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Speaker 5: Please welcome to the campus. Our next guest Mahalt, Andre

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Speaker 5: and Ashante.

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Speaker 2: That's how we say it.

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Speaker 4: I mean, let's just go right there. Where does that

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Speaker 4: come from? That's the first one right there, just starting

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Speaker 4: with you. Where does his name come from?

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Speaker 2: Like that?

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Speaker 5: So unique? It's my first time ever hearing a name

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Speaker 2: Really get close.

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Speaker 6: On the first time I heard that name, I read

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Speaker 6: a bookur and it was very powerful about black panther,

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Speaker 6: woman of color who was incarcerated.

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Speaker 7: And I fell in love with the story.

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Speaker 6: And when I was married, I decided to change my

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Speaker 6: Asada a very powerful name.

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Speaker 5: Oh that was.

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Speaker 2: Your choosing this, It wasn't your periods.

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Speaker 5: That's even better. That's like, oh no, I found this,

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Speaker 5: this is me. You found you.

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Speaker 7: It touched me.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, that's dope.

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Speaker 2: And where do you come from?

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Speaker 7: Originally New Orleans?

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Speaker 2: Nice? Nice for high school.

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Speaker 7: Oakland Technical High School.

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Speaker 5: And now you're in the town. Funny the bulldogs out there.

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Speaker 7: Born in New Orleans, but I was raised in Oakland And.

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Speaker 5: Oh really that's funny. And what about you Andrea? Where

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Speaker 8: I'm a true Cali girl, born and raised in San Diego,

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Speaker 8: and then I did. I spent my twenties in la

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Speaker 8: High school, high School, Morris High School, the Tigers.

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Speaker 4: And San Diego is beautiful though, going all the way

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Speaker 2: So what do you like better?

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Speaker 4: Because San Diego is hard to beat as a kid

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Speaker 9: You know, I love my hometown for sure.

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Speaker 8: It's rough, it's rough, It's you know, I should consider

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Speaker 8: I was on the West side, so I was in

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Speaker 5: Hitting them clubs over there.

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Speaker 2: And what's your favorite food?

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Speaker 8: Mmm, have to be between thy food and uh, I'm

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Speaker 5: Is definitely one of mine.

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Speaker 2: Right now, what's your favorite? Uh? Netflix film movie? What

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Speaker 7: I've been currently watching all of the Lovely Gangster.

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Speaker 6: Movies or series. I love the b MF because I

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Speaker 6: MF and Snowflake or Snowfall.

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Speaker 7: Snowfall that's pretty hot.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and Harlem.

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Speaker 6: My god, and Power just came back.

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Speaker 2: Pow Power is always great. Man, Oh man, that hard.

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Speaker 5: They need to just drop all of them though, Like I.

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Speaker 4: Need to watch them all right now, a little bit

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Speaker 4: Harlem is a thing. It gets me every single time.

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Speaker 4: I keep checking, like I checked last night, is there

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Speaker 4: a new one? Like I don't even know when the

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Speaker 4: little bootleg gap that getting it shipped.

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Speaker 6: So you get all caught up, you know, you can

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Speaker 4: And they're after Malcolm right now too, to where I'm like,

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Speaker 5: But when are they getting just so, my Holland what

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Speaker 5: about you?

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Speaker 10: Where you from girl, I'm from West Oakland. My family's

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Speaker 10: from Ethiopia. We're first generation from Ethiopia, so a country

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Speaker 10: in East Africa, and then we came out here. But

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Speaker 10: I was raised in West Oakland and my high school

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Speaker 2: Oh really, what are you watching?

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Speaker 10: I really, I rarely watch TV, but I am big

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Speaker 10: with Snowfall, b M F Power. I watched a lot

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Speaker 10: it too. So I watched that on my downtime. And yeah,

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Speaker 10: and there's this other show you that I just got on.

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Speaker 5: Netflix one Netflix Crazy.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I know, but I'm watching it.

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Speaker 5: I like watching from the first season, third season.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think I'm on season three or season four.

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Speaker 10: But I still can't grab the concept. I'm like, we

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Speaker 10: just moves around people, you like. Yeah, I know, but

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Speaker 10: it's a fun show. It's a cool show.

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Speaker 5: Watch Goldie World. That's how Goldie is welcome back. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: only when you like me. I had to get go

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Speaker 5: to the other bus like that, man, what do you.

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Speaker 2: What are you smoking on down there?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 10: This is some oak Fruitland. It's a brand, a cultivation

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Speaker 10: company out there in Oakland and they're Oakland grown, Oakland owned,

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Speaker 10: And this is some good flour. This is the sugar

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Speaker 10: coated Smalls. Is there? Half ounds? Nice smoke cone? So

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Speaker 3: And you guys all just drove in from Oakland? Where'd

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Speaker 3: you guys come from from Oakland?

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Speaker 2: Nice? How did you guys hear about us Instagram? Okay?

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Speaker 5: Well, because you had one of the homies here the

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Speaker 5: that was here. We sent them home with some magazines

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Speaker 5: or some ship too, and then I was talking them

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Speaker 5: outside and he was saying how they work with this?

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Speaker 5: I think Ali connected us as well?

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Speaker 4: Right, Ali, I believe that's.

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Speaker 2: How I I met You got a shout out to.

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Speaker 5: In the cuts. That's why you guys.

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 4: And that being said, though, who is Oakland Equity Collective?

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Speaker 5: How did you guys get involved with it?

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Speaker 4: But tell me a little bit about this organization, where

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Speaker 3: You guys are probably too young to remember the doghouse

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Speaker 10: I love the doghouse yea, yeah, you know I was.

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Speaker 5: I mentioned it beforehand.

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Speaker 4: that because me being so Bay representative, like you know,

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Speaker 4: I mean wyronically today I'm state alumni sweater.

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Speaker 2: You do that.

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Speaker 4: I really didn't do it on purpose, but it was

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Speaker 4: just one of those oh I'm wearing this one today too.

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Speaker 2: I remember that.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it always comes up, so on recording days

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Speaker 4: So it's just cool that you guys are here and

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Speaker 4: from the Bay Area and knowing that we always say

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Speaker 4: some of the best cannabis comes from the from the

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Speaker 4: Bay area, right, So tell me a little bit about

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Speaker 4: this organization and how you guys each got involved.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's definitely it's been a journey. It's been a

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Speaker 8: So all of us have been in the cannabis industry,

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Speaker 8: decade now, all in Oakland, and we've all gone through

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Speaker 8: these trials and tribulations. We've had different roles, we've done

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Speaker 8: a lot, we've been here, done that. So you know,

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Speaker 8: one of the common themes that we've noticed is a

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Speaker 9: Nobody does this alone.

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Speaker 8: So we're like, how can we help you know, the

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Speaker 6: It was a lot of separate different groups that came together.

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Speaker 3: You guys have separate licenses to each gotcha, but you

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Speaker 3: How this this like it's like a co op, I guess,

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Speaker 2: The Bear Flat Group is your white label partners.

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Speaker 4: They are known to be on time, actate, and do

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Speaker 4: some good stuff because I didn't realize that you put

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Speaker 4: So explain that even more. Like Blu said, it's a

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Speaker 2: What's the superpower for each one of you? What's up?

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Speaker 10: Well for me, I had as well. I have a

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Speaker 10: distribution license outside of Oakland Equity Collective. So I got

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Speaker 10: And when I got in, there wasn't a lot of

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Speaker 10: We're doing this, this, this, these amazing things helping six

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Speaker 4: And the building CEO we all, you know, Wenny, we.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, he doesn't need to be the guy you know,

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Speaker 10: He brought all the all the creatives that he knows

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Speaker 4: Like I hit him over the first time I met him,

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Speaker 5: For us and what about you? What what do you

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Speaker 9: Is what we do full time. So it's a beautiful thing.

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Speaker 4: I think that's incredible. I mean just hearing how that goes.

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Speaker 4: And Adolf, what a g you are. And I can't

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Speaker 2: Which what do you use named Adol.

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Speaker 5: Shada?

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Speaker 2: What about you?

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Speaker 5: What's your superpower besides looking so fly with that cap on?

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Speaker 7: Thank you so much. I think that's all I do.

