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Speaker 1: It's now time for Cannabis Talk one oh one with Blue,

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Speaker 1: Joe Grande, and Mark and Craig Wasserman, the Pot Brothers

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Speaker 1: at Law. We're the world's number one podcast for everything cannabis. Hello,

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Speaker 1: welcome to Cannabis Talk one on one, the number one

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Speaker 1: source for everything cannabis. My name is Blue. Alongside him

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Speaker 1: is the world famous Pot Brothers at All, Mark and

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Speaker 1: Craig Wasserman. Mark, let us know who we have on

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Speaker 1: the show. Hey, we have some very special guests who

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Speaker 1: just happened to walk in surprises all the way from Jersey,

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Speaker 1: Leo Bridgewater and Eugene Monroe. What's up, y'alls? There were

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Speaker 1: the reason why you got the cold weather? Hey, you

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Speaker 1: already follow it happened. Sometimes it really does. When people

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Speaker 1: coming from out of state, You're like, oh, you brought

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Speaker 1: the weather with you. Sunshine. Yeah, this is beautiful. And

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Speaker 1: we're here. We're here chilling, man, it's study California we're doing.

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Speaker 1: I'm feeling really old because I'm looking at Eugene like

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Speaker 1: I know you, I know you, and I and I'm

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Speaker 1: like going to do I know you? And I was like,

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Speaker 1: I can't ask me the last name. I feel like

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Speaker 1: get older every day. You shut up Fridays with this

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Speaker 1: right right, right? So what brings you out to the

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Speaker 1: West coast. So we've been, you know, Eugene and I

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Speaker 1: are you know, doing our little product research and you know,

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Speaker 1: going around looking at different retail locations and stuff like that,

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Speaker 1: because you know, in New Jersey we just legalized for

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Speaker 1: ballad referendum last November, um, and then you know our

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Speaker 1: our governor side and our bill and on February and

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Speaker 1: subsequently New York the following month, you know, Eugene and

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Speaker 1: I decided that you know it's time for us to

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Speaker 1: that's what you know, this is part of research, is it? R?

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Speaker 1: And D? Are you looking to get into something out

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Speaker 1: here as well? Uh? Right? You know there's a ton

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Speaker 1: of opportunity here, and so you know, currying out here,

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Speaker 1: and along with the opportunity in New Jersey. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're building a business that is really tied to a

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Speaker 1: mission that we believe and we talk about it all

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Speaker 1: the time. With the touch we can have on communities

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Speaker 1: with cannabis, the communities that you guys are helping, God,

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Speaker 1: people who have been arrested, uh for no damn reason, right,

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Speaker 1: just for buying cannabis, which is legal now. So we've

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Speaker 1: got a business we've created that's a suite of brands

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Speaker 1: that when our consumers who qualified through social equity, right,

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Speaker 1: So you know, we'll develop this criteria whether it's you're

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Speaker 1: somehow victimized by the War on drugs simply by doing

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Speaker 1: what you did before that would have landed in jail.

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Speaker 1: You can participate now in this opportunity and become an

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Speaker 1: investor alongside us and help us grow. So that's called

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Speaker 1: heart Community Capital. And I love coming out here to

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Speaker 1: But you know, really looking forward to the East Coast launch, Well,

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Speaker 1: you know what you need to do is when you

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Speaker 1: But you know, but Craig, this is Craig all day though, guys,

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Speaker 1: And so what yeah? What? Yeah? You know what Leo

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Speaker 1: met these gentlemen, Leo, tell us just a little bit

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Speaker 1: about your background, what got you so involved and so

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Speaker 1: I'm Janet All. You can follow me at Skinny Queen

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Speaker 1: I was first going and wanted to get into the

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Speaker 1: cannabis community like that. People are you know, not going

428
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Speaker 1: to know that. You know, for the first couple of years,

429
00:23:08,800 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 1: you're just bearing all your quarters in the backyard. You know,

