1 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. The 2 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is on the air. 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 2: Ozzy Osbourne, founding father, a British heavy metal the front 4 00:00:22,680 --> 00:00:26,600 Speaker 2: man for Black Sabbath, and a reality TV luminary, has 5 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:29,920 Speaker 2: died after a year's long struggle with Parkinson's disease. 6 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:34,520 Speaker 3: If you're getting wonderful, a trint a lot of ups 7 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:36,360 Speaker 3: and a lot of downs, but it's all been worth you. 8 00:00:36,400 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 3: As far as I'm concerned, I'll do it all against moss. 9 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:06,280 Speaker 4: Side to men stands. 10 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 5: Mine is in the prober my way, my suppose, where. 11 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:44,200 Speaker 4: Generals gathered in their masses, just like witches at black masses. 12 00:01:56,800 --> 00:02:01,920 Speaker 5: And make the life you last. 13 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 4: Fou help me. 14 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:11,840 Speaker 6: Think, says to me. 15 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 5: God strap me times to change the times. The strange 16 00:02:18,240 --> 00:02:18,639 Speaker 5: to hear. 17 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 4: I come bring mama, I'm coming home. Time come by. 18 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:34,240 Speaker 5: Seems to be you could have been a better friend 19 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:34,919 Speaker 5: than me. 20 00:02:37,480 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 4: Mama, I'm coming home. You took me, you drove me out, 21 00:02:45,480 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 4: Kay had me at the. 22 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 5: Time lost and found it turned around the fire and 23 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 5: your eyes what you make because you told me nice. 24 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:23,280 Speaker 6: I think of Mike Davis's I thought happiness was Lovelock, 25 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 6: Texas in my rearview mirror and it becomes home. John 26 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:34,320 Speaker 6: Cougar Mellencamp growing up in a small town, and I 27 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 6: think of the difference between the way I grew up 28 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:46,600 Speaker 6: and what's happening in urban communities today. Now, maybe Houston 29 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 6: was dangerous back then. 30 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. 31 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:53,760 Speaker 6: I didn't have that upbringing. But when I look at 32 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 6: the craziness and the madness and the nonsense and where 33 00:03:57,320 --> 00:04:03,120 Speaker 6: it's happening, you can plot that on a graph, and 34 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 6: then you can overlay or superimpose the political districts. There 35 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 6: will be a Democrat State rep and a Democrat Congressman 36 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 6: one hundred percent of the time, or close enough to it. 37 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 6: A senior at north Shore High School killed at a 38 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:25,240 Speaker 6: pool party, the third north Shore High School student killed 39 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:31,599 Speaker 6: in less than two years. Clip number twenty five. Ramon, 40 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 6: did Kunda send you twenty five? We have a raging battle. 41 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:40,520 Speaker 6: It's a pitched battle, me and Ramone versus Mud and 42 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 6: Kunda on the other side. And the problem in this 43 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 6: tug of war is that Kunda is a whole lot 44 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 6: bigger and stronger than me, which ain't saying much. And 45 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 6: Ramon's lost a lot of weight. So as our anchor 46 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:57,120 Speaker 6: he doesn't really have. You know, the umph he used to. 47 00:04:57,279 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 1: Is, you're so stupid you can never pass yourself off. 48 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:05,680 Speaker 5: You. 49 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:07,240 Speaker 7: Oh my goodness. 50 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:10,880 Speaker 6: Okay, back to the story. North Shore High School senior 51 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 6: killed in pool party shooting. Well a senior, hold on, 52 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:17,200 Speaker 6: hold on, we won't be able to get to that. 53 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,280 Speaker 6: We won't be able to get to that. There's just 54 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 6: not enough time left. There's not enough time left. 55 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:24,159 Speaker 8: In this to. 56 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:26,920 Speaker 1: Oh you know what, we didn't get to. 57 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:28,600 Speaker 8: You know what we didn't get to. 58 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 6: We didn't get to the Houston woman accused of stealing 59 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:32,680 Speaker 6: millions of dollars intended for surrog mothers. 60 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: Oh, you know what, we won't have enough for that either. 61 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:36,680 Speaker 8: Well do we have enough for? 62 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:39,560 Speaker 6: People have lost their mind? A man ram destruct in 63 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:41,400 Speaker 6: multiple vehicles leaving Houston club. 64 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: Okay, go well. 65 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:47,919 Speaker 9: A viral TikTok video shows a man ramming his truck 66 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,080 Speaker 9: into a crowd of people in a North Houston club 67 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 9: parking lot. Then the driver, Christopher Tuggle, is now charged 68 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 9: with five felonies, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. 69 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 9: The incident happened on July twelfth, just outside of Club Mesquite. 70 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,960 Speaker 9: KPRCTWO reporter corle ap Peel spoke with a woman who 71 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:08,599 Speaker 9: was in her car when Tuggle hit her and several others. 72 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 10: Christopher Tuggle is accused of hitting at least eight vehicles 73 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 10: while many were at the club celebrating a trail riding event. 74 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:19,480 Speaker 10: The woman we spoke with and several others are now 75 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:27,120 Speaker 10: pressing charges. This viral video is key evidence, apporting to 76 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 10: records showing the moment Christopher Tuggle hits the back of 77 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,760 Speaker 10: a jeep in the club Mesquite parking lot. He drives forward, 78 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:40,960 Speaker 10: hitting more vehicles. Oh then backs up reverses, landing on 79 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,920 Speaker 10: top of another car, but Tuggle doesn't stop. He continues 80 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:48,120 Speaker 10: driving through the crowded parking lot, hitting more cars. 81 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: He could have killed somebody. 