well i was first involved in a crop in
2005
in canada or in western australia so
that was your first involvement 15 years
ago
it was my first involvement in australia
i went to canada before that just before
that to import seed
from first canadian seed brought into
australia
went over canada canada to winnipeg to
uh walk through some hemp fields and
talk to the
world world hemp conference yeah it was
only 15 people there and
that's all right i know that feeling
well i did go to the center of the world
i went to
united states very quickly then went to
canada
shout out to our brothers from across
the pond in the mighty
usa home of the brave yeah interesting
experience and a worthwhile experience
too yeah no land of the brave
land of the brave home of the braves
where we're from western sydney
i will play that song you don't like i
know you don't like rap music but we're
definitely playing that song this week
it's a good song you know why because
you'll understand not for me there's a
song called home away by one four
it's an aussie rap group but it's a song
dedicated to
the area where we're from in particular
my wife
the paintless pirate and you know me you
know what i love most in this world
and if i didn't have that area i
wouldn't have her and i wouldn't have
things i love
there you go i wouldn't be here today
wouldn't be here today if you hadn't
if you hadn't experienced what your
experience is like you wouldn't be here
today
exactly and that's why i've got much
respect for this song
i consider it the the western sydney
struggle street anthem it is a bit of an
anthem isn't it
it's very much an anthem you won't i
know you again you're not a fan of rap
music you're too old for that shit but
this song is very sentimental to me to
her
even the film clip the film clip itself
when we put it up and i'll show you yeah
it shows like the power lines at her
back fence and just
crazy stuff you know that's the border
of yeah
you know what that's a very good analogy
yeah you probably just sum that up
yeah that's the path you walk as you
walk your
your history is who makes you are today
100 so
before we go into that song we'll talk
about that a bit later let's talk about
you
and your hemp yep so you're 15 years
into the game
yep longer but officially growing and
officially and being involved not
officially growing but but officially
since i've been
involved in campers 15 16 years yeah
2005. and when did you actually first
get interest
i got into infest when i was farming i
used to crop three and a half thousand
hectares and looked at rotations
um somebody mentioned hemp so i looked
into him and i went wow
i've got to look at this and as i had a
my first divorce
yeah and you're first two of them
um what happens after the second one
oh you just do what you like i heard a
comedian one say after the second one
you're just finding someone to die with
yeah well the third person you pick is
like you know because you you're on by
then
unless you're a pretty shitty husband
i've heard without stumbling too much
i've heard the first thing is you you
marry someone to have kids with
then you find to have some of the sex
with then you fight to have someone to
die with
and then you're on that path pretty much
who said you have to stick to that path
man i'm staying i'm stick to whatever
path
you want to stick to but it just happens
that that's an old saying and it's
where i've headed at the moment well i
thank god i'm not going to follow your
path on that that journey let's just say
but
on on a different note though i'm going
to be in fucking mars anyway so i don't
give a fuck
right so anyway so i'm going to try to
grow some happy mars
would you be interested let's see why
would i want to go to mars when i can
fix this planet
okay let me ask you a question i asked
this question to all the people on the
talk show
on hayes radio network see that shit
plug
hey are you doing come on ready for our
ready for david our our
editing guy you've got to go do bing and
you've got to point your finger up and
tell him to put a picture up or
something
so you're ready go turn to put a picture
up of hemp and spell it because in the
last one
i can't spell and everyone knows that
right but apparently sometimes my editor
gets it wrong too
oh your editor gets it wrong but to be
fair
now look he's not dyslexic he's he's
actually argentinian
and i love him he's been a godsend since
he's come in well it's a translation
isn't it to english
so we'll call it he calls it hemp hemp
hemp
ham hamp oh well there you go
in argentina it's all in translation
it's him that's exactly right
hemp like pem i think i can help with
this situation
is it pam with an n m on the end
i was thinking on the way we were
talking about
and so forth when the united states
legalized to be able to grow
hemp over there i keep getting people
contacting me from washington state
yeah because on my my address
i was living in western australia so i
had wa on the end of my uh
my emails and so forth and my address so
i had people from washington state
ring out so i could come back i was
about to say to you i was about to say
do you know about wa and all the state
names
yeah i'm learning it now like pa
philadelphia i was getting lots of
emails and calls from
washington because they all thought i
was in wa
western australia not washington state
so i got quite a few contacts and
way back way back then when they were
all starting to get going and i
uh gave them some information this is
what you got to do and this is where
you're going because we were at that
stage
we're in front of the united states yeah
right oh wow um we probably they'd be
there
i don't know where we are at the moment
because when i set up a new company
which have actually just reim just
employed me at the moment to do the work
probably in west australia um
they said give me some review on the
world who's
the biggest opposition to australia in
the world with growing hemp and i said
united states of america you're not
boring me by the way i'm just still half
asleep from when you're waiting out and
they said why and i says
and they said well they can't be a
competitor because they don't grow i
said you wait till they legalise their
laws and they can start growing
they've got the land they've got the
different climates yeah they can grow
like we can in comparison we've got more
daylight
and we've probably got a little bit
better growing conditions
but the amount of areas in that they can
do because they can grow from the top to
the bottom so
a lot of european varieties grow well in
the north and then in the southern they
can grow more tropical varieties
it's a matter of of where they grow but
the huge investment that they've got
is where virtually united states is
overtaking australia
because the investment's gone there and
we don't get it here
