1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Welcome to stuff you should know from house Stuff Works 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:13,440 Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, 3 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant. We also want to extend 4 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:23,840 Speaker 1: a welcome back to Yeddi. Jerry, Yeah, who just got 5 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: back from Guatemala. Yeah, herd second tour of duty with 6 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: co ED. Yeah, she just got back. Yeah. You know what, quickly, Josh, 7 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: I should mention because I promised an I would do this. 8 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:37,839 Speaker 1: Co ed uh still has their text donation campaign going. 9 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:39,599 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you can still do it. Yeah, they left 10 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: it open. So if you wanna um buy um school 11 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: books for life for Guatemalan child, you can do that 12 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:50,520 Speaker 1: for five dollars by texting the words stuff to two 13 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: zero to two two very nice, and texting data rate 14 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,920 Speaker 1: supply and on that gobbledegook. But yes, we would raise 15 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: a lot of money and it's still open. So she 16 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 1: said you should remind people from time to time. That's great. 17 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: Then Jerry just came back all like rosy from Guatemala again. 18 00:01:04,319 --> 00:01:07,600 Speaker 1: I know she's that country gut under her skin. Yeah yeah, 19 00:01:07,760 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: now she's getting under its skin. I don't even know 20 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:17,720 Speaker 1: what that means. Oh, I know what it means, so, Chuck. Yes, Um, 21 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:21,759 Speaker 1: are you familiar with the state of California. I lived there. Yes, 22 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:25,760 Speaker 1: you did, didn't you. Um, Well, Kelly's got a proposition 23 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:29,760 Speaker 1: on the ballot that's November, right. Have you heard of 24 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: Prop nineteen? I have. Prop nineteen would make if California 25 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: passes it, it would make California the first state to 26 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,120 Speaker 1: legalize marijuana consumption by adults. Yeah. What's on the ballot 27 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 1: right now on Prop nineteen is if you're over twenty one, 28 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:48,440 Speaker 1: you'd be able to possess and consume and make a 29 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: hat out of up to an ounce of marijuana. Yeah, 30 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: just like alcohol. Would be treated much like alcohol. Um, 31 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: you wouldn't be You wouldn't be allowed to have it 32 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: around schools at schools, can't sell it, can't pick up 33 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:04,760 Speaker 1: your kids with like, you know, your ounce tucked in 34 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:08,320 Speaker 1: your front pocket or something like that. Um. But you 35 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:12,680 Speaker 1: can also grow it in an area up to square 36 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: feet really if you can. From what I saw, this 37 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: was an outdoor garden. I didn't see anything about indoor gardening. Interesting, 38 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,640 Speaker 1: which just so happens to be what this podcast is about. 39 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,639 Speaker 1: Look at you in your little intro. It's been a while. Oh, yeah, 40 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: it has been nice. Sorry for the hiatus. That's right, 41 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:34,959 Speaker 1: we're back. So what you were talking about was a 42 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:37,480 Speaker 1: grow room if it's a t square feet. But what 43 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: we're gonna could be a very very tiny house, the doorhouse, 44 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,160 Speaker 1: a doghouse. We're gonna talk about grow houses. And uh, 45 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:47,880 Speaker 1: Robert Lamb wrote this article and that's all I need 46 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 1: to say. You know it's good bam. Yeah, yeah, he 47 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,040 Speaker 1: always gets real cheeky in his articles. He does. He 48 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: started out this article, which is a fine, fine article. Um. 49 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: And if you ever wanted to see a lot of 50 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: pop plants in an article on how stuff works dot com, 51 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:08,040 Speaker 1: this is your chance. Um. He starts out talking about 52 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:10,360 Speaker 1: how people like house plants. And you know, if you 53 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: have a house plant that could net you a thousand 54 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: dollars after harvesting once, why not do that? And if 55 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: one can do that, why not dedicate your whole house 56 00:03:21,639 --> 00:03:23,679 Speaker 1: to growing these plants? And that's pretty much what a 57 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: grow house is. Well, but because it's illegal, Josh, that's 58 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,040 Speaker 1: the answer. That is the answer, actually, and thank you, Chuck. 59 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: I think we should start this one off by saying 60 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:38,119 Speaker 1: we how stuff Works Discovery or anybody were affiliated with 61 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: don't endorse grow houses in any way, shape or form, 62 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: And this is just about how they operate. That's all right, 63 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: nothing else. I've got a load of stats. Can we 64 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: start with that. Let's do it, man. I dug out 65 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 1: some stats on marijuana use, uh Josh from a u 66 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:04,320 Speaker 1: N report. Worldwide, a hundred and forty seven people, A 67 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 1: hundred and forty seven million people use marijuana regularly as 68 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: of two thousand two, and percentage wise, it has led. 69 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:20,680 Speaker 1: Guess what country would you think percentage percentage percentage wise Luxembourg, 70 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:23,600 Speaker 1: it's a good guess. I would have guess Jamaica, just 71 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:25,840 Speaker 1: because I'm an idiot and I'm like, yeah, bub Marley, right, 72 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: Papua New Guinea of their country regularly uses marijuana, the 73 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,279 Speaker 1: only country in the world where an outbreak of CURU 74 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:40,000 Speaker 1: has occurred, and followed by Micronesia and Ghana, and then 75 00:04:40,040 --> 00:04:43,159 Speaker 1: I think South Africa is right after that. South Africa 76 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:45,960 Speaker 1: is pretty populous. Yeah, well, they're smoking a lot of weed. 77 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: Well that's about worldwide. That's about ten times the number 78 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,320 Speaker 1: of people that smoke it in the US. Right, Well, 79 00:04:52,360 --> 00:04:55,280 Speaker 1: there's different stats when you talk about pot use. Um there. 