1 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:06,040 Speaker 1: It's now time for Cannabis Talk one oh one with Blue, 2 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,720 Speaker 1: Joe Grande and Mark and Craig Wasserman The Pot Brothers 3 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:13,520 Speaker 1: at Law. We're the world's number one podcast for everything cannabis. 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:15,840 Speaker 1: Welcome to Cannabis Talk one oh one with Blue, Joe 5 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:18,440 Speaker 1: Grande and Mark and Craig Wasserman the Pot Brothers at Law. 6 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,440 Speaker 1: As we are the world's number one source for everything cannabis. 7 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,640 Speaker 1: And make sure you check out our website, Cannabis Talk 8 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,040 Speaker 1: one on one dot com for so much of that 9 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: great information. 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He's part 29 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 1: of our team here at Cannabis Talk one on one 30 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 1: and I want to talk to you Cash about the 31 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:34,000 Speaker 1: industry because you have a different experience than most people 32 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:37,119 Speaker 1: here in our office. Meaning I want you to first 33 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:41,960 Speaker 1: share that because you've worked at dispensaries and you've belt 34 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 1: you've dealt with the forefront as you're a bud tender. 35 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 1: So and even let's let's back up to where you're from. 36 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: Where are you from? Because I I I've heard this 37 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: story when I talked to you at I Spire and 38 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,080 Speaker 1: I was I never forgot it. And I want you 39 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 1: to share to the world how you came to even 40 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: California and this and that a little bit about your 41 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: upbringing up in New York. So where are you from? Yeah, so, 42 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:06,200 Speaker 1: uh yeah, I'm from New York City. I'm from Harlem, 43 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: New York, Harlem, Harlem, New York. How was Harlem born? 44 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 1: Growing up in Harlem because my interpretation of Harlem, of course, 45 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 1: I think of the old movie Harlem Nights, and you know, 46 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:19,280 Speaker 1: you think of Boogie Damn productions. You know what I mean. Basketball. Yeah, 47 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:21,919 Speaker 1: I'm saying it was a little bit before my time. 48 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: But I grew up on all of those. Uh, I 49 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 1: was born more I was. I grew up more or 50 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,799 Speaker 1: less on a Spanish Harlem side. So Tito print day way, um, 51 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: third half Puerto Ricans around you. Then a lot of 52 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,399 Speaker 1: Puerto Ricans now Dominicans are up there, the Irish kind 53 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: of which is the dope. Dominicans are dope because they 54 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: looked like a normal brother and they speaking Spanish and 55 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 1: then who speak English. Yeah, I used to love tripping 56 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:51,119 Speaker 1: off the Dominicans, like that pick up pass for Dominican boys. 57 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:59,440 Speaker 1: Sometimes He's like, all almost they come me, Jason, exactly exact. Um. So, 58 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: being from Harlem, there's a mixture of all kinds of 59 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: cultures up there. So uh, but I was always a 60 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,359 Speaker 1: city kid, so I never really stayed in my hood. 61 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: I was always in Brooklyn, Queens. It depends how far 62 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:11,919 Speaker 1: is that from Harlem. Give me a geographic because I 63 00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:14,639 Speaker 1: don't know that. I'm not on East coast geographic. I 64 00:03:14,680 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 1: have no idea like you give me to California. I 65 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,000 Speaker 1: could tell you where San Jose is, from San Francisco 66 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:21,919 Speaker 1: to Oakland to all the way to you know, San Diego, 67 00:03:22,400 --> 00:03:24,639 Speaker 1: go up to Oregon. I got this West coast down. 68 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 1: I don't know when you so when you land in 69 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: most people when they land in, uh, in New York City, 70 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:32,760 Speaker 1: they land in, uh, Jeff care la Guardia and then 71 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,680 Speaker 1: they make that accent came out Guardia, I mean Borderland. 72 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: Sounds like an Italian bro over here. Yeah, we don't 73 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: say water, we say water, you know. So so you 74 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: go to go to Manhattan and uh, Harlem is north. 75 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: It's north north Manhattan, so it's uptown. So a lot 76 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: of people call Harlem and the Heights uptown. So I 77 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: live above Central Park. Now town is like that new 78 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,160 Speaker 1: movie that came out with the Latin dudes. I was singing, 79 00:03:58,160 --> 00:03:59,920 Speaker 1: have you seen that one? I think it's on Netflix. 80 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 1: What's your wrapping the whole time. It's just in the heights. Yeah, 81 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,520 Speaker 1: did you watch it? I have watched the old version 82 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: of it, but I haven't watched Oh. Man, I loved it, dog, 83 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: I loved it. Yeah, I heard it's a really Yeah, 84 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 1: it's just fun and cut New Yorkers that don't watch 85 00:04:15,440 --> 00:04:19,000 Speaker 1: a lot of movies that I should watch. So but um, yeah, man, 86 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:22,280 Speaker 1: So it's right there by Manhattan, not to like how 87 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 1: many two miles so where I'm from. I'm right across 88 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: the street from Central Park, so being from by Harlem 89 00:04:29,480 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: Mirror and stuff like that, by Tito Prentday way between 90 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:35,240 Speaker 1: the two train and in a six train. Yeah, so 91 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: how far is that from? From? Twenty minutes from the 92 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 1: from Empire State Building twenty minutes of fifteen minutes? Would 93 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:47,040 Speaker 1: you ever go into Manhattan? And I mean I was 94 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:48,919 Speaker 1: a city kid, so I would cut a lot of 95 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: high school and just walk the streets and try to 96 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: find a new block that I've never been down before. 97 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, and I would get lost on purpose, 98 00:04:56,960 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 1: so I'll take the trains to the to the last 99 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,920 Speaker 1: stop and walk my way back home. That was one 100 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,400 Speaker 1: of those kids. It's funny because when I've been to 101 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:07,040 Speaker 1: New York. I've only went for work, right, I've never 102 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,480 Speaker 1: really went there to just explore. So me like I 103 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,600 Speaker 1: was there for NBA Finals, I was there from there. 104 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 1: I was there for boxing to go there, and I 105 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: was always there for work. I've never just got to 106 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:19,160 Speaker 1: do that. That being said, when I was there for work, 107 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: I explored and did this, did that. I was at 108 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,360 Speaker 1: Hot nighty seven, the radio station, and had to walk 109 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: here and walk there. I was always at a lot 110 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: of cool things that I had to do, you know 111 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:28,840 Speaker 1: what I mean. The garden, I did those. I did 112 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: the big things, but I didn't get like I went 113 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:34,799 Speaker 1: to tow the restaurant. I did some cool players stuff, 114 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: but I never got to do the hood stuff. I mean, 115 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 1: like I've heard Big Boy talking about when he went 116 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 1: there one time and Fat Joe picked him up and 117 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,599 Speaker 1: rolled him around all these hoods and like that's I've 118 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,719 Speaker 1: never done that. Just being from Harlem and going to 119 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,480 Speaker 1: the Puerto Rican Day Parade and seeing Joel Santana on 120 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: the flow, yeah, I've never been to Harlem. That's my point. 