Wade Laughter Celebration of Life

0:26BubblemanOkay. Welcome, everybody, to Hash Church Season 11, Episode 23, a special Wade Laughter Celebration episode.

0:42BubblemanOh, where to begin? Where to begin? I think I'd like to start by saying some nice words about Wade. I have them written down, so I will be reading these words and I checked with Monica and a couple of his friends to make sure everything was accurate and on point and just wanted to share this with everyone real quick. Today we gather to honor and remember Wade Laughter, a man whose life was a testament to compassion, resilience, and the healing power of the earth.

1:14BubblemanWade was more than a pioneer in the cannabis world. He was a guardian of nature, a teacher, and a beacon of hope for those in need. Wade's journey began with a personal battle. Diagnosed with glaucoma in 1995, he faced the harsh realities of conventional treatments that left him ill. Yet from the struggle emerged a passion that would define his life. Turning to cannabis, he discovered the Harlequin strain, a high CBD variety that became his legacy.

1:44BubblemanWith its rainbow like colors and soothing properties, Harlequin was more than a plant. It was a gift he nurtured and shared, easing pain and offered clarity to those who sought its medicine. His work with Harlequin earned him recognition as a master cultivator celebrated by High Times in 08 in 2020 and inspired the creation of Wade's Laughter, a CBD rich strain developed with Humboldt Seed Company, a CBD rich cultivar.

2:10BubblemanI'm sorry, Ryan. But Wade's heart extended beyond his garden. As a co-founder of House of Harlequin alongside Brandy Reeves and Monica Center, he built a sanctuary for education and accessibility, ensuring CBD reached those who needed it most. His role as board chair of the Nevada Council County Cannabis Alliance and a member of the International Cannabis Farmers Association showcased his unwavering advocacy for sustainable sun-grown cannabis and reasonable policies.

2:40BubblemanThough through the Nevada County Compassion Program, a donation-based initiative, he provided free medicine to medicinal users, reflecting his belief that healing should never be a privilege. Perhaps Wade's most profound contribution was his work with the Caladrius Network. Driven by a desire to help families with catastrophically ill children, like Silas Heard, Whose epilepsy found relief through cannabis, Wade grew special breeds and trained others to do the same.

3:09BubblemanThis network, though now defunct due to shifting laws, offered hope where conventional medicine failed, distributing over $1.2 million in medicine to families in need. His collaboration with local growers and businesses, including Elevation 2477, ensured this mission endured, providing tinctures and support at no cost. Wade's life was a lesson in connection to the earth, to the plant, to the community. He taught that cannabis thrives when treated with respect, mirroring the electromagnetic pulse on the earth itself.

3:42BubblemanHis wisdom guided farmers to grow green, not just for medicine, but for the planet's beauty. Even after a back injury halted his farming, he turned to teaching, sharing his knowledge via Zoom and recorded videos, dreaming of a global education model. Today, as we celebrate his life on this hash church gathering, let us remember Wade's laughter, his joy in the garden, his warmth in advocacy, his love for those he helped.

4:10BubblemanHe leaves behind a legacy of healing from the Harlequin cultivar to the children who found life through his efforts. Let us carry forward his spirit, tending the earth and supporting each other with the same care he gave so freely.

4:28SpeakerRest in peace, Wade Laughter. Your roots run deep and your harvest will forever nourish us, brother. I will miss you. I will definitely miss you, brother.

4:46BubblemanWelcome to Mike and Johnny B. Just popped into the room. Welcome, guys. Just going to fall apart for a while. What an incredible man. Met him through the Caladrius Network and Forrest. Forrest brought Wade to us through the Caladrius Network and through his experience with Silas. And we're hoping on having Forrest join us. At one point here today, we have a large group of people that will be joining us to help celebrate Wade as we celebrated him every week.

5:26BubblemanFor the last many years that he was fighting this illness. So yeah, I just wanted to start it off with those words and give a proper Proper recognition of our brother. He touched so many hearts, every heart in Hash Church. He always constantly would tell me, oh, just cut me off if I'm rambling on. You know, I didn't mean to talk for so long yet. You know, it's unfortunate that Wade never saw that his, what he said on this show was perhaps the most important things that were ever said on this show.

6:02BubblemanAnd so we definitely, um, We'll never forget him.

6:11BubblemanWelcome, Dr. Mark.

6:14Dr Mark ScialdoneHey, Marcus.

6:16BubblemanHe was unforgettable. I guess I'm not even connected to audio, so I haven't heard anything any of you have said. There we go.

6:23Dr Mark ScialdonePretty moving words there, Marcus.

6:28Dr Mark ScialdoneThank you for sharing.

6:31BubblemanYeah, you know, he's been with us for so long, and he's just been such a We've got a positive light and breath of fresh air constantly. And like Ryan said, whether it was last episode or the episode before, for him to allow us on this journey with him and to not kind of keep it very private as most people do, you would expect it's a very private thing to be terminally ill, to travel down that journey.

7:01BubblemanAnd Wade allowed us to be on that journey with him during the most, I mean, it couldn't have been a more vulnerable time in his life. And I know it was hard for him to allow us to feel his pain because he was such a compassionate individual. It's almost as though he wanted to protect us from it, but not at the extent of not coming on and not sharing.

7:23BubblemanAnd so, yeah, another incredible legend and friend and mentor and just beautiful man. Has moved on and we will have to hold on to what he left here with us to travel through the rest of our journey.

7:44Etienne FontanOh, but what did he leave with this, right? I mean, he left a beautiful legacy of nothing but love, compassion, giving of himself, always eager to help, always eager to assist in any way, shape or form. And he worked Thank you so much for joining us.

8:32Etienne FontanAnd yeah, his story stuck with us because he was a Vietnam era. He was, he joined the Navy and was in the Navy and he did his time working in the USS Constellation, I do believe. And yeah, and then went on to his peaceful life. He was a driver for the Green Tortoise. And if you don't know what the Green Tortoise is, they were a bus that took people all over and he was the driver.

9:03Etienne FontanSo for many years, so I've heard many awesome stories about him and the Green Tortoise because I used to see the Green Tortoise all the time because it parked right not too far from us in Berkeley. So you'd always see the Green Tortoise buses parked. So, um, The best thing that we can do is continue what he did and continue to spread love and compassion. And I hate losing one of my friends and teachers, but we can never forget what they taught us so they forever live in our hearts.

9:37Etienne FontanAnd it's up to us to continue to spread that love. And if anything he did was spread lots of love. So you fuckers, you got a lot of love to spread. So get your shit together. Get it ready. You got a lot of love to fucking give. So love yourself. Get your shit together. Wade didn't give us this journey just to give up, right? We have to fight onward.

9:59Etienne FontanSo thank you for the teachings. Thank you for the honorings. I miss you. I spoke to you the night before you left. And I'm glad I got to talk to you. I didn't know you were leaving that day. I was going to go visit you the next day. I didn't know you were leaving that early. But that's life. And I love you. I miss you.

10:18SpeakerWe can say.

10:21BubblemanThanks, Etienne. Appreciate you, brother. Welcome to Swami and Forrest who popped into the room, both extremely close with Wade. It was Forrest who brought Wade to Hash Church to our attention. You know, it was Silas's journey that brought Wade to Hash Church, Forrest's journey and the Caladrius Network and Yeah, we just, I really want to thank you for that forest. I know it wasn't an easy journey that you've been on, but there are incredible offshoots of that journey that have created just so much positivity and love and empathy and compassion.

11:06BubblemanYou know, your journey was a big part of that and you as well, Swami. I know you were close with Wade and you interviewed him many times and we're just glad to have you guys both here sharing Shared happy stories and, you know, sharing our love of Wade. And I definitely want to also give a huge, huge hug to Monica for the rock that she's been for all of these years going through this transition with Wade and really being just, you know, incredibly strong.

11:38BubblemanI know she's listening right now. So we're sending our love to you, Monica. Anything the Hash Church community can do, consider it done. And yeah, we have a great deal of love for you. So thank you so much.

12:00BubblemanWelcome, Ryan. Hi, Mira. Hi, guys. In the house. Another heavy one. That photo that you took of Wade and Sam was so profound and I think even just looking at it, everyone knew that it was a special moment in time that you allowed to have happen by just, you know, kind of going out of your way a little bit. And yeah, I want that photo printed large and in my office behind me because it's a special one, man.

12:35BubblemanThe fact that those guys got to meet and spend a little bit of time together was just... Yeah, it just brings warmth to my heart. It was pretty special. I will admit I was pretty envious too, although I do see envy as a negative emotion. So I transferred it into inspiration. I was like, man, I want to be there with those guys and listening and enjoying. And, you know, Ryan was able to actually, you know, just, it's not a very Ryan thing to do, but he was, he just felt inclined to record some of the conversation, not saying anything, just like I'm going to record some of this.

13:08BubblemanSo he has a little bit of that conversation. of Wade and Sam that day that they met. And it's also pretty awesome. So thanks, brother. That's pretty magical stuff.

13:21RyanYeah, that whole thing. I traveled with David in California in 2015. He and Diana came down and we, you know, we kind of took each other around to our spots. And I call it the chili rellenos tour because David just ordered chili rellenos at every restaurant we went to. Something you can't really get in Holland. And, um, you know, it was a decade later and I knew that he had been planning on going down and I wasn't really in a position where I, I thought that I'd be able to go.

13:50RyanAnd then last minute I just decided, fuck it. Like how many more times am I going to get to travel with David in California? And so I went down and I had asked David if it was okay if I'd come and join, you know, he and Diana visiting Wade. We knew Wade was sick, obviously. And, um, You know, David and Diana were down visiting, also a sick family member.

14:15RyanAnd so I picked up David and we headed up to Wade's place and got to sit around and chat and, you know, tell war stories and eat some Mexican food. And it was, Wade had been having a bit of a hard time accepting that phase that he was in of life. You know, not only being on the farm and not being able to do the work and be kind of the man around the farm, but he was scared.

14:49RyanI think he was having some hard time accepting the idea of a world without him. And, you know, he was scared about the end of life stuff. And David did not have that. David had decided from a young age that he wasn't going to live past 30 years old. And, um...

15:36RyanThere was something, I can't remember exactly what it was, but it was something that David said. We were talking about death and ego, and there was something that David had said that just seemed to click for Wade. And Wade went from this kind of anxious, you know, shoulders up, just he had this moment of release, and it turned into laughter, and he just didn't seem to fear death after whatever it was that David had said to him.

16:04RyanHe kind of recontextualized You know, that stage. I did.

16:08SpeakerI put it in a glass.

16:10RyanHe kind of re-textualized that stage of life for him. And it was a really powerful, beautiful thing to see because Wade totally changed. Like, he lost that whole sense of anxiety of death and he really kind of just accepted where he was. And, you know, I think he saw it as a time to embrace a new role rather than trying to be the caretaker for it. I mean, like, We all can't be the caretaker forever, right?

16:40RyanLike we, we get to a point in time in our, in our travels where you have to let go. You have to let other people take care of you. And that's an identity shift and it's not easy. Um, it's, it's quite actually difficult for, I think a lot of people to accept, especially people that are so competent. And so like how many people Wade had taken care of in his life, right?

17:02RyanHe was, he was just, he was a caretaker. He was someone that looked out for the herd. And like you said before, Marcus, he wasn't just caring for the people that were around him. He was caring for the downtrodden and the people that didn't have it as good as he did, right? Like he really looked out for the weak ones in the herd. And it's part of what made him such a soft-spoken leader, right?

17:28RyanLike he wasn't out there yelling and screaming and pushing around people telling them to do. He was leading by example. And Yeah. Remarkable life. You know, again, one of these ones where it's like, it's so sad to think that he's not going to be here to be part of our journey. But when you look back at the impact that he had on people in our community, I mean, it's kind of immeasurable.

17:56RyanI first, I didn't meet him, but I first came aware of Wade when I was down in California doing the CBD breeding projects that I was part of down there. And I was kind of keeping track on who was doing CBD work. And, you know, we were picking up samples from dispensaries and having it run through the lab. And so that was kind of the first way I knew of Wade.

18:16RyanBut he was someone that was, you know, kind of not out in the limelight looking for credit and stardom. He was just making medicine, right, and contributing to the grassroots of the movement. And there's not a lot of people like Wade. So anyway, I'm going to miss him. He was a very unique person in our movement and someone that was, he just, to me, he defined compassion, right?

18:50RyanAnd especially as our movement has evolved into this new legalization thing that we have, it's become more rare. So anyway, rest Wade and what a gift it was to get to know him.

19:07BubblemanAbsolutely. Thanks, Ryan. Appreciate you, brother. Welcome to Kelly and Colin. Kelly from Dragonfly Earth Medicine. I saw Josh briefly. I think he's with us as well. Welcome to both of you guys today as we celebrate the laughter that is Wade laughter.

19:26SpeakerYeah, really feeling it today. You know, it always feels like the day that somebody passes when they're Are in such pain and they're going through so much in their body. It's like you want to give that day to be happy for them. You know, you want to feel like you're on their journey with them and that there's nothing holding them back. And so the day that Wade passed, I just felt like, wow, wait, I'm going to give you this day to be truly, truly happy that you made your transition and I know that he was in tremendous amounts of pain for quite a long time and even being comfortable was a real challenge.

20:12SpeakerSo when I had heard that he had passed, there was a part of me that felt good because he's relieved and he's free. And it's hard to say that when that happens to a friend, but Then you know the reality hits you that you're not able to make memories with this person anymore or you know there's so many things that we had planned together there was a lot of future stuff and we wanted to do another Dempere Hive and so many things so having Wade in our memories and having him as a part of you know the wake that we were able to follow in for all of these years has been

20:59SpeakerIt's beyond a gift. You know, people like Wade don't come into our lives or nor do they even come on the planet very often. He was a very, very, you know, one in a million guy. Josh is here to sit down and I just really feel like His words, anytime he spoke, it was really easy to hang on to every single one of his words because they were so potent.

21:24SpeakerIt was like the guy didn't just talk to say things, you know, so much chit chat in this world and so many people just saying things to say things. But whenever Wade spoke, it was potent. It was meaningful. It was something that you wanted to hold on to. It was something that, you know, you wanted to save.

21:44SpeakerAnd I just feel like I'll forever have so many of his sayings and so many words inside of his heads, as well as his intention for where it is that we need to go. You know, it makes me want to work harder. It makes me want to be a better person. And it makes me want to show up more for this industry and show up more for the plant and the medicine and the people that are really needing it.

22:09SpeakerSo thank you, Wade.

22:11Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineYep. Thank you, Monica. Thanks, Monica. Thank you. Grass Valley Community and Nevada City and the whole area up there is a really special zone. So many people have moved up there recently over the last few years. And Wade's just one of the elders that held it down with Forrest all these years and thinking about you a lot, Forrest, over the years as well. And Wade was someone to look up to.

22:37Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineYou know, you got a lot of elders in the world and every once in a while there's one that's very potent. And Wade As Kelly said, when he spoke, it was worth listening to it. It was something he wanted to hear because it wasn't coming from like an ego or anything. It was coming from just straight heart and soul, you know, just straight like love and wellness.

23:00Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAnd we just love, love you, Wade. Thank you. I'm going to spark one up for Our beautiful friend right now. And I love everyone in this room. I love everyone online. And I'm very thankful to wake up every day and have the opportunity to try and make the world a better place like Wade did.

23:20SpeakerSo thanks, everybody.

23:24RyanThis whole thing also reminded me, I've had a few messages from people from the community, just from the church community reaching out when I posted about Wade passing. And they were on their farms shedding tears, right? It's not just us that have been impacted by Wade. It's a lot of the people that are watching too, right? And it kind of hits home and makes you kind of step back and realize it's like there's a lot of other people.

23:50RyanIt's not just us. There's a lot of other people that Wade impacted through this community. And yeah, we're the ones on here yapping away, but everybody else is grieving too, right? And that's a pretty amazing, That's a pretty amazing level of impact, right? That just people watching you on a show are so impacted by, you know, Wade's words and his movement and the way that he selflessly lived his life of service, you know, giving to people, trying to make the world better through, you know, through growing plants and making medicine for people with forest.

24:29RyanI mean, what you guys did was...

24:34RyanIt's been part of these, these are the key things that allowed cannabis to get to legalization. And it's really kind of shitty that we've dropped that medical aspect because without the selfless acts that people did all over the world, we wouldn't have been able to break down the prohibition rhetoric, right? There's no denying when you see children that are sick, And them being able to live lives, right?

25:05RyanLike, there's no denying when you see people that are having severe epileptic seizures or spasms associated with, you know, multiple sclerosis or whatever. And in real time, you see them or Parkinson's. In real time, you see them taking dabs or, you know, inhalations of the product and they're feeling better, right? Like, you're visibly able to see them improving, right? And it's like, you can't deny another human that kind of relief.

25:32RyanSo the role that people like Wade and Forrest play and others, but Wade was really one of the giants in that arena.

25:43Etienne FontanAnd he took people like Forrest who were parents who found themselves all of a sudden in a situation no parent wants to fucking find themselves in. And Forrest, how lucky were you to find somebody like Wade, right, to really step in and in a time when science or nobody else would You know, he chose to work all the way through with the most vulnerable, those that, I mean, the butterfly children, those with severe epilepsy, those that, I mean, I'm proud to be a medical provider, but I'm only a medical provider for only so like I can do legally.

26:27Etienne FontanAnd what Wade did and with his compassion and Monica understanding his mission and supporting him all the way through. Forrest. Morning. How lucky were you, my friend?