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Speaker 6: Really, I came to this program. I didn't know aid

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Speaker 6: many other people because I was in that that area

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Speaker 6: where I didn't know who to turn to, Like, you

447
00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,320
Speaker 6: need this license, you need to have insurance, you need

448
00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,639
Speaker 6: a banking account, you need you need so many things

449
00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:49,800
Speaker 6: that you don't know that you need until you get

450
00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:53,160
Speaker 6: into this building and realize that compliance is the truth.

451
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Speaker 6: And if you don't have a team that's going to

452
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Speaker 6: help you, you're going to be screwed. So OEC is

453
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Speaker 6: here to help other people. Other brands like my brand.

454
00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:06,080
Speaker 6: Alumina is my brand. I started out in the legacy

455
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Speaker 6: market cultivating and I realized, Okay, we can cultivate it,

456
00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,359
Speaker 6: we can sell it. That's you know, distribution. Okay, Now

457
00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,320
Speaker 6: what we're going to do with this trim? Okay, well

458
00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,840
Speaker 6: we can make some butter Okay, that's manufacturing. Okay, Now,

459
00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,080
Speaker 6: how are we gonna get everybody to come back? Okay,

460
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Speaker 6: that's that's networking. Let's let's do some events.

461
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Speaker 7: That's you know.

462
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Speaker 6: So I started out just doing these things without knowing

463
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Speaker 6: that all of these different titles exist. Sure, So now

464
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Speaker 6: I have my own brand, one hundred percent black woman owned.

465
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Speaker 6: It's a family business. I have my son as my

466
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Speaker 6: first employee. My sister's helping me. My partner is a

467
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Speaker 6: big part because she's a celebrity chef. So we're our

468
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Speaker 6: first brand we're hoping to take to the market as

469
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Speaker 6: a pre roll. We're doing an olive oil and a

470
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Speaker 6: of course flour. So being in the culinary industry, we

471
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Speaker 6: work production, and we saw the power of using the

472
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Speaker 6: medicine without inhaling it, without smoking it, like we make

473
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Speaker 6: cookies and brownies and shrimp and grits with and we

474
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Speaker 6: just started just testing the market out like let's see

475
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Speaker 6: who and then they just kept coming back. They wanted more,

476
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Speaker 6: They wanted more.

477
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Speaker 2: Did you guys bring us any.

478
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Speaker 7: For the house? Will make something before you make a

479
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Speaker 7: little something happen, Yes.

480
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Speaker 2: Cam, go get us some shrip, put some stuff in

481
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Speaker 2: the back of the truck man.

482
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Speaker 6: So to realize that you're eating the food and and

483
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Speaker 6: the value of some people, you know, like how your parents,

484
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Speaker 6: your father's passivey us in peace of cancer. To have

485
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Speaker 6: that transition to go smoothly, whether they're not all doped up.

486
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Speaker 6: They can enjoy a good meal and then have a

487
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Speaker 6: good night's sleep and wake up the next.

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Speaker 7: Morning and feel empowered to have another day to do that.

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Speaker 3: And it's funny you say that because you said a

490
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Speaker 3: good meal. You know, when you're on those pills, you

491
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Speaker 3: don't eat, you know what I mean, there's no food,

492
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Speaker 3: they're just you have no appetite.

493
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Speaker 2: You're really just kind of you know, dying tomorrow.

494
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a big deal because I think a

495
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Speaker 3: lot of people, you know, especially elders that don't you know,

496
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Speaker 3: they don't understand it because it's always been you know,

497
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Speaker 3: taboo or something we can't do, you know, smoke, cannabis

498
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Speaker 3: or weed. It was always that, you know, why our

499
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Speaker 3: kids were getting in trouble. That was the one that

500
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Speaker 3: we you know, our family, we would smoke in front

501
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Speaker 3: of them like whatever we're smoking, you know, it's not

502
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Speaker 3: even a big deal. But they in their minds, I think,

503
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Speaker 3: was like either they were either a fully with it,

504
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Speaker 3: like my dad. But I think a lot of people

505
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Speaker 3: growing up though, they don't have that in their family

506
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Speaker 3: where they're like that's bad. So now you're like, yo,

507
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Speaker 3: stop giving you what the governments you know, or the

508
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Speaker 3: you know, FDA or the pharmaceutical industry has given you.

509
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Speaker 3: Excuse me, and then here try this, and it's like well,

510
00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 3: this is a better quality. I'm getting the same result.

511
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Speaker 3: You know, they're they're sleeping better, they're getting a lot

512
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Speaker 3: of their pains taken away. And you know, I think

513
00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,159
Speaker 3: food is one of those major, you know, things that

514
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 3: people will learn how to actually take. But if you

515
00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 3: get the wrong dose, it could be a bad time. Yeah,

516
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Speaker 3: because I and I say that because like my mom,

517
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Speaker 3: you know, she tried some uh some food and and

518
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Speaker 3: she you know, she was drinking wine with it next

519
00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,479
Speaker 3: to you know, she's like, I don't like this at all.

520
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Speaker 3: And it's just because she went from you know, not

521
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Speaker 3: eating cannabis ever in her life to eating like thirty

522
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,800
Speaker 3: milligrams and she's over here freaking out and she's only

523
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Speaker 3: a bucko five.

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Speaker 7: And you have to remember that.

525
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Speaker 6: Like, that's why I wanted to do olive oil because

526
00:23:44,720 --> 00:23:47,760
Speaker 6: a lot of the products were just candy and and

527
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Speaker 6: stuff that's not good for if.

528
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Speaker 7: You have diabetes.

529
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 6: Sure, if you're older and you start, you eat one

530
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Speaker 6: and you're like, oh, it's just candy, and you have

531
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Speaker 6: another one and another one.

532
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Speaker 7: But olive oil, you can dose it out.

533
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Speaker 6: You can put it on the salad you're eating something healthy,

534
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:02,280
Speaker 6: you know, or you can just take it just straight up,

535
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:04,240
Speaker 6: like olive oil has been around forever.

536
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, forever, and that's what you're so you're infusing your

537
00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 4: own olive oil with your brand, correct, And are you

538
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Speaker 4: doing that inside the joints as well?

539
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Speaker 7: Exactly?

540
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Speaker 5: Well not nothing, joints, the pre roles are different, but

541
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Speaker 5: it's all the same brand.

542
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Speaker 7: It's same brand.

543
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Speaker 2: Illumina alumina. What is illuminus staff for it means for.

544
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Speaker 7: Me, it means enlightenment. Okay, yeah, exactly, enlighten, ENLiGHT.

545
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Speaker 6: The the people, the people, I guess not just just

546
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Speaker 6: the people, but everyone, I think, you know, to realize

547
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Speaker 6: that cannabis is is just a plant.

548
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Speaker 2: Yeah that's all man, he really exactly.

549
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Speaker 7: And it has so many different levels that you can

550
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Speaker 7: take it to.

551
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Speaker 10: But to piggyback off that, like my mom being first

552
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Speaker 10: generation from Ethiopia, like cannabis was like the worst, the devil,

553
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Speaker 10: like the devil's lettuce. That's what I was trying to say, Yeah,

554
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:55,960
Speaker 10: the devil's lettuce. So it was very hard for even

555
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Speaker 10: me to get into the space, like after grad school.

556
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Speaker 10: I graduated grad school and to get into cannabis.

557
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Speaker 2: My mom thought was like why the hell did we

558
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Speaker 2: send this money on you doing it.

559
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Speaker 10: A downfrade, but now she sees the benefits of it,

560
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Speaker 10: even using topicals, Like she obviously would never smoke, but

561
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Speaker 10: you know, just to see just to get her the

562
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Speaker 10: benefits of cannabis, like getting her topicals and she has

563
00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 10: like knee proms and like the bottom of her heels.

564
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Speaker 10: So just rubbing that on it works.

565
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Speaker 7: It works.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

567
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Speaker 4: You think about that though, and you think about how

568
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Speaker 4: many older people like that that would never And the

569
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Speaker 4: number one client in a dispensary right now is over

570
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Speaker 4: fifty five years old.

571
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying.

572
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Speaker 4: But to think that of the taboo that we all

573
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Speaker 4: discussed and what they come from, that reefer madness era,

574
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Speaker 4: but yet they realize this is better for me than

575
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Speaker 4: everything else, everything else.

