Podcast appearances and mentions of noe valley

“An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special,” said San Francisco artist Ruth Asawa. From her studio in her home in Noe Valley, Asawa created crocheted wire sculptures whose shadows are just as evocative as the art itself. But as the mother of six, Asawa was also passionate about arts education and teaching. As a new retrospective of her work and life opens at SF MOMA, we talk about Asawa's legacy as an artist, teacher, and community member as part of our Bay Area Legends series. Guests: Janet Bishop, Thomas Weisel Family chief curator, SFMOMA; She co-curated the exhibition Ruth Asawa: Retrospective Terry Kochanski, executive director, SCRAP - a nonprofit education and creative reuse center based in the Bayview and founded in 1976 Andrea Jepson, close friend of Ruth Asawa; Jepson served as the model for the fountain "Andrea" in Ghiradelli Square, and also worked with Asawa on her public school education projects Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Klaudia Farkas is a Romani woman, Certified Nurse Assistant (CNA) since 2010, a self-taught herbalist since 2014, and an esthetician since 2020. She is the founder and owner of Romani Roots and Romani Roots Skincare and Herbal Remedies, based in the heart of Noe Valley, San Francisco. With a passion for holistic wellness, Klaudia blends her extensive knowledge in healthcare, natural remedies, and skincare to empower others on their journey to health and self-care.Visit her website https://romani-roots-skincare.chrone.work/ and follow her at @romaniroots on Instagram. Romani crushes this episode are Meghan Ores of Luludi and Jennileen Joseph of Sastimos Holistic Health (listen to our interviews with both of them!)Also shoutout to ally and poet Liv Mammone who writes powerful poetry about disability, werewolves, and more.Thank you for listening to Romanistan podcast.You can find us on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook @romanistanpodcast, and on Twitter @romanistanpod. To support us, Join our Patreon for extra content or donate to Ko-fi.com/romanistan, and please rate, review, and subscribe. It helps us so much. Follow Jez on Instagram @jezmina.vonthiele & Paulina @romaniholistic. You can get our book Secrets of Romani Fortune Telling, online or wherever books are sold. Visit romanistanpodcast.com for events, educational resources, merch, and more. Please support our book tour fundraiser if you can. Email us at romanistanpodcast@gmail.com for inquiries. Romanistan is hosted by Jezmina Von Thiele and Paulina StevensConceived of by Paulina StevensEdited by Viktor PachasWith Music by Viktor PachasAnd Artwork by Elijah Vardo

Nato Green started hanging out at San Francisco comedy clubs when he was in eighth grade. Nato's parents met when they both still lived in the suburbs of Chicago. They got married in 1968 and moved to San Francisco soon after that. Nato says that they “were in the counter-culture, but bad at it.” What he means by that is they didn't take their subversive lifestyles all the way like many of their peers did. But they were definitely left-leaning folks. They settled in Noe Valley, which was quite a different neighborhood back then. It was much more working-class than it is today. Think: blue-collar Irish- and Italian-American families. They had their first kid, Nato, and five years later, their second, his younger brother. When Nato was in middle school, his parents split up. He went with his dad to live at 22nd Street and Dolores, and then up to Bernal Hill. He split time between there and his mom's house in Noe Valley. Nato is quick to point out that Bernal Heights was also very different back then. There were even unpaved roads on the hill when he was a kid in the Seventies. Today, Nato uses history and some pop-culture references to date his own memories here in San Francisco. He remembers things like the Mosone/Milk murders and ensuing “White Night” riots, to name just one. The Forty-Niners' string of Super Bowl wins in the Eighties are another. Nato admits that he wasn't the best big brother. He lists off some of the SF schools he attended—Rooftop Elementary, MLK Middle School, and Lick-Wilmerding High School, where he went on a scholarship. His dad worked to the SFUSD for 35 years and worked on desegregation, among other things. He also taught in SF public schools. Nato says he was a “sensitive, depressed kid.” He read a lot, especially comic books. He graduated from high school in 1993, when the local music scene was overtaken by thrash/funk. Bands of that genre were plenty. Nato went to those shows, where he was able to, anyway. He wasn't yet 21. The first indie comic book store in The City was on 23rd Street in the Mission—The SF Comic Company, and two doors down was Scott's Comics and Cards. Nato became a Scott's regular. Others who hung out there a lot became his buddies. The SF band Limbomaniacs lived next to Scott's. Nato goes on a sidebar here about how bands in the thrash/funk scene never really blew up, mostly owing to what a uniquely live experience the music was. In 1990, when the Niners won the Super Bowl in a blowout, the Limbomanics played with guitar amps at the windows of their Victorian on 23rd Street, facing out. As Nato tells it, skater kids poured out of that house, and other neighborhood kids flocked to the scene. A mosh pit soon emerged, of course, on the asphalt. Nato goes on another quick sidebar here about all the different neighborhoods and scenes interacting on a regular basis. At least when he grew up, they did. Nato's main modes of transportation in San Francisco were his feet and Muni. The main bus lines were the 24, the 49, and the 67. His high school was on Ocean Avenue, but he mostly hung out in the Mission. One of his good friends lived in Lower Haight and had a car, so Nato would sometimes take Muni over there. That buddy with a car would also swing by and pick up Nato and his friends. They'd often go to the west side of town and hang out in coffeeshops. Nato rattles off several of those shops, also letting us what occupies those spaces today—Farley's (still there), Higher Grounds in Glen Park (still there), Higher Grounds in The Mission (closed), Café Macondo (Gestalt today), Blue Danube (still there), and the Horse Shoe (empty today). There's another sidebar about Jello Biafra. Nato says, “Don't meet your heroes.” As mentioned up top, he started hanging out at comedy clubs in The City when he was in eighth grade. There was a show on KQED called Comedy Tonight that featured local comics. Originally, the show was shot at Wolfgang's (now Cobb's), but it later moved to Great American Music Hall. Alex Bennet was on Live 105 in the morning and Comedy in the Park was drawing 50,000 people to the Polo Fields. There were five seven-nights-a-week clubs in SF, and at least five more around the Bay. People made a living as regional headliners. Around this time, Nato's eighth grade science teacher's roommate was the doorman at Cobb's. Word got around to that guy that a kid was into comedy, and so he started taking him to that club. He saw comedians such as Greg Proops, Dana Gould, Paula Poundstone, Mark Pitta, Johnny Steele, Will Durst, Greg Behrendt, and Margaret Cho. He watched these folks, some of them anyway, become headliners. Check back next week for Part 2 and the conclusion of our episode on Nato Green. We recorded this episode at Nato's home on Bernal Hill in January 2025. Photography by Nate Oliveira

I'm super-stoked to do a podcast all about The Stud and folks from the collective who run the place!   In Part 1, we start with Marke B. Many longtime listeners will remember Marke from his Season 3 Storied episode. In this go-round, we get a condensed version of his life story and how he made his way to San Francisco.   In his hometown of Detroit, Marke threw raves and made enough money on that to put himself through college. Sometime in those four years of school, he realized that his dream of writing for a local newspaper or weekly was damn near impossible. Also, it was the height of AIDS and Detroit didn't have much of an infrastructure around that.   His best friend bought two train tickets and told Marke, "Pack your bags, we're leaving for San Francisco tomorrow." That didn't sit well with Marke at the time. He wasn't crazy about SF back then—he hated hippies, hated the Beats. He had visited with his family at 14, when he tried to run away from his parents and take a cable car to the Castro. That, of course, didn't work out so well (try the F-Market trains, kid).   Despite his dislike of The City, his desire to get out of Detroit got him on that train. Two-and-a-half days and a couple bags of potato chips later, Marke arrived. It was the day after Pride 1994, and he's been here ever since.   He saw a gay scene that was too white and mainstreamy. But he found his people—other people of color, into alternative music—at The End Up. His first time at The Stud was on a Monday hip-hop night. Immediately, he felt he had truly arrived.   Years later, in 2016, Rachel Ryan and another co-op member asked Marke and his husband, David, to join their collective. They've both been members since then.   Then we turn to Rachel Ryan. Rachel grew up in The City, Noe Valley specifically. Her parents put her in Live Oak School, back when it was located in the Castro. That experience helped to shape Rachel—her kindergarten teacher was young and gay and had bleach-blonde hair. He was an early role model for her.   Her liberal family moved to Marin for that oh-so familiar reason: San Francisco became too expensive for them. But her dad's work was headquartered near The Eagle in South of Market, and Rachel spent some time with him in that area when she was young.   She thinks back on her time in Marin fondly, from the access to nature to the freedoms her parents were able to grant her. But at the same time, her parents were protective of their daughter—she was free as long as she was with her older brother.   Rachel got into swing dancing at a young age. She'd come to The City to go to swing clubs in the Nineties. But once her older brother and his friend graduated high school and went to college, that ended.   College for her meant UC Santa Cruz. And after graduating there, she moved back to San Francisco right away. Today, she lives really close to where she grew up.   Growing up, Rachel carried bisexual shame. She felt at times that she wasn't gay enough, but also found herself immersed in queer culture through friends. Then, in 2009, a trip to The Stud changed everything. "These are my people," she thought.   Years later, Rachel and her people started noticing the closure of more and more queer bars and spaces around The City. Their friends were getting priced out of San Francisco more and more frequently, and they were fed up. The previous owner of The Stud, Michael McElheney, announced that he wanted to retire and sell the bar, and Rachel, Nate Albee, and some other of those friends seized the opportunity. The newly formed Stud Collective took over in 2016.   Next up is Honey Mahogany. Honey's parents fled Ethiopia for San Francisco as refugees. She grew up in the Outer Sunset just off Taraval in the Eighties and Nineties. Her parents put her through Catholic school for K–12. It was a rather sheltered, quiet childhood, one where she could walk to aunts' and uncles' houses in the same neighborhood.   For college, Honey moved to Los Angeles to attend USC. She came out down there around this time, and became, in her words, "super queer." She started doing drag in LA, in fact. She found her true self in those experiences and being away from home, where she was able to establish her identity apart from her family.   But her family still didn't know about her queerness. One of her cousins outed her to her fairly conservative, Catholic parents, who reacted negatively. After she graduated college, they sent her to Ethiopia to "get away from negative influences." While in Africa, she interned for the UN. "I've always been involved in social justice," she says, and the UN was a natural fit ... or so she imagined. And so Honey came back to The Bay to study social work at UC Berkeley.   Her dad became ill around this time, and so the move back doubled as a chance to help take care of him. She found social justice work in Contra Costa County, got a spot on Ru Paul's Drag Race, and joined the newly formed Stud Collective.   The Stud was near where Honey worked in the late 2000s. A friendly bartender endeared her and a drag queen named Virginia Suicide hypnotized her. She was hooked.   Please check back next week for Part 2 of my episode on The Stud.   We recorded this episode at The Stud in South of Market in June 2024.   Photography by Jeff Hunt

