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Lumpy's Flowers offers the world's widest selection of 27 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:19,800 Speaker 1: in house genetics with a grower let operation focused on 28 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:24,679 Speaker 1: cultivating quality products to deliver high testing terpene strains. They 29 00:01:24,760 --> 00:01:28,440 Speaker 1: pride themselves in providing the finest, handpicked, hand trimmed flower 30 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: delivering a one of a kind smoking experience. Our special 31 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,839 Speaker 1: guests is also one of the few black owned, black 32 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:41,440 Speaker 1: CEOs of a successful legal end independently owned cannabis company, 33 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:43,960 Speaker 1: and we are more than excited to have him to 34 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: join us right here on the campus today. Please put 35 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,840 Speaker 1: your hands together for the one and only CEO of 36 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:52,480 Speaker 1: Lumpy's Flowers and a fellow Spartan from San Jose State. 37 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:57,920 Speaker 1: I find out mister Josh Real in the buildings. Josh, 38 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,400 Speaker 1: thank you for having me. It was great, Josh, to 39 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:02,280 Speaker 1: catch up with you outside a little bit to learn 40 00:02:02,320 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: your you know, history, being born out here in LA 41 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,800 Speaker 1: and then moving to the Bay bouncing around the Bay area. 42 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:09,640 Speaker 1: You went to San Jose State, Like I went to 43 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,160 Speaker 1: San Jose State. That's dope. But a little bit about that. 44 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: Let the listeners know. You said you were born in Torrance. Yeah. 45 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,440 Speaker 1: I was born in Torrance actually, and we lived out 46 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,960 Speaker 1: here until about seven or eight. My dad was from 47 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,920 Speaker 1: the Bay Area, so we moved to a small town 48 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:27,200 Speaker 1: right outside of San Francisco between Sacramento called Backaville. Course, 49 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:31,520 Speaker 1: you know, it's definitely a nice prison over there. Yeah, 50 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:33,880 Speaker 1: outlets and we got a prison and that's about it. 51 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:38,120 Speaker 1: And JC, if I'm not mistaken, No, right next door, 52 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,920 Speaker 1: right one town over. Yes, did you visit either one 53 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:45,320 Speaker 1: of them? Nope. I try to stay away from that 54 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: school and that prison. So that's always fun right there. 55 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: Having the roots in LA like that to stay in 56 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:55,119 Speaker 1: California like this, and then you went to San Jose State. 57 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:58,160 Speaker 1: Why did you become a spartan um? Yeah, real quick. 58 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:00,880 Speaker 1: You know, grew up in Vacaville, started had gotten too football. 59 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 1: You know, I didn't start playing football to my sophomore year. 60 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,360 Speaker 1: You know, my size obviously was the right fit for 61 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: that game, and then kind of got uh ended up 62 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:14,400 Speaker 1: going flex. Yeah, yeah, I know. I ended up in 63 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,520 Speaker 1: reading for two years, which is a you know, small 64 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:18,400 Speaker 1: thing is kind of where I got into really starting 65 00:03:18,400 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: to get into cannabis. And then I got a full 66 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 1: ride to university. Uh sounds like state actually wanted to 67 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:27,760 Speaker 1: excuse me, got a full ride to Houston, moved to 68 00:03:27,800 --> 00:03:30,959 Speaker 1: Texas for about sixty to ninety days, and was like, yeah, 69 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: I'm California. This is not for me. So uh, the 70 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 1: just you know, everybody knew you were from California, and 71 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:39,320 Speaker 1: you know, I loved all respect to Texas. They take 72 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,600 Speaker 1: great pie in their state, but like they don't like 73 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: California people and they let you know that. So like 74 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, this isn't for me. So I 75 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,720 Speaker 1: transferred out to sound all the state and uh ended 76 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:52,960 Speaker 1: up spending uh my my second half of college out there. 77 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:55,880 Speaker 1: And then that's kind of what got me into cannabis 78 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: was the real estate market was going crazy in two 79 00:03:58,080 --> 00:03:59,840 Speaker 1: thousand and six and everybody was doing one hundred percent 80 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:02,480 Speaker 1: five financing. Everybody had five holes is working at Burger King. 81 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: But you know, some of the people were like, well, 82 00:04:05,200 --> 00:04:06,640 Speaker 1: we got to do something to pay this rent. So 83 00:04:06,760 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: that's kind of where I started getting into growing was 84 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:11,160 Speaker 1: I had these properties and it's like, what am I 85 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: gonna do? Now? You know you can't rent them out? 86 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: So that's what kind of started driving me to get 87 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:17,520 Speaker 1: into cannabis and the first thing. And it was right 88 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: out of college there, Yeah, right right right out of college. 89 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: What position did you play in college? Defensive tackle? Oh? 90 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 1: Really a d okay. I was left tackle as well, 91 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: So I've been trying to block your big ass. He 92 00:04:27,880 --> 00:04:30,000 Speaker 1: Satose State been doing good. I was just talking to 93 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: Deese's dad yesterday. You know, Deese, the tight end that 94 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: was over there, did big records for San Jose State. 95 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: They won the division there when he was playing tight end, 96 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: and I was talking to his dad. I don't know 97 00:04:38,839 --> 00:04:40,840 Speaker 1: if you know. His dad played for the Niners. Derek 98 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: Deese won two Super Bowl rings there. And ironically we're 99 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:45,800 Speaker 1: just chopping up the day he's gonna come by the studio. 100 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 1: You're gonna meet this dude. He went to USC and 101 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: his son now it's gonna play for the Detroit Lions. 102 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 1: He's actually playing tight end for them now this season. Yeah, 103 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: I was catching up with him because my boy JV 104 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:57,239 Speaker 1: has been passed, so we're talking about that all stuff. 105 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: And just funny to hear San Jose State be brought 106 00:04:59,839 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 1: up again as I heard more conversations in life about 107 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 1: other things and other players. Seeing that program do so well. 108 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 1: Wasn't so hot when I was there. Did a little 109 00:05:08,440 --> 00:05:10,040 Speaker 1: better when you were there and starting to do I 110 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: just started to get a little bit better. And I 111 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,400 Speaker 1: think it got better after after I left from there 112 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: and when they changed the divisions and went to the 113 00:05:15,080 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 1: Mountain West. Yes, I mean they have the you know, 114 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: stadium was nice. They had the weight rooms there. Uh, 115 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 1: you know, it's more of a commuter college. They say, 116 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:26,600 Speaker 1: the fan base isn't isn't there as far as as 117 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:29,040 Speaker 1: strong as it should have been, like Stanford in Berkeley. No, 118 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:30,800 Speaker 1: not at all exactly, you know, But I mean, like 119 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: I said, Santos straight, great school, great city, you know, 120 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,520 Speaker 1: great people. Uh. You know, I love the South Bay, 121 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,360 Speaker 1: so that's always going to be home to me, you know. Yeah, 122 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 1: And the grow for you starts out there in San Jose, 123 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: which is um That's where I got into home owns, 124 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 1: doing financing and stuff. I've always been a numbers guy. 125 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,279 Speaker 1: So I started buying houses and you know, a Vacaville 126 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 1: and Sacramento and then that drove me back out this 127 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: way and then got me into uh like I said, yeah, 128 00:05:54,240 --> 00:05:56,920 Speaker 1: cultivation is what got me down leading down the road. 129 00:05:57,279 --> 00:06:00,000 Speaker 1: Uh was real estate and cannabis kind of go hand 130 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:03,080 Speaker 1: in him were you were you Lumpies? Where'd you get 131 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:06,080 Speaker 1: the name of Lumpies? So? Uh, past foward when I 132 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,880 Speaker 1: started growing out there, went to a hydro shop, um, 133 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: you know, and I bought like a six acre ranch 134 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: and had like a three thousand square foot building on it. 135 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: So I'm like, hey, I need an age back guy 136 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: that I can trust. He's like, oh, I got a guy. 137 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:20,040 Speaker 1: And so you know this, this guy comes out ballheaded, 138 00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: you know, a white guy about my height, and uh 139 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: you know his name Jason, and like that's who Lumpy is, 140 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 1: that's his nickname. So I ended him meeting him and 141 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:32,840 Speaker 1: then uh, you know he saw my grow He's like, well, 142 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 1: my parents, you know, live in Nappa, Like I should 143 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: be growing on their property too. Yeah. Yeah, after that, 144 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 1: I started growing up for a couple of years. You know, 145 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: we were acquaintance is not really close friends. Um, I 146 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 1: ended up getting rated. You know, and so I got 147 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:48,919 Speaker 1: to go through all of that, got out of jail, 148 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:53,840 Speaker 1: and uh she did visit back Ville. Oh yeah, yeah, 149 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: PD he definitely visited me. Yeah, they know, they came 150 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: and raided to me. I had you know, I think 151 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:00,919 Speaker 1: at that time six on her plant, so that was 152 00:07:00,920 --> 00:07:03,799 Speaker 1: a big number for them. Um, but were you licensed 153 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,040 Speaker 1: at that time? No, this was two thousand and eight, 154 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:10,320 Speaker 1: so this was still a medical gray area. Yeah, so 155 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,760 Speaker 1: six hundred still too much to be the medical exactly. 156 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,600 Speaker 1: So you know, they they ended up yet, you know, 157 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 1: busting me, raiding me there. You know, I had to 158 00:07:18,880 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 1: fight you know, court for three years on that case. 159 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:22,800 Speaker 1: And then when I had got out, you know, I 160 00:07:22,880 --> 00:07:24,560 Speaker 1: hit up Jay and I was when I got back 161 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 1: more in the real estate flipping houses. I'm like, okay, 162 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a breather, and uh, you know, he 163 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,400 Speaker 1: had like a greenhouse and some of the stuff molded. 