576
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Speaker 10: Now my mom wants me to get stuff for her friends,

577
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Speaker 10: and it's like try this that one time, and it's

578
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,760
Speaker 10: just like wow, it's crazy how cannabis has went from

579
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Speaker 10: a devil's letter is to now mahalale, can you go

580
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 10: give me some? And I'm like, yes, I yes, I will, Yeah,

581
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Speaker 10: I will bring it to you.

582
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Speaker 7: To making king. Yes, I want to make my mama proud.

583
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Speaker 10: So just to see the evolution of cannabis and especially

584
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Speaker 10: my family has been super, super just heartwarming.

585
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Speaker 3: No, I'm glad you show that because I think that

586
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:17,200
Speaker 3: that's exactly what I was trying to translate, is that

587
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Speaker 3: some you know, I grew up in a family where,

588
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Speaker 3: you know, my mom didn't ever smoke, didn't do any

589
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 3: of that, but but my dad was selling it, smoking it, growing.

590
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Speaker 2: It, whatever, you know, and it's just it was just

591
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Speaker 2: part of my life.

592
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Speaker 3: Like I literally would get in the car every morning

593
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Speaker 3: and he's firing up a joint on the way to

594
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Speaker 3: my school. You know, before I was I thought he

595
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:36,400
Speaker 3: was just smoking a cigarette.

596
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Speaker 2: I'm like, what is that? You know, I just get

597
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Speaker 2: that just whatever. It just wasn't even whatever. It was

598
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Speaker 2: just normal, you know. And I get out and then

599
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Speaker 2: my friends would be like, man, don't say nothing about that.

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Speaker 3: And I'm like about what, like that that weed right there, Like, oh,

601
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Speaker 3: that's cool, that's my dad's cigarettes.

602
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Speaker 4: He's funny how it happens to Like, We're gonna take

603
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Speaker 4: a break real quick when we come back.

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Speaker 5: You guys.

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Speaker 4: What I love about talking to you three is I

606
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Speaker 4: feel like these three ladies up here, if you're listening,

607
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 4: are just like you as a person that may want

608
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Speaker 4: to get into this space.

609
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Speaker 2: Right.

610
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Speaker 5: So these three ladies had a normal job of big careers,

611
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Speaker 5: this and that, grad.

612
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Speaker 4: School, other jobs, other careers, and decided to click that

613
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Speaker 4: and now our full time in the cannabis space. Why

614
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,440
Speaker 4: because they meet our guy Adoll and I want to

615
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 4: hear how you heard about the Open Equity Collective.

616
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Speaker 10: What made you go?

617
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Speaker 4: I'm going to trust Adolph in my vision and dream

618
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Speaker 4: because now all three of.

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Speaker 2: You are one hundred percent in It's Cannabis Talk one

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Speaker 2: oh one.

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Speaker 4: When you right back out the.

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Speaker 1: Best, we'll be right back with Cannabis Talk one O one,

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Speaker 1: I think, welcome back to Cannabis Talk one o one.

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Speaker 4: Have you seen the latest edition of the Cannabis Talk

625
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Speaker 4: magazine and has some great articles and very cool stories

626
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Speaker 4: in it. You guys, get yourself a hard copy today.

627
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628
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Speaker 4: Talkmagazine dot com and subscribe. Now, I want to thank

633
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Speaker 4: everybody on the staff that makes us look and sound

634
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Speaker 4: so good around here, starting with Jorgey, Marcus Manny Mondo,

635
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Speaker 4: Teddy the show Dog with his nice haircut, Isaiah Cassie,

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Speaker 4: Mark Carnes, Chris, Frank, Keno, Jennifer Erica and Elvis.

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Speaker 5: Thank you guys all for doing what you do. Now

639
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:30,760
Speaker 5: before we went to break, I love that Adolph is.

640
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 4: Doing such a wonderful thing at the Oakland Equity Collective

641
00:28:34,359 --> 00:28:36,680
Speaker 4: and for those that are interested in going there and

642
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 4: learning more about it, as we've been talking to these

643
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 4: three lovely ladies Oaklandequitycollective dot co. But I want to

644
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,080
Speaker 4: go just one by one, Maha, just starting with you, like,

645
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 4: what made you find Oakland Equity Collective?

646
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:50,680
Speaker 5: Was it literally a Google search?

647
00:28:50,840 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 4: And what made you believe in mister Adolph Ward the

648
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 4: second because hearing you three ladies talk about him in

649
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 4: this program that you got, as you're doing, I'm giving

650
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 4: this man his flowers and saying he's doing.

651
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:04,760
Speaker 2: The Lord's work.

652
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Speaker 10: Oh, he's the goat. I won't never say it, but

653
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 10: he is the goat.

654
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm loving him and appreciated him more so.

655
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 4: And the fact that he was supposed to be up

656
00:29:13,800 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 4: here on the show set talking to us that he

657
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Speaker 4: didn't and me not knowing that what he's doing for

658
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:20,840
Speaker 4: folks out there, Like I didn't know that's what he

659
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 4: was doing. I met him, Oh, Oakland Equity, Oh you're

660
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:24,160
Speaker 4: from Oakland. I was just happy on him, you know

661
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Speaker 4: what I'm saying. And he was cool, and I was

662
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Speaker 4: just like, oh, you're cool and you're nice, and I

663
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Speaker 4: like that alone. But now hearing your guys' stories of

664
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 4: being hard working, you know, colored women and now owning

665
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 4: your own businesses, this brother is really setting you guys

666
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 4: up for success. How did you find out about this

667
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 4: program that people from all over the world need to realize?

668
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 5: Oakland Equity Collective is doing it.

669
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:49,960
Speaker 10: Adolf called me. That's literally what it was when it

670
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 10: got when the micro business license got approved. The micro

671
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 10: license is distro delivery and manufacturing. And I came in

672
00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 10: on the distro side and it was like, hey, when

673
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 10: he's you might run distro. You're the only woman owned

674
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 10: distro in Oakland. How would you feel being a part

675
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 10: of you know, OEC and that's literally what it was.

676
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 10: But what sold me was the paying the rent for

677
00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:17,440
Speaker 10: six equity businesses because I was also incubated back in

678
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 10: twenty eighteen and I had an incubator, you know, paying

679
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 10: my rent and all this other stuff. So I see

680
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 10: the value of that and how you really could change

681
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 10: someone's life paying their rent. The most expensive overhead in

682
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 10: cannabis is rent, sure well in any industry's rent. So

683
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 10: being able to check that box for six equity businesses,

684
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 10: to be able to say, like, don't worry about rent,

685
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 10: We'll cover that for you. You just worry about getting

686
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 10: your brands out to the market or perfecting your recipe

687
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 10: or whatever the case is. So once he sold that

688
00:30:44,240 --> 00:30:47,680
Speaker 10: to me, like you know, just fi we're paying well

689
00:30:47,760 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 10: I was rent, I'm like, oh, well that works because

690
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,800
Speaker 10: I was that equity applicant not even five years ago.

691
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 10: So I see the value in that. So to be

692
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 10: able to be on the other side of it now

693
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 10: being able to provide that he sold me. And plus

694
00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 10: atof is good with his words. Man, he could finess

695
00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 10: anybody to do anything you want. And I once he

696
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:10,920
Speaker 10: told me that and needed the distro side to be

697
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 10: generated and start to get that going in that warehouse,

698
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 10: in that space.

699
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:16,320
Speaker 2: He was like, hey, you.

700
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 10: Could be you know ownership you have Obviously ownership is

701
00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 10: key in the space too, So you'll be able to

702
00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 10: have ownership, you'll be able to have access to zy licenses.

703
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 10: We need your your expertise on the distro side, and

704
00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 10: we're giving away you know, we're giving free space to

705
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 10: these six equity businesses. Do you want to be a

706
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 10: part of it? Yes or no? Yes?

707
00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 8: Not?

708
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 2: Yeah?

709
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 10: And not only that, though a lot of a lot

710
00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,760
Speaker 10: of people in the industry talk about wanting to help

711
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:40,840
Speaker 10: and like how can we help in the space. And

712
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 10: even though people say money don't make the world go around,

713
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 10: money does make business go around. So makes the business

714
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 10: world go around. So being able to just get that

715
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 10: off of somebody's plate, paying your rent is like it's

716
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 10: a huge deal.

