

"I'm afraid the social media scene has gotten pretty absurd, so we're going to correct that," he adds. With its growing audience, particularly on Wilson is now ready to expand Stoned Appetit's reach by telling more stories about independent small businesses in Colorado in both the hospitality and cannabis industries. And then we have pricks that are real estate agents from Chicago come in, and now because a PR company gives you free tacos, you suck their dick online.

"Seeing folks do Federales reviews.when we have local entities and people who have fought through COVID, who lost their jobs and started their own companies in their kitchens. "What I actually felt was that the social media influencers in our community were doing a disservice to the independent restaurateurs and small-business owners," he explains. In early April, Wilson officially left his corporate job in tech sales to focus on the podcast's mission full-time. "I quit my day job to smoke pot and eat food," says Kip Wilson, a Mississippi native who moved to Denver in 2011 and started the Stoned Appetit podcast in 2018 with friend and co-host Chris Byard.
