What this episode covers
What this episode covers, from the HashBible.org notes: In this episode, Bubbleman and Gary discuss the endocannabinoid system, the value of glass in the cannabis world, and various cultivation and extraction techniques. They also share personal experiences and insights into the cannabis industry.
Chapters
Chapters in this episode, 12 of them, each with the minute it starts. Tap a time to play the video from there.
- Introduction and Live BroadcastBubbleman introduces the live broadcast and discusses the topics to be covered, including the endocannabinoid system and the value of glass in the cannabis world.
- Discussion on Glass and Endocannabinoid SystemBubbleman and Gary discuss the value of glass in the cannabis world and the importance of the endocannabinoid system. They also touch on the availability of dry sift in Portland.
- Cannabis Strains and CultivationBubbleman and Gary discuss various cannabis strains, including Ortega, Congolese, and Mexican Sativas. They also talk about the challenges of growing sativas and the benefits of using peppers in cultivation.
- Endocannabinoid System and ResearchGary shares his research on the endocannabinoid system and the potential of cannabinoids in treating anxiety and pain. Bubbleman emphasizes the importance of full plant synergy.
- CBN and InsomniaBubbleman and Gary discuss the use of CBN for insomnia and the challenges of finding suitable strains for individuals with sleep issues.
- Cannabis Legislation and Cultivation ChallengesThe group discusses the challenges of cannabis legislation and the difficulties of growing cannabis in certain areas due to legal restrictions.
- Extraction Techniques and Product QualityBubbleman and Gary discuss various extraction techniques, including dry sift and live resin, and the importance of product quality.
- Introduction and Technical IssuesBubbleman and Gary address technical issues with the live stream and welcome the audience. Bubbleman mentions the importance of sharing knowledge about cannabis and the endocannabinoid system.
- Dry Sifting and ContaminantsBubbleman discusses the challenges of dry sifting and the high levels of contaminants in the resulting material. He highlights the importance of using bubble bags for higher purity.
- Cannabinoids and TerpenesBubbleman and an unidentified speaker discuss the complexity of cannabinoids and terpenes, emphasizing the importance of the full plant profile over isolated compounds like CBD.
- Glass Art and Personal AnecdotesBubbleman shares his experiences with glass art, including his involvement in early glass art shows and his connections with artists like Bearclaw and Slinger.
- Mushrooms and Cosmic SporesBubbleman and an unidentified speaker discuss the unique properties of mushrooms, including the discovery of spores in space and the work of Paul Stamets.
Who was on this episode
Who was on this episode, matched from the voices in the transcript: Bubbleman, Gary.
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BubblemanWelcome to Bubble Man's World. We are live. I'm not sure if the rest of you heard what I just said, but I'll repeat it because I just noticed we just went live. Today we are at Hash Church, and in Hash Church we're going to be discussing the endocannabinoid system. Thank you for joining us today.
BubblemanAnd we will be talking about glass, epic glass and the value that it seems to have nowadays in this world, in the cannabis world, the value of the glass has just blown up completely. And I want to talk about that a little bit. So I'm just going to make a quick Facebook post about this room. Check this out for the live.
BubblemanAll right, so I just posted that on YouTube. Hopefully we'll be able to bring some, not YouTube, on Facebook. We'll bring some people in here. I find it always a little bit easier to discuss things when we've got people to discuss them with. In the meantime, I'm embarrassed to show my bong because it is quite dirty. It's been two full days that I haven't washed it, and I've got to get on that.
BubblemanBut I do have some impeccable resin here. Still in the box. And we'll get some of that organized and put onto the dapper. It's been outspreading here for I guess just about a week now. So it's nice and dry. Inside parchment paper. Completely covered inside the box. Real nice. Alright, I've got my one viewer so far. Hopefully it'll build. Hit number one.
BubblemanWelcome Gary and Daniel. Nice to meet you both, man. We are broadcasting live, just to let you guys know. How you doing? So today, yeah, we're just, I'm trying something different that I've never done. This is a live YouTube broadcast. Hello, Daniel's friend that I barely saw, but I saw you.
GaryNice to meet you, Bobo.
BubblemanWell, nice to meet you as well. I love the dead. I love the background there, the space your face, the steel your face.
SpeakerNot to your heads, but pretty nice. Is that some dry sift? Yep, from a local dispenser here in Portland, Oregon.
BubblemanOkay, so you didn't make it, you were able to go and buy it.
SpeakerWe're both students full-time, so we don't really have the time to spend. Although, one day, hopefully, we'll grow. I'm not on medical. My girlfriend is.
BubblemanHow awesome is it that you guys could go and buy Dry Sift? It's $10 a gram. Wow. Well, $10 a gram is reasonable, even if it's like 50% to 75% contaminated. You could clean that out and end up with pure heads for... Way under the $50 to $100 value that I would give a gram of it. I would just like even buy screens and then buy this key for the ball and clean it off.
BubblemanAbsolutely. Right on. I guess it's time to hit one more bowl here. Burn the Witch just came in. That's kind of a trippy name.
SpeakerDo you have any bubble left? You do.
BubblemanIf you guys want a TV or a radio going, you can maybe just turn it off. That'd be awesome. Whoever has the radio coming through there. Thank you, Nugg.
BubblemanHow are you, Nugg?
BubblemanMaybe he doesn't know who he's in as Nugg. Nugglet. Nugglet. Yo. I like it. What's up, dude? Where you at?
SpeakerOkay, no problem.
BubblemanThat's doable. I am up on the way to Whistler. I'm allowed to say that because everyone knows already.
SpeakerYou're from Lions Bay, right? Yes, I do.
BubblemanIt's a beautiful freaking area, man. Yeah, it's really, really quite nice. I love it. Good people, real nice community.
SpeakerIt's a good one for sure. If I wanted to go up to Vancouver, what's a cheap hotel?
BubblemanI don't stay at hotels very often in Vancouver, but I do believe there are a couple of them that are like motel-style hotels near the P&E when you come into the city from the number one highway. They're like real close to the P&E. I'd have to Google it. I'll Google it in a second after this poll.
SpeakerThank you.
BubblemanHey, Dane!
BubblemanDude, how's it going, Dane?
BubblemanNo microphone? I'm thinking Dane is a friend of mine.
SpeakerOh, sweet.
SpeakerThat's who I'm thinking it is. Yeah, Dane from River Rock.
BubblemanDane from my crazy Jamaica trip and Dane from my crazy Amsterdam trip. I don't know if he was in Spain, though. Were you in Spain?
SpeakerWelcome, Major Tom.
GaryDo we have to be going? Oh, I made a point on putting...
BubblemanThis particular chat on my laptop.
BubblemanSo I can put this pizza box back with the other pizza boxes full of hash.
SpeakerIs there some curing bubble hash in there? Yeah, up there too.
GaryOh, sweet. Yeah.
BubblemanAnd then I got these little late dateys. What? Woo! Are those all different strains right there?
SpeakerYeah. Oh, look at all of them.
BubblemanYeah, those are all different strains. Wow.
SpeakerBeauty.
