Paul and Craig talk about Craig's newest project: his book Conscious Life Conscious Death!

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[00:00:00] This is the two guys talking Fresno podcast, the podcast with two guys talking about Fresno. Your hosts are Craig sharp, a lifelong Fresno who loves his community, even though it drives him bonkers and Paul gin, a transplant Freston, who's lived in Fresno for more years than he has it. And he wouldn't live anywhere else.
It's time for two guys to talk Fresno. Here's Craig and Paul on the two guys talking Fresno podcast.
Paul: Here we are long time. No, see Craig. I know,
Craig: but I'm wearing the same shirt today. One of those pictures, I only have two shirts. So I guess the odds are that I'd be wearing the same shirt
Paul: I do too. I'm wearing my Fresno Grizzlies
Like this is an old school, Fresno baseball. T-shirt from way back when, and it's perfectly comfortable. Oh, it's the perfect, [00:01:00] t-shirt perfectly
Craig: new crying. You cry when you first feel that first hole or see that the seams are starting to go.
Paul: Yeah, I've got a couple that I still have the hole in, but I'm still keeping them anyway because it just feels so nice to wear.
So, but then with two guys talking Fresno, I can act like this is theme oriented rather than comfort, so right. Have
Craig: you planned
Paul: it ahead? Yes, exactly. So we haven't done a lot of podcasts lately, but here we are back and we're going to jump back into it.
Craig: That's good. Yeah, we both needed a little break last year was, uh, not only COVID but politics and all that stuff.
And I think we were just worn out.
Paul: Yeah, I think, I think we needed that debrief time. Everybody needed that. And then it kind of ran its course. And I, I think we got through the election and that guy wasn't reelected and we all kind of yeah,
Craig: yeah. [00:02:00] Until January.
Paul: Yeah. It's not to say there wasn't craziness in the midst there, but, uh, and still is, but the good news is we're going to get back to talking a little bit more about Fresno.
We had to talk COVID we had to talk politics and now we can talk forever.
Craig: Yeah, well, we had to some of our, uh, great, uh, listeners or Watchers, you know, commenting saying more Fresno stuff, more Fresno stuff. So that was a good reminder for us. And we do listen to your comments or read your comments and, and take that to heart.
And that's what we started for. So you just brought us back to where we meant. Yeah.
Paul: And if people have ideas, post them on our Facebook page or send us an email through the website to guys fresno.com and let us know what you'd like for us to talk about, because we are getting back to being two guys talking about Fresno.
And today, Craig, I'm really excited because we're going to talk [00:03:00] to a great Fresno author. He's fairly new to the, uh, the, the title of author, but it's been coming for quite a while, but he's very well known by presidents,
Craig:

Conscious Life Conscious Death: A Book by Craig Scharton

Matt Nicoletti, Business Development Director for Fresno's Penny Newman.

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Two Guys Regenerative Farming

Craig Scharton:  [00:00:00] Matt Nicoletti is in charge of business development for penny Newman, which we established, we think is the second oldest business in Fresno. Uh, Fresno ag has you beat by two years. Pretty close

Matt Nicoletti: though. You, you,

Craig Scharton: you still

Matt Nicoletti: look pretty young.

Paul Swearengin: So how, how old, how old is his number? Is the number two oldest company in the history of France.

Matt Nicoletti: I'd have to do

Craig Scharton: subtraction, but it's 1878.

Matt Nicoletti: So let's see. So is that one 42, one? Uh, yeah, 142 years. All right. And your,

Craig Scharton: your younger brain cells worked very

Matt Nicoletti: well. Yeah. Um, well it's, uh, yeah, um, phone number. I should be tracking readily able to answer. Um, but, uh, yeah, no we're, um, penny Newman, um, uh, uh, like we said, was founded in 1878 and it was an agricultural dry goods store.

It wasn't all too different from Fresno [00:01:00] ag in that respect back in the day. Um, but evolved into a commodity trading business, marketing of grain. Um, uh, marketing of planting seed, um, and then it evolved into a feed business. As the livestock sector really exploded in California and the production of grain and feed type of ingredients really declined significantly in California.