26:44SpeakerOh, you know, I was doing well. In your words, everyone. I mean, I'm already, I'm, I was very lucky. But before I say anything, I also want to say thank you to all of you. I think it's been six years since I've been on the show. And, you know, It really warmed my heart seeing a lot of the same faces. Nice to meet the new ones. But man, it's good to see you again.

27:13SpeakerAnd moments like this, you know, really remind me of like what a crazy journey it's been and the people you meet along the way and how easy it is to have years go by without being able to see them again and say hello. So Mark, ATN, it's good to see you again. Thanks for the invite, Marcus, Swami. It's been a while. I was looking at some pictures of Wade and I up at your house that I don't think I've ever showed that I have of you and him on the couch laughing pretty damn hard.

27:44SpeakerJust stayed on the phone, and then I found them when I was looking at Wade's pictures, so I need to get those to you guys. But yeah, anyway, with that being said...

27:56SpeakerYou know, I could, there's a lot of different ways I could start talking about Wade. So I'll just, I'll jump in and out. But for those who don't know me, you know, Wade was a friend of mine who, you know, I live up here near him. And we met through the advocacy, advocacy work. And he did what Wade does. And I was very lucky. I was a parent.

28:19SpeakerMy son, You know, I'll briefly, for those who don't know him, was one of those kids that kind of made CBD well-known 15, 10 years ago, not in this community, but in the public setting, because like Ryan said, it allowed the cannabis biases to get a new perspective, right? So CNN started doing their shows with friends of ours, right? With Paige and Her daughter, which later became the Charlotte's Web work.

28:53SpeakerYou know, those families allowed cannabis to be discussed in any way. And I was just one of those parents. My son has a very rare form of epilepsy. He was having thousands of seizures a month. Doctors told us he wasn't going to live to be 10 years old. And they were Very blunt about that fact because of the severity of his condition. And me being who I am, you know, I was kind of like, F that, right?

29:21SpeakerWe're going to figure something out. And these new studies were coming out of Israel. And there was just these little hints of things that Dr. Mishulam was doing and other doctors that were starting to show maybe, right? A glimmer of something. And I met Wade when our local community was going to ban outdoor activities. Thank you for joining us today.

30:02SpeakerIn my community, no one around there was doing that. And I got up and spoke at the board of supervisors meeting. I printed out this giant photo because all the images, you know, what they do, right? The sheriffs pick the worst cases. They highlight that as the whole community. We've all seen it in all our towns and all our communities, right? They take the worst cases and they say, this is all of them.

30:25SpeakerAnd this is what cannabis is. And this is why it needed to be banned. So I printed this giant photo of my son. Some of them, you know, intentionally impactful, you know, hooked up to, you know, machines and others not, others cute. And I just made this collage. And I just went in there, kind of chewed their ass a little bit about the apparent complete lack of awareness of the fact that the paradigm had shifted.

30:58SpeakerAnd it is absolutely true that in communities there are people whose life depends on access. And that was something that no one believed and still, you know, is something we're trying to fight to make, you know, really understood. Wade saw me and did what he does. He tracked me down. And yeah, so I was lucky, you know, I was lucky that I chose to show up that day.

31:29SpeakerBecause what happened from there and what became the Colladrius Network, which is kind of like an underground donation project, not very underground, we're pretty damn public, but you know, we did our thing. What happened there was I had, my brain was in the science and absorbing all of it that I could. Figuring out what, you know, we needed, what had been tried, what haven't I tried, because in what I haven't tried is where the hope lied, right?

32:05SpeakerSo that was my motivation.

32:09SpeakerWade was logistics. I wasn't in the cannabis community. You know, I didn't know growers and cultivators and the good ones, right? And he did what he did for so many people. I said, I need this. And he, and I want to know, I said, I want to do this. And Wade just started making phone calls, introducing me to people, making connections. And that He really was the facilitator of what at the time was my driven tunnel vision focus.

32:44SpeakerThank you for watching.

33:08SpeakerThank you so much for joining us.

33:29SpeakerThank you so much for joining us.

33:49SpeakerYou know, I'm not on social media much, which is why it kind of feels like you're dead, you know, when you're not on social media. Everyone thinks you don't exist anymore, but I'm still here and there's work going on in the background. But I did make a post there because I just had to get the words out. And what I really was trying to nail down was, you know, what is it about Wade that was special?

34:18SpeakerAnd not, you know, in that nice, trivial way, we say special when we're honoring a friend, right? Like, truly unique. And, you know, I spent some time meditating on it. I spent some time as I'm going through, like everyone is, the grief process, thinking about it. And it really felt to me That it was his ability to not just give, because we know a lot of givers and we know a lot of kind people.

34:46SpeakerWe know a lot of people who champion causes, right? What was different, what made him exceptional was that he gave in a truly unique way that had zero expectations attached to it. And as someone who's been given a lot of charity because my son's situation and someone who has given a lot of charity to others, you know, I've really experienced both sides of how rare that is, right?

35:18SpeakerWhere the person has really no emotional attachment. And the example I gave him what I wrote online was boiling it down to its simplest form of even People who are expecting a thank you, right? Or expecting there's this attachment of the need for recognition on what we give. And that's normal. I do that. I'm not Wade. I have that naturally, right? Do they even say thank you, right?

35:40SpeakerWe have this inherent expectation. And sometimes it's as simple as that, but there's an expectation there of some sort of recognition, some sort of acknowledgement, some sort of something. Not saying that's wrong. I'm saying that's how a lot of human beings work. But it does lead a lot of times to weird situations, especially when you're dealing with people in crisis, because they're going through trauma. They don't even know where they're at, let alone if they remember to say thank you appropriately, to use the same example.

36:12SpeakerAnd then it becomes resentment, and then it becomes those little seeds, the tiniest seed of expectation can lead to weirdness, weird situations. Sure, we've all experienced that. Hopefully I'm being clear enough. Wade didn't have that. And that's why I use like the example of even expecting a thank you because it's so trivial. But even that, he didn't have. He gave in his focus and the way he was wired was to give.

36:44SpeakerAnd whether someone was in a place where they could return gratitude or not, Return a favor never even crossed his mind. And that ability to give without expectation made for a different experience for the people who interacted with him. Because you truly knew that you could relax, right? There's no, ah, am I going to owe this? Or is he going to need this? Or man, are they going to call this favor?

37:12SpeakerAnd, you know, it's really subconscious, right? But because it was there and recognized as this is who I am and you can feel on a subconscious level there's no expectation attached to this, it also allowed for a more healing experience. experience someone could take charity without guilt or shame and know to the core of them that it's there's nothing else there's there's nothing negative that's going to come from this experience because this man is doing this and from there uh we can focus back on healing and i think that really to me summarizes what made Wade's interactions feel different that people may or may not have recognized.

38:06SpeakerThat open heart, that lack of wanting anything in return, and that constant drive to respond when he hears someone else has something that they need was a combination that was extremely impactful and impactful to the people who were lucky enough to be in his sphere of influence.

38:33SpeakerSo it's something that I really carry with me. Not only did I learn that lesson as we worked in the Caladrius Network, because I am a human being and I am not Wade, and I had times to be like, damn, we did all this work. And someone couldn't even return my phone call, right? Or something, you know, the stupid shit that happens. That's what would come, was driven into me during those years.

39:00SpeakerAnd it led to more peace in my life. Because without expectation, resentment doesn't grow. Anger doesn't fester. And you have peace because there's nothing to not be peaceful about, right? You just experience and you do what you do because it's important to you. And that is the full circle of the experience. And you cut out that whole other part. And boy, you can find serenity and Pleasure and peace in giving that is even a higher level than it was before as far as the satisfaction of that kind of work.

39:39SpeakerSo now in Wade's honor, I am rambling about Wade, so I'll stop talking now. But man, it's good to be here. Thanks for letting me get some of that out.

39:49Etienne FontanGive us an update on Silas.

39:55SpeakerYeah, so man. IDL, but I'd probably get in the mic, see if I can get him. He might pop in here, I'm sure. Silas is doing incredible. So with all that, the short version, Silas, just on May 20th, and we called Wade, and he cried and I cried. Silas had his 18th birthday on May 20th. 18th, the boy who wasn't going to live to be 10. So maybe on another episode, I can get more into what we did.

40:30SpeakerBut the short version is... We, through trial, error, and meticulous note-taking and refinement, we were able to develop a medicine for Silas that he responded to and figure out how to adapt that medicine as he grew. You know, differences in weight, milligrams per kilogram, I mean, really refined. And We were, I was able at one point to get ahold of some things that I wasn't, and we were able to increase the dosages.

41:06SpeakerI'm being intentionally vague so that we don't go down that rabbit hole. But when that change was made, we went from about 80%, 80, 90% seizure reduction. But when you're having 2,500 a month, right, that leaves a lot of seizures, but still undeniably successful. And then with some tweaks about four years ago, we just they stopped. We hit it. And in the last four years, he's had one seizure from twenty five hundred a month.

41:44SpeakerSo, yeah, those of you out there. Don't, don't stop. And I'd be happy to come on, you know, some other time and break down what we did. I'm sure it's not news to a lot of you, you know, because you're the most educated cannabis people I've come across. But I'd be happy to, you know, talk about the experience and especially from a parent's perspective of the challenges and the process that is necessary to see success because it is not just grabbing some CBD and trying it and walking away.

42:14SpeakerWhich unfortunately is what happens. So yeah, thanks for asking. He's doing freaking amazing. Like it's just been incredible. Graduates high school this year. He's out there crushing it, man. He's just being Cy. So yeah, that work that we did, And so this isn't the only one. I don't have permission to talk about other kids. I'm not getting it. But those families in the Galadrius Network, a lot of them are still together.

42:44SpeakerThey call. And if I can help, I do. I'm not public about what we're doing, but, you know, Wade and I share that kind of spirit a little bit. So it's not just silence. We've been able to recreate the kind of methods that we used. And I'm lucky enough and proud to be able to say that because of that, where I started this conversation with Wade, just being Wade and saying, there's a guy I don't know.

43:13SpeakerI'm going to see if I can help him. Making those connections. I can say firsthand has saved a lot of lives, a lot of lives, like 20 direct children that I know. And then there's a lot of kids who are doing well because of that work that, you know, may or may not. Conditions might not have been as severe, but I can say around 20 that I know they were not going to make it.

43:44SpeakerAnd that work has saved lives. And those lives in that experience saves lives. the lives and well-being of the parents as well and that trickles out from that direction that you know it's it's not just the patient it's the caregivers the parents around them the joy that person is able to spread because they're here you know um so it's when i think about my experience with wade and realize i'm just one of wade's folks That he, you know, that his gift, you know, facilitated this growth of this thing.

44:26SpeakerI'm just like, I'm one, I can't be, I don't have enough fingers and toes to give an example. You know, I'm one guy out of something he did just continuously. I can't, it fills me with so much fucking joy to really just try to visualize The positive benefit, the amount of laughs that happened at the end of the night that wouldn't have, right?

44:57BubblemanWell, he's our modern day Sir Nicholas George Winton. For those of you that don't know about Sir Nicholas George Winton, give him a little Google. He saved 669 Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia in the late 30s, 39.

45:16BubblemanAnd what went on from that simple enough of just him offering to help, that's kind of Wade's work. He's helped an undisclosed amount of people. And I kind of wanted to say something while you were talking, Forrest, in regards to Wade's ability to give without needing anything in return. I would say it's one past that. It's one level up from that. And what it truly is, is that Wade gave And then he also gave the thanks that maybe you would want to accept from another person.

45:53BubblemanHe was supplying that as well. He's like, thank you for letting me help you. And so the thanks was still there. It didn't need to be, it didn't need to come from the other side because he also provided that. I just wanted to say that.

46:05SpeakerYeah, the only time he got pissed at me ever, and I wouldn't say pissed, Wade never got pissed, but he... Frank with me, and we'll put it that way, was when I was apologizing because I was feeling self-conscious about not being able to respond to him and tell him thank you for what he'd done. And I realized, you know, coming out of this thing for two weeks, we'd been in the hospital, and I felt awful, and I was carrying it with me.

46:30SpeakerI'm like, I'm a piece of shit, right? I didn't even say thanks. I gotta get back to him. And I called him and started to unload all that, and he just wasn't having it. Yeah. He's like, no, we're not doing that. Thank you. And yeah, that's been such an inspiration. And to be honest, you know, I saw Valerie come in. I'm going to stop talking, but there's another one who has been quite the inspiration for me and and those works most people are out there um what they do is unfathomably profound you in this room some of you are those people you know we do our best but you know it's i think it's what validates the things that i am passionate about what validates what i know a lot of you have done that i will never even come close to Thank you for joining us.

47:29SpeakerIt had an impact, and you see those ripples in the wake of his passing, and that reinforces, you know, all the good works that I see, you know, other people out there doing. We don't feel it in the moment, and that's not our motivation, but you can see it when things change, that it's different. If you spend your life trying to impact people positively, and it... It's different, and you can see it in moments like this.

48:01SpeakerAnd I think the public response, the way it's passing, just highlights how meaningful your life can be if you just add selfless compassion as a skill that you develop.

48:15BubblemanAbsolutely. You're very much like Wade in that sense, often speaking these powerful words that everyone wants to hear more of and then following it up with, I'll stop talking now. Nobody wants to hear me rambling. Wade often went on with this. I think Wade also had a little bit of difficulty towards the end accepting our help and our love and understanding that, hey, it's okay, man. You've helped so many.

48:37BubblemanTake a rest. Let us pick up some of this slack for you. Um, so thank you for your words for us. Thanks for joining us. I, I really appreciate you, man. I've missed you. I've missed, uh, hearing about you and the family and Silas and just, uh, you know, wanna wanna let you know that, uh, your words have forever touched us and the journey for you to come in on the, on this day in particular and tell us how well Silas is doing.

49:02BubblemanI am certain Wade laughter is, is, is laughing. Wherever he is right now and enjoying that news because I know I sure did. Props to you and props to Silas.

49:14SpeakerThank you, my friend. And I love you all. And yeah, it's just, I'm lucky enough to live with the validation that the work is real. We get discredited and told by people who don't spend time educating themselves. You know, what a...

49:32SpeakerWe've all heard it. Let me explain it. But yeah, thank you. Silas, I see it every day, and you see it in the people you work with, I'm sure. You know, it just validates that it's all worth it. That work was worth it. The points were real. The arguments were moral, just, and ethical. And the impact is...

49:54SpeakerSo I'm honored to be here. I'm glad to share. And yeah, I will, I will stick around and jump in where I can. And we'd love to come back for sure. But we'll deal with that another time.

50:07BubblemanAppreciate you, Forrest. Absolutely appreciate you. It's interesting, you know, it's... You know, it's sometimes just about having a voice. You know, I had a friend come over the other day and he showed up with a with another friend of his that I had never met before. And he's a musician guy and he definitely looked like a guy that puffed. My friend does not puff. My friend has a 10 year old son who's friends with my 10 year old son.

50:29BubblemanAnd that's how we know each other. And I know from my wife and you know just the school it's kind of like hey you know just keep the keep the pot stuff down on the low don't talk about the pot stuff too much well when my friend left to go pick up his son and left his friend the musician at my house I said to him do you smoke hash and he was like do I smoke hash hell yeah brother and we went into my office right here and we smoked a little hash and what that led to was about three or four phone calls down the line he he He let me know that his sister is suffering from stage four liver cancer.

51:05BubblemanAnd it was a couple of friends that he knew that he told, yeah, I met this guy, Marcus or whatever. And he's up in Lions Bay. He's got a show called Hash Church. And those guys were like, oh, my God, that guy is going to be able to help you in some form or another with your sister. And so just from opening my mouth when I kind of felt like.

51:25BubblemanYou know, and I'm not saying it was any particular person. I just felt this pressure, like maybe don't, don't say anything. Don't say anything. Don't mention pot. Don't mention, oh, it's just that you just, you guys just want to get stoned. You know, you just want to. Yeah, well, we do want to just get stoned. And then that's going to lead to something incredible. That's going to lead to helping another human being.

51:44BubblemanAnd as I get older, all I want to do is help other human beings. I realize that when I try to earn money and I try to build an empire and I try to do and build and bigger and bigger, I'm like the onesler from the Lorax. And I don't want to be the onesler. I want to be the Lorax. I want to speak for the trees, not for, you know, Business that destroys the planet.

52:08BubblemanAnd Wade, for me, was a huge inspiration in taking that pathway. So I want to thank you, Wade, wherever you are, my brother. I know you are with us. We keep saying that, how are we going to take this journey without you? Well, I'm not. I'm bringing you with me for the rest of my journey. I can promise you that.

52:31RyanYeah, well, I got this little Sam doll sitting over my shoulder. That, uh, this lovely lady bought for the Memorial and, uh, you know, I'm back in Canada now, so doing some traveling within Canada, kind of on the road for the next, I don't know, three months or something like that, but I've got the little Sam with me and I've, I've really noticed that since Sam's been gone and I know it's going to be the same with Wade is that we do carry them with us.

53:02RyanRight. You incorporate, when you really know people and you really get what they brought to the world and you lose them, the only way to keep them alive is to do those things that, you know, that were core to their being, right? Like you represent the good in the world of the things that you miss about those people. So I hope everyone will bring Wade with them too.

53:30SpeakerI'd like to say a few things, if I may. And thank you very much, Forrest. And it was such a moment to meet your son that very first time up at Wade's and to realize, you know, what was going on there and how that carried through. And you said something very profound about You know, not wanting any thanks or anything like that, but he was thanking you.

53:55SpeakerAnd of course, you know, being much into yoga, I thought of Mahatma Gandhi's favorite philosophy, which comes from the Bhagavad Gita. And it says, perform the actions which you're naturally inclined to do without any special interest, without any selfishness, without any hope of return. And that was kind of what Mahatma Gandhi thought was the key of the Bhagavad Gita, the great song of India, that it's called Nishkama Karna, perform your duty without desire.

