Howie:

K R L T 93 9. The lake. Oh yeah, this might be him right here. Let’s see if this might be the Cody man. Is this the Cody live on the air right now?

Cody:

Oh, this is the one man. I mean, found the number in the roll of duck and we’re good.

Howie:

You were cracking me up while I was on the air. You were calling me on the cell phone, so I didn’t even love live radio, man. Unrehearsed and always questionable on the morning rush. Live with Cody Bass. For our segment, it’s Toke Talk with C n H. How are you my friend?

Cody:

I’m doing good, man. I mean, the only thing is the days are getting shorter. This time of the summer is winding down, but I honestly think we have a real Indian summer to come. I mean, we had such a cloudy and cold June. I mean, August wasn’t much. So we have to have a good September. I mean, don’t we?

Howie:

Yeah, and you know what I’m hoping as much, I mean, winter will always be my favorite season. That’s the season now where Connie leaves, but for me it’s always the, it’ll always be my favorite season. I just hope it’s not as severe as it was this last winter season. That’s all.

Cody:

Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, I feel you today. I mean, it definitely put us all to the test, but it also makes the place like what it is. We wouldn’t have, look how big the forest, the trees, everything. The pine cones. Yeah. We get to live in this place because of the fall and the snow. It’s real, its good!

Howie:

I was reminded when I was down visiting a friend of mine in, I think it was Los Jeremy Hots, great comedian. He’s a Canadian, but he has a place in la and I was talking about our seasons, how cool it is. We get all four seasons and he was pointing at a tree. He goes, look at the leaves changing how we get seasons here. And this was summer. I go, that tree’s dead. That’s not a changing of the season. That one’s just dead.

Cody:

I was like, yeah, I know. It might look pretty to you, but no, no, no, no, no.

Howie:

Although I’m finding out, oh, I have to tell you, this is really funny. So I call my mom every morning, I have to by the provisions of the estate. And so I was chatting with her and she goes, I read your post and I know your friend Cody’s going to be on. She goes, do you really smoke cannabis or are you just doing that for your listeners? There’s mom, I use it as an ingredient sometimes on spaghetti sauce, which really puts a nice little taste to it. Or sometimes I’ll go old school and mix it with a brownie or something like that, but now I’m finding out new uses for it, and I jokingly told mom, mom, you should Cody’s selling shampoo cannabis. You put it in your hair and it relaxes all the curls. So yeah,

Cody:

Go with,

Howie:

Oh man, it just cracks me up.

Cody:

You, you’ve got to let her know too that you don’t even have to smoke cannabis. We can just blow it in your ear.

Howie:

Oh man, that’s a good idea. Cody’s birthday.

Cody:

Just the hairs of your ear, really? That’s what they say. I mean, wow. You didn’t, as a kid, never got, they always say that if you never blow it in the dog’s face, but just in their ear and the ears somehow. And I, we got to try this thing the next week, week. We’ll see. Well,

Howie:

You know what? It’s funny you said that because Connie’s birthday is, I think next Friday I should look it up and I may do that. Go, Hey, I’ll do it while she’s sleeping. I guess some of that sativa just grabbed to her ear and go ago.

Cody:

Yeah, get a nice steady stream flow, but just make sure. Yeah, yeah.

Howie:

Hey, you know what though? Get this. So I’ve got some friends who, and I admit I’m not a real daily pot smoker, but I started out lightly. I mean, I started a little bit intense when I was in college at Humboldt State. That was kind of the baptism, but then I kind of weaned off for a while. I didn’t have easy access to it. And then once they started doing standup, I started trading stuff to get pot, and now it’s just become a regular fixture. It’s almost like a fine wine. Oh yeah, I think I’ll have sativa and this to go with my nice Friday night evening or something like that. But we were talking about that last week Saturday with comedians Jimmy Schubert and also a comedian Jackie Flynn from Boston Man, and they were saying, man, you guys are lucky. You have a dispensary up there. We don’t have one right where we are. And I think Jimmy was talking about maybe Philadelphia where he’s from originally. But you forget sometimes not everybody has access to a dispensary.

Cody:

Well, exactly. I mean, the whole thing is so many people honestly go to other things because of not having safe access. And I can’t tell you how many people we have seen, whether it’s like a simple injury or they broke their arm or whatever it is, and cannabis really becomes the alternative for what I’ll call narcotic pharmaceuticals. And the fact is that they’re pretty rampant. And so we need to allow cannabis to be safe and free and accessible. Not that it should always be free, but I always say that because at the core of Tahoe Wellness, we did provide so much free cannabis for so many people that it really is that, I mean, we sometimes say like, oh, this is cannabis, man grows on a tree and anybody should be able to access. And the fact is that’s true. The Indians would say that everything that would heal you was within walking distance always Really? Wow. As plant life exists and it’s a very, very true thing. But cannabis plays such a major role in that reality, and it’s very interesting as we live and our relation to plant life and we have to understand and know that that is a truth. It’s like everything that does heal us is within walking distance. We always can be healed by the plants and the ears.

Howie:

What’s really interesting, it’s interesting you said that because I love having physicians on the show. A lot of doctors, and I’ve had so many doctors say, look, if you want to put us out of business, I mean obviously you need physicians and specialists for whatever disease or accidents or whatnot, but he says, on a daily basis, if you want to put us out of business, if you exercise moderately and you hear this all the time, I’m sure, and just eat more sensibly your body. It can be I heard that and then I started reading up on a lot like what you were saying on a lot of different tribes, and I don’t want to sound hippie dippy, but there really was so much that was, like you said, was just organically grown that was there. I mean, even simple as hot springs or just vegetables or whatnot that we’re growing, that can just be good for your body, that your body can actually be a well tuned machine that’ll heal itself if you treat it right.

