Advancing the culture since the early 90s, Adam founded HempWorks, T.H. Seeds, and Hemp HoodLamb clothing in Amsterdam before moving to Colorado in 2010. Adam propels the show with a cast of colorful guests and unbelievable anecdotes from his 25 years in the cannabis industry.
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Cannabis underground legend Adam Dunn is the Co-Host of The Adam Dunn Show, he joins Dan Humiston to talk about living his destiny and advancing the culture since the early 90s. They touch on the similarities of his weekly 3 hour weekly live show to the Howard Stern show, including ball-busting with his co-host and the "Chat Gang" Watch The Adam Dunn Show Live Every Friday At 4:20pm MST
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Dan Humiston: [00:00:00] All right, everyone. Thanks for joining us. And welcome back. We have another great show in store for you. Cannabis underground legend. Adam Dunn is here to talk about his show. The Adam Dunn show Adam. Welcome to the.
Adam Dunn: Hey, man. Thank you very much for inviting me.
Dan Humiston: Oh, my gosh. I'll tell you what for the listeners. I've known you for a while because you spoke at a lot of my shows, but I never had an opportunity to actually listen to your story until one time. I think it was in, I don't know where I was, but I sat through one of your. Who is this guy? I bet you, in the world, there might be a hundred people with as much experience as you, maybe not even that man, he, with as much experience in cannabis as you have from, for all this time.
And I'm like, how did I not know this? I've known him for all this time. I didn't know any of your story. , and as I'm thinking about it, I'm saying it must have been. Uncomfortable for you to share all this knowledge what prompted you to start the podcast?
Adam Dunn: Well, anybody who knows me knows I love to talk. So [00:01:00] that's one thing I got most talkative when I was in high school. So pretty much was destined for something with cannabis and a lot of talking. Right. So podcasts just sorta came , Out of nowhere. It, the way it started though, is I went on to another podcast?
JDR, which is the John DOE radio show, so the JDR was one of the first sort of cannabis podcasts in Colorado that really brought people to the scene. Cause it was in like 2009 10, 11, 12, right when it was really bubbling over here. So I went on his show as a guest.
. And I just realized quickly while I was watching. I was like, this is really fun. You know what I mean? I liked sitting around talking old war stories about cannabis because. I kind of consider myself a little bit of a forest Gump of cannabis because they just happened to be at the right place at the right time.
Starting really young, so I was born in Woodstock in 1969, in June. So the story starts already like, oh, well, yeah, you must be a hippie and the weed guy. Right. It's like pretty much groomed for it. , and then later I moved to Amsterdam when I [00:02:00] was 19. And just graduated high school.
I went for a year traveling and then after a year traveling, I ended up in Amsterdam and I was like, oh, wait a minute. This town is named after me because it's shortened down to Adam. So everything was Adam, Adam, Adam, Adam. I was like, this is it. This is my town. I went there for like a long weekend and I ended up 21 years living there, so I was there from 89 until 2006. And but I started working for Sensi seeds and since he's like really , the true pioneers of the cannabis industry, as far as selling seeds and, , bringing it to the masses.
And I just saw when I worked there that. That was the cog of the wheel that I wanted to be in because cannabis industry of course is huge. Right? You have producers, sellers, you have hemp industry, you have all sorts of things. But I realized that the seeds was really the peak. You know what I mean? So I started there in 90 and then started my own company in 93.
So I was there for about three years and started a thing called the [00:03:00] CIA and the CIA was cannabis and Amsterdam and it was like our kind of. Seed spot. And I got to meet the best breeders in the world and it really stuck because by having that spot, I had people coming from everywhere, not only to buy genetics, but also to bring genetics, so I would be the receiving as some of the best genetics out there too, because people want it to make a splash in Amsterdam. So they would bring it to there. So it kind of gave me a connection to all these people and over the. 20 years there I had, I shopped downtown.
Doors were open. You could come in, remember those shop things that used to go into. So, I mean, nowadays I feel lucky that I had a shop and I had that experience of retail because now everybody's online, and there's a lot of people out there selling seeds, not necessarily, always the best and it's a very opportunistic sort of industry.
So I like to help. bring in people who are new or people who are actually been around for a long time, but never had the good presence of the show really [00:04:00] developed on that, helping other people get into the industry in a short answer.
Dan Humiston: No, that's a great answer, and I know what you mean by the retailing side of it , is because you have these customers that are regulars and you look forward to solving all the world's problems with your customers and that's our podcast.
Adam Dunn: Yeah, exactly. And it was like having that shop, that retail spot, I loved it. Right. And my partner hated it. So he was all about wholesale. He went to the office and worked on the production of the next year's a clothing line or whatever. And I just. To talk to people and socialize, and just like, you never knew what was going to come through the door.
, it was just fun to be able to inspire these people.
And then it's been like that over the years. Like I, I go to people's dispensary's and I don't know. I walk in and then I realized, wait a minute. Didn't you come to my shop and you're like, yeah, we were there in 2000 and you took me downstairs and showed me bubble hash.