BubblemanWhat do we got? What do we got? We got Ortegas. We got Congolese and Mexican Sativas. Old school, right? It's Ortega's old school, exactly. If you like the Astro Boy, which is one I really am favorable to, the Astro Boy is an Ortega crossed with a C99 that then got smacked with male pollen from an Apollo 13. Wow.
BubblemanAlright, let's see. I got my peppers. I plant hot peppers. I plant sweet peppers.
SpeakerOh, nice. Champagne! Those look beautiful.
GaryOh my gosh, I want to bite that. Yeah. I don't even like peppers and I want to bite that.
BubblemanIt's a good one, for sure. Oh, and then there's some sativas over here, some big tall kind of... Do those take a lot longer to flower? Oh my god, dude. Did these take a long time to flower? This is like the understatement of the year. Maybe this Congolese needs to go in the sun.
SpeakerOh my god, that's a beautiful plant.
GaryThat's a beautiful view, too. God damn.
BubblemanLet's get these guys under the sun.
GaryWe can move once we're out of college.
BubblemanYeah, get out of America, man.
GaryOh, beautiful. Who's that?
BubblemanMeet Congolese.
SpeakerI don't think so.
GaryThat's not something I ever see around.
BubblemanSomething's coming out. My whole back deck's full of them, too.
SpeakerWhere's the cherry pie, Chloe?
GaryWhat cherry pie?
SpeakerThe cherry pie nug, the last one. Oh, a double now?
GaryI don't think so.
GaryThank you for giving us a nice tour.
BubblemanYeah, it's awesome. There's that view that you were enjoying too.
GaryYeah, oh my gosh. Wow.
BubblemanWelcome back, Dane. Hope you're hanging out for a bit.
BubblemanDane can't get his microphone or his camera working, I think. Forget it. He's tech.
SpeakerWow, this stuff smells amazing. Some really fire cherry pie we picked up. Yeah. And you bought that at? Yeah, in Portland. Portland has some really awesome dispensaries. It's so much. I mean, we're like 20 minutes across the river, and you're in Vancouver, Washington, and the fucking weed prices go like up 300%. Oh, I saw that in one of your videos. It's so good. It was a gift.
SpeakerIt was a gift?
BubblemanWow. Yeah, Frank151 and DNA were doing this project, and they needed a picture, so I gave them the picture, and then they sent me that... Hello.
GaryThe result of the project?
BubblemanYeah, the funny thing was, they're like, we're doing this project together. I'm like, oh, cool, right on. And they're like, we need a picture. And then I'm like, the project was my picture.
SpeakerNow, I have a question, Bone Man. Do you think that you could get a picture like that printed on a screen for embroidery? Because my mom does embroidery. Yes. And that would be awesome if she could look. That would be so embroidered. Absolutely. I'm digging the mustache, Dane.
GaryThat is so good.
SpeakerOh my god. Can you guys hear me now? We can hear you now, dude.
BubblemanWelcome. Welcome to the chat. Are you ready to talk about the endocannabinoid system or what?
GaryOh yeah.
BubblemanLet's do it. You're doing your freaking... You should tell them about your research, Chloe.
GaryYeah, I mean, I'm going to be doing my senior thesis on the endocannabinoid system. I'm going to be doing some sort of cannabinoid compound to rats. I'm going to be... Get into their brains.
SpeakerOh, wow. That sounds interesting for sure. You're testing the anti-anxiety effects, right? We love the anti-anxiety effects.
BubblemanHmm? I said we love those anti-anxiety effects.
GaryYou know what I really would have loved to do? It's not possible in this country, but I really would have loved to do... CBD? Yeah, I really would have loved to investigate the properties of CBD in its relation to anxiety and pain relief, so... Hopefully in the next few years.
SpeakerWhen they freaking change the laws.
GaryYeah.
BubblemanWell, I'm a firm believer that, you know, when we give credit to, say, CBD, which seems to be the compound we give credit to the most lately, that there's a whole lot of other synergies going on in the other potential 80 plus cannabinoids that may or may not be present. And then more importantly, the cannabinoid modulating effects That are seen from terpenes, which we know there are several hundreds of those present in the profile as well.
BubblemanYeah, Colleen.
SpeakerThat would be an interesting extension. Check the rat with the terpene.
GaryOh, sweet.
BubblemanHey, Dane, my shit never ends up in jars. It goes from my plants onto the box.
BubblemanThis is the 90 micron box.
SpeakerNice. The good old pizza box.
BubblemanParchment, baby. Dane knows. Dane knows. We've made hash together. Me, Dane, and Richie Spice made hash together.
SpeakerYou know, you really turned me over. I'm getting a new place and I can't smoke in it. And so now I'm officially not burning flowers anymore. I'm only going to be vaporizing. Wow.
BubblemanSo you definitely turned me on to that. Wow, that sound that Burn the Witch had going on was gnarly. I was like, what?
SpeakerI was just trying to ignore it.
BubblemanI thought you were doing something. I was like, what is he doing? No, not me. Making that sound. Well, I'm glad to be enjoying a live chat with you guys today and that we're talking about the endocannabinoid system. Why not? We all have one.
SpeakerYes.
BubblemanNow that's classic. Yeah, that's classic right there.
SpeakerThis alarm is a piece of shit.
BubblemanYou got to cover that shit with the, what do we cover it with, Dane?
SpeakerOh, a shower cap, yeah. That's the world traveler's answer to the hash smoking problem.
BubblemanDude, and if you always stay in a decent hotel, there'll always be a shower cap.
SpeakerI have so many shower caps, it's ridiculous.
BubblemanLet's use one. Put one on your thing, but don't forget it there, because we'd hate to lose you in the night to a fire. Yeah.
GaryYeah.
BubblemanWelcome, Aaron.
SpeakerWell, I'm going to heat it up farther away. The problem is my desk is right underneath the freaking fire alarm.
BubblemanOh, nice. Burn the witches hitting dry sift hits? Very nice. Very nice.
BubblemanAll right, I'll hit some dry sift rips. Here's some dry sift here. Very careful. I don't want to spill it. Oops. Oh, no. Oh, my God.
SpeakerThat's how you know that's here. Shower cap. That's good quality.
GaryYeah, like I can reach that.
SpeakerOh, I can do it.
GaryYou know, you know me. I'm too short.
SpeakerYeah, I bet it works out for you on planes though. I'll clean this off a little bit more for you.
BubblemanSo how have things been down at River Rock, Dane? What's going on new down there?
SpeakerGiddy up. Live resin. A lot of giddy up live resin happening? Yeah, I think we're in the final process of getting the lab approved. We have some new ACK now, medicine available, two milligram drops. Available in THC, CBD, and a 50-50 ratio right now.
BubblemanAre those the sublingual drops that are contained in Terps?
SpeakerExactly, yeah. I had a chance to try those after my accident. I put like four syringes under my tongue, and it outpowered the morphine in effect, so I thought that was really powerful. Outpowered morphine? Yeah, in the hospital. At least it competed with it. I felt it. I felt the effect.
BubblemanDude, I was worried about you when you said you were selling the 250 and you were buying it. I was kind of like...
