Mark 
Darrell 
Mike [00:00:00]
Mike: All right.
Mark: But I’m still gonna record in video. Hello [00:01:00] everyone. Welcome to
Darrell: shirt
Mark: newest season of the Puff Provision Podcast, where I was rudely interrupted by at Puff Provisions, Mike, to ensure and assure that these are all audio recordings from here on out, because I cannot place my last bet on whether or not this guy is wearing clothes.
Darrell, can you.
Darrell: Now and since it’s going to be no video, I’m gonna take my pants off.
Mark: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. We need to have people pay for that kind of material and that kind of entertainment.
Darrell: for that.
Mark: No paywall for that because in this Puff Provisions world, welcome to the newest edition, newest season of the Puff Provisions podcast. I’m one of three of your beautiful hosts over the last six years at Puff Provisions Mark.
100% sober, by the way. ~~Um. ~~Just because, um, 100% still a cannabis advocate and proponent, um, as long as you do it right, and I’m with two of my closest homies in this [00:02:00] puff provision world at Puff Provisions, Darrell, and at Naked Puff Provisions. Mike. Good evening, gentlemen. How are you?
Darrell: Hello.
Mark: That’s all you have to say. After so many months of not recording and we’re tired, yeah, we’re always tired. That’s why tonight is simply a welfare check. I think over the next few, this is pretty much what it’s gonna be all about because the real world has been tiring. All of us hasn’t. It at least has been me.
I’m not gonna, I’m not gonna. Diagnose you guys, you guys can diagnose yourselves, but it’s tiring the old, we’re getting older gentlemen. And I simply wanted to check in with the two of you. See, I don’t know how real welfare checks go. Do I call a cop and have them knock on your door? ~~Um, ~~but since I don’t have to, I’ve got the privilege of having you on the video.
I just wanna check in and see how both of you are doing. Who wants to go first? This is a very open-ended discussion, by the way. Alright. I saw you smoking on a little bit of vape just to ease it all in and before you go to bed tonight, is that, [00:03:00] am I right or am I wrong on that?
Darrell: unlike you, I like to enjoy myself.
Mark: I will enjoy myself after this one, but I figured not to get too off the rails on this one. The next episode in 2026, Russell assured I’ll be a little bit grinding on those rails, but right now I just wanted to check in for the next few minutes. And is that a sativa? I’m gonna guess it’s a hybrid. The market only gets,
Darrell: let’s, yeah. Okay. Take a, take a guess. I’ll give you, so it is a zy disposable vape. Uh,
Mark: It’s in a, it’s a black color.
Darrell: they all come in black. ~~Uh, ~~well, the disposables do. And,
Mark: Oh, okay.
Darrell: it says one. One gram of some, some goodness.
Mike: Some
Mark: it a,
Darrell: Can
Mark: is it a name that I know.
Darrell: yes. Very popular name.
Mark: Okay.
Darrell: how can I give you a hint without giving it away? named
Mark: Hybrid sativa. Hybrid sativa or indica.
Darrell: It’s a
Mark: Okay.
Darrell: Sativa
Mike: Dream
Darrell: It’s not blue dream. [00:04:00] It’s named after a person.
Mike: person.
Mark: Sativa strain. ~~Uh, ~~a sativa strain named after a person
or a live person? Oh, it’s a he. Okay. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. A sativa strain, huh? A sativa strain.
Mike: No idea. No idea.
Mark: Lene Nelson. I have no idea.
Mike: Oh, he’s not with us.
Mark: Are you serious? He’s not with us.
Mike: No. He is not with us.
Mark: Oh, how dare. Okay. This is perfect. Freeform time to, uh, why is he not with us?
Mike: I
Mark: What’s going on?
Mike: or something like that. Anyways, um, we’ll
Mark: Let’s check in with you. Let’s check in. ~~Uh, ~~he’ll come back. He’s got the link.
Mike: yeah.
Mark: knows how to jump back in the link.
Mike: That’s been, uh,
Mark: Have you been
Mike: anything since what, 2025? May,
Mark: 2025? Something like that? Yeah. A long time. [00:05:00] Yeah. So let’s see what’s changing. Almost a year outside of getting older. Outside of getting older, we can’t use that as a, as a line item or
Mike: no, no, no. So I’ll explain why, why, why? It’s, for me, it’s older. It’s because when I turned 40, I still felt, you know, like, I was like, man, I, I feel like, you know, I still feel like I’m in my early thirties. Right.