121 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,880 Speaker 1: You Harlem, I didn't go to Brooklyn when I was there, 122 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:57,800 Speaker 1: and it was a statement in Brooklyn I don't think 123 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: it was yeah exactly. So I don't think I went 124 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:02,039 Speaker 1: to Yeah, I didn't go there at the time. When 125 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: man I worked at Yankee Stadium, I worked at Shaye Stadium, 126 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:11,159 Speaker 1: I worked at City Field. Just rushed to all of 127 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: these running food, just running food to all the celebrities 128 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: in their boxes. And Okay, so born and raised in 129 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,280 Speaker 1: New York and then you come to l A. How 130 00:06:19,279 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: long we'll tell my story why you came to l 131 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,520 Speaker 1: A because that's a dope story. Yeah. So five years ago, 132 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:29,160 Speaker 1: I would say five years and eight months ago. Uh, 133 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: me and my girlfriend we were talking about our future 134 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: and and she was just like, man, I'm gonna take 135 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,920 Speaker 1: this massage world by storm. Where should I go? And 136 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 1: um we were thinking about California because there was a 137 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:42,680 Speaker 1: big market out there, and UM, I was like, Okay, 138 00:06:42,720 --> 00:06:44,600 Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna do in California? What am 139 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 1: I gonna do in California? And I had a blunt 140 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:49,080 Speaker 1: in my hand and I just looked down and I 141 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I think I could change 142 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 1: my life with this. So I'm gonna dedicate these next 143 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:57,640 Speaker 1: eight months to study everything I can on cannabis. I 144 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:00,920 Speaker 1: called it weed at the time, but cannabis, uh, this 145 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: cannabis plant, and UM, I buckled down and we came 146 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 1: out here visit Pasadena, we fell in love, and um, 147 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:11,120 Speaker 1: now we moved out here permanently. And five years later, UM, 148 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 1: I'm knee deep in this cannabis industry. UM with cannabis 149 00:07:14,840 --> 00:07:16,520 Speaker 1: talk one on one and we got we were on 150 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: the pulse of the industry. Now isn't that funny though, 151 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: folks listening who want to get into the cannabis game. 152 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:24,320 Speaker 1: And this guy right here from New York and I 153 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:26,520 Speaker 1: love that. I actually heard that exact story when we 154 00:07:26,560 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: were sitting the down together smoking a cigar. And tell 155 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:34,640 Speaker 1: me a story, man, so brilliant because most cats after 156 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 1: think about doing it. If you're listening, going, I want 157 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: to do it. I'm in the city, picked the state, 158 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: picked the country. Well, guess what, this is the same 159 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:46,400 Speaker 1: guy who had that same idea exactly. So what so 160 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: I buckled down. Um, at the time, there wasn't that much, uh, 161 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,640 Speaker 1: any information on cannabis that I that would equit me 162 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:58,440 Speaker 1: to like apply for a job, or what are the 163 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: things that I should know as a bud tender. I 164 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 1: didn't even know what a bud tender was no. I 165 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:06,040 Speaker 1: didn't know what because it was no no. I thought. 166 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, I'm ready to be a dealer 167 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 1: out there, but that wasn't even a proper term. Did 168 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:11,840 Speaker 1: you show weed back in New York? I saw a 169 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 1: little bit of weed, but not but towards the end 170 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 1: of my towards the end, when I was about to move, 171 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,600 Speaker 1: like a week later, with all the knowledge I knew 172 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: from what I studied, I asked my dealer at the time. 173 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: I was like, yo, is this is a TVR Indica 174 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: And he was like, you know, I don't know what 175 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:32,000 Speaker 1: it is, but it's that good. And I was just like, wow, 176 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,440 Speaker 1: there is a lack of knowledge all over here for this, 177 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:38,280 Speaker 1: you know, And um, when I came to California, it 178 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:43,000 Speaker 1: was like one eighty with people knowing that knowing cannabis 179 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 1: since nineties six, Like some of these kids out here 180 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 1: grew up with this in their culture, and it was 181 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:52,559 Speaker 1: so taboo in mine that like, just to imagine my 182 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 1: my relatives just smoking around me in New York post 183 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: over here, it was just like crazy. So I knew 184 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 1: that there was some knowledge that knew arc lact at 185 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:02,920 Speaker 1: the time, and I was ahead of the curb. So 186 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: it felt like the right way. It felt like the 187 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:07,000 Speaker 1: right decision to do when I moved out here. Well, 188 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:08,839 Speaker 1: let's take a break real quick, or we're gonna talk 189 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: about all these things that happened to Cash like money 190 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: when he came to California, because folks, it's very interesting 191 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 1: to see how somebody who was smoking a blood on 192 00:09:17,920 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: the couch looks at his lady and says, let's go 193 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:23,400 Speaker 1: to Callie. Let's move out there, because that's where the 194 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 1: cannabis is at, and this is where I want to learn, 195 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: and this is how I want to learn. And we're 196 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:29,280 Speaker 1: gonna hear how he learned and what he learned when 197 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: we come back. It's Cannabis Talk one oh one. We'll 198 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:43,320 Speaker 1: be right back with Cannabis Talk one oh one. Welcome 199 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:46,079 Speaker 1: back to Cannabis Talk one oh one. Welcome back to 200 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,480 Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one oh one with Blue Joe, Grande, Mark 201 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:50,480 Speaker 1: and Craig Wasserman, the Pot Brothers at Law. I just 202 00:09:50,480 --> 00:09:52,680 Speaker 1: want to tell you guys about CALLI Effects full and 203 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: broad spectrum HEMP extracted products. 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They 211 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: have this new spray that I put on my ankle. 212 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 1: It gives me this great tingling relief effect from my pain. 213 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,120 Speaker 1: Because I did a lot of work yesterday with this, 214 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,640 Speaker 1: just a lot of physical work, and it killed my ankle. 215 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,360 Speaker 1: This morning I needed some pain relief. Used it and 216 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:37,959 Speaker 1: it feels a lot better. It's not pain free, but 217 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:39,679 Speaker 1: it's a lot better. There's been moments and especially when 218 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: I was driving, it was tingling and I was like, oh, 219 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 1: this feels nice. So go feel the effects with Kelly Effects. 