Baked and Awake

April 4th 2018

Baked and Awake

Episode 38

Steve Cominski

Pre Show Guided Meditation

Opening Comments: Weed disclaimer, Guided meditation, Welcome. Shoutouts, (Josh Cornutt- Cannabis Industry Veteran and fellow Podcaster on sabbatical, Blake Noise Pollution- with whom I have plans for a future episode on Chemtrails, Eli Sirota of the The Not so Crazy Podcast of Blizzard The wizard and Eli, because we are going to talk Comic Books(!). Former Colleague in Tech, Garrett A.- looking forward to our upcoming visit and conversation about the Surveillance State, The Internet of Things, and Parsing the truth from the Veritable Shit Tsunami that is the "New Information Age" (← did we just invent a term there?). Other future shows include Nate Lopez and a conversation about growing up in the JW Religion, JJ and his impressions of DMT, aka "The Spirit Molecule", @the_wizard_of_oddz and the Landmark Forum Advanced Curriculum, Meg and her journey to wellness as "Powered by Cannabis". I have ideas that aren't even notes in a folder yet- for episodes covering Permaculture and Living Soils, No till gardening, companion planting, composting, compost teas- it just doesn't stop. I hope you're all ready to take this journey together, because it's only getting wilder and more fun from here.

Today on Baked and Awake:

• -SOTW: Blueberry Headband Strain from Smooth Sailing Cannabis, Tacoma WA
• -Airis 8 Vape Straw from Greenside Recreational Des Moines, Thanks to Josh Cornutt
• -Sessions Death Penalty Threat may extend to legal Cannabis Business Owners
• -The Surveillance State is far more pervasive than FB
• Event: PNW Springmeet- I'll be there, will you?
• -Next Week: A question from a friend about raising kids around Cannabis, Taxing Amazon, and more..

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Baked and Awake

Thu March 26th 2018

Steve Cominski

Greetings and Cannabis Use Disclaimer (Duh!)

Everything is a Conspiracy, until it's not

Strain of The Week- XJ-13 Strain (Jack Herer x G13)

From: Smooth Sailing Cannabis, Tacoma WA (My Garden and Employer)

• WA State House Bill 2334 makes CBD Additives from non Licensed sources legal for use in I-502.
• https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/20/facebook-data-cambridge-analytica-sandy-parakilas
• https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/20/facebook-cambridge-analytica-whatsapp-delete
• https://www.sciencealert.com/bitcoin-illegal-almost-everywhere-after-shocking-blockchain-discovery-child-pornography
• https://news.bitcoin.com/no-isnt-child-porn-bitcoin-blockchain/
• https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/03/21/2321200/twitter-ceo-says-bitcoin-will-be-the-worlds-single-currency-in-10-years

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Baked and Awake Episode 36

Monday March 19th

Bonus Episode

From Doodlebugs to Hayabusas- or "The Agreement" with Jonathan James

My good friend JJ and I session, and chop it up about a long rumored "Conspiracy" of the Sport Bike world. The Agreement, as it has come to be known, is at the heart of an 18 plus year old legend of how the Suzuki Hayabusa became the fastest production motorcycle of all time, never to be equalled. Is this by sheer dint of the mighty 'Busa's unassailable power, or something more subtle, more mysterious than that?

Listen to find out all about The Agreement, and stay to the end for a full outro song by Antti Luode of Finland.

Strains of the week: Pineapple Express and Dutch Treat, Smooth Sailing Cannabis, Tacoma WA

Resources:

"The Agreement" (Reddit thread)

Suzuki Hayabusa Wikipedia

Honda CBR1100XX Blackbird Wikipedia

Jonathan James Insta: @jjjonjames

Slayer Espresso Machine Co Instagram

Regular Car Reviews

Suzuki Hayabusa Regular Car Reviews

Royalty Free Music generously provided by Antti Loude- used with our gratitude!

Baked and Awake

Episode 35

Thursday March 15th

BAKED

Cannabis Updates- LCB Lifts 24 Hour Quarantine period for sales.

SOTW: Rapper Kush Live Resin

Home Garden Updates- New Greenhouse, Bunny House and Chicken Coop Reset, Bees, Possible Chicken Cam, Bee Cam- Follow @bluebirdfarms

(Airis 8 Nectar Straw! Greenside Rec!)

