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The Cannabis Connection provides stimulating conversation with professionals, activists, researchers and experts striving to demystify common misconceptions about Cannabis with host Christopher Carr. "Our goal is to educate and open a dialogue surrounding the potential that this plant provides to heal people’s ailments but also heal our society from a social and economic standpoint. Through conversation and providing a place to answer questions the show introduces new ideas and provides empi ...
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The Annotator

Christopher Coleman

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The podcast where composers share thoughts and stories about their original scores. In every episode, a composer tells the creation story of their music used in some of today's top film, television and video game soundtracks.
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The Casualyst

Christopher Coleman

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This podcast is about discovering and rediscovering the music we love in common. Christopher Coleman leads this casual, track-by-track, journey through multiple genres not often covered or listened to together: from pop and R&B of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, to film, tv and video soundtracks, to 80s hip hop, to jazz, to concert music. While each episode is a path to musical discovery, they are intended as a catalyst for positive interaction, not only around the love of music itself, but also in t ...
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American Valor Podcast

Bob Feller Act of Valor Award Foundation

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Through the unique intersection of Major League Baseball, the United States Navy and Marine Corps, we recognize and honor those who support our service men and women with the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award. By using the Bob Feller story, we educate the youth of today on the lessons of citizenship, service to one’s country, and personal sacrifice in times of great national need. Teaching the legacy of the greatest generation to the next generation will help instill in them the virtue of servic ...
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Matthew is one of the original farmers of the Lemon Tree Organics. Matthew and his brothers farmed Lemon Tree before the name and brand were created, initially called Lemon Diesel. As Prop 215 evolved into Prop 64, Matthew navigated the switch, jumped through the hoops, and successfully ran a fully licensed farm in the Santa Cruz Mountains called R…
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In this week's Strength it was another special episode as I joined by my very first co-host, Tom Hill of Steel Habitat. We had the pleasure of chatting with CrossFit coach and athlete, as well as a coach of coaches, Christopher Lavelle. As both myself and Tom have gravitated to training the team of coaches we work with, the content and information …
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Virtual Memories Show 607: Christopher Brown “I wanted to combine the nature writing style I had been riffing on in my FIELD NOTES newsletter, with the potential for lyrical, descriptive translation of the richness of the world into language, and also provide an effective information delivery vehicle, like classic American non-fiction, and then tel…
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With his phenomenal new book, A NATURAL HISTORY OF EMPTY LOTS: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys and Other Wild Places (Timber Press), Christopher Brown shifts from novels into nature-writing/memoir/nonfiction mode and I am HERE for it. We talk about the eco-cosmos of East Austin, TX, the years of observation that opened him to the hidd…
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Daniel Morford comes from a legacy of cannabis breeders and is a third generation ganja farmer with 19 years of experience. Founder of Pride of the Lion Seeds and co-founder with his father of Heartrock Mountain Farm. This family has been saving and breeding seeds for decades in the mountains of Mendocino County. Daniel has published a book of poet…
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Virtual Memories Show 606: Dmitry Samarov “I start the book out with the statement that somebody else should be writing and publishing this thing, but nobody did, so I had to do it.” Artist Dmitry Samarov returns to the show to bail me out after a stressful couple of weeks and to explore his fantastic new book, MAKING PICTURES IS HOW I TALK TO THE …
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Artist Dmitry Samarov returns to the show to bail me out after a stressful couple of weeks and to explore his fantastic new book, MAKING PICTURES IS HOW I TALK TO THE WORLD, a survey of his art from the '80s to today. We talk about the process of selecting pieces for the book, what artistic legacy means to him, finding roots of his work in his chil…
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Today on the show, we welcome Jacob Beau. This show is for all those wondering how to reach a larger audience and rise from the shadowbans. Born and raised in Santa Cruz, Jacob Beau spent 3 years working on Facebook’s paid ads team, gaining deep insights into how the ad algorithm works. He’s using that knowledge to run highly effective ad campaigns…
