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Is Now A Good Time?
by Is Now A Good Time?
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Episodes
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Proud - In Memoriam (1945 - 2024)
An unedited conversation with Proud from June 1, 2017. James Allen Ehrlich (July 19, 1945 - August 17, 2024)
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Emma Rose Allen - A Way In
Emma Rose Allen grew up in Ojai and graduated from UCLA's dance program. She works as a teacher and choreographer for the Ojai Youth Entertainers Studio (OYES) and continues to choregraph and perform her own works as a professional dancer. musical notes: "So What" by Pink "Vampire Empire" by Big...
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Bill Ehrlich - Born Lucky
This is a conversation with my Dad (Bill Ehrlich) on the eve of his retirement at 65. He had a 35-year career as a sales professional in the commercial printing business. Photo: On the front steps of our house in Minnesota with his two grandsons. musical notes: Neil Young "Ohio" [1:14] Simon &...
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January - Being There
January is currently studying to become a psychosomatic therapist. musical notes: Rostam - "Thatch Snow" [intro] Yo Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott - "The Swan (From _Carnival of the Animals, R. 125_)" @ [18:50] Thelonious Monk - "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" @ [29:45] Colleen - "Soul Alphabet" [outro]
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Wesaam Al-Badry - I Don't Want To Give It A Name
Wesaam Al-Badry is a photojournalist living in San Francisco. He was born in 1984 in Nasiriyah, Iraq. website: http://www.wesaamalbadry.com/ musical notes: Charlie Parr - "Jaybird" [intro] The Cannonball Adderly Quintet - "Mercy Mercy Mercy (Live) (Remix)" [outro]
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Lorna Simpson - Oh No, Here It Comes
Lorna Simpson is a stylist and art director currently living and working in San Francisco. website: https://lornaaisimpson.com/ instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lopimpson/ musical notes: Spoon - "Inside Out" [intro] Wilco - "I am trying to break your heart" @ [5:35] Wild Nothing - "Shadow" @...
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Simone Stolzoff - Don't Overthink It
Simone wrote a piece about how he "solved his quarter life crisis" -- link provided below. Topically the piece has overlap with a number of the conversations I've had for this show and it displayed an admirable candor: "I’ve been out of college for four years, and while my med school friends inch...
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Darrell Williams - Under Pressure
Darrell Williams is an excellent barber and lends a nonjudgmental ear to his clients, I know because I'm one of them. Darrell's mixture of serene wisdom and humor come through in our conversation reflecting on his life. He's been through a lot but has made it through without bitterness. "Their...
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Nick Carrel - Up Until Now
Nick Carrel - corporate sales turned dog walking entrepreneur . . . Nick went from corporate sales to dog walking via a failed attempt at "following his passion" for Yerba Mate tea. His story highlights the difficulty of career navigation in uncharted waters and how the vehicle to achieve work...
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Martina & Britney Abrahams - You Had Me At Black
Martina and Britney Abrahams are the sisters behind the podcast You Had Me At Black. They grew up in Bridgewater, New Jersey and despite growing up in the same environment had starkly different experiences. After high school Martina majored in Marketing at Georgetown University while Britney...
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Io Kleiser - That's A Lot Of Pressure
Io Kleiser is an astronomy and astrophysics PhD student at Caltech and is currently a visiting student at Berkeley. In our conversation we discuss how Io decided to go into the sciences and some of the challenges that have come with that path – among them building a foundation of subject matter...
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Dolly Li - Beyond Paper
Dolly Li is a visual journalist at AJ+ - http://www.ajplus.net/english/ - http://dollyli.com/ Dolly's grandfather was persecuted during the cultural revolution in China before her parents eventually immigrated to Brooklyn, New York. Dolly's story explores how in two generations you can go from...
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Kalin Freeman - Live
I met Kalin while he was drawing a crowd outside of the Downtown Berkeley BART stop. He was playing the saxophone with a soul and depth that stopped me in my tracks and I had to find out more. He studied at the Berklee College of Music in Boston and is a graduate of the East Bay Center for the...
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Willie Roberts - The River is Current
Willee's path brought him from California to South America and back to California via New Orleans. Over the past few years he worked for the ACLU, Goorin Bros Hat Co. and studied under San Francisco milliner Wayne Wichern before beginning to make his own hats. Willee is now a hatmaker based in...
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Siggy Bilstein & Joey Yang - Big Dada
Siggy and Joey are the instigators of DadaConf (dadaconf.com), a conference built around the idea of “Big Dada” -- think Big Data meets Dadaism. Siggy and Joey work in the tech industry but maintain a sense of both the promise and absurdity of technology. They started DadaConf in order to bring...
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Michelle Cho - The What & The Why
Michelle recently received admission to London Film School and moved to London at the beginning of April to begin her program at LFS in May. Michelle was a Digital Marketing Coordinator at Levi's in San Francisco for the past year and a half. Before San Francisco, she worked at Kinfolk Magazine…
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Joel Gil Leon - So Many Things
Joel is a QA Software Engineer from southern Mexico (Villhermosa, Tabasco). He currently works at Endless Mobile in San Francisco and in June will be leaving to travel the world starting with a one-way ticket to India. “I’m not sold on this idea that I should be careful about every step I take to...
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Allison Vicenzi - Love It or Fix It
Allison is Head of Education at 3Doodler and currently lives and works in Hong Kong. "You can do anything that you want but you can't do everything . . . at least not all at once." "It's a lot of shiny objects out there." "Nobody tells you what to do after you've turned in all your homework." Her...
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Jenna Kauppi - What's the Worst That Could Happen
Jenna is a copywriter at Goodby Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco. "It's very sad but also very empowering. The worst thing that could possibly happen to me has already happened . So in a way it kind of released me to this, that I realized I could take more risks . . . because what's the...
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Shane Callahan - Whatever It Is
Shane moved to California after spending time in China and South America post-college. "Go with your gut, whatever that tells you . . . whether it's the safe route, whatever it is. Your gut is going to get you where you are supposed to be." Podcast mixed by Mike Benz.
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Mike Benz - Write Now
Mike is an aspiring writer who felt he needed more time to write. In his mid-twenties, he quit his day job and took a multi-year sabbatical only to find himself less productive than expected and yearning for some of the small things we take for granted as part of the daily grind. He currently…
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Lauren Argo - inDesign
Lauren is an industrial designer focusing on user experience and user interface. What makes something well designed? "The fact that when you're using the product or service you don't actually think about the design, you don't even notice it was designed . . . it's when the design actually...
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Chloe List - Off Menu
Chloe is a food photographer and graphic designer who works in restaurant PR at Postcard Communications in San Francisco, CA. Website: http://www.chloelist.com/ Instagram: @chloelist If she had to choose a title for her autobiography: "I Still Don't Know"
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