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Stoner

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Stoner is a freewheeling conversation that often starts with "when was the first time you ever smoked weed?" and can end up anywhere. Guests range from artists to musicians to those working in the marijuana economy. Host Aaron Lammer is also the co-host of the Longform Podcast and has co-written songs with Francis and the Lights for artists like Chance the Rapper and Drake.

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  1. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT + Francis Starlite Rerun

    Stoner is taking a hiatus so I can write a book for Ten Speed based on this podcast! Gonna re-run some of my favorite Season 1 episodes over the holidays, then back with new episodes in 2019 after the book is turned in.

  2. Episode 42: Ross Simonini, writer and artist

    Ross Simonini is the the author of The Book of Formation and the longtime interviews editor of The Believer. We talked about touring in bands, cults, and self-restrictions.

  3. Episode 41: Elise McDonough, author of Bong Appétit

    Elise McDonough is the author of *Bong Appétit* and *The High Times Cannabis Cookbook.* She lives in Santa Cruz.

  4. Episode 40: Matt Taibbi, co-writer of The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing

    Matt Taibbi discovered a longtime acquaintance had a secret life as a marijuana kingpin, sending product all over the United States in car trunks. With his anonymous co-author, he collaborated on 'The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing,' an intimate and detailed account of the business of grey…

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  5. Episode 39: Ann Friedman, co-host of 'Call Your Girlfriend'

    Ann Friedman is a longtime "casual but committed " marijuana fan and a writer in Los Angeles. She co-hosts Call Your Girlfriend with previous Stoner guest Aminatou Sow.

  6. Episode 38: Peter Watts, author of Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo

    Peter Watts discusses the life and collections of Julio Santo Domingo who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s largest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, and rock and roll.

  7. Episode 37: Amanda Mac from Terp School

    Amanda Mac from Terp School talks about how terpenes tell you a lot more than sativa and indica labels. We also got into chronic pain and the differences between full spectrum and "gateway" CBD.

  8. Episode 36: Paul Flannery, sportswriter

    Paul Flannery is a sportswriter and a serious runner who went to the Colorado mountains to train with a championship ultramarathoner who runs stoned.

  9. Episode 35: Alexis Coe, historian

    Alexis Coe is a historian and the author of " Alice+Freda Forever." We talked about setting weed rules for yourself, why it's hard to leave a legalization state behind, and which Presidents she thinks might have smoked weed.

  10. Episode 34: Justin Ouellette Returns

    Justin Ouellette of Portland's Lightscale Labs returns to talk about why strains are a bad way to sort weed, experimenting with CBD and micro-dosing LSD, and why he's starting his own cannabis garden.

  11. Episode 33: Ashley Brooke & Tahirah Hairston from The High Ends

    Ashley Brooke & Tahirah Hairston talk to women about their weed habits at The High Ends.

  12. Episode 32: Eduardo Sanchez & Gregg Hale of Haxan Films (Blair Witch Project)

    Director Eduardo Sanchez and Producer Gregg Hale of Haxan Films talk weed and their longstanding creative partnership which started with The Blair Witch Project in 1999.

  13. Episode 31: Anja Charbonneau from Broccoli Magazine

    Anja Charbonneau is the editor-in-chief of the free weed magazine Broccoli and former creative director of Kinfolk.

  14. Episode 30: Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR), co-founder of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus

    Congressman Earl Blumenauer has represented Oregon's 3rd Congressional District since 1996. He is a co-founder of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus which was formed in 2017. He doesn't smoke marijuana but has "no problem with people who do" and predicts marijuana will be legal within 5 years.

  15. Episode 29: 'Elon Musk Hit the Blunt' w/ Charlie Warzel from Buzzfeed

    Buzzfeed tech reporter Charlie Warzel returns to discuss Elon Musk hitting a blunt on the Joe Rogan Experience and whether we're ready for a stoner CEO.

  16. Episode 28: Adam Lisagor, director and founder of Sandwich Video

    Adam Lisagor directs commercials for the internet and TV. We talked about life before the internet, when weed takes you to a dark place, and discovering CBD.

  17. Episode 27: Jia Tolentino, writer for The New Yorker

    Stoner is back for Season 2! Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker who wrote recently about the teen vaping sensation Juul. We talked about her intention to die on the moon, the etiquette of sharing popcorn with a complete stranger during a stoned viewing of Beauty and the Beast, and...