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Bleezy and Old E, two brothers from Mendocino, not only cultivate culture in their original music but were awarded 2024 Emerald Cup Best In Show for their Sun Grown Flower "Headies" at the 20th Annual Emerald Cup. Personal Use Flower 1st Place and 3rd Place for Personal Solventless Concentrate. Their work graced the cover of High Times August 2024 …
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Watch the podcast, now on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@bobfelleractofvalorawardfo6989 Find out more about the Bob Feller Act of Valor Foundation online at https://www.actofvaloraward.org/ Be sure to catch another exciting episode of the American Valor Podcast, coming October 10th on all platforms! Support the show…
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Virtual Memories Show 605: Stephen B. Shepard “I wanted to tell the story of his life in seclusion, and why he became famous for not wanting to be famous.” With Salinger’s Soul: His Personal & Religious Odyssey (Post Hill Press), author and retired journalist/editor Stephen B. Shepard explores the life of JD Salinger and the hidden core of an autho…
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With Salinger's Soul: His Personal & Religious Odyssey (Post Hill Press), author and retired journalist/editor Stephen B. Shepard explores the life of JD Salinger and the hidden core of an author who became famous for avoiding fame. We get into why Stephen decided to chase this elusive ghost, why Salinger didn't make it into his previous book about…
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What a way to celebrate Strength Chats 300th episode! To celebrate this landmark achievement, I was joined by the Co-Founders of Domin8 Athlete, having proven track records of lasting and impressive results with their clients and athletes through many years of coaching experience between them. In this week's episode, it was a great pleasure to chat…
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Virtual Memories Show 604: Benjamin Dreyer “When I started the book, what I was doing was trying to replicate everything that I’ve ever read in somebody else’s style manual into my own voice. I realized a) ‘No, you don’t,’ and b) ‘What is your voice anyway?'” Benjamin Dreyer joins the show to talk about the joy of good writing. We talk about his ca…
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Benjamin Dreyer joins the show to talk about the joy of good writing. We talk about his career as managing editor and copy chief of the Random House, his post-retirement perspective on that role, the authors he enjoyed working with, the success of his first book, DREYER'S ENGLISH: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style (Random House), and hi…
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Today on the show, we welcome Daniel Sheehan and Michael Smith to discuss a special gathering happening September 21 and new developments with UFO disclosure. Daniel Sheehan is an acclaimed civil rights attorney at the forefront of the unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) disclosure and transparency advocacy movement. In 2023, Danny founded the N…
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In this week's Strength Chat, I was joined by the Founder and CEO of Proteus Motion, Sam Miller. For most coaches and trainers assessing their athletes and clients is the first part in working together and then finding out how they are progressing. With the introduction of Proteus Motion, this speeds up this process and with a lot more accuracy. In…
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Virtual Memories Show 603: Nicholas Delbanco “More and more I measure success in terms of the distance between intention and execution.” Nicholas Delbanco returns to the show to celebrate his 32nd book and his first true foray into memoir (or ME-moir), STILL LIFE AT EIGHTY (Mandel Vilar Press)! We talk about how the rediscovery of the 40-page histo…
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Nicholas Delbanco returns to the show to celebrate his 32nd book and his first true foray into memoir (or ME-moir), STILL LIFE AT EIGHTY (Mandel Vilar Press)! We talk about how the rediscovery of the 40-page history of art he wrote at eleven years old (!) sparked this project, how he built the book as a mosaic, why he centers it around the homes, t…
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It was an absolute pleasure to be joined in this week's episode by a coach with over 20 years' experience working in the fitness industry, having competed in everything from running to strongman, Dan Reeve. Having been there done it, and to a very good standard I may add in a number of different sports, Dan speaks from experience when it comes to h…
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Today on the show we welcome Genine Coleman! We discuss documenting the Legacy of California Cannabis. Proposition 64, the California cannabis legalization ballot initiative passed in 2016, created cannabis-specific taxes. A portion of these cannabis tax revenues are used to fund cannabis research initiatives through California’s public universitie…