430
00:23:10,800 --> 00:23:13,080
Speaker 1: you're not ball me anyways, not you know, baring like

431
00:23:13,359 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 1: bags and bags of money but I was always worried,

432
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: is someone gonna, you know, see me on Instagram, you know,

433
00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:19,679
Speaker 1: traveling for Califex and go, oh, I bet she's got

434
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Speaker 1: a ship ton of money. Let me just go robber

435
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:23,199
Speaker 1: and you know, worst case scenario, you know, I'll leave

436
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,639
Speaker 1: with some jewelery or something. But um, does it make

437
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:28,480
Speaker 1: you nervous? Jed? Because you are in cannabis to you're

438
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Speaker 1: a woman in cannabis with skinny weed, So does that

439
00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:34,600
Speaker 1: ever make you nervous? Or like when you go to

440
00:23:34,640 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 1: cannabis events, Um, do you have like any creepy stokers

441
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 1: or if you had anything weird happen. No, But if

442
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,439
Speaker 1: we really want to look at it, like look at

443
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,440
Speaker 1: what we went through with this pandemic, where we went

444
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,320
Speaker 1: where there was all that looting that was happening through

445
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,239
Speaker 1: uh this defensaries and they all had a border up

446
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,919
Speaker 1: because people were like just breaking in and and fending

447
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:57,719
Speaker 1: for themselves. Yeah. I feel like people to like there

448
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 1: really should be especially during pandemics, like any one that's

449
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: smoked weed, anyone that's sold weed, everyone that's dealt in weed.

450
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,320
Speaker 1: Don't let these dispensaries get robbed. Like read like this

451
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,160
Speaker 1: article in Emerald magazine and really think about what you're doing.

452
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 1: Stick to all the big businesses like you're literally stealing

453
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,680
Speaker 1: from your own community. All these people are doing everything

454
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 1: they can to help the community, to help other people.

455
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,719
Speaker 1: So it's like, if you listeners, if you have friends,

456
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 1: if you hear anyone that's doing this stuff, robbing dispensaries,

457
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 1: just I don't know, beat the capite them, do the

458
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Speaker 1: role of favor. Jane, do you have so I saw

459
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Speaker 1: speaking of dispensaries. I went out to California Cannabis today. Yes,

460
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:40,080
Speaker 1: saw the team speaking of awesome cannabis dispensaries. Thank you

461
00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:42,760
Speaker 1: for introducing me to them. As do you have any

462
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 1: other shoutouts? Have you seen any recent dispensaries? I love Weeden,

463
00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,960
Speaker 1: always going to give a shout in weed and weed

464
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,800
Speaker 1: in l a cannabis Co. They're always killing it. They'll

465
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Speaker 1: be at weed con and you know what I got

466
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 1: when I was there, their customed tea. We love your tea,

467
00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: cannabis co US. So yeah, and always make sure you

468
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 1: know if you're carrying that quarantine fifteen coming out of

469
00:25:05,200 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 1: the pandemic and you need a little help, always make

470
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,560
Speaker 1: sure you get your skinny weed on your side. Take

471
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 1: your skinny weeds, sprinkle a little Kelly Effects on it.

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Speaker 1: Do we have any other sponsors? We've got dimes ere

473
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 1: new sponsor. Yeah, we got Dime because it's always the time,

474
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: it's Dante and without that cab, what do we have

475
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,000
Speaker 1: going on? I think it's back to your boys. Thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening to the women of Cannabis Talk one

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Speaker 1: oh one with the Skinny Queen June Alt and Playboy

478
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Speaker 1: playmate Christine Smith. Take a hit, get lit and sit

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Speaker 1: back and enjoy Cannabis Talk one oh one marking Craig

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Speaker 1: the Pop Roads, that Law, Blue and Joe Grande. We

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Speaker 1: want to thank the ladies of Cannabis Talk one oh one.

