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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 f*g 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!

https://writebloody.com/products/good-girl-and-other-yearnings-by-isabelle-correa 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! Catch Jada on Instagram at

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?

Blurbo is a Maine raised pirate who’s purpose is to spread whimsy and wealth, often times via hidden treasure. Discussed this week: Pirate voice, chewwy Chips Ahoy, Burger King. Soupy, being flashy, color pops, Hand Crumble, Peeps swordfighting to the death, America's Funniest Home Videos, Ska, minty fresh bongs, scratch pads, hiding weed, mozzarella sticks, Vegas weed, flight of weed, and more!

Stephanie is a NH Native who currently lives in Maine working in the Cannabis industry. She has been foraging mushrooms since 2008 and loves to share her love and passion for fungi with fellow mushroom enthusiasts. Discusses this week: North Spore, 286 grams of Lion's Mane from two flushes, Fantastic Forage, being New Hampshire natives, photographing a good year for mushrooms, foraging since 2008, college clubs, West Coast mushroom culture, the ninth year hosting fantastic forage the last weekend in September, cookie dough cookies, eating sunflowers, perfect circles, wood loving fungi, grow blocks, shitalkie, mushrooms cultivating mold, Lion's Mane, Bear's Head, toothed mushrooms, decomposers, beech trees, honey mushrooms, yellowing, 70 to 80% humidity, shelf life, paper bags, mycology, destroying angel, mushrooms sweating, button mushrooms loving dirt, Matterhorn Apothecary, Maine Women's Connection, Ghost Pipes as a plant without chlorophyll, toxic mushrooms, mushroom forest preferences, hen of the woods, oak trees, nor cross breeding mushrooms, cow patties as psilocybin clubs, manure as substrate, mushroom tinctures, insect activity and more! @fantasticforage on Instagram Www.fantasticforage.com Join us for our 10 year anniversary next year Save the date, Sept 27th and 28th 2025!

"The Maine Women's (neé Cannabis) Connection is a dynamic collective based in Maine with a steadfast commitment to fostering the growth and success of female entrepreneurs while uplifting minorities within our community. Our primary focus is on community building and the celebration of local achievements. Recognizing the substantial contributions of women in business, we aim to amplify their hard work and dedication by providing a platform that highlights their accomplishments. Through a supportive network, we strive to create an inclusive space where everyone, regardless of background, can thrive and be acknowledged for their valuable contributions. In line with our dedication to community empowerment, we have established a meaningful initiative to give back. We are proud to introduce a grant specifically designed for women in business, with the intention of fostering community development. A portion of our event profits, 7%, will be allocated to this grant, ensuring that aspiring entrepreneurs have the financial support needed to pursue their goals. Additionally, we will dedicate 3% of the profits to community awards, recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievements within our local neighborhoods. Through these endeavors, we aim to create a positive impact, empowering individuals and contributing to the collective prosperity of our community." Haley Knaub and Hallie Mitchell are entrepreneurs from Portland, Maine. Together, they founded the Maine Women’s Connection, a nonprofit dedicated to empowering women and underrepresented groups through support, networking, and community-building initiatives. Games played this week: License Platitudes, Town in Maine or Located Elsewhere, What Weed Where, Vacation Rental or Weed Strain, Weed Family Trees, and Hello, I'd Like an Eigth of Blank, Please.

Allie lives in the Portland area working behind the scenes as a stagehand to put on all of your favorite live shows. Her favorite hobbies include making her friends and family beg her to leave the beach because she's hyper-fixated on sea glass hunting, dressing up for themed dance nights around Portland in which she always prefers to close a place down, napping at the air conditioned library while her children pile books on her, and collecting captivating conversations with fellow humans. Discussed this week: doing weed illicitly, being an uncool weed-doer, Billy's Chowder House in Wells and it's filthy, filthy parking lot, Bird's Eye frozen fried veggies, uni, ISF trading in Portland near Becky's, mommy's nighttime medicine, matte black, pineapple weed, Paul's Boutique, s****y dirt plants that save the world,, yolk energy, getting slipped weed chocolate bars by our mom, taking edibles and wrapping presents, Housu, One Cut of The Dead, Big Brain thoughts, Catholic aftershocks and Christian earthquakes, and more!

M.J. is a British born cosplayer that enjoys chatting and meeting people. She enjoys sampling different strains of weed,as well as come up with stoner snacks and THC infused dishes. She looks forward to attending new conventions and sharing new recipes and ideas. Discussed this week: being a friendly neighborhood cheery goth, cosplay, Green Smoke, papers, Spencer's Gifts, the Maine Mall, shouting out to John who makes edibles, Baltimore, Steven Universe, popcorn and waffles, stoned sweet teeth, club crackers, cream cheese, fruit spreat, balogna and nilla wafers, cold sesame noodles, buttered radishes capers, growing meat in the Arby's vat, fusion cusisine, pineapple fried rice, England, Arizona, 420 cleaner, ice water hoookah, impossible burger smokehouse biscut, and more! Find MJ on Instagram @thecheerygoth