Sara Caplan (she/her) is a trans woman, comedian, and philosophy student based in Los Angeles, CA. She is a member of the improv teams QT’s (UCB’s first all-trans-GNC-nonbinary improv team) and Chill Touch. You can check out her thoughts on transness, philosophy, and whatever else is happening on her instagram @sararosecaplan

Discussed This week: being trans improvisors, Dandelions, Ginger Bug, eating garbage for the nostaligaic comfort, room temp cans of spaghetti with utensils, NYC friends, long form and short form improv, discovery through games and play in a scene, Los Angeles, Polysemy, Ruderal, Groom of the Stool, the mark of a criminal, edible dandelion greens from an Asian grocery store, dandelion chips, weeds as medicines and a diuretic, the malleability of definitions, kufresh, the Hebrew Alphabet, being named after a horse, eastheitic flexibility, no one taught you the definition of the word chair, the Trechery of Images, words that leave you speachless, Denotation vs. Connotation, South Park fag episode, why a question has rhetorical impact, propaganda, categories being messy, and more!

Russell F. is a Canadian-American currently living in Portland Maine. A voracious hobby collector, he can be found climbing the buildings of the city, sparring with longswords, or being far to dramatic in a roleplaying game.

Discussed this week: globetrotting, Canada, Mexico, London and the US, superior English chocolate, the persistence of boiled eggs, Mom's room temp cookie eggs, hassleback potatoes, Kanopy streaming service, bodybuilders eating eggshells intentionally, umeboshi plum rice meal with avocado and sesame seeds, chocolate, Hot Dog Soup, snow caps and popcorn, classic popped corn, Scrapetown, sushi as a movie snack in a deli bag, stunt mic, Nicholas Reno, hot vs cold bong water, Cough Drop, your introduction to weed having a standardizing effect on the body, grav bongs, bodily expectations, shit talking edibles, DARE, weed going from subtle plug to sweet hug, being excellent to each other, and more!

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Isabelle Correa is a poet from Washington state living in Mexico City with her partner and their three dogs. She studied creative writing at Western Washington University, is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and is the author of the chapbook Sex is From Mars But I Love You From Venus. She is the winner of the 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize with Write Bloody Publishing for her debut full-length collection, Good Girl and Other Yearnings, which you can pre-order now. Her work has appeared in Hobart, Pank, The Rebis, and more. Find her on Instagram: @isabellecorreawrites and on Substack: A Poem Is A Place.

Discussed this week: creative writing for fiction and literary magazines, Good Girl and Other Yearnings, the Excel poem, Sex is From Mars But I Love You From Venus, having 12 siblings, older sisters, TBLTs, Chapbook, Washington State, Western Washington, living in Mexico for 3 years and Vietnam for 6 before that, the ease of access of Mexican mushrooms and other drugs, Bruce Beasley, Dianne Seuss poet, slam poetry the class, 1960s lit, Buddy Wakefield, AWP conference, Taylor Mali, Button Poetry, Frank O'Hara, Kim Addonzio, Ocean Vuong, the importance of PREORDERS BEFORE APRIL 18TH, desire, poems into songs, pronouncing silences, writing poems on company time, loathing your salaried job, the Jack McCarthy award, the evolution of books, Shel Siverstein, ruderal species, Isabelle's news letter and Substack, and more!

Matt Shore enjoys turning the mundane things in life into hilarious, high-energy pop bangers. With topics ranging from dealing with anxiety, trying to pay student loans, protecting yourself from Boston’s wild turkeys, and more, he’s got the song you didn’t know you needed. Matt’s setup includes a keyboard, laptop, loop station, guitar, and with his trusty ironing board as a table for it all, he can make any venue feel like your parents’ basement.

Discussed this week: being musical comedians and comical musicians, Pop Corners, Cottage Cheese and Grapes, imbibing infrequently, starting acoustic guitar in second grade, abstinence only tape metaphor, a gummy, Keif soda, Matt's height necessitating an ironing board as a stand, Mike Burbiglia, Tig Notaro, 300+ people at open mic night, liking your work, a guy at CVS with a bluetooth headset, diverse ages at shows, Costco, keyboard, drums, bass, Cheech Marin- school bus driver, Blue in Portland ME, Portsmouth NH, taking audience suggestions, and more!

