Baked and Awake

Baked and Awake Episode 18

Sunday November 26th 2017

THEY'RE NOT COMING FOR YOUR GUNS, THEY'RE COMING FOR YOUR INTERNET- OR ARE THEY?

ALSO: Boston Dynamics robots 2017, Artificial Intelligence Warnings, and did Cannabis come from space?

Old Biz:

Did Elon Musk create Bitcoin?

Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin to Be Used on Mars?

Baked News:

Will Sessions try yet again to kill Medical MJ before the year's end?

Upcoming Events:

Podcon Seattle, December 9th and 10th

Baked Feature Topic

Did Cannabis Come from Space?

• Possibly Named by the Dogon Tribe in Africa, who have perhaps the longest history w the plant on Earth.
• Canna = Dog and Bis = Twin, or "Bi" - this can easily be debated/debunked but the word is used.
• The Dogon have an elaborate origin story for both Humanity, and the Cannabis plant, and claim both hail from Sirius B.

Net Neutrality

What fuckery is this, FCC? :https://hackernoon.com/more-than-a-million-pro-repeal-net-neutrality-comments-were-likely-faked-e9f0e3ed36

What is Net Neutrality, or an essay in support of Keeping current Rohrbacher-Blumenauer and Title II provisions in place.

Counterpoint by Jeffrey Tucker, of Fee.org: https://fee.org/articles/goodbye-net-neutrality-hello-competition/

Thanks to John Oliver, weighing in on this issue is made vastly less inconvenient by visiting the url GO FCC Yourself- this worked, I was able to submit an express comment on this issue

Closing:

Season One will conclude with Episode 20, coming out mid December. It's going to be a special episode and one I hope everyone will find as fascinating as I do. I'm so excited about it that I have to tease you all mercilessly while giving away nothing about the actual topic! Trust me though, it's going to be worthy of a season finale. Also, Season Two of our independent and commercial free Podcast will begin in mid January.

Great Podcasts:

Martyr Made Podcast- History of the Middle East and more

Factions of Freedom Podcast- In Depth analysis of some of the more out there news and indeed, conspiracies. Really good content and lots of it.

IG Friends:

DJ Quod @thefamilyquod- Artist and Musician

Episode Music

Antti Luode, music Thanks Antti!!

News

Slashdot.org

Please Support:

The Sentencing Project- Advocates for the reduction and commutation of sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.

Baked and Awake Facebook Fundraiser for The Sentencing Project- Goal: $2000 by February 14th, 2018

Then and only then, please consider supporting the show itself, over at our Patreon Page, where you will of course be warmly thanked, as well as gain access to unique bonus content, access, community, and even a few small thank you gifts, many handmade- from us to you.

Episode 17

Monday November 20th 2017

Opening Remarks

Thanks for reviews, Shoutouts, Suggestions (Dave Chaffey, Ryan Kraus, The Eastern Border

Remember to listen to Supernormal Episode 13, Mixed Race, where I shared my experience as a Mixed Race Adoptee, and now Father of two boys of my own.

Please listen to The Eastern Border Most Recent Episode, "Man of Steel 8- Promotions", for whom I recorded a short promo spot for Baked and Awake that Kristaps was kind enough to include at the top of the show.

Baked News:

Portland OR rep starts Super PAC to battle anti MJ Lawmakers

Doctor's (Falsely?) Claim MJ 1st Documented Cannabis OD Death?

(Old News Follow Up)

FB Founder Sean Parker on Human Brain Psychology

Was Bitcoin created by a Rogue AI?

Events:

I will be attending Podcon Seattle on December 9th and 10th, where I was fortunate to be selected to attend one of the limited seating Creator Chats, where I'll be seated at a roundtable with a number of other Podcasters and have the opportunity to talk to, and ask questions of the well known Seattle Based KUOW and NPR Journalist and Podcaster, Ashley Ahearn. Ashley hosts a Podcast called Terrestrial, where She talks about regions and sites around the world where people have impacted, changed, indeed permanently altered the Earth in such a way as to beg the question- What now? I'm looking forward to attending Podcon both in order to network and promote my show to fellow creators (some of the most loyal listeners anywhere, IMHO), but more importantly- to learn more about the craft of Podcasting as a layperson who fashions themselves a would be journalist (for lack of a better, more modern term).

Special Thanks:

To Dave Chaffey from Sunny Australia! Fellow Podcaster, (Man Brain Comedy Podcast), who has become my very first Patreon Patron, and as such will be receiving a Hand drawn Thank You card in the mail from me in addition to this little thank you on the air. Dave- you've made my week my friend, thank you so very much for the support, for listening, and for believing in me as a fellow podcaster. You're awesome Brother. Friends- please, go check out Dave's excellent and viciously funny/raw/insightful podcast today. You'll be glad you did.