Greg Faulkner joins the podcast to discuss their approach to incorporating existing elements into design. Greg Faulkner formed Faulkner Architects in 1998 to pursue the making of highly crafted, site sensitive places. With a strong commitment to the quality of every project, Faulkner's portfolio is an extensive collection of innovative and environmentally sensitive homes. This podcast explores the path Faulkner takes to be sensitive to client concerns while also incorporating the dreams and goals of the client. Respect and reputation allow Faulkner to enjoy repeat projects for clients that make up a third of the work. Evolution of the design through construction is an integral part of the process. From Ottawa to Noe Valley, Faulkner's work speaks for itself. Learning Objectives:Describe the overall philosophy that Faulkner follows to incorporate design with existing elements.Explain the how building with fireproof and fire-resistant materials is part Faulkner's “common sense” approach to resilient design.Discuss the project goals and challenges associated with achieving Net Zero Energy status of the Miner Road Project.List the challenges associated with the design and construction of Net Zero Energy homes, and how Faulkner successfully completed the Miner Road Project. Credits: 0.5 AIA LU/HSWSpeaker: Aaron Prinz

In this episode, I chat with Celia Sack, founder and owner of Omnivore Books about cookbooks, cooking disasters and achievements, her favorite cookbooks, and the growing geographical scope of cookbooks. Located in an old butcher shop in Noe Valley, Omnivore Books is a cherished epicurean hub blending a passion for food and the pleasures of reading. As the Bay Area's only culinary bookshop, Omnivore Books specializes in new and vintage books on food and drink. They are open daily and staffed by passionate cookbook lovers who will happily guide you to the perfect book. When Celia Sack's fascination for the culinary universe first bloomed, it was hardly imaginable that her path would weave through the nuanced worlds of rare golf books straight into the heart of Omnivore Books. Cookbooks, she reveals, are conduits of solidarity and understanding, opening palates and minds alike to the diverse tapestry of global heritage. The physicality of leafing through a cookbook receives its due reverence too; it's likened to the full-bodied experience of listening to an entire music album, where each recipe is a track in the soundtrack of our culinary landscape.Enjoy!MandyOmnivore BooksThe Zuni Café Cookbook, Judy RogersCookbooks by Alison RomanAbsolution, Alice McDermottCannery Row, John SteinbeckNorth Woods, Daniel MasonTwain's Feast: Searching for America's Lost Foods in the Footsteps of Samuel Clemens: Andrew BeahrsPraisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks, Crystal Wilkinson A Fortunate Life, A.B. FaceySmall Victories: Recipes, Advice + Hundreds of Ideas for Home Cooking Triumphs, Julia Turshen 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement,  Jane ZieglemanSupport the showThe Bookshop PodcastMandy Jackson-BeverlySocial Media Links

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Il s'agit d'une VISUALISATION GUIDÉE axée sur le thème de la patience, se déroulant à San Francisco dans le quarter de Noe Valley.Les enfants sont guidés vers un moment de détente, que ce soit en classe ou à la maison, où ils se concentrent sur leur respiration tout en écoutant une activité audio pour un moment calme.Ils s'embarquent pour un voyage et découvrent certaines caractéristiques uniques de cet endroit. Merci à Judith et Suzanne, des abonnés à Noe Valley, pour cette inspiration!La pratique de respiration de ce mois est la respiration du coeur diamant.Intro/Outro music by Jef ShadoanSupport the showBig Belly Breathing (BBB) is an audio program primarily for kids in English and French focusing on health and wellness, started by Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely. As a teacher, a parent of bilingual kids & a yoga instructor/social emotional learner facilitator and holistic health & wellness coach, Vanessa wants to encourage children to thrive through establishing daily health habits.Healthy Habits = Happy KidsWhile listening, kids learn techniques to increase their creativity and attention spans. By practicing mindfulness, breathing, & gratitude kids experience mini-moments of deep rest that help them to reset, restore and recalibrate. In today's busy world of multi-tasking, BBB is a place to help kids get centered, grounded and feel good. By practicing techniques learned here, kids develop their own self-care rituals, routines and habits. These tools benefit their mind, body and heart health and set them up for greater joy in their present lives, and as adults. So that kids aren't the only ones reaping these benefits, Vanessa has also included meditations specifically for older teens or adults! Join her on IG @BigBellyBreathing , on YouTube for her BookNook stories or visit www.bigbellybreathing .com!

This is a GUIDED VISUALIZATION focusing on the theme of Patience, and set in the neighborhood of Noe Valley in San Francisco.Kids are guided into a relaxing moment either in the classroom or at home, where they focus on their breathing while listening to an audio quiet time activity. They embark on a voyage and discover some unique features of this location. Thank you to Judith and Suzanne,  subscribers in Noe Valley, for this inspiration!The Breathing Practice for this month is Heart Diamond breathing.Intro/Outro music by Jef ShadoanSupport the showBig Belly Breathing (BBB) is an audio program primarily for kids in English and French focusing on health and wellness, started by Vanessa Hutchinson-Szekely. As a teacher, a parent of bilingual kids & a yoga instructor/social emotional learner facilitator and holistic health & wellness coach, Vanessa wants to encourage children to thrive through establishing daily health habits.Healthy Habits = Happy KidsWhile listening, kids learn techniques to increase their creativity and attention spans. By practicing mindfulness, breathing, & gratitude kids experience mini-moments of deep rest that help them to reset, restore and recalibrate. In today's busy world of multi-tasking, BBB is a place to help kids get centered, grounded and feel good. By practicing techniques learned here, kids develop their own self-care rituals, routines and habits. These tools benefit their mind, body and heart health and set them up for greater joy in their present lives, and as adults. So that kids aren't the only ones reaping these benefits, Vanessa has also included meditations specifically for older teens or adults! Join her on IG @BigBellyBreathing , on YouTube for her BookNook stories or visit www.bigbellybreathing .com!

This week, we interviewed the quintessential San Francisco sibling duo, Greg and Valerie Landau. Greg is a music and video producer, educator, and historian with 8 Grammy-nominated albums. Valerie, a Harvard-trained expert, specializes in innovative teaching and AI-infused education tools. Their lives were shaped by the influential 1960s and 70s in San Francisco as they grew up in The Mission District and Noe Valley. As children of poet-activist Nina Serrano and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Saul Landau, Greg and Valerie were influenced by the city's political upheaval as it became one of the most progressive cities in the U.S. Their parents' dedication to humanitarian causes like the civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, pro-choice, and gay rights movements, left an indelible mark on Greg and Valerie. These values continue to shape their work in education and the arts, and we're eager to share their stories with you on Beyond the Fog Radio. Meet Valerie and Greg Landau! Learn more about Greg Landau at https://greglandau.com/mystory Learn more about Valerie Landau at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Landau Learn more about Nina Serrano at https://estuarypress.com/nina-serrano-homepage/ Learn more about Saul Landau at https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/arts/saul-landau-maker-of-films-with-leftist-edge-dies-at-77.html

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Sign Up For Exclusive Episodes At: https://reasonabletv.com/LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos every day. https://www.youtube.com/c/NewsForReasonablePeopleLocal officials were set to gather on Wednesday in San Francisco's Noe Valley Town Square to celebrate their latest win: a single public toilet that will cost as much as $1.7 million to build and won't be completed until 2025. But the celebration was canceled after a San Francisco Chronicle columnist highlighted the "mind-boggling" and "maddening" details of the project. California Assemblyman Matt Haney told the newspaper that he now considers the price tag "inexplicable.""When Rec and Park first told us the number, it sounded shockingly high to me," Haney told the San Francisco Chronicle. "I'm glad that Noe Valley will at some point get a bathroom, but it shouldn't cost this much, and it shouldn't take this long, and I'm angry about it. … It's not something I want to celebrate right now."

Governor Gavin Newsom is getting involved in San Francisco's toilet scandal. He says the state will withhold funding for the $1.7 million dollar restroom. But, it turns out, this isn't the first expensive toilet installed in the City. KCBS Radio's Phil Matier, Patti Reising and Bret Burkhart.

San Francisco wants to build a 150 square foot, $1.7 million toilet in Noe Valley.  The Governor now says "no".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a city known for the high price of everything from pastries to parking, the estimated cost of a new public bathroom in Noe Valley is still a shocker: $1.7 million. Chronicle City Hall columnist and Total SF co-host Heather Knight joins host Demian Bulwa to talk about how a 150-square-foot room with a single toilet could cost so much — and why taxpayers should take notice. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

每日英語跟讀 Ep.K371: About the US - 'Worst house on best block' of San Francisco sells for $2M   In a deal that one Instagram user called "peak San Francisco," a 120-year-old home sold in mid-January for just shy of $2 million. 一名Instagram用戶稱為「舊金山之巔」的屋齡一二○年房產交易案，在一月中旬以近二○○萬美元售出。 According to its listing, the property has one bathroom, and a kitchen that appears to date to World War II, but zero bedrooms. 根據清單，這間房屋內含一間浴室、一間似乎可追溯至第二次世界大戰的廚房，但一間臥室都沒有。 It is "the worst house on the best block making it a fantastic opportunity," the real-estate agents Todd and Kim Wiley wrote. 不動產經紀人塔德及金‧威立寫道，這是一間「最佳地段的最糟房屋，因此具有絕佳機會。」 Todd Wiley indicated the conservatorship sale, which is a process that involves the California probate court, helped push the price to more than double what they had proposed at the outset. 塔德‧威立指出，加利福尼亞州遺囑檢驗法院也參與這筆託管出售案，促使最終定價比他們最初出價高出逾一倍。 We thought the property would sell at $1.6 million, but then the human spirit of competition took over. 我們以為該房會以一六○萬美元賣出，結果民眾的競爭心態發揮推波助瀾之效。 The house is in the Noe Valley neighborhood, which is peppered with multimillion-dollar homes. Single-family homes there sell for a median price of about $2.7 million. 該房位於數百萬美元民宅比比皆是的諾古社區。該區獨戶住宅售價中位數約為二七○萬美元。   Next Article   Florida man saw 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' 292 times in theaters 佛羅里達州男子在電影院看了292次《蜘蛛人：無家日》   A super hero super fan in Florida recaptured a Guinness World Records title when he went to see Spider-Man: No Way Home in theaters 292 times. 佛羅里達州一名超級英雄的超級粉絲去電影院看了292次的《蜘蛛人：無家日》，重新奪回金氏世界紀錄保持人頭銜。 Ramiro Alanis originally earned the Guinness title in 2019, when he attended 191 screenings of Avengers: Endgame, but his record was broken in 2021 when Arnaud Klein went to see Kaamelott: First Instalment 204 times. 拉米羅‧阿蘭尼斯最早在2019年贏得金氏世界紀錄，當時他看了191次的《復仇者聯盟：終局之戰》，但紀錄在2021年被看了《卡美洛：第一部曲》204次的阿諾‧克萊因打破。 Guinness confirmed Alanis recaptured the record when he attended 292 showings of the latest Spider-Man film between Dec. 16, 2021, and March 15, 2022. 金氏世界紀錄證實，阿蘭尼斯在2021年12月16日至2022年3月15日間，共看了最新的蜘蛛人電影292次，重奪這項紀錄殊榮。 Alanis said he is hoping the high number will keep his title safe. 阿蘭尼斯說，他希望這麼高的觀看次數足以捍衛頭銜。 Guinness's rules required Alanis to remain in his seat with his attention on the screen for the entire film, including the credits. He was not allowed to look at his phone or take bathroom breaks during the showings. 金氏世界紀錄規則要求阿蘭尼斯坐在椅子上專心觀賞整部電影，包括幕後人員介紹。在播映期間，他不能看手機或上廁所。Source article: https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1518117 ; https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1512839