Mark: 39 going to 40. You still feel fresh that you’re telling me you still feel fresh
Mike: Oh yeah. I still feel fresh, you know,
Mark: Uhhuh.
Mike: fresh as a daisy. But now that I’m turning four, we are turning 43 in a month, um, two months, a month and a half. ~~Uh, ~~it, I am actually feeling older. We’re getting to our mid forties,
Mark: back in, in the wrong at the wrong time. Uh.
Mike: I have a teenager now. So it feels old.
Mark: That’s a blessing. I’m trying to go for the positive life. But you are feeling older because of these changes that have that you had no control of. They just happened all around you.
Mike: And then I’m getting hurt, [00:06:00] like doing physical activities.
Mark: Welcome to the Broken Fingers Club buddy. Welcome. Welcome. I saved a seat right for you. Right here. Right here. You’re gonna be my new best friend. I have eight Working Fingers Boys. One that I, one that one that got destroyed playing football with you guys and the second that got destroyed, playing a game of Jiujitsu.
So I’ve only got eight lives left before it’s time to go. And how many did you injure? Just one or two because I see it buddy banded.
Mike: I, I broke my, uh, ring finger on
Mark: Okay. So one once and you’re buddy banded it looks like. Okay. It’s a buddy band.
Mike: yeah, yeah. It just got outta the cast this week.
Mark: Gotcha. So your fingers are smelling all good again instead of like old flesh. Yeah. Yeah.
Mike: yeah, yeah,
Mark: Not smelling like it doesn’t smell like vinegar anymore. Got it. Do you get
Mike: payments,
Mark: No. Okay.
Mike: now.
Mark: Gotcha. So, Dee, you walked in, you walked back into the room at the wrong time because [00:07:00] in this welfare check, Mike described how.
Going from the age of 39 to 40, he still felt young and fresh. But now that it’s been quite a few months since our last podcast session, quite a few years since turning 39 to 40, that he’s starting to feel it. And you know what? I can’t say I disagree because without any medical intervention, I have also been feeling bolder.
~~Um. ~~I have no topicals, no injections, no supplements to wanna really boost anything at this moment. Although I am very intrigued. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t knock anyone that does it, uh, medically or recreationally, but I have noticed that my cardio, I run slower. ~~Um, ~~and I don’t, I don’t want to run slower, by the way.
I don’t, I really don’t. But my legs just feel. My legs feel heavier. So it’s just like, okay, I need intervention there. ~~Um, ~~my, um, so I, I run, you [00:08:00] guys both know I religiously run everyone on the call here,
Mike: Yeah,
Mark: but that’s like my thing. ~~Um, ~~so I run, but I don’t run as fast as I used to. ~~Um, ~~Daryl always known me to be a flexible guy.
That’s why I got into jujitsu in the first place. Well, guys, I can’t, I can’t really bend right now. I don’t feel like I’m worthy of only fans. It hurts to bend. I don’t feel like OnlyFans. I’m gonna play, uh, I’m going to, I’m gonna, um, launch a new channel on only few because OnlyFans, I, I can’t perform.
There’s no way I can perform on, on that platform. ~~Uh, ~~so I’m not as bendy as I used to be. ~~Uh, ~~what else? ~~Uh, ~~the.
Mike: one for,
Mark: My knees crack, my knees crack and crackle all the time. Like snap, crackle and pop. I don’t voluntarily choose for any of this. It’s just the nat. What, what is it? What’s that term or that scientific, it’s ~~uh, ~~what’s that? ~~Um, ~~what’s his name?
Mike: we’re forgetting everybody’s
Mark: We’re forgetting everyone is say that’s also part of it. I’m getting old. I’m getting old. It’s ~~um. ~~[00:09:00] What’s it called when? ~~Um, ~~no, that scientist that, that scientist.
Mike: Old man
Mark: Who’s that? What sits from the science? ~~Um. ~~When, uh, natural selection occurs? Who, who, who coined that natural selection? Darwin, when Darwinism is occurring, Darwin is occurring like in my life right now, where it’s just like, it’s like the layers of it all are starting to peel back. And outside of being constantly re reminded by the ATP puff provisions wife, that we are getting older now.
I act to have the physical cues and signals telling me that it’s happening so. I
Mike: so
Mark: that those are, I have many more by the way, but those are the ones that I’m willing to share right now.
Mike: this, this is one that really made me like, oh man, I’m an old dude now. ~~Um, ~~I. I thoroughly will enjoy and if have the opportunity look forward to taking a nap. Midday.
