I'm Brandon. And I'm. Jesse we're cannabis school having cannabis infused conversations with everyday people, cannabis companies, celebrities and your mom. Welcome to the sesh. Hey, guys. Hey everybody. What's in your bowl today? We don't have anything on our bowl right now because we made these really delicious tasting brownies actually with some Delicata grapes. And honestly, I will have to say that that's probably the least tasting like cannabis edible I've had in a long time.
And I'm feeling it like it's a really slow onset, but then you can feel like it's in my shoulders. It's like pouring over me like syrup, like it's just slowly going down my body. It's not, oh it's not a couch lock high, but you definitely feel it like a lot stronger. Dude how about how soon after? It was probably like 20 minutes
after I ate. It I think it was so quick with how soon it was kicking in and I was quite surprised because even with granted I had done an edible infused breakfast and that, but I had actually started feeling like tingling and that in my face within 2030 like. 20 minutes. Yeah, it was I, I was kind of like, maybe I'm just being like weird, but I could feel it. I feel it in my jaw weirdly and not. Do you feel it there?
Right above it. It's like it's resting right above my jaw, which is a very odd place because I feel it right, Like all up here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, not. I feel a little bit down here, but mainly up here. Very odd. No dry mouth. Damn. None whatsoever. But Delicata grapes, is it really? Do you feel a dry mouth? Made him sleepy though. I am sleepy. It kind of. I was already tired to begin
with, but. Yeah. So one of the things that I've been thinking about lately, dude, is where did all the UFOs go? I have no idea. They like no longer popping up. Well, they had some cool videos come up and I'm all into you guys know that? Yeah, we'll turn. But I used to see like they they had like this the the retrieval, this the UFO retrieval team. Did you see that egg thing? No. Yeah, they found this egg in Antarctica. Interesting.
I just feels like. I'm surprised how many businesses have things or excavation, not excavation sites, exploration sites down there like companies you just wouldn't expect. And I honestly can't give you a list of them, but it's just, it's very interesting. And maybe it's because so much right now is all, everything I see is political. It's either some funny stuff or like, mostly. Political well, and it's I used to be in my feed like I'd look at all sides and but I just I
need to separate. So I started looking for other content when I when I want to. And that's another thing I've been trying to take a break from just consuming random content. TikTok. I won't go to TikTok. I actually deleted that from my phone because nice. It'll go into a hole. I don't cruise Insta and I rarely now get on Facebook, but I get on only with the purpose of what I'm want to do. Maybe I'm want to talk to
somebody. Yeah, maybe I'm looking for something to make me kind of get red. Tube or something? Yeah, Yeah. Not something major. And I find a lot of cool things. You know, one of the things I enjoy looking at is products that are coming out. I don't buy a ton of products, but I like to see what they're doing. Like, oh, here's a cool thing. Like I saw this video of this guy fucking straight up looks like alien shit dude, he's got like this. You ever see that anime back in
the day, Akira? You know I was. I never really watched anime. I hung out with a. Bunch of different kids and honestly I don't think I knew anyone really watched it until I met my ex-wife and her brothers watched it but I never. Watched it? Did your ex-wife watch it? No, that was just the first time I really felt like I interacted with people who watched it because before that I didn't really have friends who watched it, knew of anyone who watched it.
It was just. Sad childhood, my friend. I mean, you know, my parents, we also didn't watch a lot of movies unless they were edited or fit within their certain, you know, Yeah. So that's how you protect yourself from the world. You shield your eyes. Yeah, don't look, Don't look, Don't hear it. Yep. Hear no Weeble. See no Weeble speak. I think that's why a lot of like LDS Mormon kids, I think that's why a lot of them get into that soaking thing, because that's just ridiculous.
Oh my gosh, I saw a video and it was hilarious. Alex sent it to me. They're these, it's some game and it's they're literally driving around Provo, UT. It has BYU campus, it has the Provo library, all of that. And they're like voice overs about a Mormon mom taking their kids to school or shit like that or something about like soaking. The one he sent me last was about soaking. And it was like, Oh yeah, my name is this. And my kids, you know, I really, I go to school here, but I'm
trying to be good. But I sometimes like last weekend I went out and sat in my car and drove up and down on the curb to help a friend out. Made 50 bucks. Because, you know, it's like the shaking the bed things while they soak. So that way they're not sending because then you're not moving. It's just like an earthquake. It's. Once. Out of your control. Centers it sucks that's. BYU's had like floating, soaking, docking the the armpit STI's because it was like, hey, this news event thing.