  18. Episode 26: Cannabis Bar Association co-founders Amanda Conley and Shabnam Malek

    [Amanda Conley](https://twitter.com/imperfectsonnet) and [Shabnam Malek](https://twitter.com/shabnammy) are Bay Area lawyers who co-founded the [National Cannabis Bar Association](http://www.canbar.org/). They also maintain their own practice, [Brand & Branch LLP](http://www.brandandbranch.com/),...

  19. Episode 25: Mira Gonzalez, poet and writer

    [Mira Gonzalez](https://twitter.com/miragonz) is a poet and writer in L.A. She got a job at a dispensary when she was 19 and she once drank an entire bottle of weed lube.

  20. Episode 24: Benjamin Dickinson, filmmaker

    [Benjamin Dickinson](https://twitter.com/BrainDickinson) is a director whose most recent film is [Creative Control](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3277624/). We talked about being a movie director in the age of TV, his daily writing routine, and his experiences with seeing a dream therapist.

  21. Episode 23: Tao Lin, novelist and poet

    [Tao Lin](https://twitter.com/tao_lin) is is the author of the novel [_Taipei_](https://www.amazon.com/Taipei-Vintage-Contemporaries-Tao-Lin/dp/0307950174) and a forthcoming book _Beyond Existentialism_ about Terence McKenna and psychedelics. We talked about: 🌱 why Tao documents both his own...

  22. Episode 22: The Great Pot Monopoly Mystery w/ Amanda Chicago Lewis

    Amanda Chicago Lewis returns to the show to discuss her new GQ story "The Great Pot Monopoly Mystery" about a shadowy business group that is trying to patent marijuana strains.

  23. Episode 21: Ian Vanek from Japanther and Howardian

    [Ian Vanek](https://twitter.com/Japanther) spent 13 years in the art project duo Japanther. He's currently touring the country by himself on a dirt bike as part of his new project [Howardian](http://ianvanek.com/). We talked about the challenges of solo motorcycle touring, frosted weed…

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  24. Episode 19: Matt Haughey founded Metafilter and works at Slack

    [Matt Haughey](https://twitter.com/mathowie) never touched weed as a teen, despite being a competitive BMX rider in Southern California. He didn't smoke any weed in his 20s either, busy founding [Metafilter](http://www.metafilter.com/) one of the internet's first collections of "cool shit people...

  25. Episode 18: Samantha Miller, Chief Science Officer at HMBLDT

    Samantha Miller does research that informs the formulation of the special vape pens that hmbldt makes branded not by strain but effect: sleep, bliss, calm, relief. Prior to becoming HMBLDT's in-house scientist, Miller founded Pure Analytics, one of the first cannabis testing labs in the country.…

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  26. Episode 17: Cards Against Humanity co-founder Max Temkin and writers Joanna Feldman & Julia Weiss

    Max Temkin is a co-founder of Cards Against Humanity, a "party game for horrible people," and Chicago comedians Joanna Feldman and Julia Weiss are its head writers. After a successful Kickstarter in 2011, Cards Against Humanity was released independently, reaching #1 in Amazon's Games section and...

  27. Episode 16: Digby, an English cannabis enthusiast who has lived in Morocco since 1973

    In 1973, Digby traveled from England to Morocco seeking out villages that practiced traditional hashmaking. Forty-six years later, he's still there.

  28. Episode 15: Benny Blanco, producer and songwriter

    [Benny Blanco](https://twitter.com/itsbennyblanco) has produced twenty-six #1 hits and his records have sold over 100 million copies (or so Wikipedia tells me.) His writing credits include Katy Perry's 'Teenage Dream,' Rihanna's 'Diamonds,' Justin Bieber's 'Love Yourself,' and Maroon 5's 'Moves...

  29. Episode 14: Dope Girls Zine (Beca Grimm & Rachel Hortman)

    [Dope Girls Zine](http://www.dopegirlszine.org/)'s editor [Beca Grimm](https://twitter.com/becagrimm) and art director [Rachel Hortman](https://twitter.com/rachel_hortman) discuss why they made a zine for women who "can still get shit done while getting high," living in Atlanta during a rap…

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  30. Episode 13: Sebastián Silva, director of Crystal Fairy & The Magic Cactus and Nasty Baby

    ### [Sebastián Silva](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2928364/) is a filmmaker and grew up in Chile. He directed [Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7nInvUzAI8) about a group of Chileans and Americans on a road trip seeking the mescaline-bearing San Pedro cactus. He...