717
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

718
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 10: Man. Even getting those emails back telling these equity applicants

719
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 10: that they want that position is like you change my life.

720
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 10: And it's like, man, like I believe it, yeah, because

721
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 10: it's powerful because I was that girl in twenty eighteen

722
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 10: when I found an incubator twenty seventeen when I found

723
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,320
Speaker 10: an incubator. So that's how I got in. That's how

724
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 10: he wheeled me in. And the city Oakland is also

725
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,040
Speaker 10: heavenly involved, and I have a relationship with the City

726
00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 10: of Oakland. So once they also called me and was like,

727
00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 10: I think it's a good idea, and for the city

728
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 10: to tell me I think you should do it, I

729
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 10: was like, Oh, I'm gonna do it and better.

730
00:32:27,440 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 2: Yeah.

731
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 10: And just being a woman owned, black woman owned and

732
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 10: being able to be in the space and use our

733
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 10: knowledge and our experts. He's to help these other manufacturing businesses.

734
00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 10: It's like, why not. That's the whole purpose of this.

735
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,479
Speaker 10: This industry is still new. Her industry is still new.

736
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 10: A lot of people don't got all the answers. I'm

737
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 10: not gonna say I got all the answers, but I've

738
00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 10: been in it enough and I have answers on the dish.

739
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 10: I keep bringing up distro because that is like, that's

740
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 10: my specialty, that's my baby. So longuesst it's on the

741
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 10: distro side, I would be able to help you with that.

742
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 10: And them having manufacturing side her Cookie and then her

743
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,160
Speaker 10: with the consulting and just knowing all the finances and

744
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,320
Speaker 10: the numbers. It's like a dream team. So it's just

745
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 10: like why not?

746
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 2: Why not I support each other?

747
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 5: And did he call you? Andre?

748
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 8: So Adolf and I have known each other for almost

749
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 8: ten years and never worked together. So we were we

750
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 8: were in city hall, fighting for equit, fighting for the regulations,

751
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 8: fighting for all that, and we knew each other like, oh, yes,

752
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 8: I know that's Adolf, but I've never actually like hung

753
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 8: out with Adolf. And I was on a TV shows

754
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:30,800
Speaker 8: on the Prophet, I think back in twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen.

755
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 7: He called me.

756
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 9: He was like, that's my favorite show. He's like, you

757
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 9: were on it. I need to know all the details.

758
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 2: What was it like that show?

759
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 8: And yeah, And so we both have just had had

760
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 8: respect for each other from day one because we know

761
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 8: how hard the grind is and so everyone opened that's

762
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 8: in this game.

763
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 9: Still we all know each other. We just don't know

764
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:49,800
Speaker 9: that we know each other. We're all one to two

765
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:52,920
Speaker 9: degrees of celebration at small world, very small Wars.

766
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 5: And I'm sure you guys all know our boy Tucky Blunts, Yes.

767
00:33:58,360 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 10: Man blunt some more.

768
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, we have blunts and more out there. A matter

769
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 5: of fact, Tucky just recorded a couple of shows for

770
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 5: us out there some stuff trying to get.

771
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 3: Them in this game and let me actually are So

772
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 3: it's just you three of there's is there three other

773
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 3: brands in there now? Or is there more people coming

774
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:12,480
Speaker 3: on board? How does that look?

775
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 8: So our facility is split in half, right, So there's

776
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 8: the half of us that are kind of like the

777
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,800
Speaker 8: owner's management team, and then there's the half where the

778
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:23,240
Speaker 8: six cohorts are that we are, you know, essentially sponsoring, mentoring, coaching.

779
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 8: So there's seven of us total on the on the

780
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,000
Speaker 8: ownership side of the house. Got so five of us

781
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 8: are here today. Two of our other colleagues, uh, stayed

782
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 8: back with the kids and the everything else back in Oakland.

783
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 8: But yeah, there's only only seven of us that that

784
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 8: make of us all go around, and all of us

785
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 8: are instrumental in our own our own ways.

786
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 2: You guys all got kids, no, no, yes, not Mohaaled?

787
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, they got kids. I don't have no kids yet.

788
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 10: I'm just living.

789
00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, enjoy it what you can. I'm also the baby

790
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 2: at good like seventeen now yeah, I'm.

791
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,279
Speaker 10: Actually turning thirty four.

792
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 2: But yeah, the early twenties, I thought, you know, I appreciate.

793
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 5: Twenty four, right, Yeah, twenty four.

794
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:09,319
Speaker 10: Things.

795
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, those good jeans the same Yeah, and you

796
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 4: look great, all three of you guys look great.

797
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 5: Twenty four. Thank you, John, thank you, thank you taking

798
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:20,919
Speaker 5: over there, all of us lovely.

799
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:21,399
Speaker 10: Yeah.

800
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 5: Women over here exactly.

801
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 2: Don't want to leave me out.

802
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:28,240
Speaker 4: So so ladies, let me ask you this because someone's

803
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,320
Speaker 4: listening and there. Do you have to be from Oakland

804
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 4: to be a part of this organization? Can I move

805
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 4: to Oakland? Can I be out skirts? Can I be

806
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 4: in San Francisco?

807
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:37,680
Speaker 8: Say?

808
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 5: I mean, what is the deal?

809
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 2: Yeah?

810
00:35:39,719 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 8: So that's that's the beauty of this, this facility being split.

811
00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 8: So the one side you would have to be an

812
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 8: oak Equity equal equity applicant, verified, check the boxes, have.

813
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:50,799
Speaker 5: An open the whole nine.

814
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:51,399
Speaker 2: Yeah.

815
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,799
Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't want to support Oakland like.

816
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 2: Of course that's what yeah, and that's what it should do.

817
00:35:57,120 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 5: I like that support your backyard first.

818
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,600
Speaker 8: Yes, but but keep in mind we are not charging

819
00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,279
Speaker 8: rents and the bills still add up. So on the

820
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:06,760
Speaker 8: other side of the house, it's kind of the beauty

821
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 8: of it where we can have these other partnerships and

822
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 8: do work for other folks. I mean, I'm qualify, I'm

823
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 8: not an equi avocant myself personally, So you know, there

824
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:16,400
Speaker 8: are folks who have been here in the struggle that

825
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,719
Speaker 8: just made it. Didn't live in the right neighborhood block right,

826
00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 8: you live two blocks away.

827
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:20,960
Speaker 9: But here we are.

828
00:36:21,080 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 8: We all are with the same mission and the same goal,

829
00:36:23,360 --> 00:36:25,319
Speaker 8: so that it's a little more broad and a little

830
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 8: more open on the other side, so we can have

831
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 8: our allies.

832
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 6: And it's white labeling. You can always create your own

833
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 6: brand and whatever you want to do. And you think

834
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 6: I want to be in a cannabis industry, you don't

835
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 6: necessarily have to have the license. Come to us and

836
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 6: we can help your vision. That's your dream become a reality,

837
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 6: Like this was my dream. I planned out my logo

838
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,400
Speaker 6: and what I wanted to bring to the to the market,

839
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 6: and I manifested it.

840
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 2: I went out.

841
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 6: I listened to my partners who had previous experience, say Okay, first,

842
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 6: before you.

843
00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 3: Do this and this and this, you need to do

844
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 3: this and this and open up your company exactly count

845
00:37:05,520 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 3: structure it.

846
00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 6: There you go beforehand. Yeah, the last thing you're going

847
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 6: to do is put it to market. And my product

848
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:14,480
Speaker 6: is not necessary, it's not on the market yet. But

849
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:17,920
Speaker 6: my plan is to launch very soon. So knowing that

850
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,479
Speaker 6: I had it's been years to get to this point,

851
00:37:20,640 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 6: and just know that it's not going to happen overnight.

852
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 6: But if you can cut out some middle people and

853
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 6: some progress, you know, come to Yes, we can white

854
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 6: label it, put whatever label you want on it.

855
00:37:31,640 --> 00:37:34,400
Speaker 7: You know, you can create your own brand.

856
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,759
Speaker 6: You can say what store you want it to be into,

857
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 6: and you can go out there and try to get

858
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 6: a buyer to buy it.

859
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:43,160
Speaker 2: You know, I'll tell you, you know, what does the

860
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 2: process look like?

