Ben’s long time friend Jen joins the podcast this week to talk about her bread making business called Worth Her Salt Sourdough, the challenges of understanding and navigating social media as a Generation X-er, her experiences teaching from primary school to community college, how video game culture has changed in the last 50 years, and the assorted video games her four daughters played in the 90s and 2000s.
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00:00:20 - Jen’s business, cooking school, pirates, and showing your value… through baking 00:04:39 - Post-layoff experiences, first jobs, the DQ Q, and the Subway vs. Dairy Queen feud 00:07:32 - Pop-up sales and pickups, family help for the farmer’s markets, and hobby bakers 00:11:49 - Establishing credibility, TikTok mysteries, doomscrolling, and the cute winter boots 00:16:31 - Social media uses, Ben’s uses the wrong word, the definition, and complex origins 00:20:45 - Boy George, the sourdough starter class, and committing bacterial cultural genocide 00:23:48 - Brewing beer, kefir, the puke juice, food fermentation, and atmospheric sensitivity 00:28:48 - Inclusions, flavor and texture, managing the variables, practicing, and bulk baking 00:32:02 - Patience and precision, loaves now and then, focus on one recipe, and repetition 00:34:40 - Maintaining multiple cultures, ancient grains, waking up the starter, and bacteria 00:38:15 - Understanding the science, utilizing teaching experience, and creating the class 00:41:41 - Students sharing results, protecting the workbook, and feeding or teaching people 00:44:14 - Thoughts on doing what you love for a living, and a monetizing hobbies push segue 00:48:47 - That time pinball was illegal in Chicago—where most pinball machines were made 00:50:36 - Leave it to John E. Cassidy, TV theme songs, illegal free games, and back to Neil 00:53:27 - Crystal Lake is partially to blame, arcade player gender divides, and console culture 00:56:26 - The industry becoming more inclusive, not just for nerds anymore, and streamers 00:58:58 - Webkinz, Cooking Mama, Animal Crossing, and the Easy-Bake Kitchen PC Playset 01:03:04 - YOU HAVE DIED OF DYSENTERY, Skylanders, and getting two talkers together 01:05:39 - Final thoughts, exploring the old ways, War lyrics fact check, and be open learning
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Follow Jen / Worth Her Salt Sourdough on… Her website: https://worthhersaltsourdough.com/ On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worthhersalt_sourdough/ OnFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Worth-Her-Salt-Sourdough-61560240098268/
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