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Welcome back to another amazing episode of Startup Mindsets! Hope your year has been great so far! - Dan Investing in startups was traditinally reserved for the rich or people with access to capital such as VCs. But enter Wefunder, founded by Nick Tomarello in 2013 in an apartment in Noe Valley.  Today we sit down with Jonny Price VP of Fundraising at Wefunder and learn what it's like helping startups raise Community Rounds, persevering internally at Wefunder despite growth challenges. We also learn more about how the public can invest as low as $100 in startups on the platform. Notable companies who've raised on Wefunder include Mercury, Checkr, and Zenefits to name a few.  If you're a startup thinking about a community round, DM Startup Mindsets and we can consult you for free.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A decaying, 122-year-old Victorian marketed as "the worst house on the best block" of San Francisco has sold for nearly $2 million — an eye-catching price that the realtor said was the outcome of overbidding in an auction.A developer's $1.97 million cash offer for the 2,158-square-foot (200-square-meter) property in the Noe Valley neighborhood was finalized last week. On the social media page Zillow Gone Wild, some commenters marveled at the price while others questioned the value of a house with boarded-up windows, peeling paint and an unstable foundation.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/seattlerealestatepodcast)

 Kim Shuck's parents met on Market Street in the late-1950s when her dad wrestled an ocelot away from its grips on her mom. In this podcast, the San Francisco poet laureate emerita talks about the five generations of San Franciscans on her mom's side. Her dad joined the Navy partly to get out of Oklahoma. He was "career" for a while, but then left that to become an electronics engineer in Silicon Valley. Her San Francisco grandparents (maternal) met at the Polish Hall in the Mission. Kim spent significant time with both sets of grandparents—both her in The City and in Oklahoma. When she was young, Kim's mom started working as a special needs para at a school near their home. She was also a founder of Noe Valley Nursery School, one of the first such co-ops in The City and also where Kim went to nursery school. Kim tells stories of the no longer extant Noe Valley Street Fair, which was a fundraiser for the school. Kim spent most of her years growing up in the Mission, Noe Valley, and the Castro. She lists the different public schools she went to. She reminisces about growing up in the Sixties and Seventies in San Francisco, with an emphasis on the way people used to paint houses in The City in vibrant color and with many hand-painted details (see our episode with Bob "Dr. Color" Buckter--Part 1 / Part 2) We eventually get around to stories about outdoor music shows and her memories of seeing the San Francisco Mime Troupe when she was young. We also spend a good amount of time talking about her love of roller skating (see our podcasts last week with David Miles, Jr., of the Church of 8 Wheels—Part 1 / Part 2). Ruth Asawa was a neighbor and (probably) Kim's first art teacher at Alvarado Elementary School. Later in her life, Kim did origami and became friends with Ruth again. Like so many guests of this show, Kim went to college at SF State. She recounts all the academic and social movements that have origins at the school, including ethnic students, free speech, and the American Indian takeover of Alcatraz. One theme Kim keeps coming back to is the cyclical nature of things, especially pertaining to creativity and art in San Francisco. "One step forward, one step back. We're cha-cha-ing." We end Part 1 with Kim going into her Cherokee heritage and then more of the story of her decision to stay in town and go to college at SF State. Check back Thursday for Part 2 and our last podcast of 2021. ​We recorded this podcast at Kim's house in the Sunnyside in December 2021. Photography by Michelle Kilfeather

Celia Sack was born and raised in San Francisco. During her seven-year tenure at Pacific Book Auction, Sack channeled her passion for rare books into a private antiquarian cookbook collection, and then into a bookshop. Since November 2008, when she opened Omnivore Books on Food in Noe Valley, Sack has gotten to know Alice Waters' tastes (books on victory gardens, not surprisingly), has enticed Ruth Reichl into buying a first edition of A.J. Liebling's Between Meals, and has seen her store become the destination for internationally known food writers touring their new books. Celia Sack was born and raised in San Francisco. During her seven-year tenure at Pacific Book Auction, Celia channeled her passion for rare books into a private antiquarian cookbook collection. In 1999, she opened Noe Valley Pet Company with her partner, Paula, and in 2008, she opened Omnivore Books on Food, San Francisco's only culinary bookshop. Featuring new and antiquarian titles, her store has become the destination for internationally known food writers touring their new books, and for collectors expanding their shelves. Omnivore Books on Food Website: https://omnivorebooks.myshopify.com/ If you follow my podcast and enjoy it, I'm on @buymeacoffee. If you like my work, you can buy me a coffee and share your thoughts

So many dogs with balls in LA... Step up your neutering game Los Angeles! Fairy Tails is making moves towards the classroom, and Louise is having a fit with the neighbors of Noe Valley, in San Francisco. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Riordan goes to the Starbucks where Caroline worked in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. Includes a short announcement about a contest to win a free copy of my photography monograph, STREET STORIES, which has a $50 retail value. See more about the book on the home page of my website, https://www.markcoggins.com.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MarkCoggins)

Mike asserts dominance over our podcast in the name of marital compromise. In this episode, we discuss our move to another neighborhood more in-depth. LV talks about an ongoing mixed media work she's been creating. Both of us discuss how the pandemic has positively affected our quality of sleep. We do a deep dive into NEXTDOOR Noe Valley a truly out-of-touch negative online community. Mike finds some zany Youtube videos exploring Noe Valley and LV reads about what priorities the neighborhood centers. Will we get kicked out before our year lease is up? Pray for us! Have you donated to LV's fundraiser yet? IF NOT https://pages.lls.org/mwoy/gba/bayarea21/lverby Book recommendation mentioned in the episode: "Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith" by Jon Krakauer https://www.greenapplebooks.com/book/9781400032808  