861
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 3: You know if i'm you know, so you guys have

862
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:51,279
Speaker 3: a growth facilities that you work with, buy a product from,

863
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 3: get it at a wholesale price, up sell it just

864
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 3: a little bit to your your white labelers, package it

865
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 3: for them, help them get a packaged and then but

866
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 3: before all that, set up their infrastructure. That's what I

867
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 3: heard from you, And I think a lot of like

868
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 3: entrepreneurs missed that part because they go straight for the dollar.

869
00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 8: You know.

870
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 2: So it's like, yo, let me just go get this,

871
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 2: roll it up, put in the jar, and sell it.

872
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 3: And you're like, but you need an account, you know,

873
00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 3: you need a you know, business license, you need to

874
00:38:15,640 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 3: be operating in structure so you have somewhere for that

875
00:38:17,920 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 3: money to land, because these companies aren't Some of them

876
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 3: are going to paying cast, some of them aren't, but

877
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 3: either way, it still needs to be tracked and accounted for.

878
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,239
Speaker 3: So I think that's what the infrastructure that some of

879
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 3: you guys are providing for those out there trying to

880
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 3: get their business on track.

881
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 8: Everything from the importance of really researching your brand, like

882
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 8: just like any other you know, thing that you're selling, right,

883
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:40,879
Speaker 8: It's like people coming and they're like, yeah, we want

884
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,719
Speaker 8: to want to target women of this demographic business, and

885
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 8: then all their branding is just like street graffiti and

886
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 8: you know, you know there's a lot of women graffiti

887
00:38:50,360 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 8: artists there are there are, But are you tapping into that.

888
00:38:53,440 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 8: Is that your small pool that you're going for, right,

889
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 8: or we want to broaden a little bit. If it

890
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,120
Speaker 8: is it is, I mean there are great companies, you know,

891
00:39:01,239 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 8: fro Love it's all about just black and queer and ginger.

892
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 8: It's like skateboarders, and it's like it's a very small

893
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 8: market and that's their thing. So you just have to

894
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 8: be real with yourself and understand, like if that's the

895
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 8: niche that you're going into, just understand. And then you're

896
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 8: adding cannabis on top of that, you're making that niche

897
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 8: possibly even smaller. Right, So there's everything from that all

898
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 8: the way down to you know, the security of your building,

899
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 8: to all the parts in between hiring people. These are

900
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 8: these are folks who have always been employees. How do

901
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,400
Speaker 8: you create and employ your mindset like that? In and

902
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 8: of itself is can be months and months of just

903
00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 8: understanding what it means to wake up in the morning

904
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 8: and no one's telling you what to do. You you

905
00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 8: are now the boss, and that's not an easy transition

906
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 8: for everyone. You know, there's all those things that we

907
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 8: don't necessarily talk about. Being a CEO may not be

908
00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 8: for everybody. Maybe you need a partner and maybe you're

909
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 8: the COO, Maybe you're the operations behind, maybe you're the

910
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,759
Speaker 8: branding or the marketing, and maybe being the face of

911
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 8: the company isn't what you want to do. It may

912
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:58,000
Speaker 8: sound cool, I got a dispensary in this and that,

913
00:39:58,160 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 8: but at the end of the day, if you're like, yeah,

914
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 8: I don't Instagram or I don't I don't like my face,

915
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 8: well then maybe that's not the best role. But it

916
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 8: doesn't mean that you should should just stop your dreams, right,

917
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:07,879
Speaker 8: We just got to work with you and figure out

918
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 8: what to be listened.

919
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 5: Those are good things.

920
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 4: Because those are all conversations that need to be had

921
00:40:12,239 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 4: and talked about, right, Like, if this is what you're

922
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:15,920
Speaker 4: trying to do, then let's figure out your strengths and

923
00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 4: your weaknesses and figure out what type of team we

924
00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:19,799
Speaker 4: need to build around you. I love that you guys

925
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 4: are doing that, Folks, go check them out. We like

926
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 4: to bring guests on the show and do what we

927
00:40:23,440 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 4: call the high five. We're gonna start with you in

928
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 4: the corner over there, Miss Ethiopia, and then come straight

929
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 4: down the line and it'll be the same question, maybe

930
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 4: some different answers, but question number one is how old

931
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 4: are you the first time you got high?

932
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:36,600
Speaker 5: And where'd you get it from.

933
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 10: My first time getting high was in high school at Tech.

934
00:40:39,680 --> 00:40:41,719
Speaker 10: I was like in eleventh grade and I smoked with

935
00:40:41,800 --> 00:40:44,640
Speaker 10: my best friend at the time, Jessica. I don't know

936
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 10: if I'm busting you out, but I'm buzzing you out.

937
00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, I know I'm busting you out, but I mean,

938
00:40:50,239 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 2: go ahead, boy.

939
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:53,399
Speaker 10: Well that was my first time ever, but my first

940
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:56,600
Speaker 10: time really really taking in cannabis and experiencing it. Was

941
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 10: my freshman year in college. I went to Fresnel State

942
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,279
Speaker 10: for undergrad another I am another bulldog and I went

943
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 10: to Friends and State for undergrad and I have really

944
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 10: bad cramps. You're you know, being a woman during that time,

945
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 10: and I was just so tired of taking Viking in.

946
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,280
Speaker 10: I saved my Viking in. I had got my wisdom

947
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,440
Speaker 10: tee pulled and I had saved my Viking in for

948
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 10: my cramps. I wouldn't even take it for my wisdom teeth.

949
00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,480
Speaker 10: I will save the Viking in for it because my

950
00:41:20,520 --> 00:41:24,720
Speaker 10: cramps were just way worse than my wisdom tea. I remember,

951
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 10: I just ran out, Yeah I can't deal with that,

952
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 10: and yeah, I just I used all the Viking in

953
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 10: And then I was like, oh ship, Like what am

954
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 10: I gonna do with my homeboy in college? Shout out

955
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 10: to Johnny. He was like, smoke some weed and I

956
00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 10: tried it, and I really fell in love, Like I really.

957
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:45,239
Speaker 7: Fell in love with the.

958
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:47,359
Speaker 9: Man.

959
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 2: It was a genuine love.

960
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 10: And I was like, oh my god, I'm over just

961
00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,120
Speaker 10: popping Viking in when I could have just even I'm

962
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 10: taking the Viking in once a month. You know, but

963
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,560
Speaker 10: I was just like, wow, the fact that this cannabis

964
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 10: really just changed. I didn't go to class that day,

965
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 10: and I remember smoking it realizing, like I remember cleaning

966
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:09,439
Speaker 10: my room. I've never done that, like, you know, during

967
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,400
Speaker 10: that time, I was just cramping and I'm just in

968
00:42:11,480 --> 00:42:18,319
Speaker 10: the bed hugging a fellow that that I remember subconsciously

969
00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:19,759
Speaker 10: like I'm standing up.

970
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember every day.

971
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:24,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was going to sand just state when I

972
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:27,040
Speaker 4: said every day every day before class.

973
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 10: Like clockwork, every day, I turned into that.

974
00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, every day, but every day.

975
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 10: So it went from I went from a medicinal aspect

976
00:42:34,719 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 10: of it because it helped me with that that I

977
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 10: only took it during that time, and then I became

978
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,520
Speaker 10: a social like cannabis consumer, and then from there it

979
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 10: just became damn near a part of my identity. And

980
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:46,400
Speaker 10: I loved it, like I genuinely loved it. And then

981
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:49,000
Speaker 10: I started telling everybody else about it. And then it

982
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 10: even took me a long time to get to my

983
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 10: mom because again, first generation Ethiopia, you can't just come

984
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 10: to her with this stuff. So me sitting her down

985
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,680
Speaker 10: telling her how that helped me, you know, it was

986
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 10: a game changer and she believed me. She I'm you know,

987
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 10: I'm one of her favorites. Trust I have a younger

988
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 10: sister and a older brother. We'll all her favorites.

989
00:43:09,440 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 2: But yeah, but I just was checking.

990
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 5: Favorite too, And what about you.

991
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 8: My auntie who's only nine years older than me, so

992
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 8: she's kind of like a sister auntie.

993
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.

994
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 9: I was one of those high school kids that was

995
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 9: like straight a's and I was. I was scared.

996
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 8: I was like all the things, all the propaganda, right,

997
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:34,799
Speaker 8: all they tell you. And she was like, yeah, we're

998
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:36,839
Speaker 8: gonna go out and I smoked and it was cool.