Patreon Pitch:

Speaking of supporting Content Creators, and giving them a voice- PLEASE consider joining Dave in contributing to the show. Your contributions, of any size- go directly to defraying the modest but recurring costs of Web hosting, Podcast RSS Hosting, and research materials or equipment to be used directly in the creation of Episodes. You can stoke me fully by donating a dollar an episode, or a dollar a month- I'm dancing either way and when the dance is through, I'm back to work hard for you.

Your donations also help us stay on mission and on message, that being to foster a new more positive perception of Cannabis Users, while ALSO tackling and de-stigmatizing the discussion of Alternative News and Controversial Conspiracy Theories- commercial free and under no influence other than that of a little Wacky Tabacky. We do both of these things not because it's so easy and fun. We- let's face it- I do this because I think it's important. Because I think I might be equal to the task I've set before myself. And finally, so that I can look back and know that I at least tried to use all this incredible technological Wizardry at my fingertips every day for something more than FB and Instagram posts, pictures, and memes. I don't know- something like that.

Next Week: Real Life Terminator Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and did Cannabis come from space?

For now- Smoke Indica, do shit anyway..

EPISODE 16

BAKED and AWAKE 11.9.17

November 2017 / 4:20 PM / SEATTLE WA

Steve Cominski

(PROMO SPOT FROM THE NOT SO CRAZY PODCAST OF BLIZZARD THE WIZARD AND ELI)

• More thoughts on Predictive Programming, Disclosure, Social Engineering. What I really wanted to say here is, that last week's episode, personally fell short of my ambitions for what I envisioned to be a decent, if brief introduction to the topics of Predictive Programming, Social Engineering, and the Disclosure of these things via the evolving platforms of popular media in all its forms. Partially due to rambling, and partially due to trying not to spill over into a two part episode, I severely truncated both my paraphrasing of Jay Dyer's story, and my own personal commentary, poor though it may be, in support of some of the observations made in the article about Stranger Things and it's occult symbolism. This topic is huge. It is absolutely gigantic in scope, goes way beyond Stranger Things for sure- and discussing it with a semblance of intelligence and any hope of understanding it- well, that most certainly deserves more than an hour here, an hour there. So, as I indicated at the time, we will be revisiting these topics, and more than once as we journey along together in our search for the hidden truths that live in plain sight all around us. I'll be looking at a new piece of popular film or TV that most of us are familiar with, (TBD)- and we'll do a bit more of a methodical run down of what symbols, themes, and subtext we observed, personally. We'll also discuss the extent to which these elements recur in other films and TV, radio, web productions today. Finally, we'll work our way towards an episode where we will hopefully enjoy the benefit of the deep personal insights and perspective of none other than Jay Dyer of Jay's Analysis. That's right, my dear friends- I'm very pleased and more than a tad nervous to admit that I received a message online recently from Jay himself, in response to my own, rather cavalier message telling him we had elected to use one of his stories from last year to build an episode around. (I sent this message after I had hit "publish", of course.) Mr. Dyer was more than merciful. Nevertheless, Jay graciously suggested that we might have him on our show sometime (!!) At some point, I was able to get up off the floor from where I had fallen, and sent a reply with my heartfelt thanks, and a promise to work harder on this topic, the better to prepare for a future conversation with him. Needless to say, any of you who may be familiar with Jay Dyer's work, and the size of his reach- know that he can do nothing but help us grow our audience by appearing as a guest on this humble show. Due to this undeniable fact, I will be seriously working on exploring these areas, which have fascinated me for years already, so that when we do have Jay on, we can hold up our end of the discussion at least a little bit! This is all just a little ways out, I anticipate and hope to sit down with Jay on a call sometime early in the coming year. Maybe even early January. We'll see though, as I'm sure we will be working around His schedule, and that's just fine.

• Shoutouts to: The Man Brain Comedy Podcast Crew- thanks for the IG love and the iTunes review. As for their Pod, the Lads don't all sound it, but they're coming at us from Australia, and I'd say their show, which is funny as shit above all else, covers a bit of everything, and is never predictable. All in all not just better than a kick up the backside, but maybe even better than a Ham Sandwich. If you've not heard them yet, maybe pop on over to Man Brain Comedy Podcast after this show, and have yourself a Captain Cook with your ear holes. (And if those remarks were a little cryptic sounding to my normal listeners, I only hope they make a little more sense to ouwa Mates Down Undah!