SpeakerOoh. I'm still selling the 250. Like I went out, I rode it the last three days. Yeah. Well, I'm selling it now. But yeah, man, I only had that rocket for two days. I was like whipping around town, having fun on it. And then I was on my way to Tony's with a SD card, literally doing 15 miles an hour, a mile and a half out of my house, just cruising, coming up to a stop sign, like taking it out of second gear.
SpeakerAnd this lady, she gets ready to make a left-hand turn going, she's facing eastbound and I'm going westbound. And she starts to creep. There's a van going my direction and she didn't rain check all the way down the lane. She just kind of did her own thing. So she never knew a bike was coming and I was going right hand right lane and she started her turn and I looked up.
SpeakerI seen her and she wasn't looking at me. She was looking at her phone. I was like, you, what the? And I started to swerve my bike into the parking lot to miss her and she kept coming. No brakes, no mercy. I took the front part of her bumper. In hindsight, I should have just took a sharp right and nailed it right in front of her but I tried to go around her because I thought she would slam on her brakes and she didn't and I flipped up.
SpeakerI slid forward, hit my pelvis on the tank and rolled head over feet two times into the street. Didn't you break your hip? Yeah. I got a picture of that but luckily I had all my gear on including my helmet and everything so I was safe. There, but I didn't have my hip pads or my riding pants on. I just had jeans, so there's nothing to absorb that impact.
BubblemanYeah, you got to be so careful on those things. You know, that's how my father and my stepmom passed away.
SpeakerYeah, so I remember that.
BubblemanYou got to be careful. I still love motorcycles. I support motorcycles. I have them myself, both dirt bikes and scoot bikes, but I've been riding them for 34 years. Fucking so much power in those things. So much power, dude. And it's like, if you never rode them, if you just got them as, like, a young teenager or a young 20-year-old, it's best if you just suck it up and ride the 250 for, like, a year, maybe even two, before you, like, move it.
BubblemanBecause a year is really only a season in an elementary place.
SpeakerWhat's that, Aaron? Going straight to the Hayabusa. I went from the 250 to the Ninja. It was a Ninja 500. It was a parallel twin, but it was still pretty fast.
BubblemanYeah, yeah. They were definitely different styles bikes. The minute you get on that Ninja, I bet you just felt like, yeah.
SpeakerI was doing 90 on Colfax, which is like the middle of the city here. I was like, holy shit, how did I get there? That was intense, dude. Well, I'm selling that, and I'm getting a FWRX 250X Supermoto, and then I'm going to slap some dirt tires on it when I feel like getting crazy off-road. Very cool.
BubblemanI wonder if we should do a sort of question and answer thing here. Because it's disabled, how can I enable that questions and answer thing?
SpeakerThat was a trip to me, bro. I know.
BubblemanIt says that there's, I'm noticing there's 51 people viewing right now, and I just thought, you know, it would be cool if they did have questions about specific things. Right now we're just, we're sort of telling some stories, personal stories, but, you know, there's a few different people in the room. We've got different people who are using cannabis medicinally. We have different sort of cannabis activist people, like Dane, who works for River Rock and does River Rock TV.
BubblemanEveryone knows who I am. I'm the bubble man. I love to extract resins and then enjoy them. Where are you from, Major Tom? I'm on day six off of fucking... Oh, you're muted, Major. That was Aaron. Aaron's on day six. Where are you? In like East Coast?
SpeakerNo, no, no. Day... Day 6 off of 400 milligrams of fucking morphine. My doctor doesn't even know you. I can't wait to go fucking tell him. Oh, that's awesome. I fucking can't wait.
BubblemanWho wants to live underwater? Yeah, dude. Of course it is. That shit's... That's exactly it, man.
SpeakerYou don't live. It's fucking existing. It's fucking bullshit. It's not good. And for pain, too, I noticed for me it made my soft tissues more sensitive, so it was harder for me to walk and regain mobility after the accident versus, like, the Prana pills I was taking. The cannabinoid profile of those, I was getting my inflammation reduction and pain reduction, but I had more mobility and just... Yeah, the muscle relaxant nature, too.
SpeakerLike...
BubblemanGarbage.
BubblemanVery good. I really want to enable question and answers.
SpeakerI actually have a question for you. What's up? I was googling this and I couldn't really find anything, but are there any strains that are like CBN dominant?
BubblemanWell, CBN is degradation of CBD, so you can usually get CBN through a long-term cure. So I would suspect if they tested Moroccan hash that it has had weed sitting in a And a barn for three months before they even hash it. And then sometimes they cure the hash for a season or two before it goes out the door. That you would find a high CBN content.
SpeakerOr if you just cured your own resin. Yeah, I mean, the reason I'm asking is because I have a friend of mine back home on the East Coast who has terrible insomnia. And, like, he loves sativas, but when he smokes a sativa, he literally can't go to bed for, like, a whole day. I have that problem too. Figure out, like, how to get weed for him that, like, would not make him just stay up for eternity, basically.
BubblemanIt just keeps him up, eh?
SpeakerYeah, it's... Like, if he doesn't go to bed at the same time, he never goes to bed.
BubblemanBut what is he... Is he taking it for insomnia?
SpeakerNo, he doesn't really smoke weed anymore because he can't, really. It sucks. Because he's only... Like, we try... Like, I used to ship him shit, but he doesn't really like doing that, so it's like... I don't know. It sucks when you really enjoy weed. That's why it should be legal so you can actually get strains anywhere.
BubblemanSorry, Aaron, your mic's coming through really badly. That's why we don't hear you very well. You come through quite muffled. Let's see if I can sort of bump you up a bit. Like a CBN stream. Start talking now.
SpeakerSee, what you can do is you can make an isolated CBN. Yeah, it's Aaron.
BubblemanWe can't hear you. Gentleman in his car. You're coming through super muffled and you probably aren't able to type because I think you're on a phone. Oh, God.
SpeakerThe double whammy right there.
BubblemanYeah, it happens often like that, actually. It's weird.
SpeakerThat sucks that you can't find a CD in stream, but I guess, I mean, if you have the time to carry it, Why not?
BubblemanWell, no, like Dane mentioned, there are people that are just going to be isolating these compounds. I'm a firm believer in the full synergy, the full plant profile, but people are going to isolate all the cannabinoids. First, they're going to isolate THC and CBD because right now CBD... It's almost like the organic or the natural word for cannabis right now that everyone's really digging on because A, it's kid friendly and it implies that you won't get high.
BubblemanBeing high has been the propaganda against being high that has been spent into having people think negative thoughts about people getting high is really a problem. I see it as a problem because A, CBD medicine, CBD only legislation is problematic for a multitude of reasons. One, it doesn't cure or help all forms of epilepsy. It's a one in four or one in five, which is great, but bring all the other cannabinoids in as well so we can help everyone.
BubblemanAnd then more importantly, having people be confused with the media. I had a woman contact me whose son has a brain tumor. He's three years old. She's got him on CBD-only medicine. CBD doesn't cure tumors, shrink tumors. It's different. She needs THC, but she believes that she's afraid that A, THC will get her son high. And that, you know, that she'll be looked bad upon as a parent, but we know scientifically that THC is...