Open Cannabis Project

AWAKE

https://medium.com/@Laila/new-bill-in-congress-would-hand-your-data-to-cops-3c9afa89266

EVENTS

Canna Tank 420- Spokane WA March 30-31

Shoutouts:

Carousel Sniper Victim

The Eastern Border!

Robots for Eyes

Art and Jacob Do America

Noise Pollution Podcast

Breakers

Young, Free, and Coupled

Man Brain Comedy Podcast

Jrev Media!

Podcast Builders League!

Cannabis Influencers Northwest

Counterbalance Brewing Company

Visit the Teepublic Shop!!

Music by Antti Loude of Soundcloud fame

Smoke Indica, do shit anyway

March 5th 2018

Episode 34

Stephen Cominski

Nate Lopez- Stand up Comic (@inspectanate on IG, Twitter)

Podcast of the Week: The Color Me Dead Podcast- Hardcore True Crime stories delivered by two hilarious yet thorough Ladies, Angel and Nikki. NSFW, Not for the easily offended, or those with delicate constitutions.

Today on Baked and Awake, I conclude my chat with Local Seattle Comic Nate Lopez about his life as a Pro MMA Fighter, and what he's doing today outside the ring. Before that however, I want to bring you three quick stories of the rapidly approaching Automation of the Unskilled Laborer Class of Industry at every level. One does not need to look very far to find these stories today. You encounter them everywhere you look, under many different names but all along a single theme… Rise of the Machines. The Internet of Things. Agenda 2030, Formerly Agenda 21- or "The Sustainability Agenda". Terminator 2, Electric Boogaloo? You be the judge..

1. Business Insider via Slashdot: Jack in The Box CEO says "It just makes sense" to replace human cashiers with armed, autonomous Robots- OK I doctored that headline a LITTLE, but you get the point!
2. Related to #1, CNBC again via Slashdot says: McDonald's Stock surges on reports of the company's decision to also replace Humans with Flying, Hunter Killer Automated McKiosks- Fuck it I'm just writing the future headlines from like five years down this slippery slope now.
3. But Steve, that's just fast food jobs! Oh? Is that so? Not according to the BBC, who says: Levi Strauss to replace hand aging of jeans with Computer Controlled Lasers! Gotcha- I didn't even have to fuck with this one because IT'S REAL!
4. And if that wasn't all depressing ENOUGH: Some brainy Stanford Economist says all Fossil Fuel vehicles will disappear within eight years in a recently published study that is shocking the Automotive Industry. (and striking terror into my Motorcycle riding heart)

And now we'll jump back in to Nate and I puffing and chilling together the other day, basically getting to know each other right along with you. If you haven't already, and you like the show- please do Subscribe on your favorite platform, but try to make your way over to the iTunes store long enough to drop us your honest feedback in the form of a review. All of the cool Baked and Awake gear you see on our social media, or that is mentioned on the show, can be found at our Teepublic Store, where some cash from every purchase goes directly back to the show to help us continue to improve the show with research materials, or to help us get out into the field in the coming year. Thanks as alway for listening, and I do hope you enjoy the rest of the conversation that is resuming in 3…. 2…. 1…..

Music by Antti Loude, Finland- As posted to reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/6y699a/i_have_released_my_1363_songs_free_under_creative/

With my Gratitude, Antti!!

Nate's Shoutouts

Nate's CBD Topical Purchased at: Fweedom

Product: Wintergreen Dragon Rub by Dragon Elixer

@livewireliv_gp

@jeremyjacksonfitness

@the.diamond.duchess

@Orphan_Powered_Death_Machine (Jamal!!)

@thatonetimeiwasabducted

Steve's Shoutouts:

Color Me Dead Podcast

@colormedeadpod

USE THESE HASHTAGS ON TWEETER AND INSTA!!

#bakedandawakeshow

#conspiracyrealist

#smokeindicadoshitanyway

Episode 33

Saturday March 3rd 2018

Steve Cominski

Nate Lopez

A candid conversation between Your Host and his friend Nate Lopez, Seattle Comic and former Professional Face Smasher. Nate talks Mixed Martial Arts, Shares a little about his family and childhood, and even manages to drop a short anecdote about that huge fuckin weirdo Phil Spectre. Yes, THE Phil Spectre.. All this and a whole lot more, this week on Baked and Awake.

