Ben Raskin

Author: Ben Raskin

  • I Am Salt Lake Podcast

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    He is tall, bearded, tattooed and walking towards me. His arms are overloaded with recording equipment as he passes underage skateboarders smoking cigarettes. Fairmont Park is alive with bums chugging vodka, kids smoking weed, heavy petting under the tall oak trees and me waiting under the pavilion to do a podcast with Chris Holifield. Chris…

  • What America Means To Me

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    An essay on America by Ben Raskin America is a kick butt country. Not kick butt in the Jean Claude Van-Damme or Jackie Chan sense but a quick punt to the nuts of turkeys who want to screw with our freedom. I’m talking about baseball, apple pie, tanks and Kate Upton or Couric butt kicking. The…

  • History of the Podcast

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    Screaming down Millcreek Canyon with one hand on the wheel and the other on his stereo, Phil Neilson was trying to explain the podcast. “Its online radio that’s on demand,” Phil said while trying to get to a particularly memorable part of The Bugle. “It’s people recording radio shows with their computers. It’s all I…

  • Fugazi Makes the Kessel Run

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    I have a theory. No, actually I have an observation. As one of the three managers at Keys On Main, I am bestowed with an odd privilege that rank-and-file staff members do not get to enjoy. It’s not a carte blanche with Miller Lites or an endless supply of free Red Bulls or nachos (all…

  • The 1918 Remodel Starts

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    We’re in the middle of remodeling out home. We live in the Sugarhood. This of course is the tail end of Sugarhouse. I think my greatest coup was getting the DMV to get my city address as Sugarhouse even though we live on the very furthest end of the designated area. Something about sugar beets…