220 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:46,920 Speaker 1: Right now, we're sitting here with cash, like money, what's 221 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,320 Speaker 1: your Instagram cash? It's gonna be underscore k A H 222 00:10:50,640 --> 00:10:53,319 Speaker 1: s H E F underscore. It's how you pronounced my 223 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:55,959 Speaker 1: name cause sheaf And that being said, I just want 224 00:10:56,000 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: to see you guys, to be able to see the 225 00:10:57,679 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: lovely person that we're talking to and get a feel. 226 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:02,400 Speaker 1: And by the way, meeting you're a lady, your queen 227 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: the other day was awesome. It was everything to me. 228 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 1: She's just beautiful inside and out. She has that great spirit. 229 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:10,840 Speaker 1: I felt her vibe. I think it's that massaux ship 230 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 1: that like this comes out of people. I gotta stop 231 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: you there, Joe, it's massage therapist. You thank you. I 232 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:19,199 Speaker 1: don't know what I said, but the massage therapist she 233 00:11:19,240 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: would have correct me too, I hope. But my point 234 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,600 Speaker 1: is I feel like massage therapists are just in tuned. 235 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 1: So therefore I felt her right away and uh, and 236 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: she was wonderful. So that being said, let's get to 237 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:32,960 Speaker 1: the part of the story. And I want you to 238 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,720 Speaker 1: share with everybody because I really believe that your story 239 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,400 Speaker 1: is a true testament of what people should do if 240 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: they want to get into this game. You know what 241 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:44,000 Speaker 1: I mean. And one way or another, So you smoking, 242 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,440 Speaker 1: you're in New York. You have the blunt there you 243 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:48,720 Speaker 1: look down. I want to move to Cali. Your lady's 244 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,280 Speaker 1: got a massage therapist, gig. You come out here, what 245 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:54,520 Speaker 1: do you do and how do you start learning? So? Uh, 246 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 1: you know the New Yorker and me. How you get 247 00:11:57,360 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: any job in New York is you button up, you 248 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:03,040 Speaker 1: get the tux out, you pull the tux out, and um, 249 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 1: you print out a bunch of cover letters and resumes 250 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:09,160 Speaker 1: and you show up door to door and present yourself 251 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:11,959 Speaker 1: and you sell yourself. So UM, I don't know about 252 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: applying indeed a hundred times. All I know is that 253 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:19,400 Speaker 1: once they see my face, they're gonna hire me. So 254 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: uh the first week, yeah, the first week, Uh, thank 255 00:12:25,960 --> 00:12:30,880 Speaker 1: you for positive. Because it's a numbers game, you know. 256 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: And um I learned that from New York being uh 257 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,960 Speaker 1: duped into doing a lot of sales rolls and stuff 258 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,959 Speaker 1: like that. But one thing I took was that it's 259 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 1: a numbers game and all you need is one yes. Right, 260 00:12:41,480 --> 00:12:44,959 Speaker 1: So um, I came in applied like crazy. I didn't 261 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 1: know any reference guides to look for these jobs. So 262 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: I went to weed maps dot com and I looked 263 00:12:51,120 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: on the map and I saw every dispensary and I 264 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:55,439 Speaker 1: was like, you know what, I'm gonna hit up every 265 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: dispensary on this map, and I'm gonna take my time. 266 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:00,680 Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to Santa Monica, I'm gonna go to downtown. 267 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 1: I gonna go to Beverly Hills and um this one 268 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: company in particular, UM, I mean before I get there. 269 00:13:07,400 --> 00:13:09,439 Speaker 1: But one of my first jobs that I actually landed 270 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: was on Craigslist and it was a for a pre 271 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: row company called Future Future by Corrupt at the time, 272 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 1: I believe was by Corrupt when he made Moon Rocks. 273 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. And it was in like the fashion district 274 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: and like a basement and what they it was such 275 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: a tool job, tool of a job. They would throw 276 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:30,440 Speaker 1: like a pound and a half of weed in front 277 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:32,200 Speaker 1: of me and tell me to take out all the 278 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: stems and sticks and stuff like that. And I was like, 279 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:37,880 Speaker 1: oh man, like, I've never seen this much weed in 280 00:13:37,920 --> 00:13:42,439 Speaker 1: my life, and m how much you never took a 281 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:45,240 Speaker 1: nugget of three roll? Nothing going to happen in the house. 282 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:46,959 Speaker 1: I didn't touch any of that, And I think, I 283 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: guess yeah, and I think I signed. I think I 284 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:55,320 Speaker 1: signed something about sharing ship the operations, so I gotta 285 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: be careful with that. But but it was the most 286 00:13:57,960 --> 00:13:59,680 Speaker 1: weed I've ever seen in my life, and it was 287 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: my job, and it was under the books at the time, 288 00:14:03,160 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 1: so I was like, oh man, I'm getting sixteen dollars 289 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:09,520 Speaker 1: an hour tax free joints, not even to just take 290 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 1: out seeds and stems. That's good. I mean at the 291 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: time it was good. And to start in the game, 292 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,320 Speaker 1: that's your first one. Yeah, like I'm doing what I 293 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:20,720 Speaker 1: came here to do. Yes, I love that, until until 294 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:22,840 Speaker 1: I felt like a tool, until I felt like, you 295 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:25,400 Speaker 1: know what, I have a lot of brain. I need 296 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:27,600 Speaker 1: to stop using my body and get get to use 297 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: my brain. So that's but it's part of the game 298 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:32,440 Speaker 1: of learning. And therefore you can look at somebody back 299 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,280 Speaker 1: dog done rolls all day, get it exactly. I know 300 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: the process of what all this ship takes to get 301 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: on this, the importance of what it takes. You did that, yeah, yeah, 302 00:14:42,360 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: so continue. After that, I was just like, okay, I 303 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: gotta get out of here. While in survival mode, you know, 304 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 1: like it's all on us. We moved out here. We 305 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:54,680 Speaker 1: have no family, but um, all we have is I'm 306 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:57,040 Speaker 1: moving back. I'm not moving back. I told these guys, 307 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: I'm not moving back and I'm doing this cannabis thing. 308 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 1: So I applied to more jobs and uh a week 309 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:07,840 Speaker 1: before there. I applied a day after med Men's job fair, 310 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: and I missed the window by a day and med 311 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: Men's huge company and mad Men is huge, huge, huge, huge, 312 00:15:14,800 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 1: And um, I was always thinking to myself, who can 313 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: I what place can I take my mom back to 314 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,480 Speaker 1: to be like, yo, I'm in the weed game for real, mom, 315 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 1: look at what I'm doing. And it was med Men 316 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: at the time. So, UM. I remember going downtown to 317 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: their grand opening I think it was their downtown location 318 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 1: grand opening and trying to apply and they were like, man, dog, 319 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: you just missed the hiring event yesterday. There was a 320 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:41,120 Speaker 1: thousand people. We hired a thousand people yesterday. I'm so sorry, 321 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:43,600 Speaker 1: give me a resume, and um, I'll see what we 322 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:46,240 Speaker 1: can do. And I just couldn't take that answer, you know. 323 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 1: I was just like na, man, like I was supposed 324 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: to be here. First of all, it's my favorite color. 