So that industry became more heavily reliant upon industry structure, um, that was owned and operated by companies like penny Newman. That could bring in large quantities of grain and feed type of ingredients from out of state where, which are the largest production, larger production sheds of those types of agricultural goods.

It's kind of inverse of what you would think of California, because we're such a net producer, net exporter of agricultural goods. Um, but these types of commodities that make up penny Newman's core competencies were very much a net deficit state.

Craig Scharton: And yeah, he had to keep buying bigger and bigger quantities, which is kind of an unimaginable volume.

I just can't even picture it [00:02:00] when we were talking about it the other night. Um, but we are a huge producer of dairy products. And so you've got to get the grain into them. Right.

Matt Nicoletti: Indeed. Yeah. And we they've th the, the California produce stuff that the dairy sector consumes here. It's mostly byproducts almond, wholes, obviously being a really popular one.

We just harvested our largest almond crop ever, you know, 3 billion pounds, um, byproducts from the food processing. You know, we've got a lot of grapes and the great pumice from the winery sector, the, um, bakery waste, the mill feed bride products from all the flour milling that we have in the state. Those are.

Those are very much, you know, staples in the dairy ration,

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The Two Guys Talk to City Council Member-Elect Tyler Maxwell

Tim Goetz

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Derek Scharton

The Well Community Church

Fund Accounting

Every Neighborhood Partnership

Neighborhood Thrift

Sermon Spice

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Dan Kimball

How to start a nonprofit.?

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Out of town tree trimmers!

Cow Lasso

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[00:00:00] [00:00:00] Two Guys Open: [00:00:00] this is the two guys talking Fresno podcast, the podcast with two guys talking about Fresno. Your hosts are Craig Chardan, a lifelong Fresno who loves his community, even though it drives him bonkers. And Paul square gin, a transplant for us nun. Who's lived in Fresno for more years than he has it. And he wouldn't live anywhere else.
[00:00:24] It's time for two guys to talk. Fresno. Here's Craig and Paul on the two guys talking Fresno podcast.
[00:00:32]Paul Swearengin: [00:00:32] All right. And we're still a social distancing and, and working through zoom here. And hi, Craig, how are you today?
[00:00:40] Craig Scharton: [00:00:40] Good, Paul, how are you?
[00:00:41] Paul Swearengin: [00:00:41] Good. Has the governor allowed us to come? I mean, when are we going to be able to see each other face to face and do this?
[00:00:48]Craig Scharton: [00:00:48] well, I think we probably could. I think we're essential.
[00:00:56] Paul Swearengin: [00:00:56] True enough.
[00:00:56] Craig Scharton: [00:00:56] I am. I am still the, although I'm a little less [00:01:00] conservative about it than I was, but I'm still being pretty darn careful. Cause I don't want to get this thing, but,
[00:01:06] Paul Swearengin: [00:01:06] it's a weird, it's a weird space. I I've I've had people ask me to meet out and I've said no, thus far until Wednesday, I'm going to have my first.
[00:01:16] Lunch date in a while, and I'm still a little freaked out by it. I'm not sure exactly what it's going to look like, but I'm going to venture out and try it. And I think my son's going to start baseball practice this week. So it just, it feels still a little odd to be thinking about life.
[00:01:34] Craig Scharton: [00:01:34] Yeah. Well, and I, you know, as we've talked about it, I'm a little bit on the, a little bit age sides, definitely asthma and all of that.
[00:01:41] So I'm, I'm gonna. I'm going to play it a little more, or probably quite a bit more defensively than, than I would. We were talking about that. If I were 32, I'd probably be first one at the pub or whatever. Nothing can hurt me.
[00:01:59] Paul Swearengin: [00:01:59] I'm looking [00:02:00] forward to face to face meetings. Cause I am kind of tired of zoom meetings, but now I got to start thinking in terms of drive time again, and I've totally lost.
[00:02:09] All sense of drive time around meetings. So it's going to, I'm going to have to readjust to that.
[00:02:14] Tim Goetz: [00:02:14] Well, with
[00:02:15] Craig Scharton: [00:02:15] my computers I've and z

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Several weeks ago we spoke with Joe White, Pastor of Neighborhood Church in Fresno about his lifelong commitment to seeing neighborhoods improved in Fresno and how each of us can be part of that change.

