Sara Caplan (she/her) is a trans woman, comedian, and philosophy student based in Los Angeles, CA. She is a member of the improv teams QT’s (UCB’s first all-trans-GNC-nonbinary improv team) and Chill Touch. You can check out her thoughts on transness, philosophy, and whatever else is happening on her instagram @sararosecaplan Discussed This week: being trans improvisors, Dandelions, Ginger Bug, eating garbage for the nostaligaic comfort, room temp cans of spaghetti with utensils, NYC friends, long form and short form improv, discovery through games and play in a scene, Los Angeles, Polysemy, Ruderal, Groom of the Stool, the mark of a criminal, edible dandelion greens from an Asian grocery store, dandelion chips, weeds as medicines and a diuretic, the malleability of definitions, kufresh, the Hebrew Alphabet, being named after a horse, eastheitic flexibility, no one taught you the definition of the word chair, the Trechery of Images, words that leave you speachless, Denotation vs. Connotation, South Park fag episode, why a question has rhetorical impact, propaganda, categories being messy, and more!

Russell F. is a Canadian-American currently living in Portland Maine. A voracious hobby collector, he can be found climbing the buildings of the city, sparring with longswords, or being far to dramatic in a roleplaying game. Discussed this week: globetrotting, Canada, Mexico, London and the US, superior English chocolate, the persistence of boiled eggs, Mom's room temp cookie eggs, hassleback potatoes, Kanopy streaming service, bodybuilders eating eggshells intentionally, umeboshi plum rice meal with avocado and sesame seeds, chocolate, Hot Dog Soup, snow caps and popcorn, classic popped corn, Scrapetown, sushi as a movie snack in a deli bag, stunt mic, Nicholas Reno, hot vs cold bong water, Cough Drop, your introduction to weed having a standardizing effect on the body, grav bongs, bodily expectations, shit talking edibles, DARE, weed going from subtle plug to sweet hug, being excellent to each other, and more!

https://writebloody.com/products/good-girl-and-other-yearnings-by-isabelle-correa ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Isabelle Correa is a poet from Washington state living in Mexico City with her partner and their three dogs. She studied creative writing at Western Washington University, is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and is the author of the chapbook Sex is From Mars But I Love You From Venus. She is the winner of the 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize with Write Bloody Publishing for her debut full-length collection, Good Girl and Other Yearnings, which you can pre-order now. Her work has appeared in Hobart, Pank, The Rebis, and more. Find her on Instagram: @isabellecorreawrites and on Substack: A Poem Is A Place. Discussed this week: creative writing for fiction and literary magazines, Good Girl and Other Yearnings, the Excel poem, Sex is From Mars But I Love You From Venus, having 12 siblings, older sisters, TBLTs, Chapbook, Washington State, Western Washington, living in Mexico for 3 years and Vietnam for 6 before that, the ease of access of Mexican mushrooms and other drugs, Bruce Beasley, Dianne Seuss poet, slam poetry the class, 1960s lit, Buddy Wakefield, AWP conference, Taylor Mali, Button Poetry, Frank O'Hara, Kim Addonzio, Ocean Vuong, the importance of PREORDERS BEFORE APRIL 18TH, desire, poems into songs, pronouncing silences, writing poems on company time, loathing your salaried job, the Jack McCarthy award, the evolution of books, Shel Siverstein, ruderal species, Isabelle's news letter and Substack, and more!

Matt Shore enjoys turning the mundane things in life into hilarious, high-energy pop bangers. With topics ranging from dealing with anxiety, trying to pay student loans, protecting yourself from Boston’s wild turkeys, and more, he’s got the song you didn’t know you needed. Matt’s setup includes a keyboard, laptop, loop station, guitar, and with his trusty ironing board as a table for it all, he can make any venue feel like your parents’ basement. Discussed this week: being musical comedians and comical musicians, Pop Corners, Cottage Cheese and Grapes, imbibing infrequently, starting acoustic guitar in second grade, abstinence only tape metaphor, a gummy, Keif soda, Matt's height necessitating an ironing board as a stand, Mike Burbiglia, Tig Notaro, 300+ people at open mic night, liking your work, a guy at CVS with a bluetooth headset, diverse ages at shows, Costco, keyboard, drums, bass, Cheech Marin- school bus driver, Blue in Portland ME, Portsmouth NH, taking audience suggestions, and more! IG and TikTok : @mattshore__ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@mattshore_?si=WUL23cxFBfShDviD Website:https://www.mattshorecomedy.com