164 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: But he was like, dude, just you tremit, you clean 165 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,400 Speaker 1: it up. But at the time, I you know, I 166 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: was probably ended up fifteen thousand dollars with the product 167 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:39,960 Speaker 1: that you know. I mean, I was able to get 168 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: back on my feet, and I'm like I kind of 169 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 1: met him one day, I'm like, hey, you know, like, 170 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:44,880 Speaker 1: why did you You know we were cool, but we 171 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,200 Speaker 1: were like why did you why did you plug me 172 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 1: like that. He's like, dude, if it wasn't for you 173 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 1: doing show me your grow I would have never expanded 174 00:07:51,480 --> 00:07:53,760 Speaker 1: out of like a bedroom. Basically. Wow. So I'm only 175 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: here because you you showed me the way to like, hey, 176 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: I could do this. So you know, we've always had 177 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:01,080 Speaker 1: a mutual respect for that. And then, you know, I 178 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 1: still took a break up flipping houses, and then I 179 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,160 Speaker 1: Instagram came out, and you know, I'm filling I'm flipping 180 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:07,720 Speaker 1: houses one day and the dude's like, hey, you know 181 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: this guy Rightle'm status and I'm like, nah, I don't 182 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:12,800 Speaker 1: have Instagram. I'm like who, And he's like this is 183 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 1: this is Jason. I'm like, thirty two thousand people are 184 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 1: following this guy. And he's like yeah, I'm like, Jason, 185 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: don't talk to six people in person, let alone like 186 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,840 Speaker 1: has he had thirty two thousand people following him? So 187 00:08:23,280 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: my light bulb went off, you know, instantly, and was like, wow, 188 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: this is a source of branding. This has changed the game, 189 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:30,880 Speaker 1: you know. So I called him up one day and 190 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:32,440 Speaker 1: I brought him out to my house. I'm like, dude, 191 00:08:32,440 --> 00:08:34,880 Speaker 1: you know how much for everything? Like he had popped 192 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,280 Speaker 1: h you know, the origination was he popped four seeds 193 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: and got apple fritter out of one of them, and that's, 194 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:42,320 Speaker 1: you know, what our staple is as a company, you know. 195 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 1: And so he had just done that and a couple 196 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:46,640 Speaker 1: of things. I'm like, you know, I'll give you half 197 00:08:46,679 --> 00:08:49,959 Speaker 1: a million for your whole genetic library. I want it all. 198 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 1: And he's like, fucking have it, you know what I 199 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:54,280 Speaker 1: mean here? Really? So I sat back and I said, 200 00:08:54,320 --> 00:08:56,280 Speaker 1: you know what, like we could go further as a 201 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,719 Speaker 1: partnership than it is than me, you know, doing this. 202 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: So I said, you know what, let's just be partners. 203 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: So he's like all right. So we ended up getting 204 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,880 Speaker 1: a Like I said, I'm really good in real estate. 205 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:09,319 Speaker 1: So I found us a warehouse in Sacramento. We ended 206 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 1: up being one of the pre registered ones in two 207 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:13,480 Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen. So we went from both of us 208 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: were growing in our garages at that time, went to 209 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 1: the warehouse and then uh from there just you know, 210 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:22,199 Speaker 1: we've just been fully licensed warehouse. So that was twenty 211 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 1: four thousand square feet We got into that um in 212 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,640 Speaker 1: two thousand and sixteen. We grew until two eighteen nineteen, 213 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 1: and then Sacramento. The head of Sacramento's cannabis division went 214 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:37,640 Speaker 1: to U Marijuana bisincon in Vegas was hanging out with 215 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 1: some dispensary owners. The city got wind of it. Supposedly, 216 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,040 Speaker 1: you know, they didn't. They accused him or whatever taking bribes, 217 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,880 Speaker 1: something shady something. So they kind of went down the 218 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 1: list of pre pre pre growers, other people that were 219 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 1: allowing us to come, you know, illegally and go continue 220 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,079 Speaker 1: to grow as we got legal, and they kind of 221 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:56,720 Speaker 1: went down, shook the list up and was like, we 222 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,679 Speaker 1: don't want to have anything that looks like we're giving 223 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:01,559 Speaker 1: you know, a priority or anything to anybody. So they 224 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,000 Speaker 1: came in our warehouse one day and was like, you know, 225 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:06,520 Speaker 1: we had put up a couple of walls preemptibly the 226 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,440 Speaker 1: building permit being approved and fire came in, were like hey, 227 00:10:10,559 --> 00:10:12,600 Speaker 1: you know in the building conspectors like we're shutting you down. 228 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: You know you have you have nineteen or he has 229 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: you have twenty minutes to shut your building down. At 230 00:10:16,360 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 1: this point, we have a million dollars or with the 231 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: weed growing we have twenty employees. I'm like, bro, I 232 00:10:20,400 --> 00:10:22,320 Speaker 1: can't shut this building down in one minute. He's like, 233 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: our twenty minutes. He's like, you're right, you got nineteen yeah, 234 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:30,240 Speaker 1: so you know, wow, so lo and behold. Nineteen minutes 235 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,640 Speaker 1: later they may have clear everything out, shut the power off, 236 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:36,319 Speaker 1: locked it up. You know, we got all these plants 237 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:38,320 Speaker 1: and they were just dying. So we had to go 238 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,200 Speaker 1: in and you know, cut all our genetics and get 239 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,959 Speaker 1: our get o our clones into a safe space so 240 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: we don't lose our genetics. And then, uh, you know, 241 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: I call it magic, some people call it favors. Who knows. 242 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:51,959 Speaker 1: We never found out, but you know, somehow the the 243 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: lock got unlocked and the power came back on the 244 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:57,599 Speaker 1: next day, and so, you know, we just continue to 245 00:10:57,640 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: go on down business. And then we got a season 246 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,840 Speaker 1: assist two weeks later, and you know, we were we 247 00:11:04,040 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: the whole deal ideal was we needed to get our 248 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,280 Speaker 1: building permit and we were days away from getting it. 249 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 1: And I remember I went in on on a Monday 250 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:12,280 Speaker 1: and to the building partment, I say, hey, you know, 251 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:14,559 Speaker 1: is the building permit ready? And the guy that ended 252 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 1: up shutting us down. Originally it was like I'll let you, 253 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 1: I'll call you when it's ready. And then Wednesday morning 254 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:21,560 Speaker 1: I went to go check the grow at seven am 255 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:25,480 Speaker 1: and there was uh six police cars. You know, a 256 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:30,000 Speaker 1: wood chipper. When you see that, the wood chipper, yeah, 257 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,000 Speaker 1: d So you know you pull in, um, you know, 258 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:36,160 Speaker 1: try to do act lost and they're like, nah, buddy, 259 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,120 Speaker 1: we've been looking for you. Step over. Yeah so it 260 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,640 Speaker 1: got lost na, yeah exactly, Like where are I supposed 261 00:11:41,640 --> 00:11:46,600 Speaker 1: to be out? So yeah, they ended up arresting me, 262 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:48,480 Speaker 1: putting me in the back of the cop car for 263 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,440 Speaker 1: seven hours where they you know, molished our building, you know, 264 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:53,520 Speaker 1: cut down all of our crops. You should you know, 265 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 1: it's a licensed facilities. It is a licensed facility. So 266 00:11:56,679 --> 00:11:59,440 Speaker 1: that's just the worst. Yeah. So that was the worst 267 00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:02,200 Speaker 1: feeling in the world. Um, you know, and then they 268 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 1: have to like, you know, have twenty people look at 269 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:06,160 Speaker 1: you like what am I gonna do tomorrow? Like how 270 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: am I going to pay my bills? Like I was 271 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:10,400 Speaker 1: working here. You know, you're let him down, and you know, 272 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 1: you just you know, it's it was a horrible feeling. 273 00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: But you know, it took us a couple of months, 274 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 1: like what are we gonna do? They shut the power off. 275 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:19,800 Speaker 1: They locked us out there, like you can't even step 276 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: back into this building until they red attacked it. So 277 00:12:24,320 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 1: I went to jail on Wednesday. I'm like, all right, 278 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:29,120 Speaker 1: just you know. They finally took me to jail for 279 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 1: seven hours being in a cop car. I went to 280 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:33,200 Speaker 1: go bail out that night. They're like, ah, you can't 281 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 1: bail out. I'm like, what do you mean, or like 282 00:12:34,720 --> 00:12:37,000 Speaker 1: you got you got arrested on a drug dealer charge, 283 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,840 Speaker 1: so we need to know where the money's coming from 284 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: to bail you out. So I had to wait two 285 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,120 Speaker 1: days and you know, have a friend that had nothing 286 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:45,559 Speaker 1: to do with cannabis come and and you know, boast 287 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,439 Speaker 1: post my bail. And they finally let me out I 288 00:12:48,520 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: think Friday night. So I spent three days in the 289 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,160 Speaker 1: Sacramento County jail and who anybody's ever been there, that's 290 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 1: that's the closest place to get to hell as you 291 00:12:55,520 --> 00:13:00,120 Speaker 1: can get. Like it's disgusting. So got out on Friday 292 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,880 Speaker 1: night and uh checked my emails. First thing I did 293 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: Friday morning. They had emailed me our building permit, like 294 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,679 Speaker 1: here you go. So I'm like, okay, game on, yeah, 295 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,400 Speaker 1: game on. So at that point, you know, they had 296 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:15,679 Speaker 1: cut the power. We went to the warehouse. Immediately from 297 00:13:15,679 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: I got out of jail. Somebody had broken in. They 298 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 1: stole both our safes because we didn't have any power 299 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:22,320 Speaker 1: at no you know, no security. Yeah, so they took that. 300 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:24,800 Speaker 1: You know, we had five thousand dollars with the apparel 301 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: that every homeless person was wearing for the next six months. 302 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,880 Speaker 1: Love these was official day. It was everywhere, you know. 303 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: So that kind of happened, and then by a week 304 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 1: went by, it I just you know, I called a 305 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 1: meeting and I said, look, man, like, there's two things 306 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 1: we can do. We can run and go to Oklahoma 307 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:42,560 Speaker 1: and we could crush it out there. They're killing it, 308 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 1: you know. And this was twenty nineteen. I said, or 309 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:47,839 Speaker 1: we can stay here, you know, borrow a million to 310 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 1: finish this building and show them that we're not going anywhere. 311 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: And I can't promise you that they're gonna let us operate, 312 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: you know, And so we said, screw it, let's put 313 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:57,280 Speaker 1: the money in it. You know. We borrowed money from 314 00:13:57,280 --> 00:13:59,240 Speaker 1: everybody we knew. We went through the thing, and the 315 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:00,560 Speaker 1: guy that shut us down, I was like, I'm gonna 316 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:02,040 Speaker 1: be at every inspection. I said, I hope you are. 317 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,360 Speaker 1: And it took us six months. We built it out, 318 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,160 Speaker 1: went through every inspection. You know, I'm fighting with the 319 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:09,240 Speaker 1: head of Cannabis every day, you know, like, you know, 320 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:11,120 Speaker 1: what can we do? Like how can we like we're 321 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:13,079 Speaker 1: not we weren't trying to do anything, like we're here, 322 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,599 Speaker 1: you know, we so they're like, I remember I was 323 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: in San Diego. We're about halfway through the build and 324 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:19,480 Speaker 1: I'm talking to the head of Cannabis at that time, 325 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:21,920 Speaker 1: and it was the city attorney had taken over for 326 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 1: the person that they dismissed. And I'm on the beach 327 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:27,000 Speaker 1: in San Diego. It's eight o'clock. I call her at 328 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,520 Speaker 1: eight oh one, got her on the phone. And at 329 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,600 Speaker 1: this point, after they had rested me, Sack had sued 330 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 1: sued me for three point two million dollars. What they 331 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: did was for every plant that was in the building, 332 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: they charged you five hundred bucks. So I had six thousand, 333 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: six hundred and four plants equaled three point two million 334 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 1: in fines. Fire hit me with twenty five grand. Cannabis 335 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,640 Speaker 1: hit me with five, you know, so they stacked up 336 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:53,680 Speaker 1: all these plus the red tag and so you know, 337 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: we in a licensed facility, in a license it's somewhere 338 00:14:57,880 --> 00:14:59,800 Speaker 1: that you were doing it all right at pretty much 339 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: over building permits over some small stuff that we already 340 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: had submitted for. So, you know, we get halfway through 341 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:07,880 Speaker 1: the build. I got her on the phone and she goes, 342 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: of course, she said, I'll never forget. She says, well, 343 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 1: you know what, she goes, some people around here don't believe, 344 00:15:13,040 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: don't believe in second chances, and like, basically you're not. 345 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 1: There's no way you're gonna operate this building. So I said, 346 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 1: all right, we'll see about that. Hung up. We finished 347 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 1: the building. The guy that shut us down originally walked 348 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: the building. He said, man, he looked at me, goes, 349 00:15:24,760 --> 00:15:26,640 Speaker 1: I don't know if they're gonna let you operate, but 350 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,239 Speaker 1: this is the nicest building that I've ever walked in Sacramento. 