Interrogating a Russian over Drinks - Choogle on #50

Over martinis at a fancy Covent Garden bar in London, a charming Russian student indulges a somewhat flustered Uncle Weed’s questions about Siberian winters, police corruption, fixers and bribes, communist nostalgia, gulags, late-night disapperences, hockey teams plus his comrade quearies into the effectiveness of her tactical KGB skills.

Pay your bribe for Interrogating a Russian over Drinks - Choogle on #50 (.mp3, 13:24, 14MB)

original photo by UW, art’ed up by Bread the producer

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Music:

“Lawyers, Guns and Money” Warren Zevon via Archive.org
February 11, 1988, Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark

Clayoquot Old-Growth Blockade Flashback - Choogle on #44

While camping at Clayoquot Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island last summer, Uncle Weed launches into a lengthy discourse about noted logging blockades in 1993 and talks about meditations on hemp, non-violence, compassion, clearcuts, ecology and economics of forestry and comments on a looming water shortage in Tofino (to be continued …).

Get your hands on Clayoquot Old-Growth Blockade Flashback - Choogle on #44 (39:03, .mp3, 54MB)

Anarchy and Fungi in the UK - Choogle on #42

Out n’ about on London double-decker buses and underground tube to hook up for tea and joints with ethneo-pundit Max Freakout in counter-culture haven Camden Town to chat about markets and psychedelics (salvia divinorum, DMT, psilocybin) and reminiscing about two glorious summers of fungi legality in the UK.

Plus Brighton flashbacks with The Dopefiend discoursing on royals and morals and Max’s accounts of anarchist rallies and heavy handed actions by the coppers and parliamentary war-mongers.

Roll along with Anarchy and Fungi in the UK - Choogle on #42 (.mp3, 24:28, 22MB)

[pic and art by UW on flickr]

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Tripper’s Paradise: Hampstead Heath - Wikipedia, Hampstead Heath - City of London, Hampstead Heath - enthusiast site

Music:

“High Times” (.mp3) from “New Moon” by Elliott Smith - Kill Rock Stars
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Father Yod, YaHoWha 13 and the Source Family
See: Process Media - Source Family music

Sex Pistols “Anarchy in the UK”

The Ukrainians “Anarchy in the UK

Sex Pistols “L’Anarchie”

Bacon, Biscuits and Hemp Ed - Choogle on #39

Whilst visiting mentor/amigo Hemp Ed in Pe Ell, Washington, Uncle Weed chats about cellulose fuel conversion, logging industry, tasty eggs from hemp seed fed chickens laden with omega 3s fatty acids plus Willie Nelson’s peaceful bio-diesel revolution, Ed’s Alaskan logging hi-jinks, Finnish saunas and Hemp Express Van flashbacks. Visit Hemplobby.org (be sure to download the “Practical Guide to Cannabis” .pdf) and Ed’s HempLobby Chronicles blog.

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(.mp3, 37.5MB, 27:18)

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Music:

‘Bio’ Willie Nelson [BioWillie Fuels] “A Peaceful Solution” (origin unknown)

The Numbskulz “Roadtrip (instrumental)” (hear Numbskulz on Choogle on #26 and #19 - a third episode “Numbskulz Grow Up” coming soon)

(photo by Eve Lentz from Practical Guide to Cannabis)

Joints on Brighton Beach with Dopefiend and Freakout - Choogle on #38

From SouthEast London, Uncle Weed hooks up with The Dopefiend for a wake n’ bake Volcano session and recounts culinary exploits then they join Max Freakout for a day-trip to Brighton Beach with cellulose joints of Jack Herer and engage in political discourse from England’s role in the world to tasty hemp snacks.

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(32:40, .mp3, 30MB)

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Music:

Black Tories “Lazurus” - Kill Kool Records

Clayton the Seabus Busker - “Rocketman” (Taupin/John)

International Heads and Hemp Oil - Choogle on #34

Uncle Weed works through a pile of interesting mail including recent Heads magazines, hemp essential oil from Switzerland, shocking letters from Iranian academics, indecent US border guards ands sends a call out for show topics and offers bribes for show reviews plus a contest, …

Download Choogle on with Uncle Weed #34 (43:24, 40MB, .mp3)

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Trivia Contest: What is the Canadian town where Ross Rebagliati and Uncle Weed were born? Listen to Clubside Breakfast Time for answer- and yes, proper spelling counts!

Post answer to this blog post or send e-mail to uncleweed {at} uncleweed {d0t} to win a copy of the winter sports issue of Heads magazine (seen below) with article on Ross Rebagliati … signed by the writer!

Music Roster:

1. Black Tories - Flightpath
2. Drive by Truckers - World of Hurt
3. Chris Sullivan - Rainin’

Link Stash:

• Heads - the marijuana lifestyle magazine
• Olison - Swiss Hemp essesntial oil makers
• Iranian letters to Hemp in Japan research site, Taima.org

feedback uncleweed {at} uncleweed {d0t} net
note to self: find busted Surrey US border guard article
new note to self: talk about info received from Chad in Surrey

Mission to the Homestead and Himalayas - Choogle on #30

Exiting the Castro chaos in geta sandals, Mad Dog and Uncle Weed stroll through San Francisco’s eclectic Mission district talking about urban planning and related social conundrums and sorting out tense Nepalese political negotiations en route to a fine neighborhood pub called the Homestead with a bench full of hidden wine, naked wimmin on the walls and men with old-timey hats.

