PEACE ✌🏽🎭

It's the start of Q2 2021 and the outlook seems to be positive in the city. We've moved into RED TIER in California which means limited indoor experiences NOW ALLOWED 💽 🎛 💽 

We're stoked to share some updates for the Month of April regarding Music Programing, Coffee, New Schedule and of course a little nugget about our PM experience. 

PEACE ✌🏽🎭

We skipped February but it's all good, we're coming at you with some updates on the moves we made last month. Also a quick feature on some of the records we copped this month. 

Enjoy!

We're not here to talk about the first couple weeks of 2021...but rather we're here to drop some news on some of our newest Studio additions as well as up and coming happenings in this months Dossier.

TAP IN

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PRODUCTION:

G. Huerta / @narbig

LONGPLAY STUDIO / @longplay.studio

After wild year, we're ending it with a final word and lots of gratitude. Thanks to all the listeners, guests, family and friends.

See you on the other side.

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PRODUCTION:

G. Huerta / @narbig

LONGPLAY STUDIO / @longplay.studio

After a 5 month hiatus (thanks COVID), we're back with episode 011 of Back of House. This is the first POD we record remotely and we thank our guest  for the patience in coordinating this recording  감사합니다 🙏🏽 For our return episode, we invited Hyunjoo Hwang aka "Joo Joo" to join us via Zoom from NYC to catch up on Culture and see what she's been up to during the lockdown months. Of course, we end the show with some goodies, Joo Joo drops some Korean food gems on us from her last meal with her mom in Seoul. TAP IN 📲

SOBRE MESA:

Gucci Quarantine Campaign

Face Mask Fashion

News from the NYC Underground

Instagram debuts Reels

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GUESTS:

Hyunjoo Hwang / @hyunjoo_hwang

HOST:

G. Huerta / @narbig

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PRODUCTION:

G. Huerta / @narbig

LONGPLAY STUDIO / @longplay.studio

We always look forward to our yearly Seattle trip for many reasons, but topping that list is of course the coffee scene up here. If you love coffee and still haven't visited the mecca of US café culture, we highly recommend it. During last year's trip we stumbled upon (literally) Armistice Coffee in the Eastlake neighborhood, which at the time was still a fairly young shop. The moody vibe automatically lured us in and the cortado was fucking on point, not to mention the distance from our Seattle outpost was 2 blocks therefore it quickly became our SPOT during the 2 séjour. During this time we had the opportunity of meeting Rebecca Smith, the owner of Armistice Coffee, we knew she was somebody we eventually wanted to invite as guest on Back of House. Fast Forward to a year later and Armistice Coffee is well settled into the neighborhood whilst Rebecca is crushing it with new location in the Roosevelt area that's a mix between a coffee shop + cocktail bar (DOPE!); all this in a highly male dominated industry and we have to point out that she chose to do this in the city where she grew up.

SOBRE MESA: 

Baby Yoda news

Zero Waste Instant Coffee

Mandy Moore links w/ LA Coffee Shop

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GUESTS:

Rebecca Smith / @armisticecoffee

HOST:

G. Huerta / @narbig

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MEALS:

Un Bien / Seattle, WA

Grappa / Seattle, WA

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LPs:

Moonlight922 (2020) x Cruz Cafuné

Lover (2019) x Noah Gundersen

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SHOUT OUTS:

Armistice Coffee / @armisticecoffee

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PRODUCTION:

G. Huerta / @narbig

Victor Carrillo / @victorrenecarrillo

Daniel Ruíz / @dan_yull_son

LONGPLAY STUDIO / @longplay.studio

It's great to see both San Diego locals and transplants come together to create a Tour de Force in our our City and to do it with such genuine passion and a humble approach that raised the bar for what community building should stand for. Where to begin with this trio is super hard because they are literally doing loads of cool shit non-stop. We managed to get them on the pod and not only that we had a surprise guest that we had to mic up (Gracias Chef!). On episode 009 of Back of House we sit down with Jam Zumel, Erwin Hines and Chef Philip Esteban on an episode that was so much fun to record, we hope to enjoy listening as much as we did recording.

