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

In this episode, Scott is joined by first-time guests Will Toms & Keith Reed alongside of returner Doc Hero. The episode centers on the Kingdom PHL experience hosted at REC Philly on January 17th, 2025.

The first few minutes of the episode shared a lot of the context for Will, Keith and Scott’s relationships over the years as the crew waits for Doc to arrive. After intros the squad talks about what led to the launch of Kingdom PHL in the summer of 2024.

The middle half of the episode shifts to the success of the first Kingdom PHL in October 2024, before turning the page into January’s volume 2 experience. The group focuses mostly on the changes they made between Volume 1 to Volume 2, including Doc Hero’s artist set.

As the team wraps up the conversation,n they delve into some of the ways God moved specifically on January 17th and the impact the event had on the people who came. Lastly, the crews shared their excitement for the future of Kingdom PHL. We hope you enjoy today’s episode.

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Song: "Ripe Takeoever" by Rick Harmoney and Aable

In this episode Scott Smith & Jarrett Moses sit down to “set the stage” again. This time the conversation is to wrap up season 3 and turn the page into season 4 of the “Time Is Ripe” podcast.

The episode begins with Jarrett sharing about his overall views of the podcast and the growth he’s seen from season 1 until now. Midway through Scott and Jarrett recap some of their favorite episodes from season 3.

The episode wraps up talking about starting season 4 and the “theme of partnership” that both Scott and Jarrett believe will be apparent as the podcast dives into its next chapter.

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Song: "Ripe Takeover" by Aable and Rick Harmoney

In this episode, Scott is joined by Jarrett Moses, Gabriel Angrand aka “AVG” and Simone Wesley. The group talks about the 2 Lines on December 13th, 2024 hosted at TopMop Savage Studios in Philadelphia. AVG was featured for this specific 2 Lines Open Mic event.

The first few minutes of the episode focuses on 2 Lines decision to move to TopMop Savage Studios for the winter months specifically. Jarrett shares about his own history with 2 Lines and why it’s been a great fit for the studio space.

The middle half of the episode shifts to the night of the event while focusing nearly exclusively on AVG’s feature set entitled “Black Sun/Son.” AVG shares at length about each piece while the other guests chime in to offer encouragement or ask clarifying questions.

As the team wraps up the conversation they delve into some of the impact the event had on our team, the audience who came, and most significantly on AVG himself as a performer. We hope you enjoy today’s episode.

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Song: "PICK IT UP" by Aable and Diomer

In this episode, Scott is joined by Jarrett Moses, Craig Watson, and first-time guest Graham Allen. The group talks about the “Good Soil” event hosted on Sunday, November 17th at East Stroudsburg United Methodist Church.

The first chunk of the episode focuses on Craig and Graham's invitations to become official Ripe Artists in 2024. We also spend quite a bit of time talking about what led to the event at ESUMC focusing on the church’s partnership with Ripe Creatives since its launch in 2019.

The crux of the episode shifts to the night of the event while centering on each of the artist’s sets and worship led by our friends NYC who joined us. The final section of the episode lands on our team talking about outcomes from the event and things each of us took away about the model of Good Soil.

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Song: "Rejoice! (Habakkuk 3:17-19)" by Wind and Sail

In this episode, Scott is joined by Jarrett Moses and first time guest El-Fatih Chase. The trio talks about the Creatives’ Cafe open mic event where El-Fatih served as the closing incognito feature hosted on Tuesday November 12th at Bedrock Fishtown in Philadelphia.

The episode begins with El’s story of connecting to Ripe Creatives through an open mic event we hosted at our original venue more than four years ago at Highpointe Performance Cafe. As the conversation continues Jarrett and Scott talk extensively about Creatives’ need for a smaller more intimate venue space since Highpointe shut down in 2022.

The middle of the episode focuses mostly on the night of the event including shoutouts to a few different open mic performers and the three incognito artists before diving into El’s set. We also talk about El’s newfound excitement to record and release his first solo project in the months ahead because of the impact the event made on him.

The final part of the episode talks about Bedrock Fishtown being a great fit for our community’s cross-genre open mic outreach event for year ahead. We hope you enjoy the episode.

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Song: "Airborne" by Craig Watson