Darrell: Oh my God.
Mark: Looking forward to taking in that midday and. What, what is midday? [00:10:00] Broadly speaking, in older people terms, what is midday?
Mike: like
Mark: Approximately
Mike: one to two
Darrell: Mike.
Mark: to two. So that’s when you’d start it, right?
Mike: a reset.
Mark: Yeah. One to two, right. So.
Mike: not working.
Mark: Like, no, it’s not. And that, that, that’s another thing too. So you guys know that I’m pretty, um, I’m pretty good with coffee.
I like caffeine, I like the Red Bulls or you know, all those things. And I like coffee too. Not a savant with coffee. I don’t know all the formulas or the cool little lattes that y’all get. Shit. Yeah, I’ll get that. But bottom line, I just pound coffee or, or caffeinated drinks and it’s not helping. Like I feel like my body tunes out caffeine by like noon.
After lunch, like my lunch takes over and it’s just like my lunch slowed me down and I’m like,
Mike: Yes, exactly.
Mark: and I’ve even,
Mike: I’m, I’m tired.
Mark: and it’s not even this, here’s another old point, like I’m not. I’m not, I didn’t change my lunch diet because of, oh, some kind of vanity thing. I [00:11:00] just changed it. ‘cause it was just like, it’s easier to eat, like eating a lunchbox style, like a Tupperware full of food kinda mentality. So, but it’s like really, it’s really balanced, like salads or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
~~Um, ~~but even a.
Mike: healthy
Mark: Oh, no, no. It’s a, it’s a mix of both. I, I, I, I eat it all. Still don’t, don’t get me wrong, so, but, because I’m telling Yeah, rice in there, whatever, whatever we throw in there is whatever we throw in there to not get bored from my lunch, my, my, uh, work lunches or whatever. But that’s not really the point.
The point is it doesn’t matter if it’s something you think is as healthy or as glorified as like a salad or like, the most, most like heavier viscous burrito out there. They both put me to sleep. After I eat it, I go, I’m tired. I’m like, eyes are heavy. Eyes are very, very heavy. And I’m like, and I’m like, see, it doesn’t matter.
Shit. Food, junk food, good food. I’m sleepy. So one to two o’clock, I’m, I’m queuing in too. Like, um, how long do you take to nap? Like on average, in a perfect world, how long do you [00:12:00] think your puff provisions wife would allow that before she
Mike: Oh, allow. She wouldn’t allow a nap.
Mark: Oh yeah.
Mike: me and I, I have another story to tell on another day about taking a nap, and I’m sure you guys will end up hearing it from your wives, the story, so we’ll just, you know.
Mark: All right. I’m, I’m excited. A quick pause on that for the next round, but on average, how long do you sleep or nap? Excuse me, nap for,
Mike: Like 30 minutes to 45 minutes.
Mark: so I’ve been trying this life hack a little bit about like, I. I don’t know if these readings are true.
Mike: minute, like,
Mark: Yeah, 15 to 20 minute naps.
Mike: 15? Yeah. Yeah. So you hit Ram and then binger out of it
Mark: Yep. Yep. And then so like
Mike: Yeah.
Mark: like that. So, but like, because it’s nap not sleep that I try to just get the optimal amount of nap kind of mentality and like 20 power nap.
Yeah. It’s a power nap. So I don’t know if how, how much truth there is to any of those readings so far. But when I hit 20 minutes, I ask for 20 [00:13:00] more. So I press snooze on my alarm. I’m very disciplined in, in that.
Mike: a better man than me. I thought you were gonna be,
Mark: Oh,
Mike: bad,
Mark: I’m bad. I’m bad, but so like, I try to be militant or disciplined and all that bullshit and I’m like, I, I’ll, okay, I’ll set a timer for 20 minutes hard set, uh, on my phone. Cool.
Mike: Like a
Mark: And it feels good.
Mike: right? Like,
Mark: Set. Boom. And then when that thing pings, I’m like, all right, I’m ready to go start. The second half of the day, I press that motherfucking orange button that says snooze, and I gladly touch it over.
And I’m just like, next thing I know, I rack up like 60 minute. Of sleep and I’m just, ‘cause I, I, I snooze that thing two or three times and I’m like, oh shit, I should probably get up. You know why? Because we’re getting older.
Mike: and I think I know why too. I, as we’re getting older, our priorities are becoming like, you know, we really, really prioritize things that we truly value,
Mark: Yes. I could, I could agree to that. Yeah.