• In something of a personal first for me, I was just interviewed as the second half of Sam Sedlack's Super Normal podcast's most recent episode, that came out earlier this week on iTunes, Podbean, etc etc. Sam and I discussed perspectives on growing up Mixed Race and Adopted, and my experiences now, raising a mixed race family of my own. I think Sam managed to help me sound pretty coherent, and like I wasn't completely choked up for the entire conversation. I thoroughly enjoyed being a part of this show, and the young woman that Sam interviewed for the first half of the episode had an awesome story and perspective that she shared as well. All in all, it was an awesome experience for me, and got me thinking about pursuing a few avenues of investigation into my own Biological family, whom I have yet to make contact with any members of. Please, if you'd like to learn a little more about Steve the person, give Super Normal a listen. While you are there, hit that subscribe button and put Sam's amazing podcast in your daily listening roster.
• Last but not least, I want to verbally thank Anti Luode, of Anti's Music. Anti posted an enormous, continuously growing, folder of instrumental music, royalty free, in our Podcasting Subreddit. A heartfelt thank you to Anti for their wonderful contributions to the quality of so many people's projects. Find more of Anti's work at
• http://www.anttismusic.blogspot.fi

• FDA says Cannabis doesn't cure cancer, stop saying it does.
• Pirate Bay Founder calls Mark Zuckerberg the biggest Dictator in the world.

• How to avoid being tracked by FB

• Scientists implant tiny human brains in living rats

1. December 9th and 10th 2017- PodCon in Seattle WA Steve to attend both days. Will report on value of event etc.

Read and thank 5 star reviewers from iTunes

Announce Patreon Page and Rewards, for future fans to discover

Episode 15

November 2nd 2017

"Post Halloween Letdown"

A solo monologue by Steve, with a little help from Palu, who smoked some weed..

Greetings and salutations everyone! Steve here with you on November 2nd, 2017 and this is Episode 15, of Baked and Awake. I hope everyone had an extra spooky, extra lengthy Halloween this year, I know we certainly did what with the day itself falling on a Tuesday this year, it was basically Halloween from Friday onwards around here. Kenny was a Ninja this year, and Royce, at nearing 2 years old and a perfect semi long haired natural redhead- went as Chucky from Child's Play. Yeah, you could say that it was pretty epic. Anyway- I'd like to open this mini sode by saying my most heartfelt thank-you to everyone who listened to the show in the past 30 days. As some of you who are paying closer attention might know, We broke all expected or hoped for downloads goals last month, and we couldn't be happier about it. Please help us continue to grow our audience by seeking us out on your favorite social media platforms, and tossing us that like, pressing share or reposting our posts, and of course by leaving your (hopefully 5 star!) review in the almighty marketplace that is the iTunes store.

Looking ahead to November, I'm excited to let you all know that I was recently interviewed as a guest for Sam Sedlack's excellent podcast, Supernormal. The subject matter for that conversation was being raised adopted, and mixed race, and how that has been for me in my life. It's part of a series of episodes Sam is putting out right now dealing with race, identity, and life in America today from different perspectives. If this wasn't cool enough, we can also look forward to having Sam on herself as our very first guest of the Baked and Awake show. Sam and I will spend some time talking podcast creator challenges and the highs and lows that come along with making content of this kind, and we may also touch on some other subjects a little closer to our "Baked" wheelhouse as well. Finally, I am pleased to mention that I just recorded and shared my first ever Promo spot for our show, to be played during an upcoming episode of one of my new very favorite Podcasts, The Eastern Border, Hosted by Kristaps Andrejsons. The Eastern Border is a fantastically done show that covers the history of the USSR from the standpoint of a Latvian Professor of Russian history. Kristaps knows his topic, and tells stories in a relatable and entertaining way that will have you coming back for episode after episode. Please, everyone- go check out Supernormal and The Eastern Border, like them both on FB, and make sure you let them know that Baked and Awake sent you.

And now, on to the show, with Palu up first with review of Solstice Farms Shurman #7. Take it away, buddy!

Palu: Solstice Farms Shurman #7

And we're back, I hope everyone enjoyed Palu's review of Solstice Farms's Sherman #7. It sounds like an excellent and balanced concentrate with a high CBD percentage that still delivers the enjoyment of THC and the benefits of its interplay with the other cannabinoids and terpenes as well.