80 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 1: You can't leave the pot heads a compile decent stats. Well, 81 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: there's always the one stat where they're like, have you 82 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: ever tried it? And so if you're talking about that, 83 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 1: um of the American population over the age of twelve 84 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 1: has tried marijuana one time, jarringly eight percent of the 85 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 1: population under the age of twelve has tried it. Not true. 86 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,120 Speaker 1: Well you didn't see that one coming. Not true. But 87 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: as far as use regular use, I think fourteen point 88 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,840 Speaker 1: eight million Americans regularly, I'm sorry, I do have that 89 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: they use marijuana in the past month. Fourteen point eight 90 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:33,440 Speaker 1: percent and twenty five percent of Americans report that they've 91 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: used it in the last year at least once. So 92 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,880 Speaker 1: don't you always feel bad for that one person who 93 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 1: like hasn't used to smoke pot all the time and 94 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: then quit smoking for years and then smoked it and 95 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 1: then like three and a half weeks later survey and 96 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,960 Speaker 1: it's like, yes, yes, I have r Really, that's not 97 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,640 Speaker 1: an accurate reflection. It was a college thing. And then 98 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: again three and a half weeks ago, but that was it, right, Yeah, 99 00:05:58,240 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: when my college friend visited anything. So those are the 100 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:05,600 Speaker 1: stats on marijuana use. If you're talking grow houses, Um, 101 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:08,680 Speaker 1: Robert included a couple of cool ones in Humboldt County, California, 102 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 1: which is known for its good marijuana and lots of it. 103 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 1: They I think it says one thousand out of the 104 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:22,359 Speaker 1: homes in that county are grow homes. Yes, because they 105 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 1: supply a lot of the medical marijuana in California. Yeah, 106 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,120 Speaker 1: and they enjoy some protection from the government, at least 107 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,279 Speaker 1: the county government, if not I guess the state government too, 108 00:06:32,279 --> 00:06:39,240 Speaker 1: because California has had uh legalization of medical marijuana sin. So, 109 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:42,760 Speaker 1: but apparently that covers the growers and the sellers, but 110 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:46,000 Speaker 1: not the people who transport it. Yeah, which is interesting. 111 00:06:46,160 --> 00:06:49,559 Speaker 1: It is, which is it's gotta be a nerve wracking job. 112 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: You know. It's like you're the only one left out there. Uh. 113 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 1: And I think Vancouver is the other cool stat was 114 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,960 Speaker 1: in Vancouver, Canada, one out of every five house this 115 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,159 Speaker 1: is a grow house, they say. Apparently the um the 116 00:07:01,160 --> 00:07:06,040 Speaker 1: the grow house. The pot growing industry in British Columbia 117 00:07:06,680 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: employed an estimated twenty thousand to sixty thou people in 118 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:15,480 Speaker 1: two thousand and Um, they're two thousand. Yield was like 119 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 1: four billion dollars worth or something. Wholesale jeez, I've got 120 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: one more stat because I promised in Atlanta stat when 121 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: we did our prison podcast and Georgia was like the 122 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: number one in prisons. Either that or you will eventually 123 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,000 Speaker 1: that promise. I'm not sure which order we're releasing these, 124 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 1: but Atlanta, Georgia. Of the people arrested in Atlanta, uh 125 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: say they have smoked pot within the past month, arrested 126 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:44,400 Speaker 1: for whatever? Really? Yeah, and that leads the nation in 127 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:50,239 Speaker 1: the A T L. Yeah, Stone like them white boys 128 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: smoking them white buds. All right, Josh, grow houses, let's 129 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: do this, all right, Chuck. If you are a grow 130 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:00,520 Speaker 1: house operator, like you said, it's not just grow room 131 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: you got going. Your entire house is dedicated to growing marijuana. 132 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 1: It's a big business. It's a huge business running your 133 00:08:06,960 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: own business essentially, right, and you have a lot of 134 00:08:09,360 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: stuff to pull up, put up with. It's a very 135 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,040 Speaker 1: high stressed job, especially in areas where it is in 136 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:16,800 Speaker 1: no way, shape or form legal, which is most places. 137 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: Not only are you um prime for being robbed by 138 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:25,080 Speaker 1: armed gun men who just want to basically take all 139 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,760 Speaker 1: your pot or your money, or unarmed potheads you just 140 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 1: want on your rippers, is what they're called of yours 141 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: homegrown Billy Bob Thornton. Oh, yeah, is that what they're calling. Yeah, 142 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:37,080 Speaker 1: I haven't seen that in a while. Um. Let's see. 143 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:40,079 Speaker 1: You've so you've got being ripped off or being shot 144 00:08:40,120 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 1: while you're being ripped off. You've got the cops. Um, 145 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:47,840 Speaker 1: you have basically the people who are buying from you 146 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 1: that you have to keep happy. Um. But really, at 147 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:55,880 Speaker 1: the center of this, from what I understand, is the plant, right, 148 00:08:56,520 --> 00:09:00,040 Speaker 1: and it's this isn't just a this is not The 149 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,200 Speaker 1: operations are not just I've got some plants growing around. 