82 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 10: Jim and I says she was in her car with 83 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 10: a friend when they felt the impact from Tuggle's truck. 84 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 11: He backed up and hit the car next to me, 85 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 11: and then that's how we were slush. Oh, we were 86 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 11: nervous and scared for our life, honestly, because. 87 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 1: We were trapped. 88 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:07,240 Speaker 11: There was no way to get out. 89 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 10: An officer seen on video pointing a gun at Tuggle's window. 90 00:07:12,720 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 10: He has his hands up and is taken into custody 91 00:07:15,840 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 10: investigator say Tuggle gave police inconsistent statements. 92 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,320 Speaker 1: He claimed he was robbed by three men. 93 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,960 Speaker 10: Record show Tuggle also told police a white, cheap compass 94 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,559 Speaker 10: blocked him as he was trying to leave the club, 95 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:29,920 Speaker 10: and he hit the fender as he was pulling out. 96 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 10: He told officers three men came up to his window, 97 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 10: started yelling and hitting him in the face, but police 98 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,440 Speaker 10: say that doesn't match what happened in this video. 99 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 11: I'd never seen him before, never seen him before. 100 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 10: Some of the cars that were hit were totaled. Gemini's 101 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 10: car is drivable, but the damage will cost her. 102 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:52,440 Speaker 11: Big Ditton back of scratches in the front. My door 103 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 11: from the car next to me was also hit. Our 104 00:07:56,840 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 11: things are damaged and there's really no accountability and who's 105 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 11: gonna pay for all the damages because I'm pretty sure 106 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 11: the insurance is According. 107 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 10: To records, the damage for all of the vehicles costs 108 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:12,559 Speaker 10: roughly sixty thousand dollars. That's just an estimate. Christopher Teckle 109 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:14,520 Speaker 10: is being held in the Harrison County Jail on a 110 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 10: one hundred and twenty five. 111 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 2: Thousand dollars bond. 112 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: Corley Peel KPRC two news very brigade, activate the Michael 113 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:24,560 Speaker 1: Barry show. 114 00:08:28,280 --> 00:08:33,760 Speaker 6: Of all the things facing the state of Texas, property taxes, 115 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 6: run them up. You know, a state law that a 116 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 6: Republican legislature passed was used by Rodney Ellis to raise 117 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:44,520 Speaker 6: our taxes in Harris County. 118 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:49,960 Speaker 1: And then the Republicans go, oh, my goodness, I can't 119 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: believe we empowered him to do that. 120 00:08:53,960 --> 00:08:55,000 Speaker 8: Grief with friends like you. 121 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 1: So now we are in a special session. 122 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:04,520 Speaker 6: We've just watched Kerrville be devastated, families across the state, 123 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 6: and beyond asking for answers, we have so many issues 124 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 6: facing our state. Redistricting would properly align our districts and 125 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:23,719 Speaker 6: reorder Congress and give us the majority we need to 126 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 6: keep to avoid Oh, I don't know, Trump being impeached 127 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:31,199 Speaker 6: again by a Democrat majority. And what did they take 128 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:38,559 Speaker 6: up in the state legislature. Well, the medical marijuana industry 129 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,599 Speaker 6: that will get paid to give you the same marijuana 130 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 6: doesn't want you to get that over the counter, you see. 131 00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:49,840 Speaker 6: And they've put this fellow Charles Perry on this issue. 132 00:09:50,960 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 6: And Charles Perry, best I can tell, was drawn directly 133 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:58,800 Speaker 6: from the descendants of the Salem witch child. 134 00:10:00,040 --> 00:10:00,199 Speaker 4: Yeah. 135 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 1: See that girl over Ore, she's that girl. 136 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,920 Speaker 6: She's got face paint owned, she's from the devil. We 137 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,520 Speaker 6: got to put her at the fire. Charles. That that's 138 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,840 Speaker 6: called makeup. We allow that now it's a devil. See 139 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 6: that one over Ore? She looks five seven. She ain't 140 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 6: but five six. Those are high heels, Charles. We allow 141 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,559 Speaker 6: that she's thirty two years as from the devil. Well, 142 00:10:24,679 --> 00:10:26,880 Speaker 6: Charles Perry, who they've put in charge of this who 143 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:32,839 Speaker 6: I'm embarrassed of the things he says, declares yesterday on 144 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 6: the floor of the People's Chamber that marijuana is as 145 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:47,040 Speaker 6: bad as meth. Charles, calm down. I realize you're excited. 146 00:10:47,160 --> 00:10:50,280 Speaker 6: They gave you the ball, but you're running the wrong direction. 147 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:56,360 Speaker 6: You notice the other team is cheering. You're about to score, 148 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 6: but it ain't for us. Lucas Guilty is a fellow 149 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,200 Speaker 6: who has been recommended by several people, including Marissa Hanson 150 00:11:10,520 --> 00:11:15,719 Speaker 6: as I saw him speaking as a guest before the 151 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:20,560 Speaker 6: State Legislature recently. His website is Hometown Hero. He has 152 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:24,439 Speaker 6: described as I think a HEMP activist. Lucas, welcome to 153 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:24,960 Speaker 6: the program. 154 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 12: Thank you for having me, sir. I'm a huge fan 155 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 12: and a big shout out to Marissa for setting us up. 156 00:11:30,440 --> 00:11:31,800 Speaker 12: She's been telling me for a while we should chat, 157 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:33,360 Speaker 12: So thank you for taking the time for us. 158 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 6: Well, I don't want to ruin your fandom, but I 159 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:36,400 Speaker 6: need to know why. 160 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:37,439 Speaker 1: You've spelled Lucas with a K. 161 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:42,560 Speaker 12: My mom named me after cool Hand Luke, old school movie. 