54:28SpeakerAnd I felt, you know, to compare Wade with Mahatma Gandhi, yeah, there we are right at the top. And this is also the philosophy of Nishkama. And so on, that you perform the love without any expectation, because that's, that's your duty, because that is what you're good at. Right. And so, yeah, there we are. And so, what, one thing I do want to say also that occurred to me is that Wade and I used to talk about pain.

55:05SpeakerAnd of course he was in pain, but he was talking about pain on a metaphysical level. What does it mean and how does it impact everyone's life? And at one point, quite a few years ago, he said, you know, Swami, my CBD work actually masked my pain so that I didn't pay attention to it. The pain, and I said, Pain is not pain in and of itself.

55:30SpeakerPain is always a signal. Pain is always a signal about something else which is out of balance. And so our scientific exploration has to be what is the source of that pain and work to get to it. And so that was it. But the pain using the CBD, I remember when he came over and

56:22SpeakerHow did he get the CBD cultivar that he got? Well, it goes back to another dear friend who passed not so long ago, a great DJ, Goa Gill. And Goa Gill was also a holy man in the Indian tradition of worship for Shiva. And we had a big concert in Switzerland and one of the guys at the concert was this guy Lars Rudin and he was working with some Swiss geneticists and when he came over to the States Lars brought with him a whole bunch of seeds and he started working in Wade's Thank you, Marcus.

57:02SpeakerHe started working in Wade's indoor grow down in the city. And they went and they started to sprout all these seeds. And of all those seeds, only one actually sprouted. And this was the others didn't make it. And you know how that is. Sometimes things come and they don't. And the one seed that did sprout out of like a couple of hundred was the CBD seed. And that was the beginning of Harlequin.

57:29SpeakerAnd it was so he saw that as a miracle, as a magical event. Thank you for joining us.

57:53SpeakerAnd he had that sort of scientific interrogation that was constantly. And I remember just about last year when we were up visiting and I got on this whole thing about how, you know, it's terpenes, yeah, but there's all these other aromatics beyond terpenes and they're like esters and phenols, polyphenols and so on. And here Wade suffering, you know, in pain and all of a sudden his brain clicks in and we are now deep dive into the molecular structure, the organic molecules of cannabis.

58:29SpeakerAnd we're just, and we're both so excited about this, this exploration into the, you know, what do you call it? The micro, micro world of cannabis and how those things work. And it was always back to the fact that, you know, it's all of it always all together. And the natural plant, the natural plant grown in the natural way is really the source of it. And I remember an experiment he told me about when he was still growing indoors down in the city.

58:59SpeakerAnd he supplied a lot of people in the city, even really before we knew about the CBD special. And he said one of the things he did is he had these plants and He wanted them to be connected to the earth in some way. So he took a copper ground wire and put it in a ground outside the building, carried the copper wire into three plants. And right next to them were three plants that didn't have the copper ground wire.

59:25SpeakerAnd he fed them everything all the same. And there was a significant difference in those plants that had the copper ground wire going out to the earth. And that was like a super lesson for us all to say, yes, it is through the earth that this is actually empowered. And that, you know, through the earth and the sky and the natural elements and just those kinds of little experiments that he was always in the quest of something to pursue in the scientific level.

59:56SpeakerAnd so I got to know Wade also through the trans community. And now actually that's how we got to know Monica is through the trans community. And through us and so on. And that's been such an amazing journey for him. I had the privilege of performing their wedding for them up here in Mendo. And it's also, I have a connection with Wade through the whole, not the Goa community, but the Ibiza community in Spain.

1:00:23SpeakerSo he was very international in that way. And it was just an amazing thing to how the breadth of his awareness and the breadth of his, but his service, His service without any desire for reward or any desire for acknowledgement is kind of the key thing. And it's one of those things that, you know, we're forever thankful for him. And, you know, somehow his last name is so appropriate, you know.

1:00:51SpeakerThank you for joining us.

1:01:12SpeakerMonica also is a friend independently. I knew Monica from other things too. And so we've been really, and Nikki especially, has been really, you know, talking with Monica. We want to make sure we keep supporting her, but also allow her, her growth into her new future and support that as someone Thank you so much for joining us today. I'm so happy to be here.

1:01:57SpeakerYou know, just the ways that we as a cannabis community have to carry on in that. And I know we all will. And I know that our minds are connected through the third eye and through our compassion and through our just joy in living and joy in sharing what this plant can truly have. And, you know, we just want to thank Wade for being part of our whole community and being one of our guiding lights.

1:02:22SpeakerThank you.

1:02:26BubblemanThank you for that, Swami. Appreciate your kind words. And there's all sorts of great interviews. I wouldn't even call them interviews. I call them dialogues and conversations with Wade and Swami that you can all actually put them. I'll go find them and link them in the description of this video so that if you are watching this, you'll have another rabbit hole to head down. There's all sorts of great Wade laughter content out in the world that is that is not here on Hash Church.

1:02:56BubblemanWe were certainly lucky to get a lot of it though. And yeah, what a blessing to just have, you know, I always, I always looked forward, especially towards the end, maybe the last, I don't know, 20 or so episodes. I just looked forward to Wade closing out Hash Church with his words of wisdom. You know, he just had really great words of wisdom. Yes, absolutely. Just got a text from Kelly.

1:03:25BubblemanI think that's a good idea. Valerie, we'd love to hear from you. It's nice to see you. Thanks so much for showing up. And we'd love to hear how things are for you and some of your words about Wade, Monica.

1:03:39SpeakerGood morning. Hi. You know, Wade was a member of our board of directors and would show up in person occasionally. Maybe he'll do that today. There's always a bit of a surprise for him to make that journey. I think for me, Wade is the epitome of Being so full that sharing was simple for him. It was, when you're that full and that rich, just what falls off of you is enough to carry you forward.

1:04:28SpeakerIt's, you know, reciprocity is interesting because, an interesting concept because, you know, we're thirsty fish. We feel often like, We don't have enough. And Wade really understood the dynamic of sharing in a way that makes you feel full when he gives and understanding how Full he is as well. But there's nothing lost. I mean, if you have a little, you share a little. If you have a lot, you share a lot.

1:05:13SpeakerThat's something that unfortunately is not being spoken loudly enough today. So maybe, you know, in Wade's passing, we're all talking about it. You know, that's what we're talking about. We're talking about how much someone else gave This perfect model of, of generosity of service. And it reminds us that we've got plenty. And it's hard. You know, I think empathy is a very interesting concept. And I think it's very rarely something that we feel like, how do I feel another person's pain?

1:06:02SpeakerI can, I can feel compassion and I can feel grief at watching the suffering of another. But the willingness to step in the arena of that space and the willingness to take a hand

1:06:24SpeakerAnd embrace another person when they're suffering. And you know, you really can't do much about it. I mean, pot is great, don't get me wrong. But it can put a veil between, as you guys all know, saying the obvious, it can put a veil between the suffering and can take the suffering out of the pain, maybe.

1:06:50SpeakerBut I think that when you're truly in a great deal of pain, there's another place that you go to. And Wade went to that place and he brought a little bit of that exquisite nature back and Gave that to those around him. My heart breaks for Monica. I know for all of us that love him as well. I did not know that. I actually thought Wade was going to be on House Church today.

1:07:25SpeakerSo I guess it kind of is. And I did not know that he had jumped out of here until last night when I read your general email, Marcus.

1:07:41SpeakerYou know, because you think sometimes people just, no matter what, and cancer's a very unkind and very cruel master. It can be the kind of pain that people go through and experience.

1:08:04SpeakerBut he took Thank you so much for joining us.

1:08:28SpeakerNot just dedicate, not know just about past church, but not to only dedicate this moment to him, but to also recognize that he has a great deal of teaching left for all of us. That anytime someone can be so selfless, it's truly inspirational. And he was, he found humor. I mean, in that suffering, he still laughed. So I'm, I'm super grateful to know him. And super happy that I get to carry him with me.

1:09:10SpeakerAnd I really appreciate being here with all of you. You know, this is the church part. I'm not a big church person. So this is the church part, the community. The place where people come together without dogma, but with love and sincerity. Some dogma's good. I'm just a little dogma, a dash of dogma for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, I guess. But for me, I'm constantly reminded, like, I don't want to belabor this, but I'm reminded that

1:09:49SpeakerThe fullness that we are, where we're going to get filled up, how much hunger we have for more. And I do, I do, I'm human, I'm stuck in the skin, I mean, for now. But the hunger that we have is fathomless.

1:10:07SpeakerAnd that it can't get full. It can't get full up of the stuff, but you can get filled up with the love and the laughter for sure. And that's like the great gift Wade gives and reminds me of. I can hear him. And I know we all can. I don't...

1:10:30SpeakerAnd what a special, special fucking treat to have this man drop into our lives and be so generous. And, you know, you sometimes think, well, he's always giving and what does he need? And I think, you know, this is the after part. This is the after party when somebody goes and we all give the oodles of mush. But really, it's the big vacant space that he leaves, the big hole that never gets filled.

1:11:08SpeakerYou know, it gets to move on and we get to step in. So y'all got, we all got a lot of work to do to fill that place. And, um, you know, everybody has something that we can give. Everybody does. Not to be believed that we're, that we don't. So I, I don't want to talk too much about and take out the quality of what this man gave because he would probably laugh.

1:11:37SpeakerBut I, thanks, thank you for inviting me today. And, um, Yeah, I thought I was going to church and I was going to a funeral and I did not know that. So Wade is a jewel, excuse me.

1:11:52Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAnd you're a jewel too, Valerie.

1:11:54SpeakerYeah, Valerie.

1:11:56Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineYou're a true jewel.

1:11:58SpeakerI think so, I appreciate that. Yeah, it's fun. You know, people don't know Valerie. Yeah. It's better to, you know, better to get rid of stuff. So otherwise people have to deal with it when you do leave. It's such a pain in the ass to have all that stuff to deal with. It really is. I mean, what's precious is not this. Anyway. Thanks.

1:12:28Etienne FontanThank you for leading by example to Valerie. You have been an inspiration to all of us here and you are a living legend in all of our hearts. So thank you for being here. You being here helps soothe our soul a little bit. And you're correct. We have a lot of work to do to fill up the space that he left in our hearts because that's right.

1:12:53Etienne FontanIt was huge, but thank you. You're owed a debt of gratitude and love as well.

1:12:58SpeakerI appreciate that. Yeah, we do have a lot of work. So, and that's the thing too, just if you know somebody in need, it's distance isn't that big of a deal. You know, distance can always be filled, but if you know someone in need, then just get in touch and we can together fill, fill space, the emptiness. With Wade's laughter and his love. So, and to honor Wade and to, you know, to bow to that great spirit that he is and to take that moment to reflect on him and what he gives still.

1:13:41SpeakerThat's pretty big when people still give and they leave and they're still giving. That's pretty big.

1:13:56Collin PalmerI just wanted to say, you know, Wade was a real true fighter. And he truly believed in the medicine in such a way that was so powerful when he came on. I think Marcus had stepped off for a moment to tell us all that he was going to fully embrace the medicine on his journey through what he was going through with cancer. And Those are choices that you're deeply rooted in your soul with.

1:14:24Collin PalmerAnd these are not things that are influenced by other medicines or other people. These are deeply seated decisions that you make within your spirit. And that's a very powerful thing to choose to do that. And You know, Wade taught us all a lot about showing up and how to show up, who to show up for, what to stand up for. And

1:14:57Collin PalmerYou know, it's hard to put these things in the words for me, but I believe that Wade is still here telling us to keep going in all the ways that I know all of us here on this panel here are, where we're pushing the medicine and we're pushing ourselves to honor that medicine and be the vessel and the person that is taking it to the person. And Wade was the guy that with his last gram would give it to the person That was more deserving of it and needed of it in his eyes.

1:15:31Collin PalmerAnd that's something that is wholly unique in today's world. We do not have people like that in the droves. We have very, very less than 1% of people around us are like that. And what Wade was consistently doing, and consistency, I think, is also another word. Over the years, he's helped people get through so much. And that you can't even put into words. I mean, you have individual stories of main characters of their own lives that he is helping write the narration behind the scenes, so to speak.

1:16:11Collin PalmerAnd that's, you know, it's very difficult To say that any one person has done that in their lifetime, let alone many individuals. So I feel lucky and honored to have shared time with Wade. And I think we all have so much to continue holding that torch up in work to do. In today's climate, we have a lot riding against that. But I think that word fighter always gives me a good, you know, a lot of perseverance and help and lights a fire under me to want to keep going.

1:17:01Collin PalmerBecause it's a hard climate. This is hard to help people in our world around us today. And if you put that first, it just becomes easier. You know, Marcus said it earlier. It's when you try too hard when it all kind of falls apart. But when you just embrace you, yourself, your being, the emotion that you have behind that certain feeling and don't judge it, you're free to explore and be someone like Wade was, where you're standing up for what you believe in immediately, all the time, every time.

1:17:35Collin PalmerAnd there's, again, I thank Wade so much for being that light and being that elder and

1:17:43Collin PalmerYou know, I just, it's amazing we got so much time with him. And, you know, I would have loved to learn more about his cultivation practices and all the things that he's experienced. Because again, remember, he was an indoor grower through such hard, crazy times and then converted into this This other world, right? I mean, these are completely different worlds, but I, his knowledge, I mean, I didn't know he was a part of the Bezo, you know, like I have friends over there too.

1:18:16Collin PalmerIt's an amazing place. You know, so much, so much more to talk about, you know? So it's just, You know, look at that smile, man. And we've lost some, at least, I mean, I've lost so much this year. I felt like, you know, there's been a lot of like why me's. But I think through this experience, you know, we're learning to kind of build tools for ourselves.

1:18:44Collin PalmerAnd I think him showing us how to show up, I think, again, going back to that, We all have just so much to bring to the table. You know, we have to bring it because that's what he would want. He would want us to bring that to the table and stay there, bringing the conversation, bringing the light, talking about patients, advocating for those patients, those people that are in need.

1:19:08Collin PalmerBut yeah, that's how I saw him, man. He just was a guiding light of Thank you so much for joining us today. I appreciate it. I know I lost a lot this year, dude. Holy smokes. It's been a lot. I...

1:19:43BubblemanYeah, losing my father about 20 years ago now was kind of my first real deep loss. And I feel lost so differently after those years of learning to experience, I guess learning to live with grief, right? Because I think a lot of people don't want to live with grief, you know, and they get stiff with it. And it's like, I don't know, it's just like it's the grief dance.

1:20:07BubblemanIf you loosen up a little bit, it's much more enjoyable. If you stiffen up, it's very uncomfortable. And that took me at least seven or eight years to learn after the passing of my father. I was younger, too, in my 30s. But it's sure nice to join, you know, sit here with everyone and listen to you speak on Wade. It's really nice to hear Forrest's words. And Swami and Valerie and everyone else that spoke.

1:20:35BubblemanWe got Eric just popped in a little while ago. It's been a long time since I seen you, homie.

1:20:41Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAnd Joey B over there with the and the boots and you guys got the full beautiful. We got now we got the Sam doll and now we got the hat and boots.

1:20:52SpeakerHoly crap.

1:20:53Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineThis is power.

1:20:54SpeakerHe's at the Ridge Sash. Love to hear from you guys.

1:20:57Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineLove you guys.

1:20:59SpeakerYeah. Monica came yesterday to the Ridge Sesh and brought Wade's boots and suspenders and hat and this picture of him for our altar. And it was really special to have her here. And we really missed having Wade here. He was going to come. He was planning to come. Anyway, Monica said it might be his last outing. And so we were really planning on having him here and getting everything together and setting up a little party.

1:21:30SpeakerYou know, a nice couch area for him to chill at. And so I was actually going to the thrift store to figure that stuff out. And then I heard the news. And so it really kind of shocked us just because we were in such preparation mode and kind of gearing up to hang out and stuff. So that was really a tough pill to swallow. But we held him as close to as close to us as we could in spirit here at the Ridge Session.

1:21:59SpeakerThank you for joining us.

1:22:19SpeakerAs much as Wade has been a giver and donating and an advocate for the community and things like that, it was really awesome to be able to collect some stuff for him and send him home with some goodies, whether he used them or liked them all or not. It was an insane amount of donations, and so it was really fun to see the smile on his face to go home with that bounty.

1:22:41SpeakerAnd yeah, we really are going to miss him, but we were glad to have the party here and hold him in spirit. Yeah, it was really a sweet day yesterday. Just getting to hear so many people telling their stories of Wade and having Monica stop by. It was really, really good for her. She was Brought this beautiful picture away. He's really young here. It's happy farmer in front of his garden.

1:23:07SpeakerAnd, you know, and she was just, we were just loving him up and loving her up. And she was just, she's still so in love with him. And he's still so here with us. She was saying he used to ride a Harley, you know, and, oh, he's such a badass. And, oh, he's just, the more we learn about him, just the cooler he gets, you know, and we're just so lucky to have him here with us.

1:23:30SpeakerAnd, um, And the time we got to spend here with them. And yeah, he really represents the best of this community. They're really the best that we all try to put forth. And he's going to be so missed. Yeah, there was a lady from the local radio station going around yesterday interviewing people to hear all their stories about Wade. I know they're putting together a big tribute to Wade.

1:23:56SpeakerSo he did a lot for this community here in Nevada County. He really helped helped pass an ordinance here and bring regulation that essentially put him out of business. And he knew it was the right thing to do for for the people. And I mean, you know, yeah, I just we love him. He's he's such the inspiration for all this. And Yeah, it was just, you know, sorely missed in person, but it was so here with us in spirit.