150 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: These are incredibly intense farming operations. Um, very sophisticated, and 151 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:14,280 Speaker 1: they are very people have figured out what the ideal 152 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,840 Speaker 1: conditions to grow marijuana is and we will share them now. Yeah, 153 00:09:18,840 --> 00:09:21,040 Speaker 1: and not only grow marijuana, but they figure out the 154 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 1: ideal conditions to grow the most potent um, the most 155 00:09:24,920 --> 00:09:29,240 Speaker 1: dense marijuana per plant, so you get the maximum bang 156 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 1: for your buck when you get a cell like apparently 157 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:37,240 Speaker 1: a well informed indoor operation produces pot with fifty more 158 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:43,920 Speaker 1: THC than the stuff growing outdoors. Really that's what I read. Uh, So, Josh, 159 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: there's a couple of ways you can do this. Um, 160 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,040 Speaker 1: you can grow it um in soil like just a 161 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 1: regular role plant, or you can grow it hydroponically, which 162 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: is pretty popular these days. Hydroponics Josh is um. You've 163 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: probably heard that name on the news, and if you 164 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: didn't know what it was, it it means that you're 165 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:03,280 Speaker 1: not using soil. It's a plant growing without soil, right, 166 00:10:03,320 --> 00:10:06,160 Speaker 1: they use a nutrient rich water. Yeah, it's not just 167 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: pot plants. You can grow anything hydroponically or I don't 168 00:10:08,520 --> 00:10:11,800 Speaker 1: know about anything, but yeah, I think pretty much any 169 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:15,120 Speaker 1: plant you could grow hy Anybody who's been Epcot has 170 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,920 Speaker 1: seen hydroponics in action exactly. Yeah. I think they grow 171 00:10:18,960 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: big old hydroponic tomatoes down there. Really. Yeah, but basically 172 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:26,559 Speaker 1: you're you have you are showing human domination and exploitation 173 00:10:26,679 --> 00:10:29,440 Speaker 1: over a plant when you grow it without soil and 174 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:33,680 Speaker 1: just a nutrient rich solution. Yes, and uh so, what 175 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:38,920 Speaker 1: you're talking about are containers and trays, drip systems, automated 176 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:43,959 Speaker 1: watering systems or manual humidifiers humidifiers and I mean these 177 00:10:43,960 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: are just a few of the things you need for hydroponics. Well, 178 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: and not just not just hydroponics. I mean you're probably 179 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 1: gonna need a dehumidifier, a drip irrigation system. No matter 180 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: how you're growing, the plants can be fairly demanding, right yes, Um, 181 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:01,800 Speaker 1: And you're also going to need light, lots of light 182 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:06,120 Speaker 1: because with a grow house, you'll find, as we keep talking, um, 183 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 1: most grow houses are totally sealed off from the rest 184 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: of the world for very good reasons. So they they're 185 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,160 Speaker 1: creating this artificial environment and so there's no sunlight whatsoever 186 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:21,960 Speaker 1: that ever touches these plants. Um. It's all basically thousand 187 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: horticulture bulbs, UM. And apparently those can sustain twelve to 188 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 1: fifteen plants. And as Robert puts it into perspective, this 189 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: is a thousand wat bulb and the average incandescent light 190 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,440 Speaker 1: bulb in a house UM runs from forty watts to 191 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 1: a hundred and fifty watts, Right, chuck, have you ever 192 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 1: turned a hundred and fifty what light off and unscrewed 193 00:11:46,559 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 1: it real quick? It's very hot, And that's a hundred 194 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,319 Speaker 1: and fifty These guys are using a thousand watt light 195 00:11:53,360 --> 00:11:56,040 Speaker 1: bulbs and that's just for twelve to fifteen plants. So 196 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 1: if you have a couple of hundred plants in a house, 197 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:03,200 Speaker 1: that's sealed off her medically. It's gonna get kind of hot, right, Yes, 198 00:12:03,200 --> 00:12:05,319 Speaker 1: it is. Let's talk about those lights for a minute. 199 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: Thousand wants a piece. What you're doing is trying to 200 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:11,800 Speaker 1: mimic the sun, so obviously you want it to be 201 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: very powerful. And the other thing you're doing is you're 202 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:19,960 Speaker 1: you're affecting how this plant actually grows. The life cycle 203 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: and the growing and the budding cycle of this plant. 204 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: You can completely control if you're growing indoors, because the 205 00:12:27,040 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 1: sun is not there to get in the way. You 206 00:12:28,440 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 1: can fake it all. Yeah. You can use reflectors to 207 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 1: get as much UM light as you can, so it's 208 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: it's being exposed to light directly by the bulb and 209 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: indirectly from this some reflective I guess material. Yeah right, 210 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:46,000 Speaker 1: um you I think they've figured out that what is 211 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 1: sixteen to eighteen hour days are optimal to get them started. Yeah, 212 00:12:50,960 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 1: that's the beginning of the of the growth period. And 213 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,680 Speaker 1: then when you want your plant to flower, you slow 214 00:12:55,720 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 1: it down, you shorten the days, and then all of 215 00:12:57,960 --> 00:13:03,680 Speaker 1: a sudden boop. And this also may for bigger, denser buds. Yeah. 216 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 1: And for those of you not hip to the cause, 217 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,520 Speaker 1: that's where you That's that's where the money is. That's 218 00:13:09,559 --> 00:13:12,800 Speaker 1: where the Yeah, it's a flowering plant and the flower 219 00:13:12,920 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: is the bud and it's the female that flowers. So 220 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:17,320 Speaker 1: all the plants in there in the grow house are female. 221 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: They weed out all the males, and they're essentially controlling 222 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: the sun to to an extent where they can produce 223 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:29,560 Speaker 1: this super potent pot. Right, And if you look for 224 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:31,480 Speaker 1: this article on hostaff Works, you will find it very 225 00:13:31,520 --> 00:13:35,960 Speaker 1: appropriately in the flowering plants subchannel. Is it? Yes? Interesting, 226 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,240 Speaker 1: This could go on a lot of sub channels. It 227 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: definitely like the adventure channel or entertainment. I don't know. 228 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:50,120 Speaker 1: So you talked about the heat. That is the big 229 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:54,280 Speaker 1: it is a problem also, um electricity is a big 230 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 1: problem to chuck because think about it. Remember we said 231 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,960 Speaker 1: that averaging cadescent bulb is forty two hundred and fifty watts. 