BGBS 060: Tim Parr | CADDIS | Own Your Age Aging. Most of us try our best to slow it down. But can you blame us? How do we learn to embrace our age in a society that trains us to want to feel 15 years younger than we are? Tim Parr's company, CADDIS, is challenging those standards and redefining what it is to “age” in contemporary culture. CADDIS has a refreshing take on aging, rallying around the notion that it is absolutely right to be the age that you are, and beyond that, they demand that you own it. Tim definitely knows what he's doing, but don't take it from us. Brands such as Patagonia, L.L. Bean, Filson, Burton, and many more have trusted his methods and guidance on big issues that steer ships over long periods of time. He has also conducted lectures at the Stanford School of Design, the San Francisco Academy of Art, and the California College of Arts. Before CADDIS, it all began with the founding of the iconic bike brand, Swobo. We also can't forget touring with Tim's Bluegrass band throughout the Western US and how learning guitar was an essential influence for CADDIS's messaging today. This episode celebrates the irreverence of 80s Thrasher magazines and emphasizes selling the message more than the product (though this product speaks for itself! I mean, check out the top of these rims). You'll learn lots about building a brand in this episode, but if you forget it all, make sure you remember this: The fun lies in changing people's minds. Quotes [0:02] I think developing some type of talent as you recognize your passions is super important. If you just blindly go after your passions, I think it's a good way to get hurt. [8:45] It felt punk rock. It was like, okay, we're going after a taboo subject matter that freaks the hell out of people. That seems like fun. And we'll create this house called Age and the reading glasses are the door prize. Join our club and here's your badge, which became the glasses. [12:19] The dusted over, unsexy categories? That's where the gold lies. [17:37] I attribute a lot of how I was wired to the early 80s, Thrasher magazine…I viewed that as communication. And it was visual communication in a way that was very new. It was that irreverent part that that didn't really exist before that. It was irreverence meets punk rock meets some form of street culture, fashion, all wrapped up into that magazine. [19:20] I remember going through old W magazines and Vogues and the rest of them when I was like 10 years old and just rapidly flipping through because I didn't care about the content, I cared about some type of communication… At the time I just thought, what were the hidden easter eggs inside this medium, to where I can get knowledge of what's happening? [25:38] I don't know if we go into it trying to be the cool kids. That might be a byproduct of it. Or a semi-intended consequence. I have to just think it just boils down to: it's just more fun. And then when you really kind of peel away the onion on it, it's more profitable. Because there's less people doing it, which makes it a whitespace. [48:12] There's no easy path. It doesn't matter what it is or what gifts you have, they're all hard. Resources Website: caddislife.com Instagram: @caddis_life LinkedIn: Tim Parr Facebook: @caddislife Music Farming Nonprofit: musicfarming.org Podcast Transcript Tim Parr 0:02 I think developing some type of talent as you recognize your passions is super important. If you just blindly go after your your passions, I think it's a good way to get hurt. So for some reason, and it goes back to those, as you recognize it does early 80s, Thrasher magazines and you know, for the for most of my life I've been stewing on what works and what doesn't work when you're talking to people through this particular medium. Marc Gutman 0:37 Podcasting from Boulder, Colorado, this is the Baby Got Backstory Podcast, where we dive into the story behind the story of today's most inspiring storytellers, creators and entrepreneurs. I like big back stories and I cannot lie. I am your host, Marc Gutman, Marc Gutman, and on today's episode of Baby Got Backstory, we're talking about readers. That's right. Those cheap glasses you buy at Walgreens the supermarket when you get older and can't see so good. Well, not exactly those readers. We're talking about cool rock and roll readers. Trust me, you'll love it. And before we change your perception on what readers are and who they are for, here's a gentle reminder. If you like and enjoy the show, please take a minute or two to rate and review us over Apple podcasts or Spotify, Apple and Spotify use these ratings as part of the algorithm that determines ratings on their charts. Does anyone really listen to this and review us over at Apple podcasts and Spotify? Probably not. So let's get on with the show. Today's guest is Tim Parr. Tim has both founded new companies as well as worked for some of the most respected brands in the lifestyle industries, brands such as Patagonia or being filson. Burton, and many more have trusted his methods and guidance on big issues that steer ships over long periods of time. In his conducted lectures at the Stanford School of Design, the San Francisco Academy of Art in the California College of Arts. It all began with the founding of the iconic bike brand Swobo. And then, as Tim puts it, elevated the shoveling Yak manure with Yvon Chouinard, the Patagonia throwing some years as a touring bluegrass musician, and now he has founded CADDIS, the brand that will redefine what it is to age in contemporary culture. CADDIS is a unique brand, because they're making readers cool. They're helping their community to own their age. And this topic is especially resonant with me, as I think about age. I have an ageing father. And that gets me thinking about my own age a lot lately. And the truth is, I've never felt the right age. When I was young, I wanted to be old. And as I get older, as we all do, I want to be younger. I think it's about time that I hear Tim's message and own my age. Maybe it's a message you need to hear as well. Tim power has had quite a journey, always able to follow his passions and start businesses. I am fascinated by Tim's outlook on brand and business and I know you will be too. And this is his story. I am here with Tim Parr, the founder of CADDIS and Tim, let's let's get right into it. What is CADDIS? Tim Parr 3:55 CADDIS is a lifestyle brand that is specifically going after 45 to 65 year olds, which is a market that hasn't seen lifestyle marketing branding, go after them. And go after is the wrong term. I would say rally around is a better way to put it. Marc Gutman 4:16 Yeah. And to clarify a bit CADDIS also, I mean, you specialize at least your flagship product and your I see you're starting to branch out a bit but your flagship product, you're the product you started with readers, which is a very interesting kind of product to start with. Because I think the perception of readers as Walmart and old people and a lot of things, we can talk about that. But what really, I think is cool about this brand and I'd love to talk about it is right away right up front, you kind of you're not selling readers, you're selling this idea of owning your age and it being okay to grow older. And I can tell you personally, that's something that I struggle with. It's something that I have a really hard time with. And I think about a lot. So this idea of age is this is this something That's that's consumed You or been on your mind is as you start to grow older? Tim Parr 5:03 No, not at all. And in fact, it wasn't even prior to us selling anything, I was in the process of raising money. And before we had this clarity on on what we were really doing, which was what you just described, we were in the reader market. So, I mean, as a as a concept, and we were just, you know, we were selling cooler, hipper, and for terrible words to use, but they cut to the chase, reading glasses, you know, with a lifestyle marketing angle. That was the entirety of, of what we were selling. And then it wasn't until prior to that, we weren't selling anything. Up until this point, we were I had, I had six pairs of glasses, and I was trying to raise a little bit of money to get this thing off the ground. So I was in a meeting with someone in San Francisco, at a at a venture capital place, and the person is, you know, going to the gym stood the product, and everything was lining up perfectly. And on the back of our packaging, there's this quote, about aging, and just to own it, and they go, well, what's this, and I had literally just slapped it on there in the 11th hour, subconsciously, it seems like a good idea at the time to call people out about how they think about aging. But But we hadn't really delve into it. I go well, I just kind of think that people should own age. And they told me like, you can't do that. And everyone wants to believe that they're 15 years younger that they are, and this won't work, you can't do that. And meeting was over at that point, because of our position, which wasn't even a position at a time. It was it was some flipping copy that I wrote on the back and had it printed on the packaging. And then by the time I walked from that desk down to the street, it hit me like a ton of bricks. Like oh my god, like that's what we're doing. Like, we're not in the reading glass market. Like there's a whole much larger idea here. It was the first moment where I really found our why in our business, like why should we even matter? Like, why do we exist, and it feels just to cut different frames and put reading glass lenses in. It wasn't enough. And then by the time I hit the street, it was I had it like that this is the business that we're in, we're in the business of owning age, just like Patagonia owns corporate stewardship, or, you know, Casper owns sleep or a way owns travel. Like we're gonna own age. So that's where it that's basically where that's where it came from. Marc Gutman 7:58 Yeah. And it to this point, were you were you searching for that Why? Or like what was going on? Tim Parr 8:03 Yeah, but I didn't know it. Yes. It is on hindsight, because I wasn't like I was in it, but I wasn't fully bought into it. Like, okay, like this is a white space. Like the only product that's on the market is $10 garbage from Walgreens or CVS. We know we can do the design, we know we can do the marketing. We know we don't know. But we have a strong inclination that the market is there. We're not the only ones that feel this way about the product and the experience of buying the product. But it wasn't, it wasn't enough and there hadn't one foot in, and then after that meeting I had both feet in because at that point, it felt punk rock. Like it was like, okay, we're going we're going after a taboo subject matter that freaks the hell out of people. Like that seems like fun. And we'll we'll create this house called age. And the reading glasses are the are the door prize? You know, it's like, join our club. And here's your here's your here's your badge, which became the glasses. Marc Gutman 9:11 And so you said it wasn't working? Like tangibly what wasn't working for you? Like why? What was going on? Tim Parr 9:17 I don't, I didn't, because I didn't need to do it. And these things are hard. Let's be honest, they're really hard. Most of them don't work. You know, it's not my first one. It's like my third or fourth one. So and it was like okay, it was just that So what, you know, okay, so what so so you found a niche to sell more reading glasses, and it wasn't enough. And it again, remind you, I don't have this type of foresight. This is all looking backwards and I can evaluate what was going through me after the fact and I didn't have that that Big Picture, this is why we exist. We're going to own age and we're going to change how people feel about aging in an in this culture. Marc Gutman 10:11 And so you're walking out of that meeting, it hits you and and, you know, help me fill in the gaps if I'm if I'm not retelling the story. it hits you, it's like a lightning bolt. It's punk rock like, this is what we're selling. Like, how did you know that that was the thing to hold on to now and that this was what you were going to the market, you were about to enter? Tim Parr 10:33 Pattern recognition. So it was the thing that when I got that response from that person, who is a venture capitalist, who you know, has a very conservative, you know, point of view about a lot of stuff. And if I could get that reaction out of somebody, I can get a different reaction out of a subculture. So if if that person was so against that idea, if something tells me inside of me, I could tap into a crew, that would be the Yang to that ying. Marc Gutman 11:14 So who was the first person that you ran, and said, I got this and told this? Tim Parr 11:19 I remember, dialing my phone, because I had that we there is after, after I started, I grabbed four or five co founders with me to do the heavy lifting in the early days. So I remember running down the street in San Francisco and dialing each one of them saying, Okay, this is what we're doing now. And it was that it was a 50/50. I don't know. And all right, awesome. Sounds great. So yeah, I remember vividly. Marc Gutman 11:53 And so like why even readers? So you mentioned that this is, you know, you've had multiple experiences in starting businesses. We'll talk a bit about your past. I mean, you've had some great brand building experience in education, like of all the things, you know, and that you could have, you could have done like what, why readers? Tim Parr 12:11 That's exactly it's the, your reaction to it is exactly why you should do it. And so the dusted over unsexy categories. That's where the gold lies. Not the cool sexy categories. does sound kind of redundant, but I knew that's where the fun lies, is to change people's minds about things. So one, it's a product that people need. And it's a it's a, by definition, it is a medical device. So people need it. It's not like we were making another pair of denim jeans, or you know, something that you'd have to justify, you know, picking yet another pair for your closet or something. So there is there was that aspect to it. When I needed him, and I couldn't find anything that worked. So I wanted to create the ones that I wanted. And it just felt right, because everyone thought, you know, like, Who? Who cares about readers. And if you go back to my pass, like I had a stint in cycling, and it was the same thing. It was like we went up against a black lacquer short. So it was almost like it was doing it all over again. I had another foe to go against it, which was the crappy $10 only option at the moment. Marc Gutman 13:42 Yeah, and the way that I'm imagining it, and filling in the gaps of your story is that like you're at Walmart or something, and you're standing there looking at readers, and you're like, these things are messed up. And it's weird, like I you know, like, I don't have a lot of experience with readers. And so it's also confusing, you know, like, when I first became aware of your company, I was like, do I need readers? You know, like, how do they work? And there's like this magnification, there's this kind of like this weird thing around them. They're not, you know, I think I grew up where you you go to the optometrist, and you get glasses or whatever, you know, they tell you, you it's not like really the self diagnostic thing. And to your point, I think, to me, readers just seemed like this thing that you did, because maybe you couldn't afford glasses or like like, like it was like a stopgap or something. But that that's neither here nor there. Was this how it happened? Where you were you you mentioned, you needed readers, readers standing there in front of the display being like this thing. This is this is just messed up. Tim Parr 14:36 Yeah. And I don't wear glasses, normal eyewear until I need reading glasses. So the whole process of corrective eyewear, I had no clue. I didn't know how things get fixed. So I was down in Malibu and I was killing time. So I walk into this optometry shop. I'm like, I got this problem or I can't see and like oh yeah, you reading glasses, pick a frame. And we'll, you know, we'll figure out what you need. And we'll pop them in, we'll send it to you in 10 days or so. All right, I guess that's how it works. And I don't know. But I started looking at the frames I want and there's, you know, between 300-800. And then I had to wait like 10 days and long story short, I ended up getting nothing. And walking out of there just thinking something's broken here. And I asked the guy in the story go like, Is it true? Like, either I'm spending $10 at Walgreens? Or I'm spending $400 here? And is that kind of it? He goes, Oh, no, no, no. So he goes in the back of the store, pulls open a drawer, you know, it optometry store in Malibu, it's just like, you know, like a beautiful merchandise thing. The readers were all crammed into a drawer in the back. And they're like, purple and blue, and like cateye, and you know, they fold 800 different ways. And it goes, Well, you can choose from any of these. And, you know, those are like 40 bucks, or, like, really, like, That's it, I'm going to put these things on my face. And that's the spectrum of choice that I'm looking at. So it was like one of those classic situations where, you know, person needed thing thing didn't exist, go make the thing that you want. So that's, that's basically how it all started, was from that moment, and then did