Jan 13, 2019
Baked and Awake
Episode 65
January 10 2019
Introduction and disclaimer- we
smoke weed on the show!
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Shoutouts:
Philipp Druzhinin of Youtube for
his on air shoutout in a recent live chat with Richard Lopez-
shoutout to Mr Lopez my brother we could be long lost relatives as
my birth name before adoption was actually Victor Lopez, born
August 26th 1974 in New York, New York. I’m sure he will probably
never hear this but nevertheless!
Shoutout to my Patreons and my
Paypal donations especially from Nik and Derek- you people are the
real MVP’s and never let anyone tell you differently! You can
support the show by visiting bakedandawake.com and hitting the
Support page and Paypal link there. We have a Patreon, but I
think I’ll be focusing on my own website and traditional PayPal
donations for support in 19 and beyond, so please, visit the
updated, streamlined website and do the following: Sign up for the
Baked and Awake email mailing list so no matter what happens you
will always be able to stay in touch with me. Then, Support
the show by finding and hitting that Paypal wallet, or, almost as
cool, maybe in some ways cooler- click the banner at the top of the
Baked and Awake homepage to visit my Teepublic shop, where you can
get great deals on dope merch that reps the Podcast- maybe starting
great conversations for you, and giving us a chance to reach new
ears. I even make a buck or two on most T shirt purchases,
and varying amounts on the rest. I really like the coffee mugs, to
be honest I use mine every day.
Shoutout to my IG friend Nekoman
aka @Nekoman and @Nekomansucks- Artist, musician, and Meme Lord.
Nekoman is there when a lot of others aren’t liking and
sharing my shit out there like a real boss. And he really doesn’t
have to because his account is about 4000x bigger than mine and I
don’t really know why he likes me. Another shoutout to
another IG friend and web comic world creator.
Shoutout to @shadequeen2019 of
the Daddy Issuez Podcast who, Like Nekoman above, had her own
account taken down from IG recently! Follow her new account in IG
for sexy posts and updates about her excellent show, on which I
have been a guest more than once!
Mud Flood Channel on YouTube
taken down overnight!
All of which brings me to
thoughts like- Freedom is a bubble with thin walls surrounded by
knives
Speaking on controversial topics
ensures ostracism
I could have created a much more
popular podcast by not being controversial
2018 Milestones
- Published 42 episodes in 2018
- Exceeded 15K total downloads
- Topped 100 YouTube Subscribers. Enabled Custom
YouTube Url for having over 100 Subscribers (!!) Current YouTube
Subscriber community is 139 Members and growing
- Launched the Baked and Awake News Brief Alexa
Skill, with 17 episodes and counting
- Listened to in over 64 Countries including the
USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, El
Salvador, Panama, Colombia, Guatemala, Venezuela, Argentina,
Ireland, The UK, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Netherlands,
Russia, Latvia, The Ukraine, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Spain,
Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Greece, Turkey, Cypress,
Macedonia, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa,
India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, The Philippines, Thailand,
Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and even strong listener ships in
Australia and New Zealand. Apologies for not listing every single
country but that was like the top 53 and let's face it who knows a
couple of those could just be weird VPN footprints but who cares
that’s still amazing to me and I’m just so incredibly grateful for
everyone who has listened even once, and maybe shared the show with
a friend. Please, in 2019, just- everyone who hears this message in
a bottle: Please share this podcast with one wonderful weird
intelligent and curious friend of yours. If you can do that
for me, I’m sure I’ll feel like I can do anything. Your support
means the world to me and podcasters, Vloggers, and other Indy
Creators.
Top 5 Most Popular Episodes of
2018
(If you missed any of these,
maybe go back and check them out!)
- The
Surveillance State and YOU 1/21/18
- The
Mud Flood Deception and Grand Tartaria 12/12/18
- The
Landmark Forum is Probably Not a Cult 02/01/18
- The
Landmark Forum Breakdown 02/05/18
- AI
Generated Fake Porn aka Deepfakes 01/26/18
Top 5 Biggest Cannabis Stories
of 2018 according to Steve
- California (Jan 1 2018) and Canada(10.17.18)
both went legal. Calling this one event because their impact
will be similar. These two were watershed moments for Cannabis, and
will directly lead to more historic events in the coming years. We
will be watching closely of course. No prediction here except that
the impact of their success will be enormous in the very near
future.
- CBD
or cannabidiol- everybody’s favorite cannabinoid, was Legalized
Federally under the 2018 Farm Bill aka the Agricultural Act of
2014- Was Passed this year by both the House and Senate in a
(cough!) Republican led effort. We’ll leave the commentary on the
whys and wherefores for another day- This bill was subsequently
signed into law officially just a few days later by President
Trump? Is this bizarro world? Did the Republicans just take
credit for legalizing CBD? Wellllll, kinda but not really but of
course sure whatever man it’s cool. Crucially, we come to
understand that while this federal de scheduling of Cannabis
Sativa-L, or Industrial Hemp, that is to say Cannabis plants
containing .03 or less percent of THC- allows for the free
production of CBD based products for sale in US markets, and allows
for interstate commerce of SAME, this does not for example,
legalize the Growing (what we often refer to as “production” in the
biz) freely by whomever, wherever, and absolutely not individuals.