162 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:44,319 Speaker 12: A lot of the younger kids might not remember it, 163 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,079 Speaker 12: but one of my favorite movies. 164 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:49,480 Speaker 1: You're too young to know who cool Hand Luke is. 165 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: How old are you? 166 00:11:51,920 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 8: Forty four? 167 00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 1: S there? Oh okay, I'm old enough to call you 168 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: a kid. That's kind of exciting. So first of all. 169 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,679 Speaker 6: First of all, let's let's full disclosures. You don't come 170 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,120 Speaker 6: at this completely objectively. 171 00:12:04,640 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 11: Like I do. 172 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:07,880 Speaker 6: See I'm very pious and righteous. You don't come at 173 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 6: this completely objectively. You are in the marijuana THCHC business. 174 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,000 Speaker 6: Hometown Hero looks to be, by the way, nice site. 175 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 6: Who ever built that for you? It's a visually very 176 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 6: pleasing site. So let's talks about what you do and 177 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:26,840 Speaker 6: then your position on this. Yes, sir, I'm the CEO 178 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 6: of Hometown Hero. We sell HEMP derived THHD products. We 179 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 6: were the very first company to. 180 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 12: Sell this type of product in Texas in twenty nineteen 181 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 12: after HB thirteen twenty five legalized hemp within Texas. And 182 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 12: just to give some context, some backstory, the story is very, 183 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:44,200 Speaker 12: very fascinating, and there's some information that came out yesterday 184 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:46,439 Speaker 12: that makes this even more fascinating. And this is a 185 00:12:46,480 --> 00:12:49,040 Speaker 12: story that I've been dealing with now for since twenty 186 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 12: nineteen when hamp was legalized in Texas. So in twenty nineteen, 187 00:12:52,720 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 12: HB House Built thirteen twenty five passed. Senator Perry is 188 00:12:55,280 --> 00:12:58,440 Speaker 12: one of the authors. He authored the bill that created 189 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:02,559 Speaker 12: this industry within Texas, and he is somebody that continuously 190 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,559 Speaker 12: uses his sort of religious beliefs. And I'm Christian and 191 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:08,800 Speaker 12: I have very similar beliefs, but he uses his religious 192 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 12: beliefs to attack us and to say things that are 193 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:12,920 Speaker 12: horrible about us. And I believe that he also uses 194 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:15,719 Speaker 12: that as sort of some of his predisposition around the 195 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:18,439 Speaker 12: hatred of these products. And so he's sort of got 196 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:19,679 Speaker 12: a little bit of egg on a face in the 197 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,480 Speaker 12: sense that he created this industry. And one of the 198 00:13:22,559 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 12: times we got into it one of the committee hearings, 199 00:13:24,440 --> 00:13:27,319 Speaker 12: I congratulated him on creating an industry that literally created 200 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 12: more than fifty thousand jobs for Texans at a time 201 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,679 Speaker 12: when that is an amazing thing, an amazing accomplishment. And 202 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 12: I've never seen a politician so upset and so angry 203 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:40,679 Speaker 12: that he created fifty thousand jobs for Texans at that 204 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,880 Speaker 12: moment with that man and his reaction to that, and 205 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,719 Speaker 12: so he created this industry literally, and so he now 206 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,160 Speaker 12: feels like it's under his purview to get. 207 00:13:51,160 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 5: Rid of it. 208 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,239 Speaker 12: That's really I believe where the animosity comes from from 209 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:58,280 Speaker 12: Senator Perry and why he is so actively trying to 210 00:13:58,280 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 12: get rid of this. 211 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 8: There are other players involved, and over. 212 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:03,679 Speaker 12: The years this has evolved, and I can go deep 213 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 12: into the story of how all this happened if you like. 214 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:07,320 Speaker 8: It's highly fascinating. 215 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:12,559 Speaker 7: Go okay, So twenty nineteen HB thirteen. 216 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 12: To twenty five passed and legalized hemp in Texas. When 217 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 12: that happened, it created this giant industry. Now, what they argue, 218 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 12: what the politicians will argue who created it? Center Perry 219 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 12: is one of them. They'll say that they didn't know 220 00:14:22,760 --> 00:14:25,160 Speaker 12: that THHD was in these products. That's incorrect, because I've 221 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 12: seen memos. If you go back to the original memos 222 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,040 Speaker 12: around Senator Perry and even even with some of the 223 00:14:30,080 --> 00:14:33,520 Speaker 12: Lieutenant governor stuff, they acknowledged that THHD was in these products, 224 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 12: but it was under the zero point three percent delta 225 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 12: nine on drywait basis limit, and that comes from the 226 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 12: twenty eighteen Farm Bill. So Trump signed the twenty eighteen 227 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,240 Speaker 12: Farm Bill legalizing hemp federally within the United States, and 228 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,520 Speaker 12: everything made from him, not just hemp flower, not just 229 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 12: not just this, not just that, everything everything that comes 230 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:56,400 Speaker 12: from hemp that his plant derived is federally legal under 231 00:14:56,560 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 12: one stipulation, as long as it contains less than zero 232 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 12: point three percent delta nine thhd on a dryway basis. 