999
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:38,840
Speaker 8: I was like, you know, a little less shy because

1000
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 8: I was super super shy, but it was only every

1001
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 8: now and again. And it wasn't until I was like thirty,

1002
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 8: honestly that I really really took the time. What happened

1003
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 8: was I adopted my daughter from Ethiopia actually, and then

1004
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 8: right after I adopted her, found it I was pregnant

1005
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 8: and I was like, oh, so I'm having two okay,

1006
00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:58,680
Speaker 8: And one of my other friends had like a five

1007
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 8: and six year old, and I was like, how do

1008
00:44:00,640 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 8: you do this because my one and two year old

1009
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:04,399
Speaker 8: are driving me crazy? And she was like, oh girl,

1010
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 8: I'm high all the time. I was like okay, and

1011
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 8: I found some endiga found a vake pen and I

1012
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:11,879
Speaker 8: have not stopped since.

1013
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 9: That was when it really became my every day like

1014
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 9: this is for me to be.

1015
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:21,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, to be a better parent, to just like fall

1016
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 8: into that Disney movie with them and like loving zone.

1017
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:26,080
Speaker 5: So many people will drink that way and act like

1018
00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,320
Speaker 5: what I'm just having to drink every four hours at home, every.

1019
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 2: Seconds the same thing.

1020
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,719
Speaker 5: It happens, and this is more calver and nice.

1021
00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 2: You're able to clean whatever you need to do.

1022
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 8: Well.

1023
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 6: I would say the first time that I smoked marijuana,

1024
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 6: I didn't know what it was. My job, as one

1025
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 6: of the older cousins and nieces was to light the

1026
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,920
Speaker 6: cigarettes from the stove. If you didn't have a lighter,

1027
00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 6: in order to keep it lit, you have to hit it. Yeah,

1028
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,399
Speaker 6: so that was a good job to have. I felt

1029
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 6: like I was grown. One of those cigarettes tasted a

1030
00:45:07,200 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 6: little different.

1031
00:45:09,640 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cool.

1032
00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 6: So I didn't know what I was smoking until probably

1033
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 6: in high school. Oakland text shout out to Oakland that

1034
00:45:18,360 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 6: I smoke with friends, and I was like, you know

1035
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:24,879
Speaker 6: what this is kind of this is what they were doing.

1036
00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 7: That whole time time, and I like it's random.

1037
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 5: Yes, it's funny though.

1038
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 3: Question number two of the High five, what is your

1039
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 3: favorite way to use or smoke cannabis.

1040
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:38,120
Speaker 10: I like smoking papers, like just regularly. I like the

1041
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:42,719
Speaker 10: art of rolling breaking down. Yeah, because it's super therapeutic

1042
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 10: for me after being at the warehouse all day with Thereby.

1043
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:48,680
Speaker 7: I love y'all, but.

1044
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:53,879
Speaker 2: My time.

1045
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,440
Speaker 10: I'm really big with music, so I like playing music

1046
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 10: and just have my grind or break down whatever sample

1047
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:00,800
Speaker 10: we get in coming in the way house, because that

1048
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 10: is the pros of being only having a warehouse and

1049
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 10: trying to get these brands to market. We get all

1050
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 10: these samples. So we bring samples in, take some home,

1051
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 10: break it down. I'll roll it up. And I'm big

1052
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 10: with joints. I stopped on tobacco, like backwoods and and

1053
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,560
Speaker 10: and and swishers and and fond of leaves, and I

1054
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:21,200
Speaker 10: just don't do any of that anymore. I just solely

1055
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 10: do papers and and cones. So and I like it.

1056
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:27,800
Speaker 2: I like the art of you know, we call it

1057
00:46:27,840 --> 00:46:28,280
Speaker 2: a ritual.

1058
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 3: Yes, it is just like really touching up, brinding, putting

1059
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 3: in them paper rolling it It's like a.

1060
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 10: Whole it is therapeutic it.

1061
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 5: And then my favorite, what about you andre Mmm?

1062
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 8: I also gave up cigarettes. I have I have multiple

1063
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:50,480
Speaker 8: scross so I gave up tobacco a few years back.

1064
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:52,759
Speaker 8: So I do as much as I enjoy, I do

1065
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 8: enjoy life.

1066
00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 7: Hint, blunt.

1067
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:57,960
Speaker 8: I'm really about the rosin now. I I love that

1068
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 8: there are so many ways to jail. I love edibles

1069
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:04,720
Speaker 8: and I love being able to get my CBD from edibles,

1070
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 8: So like the twenty to one Wild gummies or all

1071
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 8: of those, to have those in my pocket, yeah, I

1072
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,799
Speaker 8: love those. But I'm really we have a really nice

1073
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 8: uh my partner ran a glass shop, so we have

1074
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,040
Speaker 8: a lot of nice pieces of glass. So it's really

1075
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 8: nice to get that torch and get that fire behind it,

1076
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 8: and and and get and get the terps, the turps

1077
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:24,520
Speaker 8: out of the rosin.

1078
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 9: There's just there's nothing like it. Like you want papaya.

1079
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:30,280
Speaker 8: You know, I don't like my flour smoking and smelling

1080
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:32,840
Speaker 8: to fruity and whatever, But when it's a dab, that's.

1081
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 9: A whole different different. So the tur turp turp, Yeah, yeah,

1082
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 9: you really.

1083
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 10: Taste the turf. She actually introduced me to that, and

1084
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 10: so then when I started being at the warehouse and

1085
00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:46,880
Speaker 10: her had meet the proxy and stuff like that, I

1086
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,919
Speaker 10: was like, oh, I like this, this is cool.

1087
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:50,399
Speaker 2: It's clean.

1088
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:55,640
Speaker 10: You taste the blueberry or the papired making me hungry.

1089
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:03,439
Speaker 7: Well, my favorite it's this lovely alumina pre roll. Yes,

1090
00:48:04,239 --> 00:48:09,880
Speaker 7: and my filter is a noodle ah nice.

1091
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:10,560
Speaker 2: I love that.

1092
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,040
Speaker 6: And I love raw papers, and I also love my

1093
00:48:14,080 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 6: puff code, like this is my bff.

1094
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 7: I love the terps. I'm like, sorry, this is my

1095
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 7: travel friend late at night friends.

1096
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 3: They produced a really nice product, you know, and it's

1097
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 3: been working for years.

1098
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 5: So one of those you can't one of the top n.

1099
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 6: That's changed the game because I would try to like

1100
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 6: use the torch and everything, but I feel like I'm

1101
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 6: so high already and now have this flaming torch to

1102
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:44,320
Speaker 6: trying to get me higher.

1103
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 7: No, no, thank you.

1104
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:51,839
Speaker 5: I was like, no dabts for me, but now, huff Coat,

1105
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 5: you could dab away.

1106
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 4: Question number three with a high five. Craziest place you

1107
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:57,720
Speaker 4: ever used your smoked cannabis?

1108
00:48:58,680 --> 00:49:01,279
Speaker 10: It's not crazy. But I go to Ethiopia a lot.

1109
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 10: So when I go to Ethiopia, the blue Nile is there.

1110
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 10: So I go to the Nile anytime I went twenty nineteen.

1111
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:12,480
Speaker 2: Or just like is there a certain section, Well, yeah,

1112
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:12,959
Speaker 2: it's an.

1113
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:16,680
Speaker 10: Area in Ethiopica. Bahadar. Bahadad is like the resort part

1114
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:20,800
Speaker 10: of Ethiopia, like Langanajasa, Bahadar is like another spot. So

1115
00:49:21,080 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 10: I went to Ethiopia in twenty eighteen and go to

1116
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 10: the Nile. You catch some fish, there's like a cafe

1117
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 10: kitchen area right outside when you bring your boats out,

1118
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:32,280
Speaker 10: and they cooked the fish for you, fish and chips

1119
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:35,239
Speaker 10: and bread, fresh bread, and you just let you blanket out.

1120
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,960
Speaker 10: And I had a vate pen with me and I

1121
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 10: had half a joint and I indulged at at the

1122
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 10: I was just like, when is the next I'm gonna

1123
00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:47,480
Speaker 10: be at the Nile? So now I make it a thing.

