Upstate Update Podcast

Nov 20 2020
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The Upstate Update features daily interviews with the people and places doing wonderful things here in the gorgeous Upstate of South Carolina. The start of each episode contains a quick news and weather update before you start your day. The Upstate Update is hosted by Joe Gagnon who has been highlighting the best charities, events and more throughout the Upstate for ten years. Please subscribe to hear the news you need to start your day but without a rise in your blood pressure.

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Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself

Nov 20 2020 27 mins  
This morning, we are talking about Citizens and Southern Bank in downtown Spartanburg. It first open in the 1800s, but now it is re-opening as a beautiful event space right in downtown Spartanburg. We talk to Amieecheek and Amy Zimmer two fabulous ladies that are going to make this a place and events you will never forget.

Thanksgiving From a Distance

Nov 19 2020 15 mins  
Today we are talking to Dr. Marcus Blackstone, chief clinical officer with the Bon Secours Health System about what to do to stay safe if you are gathering with loved ones over the holidays. As you can imagine, the answer is clear and familiar, don’t gather with loved ones, but if you do, socially distance and wear a mask.

Raising Incredible Young Men

Nov 18 2020 14 mins  
The Dominion Boys Home, where each day they improve the lives of young men who were taken from awful situations at their home and now grow under the care of amazing men and women from Dominion. We were able to talk to Brittany Barbrey, who told us how important Dominion is, and some of the great success stories they’ve had along the way.You can support this home with a great outd

Yee Haw! Prince’s Hot Chicken Lands In The Upstate

Nov 12 2020 24 mins  
Have you had hot chicken before?It’s super crispy fried chicken covered in an incredibly delicious hot sauce, that started at Prince’s Hot Chicken more than 100 years ago in Nashville Tennessee. But now there are a few places in the upstate that sell a version of this hot chicken.However, Prince’s hot Chicken has landed in the Upstate.As you are hearing this podcast, you don�

Veterans Day

Nov 11 2020 10 mins  
Good morning and welcome back to the upstate update podcast..I’m your host joe Gagnon and I hope you are having a great start to your day today which is Veterans Day.Today and this week, Upstate Warrior Solutions is helping to put in and host more than thirty events to honor our soldiers.This Saturday, they and United States Jeep Association our teaming up to honor our troops and

The Few, The Proud

Nov 10 2020 21 mins  
Welcome back to the Upstate Update, I’m your host Joe Gagnon.And happy birthday to the men and women of the United State Marine Corp.This very day 245 years ago, right at start of our nation, was the first day of this incredible branch of our military. featuring an incredible marine who served in our military and in active duty for eight years in combat. Tomorrow is Veterans Day

Election Update and a Beautiful Day with GCA

Nov 06 2020 15 mins  
Today we are actually talking about an event your family can check out. I feel like I haven’t said those words in years. Anyway, the Greenville Classical Academy is welcoming one and all to their campus for its eleventh annual fall festival. We talked with Del Dee Hindman and Jessica MacQuarrie who has been working day and night to pull off this event as safely as possible.

Election Gameplan

Nov 05 2020 15 mins  
Good morning, and welcome back to the Upstate Update PodcastI am your host Joe Gagnon and today we are talking to the biggest news team in the upstate about how they prepare to report and cover a huge election like the one happening right now.Executive Editor of the Greenville News, the Anderson Independent and the Spartanburg Herald Journal Steve Bruss. We spoke with him Tuesday b

The Legend of Mookie Starts Here

Nov 03 2020 32 mins  
Good morning, Happy Election Day and welcome back to the Upstate Update Podcast.Today’s story has nothing to do with America’s politics but it has to do with America’s pastime... baseball.It’s about one of the best players of all time who got his start right here in the Upstate, perhaps the best player in baseball and now a two time World Series champion of the Los Angeles

Child Chef Extraordinairre?

Nov 02 2020 20 mins  
Good morning Upstate and happy Monday, I hope you had a nice weekend and great Halloween.Today, We are talking to Chef Trudy who is about to open her very own eatery here in the Upstate, but in the meantime, she has a catering business that is doing very well and is also hosting two cooking classes this week.Her student, however, are kids. She says you are almost never too young to