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Virtual Memories Show 602: Dash Shaw “Someone told me that reading this book after COVID felt like being a crowd of people again, and that felt great.” Cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw returns to the show to celebrate his phenomenal new graphic novel, BLURRY (New York Review Comics). We talk about the decompressed mode he brought to this book, the…
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Cartoonist and animator Dash Shaw returns to the show to celebrate his phenomenal new graphic novel, BLURRY (New York Review Comics). We talk about the decompressed mode he brought to this book, the turning points we encounter in the most mundane situations, his focus on the microscopic moments of doubt we have between two very similar things, and …
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Today on The Cannabis Connection Show we welcome Grant Palmer @phenothepuppy CEO of Canna Cruz Dispensaries. @thecannacruzcollective started back in 2008 with locations in Santa Cruz, Watsonville and Salinas. Canna Cruz Salinas @cannacruzsalinas won 1st place Best Dispensary Central California for the 20th Anniversary Emerald Cup @theemeraldcup las…
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Virtual Memories Show 601: Jess Ruliffson “I started talking to some of my friends who were veterans with the idea of ‘what do you do when come home, after you’ve done your job but also been exposed to some weird stuff?'” Comics journalist Jess Ruliffson joins the show to talk about the origins of INVISIBLE WOUNDS (Fantagraphics), her collection of…
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Comics journalist Jess Ruliffson joins the show to talk about the origins of INVISIBLE WOUNDS (Fantagraphics), her collection of stories from veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but we wind up talking about guys' butts, among other things. We get into her focus on male vulnerability, the Tim Hetherington photos that led her to make Invisi…
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Today on The Cannabis Connection, we welcome Joel Perez! Joel is the Lead Extractor at Creme De Canna Extracts. He has worked in the industry for over 15 years. Back in 2013, Joel was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, with stage 4 Lymphoma. After multiple biopsies and surgery, Joel underwent a bone marrow transplant. After a relapse, despite years of …
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For this week's episode it was great to be joined by researcher and a lover of all thing's science, muscles and cooking, Max Coleman. Combining his experience of researching and his science knowledge when it comes to training, as well as training himself and his clients, it was great to speak all things muscle building with Max In this chat, as wel…
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Virtual Memories Show 600: Joe Coleman “I don’t step back that often when I’m in there, because I’m inside this tiny bit of the universe. For me, that’s what living things are: endless world within world within world within world.” For my 600th episode, the great artist Joe Coleman joins the show to celebrate his phenomenal new career-spanning retr…
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For my 600th episode, the great artist Joe Coleman joins the show to celebrate his phenomenal new career-spanning retrospective book, A DOORWAY TO JOE: The Art of Joe Coleman (Fantagraphics). We talk about art, mortality, mythography, history, the corruption of the flesh, the nature of evil, his Odditorium & the power of relics, Dr. Mombooze-o's se…
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Sleepy John Sandidge and Luigi Oppido host Christopher Carr live in the Santa Cruz Voice talk studio. We discuss the local music community, the industry, old smuggling + cultivation stories, Sleepy John's run-in with the law, and the potential for growing our industry as a legitimate and intrinsic part of Santa Cruz in the future.…
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Virtual Memories Show 599: Mirana Comstock “This is the first book in 70 years that can conjure up that era, and there will never ben another book that can, because everyone connected with that era is gone.” This one’s all about legacies: familial, literary, cultural & institutional! Mirana Comstock joins the show to celebrate the publication of Th…
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This one's all about legacies: familial, literary, cultural & institutional! Mirana Comstock joins the show to celebrate the publication of The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with the Legends Who Lunch (Excelsior Editions/SUNY Press), by her grandfather, the late literary lion Konrad Bercovici. We get into how Mirana discovered this manuscript, wh…
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In this week's Strength Chat, I was joined by the Founder and Owner of Battalion Barbell, as well as coaching athletes internationally since 2016, Alex Pearson-Jones. It was great to talk all things strength training and powerlifting with Alex who you can see has a real passion for coaching. As a sport powerlifting is growing year on year, as well …
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Today on The Cannabis Connection Show we welcome Andy Lopez-The Invisible Gardener who shared “Don’t panic it’s organic” with the world. The Invisible Gardener grew up in New York, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Miami Florida, where he learned to use organics from his mother, who naturally grew her fruits and vegetables. In 1972, he founded The Invisible Ga…