These joints were an absolute blessing btw Katy Christie is the Director of Sales and Marketing for Chill Karen Wellness medical cannabis grow and the Owner and Founder of mov(e)volve: yoga, movement, and well-being! She has a Master’s Degree in Biotechnology, is a certified personal trainer, yoga instructor, health coach and has over 20 years of dance and fitness teaching experience. She is also a burlesque performer in her “free time.” Katy is passionate about all things well-being related, including the cannabis that she sells to all of their Maine-based patients. Nathaniel Butler is a talented software engineer and the Founder, Owner, and Head Cultivator for Chill Karen Wellness medical cannabis grow. Nathaniel has been growing clean, pesticide, herbicide, fungicide, spray-of-any-kind free cannabis for over ten years. He began growing for himself as a patient so that he was sure of what was going into his body and then branched out and created Chill Karen in 2023. Nathaniel is passionate about bringing the cleanest conceivable cannabis to as many people as possible throughout Maine who may need it. Discussed this week: saltines, Pop Corners, Kettle Chips, cheddar, Swiss, honeyed goat cheese, hairy nugs, Illinois pot heads, lids as ashtrays, the Jpint Humidor, bad pot, freshman year of college burn runs, weed and PCOP, watch glass, and more! Links: https://chillkaren.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/chillkarenprints https://movevolve.com/ Where to find Chill Karen Products: Directly Through Katy (with Med Card) - kchristie@chillkaren.com Maine Only Bridgton - https://www.maineonlybridgton.com/ Local Leaf - https://localleafme.com/ Valley Purveyors - https://www.valleypurveyors.com/ Sticky Bud Farms - https://stickybudfarms.com/

Paul is a glass enthusiast, event coordinator & owner of BongBoysLLC ! Discussed this week: Indomie ramenegg, brix, glass enthusiams, glass pendants, borasillicate, Boy Boys, heady glass, 1g snaps, Zero Grav, Hash Bash, sounding like Elliot Kalan, Mille Fois, Heady, Digimon 2000, Sable Haze, disc golf, and more! You can find info on Paul & the BongBoys on www.BongBoys.Org

Jada is an artist, poet, and hair dresser that enjoys making people look pretty and smoking Indica after work. Discussed this week: A dropped pitcher, strawberries and honey and cinnamon, Mom's Chilli, Fried, haircare, the importance of regular trims, Schrodinger's hair, adjusting your style, the dangers of a Gravity Bong, weed trades, humans as a canvas, Salon Synergy, being a Beiber fan, Aunt's car smell, magnifried, crystal wand poem, being sex positive, and more! Catch Jada on Instagram at

A scrum master by day, Chris enjoys the higher things in life when he isn’t working. His favorite strain is peanut butter breath, and his favorite edible is nerd ropes. Chris loves to smoke and have a good time with friends. Discussed this week: being a garage smoker with Swifty sensibilities, nerds rope, cran-brulee, Lunch Box, Taylor Swift, listening to Midnights with your little cousin, chips, salsa, and popcorn, snacktivities, Scrum Master, novelty vs tools, DC weed, lobbiests, rolling joints, art existing through music, and more! Find Chris on Instagram @chris_no_1_liked_my_old_name

Finn (Jack for this episode) is a creative Maine island recluse, improvizer, occultist, digital artist and strange community organizer for “all the other lost & lonely lover-dreamers wandering the desert of the real on the dark night if the soul…or something like that”. They run interactive community building games locally & online as @7strange7loop7labyrinth on instagram. Their current work is a weird multiproject artistic sigil “to contain Captain Capitalism”, a thoughtform they unleashed. Finn is a rambling scrambling community organizer, and a proudly hopeless failure. They survived the dashed dreams of a failed startup company, but claim to have lost their mind and soul to the occult after a series of unfortunate events involving “too many ethenogens for healing”; they also teach improv to children. Discussed this week: Fractals, Domino’s, harm reduction, trip sitting the cooldown tent, sushi, frozen crappie, Peak’s Island, Little Debbie Fancy Cakes, bad food, GERD, rhizomes, Kevin Smith movies, Rosario Dawson, body dysmorphia, ARG’s, superheroes as mythology, magik, the Adventure Zone novels, escape rooms, isolated folks, symbolism, Three of Cups, the Empress, and Fortune, the polarity of fortune, and more!