IG and TikTok : @mattshore__

YouTube: https://youtube.com/@mattshore_?si=WUL23cxFBfShDviD

Website:https://www.mattshorecomedy.com

These joints were an absolute blessing btw

Katy Christie is the Director of Sales and Marketing for Chill Karen Wellness medical cannabis grow and the Owner and Founder of mov(e)volve: yoga, movement, and well-being! She has a Master’s Degree in Biotechnology, is a certified personal trainer, yoga instructor, health coach and has over 20 years of dance and fitness teaching experience. She is also a burlesque performer in her “free time.” Katy is passionate about all things well-being related, including the cannabis that she sells to all of their Maine-based patients.

Nathaniel Butler is a talented software engineer and the Founder, Owner, and Head Cultivator for Chill Karen Wellness medical cannabis grow. Nathaniel has been growing clean, pesticide, herbicide, fungicide, spray-of-any-kind free cannabis for over ten years. He began growing for himself as a patient so that he was sure of what was going into his body and then branched out and created Chill Karen in 2023. Nathaniel is passionate about bringing the cleanest conceivable cannabis to as many people as possible throughout Maine who may need it.

Discussed this week: saltines, Pop Corners, Kettle Chips, cheddar, Swiss, honeyed goat cheese, hairy nugs, Illinois pot heads, lids as ashtrays, the Jpint Humidor, bad pot, freshman year of college burn runs, weed and PCOP, watch glass, and more!

Links:

https://chillkaren.com/

https://www.etsy.com/shop/chillkarenprints

https://movevolve.com/

Where to find Chill Karen Products:

Directly Through Katy (with Med Card) - [email protected]

Maine Only Bridgton - https://www.maineonlybridgton.com/

Local Leaf - https://localleafme.com/

Valley Purveyors - https://www.valleypurveyors.com/

Sticky Bud Farms - https://stickybudfarms.com/

Paul is a glass enthusiast, event coordinator & owner of BongBoysLLC !

Discussed this week: Indomie ramenegg, brix, glass enthusiams, glass pendants, borasillicate, Boy Boys, heady glass, 1g snaps, Zero Grav, Hash Bash, sounding like Elliot Kalan, Mille Fois, Heady, Digimon 2000, Sable Haze, disc golf, and more!

You can find info on Paul & the BongBoys on www.BongBoys.Org

Jada is an artist, poet, and hair dresser that enjoys making people look pretty and smoking Indica after work.

Discussed this week: A dropped pitcher, strawberries and honey and cinnamon, Mom's Chilli, Fried, haircare, the importance of regular trims, Schrodinger's hair, adjusting your style, the dangers of a Gravity Bong, weed trades, humans as a canvas, Salon Synergy, being a Beiber fan, Aunt's car smell, magnifried, crystal wand poem, being sex positive, and more!

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A scrum master by day, Chris enjoys the higher things in life when he isn’t working. His favorite strain is peanut butter breath, and his favorite edible is nerd ropes. Chris loves to smoke and have a good time with friends.

Discussed this week: being a garage smoker with Swifty sensibilities, nerds rope, cran-brulee, Lunch Box, Taylor Swift, listening to Midnights with your little cousin, chips, salsa, and popcorn, snacktivities, Scrum Master, novelty vs tools, DC weed, lobbiests, rolling joints, art existing through music, and more!

Find Chris on Instagram @chris_no_1_liked_my_old_name

Finn (Jack for this episode) is a creative Maine island recluse, improvizer, occultist, digital artist and strange community organizer for “all the other lost & lonely lover-dreamers wandering the desert of the real on the dark night if the soul…or something like that”. They run interactive community building games locally & online as @7strange7loop7labyrinth on instagram.

Their current work is a weird multiproject artistic sigil “to contain Captain Capitalism”, a thoughtform they unleashed. Finn is a rambling scrambling community organizer, and a proudly hopeless failure. They survived the dashed dreams of a failed startup company, but claim to have lost their mind and soul to the occult after a series of unfortunate events involving “too many ethenogens for healing”; they also teach improv to children.

Discussed this week: Fractals, Domino’s, harm reduction, trip sitting the cooldown tent, sushi, frozen crappie, Peak’s Island, Little Debbie Fancy Cakes, bad food, GERD, rhizomes, Kevin Smith movies, Rosario Dawson, body dysmorphia, ARG’s, superheroes as mythology, magik, the Adventure Zone novels, escape rooms, isolated folks, symbolism, Three of Cups, the Empress, and Fortune, the polarity of fortune, and more!

My brother is the talented editor for this show and the engine behind this episode. Could Paul Blart, noted incompetent white man, survive Freddy Fazbear's various pizza parlors?