232 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 1: You're running several thousand wat bulbs and like your average 233 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: living room is just wired to handle one most living 234 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 1: rooms can handle one one WA bulb, which means you 235 00:14:12,559 --> 00:14:16,719 Speaker 1: better known electrician A and be that electrician. Better love 236 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,520 Speaker 1: free pot because you're gonna need to rewire your house. Yeah, 237 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: rewire the house a lot of times they'll jack into 238 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: the A lot of times I'll hire former or current 239 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: power company employees to help him out. Current power company, 240 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: very nice, Bullett, and uh they will sometimes they will 241 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:37,920 Speaker 1: rewire that the home or the grid on that street. 242 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 1: That will re reroute power to your house, which messes 243 00:14:42,520 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: everyone else up and potentially maxes out the grid in 244 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:51,400 Speaker 1: your area. Yes, it does do that also exposes everybody 245 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,720 Speaker 1: to electrocution. If you didn't use a power company guying, 246 00:14:54,800 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: you tried it yourself. Yeah, which is a really bad idea. 247 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: No matter what you're stealing power for to grow pot 248 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: because you don't like paying utility companies, it doesn't matter. 249 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,960 Speaker 1: Rewiring the electricity that's coming into your house is a 250 00:15:10,000 --> 00:15:13,440 Speaker 1: really bad idea. Yeah. That's how my granddad died. No, 251 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:17,680 Speaker 1: it's not, Yeah, no, it's not. Yeah, he was. He 252 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:20,800 Speaker 1: was knocked from a telephone pole. He was electrician. He 253 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: wasn't like rewiring for grow houses. But he was like 254 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: thirty feet up in a telephone pole. And you know, 255 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:27,720 Speaker 1: you you test out the wire by hitting the back 256 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:29,440 Speaker 1: of your hand to it, or you did back then, 257 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 1: because if you did the front of your hand, it 258 00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:33,920 Speaker 1: can grasp ahold of it, so he hit it on 259 00:15:33,960 --> 00:15:35,120 Speaker 1: the back of his hand. It was a live wary 260 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: and it knocked him out of the pole and he 261 00:15:36,440 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: landed on his head and then spent the next like 262 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:42,600 Speaker 1: a few years in a hospital bed was ruling, and 263 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: then he died. What a little kid. I didn't know. 264 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 1: That's the most amazing dead grandfather's story. I know, very 265 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: sad well, and I never hardly knew him. So h 266 00:15:55,360 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: Getting back to the heat though, Um, finally, marijuana. If 267 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,360 Speaker 1: you have a house, a girl house full of these lights, 268 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,360 Speaker 1: it could potentially be a hundred degrees fahrenheit inside your 269 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:08,800 Speaker 1: house at night at night. So that's a problem because 270 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 1: it's really hot and that's not comfortable. And by the way, 271 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,600 Speaker 1: that's thirty eight degrees celsius for friends who don't live 272 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: in libraria. But it's also a problem because marijuana grows 273 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: best between seventy and eighty degrees and can do okay 274 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: up to about if it's a CEO two rich environment, right, 275 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,200 Speaker 1: and they have to do artificially. They figured out that 276 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:32,560 Speaker 1: that's kind of what you want, I guess from indoor 277 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,840 Speaker 1: grow houses. These horticulturists to figure it out that you 278 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 1: do want to keep it hot, because you do want 279 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,720 Speaker 1: the CEO to environment Richard, because again it produces thicker, denser, 280 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: bigger buds, which is bigger money. Again yes, uh. And 281 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,960 Speaker 1: so to combat the heat though, what they do is 282 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:49,880 Speaker 1: they put a lot of a lot of air conditioning 283 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:54,800 Speaker 1: units ventilation fans uh to maintain their temperature. And Robert 284 00:16:54,880 --> 00:16:58,560 Speaker 1: pointed out that one one thousand what bulb requires a 285 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,080 Speaker 1: fan and tw eight a single fan and twenty hundred 286 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,840 Speaker 1: British thermal units of cooling and a typical five tons 287 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 1: a C unit puts about sixty b t u s 288 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:12,760 Speaker 1: out right, so you're you're central A C unit outside 289 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: of your house could conceivably handle you know, a small 290 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: house grow operation, right, but it has to run constantly, 291 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:24,200 Speaker 1: which again means that you are using up the juice 292 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:26,520 Speaker 1: and a fan on each plant. So if you've got 293 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: two D plants, you've got two hundred fans running on 294 00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:32,040 Speaker 1: top of the a C unit. Like you can assign 295 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:35,480 Speaker 1: a fan to a lot more than one plant. Well, 296 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 1: if you don't know what you're doing, check just proved 297 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:42,120 Speaker 1: his innocence, that's right. The other thing that's a problem 298 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: is just like any plant that you're growing, is insects 299 00:17:45,480 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: and mildew and spores, fungus. I got more on that 300 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 1: in a second, but yes, well let's hear it. No, well, 301 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:56,360 Speaker 1: the way they combat that jerk is uh charcoal filtration, 302 00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: Uh increasing CEO two levels that kill these things. Yeah, 303 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:03,000 Speaker 1: it's also good for the plants. Yeah. I thought that 304 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: was really clever because you think about it, an insect 305 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: needs oxygen to live to right, so you just jack 306 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: up the CEO two levels suffocates everything and um, but 307 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: your plants are like, oh yeah, bring it on. And 308 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:19,280 Speaker 1: the other thing you'll do is I'll just seal it 309 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:22,520 Speaker 1: off from the outside world. So you're domatically sealed off. Yeah, 310 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 