BubblemanThat it reduces tumors, that it has the ability to shrink tumors.
GaryYeah, you should have both.
BubblemanNot just both. Here, not just both. There's 90 cannabinoids. Yeah, I know, but... You just know the name of a couple of them and everyone's talking about them like as though they are responsible for all these specific things when really... No idea. There's so many other things in the plan. So many other things.
SpeakerSo you just need a... I mean... Would you, does Rick Simpson Oil, I guess, have all of them? I guess it's a full plant extraction.
BubblemanWell, Rick Simpson Oil, all of these things, right, like I tell this to people as well, don't give credit to any specific type of extraction process, like, oh, this is bubble hash, or this is live resin, or this is whatever. Just understand that the magic, no matter what, is in the phytocannabinoids. So if you heal yourself using a product that Don't think that something a company put into that product other than those phytocannabinoids is the thing that's actually working.
BubblemanBecause we know about the endocannabinoid system and we know about phytocannabinoids and we know how they help put our system into homeostasis through the endocannabinoid system. It does that through... Through regulating biological function, putting everything into a proper idol, and we know that when we consume amino acids, the doctor tells us you must consume amino acids, they're essential to life. What we're doing with them in our body is we're transferring the essential aminos like GLA and GLNAs, omega-3s and omega-6s, we turn those into cannabinoids.
BubblemanThey're called endocannabinoids in our bodies because they're produced endogenously. Phytocannabinoids are in cannabis. They are brought into our body through either consumption or inhalation or, you know, a transdermal cream or a sublingual drop.
SpeakerYeah, no, I guess my question was more along the lines of have you ever, like, I guess the cannabinoid profile in Rick Simpson Oil is definitely different than the cannabinoid profile in Bubble Hatch. It's like in bubble hatch you're just isolating the heads, I guess.
BubblemanWell, you have different footprints. You're isolating, yes, here's the thing. Rick Simpson's oil is a full plant profile in the sense that you're isolating all of the bulbous heads that are stuck on the leaves that don't have stalks. Bubble hatch doesn't extract those. They stay where they are. We just extract the capitate sessile and the capitate stalked trichomes, the glandulars. Those are the ones we grab with water hash and mostly with dry sifting.
BubblemanWith solvent extracts, they wash the plant based on polarity and grab what's there. So those little tiny, I've seen them on fan leaves, I've seen them on brand new, fresh, like the first two leaves, which are called the epicotyl. Thank you so much for joining us.
SpeakerSo, if only you could just have only the really good heads.
BubblemanWe can. We do.
SpeakerIf the whole plant was just covered in it. But I guess that's just nature. There are only some of them.
BubblemanBut you know what? That's even only a prohibition-based way. Because they made it so illegal and they made it so hard, we would love it to be this dream. But really, the dream would just be being able to have it, being able to grow it. It wouldn't matter how little there is because if we were allowed to grow it without...
SpeakerIt's so dumb. She's on OMMP, but because she lives in this house and the rental company has signed it into the contract, no matter if you're on OMMP, you can't grow like she can't grow. So it's kind of like the law from the state is telling you one thing, but because the insurance is probably running through some federal thing, they say no. Sure. I agree with Major Tom as well.
SpeakerKind of fucked in the middle right there. Tough one. We wish that tough one could start growing. There's like one in November and I just registered to vote in Oregon even though I'm not from here so hopefully. There it is.
BubblemanPeople are moving all over the states to live in cannabis friendly environments aren't they?
SpeakerYeah I mean Oregon's seeing Washington. Oregon's going to do it better because they're not going to make a whole new board they're just going to use the liquor board which will get faster and hopefully a little less expensive than Washington has become. Right. Like, if it became Washington, it would basically be economically unfeasible for most people to purchase it.
SpeakerThe medical program here is really good. It's really cheap, but they might take it away. Who knows? They might just treat it the same way as liquor.
BubblemanIt's true. It could happen. It could happen. Let's pray that it doesn't.
SpeakerI gotta do more research, because I've heard conflicting things about the new bill. It's kind of like... One person I talk to says, oh, it's going to fuck over OMMP. One person I talk to says it's not.
BubblemanThat's because people love to talk about shit they have no knowledge about whatsoever.
SpeakerYeah, except there's not very good information on it, too. Like, oh, like, the shit is kind of vague about what it's doing with the medical program. Time for a dunk. Yeah. I'm going to join you with that one. We ran out of bubble hat.
BubblemanI'm smoking some fresh frozen Astro Boy that is just so good.
SpeakerVery jelly. Dude, I got Astro Dogs started. They're so fucking, I'm so pumped about them. What strain is this? This is Romulan.
SpeakerThat's a good question. Oh, it's in my pants.
BubblemanWell, extraction processes. Yeah. Except get off the topic of law. Lots of extraction processes out there these days. Lots of people using chemical solvents and lots of people going solventless. It's nice to see that there's options.
SpeakerThere's like terpene extractions too. Have you tried those at all?
BubblemanYeah, I did. I tried it once. My friend Horatio, who I trust is a good human and a good individual. I really like him. He's a nice person. He's a family man and I I know that his agenda is really literally just to do good. So that's very helpful. That's how I met him, knowing that, and that's why I gave his oil a try, which I never try.
BubblemanI don't try oil very often. I tried his oil, and then I tried Giddy Up's Live Resin in Jamaica. Those are the only two oils I've tried in, oh, I don't know, 10, 15 plus years.
BubblemanAnd I found that the LHO, which is the D-limonene terpene extract that Horatio does, LHO extracts, I found that it had a strong terpene flavor of limonene. Like every strain. Like it would dissolve it, left in it? Even though he got the lowest numbers, I don't know if you saw his numbers from the last Secret Cup, but I believe he was by far the lowest PPMs out of any oil entered.
BubblemanAnd it got the attention of a lot of the oil.
SpeakerBut it still tasted like the solvent.
BubblemanWell, it still tasted...
SpeakerBut it wasn't high in limonene.
BubblemanIt still had that footprint. You know, you understand any time you do an extraction, no matter how you do it, you'll leave a footprint behind on even a molecular level. Sometimes it can be... Thank you for watching.
BubblemanWas puffing on some dry sift. I was hoping that it was melty dry sift because if you have dry sift, you can make it melty. That's some terpy dry sift right there. By cleaning it. Get a microscope and look at it. And if it doesn't look like grapes, if it looks like little worms, get rid of those little worms.
SpeakerI'm using a riot box.
BubblemanYou're required to get corse greens to clean further, I believe.
SpeakerCan you say it, Dane?
BubblemanIt's good to have multiple screens.
SpeakerI said get rid of the worms, keep the grapes. I'm going to remember that for the rest of my life.
BubblemanNice, get rid of the worms, keep the grapes. Yes, it was only a year and a bit ago that Johnny B came to my house with some dry sift and he was very proud to show it to me and I pulled out my microscope and I showed him that it was about 75% contaminant.
BubblemanIt took me about 40 minutes, but I took his dry sift and got rid of two-thirds of it and turned it into just the most spectacular, ridiculous, full-melt dry sift. We both took a hit. It's on my YouTube channel. It's the dry sift hit from last year. And it is very melty. It changed his whole life. Literally, that guy has the best quality dry sift and wet wash all the time now.
