Light Culture

Light Culture

By David HershkovitsSociety & CultureBusinessArts
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Light Culture episodes

  • Joe “AJ Sour Diesel” Murray Comes Out
    He’s quick to give credit to others, but when it comes to his role in introducing "kind weed" into the marketplace Joe Murray aka AJ Sour Diesel, is second to none. A contemporary of Chem Dog, Weasel and The Albany Gang, he was one of those kids in the 90s, barely out of high school on a mission to find the best weed in the city. Dead Heads and Wetlands, a downtown club where jam bands played and the best weed was brought to market, figures in this story as does genetics, seeds and the persistent search for the best weed that money can buy. Under the radar for years, AJ wants to keep the record straight on cannabis culture and how we got here.

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    40 min
  • Steve Olson, Skateboarding Hall of Famer
    Steve Olson is still skating after all these years. Jock, artist, raconteur, world traveler, Skateboard Hall of Famer, Olsen has many hats to wear and stories to tell. The dad of Nike skateboarder Alex, he can bask in his son’s achievement and his own legacy in a sport that’s going to the Olympics for the first time in 2020. We talk about the history of skateboarding, how he survived its ups and downs, his emergence as an artist as well as his little known attempt to make it in the financial world selling futures.

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    54 min
  • Celebstoner Steve Bloom
    Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, Woody Harrerlson, Willie Nelson are just some of the famous stoners Steve Bloom has smoked with. As High Times editor and founder of Celebstoner.com, he’s chronicled the overlapping worlds of cannabis and entertainment. Celebs were once reluctant to be photographed holding weed, but they all jumped on the proverbial band wagon once Cypress Hill kicked it off as the first major act to appear on the cover of High Times. Bloom remains active on the scene, still writing about music, following his favorite jam band, still recognized as the High Times guy happy to share his favorite strains with the band. 

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    51 min
  • Lizzie Post’s Guide to Canna-Etiquette
    A daily smoker and the great great grandaughter of the etiquette guru Emily Post, Lizzie Post is the perfect person to write a book for our cannabis culture today. “Higher Etiquette" looks at the changing world created by the growing acceptance of the plant as part of daily life. We discuss the etiquette of entertaining at home when some guests smoke and others don’t. How do you handle a pushy person who calls you out for smoking pot. Should your medical marijuana needs be kept to yourself? What about play dates and parents who disapprove of your smoking? And what would Larry David do at a pot party?

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    46 min
  • Stand-Up Photographer Rickey “The Rickster” Powell

    Ricky Powell has had a checkered career running the gamut from pot delivery boy to froze aid vendor to access cable celebrity but most of all for being one of the coolest street photographers on the planet. As a stand-up comedian/photographer, he leaves audiences in stitches with the comments he makes about Run-DMC and other greats he shot and befriended. Here he talks about selling weed to Method Man, appearing in the Beastie "You’ve Got to Fight for Your Right to Party” video and what it means to be a Lazy Hustler.



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    48 min
  • Supreme (Cannabis) Leader John Fowler
    When the time came to extending his cannabis company outside the U.S., why did Wiz Khalifa choose to work with Canada’s Supreme Cannabis? Meet John Fowler and you’ll understand. From getting the door slammed in his face when he was looking for financing a few years ago to his status today as a go to expert on all things cannabis, he’s come a long way. Though an advocate for the industry, he’s free-thinking enough to admit that most legal weed is not as good as the underground. He thinks the sneaker drop marketing strategy makes sense for Cannabis too. We talk about all this. And more.

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    44 min
  • Punk Godfather Danny Fields
    Because he signed the Stooges, managed the Ramones and introduced punk rock to Britain, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Rock is dedicated to Danny Fields. We talk about the wild days of New York when weed was everywhere and Danny was a confidante of all the young dudes from Lou to Iggy to Joey and Nico. His stories are so great they made a documentary about him called Danny Says.

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    45 min
  • Shepard Fairey on Art & Activism
    On the occasion of "Facing the Giant: 3 Decades of Dissent" I talked to my old friend Shepard Fairey in front of a live audience New York where he's working on a mural of Rosario Dawson, days before leaving to paint his largest wall ever, a 20-story piece in Vancouver, Canada. We talk politics, skateboarding, punk rock and much more. 

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Cannabis Now Magazine’s Main Man

    I don’t use the word “visionary” loosely. But I do feel comfortable using it to describe Eugenio Garcia, the founder and CEO of Cannabis Now, the nation’s #1 Cannabis News magazine. As the industry goes from small to mega, Eugenio has kept pace with the changing times, extending his reach from print into digital and now into a chain of brick and mortar “retail expressions” called the Cannabis Now Wellness Experience. “This industry,” he advises, “is full of loan sharks, shady deals and people taking advantage of other people.” We talk about media and how it feels to work in cannabis where “the truth is changing every day."




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    50 min
  • The Making of a Cultural Entrepreneur — Meet GMan

    As Vancouver sits poised to make its claim to being one of the world’s great cities, its thriving cannabis culture and creative class is popping in all the right places. My guest GMan was there from the beginning, making his passion for skateboarding, streetwear, music and the arts the central pillar of a brand strategy that has made him one of the city’s greatest tastemakers and most successful entrepreneurs. 



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    48 min

About Light Culture

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Hi, my name is David Hershkovits. As a founder of Paper magazine, I have been a long-time supporter of cultural disruptors from the alternative worlds of skate, hip hop, graffiti and streetwear scenes…