Best San Diego Magazine Podcasts (2025)

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Meet the Cheese Shop that Accidentally Became a Sandwich Shop 58:07

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#385 This week on Happy Half Hour, hosts Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant welcome Mike and Jenny Eastwood of Smallgoods American Cheeses & Provisions—a La Jolla gem born out of NYC’s Murray’s Cheese and years in San Diego’s farmers market trenches. The couple shares how a career in commercial production, a cheese cave internship, and a well-timed mov…

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Episode 939: How to Professionally Ask For the Business and the Money 5:26

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This multi-state insurance broker highlights a recommended plan, the 321 Biz Dev Sales System, to ask for the business and the money with great results.

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Season 7: Sad News Across the Community 45:42

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We rerecorded the intro of today's episode to include yet another tragic story that shook the Colorado community this weekend. Our episode is presented by the amazing & new dispensary group in Denver, NOBO! Located at 9th & Lincoln, you need to visit this shop. Great products across all the shelves but the best part is the staff. Kind, Informative …

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Episode 938: Long-Term Care Insurance Basics by Clarence Nappier 5:09

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insforsure.com

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Episode 937: Which is More Proactive in Finding More Clients: Social Media or Prospecting? 11:55

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Social media was started to get people addicted to become less productive.

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How a Ford Plant Changed Milpitas; AstraLogik's Music For Healing 30:08

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A Ford Factory Changed Milpitas, Then It Bacame a Mall The Great Mall of Milpitas, in Santa Clara County, wasn't always a mall; it used to be a massive Ford auto factory. The San Jose Assembly Plant opened in 1955, after relocating from Ford's outdated Richmond location. The new factory put Milpitas on the map, transforming a sleepy agricultural to…

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Season 7: MDW Recap, Power Ranking Beach Vibes & Seafood Bites 35:43

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On today's episode we recap the long weekend. Discuss seafood preferences, mushroom environments & just catch up. Been too long since the boys could just chat. Thanks to our sponsors Flower Union & Meraki Cannabis for the primo products, it really had our brains firing on cylinders for this one. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.sprea…

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This BBQ Sauce Made Troy Johnson Break His No-Sauce Rule 1:17:20

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#384 This week’s Happy Half Hour is equal parts hot sauce origin story and full-blown love fest for San Diego’s indie food scene. Troy Johnson confesses he’s a BBQ purist—until one burger from Rosemary’s shatters his sauce snobbery with a tangy, tamarind-laced revelation. Enter Larz Watts, the founder of Oak Steak BBQ, who built his now-beloved sau…

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Episode 936: Pushing At Appointments Causes Sales Failure 8:51

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321 Biz Dev can help salespeople improve sales performance.

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Season 7: Drink Red Wear Red Returns for A Good Cause! 25:56

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Our schedule has sucked & we apologize for that.. our production level is low bc Kip is an idiot, but lucky for you we have a semi-coherent episode thanks to our wonderful guest Denise Mickelsen from the CO Restaurant Association. We're back with a 6x Guest of the Stoned Appetit podcast to talk about the Hospitality industry rallying around a good …

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Episode 935: The ROI and Marketing Dollars Conversation 12:22

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The content comes from my experience selling in corporate America. Includes topic on getting through the sales learning curve.

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Episode 934: Prospecting is About Power 13:38

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Power is about positively influencing prospects to do business with your company.

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Episode 933: Personal Effort is Far More Effective Than Social Media Effort 6:05

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It's true when the product or service is priced at $1,000 and higher.

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Composer Reena Esmail's Multicultural Music; The Professor Confronting Division With a Vision for Belonging 30:07

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Sitars and Symphonies: LA Composer Reena Esmail Fuses Indian Ragas with Western Rhythms We continue our California composers series with Reena Esmail. Her childhood in Los Angeles had two soundtracks: the Western classical music her parents loved, and the old, scratchy Bollywood tapes her paternal grandparents would play over and over. Those multic…

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Inside Carlsbad’s Little Victory Wine Bar: Natty Wine, Local Bites, Zero Pretension 1:09:52

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#383 In this week’s episode of Happy Half Hour, Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant raise a glass to Carlsbad’s buzziest new opening: Little Victory Wine Bar. Co-owners Jeremy Simpson, a natty wine obsessive with a pedigree from LA’s Bestia, and Elliott Townsend, a hyper-local chef known for the pop-up Long Story Short, join the show to talk fermentatio…

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Episode 932: Elenrisha Valdez, San Diego Realtor 2:11

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Elenrisha is a professional Realtor in San Diego County. Elenrishavaldez.kw.com

