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Speaker 1: Now we have a fantastic show for you today, Craig,

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Speaker 1: you have some news for us. Yeah. The news is

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Speaker 1: They're checking out his taint? Guys. I know you don't

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Speaker 1: This is This is always a fun one and it's

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Speaker 1: His name is Tom Price. Tom Price, well maybe you do.

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Speaker 1: I think he's one of your friends. He was. He

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Speaker 1: was a political marijuana prohibitionist right out of Orange County. Okay, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: this is even better. So Tom Price was a Georgia Republican,

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Speaker 1: That's a plus, right Blue Yeah, of course. But instead

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Speaker 1: way better than Joe over there with this. You know. Yeah,

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00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: that sounded just like it, you know. I'll tell you

426
00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: what though, Man, before we went to break, I wanted

427
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:39,600
Speaker 1: to just sit there and say, you know that that

428
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:45,840
Speaker 1: you know, we we're talking about cities doing it yourself,

429
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:50,919
Speaker 1: googling it. You know, I can agree, and I have

430
00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 1: to agree because I had to do it myself too.

431
00:23:54,080 --> 00:23:55,560
Speaker 1: Right when I went out to try and get my

432
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,399
Speaker 1: first dispensary and figure out all the laws. There was

433
00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,040
Speaker 1: no attorney that he could even help me. There was

434
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:04,159
Speaker 1: no um, you know, blueprint or plan that could actually

435
00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,679
Speaker 1: drive me there. And there's still really isn't right because

436
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 1: every city, every county, every state is different. And not

437
00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:14,959
Speaker 1: only are they different, they actually change their freaking laws

438
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: and they change their requirements and they change their security

439
00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,760
Speaker 1: and they change their this, and then that's every freaking

440
00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: so often okay, and it sucks. But my thought behind

441
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 1: this is this, you can do it by yourself, but

442
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 1: you are going to pay for that. And and I

443
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: say that because you know, there's a point where you

444
00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:38,800
Speaker 1: go and you find a mentor, you go and you

445
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:41,399
Speaker 1: pay an attorney. You go and some attorneys will you know,

446
00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,439
Speaker 1: bleed you dry before you get there. Which is you know,

447
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,439
Speaker 1: and which is why I actually probably I'm partners with

448
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:49,680
Speaker 1: the pot Brothers at law because when I met with them,

449
00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:52,720
Speaker 1: you know, out of all the people that were telling

450
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,359
Speaker 1: me that all the wrong things to do, you know,

451
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,679
Speaker 1: they just not only did they debunk it while I

452
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,280
Speaker 1: was sitting there, they pulled out the freaking laws and

453
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:04,199
Speaker 1: they started highlighting them going read this line, read that

454
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 1: line to to kind of basically tell me that the

455
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 1: last attorney that I had already paid, you know, a

456
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: ten tho dollar retainer too, you know, was full of ship.

457
00:25:13,080 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 1: Yeah he was. He was just basically you know, you know,

458
00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,399
Speaker 1: you know, dunk taking me, you know, and and giving

459
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:22,280
Speaker 1: me all the wrong advice. And so when I when

460
00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:23,920
Speaker 1: I met with the part brothers at law and I

461
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,480
Speaker 1: sat with Mark and Craig, you know, it was just this,

462
00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:28,399
Speaker 1: you know, hey, this is what I'm doing, this is

463
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do, this is what I want

464
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,840
Speaker 1: to do, and how do I get there? And this

465
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:34,679
Speaker 1: is you know, I was ahead of a lot of people,

466
00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 1: and I had a lot of things already in place

467
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 1: because I already paid to learn. But when I sat

468
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: with them, they were so organic and real with me, like, man,

469
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 1: do you do you really have the money? Are you

470
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,000
Speaker 1: really about this life? Is this something you really want

471
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 1: to do? Because if it isn't run for the hills,

472
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,600
Speaker 1: And I'm like, bro, this is the only life I know.

473
00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: You know, it isn't no fucking hobby. This is you know,

474
00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:58,119
Speaker 1: this is a lifestyle. This is what I do, you know,

475
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 1: And so you know, when you start to to to

476
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,399
Speaker 1: sit there and and yeah, because you gotta you gotta

477
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,920
Speaker 1: find the guys who aren't you know, like these guy

478
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: had a couple in today and it's like, you know,

479
00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,120
Speaker 1: I'm letting you know the good, the bad, and the ugly.

480
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: You know, he was so excited. He wants to grow.

481
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: He's grown before. He loves growing. He's gonna anything to do.

482
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,199
Speaker 1: He go, he wants to grow. And I love that.