BubblemanAnd before he just had bubble that didn't quite melt and dry sift that didn't even come close to melting. And all he had to do was be literally pointed out and say, hey, you could do this differently and maybe do this differently. And he did it. And now the guy literally, every time I see him, he has melty, melty hash that he himself grew, processed, cured, and then smokes.
BubblemanThat's wild. It's the dream. I support that. Keep in mind, John fell 30 feet, broke like 28 bones in his body, and... That's fucking incredible. When you hear other people making excuses why they can't do it... He's an inspiration of mine, man. Yeah, Aaron, I would guess so. Do you know how many fucking pills John...
SpeakerHe's one of my biggest inspirations. He's going walking around in Squamish with you. I saw that video you posted yesterday. He's like active as fuck for someone who's fallen through.
BubblemanDude, I ask him all the time why he doesn't park in... You can tell he was hurting, bro. He's not... He said, oh, he is totally disabled. Trust me. He's like, he's considered disabled. He has all the stickers. That's not what I meant.
SpeakerI guess he should be in a wheelchair. You don't want to give in.
BubblemanHe doesn't act like that. No, exactly. So why he doesn't act like that? I asked him. I'm like, why don't you park in the disabled? He's like, man, because people then are like, you're not disabled. Why are you parking there?
BubblemanHe's like, fuck. John's a good guy.
SpeakerDude, I get the same bullshit. I am disabled. I can never hold a regular job.
BubblemanWell, feed your endocannabinoid system, Aaron, and, you know, look at Johnny B. All right.
BubblemanYou guys got the microscope out? Are you guys doing solar bowls?
SpeakerNo, I'm just, myself is my inspiration. We have to do that 400. I'm looking at the hash, trying to tell how good it is.
BubblemanAll right, well. I'm not hitting no show with him. That's a good start. Yeah, JB is hardcore. He was on like 29 pills a day or something, so we support JB. Look, there he is in the background on my wall. JB in the 73 shirt. He's been here the whole time.
BubblemanHe's actually in Saskatoon right now at the Prairie Cup Medicinal Harvest Cup, whatever they call that cup that Jeff from Skunk Funk is throwing. So today is the last day.
SpeakerI can't believe anyone is in the video on this.
BubblemanIt's impossible to hear you, bro. Aaron, I wish you could hear how you're coming through because it's robotic. This is so fun.
SpeakerWow, he's melting.
BubblemanHe sounds like 400 milligrams of morphine. Because the computer is glitching out on you, Aaron. We can't hear you properly. You're doing this sort of ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. Sorry, bro. Oh, he left. He'll come back.
SpeakerHopefully we have a better connection.
BubblemanYou know what? The phone connections are the worst. It's really the best to come into these things on computers. Yeah.
GaryYeah, I'm just sitting at home right now.
BubblemanCan you see heads? Well, we have 82 people watching right now. It's kind of dusty. Checking out our little chat. So I feel every once in a while like a responsibility that we have to tell them something cool about cannabis or our personal experience with cannabis or some new knowledge about the endocannabinoid system that they may or may not know. Or perhaps they don't know about our group that we have on Facebook called the Endocannabinoid System.
BubblemanThat's a good one to join. Good group of people in there laying down good links. If you want to do research on your own, it's a pretty good spot to start. I definitely see some stocks. It's not pure heads. Yeah, it wouldn't be. There's no way they could sell that for $10 a gram. If it was pure heads, it would be like $80 a gram.
SpeakerNo, from the grinder, I'm saying this stuff. Oh, yeah.
BubblemanThis stuff. But any stuff, any single screen is generally 98% of the time going to be like 60% contaminant or more. You can get lucky with the trim bin or some other lucky little like first bounce methods where you can just get like a super high like 80 to 90% heads, but that's more rare.
BubblemanI wish it wasn't. Dry sifting is definitely an art form. That ability to extract just the heads from the rest of the sift is a very important factor to be able to do, which is taken care of for... Oh, nice to hear Riot Box has three tiers. That's awesome. Bubble bags, they make a 98%, 99% gland head ratio for you. The water does that for you. With dry sifting, it doesn't do that.
BubblemanAll it does is it extracts 100%. You could easily extract a big chunk of the glands, but the glands themselves are 70% contaminant. So even when you get just trichomes, you still have an enormous amount of contaminant present in that material, upwards of 75%. Yeah, yeah.
SpeakerSupposedly on the test it said like 25% THC, so that probably means around 70% of the content, I guess.
BubblemanWell, THC is just one component.
SpeakerYeah, well, I mean, I'm sure the other cannabinoids, though, don't come up in very high percentages compared to THC, correct?
BubblemanYeah, but there's 300 of them, so there's 300 terpenes and 89 to 90 cannabinoids, so when you add all those up, they make a pretty big chunk.
SpeakerDo you think, like, I mean, don't they measure, like, total cannabinoid content, too? Like, there's a way to measure just... God, no.
BubblemanMost people couldn't even name more than five of the cannabinoids, let alone the 80, and most people think there's only 160 terpenes, let alone the 300, and that's not even getting into all the terpenoids, monoterpenoids, sesquiterpenoids, and a bunch of words that neither of us can pronounce, anoids.
SpeakerOh, yeah, no, I'm just saying, like, when they're testing, like, literally, I guess they're using, like, scopic methods, so they have, like, a bump.
BubblemanBut they're not testing for all of them is what I'm telling you.
SpeakerYeah, yeah, I know, but...
BubblemanI wish they were, but they're not. And the bottom line is they have no knowledge of most of them. Most of them would just want to test for CBD and THC because that's what sells the product. It's kind of fucked. And when you talk to people today that know about cannabis, how much do they talk about CBD?
SpeakerIt's unbelievable. That's all they talk about.
BubblemanIt's often the first thing out of people's mouths.
SpeakerYeah, it blows my mind. It is a great fucking compound though. That shit actually brought me to tears. Can you guys hear me now? Yeah. Oh my god, this is so much better. I went to the secret coffee east coast and I had a CBD, high, CBD, high THC oil. It brought me to tears because I found, like, I found an answer other than those, uh, the opioids.
BubblemanYeah, but do you notice that you just gave CBD the credit for that and not the profile that actually did the magic?
SpeakerNo, I know. I had no idea what else was in it. Exactly.
BubblemanBut you just said CBD is an amazing compound. So that's what I'm saying, the danger of CBD. Do you know how much other things were in that oil that made you feel the way you felt?
SpeakerOh, I know. I know. It's an entourage effect. I'm not discrediting anything.
BubblemanBut we give the credit to CBD. It constantly gets the credit.
SpeakerI do give it a little bit of credit because I know that it is.
BubblemanI see what you're saying, bum man. Well, I'm just saying it happens all the time, and I don't mind giving credit where credit's due, but it's like, first of all, how do you know that it's the CBD? How do you know? You can't.
SpeakerYou can't. Because high THC does not do that. High THC does not do that.
BubblemanYeah, but it's not about the high THC. It's about the profile. It's about the whole plant profile. That profile.