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The Poetry of Resilience 30:05

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In Rising Voices of El Cerrito's Young Poets, a Message About Resilience As our series about Californians and resilience continues, we hear from El Cerrito’s poet laureate, Tess Taylor, and students at Harding Elementary School. They wrote about what resilience means to them for a recently published anthology called “Gardening in the Public Flowerf…

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Little Fox Cups and Cones Turns Ice Cream into Art in Oceanside 1:16:26

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#382 Troy and Jackie dig into the story behind Little Fox Cups and Cones, the Oceanside shop that’s putting an inventive spin on ice cream. Owner Megan Koll started as a bartender at CH Projects, then honed her craft at Juju Lee before turning her obsession with flavor and local sourcing into a cult-favorite ice cream shop. With flavors like toaste…

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Season 7: Chaos in the Culinary Community 36:28

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We're back.. i dont know what's been going on with us, but we're back and sadly we have some shit to talk about. Over the weekend multiple restaurants were put on blast & rightfully so. Stone Cellar Bistro in Arvada went after mom's on Mothers Day Weekend and the community has come for them. Poor behavior in the restaurant by staff & worse behavior…

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An Altadena Church Fights to Rebuild; Stories From Catalina Island 30:09

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An Historic Altadena Church, Lost to the Eaton Fire, Begins the Long Journey to Resurrection The Eaton Fire reached deep into the sanctuaries of Altadena’s faith community. It lost over a dozen places of worship: Baptist, Episcopalian, Jewish, Methodist, Muslim, and Evangelical Christian. There’s a lot of talk now about how and when people can rebu…

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The Three Year Search for the Best Damn Tequila with Bebemos Founder Preston Caffrey 44:29

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#381 In this episode of Happy Half Hour, Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant meet up with Preston Caffrey, founder of the brand-new Bebemos Tequila, to launch their “Joven Golden Hour” tour—a series of pairings between local restaurants and Caffrey’s clean, additive-free tequila made in partnership with small-batch agave growers in Mexico. Recorded at R…

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Uncuffed: Where Were You in '92? 30:23

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This week marks 33 years since four police officers were acquitted in the brutal beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles. That verdict exploded into days of rioting and unrest across the city. It also ignited a national conversation about police brutality, as well as race and inequality in the criminal justice system. This week we're featuring an epi…

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From TomTom to Old Town: Pietro Busalacchi on Restaurants, Reality TV, and a San Diego Legacy 1:06:23

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#380 This week, we head from a La Jolla strip mall to the glitter of LA’s reality TV scene before landing in the heart of Old Town. Pietro Busalacchi—bartender, hustler, and heir to one of San Diego’s most iconic restaurant families—joins us to talk about growing up in Little Italy, working at Lisa Vanderpump’s TomTom, and how he brought that chaos…

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The Activist History of Japanese American Care Homes; Singing Corridos in Compton; SF Hosts Trans Self-Defense Class 30:22

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J-Sei Home Closes After 30 Years, Leaving Bay Area Japanese Seniors in Need The 1960s and 70s were a pivotal time for community activism – with the civil rights and anti-war movements, the Black Panther Party, and student protests that established ethnic studies programs on college campuses. That activism led to a decades-old critical lifeline for …

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This San Diego Chef Is Bringing Real Tortillas Back to the Table 49:06

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#379 In this episode of Happy Half Hour, Troy Johnson and Jackie Bryant sit down with Janet Flores Pavlovich, the force behind Coyotas, a local brand making cassava flour tortillas with just four ingredients and a lot of soul. Janet tells the story of growing up in Sonora, Mexico, where tortillas were handmade daily and tied to memory, ritual, and …

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Season 7, Episode 420+1: Recap of the Holidaze & Interviews with Cannabis Professional 1:13:12

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We're trying to get back in our groove & enjoy the world at the same time.. we ate well & partied hard for the Holidaze last week and we recap it for the gourmand's in Colorado. Looking to try out the new Cannabis lounge, we got some tips.. just looking for good smoke & pasta in Denver? We got that too.. Italian eats all around. In addition, we wan…

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Encore: Great Redwood Trail Proposal Unearths Painful History for Indigenous Tribes 30:22

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California has grand plans to turn a stretch of abandoned railroad tracks into 300 miles of walking and biking trails, connecting the rolling hills of Marin County with the redwood forests near Eureka in Northern Humboldt. If completed, the Great Redwood Trail could become the longest rail-trail in the nation. But some Indigenous communities and ot…