Cody:

Yeah, no, I mean hell, you’re spot on. So in science or medicine I should say, they say that we have an endocannabinoid system, and this isn’t just a cannabis cannabinoids are existing in hops. They’re existing all sorts of different fruits and vegetables, and our body does have what’s known as an endocannabinoid system and what you can do with healing your body when you activate that system, which again is activated through the intake or ingestion of cannabinoids we don’t fully relate to because honestly I would say that many know, but we don’t necessarily teach that way of healing ourselves because we really do look more into a laboratory because a drug is very safe. We think in a laboratory it’s very dosed. We don’t have a doctor can very easily say that this is exactly what you need at this time. And plant-based medicine doesn’t exist in that realm necessarily.

However, all of our medicine is, I mean, everything that we use comes from the plants, but we synthesize it and we make it safe to be administered in an environment like a hospital or things like that. However, that doesn’t mean that our primary and core medicine should not come from a plant. It already does. But as far as the way that we use and interactive, we’ve kind of moved away from the idea that mom has an herb garden that has everything that can heal us in it. And it wasn’t that long ago that we believed that and knew that, and we still know it so that we believe it. We may have moved away from, but we still know it and it’ll absolutely come full circle.

Howie:

There’s a couple of things. I’ve got a couple of comic friends, I don’t know if I blame the pandemic. So a lot of them that had to live in LA because that’s where the business was and everything. And even though it is picking up now, you’ve got the actors and writers strike man, I’ve had a lot of comic friends move out of the cesspool that is LA and they’ve been telling me they’ve gone, a lot of them have gone to places that they’ve always wanted to. A lot went back, they helped their parents, their elderly mothers and fathers and whatnot, and I get messages from them about when they tune in and they listen to this and they’ll back up. A lot of the stuff you’re saying go, a lot of it’s going back full circle. And I was surprised at how many are growing their own vegetable gardens.

I live in Myers and everything dies out there that I try to grow because the squirrels or moles get to them. But it’s interesting, our gophers, but the few things that I have grown have been pretty cool. I like to grow some fresh steaks that doesn’t work. But I mean simple things like tomatoes and cucumbers, I’ve grown before, but a lot of my comic friends have gone back to start to growing all these natural things, and it’s kind of cool that this goes full circle. Getting away from just popping pills and taking something naturally organic.

Cody:

Well, and man, I mean the reward of growing your own right. I can remember smoking cannabis as a kid and then I can remember the first time I grew my own cannabis and man, the difference of what I always used to say, the sun, the seed and the dirt. When you really use the elements of the earth and nature and what it provides just with such what is so simple but also so complex, it’s beyond. And it’s very interesting. We generally don’t look at a meal as what charges our day-to-day thing. But as we look around and what we eat and what it does to our body and how we exist, it’s so critical. And the difference of going to your fresh garden rather than going to Taco Bell, it’s a much different way that your body will live and react and then you put some fresh plant medicine, whether that be cannabis, pide and mushrooms, whatever it may be. If we’ll explore that other than heading to the C VS pharmacy, man, our world will be a better place. There’s just no two ways about it,

Howie:

Man. Hey, speaking of CVS, which is right next door to you, are you keeping special hours? I almost forgot it’s Labor Day weekend, my man this weekend. So are you going to be extending any hours or anything special because of the holiday?

Cody:

We did extend the hours to 10:00 PM so now we’re open every day to 10:00 PM We can’t go based on state law, kind of like how bars closed at 2:00 AM. Cannabis assistance is by state law, have to close at 10:00 PM I didn’t know that. So we’re kind of bound to that, but interesting. We’ll be open until 10:00 PM every night of the week, and I would say we’re going to probably stay open. We may have to reduce our hours again. We’ve definitely had to adjust with the times. I’ll just put it like that. Yeah,

Howie:

Definitely that man, Cody, it’s so cool. I’m so glad. I know you probably have to head off to another one of those meetings, but it’s nice to have a, I was saying earlier, I feel bad when Cody has to do all these closed sessions considering how open his mind is.

Cody:

Well, and you know what I’m trying to say in those closed sessions, those are supposed to know what really happens in the closed session. So we’ve got to really define what is a session.

Howie:

Well, man, you always make my Tuesdays, I feel better already. I was feeling kind of like B minus when I came down here. And then I made the coffee really strong this morning and I didn’t tell Connie, so she’s probably jumping all over the place. So between the coffee and then having you on, man, I feel like Tuesday’s finally really optimistic. So thanks for that my friend.

Cody:

Hey man. Hey, it’s nice to be with a hippie, only the ones that know real hippies.

Howie:

Yeah, man. Well man, I will see you Thursday probably. Definitely because that’s the final show of the live at Lakeview Summer music series, man, with a couple of Ted Kennedy and John Rice are going to be playing the finale. I can’t wait to go to that this Thursday. I’ll probably see you there.

Cody:

Yes, no, I’ll definitely see Airband. What a such a good event. I mean Rob and Leslie, what they’ve put together for this community, it’s something we should all celebrate. So yeah, look forward to seeing the Thursday and it’s going to be a great day,

Howie:

Man. Be well and we’ll kick off shoulder season. Fingers crossed after this weekend, my friend.

Cody:

Yes. We’ll, yes. We’ll, alright, well smoke a fatty. It’s the only way you’re going to get there.

Howie:

Done and done. See you, Cody.

Cody:

Alright, later.