Yeah, because BYU students were having sex in the armpit. Because it was. And what kind of memory is it going to be for that girl? I don't know, but they were. She's like doing that. STI's in their armpit. And you're like doing this the fart thing. I have no idea. Take on a whole new idea. I have no idea. Like here, let's slap some oil in there. Go to terror and like what? I don't. It's the weirdest. Use your. I don't. I don't understand. It. Yeah, I mean. It's a very sexually taboo
culture. And even like, I don't know, I talked to my dad about it because I'm like I said, I feel like it's really weird to teach that you shouldn't have sex before marriage. But then also masturbation is a sin because sometimes you get married and you really aren't sexually compatible. You truly just aren't. And if you don't even know what you like because, well, you can't find out what you like before you're married because,
well, that's a sin. And you can't have sex with the person before you're married cause, well, that's awesome. A sin. That's The funny thing, though. The sin is like, you know, they keep adding it to the list. It's like laws. Yeah, like you got some basic ones. And if you just follow that like, you know, being chased, that's asked of you, you know, but it's not necessarily like a hell worthy trespass. And I think that's hilarious. A lot of them.
I, I think it's a good idea to abstain as a young person because having kids is really fucking expensive. Yes, and especially when you're young. And also that can either I'm you from sex or it can create different connections that maybe you're not ready for. Yeah, 'cause you exchanged like not only, I mean, you're exchanging chemicals and all sorts of. Shit, that's a whole different connection.
Yeah, and, and you can't. I mean, you know, for those of us who have been very vicarious, not vicarious, very. What's the word? I'm looking. I have no idea. Experienced. Yeah, there you. Go in in the carnal knowledge, right? There's some goods and bads with that, right? The good part is you need to do it. It's pretty cool. Bad part is you've no fucking clue what you're doing when you're young. Not you can't. You're just like, yeah, that's alright, cool.
But that's another thing like cannabis and sex that can be really pleasurable for a lot of people. Some people, not so much. I wonder if it's because they get, Maybe it's a particular strain because sometimes you could be incredibly introspective or in your head and maybe that's not where you want to be. And on top of that, look at the strains and the terpenes that are going to make your mouth dry. Yes. Oh, my gosh. Have you ever had that? Yeah.
And then you're trying to make out you're like, am I? I'm working with cotton. You just keep. Drinking water the whole time, That's not fun. It spit in my mouth because my mouth's dry, hitting my. Mouth. Nah dude, it's too dry. Yeah, it's. Terrible. And and it's going to it's going to dry up some other places. Yeah. So you got to keep that in mind. That they do have cannabis Lube. Yeah, cannabis Lube. That is the thing so you could do. That, I mean for you, yeah, Real.
I prefer just to get elevated before the event, right? I do too. I have a. Bowl a smoke a bowl? Yeah, Maybe both. Yes, whatever get you to the level. Just relaxed to be in the moment and to just focus on each other, right? Which is really cool. And there's a lot of people that now there are some people I've met, they're like, Nope, horrible experience. And they probably are just really sensitive to cameras.
Oh yeah, for sure. And and it could be just the wrong strain too with it of like, hey, this was the wrong terpene, the wrong thing. Because if you're looking for an experience where you are in your body and not in your mind and instead you're in your mind and not in your body, you're going to be quite frustrated with it going, this did absolutely nothing of what I was wanting or needing. And this was garbage. Why would I ever do that?
And you're like, well, there's, there's so much like it's a much broader range that you have here with cannabis. So, you know, some are fantastic for sex, like great aphrodisiac and stuff. So look for strains if that's what you're looking for. Aphrodisiac ones man. One of that I know has been like Tropicana cherries. OK, really good. I like that strain. That's a great strain. That's. Another one, I mean cheetah piss has always been really good.
I used to love mixing cheetah piss and Durban poison and dab. OK. That's really nice. I did too. That was quite a pleasant experience. Oh yeah, well, and it and it just depends on on what you're having and and how long ahead. You know, if if you got a bunch of kids and you know it's going to be down around one time, but you know how that shit can change in an instant. Somebody's got a sniffle, someone doesn't want to leave mom or whatever.
Now you got it. You're like, great, I'm all ready to go and hopefully you don't have to take a little blue pill because then guess what, You are all ready. You're ready to go. You're going to have to tape it to your leg. Well, not trying to get shit done it. Won't necessarily do that, but it definitely will. Like, it's like a waste of a pill. And it's like, dude, what? That's not cool. But what am I going to do with this? Yeah, exactly.
Well, I'll see you. You know you can do like Peter Griffin where Lois doesn't want to get busy, so I'll just visit the bathroom and then I. Mean that's simple solutions for simple problems. Modern solutions. For modern problems. But no, I, I, no. And it and it affects the mood in so many different ways too, man. There's been strains that have made me kind of grumpy where I want to.
