Pressroom Podcast

If you want to hang out with Jessica Rossing you better be up for something active.

The seven-time amateur Team USA triathlete turned boutique fitness studio owner did something she doesn't normally do. She sat. She sat down with us this week to help us focus in on our fitness goals for 2019.

Rossing, owner of Movo Studio, which she described as a "high intensity complimented with yoga," space in Duluth, shares some tips and tricks to hold yourself accountable in the new year.

No matter how you pronounce it, northern Minnesotans love their saunas. But if you don't have one in your basement or at your cabin then you might be missing out on the Finnish steam bath. Until now.

This week on the podcast we meet Whitney and Kelby Sundquist, who own Duluth's new portable sauna Hiki Hut. Hear about how their new business works, how they renovated an old ice house, and where you can find them around town.

We are taking a quick break, but we will be back next week with some hot new content.

A presidential visit, a giant refinery fire, bringing home Olympic gold, winning national titles, an historic theater reopening. The list goes on and on. 2018 was a very newsy year.

This week we discuss those top stories, how they were covered, and how they affected our readers with News Tribune executive editor Rick Lubbers and managing editor Peter Baumann.

This week we are catching up with a Pressroom Podcast veteran. Duluth musician Rachael Kilgour's new song, "Holy Are We," recently attracted the attention of Rolling Stone magazine.

They may have spelled her name incorrectly and used the same word twice in one sentence, but Kilgour says she is pleased with the recognition.

We talk about the song, her upcoming EP and what life has been like since we last visited with her in March of 2017.

This week we talk with an adventurer who recently drove more than 6,000 miles in 28 days visiting 14 states and flying in 11 of them.

Whitney Horky is a paramotorer — she tours the sky from something she has described as a "glorified lawn mower and a bedsheet."

When she found herself "less employed than usual" this fall she packed up her paramotor and traveled state to state on a solo "recommended trail" flying with other pilots/hobbyists she met along the way.

Whitney tells us about her trip, what it's like up there and what she thinks about when she is flying on this week's episode.

Whether you paddle, pole, pedal or plod (that's hiking), Jake Boyce and his team of adventurers has you covered.

Boyce, co-owner of Day Tripper of Duluth, has turned the North Shore into his playground and takes the public along for the ride. But it's his love of surfing on Lake Superior that he keeps all to himself.

On this week's episode, the native Duluthian shares what it's like to surf on the big lake and what new thrill seeking ideas he has up his sleeves.

Whether you know him as Bob King or Astro Bob, everyone's favorite photographer is retiring in December after a 39 year career at the Duluth News Tribune.

Bob tells us how a guy from Illinois with a German major got into photography. He shares some of his favorite assignments and the great lengths he has gone to in order to get the perfect shot, including the famous grave digger photo.

Zipper merge, window tint, dogs in laps, feet on the dashboard, quotas and much more. Sgt. Neil Dickenson stops by the podcast and answers your traffic questions.

The face of the Minnesota State Patrol and one of our most read columnists, Dickenson answers your pressing questions and shares stories of what he has seen while on duty.

"I've seen a lot of bad crashes. I've seen the devastation out there on the roads," he said. "Ninety-four percent of the crashes that we deal with are preventable."

Also, Christa stumps him with a question.

The Duluth Folk School is now your one-stop shop for learning how to sharpen your chainsaw, making your own foraged tea, decorating an egg Ukrainian style, and grabbing a cup of coffee and a bite to eat at the new Dovetail Cafe and Marketplace.

Director and co-founder Bryan French tells us how his vision for the handcrafting and community building school in Lincoln Park came to fruition and what big plans he has for the future.