325 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: It's red all over the place. And their uniforms, right, 326 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:58,400 Speaker 1: I'm with yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, but uh but 327 00:15:58,680 --> 00:16:01,960 Speaker 1: so I So I knew that they had multiple locations, 328 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: so I was like, all I need to do is 329 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: talk to someone that was a yes man, you know. 330 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: So I went to every location in West Hollywood. Was 331 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,880 Speaker 1: the one that took me in a week later after that, 332 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: after that, they said no way. And then a week 333 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: later you kept crying, did you have to go to 334 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 1: the West Hollywood location? Hollywood location? Suited up? They're like, 335 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 1: what are you applying for? I'm like, I'm applying for 336 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: a job here. Oh really, we thought you were an 337 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,440 Speaker 1: investor or something. And I was like, no, I mean no, no, no, 338 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: I mean eventually, but for now, I want to be 339 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 1: a butt tender. And they pushed my my resume forward 340 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,640 Speaker 1: and then they had me in training and how long 341 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: did that take? So that was a week after you 342 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,880 Speaker 1: got to know? To mind you folks, he got to 343 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: know persisted a week later to get a yes, how 344 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,400 Speaker 1: long you're in there? Getting there with the training and 345 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:49,760 Speaker 1: then so probably was a week and a half later. 346 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:52,200 Speaker 1: I got their Medmen training. It was like a two 347 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,320 Speaker 1: day training. Talk about the Medmen training awesome. Um. It 348 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 1: was by by my girl Julianna at the time bar 349 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: gass Um. Now she's she's in Michigan working for Thesis 350 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 1: and Um she made the whole training program and it 351 00:17:03,880 --> 00:17:06,280 Speaker 1: was awesome. It was cannabis one on one. I've been 352 00:17:06,320 --> 00:17:08,560 Speaker 1: I've been a fan of Medmen because of that. Right, 353 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 1: so I've been to their office in cover City Machine 354 00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: this and They've studied a little lot about their company, 355 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: and I've been a real big fan of the way 356 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,760 Speaker 1: they educate their folks that are on the face because 357 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:21,439 Speaker 1: I didn't see everything, but I heard glimpse of it. 358 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,040 Speaker 1: That's what I wanted to explain some of the things, 359 00:17:24,720 --> 00:17:27,200 Speaker 1: right when it came to when it came to knowing 360 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,320 Speaker 1: how to talk about the plant, identifying cannabinoids, identifying terpenes, 361 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: identifying consumption uh, consumption methods and rates of absorption, stuff 362 00:17:39,400 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: that you you need a really the nitty gritty on 363 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 1: how to really learn about the medicines, the medicine side, 364 00:17:46,200 --> 00:17:49,199 Speaker 1: and how to recommend it to patients and what to 365 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,280 Speaker 1: look for when you're having that dialogue with a customer 366 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 1: was very important because when you go to a trap 367 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:58,240 Speaker 1: shop versus a shop like med Men, you definitely hear 368 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:02,280 Speaker 1: the quality of of dialogue you get. Yeah, the bud tenders, 369 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: in my experience at Medman quote unquote, go through a 370 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 1: training process. You don't just get hired and oh you 371 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: used to sell weak you know about a little bit 372 00:18:09,560 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 1: of the you know what, Come on, you're cool, you 373 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:14,160 Speaker 1: got great cats, come and work here. Yeah, they they 374 00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,199 Speaker 1: definitely wanted me because I was from New York, and 375 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: I was like, Man, I'm a hustle man. Don't you're 376 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: talking about a d as. You're talking about getting these 377 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: uh certain sales. I got this, man, I'm I'm a 378 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:25,879 Speaker 1: rambler And a lot of people get anxiety on the 379 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 1: floor because there's so much foot traffic. But you know, 380 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: being from New York, I'm used to seeing thirty people 381 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,480 Speaker 1: before I get to the train station seven thirty in 382 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,000 Speaker 1: the morning, you know, so this is nothing to me. 383 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:38,159 Speaker 1: And UM it just went hand in hand. And that 384 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:40,480 Speaker 1: was the time that I really got to use my brain. 385 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:42,840 Speaker 1: You know. That's when I left touching the herb and 386 00:18:43,119 --> 00:18:45,680 Speaker 1: really started talking about the herb. So you get a 387 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,720 Speaker 1: job at Medman how long that lasted? What was your 388 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:49,920 Speaker 1: experience like there? So that lasted about two and a 389 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,320 Speaker 1: half years. Um, I worked my way from bud tender 390 00:18:52,400 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: the team lead, and I ended up thinking about what 391 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,240 Speaker 1: what's the newest thing in the industry, you know what, 392 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:02,880 Speaker 1: what's the where's the pulse at you know? So, UM, 393 00:19:02,920 --> 00:19:07,520 Speaker 1: at the time, West Hollywood ended up legalizing consumption lounges 394 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:09,760 Speaker 1: and they were the first in the country to do that. 395 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 1: They legalized. They allowed sixteen licenses. Um, I believe it 396 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:19,840 Speaker 1: was six for smoking and consumption of edibles. And in 397 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:23,399 Speaker 1: six and six I might be doing a mafron, but 398 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,320 Speaker 1: it was half and half smoking and consumption of edibles 399 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:30,520 Speaker 1: and just edibles. So I ended up working at the 400 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:33,919 Speaker 1: lowest cafe when it that was you were there, that 401 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:39,160 Speaker 1: spot was like the most happening when it opened, it 402 00:19:39,200 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 1: became like the North Pole during Christmas. Right, you have 403 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: to go there to see Santa Claus. You have to 404 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,719 Speaker 1: go there to ship there. You know, Mark Washerman got 405 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:50,520 Speaker 1: kicked out of there. Yeah, I know I was there. 406 00:19:51,280 --> 00:19:54,360 Speaker 1: I was there. Yeah, but I wasn't. I wasn't at 407 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 1: the table. It wasn't my table. But you guys, Mark 408 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:00,000 Speaker 1: came through a lot and he made Mark was a normal. 409 00:20:00,040 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: He was there. He was there. He was there, And 410 00:20:02,200 --> 00:20:04,600 Speaker 1: why do you get kicked from your perspective? I forgot. 411 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,800 Speaker 1: You don't even know I forgot, but I remember, Oh, 412 00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:10,600 Speaker 1: you know the pop brother and law guy, And I'm like, 413 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:13,199 Speaker 1: who is it that guy that always comes with the 414 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:18,399 Speaker 1: white hair. He got kicked out. I'm like, no, I 415 00:20:18,440 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 1: mean the under the flower host, which is a hybernization 416 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,560 Speaker 1: of bud tunder and uh and waiter uh. We were 417 00:20:26,560 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: talking about it. But man, it was the mecca. Like 418 00:20:29,760 --> 00:20:31,719 Speaker 1: you said, it was the watering hole of the industry 419 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,679 Speaker 1: at the time. Hell yeah. If it was the legal 420 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: now spot to go and hang out, run the secret session. 