Apr 29, 2021
In this podcast, Matt picks up where he left off in Part 1, with his involuntary foray into placing temp workers. Turns out, he loved the job.
He moved around from job to job over the next few years, but returned to thank the person who pushed him into this new career.
A trip to Paris led, in a very roundabout way, to...
Apr 27, 2021
Matt Leum has more friends from his school days now than he did back then.
Matt grew up in Glendale, a suburb north of LA. His family's swimming pool was the only one on that block.
His dad owned a chain of supermarkets in the greater Los Angeles area. His parents met at the flagship store of that chain back when it was...
Apr 22, 2021
In this episode, Morris picks up where he left off in Part 1, sharing some of the pot edibles he was making with a friend. This was back when California had legalized medicinal marijuana, but not yet recreational. And the US government, as they still do to this day, more than frowned upon even this limited use.
Apr 20, 2021
Morris Kelly's great-grandfather was a sharecropper who bought his own freedom.
In this podcast, Morris, who today owns SF Roots cannabis company, shares the story of how he came to grow up in The City. He chronicles the various schools he went to, talks about Muni rides to arcades and movie theaters all over town, and...
Apr 15, 2021
In this podcast, Alia picks up where she left off in Part 1, sharing stories of joining her mom on pot-brownie runs in The City in the late-'70s. She pivots from there to just a few years later, when Alia witnessed the devastation of AIDS first-hand. She also speaks of communities coming together around the epidemic to...