some homework and you know, reading glasses 90% of people in this country will need them at some point over the age of 40. Marc Gutman 16:39 That's a great stat when you're starting a business and looking for a target market. Tim Parr 16:44 Yeah, 90, 90% of people over 40. Marc Gutman 16:49 And that's my that's my case, you know, these are reading glasses. I don't wear them all the time I wear I'm in front of the computer. And exactly to your point. I mean, I felt like I had two options was Walgreens, so the optometrist and end up going to the optometrist. And here I could have been doing things a lot different. And so Tim, what I get is this real sense, though, that, that you have this this quality about you that you look, and notice when things are broken, and where things don't make sense. And so and I could gather that's probably you can you can tell me if it's untrue, but you know, looking at your past experience as well, that kind of holds true that you're a serial entrepreneur. I mean, it was not always the case for you. Like when you were a young, young kid, were you looking around the world and being like this, this is this isn't working, or this is, this is what I want to do. Like, where were you like, as a kid, were you entrepreneur? Tim Parr 17:37 No, but I think I attribute a lot of how I was wired to early 80s, Thrasher magazine. Marc Gutman 17:48 Which I am a massive fan of, you probably aren't a big fan of Baby got Backstory, but I talked about it a lot on the podcast, and it's a whole reason I moved to California after I went to college, because I had fallen in love with the beautiful imagery of Venice Beach, only to realize that none of that was true. You know, it was Venice was it was it was a lot harder. And their kids, those kids who had really hard lives, but I thought it was awesome. And so I'm a big fan, so I can't wait to hear where you're going with this. Tim Parr 18:15 So I viewed that as communication. And it was a it was it was visual communication in a way that was very new. It was that irreverent, you know, part that that didn't really exist. Before that. It was it was it was irreverence meets punk rock meets some form of street culture, fashion, all wrapped up into into that magazine. And I remember, I remember doing that. And with something like let's say, I mean, back in the day, it was like action now or surfer magazine, just flipping through the pages as a teenager or even younger, and registering what was right or what was wrong, just from just from cues. And I think that had a much larger impact on me than just about anything in my life. And I remember my mom used to collect a lot of fashion magazines and I would do the same through those I'm or going through old, old web magazines and Vogue and the rest of them now has like 10 years old or something and just rapidly flipping through because I didn't care about the content and I cared about some type of communication and like I would just I wouldn't know it until I saw it and then I would see it and at the time I could just kill I just thought like okay, well what's what's talking what's cool, what can I what were the hidden hidden almost like easter eggs inside this inside this medium, to where I can I can get knowledge of of what's out. happening. And I put most of how I am from those early days. Marc Gutman 20:07 Do you have a sense of where that came from? And where your parents in the communication were they into That kind of stuff? Tim Parr 20:13 No, it's probably a lack of. I mean, to this day, it's probably why I started companies is so I can talk to people. Marc Gutman 20:21 Yeah. And were you Where did you grow up? Was it Southern California, Northern. And so when you were growing up in Northern California, and you're looking at these magazines, like, what did you think you wanted to do with your life? Like, were you your kind of plans at that point? Tim Parr 20:37 I didn't have any. It was it was to surf and skate. And that was my plans. So my whole existence in high school was surfing and skating. And then when I got to senior year, it was okay, how can I get to live on the beach? And to really do that was UCSB because you are living on the beach. So that's where I ended up going to school so I could serve, you know, and it's just it. It was trying to just find that critical path of the least that I had to do in order to achieve the lifestyle that I really wanted. So I went to UCSB so I could serve, you know, got out of there with a 2.0. And then, you know, just kind of started figuring stuff out after that. But it was it was really that drove everything. Marc Gutman 21:24 Yeah, and were you interested in anything other than surfing at UCSB did you start to think like, hey, like, there might be something else out there? Was it all surf all the time? Tim Parr 21:34 Yeah, it kind of was, you know, living in it after that and lived in a van and, and that was in riding mountain bikes. You know, mountain biking was just coming on the scene and the to complement each other really well. So now I can't really say I thought past the next month. Marc Gutman 21:54 So when would you say you got your first real job? Tim Parr 21:57 I'm still working on it. Marc Gutman 22:02 I like that. That's you, you've mastered that. But it did look like that you had some experience at some other companies prior to starting your own? Tim Parr 22:13 Yeah, I would say the first real job was the company that I started, which was called Swobo. In the in the cycling industry. And before that I was you know, racing bikes. And I was lifeguarding or something, you know, just to make ends meet. But yeah, the first job real job was simply one that I created. Marc Gutman 22:34 And what's the story behind that? Tim Parr 22:37 It was early 90s, mid 90s. It was and the answer to the to what was happening in cycling. So you had at that point suspension fork had come to mountain bikes, which opened up the category immensely. And you had snowboarding's snowboarders in the summertime now hopping on mountain bikes, because there were now fun because of suspension and, and became relevant to a much broader group of people rather than cyclist. So, when that started getting off the ground, the apparel world was still just black lycra shorts and jerseys from Europe, you know, tight like rich jerseys. So we were credited with kind of changing the look of, of mountain biking culture, in a way. And not unlike reading glasses. I mean, the first product that we had, we were we were, besides the traditional one or two, three vendors that had been doing it for last 100 years, we were the ones to bring back first bring back wool jerseys. So we brought back a traditional fabric that no one wanted anymore. And then we paired it with a with a bike messenger kind of punk culture. And we urbanized so cycling before that was pretty tight, a, you know, serious athletics, blah, blah, blah. And what we wanted to do was just take that and change it. So people fixated on the bicycle itself, and the lifestyle around a bicycle that one could have without needing to be an Uber athlete. Marc Gutman 24:22 And then was that business plan the way you just articulated it? Was it that concrete and thought out at the time, or were you just like, Hey, I like cycling. I like mountain biking. Like, I want to do something cool. Like Like, where did it land on that spectrum? I mean, were you really saying like I could make this a disruptive business? Tim Parr 24:40 We didn't use that word back then because I don't think it existed. Because it was early 90s. But yeah, I think there was that mentality because we just watched what snowboarding did to skiing, right? Which was massive, right? It turned to ski on its head. So we saw that there's a similar thing you could do in the streets, specifically, and in urban centers with, with the bicycle and with cycling, like modern cycling. So, yeah, I think it was pretty conscious actually. Marc Gutman 25:21 And so what is it about that idea that that punk rock counterculture idea that, you know, we're gonna come into a category and disrupt it say, hey, like we're the cool kids? Like, what is it about that for you that that's appealing? Tim Parr 25:38 I don't know, if we go into it trying to be the cool kids. That might be a byproduct of it. Or in semi intended consequence. But what is it about that? I have to just think it just boils down to it's just more fun to write. And, and then when you really kind of peel away the onion on it, it's more profitable. Because there's less people doing it, which makes it a whitespace. So if you can, which makes your marketing cost lower, right. So if you're not competing with it with similar messages, there's less noise, therefore you can maximize whatever it is that you are saying. So I mean, that's not anything that I was conscious of at the time. But in hindsight, if you're to look at why would you do that, there's economic reasons for doing it. And there's reasons to do it. Because it's, I just find it way more fun. Marc Gutman 26:46 Then, as you were trading this new brand, it's Swobo I have that right? Kind of like with? Yeah, Tim Parr 26:51 yes. S W O B O Marc Gutman 26:53 Yeah. Swobo? Like, were you getting resistance? Where people not happy with you, you know, that we're the establishment in the category? Oh, yeah. Tim Parr 27:04 Yeah, there are plenty people who are not happy with us. And that's how you rally the people who are happy with you. You know, but, uh, you know, it's a fine line. And I think we had incredible respect for all the right things, and no respect for things that didn't matter. So when if you were, so when we were do the trade show, I would have bank messenger from New York City, you know, let's say 25 years old blue hairs, you know, piercings all over their face, holding up the same piece of clothing as like a 65 year old nostalgics skater or skater, cyclist, they could point to the same thing and go, that's cool. And I and that's always been a goal of mine is is to make the product almost agnostic to the message, make the message be the product, and articulate that better than most. So, so so so that there is old school cyclists that really appreciated what we were doing, and respected the craft of the, of the merino wool and, and the heritage of it and bringing it back and caring about it. And then there is a kids in the streets that were stoked, because it wasn't all, you know, super clean athletes that the sport was about. Marc Gutman 28:33 Yeah. And you said, and I'll paraphrase, because I probably won't get it get it totally right. But it was this idea about make the message, you know, something bigger than the product and articulate it better than most. And that's a pretty, like, advanced sort of idea. You know, I don't think most people just enter the market and think think that way. Now, was that something that was intrinsic to you that that came natural to you? Or did you learn this idea that like, hey, you're really selling something else, something bigger than the actual product? Was that was that something you actually learned or that just come naturally? Tim Parr 29:10 It came naturally. I didn't learn it anywhere. I think it's just instincts Marc Gutman 29:15 Some good instincts. Tim Parr 29:16 Good. Thank you. It sounds like taking it. So you say you take a very true the most traditional piece of cycling apparel you could possibly make, which is the the wool jersey. And then when we first came out, we had a model, this woman with a short crop punky like purple hair. And like that picture was spread everywhere. Every media channel picked it up. I mean, it leads people to ask the question, What's going on here? It's not so straightforward. And that's something that I always am shooting for, is the brand is always on a journey to keep people engaged on a level to where they Asking questions rather than a brand just pushing answers back out. Marc Gutman 30:09 This episode brought to you by Wildstory. Oh, wait, isn't that your company? It is. And without the generous support of Wildstory, this show would not be possible. Brand isn't a logo or a tagline, or even your product or brand is a person's gut feeling about a product service or company. It's what people say about you, when you're not in the room. Wildstory helps progressive founders and savvy marketers build purpose driven brands that connect their business goals with the customers they want to serve. So that both the business and the customer needs are met. And this results in crazy, happy, loyal customers that purchase again and again. And this is great for business. If that sounds like something you and your team might want to learn more about, reach out@www.wildstory.com. And we'd be happy to tell you more. Now back to our show. And so as you're as you're building this brand, is your building slow, like, What's going on there? I mean, did you know that? I mean it? Was it just a rocket ship from the beginning? Or were you? Tim Parr 31:20 No it was a shit show! It was my first business. Marc Gutman 31:29 What happens to what happened with that business were to ultimately go, Tim Parr 31:32 I sold it to Santa Cruz bicycles. Marc Gutman 31:35 it was it was not a good was that a good sale for you? Tim Parr 31:38 No, no. No, but you know, it's, it's it's live and learn. You know, I've been asked this a lot, you know, like, would you consider it a success? And what would you do different? And mainly people ask like, well, what would you do different. And I honestly wouldn't do a single thing different. I would have. I mean, it was pain, like to liquidate, you know the brand when you're young and and to take that one right in the chops, dealing with some unsavory invest investors. But come the end of the day, like we had a mission to change the way people thought about the bicycle. And I think we we helped in that in some way, shape or form. So it was a success. We learned a lot. It sucked in many ways at towards the end. But at the same time. I just I know it sounds cliche, but I just when seriously wouldn't change a single thing. Marc Gutman 32:43 And so coming out of that experience you you liquidate did you go work for Santa Cruz or did Tim Parr 32:47 no no's actually, like that same month, I got a call from Patagonia CEO. They're saying we have this surf business that's fledgling and can you come and fix it. Marc Gutman 32:59 And was Yvonne, Yvonne are the CEO at the time. Tim Parr 33:03 He was not his name is Michael crook. And that's who called me. And then Luckily, I did get to work with Avon because Avon was very passionate and wanted this thing to work, it was going to work. So he wanted to make sure that it was somewhat hands on so to this day, I consider myself incredibly lucky to have you know, driven up and down the California coast with him and go out to the ranch to Hollister ranch and just have long conversations with him about all kinds of stuff. Marc Gutman 33:36 So I imagined that had to be an incredibly well maybe not like what you're hoping for for someone to offer you a job if someone's gonna offer you a job after your first business to get the call from Patagonia to come get involved in something you love and care so deeply about surfing. I had to be pretty awesome. Tim Parr 33:53 It was great. It was great again lucky. So I was there a year year and a half and it was turned it around. It was successful. People were happy Yvonne was happy. And then from there started a brand consultancy. Marc Gutman 34:09 So why not stay at Patagonia why why start a brand consultancy? Tim Parr 34:15 Because we were living still up in up in Noe Valley, California, which was a plane flight away from Ventura. So I was literally flying down Monday mornings, and I'd leave the house about 4am to get to the airport for a six o'clock flight. I'd stay down to Ventura till Thursday night, and then fly home Thursday night and do it all over again Monday morning. And so I did that for a year. That was a big part why Marc Gutman 34:46 I'm exhausted just listeningto you talk about it, I can only imagine. I get it and so you decide that you're going to part ways and you you form a brand consultancy. Like how did that go? It was Tim Parr 35:00 Again, I see I feel that was another gift. I mean, anytime people welcome you into their home like that. So that was fun. So I called it par Goldman and burn. And there was no Goldman and there was no burn. But sounds. Yeah, it worked up until I was I was in the boardroom of LL Bean. And I just delivered a project that I'd spent. God knows how long eight months maybe. Can't remember. And it all went well. And I had my business card there picks it up. And the guy looks at he goes, Okay, so where's Goldman and burn? I go, Oh, you know, Oscar Goldman from the $6 million, man. Yeah, I guess. Well, I kind of wish that he was my partner, but he's not really my partner. And then David Burns from the talking heads. I love that guy, too. So I wish he was my partner, but he's not really my partner. Okay, I think it's funny. They didn't think it was funny. Marc Gutman 35:58 They didn't think it was funny? I mean, like, from from the, if you're gonna hire a brand consultancy, it might as well be one that's like, you know, having made a partner's of their boyhood dreams, you know, and Tim Parr 36:10 the logo looked really regal. You know, if the shield if you look really closely, there's like a Shaka inside shield. So that was like the giveaway that maybe something was up. Marc Gutman 36:23 Literally, you had a