483
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: I love that enthusiasm. But I said, this ain't your

484
00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:27,760
Speaker 1: father's grow. Yeah you're saying your father's be it. This

485
00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:32,120
Speaker 1: is you know, you you go from cash cow, your

486
00:26:32,119 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: father's buick too slim to bear margins. If you're running

487
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: the legit cannabis business. Yeah, and I go, but but

488
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: still but still there there's room to make money. There's

489
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,400
Speaker 1: room to be the best. If you have the best weed,

490
00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 1: you're always gonna sell it no matter what. I don't

491
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 1: care how many people are, how many grows there are,

492
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,679
Speaker 1: and anywhere you make the best, you're gonna sell it.

493
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: And uh, I just make sure that you understand that

494
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: this isn't all funny games, isn't let's you know, because

495
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: I could have just probably signed them up in about

496
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,400
Speaker 1: five minutes and said, let's start. You're excited, let's get going,

497
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:09,679
Speaker 1: give me a retainer, and let's start good doing it.

498
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: As opposed to you assuring you know. An hour later,

499
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: it's like you come back and tell me you'll think

500
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,639
Speaker 1: about it, you know, because you've got to know what

501
00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: you're getting into. And I think that's why. And even

502
00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: and in the past, but in the past years ago

503
00:27:23,560 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: was free consultations. Because of the regulations and all that ship,

504
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: we we couldn't do that anymore, and we had to

505
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,879
Speaker 1: go to paid consultation for businesses. Criminals are still free consultations,

506
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:38,200
Speaker 1: but businesses it's our consultation hour hour and a half.

507
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,879
Speaker 1: But for our I Heart listeners and Instagram followers, we

508
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:44,679
Speaker 1: cut it to seven fifty. And if you can afford

509
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:47,679
Speaker 1: seven fifty, you shouldn't even be looking in this industry.

510
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,399
Speaker 1: And that's how we kind of justified that. And and

511
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: how much more information there is to give now in

512
00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: a consultation than there was back when you came in

513
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: Sauce Blue. It was way simpler and uh I was free.

514
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: Uh no, yours was back then. Back then, I still left,

515
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: Uh made you know, I made my decision right down

516
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: to the table, and I think I cut you guys

517
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 1: in five thousand dollar checked that day. I think you did. Yeah,

518
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:12,560
Speaker 1: I didn't even think. I think, wait, no, I think

519
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: it was for ten. But he still always five. Yeah, right,

520
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:17,840
Speaker 1: I paid you. I actually had to pay you the

521
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: other five even though we partnered up. That was the

522
00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: worst part for me. I was like, dude, these guys

523
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:23,800
Speaker 1: were partners and they're still making me pay the other five.

524
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: Damn it was for ten, but I paid five. And

525
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,399
Speaker 1: then I well, that was the birth. That was that

526
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:33,160
Speaker 1: was the that was the birth of Blue and Joe. Yeah,

527
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 1: I mean, Craig, that's a whole moment, Craig, you know.

528
00:28:36,280 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: But but again, Craig, I again, I just want people

529
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:42,400
Speaker 1: to know, like you know it. Well, let me give

530
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: let's let me give this advice for a quick and

531
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: I know we're getting short on time, but it is

532
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: is no matter what states you're in, no matter what

533
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: country you're in, you know, do some of your own

534
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: googling if you do decide to see a lawyer. Obviously,

535
00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: we have people literally across the country and the world.

536
00:28:58,520 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: Now it's it's insane. Um in what countries we actually

537
00:29:02,120 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: have other lawyers, but google that lawyer, check up on

538
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: that lawyer. If you're in the United States, go to

539
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:14,200
Speaker 1: your your state's bar uh bar website. You can look

540
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: up attorney discipline, look people up, vet them out. Don't

541
00:29:17,760 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: just blindly go because there's so many that will just

542
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: bleed you. Take your money, and there's still a lot

543
00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: of good ones out there, trust me, but you gotta

544
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: be careful and look out for yourself. So so so,

545
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say is that most even with

546
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: with with or without the money, because I'm a firm believer,

547
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: without the money, you can make it. But most, no,

548
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: you can't. No, no you can't. Because I'm saying no,

549
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: I'm saying if you physically don't have it, if you

550
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,760
Speaker 1: have hold on, let me let me, let me land.

551
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 1: My plane is before if if yes, you can get it,

552
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: if you have the energy. You have to have the

553
00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: energy in order to go through this. Most of these

554
00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: casts don't have the energy. And this is what I mean.

555
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: You know, they come in, they're excited, and you know,

556
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 1: and I like to try and bottle that energy when

557
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: I see people and go, look, let's keep going boom.