233 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:06,440 Speaker 12: So in nature there's only one plant. There's Cannabis sativa L. 234 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,080 Speaker 12: The L is the long Latin word that nobody ever pronounces, 235 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,400 Speaker 12: but in all government documents, Cannabis sativa L is what 236 00:15:12,560 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 12: is referenced as the single plant that hemp and marijuana 237 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 12: come from. In nature, there's only one plant. TEMP and 238 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:22,440 Speaker 12: marijuana are government created terms, the regulatory terms to distinguish 239 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:26,200 Speaker 12: cabinoid within the plant. There's about one hundred and thirty 240 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,760 Speaker 12: five cannabinoids within Cannabis Sativa L and hamp and marijuana. 241 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 12: It's all the same thing. And so the government created 242 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 12: these two terms to distinguish low THHD cannabis and high 243 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:39,720 Speaker 12: THHD cannabis, and they distinguish it by a zero point 244 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,560 Speaker 12: three percent delta nine thhd on a dryway basis. So, 245 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 12: out of the one hundred and thirty five cannabinoids in 246 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:48,760 Speaker 12: that plant, there is one single cannabinoid that the government 247 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:53,000 Speaker 12: really angled in on. It's the main psychoactive cannabinoid. It's 248 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:54,760 Speaker 12: the one if if you eat an edible or you 249 00:15:54,800 --> 00:15:57,320 Speaker 12: smoke a joint, it's what's gonna get you possible, right, 250 00:15:57,560 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 12: pull in just a second. 251 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 6: Lewis Keel Piers, our guest is website is hometown's hero 252 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,560 Speaker 6: dot com. And speaking before the House in the last 253 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:07,520 Speaker 6: week over this whole THHC madness. 254 00:16:07,280 --> 00:16:12,640 Speaker 1: Bad Dude the Michael Berry Show, and. 255 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 6: As our state legislature convenes in a special session. You know, 256 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:20,400 Speaker 6: I have been for a long time getting this wrong. 257 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:26,440 Speaker 6: I constantly say that our legislature meets every two years 258 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:29,920 Speaker 6: for one hundred and fifty days, so it's a buy 259 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 6: any old session every two years. And Steve Toathe State Rep. 260 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,720 Speaker 6: Conservative State Rep. Who I think is probably the odds 261 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 6: on favorite to beat Dan Crenshaw. He's running against Dan 262 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,480 Speaker 6: Crenshaw in the Republican primary congressional district too. He corrected 263 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,640 Speaker 6: me that it's one hundred and forty days, and I 264 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,320 Speaker 6: went back and look, and I don't know. I think 265 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:51,240 Speaker 6: I've thought it was one hundred and fifty days since 266 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 6: I was in high school and probably first looked that 267 00:16:53,560 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 6: up in what Ramon. We used to have what we'd 268 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 6: call a book. You'd go to the library. If you 269 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:02,680 Speaker 6: wanted to check on something, you'd go to the library. 270 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:06,639 Speaker 6: You'd ask Mistold, our librarian. She'd send you to the 271 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 6: book section that books all over the shelves, and you'd 272 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:12,360 Speaker 6: go overre you'd use a Dewey decimal system named after 273 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:15,360 Speaker 6: Dewey Cox, and you'd go over there and you'd pull 274 00:17:15,400 --> 00:17:18,479 Speaker 6: the book out and you'd look it up and there 275 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,160 Speaker 6: it would be, and you would hope that the information 276 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 6: hadn't changed since that book had been published in nineteen 277 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:27,760 Speaker 6: forty two. But anyway, it's every one hundred and forty 278 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 6: days every two years. 279 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:30,640 Speaker 11: Now. 280 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:34,240 Speaker 6: Our constitution gives the governor the power to call a 281 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 6: special session under certain circumstances. He has to tell what 282 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 6: it's going to be it's limited to thirty days, but 283 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 6: he could call multiple zone redistricting was supposed to be 284 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:50,560 Speaker 6: the big issue. Trump wants redistricting in Texas because we've 285 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 6: got gerrymander districts that now you can apply the same standards, 286 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 6: and they are districts that have been drafted so that 287 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,240 Speaker 6: Democrats couldn't help it when and that needs to be fixed. 288 00:18:02,880 --> 00:18:06,480 Speaker 6: But we're not focusing on that. We're focusing on the 289 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 6: fact that the medical marijuana industry, through Alan Blakemore, is 290 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,240 Speaker 6: controlling Dan Patrick. And now it turns out, as of yesterday, 291 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 6: Greg Abbott's played his hand and they've split the Republican 292 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,399 Speaker 6: Party and the Democrats are just looking back and laughing. 293 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,919 Speaker 6: How do you destroy your Republican majority. You take an 294 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 6: issue that splits the libertarians, people who care about the 295 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:32,800 Speaker 6: individual and freedom and not authoritarianism. You split those people 296 00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 6: from the people who want a theocracy like we're in Iran, 297 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:38,920 Speaker 6: who in the name of God will take away every 298 00:18:39,119 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 6: right you've ever had. And this is how you lose elections. 299 00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 6: Lucas Gilkey is our guest. His website is Hometown Heroes 300 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:49,840 Speaker 6: dot com. Is that right? I don't have it up 301 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,960 Speaker 6: right now, hometown hero dot com singular hometown hero dot com. 302 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 6: I'm sorry, why were you asked to speak before the legislature. 