Nate's Shoutouts

@livewireliv_gp

@jeremyjacksonfitness

@the.diamond.duchess

@Orphan_Powered_Death_Machine (Jamal!!)

@thatonetimeiwasabducted

Steve's Shoutouts:

Color Me Dead Podcast

@colormedeadpod

USE THESE HASHTAGS ON TWEETER AND INSTA!!

#bakedandawakeshow

#conspiracyrealist

#smokeindicadoshitanyway

Just a super quick bonus post today, and a snippet of conversation from a much longer session with my good buddy Stevo. We talk plant nutrition, philosophize a little about the plant itself, and muse to ourselves about how fun it would be to host a Heady Session with local Seattle area friends and community members...

Enjoy!

Baked and Awake

Episode 31

Cannacon Recap

Updates on Stories we have covered

Cannabis Influencers NW Vision Statement

Stories:

Cannacon Recap

Shoutouts: Meg Lewellyn from insta @BBHwithMS, Jake the Professor and Dominique Dabs from Diego Pellicer, Joshua Kinkaid of Seattle Super Chronic Cafe and The Marijuana Show, Chef Jeremy Cooper, Jacko the Barbarian, Robert and team from Jrev Media, Gote and all his colleagues at Capitol Analysis, Cam and Liz from Dose Oil in Seattle, Victor Krantz from The Bucket Company and Cookies and Cream Farm in Florida, Malachi and Victor from OK+ Medicinal in Oklahoma, Gareth and team from Green Screen Media, Chuck Lee and Jeff Hubbard with the Global Garden Company, Scott at Boveda, Jared Mirsky from Wick and Mortar, Richard and Christopher from Island Strains, Jamaica, Barry Storeshaw from Alberta Canada and the Orchid Species Preservation Foundation, Beau Milner from Central Coast Garden Products, Farmer Tom Lauerman, and The Ricker, owner of WAM Oil.

Thursday: Walked the floor most of the day, attended the Cannacon Industry VIP party in Ballard at The Ballard Bay Club, which was really fun. I hung with Gote from Capitol Analytics, Malachi and Victor from OK+ Medicinal, and Barry, a plant propagation specialist with a deep background in Orchids, listened to some music, and smoked our faces off out by the seawall.

Friday: Show in the morning, walked the floor and trolled for swag, and left early to record the Nate Lopez Episode.

Saturday: Two talks in the morning, (Branding w Jared Mirsky and Terpenes with True Terpenes) floor walking, and the Sensi Mag afterparty in Seattle in the evening. Oh, and I met Kahl VanKoughnet on the streets, and he is running for President in 2020.

Best Convention SWAG: Futurola, with a sick Rolling tray and Tommy Chong Rolling machine that is my new favorite smoking accessory ever! First runner up, may eventually be more important than Number one: The Green House Co and their dry nutrient line for indoor cannabis grows. Super pumped to try out this line on my next indoor run. Honorable Mention: Boveda, who was anything but stingy with their humidipacks, and Advanced Nutrients, with their abundant product samples, Dab mats, lighters, AND Dual LED magnifying Loupes for everyone. I also got grinders, containers, rolling papers, stickers, hats, t shirts, posters, and I don't know what else.

Strap yourselves in, Buckaroos, have I got a story for YOU!

100 Page Report Warns of The Dangers of AI

Intel has a SPectre and Meltdown Patch for you, maybe

Scientists discover a NEW way to write mass amounts of data to DNA

NEXT WEEK:

Bluebird Farms, our Urban Farmstead, Cannabis Influencers Northwest defines its mission, and more.

THANK YOU for over 2000 downloads in January! Amazing and humbling! Thanks also for your reviews and for reaching out to me as so many of you have, to comment on or give feedback about our shows. It means the world.

Please don't forget to support these worthy organizations helping right the wrongs of the war on drugs, and working to move us forward together as an industry and a people in the 21st century.

NORML- The National Organization for the Reform of Cannabis Laws

The Sentencing Project- Working to eliminate mandatory minimum sentencing and commute the sentences of convicted non violent drug offenders.

The Open Cannabis Project- Open sourcing the best practices of the growing legal cannabis industry for everyone.

Finally, last and most certainly least- if you like, you could visit our Teepublic store, scoop some swag, and support the show.