Download Choogle on with Uncle Weed #30 (21:26, 19.9MB, .mp3)

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Bonus Resources:

Homestead pub map and review

NepalPolitical news on BBC (tentative peace agreement)

Homeless protest documentation from Indy Media

Downtown Eastside Enqurier article on the homeless sit-in/protest

CBC (protest coverage)

Music from Jerry Garcia Band (duh ;-))

This episode produced by Bread the Producer from recording made by Uncle Weed on Oct. 31st, 2006

Drunken Rock Night in Oly - Choogle on #28

Uncle Weed busts out clips from the vault featuring a stumbling rock and roll night in Olympia just after April 20th along with unreligion “indifferentialism” rant and Stew Millionaire out of control.

Download Choogle on with Uncle Weed #28 (21:24, 19MB, .mp3)

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Starting out from Ben the mad activist’s house, Uncle Weed spiels forth about praying in baseball and recent article publication in Heads magazine (Zen Rambling in Japan in the Travel Issue, Vol. 6, Issue 4) before finding mayhem at the Eastside with drunken lamenting Stew and open mic night - finally he hooks up with Clubside Breakfast Time Cosmo for a Black Bettie show and T-shirt quest for the Unmajestic.

Plus incidental music by busker Clayton on the Seabus.

Adopt Justin’s Cedars - Urban Vancouver podcast #3

DaveO sits down with Justin Tilson to talk about the 10,000 Western Red Cedars he recently adopted to help effectuate positive global climates. They also banter about his community gardening projects plus chat about abandoned railline corridors in Vancouver and Al Gore’s movie.

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Exploding Grow Rooms, Rampant Fascism and Funny Glaswegians - Choogle on #23

On the Seabus en route to BC Place, Uncle Weed relates news stories about an exploding grow house, a Briton arrested for singing along to The Clash, Marc Emery’s ongoing extradition debacle, war resisters in Canada, and also recommends some funny podcasting Scots.

Listen Up - “Choogle on with Uncle Weed #23” (.m4a)
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Down at the New Amsterdam - Choogle on #22

Uncle Weed heads out with Reverend Bob and Padowan Zach to spend a Sunday in downtown Vancouver’s preferred locales for herbal enthusiasts in this Enhanced Podcast - fortified with photos, links and other surprises.

Justin of the New Amsterdam Cafe gives the straight dope on the chronology of the ‘potblock’ - Cannabis Cafe, HempBC, Blunt Brothers, the great fire of 2004, and more - plus insight on the perks and challenges of the running a cannabis-friendly cafe.

Then, after a visit to BC Marijuana Party bookstore, the lads head to The Cambie Inn for liquid refreshment and herbal respite before a Seabus voyage to Lonsdale Quay.

Listen Up - “Choogle on with Uncle Weed #22” (m4a) - enhanced podcast - fortified with pics & links
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Bonus! Coffee talk with Gold Medalist Ross Rebagliati - Olympic Outsider #3

An enhanced Olympic Outsider podcast with host Dave Thorvald visiting with 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics Gold Medalist and Snowboard legend Ross Rebagliati.

At a busy Symposium on Web 2.0 and the Future of Sport at Vancouver’s Take 5 Cafe, Dave asks Ross about the drug-testing incident in great detail plus they discuss Ross’s aspirations for 2010 and beyond, his recreational hobbies and real-estate dealings. Then, Dave relates anecdotes about his own drug testing experience (see attached .pdf) and gives thanks to Ross for inspiring the people.

Thanks to Bread for pics, Mudhoney for tunes, Bryght and Rain City Studios for putting on the Symposium and props to Roots for supporting Ross.

> Listen Up! “Olympic Outsider #3” (m4a) - enhanced podcast fortified with pics
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Note: Orginally posted February 20, 2006, at DaveThorvald’s Olympic Outsider blog at 2010 Daily Vancouver and recorded February 17, 2006

Progressive plotting at the Capitol dome - Choogle on #17

Uncle Weed and Cosmo head to Olympia’s legislative building for a forum on progressive blogging, creative media outreach and general mudrackery.

Listen to Choogle on with Uncle Weed #17

Check out Goldy’s Horse’s Ass, (a blog named after Tim Eyeman) for progressive mudrackery and also Olyblog for local insight to WA politics. Oh yeah, I have a brief DaveO blog at Olyblog too and so does the Unabonger.

photo from Flickr by Aster

Vancouver Pot Block Walkabout - Choogle on #13

Heading out on a medicinal seed quest, Uncle Weed wanders around the Vancouver Pot block and Victory park.

Listen up! Choogle on with Uncle Weed #13

photos by daveo

Ranting on about Trains, Buses and Borders - Choogle on #10

Uncle Weed gets a rant on about train ineffiency, bus exploits, jarheads and borders hassles while recounting recent experiences.

Listen Up! Choogle on with Uncle Weed #10

pic by DaveO’s phone

Musical stones in South Park with Cosmo - Choogle on #9

Along with colleague Cosmo, Uncle Weed stops by Cesar Chavez park featuring unique musical stone sculptures plus neighborhood rant and planespotting.

Listen Up! Choogle on with Uncle Weed #9 “Musical stones in South Park with Cosmo”

pics by daveo’s phone

Odyessy herb, Breakfast casts and Guy Terrifico - Choogle on #8

Starting at a secret herbal lounge, Uncle Weed chats about the temp labor industry, hybrid weed, Guy Terrifico, breakfast time podcasts (Clubside Breakfast Time & Fr. Roderick’s Daily Breakfast) and suchnot.

Listen Up! Choogle on with Uncle Weed #8

Heading South to OlyWa - Choogle on #4

Dave rolls down south along Interstate 5 in a U-Haul with Anders and they talk about border hassles, Seattle sights and Tacoma smells.

Listen Up! Choogle on Uncle Weed #4 “Heading South to OlyWa”