The People Behind CR

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

Rob Sanchez

Rob Sanchez is the kind of person who notices things. The blends and highlights of a well-painted miniature. The moment a skill toy stops being a trick and becomes a conversation with physics. He's spent a lifetime moving through music, sci-fi, comics, cannabis, BBQ and tabletop gaming with the same quiet conviction: that craft deserves witnesses, and that knowing what you love makes every choice a little sharper. That instinct became Connoisseurship Roadshow — a place to slow down and look closely at the people who make things worth looking at. A Certified Ganjier, BBQ Judge, Agile Coach, Dad, Miniature Gamer and Relentless Reader, Rob also hosts the Apt 113 podcast and writes for Fat Nugs Magazine and Beard Bros Media.

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Founding Contributor & Canadian Correspondent

Matt Jerome

Son of a journalist, he spent his early years moving through Europe — France, Russia, the Netherlands — learning that wherever people sit down together, culture arrives first. That instinct for paying close attention followed him all the way home. Today he's Canada's first fully certified Ganjier, a speaker and judge at cannabis competitions worldwide and the founder of Meristem Cannabis Consulting. He collects Irish whisky with the same disciplined devotion he brings to cannabis. For Matt, connoisseurship is just curiosity with patience behind it — and the deeper you go, the more you realize there is left to learn. Matt also writes for Fat Nugs Magazine and co-hosts episodes of the Apt 113 podcast.

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