A Southbound Train

We are joined by Joe Maddock and Dustin Kohli!

Joe is in a great Salt Lake City rock band called Watches. Check them out!

The Watches will be playing at Urban Lounge in Salt Lake City on April 23rd. (Saint George Day!)

Joe's parents are making a pilgrimage to live in Jackson County, Missouri to be ready for the second coming. We make comparisons between Islam and Mormonism.

Dustin lets us know what Montana is really all about.

We discuss what it is like to leave the Mormon church, which generally isn't as difficult as it is for members of the Amish community.

NEWS:

Salt Lake City may soon allow cyclists to run red lights. Utah's traffic lights are slow and unresponsive as they are now.

In April, Salt Lake will install a public bike service called GREENbike.

The Leonardo museum in Salt Lake is displaying mummies from all around the world.

Microsoft is fined in Europe for not making room for browsers other than Internet Explorer.

Salt Lake City's Broadway will be an open street for walking and skating and biking. It's a street festival happening on May 4th.

Dining Car: JDawgs down in Provo, Utah is one of the best hot dog restaurants.

We discuss The Daily Show's Jon Stewart taking a hiatus to make a movie called Rosewater.

New Secretary of State John Kerry has been enjoying his first international tour and announcing Americans' rights to be stupid.

Hugo Chavez passed away to the dismay of Cubans everywhere. Watch his public access television program!

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UTA Trax hits a car and kills a man.

We learn about Dave Grohl's new movie Sound City. Stephen Colbert heard the same thing from Grohl himself.

Paul McCartney and the remaining members of Nirvana are playing music together here.

Star Wars Spin-off Movies announced

We ate some of the MOST DELICIOUS cupcakes, and evidently they are really good for you too. Like, as if they were vegetables. You can eat them too!

We recommend you taste the edibles produced by Kiwi Bakery in Magna, Utah.

Sam is interviewed about Ingress by City Weekly in Salt Lake City.

Please enjoy Netflix's new amazing series House of Cards.

Dick Proenneke has become the Train's newest hero. Please enjoy and admire his workmanship.

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Luke Kendell makes High West whiskey and he beards competitively.

Jason Hill of Lost Wax Labs. He recommends a Readability offshoot service called Must Read.

News: Berlin Camover is a street art movement with a flare for civil disobedience. North Korea to target US with nuclear rocket test.

Technology: Is Google going to compete with the major telecom giants by puppeting Dish into purchasing a lot of spectrum?

Movie news: Sundance is over, and Fruitvale is the big winner. Check out Talk Talky: it's a movie blog. Netflix competing with HBO. Star Wars VII will be directed by JJ Abrams.

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Our foreign correspondent in Cairo calls in to share a story with the Train. Shout out to Phil Bussman!

Uncle David returns to the show. Check out the well designed Family History Art to hang on your wall as a reference and a reminder of your ancestry.

Tyson interviewsan old Persian, who in his youth studied film, after taking him to a screening of Arnold Schwarzenegger's new movie, The Last Stand. The man has been compared in likeness to Mister Miyagi.

We bemoan the inversion that plagues the Salt Lake valley, and others.

What is it like, as a local Salt Lake City resident, to host hordes of filmmakers and audiences attending Sundance Film Festival every year? We'll tell you.

And then over the same weekend, have the Outdoor Retailers come here and occupy the Salt Palace. What a thrill for our city to get so much traffic of professional guests to our city.

What podcast episode would be complete this week without a healthy chunk of conversation about Lance Armstrong? No podcast episode!

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This week James Lyons is planning on a view from a boxcar hitch-hiking trip around the world and Jesse Johnson calls in to tell us we should listen to RAP TEAM. A couple people died. We get super pumped about Die Hard 4. How many glass windows can one man jump through in a lifetime? Then we talk about the future of search according to Facebook.

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Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will co-host the Golden Globes awards.

The Hobbit rises to weary, belated mediocrity entirely on its own steam. Mr. Jackson has embraced what might be called theme-park-ride cinema, the default style of commercially anxious, creatively impoverished 3-D moviemaking.

Check out Dodge Billingsley at combatfilms.com.

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