I am Salt Lake Podcast

I am Salt Lake Podcast is a ground-level portrait of Utah culture, told through informal interviews with people working, making, cooking, performing, organizing, and experimenting around Salt Lake City and beyond. The show is local without feeling narrow. A conversation might start with a joke about getting paid in bottles of water, then drift into Brazilian barbecue mechanics, the fat cap on picanha, or where someone could fit a backyard grill. Another episode turns toward haunted Utah, with Danny B. Stewart describing folklore walks, midnight atmosphere, strange park stories, and the line between personal experience and what can actually be claimed. The show is comfortable with both practical and strange material. It gives Dana Williamson room to introduce Wasteless Solutions and food-waste work, then makes that cause feel connected to everyday local life rather than abstract policy. It lets Autumn Kunz talk through community, health support, sound baths, coaching, and the desire for teams of people who actually communicate. It can spend an episode celebrating National Donut Day with Benjamin Lee, the Donut Critic, while also lingering on the funny discomfort of being recognized in public. It can bring in Ryan Gwilliam from Trainwalk Poop and turn a blunt business name into a conversation about dogs, animals, branding, and local media moments. Chris Holifield’s style is conversational, openly curious, and unhurried. The production keeps the texture of a local studio: sponsor mentions, call-in reminders, social handles, recording-day chatter, and closing songs from local musicians. That rough-edged presence is part of the appeal. The show does not flatten Salt Lake into a travel brochure or a scene report. It treats the city as a living network of food makers, folklore collectors, wellness organizers, pet people, business owners, musicians, and regulars with stories worth hearing. Episodes often circle small businesses and the realities of keeping them alive. They also make room for humor, digressions, and the occasional oddly memorable detail. The result is a podcast for listeners who like place-based interviews with enough specificity to make a city feel populated rather than branded.