Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, No. Member twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: and have you noticed, maybe even right now, certain members
Speaker 1: of your family have just kind of disappeared from the
Speaker 1: festivities as a group. They didn't announce it, no sentinel
Speaker 1: was made, but they just happened to all be on
Speaker 1: the same page for their cousin walk. And with that,
Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ Romses. Not
Speaker 1: just it's called cousin walk, but it ain't just for cousins. Now,
Speaker 1: I've never heard of this before.
Speaker 2: No, Okay, I was gonna ask you have you ever
Speaker 2: heard of this?
Speaker 1: So I saw it plenty. I saw it last night.
Speaker 2: That's hilarious.
Speaker 3: Yes, So I actually went into my daughter's room and
Speaker 3: I said, do you know what a cousin walk is?
Speaker 3: And she said, yeah, duh, when people secretly leave a
Speaker 3: gathering and go smoke weed.
Speaker 2: I've had no idea.
Speaker 3: So I was one of the squares that was completely
Speaker 3: clueless as everyone else left and did their thing.
Speaker 1: You weren't clueless to what they were doing.
Speaker 3: Oh last night, No, I knew what they were doing
Speaker 3: because I actually had already read about the cousin walk.
Speaker 3: So at this point I'm already very aware. But up
Speaker 3: until this year, oh, I would never have known what
Speaker 3: a cousin walk was. Never So they always say, think
Speaker 3: about it now. Like you're at Thanksgiving, a group of
Speaker 3: folks could be any age, any group of them just
Speaker 3: might suddenly individually disappear, or maybe they say, hey, we're
Speaker 3: gonna go get some ice, or oh, I left something
Speaker 3: in my car, and then someone else, so all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, several people are missing. We now know what
Speaker 3: they're doing.
Speaker 1: Yes, somebody, one person left something in the car, six
Speaker 1: of them need to go get it.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: So the whole point is you do this before dinner.
Speaker 3: You have a lot of benefits that arise from this.
Speaker 3: Number one, they're saying, you are ready to eat a
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving feast and nothing says thank you and gratitude to
Speaker 3: the host and scraping your plate clean and maybe even
Speaker 3: going back for seconds if you go and indulge. And
Speaker 3: it doesn't just have to be smoking. You can do
Speaker 3: the edibles, vaping, they were suggesting. It can be you
Speaker 3: could actually have a pot luck cousin walk. Everybody brings
Speaker 3: their favorite and as you're walking you can try each
Speaker 3: other's stuff and see which one's more fun. But you
Speaker 3: come back happier, more tolerant, and hungry as hell.
Speaker 1: But you don't, I guess you don't need a walk then,
Speaker 1: For if you're doing anipals, what are those people supposed
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 3: They could just individually go to the bathroom and oh,
Speaker 3: you know whatever. Yeah, there's a trip to the bathroom
Speaker 3: which includes a little extra something that I yeah, came
Speaker 3: out a little happier with no.
Speaker 2: But this is interesting, they say that now I was
Speaker 2: telling you about this.
Speaker 3: They have THHC infused oils, so people could be slipping
Speaker 3: rosemary and fuels infused oil into your stuffing, or there
Speaker 3: are a lot of things people say, folks are now
Speaker 3: putting into the meal to make everyone at the table
Speaker 3: a little happier, a little more laid back.
Speaker 1: That's tough. You're essentially drugging your family. We don't recommenc that.
Speaker 1: You gotta let them know.
Speaker 3: They were just they were just saying that this has
Speaker 3: now gotten so popular and there are so many different
Speaker 3: wide like huge amounts of ways to enjoy this where
Speaker 3: you can be more discreet perhaps than before marijuana. Now,
Speaker 3: did you know this is legal for medicinal use in
Speaker 3: forty states and recreational use in more than half of those.
Speaker 3: So this has become almost like normal. Think about ten
Speaker 3: years ago, even twenty years ago, this probably was going on,
Speaker 3: but not the way it is now.
Speaker 1: No, it's very mainstream people. It was. It was taboo
Speaker 1: for a little while. It's abunny coming back in smelling
Speaker 1: like all that stuff. Oh no, you couldn't do that,
Speaker 1: and then you were essentially got labeled as stoner. Correct, right,
Speaker 1: so it's a much much different.
Speaker 3: I heard my dad used that word last weekend. A
Speaker 3: stoner owner's not what that is. Yes, those are people
Speaker 3: who are brain dead, who stay high their entire life.
Speaker 3: That's not somebody who just has a little fun before
Speaker 3: the Thanksgiving meal.
Speaker 2: So I love this part.
