XZIBIT: It’s the Lasagna Ganja Podcast. I am Mr. X to the Z, XZIBIT.

Tammy: And I’m your girl Tammy, a.k.a. The Cannabis Cutie.

XZIBIT: And we have another wonderful episode. Lots of stuff going on.

We’ve been talking to a lot of people. Feels good going into this journey together.

If you guys want to reach out with any questions, reach out to us on our Instagram—The Lasagna Ganja IG.

We do want to hear what you think.

So what are you going to do for the holidays?

Tammy: I always do a friends’ ‘danksgiving.’ Last year it was in the New York Times. I’m going to do it again this year.

There’s a joke made for one of the Danksgivings where people were going to dress up as the Cannabis Cutie. I don’t know if they were joking or not.

I don’t know how weird it would be to walk into a space full of people with pink jackets and stuff.

XZIBIT: What makes it a Danksgiving? Do you ‘medicate’ the food?

Tammy: Yes. There’s going to be select items that are medicated.

XZIBIT: Can you do a medicated turkey?

Tammy: Absolutely. You can baste it at the end with cannabutter.

XZIBIT: At the end so the cooking doesn’t kill all the THC in it?

Tammy: Right.

XZIBIT: Can you inject the turkey?

Tammy: I’m sure.

XZIBIT: Yeah but toward the end of cooking it.

Tammy: There are brands that make gravy. So just pour the gravy on at the end.

XZIBIT: Nah, you got to make your own gravy. That’s sacrilegious!

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It’s the only day you don’t have to buy shit for other people.

Tammy: True.

XZIBIT: Holidays are built on expectation and what you’re going to get. I grew up not celebrating holidays—I grew up a Jehovah’s Witness, so I have a different perspective.

I was 19 or 20 when I celebrated my birthday for the first time. I felt like I was going against everything in the world, but I had a great time.

Tammy: So Thanksgiving is your favorite. Do you make your own turkey?

XZIBIT: No. I make everything else, but I am a firm believer in Honey Baked Ham. And I get a Popeyes’ turkey. You’ve never had a Popeyes’ turkey?

Tammy: I’m not really a turkey fan. I’m Puerto Rican. I want pork shoulder or something and we’re all going to fight over the skin.

XZIBIT: I am a brand whore when it comes to my meal. I want a Popeyes’ turkey. For those who don’t know, the fast food restaurant Popeyes has turkeys. They come out around the holidays and you can order them.

Thank me later.

I get my ham from Honey Baked Ham. Everything else we make from scratch because that’s the joy of it.

Tammy: There is one side from Honey Baked Ham that I love. I can’t get it on the West Coast at all, but I get it in Michigan and Oklahoma.

It’s a sweet potato souffle.

XZIBIT: So I know what to get you for Christmas.

Tammy: Ok, so this is a very controversial question: stuffing or dressing?

XZIBIT: Stuffing. No, not stuffing. Dressing! Because of cornbread dressing.

Tammy: Stuffing is gross.

XZIBIT: There’s a funny story about that. My Uncle Victor is the oldest male of my Mom’s brothers and sisters.

Everyone wants to bring their spin on things for Thanksgiving. So one year, Uncle Victor decided to do fish dressing.

It had chunks of fish in it. It was the worst dish that I’ve ever come across.

Tammy: That sounds horrible.

XZIBIT: It was terrible. Just chunks of cod. He could’ve blended that shit up, but he didn’t..

Tammy: I’ve seen some people put chicken in it.

Alright. Cranberry sauce?

XZIBIT: Cranberry sauce, yes, but not the one with cranberries in it.

Tammy: Correct. It has to be the Ocean Spray can.

XZIBIT: Eating cranberry sauce with cranberries in it is like drinking buttermilk. I fucking hate buttermilk. So you’re going to see that a lot of stuff is based around my childhood.

So Granny Frasier was my grandparents’ really good friend. She was really religious and wore a green outfit all the time that said “For Jesus.”

She decided to volunteer to babysit myself and my sister. We had grown fond of Granny Frasier because we had only seen her in spurts.

So this time we went home with her and everything was dark. There were bars on the windows. Everything was lime green and there was a plastic sheet on the couch.

And when she closed the door and turned around, you felt like she was Cruella Deville or something. And then she said, “I’m going to take you to church. You got a problem with that?”

And we were like, “No, we go to church all the time.” We didn’t know that was a pretense for something else.

So she cooked up breakfast and she poured me some buttermilk. I almost puked, but she insisted I drink it. She said it had nutrients in it.

Tammy: Damn. Granny Frasier scarred you for life.

XZIBIT: Then we go to church. She belonged to one of those churches where people catch the Holy Ghost and back flip down the aisle. Speaking in tongues and stuff.

We had never seen anything like that. Me and my sister looked at each other and we started freaking out and crying.

But Granny Frasier took us crying to mean that we were being touched by the Lord. She started yelling, “See! See! I told you that you needed to be here! Oh Lord, the Lord is touching these babies!”

Then she wanted to take us to the front and we were just yelling, “No!”

Later, our parents came to pick us up. We jumped in our parents arms and were like, “Take us with you!” We never fucked with Granny Frasier again. We love her, though.

Yeah, holidays are fun. I know we’re going to enjoy a bunch of cannabis.

This year went by so fast. We’re already getting into 2024.

Tammy: This year went really fast. Now, with Christmas, as much as I love to eat Thanksgiving food, Christmas is a meal where I just roll my eyes.

XZIBIT: Isn’t it the same menu, though?

Tammy: It’s the same menu except we don’t have turkey. Peurto Ricans have something called pasteles. It’s the Puerto Rican version of a tamale.

Our outer is plantains instead of, like, corn.

XZIBIT: Yeah, I’ve got my favorite restaurants, but I like to cook at home.