Only Licensed Farmers who are participating in state run programs
that are in turn federally compliant can participate in INdustrial
Hemp production. So, sadly, this means that as yet you are
not allowed to just start growing your own hemp CBD plants
alongside your windowsill strawberry patch just yet. I say just
yet, but really I’m not sure we need every Tom, Dick, and Sally up
and down the block growing bigo’ Hemp Plantz and spreading pollen
all over the neighborhood- might ruin someone’s hard preserved
Sensimilla!
- Cannabis Stocks explode on to the NYSE, Bubble
talk rampant, but didn’t seem to slow investment in Firms like
Canopy Growth, Tilray, and others. Then there was the
Aurora/Cannamed debacle that resulted in a so called hostile
acquisition of the latter company. Things in the consolidation and
upward transfer of power from Small regional players to National
and international scale consortiums is underway. Look for
2019 to feature many more such stories as the Aurora Cannabis
drama, and bigger.
- FDA
Approves Epidiolex for use in USA, a treatment for two severe types
of epilepsy Dravet Syndrome and Lennox Gastaut Syndrome, both of
which seem to target young children and can be responsible for
dozens of painful, terrifying, and eventually brain damaging
seizures per day. The strawberry flavored syrup differs
little from many currently available over the counter so to speak
offerings- with basically a highly concentrated dose of “very
clean” CBD being delivered in the sweet solution. The case for
products like Epidiolex of course is more rigorous production
purity requirements, quality control, etc would be presumably in
place for an FDA approved product. What does this mean for
all the Mom and Pop CDB oil producers out there though? Can they
now claim more specifically that CBD treats these two horrible
syndromes? NOPE. (And they probably shouldn’t- although I wouldn’t
say don’t try using the stuff if you think it might help!) Only
Epidiolex has been shown in lab testing to be effective, and even
then it’s only being approved to be used in combination with “other
treatments”. In typical Pharmaceutical fashion, we see there
are also listed side effects including Headache, nausea, Vomiting,
and upset stomach, so I’m not sure what to attribute that to as I
don’t usually associate the use of any CBD oils with those bummer
symptoms. The prediction here is that the approval of this product
will foreshadow some future effort to besmirch or disrupt the
existing cottage industry, usurping the Apothecary’s claim to Hemp
and CBD products and bringing them into the Glaxxo Smithkline/Lever
Corp/Bayer-Monsanto Johnson & Johnson purview exclusively. If
I’m not a complete idiot, we’ll all be brushing our teeth with CBD
fortified Crest before too long. Of course they’ll push it out to
the Yuppies first by making a Tom’s of Maine version. But I
digress!
- H.R.
420 announced, a national “Regulate Cannabis like Alcohol” Bill is
proposed by Oregon Democrat Earl Blumenauer. This would, if passed,
permanently de-schedule Cannabis as a controlled substance under
Federal Law. This would pave the way for inter state sales and
transportation of cannabis between legal markets, even through
States or territories that have not yet legalized Marijuana,
although it does of course expressly forbid the product from being
transported INTO non legal states. So, yeah- I do think they
thought about how to make it possible to ship the stuff, as it will
be impossible or a lot harder anyway, to literally drive around a
state that isn’t having it. Prediction: This, along with the
CARERS act, or Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect
States- also currently on the floor of The House- will pass, along
with other key standalone pieces of legislation, and these together
will herald the end of the federal prohibition against Cannabis,
opening up the possibility for traditional banking institutions and
investment bankers, and the Corporations they empower- to come
along and literally transform and not for the better- the entire
face of what we have been knowing up to this point as, “The
Industry”. I am being pointedly ominous here, because I see a
looming apocalypse for cottage industry level growers, processors,
and “Brands” that is absolutely a foregone conclusion for 99
percent of everyone who thinks they are a player right
now.
Podcast Goals for
2019
- Continue to put out consistent content and
always raise the bar for personal integrity and quality of work. We
won’t rush it, or force them, but we will keep them
coming.
- Decrease my FB presence to the barest minimum
with an eye to leaving completely, maybe in 2019. Part personal
goal to be sure, but it has to happen. You know the reasons as well
as I
- Increase my YouTube Presence to 1000
Subscribers/Hit 50K Downloads across all platforms
- Increase engagement with the Baked and Awake
website and mailing list, getting 100 subscribers
- Send
out 4 Newsletters in 2019 to the members of my newly powered up
mailing list. It won’t be full of sales pitches, sponsored
messages, or other bullshit spam. Just follow up info from
episodes, bonus materials from the best of the last couple months
of research, calls to action to help me decide topics, things like
that. We’ll have the domain and the mailing list when all the
socials crumble under the weight of their own
corruption.
This concludes Episode 65!
How fun it was to look back on the year, and see how
momentous it really was for cannabis in 2018. These of course
weren’t the only stories of note in that realm, there were many
many more but we don’t need to recap them all here and now. I hope
you found one or two of my predictions to be interesting, we’ll see
how accurate they are in the coming months for sure.
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