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Speaker 1: Blue give us special thanks to Dime Industries. Wait, we've

483
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Speaker 1: got more dope minerals and we have a fantastic time

484
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:06,040
Speaker 1: at G four Live. Don't forget Turpine Warehouse Connector and

485
00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 1: Callie Effects mark back to you very good. We are

486
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 1: here with Eugene Monroe and Leo Bridgewater and we were

487
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 1: just getting into the part where you guys met got

488
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: connected reconnected both from Jersey. How did that happen? So

489
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:30,440
Speaker 1: same neighborhoods from Trenton and he's from South Plain. Yeah. Yeah,

490
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: I'm Exit seven A. He's exited so not that far

491
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: away though from No, not really yeah and uh and

492
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: so we of course us seeing each other being the

493
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:43,080
Speaker 1: only black eyes a lot of times that had a

494
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: lot of these events and whatnot. Um and then both

495
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 1: of us finding success in New Jersey on different winning

496
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,840
Speaker 1: licenses and then deciding, hey, you know what, it's time

497
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: for us, you know, we now must become that which

498
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 1: we've been screaming about you at least and again if

499
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 1: you're taking the elements that you all through on me,

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00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, that's why. That's why I said,

501
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:12,200
Speaker 1: listen to what he said. Did I hit it or what?

502
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:16,399
Speaker 1: You know? What is this is that you have to

503
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,479
Speaker 1: put it out there and make it happen. Is that

504
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 1: both both of you guys. You know, first of all,

505
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: I appreciate the intelligence levels that you bring to the game.

506
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: Right you're not stepping up in here. You're an athlete.

507
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 1: You you're definitely a warrior. You know, you've been through

508
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:36,680
Speaker 1: the military and whatnot. So now you're taking your excellence

509
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: and bringing it to the cannabis industry. And it means

510
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: so much to us because we need critical thinkers. We

511
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,919
Speaker 1: need people that aren't just you know, I mean on

512
00:27:42,960 --> 00:27:45,200
Speaker 1: the streets that are running and that comes from all races.

513
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,520
Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with white, black, green, yellow

514
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: or anything. It's it's we're talking about just being really

515
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,119
Speaker 1: critical thinkers and stepping into the ring and then diverting

516
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: your energy towards this this plant, which is something that

517
00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,879
Speaker 1: again we need more people to fun can do. And

518
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 1: you have to care, You have to care about people,

519
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: right and certainly spreading that education one which is breaking

520
00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: down these barriers and allowing for this like widespread legalization

521
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: to happen. But within that there's also opportunity for people

522
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 1: to participate in this industry. Right, so we want to

523
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: be a part of educating our people on the ground

524
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 1: in these endeavors, right like New Jersey with this upcoming opportunity.

525
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:27,520
Speaker 1: Well you we've always said, I tell people this all

526
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Speaker 1: the time. This is this This industry is tribal, you know,

527
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: and it's filled with chieftains, shaman's village, elders, warriors, all that,

528
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 1: all medical, medical and the tribe you know, try maybe small,

529
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: but if you think about it, we're everywhere. And so

530
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,760
Speaker 1: you know, when it comes to there's a certain there

531
00:28:53,800 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 1: are certain customs and courtesies that we actually adhere to

532
00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,600
Speaker 1: within the tribe, you know. And there and and you know,

533
00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: I tell people all the time, you know, my speeches

534
00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,120
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, if you to be honest with you,

535
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: this is stuff we'd be arguing about amongst each other.

