
In a podcast first, we conduct an interview. Hope Ray & Jameson Hall are the co-owners of Handshake, a restaurant opening on December 6, 2025 in the Fayetteville Public Library. They tell us their origins, both as people and as business partners, and the pros and cons of opening a private business in a public space, among other things. After the interview, Jameson guests on a standard script about the salt industry during the frontier days of Missouri. We talk about salt a lot. And do an awful lot of bad math