Mike: we’re [00:14:00] 42. We’re a little bit jaded. You know, we’re, we’re probably one of the tougher, ~~uh, um, ~~generations to have come up, right?
With like, just. Stuff after stuff. After stuff
Mark: After step. I could agree to that. Yeah.
Mike: Right.
Mark: Life. Life-changing events. Yeah. Life-changing events that we could not control.
Mike: exactly. A ton of them. ~~Um, ~~I just don’t care anymore.
Mark: Yeah. And I,
Mike: priorities are my family,
Mark: yep.
Mike: my friends, and just.
Mark: And don’t die. And, and don’t die. Simply put, don’t die. You know, I don’t know what else to say.
Mike: that’s it. Work
Mark: like, I feel like Darrell’s been in and out of this one, so he’s just gonna be a, a witness to it,
Mike: yeah, yeah,
Mark: but that’s fine. That’s super fine. That’s super fine.
Mike: like before you’d be like, ah, I can’t even take a nap. I gotta, I gotta max, I gotta maximize, right? I
Mark: Right,
Mike: out
Mark: so I look at it.
Mike: I like that nap.
Mark: Exactly. I look at it [00:15:00] like this ‘cause it’s like, you know, when you’re in your thirties and then that cusp, that turn of event happens to the forties and now we’re saturated in our forties and we have to be willing to accept that it’s gonna head into the fifties if we don’t get hit by the metaphorical bus tomorrow.
~~Um, ~~and so on and so forth. And like, I agree to parts of like, these are my types of priorities in my head we’re at for that, I just don’t care. Right. So obviously it’s like my priority is don’t die. Care for myself and my family and my friends. That’s it. Have, have a little money in my pocket. Sure. Have a lot of money in my pocket.
Sure. I’d love that too. Um,
Mike: yeah,
Mark: than that, get the fuck out and bounce in peace so I can go do what I want before I get tired kind of mentality, you know? So
Mike: hobby. You have a hobby you enjoy too, right?
Mark: I know I’m,
Mike: you.
Mark: yep. And I just want to just geek out and do some other projects that I want to do that don’t kill me or tire me out, or. Don’t, it asks just the right amount of me, but not to the point where it’s like there’s no return on it [00:16:00] kind of thing.
But ~~um, ~~I guess to that point, and what you’ve said, like over the course of this conversation, it’s mainly for me, it’s everything that you just said plus this, and the plus. This is literally like. I caught it on an Instagram post or some, some, I don’t follow them. It just fed into my algorithm, uh, obviously from things that I’ve been seeing and it’s, I paraphrase it incorrectly, but it goes something like this that
I just want to, I’m just trying to do a good job at work and go home
Mike: Yes.
Mark: and be at peace with that. The fact that I did my best. That’s it.
Mike: Yeah.
Mark: That’s it. Like, but I, I’m paraphrasing that caption incorrectly, but it goes like that. It’s like you just wanna show up, honestly. You wanna do your thing, do your best, wrap it up, go home kind of mentality.
That’s it. That’s all you wanna do. And then, yeah, sure, rinse. I’ll rinse and repeat. Do it again. I’m cool with that. I’m [00:17:00] so good with that. But, you know, 42 going into a 43, like I’ve been auditing my face. There are a lot more like wrinkles. Like I’ve obviously used a filter on this camera to airbrush me cutely a little bit.
But if we,
Mike: Yep.
Mark: were to see, like there are, there’s a little bit more salt and pepper on the sides and the crow’s nest is there, like around the eyes. It’s like, it’s right here. It’s like you are in, into my forehead. Like I, I go to, I go to work every morning. I look at the rear view mirror. And the first two things, one, two things that I see when I’m cruising like that, and we headed into the office and I’m looking at the rear view mirror, are these two lines in between my eyebrows that seem to not go away.
Like I’m constantly angry and I’m not, by the way, I’m not angry, but I’m just like, oh fuck, we’re [00:18:00] here, we’re here now we’re, there’s no amount of rest. That’s gonna stop aging. Like,
Darrell: like
Mark: you know, when I look at other people like other, our other peers in our surrounding plus or fi plus or five minus years, whatever the case may be, well minus five years.
‘cause I if, if they’re minus five years, I’m like, dude, enjoy it now before it goes away. But the plus five years, I’m just like the ones that look good, honestly. And I say this. For both the guys and the gals. When you see like their five years, five plus years, you’re senior, but they’re still looking really good.