1: as a few insects as possible. Yes, So chuck. Um. 311 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:30,520 Speaker 1: Not only does seiling off your plants, your whole grow operation, 312 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:35,320 Speaker 1: your entire house um from the outside world good for 313 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:38,679 Speaker 1: your plants. Number one, you don't have you have completely 314 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: climate controlled conditions. You have a natural gas burner to 315 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:46,760 Speaker 1: introduce more c O. Two. You um, you know exactly 316 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: what the temperature is going to be because you know 317 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: how many lights you have going. You have your a 318 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 1: C set to the perfect temperature. Um. It also prevents 319 00:18:55,880 --> 00:19:00,080 Speaker 1: the cops from getting hip to your operation, right, is 320 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:03,639 Speaker 1: it's illegal? Well, yeah, you mentioned the charcoal filter for 321 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 1: outgoing air. You still have to vent your air, right yeah. Um, 322 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: so you you have a charcoal filter, it's gonna cut 323 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: down on the smell of pot because, as Robert points out, 324 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,960 Speaker 1: pot has a very distinctive smell, and hundreds of pot 325 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:21,840 Speaker 1: plants have a really really strong distinctive smell. Right, So 326 00:19:22,400 --> 00:19:24,480 Speaker 1: the coffee can isn't going to cover that up. No 327 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:27,679 Speaker 1: downy or a paper talel toe with downy seats on 328 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:30,120 Speaker 1: the end, Now, that's not gonna work. So you're right. 329 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,560 Speaker 1: They used the filtration systems to send the air back 330 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:36,119 Speaker 1: out and hopefully your neighbors are never wise to the 331 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: fact that their their person living next door to them 332 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,320 Speaker 1: probably isn't even living next door. It's probably just full 333 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 1: of marijuana plants. Many times it is. Well, remember you 334 00:19:44,280 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: said that you want ideally, if you're going to steal electricity, 335 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: you want a guy from the power company to do it. Um. 336 00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,080 Speaker 1: And one of the reasons why you would steal electricity 337 00:19:53,119 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: is um because the power company will notice if you 338 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:00,560 Speaker 1: have a power bill that's six to seven times the 339 00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:03,879 Speaker 1: average for the house your size, and it's like that 340 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,960 Speaker 1: every month that's gonna tip them off. A lot of 341 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:10,720 Speaker 1: growers will stagger the days. Like let's say you have 342 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: a grow house, but your house is is set up 343 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:17,280 Speaker 1: into several different rooms, so each room would represent you know, 344 00:20:17,359 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 1: you have a day going in one room, and then 345 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,120 Speaker 1: it's nighttime and a couple other rooms, and it's starting 346 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: a day in another room. So you're you're using the 347 00:20:25,119 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 1: least amount of electricity at once, right, Um, and it's staggered. 348 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:31,679 Speaker 1: Powered companies know to look for that kind of thing 349 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 1: and they'll turn in they will. So a lot of 350 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: growers will um use generators. Right. But these, first of 351 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: all are very expensive ten thousand to twenty tho bucks. Right, Yeah, 352 00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:45,640 Speaker 1: that's that's for the big, the big daddy that can 353 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:48,880 Speaker 1: like run your whole house. Right. Apparently a fifty light 354 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:55,120 Speaker 1: fifty light thousand watt grow operation needs about eighty kilowatt, 355 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,080 Speaker 1: so you do need a big daddy generator. Problem is, 356 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: big daddy generators are super super loud. And again if 357 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 1: you are you know, not in a rural area, which 358 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,879 Speaker 1: most grow houses are not out in the sticks, just 359 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 1: because there's not that many houses out there right there 360 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 1: in the suburbs. So you really have to figure out 361 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 1: how to deftly steal your electricity, or you have to 362 00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:20,160 Speaker 1: figure out how to mask the noise of your generator. Yeah, 363 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,480 Speaker 1: the other problem with the generator is it can break down. 364 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: You're not tied to the grid. And if your generator 365 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 1: breaks down at the wrong time and you've got two 366 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,960 Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars worth of pot growing in your house, 367 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,600 Speaker 1: that means your business is in jeopardy. So it's a 368 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,720 Speaker 1: fire hazard. I mean, generator is not necessarily the smartest 369 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,000 Speaker 1: way to go. No um. And in the same way 370 00:21:39,040 --> 00:21:42,199 Speaker 1: that that electricity or the need for electricity presents a 371 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:47,320 Speaker 1: problem and a requirement, so too does a need for water. Right, 372 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,880 Speaker 1: you gotta water your plants. Even if you have an 373 00:21:49,880 --> 00:21:55,920 Speaker 1: extremely efficient system, right, an automatic drip system, you're still 374 00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:58,840 Speaker 1: going to use a lot more water than you normally 375 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: would in a house. So number when you get the 376 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:05,240 Speaker 1: water company keeping tabs on this water usage that in 377 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,360 Speaker 1: the house's history has never been remotely like this, they'll 378 00:22:08,359 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: turn you into right. Um, But again, people have figured 379 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 1: out how to steal water. Um. Those water meters they 380 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:19,520 Speaker 1: actually there there. They have paddles that are spun by 381 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,280 Speaker 1: the water that's coming into the house. So people have 382 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 1: figured out that you can drill holes in these paddles 383 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: so more water passes through than its detected, and that 384 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,000 Speaker 1: just primitively ingenious. Yeah it is. Yeah, I didn't know 385 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 1: that until I read this. Josh. Let's talk about managing 386 