1:24:23SpeakerSo, yeah. Yeah, I actually met Wade in 2017 when Kelly and Josh sent me to his house to do the Dragonfly Earth Medicine inspection for certifying his farm. And so I've known of Wade for a while and was familiar with him and I'd smoked the Harlequin and I've heard of the strain and Those kind of things, but I'd never met him in person. So I went to the farm.

1:24:48SpeakerI got to check out his whole scene and really get to dive in. And we became friends after that. I ended up judging the Emerald Cup for several years. So I went over to Wade's house and had him help me judge a category many years ago. And I think he was thrilled to do that. He loved having all those samples that we had to look at and just the bounty of All right, guys, thanks for tuning in.

1:25:09SpeakerWe'll see you next time.

1:25:26SpeakerA bunch of people over and we just smoked hash most of the day and it was a great time and being able to watch hash church and seeing Wade on hash church and the things that he had to contribute and stuff like that was always awesome. And one of my favorite things Wade always said before or after you saw him was blessed be. Thank you for joining us.

1:26:09SpeakerPretty much everybody, whether it was, you know, government side to the homies or whatever, like he made a powerful, positive impact.

1:26:21BubblemanOf that, there is no doubt. Can I share a few of these photos, Forrest, that you sent me? Be okay?

1:26:31SpeakerAbsolutely, yeah.

1:26:32BubblemanAll right, cool, yeah.

1:26:33SpeakerForrest, I saw you putting some out, so I thought I'd text you a few.

1:26:36BubblemanI appreciate it, dude. Go ahead, I'm going to share the photos.

1:26:43SpeakerWell, I was just saying yes, but if you let me talk again, look out, I'll start talking. Please, please talk. Some of us would get in the room, and you guys know, you've been hashers, you've heard me ramble, you've heard Wade go in his poetic longings. Boy, those rooms get a little hash involved, and all of a sudden, they go, right? But I just, if I'm going to jump in, I just want to say, Valerie, how much I appreciate hearing your voice again.

1:27:12SpeakerI actually text you too.

1:27:17SpeakerValerie probably doesn't remember this because she's one of those people who helps everybody who comes across them. But while Wade and I were working in the Caladrius Network together, there was a point where I experienced the challenge of The difference between dealing with my own child's mortality and as we were donating to other terminally and catastrophically ill kids dealing with their mortality. And frankly, just to be blunt, dealing with death That present and that persistent.

1:27:54SpeakerAnd yeah, Valerie and I had some conversations. I don't remember where it was. I might have been when we were in Sacramento during one of those trips or Santa Cruz, I don't know. But I was just talking about it and, you know, Some of the words that you told me that day, and I won't go into it, about your experience and Venda Life Care, the things that you did for people, and kind of taught a young me what I was getting into in very few words, short and to the point, and how you perceive that experience of people passing.

1:28:29SpeakerThose things have stuck with me forever. Forever. Like Wade's example, it's one of those periods in my life where I embraced it and then really tried to apply it. And I bring it up here, well, one, because I don't get a chance to say thank you often. But two, because it ties into the last week, last 14 days, last month, last two months of With Wade and his experience as well, you know, when we would speak, I have an alarm that goes off.

1:29:02SpeakerIt's actually going to go off in two minutes because it goes off at 1030 every day. That is my call Wade reminder, you know, checking on Wade and those daily kind of conversations, those lessons that we learned through helping others really allowed me to steer our conversation away from Just another update on Wade's health, which I felt could be harmful, not beneficial for him I don't know if you guys know what I mean, but you know, when someone, every time they get on the phone, they feel they have to go relive their trauma and tell you about everything that's been happening and hear the full update.

1:29:45SpeakerAnd I would just say, hey man, how many times have you told this story about how miserable your day was today? Like six, seven, everyone who calls, you know, let's, let's focus on other things and get him to steer that conversation to, sorry. Short version, you know, what did you want out of life, right? Where did you get on those things? Staring the conversation in a way that my goal was to try and help him see that he was successful in what he communicated to me that he wanted out of life, which was, you know, to have an impact, to be remembered, to influence others in their giving.

1:30:33SpeakerHe didn't say this, but it felt like, you know, to leave a legacy.

1:30:39SpeakerAnd his in-the-life conversations with me were heavily influenced by lessons I learned from Valerie and other people along the way. And it allowed us to be present enough to hopefully have way... Oh, there it is.

1:30:58SpeakerI'm not going to turn the alarm off because now I just think of Wade when it goes off. It allows us to get to a point in our conversations where, hopefully, I don't know, but the goal was for him to just really be at peace with accepting the fact that he didn't. Right. In owning that, because even to his last day, anyone who talked to Wade, he felt like he's still got it.

1:31:28SpeakerHe's still got something to do. Right. There's someone to help. I've still got to I've got to work towards this. You know, I can't relax. I've got to keep going. Right. And he. I really wanted to work with him and get him to that point of taking that third person perspective in his life and just. Thank you so much for joining us.

1:32:14SpeakerPeople in this room, and that's why I brought it up, how you were there on my shoulder, kind of guided me from lessons you taught me seven years ago that you probably don't even remember. It's just some kid conversation and talking about donating to terminally ill kids, right? And teaching me about death.

1:32:33SpeakerI don't know. I felt I didn't even need to share that. There's no other point other than that. Just then to show how impactful this community is and these relationships are and how...

1:32:46SpeakerMuch it's benefited all of us. And my lessons from Wade have benefited others. My lessons from Valerie influenced the end of Wade's life and our relationship. These things are all tied together, you know, and none of them feel big in the moment. You know, if someone's out there thinking like, well, you know, this is just... I couldn't do this. I couldn't have a life like this. None of the things Wade did, none of the conversations we have that might be impactful were huge, giant works.

1:33:22SpeakerThey're all just little, consistent moments of being present, teaching, being compassionate, and being given. And all of them are relatively simple. But it's the consistency in how they add up that makes this huge impact, that influences every moment. I just wanted to share that and say thank you, Valerie. Excuse me for butting in here again. I want to say that it is a great honor to be invited to somebody's deathbed because you get to be with a teacher.

1:34:06SpeakerAnd sometimes we forget that we're always with our teachers. All of our experiences with others are an opportunity to awaken something. You know, because I can think of myself like a judgy bitch. I think like I know something. And not so true. I mean, I might know something for myself, but there are eight and a half billion people on the planet. And that, I think... It is very sobering because you get to be one eight and a half billionth of importance, but like a hundred percent to myself.

1:34:43SpeakerBut, you know, this is, these are the, the legacies are the things that, like we're all talking about how Wade changed our lives, but not just ours, countless people and how he always had so much to give and still doing it. That's pretty fucking big. And such a great opportunity and gift to have been his friend. So, you know, like when we sit with people who are dying, we're just there.

1:35:14SpeakerI don't pretend to know anything about death. I'm good at wiping butts and, you know, can flush an IV and help in that way. But I don't pretend to know more than that. I'm hoping it's going to help me when I die, but I don't know. If that was tomorrow, I'd probably be doing the tuna because I don't, you know, You rely on your practice and whatever that is, what I think Wade would, in my opinion, what Wade is saying to me is to practice, to do it, to show up.

1:35:48SpeakerSwami's nodding, of course, because you totally get that. But yeah, that's what it is. And this is what it is. This is what we're doing. And we just happen to have bumped into each other in this crowded planet. I'm filled with angels, too, that we can't see that remind us to remind us to act wisely and to be generous and to be of service. So, yeah, I don't pretend to know.

1:36:18SpeakerI probably was trying to say something I don't sure for us. But I always think about I've seen a lot, a lot of babies into the world. You know, thousands of babies in the world. And when they come into the world and they take that first breath and the feeling in the room of just joy, even no matter what the situation was, even if it was a teenage pregnancy or this baby wasn't wanted or something, There's this exuberant welcoming on this side when a child comes in.

1:37:10SpeakerAnd I truly believe it's the same when somebody takes the last breath. There's that same incredible exuberance on the other side of everybody welcoming and I love to think about the team that's on the other side for Wade. It's a party, trance dance, a lot of good weed, a lot of hash, you know, because as much as he made a difference on this side, he's making Even more of a difference on the other side.

1:38:03Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineHe's fractaled his teachings through all of us, which I do believe he is going to continue to teach us. And as I was sitting here, I saw this raven fly over and just banked with the sun hitting the back of its black feathers and it shimmered. And sometimes when ravens fly over, their wings just go whoosh. You can just hear the wind on the feathers. And I just really felt Wade in the sky looking over us right now.

1:38:33Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAnd I just really love the idea that he's everywhere and he's all of us. And I mean, here I have this shirt, House of Harlequin. You can say anything on a shirt. It says attitude of gratitude. Every single day, there's an attitude of gratitude. And I feel that gratitude every day. And every one of these people here, there you go. Thanks, Marcus. I mean, look how magical, shapeshifter, mystical being with man.

1:39:05Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineI mean, thanks. And Wade can embody that right in this moment, you know, and be free and fly through the air in that way. You know, so I'm thankful for that. And I'm thankful for that transmission and that transition. But I'm so grateful for him joining our community and and and projecting it to the world and i mean he was a big part of our peer certified community and every one of our farmers were impacted by working with him and through him and again monica holding the space for the whole thing i mean what a magical being so and and thank you wade for for showing up like you did

1:39:56SpeakerI'd like to chime in again also a little bit to say that any one of those of our teachers who passes on to the next dimension is still teaching us. And Nikki and I have had several of our really dear friends over the last four or five years pass. And one of them even, Kitty even said, you know, watch me die and learn. And so all those transitions, we know, as you just said, brought up, Kelly, that, you know, the birth is one entrance and the death is another entrance.

1:40:32SpeakerAnd that this is the cycle and we all face it. And You know, I am now 82 and I keep watching my dearest, dearest friends pass on to the next dimension. But what I've also learned is once they are in that other dimension, they are with all of us simultaneously. When you're in the physical flesh, you can only be with one or one, two or three or four.

1:40:56SpeakerBut when you're in the higher dimension, you can be simultaneously in all of our minds and all of our hearts and all of our spirits. And that is a higher level of sharing. And I also want to note on this video screen now the people that I do know and have known for years and the people I didn't know that they were also close to Wade, right?

1:41:19SpeakerThat he had so many branches in so many different ways. And, you know, Michael Kravitz. Hello, Michael. I mean, it's like we've known each other for a while and Wade was also part of the... All of the Origins Council Regional Council. He was working on that level, right? And, you know, Eric Branstad, you know, in the Emerald Cup, That thing and at the end, all these ways in which the threads that all connect us and they still will connect us and we are in that consciousness and we know that this sacred weed, this sacred flower, which has been part of our, one of our teachers for over 20,000 years of human development and probably more than that.

1:42:02SpeakerIt's part of our DNA, it's part of our whole awareness and the sacred plant is what we rally around and All of those people who are practitioners of the sacred plant, we need to keep putting that message out that this is a divine gift. And it is through that that our consciousnesses are connected. With cannabis, it's very easy to get to the sixth chakra and a telepathic communication.

1:42:31SpeakerBut once we're in the sixth chakra of universal communication, we then have to go on up into the higher realms. And truly become one with spirit. And we know that Wade is in that and all those other people of our dear, dear friends who are there. And we celebrate that and we honor them. And it's just really wonderful to share this moment. And I hope to meet some of you who are also on this call that I don't know Thank you very much for all being here.

1:43:04SpeakerAnd especially for you, Marcus, you've just done such a long time work with this. It's truly amazing. And all the people that you've brought together through this, all the knowledge you've shared. And yes, just thank you.

1:43:22BubblemanOh, thank you as well, Swami. Yeah, that's I always appreciate hearing from you. It always clicks and makes good sense for me when I hear you speak. So appreciate you coming in. I wanted to welcome Alice. She just popped in. She was in the chat for a little bit. I said, hey, maybe you want to come and say something, something nice about Wade. And she said, absolutely.

1:43:44BubblemanSo welcome, Alice. How are you?

1:43:47AliceThank you all so much. It's like an honor to be among all of you. I mean, I was like internet buddies with Wade, but I have to say that nowadays in this like contemporary world, I mean, he was my friend too. I will say that I learned a lot from him. I always like to like pull it to the educational part. And I feel like I heard all of you saying how much Wade changed so many people's lives.

1:44:13AliceAnd the perspective I have is that he's going to keep changing because education and connection like this lives forever. And it's way more impactful than our physical form. So it's a blessing to look at all of you, so many that have been like teachers in my life and know that Wade is going to live forever within all your words, all the knowledge. And if I can make anything To help Wade's words keep living, that's going to be part of my job too.

1:44:45AliceI really hope that he's smoking some very good, clean dry sift, looking at us right now, and feeling all our blessings. So I just appreciate being here. Short words for me. I'm just like blessed to be able to have known Wade in this like form. And I'll say that probably since I was like probably 18, 19 years old when I was like first starting to watch Hash Church, like he has taught me so much, especially to respect the people that have paved the path for us to be able to be here today.

1:45:15AliceSo much love to Wade. Good friend. And that's it. Thanks, Marcus, for inviting me to be here today.

1:45:22BubblemanAbsolutely, Alice. Well, listen, you know, if he's hanging out with this guy, he's absolutely smoking the greatest of dry sift. So I just always love going back to these two photos of Wade and, and Dave, David Watson together. That's, I love that life allowed for them to cross paths. You know, even though it was close, closer to the end for both of them. It didn't take away any of the power of those two people crossing paths.

1:45:57SpeakerIt was an amazing day watching the two of them. And it was like such a critical time. But they were, yeah, they really enjoyed being together. It was funny. It was like seeing people that were, you know, very old friends. They were meeting for the first time. It was quite remarkable.

1:46:22Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineThey had to do that physical touch-in so they could meet each other on the other side.

1:46:27SpeakerI think they had to do that so they could recognize each other. So Wade at least knew what David looked like. You know, the doll might not have recognized him on the other side.

1:46:36Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineSo a lot of times someone's waiting there for you as you're passing on. And so many times you're dying, you hear about like a car pulling up and someone saying, hey, get on in, you know, and And I don't know, there's something sort of comforting about that for me. And also maybe it's an animal, like maybe it was one of your close dogs or cats or horses that was honestly, it's there for you, you know, to bring you in.

1:47:02Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAnd even in, you know, Hindu and different ceremonies, I mean, you ride off in a bull, you know, in a funeral pipe and stuff. And that's really powerful, you know, symbolism, I feel. Yeah. And anyway, it's nice to see you Tamara as well down there at the Ridge Sesh. And a healer and a compassionate witch and loving woman in the community as well. You know, here we are out here carrying on the legacy of our amazing elders, which there's such beautiful examples on the screen.

1:47:36Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineYou know, it's nice to see everyone else coming in, you know, so we love you and it's nice to see you.

1:47:42SpeakerAnd I just wanted to say one quick thing before we hear from Tamara, because I know that you were good friends with Wade and your relationship was sweet. He just touched a lot of our lives. We had to question and talk to him. He always had the answers to a lot of things, but I just know that David had the good hookups. So, you know, it's like when you're crossing the border or you're going to another country, you've got to make sure to call the friends that you know has got the hookups because, you know, you've been traveling or you've been in Bardo for many days.

1:48:14SpeakerAnd I just love the idea of David being on the other side with some sweet dry sift like Alice was just saying, you know, like, hey, Wade, you know, welcome.

1:48:24Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAnd some good fruit, you know, or something.

1:48:26SpeakerYeah. So, Tamara, love to hear from you.

1:48:36SpeakerHonoring Wade is definitely a part of my path. I feel like he was such a precursor to what I'm doing right now and where I see my path is like really studying deeply into the cannabinoids and terpenes and he was just that That person who made it possible. And so for me, it was just kind of like one of my gurus, you know, like one of those people I'm still like learning about everything he has done.

1:49:04SpeakerAnd yeah, it's, it's, yeah, it's still kind of hidden. But like I said, I definitely feel we can tap into those other dimensions and have talks if we need to with them. And yeah. One of my, our favorite experiences when we got to go and see Wade at his house and we went over there and I was like, wow, this is like a permaculture paradise. He had the pond.

1:49:29SpeakerIt was just so amazing. I was like, wow, this is, this is living. This is what we want. Exactly who I would, where I would see Wade at. And he was really fun. I just, yeah, I love that. He kept his like fun joy every bit, you know, of it. And yeah, he was just an amazing teacher for myself. So, and so many others. So that's, yeah, just so much honor and respect for everything that he did.

1:50:01SpeakerHe lived a life well lived. And so I really, I honor that. And that's so beautiful.

1:50:12BubblemanSomeone just wrote in chat, Wade just needs to follow the trail of wooden matches to find Sam. And I would love to see that as a drawing or a creation, you know, because that put a smile on my face.

1:50:31SpeakerI'm going to sign off, everyone. It's been great to be here with you and share this with Wade and you and all. And I hope to connect up with any of you that I haven't connected before and reconnect with all those other folks. So much love to you all and blessings. And you know what? Keep up the good message and the good energy and the love. Thank you, Swami.

1:50:53SpeakerLove you, Swami.

1:50:54AliceI love Swami.

1:50:56SpeakerWe're coming for you, son.

1:50:59Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineBlessed be, Swami. Blessed be. Blessed be. Another fragment I would say that Wade added to was just the creation of Project CBD as an educational platform, you know, and helping create, and then it's been continued on, you know, but Project CBD is a pretty intense, amazing, intensive, I would say, you know, website, you know, very informational. I believe it's I've been translated into Japanese as well because they're helping, you know, get cannabis normalized in Japan as well, which is important.

