Josh and Tom Devour the World

We catch up with the one and only, Stephanie Morgan! An Asheville staple on the music scene with projects like stephaniesid and Pink Mercury, she has taken her talents to the West Coast where her voice is making waves as voice actor, Chloe Taylor. We devour and demolish on the topics of multiple personas/personalities, hiking, "fast woods," turtles, meditation and much, much more! 

And of course, a timely take from Tom and a weekly offering from the muses by Josh - a song intended for two voices...but performed by one.

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The Get Right Band celebrates 10 years of wowing audiences this Friday evening at the Salvage Station in Asheville, NC. Nearly a year after their most recent release "Itchy Soul" 2 of the trio's members join Josh and Tom to devour all subjects! The menu includes feelings, maturing, English Bagels, Confucius and a little bit of birds and the musical bees. 

You can find the album here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6Zd7WrOfRKQKmVRiX3CQK0?si=hN9zw4_rQ6WCB75WO8g18A

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Angie Flynn-McIver is a powerhouse. Whether working to produce and direct shows with Asheville's premiere professional theatre company, NC Stage, or as a coach for speakers and presenters with her company Ignite: CSP, Angie has proven over and over again that she has the wherewithal to perform at the absolute highest echelons of achievement. She also happens to be the first person that Josh ever met in North Carolina! We tell that story and devour on a variety of subjects including books, book clubs, unexpected gifts, the word "wherewithal" and a variety of other topics on this week's episode.

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Gar Ragland is a man on a mission! As a long-time producer of musical artists, he saw an opportunity in the vinyl record industry and is making the most of it with his new project, Citizen Vinyl - a full scale vinyl record press located in the Asheville Citizen-Times building in downtown Asheville. What started out as a pure manufacturing project as become a multi-faceted venue with artisan deli, coffee, craft cocktails, a record store and full recording studio! We're glad he carved out a few minutes to talk about this vinyl pressing project along with pressing subjects like bacon presses, printing presses, waffle irons, and ecoystems complete with producers, consumers and decomposers. We were impressed!  

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How do you introduce the amazing Glenis Redmond? She is a poet, educator, author and "imagination activist." She's also a daughter, mother, grandmother, and voice of hope and inspiration. She's also an "ear hustler," who listens with her skin and believes in miracles. Find out all that Glenis has been devouring recently and how it has shaped and focused her work.

Topics include: Birds, cheese, more cheese, horse movies, "Joe Pera Talks With You," poetry vs. philosophy and much much more!  

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Jim Bernfield is a 49ers fan and GrapeNuts enthusiast who found his real calling as a professional filmmaker - a skill that is well-evidenced in his latest work, Me To Play, showing now through February 25th, 2021 as part of the Slamdance Film Festival. The documentary follows actors Dan Moran and John Christopher Jones, both living with the debilitating effects of Parkinson's Disease, as they work to mount a production of Samuel Beckett's play Endgame; a play that Beckett wrote as a response to the death of his own mother and aunt from Parkinson's. We discuss the ins and outs of this captivating story, Jim's personal relationship with the cast, his own relationship with Parkinson's as the son of someone who suffered from the disease, as well as Jim's collegial relationship with our own Tom Chalmers. 

Also covered - Apple Fritters, the great GrapeNuts mystery of 2021, experiential film-drinking, and more! We end with Tom's Take about living with our own discomfort and Josh's Mardi Gras offering in honor of the voodoo queen of New Orleans, Marie LeVeau. 

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This week, Josh and Tom Devour with Aaron Price - Asheville musician and fellow member of Reasonably Priced Babies Improv Comedy! Aaron has a new recording out - Voyager - which you can find on bandcamp - https://aaronprice1.bandcamp.com/album/voyager - and in this episode we devour and demolish the inspiration for the various tracks on the record, catch up with Aaron after his birthday festivities, talk a little about what we miss devouring and are tired of devouring and we get a special Zoom Bomb appearance by a very special MYSTERY GUEST!  

Visual Artist and educator Nate Barton joins us to devour and demolish on the subjects of art, creativity and gallery openings in the age of Covid. Nate's latest gallery opening "The Creative Well" will be at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts and on Zoom this Friday, 2/5/21 at 4:30 pm. You can find Nate's work on his website - natebartonworks.com - and more about the exhibition at blackmountainarts.org. Other topics: Meditation, Dr. Pepper, Gummy Vitamin THCDKs, teaching and mid-life crises in the digital age. Also Tom delivers his take about the actions of a politician who shall not be named and Josh delivers his song with the theme "magical beasts!" Let us devour!

Michele Scheve (Slice of Life Comedy, Asheville Disclaimer, Biz Radio/Buzz Radio Asheville and AshevilleFM) and Matt Mittan (Biz Radio Asheville, Buzz Radio Asheville) join us to devour and demolish! This Asheville duo discuss what they've been devouring - from Cheeto Puffs to Smarties to some of Asheville's favorite local music as part of their new venture BuzzRadioAsheville! We catch up after many months away as old friends do, and then we finally record it on the third try after internet interruptions and poor execution on the part of one of our hosts. Here's a hint on whose fault that was - (It wasn't Tom).  Check out buzzradioasheville.com to support live music and enjoy this episode with Matt and Michele!

Alex Bradley is the powerful trumpet sound you hear all around town in Asheville, and all over the world as a member of Empire Strikes Brass among many other projects! In this episode we devour Alex, get the history of his horn-playing and how he gets his inspiration. Also devour topics like mandarin oranges (vs. corporate "Cuties"), washed-flour seitan, bacon, "hen in a basket," mushroom powder, Andy Frasco, Budos Band and more...always more!

Be sure to devour Alex Bradley on this Spotify Playlist: Devour Alex Bradley