May 30, 2022
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...
May 30, 2022
It isn't every episode that we get
to learn more about the main character in a book.
First of all, if you haven't already
read Home Baked, Alia Volz's autobiography about her mom,
her dad, and the pot brownie business they had in San Francisco in
the 1970s, please do.
In this podcast, Alia, who was born
and raised...
May 26, 2022
This one's pretty much all about San Francisco politics 20 years ago.
Matt talks about how it was that he ended up running for political office to begin with. He walks us through Tom Ammiano's write-in campaign for mayor in 1999 and Matt's eventual ascension to the Board of Supervisors the next year.
What brought him...
May 24, 2022
Matt Gonzalez's life could've turned
out very different.
Born in McAllen, Texas, and raised there and across the river in
Reynoso, Tamaulipas (Mexico), Matt recalls spending a lot of time
camping and playing football when he was a kid. His family moved
around a bit—Louisville, Baltimore, New Orleans—before...
May 19, 2022
Renel grew up going to Giants games
at Candlestick Park.
So when the team reached out to her
in 1999 about the possibility of becoming the PA announcer in their
brand-new stadium, she immediately thought of her family and the
long line of baseball fans she's a part of.
Renel shares her experience
auditioning for the...