part with LLBean and as a customer, because Tim Parr 36:26 oh, no, no, no, it was it was over it because I had delivered the goods. And I was done. But it was the only time that that name didn't work. And, you know, I had great and fantastic clients like Kona mountain bikes. To this day, I'm still close friends with and Patagonia and a lot of outdoor industry or sports or surf related, talking about big, you know, big strategic thinking around brands. And I remember having one meeting where it was just painful, as in every consultant has, has these clients. And I just remember walking out thinking I'm done. And I remember reading this quote, which I thought is so brilliant. And it never occurred to me, but the quote was in order to do something different, you can't do things the same. Yeah. So if I don't want to do this anymore, like I need to stop doing this. Like right now. I can just stop and I need to do something different. And that's when I stopped consulting. Marc Gutman 37:31 And it was it was it as cut and dry. Is that did you fire? You know, fire any existing clients? Tim Parr 37:37 well, they were not? Oh, well, I was I was not I ran out a couple of clients. You know, I did tell him that I was kind of closing up shop. And yeah, and then that was that. Marc Gutman 37:49 What was your personal life? Like at this time? Did you have a family did you have? Yeah. And so what was that conversation like? Tim Parr 37:57 Well, it gets better because then I think a month after that, I decided that I was going to learn guitar and start a bluegrass band and tour the United States, the western United States. So my, my wife has a successful dance business in in Northern California. So we were able to I could work for the dance business, doing marketing related things while I was on the road playing music. So it all kind of worked out in a way. So I joined the family business for a while. And played music. Marc Gutman 38:36 Yeah, how did that that musical career go? Tim Parr 38:40 It was super fun. I mean, I didn't really know how to do any of it. So I spent time learning how to learn, which was interesting. And a lot of this with the music was a catalyst for what we're doing now with CADDIS because I had to learn I had to learn how to learn being at the time in my mid 40s, late 40s. And your brain is different. So there's a strategy to learning something difficult, like acoustic guitar, you know, flat picking bluegrass, and, and you don't want to waste time when you're that age. So I did a lot of reading on how to learn and then got a really good teacher. And I was practicing six, seven hours a day and to get up to speed. But a lot of that process is is context for your this whole aging platform of what is now CADDIS. This is actually before CADDIS was even created. So it's all it all kind of leads to where we are today. Marc Gutman 39:51 Yeah, and you mentioned that we we learn differently and their strategies for that. Like are you able to talk at like a high level like, what those are like? Tim Parr 40:00 So, I mean, specifically for music, let's just stick to a sentence. So it's concrete. But I'm sure you can apply it to a lot of different things. You have to really pinpoint what you want to learn, break it up to a bunch of different pieces. Don't spend any more than 15 to 20 minutes on, like, focus on it. And then go just like put it down and go do something else, like completely leave it and then go back and do it all over again. And you have to break everything down in small chunks of material and in time. And there's a consistency to it. Which makes your your learning curve, do this instead of this, which isn't 100% true, because eventually you do this and you plateau. And then you kind of need to find these incremental gains. But in a nutshell, it's and this is complete layman's terms, but it's break things into small chunks. Don't spend, you know, hours and hours kind of dwelling on IT spend like because your mind will wander, like spend 15 2030 minutes in a real deep dive, and then chill out and go do something else. And then come back to it and deep dive again. Marc Gutman 41:17 Well, thanks for sharing, that's awesome. Like, I just assumed we kind of had a normal learning pattern throughout our lives, I didn't realize that we, we learn differently as we as we grow older. Tim Parr 41:27 Yeah, the brain, the brain changes. And one of the best things you can do for your brain as you age is learn music. Because it's one of the few things if you think about it, you're using audio, you're hearing something, you're thinking about something you're acting, there's a physical action to it. And then you have to, you know, recreate there's the hand movement, his left hand, right, and it basically hits every lobe on your brain. Marc Gutman 41:56 Well, you just gave me permission to tell my wife, I'm going to read new guitar for the 10th time in my career. I think I picked it up and set it down too many times. But I love that. And so after the the music career did is that when you started CADDIS? Tim Parr 42:11 Yes. So it was actually during, you know, I thought I could do both. So I'm going to start this company. I'll tour I can work out of the van, you know, with my laptop. All good. That's a bad idea. Let the record show that that's a bad idea. Marc Gutman 42:34 You heard it here first. Why? Why do that you made the comment, I think earlier in our conversation that you probably really didn't have to do this like this, you didn't have to start another company. Sounds like that you had the ability to work for the family business and pursue your dream of playing bluegrass on the road. Like, isn't that enough? Like why? Like, why start a company? You know, at this point in your life and what what you have going on? Tim Parr 43:02 Yeah, it got to a point where I couldn't not do it. Like it was it was irresponsible of me like to do it and not to do it. If I didn't do it. Like it was like, Okay, my circle of friends are my contacts are the people to do this thing. If you don't do this thing. Someone's gonna do it. And it's, it may not be as good. So you have to go do this thing now. Marc Gutman 43:34 And were you starting to circulate this idea and get positive reinforcement? Or was this just bubbling up in the back of your own mind? Tim Parr 43:40 No Yeah, I was getting I was getting a mixed bag. Some people just didn't get it. And some people really got it. And it took a friend of mine. I just came back from playing. You know where it was it was we played the the the telluride Bluegrass Festival. And I remember coming as long as drive home and and I went to dinner a couple days later with a friend of mine. who at the time was, I believe he's the CEO of Nixon watches. And he asked me like, and I've known him forever. And he goes, well, where are you at with this reading glass idea? He didn't told me about it. Oh, yeah. Looking into this and I'm looking into that and, and he just he saw right through the bullshit. He goes, No goes you start that tomorrow. Okay, so then I came home and told my wife what Scott told me and and I, what do you think she's like, Well, what do you think? Oh, all right, let's let's do it. You know, because you got to have everyone on board because as we noted earlier, they're hard and they take a toll on everybody. So kind of got the sign off on it. And away we went, but It was that feeling of, like, you can't not do it. I was gonna say it's just too late, like it got to be too late. Marc Gutman 45:11 And so I love imagining like, you know, Scott just giving you the tough love. And Tim Parr 45:15 Oh, he gave me that the talk, dropping, Marc Gutman 45:18 Dropping truth bombs. And so like, what was the first thing you did after that? Like, how did you get started? Tim Parr 45:24 So I knew I didn't want it well. So I had I brought it up to a certain point. And I don't even know what that point was at this juncture. But then I knew I didn't want to do it alone. And I knew if I was going to do it, I wanted to do it with the best people that I've ever worked with. And so I made a couple of email calls, I think the first one was to Dustin Robertson, who was at bat country calm forever, who I'd known through my suavo days and ran by him. And he just sent me like this email back that says, Okay, let's go. And that was that. And so him and then it kind of trickled to my partner at suavo, which was, you know, 20 years prior, if not longer, getting him on board. A friend, Enoch Harris, those were the three cores. And then those people, new people, and then it grew out to think five people total by tally watch it, but I wasn't going to go it alone. I've done that before. And there's no reason to do it. You need really good, experienced people to get something like this going. Marc Gutman 46:46 Yeah. And that, that leads me I was gonna ask, like, as you're assembling this team, this kind of a tribute band, so to speak of, of players like we actually what are you looking for? Like, what do you what are you thinking? You know, because obviously experience but you know, that's, that's pretty easy. What else are you looking for in these in these people that you're bringing on board to help you achieve this goal? Tim Parr 47:07 Personality types. So I know that these things are rollercoasters. So, you know, people that the shits gonna hit the fan, and, you know, it's all gonna be okay. I mean, most of these people who I started with, I've known for over 25 years. So, you know, we're gonna succeed together or fail together. And both were okay. Marc Gutman 47:36 So now that you've built up catalysts, and it's it's got momentum, it's turning into this brand that stands for more than than just readers. But like, what's hard about it? Like, what don't we know? Like, what's hard about the reader business? Tim Parr 47:50 Oh, you know, it's not the reader business as hard as businesses that are hard. So, I mean, I wouldn't really say that the reader business is hard, because they're all hard, you know, it doesn't matter. I don't care what you're doing. This is something like I've given talks at, at colleges or whatever, and you get a lot of questions, and there's no easy path. It doesn't matter what it is, or what gifts you have, like, they're all hard, especially in I shouldn't say especially, that's biased, I'm biased to think that when you make stuff, like the amount of crap that can go wrong, on any given moment, you know, from shipments being bad to boot, you know, fabrics that bleed into, you know, and, and all kinds of, there's just a myriad of things that can happen. So, I mean, into right now, today, you know, the company is growing really fast. And we're just, you know, we're adding people at a fast rate. And, you know, the hardest thing is seeing it, it's always been the same thing. And we are a remote business. So that's part of the beauty. And the challenge is that we've always been a remote business. So So communication will always be a challenge. You know, how we move ideas around and get projects done. But I mean, in a nutshell, answer your question. I think they're all just hard. And Marc Gutman 49:23 So one of the things that I think is really cool and distinguishable about your brand is on the top of I don't even know what you call the top of the frame here. I'm sure you have. Tim Parr 49:31 I don't know either. Marc Gutman 49:33 Okay, there's not like a fancy name. I was like, he's gonna tell me it's like, Tim Parr 49:37 I'm not saying that there's not a fancy name. I'm telling you. I don't know what it is. Marc Gutman 49:42 But you have things like regular and Goofy over the eyes, imprinted on the frame, I think Yeah, a port and starboard one. Where does that come from? Like, where the whose idea was that and why why do you that? Tim Parr 49:55 Kind of why not? returns on these. So these are the Another Mr. cartoons. So there's what he says is Canada and that he, which is left and right in Spanish. There's port starboard Goofy, regular. It seemed like a good surface. Somehow. Marc Gutman 50:16 Yeah, under utilized. No one else is doing it. It's really, yeah, it's really, really cool. I mean, it's Tim Parr 50:24 Maximize your assets. Marc Gutman 50:28 And so you know, you just showed us the the Mr. cartoon, what's your favorite frame? Is it the Mr. Cartoon? Or is there Tim Parr 50:35 I don't have one. And I always compare this. I listen to Terry Gross, interviewed Keith Richards. And she asked him what his favorite song was. And she just, he just ripped her head off, saying how, ah, Jerry, it's like trying to pick a favorite child. You don't do that then other than that, so I kind of feel the same way. Marc Gutman 50:58 Yeah, well, I agree, kids. And I'll tell you right now I have a favorite. It's not always the same one. It changes from time to time, but at any given time, I do have a favorite one that says they don't lie. Tim Parr 51:11 Okay, you're probably true. me close Miklos? I would say. And this is my favorite Marc Gutman 51:18 Story about Keith Richards makes me think you know, I know that you work with a lot of like really cool influencers and ambassadors that are like aging athletes and surfers and musicians. But who have you seen where your product that you didn't have a relationship with that just really like blew your mind? You're like, I can't believe the day that they're wearing my stuff. Tim Parr 51:42 Man. Lately, there's been a few you know, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Julia Louis, Julianne Moore. Did girl. And I heard that Shepard Fairey has Pete Souza, the White House photographer. So they're just I mean, it's like Katie Couric? Yes, posting about them and doing okay. So like, I don't run in those circles, obviously. So it's, it's cool when you see that and people have, there's a lot of pride around the discovery. And the people that take selfies, you know, and are posting and saying that, like, I support this, you know, and without any prompting from us, I think it's fantastic. It means that the, the communication is leaving, and it's coming back, that it's been received. And to me that's like, I don't care if I die tomorrow, like when people do that with our brand. It's, it's the Holy Grail. Marc Gutman 52:54 And so as you're building this brand, as you're spreading this message, what's next for CADDIS? Where do you want this thing to go? Tim Parr 53:00 What we're gonna do is, is further develop this idea of owning age. So beyond reading glasses, and one of the first things we're doing is we're starting a newsletter that's going to grow into something bigger, but that's called humongous living. And then, from humongous living, we've just started a new nonprofit called music farming.org, which I'm super excited about, because the company from the get go, took 1% of gross revenue. And we and we gave it to music education programs across the United States. That's a soft spot for me personally, what was happening, we're growing so fast that that bucket of cash grew to a size that I couldn't manage. So the idea is, okay, let's pull it out of CADDIS create a separate entity to which other brands can contribute it into and we actually grow this thing where we can start helping people doing the hard work on the, you know, in the trenches, getting instruments, paying teachers, whatever they need, so that we can make make music education, something important again in this country. Marc Gutman 54:26 And that is Tim Parr, founder of CADDIS. As I reflect on our conversation, Tim said something to me that I can't get out of my head. He said, that's where the fun lies in changing people's minds. And I couldn't agree more. I thought Tim's journey was full of gold nuggets about building a brand and building a business. But if you were to take one thing away from this conversation, it's sell the message more than the product is a big thank you. In part and the cat is team. I love this mission you're on to help people own their age. I could probably use a little of that secret sauce myself. We will link to all things Tim Parr, CADDIS, and music farming, the nonprofit Tim discussed in the episode in the show notes. And if you know of a guest who should appear on our show, please drop me a line at podcast@wildstory.com our best guests like Tim, come from referrals from past guests and our listeners. Well, that's the show. Until next time, make sure to visit our website www.wildstory.com where you can subscribe to the show in iTunes, Stitcher or via RSS so you'll never miss an episode I like big stories and I cannot lie. 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In COVID times, spontaneous music has become a salve for our despair. One artist determined to bring that to us is folk singer Rachel Garlin, who on a warm day in May, opened her Noe Valley garage door to perform ad hoc for her San Francisco sheltering in place neighborhood. She bantered with passer bys, she made up songs on the spot. She brought healing. Today we have her with us.  She is launching new music with the album Mondegreens, and we will be playing its first release, her cover of "Boys of Summer". The album plays like a love a letter to today’s precarious times, each song evoking a blend of heartache and hope, social reflection and self-discovery. At the center of the work are Garlin’s nuanced lyrics—image-rich and literary, subtle and surprising—making each song its own snow-globe story that stirs and settles anew with every listen.  Today we talk... and we listen!   With co-host Brody Levesque.

