In this episode, Scott is joined by Ripe Artist Gabriel Angrand aka “AVG” to talk about Encounter Vol 3. Encounter night are hosted by spoken word artist Jay Avery in Whippany, New Jersey. Volume 3 took place on Saturday March 22nd, 2025 and featured Ripe Artists AVG and Craig Watson.

The first portion of the episode focuses a lot on Scott’s history with Jay Avery and how Encounter nights have gone in the past. AVG all shares about his first impressions after getting to the space on March 22nd.

The middle half of the episode centers on each of the artists sets on the showcase including shoutout to many of the artists who performed. The duo takes a good bit of time to talk about Craig’s set specifically.

The episode ends with talking about the impact of the night and shares some of the hope Ripe Creatives has to stay connected to future volumes of “Encounter.” We hope you enjoyed today’s episode.

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Song: "Ripe Takeover" by Aable and Rick Harmoney

2 Lines - February ‘25

In this episode, Scott is joined by co-host Jarrett Moses and returner to the podcast Greg Snow to talk about the 2 Lines Showcase event hosted at Top Mop Savage Studios on Friday February 21st, 2025.

The first half of the episode focuses on everything leading up to the night of the event and many of the pre-show happening that preceded the showcase featuring four separate artists.

The later part of the episode centers on each of the artists sets on the showcase before diving into some of the impact and fruit of the entire experience. We hope you enjoy today’s episode.

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Song: "Ripe Takeover" by Aable and Rick Harmoney

In this episode, Scott is joined by first time guest “Poetic Will” aka Will Douglas from Trenton, NJ. Poetic Will is the founder and curator of Open Heart Poetry. The episode centers on Open Heart Poetry’s 1 Year Anniversary showcase which took place on January 24th, 2025.

The first third of the episode centers on Will’s story of founding OHP and subsequently changing the model from a third space event to an overtly Christian open mic. Will and Scott also breakdown OHP’s meteoric rise over the last year that led the success of the anniversary showcase.

The middle third of the episode focused on the day of the event including the infamous “venue shift” the morning of the show. Afterwards Scott and Will talk through the lineup artist by artist and give flowers to each of the performers.

As the episode comes to a close Scott and Will talk about the future of Open Heart Poetry and Ripe Creative’s event Oracles. We hope you enjoy today’s episode.

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Song: "Ripe Takeover" by Rick Harmoney and Aable