The Baked and Awake News Brief is being published first and foremost as an Amazon Alexa Flash Briefing, and is intended to be discovered and listened to on voice enabled home speakers of all kinds, particularly Alexa powered devices. Daily headlines for the News Brief will come from several Google Alerts we have set up for ourselves, chief among them "Cannabis", "Marijuana" "Artificial Intelligence", and more. Though the Show's creator, Steve Cominski- is deeply skeptical of the cost vs benefit of such technology as talking furniture, nonetheless here we find ourselves today. As such, in the midst of the chaos that is the early 21st Century and Society's rush to become something transhuman in the form of Smart phones/cars/homes/offices/appliances/cities, we will try together to nevertheless persevere, and parse the information tsunami in a meaningful fashion. For more in depth discussions please subscribe to the "Baked and Awake" Podcast on all the major pod catching destinations including iTunes, Play, iHeartmedia, and YouTube.