1124
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 10: You know, since COVID and stuff hit, I haven't been

1125
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:52,319
Speaker 10: back to Ethiopia since then, but my family's still out there,

1126
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:55,440
Speaker 10: so I plan on going in December and probably doing

1127
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 10: the same thing. I want that to be a ritual

1128
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:58,960
Speaker 10: for me, going to the Nile smoking.

1129
00:49:59,040 --> 00:49:59,600
Speaker 2: Can I go with you?

1130
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:06,400
Speaker 10: Yes, Let's do it.

1131
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:07,320
Speaker 2: Let's go.

1132
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 10: My friends came.

1133
00:50:09,760 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 2: I'm down.

1134
00:50:11,840 --> 00:50:13,919
Speaker 10: It's so beautiful and I'm not even saying this because

1135
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 10: I'm Ethiopian, but I generally think it's one of the

1136
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:17,920
Speaker 10: most beautiful places on earth. Go to Africa, y'all. I'll

1137
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 10: tell y'all, it's it's amazing.

1138
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 7: We can't wait.

1139
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:21,879
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not only a river.

1140
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 10: Yeah, it goes through Ethiopy Egypt is our neighbor, so

1141
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 10: you know it's ethiopy Egypt student and all them going up.

1142
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 5: So that's a good crazy spot though. I like that

1143
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 5: experience right there.

1144
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,320
Speaker 10: It's a beautiful experience. It's super therapeutic and I love it.

1145
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 10: I mean, outside of that, out here in Oakland, I

1146
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 10: just smoke by the lake. Yeah, you know, when I'm

1147
00:50:40,520 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 10: in the Bay, I just go to the lake, go

1148
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 10: to some water and smoke Grape Street.

1149
00:50:45,120 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 2: You're right.

1150
00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 9: I think traveling for me too.

1151
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 8: I think like the first time I went to Spain

1152
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 8: and actually like sat in because it was raining and

1153
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 8: we were like, man, we're we're we're not trying to

1154
00:50:54,239 --> 00:50:55,600
Speaker 8: be out in public, like we don't really know where

1155
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:57,640
Speaker 8: we are. It's raining, we can't really be outside and

1156
00:50:57,800 --> 00:50:59,640
Speaker 8: just stepping and being able to step into a club

1157
00:50:59,719 --> 00:51:01,920
Speaker 8: and like everybody in there is just like what's up?

1158
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 9: What's up? What's up.

1159
00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:07,319
Speaker 8: We're all automatically friends. Everybody's passing, and it was just like, oh,

1160
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 8: feeling feel just feeling at home, just to be able

1161
00:51:09,719 --> 00:51:12,600
Speaker 8: to make my next community for the community. Yeah, yeah,

1162
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:13,959
Speaker 8: it's it's an amazing feeling.

1163
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:17,240
Speaker 6: Well, I think I'm gonna go roll with the travel

1164
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 6: as well, because I love to travel and wherever I go,

1165
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,839
Speaker 6: I usually hit the water, the beach water.

1166
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm aquarius, so I love the water.

1167
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:29,360
Speaker 6: And the last time I was really like, this is

1168
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:33,439
Speaker 6: really cool in the dr smoking with this water that's

1169
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,479
Speaker 6: so clear, where I can sit down in the water,

1170
00:51:36,719 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 6: look at the fish swim between my legs and I smoking,

1171
00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:44,040
Speaker 6: and I didn't feel any worries in the world.

1172
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:45,240
Speaker 5: That sounds beautiful.

1173
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:46,880
Speaker 7: Yes, it was a beautiful experience.

1174
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 3: Question number four of the high five what is your

1175
00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:51,839
Speaker 3: go to munchie after you get high?

1176
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 10: I love, I love and jaded. I love Ethiopia food.

1177
00:51:56,600 --> 00:51:59,560
Speaker 10: I eat it every day. If I could eat it

1178
00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 10: every I would, I would Literallyipia in La off Pico,

1179
00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:08,239
Speaker 10: So I go there a lot, get my ismael taking

1180
00:52:08,320 --> 00:52:14,520
Speaker 10: the one that's such as you either that or chips.

1181
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 10: I like snacking on chips a lot and cinnamon rolls,

1182
00:52:16,719 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 10: so that chips I like, Uh, I like spicy food,

1183
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,239
Speaker 10: so I'm still I'm immature when it comes to the chips.

1184
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 10: I still eat the black bag of flame hot yeah,

1185
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 10: or Dorito's flaming hot. But I'm big with the spicy.

1186
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,560
Speaker 10: The spicy la is flaming hot, flame hot Cheetos flaming hot,

1187
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:37,880
Speaker 10: the black bag. It can't be the.

1188
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,080
Speaker 5: Regular hot chip talent.

1189
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 10: I did it, but my brother did and I actually

1190
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 10: tried to order it, and I don't know. I think

1191
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 10: it just got lost in the mail. But I definitely would.

1192
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:48,279
Speaker 2: I would.

1193
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 10: I grow hallopenos and stuff too in my little baby garden.

1194
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 10: So I'm really big with spicy.

1195
00:52:55,760 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 8: I like that.

1196
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:57,160
Speaker 5: I love spicy too.

1197
00:52:59,000 --> 00:52:59,439
Speaker 10: It's fun.

1198
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:01,760
Speaker 5: It's fun do all penis in my onion, my eggs,

1199
00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 5: like every morning, just put it in the before my Yeah.

1200
00:53:06,120 --> 00:53:09,400
Speaker 10: In Ethiopia, my my grandpa and just all my family,

1201
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 10: it was a bet, like if you eat this whole hallopeno,

1202
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 10: I'll take you to the store. I would bite the

1203
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:17,919
Speaker 10: whole be like like you, let's go to the store.

1204
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 2: And that's so I think I just been taste anything

1205
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 2: for an hour, but yeah, let's go.

1206
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:24,080
Speaker 10: Tongue numb.

1207
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:25,920
Speaker 5: Okay, what about you?

1208
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 9: I have I love sweets.

1209
00:53:29,239 --> 00:53:31,640
Speaker 8: I love Mike and Ikes and Hot to Molly's and

1210
00:53:31,719 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 8: like mix them into the same box.

1211
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,680
Speaker 9: I know, so a little bit of that.

1212
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 8: Spicy, but then also a little sweet and you don't

1213
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 8: know if the red ones or the sweet one to Molly.

1214
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 9: It's like a little bit of a surprise and you

1215
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:42,399
Speaker 9: put them both in your.

1216
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 2: Mouth and.

1217
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, a good one. And I got my

1218
00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 5: whole mouth watering right now.

1219
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 2: I can do that. I'll tell you a secret. Man.

1220
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 3: Joe's desk is right next to mine, and sometimes I

1221
00:53:55,600 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 3: just I'm looking. He's got Hot to Molly's in there.

1222
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:01,840
Speaker 2: He's got I don't have any lately, but I normally do.

1223
00:54:02,080 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 8: I do.

1224
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 2: You have to have a whole stash in there of something.

1225
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 5: It was like always something you get a week where

1226
00:54:07,680 --> 00:54:10,240
Speaker 5: right now I have the caramel one, the little hard.

1227
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 4: Whatever they're called, the w I a nice little card candy,

1228
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 4: that gold package one he's got.

1229
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 2: I have something.

1230
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,080
Speaker 4: I always have to have something sweet something for me

1231
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 4: as well about your lovely lady.

1232
00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 7: Now, I understand why my Mic and Ikes were already open.

1233
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:34,160
Speaker 9: These last night.

1234
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:35,799
Speaker 2: Last night.

1235
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:45,360
Speaker 6: I like chicken wings spicy and nachos with cheese. Nice spicy,

1236
00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:47,759
Speaker 6: Yeah cheese, please go ahead, now.

1237
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:49,680
Speaker 7: Take those.

1238
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 6: I'm from New Orleans, so I'm used to everything being spicy. Like,

1239
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:57,720
Speaker 6: if you couldn't eat spicy, you're going to be starving spicy.

1240
00:54:58,680 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 2: I watch you know.

1241
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 4: I had to get wheeled off the plane because I

1242
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 4: ate so much rich food. Boy, my goup kicked in

1243
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 4: so Badhi bullshit. I went to the Super Bowl os

1244
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:09,560
Speaker 4: out there that year. Oh it's horrible, Like, man, wheel

1245
00:55:09,640 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 4: me off this plane. Question number five with a high

1246
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 4: five has been so lovely having these ladies from the

1247
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,680
Speaker 4: Oakland Equity Collection. Shout out to Adolph Ward the Second

1248
00:55:18,719 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 4: for putting them all up here. Done this thing, ladies.