303 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:02,240 Speaker 12: So, like I was kind of alluding to with the 304 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:04,399 Speaker 12: sort of twenty eighteen trumps on the farm villa and 305 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:07,080 Speaker 12: legalized hemp. So this has been highly contentious within Texas 306 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 12: and so one of the really disheartening things about yesterday 307 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,760 Speaker 12: speaking with the Senate committee was that they completely ignored, 308 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 12: as you were saying, they. 309 00:19:14,640 --> 00:19:16,360 Speaker 8: Ignored all the relevant priorities. 310 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,240 Speaker 12: They didn't even the first committee hearing was hemp and 311 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:20,919 Speaker 12: trying to make hemp the legal and trying to put 312 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 12: people in jail for cannabis when you know over one 313 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:26,920 Speaker 12: hundred people just died from floods. That's insanity. And so 314 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:30,440 Speaker 12: it's really alludes to sort of the hypocrisy of the 315 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:34,119 Speaker 12: Senate that this is their number one priority. And you know, 316 00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:38,359 Speaker 12: you're talking about the information that came out yesterday around 317 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 12: the Lieutenant governor and sort of the issues of the 318 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 12: lobbying and sort of how this is all being controlled. 319 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 12: It really stems from that. So in Texas, we have 320 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,320 Speaker 12: a medical marijuana program called Teaco Texas Compassionate Use Program 321 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 12: it's been around since roughly twenty seventeen, and the Lieutenant 322 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 12: Governor has gotten his hands in that, and it sounds like, 323 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 12: at least from what the articles stayed, and it's been 324 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 12: pretty apparent throughout our fight that they are through regulatory capture. 325 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,720 Speaker 12: They're trying to kill an eight billion dollar industry within 326 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:12,200 Speaker 12: Texas that has four point three billion dollars in retail sales, 327 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:14,160 Speaker 12: the hemp industry. They're trying to kill it. They're trying 328 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 12: to hand it to the medical Marijuana Group, which only 329 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,159 Speaker 12: has three licensed companies. By the way, and it's been 330 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:22,399 Speaker 12: almost ten years. They have three licensed companies, and the 331 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 12: people that are involved in those companies are set up 332 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:27,960 Speaker 12: to be billionaires. The only reason those people aren't billionaires 333 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:29,840 Speaker 12: is because of the hemp industry within Texas. 334 00:20:30,040 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 8: Let's be clear about that. 335 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:34,159 Speaker 12: So I went yesterday to speak and draw attention to 336 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:36,200 Speaker 12: the hypocrisy of what they're trying to do and trying 337 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 12: to get rid of us, especially when it comes to alcohol. 338 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 7: You've got alcohol in Texas that causes the CDC. 339 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,159 Speaker 12: Reports more than ten thousand deaths a year in Texas 340 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 12: just Texas are attributed to excessive alcohol consumption and hemp 341 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:51,359 Speaker 12: is called zero death. Cannabis in Texas is called zero deaths. 342 00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 12: And they're trying to outlaw this entire industry and hand 343 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 12: it over to the medical marijuana groups, which are largely 344 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 12: controlled by out of state MSOs, by the way, multiple 345 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 12: multi state operators. It's people that aren't even from Texas 346 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 12: that control these companies. 347 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:07,480 Speaker 8: When we have a home grown. 348 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:10,359 Speaker 7: Texas hemp industry right here, right now that supports more 349 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:11,320 Speaker 7: than fifty three. 350 00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,880 Speaker 12: Thousand Texans with jobs. It is the most insane thing 351 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 12: I have ever seen in my entire life in politics. 352 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 12: And what you were alluding to is sort of who's 353 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 12: controlling what and some of the lobbyists. It all makes 354 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 12: sense now and there's clarity around it. For a long time, 355 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:27,399 Speaker 12: we didn't have names of who to put where and 356 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,640 Speaker 12: who was doing what. But I think it's becoming pretty 357 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:31,720 Speaker 12: apparent now and I'm very happy that you're talking about it. 358 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 6: Texas scorecard dot Com Michael quinn Sullivan is the publisher there, 359 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 6: has a piece this morning about Blake Morri's control Alan 360 00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 6: Blakemorris control of the state legislature. And I told Dan 361 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,160 Speaker 6: Patrick when he was running for Lieutenant governor, I said 362 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,040 Speaker 6: get away from Dan, from Alan Blakemore. He will be 363 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:54,000 Speaker 6: the downfall of you and the Republican Party in Texas. 364 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:57,640 Speaker 6: And mark my words, he will be the Jeff Skilling. 365 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 6: He will be the lament that brings all of this 366 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,639 Speaker 6: to He'll be the Jeffrey Epstein. I'm not suggesting a 367 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:07,399 Speaker 6: sexual element, but he'll be the Jeffrey Epstein of all this. 368 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 6: There will be people who will deny they ever knew him. 369 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,479 Speaker 6: He is as evil as it gets and he has 370 00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:18,760 Speaker 6: an absolute stranglehold because what he does is he's the 371 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 6: consultant to the candidate and gets them elected, and then 372 00:22:23,200 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 6: once they're elected, he's the lobbyist for the interests that 373 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 6: want them to vote the way he wants. So you 374 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:31,920 Speaker 6: get people who just enjoy being an elected official and 375 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,480 Speaker 6: they just Alan Blakemore take care of everything. And he 376 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,440 Speaker 6: is evil and this guy he is feathering his own nest. 377 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,880 Speaker 6: It is absolutely awful and it is outside the interests 378 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,000 Speaker 6: of the base. And nobody wants to stand up to him. 379 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:49,760 Speaker 6: And now that he controls Dan Patrick, really nobody wants 380 00:22:49,840 --> 00:22:51,760 Speaker 6: to stand up to him. But there will come a 381 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:53,800 Speaker 6: day and I will do the I told you so 382 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 6: dance and I will do the dance, and I will 383 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:01,560 Speaker 6: remind everybody that I warned you that Demonoman has ruined everything. 