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Virtual Memories Show 598: Anita Kunz “It’s a whole different experience from making the paintings to see everything on a wall. That’s the only way to understand where you’ve been and where you’re going.” Artist & illustrator Anita Kunz returns to the show to talk about how art saved her life, as we catch up on her fantastic books, ORIGINAL SISTERS…
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Artist & illustrator Anita Kunz returns to the show to talk about how art saved her life, as we catch up on her fantastic books, ORIGINAL SISTERS and STRIKING A POSE: A Handy Guide to the Male Nude (Pantheon and Fantagraphics, respectively). We talk about Anita's passion for figure drawing, how disconcerted some male viewers were by Striking A Pose…
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It was an absolute pleasure to be joined in this week's Strength Chat with gym owner, strongwoman and Giants Love commentator, Nicola Buchan. For a lot of people, the gym and fitness can be an intimidating and scary thing. With the awesome content and information that Nichola puts out there, it’s all with a positive and empowering message which is …
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Christopher Carr interviewed by Rosemary Chalmers live on Santa Cruz Voice covering major themes from Lookout Santa Cruz's recent article "Cannabis industry's sad state prompts changes across Santa Cruz County" by Christopher Neely. We explore local themes of the need for responsive policy in the county, a prevailing negative social stigma in the C…
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With his amazing new book, FEH: A Memoir (Riverside Books), Shalom Auslander explores how the judgmental disgust of FEH infected his life, and what it meant to get sick & tired of the disgust and outrage FEH-stival and look for a way out. We talk about the sense of shame, disgust and self-loathing at the core of our common story, why every bookstor…
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Welcome Manny Alvarez to the show! We explore regenerative farming, wellness and Manny's experience journeying into the Amazon to heal through ayahuasca ceremony. Manny Alvarez is the highly dedicated and passionate co-founder of Bird Valley Organics, a regenerative farm renowned for its award-winning healing whole plant Full Spectrum Oil (FSO). Ma…
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Artist & illustrator Maurice Vellekoop joins the show to celebrate his amazing new graphic memoir, I'M SO GLAD WE HAD THIS TIME TOGETHER (Pantheon). We talk about the midlife crisis that led to the memoir (and the subsequent crisis that almost made him give up), the joy and pain of putting his life on the page, his process of self-discovery as a ga…
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Today on The Cannabis Connection show we welcome Cody and Elise of SierraKind. SierraKind is a high-quality, ethically crafted mixed-light cannabis farm with a low carbon footprint born out of the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, with a perfect growing climate in a fittingly named town, Grass Valley. We use as many natural and organic…
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In this week's episode I was joined by strength and conditioning coach and Founder of Garage Strength, Dane Miller. Dane puts some awesome content and information out there and it was great to pick his brains on all things strength and power as they play an important role in most, if not all sports. How Dane breaks down what can be a complex and co…
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Historian, professor & author Laura Beers joins the show as we celebrate her important new book, ORWELL'S GHOSTS: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century (Norton). We talk about her course on Orwell and the making of the early twentieth century, how the post-Jan. 6 misuse of "Orwellian" inspired her to write this book, and her own path int…
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Author, publicist and partially involved narrator Robert Pranzatelli joins the show to celebrate his amazing new book, PILOBOLUS: A Story of Dance and Life (University Press of Florida). We talk about the origins of the legendary Pilobolus dance company, his transformational first experience seeing them in 1997, the workshops he took with them and …
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Tom Jenkins author of "The Next Run A UC Berkeley Student's Rise To Major 60s Pot Smuggler". Tom starts by smuggling pot hidden in cars, graduates to planes, resorts to waking sacks through the Rio Grande, and ultimately finds himself heading the Colombian end of an operation with a twin-engine cargo plane dropping bales to waiting speedboats off t…
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With That's Some Business You're In (Zoop), cartoonist-humorist-author Bob Fingerman has created a career retrospective to celebrate (lament?) his 40th year in comics. We got together in LA to talk about that milestone, what it meant to him to bring together decades of his comics, art, and illustration into a single volume, the challenges of writin…
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