Squirrels Are Jerks: Recent Episodes
Kaitlyn Howell, Adam Patterson
Stories create community – a St. Paul bakery delivers bread by bicycle to front porches and often squirrels get crafty. Friends of the bakery share their stories about getting crafty and making connections via bread, bicycles, and of course, squirrels.
Kaitlyn and Adam give you a proper run-down of what's new with the podcast, what may be coming down the road with some changes, and a thankful wrap-up of season TWO of this lil' Brake Bread podcast.
Sponge cakes for Christmas, extra-punch brandy pudding, new bikes and long bike rides, bears tearing holes in yurts, white squirrels and dumpster squirrels.
Favorite places to bike to in St. Paul, how sourdough works, Brake Bread favorites, fangirling the Brake Bread bikers.
Shearing sheep and milking cows in New Zealand, food systems and community, creating supportive community for transgender Christians, the good old times at Brake Bread.
Find out more about Austen at his website: http://austenhartke.com/
Find out more about Austen's online community, Transmission Ministry Collective, at https://www.transmissionministry.com/
Elsie talks animals, her Brake Bread favorites, biking, the outdoors, Minecraft, virtual school, favorite places to bike in St. Paul.
Exploring the "village" of St. Paul via bike (shout out to Sweet Science Ice Cream!), why stickers make you go faster, combining interests to make creative careers, who is behind Area 651?
Do you want to explore St. Paul via bike? Find an analog Twin Cities Bike Map here: https://www.bikeverywhere.com/twin-cities-bike-map/
Church pancake breakfasts, the opening of the Ayd Mill Road pedestrian path, international travel (why travel is important!), Midwest culture, experiencing kindness while on the road.
The beauty of biking in winter, winter cycling fashion, tips for newbies, visit Express Bike Shop in St. Paul, safety tips for bikers (and drivers!), and the glory of multimodal transit.
Highland Park neighborhood, multimodal transit, fat bikes and studded tires, and an every-day biking streak of over 1,000 days in a row. Some links to resources we talk about in this episode:
30 Days of Biking
One on One Bicycle Studio
Angry Catfish Bicycle and Coffee Bar
Secret Twin Cities (Book)
Saint Paul Bicycle Trails Map
Get ready to drool...we chat heirloom stone fruit, east coast applesauce, steamed plum pudding, St. Paul through the ages, and (possibly!) the BEST squirrel story yet.
Order from chaos, farmer's markets, a special squirrely surprise, corn chowder on the east coast, recommended cook books, beginning life in the Twin Cities.
Winter biking in wool pants, the joys of biking St. Paul, two bad baker jokes, advice from bikers for car drivers, secret superpowers.
Professional bread delivery bikers talk about falling off bikes, why they deliver in St. Paul, and how cool Joe is. also <3 PLEASE GET OUT THERE AND VOTE! <3
WARNING: 1980s POP MUSIC AND COPIOUS DISNEY CONTENT INCLUDED.
Convos about baking, music, disney, and more.
Part 1:
-the journey to Brake Bread
-brainy challenges of large volume baking
-faves and least fave aspects of the baker's life
Bikes: found in dumpsters, run over by bears, ridden through Europe. Tips: for bicycle touring, on managing "hangry" episodes, for biking with people we love.
A job that's a perfect fit, autumn adventures, the creative process, "Games of Thrones", squirrels stealing bread, Adam eats a burrito, and biking, of course.
Naturally leavened = sourdough, good things take time, bike delivering in St. Paul, squirrels who brake through screen doors, fostering community in a pandemic, becoming an anti-racist bakery.
A bakery given wings by way of friendship, begun during the Polar Vortex of 2014, why community matters, coffee house music shows, how to be a for-profit business without jerkish (squirrel-ish!) qualities.