1:51:37Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAnd, and also, you know, just being connected to Fred Gardner and, and, and O'Shaughnessy's and those old, older, you know, not an old, but, you know, and I say influential publications from the time. And, you know, just very powerful, you know, just to be able to be of the earth and to be a medicine man, but also, you know, of the type of education that we resonate with.

1:52:06Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineBecause, you know, let's say not all education is very interesting, you know. And so when it comes to the ones that are, it's impactful, you know, and it's life changing. So those are the kinds of, you know, the elders and teachers that we look for. And that's how you get through those hard days is just remembering that the path has been laid out and there's a timeless quality to how to live life and maybe how to create sacred commerce and create commerce that you can believe in, which still has soul and still has love attached to it, along with the money that it takes to live every day.

1:52:49Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAnd that's what I see within this community is super adaptogenic, regenerative, you know, souls, which are constantly revisiting, you know, themselves and the information, but also retaining that quality of that timeless, like nature, that we are nature and that we are Only going to continue getting better when we ally with those compounds. You know, I mean, I'm not saying that there's other compounds that may not work, but that, you know, it's the natural ones that really support the earth and support our biome.

1:53:25Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAnd every conversation that we ever had with Wade, like he was, it was super important to him to keep that type of quality going in his life. And then to be able to be, to live out your whole entire life with that as your guide, That's what resonates with me personally, I can say, you know, and continuing the work. And in that way, I have never-ending energy to continue that path and to stay connected to the ancient wisdom and the timeless knowledge, but also to be very open to, you know, new world and the way that it's going to take learning new things in order to move forward.

1:54:09Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineSo, A lot of good qualities, Sarah, we've learned from. And here we go, you know, and the next day and continuing the process. So much love, fam.

1:54:24BubblemanThanks for the good words, Josh. I was appreciating it for sure. I just had a gift of watermelon brought to my side. Organic watermelon. Ooh, for the win. You guys laughing at it.

1:54:42SpeakerTanner's like, why do you have to show off his watermelon?

1:54:44BubblemanBecause I want to show off my watermelon. Come on. They want to see my watermelon. I know they do.

1:54:50SpeakerOkay, maybe I'm not. Maybe not. Hey, we got to jump off you guys. We're still packing up and breaking down here, but we love all you guys and just honored to be here with you all and celebrate and wave and looking forward to seeing all your smiling faces soon and we'll all be burning it up for our brother up there. So much love y'all. So blessed we all got to know him.

1:55:14SpeakerSo blessed. Yeah.

1:55:16BubblemanThanks for coming, guys.

1:55:17AliceLovely event yesterday, y'all. It was beautiful. And there was a lot of dry sift. So hopefully Wade was there with us, too.

1:55:25SpeakerWe had all of his possessions, too, with us there. So did y'all follow this picture? I love it. So do that one again. All right. Love y'all. Much love. Blessings. Thanks, guys.

1:55:46SpeakerIt seems like John... Oh, go ahead.

1:55:50Etienne FontanI wanted to check in. One of our BAC members, Michael Krawitz, is on, and Wade has been part of our group for the past four plus years helping us. Michael, would you like to say a few words?

1:56:06SpeakerHey, I wrote notes in the chat, and I can't read them. There's too many. I love you all. Love you too, Michael.

1:56:27SpeakerWade's passing hit me hard. This has been a hard year, but Wade's passing hit me hard. I think it hasn't been.

1:56:39SpeakerIt hasn't even hit the Veterans Action Council yet, and that hasn't even happened yet. It's just a few of us that are in the loop, sort of, that are experiencing it in advance.

1:56:57SpeakerWade, he really appreciated the... There's a lot of things about the Veterans Action Council that Wade appreciated. Excuse me. That Wade appreciated.

1:57:12SpeakerOne of the most, I think, was just the ability to see behind the curtain. We have in our ranks, we were just on the phone with a veteran service organization leader, national leader, who noted the fact that just about all social movements have been led by veterans, military veterans. And, you know, cannabis movement is certainly no exception. Our leaders, Jack Herr, Dennis Perrone, Timothy Leary, you know, et cetera, et cetera.

1:57:52SpeakerWe're all military veterans. And I think he appreciated the peek behind the curtain. You know, we're coming together. We've got, what did you tally up, ATN, the other day? We had a call with like five people. We had 135 years of experience in the movement. Yeah, so we're working on stuff at a level that is like, you know, I joke about it, but it really is. It's like being in the map room.

1:58:24SpeakerAnd for those that don't know out there in the world, there's always a map room. Whatever battle it is, there's always a map room. And the map room has got a handful of people in it that know what's going on. And there's little pins on little boards that represent maps or strategic interests or resources like the famous cannabis heirloom.

1:58:59SpeakerThat Wade brought to us. And anyway, in that room, you're rubbing shoulders with world leaders, you're rubbing shoulders with personalities that you know anybody that has access to the map room and it's mostly a meritocracy i'll say that for the cannabis map room that might not compare too well with other map rooms but ours is pretty much a meritocracy over the years those have gotten a peek in or worked in the map room have been those who really earned it earned that space earned that knowledge and and it's very protected and there's very few people in the map room like me or like wade That would share it with you.

1:59:39SpeakerThat would even tell you that it exists. And I think it's important. I think it's important for, you know, connectivity, you know, that grounding wire experiment that sticks in my brain because that's it's it's a matter of connectivity. It's a matter of making sure that the person out there who just smoked a joint for the first time and loved it, and the person who created Harlequin can communicate with each other in some ether way and have that be substantive.

2:00:17SpeakerThat's a functioning map room.

2:00:25SpeakerI just feel like he really appreciated that. He talked many times about the fact that he was able to share with us and be with us in a consistent manner and feel like everybody there was so equal and had their space conserved and could work as a group together with no As you were saying before, no expectations. It was really, it was something that he reveled in and really appreciated.

2:01:04SpeakerAnd I think he appreciated the consistency of it as well. You know, we meet very often. We give space to any veteran that comes in that wants to have our collective imagination at their disposal with little AI thrown in these days. And Yeah, much love, Wade. Much love. I just want to jump in and share that Wade's work with the Gear Veterans Council was a huge source of pride for him.

2:01:41SpeakerYou know, that someone on the outside, when we would check in, right, it's like, what are you doing? What are you up to? Every time without fail, those phone calls, those meetings, the work he's doing with the veterans group, ATN, Mike was top of the list of something that he would, we would talk about, right? What you're up to, what he's doing. And the pride that he felt from that was just evident on his face and in his tone of voice.

2:02:14SpeakerAnd I just want to share that, that, that In your circle, you guys got to experience it. But outside of that, it was something that he was really proud of and shared with his friends. And I loved hearing updates about the work you were doing.

2:02:32Etienne FontanWe carried him with us every time we went to the UN. We would have meetings outside and we would speak with him. And he was always a

2:02:46Etienne FontanAlways a pillar for us.

2:02:51Etienne FontanHe will be beyond this.

2:03:01BubblemanLet him flow, brother. Let him flow.

2:03:08SpeakerI had one other thought in my little list here that I'd like to talk about, especially because Swami kind of touched on it as well. I've always felt like my work in the cannabis movement is led by a string. And it's the string I connect to, I search out and I find and I follow.

2:03:32SpeakerSorry, I get emotional over weird shit.

2:03:37SpeakerThat string has taken me where I would have never believed I would go, where I never would have believed that I could see what I've seen, experience what I've experienced. And I just think, you know, like, I'm like, you know, Marcus, I really agree with you, you know, you can't be envious about I'm super glad.

2:04:22SpeakerThat string, Robbie Wade. I could see it's like AT&T and I, we're both following the string. I mean, dutifully, we're dutiful soldiers in this cannabis movement. Been so for decades and decades and decades. And we followed the string. And when we're now working together so closely, we see time and time again how close we were back to back, like

2:04:52SpeakerThere were so many times that I was so close to Wade and so close to meeting him, so close to sharing a space and I didn't get to do it then. And I can see that now. And I try not to be envious of that. And or whatever you would call that. And just value the time that I did have and value the experience that I did have and keep pressing forward because that's what he would want.

2:05:20SpeakerAnd that's what he reveled in.

2:05:36BubblemanWell, I think it's appropriate that we're all crying today because Wade cried on Hash Church so much. And just like all of you, he then apologized for it. And then just like me, I would say, don't apologize. Don't be sorry. It's okay. We're allowed to be sad in the moment. Sometimes grief is overwhelming and it makes you cry, makes you emotional. And it's definitely connected to the love we have for the person.

2:06:00BubblemanYou know, that love, it seems like there's a debt to be paid through grief. And I'll happily pay that debt for Wade as he helped pay so many people's debts, metaphorically.

2:06:19BubblemanHaven't heard from you, Johnny B, driving in your car for the entire show. What are you doing, man?

2:06:25SpeakerYou know what? I'm listening and just, you know, appreciating everybody here today. It's like every day is an attitude of gratitude. I was able to be blessed with Wade's blessings for a little while, especially at the end. I was able to do a lot of research on the man of what he's created and what he's about. One thing about Wade is when difficulty comes, he moved to Ashton State and he took care of things, right?

2:06:50SpeakerHe helped patients and other people. And watching what we all do here as a community, we live on what Wade's created and we live through that. He's always with us and everybody here is, you know, expressing all the great times that he's created for us and what is going to be coming from what the research that he's done. All the research to be there as a community and it's a blessing to be part of the community, to be here with everybody and seeing the leaps and bounds we're all going to make together because the research never stops.

2:07:21SpeakerYou know what? We're just scratching the surface and the ability to move forward with what we've been given, which is the grace of what we've all done together. And Wade just gave. And he gave from his heart. You know, even just doing a few things and seeing his accomplishments with CBD. And we talked about Fred Gardner and all the research that was combining out of the research and years.

2:07:48SpeakerAnd it goes back to like Dr. Paul Hornby and, you know, Hayley Rose and Cheryl and the same stories of how this plant has just changed the lives of the younger generations of kids that weren't going to make it to the age of 15 or 16 and are here today because of a simple plant that's saving us. And the education is... is everywhere knowledge is power and we got to keep that knowledge going and be able to express the knowledge that's been given to us through the people that have left that knowledge and be able to keep that knowledge going and that's what we get to do today is uh you know just living grace and appreciate what we got given which was the time the journey we got to spend here together and appreciate the now and what we've been given which is the moment together with what we have i love you guys i love everybody here

2:08:36SpeakerI really want to appreciate Wade because I got to connect with him and I really get to have a great connection with him at the same time I got to feel his heart and see the impact that he's made in this world because there's a lot of stuff out there on Wade. Believe me, I've done some research on it. I was doing some stuff here at the end and I got to really see the grace in that man.

2:08:57SpeakerGreat everybody here. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this journey, Wade. I appreciate you. And as he joins our journey together with us wherever we go, he's always in our hearts, he's always in our laughters, and he's always in our doubts. And he's in these tears. We get to share these tears of joy. Like I said, it's going to be a hard one today.

2:09:17SpeakerWe all get to share these tears of joys and gratitude of what we get, which is now in us. Love you guys all. Appreciate you, Wade. Always with us. Thanks, Johnny B.

2:09:28BubblemanThanks for the good words. Sounds like we're getting ready to take a take a dab. Go ahead, please.

2:09:36SpeakerI'm going to jump off. Excuse me for interrupting. I'm going to jump off. Thank you so much for thanks for this. This is, you know, it's touching and beautiful. And Wade, we're all on your tail. We're coming. No way out, but up. Thank you all. And thanks for sharing us. Thanks for sharing that deep space within. It's, you know, for being vulnerable because we are. Much love and many thanks.

2:10:12SpeakerAnd I hope to sit in circle with you not only virtually, but get high, stay high.

2:10:21Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineThank you.

2:10:21SpeakerBe love and share. Be love and share, right? Just, you got it.

2:10:26Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineI think everyone should know about WAM as well, because I don't think we, you know, said that word or whatever, but that your, your organization that you're, that you're upholding and what Wade was a part of as a board member, also very powerful. And maybe another time, you know, you can get into what WAM is, or maybe put a link in there, Marcus, or something. But, uh, That's a legacy that's still alive and Wade was a part of.

2:10:50Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineSo I just want to, again, recognize you, Valerie, in your day-to-day. We all love and appreciate you. So thank you.

2:10:57SpeakerThank you so much. Yep. Open your hand. You give, it gets full. Love you. Too much to carry, too much to dust. Love you. Much love and thanks. Blessed be. Blessed be.

2:11:10Etienne FontanThanks, Valerie. Thank you, Valerie, for everything you do.

2:11:18BubblemanI first met Valerie and Mike at the Watson's house at Skunk Man Sam's place in Amsterdam for a dinner. That was very nice to be able to, I don't know, just meet them there. Of all the places in the world, we could have bumped into one another. We bumped in at David and Diana's, which is a very special place. We'll always hold a special place in my heart.

2:11:47BubblemanIt's unique. It's different. There's amazing people were being invited there. And if you were lucky enough to be one of them, then you got to meet some amazing people and then eat a really delicious, amazing meal as well, which is a win-win in my books.

2:12:07BubblemanOh, you're muted, Valerie. Valerie's still here.

2:12:11SpeakerI just wanted to say, don't forget to reach out to Monica and Diana. You know, like time, we do in the beginning, but time goes on and hearts, they break and they stay, you know, that well of emptiness remains for Monica and for Diana when they reach over and touch their beloved. So you don't have to jump in bed with them, but give them some love. I'm just messaging with Diana now, actually.

2:12:39SpeakerFunny. Give her my love. Well. Tell her we're all thinking about her and David.

2:12:47Etienne FontanShe's in chat and watching. She's chatting along. So say hello. Thanks.

2:12:55SpeakerI've been thinking about you, Diana. So sending a lot of love to you and your daughters and just through this time. Sending a lot of prayers, a lot of love, a lot of light.

2:13:12SpeakerAnd Monica, of course, huge, constant. You're in my prayers. I have candles still lit for you, my love.

2:13:27AliceTake a dab, take a bong hit, whatever is the preference for everyone.

2:13:31BubblemanMaybe one of each.

2:13:35BubblemanWelcome, Brian, who just rolled in as well. We're on the other side of the country.

2:13:40Etienne FontanHi there. So sorry to hear about this.

2:13:44Collin PalmerThanks for having us together.

2:13:48BubblemanAbsolutely, man. Going to have a space to gather. And while we're gathering here for the last 11 years, on Sundays, wait for many of them. So why would we not continue? Oh yeah, we're having a dab. What am I going to dab? Surrounded by dabs. All corners surrounded by Shiva. Had to bring out Shiva while Swami was talking about Shiva. Boom Shakara.

2:14:18SpeakerThat's beautiful, Marcus. Yeah, yeah.

2:14:21BubblemanI picked this one up in India like in 1998 when I was at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Haridwar. So I got this in Haridwar.

2:14:33BubblemanFunny story actually, because I was traveling with a friend who kind of for a living would go to India and buy things and bring them back to Manitoba and get boots and sell them, you know, at the Forks and at these other places. So I went on a trip with him for him to, you know, kind of turn me on to India and inspire me. And I was, I bought like $10,000 worth of stuff and was really excited about it.

2:14:55BubblemanAnd then we went from India to Thailand and we put all our stuff in Bangkok at this You know, at this hotel we had stayed at, it was in this sort of holding room box that we had rented, but it was rented in his name. And we traveled for about a month together in Thailand. And then when he said, oh, I'm going to go back and leave, I said, oh, goodbye.

2:15:18BubblemanAnd he went back to Thailand and grabbed his stuff out of that box. And then I guess he didn't like renew it and put a name on it. So I never saw the stuff that I bought again. I went back to the hotel and it was just gone. They were like, oh, no, we don't know. Your friend emptied the box. So that was this was the only piece of anything that I bought in India that I carried with me and had with me.

2:15:41BubblemanSo, yeah, I think it's the perfect amount of stuff. Probably didn't need all that stuff anyway. Enough people doing that. I was happy to just keep this one. So there's always two ways to react in life. You can be super pissed off, which I often react that way, or you can not be super pissed off. And that's the one that I'm working on on a daily basis.

2:16:03BubblemanAnd if I can just not have an opinion about something, I find that I get much less upset about it.

2:16:11SpeakerLooks like Dr. Mark just took a nice rip, rip a dip.

2:16:17Dr Mark ScialdoneYeah, hey everybody. I'm here listening to all this wonderful words about our dear friend smoking some really good single source material from the trainer here. Let's see, what is this here? This is the... Oh, that one's the Super Boof. The Super Boof. Really fruity notes on that. And we just did a what? What was that? A Chemdog? We just did some Chemdog here. So yeah, you know, what could I reflect on with about Wade?

2:17:02Dr Mark ScialdoneThat hasn't already been said. Loss is profound. Him and Sam, just such a short period of time. To lose both of them is a tremendous loss.

2:17:18SpeakerHuge loss.

2:17:19Dr Mark ScialdoneAnd we just, you know, to show you how precious life is. And yeah, I mean, for us, it's good to see again and, you know, remind myself about, you know, what parents like yourself go through and why, People like Wade have such a huge and tremendous impact, not just to those patients, but the families that those patients live in. It's just, it's tremendous. And, you know, the generosity and When the laws had changed, it was interesting.

2:18:04Dr Mark ScialdoneThey were talking about this earlier, right? He was actually instrumental in the law that ended up shutting his operation down. I mean, he's confounded by this, again, unwillingness to really understand how to properly regulate this medicine for families that need it and deserve it and should have it. And Yeah, to know that all the contribution that he had here on Hash Church was just great. His humility, you know, we heard his suffering and just him being on Hash Church was, I'm sure just, you know, to listen to everybody's voice and to, again, we'll never hear that kind, gentle voice again.