SpeakerWe have no clue about it. How do we even talk about it?
BubblemanYou need science.
SpeakerIt's legal. You can't do science on it. I know. I know.
BubblemanIn the next five years, we're going to get the science, guys. In the next five years, we're going to get the science that we require. They're starting it in Spain. They do a little bit. They've been doing it for 10 years.
SpeakerIsrael, bro.
BubblemanAnd Israel is way ahead of the curve. So it's like it's happening. Trust me on that one. And now the more that the U.S. opens up. To cannabis, the more the rest of the world feels less fear in being able to do it themselves. Welcome Connor, who just came in. I think we all need to have a hit. What do you say? As I see Aaron pale.
SpeakerLet's do that.
BubblemanI'm down.
SpeakerI'll second that.
BubblemanI'm down. I'm down. Yes, I'm definitely not anti-CBD, don't get me wrong, but I really am promoting the full plant profile because even if something is a huge percentage of THC, I myself have had pure THC and I've had pure terpenes and I've taken a pure THC and added a single terpene to it and altered the effects of that THC, modulated the effects of that THC.
SpeakerAll right, here we go. Getting the fresh frozen Astro Boy. I can't really show you there without spilling it all, but there it is.
SpeakerThat looks awesome. Why have you been hitting that?
SpeakerMan, this is a fat fucking joint.
BubblemanOh, that tastes so good. Give thanks for the trophies.
SpeakerThat tastes so good with the peach, terpenes from the peach and the hash.
BubblemanI'll tell you, terpene rich.
BubblemanTen years ago, the skunk man, Sam, told me that terpenes are the future. And you know what? Go figure. Terpenes are definitely one of the major components of attractants that would have attracted humans to the cannabis plant. We would have tasted them and we would have thought, mmm.
SpeakerWhat's going on with the pure terpenes? People are able to extract pure terpenes now. I'm seeing how people are doing it with River Rocker. Yeah, different people are doing it. Kay from Tricon is here.
BubblemanHe was one of the first. I was talking to Tony about it right before he started doing it because I was talking to Kay. And Kay told me, you've got to figure out how to extract terpenes. I was like, I'll do it. I'll call Tony. I'll start working on the project. I told Tony about it. And literally two weeks later, he was like, I'm doing it already.
SpeakerI figured it out. Send me the recipe, bro. Terp City.
SpeakerGot to do it.
BubblemanEspecially with water hash because we're the ones that have the terps to extract. Water soluble terpenes that are left in the water, that's the key, right? You've already extracted them in a pure form. You've got to get those back in there.
SpeakerYou've got to learn how to get those back.
BubblemanYeah, exactly.
SpeakerYou can't do it with bubble though. You can't do it with bubble though. How could you do it with bubble? You can't add that shit back into the grand head. That'd be awesome though. That'd be fucking amazing.
BubblemanThere's ways of doing it. I like to just dry sift because I don't lose anything when I dry sift. I just have pure plant profile going on right there.
SpeakerJoey Hampton.
BubblemanWelcome, Joey Hampton. And Majin. I can't even keep up with the people. We got 91 people hanging out. I don't know how many people have cammed out to eight or nine.
SpeakerCool.
BubblemanI wish I had the question and answer thing set up. I have no idea how to set it up and it won't give me the option. It just says it's disabled. Then people that are watching would be able to, I guess, ask a question, direct the conversation, which is never a bad idea.
BubblemanWhat are we going to do? Yeah, I'll figure it out next time. And glass. How about fat glass? Did anyone see that Quave recycler photograph or video? Can you believe glass like that exists?
SpeakerBeauty.
BubblemanI mean, I'm no slouch to fat glass. Don't get me wrong. I've been collecting since the 90s. Very, very lovely. That bear claw. Yeah, Bearclaw, I had Bearclaw on a show that I threw in my gallery in 2003, and it was like him just becoming a new, same with, who else was it? It was Hops, Steve Hops and Bearclaw, both the first gallery show they ever did was a gallery show that I did in my gallery with Marbleslinger called Degenerate Art.
BubblemanHell yeah. Yeah. And Regenerate Art. We did it two years in a row at my gallery called The Melting Point. And I'll tell you, man, that was like early 2000s. With like three, four hundred K worth of epic fucking glass on podiums under custom aquariums that we had the glass cut for and designed for each piece. That was, it was just ahead of its time.
SpeakerYeah, the early Bear Claws, the early 2000 Bear Claws and Slingers are amazing.
BubblemanYeah, dude. Yeah, that's like, Slinger was literally my neighbor back then. He lived like two doors over to my right. That's awesome. Yeah, I met Slinger by hitchhiking. He hitchhiked and I picked him up on the side of the road on my way to see fish at the gorge. I picked him up and I was kind of like, the way I picked him up was very strange because he was on the wrong side of the road and I just blew by him knowing that that guy had broken down and needed a ride.
BubblemanAnd basically I turned around convincing myself I needed to go to A&W, which he was standing out in front of, to buy onion rings, which is A, strange because I don't really eat fast food, and B, even stranger, I don't really like onion rings. And I never turned around, like I'd rather run out of gas than turn around to go to the gas station. But this day I turned around and I went, I drove by the A&W and he was now on the proper side of the street, which was the opposite side, hitchhiking on his way to the show.
BubblemanAnd I called him over. It was Marble Slinger. Before he was Marble Slinger. And he actually gave me this marble, which was one of his own marbles. He gave me this in 1998. He gave me this in the A&W because I still went and bought onion rings.
SpeakerHow fucking weird is that?
BubblemanSo Aaron gave me this in 898, and then we left the A&W, and he was like, oh, I have to tell you, I have a couple friends with me. And I was kind of like, oh shit, you know, here it is. I like this guy, he's cool, now he's got some friends and they're going to be all lame. And his friends ended up being Jason Lee, who was very much not lame at all.
BubblemanAnd Jason's girlfriend at the time, who was a super cool chick too. There's a 04 Marbleslinger Ohm, flattened out, more new style. Awesome. And this one is, I can't remember one of my birthdays, he made me all these random marbles that said Bubble Man and I just gave them away. I kept this one, but I gave away like 20 of them or something.
BubblemanMarble Slinger Gems, just in the office drawer.
BubblemanHow about a Pedro Smiley Lamp? Wow. Mmmmm. Pedro was around when I met Marbleslinger in the 90s. He was part of the Bellingham crew along with Zach and D-Rec and Marcel and quite a big crew of them used to blow glass out of Bellingham. Good times as I lived right above the border, met them all through the interaction of the fish show hitchhiking episode. We realized actually how weird is this that Slinger met me there hitchhiking, and then two months later he called me and said, I think you know my roommate, Zach.
BubblemanAnd I'm like, no, probably not. He's like, no, he said he met you on Fish Tour. I'm like, dude, I doubt it. I don't go to that many. I'm not like you guys with 300 shows under my belt. I've done like 20 shows. It turned out I had indeed met his friend Zach in Spokane, Washington. I watched the police smash his glass, and he was all super choked.