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

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

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

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

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

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

My name is Katie Bradley and I am co-owner of Well Lit. I first began agricultural work when I was 10 years old working on various farms growing up in Presque Isle, Maine. My passion for learning more about the living world was further cultivated when I went to college for Biology at the University of Maine in Orono and then earned my masters as a Physician Assistant in Boston. I worked as a surgical physician assistant for 4 years in Southern Maine until I was diagnosed with a life-threatening auto-immune disease. When Western Medicine failed to reduce my symptoms, a combination of cannabis, integrative medicine and nutrition proved essential to achieving my optimal state of health. My work in the Maine Cannabis Community began by providing medical certifications to patients. I then helped research and develop therapeutic cannabinoid profiles and ratios for a medical cannabis company. This all led me to start Well Lit with my phenomenal wife Paisley! For fun, I am a singer/ songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. If I had to choose a favorite instrument it would be the d’jembe. I love reggae music, funky beats and harmonies! Through my own journey I have reaped the benefits of cannabinoid medicine and I’m so excited to share this knowledge with all of you! Well Lit is a physician assistant, queer women owned medically licensed cannabis company based in Southern Maine.  Our focus is to empower patients with knowledge of cannabis and hemp to help them discover the right balance of medicine for themselves.  We focus on cultivating 1:1 THC: CBD ratio flower that provides patients with the positive attributes of cannabis while decreasing anxiety or paranoia.  "Weed Without the Wierd" Discussed this week: Doing college, patient perspectives, RSO heart wipe, growing, having an autoimmune disease, Hurkle, growing near a greyhound, weed without the weird, balanced medleys, Miley Cyrus, Pennywise preroll, salty snacks, the right grind, quality control, prerolls to order, one to one ratios of THC to CBD, feeling even keeled, Seattle chronic seed, Durbin Poison, Verins G, medicinal attributes, we'd as breakfast, one to one is for everyone, dose dependent, Revelry, paranoia’s origins, the fear center, the amgydila, brother burn cruse, Happy Pride, Christine, shotgunning smoke, edibles and smoking, RSO gummies, flavonoids taking a one month break for a drug test, starting in college, illness is not a moral issue, feeling functional, functional medicine, being a steward of medicine and a musician at heart,  percentage chasers, collective pharmaceuticals, community stigmas, changing stigma, well lit meaning balanced and educational, and more!

Howdy, all! This week's episode is a recording of the game show I hosted at Three Of Strobg Spirit on 6.27.24. It was a blast and a half and will definitely require some recovery time. Discussed this week: Racehorse Name or Weed Strain, Weed Family Trees, Anamorphology, License Platitudes, May I Have An 8th of, and more! P.s Glaze Gummies are f*cking delicious, pass it on.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW Howdy, y'all! This week's episode is coming to you late due to my preparations for Fringe Fest in Portland. Don't miss my show at Three of Strong Spirits at 9:00 on June 27th, a humble Thursday. Tickets are $15 and $5 if extra if you'd like to compete. If you've been on the show before, that last fee is waived due to my gratitude and desperate need for contestants. Discussed this week: Stoner Storytime at Free St bar with the Women's Cannabiz gang, You Are An Invitation To Kiss, I'm Not Happy Baby, Lincolin's Speakeasy on Market St, Happy Birthday, A List of Thing I Do When I Get Lonely, I'm Heart Beating Myself Up, and more! This episode was made possible thanks to the lovely: Jennifer Whetzel, Theresa Nguyen, and my good pal Kassie. Bless you all for recording. Free St Bar also gets a kudos, as does Kristi Shaw show was cool enough to sponsor the sesh' at Stoner Storytime with a blessed joint from Northeastern Growing Company.

Michael is a seven year veteran of the Maine cannabis industry. It began primarily developing websites for dispensaries and quickly progressed to brand development, new product development, and wholesale distribution. He enjoys playing guitar and banjo and his newest hobby of foraging for goodies along Maine’s trails and woods. He's also a Scorpio, likes Chinese food, the rain, and wasting Chinese food in the rain. Discussed this week: Naan bread, the best selling beer being Bud Light, smalls, 50 years smoking with a 20-year break, Littlefield Confections whiskey caramels, hash rosin and lemon ginger infused sleepy time tea, being a pastry horror, knowing all the bakeries in town, Wheel of Fluff, What the Fluff Fest, sharing in the community, Phish, being a deadhead, jazz interpreting, brickweed, Panama red, Colombian gold, a power hitter, a dense laser of smoke, four dudes on a dirt road, smelling weed on other people, weed anxiety, trying indica, nibbling on an adult cookie, pastafarianism, rugged roots, candy buckets, sleepy brownies, natural decarboxylation, dusty weed, terps being overlooked, the endocannabinoid system, being unique in Maine, and more!

If you live in the Portland, ME, area, BOY, do I have good news for you! I'm hosting the hit spin-off, Feeling Lucky, for a late night show for Fringe Fest! Tickets are 15$ to watch and an extra 5$ to challenge the current Gram Champ. There will be prizes to be had! Games involving license plates and smashing words together! A good time will be had by all. Check out #portfringe on Instagram for more deets at a later date!