351 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: And we built it with me my partner Lumpy, in 352 00:15:32,480 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: the four or five growers that were still left over 353 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: that you know, had no construction knowledge. You know, I 354 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: flip houses, so I did the general. My partner, Lumpy, 355 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: his dad's own an HVAC company for years, so he 356 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 1: does all our HVAC. So we built that with our 357 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 1: hands and this guy saw it like, you're like, I 358 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 1: shut you down, Like, but I gotta give you you guys. 359 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,560 Speaker 1: He goes, you got my vote, you know, and this 360 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: was a dude that shut you down on your helmet. 361 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:56,960 Speaker 1: You got my vote. So at that time, the original 362 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,480 Speaker 1: lady I had been arguing what shifted over to another attorney. 363 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:01,200 Speaker 1: I'm sitting in the meeting. I'm saying, look, this isn't 364 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,400 Speaker 1: We're not going anywhere, you know. I'm basically, you know, 365 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:07,040 Speaker 1: me and Jason are the majority owners of It's it's 366 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:08,880 Speaker 1: damn near a black owned business. On top of this, 367 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:11,560 Speaker 1: I'm a core applicant. I've been arrested, you know, for 368 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 1: for this though, I said, this has got to be 369 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:15,760 Speaker 1: a better way to do this. So, uh, we ended 370 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:21,080 Speaker 1: up negotiating a deal um for basically, uh seven hundred 371 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,800 Speaker 1: thousand paid out over ten years, no interest, you know, 372 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:26,200 Speaker 1: so it's five thousand, five hundred bucks a month. But 373 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:28,600 Speaker 1: my part of the deal was I wanted our original 374 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,560 Speaker 1: permits back so that whenever this comes up, you didn't 375 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: reissue me anything. You gave me what was already in place. 376 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:36,760 Speaker 1: So we have all of our original permits from the 377 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 1: day that we that we that we filed from day one, 378 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 1: so nice, yeah, and it was so that ended up 379 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,280 Speaker 1: being good. And at that point, you know, you can't 380 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:46,040 Speaker 1: buy street cred like that, you know, I mean, because 381 00:16:46,040 --> 00:16:48,040 Speaker 1: everybody was talking, Oh they got shut down for selling 382 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:49,600 Speaker 1: packs out the back door, they got this, they got 383 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,120 Speaker 1: that what they wanted to make exactly, you know, And 384 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:53,600 Speaker 1: I had to go to Hall of Flowers and I 385 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:57,720 Speaker 1: remember that everybody's like, oh, what's up. You know, it's like, well, 386 00:16:57,760 --> 00:16:59,600 Speaker 1: you know, I don't take that. And so to get 387 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:02,840 Speaker 1: that and then to build another building twice the size 388 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:05,280 Speaker 1: a year later, the building department knew who we were. 389 00:17:05,280 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: They're like, you guys build you know your great pass. 390 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 1: You're like, you build your owner builders. So I wouldn't 391 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,000 Speaker 1: take that back, you know what I mean, Like the 392 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,320 Speaker 1: amount of money we lost, yes, but to get that 393 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:18,439 Speaker 1: that one, like I said, the street creditors show that man, 394 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:19,840 Speaker 1: we're in a brand that we're here and we're not 395 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 1: going anywhere. And to get the respect from the city 396 00:17:22,119 --> 00:17:24,320 Speaker 1: and the Building department really just you know, helped out. 397 00:17:24,400 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 1: Because we've done more projects since then, and now you know, 398 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: they know who we are, they know that we don't 399 00:17:28,520 --> 00:17:30,800 Speaker 1: build trash We're here to stay, We're here to employ people. 400 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 1: You know, like it's we're true owner operator, owner builders. 401 00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 1: So have you seen have you seen the city? And 402 00:17:37,440 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 1: you know everybody else changed since that date. When we 403 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 1: come back, it's cannabis Top one to one. 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Now, Josh, that story that you just 437 00:19:36,119 --> 00:19:40,400 Speaker 1: said was so crazy, Yeah, man, I mean I can 438 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: only imagine your heart dropping in your big ass and 439 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,280 Speaker 1: just sitting there with your boy lumps, like just taking 440 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:52,600 Speaker 1: lump after lump like that. The name even fits you 441 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,439 Speaker 1: guys even more. Yeah, you know what I'm saying, because 442 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,359 Speaker 1: we take a lumping and keep on dumping. I mean, dog, 443 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,159 Speaker 1: that's just gotta hit. And now you gotta payment for 444 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:05,199 Speaker 1: the next X amount of years for fifty five that's no, 445 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: are you just paying that? Oh yeah? Oh yeah, yeah 446 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,240 Speaker 1: he has to paying that one. I'm not gonna pay. 447 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 1: I'm gonna happen. Yeah, I have no reason for that, 448 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,639 Speaker 1: especially free. That's a great thing. Blue was asking to 449 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 1: have you seen the city yet? And what was that? 450 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 1: How's the city treating you now? I mean, are they 451 00:20:19,960 --> 00:20:22,199 Speaker 1: more involved? Do they still kind of edgy out with 452 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:25,280 Speaker 1: you guys or no? Actually, since then, they hired a woman, 453 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,480 Speaker 1: Divina from um she comes from like Humble area, and uh, 454 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:32,200 Speaker 1: you know, her parents were really kind of into the scene, 455 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 1: so they really and she has a legal background, so 456 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,280 Speaker 1: they kind of hired like the perfect person for the job, 457 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:42,280 Speaker 1: so she's great to work with. Nice. I think at 458 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:45,080 Speaker 1: this point it's just like anything else. You know, there's 459 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: four people in that office. They need twelve we bring 460 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:49,959 Speaker 1: in more than enough tax money to pay for twelve, 461 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:51,800 Speaker 1: but we're all we're getting this fort to you know, 462 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:54,720 Speaker 1: four people, and it's they've evolved, you know, they evolved, 463 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,880 Speaker 1: but it's like they need Nobody wants to take any 464 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 1: of this candidate tax money and put it back into 465 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,520 Speaker 1: what's making this money, know, the cannabis industry itself, and they, 466 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,800 Speaker 1: you know, like so I'd say they're severely understaffed in 467 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:06,959 Speaker 1: the city, but you know, they are great to work with. 468 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: Inspectors are great to work with now, but you know, 469 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: it's all this taximony we pay. It's like, you know, 470 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:14,880 Speaker 1: we can't get anything that you know, they can't get 471 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:17,600 Speaker 1: more people to help them, we can't get job training programs. 472 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: So I feel like the city has a lot more 473 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:22,800 Speaker 1: they could do with the taximony that we're all paying, 474 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,080 Speaker 1: you know. And it's funny because Sacramento seems like another 475 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:27,119 Speaker 1: state sometimes and we're just here, you know, four or 476 00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:30,879 Speaker 1: five hundred miles away in southern California, but northern California. 477 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: Even when you're in you know, the city like San 478 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:35,359 Speaker 1: Francisco or South based San Jose doing business and a 479 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,880 Speaker 1: dispense who are grow? Is it different? In Sacramento than 480 00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,280 Speaker 1: it is amongst other areas in California, because I feel 481 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 1: like it's, you know, that smaller area, but yet you're 482 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:48,439 Speaker 1: right next to You're the capital of the fucking California 483 00:21:48,480 --> 00:21:49,720 Speaker 1: for Nott six two, you know what I mean, Like 484 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 1: you got the politics there as heavy as it gets. 485 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 1: So yeah, i'd say Sacramento, we don't have the city aspect. 486 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,639 Speaker 1: We don't have restaurants that stay open after nine o'clock. 487 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:01,119 Speaker 1: That's what I mean. That counts a different area. It's 488 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 1: a different area. But you know, I'll stay this and 489 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: I stand behind it. We grow heat, you know, I mean, 490 00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: like some of the best growers in the world grow 491 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:11,560 Speaker 1: in Sacramento. You know, there's us, There's there's eighteen Labs. 492 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,679 Speaker 1: There's Green Dog like Drew over there is crushing it 493 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 1: with his boys, Turtle Pie like I think, you know, 494 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:18,719 Speaker 1: and I hear it from shoppers and buyers too when 495 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:21,399 Speaker 1: they come to town. You know, they're like everybody. You know, 496 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,159 Speaker 1: everybody knows like Sacramento really put I think continue to 497 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,119 Speaker 1: put California on the map. It all started in the 498 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 1: Bay Area. But since then, you know, you have a 499 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:31,760 Speaker 1: lot of good grows and grows in La. But you know, 500 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,320 Speaker 1: per Kappa, I'd say that Sacramento grows the best weed 501 00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,400 Speaker 1: definitely at the best prices you know, in the world. 