Speaker 3: Apparently, now this Cousin Walk that everyone has known about
Speaker 3: for years and again has run rampant on social media
Speaker 3: that I have just found out about. They say that
Speaker 3: that has spurred now what they are calling Green Wednesday.
Speaker 3: I bet you can guess what Green Wednesday is.
Speaker 1: A Why a Wednesday?
Speaker 3: Because it's the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. So now because the
Speaker 3: Cousin Walk has gotten so popular, and we're going to
Speaker 3: tell you, I am so shocked at all of these
Speaker 3: brands and companies who are going after this market because
Speaker 3: it's become such a phenomenon. But no, they say, the
Speaker 3: cousin Walk leads folks the day before to go to
Speaker 3: their local dispensaries, hit it up for whatever they need,
Speaker 3: and then take it with them to Thanksgiving, so much
Speaker 3: so that dispensaries now say that Green Wednesday, the Wednesday
Speaker 3: before Thanksgiving, is the second biggest day for cannabis sales.
Speaker 1: After four to twenty.
Speaker 3: Yes, well, it's gonna ask you if you know what
Speaker 3: the number one. Yes, that's what the dispensary say.
Speaker 1: People really wait to four twenty to get there weed.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it's the days around four to twenty. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you've got to be prepared, right. So that is interesting
Speaker 3: because I was telling you about I was reading all
Speaker 3: these stories about Green Wednesday. They're literally saying the cousin walk,
Speaker 3: it's now a thing. So many people are secretly doing it.
Speaker 3: And part of what makes the cousin walk fun, they say,
Speaker 3: one of the main parts of it is you have
Speaker 3: to be doing it in secret. You can't other people
Speaker 3: can't be aware. That's part of the fun. You go
Speaker 3: off and do it as a group on your own
Speaker 3: and the rest of the family is completely clueless.
Speaker 1: Okay, look, we're not clueless. We know what you're doing.
Speaker 1: I mean, y'all think I'll be And especially when you
Speaker 1: come back into the house, you're not smooth. Yeah hi now,
Speaker 1: and you sink and it's a totally different vibe, totally
Speaker 1: different move. Absolutely saw this play out at the house.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: Absolutely saw it. A little group comes back, collected, too
Speaker 1: many of them sitting in too few chairs, all next
Speaker 1: to each other, not saying anything.
Speaker 2: That walk. You guys just got a little tired. You
Speaker 2: worked out a little too hard on that walk. No,
Speaker 2: it's funny. They were saying, this is huge on TikTok.
Speaker 2: We're not on TikTok.
Speaker 3: We tried to be and have completely failed it being
Speaker 3: a part of that community.
Speaker 2: Contributing to it, consuming any of it.
Speaker 3: But apparently there's the first rule of the Cousin Walk
Speaker 3: is that we do not discuss the Cousin Walk.
Speaker 2: So I guess maybe you feel cool, like.
Speaker 3: You're a part of things, and the so sad souls
Speaker 3: left behind who have no idea the fun that's being
Speaker 3: had all around them. No, but this is fun snack
Speaker 3: manufactured factorers are now getting in on the trend. Obviously,
Speaker 3: the munchies are a huge part of this. So I
Speaker 3: had no idea jiff peanut butter big ad last year
Speaker 3: on Instagram pre Thanksgiving dinner cousin walk and showed the
Speaker 3: Jiffy like a little that little portable Jiffy stuff you
Speaker 3: can have and putting it in your pocket.
Speaker 2: So they're like, oh, yeah, it's like portable peanut butter.
Speaker 2: You don't really like peanut butter.
Speaker 1: But peanut butter, what are you talking about it?
Speaker 3: They come in the little in the little plastic containers, Jeff,
Speaker 3: and then you just peel open the and now you
Speaker 3: have a little peanut.
Speaker 1: But No, no, no, no, I'm talking about the jar of peanut butter.
Speaker 1: They're just a really small jobs you can buy, like.
Speaker 3: To go peanut butters. I used to get them for
Speaker 3: the girls to take to school with them. So they're
Speaker 3: saying like they were suggesting that you slip one in
Speaker 3: your pocket when you go on your cousin walk after
Speaker 3: you get a little.
Speaker 1: But my question is, is what you're talking about just
Speaker 1: the miniature jar, no peanut butter.
Speaker 2: It's like no, It's like say, Okay. Here's the best example.
Speaker 3: When you go to McDonald's and you get a thing
Speaker 3: of ketchup and you have that little box and you
Speaker 3: can peel off the top, or the chicken nugget sauce
Speaker 3: you peel off the top.