And now on to a short discussion of everyone's favorite Netflix franchise, Stranger Things. Note: we won't be giving out a bunch of spoilers here, even though most of America has already binged the eight hours of Season 2 in one sitting by now. Just in case you haven't watched it yet, I certainly don't want to be the one responsible for having ruined it for you. Instead of delving into plot points, details, or revealing omissions, we will be addressing themes, and some conspiratorial topics that seem to be commonly encountered in Science Fiction and Fantasy television and movie features. In the main, Im talking about a concept known to the Tinfoil Hat Society as "Predictive Programming", where the powers that be encode hidden and sometimes not so hidden messages into popular entertainment (Movies, TV, radio and print media, and perhaps most importantly- video games) about some planned societal change in a bid to inoculate the public against their future shock or dismay in response to the actual event. Predictive programming, it is said- lessens the public's resistance to what are perceived to be largely negative compulsory social developments, and distort the understanding of the genesis of the change, placing it in the realm of "this is just how things work" or "We chose this". "Disclosure", on the other hand, is understood again by critical thinkers, to be a tacit admission of some crime or sin already committed. This is the classic rubbing it in your face moment that the victim loathes and the bully live for. Now, before you say to me "I've never heard of this madness before, Steve! You must be off your rocker, I say to you- when was the last time a major Celebrity passed away, or a terrible disaster occurred, when somebody didn't produce, as if by magic, an episode of say, The Simpsons that appears to closely match the circumstances of the incident in question. All I do by bringing this example up is to remind us all that we regularly play around with and even make light of a phenomenon that at best can be described as eerily coincidental, and at worst may be characterized as utterly diabolical.

On to the question of who is encoding these messages. Some say the Illuminati, others, the Freemasons. Still others will tell you the biggest player in this game is the USINT community, or the US Intelligence state for those of us less acronymically inclined. The United States Central Intelligence Agency, in particular, has been not only accused of, but outright caught red handed- manipulating journalists, actors, and news outlets in virtually every way you can imagine. Don't believe me- look up Operation Mockingbird. Go ahead, we'll wait. Now, in addition to the Usual Suspects, you can add groups like The UN, The Vatican, and Foreign Intelligence Organizations from around the world, any and all of whom have propagandistic messages that they continually seek to proliferate around the world. When we look next at the size of just Hollywood's Entertainment industry, which by the way more or less includes the large part of the Gaming Industry- we are looking at close to One Hundred Billion with a B dollars per year. This takes no account of the money spent on production of foreign films or television shows- one can easily begin to understand that whatever message you wish to spread to the world, if you have access to the Hollywood film industry- you're gonna get that message out there.

Alright, I'm starting to sound like I think I know something about what I'm talking about here, and that is a dangerous thing. While I do watch TV and movies these days with a highly critical eye, it takes a person with some serious background in Symbolism, Religious Themes, and America's dark history to really hook in on the weirdest and scariest of this stuff. Believe me when I say that most of us are missing most of IT, whatever that is, that's being communicated on our magic glowing rectangles, and that is BY DESIGN. The hidden messages are supposed to be just that- hidden. At least, to your conscious mind. At any rate, In support of my outlandish claims, I wish to bring in the assistance of a veritable heavyweight of movie and television analysis, Jay Dyer. Jay runs one of, if not the best websites and YouTube channels on the topic of encrypted messages in popular media that exists, in the world. Jay's Channel on YouTube is called Esoteric Hollywood, and I warn you- if you get started over there, prepare to lose yourself down a rabbit hole from which there may well be no return. Jay has been breaking down the mysteries of the movies for years, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of both US history, and the history of the film. Here, I will read a few excerpts from his first rate piece on the Stranger Things franchise, published on evolveandascend.com in August of 2016.

Resources:

Esoteric Hollywood's Jay Dyer Breaks down Stranger Things 2:

http://www.evolveandascend.com/2016/08/02/hidden-programming-within-stranger-things/

Jsy's Analysis Website

The New Rockstars- an excellent YouTube breakdown of Stranger Things Pop culture references- comprehensive and fast paced 30 min watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N1rirHF6qk

On the Conditioning of Humans: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_mediacontrol66.htm

MUSIC:

Opening Segment instrumentals graciously provided gratis, by Anti Luode, Anti's Music. Find more of their work at

http://www.anttismusic.blogspot.fi

Stranger Things 2 Segment background music provided by the generous Alex Barbarian from, Soundcloud

NOTE: THIS IS PART TWO OF THE HALLOWEEN-O-SODE! PLEASE GO BACK AND START WITH EPISODE 13 OR YOUR IMMORTAL SOUL WILL WANDER THE CORRIDORS OF THE iTunes STORE FOREVER!!