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,800 Speaker 1: a grow house a grow house and how how you 387 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 1: how you would do that. There's a lot of factors 388 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:42,720 Speaker 1: because it is a business. Um, you've got a lot 389 00:22:42,720 --> 00:22:44,640 Speaker 1: of money coming in out, You've got people you've got 390 00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,439 Speaker 1: to manage. Yeah. I didn't really realize this that a 391 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,960 Speaker 1: lot of them are set up by secret investors. It's 392 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,520 Speaker 1: not just organized crime or really really ambitious potheads. It's 393 00:22:55,720 --> 00:22:58,240 Speaker 1: very likely not a very ambitious pothead. If you've got 394 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,840 Speaker 1: a grow house, like a grow room, maybe, but a 395 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,439 Speaker 1: grow house is very likely run by somebody else in 396 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:08,200 Speaker 1: a larger organization, right, and that person probably will never 397 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,800 Speaker 1: set foot in that house. No, they'll fund it right 398 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:14,879 Speaker 1: with cash that can't be traced back to them, but 399 00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,639 Speaker 1: they will probably never go near it right through. They 400 00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 1: probably don't smoke pot that's my guess. They look at 401 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,199 Speaker 1: it like units. Yeah, theyre's making money. Sure. Uh. We 402 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,359 Speaker 1: talked about people that work there. It is not necessarily 403 00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:30,359 Speaker 1: like the Billy Bob Thornton movie with a dude and 404 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,080 Speaker 1: his buddies running their grow house. A lot of times 405 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:37,360 Speaker 1: it's more nefarious, and it's um someone who has been 406 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,879 Speaker 1: brought into the country illegally to repay a favor for 407 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:42,920 Speaker 1: being brought in. They may say, all right, you gotta 408 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: sort of be are indentured servant here and work at 409 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:47,919 Speaker 1: this grow house for so long, for this one season 410 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,159 Speaker 1: or whatever. But yeah, there's a big problem. One of 411 00:23:50,160 --> 00:23:54,080 Speaker 1: the big arguments against the poorous border in the south 412 00:23:54,520 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: of the US is that coyotes make people smuggled drugs 413 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,959 Speaker 1: act as mules when they're running through the desert, you know, 414 00:24:03,080 --> 00:24:05,959 Speaker 1: getting into the US. They have they tend to have 415 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:08,600 Speaker 1: lots and lots of drugs on them. They're being exploited. 416 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,840 Speaker 1: I didn't realize that they were forced to manage grow 417 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,879 Speaker 1: houses too, but that was pretty interesting. Well, see that 418 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 1: a prostitution, but it's specifically in California, he said. The 419 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,600 Speaker 1: Vietnamese immigrants tend to have to do this to pay 420 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 1: off debts. Absolutely. Well, I think I'd rather work in 421 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 1: a grow house and be forced into prostitution. You would 422 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: it take you forever to pay off your debts as 423 00:24:30,560 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: a prostitute. I appreciate that. I think, uh so that 424 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,720 Speaker 1: is how you would manage it with temporary workers. Um, 425 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 1: during the season, when it's the harvest season, you might 426 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: bring in additional workers. And chances are these people aren't 427 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:46,960 Speaker 1: on the up and up either. They're not your buddies. 428 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 1: It's maybe illegal immigrants once again, right. And one of 429 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 1: the reasons why you would not want this position is 430 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:57,920 Speaker 1: because again this is a very dangerous job to have. Um. 431 00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: Even if this isn't your stuff, you have no idea 432 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 1: what's going on. You just came in the country illegally. 433 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,960 Speaker 1: You're nervous about that to begin with, but even more 434 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,159 Speaker 1: nervous because you are spending your first few months in 435 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,639 Speaker 1: an illegal grow house. Um. Which is why, as we said, 436 00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 1: most grow houses are not in the rural areas there 437 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 1: in the suburbs here in Georgia, tons of them all 438 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:23,879 Speaker 1: over They're always Gwynette Henry, They're all over the place. Um. 439 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: And so you want your house to blend in in 440 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 1: every way, shape or form. Right, And as Robert said, 441 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: this can be uh, this can include buying garden gnomes 442 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,199 Speaker 1: just like a regular dude. Yeah. Um, you want to 443 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:42,680 Speaker 1: keep the the um the flow of traffic to a minimum, 444 00:25:42,720 --> 00:25:44,480 Speaker 1: but you don't want it to look like no one 445 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 1: ever comes there because that's pretty suspicious as well. You 446 00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:49,680 Speaker 1: want to be friendly, I imagine, but you don't want 447 00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 1: anybody to be to feel comfortable asking questions personal questions, 448 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,840 Speaker 1: that kind of thing. You don't black out your windows 449 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:59,479 Speaker 1: with aluminum foil, No, you don't, not that kind of thing. 450 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 1: You want your wrote rooms within the grow house to 451 00:26:02,560 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 1: be like just like I said, within the house, right. 452 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: And also there's um, you remember we talked about infrared 453 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,160 Speaker 1: cameras that cops used to bust grow houses because they 454 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: could sense heat. Do we talk about that? We talked 455 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: about this like in some other podcast. Remember I crashed 456 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,159 Speaker 1: the case on it. Um. So apparently one way to 457 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:23,359 Speaker 1: combat this in a girl house is a room within 458 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,920 Speaker 1: a room, right, So you're when you're sealing it off, 459 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,520 Speaker 1: you're not using your whole the whole room in the house. 