Speaker 2: It's like that, but it's peanut butter in it. I
Speaker 2: first I've heard, okay, so they.
Speaker 3: Used that product as a part of this.
Speaker 2: This is also funny.
Speaker 3: Hidden Valley again had an Instagram ad in that valley yep,
Speaker 3: that promoted this is I was trying to figure this out,
Speaker 3: a Taco Bell collaboration with Hidden Valley, and they referenced
Speaker 3: the Cousin walk showing a Taco Bell box and a
Speaker 3: free Ranch dipping sauce that said this could heal me.
Speaker 3: So they know, like, you get the munchies, you want
Speaker 3: Taco Bell, but Hidden Valley thinks that maybe you want
Speaker 3: to dip your taco in a ranch packet in a
Speaker 3: way that maybe you only would if you were super high.
Speaker 3: So yeah, they're but it's funny they're taking these ads
Speaker 3: and putting them on Instagram. They know who they're going after.
Speaker 3: They're going after the social media crowd, the folks who
Speaker 3: are actually in on the secret about what. I guess
Speaker 3: it's not really a secret. It was just a secret
Speaker 3: to me about what the cousin walk is. I think
Speaker 3: that's fascinating.
Speaker 1: We're talking about You knew of it, you just didn't
Speaker 1: know there was a name for it.
Speaker 3: No, I didn't know people were leaving and going like
Speaker 3: at Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: Since when what I mean?
Speaker 3: I know that kids go and do it when they're
Speaker 3: trying to leave their parents, but I didn't think about
Speaker 3: it in like a family gathering, like you know, the
Speaker 3: cousins are going out while the uncles and aunts and
Speaker 3: the grandparents are all sitting around staring at each other.
Speaker 3: They're out having fun, taking a walk or getting a
Speaker 3: bag of ice, or walking the dog. No, so this
Speaker 3: was there was a public service announcement the Cannabis Media Council.
Speaker 2: This is a trade association.
Speaker 3: They're trying to remove the stigma of smoking weed, and
Speaker 3: so they actually have an ad campaign out that says,
Speaker 3: a quick loop around the block. Every family has a
Speaker 3: version of the Thanksgiving escape, usually led by the cousins
Speaker 3: who just need some air. It's like, if I had
Speaker 3: read this a week ago, Babe, I would not have
Speaker 3: known what they were talking about. Ah, what you say, right,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have understood it at all. So and they
Speaker 3: also say, like when they're making their their case for
Speaker 3: why it's actually a good thing if members of your
Speaker 3: family are going out and taking a cousin walk, even
Speaker 3: if you disapprove, even if you don't want to partake,
Speaker 3: because they say, stoned people make.
Speaker 2: The best house guests.
Speaker 3: They said they're the first volunteer for chores, they're happy,
Speaker 3: don't mind helping out. They're also two stoned after the meal,
Speaker 3: and they don't really want to engage with folks, so
Speaker 3: they'll just hide out.
Speaker 1: Washing dishes and certainly not come back exactly really they
Speaker 1: are because you get paranoid. So is imbody going to
Speaker 1: notice that I'm high? So let me go do a
Speaker 1: project on my own, right.
Speaker 2: I'll help. I'll go do the laundry, I'll go wash
Speaker 2: the dishes.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'll uh, I don't know, get the outdoor ready
Speaker 3: for everyone to go outside around the fire pit.
Speaker 2: You'll do anything to get away so that people don't
Speaker 2: know that you're stone.
Speaker 3: So I thought that was funny that actually, if you
Speaker 3: do have a group going out, they'll end up being
Speaker 3: your favorite guests in your home.
Speaker 1: When they come back. Yeah, just have everything ready for
Speaker 1: them when they come back.
Speaker 3: All right, when we come back, we're going to give
Speaker 3: you some tips that we found to have a successful
Speaker 3: cousin walk. Happy Thanksgiving everyone, and well some of us
Speaker 3: went on a turkey trot today and others went on
Speaker 3: a cousin walk.
Speaker 2: Which one would you prefer?
Speaker 1: Or what? You know, which one?
Speaker 2: I would prefer the turkey trot?
Speaker 3: You know what, I'd like a turkey trot first and
Speaker 3: a cousin walk afterwards.
Speaker 2: I think you can have both. You don't have to choose.