I’m just like, there’s gotta be medical intervention now. There’s got to be a little bit of a drip, drip, drip or a syringe, syringe, syringe. I,
Mike: At this, uh, at this stage of our
Mark: at this stage of our life exactly to to stop, to stop it all from occurring and. De, you’ve been in and out. [00:19:00] You good?
Darrell: I, I
Mark: No, that’s fine.
Darrell: my phone bill. Sorry.
Mark: Well, then that goes that, that goes to old age as well, that you have not been paying your, no, I’m just kidding.
That just sucks.
Mike: I’m forgetting my passwords.
Darrell: I forget, I can’t remember my passwords anymore.
Mark: Ugh.
Darrell: Pain everywhere. Sometimes just like days where I don’t feel anything are gifts. like, you ever have like a day where like nothing hurts is very, very seldom, but
Mark: It is very,
Darrell: it’s like a gift. It’s like, oh my God. Like I can
Mark: I haven’t, frankly, in the last few years alone, and this isn’t to say, Hey guys, I should probably go see somebody, but just general soreness. It has not gone away at all. I could, at least on the surface level, say that whether if something extreme for sure I’ll get, get it checked, but
Darrell: I
Mark: I cannot recollect in the last two years alone, the last 24 months were, I could say I’ve not been [00:20:00] sore.
Darrell: yeah,
Mark: if it’s this me over here, my shoulders or my lower back, or a combination of all three irrespective of, you know, grabbing other sweaty men in pajamas. ~~Um. ~~I don’t, I don’t feel
Darrell: granted we don’t do what, you know what everyone else does, right? We’re, I mean, our hobbies are what gets us hurt.
Mark: true, but I’m ignoring the hobby for a moment and going to, like, I’m likening this to where Mike’s at right now. It’s just like, there is no recovery phase anymore. Built into our bodies irrespective of what, of, of these hobbies that we choose. You know what I’m saying?
Mike: to rest your body in
Mark: You have to rest,
Mike: your
Mark: rest, rest. Is it, and like, I don’t understand.
Darrell: expensive.
Mark: Yes, it it, it costs me. It costs me two to three snoozes for rest, and sometimes my puff provisions wife gives me the [00:21:00] stinker look the moment I wake up. And I know that’s a thing scientifically speaking. Like I know it stresses the wives out when they feel or see that their husbands ing.
Darrell: Happy. Yeah.
Mark: I mean, you tell me what’s going on in your world, Dee, since you’ve been jumping in and out and we’re sticking to this theme of welfare check tonight and how old
Darrell: I
Mark: how young we feel. If you feel young, please brag about it. It’d be very inspiring.
Darrell: I, you,
Mike: Yeah.
Darrell: I’d be the first one you’d hear from. If it was me, I’ll tell you that, you know, one of those things like, um, you know, no, no one will know I won the lottery, but there will be signs. It’s gonna
Mike: Oh.
Darrell: of like that. You’ll see me. Oh, Darryl’s running in the park today.
Mike: He is rock climbing.
Darrell: is rock climbing, he’s participating. Deluge,
Mark: And me, I’d obviously, my, my first instinct would be like, how many edibles did he have? And then kind of thing. But I,
Darrell: I’ve been on this, just [00:22:00] going back to edibles, has been on this weird kick where I don’t, I, I choose, I, I don’t like the edibles right now.
Mark: yeah, me too. That’s a, that I, I.
Darrell: know what it is. I, I mean, I, I’m usually like, I’d rather do edibles I’m going to like a public setting just because it’s more discreet. But
Mark: already know why.
Darrell: I, I’ve
Mark: I already know why
Darrell: it. Like
Mark: I, can I make a guess? Can I be, can I make a guess as to why? We’re getting older and you wanna have that shit hit now because you don’t have time to wait. It’s called onset. You don’t have patience for onset. You’re old and you want that shit to hit now like Willie Nelson.
Darrell: I need it now. I,
Mark: Yeah.
Darrell: need it 20 minutes from now.
Mark: You don’t have 20 minutes from now. You have now We have. Now we’re old. We need now.
Darrell: now is a time, you
Mark: Yeah.
Mike: minutes ain.
Mark: No,
Darrell: yeah.
Mark: 20 minutes, Mike.
Darrell: minutes.
Mark: in this, conversely, conversely, 20 [00:23:00] minutes from now, I might fall asleep and not be able to enjoy that high.