536
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying that my speeches are just

537
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: extensions of those conversations. But when we when we are

538
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:19,280
Speaker 1: around each other, this is the stuff when we talk about. Yeah,

539
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: and and so there's this whole new crowd of people

540
00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: as we legalize. There's this whole new audience that figured

541
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: out and the tribe thinking yeah, and the tribe people

542
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: been literally are the cool kids. We got the cool

543
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: kid table now, you know. And so there and I

544
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: always tell people there's two types of people. You have

545
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: flint stones and you have Jetsons, you know, and you know,

546
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: based on the words that they use, and so this

547
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: part of the flint yeah, and you know, and and

548
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: and listen, they can't help themselves. You know, they still

549
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: say gateway drug and everything. You'd be looking at them

550
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:01,760
Speaker 1: like gateway drug. That's like somebody who still called black

551
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: people color like are you you know, we'll talk that way,

552
00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:07,959
Speaker 1: you know, and then you know, you also, if this

553
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Speaker 1: was a television show, we're in season eight, episode four,

554
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,560
Speaker 1: you know, as these as these states starting there in

555
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: season one, episode three, you know, and so we you know,

556
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: a lot of times we have to you know, get

557
00:30:20,920 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 1: these people to binge watch and you know, and we

558
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: can talk around them. So there's a cultural aspect to

559
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: teaching that has that that has to take place, and

560
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: it is in coming upon us to do that because

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00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,400
Speaker 1: we're practicing me so economics, which is the study of

562
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: the creation of institutions that allow for macro and micro

563
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: to happen. That's this now, and there's definitely interesting dynamics

564
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 1: within that process that we have to get right. For example,

565
00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: right going to these events that uh, you know, people

566
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: can come to in the community to learn about the opportunity, right,

567
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: but targeting, targeting win and even the timing of the

568
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: day right knowing you know, the different struggles in those

569
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:09,160
Speaker 1: communities and in the different transportation and childcare issues you have.

570
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 1: Right when do you schedule these and I would show

571
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 1: up and you know, our people weren't there, right, So

572
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: there's a lot of like you know, really deep down

573
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: work we've got to get into you're right, like during

574
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: the middle of the week, you know, they have these

575
00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: events during the middle of the week, and that at

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00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: times that you know you can so how am I

577
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: gonna How am I going to get into the it's

578
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: stuff like that. How am I going to get into

579
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:36,959
Speaker 1: this if I can't even be there? Well? And and

580
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: that's the thing, is that sacrifice. You know, it's to

581
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: make sure you were to sacrifice yourselves to come here,

582
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I appreciate you guys

583
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 1: taking the time to stop here with us, because again,

584
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: you know you you guys were previously talking about the

585
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: four or five different locations that you just hit. You know,

586
00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: that's research and development that you're doing. And I people working.

587
00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: Some people don't do that. They just sit at home

588
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: and there the re arch and development their mind and

589
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: bouncing and off their friends, you know, And that's cool.

590
00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: Sometimes we also know, like the industry has obviously advanced

591
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: much further out west and east, right, so out here

592
00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: forming this is a strategic thing, like we had to

593
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: you know, being politically aware of your being aware of

594
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: the political calendar is being is going to be needed

595
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 1: in terms of your your long term business strength of

596
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: strategies because of what's happening. So what's the play? What's

597
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,120
Speaker 1: the play? I mean you got to we started solely

598
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: going into the project, But let's like talk about, you know,

599
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: what's the end goal? Where are you trying to get

600
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: to with it? And how can we help you? Guys?

601
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 1: What we really want to do is empower a community

602
00:32:45,480 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: of consumers who really the odds have been flipped in

603
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: our favorite now an action that would have again landed

604
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: them likely in jail, uh you know, will now you know,

605
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to actually invest in them selves and

606
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: and learn about the cannabis business directly by bringing them

607
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: into what we're doing. Right, So, you know, we're really

608
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: proud of the brands that we've created to date and

609
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 1: are racing towards getting them launched um and and having

610
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: the opportunity to to cultivate and producing New Jersey would

611
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: be a great sort of ground zero platform to one

612
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: engage our own backyard, our own communities of you know,

613
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: not only playing Field and Trenton, but greater New Jersey

614
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: and also enacting the mobilizing the veteran community as well.

615
00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: Because the specific profect. So let me ask and let

616
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: me ask you this is it? Is it sort of speaking.

