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Speaker 1: I know that there's a couple stories about the crazy

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Speaker 1: tax hike on cigarettes in Indiana, a two hundred and

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Speaker 1: one percent tax hike. This is designed to get people

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Speaker 1: to stop smoking. You got to pay like two dollars

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Speaker 1: more per pack or something. This is something that was

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Speaker 1: baked into the budget back in April, but it actually

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Speaker 1: is happening now, and it's causing a lot of people

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Speaker 1: to not only do stories about this, which tv Are,

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Speaker 1: our television partner, did a story about this, but just

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Speaker 1: in general, I assume it might be something that some

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Speaker 1: people are talking about, especially if you're a user of

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Speaker 1: tobacco and nicotine and cigarettes and there's a caveat here.

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Speaker 1: I know that Indiana is still one of a very

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Speaker 1: few places, certainly in the Midwest, that does very little

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Speaker 1: in the world of legalized marijuana, and maybe that's part

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Speaker 1: of the reason that cigarette smoking is maybe more prevalent.

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Speaker 1: It's not terribly more prevalent in Indiana than other places,

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Speaker 1: but you do see some cigarette use go down in

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Speaker 1: places like Illinois when they legalize pot. But I'm not

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Speaker 1: saying that's a good thing. By the way, I'm not

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Speaker 1: trying to advocate for it. I found this study I

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Speaker 1: was thinking about this topic and about cigarettes and people complaining,

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Speaker 1: and I don't smoke. I've never smoked, so it's kind

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Speaker 1: of something where from periphery, I can, I guess, be

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Speaker 1: more judgmental than I intend to be because I've never

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Speaker 1: been addicted. Many family members of mine smoke cigarettes, my

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Speaker 1: little brother, my mom, et cetera, et cetera. I know

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Speaker 1: it's really hard to quit and whatnot, but I know

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Speaker 1: it's in your interest health wise to not be a smoker.

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Speaker 1: But the thing that I thought was uniquely important was

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Speaker 1: some marijuana data that's out there. The amount of people

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Speaker 1: in our society that are daily marijuana users has officially

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Speaker 1: surpassed the amount of people who are daily drinkers, at

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Speaker 1: least too willingly admit this. Maybe some of these studies

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Speaker 1: are prone to problems because the daily drinker people might

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Speaker 1: not all admit they're doing it, and the daily pot people,

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Speaker 1: the daily THHC people might not feel like there's as

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Speaker 1: much of a judgment that's happening there. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: like a war on pot guy per se, because I

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Speaker 1: do think it unique helps our military men and women

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Speaker 1: who might struggle after serving our country, and it's a

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Speaker 1: valuable medical replacement for all the different pills and things

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Speaker 1: that some of these military men and women get handled

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Speaker 1: by the VA. So I've talked to a lot of

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Speaker 1: people in those parts of life, like people who've served

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Speaker 1: our country, and for that reason, I'm not totally against

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Speaker 1: a medical pot, but I do think it's a bad

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Speaker 1: thing to see a whole lot of people turn to

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Speaker 1: doing this every day. And it's actually within this story

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Speaker 1: that some people are saying, as they've gotten older and

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Speaker 1: continue to be a daily cannabis user, they quote can't

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Speaker 1: picture they're living a day of their life without smoking pot.

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Speaker 1: And I you know anyone I know, anybody that's been

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Speaker 1: a pot addict, maybe from my twenties, is sometimes there

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Speaker 1: were some struggles there. Sometimes there were some issues, some

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Speaker 1: concentration things. Actually I worked with a guy at a

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Speaker 1: different radio place not here, And the funniest thing about

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Speaker 1: this guy he applied to do to work at my show.