384 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:04,240 Speaker 6: So sorry, did you say how you were chosen to 385 00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:06,199 Speaker 6: speak before the legislature. 386 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 12: It was simply a process where you show up and register. 387 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 12: They didn't ask me to speak. I wasn't one of 388 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 12: the requested sort of testifiers. They have their own set 389 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 12: group that go up there and sort of spout a 390 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 12: whole bunch of lies. They have a set group of 391 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 12: people that go up there with rehearsed scripts, and this 392 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 12: has been happening now since April of twenty twenty four, 393 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:27,800 Speaker 12: that they just have this same group of people go 394 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:32,000 Speaker 12: up every time and spout their lies to prove their agenda, 395 00:23:32,359 --> 00:23:35,479 Speaker 12: and then, just like yesterday, unanimously tend to zero despite 396 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 12: all these people showing up from the industry telling them 397 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:39,320 Speaker 12: that this is insanity and what are they doing? 398 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 7: You know, even if you go on social media and 399 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:41,480 Speaker 7: you look. 400 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 12: At Dan Patrick's post or somebody else's post online regarding 401 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 12: what was Senate Bill three and now Senate Bill five via, 402 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,879 Speaker 12: I mean, the odds are one thousand to one, and 403 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 12: what's crazy you're alluding to it? It's Democrats and it's 404 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 12: Republicans both saying that this person needs to be voted 405 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 12: out of office. They're literally turning their own constituents against 406 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,760 Speaker 12: them with this. It's very harmful to Texas and it's 407 00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 12: very dangerous. 408 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 6: It's very dangerous, and it goes against You know, we 409 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 6: spend so much time arguing over whether marijuana is dangerous 410 00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 6: or not, and relatively speaking, it's not. We spend so 411 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,720 Speaker 6: much time on all this nonsense and what gets lost 412 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:22,200 Speaker 6: in the mix and the Charles Perry's the of the 413 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:26,879 Speaker 6: world don't understand this, the concept of freedom. Most people 414 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:31,160 Speaker 6: don't care about politics. They don't care about what gets 415 00:24:31,200 --> 00:24:34,160 Speaker 6: those people's rocks off. What they want is to run 416 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:37,040 Speaker 6: their business, live their lives, raise their kids, and be 417 00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:39,800 Speaker 6: left the hell alone. And then Charles Perry comes knocking 418 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:41,960 Speaker 6: on the door to ask what the smell is inside? 419 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:43,399 Speaker 1: Hold On Lucas guilty? 420 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 4: Is actress Prosen putting on a stake the Michael Show, 421 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,399 Speaker 4: Jello brand pudding pops, maybe the goodness of real jello pudding. 422 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 6: For those of you asking, yes, Ramon is back. He 423 00:24:55,960 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 6: is off suspension, so we can put that issue to bed. No, 424 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 6: he's not getting his own show. No, he's not speaking 425 00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 6: on the air, and he'll probably be gone by the 426 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,280 Speaker 6: end of the year, would be my suspicion. We are 427 00:25:09,359 --> 00:25:15,200 Speaker 6: currently interviewing for his replacement. Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne, 428 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:19,200 Speaker 6: who the News broke yesterday has passed, was the walk 429 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 6: up song of what Houston astro Lucas Gilkey. 430 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 1: Where are you from? 431 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:30,080 Speaker 8: I'm kind of from all over, sir. 432 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:33,200 Speaker 12: I grew up in Florida High School, in Arizona Military 433 00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:35,280 Speaker 12: in California. I was in the US Coast Guard Encounter 434 00:25:35,359 --> 00:25:36,840 Speaker 12: Narcotics Unit, so I'm kind. 435 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:37,240 Speaker 8: Of from all over. 436 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:39,800 Speaker 1: That's awesome. 437 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,960 Speaker 6: My brother was a SWAT officer and spent two years 438 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 6: undercover and spent a lot of time making drug arrests. 439 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 6: And he was the one who first told me that 440 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,240 Speaker 6: I was thinking about this issue incorrectly, and who told 441 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,840 Speaker 6: me that alcohol was a thousand times more dangerous than 442 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 6: marijuana and that we needed to look at this differently 443 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 6: and kind of walking through that. But well, then you 444 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:09,200 Speaker 6: won't know the answer, but I will pose the question 445 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 6: and give folks a moment to think about it for themselves. 446 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 6: What famous Houston astro's walk up song was Crazy Trained 447 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:19,720 Speaker 6: by Ozzy Osbourne would you like. 448 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:24,639 Speaker 1: To hazard a guest, Lucas oh Man, I have no idea. 449 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 8: I'll be blunt. 450 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,840 Speaker 12: My life is absolutely consumed with this fight with the 451 00:26:28,880 --> 00:26:31,000 Speaker 12: Texas politicians, and I don't watch a whole lot of. 452 00:26:30,960 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 8: Sports to be blunt. 