Cannabis Karaoke Podcast

It all started out with a LinkedIn search “Cannabis Industry Insider” and boom there he was Matthew Wagner. I read into his bio a bit and talk about someone with a story. “I have applied at 200+ cannabis jobs on LinkedIn, and even more on other platforms; not a single interview, and not a single call back. I found my way. and I was meant to be here.”

Our conversation lasted over 2 hours and we put about an hour on tape, there will...

I really loved this interview with Barbie Sommars, her passion and concern comes through. Starting as a patient and an activist she naturally moved to becoming an educator. She has dealt with health issues that have fueled her desire to utilize cannabis as medicine.

She is the President of Faerie Jane, a cannabis consultancy specializing in helping clients successfully navigate this vast emerging industry. With over twenty years i...

As Communications Manager for NCIA, Bethany Moore leads us down the path of events (on it’s 10th year of existence), Covid-19 and how the industry is pivoting. We start off talking about how the space is evolving around content creation, why it is important for her to focus on blogs, podcasts and videos to consume.

The topic around cannabis being deemed essential is a big deal. Bethany discusses the impact of states acknowleding t...

Champelli…the…king…is….back

Before there was Cookies, Dr. Greenthumb or any other weed mogul there was Joseph Rutherford aka Champelli.

In the early 90’s, it was the real first strain to blow up the bay area, hip hop artists Snoop Dogg, Memphis Bleek, Beanie Sigel, B-Real, Yukmouth and the legend Mac Dre all rapped about the Champelli. “I need some Mary Jane, some Champelli mane a smelly thang Joe Pelli is my relli mane” – Mac Dre...

You wouldn’t know it with how humble Mary Carreon is, but she is a profound voice in the space. As the associate editor of Merry Jane, she has the opportunity to tell the best story regardless of the topic to tell the story through the lens that is tangible.

She just had her full first year on 4/1 with Merry Jane, and in cannabis years that is like 7. Her angle to write is around telling the whole story and one in particular is when...

When you get three people who know almost everyone in the industry to jump on a podcast this is what happens. The Cannabis Power Hour will be a weekly event with the ever present Ophelia Chong, the master of Hash Bones Carl Saling III and your host the digital media guy Danny Keith.

Listen as we traverse how cannabis has become an essential business in the state…or has it. Regulation is strangling the industry, taxation is driving...

Living in Santa Cruz California it is always nice to see a local company doing big things. In this interview with Co-Founder and CEO of Goldenseed Scott Goldie and their securities lawyer Kendall Almerico we discuss the first of it’s kind in cannabis utilizing Regulation A (is an exemption from registration for public offerings. Regulation A has two offering tiers: Tier 1, for offerings of up to $20 million in a 12-month period; an...

Abdullah Saeed has a presence, immediately his voice and quick wit makes you laugh. I got to link up with him at The Emerald Cup where we were both working the event (watch the interview with Tommy Chong) and smoked a J together…. the rest is history.

The stand up comic, TV Producer, Journalist, Writer, wrote the weekly column for Weediquette, was the host for Bong Appétit on VICE, the co-creator of Great Moments in Weed History, ...

Mark and I interview Eric Rosen who works at Dark Heart Nursery and is a dedicated plant geek or strainiologist. He came from the tech world but always had an eye on the cannabis space desiring to be where his passion was. After bouncing around in cannabis, he locked in with Dark Heart Nursery and as you listen will realize he is at home working there.

Eric is a vast treasure trove of info, terms like tissue culture, genetic reset...

This episode, I get to speak with Joseph Sulistyo the CEO and Jake Tital, Co-Founder/Head of Business Development for Sproutways. We discuss the value of landrace, heirloom and hybrid genetics from well respected and top level breeders Bodhi of Bodhi Seeds, Snowhigh of Legendary Genetix and Kagyu of Coastal Seed Co.

Fresh off the press release with Waverider Nursery and Santa Cruz Naturals, Sproutways is looking to create a seed t...

Alex Frost came from being a founding member of Canndescent the first of its kind "experience" based brand in cannabis. She spent time helping build the brand from the beginning selecting the color orange and it eventual growth to a 250 person company.

Along the way she realized her talent for getting clients to ask "What is your deeper WHY". Branded The Cannsultant, Alex begin her endeavors consulting cannabis ...

Rico Lamitte (Suavecito Rico) TedX speaker, NCAA Football Athlete, Founder of LA and Orange County Cannagather, Founder of The Suave Life and recognized as 2018 High Times 100 most influential people in cannabis, BAKER rep and former opioid addict.

Rico was an asset to the NCAA, guaranteed to always get a heads up on drug testing and was presented with opioids to cover pain relief. He ended up rupturing his tendon, got depressed an...

Episode 25 is a first, the first co-hosted show with Mark (first name only) and he brought some heat to Cannabis Karaoke with renown comedian Ngaio Bealum (Emerald Cup MC, Star of Cooking on High found on Netflix, frequent guest on Getting Doug with High and cannabis MC). We came right of the gate swinging with Ngaio's parents being a combo of hippy/Black Panther upbringing.

As an artist he has seen all of his gigs cancelled due to...

Colin Disheroon decided in 2010 while working in park and land management that cannabis was something he was not just interested in but felt he could build an experience around. As with everything Colin does (self quoted takes a special kind of crazy) he jumped in with both feet building out his Santa Cruz Naturals dispensaries in Santa Cruz and Monterey County.

The Cannabis industry is tough. From taxation, regulation, packaging, ...

I spoke to Carl just over 5 months ago, his company was on the path to go public while establishing the Hash Bone product line. In that short amount of time Carl not only went public on the Canadian Stock Exchange (CSE) under the ticker HOLL and is also trading on the Over The Counter (OTC) market ticker HSTRF.

But Hollister Cannabis Co. is not stopping there, the roll of signings continued with Tommy Chong and the relaunch of the ...

Adelia and I are good friends, in the cannabis industry you have to band together with like minded people. She has seen the ups and downs of the industry and is powering in her role of CMO for EventHi. So when I gave her a hit on social media looking to talk she definitely looking to share.

In the event landscape, there are not many options for cannabis brands/events to promote conferences, mixers, brand launches etc. Her fiancé Al...

If you are in the cannabis industry it would be impossible for someone not to know David Tran, heck I am certain you went to a Golden Ticket party.

He is the co-founder of Dope Magazine, Farechild and Goldfingers Group; on IG he is the Tranimal Chronicles and if you run into him at a tradshow or on a plane he is easily distinguishable by his well put together outfits, coiffed hair and the ever present Daydream Electroforming gold ...

Weldon Angelos was a 23 year music producer on the path, already working with legends Snoop Dogg and Tupac (Watch the "We from the LBC" video feat Weldon Angelos). Setup by the feds, he was busted selling less than $900 worth of cannabis in Utah and sentenced in 2004 to 55 years Federal time based on the statue 924(C) stacking.

In May 2016 after 13 years in federal prison (including a 3 month solitary confinement) Weldon ...

Brian Barbuto has over 3 decades of experience in capital markets, commercial real estate, mixed use and resort communities he has amassed an impressive portfolio. Listen as we traverse his desire to bring Wrazel's b2b and networking to the cannabis space for investors and companies looking to raise capital. Brian leads us through his technology vision of a top level service, no make that an atmosphere network to help cannabis comp...