Life, Beer & Politics w/ Gov. John Hickenlooper (Rebroadcast)
The Road to Now
Benjamin Sawyer
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
This is a rebroadcast of episode #6, which originally aired in July of 2016.
In this episode of The Road to Now, we speak with Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper about his new memoir The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics and the ways that his peculiar & fascinating life interact with the greater history of our country.
Gov. Hickenlooper shares his family history, which he traces back to the earliest settlers of the Pennsylvania colony in the 1680s, and talks about a wide variety of fascinating topics including the urban/rural split in Colorado, the Grateful Dead, and his friendship with Kurt Vonnegut. Gov. Hickenlooper also talks about his years as a geologist, working in real estate, opening Denver's first brew pub, and the value that comes from hanging a light on one's weaknesses in the pursuit of excellence. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed our time with Gov. Hickenlooper.
The Road to Now is part of the Osiris Podcast Network.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Ben Sawyer, and this is the road to now. |
| 0:07.7 | Today we're doing a midweek air. |
| 0:10.0 | It's an episode we aired in 2016. |
| 0:12.7 | It was our sixth episode that Bob and I ever recorded. |
| 0:15.6 | It's an interview with then-Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado. |
| 0:19.9 | When we started this podcast, Governor Hickenlooper |
| 0:22.4 | invited us out to visit and have a conversation with him about politics and his new book, |
| 0:28.6 | which had just come out then, The Opposite of Woe, My Life in Beer in Politics, which he co-wrote |
| 0:33.6 | with Maximilian Potter. The book is excellent. It weaves his personal story with the greater |
| 0:39.6 | history of the United States. He traced his lineage back to early Philadelphia, where his ancestors |
| 0:45.6 | were both in politics and brewed beer, which is fascinating because Governor Hickenlooper |
| 0:51.3 | has done both those things. It was just a great conversation and we're |
| 0:54.9 | re-airing it since the democratic debates are coming up next week and we just thought well let's put |
| 0:59.6 | this back out so you guys can hear something about him he's going to be on the stage and here's |
| 1:03.7 | some background so we hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed going to visit him he was so kind |
| 1:10.1 | we had an hour set aside for this interview, |
| 1:13.3 | and we were worried about timelines, but when we wrapped it up, he canceled his plans, and |
| 1:18.2 | we spoke for probably another hour, and only left when we had to go to knock out another |
| 1:24.2 | interview with Dick Kreck, which was fascinating. It was a great trip all around. The first summer of Road to Now. After listening to this, if any of you were interested in checking out Governor Hickenlooper's book, The Opposite of Woog, good news. It's available on Libro.fm. Libro FM, our sponsor, the audiobook company that gives a portion of everything you spend to an independent bookstore of your choosing. |
| 1:45.3 | You've heard us talk about it before, but you can get the book read by John Hickenlooper. |
| 1:48.8 | So if you go to Libro.fm and you enter promo code RTM, you can get three months of membership |
| 1:55.6 | for the price of want. That's just $15. You can get three full audiobooks. |
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