Speaker 3: But yes, we are talking about this widely known apparently
Speaker 3: by everyone else social media trend called the cousin walk,
Speaker 3: where a group of folks doesn't have to be cousins,
Speaker 3: but in a family gathering at Thanksgiving, go out and
Speaker 3: make up some bs errand or say they're taking a
Speaker 3: walk around the block and what they're actually doing is
Speaker 3: smoking a joint. Or as they suggested, you could bring
Speaker 3: a pot luck theme to your Thanksgiving turkey walk cousin
Speaker 3: walk and just share whatever pot you have and come
Speaker 3: back happier and better. So they do give some tips
Speaker 3: for how to have a success cousin walk. The first
Speaker 3: one is very important. Know your crew. You can't have
Speaker 3: someone being sloppy.
Speaker 1: Okay, you need to have no newbies on the cousin
Speaker 1: walk right, Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 3: That was what they said. All right, this was really important.
Speaker 3: Plan your exit and your re entry. They suggest having
Speaker 3: a preordained signal like when I you know, you know,
Speaker 3: raise my hand, my left hand and touch my nose.
Speaker 3: Everyone knows in the next minute or so to kind
Speaker 3: of get up and take out whatever I got to
Speaker 3: take out the trash, go take the dog, and leave
Speaker 3: from different doors, Like don't all leave from the same door.
Speaker 2: So you really have to have this, that's not possible.
Speaker 1: That's why. Yeah, we live in New York. We live
Speaker 1: in apartments, and there's usually one way in and one
Speaker 1: way out. So when I see seven people gathered at
Speaker 1: the door grabbing coats if we haven't even served the meal.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yes, okay, you know what's going on?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: I love this one. Someone said this.
Speaker 3: My go to excuse is to say that we forgot
Speaker 3: an important an ingredient for dessert and that we need
Speaker 3: to make a quick run to the grocery store. We
Speaker 3: never actually get in the car. We just take a
Speaker 3: quick loop around the block on foot, and then we
Speaker 3: returned and regretfully inform people that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, closed on Thanksgiving. That's something grocery stores do.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's true.
Speaker 3: They also say, you got to make sure you pick
Speaker 3: the right setting and the right route because that can
Speaker 3: impact your high. Your setting is important. So you want
Speaker 3: to make sure you go somewhere that's fun and pleasant.
Speaker 3: You're not worried about someone seeing you, or especially if
Speaker 3: you're smoking. Really, you got to think that ahead. You
Speaker 3: don't want to be paranoid while you're smoking.
Speaker 1: Pots or what about the house with that crazy guard
Speaker 1: dog it stars barking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that could totally rely hie.
Speaker 3: Now, you want to make sure you have a pleasant,
Speaker 3: peaceful and private way to enjoy your cannabis. And then
Speaker 3: the others suggest this is a pro tip. They said,
Speaker 3: make sure you're prepared to mask the symptoms. Bring eye
Speaker 3: drops with you. If you have long hair and you
Speaker 3: are smoking, put your hair up when you go on
Speaker 3: the walk because then it won't catch all the smell
Speaker 3: when you come back in. They said, you can bring
Speaker 3: those little pocket for breezes and you can just spray
Speaker 3: your clothing before you walk in. And then here is
Speaker 3: the number one tip that I know that I could
Speaker 3: not follow if I if I was to go on
Speaker 3: a cousin walk, if I ever got asked to one. Somehow,
Speaker 3: try not to crack up at the dinner table.
Speaker 1: O thousands, they don't talk about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be hard for me too.
Speaker 1: Don't crack up at the dinner table.
Speaker 2: And that they said that. They said that was the
Speaker 2: hardest one of all.
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna be making eyes at each other, seeing who's
Speaker 1: going to crack first, and.
Speaker 3: Then everyone else's been looking it wasn't that funny? Why
Speaker 3: do they think it's that funny? But they also said
Speaker 3: the good thing is if you are laughing a lot,
Speaker 3: you're gonna make the other members of your family who
Speaker 3: didn't go on the cousin walk feel like they're just
Speaker 3: the smartest, wittiest, funniest person ever. So actually they get
Speaker 3: something out of it too, because if you laugh at
Speaker 3: every dumb dad joke your uncle tells, he'll he'll.
Speaker 2: Feel kind of good. Yeah, he'll be flexing a little.
Speaker 3: He'll be flexing a little, like, man, I think I'm
Speaker 3: a little funnier than I thought. So again, this was
Speaker 3: definitely a pro cannabis article that was written, but in
Speaker 3: their summation, there really aren't many losers when it comes
Speaker 3: to the cousin back.
Speaker 2: As long as.
Speaker 3: You know who you're with and you know how to
Speaker 3: cover your tracks. And with that everyone, we hope you
Speaker 3: had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We appreciate you listening to us.
Speaker 3: I may be Roeboch alongside TJ. Holmes and we will
Speaker 3: talk to you soon