2:18:59Dr Mark ScialdoneAnd, um, We really lost somebody big. And yeah, let's do a rip and remember that, you know, it's great to give back and be beneficial in the lives of people by sharing knowledge and He loved to, we had email exchanges where we were talking about, you know, a draft of our paper, talked about Delta 8 and whatnot. And he was really inquisitive and really wanted to know and learn more and was just a kind, bright soul.

2:19:48Dr Mark ScialdoneAnd yeah, to know that he's moved on to the next realm, I guess, is peaceful and to that he's not suffering anymore. But yeah, let's do a barn rip for them.

2:20:01SpeakerYeah, we got lots of it recorded here.

2:20:05RyanThat's the beautiful thing about church. Yeah. All the wisdom to go back and listen to them again.

2:20:11BubblemanYeah, and shout out to Ed. Ed is kind of one of our local Hash Church interns. He's been going and ripping all of the Sam episodes, all of the Sam, almost all of the time Sam spoke on Hash Church. Ed's working on getting that into a database. And he kind of just hit me up today and he said, hey, you know, should I start doing this with Wade?

2:20:35BubblemanAnd I said, yeah, I think that's a very good idea. And he also was trying to create a little thing that for the beginning of Hash Church, it would start with Sam going, howdy, howdy, and then finish with Wade with one of his profound sort of statements. So we're kind of working on that. That's just trying to pay homage to the To the friends, you know, like Wade and I, we never met in person, never was lucky enough to sit with Wade and meet him in person, but I certainly don't feel that he was any less of a friend.

2:21:07BubblemanYou know, I got to spend countless Sundays with him and the rest of you all and just enjoying great, great conversation, as did so, so many other people, tens of thousands of people really that have also just Been sitting around on Sundays listening to this or hitting it on the podcast like later on down the week. So, yeah, don't feel that you have to have met Wade for him to have made a massive impact on your life and for you to be able to call him your friend.

2:21:35BubblemanBecause I absolutely will call Wade my friend. But we never got to meet each other in person. You know, me not being able to go to the U.S. was a big part of that.

2:21:46SpeakerHe was great for you, though. I'll tell you that much. He definitely made an impact on his life.

2:21:52RyanSo it goes to show you don't need to do that flesh to flesh. It is nice to connect and touch grass though, of course. But yeah, like you can definitely make an impact over the digital sphere. He called you brother.

2:22:04Etienne FontanHe called you brother. That's all you needed to know. You were there in his presence, in his spirit. You were there with him. So it's okay. You knew him more than people who actually spent time and space with him. So you got a special side that he was able to show us and a vulnerability. And he taught us we're all going to die. No one is getting out of here alive and he took us along on his journey with humility and openness and a yeah willingness to say hey this is what it's gonna look like people you know this is my journey yours is gonna be what it's gonna be but yeah he took us all the way and I think everybody who has watched Hash Church over the last couple of months have been profoundly impacted by his honesty and humility in an area that society hides from us, right?

2:23:18Etienne FontanNobody teaches us how to die. They teach us all how to live. And I can, and I'm forever grateful for him for being unafraid to show us which is true love.

2:23:37Etienne FontanThat is a level of love that very few people get to see, feel, or hear. And consider yourself very fucking lucky to experience it.

2:23:50BubblemanWell said there, Chad. Holding your Sherlock Pufko in the ceramic. Love it. Very debonair. Much appreciated. What about you, Eric? It's been a long time since we had you on Hashtag. It's nice to hear your voice, see your face.

2:24:08SpeakerYeah, man. Thanks. Thanks for having me on. I missed you guys. And I've been kind of checking in every now and then watching you guys from time to time on the hash church and things like that. So it's good to see everybody and still still doing your thing, Marcus. That's awesome. Yeah, I'm just getting ready to leave here. The ridge sesh, we just wrapped up kind of, or almost wrapped up on cleaning it up.

2:24:33SpeakerSo I got to, I think, go over to Monica's and take Wade's boots and suspenders and hat back over to her. And, and yeah, you know, just, we had a great time here. So it's kind of hard, it's kind of heartfelt trying to leave and do this hash church all at the same time. It's like, you know, when you, Leave a big party with all your friends and everybody's kind of coming down and then you gotta, you got the whole hash church about Wade going on.

2:25:02SpeakerI'm feeling a little bit, uh, I'm feeling it anyway. So, um, positive, but I'm a little choked up at the same time.

2:25:14BubblemanBut, uh, that makes sense. Well, I'm, uh, maybe you can give Monica a hug from each one of us here at hash church. There's a few of us, but, uh, That's nice to know that you're leaving there and going right to see her. And that'll be, I'm sure a welcome, a welcome visit.

2:25:33SpeakerYeah, yeah, it will be. I, I, uh, yeah, I know she was really glad to be here with everybody yesterday. She told me when I was walking her over to the altar that she, you know, really felt like she needed to be here among all the people and, and it was good to get her mind off of things a little bit and be with community and that kind of thing.

2:25:53SpeakerAnd so, I can't imagine what she's going through, but it was really good to see her be able to show up and be here with the community at the same time and get a bunch of hugs from everybody and stuff like that. So I think it was heartfelt and embracing at the same time. And to finish it off with Hash Church with you guys today has been awesome.

2:26:14SpeakerAnd I got to get ready to take off. So big hugs to everybody. Love all you guys. And yeah. Thanks again, Marcus.

2:26:26BubblemanYeah, thanks for showing up, brother.

2:26:28Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineLove you guys. Give up to Bridget and the family. And we're always impressed with your beautiful kids out there raging in the world. So nice work and hope you have a great day and week.

2:26:46SpeakerRight on. Well, great, guys. Thanks again. See everybody next time. And blessed be. Blessed be. Right on. Eric, thanks so much for all your work out there. You know, someone who's spreading always the good vibe. You always show a smile no matter what. You always make everyone feel really good to be in your presence and you're always spreading out the good education and you've always Really been beside the cannabis plant ever since I've known you way, way, way, way, way back when.

2:27:21SpeakerAnd just really appreciate your spirit and appreciate who you are in this world. Thanks so much.

2:27:26Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineEric, be in the place to be.

2:27:28SpeakerRight on. I love you guys. See you. Bye-bye.

2:27:34BubblemanIt's wild since this all kind of went down. Maybe a few days before, maybe three or four days before, but we have had these two humpback whales in my, in the house sound here for like a few days before Wade's passing. And ever since like every, I saw them last night when I was down at the beach, I saw them, you know, the day before, I think I shared the video of them.

2:27:58BubblemanI'm not sure if I did, but this video, which was, I believe on the day of Wade's passing, just a couple of humpback whales, just like breaching out of the water. So I never really put the connection together, but yeah, it's a nice, I've lived here for almost 30 years and I've never seen this.

2:28:15Etienne FontanSo it's not something that is happening regularly.

2:28:18BubblemanWe get a lot of orca whales, a lot of dolphins and sea lions, but like humpback whales, they come, but they don't generally come and feed for like seven days straight. And so it brought An enormous amount of joy and laughter to the community. I've never walked down to our beach before and seen every single person staring at the water waiting for the next, oh, ah, it was pretty amazing.

2:28:48BubblemanSo I'm going to connect that to Wade because, of course, this whole Wade thing has been going on for this past week.

2:28:58BubblemanAnd otherwise,

2:29:02BubblemanI guess I didn't really get that bong rep that everyone said they were going to get. I saw Dr. Mark smoke his, but I'm going to hit mine. Oh, we got Adam coming in from Wolf Mountain. Those dogs are probably like 600 pounds a piece now, probably close to 20 weeks old. This guy's raising Bengal tigers.

2:29:23SpeakerI just wanted to say bye, guys. Oh, thank you, of course. I got to run duty calls, but...

2:29:30Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineYeah, thanks for having me. I would just like to say we've been thinking about you every day for the last six years and always thinking about you and Silas and as much as we're talking about Wade and everything, I mean, you may be one of the most inspirational people like in the world, like to be honest, like you don't have to be anything to be the most amazing person ever and that the type of dedication that you've given to your son and then being part of something, you know, which is a whole community of people doing the same thing.

2:29:59Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineIt's incredibly powerful.

2:30:00SpeakerAmen.

2:30:01Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineI just really love you and I really appreciate you. And I just want to, you know, just extend like the deepest of gratitude and love to you and your family.

2:30:12SpeakerThat means a lot. Thank you. Yeah, well, you know, just we all are cogs in the areas that kind of life points us to serve, right? And I've been honored to be In among these people with Wade, a lot of the folks here on the panel, Valerie, people who've been able to just role model and help me focus kind of the desire into something that is, can manifest in the way that we want it to.

2:30:49SpeakerAnd that's something that that I take with me. And yeah, I've got to run actually because Silas is in the other room and got some things I need to do with him. He can only tolerate me disappearing for so long. And, you know, look, let's I'll just end it with this. You know, grief for me isn't an emotion, right? It's a it's a process. And I'm going through it.

2:31:17SpeakerI know a lot of you are going through it. And it's all sorts of emotions. It's, you know, one second I'm feeling a lot of joy. I'm feeling gratitude. I'm feeling sorrow. I'm just observing that and going through it. And what it reminds me to do and what's inspired me to do the work that I've done, the work that Wade and I did together and continue to do it is as we go through that process of grief, it's also that Observation of the reminder that I carried around while they were present with me.

2:31:55SpeakerThat presence is still there. That process of observing is still there. And the lessons I took from Wade and the things that people see in Wade, we can emulate them. We can practice that. You know, compassion... Is a skill that needs to be developed, not much different than patience or mindfulness or any other skill. It doesn't just come. What Wade did can be learned. It can be emulated, can be imitated.

2:32:33SpeakerYou know, you can, you can do it. And, you know, I would just encourage people to try and see how it feels. Respond with kindness. Let shit go. Don't sweat things that don't matter. I know that sounds like, oh, obvious little statements. Easier said than done, right? Most of the things that we spend our time focusing on mean nothing. No one will remember. We're on this rock for a small amount of time.

2:33:05SpeakerDoesn't matter, right? Take Wade with you in that when you feel yourself expecting someone to behave a certain way. Or if you try to do something kind and you notice that natural reaction of wanting a response. Okay, am I doing this for praise? Am I doing it for myself? Or did I do it for them? Recognize that it happens. It happens to all of us. It's natural.

2:33:31SpeakerBut observe it and think of Wade in that example and practice compassion without expectations. Try it. Do it until you can do it just for the sake of doing it. It's nothing to feel shameful about. You're not doing anything wrong. Doing good is doing good. Do it with expectations. Better not do it at all sometimes, but try it. Take that with you. That skill can be developed.

2:34:04SpeakerAnd as it becomes more and more natural, it just becomes the way that you behave. You just do things without... Needing recognition for the fact that you did something positive for somebody. Little things. Practice with people in the store. Let them smile at somebody who's having a bad day. Yes, all this stuff sounds like kitties and rainbows and feel-good stuff, but a lot of profound things are like that.

2:34:32SpeakerThey sound simple. You know, love is all we need. What the hell does that mean, right? Those profound statements sound simple until you try to put them into very real daily practice. And then you realize how effing difficult it is. And that's why the world's full of very few people who do it. So I'm going to leave today and do what I've been doing. So I was lucky enough to have Wade as one of my good friends in life.

2:34:58SpeakerAnd I'm going to continue to try to emulate the things I saw in him that I loved and respected. Just like I steal things from you guys too that I respect and try to emulate those as I try to improve myself as a human being. And, you know, if you're watching this on YouTube and you're kind of like, oh, this all sounds nice, but I don't get it.

2:35:19SpeakerWell, try it, practice it, set a goal and you'll start to get it. And not only that, you'll start to see the impact it has on the people around you. Just like we're seeing the impact Wade had on the people around him. So thank you guys. And thank you for your kind words.

2:35:39BubblemanThank you, Forrest. I got to tell you, you look great. I absolutely love the tie dye. I hope that's your works. I hope that's your works. But no, we appreciate you, man. The words, what you're saying is very profound and very true in the sense that You know, when you go on your phone and you go into the social media world, you can get very easily divided.

2:36:01BubblemanIt could be over a bloody vaccine. It could be over anything. It doesn't matter how wise and you think you are. We all get like, but when you do what you're talking about, when you just talk to people in the world, you kind of feel like, huh? I don't feel the same energy that I get from the phone when I actually talk to people and am kind and try to be helpful out in the actual real world.

2:36:26BubblemanInstead, what I see is that the majority of people are quite awesome. Everyone has some pretty interesting stories. And if you're willing to give them an ear. You can learn a lot instead of, you know, create an opportunity to be pissed off about something or someone, which I've spent enough of my life doing, I think, at this point.

2:36:49SpeakerThat is for certain. Absolutely. Well, thanks again, and I hope to see you guys sooner rather than later.

2:36:56BubblemanAwesome. Look at that picture of Wade with the halo behind Adam before you leave. That is awesome, dude. That is awesome.

2:37:04SpeakerSaint laughter. Let's go. I mean, Wade is so cool. He was the compassion. You know, I just looked up what does compassion mean? Because, you know, everyone was talking about it so much and it's to suffer with. And, you know, well, went through. Went through a little pain, you know, that's so cool. It's like, oh, compassion is to suffer alongside. Oh, I know.

2:37:27Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineI really am going to work on fixing that for sure. Oh, sorry. It's all good. We have chicken problems. I don't want to bring you into it.

2:37:38SpeakerWill you fix everything for us, Josh, real quick?

2:37:40Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineI'm on it.

2:37:41SpeakerI'm on it. Trust me. Okay. That's awesome. I think that that's so cool. And Wade was this. He was this person willing to suffer. He was someone I called when I entered a little pain of mine and internal suffering. And his reaction was to invite me to his home. And bring your family to me. And this was so cool. And I wish I would have. I feel like that this is a big regret.

2:38:08SpeakerBut this openness and through his own pain, he maintained this decorum. He would share his voice. I'm so thankful we have hours of recordings of Wade's voice and his teaching so that people will be able to absorb this and bathe In what he would provide, which was very much acoustically soothing. What he was saying was important and how he was saying was so patient and forgiving, even as he was expressing what he was going through towards the end.

2:38:51SpeakerAnd I think everyone has so much love for Wade and he kind of generated that. He was a vector for that. You know, pain and suffering is the root or the genesis of our compassion, of our ability to help others, to see the other as ourselves. And somewhat in losing or loss and mourning, recognizing that he's closer to all of us, he's inside of us now, he's...

2:39:28SpeakerThank you so much for joining us today. I'm so happy to be here with you today. I'm so happy to be here with you today. I'm so happy to be here with you today.

2:39:57SpeakerBlessed be.

2:39:58Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAs much as it's a loss, that's the thing. It was a blessing. That's what life is. So give thanks. We had this spectacular human being in our life. And that's why we value friends and family so much, because that's the spirit. That's the spirit of things going on. So, yeah. And... You know, up on Wolf Mountain, transmitting that kind of message, you know, that's pretty powerful in itself.

2:40:32Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineSo, yeah, I mean, we did have a spectacular experience at the, we had a gathering called the Hive Gathering with the pure certified family and anyone who wanted to participate could come in and we went, did it at Hartwood and Humboldt and it's like an hour out of Garberville, just deep in the forest and It's a really spectacular location and we had 88 of us out there.

2:40:58Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAnd it was really special because Frenchie Cannoli was there, Wade was there, Ethan Russo, Valerie was there in spirit. She brought words to it through another person. We had a lot of good representation of elders, a lot of also children running around. And we have a lot of video of that on our YouTube as well. And it was really special because we very much so Connected on the humanistic level of where we, you know, where we were at the time, you know, which was regenerative farming, bringing medicine to the people, continuing its importance, how to show, because science doesn't prove that spiritual gardening matters, right?

2:41:47Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineBut when you talk with people and you experience it, you feel the spirit of it. And Wade was like a part of that embodiment. Swami, you know, like really embodies that in his projection of what he does. And every one of us, I do feel that from, and I know so many people in the audience also, you know, feel that way. And I also feel that from them because we speak outside of this all the time.

2:42:11Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineBut that spirit medicine, reacts to our immune system and our neurological system in a way that is just not in a way you can calculate through science, you know, and I felt like inspired through Wade and his life and the way he carried himself to keep that spirit alive. And and that's what that's what he did. And he shared that with us at the gathering and all the wisdom of all the elders just kept rippling.

2:42:45Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineSo You know, it is a ripple and we're just continuing to ripple. And I give thanks for that.

2:42:54SpeakerI'm going to say it's the ripple is real. I'm going to let you guys go. I got to jump in my vehicle and go to the next place. My truck is not able to have this in the car. So I just want to say thank you. Give grace to everybody. See you guys all again. Thanks.

2:43:09BubblemanTake it easy, Johnny B. Thanks for coming on. Another generous soul who's always about the giving and the helping.

2:43:18SpeakerWell, attitude of gratitude every day, right? We live with grace and we have to appreciate what we got here, which is the moment we had here right now, which is the togetherness. Thank you guys, always. Much love.

2:43:30Collin PalmerPeace, Johnny. I also have to peace out. I got to go do some birthday partying with my son.

2:43:39BubblemanAnother way to celebrate life. So happy birthday to him. How old?

2:43:44Collin PalmerSix.

2:43:45BubblemanSix years old. What a blessing that is. We'll go share time. You don't want to miss any of that.

2:43:50Collin PalmerThat's the best. Well, I love you all. Thanks for holding the space. Marcus, as always, I'll see you guys all next week. Have a beautiful day, man.