Dan Humiston: well, and you have so much. Um, you know, From all of this experience, that is great that you're sharing. Now, let's talk about [00:05:00] your podcast. You do it live every Friday at four 20? Is that.
Adam Dunn: know, I think for me, it's the opposite. Like when I have to do something and it's recorded. I have a hard time with the flow. When I do stuff, when it's alive, I feel like I know there's people there watching me right now and I got to work with those people.
And so we have chat gang, which is like, on the low end, we'll have like 54 super dedicated people. They're always 54, 52 54. And then on a good show, we might have 200 or 300 people watching. And just knowing that they're there and being able to interact with the chat gang, it makes the show flow really well , I have , my guest host, which is Dave Czarnik We're like the odd couple, he's very, business-minded, we're both new Yorkers. We bust each other's balls. So we both look forward to coming in and like I'm in there ready to like, oh, I'm going to destroy Dave today. You know what I mean? And then the chat gang loves it.
And then Dave looked, throws out a couple and that's kind of the way our style goes. It's like, we're not taking ourselves too seriously. Like the funny thing is. [00:06:00] The people who listened to the show. I get a lot of times they want me to do one thing, which is only talk genetics and only talk to breeders.
And this is cool. I like those shows they're really fun to do, but the problem it always becomes like a rabbit hole because you, you do one show and then somebody comes out and says, nah, That's not correct. A hundred percent, and then you have to go back and revisit it.
I mean, we did the, the OJI show, which is probably our most popular I think it was four different shows and each show was kind of like learning and we learned as the shows went on and we went pretty far down. , we got it to the point where we know who put the seed in the ground and now it will be arguing.
A thousand times over in history, but the reality is we're talking about a specific oh, G D O G from Florida that came. From a specific person to the next person, to the next person, then to be real then to, you know what I mean? So we follow the whole lineage and those shows are great, but I like also to just give people if they have something cool product [00:07:00] or pretty much organics is my focus, . So that's one of the focuses on the show is to endorse the organic growers out there.
Dan Humiston: I have a clip from your show. Let me play the clip. It, give our listeners an idea of as to tenor of the show. It's really a fun show to listen to, but let's flip.
Your show reminds me a little bit of Howard stern show. Do you pattern yourself after.
Adam Dunn: I mean, not intentionally, but for a little while, especially in the beginning. We had like five characters on the show. . So we had basically all the east coast represented. And it was just ball busting all day. Right. That's very Howard stern ish. I definitely appreciate their style. , I didn't want to become like, pigeonholed into like trying to be like them.
I think also the thing is that I've always tried to bring humor to any situation, whether I'm getting pulled over by the cops or, hanging out with my friends. I try to break the ice with humor and always have, you know what I mean? I've always tried to be like, let's not be too serious.
And with cannabis, I think it's important that we don't take ourselves too seriously and so . , we have a lot of our little running jokes
Especially because we do that, like [00:08:00] I was saying with the chat gang, there's a lot of inside jokes within that. And I think if you listen to Howard stern, And you just listened to it once you don't get a lot of jokes, because a lot of those are running jokes that go on and on and on forever.
I think the people that start to listen to the show and actually get it. Cause I mean, I have a lot of people who listen and like they love the show and their wife or their girlfriends. Like, why are you listening to these guys? And then at a certain point they catch the humor and they're like, you know what?
My wife loves your show now
Dan Humiston: yeah. For the listeners that haven't seen his show yet, you really need to check it out. It's live every Friday at four 20. I don't know , how you came up with that number four 20 mountain time every Friday.
Adam Dunn: And it goes till seven 10. So it's four 20 to seven 10. That's our encapsulated window there. So you start off by smoking weed. You end up by smoking oil. It's a great show. You know what I mean? And that's the thing too, is we all, I smoked the entire show as you noticed, because that's how I keep everything rolling.
Cause if I had to sit there and be like, We can't smoke. Cause we've had that. We've had people like, come on and do the show at our place. And it's [00:09:00] like, okay, we need two things. I need good internet. And they gotta be able to smoke a lot of weed. And they're like, we got good internet, but I'm not so sure about the weed.
And I'm like, all right, we're not going to get to the shelter. So that's, that's the challenge of doing it on sites everywhere is that , we've had moments where. Once we get going, the show's going. And it's almost like if you go to see Snoop dog, he's going to smoke weed on stage. It doesn't matter if he's in a state that is legal or not legal, he don't care and no one's going to bother him.
And that's kind of how we feel doing our show. It's like, Hey, this is part of the show. We have to do this performance art. Right. This is like, we have to keep it rolling. So.
Dan Humiston: Well, . Like I said, check it out live. Or it's also on all the major podcast networks and Adam, I wish we had more time. I always enjoy your company and I'm really glad that you've willing to share your life's journey with everybody on your podcast. So thanks for being on our show today.
Adam Dunn: Oh a hundred percent. I'm glad to glad to be able to come check it out. And, and yeah, I'll spread the word about all the people that are coming on your show.