617
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: You're creating a business, and you're creating your own social

618
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,160
Speaker 1: equity program as opposed to leaving it up to the

619
00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 1: cities which are fucked up independent social I mean, so

620
00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: you're basically saying to someone who is going to qualify

621
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: that we're gonna help you get into the space and

622
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: not preclude you because you don't have the money, you

623
00:34:02,440 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: don't have the resources, you don't have the knowledge. But

624
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 1: yet they were, you know, in prison. Where the fix?

625
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: So what I mean by that is, and this is

626
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: what I tell a lot of people, be the fix.

627
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:15,759
Speaker 1: Every state, including New Jersey and New York. Stop talking

628
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: about the problem. Be the solution. They're barrowing towards a clusterfuck.

629
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 1: So so so when when they decide to unfun the clusterfuck,

630
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: be the fix. You already, we've seen this, We've seen

631
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: this movie before. I'm the black guy in the movie.

632
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: Come on, you don't think I don't know when it's coming.

633
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,439
Speaker 1: Don't you hear the music? I hear the music. Don't

634
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 1: go in there, so we know what's happening. So why

635
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:45,319
Speaker 1: not just go ahead and just be it now, you know,

636
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: because we know what they don't know. And the thing

637
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: is they think they know more than we do. Well, no,

638
00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:53,439
Speaker 1: it's not only that, it's that is that they think

639
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,640
Speaker 1: they know everything anywhere they're right and they're right, I'm right,

640
00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: I'm right, and tell there's lawsuits and everybody steps out

641
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 1: and now we're all protesting the biggest the biggest differences.

642
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: You're the you're the corporation coming in that isn't gonna

643
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: fuck them because right now with most social equity programs,

644
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: people are just getting raped. There its predatory lending. Um.

645
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: I went through it in l A when they first

646
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: when they first rolled out social equity in the l A,

647
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: I was I had like four pro bono cases. I

648
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,680
Speaker 1: was representing social equity applicants and everyone, every one of

649
00:35:26,680 --> 00:35:28,960
Speaker 1: the sponsors that come on board there. They wanted two

650
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 1: sets of books, they wanted two sets of documents. Be

651
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:33,239
Speaker 1: LA had to see him and you had to own

652
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:37,799
Speaker 1: x percent as a social equity applicant. People were like

653
00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,440
Speaker 1: and then the corporations, I'd argue with their attorneys, but

654
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: we're bringing it was on their backs. This was sucking.

655
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,719
Speaker 1: You know that this industry came from and they went through.

656
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: You want to get a felony? Do you want to

657
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: have that on your record? Do you want to go

658
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: through and arrest? So, yeah, they deserve that, but the

659
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: corporations just aren't having it. And when we look at

660
00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: social equity, we almost always point towards the opera comtunity

661
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: to own and operate the business, but that that's so

662
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: few people. Let's look at who actually owns these licenses

663
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:11,799
Speaker 1: and are running a ton of thousands of people that

664
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: have been affected by the war on drugs? Right, So

665
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 1: how can we make a sort of an imprint on

666
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:20,680
Speaker 1: that population in mass And it's not just focusing on

667
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:24,880
Speaker 1: social equity for the business ownership, but it's creating these

668
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: avenues for a massive amount of people. And then when

669
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:30,040
Speaker 1: you think about social equity, because if you ask like

670
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: ten different activists with social equity're gonna get like ten

671
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: different answers, of course, and they're mostly centered around the

672
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 1: whole business. But in my mind, it's always about I

673
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 1: want social equity and the policy making. I want social

674
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 1: equity and the administration. I want social equity and the enforcement,

675
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: and I want social equity in the in the business.

676
00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 1: So that pretty much handles the proverbi or router to yeah, all,

677
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm and that's where. And then on

678
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: top of that, because we no more than they do,

679
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:05,400
Speaker 1: we can't we can no longer speak in theory or hypotheticals.