460 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,840 Speaker 1: You're allowing you're basically setting up a room within a 461 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: room to grow in so that that the outside room 462 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: can kind of keep it cool. So from a helicopter, 463 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,879 Speaker 1: when you're looking at a house, it doesn't look like 464 00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 1: it's putting out more heat than average, right, or like, 465 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,560 Speaker 1: look that that guy is clearly an illegal Vietnamese immigrant 466 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:53,199 Speaker 1: because he's sweating bullets in there exactly. That's that's the 467 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,479 Speaker 1: that's the level of hundred degrees in their home. Yet 468 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,679 Speaker 1: they're running their A C unit constantly. The silly people. So, josh, 469 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: you got a neighbor, they're pretty cool. They never cause 470 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:07,040 Speaker 1: you any problems. They're real quiet. They keep their yard 471 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:10,919 Speaker 1: nice and trim in their garden, homes shiny. What's the 472 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 1: what's the problem? Then, if someone has got to grow 473 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,720 Speaker 1: house next door to you, why wouldn't you want that? Well, 474 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:20,560 Speaker 1: first and foremost, you don't want people coming to rob them. Okay, 475 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:22,960 Speaker 1: that's one thing when we talked about the electrical grid, 476 00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:26,560 Speaker 1: So it can mess up your electrical system, yeah, or 477 00:27:26,600 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 1: pose a fire risk to your neighborhood if you are 478 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:32,959 Speaker 1: in any way shape or form an environmentalist. Um, the 479 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,280 Speaker 1: idea of somebody using six to seven times the average 480 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 1: of a normal single family residents in electricity, you realize 481 00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,680 Speaker 1: that that adds to a lot more pollution, yeah, um, 482 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,040 Speaker 1: And it also can add to it much more directly. 483 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,919 Speaker 1: In two thousand eight, in Humboldt, there was an environmental 484 00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,359 Speaker 1: disaster where a thousand gallons of diesel fuel spilled into 485 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,520 Speaker 1: a local creek and it was for it was from 486 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,680 Speaker 1: a generator really um that was operating a grow house 487 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,159 Speaker 1: out in the sticks, out in the woods. UM. And actually, 488 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,879 Speaker 1: as a result of that, Humboldt County has undertaken a 489 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,560 Speaker 1: public service announcement campaign for local growers, urging them to 490 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:14,760 Speaker 1: go like to get greener in their practices because there's 491 00:28:14,800 --> 00:28:20,160 Speaker 1: really not an environmentally friendly means of cultivating plants indoors. Well, dude, 492 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:22,160 Speaker 1: if it's gonna happen anywhere, it's gonna happen in northern 493 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: California because they are very green and they love their weed. 494 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 1: Another problem, Chuck, if I may, you may, thank you. Uh. 495 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:34,399 Speaker 1: And with indoor growing, um, all the conditions needed to 496 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:40,080 Speaker 1: um encourage an outbreak of black toxic mold, they're all present. Apparently, 497 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,680 Speaker 1: toxic mold outbreaks have been linked to grow houses, and 498 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,760 Speaker 1: those actually drive up the homeowners insurance of everybody in 499 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:51,560 Speaker 1: the area. Which one house has black mold, everybody's insurance 500 00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 1: goes up. Well, it's yeah. And that's the other thing too, 501 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 1: is chances are when you leave the grow house behind 502 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,400 Speaker 1: or when you're busted, it's probably not gonna be some 503 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,719 Speaker 1: like great house left in good condition. It's probably ransacked 504 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 1: and maybe water damaged or or heat damaged. And that's 505 00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: gonna obviously bring down the property value in your neighborhood too, 506 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:13,560 Speaker 1: So most decidedly that's another good reason. But if your 507 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:18,440 Speaker 1: neighborhood already has low property values thanks to foreclosures and 508 00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: abandoned houses that have boarded up windows and doors, you 509 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: are basically living in an area that is absolutely perfect 510 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: for grow houses. One of the unintended, unexpected consequences of 511 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: the current housing crisis in South Florida grow houses in 512 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: huge neighborhoods that have abandoned in forclosed houses like the 513 00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,880 Speaker 1: High Acres. Yeah, Auban's apparently are big into it down there, Well, 514 00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: Florida's way into it. I was trying to find the 515 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,480 Speaker 1: biggest grow house that's ever been busted. And by the way, 516 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: if you type into Google news search for the year 517 00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: two thousand ten grow houses, you get a hundred and 518 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: eighty four articles just on grow house busts this year 519 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: on Google News. They're all over the place. But the 520 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: biggest one I found, and this may not be the biggest, 521 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: but there was one in Lake County, Florida, where there 522 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:11,440 Speaker 1: were two thousand plants in this home. And I remember 523 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: there was one I saw an article when I was 524 00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: working at my last job where this I think it 525 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 1: was in Tennessee where they showed this dude's grow house 526 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:22,400 Speaker 1: and he had in the in the basement rear of 527 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: the house, there was this hatch and all of a sudden, 528 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,520 Speaker 1: in this hatch was a You opened the door and 529 00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:31,120 Speaker 1: there was a you know, a fifteen foot diameter tunnel 530 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:34,680 Speaker 1: that went like a hundred feet into this mountain where 531 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,640 Speaker 1: there was more operations going on, Like this dude tunneled 532 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,760 Speaker 1: into the side of a mountain from his basement and 533 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: they busted him. And these are the just the bust. 534 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,680 Speaker 1: I mean, imagine how many of there are still operating 535 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 1: on a daily basis all around the country. Well that 536 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:52,400 Speaker 1: was another thing too, um the you you talked