502 00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:40,520 Speaker 1: Right now, Like there's just there's nobody I think that's 503 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:43,400 Speaker 1: really touching us on what we can do. So shout 504 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:45,720 Speaker 1: out to everybody. It's in Sacramento's that because of real 505 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:47,760 Speaker 1: estate as well being like the hundred of guys and 506 00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 1: everything else that you guys can get there. We have 507 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 1: the staffing, you know, La, it's you know, it's two 508 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,439 Speaker 1: three dollars a square foot. We're up there. Like you know, 509 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 1: I'm most of our lease rates are like eighty cents, 510 00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:59,480 Speaker 1: you know, I mean on a thirty year lease. So 511 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:01,360 Speaker 1: on I'm good in real estate, you know, I mean 512 00:23:01,359 --> 00:23:03,760 Speaker 1: I negotiate good deals. But too, like there is a 513 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:07,199 Speaker 1: lot more affordability and then you're not having you know, 514 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: places like Autolanto, which you know have some cool facilities, 515 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,720 Speaker 1: but they just don't have the workstaff. You know, people 516 00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:16,240 Speaker 1: don't realize, you know, I was watching any Instagram this 517 00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,439 Speaker 1: morning with a shout out to day from Preferred. You Like, 518 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,359 Speaker 1: it's more than just labor, it's skilled labor, you know, 519 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not just can you just pick up 520 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,119 Speaker 1: and shovel dirt all day, like you know, you need 521 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,360 Speaker 1: to be able to read the sps, understand the soops 522 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:29,640 Speaker 1: of how we run a garden. Like it's it's more 523 00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:31,479 Speaker 1: than just I just need a laborer to come do 524 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,320 Speaker 1: this or pluck leaves. It's a lot more than And 525 00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,480 Speaker 1: I think a lot of people miss that fact. Yes, 526 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:37,959 Speaker 1: you know, because you're right. I think there's people just 527 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,400 Speaker 1: looking for a good deal and not realizing why their 528 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: cannabis is not coming out the way it should because 529 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 1: most people don't know this industry and so unfortunately they're 530 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:50,720 Speaker 1: just like, oh, we can grow, like yeah, I'll read 531 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: a book, you know what I mean, And you're like 532 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:54,159 Speaker 1: go ahead, man. You know, they start fighting out that, 533 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,920 Speaker 1: like you know they're they're in the pesticide is like said, 534 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:00,720 Speaker 1: don't work. You know, a lot of places come in. 535 00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,600 Speaker 1: It's like, oh, yeah, well the CEO came from Google 536 00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:06,800 Speaker 1: or came from list or good luck. Okay, so I'm 537 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:09,359 Speaker 1: glad that you were out of successful silicon startup, but 538 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:11,439 Speaker 1: this is not that, you know what I mean? Like, 539 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,800 Speaker 1: do you know when the when the worst month is 540 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:15,600 Speaker 1: for indoored? You know when the best month is we're 541 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,359 Speaker 1: out there like you know, like you need to know 542 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:20,359 Speaker 1: the seasons, and a lot of corporations I think don't where. 543 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: You know, me and Jason are at the gardens every 544 00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 1: single day, you know what I mean. Like out of 545 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:28,480 Speaker 1: we have you know, five facilities, three are up and running. 546 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,440 Speaker 1: You know, out of the one hundred thousand square feet 547 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: that we're actively running, we're at one of the buildings 548 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 1: every day, every single day. And you know we're doing 549 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,439 Speaker 1: you know, millions of dollars a year. I said that 550 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,040 Speaker 1: we're one of the largest craft growers. We are, I said, 551 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,280 Speaker 1: were the largest craft growers, self owned craft growers still 552 00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:47,120 Speaker 1: left nobody owns. Me and Jason owned close to eighty 553 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:49,840 Speaker 1: percent of our company, and everybody else in there are 554 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 1: all like boys, Like we have three other guys that 555 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 1: gave us money in the very early you know, our 556 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 1: head of sales is you know, basically came in and 557 00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: done a lot and just scot sweat equity. So there's 558 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,199 Speaker 1: only five of us sit on there, and me and 559 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: Jason control most of that. And that's because we're there 560 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,840 Speaker 1: every day. You know, We're about this life like you know, 561 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,840 Speaker 1: and I don't think people realize what you have to 562 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:11,119 Speaker 1: do to really make it and evolve, and the differences 563 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 1: with all these boards and these directors, you can't pivot. 564 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:16,240 Speaker 1: I can pivot on a dime. I could be like 565 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:17,879 Speaker 1: someone can call me today and be like, bro, do 566 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,120 Speaker 1: not grow this anymore. And I could say stop all 567 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,359 Speaker 1: production on this flavor immediately. I don't care, and it'll 568 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,480 Speaker 1: happen immediately, where somebody else might be like, well, we 569 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,240 Speaker 1: got seven more cycles coming down. When you crop weekly, 570 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: you're it's no longer you know, those two rooms that 571 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,439 Speaker 1: take eight weeks to harvest. It's like you're harvesting every 572 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,399 Speaker 1: single week. So if you're harvesting every week, like you 573 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:40,479 Speaker 1: need to be able to evolve and see what's going on, 574 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:43,760 Speaker 1: what's selling, what's not selling, you know a lot of 575 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:45,760 Speaker 1: stuff just you know, people don't have their head on 576 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 1: the pulse. And I think that's what's the big difference 577 00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,760 Speaker 1: to us, is that we have the capability of knowing 578 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:52,400 Speaker 1: what's going on in our company and even given time 579 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: or all. You know, the head of sales is an 580 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 1: owner of the company. You know, head of cultivation is 581 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:58,879 Speaker 1: split between me and me and Lumpy, but you know, 582 00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 1: mostly Lumpy on that. So then and then like anything 583 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,119 Speaker 1: on you know, the distribution or anything like that. Like 584 00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:06,240 Speaker 1: we're all a very tight neck group. We know what's 585 00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: going on at any given time, you know, I know, 586 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:10,440 Speaker 1: you know when you said your finger on the pulse, 587 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,440 Speaker 1: you know, I mean it's funny because like I understand 588 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,359 Speaker 1: that because again a lot of people don't understand. One 589 00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:19,320 Speaker 1: day you might have you know, O G cush was 590 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: it was. It was a huge thing for a while, 591 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:23,240 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it went into purples. 592 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,800 Speaker 1: Then it was the zas and the exotics and and 593 00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:28,280 Speaker 1: and it was. And I feel like if you don't 594 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,440 Speaker 1: have that finger on the pulse, then your product might 595 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,639 Speaker 1: just sit there and die inside these stores. And so 596 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,520 Speaker 1: so how do you guys keep that finger on the 597 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:38,720 Speaker 1: pole by keeping your ear to the street obviously, I 598 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,760 Speaker 1: mean you're to the street. Um, you know Jason Lumpy, 599 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,320 Speaker 1: you know, he's he's like I said, he's more to introverts. 600 00:26:44,359 --> 00:26:46,639 Speaker 1: So he's been in the forums, you know, since forums 601 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,120 Speaker 1: are days, So he knows people, you know, and has 602 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,919 Speaker 1: built respects since then. So and then you know, with 603 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,399 Speaker 1: me and my Jesse had of sales, like you know, 604 00:26:54,400 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: we're out in the field. We've met a lot of 605 00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: people on that end, so yeah, definitely on that But honestly, 606 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 1: it's four It was like if you came up with 607 00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:04,440 Speaker 1: a new strain, it was two years before that think 608 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 1: was starting to die out. Nowadays it could be three months, 609 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: six months. Like the shelf life on things are just 610 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,880 Speaker 1: not what it is. We're an instant society. We want 611 00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:14,560 Speaker 1: you know, you can stuff, order stuff on Amazon and 612 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 1: beat your house in thirty minutes. Like we don't wait 613 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 1: for anything anymore. So for us, you know, people talk about, oh, 614 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: we're pheno hunting, we're pheno hunting. Yeah, bullshit, are you 615 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:25,520 Speaker 1: really pheno hunting? Because we take valuable space that it 616 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,040 Speaker 1: could be making me fifteen to thirty thousand dollars a 617 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,160 Speaker 1: month for the same amount of flower space, and we're 618 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:32,199 Speaker 1: actually pheno hunting these things, and we're going through this 619 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,840 Speaker 1: and we're crossing these things, and we're we're actually really 620 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 1: smoking through all this stuff and going and putting stuff. 621 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 1: So for us, we probably put out three to six 622 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,720 Speaker 1: new flavors a year of solid product, where other people 623 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,479 Speaker 1: are doing like, oh the cross was Zio's crossed with this? 624 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,199 Speaker 1: But it's like, Bro, you didn't even take time to 625 00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:48,960 Speaker 1: developed because you didn't name it, and that tells me 626 00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,679 Speaker 1: you didn't really you just cross some stuff through it 627 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:52,560 Speaker 1: out there, and like I got five pounds of this, 628 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:54,920 Speaker 1: twenty pounds of this, But are you gonna actually follow 629 00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:56,680 Speaker 1: through million of this? You're gonna actually pheno hunt, You're 630 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,119 Speaker 1: gonna make sure that this is the right one, that 631 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,119 Speaker 1: it doesn't hurm out. So you know, I think we 632 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:03,439 Speaker 1: take our time and find out what's going on. We 633 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: have access to clones that, you know, stuff that's not 634 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: out on the street shet that we get from friends. 635 00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:09,800 Speaker 1: They are like, hey, don't don't give this out, but 636 00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 1: if you want to cross with it, you know, like 637 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 1: like we blessed with zope right now where very people 638 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,640 Speaker 1: have don't have that, don't have that, and we do. 639 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,640 Speaker 1: Like so we do get on that and we get 640 00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: to cross stuff early, but it takes the time of 641 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: actually you know, following through and then you know, my 642 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 1: next play is like I can't grow any bigger. It's 643 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,880 Speaker 1: just you get to the point where you you need 644 00:28:27,920 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: to have that happy medium. And that's where we're at now. 645 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,119 Speaker 1: We're you know, one hundred and ten thousand square foot, 646 00:28:32,240 --> 00:28:34,199 Speaker 1: you know, craft grower. We're trying to do you know, 647 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 1: X amount of dollars a year. So my next evolve 648 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: evolve is we're getting into the you know, GenEx is 649 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 1: to the clone game, you know. I mean My thing is, 650 00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: you know, if you you know, if you can't beat 651 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:44,840 Speaker 1: them and get them to join you. You know what 652 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:46,800 Speaker 1: I mean by that, I mean if everybody in the 653 00:28:46,840 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 1: world at one point grows some of our gear, like 654 00:28:49,520 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 1: how much bigger compliment is that, Like, yeah, we can 655 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: grow some of the best cannabis, but that's always going 656 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,400 Speaker 1: to be relative to whoever's judging it, you know what 657 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: I mean, Like there is that, you know, I mean, 658 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,160 Speaker 1: there's never gonna be like your war, They're going You're 659 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:00,640 Speaker 1: going down as the best grower. It's like saying it 660 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:03,280 Speaker 