Be I wondered if there's. I wondered if it was just if the strain made me grumpy or if it was just everything else like I told you I had that I actually blew up, stormed out and that when I was helping my dad and. Oh yeah, yeah. I feel like that's not typically me and it was very. I don't think I've been not frustrated in a long time. Yeah, but sometimes we just let things kind of boil and boil and boil. But then I went home and puffed and I didn't feel like it was helping.
And I was like, man, is this strange? Just like keeping me frustrated? Like what? Because it stuck with me for like the entire day, and I felt like it was somewhat into the next day. I'm like, this is just bullshit. Like I don't want this. I don't like hanging on to that. Yeah, I don't so. And it's hard, man. It's really hard. And that's some of the things that I think about when I'm, oh, had to burp there. But let down. You know what's kind of funny about this thing I'm drinking?
You guys drink this. I'm sure you have spark drinks. They always taste so sweet like I know it says no sugars or whatever it. Tastes like a multivitamin. They taste so sweet to me. Maybe they've got a bunch of stuff in there. They've got a bunch of things in here. I have no idea what this is. Yeah, it's. Tea extract, I try and get some of the ones from Costco every once in a while, the sparkling waters of that and I'm like man, I just. I just stick to water or protein shakes.
It's basically all I drink then I try not to. I mean, I'll get those like powdered drinks and stuff like that because that just, it's kind of nice powdered drink. Yeah, the sugar free powdered drinks, you just pop it into there. I also get those like hydration ones, the hydration IV ones. Water with extra water is what I call those. Yeah, get those, get all that potassium and sodium in you and it helps to hydrate. But yeah, no, I, I've been, I've been thinking a lot about that
with mood and how to do that. And one of the things I found, like if I get really upset, I got to have like a strong indica, yeah, to take me down and I got to have a good amount, especially if I'm really. Upset more of the higher dose I think for me because it's like I I was puffing at such a low dose and that's great but then I don't feel that like it doesn't actually get where I'm wanting it or needing it to be I. Feel right, right, right. Well, on that too.
I mean, it's like where I'm at as far as my mood because sometimes like when I go lift, I like having a hybrid. Sometimes sativa, yeah, depending on what I'm doing, sometimes I like an indica. So that's the one thing like has changed over the years that you guys have been able to see with me is that I tend to just start going now with whatever the mood gives me. I used to be sativa only kind of guy. Yeah, all day long.
All night long. Well, especially a lot of it came after Bubba Kush because you had a really bad experience. That was like, man, I mean, I lean away from that for a bit. And then Banana Kush and then. Banana Kush came back and that was like, well that was my bad. I should not have hit that hard. So that happens, you know, it's understandable, but that's what
a lot of people experience. Sometimes they'll do one and it's like, oh shit, I should stay away from sativas or indicas or this or cannabis because cannabis was a bad experience. And you know, really if we understand, hey, definitely the dosing, I mean, banana crush was a whole. Well, that one with that. What was that thing called? Zenco Zenco Duo. Zenco with the cart? Yeah, with the 510 on it. It was dry. It was so harsh, very dry. Where am I going? Straight.
Just keep going straight. I'll tell you when to. It's very, very interesting, but it just filled up so much from one cart. You have to think of that atomizer too. Just continuously going for that long. Just. Burn out your cart. Yeah, our cart. Yeah, they turned dark. Yeah. The flavor was. Also hot? Yeah. You get that CO2 flavor. It's just like this weird. It tastes the the best way to be out. You ever had dry ice in your
mouth as a kid? I. Know the flavored like because in some root beer or other things people had made. That's what it tastes like to me whenever I have something that's been in that one, we're going to stay in this life one. But if you had some with CO2 extraction like it, it's weird. Like I almost think I can taste it. Maybe I can't but it's just you can taste that like in shitty carts. Great market carts. Oh yeah. Well, because you taste it and you're like, this is a really
gross, horrible concentrate. And you're like, I why? Why am I doing this? Yeah, this is all I could get right now. I'm sorry Self. It's so nasty, so nasty. Even so, the normal ones I had been getting were, you know, they've been gone for three weeks. And so I'm like, oh crap, I've had to find another one for the last three weeks and they've been, they've been fine. Like they're OK, but I still don't feel like the product is as clean, as nice. The experience isn't as it's not the same.