Joe White

Neighborhood Church

Jackson Community Development Corporation

Lowell Neighborhood

Dickey Playground

Edison High School

Wise Old Owl

Vancouver

Granville Chapel Vancouver BC

Alta Vista Tract Fresno

National Main Street

Esther Carver-Lowell CDC

John Perkins

Hanford Thursday Night Market Place

Vision 22 Fresno

Paraclete Missionary Baptist Church

Paul’s Leadership Coaching Cohort

What’s on your mind?

Conspiracy Theories

Doing Household Projects

Andy Crouch

Gazebo Gardens

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[00:00:00] Joe White: [00:00:00] I think it's the responsibility that we have.  Fresno is, we all know it's fifth poorest city in America.

[00:00:04]we have 22 of the highest concentrated poverty neighborhoods, , which makes, pushing big rocks up Hill,  very difficult.  and so , , the reality is we're in such a desperate situation.  If you do have. resources available to you as I do.

[00:00:19] It's not the time to sit in the stands. 

[00:00:21] Two Guys Liner: [00:00:21] podcast of two guys talking. Fresno are two guys are mr. Fresno, Craig Sharpton. I'm longtime radio talk show host, Paul swear, engine Paul and Craig talking Fresno on the two guys talking Fresno podcast. Now here's Craig and Paul 

[00:00:37] Paul Swearengin: [00:00:37] and we're zooming 

[00:00:38] Craig Scharton: [00:00:38] again. Yeah, I love it. 

[00:00:41] Paul Swearengin: [00:00:41] we are we're properly social distancing, Ashley and I went and went grocery shopping.  I don't know what the decorum is on this cause there was a dad and his sort of.

[00:00:51] You know, older teenage son, and as we're coming down the aisle, they'll be coming the other way. And we kept running into each other in that same way. And they didn't know social distancing at [00:01:00] all. And they had no masks. And like, even with like reach over our cart to get some, I was like, actually, and I laid her, like I was low key, really bugged by this, you know?

[00:01:10] And didn't know, I said, what is the decorum? When do we get to say, Hey, bud, back off with your, with your virus germs, my friend. 

[00:01:18] Craig Scharton: [00:01:18] Yeah, it was, I talked to a lady who was at the grocery store and, you know, after you're done the, but you haven't finished bagging, the checker started checking the next person and the other lady started coming and bagging right next to her and even grabbed a couple of her items.

[00:01:37] And she was 

[00:01:38] Joe White: [00:01:38] like, 

[00:01:38] Craig Scharton: [00:01:38] I just wasn't going to kill her. And I had to like yell at the clerk and go, why would you start what with one birth or when the other person wasn't done called the manager and everything else. 

[00:01:50

Talking Neighborhoods with Joe White

Marcel Woodruff and Aaron Foster join the Two Guys to discussion the program called Advanced Peace Fresno to limit gun crimes in Fresno

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Listen in and Paul discuss the activities of the past few days in a troubled America


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[00:00:00] Two Guys Open: [00:00:00] This is the two guys talkin' Fresno podcast. The podcast with two guys talking about Fresno. Your hosts are Craig Scharton, a lifelong Fresno who loves his community, even though it drives him bonkers 



and Paul Swearengin, a transplant Fresnan, who's lived in Fresno for more years than he hasn't and he wouldn't live anywhere else. It's time 



for two guys to talk. Fresno. Here's Craig and Paul on the two guys talking 



Fresno podcast, 



Craig Scharton: [00:00:29] Smooth Operator!