  31. Episode 12: Emma Chasen, Director of Education at Portland's Farma and former budtender

    Emma Chasen quit her job doing research trials at Brown and took her degree in Medicinal Plant Research to Portland. Within a week she had a job at Farma, where she was first a budtender and now focuses on cannabis science education.

  32. Episode 11: Jake Lodwick, creator of Vimeo and Keezy

    When he was in college, Jake Lodwick was brought on as one of the original developers of [CollegeHumor](http://www.collegehumor.com/). Shortly thereafter he co-founded Vimeo and three years later he posted [a photo of himself taking a bong hit](http://www.tvsnob.com/pictures/jakoblodwick.jpg)…

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  33. Episode 10: Ricardo Baca, founding editor of The Cannabist

    Ricardo Baca is the founding editor of The Cannabist, a site from the _Denver Post _that covers the "marijuana industry like it was the oil industry" and the subject of the documentary _Rolling Papers_. He recently left The Cannabist to found Grasslands, "a content agency for cannabis."

  34. Episode 09: Francis Starlite from Francis and the Lights

    Francis Starlite is behind [Francis and the Lights](https://twitter.com/andthelights?lang=en), who in 2016 alone released the album _Farewell, Starlite! and_ worked collaboratively with [Bon Iver, Kanye West](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wScYn10D2vo), [The...

  35. Episode 08: Alexandra Chasin, author of a biography of America's first drug czar Harry J. Anslinger who coined the term 'marijuana'

    Alexandra Chasin is an associate professor at The New School. Her new book [Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger's War on Drugs](https://www.amazon.com/Assassin-Youth-Kaleidoscopic-History-Anslinger%C2%92s/dp/022627697X) is a biography of America's first drug czar who...

  36. Episode 07: Bill Levin, founder of The First Church of Cannabis

    In 2015 longtime activist Bill Levin founded the First Church of Cannabis in Indianapolis. He is currently suing for the right to use the "sacrament of cannabis" as part of his church's religious practice. Despite being frequently written about online, the First Church of Cannabis has no website.…

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  37. Episode 06: Charlie Warzel discusses shocking weed revelations from Alex Jones' custody hearings

    Charlie Warzel is a technology reporter who spent the last two weeks sitting right behind America's favorite conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in an Austin, TX courthouse. At stake in Alex Jones' custody dispute is whether the unhinged character he plays on _InfoWars_ is real or as he claims...

  38. Episode 05: Amanda Chicago Lewis, weed journalist and Rolling Stone columnist

    Amanda Chicago Lewis is a journalist in Los Angeles. Amanda has spent the last few years covering the entrepreneurs, charlatans, and weirdos who make up the largest weed market in the world for LA Weekly and Buzzfeed. We talked about California's legalization vote in November and why we won't...

  39. Episode 04: Krishna Andavolu from Weediquette

    Krishna Andavolu is the host of Weediquette, a TV show on Viceland in which he travels America and the world telling the stories of people whose lives are are deeply impacted by marijuana. Weediquette's third season kicks off as part Vice's Weed Week on April 19th. We talked about being asked to...

  40. Episode 03: Nick Denton, founder of Gawker Media

    Nick Denton founded Gawker Media in 2004. In 2016, Gawker's portfolio of sites were either sold off or shuttered after a lawsuit brought by Hulk Hogan bankrupted the company. This lawsuit, over the posting of Hulk Hogan's sex tape, was financed by Peter Thiel. But Nick and I didn't talk about any...

  41. Episode 02: Justin Ouellette from Lightscale Labs

    [Justin Oullette](http://jstn.cc/) was a major programmer in New York's technology scene, working on Vimeo, [Muxtape](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muxtape), and Tumblr, before leaving it all behind to start a marijuana testing facility, [Lightscale Labs.](https://lightscale.com/) We talked about...

  42. Episode 01: Aminatou Sow from 'Call Your Girlfriend'

    Aminatou Sow is the co-host of the podcast 'Call Your Girlfriend' and consults extensively in the technology industry. Her family is Guinean and she grew up in Nigeria so I was curious to hear about her experiences as a weed-enthusiast, immigrant, and woman of color. We talked about weed culture…

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  43. Episode 00: Teaser

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Stoner is a freewheeling conversation that often starts with "when was the first time you ever smoked weed?" and can end up anywhere. Guests range from artists to musicians to those working in the marijuana economy. Host Aaron Lammer is also the co-host of the Longform Podcast and has co-written songs with Francis and the Lights for artists like Chance the Rapper and Drake.

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