421 00:20:37,880 --> 00:20:41,120 Speaker 1: It was the low Sess writer on the boulevard. Every yeah, 422 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 1: every you can go there, get a cup of coffee 423 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,120 Speaker 1: and get a tea. And it was the first one 424 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,679 Speaker 1: opened and they were actually in partnership with Lows and 425 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:52,200 Speaker 1: grav Labs shout out to grab Labs and uh yeah, 426 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,639 Speaker 1: it was amazing. It was I was like, Okay, this 427 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: is where I need to be next. You know, this 428 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,119 Speaker 1: is where everybody in the industry is going. This is 429 00:20:59,119 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: where I can make all the connections I can make, 430 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: and this is where I can grow my cannabis career. 431 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,160 Speaker 1: You know. Um until COVID hit and then that that 432 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: business model kind of went down because you know, you 433 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,360 Speaker 1: have people smoking and coughing all over each other, so 434 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,639 Speaker 1: they have to kind of yeah, so you gotta have 435 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,560 Speaker 1: to change, You gotta change a lot. And I hopefully 436 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:21,719 Speaker 1: they opened up again. And but man, it was like 437 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:24,479 Speaker 1: being a but butt tender two point oh you know, 438 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: not only you got to recommend products, but they tried 439 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 1: it in front of you, and if it was trash, 440 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: they would tell you it was trash and you made 441 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: a bad recommendation. So you had to really know your 442 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: stuff instead of like being a butt tender at a 443 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 1: traditional And they two weeks later they're like, what you 444 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,480 Speaker 1: gave me was wonderful and you're like, oh, yeah, what 445 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:49,200 Speaker 1: I gave you was you don't even remember, you know, 446 00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:53,320 Speaker 1: But um, with the lowest cafe people are cut through. 447 00:21:53,359 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 1: They'd be like, man, you show me some trash. Man, 448 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:57,720 Speaker 1: I don't want to refund, bro, And you're like, oh man, 449 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,520 Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I can't give you a refund because of 450 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,760 Speaker 1: how the law and regulations are there. But but we 451 00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:03,920 Speaker 1: could do this, you know, and give you a free 452 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: t We'll give you a free T shirt. Eggs you know, 453 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,439 Speaker 1: were you there? Were you there? Did you know that? 454 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,600 Speaker 1: I can only imagine that. I could only imagine, but um, yeah, 455 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: so uh yeah, it was. It was amazing and we 456 00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: were going to develop that at the time. I was 457 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: gonna be on that team and ride at home, um, 458 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: and it was gonna be a great place until COVID hit. 459 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:25,720 Speaker 1: But other than that and then after that, I was 460 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: stuck in ahole a little bit about the industry. UM, 461 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: didn't know my place. And during COVID a lot of 462 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,959 Speaker 1: people were experiencing that. But I had to realize that 463 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:36,720 Speaker 1: my value isn't in the job position titles that I 464 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: hold for myself. It's what I can actually do out there. 465 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 1: And that's facts and point of life. I always love 466 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,000 Speaker 1: that because you know what everyone listening, You're not who 467 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,520 Speaker 1: you're not who you are because of where you work, 468 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:48,320 Speaker 1: are what you do. You are who you are for 469 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:50,399 Speaker 1: who you are, because I don't ever get that twist 470 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:52,840 Speaker 1: just because you work for a certain company. You may 471 00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 1: be a waiter, you may be a janitor. That ain't 472 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 1: who you are, you know, I mean, that's just where 473 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 1: you work at. Exactly who we are is how we 474 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,959 Speaker 1: treat people and how we respect one another, in my opinion. 475 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:03,240 Speaker 1: So it's hard though, because some people go down that 476 00:23:03,240 --> 00:23:05,040 Speaker 1: slope of oh my god, I'm not working at that 477 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,560 Speaker 1: company no more, in that job, no work that has 478 00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,120 Speaker 1: nothing to do with who you are, just the thing 479 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,680 Speaker 1: that you do. Definitely. UM. And then and then when 480 00:23:13,720 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 1: COVID and I got back on my feet, I went 481 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: I was like what's the next place that has the 482 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:20,639 Speaker 1: pulse on the Let's figure out what that next play was, 483 00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:22,240 Speaker 1: and then we'll get to the high five. It's Cannabis 484 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,159 Speaker 1: Talk one oh one. We're all the way live with 485 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,600 Speaker 1: cash like money. It's Cannabis Talk one oh one. We'll 486 00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:39,640 Speaker 1: be right back with Cannabis Talk one oh one. Welcome 487 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,359 Speaker 1: back to Cannabis Talk one oh one. Welcome back to 488 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:44,840 Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one oh one with Blue Joe Grande and 489 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,359 Speaker 1: Mark and Craig Washsonman the pop brothers that Law. 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Our Cannabis Talk one oh one team is 498 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: amazing and we like to always thank them as I 499 00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: like to go a big thank you to Jan our 500 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:22,080 Speaker 1: social media queen out there, Erica, Daniel cal you're Taza, 501 00:24:22,680 --> 00:24:25,879 Speaker 1: Christian Danny, You're doing a great job. Kevin Andrew, Zach 502 00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,680 Speaker 1: Cash like money. Who I think here and he's sitting 503 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: next to me right now, cam Selar, Nadia, Ali Pitt, 504 00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 1: Chris Frankino, Jennifer and Elvis. Thank you to our team 505 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,879 Speaker 1: that makes everything happen here. Now we got to the 506 00:24:38,920 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: story Cash where you got to covid and everybody took 507 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,040 Speaker 1: a hit there and everything to fell apart. It feels 508 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: like for everybody are from the majority of companies and people, 509 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,479 Speaker 1: what happened from there in your life and how did 510 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: you get back on your feet and get back into 511 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: the cannabis game? So u uh So when I went 512 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 1: back on my fee, I was just like, man, where 513 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,919 Speaker 1: do I Where do I begin? Do I want to 514 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,040 Speaker 1: do bud tending? Do I want to do something else? 515 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:07,240 Speaker 1: I didn't really know that avenues that cannabis could take me, 516 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:09,520 Speaker 1: but I always know that you can add cannabis to 517 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 1: any job title. So, um, my limitation was where what 518 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,119 Speaker 1: platform or job site I was looking at the time, 519 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:19,800 Speaker 1: and um, it was getting very discouraging, and I was like, 520 00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:23,440 Speaker 1: all right, who's a multimillion dollar company, let's go for it, 521 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,120 Speaker 1: and it was cookies. So I just kept on hearing 522 00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,960 Speaker 1: about cookies. A lot of our med men employees actually 523 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,920 Speaker 1: transitioned to cookies management team, so I had a lot 524 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:34,840 Speaker 1: of connections within cookies management. And I was like, you 525 00:25:34,880 --> 00:25:37,200 Speaker 1: know what, let me ask my good friend if they're 526 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:40,439 Speaker 1: hiring and see what's up. And she was like, you 527 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:43,160 Speaker 1: know what, we are hiring. And I'm so glad you're 528 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 1: asking me that if we're hiring, because I always wanted 529 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:48,840 Speaker 1: to hire you. And and you know, that just goes 530 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: to show of being good in the industry. It just 531 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:52,840 Speaker 1: like treat you back good, you know. So I got 532 00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:54,840 Speaker 1: a job at Cookies mol Rose. Shout out to Cookies 533 00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: mol Rose. Um, shout out to V and Ali and 534 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 1: m and they. I was a butt to there for 535 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: a couple of months, and um, it was a totally different, 536 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 1: totally different side of the industry that I've never seen before. 