Listening to Dave Richards, I firmly believe the man.
I actually got the exact opposite vibe. Listening to him sounded like someone who was definitely around and involved in that scene, but laying it on super thick at the same time. Like his friend having the chance to walk on his sentence because the government wanted his strains that bad? Ha...riiiiiiiight. I feel like a solid amount of the stuff he was saying true, or based in truth, but I just got that feeling that he was dropping a decent amount of bullshit too. The timing of him just happening to be listening, and commenting in the chat, and then eventually calling in all seems like a plant as well. Not saying it is, that's totally plausible that he's a regular listener, especially if him and Adam are friends, but with all they're building to for the OGenome project, and fleshing out Chem/Diesel, and now OG, and suddenly Richards just happens to pop in unexpectedly and dominate the cast that sets the internet on fire. Then there's the Todd McCormick claiming Richards' snitchery issue as well. I really want to hear his side of the story fully fleshed out. Fuck, I'm sure there are various reasons why no one's bringing it up on something so open like that, but I'd love to get something beyond speculation on the Rez ordeal.
I don't know man, this is all some serious WWE storyline type shit. I feel like a kid watching Monday Night Raw listening to and reading all of this. Like, the long standing story that a Chemdog cut in Cali led to to OG and Bubba Kush (through various crosses), and suddenly "Bubba" and these other dudes grab the mic and walk down ramp claiming that it's Florida bag seed that lead to OG (before getting the OG moniker), and then a bag of seeds for a Northern Lights cross from Humboldt County leading to a strain they named Bubba, which through a hermied OG lead to Bubba Kush. Meanwhile Adam Dunn and those dudes are the announcers hyping this shit up like mad. Putz and those dudes from Cali, Chem Fam, and the Bubba's Florida boys are all going to meet on the podcast for a straight up he said she said hardcore showdown.
I'm gonna shit myself when all of this and the OGenome project leads to Dave Richards and Adam Dunn announcing a breeding project with Dave's supposed seed stash that starts with legends being given cuts for public test runs that are the most fire thing of all time, and leads to 10-50k cut/seed auctions, and we realize it was all one massive guerrilla marketing campaign from the start.