Baked and Awake Halloween-O-Sode Part Two

EPISODE 14, October 28th 2017

Hosts: Steve Cominski, George W Masters, Palu Kingston

[email protected]

• Opening Shenanigans
• George Masters on Sativa vs Indica
• • Palu Kingston talks Seattle's Homeless Problem and Stop the Sweeps
  • How to donate to hurricane relief in Puerto Rico
  • Steve with The Martha Washington School for Insane Girls
  The Martha Washington School for Insane Girls, Seattle WA on Lake Washington, is rumored to be one of Seattle's most haunted places. Rumors of Violence, Poor treatment, Suicide, and even murder pervade the history of the facility. Despite the persistence of these stories, Seattle seems to have all but forgotten this dark portion of its children's history.

Sterile though the historical timeline below this essay may be, this School has a story that is still trying to be told, with locals bearing witness to having heard strange noises, the sounds of running footsteps, and even screams on the grounds, today a city park. These spirits, if that's what they are, as further said to inhabit the trees, some of which are clearly almost a century old, and rumored to have been planted by patients/inmates of the "School". Bullies and would be Muggers etc seem to fall victim to the ghosts, while troubled teens, particularly teenage girls are said to derive a dark sense of comfort from them.

While I've so far been unable to find a record of the school's darker side that names names or gives specifics of who dies when and how- I think that is perhaps a little less important, and no more scary to hear about, than to simply recall what routinely went on in State run institutions of this sort throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. While the normal world turned slowly around them, patients of Asylums, Conservatoriums, Hospitals, University Hospitals, and more were regularly experimented upon. Sometimes with therapeutic aims, other times, the motivations were much less clear.

• Details:
• Historylink.org File on MW School
• Name: Parental Home for Girls
• Location: 3404 (N)E 68th Street
• Building: Wood
• Site: 1.23 acres
• 1914: Opened on April 1
• 1918: Renamed Girls' Parental School
• 1921: Closed
• 1922: Leased to Ruth School
• 1933: Leased to Medina Baby Home
• 1945: Site sold in September
• Name: Girls' Parental School
• Location: 6612 57th Avenue S
• Building: 2-story brick
• Architect: Floyd A. Naramore
• Site: 9.87 acres
• 1921: Opened
• 1928: Residential annex added on site (n.a.)
• 1930: Addition (n.a.)
• 1931: Name changed to Martha Washington School for Girls
• 1957: Closed as Seattle Public School; site leased to state
• 1965: Closed as a residential school
• 1968-69: Alternative program site
• 1970-71: Alternative school site
• 1972: Sold to City of Seattle
• 1983: Used by the Cornerstone Montessori Academy
• 1989: Buildings demolished
• Use of Martha Washington School site in 2000
• Martha Washington Park

NOTE: THIS IS A TWO PART EPISODE- TUNE IN TO EPISODE 14 FOR THE MARTHA WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR INSANE GIRLS

Baked and Awake

EPISODE 13, October 28th 2017

Hosts: Steve Cominski, George W Masters, Palu Kingston

[email protected]

• Opening Shenanigans
• George Masters on Sativa vs Indica
• Palu Kingston talks Seattle's Homeless Problem and Stop the Sweeps
• How to donate to hurricane relief in Puerto Rico
• Steve with The Martha Washington School for Insane Girls

The Martha Washington School for Insane Girls, Seattle WA on Lake Washington, is rumored to be one of Seattle's most haunted places. Rumors of Violence, Poor treatment, Suicide, and even murder pervade the history of the facility. Despite the persistence of these stories, Seattle seems to have all but forgotten this dark portion of its children's history.

Sterile though the historical timeline below this essay may be, this School has a story that is still trying to be told, with locals bearing witness to having heard strange noises, the sounds of running footsteps, and even screams on the grounds, today a city park. These spirits, if that's what they are, as further said to inhabit the trees, some of which are clearly almost a century old, and rumored to have been planted by patients/inmates of the "School". Bullies and would be Muggers etc seem to fall victim to the ghosts, while troubled teens, particularly teenage girls are said to derive a dark sense of comfort from them.

While I've so far been unable to find a record of the school's darker side that names names or gives specifics of who dies when and how- I think that is perhaps a little less important, and no more scary to hear about, than to simply recall what routinely went on in State run institutions of this sort throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. While the normal world turned slowly around them, patients of Asylums, Conservatoriums, Hospitals, University Hospitals, and more were regularly experimented upon. Sometimes with therapeutic aims, other times, the motivations were much less clear.