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Speaker 1: Could have listened to what my show was like politically

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Speaker 1: and everything else, didn't do that, just applied. Somehow he

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Speaker 1: got the job. He was employed by us for a

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Speaker 1: while at this other place that they used to work,

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Speaker 1: and he hated my politics, just hated them, which was

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Speaker 1: hilarious because like, and I wasn't even trying to be

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Speaker 1: a jerk about it. To him, I probably wasn't worried

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Speaker 1: if I was one, But like, I'm going to do

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Speaker 1: my show, Bud, and if you want to prep me

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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of very left leaning topics and left

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Speaker 1: leaning crazy stuff, that's fine. It's not going to make

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Speaker 1: the list. But the reason I bring this up within

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Speaker 1: this topic is because he was also like a pot addict,

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Speaker 1: and he would show up at the station sometimes like

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Speaker 1: breaking of pot, and people started to joke about him

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Speaker 1: being the mushroom cloud dude who was walking around. And

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he used me as an excuse

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Speaker 1: as to why he needed to smoke so much, but

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Speaker 1: there were times when I'd noticed a show was easier

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Speaker 1: to do with a producer that ideologically opposed to the

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Speaker 1: things you're doing. If he was just completely zoned out

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Speaker 1: and high. He didn't help me at all. He didn't

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Speaker 1: benefit my show in any way, shape or form as

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Speaker 1: a guy that was working with me every day. But

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Speaker 1: he would just like sit there and I almost felt

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Speaker 1: like I could see the cloud of smoke around him

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Speaker 1: that he might have just used a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: pot and I honestly I'm not advocating for it, but

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Speaker 1: it made it easier to work with the dude because

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Speaker 1: he just he just sat there. He was a terrible employee,

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Speaker 1: awful employee, which I think is the point I'm actually

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Speaker 1: trying to make. But at the same time, conflict was

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Speaker 1: definitely not very high. He just lived his life and

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Speaker 1: eventually realized that the host of the show believes things

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Speaker 1: he doesn't and it probably wasn't a great job for him.

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Speaker 1: But I never forced him to be fired either, which

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Speaker 1: I thought was funny. I just let it happen. I

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Speaker 1: just lived with a producer who applied for a job

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Speaker 1: and then hated the opinions of the person that he

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Speaker 1: wanted to work with. Not a good move ideally, But again,

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Speaker 1: to get back to this, to get back to cigarettes

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Speaker 1: and pot and everything here in Indiana, I actually do

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Speaker 1: feel somewhat bad for people that are addicted to cigarett

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Speaker 1: that will have to pay a ridiculous amount more money

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Speaker 1: now in order to acquire those cigarettes and might struggle

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Speaker 1: to quit. And a lot more people have, you know,

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Speaker 1: signed up for some of the government, the state run

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Speaker 1: stuff that helps you quit smoking. I do feel bad

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Speaker 1: for you, but I do, at the same point think

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Speaker 1: that it's probably better for your health if you can

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Speaker 1: quit smoking. If that's something that and anybody who hears

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Speaker 1: that and gets mad, deep down you probably also believe

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Speaker 1: it's true. It's just not easy to say it's much,

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Speaker 1: or it's easy to say it's not actually easy to do.

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Speaker 1: But I'm not as anti this as i'd be anti

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Speaker 1: other things, because at the end of all of it,

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Speaker 1: I think that you probably are better off not smoking.

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Speaker 1: But it's a significant hike. It's a ridiculous hike in taxes,

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Speaker 1: and taxes in general are just theft. They're just stealing

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Speaker 1: from us. I'm not a proponent of that necessarily either.

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Speaker 1: I just think it's so interesting that that this will

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Speaker 1: be the topic of conversation. And Indiana is still a

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Speaker 1: holdout compared to the rest of the area or a

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Speaker 1: lot of the rest of the kind when it comes

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Speaker 1: to pot use, which might very well replace a lot

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Speaker 1: of cigarette smoking, or might just work in tandem with

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Speaker 1: it if it were ever legalized more significantly in Indiana.

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Speaker 1: And again I'm not saying I think that's a good thing,

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Speaker 1: and I know a bunch of people out there who

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Speaker 1: say this is making a mountain out of a mole hill.

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Speaker 1: It's not a big deal. Who cares smoke every day

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Speaker 1: and be fine. You got to wonder why you need

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Speaker 1: that specific escape or release compared to something else on

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Speaker 1: a daily basis. According to this study, in this article,

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of people admit that that they can't

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Speaker 1: go a day without pot now that they're addicted to

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Speaker 1: it every single day. And it's so much so that

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Speaker 1: it's even beyond the people who drink alcohol every day

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Speaker 1: at least too willingly admitted. As I said at the beginning,

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Speaker 1: and I'll say again at the end here, and it

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Speaker 1: feels like that's a component that should be talked about,

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Speaker 1: should be addressed while you discuss this