Legal Pot in Michigan – EPISDOE 420 Dude!

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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whatever the

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case may be. This is episode four twenty.

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I think it's time for my dove world.

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There it is.

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Yeah. So, dude, it's four twenty. Well, actually,

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what I'm gonna talk about is the

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fact that Michigan, it's legal for

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recreational

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cannabis usage,

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and

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there is a lot

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of pot shops here in Traverse City.

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You know, four twenty, in case you didn't

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know, is,

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it's kind of a slang

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term of,

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you know, for cannabis

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consumption,

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around the time 04:20PM.

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It also refers to cannabis oriented

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celebrations that take place annually on 04/24/2020,

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US

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date form.

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So,

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anyway, yeah, there's, there's a lot of pot

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shops around Traverse City.

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Within

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pretty easy walking distance,

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there's

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two of them

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from me.

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One is,

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on Parsons Road,

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called Green Farms, spelled P H A R

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M.

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And then there's another one at the Toms

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East Bay Plaza

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area.

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That building

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first was a Mexican restaurant,

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and then it was a funeral home,

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believe it or not.

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And then it's now been at least three

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different pot shops.

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Currently, it's a Loom.

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Loom is a,

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Michigan

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chain of

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of pot shops

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or

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what do they call them? Dispensaries

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or or whatever.

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And,

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yeah, that's,

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it's one of those things around here. But

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if you drive down,

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Front Street slash Munson Avenue,

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and I can think of at least three

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or four,

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other than the two that I mentioned.

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And

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on,

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Parsons Road, if you go straight

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across Garfield, there's two more just directly on

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the other side

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of, Garfield

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on I think it's Hannah Avenue. I don't

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remember. I don't I don't know street names

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that well.

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But, anyway and, you know, I I have

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partaken,

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but, not recently.

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Used to a little bit. In fact, the

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first time I walked into a pot shop

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was with my 78

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year old dad,

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and he was having trouble sleeping.

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And so we, were coming back from

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Grand Haven.

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Dad and I went down there to pick

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up a bunch of tools from a a

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friend of mine that, was cleaning out his

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garage and

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wanted to get rid of some

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tool chests and

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a compressor and a few other things. And

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we were coming back, and we're driving through,

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Honor, Michigan,

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a little town,

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west of here.

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And, there was a loom shop there. So,

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yeah, first time I walked into a legal

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pot shop was with my dad,

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which I thought was kind of funny.

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anyway and then he,

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he used,

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he he liked what was called pot dots.

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They were,

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little,

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like, M and M's almost,

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lace. So they were one gram per

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M and M. So he, you know, popped

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four or five of them, six of them,

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and, he could sleep good.

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And this is before he got,

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diagnosed with, lung cancer.

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So that might have been

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part of why he didn't,

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sleep well. But,

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anyway so, yeah, he,

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he enjoyed a little bit of edibles.

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And,

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I never forget one time he

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he goes, hey. You know? I I got

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this. And, you know, he had, like, a

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a pack of,

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10

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pre rolls. And he says, yeah. I tried

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smoking one of them. I just cough and

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cough and cough and cough.

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You know, the old saying,

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if you don't cough, you don't get off.

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But, anyway, he gave me those, and they're

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still in the in the stash.

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But I haven't really partaken in a long

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time. It's

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just not something I'm super interested in, but

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it is kinda crazy that

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there is as many

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of those shops around

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as there are. And, you know, when you

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go into one of those, you know, they

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gotta get your

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driver's license, your ID, and you get registered,

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and then they

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escort you into the shop. And they have

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an expert that knows way too much about

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all the stuff they have, which is pretty

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crazy. They also can't take

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credit cards or debit cards.

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They can only take cash. Of course, they

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have an ATM in the lobby, so you

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can get cash if you didn't bring cash.

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But, I find that an interesting rule. Another

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thing that was interesting,

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and, you know, I'm not a smoker anymore

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of, of tobacco products, but

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there you're not allowed to smoke tobacco products

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anywhere on the property.

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That's because

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you can also not consume

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the product sold there on the property,

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and they are pretty strict about that.

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And around here, they've also got a couple

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of big grow operations.

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They're great big,

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what do you call those?

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Greenhouses,

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I guess. And,

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yeah. It's,

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it's quite the industry. I, you know, I

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the funny thing is I do notice that

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the prices on all of that has gone

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way down, and

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I understand that,

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a lot of those,

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shops are not making

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as much money as you would think they

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would. I know Loom is doing okay because

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they're statewide and

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especially

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around the border areas. Imagine that

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because,

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I believe Indiana and Ohio do not have

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recreational.

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I do believe they have medical, but not

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recreational

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cannabis

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as legal. So, yeah, a lot of those

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along the borders

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of Indiana, Ohio.

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I don't know about Wisconsin

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or that. And I know it's it's legal

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in Ontario,

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Canada.

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but I don't know what the,

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the deal is crossing the border. I I

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imagine you could cross north,

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you know, cross into Canada

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with some cannabis on you, but, coming back,

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it's still federally illegal. And, of course, the

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border patrol are federal

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employees, so

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not coming back from

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Ontario.

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But, yeah, I just thought it was an

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interesting little topic to talk about. I

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don't know where you're at, whether,

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cannabis is legal or what the status is.

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Do remember, going out to Denver one time

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for a conference

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the hotel we were staying in.

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The fire alarm went off. We were all

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sitting in the hotel bar.

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The fire alarm went off, so everybody had

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to leave. So we went out to the

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little,

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sitting area outside the hotel in the parking

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lot, whatever, kind of the smoke hole where,

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you know, tobacco smokers would go and

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somebody broke out a joint and passed it

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around and, you know, that was pretty normal

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there in Colorado.

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So, anyway,

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I I'm neither for or against it. You

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know, more power to you if you wanna

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partake.

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Personally,

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it doesn't do much for me, so, I

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don't

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partake usually,

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but,

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I just thought it was interesting.

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And since this is episode four twenty, I

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figured it was a good subject. So,

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anyway, I'll be back tomorrow.

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Tomorrow, what do I have on my list

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of things to talk about?

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Well, it says here snow, but, yeah, you

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guys are probably tired of hearing about snow,

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so maybe I'll, think of something else. Tomorrow,

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I'm

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going out and removing leaves at my mom's

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house

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and then

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taking the

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mower off of the tractor,

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mower deck off, and putting the snowblower deck

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or snowblower attachment on the tractor.

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And I'm gonna load the tractor onto the

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trailer and haul it over to the tractor

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doctor, get that

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tuned up and serviced for winter.

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So, yeah, maybe snow is a good topic.

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I I don't know. We'll see.

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Coming up on my list of things,

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is I'm gonna talk about the radio business,

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both here and, you know, kind of around

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the country that I know of.

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And also gonna be talking about heating with

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wood. I don't know if any of you

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guys have done that.

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And then I got a couple of rants.

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so, hey, we're,

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we're plugging along. We're almost a halfway,

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through

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And,

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Yeah. That'd be cool.

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And, thanks to, Jennifer for putting this together

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for the last eighteen years.

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I'll catch you tomorrow.