It's not what I want. And so even when I went to go get another one, I thought of, oh, do I get a bunch more? And I'm like, well, why? Why would I get a bunch more? Wouldn't I just get like what I need for right now and wait and get the ones I do like when I know they're available? Because like, yes, sometimes you just have to get what you can because you're in another state or that's all your plug has or you know, the dispensary you're going to, they really don't have
a lot of great products. So it's really sometimes it can be tough to navigate that. Yeah, I really can. And that's. Or you live in Texas. Like even when I was planning going down for court times and looking at hey, Texas now seems like a Wild West of hemp derived products. But I'm sorry for all you guys in Texas. That sounds horrible. Hemp derived products are not great. I've not found any that I'm like, oh, I want to use this every day. This is going to replace my
cannabis use. And so I was like, well, how do you find or navigate quality products down there? But sometimes that's all you have. And the D8 crap, delta 9 stuff, like once you've had a lot of really good flour, not even if you've had mids, when you have that, you feel a difference. It feels a little licky. I don't, I don't. I don't really like that feel. Well, it's, I remember and it's been ages, but like when I first got into cannabis and there was a lot of shittier butt.
I remember it was what was it was meds kush and schwag so you could get and that was literally all they said. So I was like, all right, well, I, I don't want schwag because schwag is like sticks and seeds and, you know, really. Which now if I if I find seeds, I'm like sweet, I'm all putting them aside. I don't mind a seed or two, I love if I find a little bit here or there, but. But if I'm finding a bunch of them. Then I'm like, this isn't this is her.
Flower, I was like, look, the CBN is good and I said but now that you've got that into your system and I said in the amount of CBN it here is negligible. Honestly, the thing to do is maybe even have her just, if she really wants, go buy a dropper of high quality CBD that has CBG or CBN in it and then just take a dropper of that every day. Because then she would also get her higher dose of cannabis with the cannabinoids of the terpene like the the CBNCBD. That might still help in those.
Yeah. And that might be a better way to do it because that would be way cheaper to buy even a bottle that would last her a month at 60 bucks. You know, because even one of those once a month isn't terrible for her. No, she'd still be an arm and a leg cheaper than what she was paying. Well, cheap. The pen has to air, so. And hopefully that extra few milligrams will make it just a
little bit nicer. Too. Oh yeah, that's what she's, I mean, she likes, well, I mean, you know, regardless of CBG or CBN, like cannabis works. Away from work, what is it that she has? She has. Bone spurs all over her body. And you've seen that. She's bed ridden, she's very obese. But she can move now, just with edibles and that like she. Yeah, she gets, she gets a lot
of energy. Well, normally when I when I first saw her, she was just in a she could only go from her bed to the recliner in the front room and it was painful for her to walk with a Walker. Yeah. And now she's sitting in a Walker and she never does that. She's up most of the day now. Have you asked her about the pain from the bone spurs? Yeah. Does it do the edibles help take that away?
The only thing is she pushes herself too much and then she starts to feel it. Well the reason I ask is because my dad has bone spurs right now and he's told me that there's no point in him taking anything because it won't help its bone spurs. And I'm like, I don't, I don't know. She takes with those ones over there. The she was taking 10 milligrams. OK. Yeah, 10 milligrams. And that affected it because the
pain was there. But she, dude, like I said, when I first met her, she was like this. Yeah, her hands hurt so bad. She has this like little ring thing. It's like a loop that you put a phone on, OK. And she had to barely pull it to watch and she couldn't even touch her screen with her hands because it hurts so much to move her. Arms that's. Horrible. And then when I came over there the next time because we just did like a few bags for her to test out.
Yeah. And then the next time she came over, she was playing on her phone and moving quickly. That's. And I was like, what? And she just had this big old smile on her face. There was more color in her face because. Of your quality of life. When it goes up, you are so much better. Dude her O2 she's breathing better at night. She's actually like what's some of the other things that she said she had? She sleeps now, shouldn't slept in years.
Yeah, that's. Huge. And now she sleeps a full night with these gummies like it's. That's fantastic. Yeah. It's amazing because I know how much sleep effects everything else we do. Oh, yeah. And so, you know, I know for me, I keep, I always wonder what it would be like if I actually got a good night's sleep, you know, what that would feel like, what that would be to, like, wake up
feeling totally refreshed. Yeah. And I wonder if there's a dose of edible that I could take at a certain time before bed that would put me. Yeah, but it's so cool to see that, man. Like where she now has a better quality of life. She's excited for things. She's excited to get up during the day. She's excited to do things. Because she has things to look forward to when you literally exist and I can't really move, do anything. It's not an existence anyone wants to be in, you know?
And I have no problem taking that medicine to her because she she's had such a hard life. I mean, and a lot of this stuff, dude, honestly, like when you talk about emotions and people's feelings and how they feel over a period of time, it starts to
actually come metastasize. And I say metastasize grows into actual physical pain and manifesting its way like with anxiety and depression usually like the first signs of it and it starts to hurt the body then they you know have no energy and then they start to develop problems with the body, digestion problems. All this other shit starts happening. And just like this lady, like dude she got she was on fentanyl and oxys. Oh God. Just for the pain.