• Details:
• Historylink.org File on MW School
• Name: Parental Home for Girls
• Location: 3404 (N)E 68th Street
• Building: Wood
• Site: 1.23 acres
• 1914: Opened on April 1
• 1918: Renamed Girls' Parental School
• 1921: Closed
• 1922: Leased to Ruth School
• 1933: Leased to Medina Baby Home
• 1945: Site sold in September
• Name: Girls' Parental School
• Location: 6612 57th Avenue S
• Building: 2-story brick
• Architect: Floyd A. Naramore
• Site: 9.87 acres
• 1921: Opened
• 1928: Residential annex added on site (n.a.)
• 1930: Addition (n.a.)
• 1931: Name changed to Martha Washington School for Girls
• 1957: Closed as Seattle Public School; site leased to state
• 1965: Closed as a residential school
• 1968-69: Alternative program site
• 1970-71: Alternative school site
• 1972: Sold to City of Seattle
• 1983: Used by the Cornerstone Montessori Academy
• 1989: Buildings demolished
• Use of Martha Washington School site in 2000
• Martha Washington Park

Today on Baked and Awake

October 24, 2017

Episode 12, A Bonus-sode

Host: Steve Cominski

• Today I go solo to bring you stories about:
  • the GG#4 litigation, (Thanks Jrev!)
  • Harvest Days(!!)
  • The California Wildfires
  • Consciousness may be directly linked to light
  • Recent scientific discoveries have us re-thinking just how far back agriculture as a technology goes..

Thanks as always for listening and PLEASE for the love of everything good in this world- Go forth and review us in iTunes! Honest feedback is fine! We just need to see some reviews! We have three podcasts with names that don't start with "Baked" showing up ahead of us in search results right now, and I suspect that it has something to do with a shortage of reviews for our show. Help your friends out here and you'll be hearing your name butchered in a forthcoming episode for sure!

Speaking of reviews! A Huge thank you to Super_normie for doing that very thing! I won't read it but as it's 5 stars and we are off and running- I think that's enough self gratification for one day!

Smoking Tip: Gently tamp the end of a freshly lit joint's ash to bond the cherry to the rest of the leaves, and get a more even burn. George's Tip: Use the metal top of the lighter, NOT the plastic bottom to perform this tamping. Dioxin, dont'cha know.

Dabs: Slab Mechanix Blue Haze

Shop: Have a Heart Skyway

Support: The Sentencing Project

Friends:

Supernormal Podcast

Frank and Mallory Talk Shit

Improved notes to Follow- watch this space.

Website

BAKED AND AWAKE EPISODE 11

FRIDAY OCTOBER 20, 2017

Host: Stephen Cominski

Co Hosts: Palu Kingston and George Masters

Music: Alex Barbarian (Thank you!)

This Week on Baked and Awake:

• Strain of The Week, Secret Gardens/Oil Baron Sour Diesel N-Tane, from Clutch Cannabis in Renton
• Cannabis Influencers NW Meetup
• Cannabis Investment Network Meetup
• Tom DeLong and the To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science
• See Also: The Disclosure Project, Dr. Steven Greer, MUFON, and CSETI

What Steve is listening to this week:

• Companeros The Movie Podcast
• Zengineering, a Philosophy of Science, Technology, Art Podcast
• The Dragon's Flow Teacast
• Frank and Mallory Talk Shit

BAKED and AWAKEEpisode 10- WiP

Host: Steve Cominski Co-Host: G.W. Masters

[email protected]

Welcome once again to Baked and Awake. This is Steve, with a few comments before we jump into this week's debacle I mean- meticulously crafted episode! We are fortunate right now to have an episode at all, as we embarrassingly found ourselves having recorded with the mic settings once again way off- this time too loud/too much gain. It was bad. We almost had to toss the whole episode out- except for the fact that for the first time ever, we taped in parallel with a portable recorder- a freshly acquired, gently used Tascam DR-05. Well, I still have a lot of work to do on a number of technical fronts, and I did manage to badly bodge the process of pulling files off the recorder and getting them into appropriate sized chunks to be further moved around in lossless .wav format- nevermind. || It's boring, it's technical, and it all comes down, if you MUST know, to more of a PEBKAC issue than anything else. Suffice to say however, that I managed to pull some (decent) audio off the Tascam, although the "quality" of the discourse is a bit… shall we say coarse? Look- it was supposed to be a downtemposode, and it was. Without the music. And no real agenda. (But don't worry- we had weed)! So, you may begin to get an idea of where this went. Anyhoo- I ended up cutting a lot of it due to still not being in love with the audio's physical qualities, but also due to a general lack of real information being surfaced for the audience.