680
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: So when I'm out there hooping a hollerand at these

681
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:11,200
Speaker 1: politicians and everything you've been Yeah, but I also gotta

682
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:15,440
Speaker 1: simultaneously pointing out what's actually working, you know, and this

683
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: is real. And one of the things that I love

684
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:22,320
Speaker 1: about Eugene is that I believe that, all right, Eugene

685
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 1: is the textbook example of a ringer. And what I

686
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: mean by that is is that if you once you

687
00:37:27,680 --> 00:37:30,840
Speaker 1: get past the whole professional football player and all the

688
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: other stuff, and you actually sit down and talk with

689
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: this man, and that's a whole different and I believe

690
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,439
Speaker 1: that what he is going to be able to do

691
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 1: is influence and shift the conversation, in particular for those

692
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:51,560
Speaker 1: professional athletes who don't really know how to properly navigate

693
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,440
Speaker 1: the navigate this industry, because you see, it's it's like

694
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: you said that you know, a ringer brings to mind

695
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: is you know, they look at him as the opposite

696
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: of the you know, bringing him in at the last

697
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: minute to play the team because he's gonna, you know,

698
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,880
Speaker 1: kick everybody's ass. It's the stigma of looking at him

699
00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:10,400
Speaker 1: as a ballplayer and then all of a sudden, and

700
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: all of a sudden he sits down and you start

701
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,399
Speaker 1: speaking the knowledge, they're gonna be like, well, he knows

702
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: the game, and then I think you're right, that will

703
00:38:20,719 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: shock him into listening and hopefully was learning you know,

704
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: the industry, how how this all works. Cultivation. It really

705
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: all came from the cessy. Right. I was in this

706
00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: toxic state where I needed to get my health in order,

707
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: and I saw cannabis as that opportunity. So I really did,

708
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:44,359
Speaker 1: you know, everything I could learn it, especially coming from

709
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: a position of not really accepting it, right, So, you know,

710
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: it was it was time to get that message out

711
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: and really start the charge to change that climate in sports.

712
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:58,600
Speaker 1: And we've had a lot of movement right across you know,

713
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: all of the major particularly what's been done NFL level.

714
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,399
Speaker 1: You probably are working with other NFL players to bring

715
00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: them on board to get to get behind this, right,

716
00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: have you started to Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah, that's what I

717
00:39:13,960 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: could already see that there's a ton of athletes that

718
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:21,759
Speaker 1: they've they've been interested, they've been involved, they've been consumers.

719
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,680
Speaker 1: This is nothing new, right, but there is interest because

720
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: this is something that they value. It helps them, you know,

721
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: just like it helps all of us. Right, they get it,

722
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: they understand the opportunity. Um. So you know for many

723
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:38,840
Speaker 1: of them who also have capital and want to see

724
00:39:38,880 --> 00:39:42,360
Speaker 1: that capital work. Uh, you know, there's an opportunity across

725
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,319
Speaker 1: the industry. How many of them actually talk like that, right,

726
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: and they don't want to. So you know there's some

727
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 1: of them. Like I always tell people, you come out

728
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,080
Speaker 1: of the NFL or in any sport, right, some of

729
00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:55,720
Speaker 1: these kids are coming their kids coming out of the

730
00:39:55,880 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: high school. Sometimes they're going to basketball or or sometimes

731
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: college straight into NFL. Well it's been for years, it's

732
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,120
Speaker 1: been happening, and and my thought was just like, how

733
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,200
Speaker 1: do you get uh, you know, high school kid going

734
00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:14,520
Speaker 1: straight into two pro and n b A and expect

735
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:16,880
Speaker 1: him to act like a forty year old or a

736
00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,040
Speaker 1: fifty year old man that that has an education. Because

737
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: we were straight out of high school and now straight

738
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 1: out of high school, coming from a rough town where

739
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,600
Speaker 1: you had to get yourself out of it. You come

740
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 1: in there, you're gonna smoke weed, you're gonna party, You're

741
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: gonna be who you are. And not only that, now

742
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 1: you've got millions of dollars behind you. You know what

743
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Now that's amplified. And so a lot of

744
00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:39,200
Speaker 1: people don't understand why you have you know, these these

745
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: these kids that are professionals that become athletes, why they

746
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: don't have that that full education, which I think it's

747
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:47,480
Speaker 1: important to go to college, you know, and and go

748
00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 1: through that because college helps train you to be a

749
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: better person. You start seeing other people, but it happens.