That's what they were giving my grandma for her migraines. When my dad finally got me to, he asked me about pedicles. And that was after we had argued about cannabis for years. And he was like, oh, it's such a terrible drug. It causes all these problems and does this. And I'm like, Oh my gosh. And every time I educate him, it seemed like it went in in one ear and out the other until his wife told him, hey, you should really consider cannabis for your mom. And he goes, oh, well, OK.
And then he talked to me and now it's a whole different thing. You know it, but isn't that really interesting? It's always like, we can say something or teach someone or educate someone, and it really comes down to that real want or desire to find something. And sometimes it sucks to save it. Like I've seen it with people who they find it because their kid has some really debilitating disease that they've tried everything else and nothing works. And this is their, like, last
resort. Yeah. And they try it, and it ends up being truly just this. It feels like a miracle drug because when they have tried everything else and it doesn't work and then they try this and then their kids not having seizures or, you know, whatever it is, that truly feels like a miracle. Well, it's like when other people like, like my wife, you know, she'll use it when she gets high anxiety. Yeah. Like she'll take that and it'll bring her to a level where she just feels OK.
I can I can keep going forward. And that's really cool to see too. When people are struggling with anxiety, struggling even with depression and being able to use this. And and it's it's with the intent. You know, we got a really cool message on our Spotify message thing. And this guy's like, yeah, he's like recently I had it was our re evaluating your relationship with cannabis. OK, Yeah. And he had said that he was re evaluating his own where he left it because he was just doing too
much all the time. And he's like, yeah, I like what you guys are saying. Set the intent and then do it like. Why? Why am I here? Why am I doing this? Yeah. Am I doing it to numb and escape? So what's what's wrong? You know, because sometimes we need that as a human. Sometimes life is overwhelming and you need a minute to step
away because. But you still have to come back and address it. And sometimes once you've cleared your head, taken away that anxiety, you can go, OK, how would I, how would I circle back to this? How would I approach this with a clearer head? And it's having that type of mindset that actually makes it productive. And I've heard the other
argument. They're like, you know, the, the, the talking heads on YouTube of experts and they'll say, you know, cannabis just takes your, you know, your problems and stuff and kind of kills them down a little bit so you can look at them differently. Well, sometimes you need that fire to be able to overcome everything that comes your way. It's like, yeah. But if you take somebody who is so beaten by that, that's really hard to ask about. But I don't think the fire goes
away. It literally just makes it so you can deal with the fire because that issue, that problem, that whatever it is still there. It doesn't disappear. It literally is just OK, Hey, at this moment, I am feeling overwhelmed with the situation, with everything. And sometimes as humans, we need to step back and go, hey, I need to pull it all together to go. How do I take my step forward? Yeah, because otherwise we're
just taking steps backwards. Or you just keep taking step forward, but you're going in the same bad direction you were. Before or a circle. Like I, I think it's funny, like they had this. I remember the guy. He's like a doctor. He scanned 200,000 brains. He scanned Justin Bieber's brain, Miley Cyrus's brain. Like that's some fucking drug. Drug addicts. Like, what is that? I don't, I don't know what that's supposed to mean. That's cool, I guess.
It's a lot of brains. I love those Miley Cyrus comparison videos though. When she's like, was it knowing that the journey is just part of the the adventure or something like that? And then they put like this pug going, but you know what I mean? I mean, I don't care about that. But he was saying like marijuana destroys the brain and you there, this guy's going back old school, almost like reefer
madness. Your IQ drops. Yeah, there's some Doctor Who's all over TikTok and social media and he was actually talking about how cannabis does stuff to the brain. And then Riley, Doctor Riley Kirk cannabis chem. She's got her whole page and she actually did a post over that one like talking about it. And she was like, oh, here's actually where that's wrong. Here's science that we've done that's actually supported and back that up. This is all pulled from
outdated, incorrect stuff that. And I was like, oh, interesting. So even this Doctor Who seems like he's coming from a very educated, data-driven, supported, you know, stance is, you know, he's coming from a lot of the very old dogmatic mindset of like, well, this is what we know about marijuana, OK? Just because they have lab coats doesn't make. Them it's even like the ones talking RFKRFK is supposedly shitting all over cannabis now about how dangerous it is and stuff. And I'm like what?
Like isn't he super old? Like he's 8090? Like this guy's old as hell, of course he's going to have an issue with it. A lot of people do, especially in that age. A lot of people do because they haven't educated themselves on it. And I guarantee he's not a person who cares to educate himself on. It either that or he's just taking the education that's given to him by a biased source. And that's typically where they come from. You know, there's more education done on that one.
I didn't know that about RFK. I think it's always checking your like multiple sources. It's even, you know, like the discussion I had with my dad where he told me that Elon Musk had sued someone or done this thing. And I was like, interesting, Where'd you hear that? Oh, I heard it on like YouTube news. And I'm like, well, did you check sources? Did you? And he was like, no, it's it's real. It's a thing.