Mike: Exact No. That
Mark: And that’s,
Mike: the reason. Yep.
Mark: the reason. So that’s a psychological thing.
Mike: to break, we used to wait like, ah, we’ll, you
Mark: Yeah.
Mike: out. We’ll chill.
Mark: So, but now it’s just like,
Mike: minutes
Mark: like if I see that shit exactly, but now it’s just like, get to the point.
I want that shit. I wanna feel good, I want that, I want that, um, euphoria, that euphoric, uh, effect.
Darrell: with
Mike: knocking out in 20.
Mark: if I knocked out at 20, I didn’t enjoy it.
Darrell: That mentality goes with everything, right? It’s like, you know, I, I got no time for that. Like, you know, I’m not playing games. Let’s just get to the point,
Mark: Exactly.
Darrell: thing.
Mike: not playing games.
Mark: You’re just like this. You’re just like this. Chop, chop, chop, chop. I got, I got time. I ain’t got time. I got, I got a feeling now. I want the euphoric feeling. Now. What
Mike: We
Mark: it?
Mike: finally grown ass men. I am a grown ass man.
Darrell: You ever, know, it’s, you ever leave the hou ~~uh, ~~leave work [00:24:00] like, leave like the office think that you’re late for home.
Mike: Yeah,
Mark: Yes, all.
Darrell: I’m late for home, dude.
Mike: I was pissed off at traffic.
Darrell: Late
Mike: We’re gonna get in trouble.
Mark: I feel that way too. It’s just like you want to. It, it’s not even, this is obvious everyone can share in this irrespective of their lifestyle design. It’s like home. Home feels good. If you’re blessed, you know, home feels good. Whether you live alone or you live with your, your girlfriend, boyfriend, or you’ve got a family now, it’s like when you feel like you feel it, it feels good.
Like, like going out. It don’t feel good. No more like kind in that set in, in that, in that. Old setting or that old interpretation that we used to have kind of thing. It’s just like, it feels good to be in the confines of a nice warm hug from your sweater. Your nice, you know, two or three puffs of whatever you got at your dispensary.
20 minutes minimum to nap, or that window to [00:25:00] nap, you know? And you know, you’ve got your all your touch points in order. Like, you know, if Mike’s hungry, he’s, he knows what he’s got in the fridge or whatever. He’s hiding in his stash up there. You know, if Darryl’s feeling achy, he knows that he could use this to stop, you know, some shoulder pain, you know, little hit there, a little hit there, and then go, and then get some peace and quiet, peace and quiet.
Gentlemen, what would you rather have? First, we always talk about the phrase peace and quiet. If you could only have one, which would it be first, peace or quiet. APO provisions, Darrell.
Darrell: think on three, we already all unison have the same answer.
Mark: Three.
Mike: dunno.
Mark: I don’t know. Okay. I’m gonna go 3, 2, 1. And then you say, okay, here we go.
Mike: Okay.
Mark: 3, 3, 2, 1. Quiet.
Mike: Peace.
Darrell: Oh, get outta here.
Mark: You want peace, you fucking beauty pageant queen. You want peace?
Darrell: You went to hear what we all said and he
Mike: No. I said peace.[00:26:00]
Mark: I want quiet. I want quiet. Just even two milliseconds of Quiet East will come next
Darrell: When, when was the last time
Mike: Okay.
Darrell: had a quiet morning?
Mark: when I wake up before anybody else,
Darrell: That often
Mark: Monday through Friday, I guess you could say. So Saturday, Sunday could be ties. Could be ties. I.
Darrell: that luxury. Mark.
Mark: Mean
Darrell: I’m up when the girls are up
Mike: they wake up early, like early.
Darrell: early, sleeping into them like seven.
Mark: so? What time do they wake up on average?
Darrell: Like SE 7, 7 30.
Mark: That’s their natural body clock. They just flick on
Darrell: It don’t matter whether they sleep at one in the morning or seven at night. It’s like right now they’re on a schedule. They got it.
Mark: the body clock’s on a schedule.
Darrell: Their bodies are hard coded,
Mark: Nice. I mean, that’s a good thing that on one, in one sense, that’s a good thing On the second, I understand where you’re coming from, but gentlemen, [00:27:00] I choose quiet then peace. I need quiet.
Mike: peace. Quiet.
Mark: I need to clear the brain first so I can figure out before. ‘cause it’s already gonna get, it’s naturally gonna get noisy.