537 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:12,560 Speaker 1: But elaborate on that because, yeah, because because because I 538 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,480 Speaker 1: got to really be careful how I talk about this, 539 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,719 Speaker 1: because I do have respect. You don't talk about your 540 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,000 Speaker 1: experience talk about my experience, baby. But but at the 541 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 1: same time, I know how I go off the rails, 542 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,200 Speaker 1: and people can take that off, take that the wrong way. 543 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,199 Speaker 1: But let me tell you what I think as a 544 00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 1: bud tender. Being both at med men and cookies, totally different, opposite. 545 00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:37,120 Speaker 1: They're they're very opposite in expectations and what they sell, 546 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,400 Speaker 1: branding and all of that. Um. Expectations as in expectations, 547 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:45,960 Speaker 1: as in what they expect from a bud tender from 548 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:48,840 Speaker 1: a sales role. Elaborate what did med men expect compared 549 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: to cookies. Med Men was all about ad s. They 550 00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 1: were all about sales, and they were all about being 551 00:26:54,760 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: the southwest of the industry, being a blue chip company. Um. 552 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 1: Compared to cookies, they're all about the culture. They're all 553 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 1: about they worrying about sales because sales is obviously there. 554 00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:11,159 Speaker 1: People would spend top dollar for the top tree, um. 555 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,520 Speaker 1: But it was a little lacking in the department of 556 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,000 Speaker 1: of what to expect from a butt tender. That's stellar 557 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,280 Speaker 1: butt tender knowledge, because you know, you you could get 558 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,720 Speaker 1: away with murder there by just saying that this flowers fire. 559 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: Just take my word for it, you know which, Yeah, 560 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,680 Speaker 1: most of the flower, most of the flower is fire, 561 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 1: and you should take their word for it. But you 562 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,240 Speaker 1: don't have the crowd that really goes in there and 563 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:41,400 Speaker 1: ask exactly or what's this, what's this cannabinoied versus this? 564 00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:45,320 Speaker 1: And what helps me for this? Exactly? They're all about 565 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,399 Speaker 1: what's the latest and greatest strain there? Who is it 566 00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:52,760 Speaker 1: grown by? Is it original? Um? Because you would be 567 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:57,199 Speaker 1: this is whose gelato is? This is this cookies or 568 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 1: Scherbinskys gelato stuff like that, and you would have to 569 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 1: know different knowledge elsewhere in the industry, like yeah, who 570 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,680 Speaker 1: is the cultivator of this Gary Payton for this season? 571 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,840 Speaker 1: You know, instead of like, oh, this is Gary Payton, Ah, 572 00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 1: what's gonna do for you? Right? Yeah? Because it was 573 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:18,080 Speaker 1: you're saying, men focused more on the history and knowledge 574 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: of that than cookies. More like, man, we just got fired. 575 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,080 Speaker 1: Do we got fired? We got our own ecosystem of 576 00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:28,640 Speaker 1: customers that understand our product in a different way. That's 577 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: more about who's the cultivator, what's the hepe beast around it, 578 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,119 Speaker 1: what's the story around this? Straight? So just a difference 579 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:37,879 Speaker 1: tomato tomato tomato tomato too. But when but when I 580 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,480 Speaker 1: came in there with med men butt tender knowledge, it 581 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:44,080 Speaker 1: was like I would be talking a long time for 582 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,720 Speaker 1: no reason. When one of one of the buttenders will 583 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,720 Speaker 1: be like, man, just tell him that it's fired. Bro, Like, 584 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: just just tell him that that's fired. Explaining so much 585 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:59,320 Speaker 1: exactly and and you know some people like and most 586 00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:03,360 Speaker 1: people like the Madman, while other people and Cookies didn't like. 587 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:07,719 Speaker 1: Did the management like that you did that? Or I 588 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,280 Speaker 1: think it's great? No, no, no, no, it's great. More 589 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,520 Speaker 1: knowledge is keen. Yeah, yeah, I even I even attempted 590 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: to write a training program for them to really restructure 591 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,520 Speaker 1: how we should talk about cannabis in there and take 592 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 1: it to the next level. Um, but I moved on 593 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,200 Speaker 1: since then. And um but you know, Cookies just just 594 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,960 Speaker 1: having the brand awareness that they have. It's a Juggernai 595 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,080 Speaker 1: in its own right. You don't even like as a 596 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: bud tender. Yeah, you're presenting it there, but the flower 597 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,200 Speaker 1: is going to sell itself there at Cookies. A Cookies 598 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: has a great brand Burners and it looks like he's 599 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,320 Speaker 1: doing good from his cancer for those are concerned to burn. 600 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: So you go from a kid from New York moves 601 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:52,360 Speaker 1: to California Medman Cookies. Those are two of the biggest 602 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 1: brand dispensing names out there in the game. Then what 603 00:29:55,960 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: what goes down next? So after cookies, I was just like, Okay, 604 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 1: I don't want to be a bud tender anymore. I 605 00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 1: don't want to be stuck in four walls. Um, if 606 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,320 Speaker 1: I'm stuck in four worlds, it has to be something, 607 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: has to be something extraordinarily different. And my girlfriend was 608 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 1: just like, man, you just have a mouth on you. 609 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:14,920 Speaker 1: Just get into sales. It doesn't matter what you do. 610 00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: Just get into sales, you know. And I was just like, 611 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,120 Speaker 1: all right, you know what, I've never really done sales before, 612 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,080 Speaker 1: but I've have exactly you're doing it all the time 613 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,240 Speaker 1: when you're on the floor and exactly exactly and on 614 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,400 Speaker 1: the streets of Harlem, I mean cash like money, Why 615 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:32,360 Speaker 1: do you say that? He's himself? So I can tell 616 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: you a story about me coming back and the drug 617 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: dealers befriending me and opening up their trunk and they 618 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: just got out of jail for twelve years and they're like, cash, 619 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,120 Speaker 1: is this good bud out the trunk on Fifth Avenue 