1: was the best rapper. It's all it's all on someone's opinion, 661 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So for me, never gonna 662 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:13,240 Speaker 1: come out if you never can have you know, yeah, right, yeah, 663 00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: I mean yeah, there's there's no way of judging that. 664 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 1: So for me, my judging is like, if you can 665 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: get somebody that takes their craft as serious as we 666 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,080 Speaker 1: do to want to grow stuffing that we created, there's 667 00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 1: no bigger honor than that, you know, I mean, And 668 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,480 Speaker 1: you know that's a way of competing with instead of 669 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,200 Speaker 1: trying to just race to the bottom or try to 670 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,080 Speaker 1: do this or try to that. Always stay you know, yeah, 671 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,360 Speaker 1: we're gonna always evolve. But you know, besides going to 672 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 1: other states, what's the better way of doing it? You know, 673 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 1: I think there's a real huge lacking clones and that's 674 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: why you have so much crap out there. Like people 675 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: are still growing wedding cake. It's like, I don't care 676 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,760 Speaker 1: if you're owned buy an Amazon person, you should know 677 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:49,800 Speaker 1: by now stop growing wedding cake, you know what I mean? 678 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:51,800 Speaker 1: Like stop that stop, you know what I mean? Like 679 00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,080 Speaker 1: I just, I just it's crazy. So for me, I 680 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 1: want to start actually getting getting with good growers and 681 00:29:57,080 --> 00:29:59,080 Speaker 1: giving them good stuff to actually run versus some of 682 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: the stuff that you go around sack or La or 683 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:03,640 Speaker 1: aut Alanto. And it's like everybody's growing the same stuff 684 00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: that they got from the same couple of nurseries. That 685 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,200 Speaker 1: really isn't that great, you know. So what is Lumpy's 686 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,400 Speaker 1: exactly known for? What are your guys' top brands? So, 687 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: like you know, Jason Scott his kind to fame with 688 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: apple fritter. We have Reckless our apple Hayes and then 689 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 1: now you know we have probably twenty we have you know, 690 00:30:19,720 --> 00:30:24,720 Speaker 1: ben and berries, Uh, Cherry Jane Jane Doe, Apples and 691 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:29,200 Speaker 1: oranges is coming out, um, lemon trail. Uh. You know, 692 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,800 Speaker 1: there's there's a lot. Everybody's making my mouth water. But 693 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,080 Speaker 1: I mean we've always been more on the fruity side, 694 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:37,400 Speaker 1: Like we have some gassier strains, but we've more been 695 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,280 Speaker 1: on the on the you know, fruit side, and that's 696 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,719 Speaker 1: where we stay. And like, you know, we do have 697 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,040 Speaker 1: some gassier stuff, but that's just kind of where we're at. 698 00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 1: We have some some peanut butter toasts that just came out, 699 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: you know, and it's it was cool. We were Jar 700 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 1: people for a long time, never wanted to be in Milar, 701 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:51,880 Speaker 1: But now what Milar allows us to do is just 702 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,480 Speaker 1: you know, each strand kind of has its own character, 703 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:56,640 Speaker 1: has its own bag, and it really is kind of 704 00:30:56,640 --> 00:30:59,560 Speaker 1: fun to dive into, like you know, how much people 705 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:01,720 Speaker 1: actually buy off of bags, Like you know, like I'm 706 00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 1: like there's stuff that other brands that we won't name, 707 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,040 Speaker 1: like don't really grow good stuff, but they don't have 708 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: this cool name on it with a cool bag and 709 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: people will buy it. So yeah, no, I see that 710 00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:14,160 Speaker 1: happening right now. It's like it's it's mediocre. Yeah it's good, 711 00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:16,520 Speaker 1: but it has a really dope design on it, and 712 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,480 Speaker 1: then and it becomes a quick fad um. But I think, 713 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:22,760 Speaker 1: you know, I think there's a right now, there's even 714 00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,080 Speaker 1: been a war going on with like you know, TC 715 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,239 Speaker 1: levels or typeenes right, you know, so what is it 716 00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: for you guys? Or is it both? Or you know 717 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: how our typeines? You know, TC is at best it's 718 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 1: like the proof on alcohol, Like everybody will give me, 719 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,400 Speaker 1: give me that hot damn or give me that you know, 720 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: one on one. I'm like, yeah that CARDI fifty one, 721 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,840 Speaker 1: Like yeah, you start out that way, but you really 722 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 1: start realizing you can get drunk off you know, stuff 723 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:52,440 Speaker 1: that tastes good. And so I'm must bring a lot 724 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,320 Speaker 1: of people come around to that, you know, instead of 725 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,160 Speaker 1: trying to go off TC. But with this standardized lab 726 00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 1: testing that's coming out in July, you're gonna see a 727 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:02,200 Speaker 1: lot of these forty two thirty six percent thhcs come 728 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 1: way back down where they need to be. And you know, 729 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 1: I think turpenes is a is a way better uh 730 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,120 Speaker 1: you know, profile to go off of. And it's kind 731 00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: of cool to see like similarity when you look at 732 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:14,640 Speaker 1: the TURP means like TC is just the number, but 733 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 1: TURP means to kind of tell you what's in it, 734 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:18,960 Speaker 1: what it identifies why you might get higher off that 735 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 1: when than other ones, like and I don't think people 736 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,280 Speaker 1: have really dived into that, but but when you can 737 00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,760 Speaker 1: see more medical benefits, that's where you're so much benefits. 738 00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 1: This works for my inflamation, This works for you know, inflammation. 739 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: I mean this works for this what works for that? Uh, 740 00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,400 Speaker 1: you don't get that off a TAC level, you know. 741 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,760 Speaker 1: And now it's just well, I got forty two percent, 742 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,680 Speaker 1: So you're telling me that forty two percent of this 743 00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 1: bud is all THHC. No, it's not like it's impossible. No, 744 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 1: it's impossible. So yes, people run with it, and I 745 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 1: get it. That's how to keep your company alive because 746 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,080 Speaker 1: a lot of these buyers they don't know the different 747 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:52,400 Speaker 1: you know, half the buyers are the OG buyers that 748 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 1: you know what, know what to buy, and then half 749 00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,960 Speaker 1: of them are corporate owned stores that just go off THC. 750 00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,640 Speaker 1: And that's because their customers go off TAC. But that's 751 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,920 Speaker 1: just bad education. I think it's the consumer right. The 752 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:05,520 Speaker 1: consumer thinks that the consumer hasn't been educated. And I 753 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,120 Speaker 1: think that if we get into more medical aspects of this, 754 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:09,800 Speaker 1: which is this type of show that we like to 755 00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: preach on, is learning that learning what your terpines are, 756 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,280 Speaker 1: learning what your body does. And you know, there's even 757 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,080 Speaker 1: these DNA test labs now that are doing your cannabis 758 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:20,920 Speaker 1: DNA to figure out what's the best terpines are for you. 759 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,480 Speaker 1: And I think more people should do that, especially if 760 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,800 Speaker 1: they want to look at this plant for more medical aspect. 761 00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 1: I mean, you want to smoke to get high, smoke 762 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 1: to get high, don't get it twisted, No, but if 763 00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,120 Speaker 1: you want to smoke and learn what's going to be 764 00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:35,120 Speaker 1: best for your body and be productively high, you can 765 00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 1: get high and still be productive. You know. I don't 766 00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 1: think people will realize that where you know, we have 767 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:40,840 Speaker 1: that problem now as in an interview, and it's like 768 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: a lot of people that come work for us. You know, 769 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,800 Speaker 1: we don't police our people like you could smoke at lunch, 770 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:46,360 Speaker 1: but I do know if you smoke at lunch and 771 00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 1: you come back and you work all of a lot slower. 772 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:49,760 Speaker 1: We're gonna have a problem with that, you know, like 773 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,040 Speaker 1: not everybody can smoke and just work. It's just did 774 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,840 Speaker 1: all depends. But I think that the more you dial 775 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,520 Speaker 1: in what reacts to your body, it's so much better 776 00:33:57,600 --> 00:33:59,360 Speaker 1: for you than just oh, I just want to get high, 777 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,400 Speaker 1: you know, even even here for us, like when we 778 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:03,760 Speaker 1: first you know, opened up and this is you know, 779 00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 1: we're talking twelve years ago. You know, it was more 780 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 1: of a you know, let's smoke, hang out, let's work, 781 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And then I start realizing, like, you're right, 782 00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,640 Speaker 1: some people cannot operate um, you know high, they just 783 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 1: don't know how to get down like that, you know. 784 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:18,480 Speaker 1: And then there's other people that don't know how to 785 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:22,640 Speaker 1: operate unless they're high. And it's like it's crazy because 786 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,440 Speaker 1: you know, you really have to to know those people. 787 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,200 Speaker 1: But you're right, you know, we don't. We don't police 788 00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 1: our people either. But you know, at the same sense, 789 00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,200 Speaker 1: if if you know they're coming in here and they're 790 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:38,040 Speaker 1: just like, okay, what's up, bro, Like you're good, all right, 791 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:40,120 Speaker 1: and then they snap out of it, they're good, that's cool. 792 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 1: But if it's like and it's like they always just 793 00:34:44,640 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: you know, you're like, hey, look, you gotta stop getting high. 794 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:48,920 Speaker 1: But you cannot be this high at work, you know. 795 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 1: And some people think that that's not part of the culture, 796 00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:53,000 Speaker 1: so they want to leave. And it's like, well, then 797 00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 1: then leave, and that's cool too. The culture is going 798 00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 1: to exist by people being successful and yeah, just get 799 00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,120 Speaker 1: high and just chill, you know. And I think a 800 00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:03,160 Speaker 1: lot of people don't realize that. They just see the 801 00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:05,400 Speaker 1: either the glitz of the glamor or they just want it, 802 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:07,719 Speaker 1: and it's like there's so much more that goes behind it. 803 00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: Like I never thought that, you know, I'd be a 804 00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,000 Speaker 1: part of a building like our big building we did. 805 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:14,760 Speaker 1: It's fifty two thousand square feet. You know, it costs 806 00:35:14,800 --> 00:35:17,200 Speaker 1: US seven million dollars to build that out. I'd never 807 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,480 Speaker 1: to this day, I've never seen seven million dollars at 808 00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 1: one time. But to think that just how much goes 809 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,680 Speaker 1: into all of this. You know, we got ten million 810 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 1: dollars in all these buildings. I don't we can't sit 811 00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,160 Speaker 1: around and just get a high, like, hey, hopefully the 812 00:35:28,200 --> 00:35:30,279 Speaker 1: workers do what they need to do, you know, they're like, no, 813 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:32,920 Speaker 1: you got you gotta manage you gotta do that. And 814 00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,759 Speaker 1: you know, I still flip houses on the side for 815 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,200 Speaker 1: real estate. It's like all these nice cars you see 816 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:40,000 Speaker 1: them driving. It's not just from cannabis, like it's from hustling. 