So that’s why I want the quiet verse and then peace to come. But we are. That welfare check. You know, welfare checks are usually supposed to be quick. You knock on the door, say You’re all right, and then we leave. But this is
Darrell: week.
Mark: definitely a deeper welfare check for all of us.
Mike: yeah,
Darrell: is like, they knocked on the door the door was left a jar. So
Mark: I.
Darrell: to investigate and they find a body on the floor they had to call the ambulance to pick up ‘cause they did the welfare check and the dude wasn’t, was not alive anymore. That
Mike: we thought he was just tired.
Darrell: Yeah. The welfare check. The welfare check you described is they knock on the door. And the ring goes off and it goes, I’m not home. And they [00:28:00] go, okay, they’re good enough for me. And then they leave.
Mark: Do you, do you think? No, there’s no such thing as a perfect world, but I’m gonna ask it anyway.
Darrell: You know why?
Mark: Why
Darrell: ‘cause you’re older.
Mark: do you think, okay. ~~Um. ~~Mike was talking about this, which I found very fascinating. Like this is when you were coming in and out of the, uh, the room a little bit, but on the likes of what you prioritize Now, I heard it from Mike, like he has this set of things, but we didn’t get to, and my mike obviously heard mine.
What are your set of things that you prioritize these days? As the older we’ve gotten, which is, this is a completely different answer versus 33-year-old Darrell. I know that.
Darrell: Right. ~~Um, ~~I think mostly I would prioritize just for myself
Mark: That’s a loaded question. Gimme some loaded answers.
Darrell: Okay. Well, for one, I mean, I would prioritize like my, my rest, which I
Mark: Ding, ding, ding.
Darrell: and
Mark: at that. Three for [00:29:00] three here. Keep going.
Darrell: Just because I feel that if I am out, I can’t help the family. I.
Mark: I agree.
Darrell: If I’m
Mark: I agree.
Darrell: if I’m hurt, I can’t walk.
Mark: Yep.
Darrell: hurt the family. Right. But
Mark: I can agree to that 100%.
Darrell: Yeah.
Mark: For me, it’s, for me, it’s, it’s that too. It’s like, but it was always like, I guess my, my own, I’ll peel the curtain back a little bit. ~~Um, ~~yeah, I just know that in recent. Career history, I’ve just gotten too burnt out. So it’s my, my mental cognition really is what I’m all about.
Like I don’t give a shit, and I’ll say this to anyone on LinkedIn, I don’t give a shit about climbing a corporate ladder at this point. I really don’t.
Darrell: Not
Mark: ~~Um, ~~no, it’s not, it’s not where, it’s not where it will spark me joy, if that makes any sense. So,
Darrell: I
Mark: no.
Darrell: the sets of priorities or the rules of the game have changed. Right.
Mark: Yep. And I told Mike this, I was just like, I am [00:30:00] content with, with fulfilling this mission in that, from what I saw on an Instagram post, you know, you just wanna show up and honestly do your best freaking go home.
Darrell: home. I mean, coming from an age where you were like begging your parents for some Abercrombie and Fitch paratrooper pants to now like, eh, I wanna make it home.
Mark: Yep.
Darrell: go to sleep,
Mark: Yep.
Darrell: you know?
Mark: Yep. I want, I want
Darrell: that’s, that’s my deal right now.
Mark: I, I agree to that because I, we’re all far farfetched from that chapter of our lives. That being said, that being said, maybe we’ll save this one for the next welfare check next month. We will.
Mike: Yeah. Yeah,
Mark: We’ll close that out on a hangover or not a hangover, a cliffhanger. ~~Um. ~~In that, what is your midlife crisis? Don’t answer that.
Now. I want you to think about it. I want you to think about,
Darrell: [00:31:00] let’s, um, let’s, uh, let’s marinate it for a second. What’s the, what’s the age would classify midlife crisis? I, I know it’s in the
Mark: I don’t know. I don’t know. That’s the problem. I don’t know, but I know it’s over. It’s got definitely over 40. I.
Darrell: I feel like mine’s coming up, like
Mark: Who said it has to be a hard set age? Like
Darrell: I don’t know.
I just
Mark: why?
Darrell: thought it was, you know, just because it’s, it’s in the name, know,
Mark: Well, I think, well, I think Okay, then I’ll give you a broad brush. I’m gonna paint a broad brush for you. For some odd reason, culturally, we, we all know.
Darrell: to paint it yet.
