The Palisade Podcast

Ryan Sapena is the Media and Marketing Director for Seek Outside, a tent and backpack manufacturer in Grand Junction. After a Palisade News Update, Ryan joins Will to discuss Seek Outside's tents, what a 'hot tent' is and how they work, the influence of hunters on outdoor gear and why they are excellent testers, truffle hunting in Italy, quantity versus quality of evolutionary success, wolves comi...

Cassidee Shull is the Executive Director of the Colorado Association for Viticulture and Enology (CAVE). She joins Will to chat about her long-standing tenure with CAVE, getting hired as Executive Director at age 23, what the wine industry looked like in its first year, the five Palisade wineries that attended the first WineFest, how WineFest went this year, the new sparkling wine trend in Palisad...

Dan West is a reporter for the Daily Sentinel. He joins Will on the pod to discuss Lauren Boebert's recent antics, attracting attention as a politician, America's tabloid culture, the Hamas attacks, a Fruita man in Israel, how it feels to cover tragedy as a journalist, television versus print coverage of tragic events, why we should get rid of 24-hour cable news channels, how national journalists...

Barrett Vinson is a meteorologist and the weatherman for KREX5 and FOX4. He joins the pod to discuss talk radio, how to improve your listening and conversational skills, Hallmark greeting cards, Wine Weather Wednesdays, how to make the weather fun, what makes the Grand Valley's climate unique, his time with the Hurricane Hunters in Florida, why he wanted to become a weatherman, weather as an appli...

Kylee Marshall is an author, speaker, and former teacher at Bookcliff Middle School. Her memoir, Of Dirt and Wildflowers -- A Memoir on Growing the Courage to Bloom , was published in June and her brick-and-mortar workshop space, Of Dirt and Wildflowers: A Creative Space to Grow & Bloom , is launching this fall at the Historic Lowell School Building in downtown Grand Junction. She joins Will t...

Dan Bean is the Director of the Biological Pest Control Program at the Palisade Insectary. He joins the pod to discuss what exactly the Insectary does, what biocontrol is and how it's used in Palisade, how the Insectary came to be located in Palisade, collecting bugs as a kid, the Insectary's public relations' problem and how cockroaches help fix it, the biggest biocontrol problems in Palisade, th...

Ethan Jordan is the play-by-play television and radio broadcast announcer and the Director of Media and Sales for the Grand Junction Jackalopes. Will joins him in his broadcast booth at Suplizio Field to discuss why the team changed from the Rockies to the Jackalopes, why they are no longer an affiliate of the Colorado Rockies, the "beer batter" promotion at every home game, television versus radi...

Jamie Somerville is a member of the Palisade Board of Trustees and an English teacher at Mt. Garfield Middle School. He joins the pod to discuss how summer break seems to be shrinking, why East Middle School closed down and the D51 drama, why more Grand Valley schools could close, phones in classrooms, teaching critical race theory and slavery, the Milgram experiment, whether Hemingway was gay, li...

Charles Talbott is the Owner and Director of Operations of Talbott's Cider Company. He joins Will on the pod to discuss hops in beer, different styles of cider, the good and bad of Palisade's evolution, why he joined the tourism board, how to make Palisade better for locals, the challenge of getting local products into local venues, Talbott's plan to start serving food, a new partnership between t...

Tim Wenger is a Senior Editor for Matador Network and a member of the Palisade Tourism Advisory Board. His newest endeavor is Copy Synergy (copysynergy.co), an AI-assisted copywriting service. He joins Will on the pod to discuss the joy of a summer shower beer, how the Palisade Farmers Market differs from others in Colorado, bikers behaving badly in Palisade, whether Palisade is a good destination...

Ben Parsons is the Owner and Winemaker of Ordinary Fellow Winery in downtown Palisade. He joins the pod to talk about his recent trip to London, English sparkling wine, the traits of a true English pub, Ordinary Fellow's recent awards, the highest-scoring Colorado wine ever, European gap years, how Hitler used wine to fund WWII, immigrating from England to Australia on a 10-pound ferry, the lack o...

Priscilla Walker is the Founding Chairman of the Palisade Historical Society. She joins the pod to discuss the museum as well as various Palisade historical topics, including peach graveyards at Riverbend Park, German prisoners of war picking peaches (WW2), the original peach varietal of Palisade and where to find it, whether downtown Palisade was a wild west town, notable buildings around town, h...

Meril Wallace is the cider maker at Talbott's Cider Co. and a wine maker for Centennial Cellars. He joins the pod to discuss his recent endeavors as well as how much time kids spend outside, parental paranoia, how humans analyze risk, getting uncomfortable in travel and the outdoors, airport bars, being a river guide, the only free-flowing river in Colorado, art and snobbery, why creative teachers...

Brandi Peterson is the General Manager of the brand-new Deroco Cellars. She chats about growing up in Alabama, southern customs, whether her accent is a good thing or bad thing, the deal with alligators, Florida travel spots, what it’s like to be adopted, meeting her birth mom for the first time at age 40, the terrifying reality of Ancestry.com, the deal with Deroco Cellars, and more. 

Stanley Woodward is a Washington DC-based trial lawyer who represents several defendants in the January 6th insurrection cases. He was recently featured in Politico for his eye-popping client list, which includes prominent "Trump-world" figures such as Peter Navarro, Dan Scavino, and a member of the Oath Keepers. With four kids in tow, he pops through Palisade to discuss changing diapers on planes...

Joe Flynn is the owner of Periphery Cellars and the new sparkling wine maker at Carboy Winery. He joins Will to discuss turning 50, getting expelled from high school, hazed in the military, being a battlefield medic, and a climbing accident that launched his wine making career. He dishes on what went down with Plum Creek closing, the struggle between a winemaker and winery owner, what the word "vi...

Drew Harding is the owner of Harding Homegrown, a new farm in Palisade. He stops by to talk with Will about the stress of the late-April freeze, using helicopters and fires to combat frost on peach trees, his early days growing pot in California, the problems with the modern-day food industry, price versus value, his quest for food sovereignty in Palisade, marketing issues for farmers, and why we...