Sobre Mesa: SUPREME Oreo Cookie hype, Hockey news from the 6 and Travis Scott's new Nike SB Dunk 

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GUESTS:

Jam Zumel / @jamuelle.z 

Erwin Hines / @erwin_hines 

Chef Philip Esteban / @phillipesteban

HOST:

G. Huerta / @narbig 

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MEALS:

Birrería 664 / San Diego, CA

Fernandez Restaurant / 

Super Sergios / National City, CA

Yakitori Yakyudori / San Diego, CA

Cleveland Soul Food / Cleveland, OH

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LPs

Ugh, those feels again (2019) x Snoh Aalegra

Awaken, My Love! (2016) x Childish Gambino

Texas Sun (2020) x Khruangbin + Leon Bridges

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik (1994) x OutKast

Maggot Brain (1972) x Funkadelic

We're New Here (2011) x Gil Scott-Heron + Jamie xx

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SHOUT OUTS:

BASIC Agency / @basicagency

WellFed / @experiencewellfed

CRAFTED / @experiencecrafted

wordsmith / @wordsmithbookstore

OpenGym / @opengym

Arts + Rec / @artsandrecstore

Overload / @shopoverload

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PRODUCTION:

G. Huerta / @narbig 

Daniel Ruíz / @dan_yull_son 

LONGPLAY STUDIO / @longplay.studio

The Future's Past due that is Alyssa Mopia + Adrian Gutierrez (aka Fides Rex), are never not on the go. Last year had some setbacks but it seems that recent moves and the constant drive to keep learning and growing has Alyssa and Adrian en route to soon pulling up to HQ in that 911. We also need to mention that both are producing some dope content (shout out Motivation Mondays and Coffee + Convos Pod) which we recommend you peep out. We crack open some Topos to catch up on culture, moves and of course music and food.

Sobre Mesa: Aimé Leon Dore collabs w/ Porsche, How to ship back a Mattress and Space X enters tourism

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GUESTS:

Alyssa Mopia (@alyssamopia) + Adrian Gutierrez (@fides_rex) / @futurespast.co / Future's Past

HOST:

G. Huerta / @narbig / LONGPLAY Studio

PRODUCTION:

Daniel Ruíz / @dan_yull_son / LONGPLAY Studio

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SHOUT OUTS:

Victor Carillo / @sandiegomacrepair (San Diego) / Thanks for the Pint + Camera work

Topo Chico / @topochicousa

Zinqué Café / @zinque (San Diego)

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LPs

The Slow Rush (2020) x Tame Impala

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PRODUCED BY

LONGPLAY STUDIO

We met Natalie and Andrew back in 2015 when they were guiding curious Angelinos down to Tijuana and Valle de Guadalupe for Day Trips centered around food, culture and of course a little vino + mezcal. They were calling themselves "Coast to Costa" and at the time were exclusive to only bi-national trips between California + Baja. Fast forward 5 years and the Highland Park (Los Angeles) based couple have now both left their day jobs to go 100% on the dream of building one of the most experiential travel companies around. We sit down for a little Sobre Mesa and get Debriefed about what's in store for the homies in 2020 from trips to Cuba, Peru to new itineraries dropping soon. 

Sobre Mesa: Billie Eilish drops new BOND film theme song, Uber goes old school, and Bloomberg hires Jerry Media to make him cool...

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GUESTS:

Natalie + Andrew / @coasttocosta / Coast to Costa

HOSTS:

G. Huerta / @narbig / LONGPLAY Studio

PRODUCTION:

Brando / @brandolikemarlon / LONGPLAY Studio

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SHOUT OUTS:

Antoinette V. Cardenas / @social_._experiment (Los Angeles)

La Azteca Tortilleria / Yelp (Los Angeles)

LIVE NOODZ x Chinese Laundry / @chinselaundryinla (Los Angeles)

Tacos Hipódromo / Facebook (Tijuana)

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LPs

Bona Drag (1990) x Morrissey

The Roots of Chicha 2 (2010) x Various Artists

Animals (1977) x Pink Floyd

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PRODUCED BY

LONGPLAY STUDIO