And I looked it up and I was like literally everything that I'm finding, every single one, I went through the entire first page of Google, I was like, everything talks about this being fake, about this being a scam that that was disproved 6 months ago back in, in June. And he was like, really?
And I'm like, yeah, I was like, it's unfortunate because a lot of news sources and that you really have to double, triple, quadruple check everything that's cited because like, well, you know, take it with a grain of salt, I guess, you know, until you do your own and go, hey, how do I feel about this? Can I verify one way or the other?
Because, you know, it's how many people do something or say something and it's entire based off of a headline or not even the correct data that's with it. So I feel like that happened often. I just, I wonder very much. I'll be very curious to see where the what happens with Canvas, at least around the nation. I know there's other states in that that are trying to push it, trying to get more cannabis in, but there are really.
Yeah, I was just cruising through an article on that, talking about it. Yeah, his his former beliefs on that one. We're definitely very strong against cannabis reform and and drug, he said. However, he's been really unclear as far as what he wants to do, but that any measures as far as legalization and anything like that still defers to Congress so we can make.
Suggestions. And I don't think honestly, like I had said, when we talked about scheduling versus rescheduling, I was like, I honestly don't think this will go anywhere. I think it'll come back. And right now, I think it'll kind of just be left up to the states kind of like it has, you know, each one has their independent thing that happens.
Well, you know, one of the things too man like, and this may be unpopular with some people, but vape carts are not good for you to have as your main cannabis source at all. That should be. Maybe you know, some place where you have to be more discreet. Maybe you don't have accent, but you you should be doing either ingestibles at that point
because they. Are. Huge Well, there's been a lot of cases of people who are abusing cannabis, but it's through vape carts and they start having it where it was a weird one, which is minor, but it was funny because the problem is it gets published when it gets published and it starts flagging on it If you even look again because they're like, oh, look at this. Oh, it makes people want to shower compulsively, No. See, that's so.
Made-up bullshit. This is one person, one instance that some weird person already has a compulsory thing that they do is just perpetuate because we've talked about it. Cannabis just enhances who you are. Yep. So if you are a weirdo who takes lots of showers, cannabis is just going to, you might take longer showers. You're already a weirdo who's doing that. Like it's all of these things that it's not changing who you are, it's just accentuating who
you. Are. And If you're feeling lazy, guess what? You're going to be really lazy if you're really feeling driven and focused and you. Lose cannabis, driven and focused and get a lot of stuff done. And just making sure that you know exactly what you. Your intent, but yeah. What do you want to do? And if your if your goal for the Saturday is to like, fuck, I'm not doing anything, I'm going to get high and play video games, then you do you. That's.
That's always a thing. To and that's totally fine. Nobody can, nobody can yuck that Yum. But at the same time, if it's Monday or Tuesday and it's 12:00 in the afternoon and you're like, fuck it, I'm getting high in playing video games. Unless you're independently wealthy, and even if you are, do something else. Go do something. Use that cannabis to fuel you in your creativity, in your activities.
Go create something uniquely you yeah and you know, share that with the world or just share it with yourself yeah. Because sometimes I feel like we just don't even do that. We don't even share with ourselves our artistic like creations and things that live inside of us that we just we're so caught up in life that we don't actually do. I've thought about that a lot lately because I've been like, I don't know, sometimes I get on these kicks where I just really
want to play a video game. But at the same time though, I'm just thinking I'm like, have I spent enough time with my kids? And I need to and I need to make sure of that. So I'm it keeps me cognizant and it's usually when I'm in those introspective moments and I'm like. Wow. Like there's people in business, I'm like, you need, you need, you need to get high, you need to stop and re evaluate what's going on.
That's what I've been so grateful for with cannabis is that it helps me to stop and kind of re identify what my purpose is, because it will change based upon what's going on. But I don't know. My life has been been way better since being able to use. I've said that so many times on this podcast, but it really has it's, it's so much more amazing than where it was before. Yeah, truly, I can't even imagine because back then I was, God, I don't even know how present I really was.
And that kind of sucks to say, but like, I truly don't know how much of my life I just lived subconsciously and just kind of went through motions and stuff and how much I was consciously actively doing being present for. But you know, noticing that and trying to become more present and trying to be more aware and, and be there, like I said, be there for your kids or for the moments just.
Yeah, for the moments. Instead of like, I notice I'll put my phone down or leave it in the other room or I'll even go charge it in the office. And then I'm like, hey, I'm my focus isn't my phone. I'm not like, oh, because there's still this stupid ingrained habit in me And it's been great because I've removed most socials off this phone and so I try and not do a lot on there.