BubblemanI was still living in Manitoba at the time doing the hemp thing. And I went over to him and I was like, bro, why don't you follow me back? We need a glass blower. We got this hemp thing going on. We travel all over to India and Thailand and different countries. You'll fit in. And he was all ready to literally follow us. And he was following me through a snowstorm in freaking Idaho.
BubblemanAnd he lost me. And I never saw him again for three years until I picked up Slinger hitchhiking. And it was his roommate. Trippy. The world is small. The world is small. And the weirder thing was the year that I met his roommate on Fish Tour, two months before that I was at the Cannabis Cup. And at the Cannabis Cup in 1995, I actually met Marbleslinger for the first time.
BubblemanAnd I have video footage of me and him and us talking near a cloning machine. He had just gotten out of film school in Ithaca. And so that was even blew our minds. What the fuck? Right? That's crazy shit.
SpeakerI was like, what the fuck? What's up, Batu? Every day, we eat porn. I'm scary. You're not that scary. Cops will be coming. Oh, I'm so high. You don't look that high. Girls, I got to you so high and you doesn't mind. Oh, I'm dying. Hey, where you at, Batu?
SpeakerWhat? Where you at? I'm fucked up. I'm fucked up. He's a fucked up. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. Alright, are you... Alright, not too less iris.
BubblemanYou wanna pipe with me, huh? No, absolutely not. We would love to puff a bowl. I got my guitar right here, brother.
BubblemanHey, Daniel. Yeah?
SpeakerWiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. Wiggle what? Wiggle what?
GaryOh my gosh.
SpeakerDaniel, you broke my heart. Oh my god.
SpeakerOh my god.
GaryI'm sorry.
SpeakerMay God bless us. Beagle, beagle, beagle, beagle.
BubblemanAll right. Okay. We enjoyed that, but now it's back to, you know, talking about things that are more cannabis-based.
SpeakerI don't think he talked about that shit. It sounded like he was having fun.
BubblemanI don't think he was really high.
SpeakerHe was trying to live. I think he was getting trolled, man.
BubblemanThat was an interesting...
BubblemanWell, it's turning into a pretty beautiful day here. I don't know about the rest of you guys, but man.
SpeakerClouds are clearing up here. Oh my God, dude. It's 80 degrees in here in New York. 80? You're in New York? We're in New York. Fucking 80, bro. We're in New York. Upstate a little bit. Cool. Upstate a little bit. Where upstate? Like Schenectady? Albany area? That far? I mean... No, more south. Cool. More south. The Kitsie area? No, more south. Even more south? Oh, word. Word.
SpeakerIt's funny how everyone considers upstate. Like, I'm just from north of the city and people from the city consider me, like, way upstate.
BubblemanI've only ever been there because Phish used to play lots of concerts there. I saw my first Phish concert last New Year's Eve. It was great. I saw my first Phish show in 1993. That was the year I was born. Wicked. Dude, I'll tell you. That was a great year for Phish.
SpeakerThey were good. It was a fucking good concert. Did you ever see The Dead back then? No.
BubblemanUnfortunately for me, I never got to see the dead. My attempts were refuted at the border each time. I'd have to give my tickets away.
SpeakerWe never played in Canada?
BubblemanWell, they were going to play. Jerry was going to play again in 95. Yeah, in 95 they were going to go back to Ontario and play Hamilton or something. And then he passed away.
SpeakerOh my God.
BubblemanYeah. Terrible. I had tickets to go see many Dead shows and many Jerry shows and even many other little like David Grissman collabs, but I never got through the border. They shut me down. And then when I started trying to go see Phish, they just started letting me through. Because I'll never forget going to see Phish on the East Coast in 94 for Halloween for like the Glens Falls show in upstate New York.
BubblemanWhich I would consider... That's way upstate. That's actually upstate New York. That's like right next to the mountains. Like you go...
SpeakerExactly. You're in the Adirondacks.
BubblemanSo I went to a concert there in 94 for the whole East Coast tour, all the fish shows or whatever, but that was the main reason we went. And what I found was that when we got stopped at the border on the train, I was literally giving all my tickets to my friend. I was like, okay, I'll see you later, because she came and just took my passport and the girl's passport I was with.
BubblemanAnd the girl I was with wasn't worried at all, but I was like, listen, I'm not going to be going any further. They're for sure going to pull me off this train. Sorry. Here's all my tickets. Here's contacts. And then the chick came back and gave me my passport. My passport and it was like, no, you're fine. I just couldn't believe it. That whole train ride over the border on my way to go see fish.
BubblemanFuck, it was good vibes.
SpeakerMust have been a long train ride.
GaryYeah.
BubblemanYeah, well, I'm not going to say it was a short train ride. Oh, definitely. Did you manage to sneak any bubble across the border? Well, you know what? The joy of that was pre-Bubble Man days, actually. Even then, I've never had a problem finding some pretty substantial quality materials wherever I go.
SpeakerYou just need the right people. You know how to...
BubblemanI think so. I just like... Basically, the right people are... Whoever you look into, because you manifest people into your life for a reason, but then if you don't recognize them or you like judge your manifestation, then you miss the opportunity and only see it as like maybe an obstacle.
SpeakerYeah. Yeah, I don't think so. Meeting people can be super tough sometimes.
BubblemanI know this. If I go to an airport, no matter where I fly, the person I bump into in the airport, no matter where I bump into that person, even if it's not in line to get onto the flight, I will literally sit next to that person on the plane.
SpeakerIt happens to me all the time.
BubblemanAll the time. One lady, I'll help her with her bag out in the parking lot, she's sitting next to me on the plane, dude. Yo, Daniel.
SpeakerYo, Daniel. Yo.
SpeakerAlright, you're from New York too? Yeah, I'm from Westchester County. Westchester? Yeah. Like just north of the Bronx. Probably an hour north. Oh, you're an hour north? In like Putnam?
SpeakerNew York's such a huge state. I mean, I live in Oregon now, but like New York's kind of like the only place in, besides Maine or whatever, that's like really gorgeous on the East Coast.
BubblemanDefinitely pack a lot of people over in that little corner of the world.
SpeakerYeah, but like parts of New York, like the Adirondacks are literally like, it's like a huge state park and it's bigger than Yellowstone and Glacier combined. It's crazy.
BubblemanI have been through it. Wow. In like fall. That's the best time to go, too. Right. Okay. I'll add one more to the list. On mushrooms.
SpeakerI've never been on a mushroom in the Adirondacks. I tripped on the Catskills. I'll tell you. It's good. Tripping in the mountains is the best. Let's try it. To me, it's the only... How did we lose Aaron again?
BubblemanDoes he not sound like he's stuck in a shoe again? I don't know. I don't see his video. It seemed like for a short period I could hear him, and then it just went right back to... Like Charlie Brown's teacher. Aaron, are you there?
SpeakerI don't know. I heard that okay, but not... Now just keep that up.
BubblemanI don't know, man.
SpeakerI think it's just my reception or something.
BubblemanYeah. That happens sometimes, Burn the Witch. I'll admit.
SpeakerThere's a good time, though, but it's a little too exciting.