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Carl Nolte has spent 60 years at the San Francisco Chronicle. A fourth-generation San Franciscan, Nolte has seen it all, and still, he says, he feels a sense of surprise on every block. The current crises, however, have made him long for a city he may never see again. As he says, he knows what's going on all over the world, but suddenly he’s not sure what’s happening nearby in Chinatown or the Mission or Noe Valley.

CeeCee Weaver and her husband Ken live in the Twin Peaks neighborhood of San Francisco. Living in Twin Peaks gives them easy access to great neighborhoods like the Castro, the Mission and Noe Valley. One of the great dining experiences near CeeCee's neighborhood is U : Dessert Story - a small cafe that specializes in Asian-inspired sweets. In this episode, CeeCee explains why she likes U : Dessert Story and describes some of her favorite restaurants in San Francisco. She also reminisces on the various neighborhoods she's lived in, and highlights the best places to eat at in her hometown of Vallejo (including Sac's Tasty Hot Dogs).

Imagine if everyone got a check each month from the government for $1,000.  We break down the topic of Universal Basic Income (UBI).  We look at the history, the morality, the rationale, the assumptions, the funding sources, the politics and the objectives of the initiative.  How does Universal Basic Income play a role in the discussions of minimum wage, living wage, poverty and incentives to work? Of course, we can’t discuss Universal Basic Income without discussing the candidacy of Andrew Yang.  UBI is his signature issue and he justifies it based on the evolution of artificial intelligence, automation and robotics on the economy.  But where does this money come from?  Are Yang’s assumptions legitimate?  Could his policy have good intentions but ultimately be immoral? We get into a few more topics including family history research.  I also discuss one of my personal objectives to #BeBraver and what that means to me and this podcast. We also share thoughts on the Golden State Warriors, Toronto Raptors, Kawhi Leonard, Steph Curry, altar boys, Rick Barry, Clifford Ray, Nate Thurmond, ancestry.com, San Francisco, Castro St, Eureka Valley, Noe Valley, Burlingame, San Mateo, Redwood City,  Rory Herrman, community forum, Poway, Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness, Pete Neild, Luddites, looms, truckers, sensors, self-driving cars, Milton Friedman, negative income tax, value added tax, tax the rich, Freedom Dividend, cost of living, Lyft, Uber, Robot Zombie Apocalypse, Internet of Things (IOT), wearable technology, biotech, tourism, wind energy, solar energy, education technology, mobile apps, EVs, electric vehicles, battery technology, Firing Line, William F. Buckley, poverty, self-ownership, entrepreneurship, Dave Rubin, Rubin Report and Walt Disney. JRP0056 John Riley Project Info: Bookings? Inquiries? Contact me at https://johnrileyproject.com/Donations: https://www.patreon.com/johnrileyprojectSponsorship Inquiries: https://johnrileyproject.com/sponsorship/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJJSzeIW2A-AeT7gwonglMAFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnrileyproject/Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnRileyPowayInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnrileypoway/iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/john-riley-project-podcast/id1435944995?mt=2Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3llrMItpbx9JRa08UTrswAStitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/john-riley-projectGoogle Podcasts: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9qb2hucmlsZXlwcm9qZWN0LmNvbS9mZWVkLwTune In: https://tunein.com/podcasts/Arts--Culture-Podcasts/John-Riley-Project-Podcast-p1154415/Listen Notes: https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/john-riley-project-john-riley-2l4rEIo1RJM/Music: https://www.purple-planet.com

You don’t need passion to start a business, but you do need it to keep one going for a quarter century. Life-long entrepreneur Jack Epstein of Chocolate Covered sells over a thousand artisan chocolates from his store in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco. Learn how Jack built his unique business, and hear valuable advice from a shopkeeper who’s been in business for 25 years. Plus, Jack shares dozens of chocolate and San Francisco restaurant recommendations! 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Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanotype) Cyanotypes - Super Easy Photo Prints at Home.: 6 Steps (with Pictures) (https://www.instructables.com/id/Cyanotypes---super-easy-photo-prints-at-home./) Cocoa bean - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoa_bean#Varieties) The Different Varieties of Cocoa Beans: Criollo, Trinitario & Foraster – The Chocolate Society (https://www.chocolate.co.uk/blogs/news/the-different-varieties-of-cocoa-beans-criollo-trinitario-and-forastero) Terroir - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroir) — “Some artisanal crops for which terroir is studied include wine, coffee, tobacco, chocolate, chili peppers, hops, agave (for making tequila and mezcal), tomatoes, heritage wheat, maple syrup, tea, and cannabis.” Chuao, Venuzuela - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuao) Rare Cacao Beans Discovered in Peru - The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/dining/12chocolate.html) “Two Buck Chuck” Charles Shaw wine - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Shaw_wine) Mouton Cadet - 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Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestl%C3%A9_Milk_Chocolate) Hershey’s Chocolate & Candy (https://www.hersheys.com/en_us/home.html) Scharffen Berger (https://www.scharffenberger.com/en_us/home.html) Dagoba (https://www.dagobachocolate.com/en_us/home.html) Joseph Schmidt Confections - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schmidt_Confections) Joseph Schmidt chocolates will be missed - SFGate (https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Joseph-Schmidt-chocolates-will-be-missed-3164996.php) Cadbury Chocolate (https://www.cadbury.co.uk/) Amedei Porcelana (https://www.amedei.it/it/prodotto2/5927/QPALVXTM/porcelana-(limited)) Lindt Chocolate World (https://www.chocolate.lindt.com/) Ghirardelli Chocolate Company (https://www.ghirardelli.com/) Stone Grindz (https://www.stonegrindz.com/) Hogarth Chocolate (https://www.hogarthchocolate.co.nz/wp/author/webeditor-karl/) Lattenero Chocolate Bar by Slitti (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0084B8NB0/lettucewrap-20) (Amazon) Cioccolato Slitti – Gran Bouquet Caffè Latte (https://www.slittishop.it/prodotti/dettaglio-prodotto.asp?id=34&Prodotto=Gran%20Bouquet%20Caff%C3%A8%20Latte%20-%20100g) Kopper’s Chocolate (https://kopperschocolate.com/) San Francisco Restaurants & Locations Noe Valley, San Francisco - Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noe_Valley,_San_Francisco) TheEndUpSF.com – San Francisco’s Legendary Indoor/Outdoor Nightclub (https://theendupsf.com/) Zuni Café (https://zunicafe.com/) Griddle Fresh/Aha Fresh (http://griddlefreshsf.com/) Toast Eatery (http://www.toasteatery.com/) NoVY (https://www.novysf.com/) Patxi’s (https://patxispizza.com/) Hamano Sushi (https://www.hamanosushi.com/) Barney’s Gourmet Hamburgers (http://www.barneyshamburgers.com/) Thai Cafe (http://www.thaicafesf.com/) Lands End - Golden Gate National Recreation Area (U.S. National Park Service) (https://www.nps.gov/goga/planyourvisit/landsend.htm) Stow Lake Boathouse - San Francisco (https://stowlakeboathouse.com/) Crissy Field Center | Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy (https://www.parksconservancy.org/programs/crissy-field-center) North Beach — San Francisco Travel (https://www.sfgate.com/neighborhoods/sf/northbeach/) Golden Boy Pizza (http://goldenboypizza.com/) Tony’s Pizza Napoletana (https://tonyspizzanapoletana.com/) Sunrise Deli (https://www.sunrisedelisf.com/) Ferry Building Marketplace (https://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/) The Embarcadero, SF. — Highlights to check out | hiddenSF.com (http://www.hiddensf.com/106-the-embarcadero-san-francisco.html) Ultra Rainbow Ice Cream (https://www.doublerainbow.com/) Toy Boat Dessert Cafe (https://www.facebook.com/toyboatdessertcafe/) Noe Valley Bakery (https://noevalleybakery.com/) Our thanks to Jack for joining us. You can find Chocolate Covered at 4069 24th Street, between Noe and Castro in San Francisco, CA, on Twitter @ChocoCoveredSF (https://twitter.com/ChocoCoveredSF), and at http://www.chocolatecoveredsf.com. Thank you for listening. You can follow us on Twitter: Lettuce Wrap (@lettucewrappod (https://twitter.com/lettucewrappod)) Christine Doerr (@christinedoerr (https://twitter.com/christinedoerr)) Tammy Tan (@spicehound (http://twitter.com/spicehound)) or email us at lettucerwrappod@gmail.com (mailto:lettucerwrappod@gmail.com). That’s a wrap! Amazon (https://amzn.to/2DBzg5j) and other links may be affiliates. Purchases help support the show. Special Guest: Jack Epstein, Chocolate Covered.

The hills of Noe Valley.