But I still find there's habit that I'll go sit down and I'll open my phone and I'm like, now I'm opening e-mail and then I literally close it out and then I'll where you open it? Like, why am I opening this? Well, it's because that's my habit of doing that. And yet there's no actual need to do it. There's no value or there's something else that I could be doing that could be valuable for me. But because I've got this subconscious habit of like, it's with me, I'm sitting down, pull
it out, look like, well, why? Why is that my first instinct? It's just because it's so ingrained, because it's now designed in everything we do of like, hey, this is this dopamine hit it's created. Yeah, I wasn't even on it. Like even the earlier phones that I had, like my first Samsung, I wasn't on it as much as this one and I. Mean right, Me either. Yeah, I need to start doing. I need to start plugging my phone in the other room and.
So that's I, I kind of tried to think about it like, you know, if I'm at home, I can set it on the wall like in the middle and just leave it on loud. Because honestly, if I think about it, I'm like, well, how often when I'm home in the afternoons, the evenings when I was growing up, did everyone have a cell phone attached to them? I was like, no, they called the home phone. Oh, I didn't get you. Well, I'm going to text you or I'll leave you a voicemail. OK, Well, it wasn't dire
emergency. And if my phone's on loud, I'm probably going to hear it or I'm probably going to walk by and see it. But I find that the less it's in my pocket and that the less I'm constantly like picking it up, going, hey, Yep. And then I'm more present for like conversations or things because I don't have this subconscious habit that I've just built into myself. And so I found that that's been really helpful for me because otherwise it's, it truly is, it's literally subconscious.
And I will find myself because I'll sit down and sometimes as I'm going to the bathroom and I'm sitting there and I pull out my phone and I open an app and I'm like, why, Why am I doing this? Is it because I'm, it's literally the habit that I've built in. I I think this is this is a habit that I've designed for myself that I'm. Going to go on the shitter. Pull out my phone instead of like hey, I'm going to go do that my. Phone. I'm going to go shit and get off the toilet and come out.
And then I'm like, how often do we do one thing at a time in life that we're literally like, hey, my phone's just going to be there. I'm going to do this. Dude, I remember I used to read a lot more. We need it in every phone. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But that's what I think about
too. If I go put my phone down and don't think about it, because if it's right next to me as I'm reading, I'll think something, some thought will pop in my head if I am not 100% so ingrained into that story that whatever. And then I'm like, oh, what about that? And I think, oh, I should search that. And so I go to grab my phone. I'm like, what? But why? Why is it that my first instinct to go, hey, stop whatever you're doing right now, grab your phone
and check that right now. And that's literally how I've designed so much of my habits. And I'm like, so now I try and do it where I'm like, hey, I'll set my phone down. I'm editing. I'm focusing on this right now. So don't do these things. Don't do this because right now this is the moment. Because like growing up, that's what it was. It was you do this and once you're done, you go to the next thing. And once you're done, you go to the next thing.
And we didn't have these stupid things in our pockets that were just constantly like vibrating constantly. I get phantom vibrates, my phone makes noises and vibrates with no notification. No, because you're just, you're always like on this fight or flight mentality of like I got to answer the phone call or, or what if somebody calls or what if, what if that e-mail comes through? That finally gets me. But I, I think about it and I'm
like, life never stopped. And, and I actually, I don't get on Facebook much or Instagram much, but I saw a video that I've lowered it that Bennett had put out and he was talking about like, wait, fucking marijuana. It's just, it's just something like that, you know, giving like your time and, and what were we talking about before that? Cutting social media out. Yeah. Having it less and Bennett was on a video and he said magical things.
I know anyway. Well, I don't know what it would have been about, but I bet it would have been good. So, you know, that's funny. I don't know, just sometimes I'm introspective and I, I like to think about my life, myself, my actions, what I'm doing. And then other times I feel like I get caught up in stress and the monotony of life and moments that I and I wondered about that.
Like how often do we instead of like if we had a real hobby, something we loved to do, to create, to build, to do, instead of all those moments that we sit down and we just pick up this, what if we carried around a notebook and every time we sat down and had extra moments, we would work on that, on that thing, on that passion, that creativity, whatever it is.
But instead, it's like we've designed or technology has designed that we are just, we go down, sit down and you know, I go and sit down in a room and I see how many people that are just, you know, what's staring at their phone. You know what's actually pulled me away More from technology, which is really weird. What's that? ChatGPT, because I create on there. I create a lot of things with chat and that's.
But that's another problem too. I'll get really caught up into that and I'll disappear for hours not even realizing. I will go, this doesn't feel like work. It's OK, it's fine. And so then I'll be doing it and it's 10/30/11. I'm like, I am working, it's late. I shouldn't be doing this. And in my mind isn't ready to shut off and go to sleep because it's in working mode and doing all this creation and that.