1249
00:55:21,480 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 5: If you could smoke cannabis with anyone dead or alive,

1250
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:25,800
Speaker 5: who would it be?

1251
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 2: And why? Oh?

1252
00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 7: Man, I did think you.

1253
00:55:31,480 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 10: I know this sounds super cliche, but I would definitely

1254
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 10: smoke with Bob Marley just because I want to watch

1255
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:40,320
Speaker 10: his interviews. He just seems so calm and just so free,

1256
00:55:40,880 --> 00:55:42,239
Speaker 10: and I just feel like I would get on his

1257
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:45,360
Speaker 10: level if I was to smoke with him outside of

1258
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,680
Speaker 10: that a live snoop, just because I want to say

1259
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 10: I smoked with. Being able to say you smoked with

1260
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:52,840
Speaker 10: Snoop is a story within itself. So when you say like,

1261
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 10: oh I smoked with Snoop, it's like, oh shit, like

1262
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:56,000
Speaker 10: like how did that happen?

1263
00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 2: I would love to share a story ladies and gentlemen Snoop.

1264
00:56:09,600 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 9: Like, let's see probably like Morgan Freeman. I think that

1265
00:56:20,880 --> 00:56:22,040
Speaker 9: would be a nice afternoon.

1266
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:24,399
Speaker 5: I love Morgan, a good dude.

1267
00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 4: I remember I interviewed more and and I want him

1268
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 4: to say his name because you know, Morgan probably a fight.

1269
00:56:29,040 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 5: I think it was a tyson fight. Say your name

1270
00:56:31,000 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 5: is I'm not gonna say my name. You say my name.

1271
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 5: I'm like, you say your name, just say your name.

1272
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:37,760
Speaker 5: I would name Morgan. I love Morgan.

1273
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:39,719
Speaker 2: I'm like, your god, what.

1274
00:56:39,800 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 3: Do you mean?

1275
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:41,720
Speaker 2: I need you to say your name Morgan.

1276
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 9: That's that's not That's the first thing that came into mind,

1277
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:45,400
Speaker 9: go to So I gotta go.

1278
00:56:45,400 --> 00:56:45,799
Speaker 2: With that one.

1279
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,560
Speaker 4: He's a great actor. He's just he's literally in that movie. Recently,

1280
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 4: I think on something and I just seen Morgan. I

1281
00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 4: want to watch this pretty much. That he's a guy

1282
00:56:56,239 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 4: that I you know, he's an actor that I'm a

1283
00:56:58,120 --> 00:56:59,920
Speaker 4: fan of, Like Morgan Freeman.

1284
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 5: I'm sure it's a good movie. Gotta be you, young lady.

1285
00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 5: Who would it be?

1286
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:09,439
Speaker 6: And why since Bob and Snoop was taken. I hate

1287
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 6: about Morgan, but I would do.

1288
00:57:16,720 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 7: Dropped her with its fire fire fire, thank you, bad,

1289
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 7: thank you, thank you.

1290
00:57:23,280 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 6: So I would like to be on her page of

1291
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 6: creative energy. M I like the musical expression and self esteem.

1292
00:57:33,600 --> 00:57:36,520
Speaker 5: Power to the women, Power to the women. I love that.

1293
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 5: That's a good one right there.

1294
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 3: So listen, ladies, is there anything that you know we

1295
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 3: didn't discuss that we want to discuss before we get you.

1296
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:43,800
Speaker 2: Guys on out of here.

1297
00:57:45,520 --> 00:57:47,920
Speaker 10: Well, I have an upcoming brand coming out that I'm

1298
00:57:48,000 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 10: I'm working on the logo now and having these connections

1299
00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:55,880
Speaker 10: with buyers and dispensaries and delivery services. I'm pretty sure

1300
00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,080
Speaker 10: you guys will get it out. I would get it

1301
00:57:58,080 --> 00:57:59,880
Speaker 10: out shortly and you guys will be able to sample it.

1302
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 10: It's a fun, creative brand. Being in the cannabis space,

1303
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 10: I've also learned brand story matters. A lot of people

1304
00:58:07,840 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 10: think you could just slap a sticker on something and

1305
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:10,920
Speaker 10: call it a day, but a lot of people now

1306
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 10: are more conscious with their dollars and spending more just

1307
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:16,440
Speaker 10: consciously in the cannabis space because they see a lot

1308
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 10: of like corporate America coming in and trying to take

1309
00:58:19,360 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 10: over that this industry, and we just don't want them

1310
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 10: to do that. Because the cannabis industry is very it's

1311
00:58:26,360 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 10: history and it's organic, and it's there's stories behind it.

1312
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,200
Speaker 10: You definitely want to share your story, and I just

1313
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 10: can't wait to share my story, can't wait to share

1314
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:36,920
Speaker 10: my creative content that I got going on with my

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Speaker 10: brand that I plan on launching by the end of

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Speaker 10: this month, hopefully by four to twenty that's the goal,

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Speaker 10: and being able to get that out, So as soon

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Speaker 10: as I get that out, I would probably be back here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's rock. We'll have it. We'll have a door.

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Speaker 2: Ob No, no, no, no, you ain't coming back unless

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Speaker 2: you bring some of that good.

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Speaker 5: Exactly.

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Speaker 10: You know right now I'm gonna come bearing gifts. I

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Speaker 10: bringing Jada.

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Speaker 5: No, don't be bringing them down here without no food.

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Speaker 5: There's always good weed around. There ain't always good food around,

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Speaker 5: you know.

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Speaker 8: Me.

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Speaker 5: Heart is our stomach there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, we already got love for you guys,

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Speaker 4: But thank you guys so much for coming on the show.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate.

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Speaker 8: Come check us out at Hall of Flowers, Santa Rosa

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Speaker 8: and May fourth, we're going to have our first little

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Speaker 8: equity Oakland Equity Collective Boots.

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Speaker 2: It off.

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Speaker 9: Will be behind the boots, so.

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Speaker 2: Standing beside the boot.

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Speaker 9: We're bringing them out.

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Speaker 5: He'll be the one from Scool Luke Skywalker.

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Speaker 8: Is that you?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Uncle be out there for sure.

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Speaker 5: That's wonderful.

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Speaker 6: Well, yes, our brand is launching very soon. My website

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Speaker 6: just launched. So w w ws dot ilumina dot x

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Speaker 6: y z that's I l U M I n A

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Speaker 6: dot x y z. Check us out just launch. We

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Speaker 6: have a lifestyle brand. We're providing you with events as

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Speaker 6: well as an olive oil, a pre roll and some

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Speaker 6: flower coming to the dispensary and delivery and Hall of

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Speaker 6: Flowers and wherever else you'll have us.

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Speaker 7: We'll bring you some too, you know.

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Speaker 5: Like Emerald Cup. I think we're gonna go to the

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Speaker 5: Emerald Cup.

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Speaker 10: We'll be there. Also works closely with the.

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Speaker 5: Emerald And I think it's in Richmond this year, right

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Speaker 5: or something. Yeah, I believe, Yeah, we'll be there.

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Speaker 3: You know, listen, ladies, I admire what you're doing. You know,

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Speaker 3: remember it's the journey. You know, it's not where you're going,

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Speaker 3: it's where you're at. So keep rocking, you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean. Like, the journey is everything you know. And

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Speaker 3: and while you're you're building this, uh, you know, use

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Speaker 3: your imagination because and be unrealistic, because wealthy people are

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Speaker 3: very unrealistic people. And so just have this unrealistic thought

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Speaker 3: process of what you can achieve and you will achieve

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Speaker 3: it and then wait for the measure to happen.

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Speaker 2: So I appreciate you guys being on the show.

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Speaker 7: Thank you so much for having us.

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Speaker 10: Thank you for having us.

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Speaker 5: I don't care what Goldie says.

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Speaker 2: I like you guys. Well there it is, guys, it's

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Speaker 2: Cannabis Talk one. I want to remember this. If no

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Speaker 2: one else loves you, we do.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening to Cannabis Talk one on one

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