817 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: It's you know, we're in it for the long time. Like, 818 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:45,120 Speaker 1: you know, my daughter's going to be twelve this month, 819 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,239 Speaker 1: and she's like, Dad, don't you dare sell it before? 820 00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 1: I have at least one year to be a part 821 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,440 Speaker 1: of that company. So I tell all the time, I 822 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 1: got ten more years in this industry before I can 823 00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,759 Speaker 1: go anywhere, you know. Like, so, I don't think people 824 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 1: realize how much really goes into this stuff, how serious 825 00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:00,480 Speaker 1: you have to take it. And you know, I met 826 00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:02,520 Speaker 1: a lot of good growers that aren't good business people. 827 00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:04,279 Speaker 1: I've met a lot of good business people that have 828 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: no idea what's going on in growing or retail. So 829 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,239 Speaker 1: I think we're you know, we're blessed to have, you know, 830 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:11,520 Speaker 1: a well rounded crew. And that's why I think we're 831 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 1: at where we're at because we're self made, but we're 832 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,279 Speaker 1: also smart enough to bring on since that shutdown, the 833 00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:19,239 Speaker 1: one thing that taught me is bring the right people 834 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,560 Speaker 1: into the right places. You know, have a good HR person, 835 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,120 Speaker 1: have a great you know, lawyer on staff. Like there's 836 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:26,480 Speaker 1: certain things that you know, you lie to yourself, like 837 00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:27,680 Speaker 1: I don't need this, I don't need like when you 838 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,520 Speaker 1: first get a car, like I don't need our auto insurance, 839 00:36:29,560 --> 00:36:32,320 Speaker 1: Like yes, yes, yes, you don't want to pay that 840 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:34,040 Speaker 1: extra one hundred twenty dollars a month, but you need it, 841 00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,279 Speaker 1: trust me, because if you hit somebody, like you know, 842 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,600 Speaker 1: and it's like when you start broiling it down, like 843 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,920 Speaker 1: you know, people used to think, you know, ten years ago, 844 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,279 Speaker 1: yeah there was money in cannabis, but now like your 845 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,480 Speaker 1: profit margin is not what you think it is. You know. Well, 846 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,160 Speaker 1: you know, speaking of that, what's some advice you can give, 847 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,520 Speaker 1: you know, from your position to somebody out there, an 848 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,440 Speaker 1: entrepreneur that's looking to get in this industry, Maybe give 849 00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 1: them some advice, you know. Listening to the show, Um 850 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 1: don't know, I'm just kidding. I think that was right. 851 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,880 Speaker 1: I was like, don't do it. You gotta be all 852 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:04,400 Speaker 1: in it, and you gotta be in for the right reasons. 853 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,919 Speaker 1: You know, You're like, don't open a distribution center because 854 00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:10,360 Speaker 1: there's not much money and distribution you know, retails. You know, 855 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,920 Speaker 1: it's it's like owning the subway. You gotta be there 856 00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:14,560 Speaker 1: until you get three, four or five of those things. 857 00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:16,239 Speaker 1: You're going to be there every day. You know. It's 858 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,359 Speaker 1: it's it's not it isn't just a franchise, but by 859 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,040 Speaker 1: it and don have to come in unless you have 860 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:25,160 Speaker 1: disposal income, you know, and cultivation it's something unless you're 861 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:27,840 Speaker 1: a friend or founding like someone that's really a good cultivator, like, 862 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,800 Speaker 1: that's not a good something to get into. So, you know, 863 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,279 Speaker 1: i'd say if you're an entrepreneur getting in the space 864 00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:35,719 Speaker 1: a you know, A do your research, you know, get 865 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:39,160 Speaker 1: a job, you know, and do every aspect. I've done defoliation, 866 00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:42,360 Speaker 1: I've done the planting, I've done I've done ben headgrower, 867 00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,759 Speaker 1: I've done drove the distro van and done deliveries. I've 868 00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,880 Speaker 1: done every part of our aspect of our job. So 869 00:37:48,560 --> 00:37:50,359 Speaker 1: I know how long it should take to do something. 870 00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:53,080 Speaker 1: I can understand it. So I understand everything what you're 871 00:37:53,120 --> 00:37:56,360 Speaker 1: getting into. Um, And I think your best bet is 872 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,440 Speaker 1: getting on a team, are getting with someone that already 873 00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,160 Speaker 1: kind of has something that they're just missing that you know, 874 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,359 Speaker 1: if they're missing that one piece. Because there's a lot 875 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:04,040 Speaker 1: of companies out there, I go, and I'm like, man, 876 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,719 Speaker 1: if you just tweaked this and tweaked that and do this, 877 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:10,560 Speaker 1: you actually might be successful. You know. So uh, but 878 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,759 Speaker 1: you know, somebody getting into now it's it's just so hard, man. 879 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:17,000 Speaker 1: It's like it's you know, I felt like it went 880 00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,800 Speaker 1: from like like a professional sports team, like before the 881 00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:21,960 Speaker 1: La Clippers got bought for two billion, like you could 882 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:24,680 Speaker 1: get a sports team for hundreds of millions of dollars, 883 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,040 Speaker 1: and now it's like you can't touch a sports team 884 00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,520 Speaker 1: in any industry. At the Bees. Yeah, I got the Bees. 885 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:31,880 Speaker 1: And I felt like now the cannabis level is so 886 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,680 Speaker 1: much higher and the threshold so much higher. And yeah, 887 00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:38,080 Speaker 1: they come around, they have you know, these these equity 888 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,880 Speaker 1: equity candidates and all that stuff, and you know, but 889 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,480 Speaker 1: that's not gonna walk you into this industry, you know. 890 00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 1: I mean, that's not gonna give you enough to get 891 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,480 Speaker 1: your door open. And those equity guys too, some of 892 00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:50,800 Speaker 1: them do, and some of them don't really know the industry. 893 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,759 Speaker 1: They just got lucky to get caught. But listen, when 894 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,759 Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna break when we come back. 895 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:56,279 Speaker 1: Don't want to do the high five with you. It's 896 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:58,120 Speaker 1: Cannabis Tucking on one. We'll be right back after this. 897 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:09,400 Speaker 1: We'll be right back with Cannabis Talk one. What do 898 00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,759 Speaker 1: you got going down on Thursday four twenty twenty twenty three, 899 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 1: that's right, April twentieth, you guys, We're headed to Palm 900 00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,600 Speaker 1: Springs and we got the High highst going down at 901 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:20,840 Speaker 1: the four twenty Bank. Now, come hang out with the 902 00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,880 Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one oh one team and our girl Koala Puffs. 903 00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,799 Speaker 1: She's gonna be doing a meet and greet out there. 904 00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,640 Speaker 1: And now at the four twenty Bank, they actually have 905 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,200 Speaker 1: the ability for consumers to purchase cannabis and walk right 906 00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:35,560 Speaker 1: into the on site consumption lounge. And that's not all, folks. 907 00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:38,239 Speaker 1: Imagine being able to enjoy cannabis with a bunch of 908 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,839 Speaker 1: like minded folks while watching your favorite artists performed live. 909 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,680 Speaker 1: And we got activations, product giveaways, and prizes. 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I want to thank everybody 920 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,040 Speaker 1: around here for making this happen. Jorde Hey, Marcus Mondo, 921 00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:23,320 Speaker 1: Teddy My Show Dog, Isaiah Casey, Daniel Diego, Jessica, cam Beach, Barcelar, Ali, 922 00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:27,600 Speaker 1: Goldie Brother, Pitt, Mark Carnes, Chris Frankino, Jennifer Erica and Elvis. 923 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,680 Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for doing everything you do. Josh, 924 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,799 Speaker 1: this has been very interesting talking to You're hearing your 925 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,400 Speaker 1: story is truly amazing. Hearing the different products and your 926 00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:41,680 Speaker 1: knowledge behind it. Knowing that you're in Sacramento doing that, 927 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:44,080 Speaker 1: you touch kind of a little bit on growing would 928 00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:47,040 Speaker 1: be going to state to state. Is that another option 929 00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:48,960 Speaker 1: or a new option that Lumpis is going to be 930 00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:51,279 Speaker 1: doing it? Are already in the works. Yeah, No, We're 931 00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,840 Speaker 1: definitely in the works. We're opening them. Do the Arison 932 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,920 Speaker 1: a market or a New York by the end of 933 00:40:55,920 --> 00:41:01,600 Speaker 1: the year, guy Baby grease license that we're working on 934 00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:03,319 Speaker 1: in Greece, so that will be over to make two 935 00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,680 Speaker 1: years of developing that and then so yeah, we're definitely 936 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,120 Speaker 1: want to be We just want to do a minimum. 937 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,120 Speaker 1: Excuse me, I can't think of the name. We're looking 938 00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:16,080 Speaker 1: for limited licenses states. You know, Arizona. I know Texas 939 00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:17,239 Speaker 1: is going to be coming a line in the next 940 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:19,600 Speaker 1: couple of years. My brothers got a license in Arizona. 