Mark: Yeah. Yeah, we always like 40 was always a big deal that if you ever hit that milestone, you know it’s a different chapter of your life. And that’s true. So we’ll put that one to bed.
But because we’re just biologically speaking guys and probability wise as we’ll, die sooner, it has to be anywhere between now and 45. I, I don’t remember. My goal is, my goal is I’d like to live to be a hundred. [00:32:00] So if that were to be true, midlife would be 50. But again, like, I don’t know, like if you look at the data from a bunch of mad scientists on a, in mass, like ma males taper off at like, what in her seventies or eighties, if that.
Mike: Life
Mark: Can we be life expectancy? That’s, that’s the phrase, right? So then cut 80. Cut 80 in half. And that’s 40. That’s your midlife crisis.
Darrell: like life expectancy, right?
Mark: Yeah,
Darrell: Like can
Mark: that’s how I,
Darrell: so someone’s like that’s gonna go like when he’s in his sixties, so you would have his midlife crisis in his thirties. Can you imagine having a midlife crisis in your thirties? Like some of the game hasn’t started yet.
You know, there’s elements of the game that haven’t been on locked yet.
Mark: And 36.
Mike: went out.
Darrell: Yeah, the politic just went out. Exactly. Mike, I’m
Mark: Remember.
Darrell: you know, like
Mark: Remember when we thought 30 was old, when we turned 30, and now you look back on it and you’re like, dude, that’s so [00:33:00] young.
Darrell: dude.
Mark: 30 is so young.
Darrell: dude,
Mark: 30 is so fucking young.
Darrell: I thought I was running outta time
Mark: Yeah.
Darrell: when I was
Mark: 30 is so fucking young, dude. It is so young, like, wow. To even say like, take 10 years and credit it back to you and say you’re 33 again, or 32.
Wow. Wow. Dude. That’s just like, that’s crazy. Like,
Darrell: Nuts, man, that’s,
Mark: you need it. You need to let me know like how much plasma, I don’t know how this stuff works scientifically speaking, but you know, you need to inject me with my 33-year-old youth blood again. So you circulate all of that science and knowledge to me.
And then I’ll, I’ll see if I wanna do it. And let’s see if my, uh, my health insurance covers it. Probably have to pay out pocket,
Darrell: your old blood’s just gonna spit it back out. This
Mark: so, yeah.
Darrell: here.
Mark: Like I said, we’re [00:34:00] saving it for the next, uh, recording session. But that’s what’s going to, that’s what I want you to have food for, thought for the next few days, for a few weeks, is what is your midlife crisis. And it doesn’t have to be the red car, you know, it is whatever the fuck it is. I don’t know.
It could be. So I’m gonna let you stew on that for a while because we all know this. We all have our priorities in order. For the most part, let’s ask this again. When we’re 50, um, everything’s changed. The game’s changed physically. My knees snap, crackle, and pop. ~~Um, ~~I haven’t gone a day in the last 24 months where I can’t say I’m not aching or sore from something.
I still keep going. Maybe this is how old Man’s strength develops, is through this level of adversity. You know what I’m saying? This is how you get old man’s strength is you have to do this coming of age moment and go through the wear and the tear, and then once you pass that line and the fog clears, you are old man strong.
Darrell: The [00:35:00] Hulk,
Mark: Yeah.
Darrell: I’m always mad.
Mark: Right now, right? You know what? As long as Mike gets his 20 minimum, 20 minutes minimum, you know, as long as we all get time in the office, HAA, the bathroom. You know, I don’t know how many times you guys go to the office, but I have to go to the office at least twice a day, you know? Yeah. So
Darrell: time
Mark: it’s company time and it’s paid time.
It’s paid time. Yep. So I. Gentlemen, it is always good to regroup with the Puff Provisions crew with this world, this happy hour, this favorite cannabis dad show your favorite can comedy show and however many ways you wanna skin it. A safe space to be comfortable. Advocate for can cannabis directly or indirectly, and just check in on each other and have a good time.
Other than that, before we bow out anything else to get off your chest.
Mike: I’m gonna go lay down,
Mark: I think
Mike: it up.
Mark: I’m gonna go have a hot, I think I’ll go have a hot [00:36:00] water with a lemon and maybe a warm cup of milk. And then maybe I’ll go,
Darrell: Careful not to choke on that.
Mark: I might, I might go have, I might go smoke something instead of edible something because I need that shit right now.
Darrell: I need it
Mike: right
Mark: Right now, right now. On a Thursday evening. Alright, gentlemen, puff puff, peace.
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