2:44:00BubblemanYeah. Much love, Colin. Thanks for showing up and sharing. Always appreciate it. Yeah, it's still a couple, 300 people watching, streaming live. Shout out to John Maddox and Camden and Bingo Lombardi for holding it down. As always, these guys are, it's almost like they're religious for church. These guys show up religiously.

2:44:25SpeakerShout out to Adam, a churchgoer who contacted me, came all the way out from Colorado and helped us rehome Three of the Ovecharka pups. This was a very cool effort via churchgoer. I met him yesterday. He did the mission, the Wolf Mountain Colorado Connection, getting those healthy genetics out into the world. So this was, I see as a big success via the church family.

2:44:59BubblemanThat's very cool, man. I was hoping that some church folks would step in and help you find homes for those dogs. That's right.

2:45:08Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineIt was very cool.

2:45:10SpeakerIf you don't mind, I got a little bit of a kind of metaphysical thing to share. It seems like a pretty good time for it. Please. Yeah. You know, in the work that I was talking about following the string, I'm going to say something I don't think I've ever said live on my 196 podcasts, whatever I've done. But the way I do that is I just reach inside myself and look inside the universe.

2:45:34SpeakerAnd, you know, I feel like the universe is very accessible to us. It's all around us. If you look at anything close enough, you'll find infinity. And infinity is without bounds. There's this definition, without bounds. And I think that within that space, We operate as some sort of life, as some sort of living entity that communicates within itself and in various ways. And I try to listen to that.

2:46:04SpeakerI'm not joking or saying anything that's kind of, you know, cliche. I mean, I literally try to listen to that. And if I find that I can't hear it, I try to focus harder and I'll actually, you know, Thank you for joining us.

2:46:39SpeakerThank you so much for joining us.

2:47:10SpeakerIn like real time. And that's what you all are, I think, touchstone is just that. And I don't know. I don't know what it is. I don't want to give names to it and labels and all that shit. But I can say that it's brought me to places in my life that I would never have anticipated. Goals that I would never have set for myself. Things that everybody around me said weren't able to be done, let alone myself.

2:47:37SpeakerIt's a fluid of the universe that if I'm right, and my whole life so far seems to be proof that this seems to work, then he's not gone at all. I mean, then that he was touching on existed beyond him, beyond us, beyond everything you see, beyond things you can even imagine. And that's what you're touching. That's what you're bringing, like Jimmy said, channeling through. And I just hope that I'm right.

2:48:08SpeakerI hope that I'm right because it means that we're still touching the same well. And it's not like bringing Wade back. It's like he never left to me.

2:48:19SpeakerBeautiful. Well said. That's beautiful. He's closer to us for sure. And this, you know, him, Forrest mentioned that he was afraid. He had fear around the transition. And that's something that he didn't share with everyone. And what he was sharing, even when in pain, was meant to take care of those around him. And, um, Justin Donald, You know i'm going through a little stress right now and i'm i'm i'm seeing how much it is a choice that I become sad or my prayers that I speak are negative ones of loss and versus.

2:48:57SpeakerJustin Donald, Even in the moments shifting them to. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

2:49:31SpeakerHow much of that is healthy? How much can the stress and the sadness create an issue or a problem versus the problems creating the stress? So this big cycle, I think Wade lived showing us even when in distress to stay the course, tap the infinite, not fear, even if you are fearful, Nate Dizzle, Nick Vibes, Act as if you are in love and so thanks Wade and thanks thanks Mike for that share I love I love the discussion of the infinite and the togetherness, we have with Wade.

2:50:09Dr Mark ScialdoneNate Dizzle, Nick Vibes, Hi Kelly.

2:50:20BubblemanThanks for your words Adam about to drop. A little bit of mouth.

2:50:24Dr Mark ScialdoneOkay, so I was going to ask you a question.

2:50:26SpeakerGo ahead, Dr. Mark, please.

2:50:28Dr Mark ScialdoneWhat is the story of the harlequin? Like, where were those genetics? Like, what did Wade do? Like, what? Does anyone know? Like, I was trying to represent a trainer, and I'm like, I don't know what the story is.

2:50:40SpeakerSwami told the story at the start of church.

2:50:44BubblemanAt this church?

2:50:45Dr Mark ScialdoneYep. Okay, I'll have to go back and listen.

2:50:48BubblemanDamn it. It was a bunch of seeds, and only one popped, and it had a cool story.

2:50:54Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineYeah, the seeds came from Switzerland and it was something that they were working on as a project and they put a bunch of seeds in the ground and one seed grew. I don't really, I don't believe he said like exactly what genetic it was. So I hopefully, you know, I believe he has said that on church before that I want to say. So maybe that'll be one of the clips that, you know, you can get.

2:51:18Dr Mark ScialdoneSo did it have a particularly aromatic terpene profile?

2:51:24Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineIt was the only one that grew out of all the seeds, the only plant that grew. And so it was like this, it was a spiritual thing because it was in a goa gill or whatnot that they did this like spiritual, you know, healing over the seeds. So it was the one that grew, but then that one he kept nurturing and then he used like the grounding of the beds and then working with the, The labs, local labs to continue the process of CBD and the CBD medicine work.

2:51:56Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineSo it was almost like spiritual in a way that it came.

2:52:01Etienne FontanAnd of course, Wade's magical soil that he had been making and tilling for many moons and decade plus, right?

2:52:12Etienne FontanAll about that permaculture. That man was all about it, talked about it, educated you about it. Go pull out some of those. He told you how to prep your soil, how to get things ready. And so he taught you along the way. And I hope you all have listened because others like Nate and others that are part of our council, he has a medical cannabis license and he grows a no-till way.

2:52:39Etienne FontanHere in Northern California. And so, you know, it's rare, it's hard to come across and it disappears very fast because people know how good a medicine it truly is. And Wade was again, his guide and teacher. And so again, that continues onward as ways that we've been taught And those little nuggets are here in Hashchurch. So go back people, find them, hunt them, cherish those little nuggets because he gave it freely, willingly, so that you would carry it forward in these times when he's not here.

2:53:14Etienne FontanHe left those seeds for you. Now sprout them, bitches.

2:53:23SpeakerI can't resist in the silence. I have to say there's just one thing that hasn't been mentioned today and that's just energy. Just the word energy. And I don't believe it was mentioned as I apologize profusely because I have tried to listen. But that's what it all is about. When I was saying that Wade is like he never left. What is it? The basic law of thermodynamics, energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

2:53:52SpeakerIt just changes form. So whatever energy it is that we found so beautiful within Wade, that can't be destroyed.

2:54:06SpeakerI got to split to you guys. Nice chatting with you all and thinking about Wade with you and telling stories. It's really nice to see how he's impacted so many.

2:54:19SpeakerLove you, Ryan. Love you too. We'll talk to you soon.

2:54:23Etienne FontanLove you, Ryan.

2:54:24BubblemanBe safe out there.

2:54:25SpeakerBye. You too. Cheers.

2:54:26BubblemanTake it easy, Ryan. Thanks for coming on. See you, Ryan. It's about another seven minutes. I'm going to go till noon today. Give One hour for everyone to go spend with their loved ones and themselves and enjoy the rest of their day. But yeah, I just want to, I just want to say once again, I'm very, very, very, very glad to have met Wade and to have got to spend this time with him as I am with all of you.

2:54:56BubblemanYou know, I surely hope that you know and feel that. I hope that we don't only share that after someone's passing. It's good for us to tell the people that are alive in our days every day that we appreciate them. Not always so easy, depending on how you feel in the day and what you're going through, but certainly a noble pursuit, to say the least, to be as kind as you can out there.

2:55:24BubblemanI find, too, that when I You know, if I can't figure that out, you know, here in my village, for instance, we have a little bit of infighting going on and there's issues with our beach that used to be public and now it's not public. And it's very easy to be the villager who's like, who are all these people coming to our beach? And, you know, yesterday I went down there and there was a family parking and I said, hey, do you have a parking pass?

2:55:48BubblemanAnd they said, no, I don't. And we were like, oh, man, you're going to get like a $200 ticket. So I gave them information that allowed them to not get that ticket. And then later when I saw them on the beach, instead of just being a family that I didn't recognize from my village, it was a family that I had gotten to know by helping. And so it created a whole different frequency.

2:56:07BubblemanNot saying that I'm some miserable like villager who's just like, who are these people down on my beach? They're smoking cigarettes and they're playing loud music. Not at all. But. I did notice that it's in, I also spoke to a couple from Langley who are out on the, on the, um, this concrete piece that's out, uh, on the water next to our beach. Uh, it's part of a boat launch, but it's old and it's not used anymore.

2:56:32BubblemanThey were standing on that watching the humpback whales go by. Uh, and I just started talking to them and they were like, yeah, we heard about this on the internet. I mean, imagine that we live in a day and age that someone could hear about whales swimming around a body of water. And then get in their car and drive an hour and a half to a village to end up, you know, seeing these humpback whales and then having a nice, I had a nice discussion with them.

2:56:57BubblemanI also helped a Mexican gentleman, Jose, who was trying to get into his kayak with his colleagues. I don't know who they were, two women. One was from France and I think actually they were both from France. He was from Mexico City. And they got in fine and they went off and he kept flipping over and I wasn't paying attention. I didn't notice. I can't remember what I was doing at the time, but my wife told me, she said, oh, that poor guy, he's fallen like two or three times now.

2:57:24BubblemanAnd I said, well, why doesn't someone go help him? So I took my shoes off and pulled my pants up and walked over and offered to help him and said, hey, man, you know, the hardest part is just this part. And I kind of tried to give him the courage to get back in. In the end, he said, you know what? I'm totally OK. I fell three times.

2:57:40BubblemanIt's all good. He was very a good sport because a lot of the people on the beach were literally laughing as he fell. And I just thought, oh, my God, what the fuck? What are we doing as a society while we are laughing at people who are failing in front of us? I appreciated just walking over and meeting him and sharing a little time. So here I am at my local beach.

2:58:01BubblemanI met this guy from Mexico. I met two women from France. I met a couple from Langley and I met a family from India all by just stopping and talking to all of them. And yeah, it was pretty, it was pretty cool. I hope to do it again today. And all because we have this weird parking thing that's going on down there that I'm on one side of.

2:58:24BubblemanAnd so I'm trying to help people not get parking tickets here in the Bay. Does it help me? Yes, it makes me feel better as a person. That's what I get out of it. And so I'm going to keep doing it.

2:58:40BubblemanAnyone else want to say anything before we end today's Hash Church as it is three minutes last?

2:58:46SpeakerI will say that the internet says, Dr. Mark, myrcene, caryophyllene, pinene, so it's probably delicious. That sounds fantastic. But that's what the internet says, Harlequin. Oh, that's cool.

2:59:04BubblemanOh yeah, the piney one, somewhere I saw written, the piney one.

2:59:10BubblemanI've never tried the Harlequin myself, but I'm certainly going to make an attempt to see what I can find.

2:59:16Dr Mark ScialdoneIt's interesting, Marcus, that the group that you mentioned, there were no Americans, right?

2:59:22BubblemanIn what group?

2:59:24Dr Mark ScialdoneYou said you had met, well, it was like a Mexican group from India.

2:59:29BubblemanOh, yeah. No, I didn't meet any Americans, but I do. I do meet a lot of Americans. We're right near Whistler, so we have... Lots of people. Same with like Mount Baker right over the Washington border. Tons of Canadians head down there. It just feels like it's kind of a different, not Canada or America. It's just this little mountainous town region that it's like, okay, we're going to go over here now.

2:59:55BubblemanWe're going to go over there. And I hope to join them all at the end of August when I hopefully get my waiver. And I can come down to America and visit all the wonderful people that I do not get to visit because, well, we all know why. We don't have to go down that rabbit hole. But thank you, Wade, for being our friend and spending so much time with us here on Hash Church.

3:00:20BubblemanWe will certainly never forget you. And thank you, Monica, for caring for Wade for so well and loving him and His love for you and just everything you guys had seemed like a real beautiful thing. I regret that I never got to visit and meet you guys in person, but I certainly am happy that I got to speak with you on phone calls and through texts and through Hash Church and get to know you guys that way.

3:00:44BubblemanI want to thank everyone that came on, really everyone, too many to name, for sharing their stories about Wade and their love of Wade. Obviously, that was huge. Thank you, Forrest. We're coming back after so many years and spending time with us and, you know, telling us that Silas was doing so much better and that he was 18 and like, wow, unbelievable, man. And just as I'm about to end, I can't because now Soma is coming in and we almost lost Soma recently.

3:01:14BubblemanSoma almost passed away like literally two or three weeks ago. He was very sick in the hospital, missing, like having seizures. And so now as I'm really about to wrap it up, Brother Soma popped into the room to say, no, Marcus, Hash Church is not over. Hash Church has just begun. How you doing, Soma? You getting it ready? I picture like Satoshi, like setting up the computer right now and getting everything prepared.

3:01:43BubblemanMaybe Albert, it's hard to say. But yeah, hopefully we'll hear from him soon. No, he's definitely here, Bingo Lombardi. I see him in the room. He's just on mute. And his video is turned off right now, but we're going to stay. Go ahead, Kelly.

3:01:59SpeakerAs it comes on, I was just wanting to say, you know, all of this is just such a beautiful reminder of just without being too cliche, but really taking it into your heart that every day and every moment has to be gratitude, you know, even when it comes at you really hard. And, um, That the gratitude has to outshine so that we're able to keep moving forward.

3:02:30SpeakerAnd I think that Wade really taught that. Oh, here's Soma. But I just wanted to be thankful for that.

3:02:38BubblemanThat was just me. You're good to go. That was just me sharing a picture that Albert had sent me a little while ago. We'll see if Soma gets on here soon. I will expand, I will expand Hash Church. I'm always down to continue the conversation. And like I said, you know, after losing Sam and then Soma ending up in the hospital and that wasn't looking good, uh, having him come out of it and be healthy, like blew me away.

3:03:05BubblemanSpeaking to him very shortly afterwards, he was on the ball. He wasn't someone to me that had just like, you know, suffered a stroke or something major. Like he really was still Soma. And, uh, It kind of gave me hope, I will be honest, even though watching Wade, you know, travel in this direction, seeing Soma get better so fast, I thought it could happen for Wade too.

3:03:28BubblemanLike, why not? So it's good to keep hope. Hope is good.

3:03:33SpeakerWell, there's quite a lot to learn from a near-death experience. Quite a lot to learn. Like for me, it's a blessing. Just like a blessing from a good mushroom journey or a good bufo journey or LSD journey or a peyote journey or a Palo Santo. I mean, not Palo Santo. What am I talking about? Well, I like Palo Santo, but I'm...

3:04:00BubblemanI smelled it when you said it.

3:04:03SpeakerI was just burning it, but you know, For me, a near-death experience is just another psychedelic experience. And if you can get through, whatever side you end up in, if you go through that and existence says to you, which side you want to stay on? This side or you want to go to the other side? And you kind of get a choice. You go, oh man, I still want to stay on this side because people...

3:04:33SpeakerI don't need me to stay on the side still. Or sometimes I think you say, okay, I'm ready to go on the next side.

3:04:43SpeakerAnd for me, the only thing that stops me from going to the other side is feeling that people need the support of me still on this side. And I need the support of myself.

3:05:00BubblemanI suspect Wade felt that a great deal as well in that, you know, which we always try to tell him. It's like, dude, it's okay, man. You've done enough. Like, it's enough. Trust me. You've got many, many, many supporters that can pick up the slack. Will we ever fill the hole? Of course not. But we'll pick up the slack.

3:05:21SpeakerThese things that we do for people that have passed, That we know from the circle are so beautiful. They're so beautiful. They're so beautiful. They make me cry, but the good type of tears, not the bad type of tears. You know what I mean?

3:05:48BubblemanWell, I suspect that when you tear up in a sadness manner, the frequency is different than when you tear up in a happy... Yes, yes. And that would, at least from Emoto Masurato's great book, The Messages in the Water, I suspect that there's always something different going on in the frequency of the water that creates those different patterns when he was freezing the water and creating beautiful, you know, architect of mathematically correct images versus warped and distorted images from negativity and hate.

3:06:29BubblemanI always thought that was pretty profound. Well, I didn't get to meet Wade, but I sure got to meet Dr. Emoto.

3:06:35SpeakerI've been going through it, that line between powerful prayer and wailing or begging versus stating the future. And it is a fine line. The emotion will bring you towards the gushing or when we cry negative emotions. It's a bit of a gushing and you're generating and releasing chemicals in your body. And those could lead to problematics. Whereas I find when I'm in the tears of joy, it's flowing, it's less gushing, and it's more of sign of good hydration and possibly generating the proper energy.

3:07:25SpeakerAll of these are chemicals in our body. And so it's aligned and we can guide it. We can guide it a bit.

3:07:34SpeakerI'm trying to stay out of the negative, fearful tears and guide towards positive state. If my mantra is incorrect, change it.

3:07:52BubblemanYour mantra is your narrative, and your narrative creates your life, so probably a good idea.

3:07:58SpeakerIt's good to see you, Salma. We're so glad you came in. Yes, it's so good to see you. Every time I look at you and listen to you, it's so full of positivity that it helps me. I don't know who else, but you, it helps you. But it definitely helps me, you know.

3:08:25BubblemanYeah, there's something to be said with maintaining positive. Well, it's something to be said for authenticity. I think that is the real key right there. It's about authenticity and being able to be, you know, because where does the most positiveness come from? It comes from those who tend to suffer the most. You know, who else would need that? To be positive and, you know, like who's who's the closest to the other side of that coin?

3:08:54BubblemanYou know, those those that are suffering. So.