620 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:46,960 Speaker 1: and one time for like, and I'm that bud guy now, 621 00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:50,920 Speaker 1: you know, so like yeah, there's yeah. But um, so 622 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: I was just like, man, sales sales, Okay, where do 623 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:56,320 Speaker 1: I go? What do I do? And all these entry 624 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,520 Speaker 1: level of sales jobs were just capui on indeed, and 625 00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: and I was just like, okay, who's the gatekeepers? You know? 626 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:05,080 Speaker 1: And I always think people are gatekeepers, people will get 627 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: you what you want. Who do I have to connect with? 628 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:10,080 Speaker 1: And you know, I looked on LinkedIn like crazy, and 629 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: I was like, okay, Lincoln is my digital rolodex. You know, 630 00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 1: for millennials use LinkedIn. Lincoln is the way to go 631 00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: when it comes to job searching, bro especially if you 632 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: have a good reputation. So I looked in that and um, 633 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,800 Speaker 1: you know, I saw Cannabis Talk one oh one. Uh 634 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,360 Speaker 1: it was like some sales role that was very brief, 635 00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,040 Speaker 1: and I was just like, you know, I'm a past that, 636 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,480 Speaker 1: and I don't know what that's about. I knew what 637 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:34,600 Speaker 1: Cannabis Talk one oh one was. I've seen you around 638 00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:37,840 Speaker 1: in industry parties and events. But I was just like, 639 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: I don't know what that's about and it's not really 640 00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 1: telling me too much. And I passed it. I passed 641 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:45,400 Speaker 1: it for like two days, and I was just like, 642 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:50,480 Speaker 1: you know, I don't know about media, but it's sales, 643 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 1: and everybody's like, you're always good at like being on 644 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:57,200 Speaker 1: camera and stuff like that. What if it does turn 645 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:01,040 Speaker 1: out to be you on camera or that sales role 646 00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,120 Speaker 1: changes your life forever? And you know, I went for it, 647 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,640 Speaker 1: and um, think shout out to Jen for accepting the application. Um, 648 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: and I just got my car and I was like, 649 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 1: this is really far from me. I live in Hollywood 650 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,560 Speaker 1: and it's in Orange County and I was like, you 651 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:17,880 Speaker 1: know what this is. This is feeling like one of 652 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:19,719 Speaker 1: those moments in my life that you gotta go and 653 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,800 Speaker 1: get it, you know, like you gotta go and see 654 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:24,320 Speaker 1: what it is about. It doesn't matter how far it is. 655 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: You know, maybe you are going to do that hour 656 00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,000 Speaker 1: drive every day because it is worth it, you know. 657 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,280 Speaker 1: And and sure enough it was worth it. I'm here 658 00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:34,920 Speaker 1: right now, um with the guys that has the pulse 659 00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: on the industry. We're going to events, We're tearing it up, 660 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: We're bringing awareness to the culture, to the plant, we're 661 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,880 Speaker 1: bringing platforms to everybody. I feel like it's my mission 662 00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 1: to really go and talk to my brothers and sisters 663 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:51,080 Speaker 1: and get them on this platform. You know. All it's 664 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,280 Speaker 1: just it's a blessing. It's a blessing how my life 665 00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:58,160 Speaker 1: is turning out. And um, and my girlfriend is like, wow, 666 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: you really came over here in Fitalized, in California with 667 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:04,920 Speaker 1: this cannabis thing, and um, and I did, and I did, 668 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,560 Speaker 1: and nothing stopped me. And you are and I am 669 00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,640 Speaker 1: and I and I and nothing will stop your brother. 670 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,400 Speaker 1: You know what. I love the story that we heard. 671 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,840 Speaker 1: I wanted everybody that listens to our show to hear 672 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,280 Speaker 1: a story like this because if you are listening, going 673 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,120 Speaker 1: I want to get into the cannabis game. This is 674 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:23,200 Speaker 1: what he did. And I think your story is remarkable. 675 00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 1: I commend you. I take my hat off to you 676 00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,440 Speaker 1: for your persistency, and I love what you do around 677 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 1: the office and what you do for us here too. 678 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 1: Nothing ever goes unseen or unappreciated. And that being said, 679 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:35,800 Speaker 1: I definitely want to do the high five with you 680 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,440 Speaker 1: and have some fun as we do the high five 681 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: with cashish cash like money you want to hold. Let 682 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:43,920 Speaker 1: let's get him the phones we record you want to 683 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:46,440 Speaker 1: cork no, no, no, no, I have actually have a meeting. 684 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 1: I wonder if Cam is on that meeting for me 685 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,520 Speaker 1: holding it down. Yeah, definitely working while we're working, you 686 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,160 Speaker 1: know we are. I hope I didn't start at one 687 00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:59,640 Speaker 1: thirty because I hope I started one five. Okay, good? 688 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:02,520 Speaker 1: That being said, cash like money? How old are you 689 00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 1: the first time you smoke cannabis? And where'd you get 690 00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,920 Speaker 1: it from? Uh? So I was sixteen, So some people 691 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:12,520 Speaker 1: consider that a late bloomer. I consider that just on time, 692 00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:16,000 Speaker 1: and um it was. I was sixteen and it was 693 00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:20,560 Speaker 1: with my friends in h in Wood Park. It's really 694 00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:24,200 Speaker 1: North Tip part of Manhattan at the top, and they 695 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: were just I went to summer school at one one 696 00:34:26,600 --> 00:34:28,400 Speaker 1: year in high school and they were like, Cash, you 697 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:31,000 Speaker 1: will be so fun to smoke with. Man, you gotta smoke, 698 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,840 Speaker 1: You gotta smoke. And I'm like, I'm already crazy. I 699 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:34,319 Speaker 1: don't know how we is gonna make Did you have 700 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:36,279 Speaker 1: the dreads at a young age too? No? No, no, no, 701 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,640 Speaker 1: this was this was when did you grow these? Wait? 702 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,000 Speaker 1: Wait wait? This was with my cannabis career in New 703 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: York or when you move to California six years so, 704 00:34:44,239 --> 00:34:47,239 Speaker 1: right before you move to Calia started growing up. Do 705 00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:49,320 Speaker 1: you want to get your camera to start feeling some stuff? 706 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: Maybe Chris or Jennifer could feel you on the show step. Okay, 707 00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:53,719 Speaker 1: I just wanted I wanted to give you that. You 708 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:58,839 Speaker 1: want to just question number two with cash like money 709 00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,480 Speaker 1: from cannabis. Talk one one, what is your favorite way 710 00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:08,360 Speaker 1: to use cannabis? So, so throughout my relationship with cannabis 711 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,640 Speaker 1: is has changed a lot um. Of course, the first 712 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:15,920 Speaker 1: ways with smoking and then uh and then I experimented 713 00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:17,879 Speaker 1: with edibles and I was like, Okay, you could dive 714 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:20,040 Speaker 1: off the board deep with these. This is not an 715 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:24,120 Speaker 1: everyday thing. So all the different method consumption methods I 716 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:27,279 Speaker 1: have a different relationship with and they all have its 717 00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 1: own place in my life. But when it comes to 718 00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,520 Speaker 1: like one of my favorites, it's gonna be like mixing 719 00:35:33,560 --> 00:35:38,560 Speaker 1: flour with hash. I like smoking flour with hash a lot. Yeah, 720 00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:41,839 Speaker 1: like rosin and hash and stuff that is sovereign less 721 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,480 Speaker 1: with the flour. I really like that. What's that taste? 