#22: Colorado Springs food critic Matthew Schniper talks about journalism, EVs and more!
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Side Dish with Schniper’s very own Matthew Schniper chats with Nick for their first podcast together since the very first episode of The Indy 15 in August of 2022! Or was it September? Let me look. Hmmm… Yep! August 24, 2022. The podcast is seriously still up online wherever you listen to podcasts.
Anyway, we talk about bike commutes in Colorado Springs, owning an electric car and charging it at home with clean renewable power, Schniper’s career at the Colorado Springs Indy, his spin-off into Side Dish with Schniper and food criticism and so, so much more!Follow BNLO on Facebook and Instagram! And probably TikTok too!
0:00 Splash/Sponsor/Intro
0:31 Greetings and Monologue
2:54 Ad Break
3:49 Introducing Matt Schniper/Tackling Bike Lanes
5:47 Bike Commuting
8:25 Buying an Electric Car/Going Solar
20:31 Distracted Drivers
22:56 To be a Food Critic? Or No?
25:33 “I’ve got a 9-to-5 for the First Time in my Life.”
28:50 Becoming the Editor
32:19 The Best Days of the Indy
36:16 Downsizing
38:27 The End of the Indy (As We Knew It)
40:53 Launching Side Dish
44:54 Wearing Multiple Hats as a Content Creator
48:19 The Side Dish Dozen
54:03 The Struggle of New Media
59:06 Doing the Real Work Means Playing the Game
1:04:00 Do We Need Another Newspaper to Save Us?
1:07:39 Interview Closeout
1:08:53 Credits
1:09:47 Mailbag