And I'm like, that's great. But there's also time tomorrow and the next day and the next day. But I'm still just so like so excited in that moment because I'm like, oh, but I, I need to do this. I really want to do this. And instead of just going, hey, you've already had hours of doing this. Don't you think you could take a break? Now you got me thinking about that because I'm just like I, I do. And we, we all kind of think
about that, right? Like even if you want to listen to music when you have your phone right there, then you can go, no, music is kind of getting boring. I'm going to go to, oh, there's a video. No, I'm going to, I'm going to try and find a funny meme. And then you can waste hours just scrolling, doom scrolling. Oh yeah. Like your, your purpose isn't to, to surf TikTok. And that's a great point. And that's how I'm like thinking like, yeah, I'm going to start.
I'm gonna start putting screen time on there to the ones that I know suck my time. Yeah, well, and that's what I like iPhone gives you. You can go in and see, hey, how much screen time takes up my most, what apps use your most time. And if you know you've got some really bad time suckers and you're like, hey, set up a screen time thing for it. Go hey, I'm going to lock myself an hour. I'm going to lock myself 30
minutes. I'm going to lock myself 15 minutes, you know, 2 hour, whatever it is for you. Don't do some extreme goal that you'll never hit. Do something that's easy for you. And then once you've got that down to a, you know, a regular, reevaluate that and go, hey, where am I at? How is it going? Do I feel like I've got a good use on it? Do I feel like I should really
cut my time some more? And then at that point, you've already got a good enough habit of cutting it to a certain point that it's not a big deal to cut it a little more. Yeah, it's, it's a lot like fasting, you know, at first it's if you go to hardcore when you when you have a relapse. You're going to gym, you know, anything, any habit we try and. To. Do super extreme when we don't have the habit is is just shooting ourself in the foot
from the start. It's like, Hey, we're going to do this race, but let me shoot myself and then see, see if I make it to the end there instead of going, Hey, you know, if I just, I don't run marathons, so I'm going to walk. I'm just going to walk. And I might find there's a time throughout here that I might, might Sprint for a moment or I might even jog for a minute and that'll get me there faster. But I'll find that through these 2426 miles, I'm going to, I'm
going to learn that. But if you're not going into it going, hey, I'm going to like, because, because that's literally what half of them I feel like. Because we, we want to feel accomplished. We want to feel like we've succeeded. But again, if you don't hit the goal, then you feel failure, horrendous failure. And once you get your goal anyway, literally that excitement that like all of you've worked for is guns and moments.
So, you know, if you just have that slight, hey, I'm going to do it. As you know, even if your goal was, hey, I'm going to decrease my time, OK, cool. You would feel so good every time. Hey, my screen time went off and I didn't go back in. Fuck, yeah. Look at that. I did so good at that. Like I've been really good at this. Yeah, I'm gonna. Like I'm gonna. Do that.
It's small. All are small, simple changes that, you know, actually impact and stay with us because I feel all the ones that we truly try and do really large grandiose ones of like, hey, I'm going to make this massive impact and change by doing a complete 180 right now. Yeah, you got to ease into. It I feel most of those you just we we all we fall flat often no. That's a good point, man. And I, I think that's something that I'm going to actually
implement to starting today. That's one thing that I'm, I'm always on that on my phone. I know it's an issue and I'm like, I take so much longer to get certain things done because I'm constantly in looking to get the dopamine hit. And that's where, you know, I can have music writing in the background and it helps me to get stuff done. But if I have something that's going into details, yeah, I have a really hard time with that. So I should only use it for
those times? That's especially like if I find my phone is casting my music to my headphones versus my laptop. If I'm working, then I'm more prone to go let me change the song on my phone. Well then I'm picking up my phone. Well, what if I have a notification or another thought pops in my head? That's why I like my Earpods. I just. Yeah, just. Click around. I that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to do that today. I just can't. I put that microphone a couple
times. Sorry about that, guys. Oh, this is good food for thought. Think about what you're limiting. What, what you're limiting as far as improvement on yourself and things that you want to get done because there's a lot of shit that you want to get done. There's a lot of things that you want to woulda, coulda, shoulda, but they're not woulda, coulda, shoulda. They can be obtainable now. And I'm thinking about that like I've been very introspectively.
Things can feel like an elephant and you don't eat an elephant like in one. Bite at a time. Right, so you know, let's get a little spoon and take a bite at a time. Brandon's disgusting. He eats elephants with. Just a really gross like idea because I don't like. Where do you think that it's a weird saying? It is a weird saying. Yeah, but maybe, maybe elephants are really good to eat. I don't know. But. Hey, don't eat elephants and do their next. Week. All right, guys, take care.