Some weeks you sit down to record with a plan. This was not one of those weeks. Life threw a brick through my schedule, handed me a TV remote, and said, “Figure it out, champ.” So naturally, I turned emotional chaos into a 45-minute saga about Valhalla, hemp supply chains, and why ambiguity finally ran out of places to hide.
What came out the other side is part grief-processing, part agricultural analysis, and part “Why did Netflix think I’m a Puerto Rican club kid who also forges axes in his garage?” From there, the only logical move was to drag the entire hemp sector into a Viking afterlife metaphor. Because when you don’t know what to say… you commit to the bit.
I talk about Rodya from Crime and Punishment, Beowulf, Ragnar Lothbrok, and the operators who built their business on soil versus the ones who built theirs on loopholes they discovered at 2 a.m. after MJBiz afterparties. If that sounds chaotic, it is. If it sounds uncomfortably accurate to the hemp industry, it absolutely is.
Somehow — and trust me, I’m as surprised as you are — the whole thing comes together. We get to Valhalla… metaphorically. We sort out who trained for the real industry and who trained for the afterparty. And we finally answer the only question that matters when the old era dies: What will be remembered about what we built?
If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a hemp podcaster processes grief, critiques Norse mythology, mocks Δ8 “innovation,” and still tries to give usable industry insight — congratulations. This week’s episode is exactly that.