941 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,480 Speaker 1: Got really a couple of facilities out there, can link 942 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,080 Speaker 1: you with. Okay, yeah, that's where we're looking. Like we 943 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,680 Speaker 1: were just went toward out there. I like Arizona, you know, 944 00:41:26,280 --> 00:41:29,359 Speaker 1: so that's one would be huge. You know, New York. 945 00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,040 Speaker 1: We've been looking. We've been talking to a couple of 946 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:33,440 Speaker 1: bigger people that have spices out there, but it's an 947 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,160 Speaker 1: expensive market to get into and for us, it's you know, 948 00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:39,279 Speaker 1: it's it's hard, like we gotta basically own a piece 949 00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,560 Speaker 1: of that. We can't do licensing. I'm not gonna release 950 00:41:41,600 --> 00:41:43,600 Speaker 1: all our virgin X. We just don't have that. Our 951 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,160 Speaker 1: gen X aren't out there. So for us to go 952 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:48,080 Speaker 1: to another state and then have some leasing agreement where 953 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:49,480 Speaker 1: you can lock me out of a building one day, 954 00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,680 Speaker 1: like we're not going to put ourselves in a Yeah, 955 00:41:53,080 --> 00:41:54,759 Speaker 1: you know, it's funny said, because a lot of people 956 00:41:54,800 --> 00:41:57,399 Speaker 1: do get themselves in that position, they find themselves locked out, 957 00:41:57,440 --> 00:41:59,879 Speaker 1: and and I think it's some of the more old 958 00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:05,200 Speaker 1: mentality stuff. But in in all, I think that it's unfortunate, man, 959 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,239 Speaker 1: because a lot of a lot of good people have 960 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:10,480 Speaker 1: been screwed. A lot of people have been I think 961 00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,239 Speaker 1: we call it the hump and dump, you know what 962 00:42:12,239 --> 00:42:13,920 Speaker 1: I mean, They hump you and then they're like, oh, 963 00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,200 Speaker 1: we're gonna make love, and then they dump you. Hump 964 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,319 Speaker 1: and dump and uh. But but it's it's been it's 965 00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,040 Speaker 1: been interesting watching the industry and all the bad actors 966 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,440 Speaker 1: are starting to disappear though. You know, if you notice 967 00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,320 Speaker 1: like the guys that have you know, we know who's 968 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:29,440 Speaker 1: been around. Like we see people it's like, Okay, your 969 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,360 Speaker 1: company's still here. Obviously you're doing something right. Um and 970 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,480 Speaker 1: and and for the most part, I mean, there's a 971 00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,279 Speaker 1: lot of companies that are still around that aren't doing 972 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,200 Speaker 1: shit right. But you know, I think there's a lot 973 00:42:40,239 --> 00:42:42,160 Speaker 1: of guys that came in bad actors, came in quick 974 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:45,160 Speaker 1: and ended up losing their their status and their their 975 00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:47,440 Speaker 1: their realm. So you know, it's nice to see you 976 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,320 Speaker 1: guys still putting in work, you know, and actually building 977 00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:52,239 Speaker 1: your brand down. How many stores you guys currently in 978 00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:55,200 Speaker 1: We rot stating right around between one hundred and fifty 979 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:57,560 Speaker 1: and two hundred and given time, Um, you know, we're 980 00:42:57,800 --> 00:42:59,560 Speaker 1: we're hoping to hit the three hundred mark this year, 981 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,080 Speaker 1: but how man little stores paying. Honestly, last year, we 982 00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,359 Speaker 1: only oh, we're only owed sixteen hundred dollars. That's awesome. Yeah, 983 00:43:06,400 --> 00:43:09,839 Speaker 1: we don't. We don't got muscle hunh showing up like whatever. Man, 984 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,400 Speaker 1: My brother, my best friend, a head of sales, is Indian. 985 00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:15,200 Speaker 1: He just doesn't play that game. So we have a 986 00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,000 Speaker 1: very extensive credit check process. So yeah, we don't do 987 00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:21,160 Speaker 1: terms lightly. There's very few companies that we do do 988 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,000 Speaker 1: that with. And uh yeah, we're pretty much close to 989 00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:27,239 Speaker 1: cold on everything. So and it works better that way. 990 00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,480 Speaker 1: You know, I don't pay for it. You want to 991 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,280 Speaker 1: pay for it. You know, everybody wants to push more product. 992 00:43:32,320 --> 00:43:34,120 Speaker 1: But if I end up paying somebody fifty year in 993 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,520 Speaker 1: a year to chase down a couple hundred grand, what's 994 00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:39,399 Speaker 1: the point of that. Yeah, yeah, we don't. We We're 995 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,000 Speaker 1: not a big, huge term person, so yeah, we don't 996 00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,840 Speaker 1: have to when you got the right product, right to 997 00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:45,920 Speaker 1: be honest with you, bro, we're a lot more selective. 998 00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,200 Speaker 1: So yeah, shout out to all the people that are on. 999 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:49,839 Speaker 1: But you know when they say, oh, can we get 1000 00:43:49,840 --> 00:43:52,160 Speaker 1: sixty day terms? But you gotta borrow somebody money from 1001 00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,200 Speaker 1: somebody else. Like, I'm not in the money leaning business. 1002 00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,360 Speaker 1: I'm not a lender. The amount I'm giving you is 1003 00:43:56,360 --> 00:43:58,200 Speaker 1: not gonna last you sixty days. You don't need sixty 1004 00:43:58,280 --> 00:43:59,520 Speaker 1: days to pay me, you know what I mean. Yeah, 1005 00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,239 Speaker 1: it's that simple right there. If you want to see 1006 00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,640 Speaker 1: the website, you guys, lump these flowers dot com. I 1007 00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:07,360 Speaker 1: love all these pictures of the strange on there, the 1008 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:13,800 Speaker 1: Woosa and the Truffle Runts, the Thrill, Reckless Rainbow, Jane Doe, 1009 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:19,399 Speaker 1: lax PD and it just it just looks so flavorful. Yeah, 1010 00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:22,520 Speaker 1: I mean, these pictures are just doing a touch and 1011 00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,040 Speaker 1: you can see where they're selling, is it? It looks 1012 00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,640 Speaker 1: like two on the website. It's all over California. I 1013 00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,680 Speaker 1: mean you're out here in Orange County too. Yeah, No, 1014 00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:31,960 Speaker 1: we're in Orange County. H you know, shout out to 1015 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,520 Speaker 1: Evergreen Matt. We're out here in Santa right here in Anna, 1016 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:37,760 Speaker 1: sant Anna. We have a few stores in San Diego. 1017 00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:39,960 Speaker 1: Is where are we gotta start leaning in more? Um, 1018 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:41,920 Speaker 1: we're actually out here interviewing for sales reps now, so 1019 00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,319 Speaker 1: we're working on that throughout LA all the way up 1020 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:45,960 Speaker 1: to Humble, and then we have a store all the 1021 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,320 Speaker 1: way I think all the way in the border of Tahoe. 1022 00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,799 Speaker 1: So we're every little and then actually they're doing shout 1023 00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:53,799 Speaker 1: out to Jake right now. Our drive Julie drivers doing 1024 00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:56,439 Speaker 1: a delivery all the way out in Needles. So that's 1025 00:44:56,440 --> 00:44:58,920 Speaker 1: a long drive from Signermento. Oh yeah, you know, but 1026 00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,520 Speaker 1: Rino Valleys are out there too. You guys are hitting 1027 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:03,600 Speaker 1: out there too. It looks like the good life. Yeah. 1028 00:45:03,680 --> 00:45:05,760 Speaker 1: So no, we're a little bit everywhere we do. Everything 1029 00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,279 Speaker 1: we do is in the house, all self distributed, all 1030 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:12,279 Speaker 1: the packings done inside. So you know we've we've done 1031 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,120 Speaker 1: always on sales. Yeah, so it's you know, from there, 1032 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,319 Speaker 1: early on I realized we can't have somebody controlling our money, 1033 00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:20,359 Speaker 1: you know what I mean. So if we did terms 1034 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,279 Speaker 1: and we were with you know, a bigger company that 1035 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,759 Speaker 1: we won't name like they're gonna get paid, then we 1036 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:26,960 Speaker 1: got to get paid. So it's like, let's just be 1037 00:45:27,040 --> 00:45:29,080 Speaker 1: the person that they pay, you know. So we've always 1038 00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:30,960 Speaker 1: done it that way and it's you know, it's always 1039 00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,160 Speaker 1: worked for us, so we're going to continue to do that. 1040 00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,000 Speaker 1: I like the logo too. It just said it reminds 1041 00:45:36,040 --> 00:45:38,560 Speaker 1: me of a baseball logo the way Lumpy's is spelled out. 1042 00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,399 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean it looks very baseball e to me. Yeah, 1043 00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,239 Speaker 1: that's uh yeah. Jason Lumpy came up with that a 1044 00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,160 Speaker 1: long time ago and it's kind of just stuck from there. 1045 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,000 Speaker 1: And then now we've kind of evolved and we're you know, 1046 00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,640 Speaker 1: we're playing with different things, but now we've always were 1047 00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,480 Speaker 1: It worked out because we were kind of let you know, NAPA, 1048 00:45:54,000 --> 00:45:56,360 Speaker 1: you know, wine traditional base that's kind of what we 1049 00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:58,960 Speaker 1: always went for, you know, and we really wanted that 1050 00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,160 Speaker 1: craft experience, and so I think that our logo always 1051 00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,000 Speaker 1: kind of worked out for us, you know what I mean. 1052 00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,160 Speaker 1: I think it's real cool. Man. We want to do 1053 00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:08,040 Speaker 1: the high five with every guest that we come in 1054 00:46:08,200 --> 00:46:11,320 Speaker 1: here with you guys, so Josh five ship with questions. 1055 00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,040 Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear the answers, how old are 1056 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:15,160 Speaker 1: you the first time you smoked cannabis and where'd you 1057 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:17,440 Speaker 1: get it from? I was eighteen and I got it 1058 00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:20,959 Speaker 1: from my best friend, Robert Nice out of high school. 1059 00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:25,320 Speaker 1: Then our first time, yes high I fell asleep immediately. 1060 00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,600 Speaker 1: Question number two of the high five what is your 1061 00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,520 Speaker 1: favorite way to use or smoke cannabis? Um, I'm a 1062 00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:33,640 Speaker 1: split now. I'm like, I still like to roll up 1063 00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:38,759 Speaker 1: as you know, a traditional swisher, and uh, I'm kind 1064 00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:40,640 Speaker 1: of starting to get high on the on the on 1065 00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:44,520 Speaker 1: the solventless you know hash, So I've split between the two. 1066 00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,920 Speaker 1: That's interesting. What got you into the solventless hash? Just 1067 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:50,439 Speaker 1: because I do smoke for anxiety and sometimes you don't 1068 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:52,120 Speaker 1: have time to build, you know, smoke a whole blunt 1069 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:53,800 Speaker 1: and it's like a dad can get you if you 1070 00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:55,400 Speaker 1: adjust it right and you use it, you know, the 1071 00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:56,880 Speaker 1: right way. You're not just trying to get stone. You 1072 00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:58,360 Speaker 1: can just do that little bit of mount and I 1073 00:46:58,440 --> 00:47:00,439 Speaker 1: can get in and out and you know, two minutes 1074 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:03,640 Speaker 1: and be on the road. So it Uh, that's kind 1075 00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:05,840 Speaker 1: of what got more convenience than anything, you know, And 1076 00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:07,680 Speaker 1: now I've kind of slowly became a conchore on the 1077 00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:09,320 Speaker 1: taste and stuff. I see where people are after, but 1078 00:47:09,400 --> 00:47:11,719 Speaker 1: in the beginning it was more just convenience. Oh cool. 1079 00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,200 Speaker 1: Question number three of the High five Craziest place you 1080 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:18,480 Speaker 1: ever used or smoked cannabis? Craziest every place I've ever 1081 00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:28,080 Speaker 1: used for smoked cannabis. Um, I'd say probably nowhere that crazy. 1082 00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,319 Speaker 1: I'd say just out of country, you know, flying into 1083 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:32,000 Speaker 1: Mexico all the time, bringing your own weed, or going 1084 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,320 Speaker 1: to Columbia, Like, I feel like that's kind of crazy. 