S4E5, Part 1: Business Founder Morris Kelly
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 Cit...
20 Apr 202131min
S4E4, Part 2: Author Alia Volz
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 ...
15 Apr 202127min
S4E4, Part 1: Author Alia Volz
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 po...
13 Apr 202126min
S4E3, Part 2: Matt Gonzalez
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-i...
8 Apr 202129min
S4E3, Part 1: Matt Gonzalez
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 an...
6 Apr 202130min
S4E2, Part 2: Comedian Arthur Gaus
Arthur Gaus came of age in the Golden Era of comedy in San Francisco. Picking up where he left off in Part 1, Arthur sets the stage for his beginnings doing stand-up by describing the comedy scene in...
1 Apr 202130min
S4E2, Part 1: Comedian Arthur Gaus
Arthur Gaus grew up on a famous block in The City. In this podcast, the native San Francisco comedian traces his story back to his parents' choice to buy a house on Ashbury just off Haight Street in ...
30 Mar 202132min
S4E1, Part 2: Renel Brooks-Moon
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 tho...
25 Mar 202131min