Tammy: So you know how to cook?

XZIBIT: I do know how to cook!

My grandmother taught me. Not Granny Frasier.

I was single for a long time. I was missing those home cooked meals. I’d call my grandmother up and bug her and she’d be like, “Boy! Sit with me and learn how to do this once and for all!”

So I spent time with my grandmother and learned how to do it. Once you know how things work, you can expand and make it work for you.

I basically wanted to learn how to make a Thanksgiving dinner from scratch.

Do you travel or stay home?

Tammy: Just because travel is so hectic, if I am going to travel for the holidays, I will travel on the day of the holiday itself because the airports are empty.

XZIBIT: Do you drive or fly?

Tammy: Fly. This year, I’m thinking about going to Big Bear and hoping for some snow. But usually I’m at home.

XZIBIT: We like to go to the snow. I ski really well, actually. I know it’s unheard of! I can swim, too!

I have never broken a bone, though. I’m thinking that now shouldn’t be the time to start so I’m hesitant.

Tammy: Do you know why I won’t ski?

XZIBIT: Why?

Tammy: Christopher Reevers.

XZIBIT: Sonny Bono, too.

Tammy: And Eminem’s albums where he’s talking about hitting trees.

XZIBIT: You’re basing your whole outlook on hitting a tree!

Tammy: It’s Eminem’s fault!

XZIBIT: Anything can happen, but I think you’d be ok.

The best things in life are on the other side of fear.

Tammy: I like my feet on the ground!

XZIBIT: They’re on the ground!

Tammy: I don’t even like driving too fast. I like to be calm and peaceful. I get stressed out on rides!

XZIBIT: Ah, I love it. I live for that rush.

So, at the break, we were talking about warming up for the holidays. Speaking of, what is that purple, Willy Wonka pipe there?

Tammy: We can call it that. This is a Puffco Proxy in a limited colorway called Bloom. I use it to do hash. You use it instead of having a torch. I just double click it and it heats the hash.

XZIBIT: Shout out to Puffco, very innovative. Is that your preference instead of smoking blunts?

Tammy: I am first and foremost a blunt girl, but it is nice to do hash. I like to low temp dab hash so that I can taste the terps.

XZIBIT: I’ve been getting into edibles. I was backwoods only for a few years, but I’ve been trying out edibles.

I am flower first, too, but edibles are starting to be a close second.

Tammy: I guess my deal with edibles is that you never really know what you’re getting. I guess in 2023 you can find strain specific edibles, but for a long time they were just throwing in all kinds of strains together.

I’m pretty sensitive to some strains. But now they’ll tell you what’s in it. Like, if it’s OG, I’ll mess with it.

XZIBIT: Do you smoke freely in front of the family or do you go on a cousin walk?

Tammy: If my mom is hosting, I’ll go on a cousin walk. I’ll be respectful.

But if you’re at my house, and I host every three years, I have a spread. We’ve got it all!

XZIBIT: I try to keep it honest with my family. I smoke around them. My grandma thinks it’s funny.

But smoking with kids, I never wanted to do it. But my son cornered me and said, “Ok Dad, we’re going to do this.” So I did it, but it still felt like I was doing something wrong.

I never want my stuff, or negative things, to be on my children. He told me that he wasn’t doing it because of me but because he wanted to, but I was still upset.

Tammy: But how many people have we brought on the show who told us that they started smoking at 12?

It’s going to happen. How old is he?

XZIBIT: He’s 27 now. We smoked when he was 21.

Tammy: For me, I was like you. But I’d rather my kid do it with me instead of some knucklehead kids.

And let’s be honest, I’m going to have better stuff.

XZIBIT: Yeah, that’s a conclusion I came to, as well. At least he wasn’t hiding it from me.

Because that’s one thing-I don’t like it when my kids hide things from me. So I liked that he was comfortable enough to come to me and include me.

Tammy: My oldest, we were at a birthday party over the summer. There were beers everywhere. My oldest asked if she could try it and I said, “Yeah.”

XZIBIT: What beer? Please don’t say Pabst Blue Ribbon. Pease don’t say Budweiser.

Tammy: I think Dos Equis?

XZIBIT: Great!

Tammy: I let her try it. She was disgusted.

XZIBIT: Do you think there is an age where it’s acceptable for you to smoke with your kid? Not anyone’s kids, just your kids.

Tammy: Teenagers go through a lot. If we get to a point where she’s depressed or suicidal, we’re going to the plants first before we hit pharmaceuticals. Plant therapies first.

Ok, Christmas is coming. Do you have a shopping strategy?

XZIBIT: I absolutely do.

Tammy: Let’s hear it.

XZIBIT: I don’t.

Tammy: You don’t Christmas shop?

XZIBIT: I throw the money on the table and say, “Look, there’s the tree.” My lady goes out and Tony Stark’s that shit.

But I don’t enjoy shopping. I go and buy an outfit, I don’t shop around.

Tammy: I instacart religiously. I can’t do the stores. And why in LA do I have to fight for parking?

Why is every Trader Joe’s parking lot like The Hunger Games?

So with shopping, I’ve just told my kids that it’s not good for me. So I just tell my kids—what if I get you one big thing a year?

And I throw little things in there, like gift cards, too.

With everyone else, I just give them weed.

XZIBIT: Is that a real gift?

Tammy: Do you know the tax rate on weed? Hell yeah it’s a gift.

And even if they don’t consume it, it’s a gift for someone else.

XZIBIT: Alright. Well on that note, enjoy your holidays.

We will take a break, but just know that we will be back with another episode of the Lasagna Ganja Podcast.

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This is X to the Z, XZIBIT.

Tammy: And this is Tammy the Cannabis Cutie—and please tag me in your plate photos!