722 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:48,440 Speaker 1: Because you lose the taste to sophisticated. I feel like 723 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:55,879 Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm drinking, I'm smoking yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 724 00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:57,719 Speaker 1: When you get a good high, would imagine I've never 725 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:00,200 Speaker 1: I've been I've smoked hash before and weed in the 726 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:09,319 Speaker 1: craziest place you ever use our smoked cannabis. Well, one 727 00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,000 Speaker 1: of the first experiences that I thought was the craziest 728 00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,799 Speaker 1: was this one festival festival called Governor's Ball in New 729 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:19,279 Speaker 1: York City. Um, they take over this one island that's 730 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,600 Speaker 1: called Governor's Island and they have a lot of big acts. 731 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,600 Speaker 1: But um, that island is also a golf course. Um, 732 00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 1: and I'm a have a golfer. But they closed down 733 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:33,640 Speaker 1: the driving range there, and UM, I knew this secret 734 00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:37,040 Speaker 1: place that we could get up on the top floor, 735 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:40,120 Speaker 1: not secret, but the top floor of the driving range 736 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:42,880 Speaker 1: part that you could head off of a balcony. But 737 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,600 Speaker 1: it was laughed off. Yeah it was double decking, double 738 00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:56,279 Speaker 1: doctor and um and double not. But and I thought 739 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,680 Speaker 1: it was cool. And I brought all my friends up 740 00:36:57,719 --> 00:37:00,400 Speaker 1: there and we smoked and we just saw the whole 741 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:05,319 Speaker 1: big sea of people just enjoying themselves. Um at the 742 00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:07,919 Speaker 1: at the concert. Yeah, I love that you thought deep 743 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,600 Speaker 1: and if you just took me there. So I've been 744 00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,280 Speaker 1: to many double decker golf courses and I can imagine 745 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,080 Speaker 1: to see it people It wasn't it wasn't a range anymore. 746 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,799 Speaker 1: It's so dope that they've done that. I've actually never 747 00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,120 Speaker 1: been to a concert or driving range. You totally could 748 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,920 Speaker 1: everything you just described. You painted a great picture. What 749 00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:28,320 Speaker 1: is your go to munchies after you get high cash? 750 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:30,560 Speaker 1: I guess it has to be like Doritos or something 751 00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 1: with a lot of people on the show from my 752 00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:41,520 Speaker 1: research says cereal with cereal too, Um yeah, I guess yeah, chips, chips, 753 00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,040 Speaker 1: what kind of chips? Just at any kind? Guess Dorito's 754 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,040 Speaker 1: cool ranch with the blue bag. I like that. Now 755 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,359 Speaker 1: here here's the good deep one cash like money from 756 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,399 Speaker 1: the cannabis Talk one oh one team. If you could 757 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,080 Speaker 1: smoke cannabis with anyone dead are alive, who would it 758 00:37:57,120 --> 00:38:02,759 Speaker 1: be and why so dead? It would be of course 759 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:08,160 Speaker 1: Jimi Hendrix because like I just always aligned with him 760 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:11,360 Speaker 1: in my life when just being young and hearing Purple 761 00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,800 Speaker 1: Hayes on the radio, I was like what is that sound? 762 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:16,319 Speaker 1: And and just discovering him on my own as a 763 00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,120 Speaker 1: young kid with no other influence. I want to smoke 764 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,400 Speaker 1: with him and then alive of course with you, Joe, 765 00:38:22,920 --> 00:38:24,680 Speaker 1: of course with you. But you know that's not gonna 766 00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,080 Speaker 1: happen because I support good habits and um, but alive 767 00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:30,600 Speaker 1: definitely with you, Joe. Oh here we go. I love 768 00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,319 Speaker 1: that you didn't even know who I was. The other day, 769 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:33,959 Speaker 1: don't you know. I went home and googled you because 770 00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,680 Speaker 1: my girlfriend said, who's Joe Grande? And he starts bringing 771 00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,799 Speaker 1: up all kinds of ship Joe, did you I love 772 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,960 Speaker 1: when people do this to me too, which is like, Joe, 773 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,279 Speaker 1: did you know you did this and that and this video? 774 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:47,000 Speaker 1: You mean the video you watched me? Yeah, thanks for 775 00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,360 Speaker 1: googling me. Yeah, yeah you have. You have tons of 776 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,480 Speaker 1: videos up there, and you see and back in the 777 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,200 Speaker 1: day with that burying hand man, it'll be cool just 778 00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:57,440 Speaker 1: smoking joint right next to you, bro, It would be 779 00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:01,280 Speaker 1: so fucking dope. And you know, um, but what's equivalent 780 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,160 Speaker 1: to that is pushing a culture for with you, bro, well, 781 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,799 Speaker 1: as we are and we do and we do continuously 782 00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:09,239 Speaker 1: do that. And I love what you do here. And 783 00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:11,600 Speaker 1: as you push the culture and as we have that conversation, 784 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,040 Speaker 1: these are the type of people that we have around us, 785 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,640 Speaker 1: Folks that like when you're over there talking to people 786 00:39:16,719 --> 00:39:18,960 Speaker 1: like you were in the City of Long Beach at 787 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,800 Speaker 1: the Heroes events. Um, that was beautiful and I literally 788 00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:24,400 Speaker 1: watched you from a distance, and I see how you 789 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,000 Speaker 1: get involved with folks and You're just a real person. 790 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,800 Speaker 1: You're a genuine person. I love you as a person. 791 00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,279 Speaker 1: I love your lady as a person, and I appreciate 792 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,359 Speaker 1: you for the things that you do here because you 793 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,600 Speaker 1: do move the culture forward and you're about it. And 794 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,239 Speaker 1: by people hearing this type of story, I hope this 795 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,399 Speaker 1: encourages you to realize if you two want to get 796 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:46,600 Speaker 1: in this industry, you can cash like money. Did it 797 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:50,360 Speaker 1: is doing it? A kid from Harlem, New York sitting 798 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,200 Speaker 1: there going what are we gonna do? Babe? How are 799 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,680 Speaker 1: we gonna make this happen? And they're making it happen. 800 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:56,480 Speaker 1: And for that, I take my hat out to you, 801 00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,560 Speaker 1: and you're gonna continue to make it happen. They're gonna 802 00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:00,399 Speaker 1: be very successful. And I'm sorry to get my left 803 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,600 Speaker 1: you always it's Cannabis Talk one oh one. Remember this. 804 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,520 Speaker 1: If no one else seves you, we do. Thank you 805 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:08,680 Speaker 1: for listening to Cannabis Talk one oh one on the 806 00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:12,080 Speaker 1: I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get 807 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:12,960 Speaker 1: your podcasts.