453 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,760 Speaker 6: Jeff Bagwell was the correct answer. Jeff Bagwell, this was 454 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,320 Speaker 6: probably before you were consumed with this issue. And I 455 00:26:39,520 --> 00:26:44,760 Speaker 6: read this morning for longtime Astros fans that Bagwell is 456 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:48,679 Speaker 6: the one who recommended Ter Sandman by Metallica. I did 457 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 6: not realize that was not Billy Wagner's original walk up song. 458 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 6: His original walk up song was for those of you 459 00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 6: who get it right, pat on the back. His original 460 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:03,680 Speaker 6: walk up song was Fireman by George Strait, and Bagwell 461 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 6: recommended Enter Sandman to set a whole different mood. Louis 462 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:13,639 Speaker 6: guilty in your mind. Obviously you have a vested interest. 463 00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 6: Obviously you are biased. You know you own hometown hero. 464 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,439 Speaker 6: You're in the THHC product business. 465 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:21,639 Speaker 3: You know. 466 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:25,800 Speaker 6: My brother explained to me that the long term effects 467 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,640 Speaker 6: he would watch people in fact, was this a guy 468 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 6: who went to high school with who got really really 469 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 6: hooked on meth. And my brother would call and tell 470 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 6: me after he'd had to arrest him again, and it 471 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,760 Speaker 6: just broke his heart. He'd say, you know, if I 472 00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:41,119 Speaker 6: knew what I know now back then in high school, 473 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:43,600 Speaker 6: I would tell some of the teachers, your whole anti 474 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:46,440 Speaker 6: marijuana thing is misplaced. What you ought to do is 475 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,399 Speaker 6: get people off of alcohol. That's what causes especially men 476 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,200 Speaker 6: to beat the snot out of their women. It's what 477 00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,399 Speaker 6: causes men to fight in bars, it's what causes drunk driving. 478 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 6: Folks on marijuana sit on their couch and eat Cheetos 479 00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,320 Speaker 6: and watch TV and don't bother anybody. 480 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,720 Speaker 1: But when you're dealing with. 481 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 6: People every day who are coming in seeking this product, 482 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,400 Speaker 6: whether whether recreationally or self medicating, who are these people, 483 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:12,240 Speaker 6: what do they look like, what's their demographic, and what 484 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 6: are they wanting. 485 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 12: It's not what you typically expect, and it's not the 486 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 12: stereotype that we grew up with. And I'm going to 487 00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:22,119 Speaker 12: challenge your stereotype of using cannabis to really kind of 488 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 12: sit there and just eat and be lazy. So a 489 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:27,680 Speaker 12: lot of our customers are actually patients that are going 490 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 12: through chemotherapy for cancer. They're veterans that have been prescribed 491 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:33,320 Speaker 12: and multitude of multitude of opioids by the Veterans Administration 492 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 12: by the VAS. The VAS go to if you go 493 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,280 Speaker 12: you're a veteran, you go to the VA. Their go 494 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 12: to is to give you opioids for almost everything. And 495 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:42,520 Speaker 12: then a lot of these guys end up on seventeen 496 00:28:42,760 --> 00:28:44,920 Speaker 12: different prescriptions because they're treating the side effects of the 497 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:46,600 Speaker 12: stuff that they're taking, and then the side effects of 498 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 12: that stuff. 499 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:48,240 Speaker 8: It's never ending. 500 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:51,040 Speaker 12: And so we've got a lot of customers that are veterans, 501 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 12: and this is why we're involved with the VFW, the 502 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:56,360 Speaker 12: Veterans of Foreign Wars who try love and they're amazing organization, 503 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 12: National and State. Highly recommend if any of your listeners 504 00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,640 Speaker 12: are veterans of foreign wars go participate in that group. 505 00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:05,720 Speaker 12: They are wonderful people and they are the most active 506 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 12: in the best group that I've seen working with veterans 507 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:07,880 Speaker 12: in the country. 508 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,719 Speaker 8: And we're we're doing everything we can to participate with them. 509 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:12,640 Speaker 12: They're actually they have a lot of members that work 510 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 12: with us, and they're even plaineffs in our lawsuit against 511 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:17,080 Speaker 12: the State of Texas trying to ban HEMP products because 512 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 12: they understand that these products help so many of their 513 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 12: members in the Texas Compassionate Use Program. A lot of 514 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,760 Speaker 12: people argue, well, oh, it's there, and people can get 515 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 12: medical member one in Texas. It is extremely expensive and 516 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:31,880 Speaker 12: it's also very hard to participate in. It's very limited 517 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 12: in what they can do. The hemp products that we sell, 518 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:36,560 Speaker 12: you can go on our website, you can buy them 519 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 12: with a credit card, and we can ship them to 520 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:39,760 Speaker 12: your house. A lot of people in Texas don't know this. 521 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:43,400 Speaker 12: We can literally mail you because they're federally in state 522 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,600 Speaker 12: legal interstate commerce is fully allowed. You can go on 523 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:49,080 Speaker 12: our website, you can purchase hemp drive PhD products and 524 00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 12: we can ship them to your house. 525 00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:52,240 Speaker 7: And you don't have to go get a license, You 526 00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,080 Speaker 7: don't have to do anything. 