3:08:58Etienne FontanIt leads to longevity, right? Because so many people suffer. I mean, those that life is about suffering, right? Life is very hard. And while we're doing is helping each other to the end. But we tend to forget that, you know, life is full of struggles and life is hard. And there is no fucking guidebook for any of this shit. And we have to make this all Thank you for watching.

3:09:38Etienne FontanAnd I think by keying those parts of our survivability in, it has also helped us bring perspective of who and what we are and where we are. And it never lets us forget where we are and who we are. So thank you, Salma. Love you. It's great to see you always.

3:10:02SpeakerYou know, I think there is a little bit of a guidebook Um, I don't know. I might be glitching. Sorry if I am. Um, I think that the guidebook and Wade is, was always constantly reminding us is that the guidebook is nature and nature often seeds itself, you know, seven, 12 generations ahead. Sometimes a seed that's dropped from a tree will actually come up a sprout, you know, 24 years later.

3:10:34SpeakerAnd I believe that one of the things that we're all sort of talking about today or have touched on a lot is that just like nature and these moments and when things are difficult and when we have to dig for positivity, we can seed our future. We can seed this moment with how we want to remember it. We can seed this moment with all the way into our future lives.

3:11:04SpeakerAnd I always like to think that these moments of difficulty and these moments of when we have to break it down to love and fear,

3:11:17SpeakerIt gives that powerful seed that we know that our soul would never go against itself. It's powerful to plant a seed that's going to go well, well, well, well into the future, into your many, many lives ahead of us, and then be able to see that sprout and It's a lot about what we're talking about. What kind of seed do you want? The seed of positivity, the seed of fear, the seed of pain?

3:11:48SpeakerOr are we going to say, oh, I'm going to seed this because of its beauty and because of its grace and because of its terpene profile is so fucking great. And I'm going to make it awesome right now so that when I remember it or when I stumble upon it in my future lives that I've done that for myself. And this hash church has been a lot about that moment right now and I just think that we all have that opportunity to be like nature and put it in the ground.

3:12:21SpeakerLove you guys.

3:12:22Etienne FontanBeautiful.

3:12:25BubblemanYeah. Thanks for that, Kelly. Very, very nice words. I'm going to go back and listen to this one. I know for a fact, I definitely will put this one on a podcast. I don't do that to many hash church churches. There's a lot of them that we've done over the years.

3:12:45BubblemanOh, my goodness. Looks like the poppies in my front yard are blooming. My wife just sent me this picture. Speaking of wives or spouses or partners, one of the things Wade always said was speak Kindly to your spouse-partner. He said that on Hash Church not too long ago, and I can't remember who just wrote that in the chat maybe an hour ago, but I meant to say it then, and so I'll say it now instead.

3:13:16BubblemanBeautiful. A little party in the front yard. That was beautiful. Spring is in the air. I will say that. The bears are up. Cubs are out. They're climbing our trees. They're all over the house, all around the neighborhood here. It's been pretty cool. I've spent a lot of time in the forest, as you can see by my arms. This is all pulling blackberry brambles. Oh, yeah. You must have arms that look like that, Josh.

3:13:48BubblemanThere you go.

3:13:54Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineYep. The valerian on our property is blooming right now. And valerian flowers have a crazy flavor. I don't know how many people have them. They're easy, pretty easy to grow. And then they propagate themselves as well.

3:14:09SpeakerSort of like cilantro. For something valerian. I can't remember right now, but what's it good for? It's really good for rest and nervous system. That's right. And sleep. It's a little bit of a sedative. Yeah, some people react with crazy dreams, so it doesn't work for some people.

3:14:29Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineBut yeah, those little flowers smell like people. Yeah, like it smells like cat pee or something.

3:14:35SpeakerAnd you get like, whoa, what's going on? You're like, oh, I love it.

3:14:42Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineIt's one of the biodynamic preps as well. Like, you know, yarrow and valerian. Yeah, those are just one of the few like master herbs that kind of grows wild on the property. But also the lupins are extremely spectacular.

3:14:56SpeakerThey are.

3:14:57Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineOn the property right now. So give thanks for the blooms and the blossoms.

3:15:02SpeakerYeah. Historically, it's interesting that there was, I believe, a Valyrian cannabis Thank you for joining us today.

3:15:32SpeakerBut yeah, we've never really caught up to their skill at combining herbs and getting the best quality of herbs to work with cannabis. Think about that. Cannabis helps you knock down your dreams. Valerian maybe knocks up your dreams. Putting them together might actually work perfectly in the right combination. And I'm sure they did some tests. I don't know what they did them on or how ethical they were, but I'm sure they tried to figure out how to apply that shit.

3:15:58SpeakerEven getting the application of the medicine just by being in the garden and in the forest and the blackberries that you're pulling out, that's signaling those scratches and the little insertion of the medicine is going to call your immune system and your skin and the dermis will be healthier. Much in the way that ganja topically sign does multiple things. It is plugging into the endocannabinoid. It is observe absorbing, but it's also calling circulation.

3:16:31SpeakerIt's calling the immune system to that place. And then nettle is aforementioned is very much. It's like a little bit of inflammation where you need it is gonna increase circulation. And this is to be able to guide that just by being in the garden. And interact, yeah.

3:16:50BubblemanOn a 45 degree slope, picking blackberry brambles that have been there and dead for 15 years. Wow. But I welcomed it.

3:17:01Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineYou need a goat.

3:17:02BubblemanDude, listen. So I contacted my local town hall. I contacted my local town hall. Animal husbandry is not allowed. But we are allowed pets. And are you allowed a pet chicken? No, unfortunately not. But I'm looking into right now whether I can have a pet goat. Now, I have to be careful because if I put a goat on the mountain right now, he could be consumed by a bear.

3:17:27BubblemanAnd I don't want that to happen on my front yard. But I'm looking into it because there's like two feet of blackberry. And I've just been pulling it out by hand and then carrying it up this 45 feet. degree slope and then putting it on my driveway. But that would be amazing if I could just let a little goat down there and be like, here you go, little dude, like just eat until your hearts, you know, your hashic part, your hashic part, feed it to the part.

3:18:00SpeakerThere's might be people with goats that do that service and we'll bring them along for a day. That might be something that's available.

3:18:12Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineBlackberry poop. Goat manure? Yeah, exactly.

3:18:16BubblemanTurn it all into a big over there. Certain things don't break down. They just like these, these like ferns are one. There's a type of fern where the leaf will die underneath and then new ones will grow up. But we had 10 years of debt. I had to literally pull out and cut 10 years of leaves that had just fallen from And you could see like different funguses trying to get a hold of it, trying to, but no, they just, and the other one is the blackberry brambles.

3:18:46BubblemanWhen you crush them and cut them into pieces and leave them in your soil, they'll be there like 10 years later as solid pieces of blackberry brambles. It's crazy. I was like, it'll just, you know, degrade into the soil. I'm farming over here. No, apparently I was not. I was doing the opposite of that. I was ignoring my property. An acre is a lot for a residential property.

3:19:12BubblemanOn a mountain.

3:19:14SpeakerProbably, you know, just a quick little remedy. You can just rent a super small chipper and just run all that through a little chipper. And it really works for me.

3:19:23BubblemanActually, we've talked about the chipper. The bottom line is the only thing I'm trying to avoid is getting it off the mountain up onto my driveway where the chipper would be. So once I get it there, Whether I put it in green waste bags or into a chipper, my neighbor just told me yesterday, why don't we all go in on a chipper so we can chip our wood and create, you know, nice wood chip for our gardens and stuff.

3:19:49BubblemanI was like, yeah. He had the same idea, Kelly. You're on to something. Oh, you're muted. I see your lips moving.

3:19:58Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineI was just going to say you could get a chipper and then a pelletizer.

3:20:03SpeakerYeah.

3:20:04Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineMake pellets out of it, you know, and you can get like leaf and nettle, you know, leaves and just bam, chip it. I'm sorry. And then pelletize it.

3:20:15BubblemanYeah. I used to have a pellet stove. Those things were incredible. I couldn't believe the amount of heat. It took away the joy of watching a fire. I will say that the efficiency of a pellet stove is like a little flame that you get to watch, like light up three pellets at a time. But it literally produces like 10 times more heat than a traditional fireplace. It's insane.

3:20:41BubblemanIt is insane. But I have two fireplaces in my house now and absolutely love having fires. Oh, I love having a fire.

3:20:53SpeakerEven if it's not cold enough, I love sitting in front of the fire.

3:20:59BubblemanI thought you couldn't have fires in Amsterdam anymore.

3:21:02SpeakerNo, I have a fireplace upstairs the whole time I live here. And you just use it? Every time it's cold.

3:21:10BubblemanDamn right, dude. I totally thought for some reason you weren't even allowed to have fires in Amsterdam.

3:21:15SpeakerWell, in some places you're not. But I still am.

3:21:23BubblemanWell, I'm going to come over there on a cold day in the very near future and we're going to light that fireplace up because that's a bucket list.

3:21:31SpeakerAnd I just put some good music on, smoking on two chairs right in front of a fireplace with somebody that I'm friendly with.

3:21:42SpeakerAnd we have a great time. Beautiful. Beautiful.

3:21:47BubblemanI love it.

3:21:49SpeakerOn that note, I just wanted to mention we're going to be in Berlin at Mary Jane and we're going to be creating a space called the Legacy Lounge. And it's just going to be chatting with Josh and I. So we really just want to get like a full schedule of people that just want to come on in and have amazing chats. I think we're even going to have sort of a theme of it, of people giving some of their top advice.

3:22:19SpeakerIn or out of, oh, hey, there it is. Yeah, so.

3:22:25Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAnd we'll be collaborating in the garden.

3:22:27SpeakerYeah, we'll be in the garden at Mary Jane. So just get in touch with us if you're going to be out there. So I just wanted to plug that because we just want to spend some time talking to everybody. And it was crazy. I put this out and we're already almost all filled up, but we'll even do it outside of Mary Jane. So we'll be there for a week.

3:22:46SpeakerAnd we're really looking forward to talking with everybody.

3:22:49BubblemanYou have got to go meet my new friend, Try Gomez. I'm going to link you up with him. I thought this was fake. I remember seeing this a while ago that there was this new UFC guy from Germany and he just looked like an absolute savage. I just seen this video of him just pumped up after just destroying someone. I was like, oh my God, this guy's wild.

3:23:12BubblemanAnd then someone sends, it was actually, I think it was Kuntz, Constantine, Hordalab, who sent it to me originally. I'm going to show it to you guys right now because I was just like, is this really like happening right now? Let me see if I can find it. Oh, maybe I have it in my in my story. No, it's gone there. So now I have to go back to Hordalab and find it.

3:23:38BubblemanBear with me. I was so close. So close. I almost had it. There we go. So Constantine, I met Constantine years ago at Breeders Steve's place. Let's hope this still exists because it was funny.

3:23:56BubblemanLet me see if it still exists. So I didn't believe it at first. I thought, is this like AI or something? Yeah, maybe not. Maybe it's gone. I guess it was in a story and that story is no longer available. That's too bad. I'm going to have to get that guy to see if he can Um, get it again because basically what it was was it was this UFC guy and he was the trichomas guy is like standing against the wall holding some bubble and he's like trying to light it with a lighter and he's like what the he's like why it's not bubbling why it's not bubbling and then the UFC guy comes over and he just like smacks the hash out of the guy and he's standing there and he goes read it and on his shirt It says, if it doesn't bubble, it's not worth the trouble.

3:24:49BubblemanDude, I was like,

3:24:50SpeakerWhat the fuck is this right now?

3:24:52BubblemanIs this real? I really wish I could have showed you guys the video because it was pretty funny. They're going to Berlin as well. So you should go meet those guys and you should interview them. He's called Neanderthal BJJ on Instagram. That's what his Instagram is.

3:25:10SpeakerYeah, I'd love for anyone to hook us up with people that we need to talk to as well.

3:25:15BubblemanYeah, well, Tricombs would be another one.

3:25:18Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAnd also product reviews on interesting new things.

3:25:21SpeakerYeah, yeah. We're going to be doing some little product reviews, some little super personal commercials.

3:25:29Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineAre you going to be there, Selma, or are you staying in Amsterdam?

3:25:32SpeakerThis year, I'm going to stay in Amsterdam, unless I'm going to mine in somewhere, which I gladly will.

3:25:39BubblemanIf it don't bubble, it's not going to be trouble.

3:25:43SpeakerBut, but, I'm going to feel a little bit bad that I'm not there because I would love to see all the people I love there in person. But I'm definitely going to watch whatever I can of it and connect with whatever I can of it online and through other ways.

3:26:07BubblemanNice. I can remember meeting in Germany with Soma in like, man, in like dorm, Dortmund. At the Cannabisness.

3:26:19BubblemanThat was like in the 90s maybe.

3:26:22Dr Mark ScialdoneYeah.

3:26:24BubblemanJeez, it's still going though. Germany always represents somehow. What's that?

3:26:29SpeakerGrow Magazine back then. Right. The German Grow Magazine.

3:26:34BubblemanYeah, yeah, yeah. They had the bus. It was highly illegal. And so the only safe place to smoke was on top of this crazy bus that the guy, it was like a double decker bus. And on top, he had like a DJ and a lounge. And that was really the only place you could go and be safe puffing. So that's where we spent the entire event.

3:26:55SpeakerNice. Soma, and if spirit does move you to come, we'll have a place for you to just be in a nice comfy space and We'll just. Very tempting. Talking to people all day long. You know, that's what it. The more recovered I get at this point, it gets more tempting. Yeah. You're right. Compared to how I was a month ago. My God. What a difference. What a difference.

3:27:27SpeakerAnd if you asked me a month ago, I wouldn't have thought I could get this far by now. I mean. I'm still getting my memory back, you know. But I'm so grateful. I have so much gratitude for all of it. The bad parts of it and the healing parts of it. Because I needed every bit of it to be who I am right this very second in the here and now.

3:27:59SpeakerOr else I couldn't be who I am right now.

3:28:04SpeakerAnd I'm just grateful.

3:28:09SpeakerIt's a good way to be. Brett going through one bit of it.

3:28:15BubblemanIt's been your journey. Would we be who we are without our journey? It's very, very interesting. You know, it's literally who you are. Just embrace it.

3:28:29SpeakerIf you had a A really important teaching, you know, since you're not going to be in Berlin, you know, the questions that we are going to be asking in the Legacy Lounge are, what are some of the top pieces of advice that maybe you could offer and you being really to the depths of your spirit and the depths of your soul and the depths of your physical being?

3:28:55SpeakerI was wondering if you had any advice. Yeah, I have some advice that I give myself more now than ever, is I think one of the most important things as a human being, no matter who or what you're doing, is to be kind. No matter what, no matter what comes at you, no matter what challenge comes your way, To find it in your heart to deal with it with kindness.

3:29:34SpeakerAnd think about if all of us did that. Oh my God. Wow. Wow. If all of us got kind in the same moment, this place would flip its script.

3:29:51SpeakerYou know?

3:29:52BubblemanWell, I think this place would disappear because that frequency would, you'd just be in a different frequency. You wouldn't be in the same place. You know, it's part of, yeah, I don't even know how to explain it. I've definitely experienced it on psychedelics in the past without being able to put words into it that just pure joy. But at the same time, as I'm here, as much as I love joy, I've learned more from the pain.

3:30:23BubblemanSo when I think of its importance, I'm like, oh man, like we can't get rid of that.

3:30:30SpeakerIt's wild. Where you need strength is when the dark side is calling and there's an option to fall prey and fall into the trap of losing your kindness and your grace. It's very difficult. It's like at the worst, most dark time to still be strong and to not want to find some easy way out. I gotta take my pills. Yeah. I have to sign off now. Love you.

3:31:09SpeakerI love you all. I love you all. I gotta take these pharmaceuticals these days, but they're helping me too. Love you. I love you all so much from the bottom of my heart and the top of my heart in every way.

3:31:24BubblemanWell, I'm glad we spent the extra half an hour with you, Soma. You extended Hash Church. It was going to be a three-hour Hash Church. You gave us the extra half an hour. Oh, thank you.

3:31:32Josh Dragonfly Earth MedicineThank you. The encore.

3:31:34BubblemanIt was the encore. It was amazing.

3:31:36SpeakerI'm really happy. I bless you all all I can.

3:31:43BubblemanAll right, Soma. Talk soon, brother. Well, thanks, everybody. Really appreciate you all for hanging out for even for the extra little bit as I was saying goodbye. We'll meet here again next Sunday. Same bat time, same bat place. I do think I'm this close to getting the aromatic volatile show with Dr. Mark and the abstract and Nick Ziegler and Marshall and Jeremy Plum and Ryan Lee and all of these People who specialize in this aromatic nature, chemists and whatnot.

3:32:16BubblemanMaybe Justin Conway might join us as well from Canara, PhD chemist. But June 22nd, it's like herding cats with these guys. They do not reply to emails. I keep them by you guys, Dr. Mark, you're on the list. I hope that they all get together and we make sure that we create the sort of You know, Nick wants to create a little bit of a, you know, so it's not just all free range.

3:32:45BubblemanHe wants to create a little bit of structure to the show. So I'll keep you guys in the know about that. Hopefully we do that on June 22nd. Otherwise, I want to thank Puffco and the Press Club as well for being so understanding. They sponsored the show. I didn't mention them at the start of the show. I didn't show their logos. They were very cool about that.

3:33:05BubblemanBut I want to give them a shout out for being such cool folks. Thanks, everyone, for watching today, including the entire Hash Church congregation. Can I call them a congregation? I suppose I can. I'm stoned on hash. Why couldn't I? There's no rules here. Thanks for coming out, everybody. May the full melt bless your bowls sooner than later, and bless you, Wade. Blessed be.