Paul Swearengin: [00:00:34] we should call it the shirt. Two old guys trying to manage technology. 



 Let's do the show. 



Craig Scharton: [00:00:39] All right. So 



Paul Swearengin: [00:00:42] yeah. 



Craig Scharton: [00:00:44] What a week it's been, do 



Paul Swearengin: [00:00:46] we have anything to talk about? 



Craig Scharton: [00:00:48] yeah, the entire world looks like it is coming apart at the scenes. 



Paul Swearengin: [00:00:53] And I wonder if that's true or if just our reactions to everything are coming apart at the seams. [00:01:00]



Craig Scharton: [00:01:00] Yeah. Well, I don't know that we are boys in a real, a unifying place for all of this to begin. 



Paul Swearengin: [00:01:07] Well, the good news is we have a unifying president who will bring us all together in a very calm, calculated thought through way.



Oh, is that, is that not the, not the case? Yeah. How about that? How about looting and shooting is where you go on the night as president of the United States as is this is going on 



and like I said, a very calming influence at the top of it all. In our country. And so we're all good. 



Craig Scharton: [00:01:35] Yeah. Well, so, what kind of reflection have you been doing over the last week? 



Paul Swearengin: [00:01:40] I've been reflecting on for quite some time on what is my role in systemic racism in America?



have, have I done everything I can to be aware of where I'm a part of it aware of where I can, can engage to be a part of [00:02:00] ending it. And so I woke up really after the event at Miguel res his apartment. And said, okay. I, I, I can't be silent about issues that are so heavy on my heart. And then when I saw the George Floyd video, I was just like, okay, I, I have to do everything in my power to end this because this is a mindset.



What I see there. And, and I think we, we, if we give ourselves the break of saying, well, that was a bad cop, doing a bad thing with three bad cops around him. I give myself permission to not question where I am and where we are as a culture. And it may very well be that that's a seriously racist cop that had his neck on his is me on George Ford's neck.



But I think as much, he's probably a product of a system in our country that sort of tells [00:03:00] ourselves there is a gro

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Nelson Esparza

City COVID phases

Stoicism

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CTEC High School

Enhanced Infrastructure Finance District

EIFD Fresno

Ron Loveridge-Former Riverside Mayor

Nelson’s Town Halls

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Fresno CARES Act Fund

What’s On My Mind

Last Black Man in San Francisco

Back to the Roots Mushroom Kit

Last Dance-Documentary

Fresno Local Restaurants Have To Go

Two Guys Talk to City Council Member Nelson Esparza

Two Guys Talkin’ Fresno-Jim Franklin

Show Notes

Pastor Jim Franklin

Cornerstone to Open May 31

US Constitution

Some Churches Spread Virus

Surgeon General on Masks

Manufacturing COVID 19 Safety Guidelines

Judge Opines Churches Should Be Treated the Same as Other Businesses In COVID 19

Waffle Shop in Fresno News

What is A.A. doing in Coronavirus?

 What is Herd Immunity?

Wilson Theater

Cornerstone Community Care Foundation

Mike Der Manuel Podcast Two Guys Talkin’ Fresno Episode

Jim Franklin Radio Show

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Single Episode Sponsor: Fresno Ag Hardware

Picture of Violet Kate Scharton on Craig’s Facebook

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Guy Haberman Podcast

NFL Draft 2020

Kibbutz

1430 ESPN

Land Line

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Fresno State Football Loses to USC (Reggie Bush Era)

Chris Pacheco

Kelly Carr

High School Eligibility

Dialectic

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Fresno Ag Hardware

James Porteous

Fresno Scraper

Ian Williams

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Road Less Travelled 

Instacart

Snowflake Designs (Masks)

Dumont Printing (Face Shields)

Root Access/Pi Shop/Idea Works Collaboartion (Face Shields)

Katie Zenovich

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Kaiser: How to Make a Mask

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Jesus and the Disinherited, Thurman

Epictetus Discourses

Gazebo Gardens

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