Storied: San Francisco
A weekly podcast about the artists, activists, and small businesses that make San Francisco so special.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 548
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
S4E8, Part 2: Radio Personality Larry Dorsey, Jr.
Ed. note: As with Part 1 of Larry's episode, a reminder that we recorded under the BART tracks, so we took pauses when trains passed by overhead. We left that audio in the final edit and we hope you…
S4E8, Part 1: Comedian Larry Dorsey, Jr.
Ed. note: This one is special for a couple reasons. First, Larry blew us away with his kindness, energy, and knowledge. Also, we recorded under the BART tracks, so we took pauses when trains passed b…
S4E7, Part 2: My Milligram's Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi could've ended up in LA. In fact, if it weren't for the 1994 Northridge earthquake, there might be no Tablehopper.
In this podcast, Marcia picks up where she left off in Part 1. She…
S4E7, Part 1: Tablehopper's Marcia Gagliardi
Marcia Gagliardi's family used to own a pizzeria and Italian deli in the Sierra foothills.
In this podcast, the Tablehopper creator and author goes a couple generations back to trace her family's sto…
S4E6, Part 2: Restaurant Owner Matt Leum
In this podcast, Matt picks up where he left off in Part 1, with his involuntary foray into placing temp workers. Turns out, he loved the job.
He moved around from job to job over the next few years…
S4E6, Part 1: Restaurant Owner Matt Leum
Matt Leum has more friends from his school days now than he did back then.
Matt grew up in Glendale, a suburb north of LA. His family's swimming pool was the only one on that block.
His dad owned a c…
S4E5, Part 2: Business Founder Morris Kelly
In this episode, Morris picks up where he left off in Part 1, sharing some of the pot edibles he was making with a friend. This was back when California had legalized medicinal marijuana, but not yet…
S4E5, Part 1: Business Founder Morris Kelly
Morris Kelly's great-grandfather was a sharecropper who bought his own freedom.
In this podcast, Morris, who today owns SF Roots cannabis company, shares the story of how he came to grow up in The Ci…
S4E4, Part 2: Author Alia Volz
S4E4, Part 1: Author Alia Volz
S4E3, Part 2: Matt Gonzalez
Matt talks about how it was that he ended up running for political office to begin with. He walks us through Tom Ammiano's write-…
S4E3, Part 1: Matt Gonzalez
S4E2, Part 2: Comedian Arthur Gaus
Arthur Gaus came of age in the Golden Era of comedy in San Francisco.
Picking up where he left off in Part 1, Arthur sets the stage for his beginnings doing stand-up by describing the comedy scene i…
S4E2, Part 1: Comedian Arthur Gaus
Arthur Gaus grew up on a famous block in The City. In this podcast, the native San Francisco comedian traces his story back to his parents' choice to buy a house on Ashbury just off Haight Street in…
S4E1, Part 2: Renel Brooks-Moon
S4E1, Part 1: Renel Brooks-Moon
Born in Oakland and raised there, in Berkeley, and in Richmond, Renel suffered when her family moved to Menlo Park on the Peninsula.
She went to Mills fo…
An Excerpt from "The Doodler"
A couple days ago on this show, Chronicle journalist Kevin Fagan told you all about his latest project: the untold story of the Doodler, a new documentary podcast series from Ugly Duckling Films. O…
Special Episode: Love Letters Read Aloud
In this special episode of our podcast, Jeff reads three of our favorite love letters to San Francisco written in January 2020 at our event of the same name. You'll get a sample of our new Season 4 …
S3E49, Part 2: Jesus Barragan and Randy Burns
In this podcast, our very last of Season 3, Jesus and Randy pick up where they off in Part 1. They talk in more depth about the challenges that Gay American Indians (Randy's group) and Gay Latino Al…