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Hey all you tangentialers out there my name is Christian and today I'm speaking to you from the United States in the state of Indiana

currently in Brown County just outside of Bloomington, treating some properties. I'm the field operations manager for a pest control franchise based in central Indiana.

A rather conservative choice of occupation compared to many of the other listeners of this podcast from what I understand.

Nonetheless I'm here today to share some really good news with you Chris. In a couple weeks I start college. I'm 22 years old and after high school I really took the time to double down on finding out what interests me, what makes me take, experimenting with my own intricacies and my individualism and just finding out what I like and more importantly what I don't like, what I don't want to do.

I'm going for agricultural studies with a focus on controlled environmental systems and I'm going to use this degree to get into the cannabis industry.

Been a stoner since high school and for me it was a gateway to a better life as I got older. I was more interested in its recreational applications when I was younger but now I've come to really appreciate and fathom its environmental and ecological applications when it comes to growing sustainably.

I really attribute this bold and unrelenting ambition to pursue a fulfilling life doing what I want to do to people like you who have really nurtured that trait.

I know authenticity is a huge part of what you stand for and I really really wanted to extend my gratitude to you. I mean you were in my ear so many years in high school and even today offering me guidance and wisdom, insight and sharing wonderful experiences that I've just really not only been captivating but also insightful and very helpful.

I'm so appreciative that I have you at very critical and developmental points of my life as a friend in the companion. It really means so much to me and so many other people across the globe and I just really wanted to let you know that you are loved and you are valued man.

I just want to say to anyone else that's listening that whatever it is that you're looking for to help you feel fulfilled and whole I hope you find it because you fucking deserve it life is too damn short to be miserable.

Ain't that the truth. Ain't that the truth is and speaking of the sort of other aspects of hemp I'm the same I was I got high quite a bit in college not so much in high school I didn't really get into it until I went to Hobart College in upstate New York which is probably one of the best places or was in 1980.

One of the best places in the world to acquire high quality cannabis back back in the days when it was illegal unless you were white and came from a wealthy family and we're going to a private college in upstate New York in which case it was pretty much legal.

I never knew anyone who got busted for weed in that context anyway.

This episode is the second in the mentorship series with someone we're calling Nathan.

We figure we do three of these this one is primarily about relationships Nathan is I think he said eight months into a relationship with a woman and they're thinking very seriously about questions like more monogamy.

I almost said morality which I guess that's part of it monogamy having kids you know the implications for family community what's it mean if you structure your relationship in a in a way that's different from how most people structure relationships does that then expel you from the community of monogamous.

It does so my joke then it does at least based on my experience and look maybe if you write a book about it maybe if you're public about it that's the problem not the unusual configuration itself.

In any case it's I really enjoy chatting with this guy he's super smart and you know he he pushes back he's not just like an acolyte sitting there thinking that whatever I say is necessarily true.

It's just my opinion it's my my experience.

You know but that obviously is very individual and not necessarily applicable to everyone situation so that's always interesting to sort of find the areas where.

You know he's dealing with pressures that maybe I didn't deal with whether it's because differences in our family differences in the era in which we were a certain age you know all sorts of circumstantial.

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