George and I talked a lot both before and after turning on the recorders that evening- and I wish we had more of it because we "lost" (in the can but sounds atrocious) some great stuff with George talking about his photography and working in public. It's ok though, because we still have George, and I know we are going to revisit the topic of his art probably more than once or twice in the future on the show.

In an effort to address the above grievous offenses, I'm going to attempt to front load us with just a few coherent words before the debauch commences because frankly, it makes me feel better! As always, what follows is an adult show with some light Cannabis use , and this time- more than a bit of potty mouth Steve. Sorry about that, Mom- if you're listening!

NOTE: Before we jump into Hemp History, I want to take one moment to thank Alex Barbarian from Soundcloud for the chill background soundtrack. Please check Alex out using the provided link in the show notes, and let him know you found him through our community! Alex- you're the man!

• First up, Some Hemp History Timeline, starting in the 1940's
• • Document Link

• Next: Old Business- mentioned last week was WA State House Bill 1092- On the growing of plants in our humble abodes..

• HB 1092 seeks to reform WA Cannabis law to allow for home growing of cannabis plants for any adults over 21 years of age
• Bill is currently in the House, in committee
• Bill needs to make it on House of Reps calendar, and Pass the Chamber before moving on to the same process (Introduce, Committee, Calendar, Vote) on the Senate floor
• Once passed in the House and Senate, HB 1092 must still be ratified by the Governor before passing into law
• Details and limitations as described in the Bill Digest, below
• We have subscribed to the email updates for this bill, and listeners here in WA can do the same by following the link to the bill here in the show notes.

• HB 1092 - DIGEST Allows the possession of no more than six marijuana plants and up to twenty-four ounces of useable marijuana harvested from lawfully grown plants if the person in possession is at least twenty-one years old. Allows the possession of no more than twelve marijuana plants and forty-eight ounces of useable marijuana, in the aggregate, by the adult residents of a single housing unit, regardless of the number of persons who are at least twenty one years old residing in the housing unit

While we sit here racking up dabs and looking forward to hopefully passing legal home grow here "on the outside", more Americans sit rotting in prison than ever before, and while things have actually begun to show signs of stabilizing, there's no clear path to reversing the trend. I know it's easy not to think about those people, or to rationalize their circumstances in some way, but I hope that if you're listening to this show we share a common belief that things like "Three strikes, you're out", and "Stop and Frisk', or how about "Civil Asset Forfeiture" - are a net negative for us as a Nation, as a Culture, and as Civilized Humans. To that end, in recent discussions we have been trying to identify worthy organizations fighting the good fight on this front, that we may support them.

• I've heard of them before, but right now The Sentencing Project, at www.thesentencingproject.org- is looking like the real MVP's for us on this issue. According to their website, we understand the following
• • The USA leads The World in incarceration of its citizens
  • The US incarceration rate has grown by over 500% in the past 40 years
  • Over 2 million Americans are in prison
  • As many as 1 in 3 Adult Black Americans have a felony conviction. (Let that one sink in for a minute as you think about voter turnout numbers in things like general elections..)
  • TSP is working to end mandatory minimum sentencing and excessively lengthy sentences
  • Shifting of resources FROM incarceration to community based prevention and treatment for substance abuse
  • Examining and reforming policies and practices that contribute to racial iniquity throughout every area of the US Justice system

As I said, they look like they are doing a lot of the heavy lifting here on a matter that I personally believe to be of great importance. I'm going to look into ways of supporting The Sentencing Project both personally and through vehicles like this podcast. We'll also seek to support and publicize other worthy organizations that are fighting the good fight on this or other issues, like widespread legalization of the growing of Industrial Hemp for CBD and/or fuel production.

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BAKED AND AWAKE SHOWEpisode 09- A Hanford/Maury Island Connection

Host: Steve Cominski

Co Host: George W. Masters

Welcome back to EP09 of The Baked and Awake Show. I'm Steve, and I'll be your host for this latest edition of the show, that at the time of publication, is the first of our shows available in the iTunes and GooglePlay stores!! We are ALSO available to stream and download in the Tunein, Stitcher (Applause!). Today on the show we are going to talk (more than we already have) about everybody's favorite "new" way to smoke weed- Dabbing, and it's not so new, and somewhat mysterious origins. We'll also drop back into the ever informative Hemp History timeline, starting at 1900, and see what the 20th Century has to offer our Photogenic Protagonist, Cannabis, and its hard working and continuously underrated Sister, The Hemp Plant. Finally, it's a return to Maury - Vashon Island, with some lesser known history of the Island, as well as a possible connection between a famous UFO incident of 1947 that bears the Island's name, and another mysterious as well as eternally super deadly dangerous- Hanford Nuclear Power Plant.