about 537 00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:55,960 Speaker 1: real estate prices being driven down by a busted girl. 538 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: House prices can also go up if, especially if an 539 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,080 Speaker 1: organization who's funding these things decides that they want to 540 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,800 Speaker 1: buy a dozen houses in a suburb suburban area at once, 541 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,640 Speaker 1: you know, in a small enough area, that's gonna really 542 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,000 Speaker 1: affect that the housing prices in the area and drive 543 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:17,080 Speaker 1: them up because it's it's reducing the supply of available homes. Yeah, 544 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,720 Speaker 1: pretty interesting stuff. I thought this whole thing was good. 545 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:21,800 Speaker 1: I thought so too. If you want to read this 546 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 1: great article by Robert Lamb, you can type in grow 547 00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:28,720 Speaker 1: houses on the search bar at how stuff works dot com. Again. Again, again, 548 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,240 Speaker 1: cannot stress this enough. This podcast, in no way, shape 549 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: or form, represents any kind of endorsement of any illegal 550 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,320 Speaker 1: activity whatsoever. Yeah, people always ask us, you know, you 551 00:31:39,320 --> 00:31:43,680 Speaker 1: should cover pot legalization or cover drugs in different ways, 552 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,360 Speaker 1: and we've wanted to because it's really interesting and it's 553 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,080 Speaker 1: a part of the American fabric. You can't just ignore it, 554 00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:50,760 Speaker 1: be like, what are you talking about? That's not interesting? 555 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:53,400 Speaker 1: But it's it's tricky for us, you know. Well, yeah, 556 00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,719 Speaker 1: it's hard to talk about grow houses and explain how 557 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: to do it without sounding like we're giving a tutorial 558 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 1: on how to do it. But the way I look 559 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,240 Speaker 1: at it, Chuck, is ultimately our goal or the goal 560 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,760 Speaker 1: of the site, is to explain absolutely every aspect of 561 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: the world. Yeah, including ticks. One at a time, including 562 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: roots sixty six including grow houses and everything else in 563 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:17,240 Speaker 1: between the track. So, Chuck, what is it time for 564 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:22,800 Speaker 1: listener mail? Do we have it? Yep, I've got one today, Josh. 565 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call this our best voodoo email. Dear Chuck 566 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: and Josh, I just listened to your voodoo podcast and 567 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,000 Speaker 1: thought I had a fun story you might like. I 568 00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,360 Speaker 1: was dating a guy back in two thousand seven who 569 00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:39,280 Speaker 1: I thought was deeply religious, had lots of statues all 570 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:42,280 Speaker 1: around his house, sat candle's and a very odd quote 571 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: spice rack unquote. Around our third week together, I found 572 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 1: out he practiced voodoo and was an actual bocor bocor 573 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,160 Speaker 1: Ore voodoo sorcerers. I think we pointed this out of 574 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,840 Speaker 1: the podcast, as he told me they served a looa 575 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: with both hands and practice both white and black magic. 576 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,840 Speaker 1: All the statues were for the voodoo rituals he performed, 577 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,000 Speaker 1: and he could keep them out, uh, keep the bad 578 00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,920 Speaker 1: spirits out, and not worry about his very Catholic roommate 579 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 1: who would also not stay around. Clearly, even though he 580 00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 1: should have explained to him that there were a lot 581 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:18,320 Speaker 1: of of Catholicism and voodoo, I was not on good 582 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:20,680 Speaker 1: terms with my parents at the time. There were Mormons 583 00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 1: who work in the temple. Oh yeah, mom and dad, 584 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,520 Speaker 1: this guy and this is the guy too, So he's 585 00:33:26,560 --> 00:33:29,960 Speaker 1: obviously gay as well. So he's probably not popular with 586 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:33,080 Speaker 1: his parents, his Mormon parents, I would think, as far 587 00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: as we can tell. As far as we can tell, 588 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,520 Speaker 1: they may have loved him being a gay guy dating 589 00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:44,280 Speaker 1: a voodoo bocrest. So anyway, the black magic practicing boyfriend 590 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,160 Speaker 1: was right up my alley at the time. This is 591 00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:51,160 Speaker 1: from uh Mal and Tri Cities, Washington. And I actually 592 00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: confirmed that I could read this on the air because 593 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:56,600 Speaker 1: it's a little you know, tricky, and he said sure 594 00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,640 Speaker 1: because he was a big jerk, So go ahead and 595 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:02,960 Speaker 1: read it. Okay, Thanks Mal. That was that was far 596 00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:06,880 Speaker 1: and away the most interesting voodoo email that we got. Uh. 597 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:09,360 Speaker 1: And I'd also like to take this opportunity to apologize 598 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,560 Speaker 1: to everybody else who send us voodoo emails. Seriously, Uh, 599 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,760 Speaker 1: if you want to send us an email about anything 600 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:17,759 Speaker 1: at all, Uh, we'd love to hear from you. Just 601 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:23,560 Speaker 1: wrap it up, send it to stuff podcast. Wait, Chuck, 602 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:29,480 Speaker 1: we're on Facebook. We got a killer Facebook presence. Yeah, 603 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,279 Speaker 1: thanks especially to you. Well more than fifteen thousand fans now, 604 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:37,239 Speaker 1: which warms our hearts, and people are active and commenting 605 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:39,560 Speaker 1: and sharing things, and it's exactly how I hoped it 606 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:43,840 Speaker 1: would be. We've got almost six thousand followers on Twitter. 607 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:48,719 Speaker 1: You're killing the Twitter. Very funny stuff. We have blog, uh, 608 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,080 Speaker 1: stuff you Should Know on how stuff works dot com. 609 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,320 Speaker 1: Great blog, and we have a ton of other blogs 610 00:34:54,360 --> 00:34:56,799 Speaker 1: on how stuff works as well. Um, and we have 611 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,279 Speaker 1: a Kiva page. 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