558
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:09,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to break their self esteem. Break their

559
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 1: heart break through this. I want to give them the

560
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: facts of what they're gonna go through and how difficult

561
00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: it is. But I want to, you know, motivate those

562
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: because through that the you know, finding that energy and

563
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: finding that lightning and then capturing it, putting in the

564
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: bottle and allowing that bottle to be sold is priceless.

565
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,400
Speaker 1: But in order to actually get there, you have to

566
00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:29,520
Speaker 1: have that freaking energy. And a lot of these people

567
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:32,040
Speaker 1: they have the energy, they have the energy. They take

568
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 1: one hit, and everybody has a plan until they get punched.

569
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,480
Speaker 1: They get punched, and then they go, oh my god,

570
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 1: and they just roll out and then they blame everybody.

571
00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: They blame everybody but themselves and the one person I

572
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: would say that if you fail, you at any given time,

573
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: I don't want you to call me. I want you

574
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: to go in the mirror, look at yourself and tell

575
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: yourself why you failed. I don't care what I did

576
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,040
Speaker 1: with you or how you did it. And and super

577
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 1: is super important to understand that because the industry itself

578
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 1: is not friendly, and not only this industry, but no industry,

579
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 1: what industry. You know, it's gonna just let you once

580
00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,719
Speaker 1: in there and take it over by storm. It just

581
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: doesn't happen that way. You've got to put blood, sweat

582
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: and tears and and and that and and that's the

583
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,640
Speaker 1: point that we make two people is if you want

584
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,479
Speaker 1: to get into the industry, absolutely great, I applaud you,

585
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: I'll support you. I'll do whatever I can. But it

586
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: ain't a cake walk. No, and and cake But not

587
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: not the cannabis industry, but any business, any entrepreneur, any

588
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:36,120
Speaker 1: any startup company. You know, like, no, no that you know,

589
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: you're you're right blue overall, you're right. But because we're

590
00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: on I hate to be a dick, but we're on

591
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 1: cannabis talk one on one someone talking about canabis and

592
00:31:44,520 --> 00:31:48,280
Speaker 1: cannabis businesses and how it it's those cannabis businesses are

593
00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:53,280
Speaker 1: even harder to start up that almost any other business

594
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: on planet Earth. Right now, in the state of California,

595
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: and many states and many many and many states are

596
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,959
Speaker 1: doing it fucked up with Chicago is all sucked up.

597
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: From what we understand, people are buying eighty dollar eight

598
00:32:05,440 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: well Oklahoma, you know, I I they they they're saturated.

599
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: But you know what, the survival of the fittest, the

600
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: cream rises to the top, right let the Oklahoma did

601
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: it right. I'm I'm a fan of what Oklahoma is doing.

602
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 1: I just I do think they are saturated. But but again,

603
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: I think if you come out there and you have

604
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 1: the guts, no glory. Yeah, and and I we had

605
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: a fantastic uh family coming here, the cooking company of

606
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: the Baker Grammar's Bakers, you know, and oh yes, I

607
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:40,440
Speaker 1: remember them, beautiful family man. And and they just came

608
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 1: in here, and you know, they have so many products,

609
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:48,959
Speaker 1: they've got a thriving company, They've got hustlers in their family.

610
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: They're just hustling. They've got a hustle. They're kicking ass

611
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: and almost like, you know, how are you guys doing.

612
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: They're like, oh, we're one of the number one edibles

613
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: in the state. And it's like, yeah, I mean, I

614
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: think I think what you're saying is is right on point,

615
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 1: but it it belies everything else that if you you know,

616
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: when I tell them everything you gotta do, if you're

617
00:33:07,600 --> 00:33:09,480
Speaker 1: not a hustler, you're not gonna you're not gonna be

618
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,400
Speaker 1: able to do it. Well, that's the thing. The bottom

619
00:33:12,480 --> 00:33:13,959
Speaker 1: line is, you've got don't do it. If you if

620
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: you know you can't do this is I'm telling you

621
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: this how it's gonna be. Well, you gotta have that energy,

622
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: like I said, and and and your energy can't stop

623
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: when you take a little a little uh not even

624
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: a big blow. You know, people look at I took

625
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: a blow. It's like boom, you know. You take a

626
00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:30,240
Speaker 1: little hit and tell them to get out the ambulance. Yeah,

627
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: they start wamming, you know. And it's like, instead, why

628
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: don't you stand up and work double time and and

629
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,480
Speaker 1: and utilize everything that you just learned and reach back

630
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,280
Speaker 1: and and and double back and double down. No one's

631
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: gonna give it to you. You gotta go take it. Yeah,

632
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: and you're about to eat that mike to You can't

633
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 1: get if you don't take Yeah. Yeah, how did that

634
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: might taste right now? Is it? Actually? I got a

635
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: little close there? You're still getting close again. You're like

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