• Strain of The Week
• • CBD Strains!! Blue Roots Cannabis Durban Poison CBD Terpene Honey, Purchased at Clutch Cannabis, Renton WA
  • Dabbing, and it's Conspiratorial Origins will be covered in the HH timeline, below.

• 1900- 1942 The Dawn of Cannabis and Hemp as we know it
• • 1910- Mexican Revolution introduces recreational consumption to America
  • 1914- The Harrison Act is passed- bad things to come
  • 1919- Alcohol Prohibition begins (!!)
  • 1924- Russian Botanists classify Cannabis Ruderalis -an interesting genotype that we will visit in more detail in a future episode or episodes
  • 1933- Prohibition ends, actually ramping up pressure on MJ as the next target of the ever growing US law enforcement apparatus' which now includes a very active Department of Justice, the FBI, the aforementioned OSS, and more.
  • 1942- Henry Ford develops a car that runs on Hemp Ethanol. In a separate project Ford builds an experimental Hemp Car body 10x stronger than steel and significantly lighter- (In a way foreshadowing fiberglass, plastics, and carbon fiber tech during the WWII era?)
  • The United States OSS, precursor Organization to the NSA/CIA, develops a highly potent MJ concentrate, made using Ethanol Alcohol as the solvent- dubbed "Truth Serum". Codenamed "TD" for Truth Drug, it was administered to unknowing subjects as part of interviews and interrogations in the US and Canada throughout the run of the controversial and super conspiratorial CIA "MK Ultra" program.

• Recap of Maury Island Incident (Short)
• History of Hanford (Short- Maybe PK)
• UFO's over Hanford in 1945 NICAP Official Report
• UFO's over Hanford Project 1947
• Twin Peaks Connection
• Check recent IG posts, saved (email to this account) about Hanford and weird unidentified particles falling from the sky, flying objects observed -sc

AWAKE OPEN CASE No 001

The Hanford Site

Hanford, to be honest- is almost too big of a topic to tackle at our tender stage of development here at Baked and Awake. The only reason that I feel alright taking this up at all, is because of all the many topics we hope to cover here over the next few years, Hanford is one that, more than many others, tends to be rarely discussed, even by avid counter culture loving types and the "Conspiracy Crowd".

Hanford is a massive 586 square mile parcel of land in Washington State that housed the most important nuclear weapons production facility in the United States. It produced almost 80% of the radioactive material used in the United States. It houses 56M gal of liquid waste and 25m cubic feet of solid waste. It is the largest superfund cleanup project in the UNited States.

After the roof collapsed in a tunnel on the site in May 2017,

Hanford released a statement that "no evidence of radiological

release" was detected. It should be noted of course that Hanford officials

ignored warnings given by experts in 1980 in regards to the condition

of the structure and the dangers of its contents.

ALSO IN MAY 2017 - radioactive contamination was unexpectedly detected during checks on an underground storage tank. In another incident that same month, workers' clothes were found to have been contaminated with plutonium, though the source of the contamination was not determined.

August 2017 - an airborne release during demolition of a

building on the Hanford site was detected. The air tests were

not expected to contain traces of plutonium. The airborne particles

were assumed the result of the demolition but there has not

been a conclusive determination of causality.

In 2016, more than 50 workers were exposed to toxic gases, resulting in

illness. More than a 1.3 BILLION dollars has been paid to workers who

have been harmed at Hanford.

These "unexpected" discoveries of contamination are almost certainly

symptoms of a larger problem. Laziness and greed. The cost and effort necessary to address the issues is just too much for them to handle, so they lie and avoid and hide the evidence. From what I read while researching this issue, I would say the danger is clear and present.

Now there are some real problems with this, other than the shortcomings of the officials in power. For instance, the cleanup is fabulously expensive. Estimates of the cleanup cost are in excess of $100 Billion. The current budget is $2.3 Billion, nowhere near enough to address matters in a sufficiently timely fashion. And Trump is cutting the existing

budget by $120M.

-The cleanup deadline is 2060, but experts believe many dangerous

structures on the site will not survive that long.

The underlying issue is human error and laziness. Hanford officials

repeatedly dodge questions about the site and its management.

Consider the number of earthquakes along the Pacific Rim in recent days

and the dangers posed by the poorly maintained and aging Hanford

facilities is amplified significantly. A major quake could release

enough radioactive and otherwise toxic material into the air and water to

cause widespread damage over an enormous portion of the Northwest.