Your Creative Sparks: Our paths are RARELY A STRAIGHT LINE, but eventually it all COMES TOGETHER. Focus less on what you want to DO and more on how you want to FEEL. Learn Stephanie’s POWER PRACTICE for superabundant ENERGY. It’s a vibrant day on the sunny streets of Noe Valley. Lobsterbird and her best friend Stephanie stroll along a tattooed sidewalk, among flowers that are shockingly purple and crazy fuschia madness. Before this dynamic duo paired up on transformational pilgrimages to spiritual creatives, their adventures began as students studying abroad, running amok on the streets of Florence, Italy together. Still free and wild, but their travel is different, an upward iteration of the same thing, a spiral, an uplevel. Leave us a Rating & Review! Links and resources: Request your free copy of Phase Out: The Secret Guide to Finding Work that Frees Your Soul by Sophia Remolde {Lobsterbird} at PhaseOutBook.com Lobsterbird’s newest book: Level Up: Power Practices for Spiritual Superabundance by Sophia Remolde Music for this episode was contributed by Daniel Munkus and recorded in the Hudson River Valley at Subtle Soup Studios. For more info, visit: www.subtlesouprecords.com. Podcast management and creative copy provided by Sonya Louise, at the CrossRoads in Sweet Home Alabama. Sonya Louise is also the force of Nature behind GO Solo Travel & Vision Quest. For Free Energy Readings from Sophia and to learn about upcoming Hero’s Way Pilgrimages, visit: lobsterbird.com.   ✨FINAL CASTING CALL FOR SPIRITUAL TV SHOW✨ Are You a Spiritual Leader, Healer, Artist or Changemaker? Do You Have a Message of Hope and Healing that Needs to Reach More People? If so, you can join us in INDONESIA on the adventure of a lifetime to experience huge transformations in your life and business, while exploding your message out to those who need you. Email us at magic@lobsterbird.com for more details!✨   If you liked this episode, please subscribe to our podcast and drop some starshine on us in iTunes. Leaving 5 starsmakes it possible to bring you more goodness. Bonus points for leaving a review!  

Check, Please! Bay Area reviews a mom-and-pop bakery in San Francisco's Noe Valley, a Greek restaurant in Santa Clara, and an eatery mixing up Indian, Punjabi, and Mexican flavors in Sausalito.

One-hundred-year-old Alyce Murphy walked across the Golden Gate Bridge when it opened in 1937. She worked as a toll taker on the Bay Bridge shortly after it opened. In this podcast, Part 2 of 2, Alyce talks about the bridges, meeting her husband, raising her family, other jobs she had, and the 1989 earthquake. She also reflects on living all 100 of her years in San Francisco, and talks about why she never left. ​We recorded this podcast at Alyce's home in Noe Valley in May 2018. Film photography by Michelle Kilfeather

Britton, Britney, Britanny? What's in a name…? This week on Escrow Out Loud, our San Francisco Real Estate podcast, we talk about some commonly mispronounced place names in San Francisco, many of which have been named after notable people.[01:20] We discuss different pronunciations of Noe Valley, Gough, O'Shaughnessy, Phelan Avenue, Duboce, Bernal Heights, Marin County, San Rafael and more.[6:09] Pronunciation of some street/place names in SF seems to be perpetually debated. So, what is the right way and who's in charge of pronunciation anyway?We hope you'll enjoy this week's episode and join us again next week! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jim Murphy is a fourth-generation San Franciscan whose family originally arrived in the city in the 1850s in covered wagons. For this episode of Storied: San Francisco, hear Jim talk about the early days of Muni's "Man of the Month" program, life in and around Upper Noe Valley Playground, a.k.a., Day Street Park, and other San Francisco stories from the 1950s and '60s. Jim is part of the Chance to Excel Foundation, a non-profit set up to support kids with learning differences in the arts and in sports. Jim and I recorded this podcast in September 2017 at Il Fornaio in Burlingame, California.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. Thomas Robert Simpson, AfroSolo 23, Oct. 18-22 at the AAACC's Burial Clay Theatre, 762 Fulton Street, SF is joined by one of the soloists, Anjali Austin, who will present an excerpt of Live Oak, a tribute to her grandmother and the 30 quilts she inherited from her. Visit afrosolo.org  2. Joanna Haigood, Artistic Director and co-founder, Zaccho Dance Theatre joins us with Jeff Raz, a creative collaborator in the reprise of the 2002 work The View from Here, inspired by the work of artist, Marc Chagall, Oct. 20-22, Oct. 27-29 at Zaccho Studios, 1777 Yosemite Ave., (off Third St.) Studio 330, SF. Visit zaccho.org 3. Artists Kristine Mays and William Rhodes join us to talk about their Open Studio, Friday, Oct. 27 (party) 6-9 p.m., followed by two days of art, Oct. 28-29, 11-6 at 1491 Dolores Street (in Noe Valley), SF. It is a free event. Art will be for sale at the home studio gallery. Visit kristinemays.com and williamrhodesart.com 4. Anjali Austin returns for a longer conversation on her work and anticipated appearence in AfroSolo 23, with her work, "Live Oak."  Visit dance.fsu.edu/anjali-austin/

Above a Bar? In the middle of an industrial neighborhood? Off a lobby? Through a garage? What are some of the weirder places you would live? Is hiring a crane to move your furniture in a deal breaker? Give a San Franciscan a little bit of space, and pretty soon you'll have a pretty awesome home. San Franciscan's are creative urban dwellers, and we chat about a few of the more challenging places and spaces where people live in San Francisco. Show Notes:No links to share for properties above bars at 16th and Guerrero, but if that's what you are looking for, let us know!Buildings with homes off the lobby:45 Lansing - TheJasper,77 Dow - Dow PlaceWhat's for sale at The Infinity:Mentioned in the context of the BMR units built at 888 7th and 1600 Market St. What's for sale at 888 7th: A large development that consists primarily of BMR homes with some market rate homes. What's for sale in Noe Valley?That cottage on Clipper? That's a Noe Valley address - here's everything else on the market right now in Noe Valley. Bye Felicia!Episode 4 of our podcast  - where we talk about a BMR sale that was also a foreclosure with an out of area listing agent - comes up towards the end when we talk about BMR developments. Over the years we've some some homes in interesting places. When you live in a city where space is a premium, people try their best not to waste space. Creative uses of space lead to some very creative homes, but not all of the creative solutions will work for everyone. Would you like a home directly above a nightclub? Behind another home? In a development that is primarily below market rate? Surrounded by industrial lots? We hope you enjoy Episode 09 of Escrow Out Loud, San Francisco Real Estate Stories. Entire Escrow Out Loud Podcast Episode List See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Special Guest this week, Herbert Castillo. The guys talk about Baseball, NBA Playoffs, Movies and Kendrick Lamar's new album. Real Great Time. Enjoy and thanks for listening. Follow @phonz_official @withrex @peninsulalive https://www.youtube.com/user/MrHerbcastillo Visit phonzmusic.com for more dope content Music, Videos, and Home to this podcast. Also http://www.soundcloud.com/phonz_official RED TABLE MEDIA http://www.youtube.com/redtablemediaofficial #RIPCHUCKTHEAWFULEST http://www.soundcloud.com/chucktheawfulest BULLETPROOF MONK OUT NOW ON ITUNES, APPLE MUSIC, SPOTIFY, SOUNDCLOUD, PANDORA https://soundcloud.com/phonz_official/sets/bulletproof-monk https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/bulletproof-monk/id1161978580 Special Thanks to Visual Street Films. https://visualstreet.tv

ChrisO is a musician and hair stylist at Honeycomb Salon in Noe Valley who has an impressive record collection. He regaled the Muni Diaries Live crowd at Elbo Room in April 2016 with a story of running into someone he knew from a past life on the bus, and you’ll have to watch the video to see what he found out. “I was taking the 19-Polk bus for the first time. In 2003, the buses that were used for the 19 line were the most florescent light-flickering, brownish yellowy interior-having, murdery buses in the whole city. They just looked like you were gonna die on them. We all get on the bus and I notice there is this guy staring at me. I thought: Is this like a “Cruising me to have sex thing, or pretending to cruise me to have sex thing so you can kill me?”

Sean Gustilo/November 17, 2013 Joseph A. Gervasi interviews Sean Gustilo. Sean Gustilo was born in Pennsylvania but grew up the youngest son of Filipino immigrants in the town of Glassboro in South Jersey. His older brother turned him onto punk in the mid-’80s and he was soon attending shows in venues such as Club Pizzaz, Revival, and City Gardens. He met Jesse Townley (later Jesse Luscious and also interviewed in this project) and took over Philly Zine when Jesse headed for parts West. Through Philly Zine, Sean began to explore not only his interest in punk, but also the use of computers for design (which was rather new at the time) and the awakening “homo punk” scene. Sean was one of a small but loud chorus of voices of gay punks speaking out in a scene that at the time barely addressed matters of sexuality in the scene. As Philly Zine wound down, Sean came to work on NO LONGER A FANzine with me and operate the I Love You ‘zine distribution service. As well, Sean was a founding and crucial member of the Cabbage Collective. Among other things, we talk about how Sean came out and the changes in greater American society’s attitudes regarding homosexuals from when he came out to the present. Sean now lives in the Noe Valley neighborhood of San Francisco and works in the tech industry. His time of active involvement in the DIY punk scene had a lasting and tremendous impact on his life.   The post LOUD! FAST! PHILLY! Episode 42: Sean Gustilo of Philly Zine, Cabbage Collective appeared first on Cinepunx.

Writer and novelist, Mike DeCapite is on today's show.. In the late eighties DeCapite began building a cult audience for his free-floating fiction when punk legend Richard Hell's literary magazine CUZ excerpted DeCapite's unpublished novel “Through the Windshield” in its first three issues. The novel is a gorgeously-written reverie to Mike's hometown of Cleveland as seen through the eyes of a young working class dreamer being given a tour of racetracks and betting parlors by his tale-spinning older friend, Ed. DeCapite's love of music imbues his work, which contains many musical references and his work has attracted an audience especially among musicians. Mike has done numerous liner notes for releases from the jazz band Curlew and as we post this episode, Mike has just completed a reading with the acclaimed singer/songwriter Amy Rigby in their hometown of New York City. Coincidentally, our last guest, documentarian Robert Gordon mentioned after our interview that he was still hoping to direct a film based on DeCapite's THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD as his first fictional film. Mike's work, as well as the work of his novelist father Raymond DeCapite can be found in Harper's ITALIAN AMERICAN READER, Red Giant Books has reissued a paperback edition of THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD and you can get a kindle edition of the fascinating book through Amazon, as well his short work CREAMSICLE BLUE and chapbooks RADIANT FOG and SITTING PRETTY. You can find Mike and buy his work direct at Sparklestreet.com I've known Mike since the mid-90s when we struck up a fast friendship over the counter from the record store where I was working, Streetlight Records in the Noe Valley neighborhood in San Francisco. We met weekly for a few years Monday nights at his place for dinner while Mike was working on his wonderful but as of yet unpublished novel, RUINED FOR LIFE. Meeting in the Chelsea neighborhood of NYC, we discuss Cleveland, Alice Cooper, Dylan, writing strategies, the changing landscapes of New York and San Francisco, drinking, not drinking, autumnal love and much more. Mike is one of my most lively and humorous conversationalists I've even had the pleasure to know and its a special pleasure to capture some of his wit and wisdom for the show.

Lark Miller is a personal fitness trainer and founder of Infinite Fitness in downtown SF. He grew up in a small town in Massachusetts and competed at a high level in cross country skiing, mountain biking, and cycling. Lark spent some time as a life coach but found his true calling as a personal fitness trainer. He jump-started his own business by going door-to-door in Noe Valley and inviting his neighbors to work out with him on the street. Once Lark started building clients, he found a space in the Bently Reserve downtown and opened Infinite Fitness. On today's show, Lark gives some tips to healthy San Franciscans on how they can be even healthier. He also talks about his recent experience being nominated as one of SF's "Hottest Trainers". Lark lives in the Duboce Triangle. He shares his favorite spots in the 'hood and throughout San Francisco.