527 00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 12: We do have age verification and make sure that you're 528 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:57,720 Speaker 12: of age, but other than that, you can participate in 529 00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,480 Speaker 12: this industry as an adult and you don't have to 530 00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 12: go through all this crazy stuff, which which is you know, 531 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 12: to be blunt the. 532 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 8: Way it should be. 533 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,440 Speaker 12: And you know, you talk about alcohol and sort of 534 00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 12: the harm that it does, and I come from a 535 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,880 Speaker 12: counter narcotics background, and I've seen the harm that those 536 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:11,360 Speaker 12: drugs do. 537 00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 8: You know, I've when I was. 538 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,280 Speaker 12: Twenty years old, I helped offload a three hundred million 539 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:19,600 Speaker 12: dollar cocaine bus and it's just wild to see some 540 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 12: of this stuff, and you know, to see the demonization 541 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 12: of cannabis when it really helps people. And I said, 542 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:27,400 Speaker 12: I wanted to challenge your beliefs on it and sort 543 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,959 Speaker 12: of making people lazy. You know, I personally have used 544 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 12: cannabis products to lose probably close to ninety pounds and 545 00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 12: be the healthy stuff've ever been in my entire life. 546 00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,800 Speaker 12: And what I have found, and I think what a 547 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:41,640 Speaker 12: lot of people are finding, is that using cannabis products 548 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:43,800 Speaker 12: to work out, to run, to work out, it's really 549 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:47,640 Speaker 12: an amazing anti inflammatory and amazing pain reliever and gives 550 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:51,280 Speaker 12: you massive benefits, especially when you're older. I'm forty four 551 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 12: and I can outperform a lot of kids in their twenties. 552 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:57,000 Speaker 12: And it's because I use cannabis products to train and 553 00:30:57,040 --> 00:30:59,200 Speaker 12: I use cannabis products to work out, and it is 554 00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:00,840 Speaker 12: absolutely wonderful for your body. 555 00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,760 Speaker 6: When you talk about the cannabis products you use, obviously 556 00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:10,160 Speaker 6: there's sativa, there's different there's different types of products and 557 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 6: different intended outcomes. But let me say this before I 558 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 6: says I don't see a problem if someone wants to 559 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 6: self medicate and bring down their anxiety or sit on 560 00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 6: the couch and eat cheat does I know that's not 561 00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,600 Speaker 6: the sole reason. I know there are different effects, but I, 562 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:30,680 Speaker 6: for one, do not. I get a lot of little 563 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 6: old ladies that say, Michael, you can't legalize marijuana or 564 00:31:34,800 --> 00:31:38,040 Speaker 6: people will be lazy. It's not your job to motivate 565 00:31:38,160 --> 00:31:40,720 Speaker 6: people to begin with. And some people have a mind 566 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,800 Speaker 6: that races and they can't get it to stop. It's 567 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 6: not your job or the government's job to prevent that 568 00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 6: from happening. So I don't say that in a pejorative sense. 569 00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:52,280 Speaker 6: But back to the products you use, tell me about that. 570 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 12: So we make a multi to products, mostly edibles, and 571 00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,680 Speaker 12: so we've got a variety of different edibles. 572 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:02,680 Speaker 7: Like and we also have vapes, you know. And it's 573 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,560 Speaker 7: a vape that is one hundred. 574 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,040 Speaker 12: Percent pure distillate that you can inhale and it's there's 575 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,080 Speaker 12: no smoke, so it's not going to harm your lungs 576 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:11,560 Speaker 12: and it's not going to do all this crazy stuff 577 00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:13,680 Speaker 12: that smoking a joint would do or smoking a cigarette. 578 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 12: Very low impact on your body. And I'll actually run, 579 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 12: although run seven miles with one of our vapes in 580 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:22,240 Speaker 12: my hand and hitting it as I desire when I'm 581 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 12: starting to feel pain and starting to starting to just 582 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,680 Speaker 12: feel the stress and the pain of running. Running is 583 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 12: really hard. 584 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 8: On your body. 585 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 12: And I'm a bigger guy, you know, I'm six foot one, 586 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,960 Speaker 12: and running for me can be a painful endeavor. It's 587 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,160 Speaker 12: not the funnest thing in the world. But I will say, 588 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,040 Speaker 12: using my vape and sort of getting in the right mindset, 589 00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:41,120 Speaker 12: I can go seven miles and gm out listening to 590 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 12: my music and absolutely love it, and that is something 591 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,160 Speaker 12: that I can't do off of THHC. 592 00:32:45,720 --> 00:32:46,480 Speaker 8: So I think for some. 593 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 12: People it is an amazing benefit to working out into 594 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:50,920 Speaker 12: being healthy, and there's a lot of people that are 595 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 12: finding the benefits to it, not just in sort of 596 00:32:53,480 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 12: the pain relief on the medical side, with you know, veterans. 597 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 7: Dealing with the variety of medical issues, or even cancer patients. 598 00:32:59,080 --> 00:32:59,920 Speaker 8: On pachemo therapy. 599 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 12: There's a lot of people that are using it to 600 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,040 Speaker 12: work out as well and really changing the stereotypes of 601 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:05,800 Speaker 12: what we all grew up with around cannabis. 602 00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,840 Speaker 6: I am not here to promote cannabis use. I am 603 00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,360 Speaker 6: here to promote the freedom of choice of individuals to 604 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,560 Speaker 6: make their own adult decisions. Lucas Guilkey, thanks for being 605 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,040 Speaker 6: our guest. Hometown hero dot com