750
00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: The point behind it is is that I think you

751
00:40:56,080 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 1: guys providing this platform for other athletes to not have

752
00:40:59,719 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: to dive into all the legalities. And the ones that

753
00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:05,719
Speaker 1: want to well, then you bring them on. The ones

754
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: that just want to invest, then you bring them on,

755
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 1: but then you can make sure their money is working.

756
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: Probably the whole thing is for them to understand what

757
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:16,879
Speaker 1: it is they're they're interested in. And if you make

758
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 1: any investment, right, you've got to know what you're investing in.

759
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: And so you know a lot of athletes typically just

760
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: rely on their advisors to direct their investments. Here that

761
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 1: cannabis is a great opportunity, but but really don't know

762
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 1: how to play, and quite frankly, neither do their advisors.

763
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: Come talk to me in California, Please come talk to me.

764
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:41,319
Speaker 1: For you doing anything. He'll scare you. Write the hell

765
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: out the game. That's his job, man if And if

766
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 1: you're still here, you're still And then and then and

767
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:53,920
Speaker 1: then take that because it's pretty much literally the same conversation,

768
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 1: and take the word athlete out everyplace it with veteran, right,

769
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:03,319
Speaker 1: and it's the same down and they go hand in hand. Listen, well,

770
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:05,839
Speaker 1: and and then and and then we have to But

771
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 1: then there's also the great, the bigger picture, the bigger conversation,

772
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: because you tax paying citizen that twenty two veteran suicides

773
00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:16,920
Speaker 1: a day that you pay for, and so and so

774
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 1: the things and so what what we are doing, what

775
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,160
Speaker 1: what heart is doing right now? And all honesty is,

776
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: we're literally giving you a better way to return on

777
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: investment than a suicide and you pay for and you

778
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: had twenty two a day of those, and so the

779
00:42:33,840 --> 00:42:37,919
Speaker 1: and so the now this is a for profit right, yes, yes,

780
00:42:38,239 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: yes you know, but we're also you know, teaming with

781
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,399
Speaker 1: you know, the VFWS in New Jersey. You know, we're

782
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: going to change the way everything works, especially since we

783
00:42:48,239 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: there's specific carve outs. I mean, and and there's no

784
00:42:50,600 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: reason why you can't make money, and the people who

785
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: you work with can't make money. There's no reason that

786
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 1: you can't make money. You want to thank me for

787
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: my service, let me tell you exactly what. Know. I'm

788
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 1: tired of other people that, you know, Like, I was

789
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: just at uh Jungle Boys yesterday, yeah, yesterday, and we're

790
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: in there, you know, and I'm you know, you know me,

791
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 1: I'm always like, okay, you know, so, hey, so what

792
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:15,759
Speaker 1: do you guys do for veterans? Is there any kind

793
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: of discount? No? I'm sorry, no, nothing, no, not even

794
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: to thank you for your service. I don't even know

795
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: what that means. And I was just like, so I

796
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 1: told you. I said listen, and I said tell your

797
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:34,319
Speaker 1: boss that Leo Bridgewater was here, you know, And and

798
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,239
Speaker 1: Leo Bridgewater said, this is fucked up. You need you

799
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:39,719
Speaker 1: need to fix this. And then your boss is going

800
00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 1: to say, well, who the hell is Leo Bridgewater? And

801
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 1: then you're gonna tell him to google that name? And