1085 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:37,400 Speaker 1: You know, everybody thinks it's not until the day you 1086 00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:41,520 Speaker 1: get pulled out a line. Yeah, it through your Yeah, 1087 00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:44,680 Speaker 1: then you're not here to do the interview ever again, 1088 00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,680 Speaker 1: ever again. So I'd say that's probably the craziest place 1089 00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,040 Speaker 1: that I could think of. Question number four the High five, 1090 00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:52,960 Speaker 1: what is your go to munchie after you get high? Oh? 1091 00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:58,880 Speaker 1: H cereal? So probably either Captain Crunch or like, you know, 1092 00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:01,000 Speaker 1: a good ram. I'm was tart, so I gotta use 1093 00:48:01,040 --> 00:48:05,520 Speaker 1: almond milk or like Rabel Shrbett from Baskin Robbinson. Go 1094 00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:07,719 Speaker 1: ahead and hook some of loads up. Ques shouldn't up. 1095 00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:10,040 Speaker 1: For five of the High five, Josh Field the owner 1096 00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,520 Speaker 1: and see oh lumpy flowers. If you could smoke cannabis 1097 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:17,160 Speaker 1: with anyone dead or alive, who would it be and 1098 00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:25,279 Speaker 1: why who? Man Um? Honestly, I'd have to say, you know, 1099 00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:33,040 Speaker 1: I honestly I'd say Malcolm X Welcome. And the reason 1100 00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:34,840 Speaker 1: why I say that has nothing to do with you know, 1101 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,959 Speaker 1: black or white or that, but just to see someone 1102 00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:40,719 Speaker 1: that had so much power risen to that to where 1103 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,279 Speaker 1: he was at and respected, to be taken out by 1104 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,240 Speaker 1: the same people that you know, rose into power, and honestly, 1105 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:47,960 Speaker 1: like you got to see I League, got to go 1106 00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:49,400 Speaker 1: to Africa, you got to be a part of some 1107 00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,400 Speaker 1: cool things, you know, I think that would be you know, 1108 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:53,960 Speaker 1: I just watched some of his videos and he was 1109 00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:55,759 Speaker 1: very stern in his way. So I feel like a 1110 00:48:55,880 --> 00:48:57,880 Speaker 1: big thing for me the twenty twenty three is disciplined, 1111 00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,400 Speaker 1: and I'm really studying up on people that were very 1112 00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:02,480 Speaker 1: disciplined and what and however it was. You know, not 1113 00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,040 Speaker 1: necessarily I agree with everything their autologies on stuff, but 1114 00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:07,919 Speaker 1: you know, discipline is key to success. You know, that's 1115 00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,680 Speaker 1: across the board. I like brother Malcolm, Malcolm Little. He's 1116 00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:13,959 Speaker 1: been one of those guys I've always been intrigued about 1117 00:49:14,280 --> 00:49:16,560 Speaker 1: watching a new movie with him in our new series 1118 00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,839 Speaker 1: with I think as Lumpy as his name too. It's 1119 00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:23,359 Speaker 1: a it's a forest Whittakers in this one show that's 1120 00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,719 Speaker 1: on whatever channel I watch it on, but it's it's 1121 00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,719 Speaker 1: a random one and Malcolm X plays a character in it, 1122 00:49:28,800 --> 00:49:32,040 Speaker 1: and it's kind of like this true story Johnson, Bumpy Johnson, 1123 00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:38,200 Speaker 1: Bumpy john that's really not bump Lumpy Bumpy john Yes, 1124 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,560 Speaker 1: what's the name of that show. It ain't called Buppy 1125 00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:44,839 Speaker 1: Johnson though, it's King Harlem. Yes, right now, because there's 1126 00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,640 Speaker 1: a movie Our Dog. It's like three seasons. Yeah, yeah, 1127 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,040 Speaker 1: it's it's an epic, I think, yeah, it's it's a 1128 00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,759 Speaker 1: dope serious it's true epic. Well, I don't know, it's 1129 00:49:53,760 --> 00:49:56,359 Speaker 1: not some random met network that's not like epic. But yeah, 1130 00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,480 Speaker 1: it's a good show. It's uh and some of it's 1131 00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:00,600 Speaker 1: based off true he works with the mafia. Yeah, it's 1132 00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:02,719 Speaker 1: and then you know malcolm accent. But that's kind of 1133 00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:04,640 Speaker 1: what popped in my head too. They're on that side 1134 00:50:04,760 --> 00:50:06,520 Speaker 1: series where they're trying to get him right now too. 1135 00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:08,840 Speaker 1: I don't know, are you current with it? I'm current 1136 00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:10,399 Speaker 1: with it too, to where I'm like, oh, they're trying 1137 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,879 Speaker 1: to get Malcolm right now. It's just like it made 1138 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:14,839 Speaker 1: me think, like from across the board, you know, he's 1139 00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:16,719 Speaker 1: seen it from high to low, you know, go from that, 1140 00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,840 Speaker 1: go to prison. I'm like, just to see that aspect 1141 00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:21,239 Speaker 1: of and to be kicked out the nation like that, 1142 00:50:21,400 --> 00:50:23,560 Speaker 1: and then to get the support back a little bit, 1143 00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:25,399 Speaker 1: and then to see how he just drew his own 1144 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:28,200 Speaker 1: crowd back from it. His story is truly one of 1145 00:50:28,239 --> 00:50:30,319 Speaker 1: the most amazing stories in my book too. No, it's 1146 00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:33,200 Speaker 1: a really good story. I think people take the religion 1147 00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:35,000 Speaker 1: part out of it and just the story itself is 1148 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,480 Speaker 1: you know, I think it's really good. So it's you know, 1149 00:50:37,680 --> 00:50:40,040 Speaker 1: redemption and all that different stuff. So I'll be one 1150 00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,160 Speaker 1: person I think would would really be cool, you know. 1151 00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:44,160 Speaker 1: And then of course like somebody like I wouldn't even 1152 00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:45,880 Speaker 1: say Einstein because I'm not that smart, you know what 1153 00:50:45,880 --> 00:50:49,919 Speaker 1: I mean, But she'll be a great one. Yes, nothing 1154 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,160 Speaker 1: wrong with something like that. I mean Albert Einstein is. Yeah, 1155 00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,040 Speaker 1: he's a good one. But brother, Malcolm, I like that 1156 00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:57,520 Speaker 1: you say that. I'm glad we're watching that King of Harlem. Yeah, 1157 00:50:57,760 --> 00:50:59,400 Speaker 1: So is there anything else that we forgot before we 1158 00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:00,719 Speaker 1: let you get on out of here that you want 1159 00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:02,840 Speaker 1: to mention about Lumpis or any the growth that you 1160 00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,160 Speaker 1: guys are doing. Oh no, man, just to say that 1161 00:51:05,239 --> 00:51:07,480 Speaker 1: you know, we're our original we're one of the few 1162 00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,640 Speaker 1: legacy brands still out there, and we do take pride 1163 00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,719 Speaker 1: in what we do and you know, shout out to 1164 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:13,799 Speaker 1: all the people that actually purchase our product and keep 1165 00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:15,680 Speaker 1: us in business. And you know, if you do have 1166 00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:18,240 Speaker 1: a problem, reach out to our website because we will respond. 1167 00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:20,400 Speaker 1: And you know we're not perfect, but you know we 1168 00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,239 Speaker 1: are here to to try to lead the way. And 1169 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:24,359 Speaker 1: you know, I think that one thing I didn't mention 1170 00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:27,120 Speaker 1: is I think, you know, you come to our company, 1171 00:51:27,280 --> 00:51:29,800 Speaker 1: we're one of the most diverse companies in cannabis. And 1172 00:51:29,920 --> 00:51:31,920 Speaker 1: I hear that a lot, and that's not you know, 1173 00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:35,800 Speaker 1: we got black, Asian, Mexican, you know, straight, gay, whatever 1174 00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:39,080 Speaker 1: it is. You know, if you come and you work 1175 00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:40,800 Speaker 1: and you grind with us, like you know, you're a 1176 00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:42,120 Speaker 1: part of the team, You're part of a family. And 1177 00:51:42,480 --> 00:51:44,600 Speaker 1: that's one thing I'm really proud about is that the 1178 00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:46,719 Speaker 1: fuck that we have a very good group of diversity 1179 00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,000 Speaker 1: people that we work with. And that means not even 1180 00:51:50,080 --> 00:51:53,759 Speaker 1: just you know color is this an education background. We 1181 00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,000 Speaker 1: have good people that are you know, four or five 1182 00:51:56,080 --> 00:51:58,520 Speaker 1: year college degrees, and we got people that worked up 1183 00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:00,640 Speaker 1: off the streets that make that that started seventeen bucks 1184 00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:02,560 Speaker 1: in our force that now make you know, one hundred 1185 00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:04,839 Speaker 1: grand a year. You know, So we got we got 1186 00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,439 Speaker 1: everybody in between. That's one thing I do like about 1187 00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:09,680 Speaker 1: our company, you know. Yeah, it's always nice to have 1188 00:52:09,800 --> 00:52:12,719 Speaker 1: your team, you know, and and know that they're they're 1189 00:52:12,719 --> 00:52:15,640 Speaker 1: a good group of people. And I think that it's 1190 00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:18,399 Speaker 1: hard to find a really good team, and I really 1191 00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,040 Speaker 1: believe that, you know, it takes that. The hardest part 1192 00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,560 Speaker 1: about building a real company out is is finding out 1193 00:52:23,640 --> 00:52:25,879 Speaker 1: who the guys are they're going to really be there, 1194 00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,360 Speaker 1: you know, because you know, you get a lot of 1195 00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:30,280 Speaker 1: people to come in because oh I heard the lumpies 1196 00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:31,799 Speaker 1: don't want to be involved and they're there, but they're 1197 00:52:31,840 --> 00:52:34,560 Speaker 1: fast food, you know, they think it's all they get 1198 00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,239 Speaker 1: free week. Yeah, they want to just be with part 1199 00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:38,800 Speaker 1: of the hype. You guys are already killing it. I 1200 00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,319 Speaker 1: just want to be involved in. Yeah, And it's like, nah, man, 1201 00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:45,560 Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta exercise. Ye've been here for ninety days, yeah, 1202 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:51,160 Speaker 1: graduations like days. Yeah. I look at people like you've 1203 00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,400 Speaker 1: been here for a year, like relax man, we've been 1204 00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:56,160 Speaker 1: doing for twelve, twelve, fourteen years. Like before that, we 1205 00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:58,480 Speaker 1: were in the same field. And so it's like, you know, 1206 00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:00,960 Speaker 1: now you're part of the ride. It's okay, you got 1207 00:53:01,040 --> 00:53:03,520 Speaker 1: you got status. Yeah. No, a lot of our guys 1208 00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,120 Speaker 1: are twenty three to twenty five, you know, years old, 1209 00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:07,759 Speaker 1: so we're ever a younger crowd of people. So if 1210 00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:09,720 Speaker 1: they definitely are like, well, I've been here six months, 1211 00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:12,880 Speaker 1: like okay, but I don't need an Instagram. Yeah, we 1212 00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:15,520 Speaker 1: don't do twenty two cents races over here. Like if 1213 00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:17,160 Speaker 1: you earn a real raise, we're gonna give you at 1214 00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:19,160 Speaker 1: least a dollar, Like if you want twenty two cins 1215 00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,960 Speaker 1: like I got you. Yeah, yeah, that's what you're really 1216 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,799 Speaker 1: if you're really here for a twenty two cents raise 1217 00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,400 Speaker 1: every nine. Thank you for listening to Cannabis Talk one 1218 00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,520 Speaker 1: on one on the heart radio app, Apple podcast or 1219 00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,840 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcast. You know, those people are 1220 00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,000 Speaker 1: hard defining and it ain't just money, because you know 1221 00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,200 Speaker 1: there's people that we've paid them what they wanted. They 1222 00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:38,400 Speaker 1: came in and crapped the bed. There's people that they 1223 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:39,840 Speaker 1: asked us for a certain amount and we're like, are 1224 00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,680 Speaker 1: you crazy? They came in for lesson? We're like, oh, man, 1225 00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,000 Speaker 1: he wasn't crazy. Let me write you this check. Yeah, 1226 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:48,200 Speaker 1: let's get this gaut On board. Yeah. Proved, Yeah, proved, David. 1227 00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:50,799 Speaker 1: You know. So, I think that's one thing that helps 1228 00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:52,799 Speaker 1: keep us solid and people, you know, keep us honest. 1229 00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:54,759 Speaker 1: And like I said, we're not perfect, and you know, 1230 00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:56,640 Speaker 1: people are gonna look at me. Some people, oh, you know, 1231 00:53:56,680 --> 00:53:59,440 Speaker 1: he's an asshole. Well you know some people that were 1232 00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:02,520 Speaker 1: successful that not everybody's gonna understood by everybody. I don't really, 1233 00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:03,640 Speaker 1: I'm not here to do that, you know. I mean 1234 00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,400 Speaker 1: as long as the people that are that are standing 1235 00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:07,480 Speaker 1: outside me and behind me, that are with me and 1236 00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:09,560 Speaker 1: understand who I am, then that's all we need. And 1237 00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,160 Speaker 1: I think that's why we're a great team. Is I'm 1238 00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:13,920 Speaker 1: not out here to show up on Instagram and look 1239 00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:16,040 Speaker 1: cool like, No, this is here to run a business. 1240 00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:18,239 Speaker 1: I'm a business. Yeah. Well, I'm excited to see what 1241 00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:21,600 Speaker 1: you guys do, man, and congratulations on your success and 1242 00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:23,520 Speaker 1: keep up to good work and thank you for you know, 1243 00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:25,640 Speaker 1: you know, putting out a good product to the community. 1244 00:54:25,680 --> 00:54:27,960 Speaker 1: I think it's super important for us, you know, appreciate 1245 00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:29,759 Speaker 1: that and shout out to the whole team at Lumpy's. Man, 1246 00:54:29,840 --> 00:54:32,239 Speaker 1: that's that's that's what makes this happen. You know. I'm 1247 00:54:32,280 --> 00:54:34,560 Speaker 1: just a part of that wheel. Oh yeah, man, Well 1248 00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:36,560 Speaker 1: there it is, guys, this cannabis talk one. I want 1249 00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,960 Speaker 1: to remember this. If no one else loves you, we do. 1250 00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:43,479 Speaker 1: Nice plan. Let's take let's take a picture.