BubblemanYeah, sometimes it can be a little bit too... Oh, fuck those mushrooms, eh? I'll tell you. Think of this. This is how crazy it is, really. Mushrooms are like the only thing, well, not mushrooms themselves, but the spores, that we've ever found... In space, that's like that type of life. Life that lives on Earth has been found trapped in cosmic radiation pressure. They found spores. A lot of mushroom spores.
BubblemanThey found them all the way up in the atmosphere. That's fucked up. Google that. Paul Stamets, if you guys don't know him.
SpeakerMushrooms have a top portion?
BubblemanThat'll be one good thing to learn from this talk because it has been mostly just kind of shooting. Paul Stamets?
SpeakerWhat's that? Paul Stamets? Paul Stamets, yeah. Yeah, Paul Stamets. I've read his book, Psilocybin, Mushrooms of the World. Dude, that's like, that taught me how to pick mushrooms all around the world. I also started getting into reading his book, How Mushrooms Can Save the Universe. That's his talk that gets standing ovations. And he talks about mycelium and the web of mycelium throughout the world. Yep. And how the old growth forests are super important today for the diversity of species and throughout this whole ecosystem of Earth.
SpeakerFall is amazing. Yes, fall is amazing.
BubblemanI've only got to meet him on a few occasions, but one time I showed him a picture of like a trichome, and I was like, hey Paul, can you help identify this mushroom? And he was looking at it for like three or four minutes before I was like, it's a trichome, ha ha ha, just joking or whatever, right? So he was like, whoa, holy shit, he tripped out that it was a cannabis trichome.
SpeakerYeah, that would be amazing to see it for the first time for anyone. For me, seeing your pictures was the first time that I personally saw trichomes like that up close.
BubblemanYeah, well they're sure beautiful, aren't they?
SpeakerDefinitely beautiful.
BubblemanOtherworldly, in fact. And I've had a hard time finding another plant that produces them in the density that cannabis produces them in.
SpeakerTrue. Lots of other plants can be produced, trichomes and terpenes of other sorts.
BubblemanYes.
SpeakerThe cannabis plant is very specific and special.
BubblemanAnd dense. You know, like even the mint and the rose and the tomato and the different types of rhododendrons where I found trichomes that grow on their stalks and the outer leaves that peel back from the main petals of the flower or whatnot. Those trichomes are never nearly in the same density as even a cannabis plant that I would consider low-density trichome.
BubblemanI'd love to find something equal.
SpeakerHave you ever done a wash with another plant?
BubblemanOh, yeah. Lavender or something? Yeah, I've done lavender. I've done chamomile. I've done mint. I've done herbamate. Valerian? There's definitely, what's that? Valerian? Valerian?
GaryValerian root?
BubblemanNo. No, I've never had any roots, because roots, roots, the oils roots contain usually aren't glandular, they're usually like of an internal type, so they're different. I'm not saying you can do something with it, but... What was the one? Roses. Roses were beautiful. I did a rose extract where my father had a connection in Ecuador to these beautiful organic roses. Sent me like a huge amount of these big giant heads and I remember doing a photo essay of it.
BubblemanThere's got to be pictures of it somewhere because it was a photo essay of a keyhole.
SpeakerPardon me? What were the size of the bulbs that came out? Like what's green got the most?
BubblemanOh, they came between 73 and 25. Similar to what?
SpeakerHey, it's Jim and I from Pacific, and we are back. This is your daddy now. Who's got the radio on? Let me see.
BubblemanAll right. Oh, hey, Alex. Sorry to hear. Puff, puff, pass. I can put that song on for a brief minute because it is such a great tune.
BubblemanI'd love to support my buddy Prophecy. Are you going back to Jamaica anytime soon?
SpeakerOh, God, I hope so.
BubblemanI sure, sure, sure, sure hope so.
SpeakerI went there when I was really young, but I haven't been back in a while.
BubblemanYeah, I'm ready to go and hang out.
SpeakerLuckily, I got to go, like, hang out with, like, in, like, the Blue Mountains. It's where to do it. Are you going to be going there for a while? The fountain weed that, like, you photographed, like, that crazy tall plant that, like, you saw? Something like the bitch weed?
BubblemanYeah. There's a lot of funky looking plants. It's crazy looking. You can find a little prophecy on the web. Look up body bags.
SpeakerYo, are you going to Jamaica for like a big trip or for a while? Am I going there for a while? Yeah, I heard that like they're supposed to be legalizing it. A lot of people are going to be going there for opportunities.
BubblemanYeah, I don't know. I might end up spending some time in Jamaica. I'll always go to Jamaica. I've been going there since 95, and I love it, and it's a wonderful place, and it seems like the country's opening up to do things with cannabis, so definitely a huge supporter of that.
SpeakerDon't blast Ronson into a bowl and then call it sunset.
BubblemanYeah.
BubblemanIt's a good spot, I'll tell you. I love Jamaica. Absolutely love it. I'm not quite sure what the craziest thing I've ever seen happen while I was in Jamaica. I've always had such a great time in Jamaica. It hasn't been super crazy. You know, it's always been pretty good vibes.
BubblemanIt's been pretty good vibes. I mean, I've seen some good crazy shit. Like these guys years ago wanted me to make bubble for them. They were like, we want you to make some bubble. This was like in the early 2000s. And they brought me to this orange plantation, like an orange grove, like just like an unbelievable acreage of orange trees. And I was just like, yeah, I'll go and show you what to do or whatever.
BubblemanAnd I got there and they literally had a mountain of cannabis. And they were like, can you turn that into hash for us? And I was like, listen, I'll show you guys how to do it. There's no way. I'm doing all of it. Yeah, fuck that. That's laborious work. I'm...
BubblemanYou need to train people to do such things because that's a lot of work. More than one person needs to work on that.
SpeakerDid you set up something big? It's me.
BubblemanThe bond rip is in order, I think.
SpeakerDid you set up something like a larger scale, like a cement mixer or something like that?
BubblemanNo, I always just ran 20-gallon bags when I was there. I can do a lot with 20-gallon bags, but like I said, I'm not going to Jamaica on a vacation. Turning some people on how to make bubble and working super hard while I'm there. If I was there working as a job, then yeah, of course.
SpeakerBig rip, Joe.
BubblemanWell... I think that's as long as I'm going to broadcast for, but we can still keep the chat going. I'll just turn the broadcasting off. So I'll thank everyone that's watching. We have 93 viewers right now. We appreciate you hanging out for what I hope would be enjoyable. I'm not sure. I think it's maybe not that enjoyable, but hopefully we made some good points about some interesting things.
BubblemanCool, man. It's like buds smoking together. Yeah, exactly. It's just too bad the other 93 people who are watching aren't able to partake in it the same way, but I guess it'll be saved on YouTube. I think that's how it works, so interesting. Thanks for watching, everybody. Cool. Peace and pot. See you next time on the live broadcast, and I'm going to keep the chat open for everyone that's in it on video.
SpeakerPeace out.
Episode notes and transcript from HashBible.org, the Hash Church archive. The notes are machine written and the transcript is machine transcribed, so a name or a number can be misheard; the video is the record.
Later: Jamaica Project, Outdoor Growing, and the Jamaican Cannabis Revolution (October 5, 2014).