - Golden Graveyard.

Then stick around after the break to hear Tom's take on celebrating Easter and Josh sings a song about what to do with his body when he dies.

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Peter Adamson is Professor of Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Germany and King's College in London, and he has a story to tell - namely "the Entire History of Philosophy With out ANY Gaps."  

Peter has been telling this story via his podcast "The History of Philosophy" for more than ten years with his delightful offering that focuses on the contributions of different philosophers or philosophical concepts each and every week. Peter joins us to specifically give us some insight about what some of the philosophers have said about "devouring," (especially"eatin' and drinkin') as well as sharing some of his insights about approaching such an epic challenge. 

Topics include Reese's peanut butter eggs, "akrasia," fish sandwich season, vegetarianism, the autobahn, and much more!

On "Episode Eleven" we turn it up to "Eleven" with inimitable vibraphone visionary, Mike Dillon.

Mike is a musician and firebreather of a performer/songwriter. Over the past year he's recorded not one, not two, but three albums of new music. We discuss his records, his process and his take on all things from music to politics to life on the road. Speaking of the road, his live shows are not to be missed and he will appear in Asheville at a socially distanced outdoor show with Brian Haas on April 7 at One World West Brewing! More info and tickets can be found here. 

Topics devoured include dogs, dog whistles, conspiracy theories, jazz, algoriithms, stand your ground laws, the Bad Brains, Ween, Fishbone and much, much, more!  

You can devour Mike's latest albums here, here and here.

Come, devour the world with Mike Dillon....and us!