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The JuneShine Story: From a Sketchy San Diego Garage to Co-Starring with Willie Nelson 1:01:16

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#378 In this episode of Happy Half Hour, hosts Jackie Bryant and Troy Johnson crack open the origin story of Juneshine with co-founder Forrest Dein, tracing its unlikely path from a backyard kombucha experiment to a nationwide phenomenon. Dein recounts Juneshine’s early days brewing in a cobwebbed garage, its cult-favorite Blood Orange Mint flavor,…

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Season 7, Episode 420: Cirrus Social Club is Changing the Canna Scene 34:28

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Shoutout to our sponsors Meraki Cannabis for this kickass celebratory week! Today's Munchie Monday episode we sit down with Cirrus Social Club Founder Arend Richard to talk about the revolutionary new cannabis consumption lounge that is sure to make waves (and clouds) in the Colorado scene. Snacks, Smokes, Sips & all the bells and whistles that go …

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Detecting Invisible Toxins After the Eaton Fire; 'You're Not Alone': A Youth Advocate Offers Hope to Abuse Survivors 30:22

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It’s been a few months since wildfires devastated Los Angeles, and some people are just now starting the long process of repairing and rebuilding their homes. But mixed into the soot and ash can be some hidden dangers, including lead, asbestos, arsenic and lithium. These toxic materials were used to build those homes and got blown across LA. Scient…

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The Buttered Handshake, $19 Cocktails, and Why Nobody Drinks Anymore 1:22:49

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#377 This week on Happy Half Hour, two of San Diego’s sharpest hospitality minds—Christian Siglin of Happy Medium and Eric Johnson of Lou’s Deli—join Troy and Jackie to talk about the strange, scrappy, and often hilarious life behind the bar. They get into it: they unpack their careers spent working at the city's most iconic bars and restaurants; t…

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Season 7, Episode... Who Knows 40:24

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On this episode of Stoned Appetit, we're getting back into our boring ass routine. Smoke Weed, Eat Food & Talk Shit about TV shows we actually liked. No drama this week, most of that was covered on last week's episode. For some reason that episode kept getting taken down? So we replaced the audio & reuploaded that one. Check it out if you're trying…

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Episode 931: The Best B2B Outbound Call Program When Results Are Needed ASAP 2:57

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We call 8. You call 8.

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Episode 930: First County Canvas Training Marketing Print & Digital Magazine 35:19

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Our first training to help small business owners magazine advertising.

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Stories of LA’s Zorthian Ranch; Visiting the Magical Fairy Houses of Point Richmond 30:10

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For more than 80 years, the Zorthian Ranch – nestled among the oak trees and steep canyons of Altadena – has been a home for artists, musicians and creatives seeking a different way of life. At this working ranch, people also tend animals and live close to the land, often growing their own food and generating their own energy. But it was almost com…

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The Best House Cured House Smoked Pastrami in San Diego? 42:44

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#376 On this episode of Happy Half Hour, Troy gives us an inside take on what to order at Leu Leu, the new spot from celebrity chef Claudette Zepeda. And the dish you gotta try in central city is the house-cured, house-smoked, hand-cut pastrami from last year's SDM winner for Best Barbecue in San Diego—Grand Ole BBQ y Asado in North Park. In honor …

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A Community Destination for Food, Faith and Ramadan Staples; Altadena's "Stay Behinds"; A San Diego Mural Restored 30:10

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This weekend, Muslims around California will celebrate Eid al Fitr to mark the end of Ramadan. People observing the holy month have been fasting from dawn to dusk. And although fasting is a big part of Ramadan, so is the food people eat to break the fast each night. Small shops like Besan’s International Market in San Bruno are key to observing Ram…

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How Rosemarie’s Went from Food Truck Favorite to San Diego Gastropub Darling 1:14:04

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#375 Nick Balsamo of Rosemarie’s joins Troy and Jackie to talk about how a food truck full of killer sliders turned into one of San Diego’s best new brick-and-mortars. The crew gets into Nick’s rise from catering gigs and farmers markets to opening his own family-friendly gastropub, his Arizona street food hustle, and what it’s like feeding crowds …

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Episode 929: Free Online Network for White Collar Small Business Owners 2:36

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This is the information business owners want and need to know. Text Rick at (239) 748-1400.

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Inheriting: Nicole and the Third World Liberation Front 30:09

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This month marks the anniversary of the resolution of a landmark student strike at San Francisco State, on March 21, 1969. Patrick Salaver helped organize the protests, demanding the university better reflect and support students of color and admit more non-white students. The protests also led to the creation of the nation’s first-ever college of …