#smokeindicadoshitanyway

Baked and Awake

Episode 30

Guest: Nate Lopez, Standup Comic

Topics: Nate's background in the California Medical Cannabis market of the late aughts when he was deeply involved with a medical Cannabis collective and Dispensary. Auspicious beginnings and ten months of steady growth in sales and patients served, eventually culminated in the most cliched and terrifying of conclusions- a full on raid from the Orange County Sheriff's department, complete with battering rams and assault rifles in faces. It's an intense story, told entertainingly by our friend who is fortunately here with us to share his experience with us today.

SOTW: from Rochester Farms

Purchased at: Green Token Tacoma

Look for me on an upcoming episode of Sean McCoy's Come to The Table Podcast

Nate's Instagram

Kate Carlsen Comedy

COMING SOON: CANNACON SEATTLE 2018 RECAP!

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Baked and Awake

Episode 29

Saturday February 10th 2018

Canna Industry Updates and More

Opening comments- There will be no pitches today on the podcast. No shoutouts (although since I wrote them out they will still be in the notes). No exhortations to buy T Shirts to support the show or to write reviews anywhere. In fact, the most important part of this entire episode is happening right now and will be over in a moment. I honestly won't be mad at anyone for turning the show off the moment I'm through- although there is content to follow the words I am about to say. Thank you all, as always- for being here, and for listening.

This episode is dedicated to the memory of a member of my family, taken from us too soon, due to the ravages of drug addiction. This family member was deeply loved during her short, painful life, and she loved back fiercely in return. She will be dearly missed by those closest to her, and those of us who wish we knew her better while we had the chance. Her name was Madison Haack, and she was just Twenty Two years old, and beautiful. I cannot bring myself to turn this short moment of recognition of a life into an opportunity to soapbox about the dangers of Opiates in all their forms, or the potential efficacy of Cannabis as an alternative to such things in a person's life. Perhaps we may save all that talk for another day though, when we have the benefit of time and healing between ourselves and this moment.

Let it be enough for now to say that I was reminded today of the value of life. I was reminded of what my two boys mean to me, and I thought about my 5 year old Son Ken, who already shows signs of anxiety and complex emotions that sometimes resemble depression. DEPRESSION. In a 5 year old (and yes, we are looking into family therapy for help in dealing with it). I thought of my own siblings who I love so much, and the challenges they all have faced and continue to face in their lives, most of them parents themselves of young families. I was reminded that Opiates are literally everywhere around us, and that the so called "Opioid Crisis" that is so often talked about on TV these days is fucking real. SO real. And so much closer to us all than we dare to imagine. I'll stop here. It's enough for now and a hastily conceived mini speech. It does Madison NO honor to treat this as a throwaway topic, or as a moment to leverage for any purposes other than to express my love, and sadness, for both her and the loving, beautiful family who now mourns her loss.

I will leave a few links in the show notes to resources on Drug Addiction Recovery and Treatment. I hope to God none of you listening, now or later on- is personally struggling with this yourselves. But maybe you know someone who is. We all know sometimes a person can't be helped until and unless they WANT to be, but we can be ready to help them when they ask. Or we can be one of the ones to ask THEM, "Can I help?"

We will be talking about hard drug addiction and it's costs more in the future of this show.

Madison, wherever you are right now, I hope you are at peace, and out of pain. We love you, and in your honor, I am sure that every member of your enormous family, as well as our humble Baked and Awake family- will hold someone dear to them a little closer tonight.

And now, a short transition while I light a blunt I rolled just for this occasion, and then we can get on down to some cannabis talk.

• Reviews, Shoutouts,(Star International, Tacoma House of Cannabis Bloom Tacoma, Diego Pellicer, Dominique Dabs) Teepublic Store, Patreon
• WA State Officials Seek to Vacate and Dismiss Cannabis Convictions
• Counterpoint to above story by Andrew Saturn of WOKE Washington Image Inline below
• Email Mayor Jenny Durkan about speaking to her convictions of Legal Medical MJ Providers still serving time
• WA State Transition- from Bio-Track to MJ Freeway/Leaf Data SNAFU
• WA State Cannabis Traceability System Hacked
• Kush Marketplace Industry Event, Seattle WA
• Cannacon Seattle Feb 15-17 2018

Strain of the Week: DJ Short's Blueberry from Clandestine Gardens, purchased at Have a Heart Cannabis in beautiful Skyway, WA

Royalty Free musicscapes provided by the peerless Antti Luode of Reddit fame.