802
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:47,600
Speaker 1: it was And then I pulled my mask off and

803
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 1: I said that guy was here and you need to

804
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,279
Speaker 1: fix this, you know. Uh yeah. We we worked with

805
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,479
Speaker 1: the Weed for Warriors project out here in California. Okay, yeah,

806
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: I'm on the Jersey. I'm in the Jersey chapter. Nice. Yeah,

807
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: And I mean and they have so many storefronts that

808
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: are able to have I'm blanket on the The Senate

809
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: bill in California that allowed the giveaways allowed the donations

810
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:15,920
Speaker 1: because initially manufacturer couldn't donate they had to pay taxes

811
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,879
Speaker 1: on as if they sold it initially. But they got

812
00:44:18,880 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 1: a bill signed me was last year, and they're up

813
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 1: and down the state where their storefronts who they provide

814
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 1: you know, veterans, they line up and they give up

815
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:29,479
Speaker 1: you know what. Yeah, we needed like like I told people,

816
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: we have to store and and stop allowing other people

817
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: to to to the narrative for us, you know. I mean,

818
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 1: like right now, we have LaRue Bratcher, you know, who

819
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: was defending his home because someone broke into it for

820
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 1: the second time, and this time his wife and kids

821
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,000
Speaker 1: is and he killed the dude. You know what I'm saying,

822
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:49,880
Speaker 1: that's what they did. They threw him in jail with

823
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 1: no bail. You know. Then you have in the house. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

824
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:56,759
Speaker 1: and this is a veteran, you know what I'm saying,

825
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: combat veterans. Then you got the Then you got the

826
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: veterans and at An Island who were denied of a

827
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: parade permit for a Memorial Day, you know, and so

828
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: it was like, you know, and they got it. They

829
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: got it yesterday, I think, you know, But it's stuff

830
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: like this, you know, like these are the things that

831
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:19,399
Speaker 1: I tell people. I'm the reason why you don't want

832
00:45:19,440 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: to get the veteran the microphone, because I'm gonna say, Ship,

833
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:25,879
Speaker 1: that's gonna make you uncomfortable, comfortable with being uncomfortable. Goddamn ship,

834
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 1: you know, like okay, yeah, you know, yeah, you like

835
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,239
Speaker 1: take me to that football game. You know, I'm just

836
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 1: get rid of you. Yeah, I'm out. Yeah, I'm gonna

837
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: snatch the microphone. Can we talk about the homelessness please? Yeah?

838
00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:46,799
Speaker 1: And where they really come from, how they what really

839
00:45:46,840 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: caused the problem. Let's just not look at him if

840
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,919
Speaker 1: we passed by, you know, I'm knowing man, Ship. Yeah,

841
00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: I'm comfortable with that. Man, I'm comfortable with being uncomfortable.

842
00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:01,439
Speaker 1: So hey, I came way and waiting it out there yeah.

843
00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 1: But see. You know what, here's the other thing too.

844
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: That's why we're friends. Yeah, yeah, that's why we like

845
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: to shake up. You're not afraid. We just named the

846
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:21,040
Speaker 1: episode shaking it up. It up care passion. You have

847
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: to you have to create that, man. Here's here's here.

848
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: It is right here, man, and I'm just throwing it

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Speaker 1: be so listen, guys, I mean, before we get out

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Speaker 1: companies again. Anything that we missed that you guys want

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Speaker 1: to talk about hard community capital. We are black owned

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Speaker 1: We've got NBA athletes, We've got uh former ESPN anchor,

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Speaker 1: And yeah you doing it, you're doing it. Yeah. It

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Speaker 1: appreciates you guys. Man, thank you so much. And and

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Speaker 1: and you know, sincerely, you know, I'm a minority myself,

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Speaker 1: appreciate you, guys, and thank you for joining us. I

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Speaker 1: always say, man, I hope y'all hear little bit of

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Speaker 1: the hollow, because of the things that you don't let

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