Strain reviews, stoned stories, and hot takes with Leah G.
Show Notes
Leah G. highly recommends First Class Funk, an indica-dominant hybrid strain purchased from Legacy Cannabis on Lyndale Ave South in Minneapolis. She describes this cross of GMO and Jet Fuel Gelato as uniquely relaxing and giggly, with a distinct peppery, gassy, diesel aroma and taste. The episode also features tales of a chaotic week, a disastrous attempt at baking a lemon meringue pie, and a passionate hot take on the phrase "It is what it is."
Key Highlights:
• Leah G. reviews First Class Funk, an indica-dominant hybrid strain from Legacy Cannabis in Minneapolis.
• She praises First Class Funk for its relaxing and giggly effects, along with its unique peppery, gassy, diesel scent and taste.
• The host shares a humorous story about her failed attempt to bake a lemon meringue pie after consuming edibles.
• Leah delivers a strong hot take, criticizing the phrase "It is what it is" as a lazy and unhelpful response.
Topics: First Class Funk, Legacy Cannabis, Minneapolis, cannabis strain review, indica-dominant hybrid, GMO, Jet Fuel Gelato, edibles, baking, hot take, MN Cannabis Hub, podcast
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TRANSCRIPT
(Upbeat, slightly chaotic synth intro music fades in and then fades to a low background hum)
What is UP, Highly Recommended listeners, and welcome back to the only podcast that matters on a Tuesday afternoon… or, wait, is it Wednesday? Hold on. It’s… it’s Sunday. Wow. Okay. So, my week has been a week. Bartholomew, my cat, the furry orange agent of chaos, has discovered that he can open the kitchen cabinets. I found him sleeping in my big pasta pot yesterday. Just, curled up in there like a little marinara-scented angel. I didn’t have the heart to move him, so I guess we’re a salad household now. Anyway, that’s the energy we’re bringing to today’s show: the energy of giving up and ordering a pizza. And also, the energy of a truly, truly bizarrely fantastic strain that I am now obsessed with. So, let’s get into it.
This week, I am highly, *highly* recommending a strain called First Class Funk. And yes, it is as fun to say as it is to smoke. I picked this up over at Legacy Cannabis in Minneapolis. You know, the one over on Lyndale Ave South. So, First Class Funk is an indica-dominant hybrid, a cross between GMO and Jet Fuel Gelato. And the effects are just… chef’s kiss. It’s somehow both completely relaxing and also makes you super giggly. You know that feeling when you get a joke like, a full thirty seconds after everyone else? This is the strain for that moment. It’s pure, unadulterated bliss. But the smell. Okay. The smell is where it gets weird, in the best way. It’s got this peppery, gassy, diesel thing going on. It’s like you’re at a gas station that also sells high-end spices. It sounds wrong, but it smells so, so right. The taste is just as wild—peppery and a little earthy. This is the perfect strain for the activity of… and hear me out… watching old, terrible reality TV shows. You need something that’s going to make you laugh at a woman throwing a glass of wine in another woman’s face for the fifth time. This is that strain. First Class Funk. Go get it.
Alright, so speaking of things going sideways, let me tell you about my attempt to become a person who… bakes. I got absolutely wrecked on some edibles last Saturday and decided, in my infinite wisdom, that what I needed to do at 10 p.m. was bake a lemon meringue pie. From scratch. I saw a picture of one, and it was like a siren song. A beautiful, lemony, fluffy siren song. So I pull up a recipe on my phone, and immediately, it’s asking for things I don’t have. Like a zester. Who has a zester? I used a cheese grater. My knuckles will never be the same. Then it’s telling me to separate eight eggs. EIGHT. I’ve never held eight eggs at one time in my life. I felt like a dragon protecting its hoard. I’m standing there, covered in what I can only describe as ‘egg dust,’ and I realize I’ve been mixing the egg WHITES into the lemon curd part. And the yolks are just sitting there, looking at me. Judging me. Bartholomew is on the counter, batting at the shells. It’s a scene. I decide to just… keep going. Forge ahead. What’s the worst that can happen? The ‘meringue,’ which was basically just sad, sugary egg yolks, turned a color I can only describe as ‘greige’ in the oven. The whole thing looked less like a pie and more like a failed science experiment. I ended up eating cereal over the sink. So, yeah. That was my journey into domesticity. It was short-lived.
Okay, time for a hot take. You know what needs to stop? The phrase, "It is what it is." No. I refuse. It’s the verbal equivalent of a shrug. It’s a conversational dead end. You tell someone your flight got cancelled, your car broke down, and your favorite coffee shop is out of oat milk, and they hit you with, "Well, it is what it is." Really? That’s all you’ve got? It’s the laziest possible response. It’s not profound. It’s not comforting. It’s just… four words that mean absolutely nothing. What if we replaced it with something better? Like, "That sounds profoundly annoying," or "Do you need me to help you burn something down?" See? Much more productive. "It is what it is" is the participation trophy of empathy. We can do better. We MUST do better. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
And that, my friends, is our show for this week. A journey through funky strains, failed pies, and righteous indignation. Next week, I’m not sure what I’m reviewing, but I have my eye on something that smells like it was grown in a library in another dimension. It’s gonna be weird. In the meantime, if you want the actual, serious, grown-up news about cannabis in our great state, you should be checking out the MN Cannabis Hub. They’ve got all the legislative updates and real journalism. I’m just here for the chaos. Alright, I’m Leah G., this has been Highly Recommended. Go be weird, Minneapolis.
What is Highly Recommended?
A weekly Minneapolis lifestyle podcast for the 90s-baby mid-30s crowd. Concerts, restaurants, art fairs, Mystic Lake shows, what's actually good in MPLS this week — plus a strain review, a chaotic story, and a hot take you didn't ask for. Sponsored by mncannabishub.com, mplsveganhub.com, Dr. Bronson at Uptown Core (uptowncore.com), and Quiet Coyote (quietcoyotemn.com).